We will be celebrating our Fall Festival today during “Coffee and” after the 10:30 Mass. Come and have some fun.
Our Annual Town Hall will be held on Sunday, November 12th during “Coffee and” at 12:15 PM. Please plan on being there with ideas to make our parish even better.
We have been doing well with the Annual Bishop’s Appeal. We have reached just over 75% of our goal with 33 pledges. That means about 100 families have not yet made a pledge. Please pray about it and do so sooner than later. The last 25% is always slow in coming. Thank you to those who have made a pledge.
We are about to begin our 90th year as a parish. We are looking for more history of the parish as well as ideas on how to celebrate this great anniversary. Why not spend a little time looking at the pictures of the priest and deacons who have served here? Maybe you will be enlightened by the Holy Spirit to contribute a great idea or two for this coming year.
October is the Month of the Rosary. Try it, you might like it!
Our first reading today from the Book of Exodus, really has strong meaning today in our lives. “Thus says the Lord: ‘You shall not molest or oppress an alien, for you were once aliens yourselves in the land of Egypt.’” He goes on to talk about protecting widows and orphans as well. These were the three groups who had no advocates. Widows and orphans are somewhat better off today in our society, but the DACA dreamer children, still need those advocates. Not to mention the refugees worldwide.
Jesus in today’s Gospel gives us his two commandments: “You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and first commandment. The second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” This obviously includes aliens, widows and orphans.
In today’s second reading St. Paul calls on us preach the word of God with our lives through our love of God and neighbor.
Let us continue to pray for peace in the world. Let us also pray for vocations to the church. Let us pray for the sick of the parish. Let us pray that all will come to respect life. Let us pray for one another and for the canonization of Father Tolton.