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All Holy Spirit Family of Parishes Event
Please join us for a Praise and Worship Service
Music, Prayer, Praise and Worship.
Friday, October 18, 2024 — 7:00pm – 8:30pm
at Queen of Martyrs, in the church
Hosted by the Holy Spirit Family of Parishes.
Al
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Holy Spirit Family of Parishes Newsletter
It’s time for our Summer Holy Spirit Family of Parishes Quarterly Newsletter. Please send articles for submission to Liz Gadola:
gadola@ourladyofgrace.org
SAINT AUGUSTINE PRAYER CHAIN
If you would like to be a part of the St. Augustine Prayer Chain, please contact Marie Klotz at saintapraysingtown@gmail.com
SAINT AUGUSTINE ONE CALL
To be added to the St. Augustine one-call, please contact Fran Delegato at delegatof@outlook.com
Sonshine in a Bag
St. AUGUSTINE PARISH participated and supported “SONSHINE IN A BAG” food program. The Sonshine in a Bag program provides bags of food to refer students who they feel could benefit from receiving food from this program.
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While traveling and you wish to find Catholic Services near your visiting area go to this website.
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Sunday October 1st. St. Augustine presented the (The Top 3 Reasons That I Became Catholic… and Always Will Be. The Dr. John Bergsma, a former Protestant Pastor’s story) was shown immediately after the 8:30 am Mass. Please fill free to view this presentation.
To View click below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06F4i4TtS1c
Saint of the Week
October 20, 2024
Saint Anthony Mary Claret
October 24: Saint Anthony Claret, Bishop— (1807–1870)
Patron Saint of the Catholic press, textile merchants, and weavers
Canonized by Pope Pius XII on May 7, 1950
Anthony Adjutor John Claret. Clara was born in Sallent, in the Province of Barcelona, Spain, one of five surviving children of devout Catholic parents. When only five, he would lie down at night and ponder eternity. Filled with holy sorrow for those who were miserable in life, he desired to help as many as possible get to heaven. He memorized the catechism, visited the parish church in the evening, and prayed the rosary every day. He felt a growing desire to be a priest.
As a teenager, Anthony worked in his father’s thread and cloth factory and studied manufacturing techniques in Barcelona. Invited with his father to open a factory there, he declined, knowing that something else awaited him. His spiritual director convinced him to study philosophy in the diocesan seminary in Vich, twenty-five miles from his family home. Refocused on his prayer life, Anthony realized that the diocesan priesthood was God’s will. He was ordained a priest on June 13, 1835. Assigned to his hometown, he spent the next four years continuing his theological studies.
Returning to Vich in 1849, Father Anthony founded the Congregation of Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, later known as the Claretian Missionaries, or Claretians. The new congregation’s goal was to train priests for preaching missions, evangelizing, and saving souls. Just after founding the congregation, he was appointed as Archbishop of Santiago de Cuba. He then added “Mary” to his name: Archbishop Anthony Mary Claret. After his episcopal ordination, he arrived in Cuba in February 1851 and spent the next six years reforming the clergy, creating new parishes, making multiple pastoral visits on foot to every parish, and renewing the people’s faith. He co-founded an order of sisters, preached against slavery, and established facilities to help the poor.
In 1857, Queen Isabel II called Bishop Claret back to Spain to serve as her confessor and spiritual director. For the next ten years, he accompanied the queen on her travels, preaching missions in each town while continuing to write and publish. In 1868, due to a revolution in Spain, the queen and her court fled to France. After advocating for papal infallibility at Vatican I, Bishop Claret returned to France, taking refuge in the Cistercian monastery of Fontfroide, where he died several months later.
Saint Anthony Mary Claret, God set your heart on fire with a deep love for Him that overflowed into the hearts of sinners. Please pray that I will grow deeper in my love of God and will love all those whom I encounter. Saint Anthony, pray for me. Jesus, I trust in You.
Saint of the Week
October 13, 2024
Saint Luke | October 18
Saint Luke, sometimes called The Evangelist, is the author of the third Gospel and the Acts of the Apostles and a physician. There is some debate about how he came to Christianity, though many believe he was a gentile convert. Tradition holds him to be a native of Antioch, Syria, possibly a slave. Most of what we know of Luke comes from Scriptures, he was an eloquent and proficient writer, penning with accuracy the events he recounted. He is viewed as one of the best historical sources of the time. Luke was a close companion of Paul’s, joining him at Troas about year 51 and going with him to Macedonia and Philippi. Their paths diverged and met again as they journeyed to spread the Good News. Luke remained with Paul until the latter was martyred in Rome.
Saint Luke’s Gospel is viewed as one of social justice, giving special attention to the poor. He also emphasizes gentiles hearing the message of Christ. It is the only Gospel with Mary’s Magnificat, and spends the most time illuminating the lives of the other women around Jesus. Accounts of Luke’s death is conflicting; some say he was martyred shortly after Paul others that he lived a long life completing his Gospel in Greece and dying at 84. He is the patron saint of physicians.
Saint of the Week
August 25. 2024
St. Damien de Veuster of Moloka’I’ 1840-1889
People may be familiar with leprosy from Biblical times, but not so much in the 1800s. However, St. Damien de Veuster of Moloka’I’ (January 3, 1840 – April 15, 1889) would eventually shed a light on the effects of this devastating disease and allow people to see those afflicted with it with more compassion and love.
Born Joseph de Veuster in Tremelo, Belgium, he quit school at 13 so he could work on the family farm. Feeling called for more, however, he entered the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary six years later, where he took the name of a fourth-century physician and martyr. His brother, a priest from the same congregation, fell ill and was unable to go to his assigned location. Damien quickly volunteered in his place and found himself on the Hawaiian Islands in 1864. Two months after arriving, he was ordained a priest of Honolulu and assigned to the Island of Hawaii.
In 1873, he visited the Hawaiian government’s leper colony on the island of Moloka’I, where he petitioned to stay permanently to care for their physical, medical, and spiritual needs. After years of working to improve their location and those who lived there, he contracted Hansen’s disease and died of its complications. He found strength to endure isolation and disease in Eucharistic adoration and the celebration of the Mass. St. Damien was canonized by Pope Benedict XVI on October 11, 2009.
St. Damien de Veuster of Moloka’I, pray for us!
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