Volume 17, Issue 25 ATTEN: St. Mary of the Assumption School Please send in Weekly Newsletter February 19 , 2019 basket donations www.stmaryum.org Under the Tuscan Sun for the gala GALA (Under the Tuscan Sun) [email protected] Saturday Saint Peter’s Chair February 23 Feast (February 22) This feast brings to mind the mission of teacher and Calendar pastor conferred by Christ on Peter, and continued in 02/20 Progress Check

an unbroken line down to the present Pope. We cele- 02/23 Gala brate the unity of the Church, founded upon the Apos- 03/06 Mass Ash Wednesday tle, and renew our assent to the Magisterium of the Ro- man Pontiff, extended both to truths which are solemn- Announcements ly defined ex cathedra, and to all the acts of the ordinary Magisterium. Page 2 Gala Ticket Order Form The feast of the Chair of Saint Peter at Rome has been celebrated from the Page 3 Gala Basket Themes early days of the Christian era on 18 January, in commemoration of the day when Saint Peter held his first service in Rome. The feast of the Chair of Saint Page 4 Parent Support Gala Peter at Antioch, commemorating his foundation of the See of Antioch, has Page 5 Track it Forward also been long celebrated at Rome, on 22 February. At each place a chair Page 6 Volunteer Hours (cathedra) was venerated which the Apostle had used while presiding at Mass. Page 7 Volunteer Hours One of the chairs is referred to about 600 by an Abbot Johannes who had been commissioned by Pope Gregory the Great to collect in oil from the lamps Page 8 Volunteer Hours which burned at the graves of the Roman martyrs. — New Catholic Dictionary

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