St. The Sanctuary Lamp Foreign The Sanctuary Lamp near our... Mission Society Tabernacle burns this week This weekend Father Mark Marangone, S.X., In Loving Memory of an Xaverian Missionary will preach a Mission Appeal at all of the Masses in our Parish. MARIE CHESRO The Xaverian Missionaries were founded by St. Guido Maria Conforti, the Archbishop of Ravenna () in 1895. Prayer for Priests Today, over nine hundred Xaverian priests, By Pope Benedict XVI brothers and sisters bring God’s love to people on every continent. In 18 countries around the Lord Christ, eternal High Priest, world including Japan, Indonesia, Bangladesh, You offered Yourself to the Father Burundi, DR Congo, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, on the Altar of the Cross Cameroon, Chad, Mozambique, China/Taiwan, and through the outpouring of the Holy Spirit the Philippines and Sierra Leone. The Xaverian gave Your priestly people Missionaries receive cooperation from the a share in Your Redeeming Sacrifice. peoples with whom they work. It is, however, the loyal support of generous friends in Hear our prayer for the sanctification America, that enables them to increase and of our Priests. multiply their works of mercy. Grant that all who are ordained We warmly welcome Father Marangone to to the ministerial priesthood our Parish. may be ever more conformed to You, the Divine Master. A.C.T.S. May they preach the Gospel with pure heart and clear conscience. A famous acronym you can use in prayer is A.C.T.S. Let them be shepherds according to A acknowledges God’s greatness, Your own Heart; C expresses contrition for your sins, single-minded in service to You and T reminds you to be thankful, and to the Church S to pray in supplication for your needs. and shining examples of a holy, simple The best example of A.C.T.S. is the Our Father. In and joyful life. the words of this prayer Jesus clearly reminds you that Through the prayers of the Blessed Virgin God’s name is hallowed (acknowledgment), to ask Mary, your Mother and ours, forgiveness (contrition) and to be free of temptation and draw all Priests and the flocks delivered from evil (supplication). Interestingly, what entrusted to their care Jesus didn’t include is thanksgiving. He obviously knew to the fullness of eternal life you’d have enough sense to be grateful to God for His where You live and reign goodness, mercy, and forgiveness. with the Father and the Holy Spirit, To quote Meister Eckhart (13th c. German one God, for ever and ever. Theologian), “If the only prayer we ever say is ’thank you,’ it will be enough.” So remember to pray the prayer AMEN. our Lord taught us and all prayers with a grateful heart.

SAINT KATERI TEKAKWITHA

uring the coming week, we will celebrate a powerfully moved by God’s love for all D Native American woman whose life was humanity, and shared that love be respecting marked by courage and love – St. Kateri the dignity of everyone in her village, even Tekakwitha. It’s said that the blood of martyrs those who persecuted her. is the seed of saints and the Catholic Faith. As Kateri grew in holiness, opposition to Nine years after the French Jesuit Missionaries, her Catholic faith increased. Knowing her life St. Isaac Jogues and St. John de Brebeuf, were was in danger, Kateri was advised by her priest martyred for the Faith by Iroquois Warriors, to flee from her village and go to Canada. With Tekakwitha was born in a Mohawk Village near nothing but a blanket, she walked 200 miles to the place of their martyrdom, Auriesville, the mission of St. Francis Xavier, located near New York. Montreal. That mission supported a village of Her mother was a Catholic Algonquin who Catholics from various Indian Nations. was taken captive by the Iroquios and then While living the village, Kateri went to daily given to the Chief of the Mohawk Nation as his Mass and spent long hours in prayer, especially wife. Tekakwitha grew up in a village that had before the Blessed Sacrament. She gave herself never seen a priest. However, stories her mother totally to God, through acts of charity and told her about Jesus inspired Tekakwitha with penance and by instructing children in the Faith. the desire to follow Him and become a Catholic. After three years, Kateri’s health, which When she was four years old, a smallpox was never good, began to fail dramatically. On epidemic tragically took the lives of her parents Wednesday of Holy Week in 1680, Kateri and younger brother. Tekakwitha survived the epidemic, but it left her partially blind and with a terribly disfigured her face. After she was orphaned, Tekakwitha was adopted by her uncle, who succeeded her father as Mohawk Chief. He hated Jesuit missionaries or “Blackrobes”, but couldn’t prevent them from preaching in his village because of a peace treaty with the French. Tekakwitha never forgot her mother’s stories about Jesus, and grew in her resolve to become a Catholic when she listened to the Blackrobes preach the Faith to her people. However, fear of her uncle kept her from seeking immediate instruction. Finally, at the age of 19, she went to the Mission of St. Peter, near her village, and told the priest of her intense desire for Baptism. He agreed to meet went home to God. Her last words were: with her in secret to instruct her in the Catholic “Jesus! Mary!” Faith. Witnesses said that, after death, Kateri’s On Easter Sunday, 1676, she embraced the disfigured face had a heavenly glow, and it new life of Jesus in Baptism, and took the name became like that of a healthy child. Because of “Kateri” after St. Catherine of Siena. her purity and holiness, Kateri became known Life as a Catholic wasn’t easy for Kateri. as the “Lily of the Mohawks.” Yet, her life in the Lord grew rapidly. Kateri Pope Benedict XVI canonized Kateri told the priest at the mission that she often Tekakwitha in 2012. St. Kateri in known as the meditated on the great dignity of being Patron of Native Americans, people in exile, and Baptized. Kateri also said that she was the environment. Her Feast Day is July 14th. dear Padre SATURDAY, JULY 7, 2018 I am troubled with doubts of faith 5:30pm +Rose & Andrew Gull (Vigil for Sunday Mass) and find these thoughts very frightening. Have I lost my faith? THE FOURTEENTH SUNDAY IN Please help me. ORDINARY TIME SUNDAY, JULY 8, 2018 It’s not a sin to have worries and doubts about 7:30am +Gil Gervacio faith. This kind of thing can happen even to 9:00am +Michael Visconte 10:30am Intentions of the Testa Michele Family very good, holy people. Some of the saints 12:00pm Living & Deceased Members of the Aufiero Family went through terrible periods of darkness 5:30pm +Edina Cantanhede when everything they believed in seemed to be ST. AUGUSTINE ZHAO RONG AND COMPANIONS gone. Saint Thérèse of Lisieux said several MONDAY, JULY 9, 2018 times that her faith seemed to have vanished, 7:00am For Our Parishioners that her prayers seemed to be going nowhere. 8:15am +Salvatore Cirnigliaro So you are not alone. 12:10pm +Marie Chesro 5:30pm +Angela Saccone Saint Alphonsus recommends that a person TUESDAY, JULY 10, 2018 hounded by such doubts should not try to 7:00am +Julia Valdivia argue with them in the heat of battle, but 8:15am +Aida Yto rather should “run away”—that is, make a brief 12:10pm +Cristina Valdivia act of faith; try moving on to something else, 5:30pm +Margaret Estler and get involved in some distracting activity. If WEDNESDAY, JULY 11, 2018 ST. BENEDICT temptation or doubt still persist, don’t believe 7:00am Intentions of Msgr. Douglas J. Mathers these dark feelings. The devil is the father of 8:15am +Mary Sullivan 12:10pm +Elizabeth (Betty) Smith Wagner lies. He is trying to make you think you’re lost 5:30pm +Iris Borg when you’re not. By making you upset and agitated, he keeps you from prayer, good THURSDAY, JULY 12, 2018 7:00am +Michael Fein deeds, and from the Lord. 8:15am +Maria Valdivia To sum up, when a doubt arises, say a short 12:10pm +Sharon Mannix 5:30pm +Rose & Andrew Gull prayer such as “My Lord, I believe in you, I hope in you, I love you.” Once you’ve said a FRIDAY, JULY 13, 2018 ST. HENRY little prayer, resolve to ignore the temptation 7:00am +Carolyn Roque 8:15am +Richard M. Cashin even if it keeps roaring in your head. Remember 12:10pm +Margo & Douglas Coldwell that the Lord can read your heart and knows 5:30pm +Flora & Dominick Valich that you don’t want to offend Him, but rather SATURDAY, JULY 14, 2018 ST. KATERI TEKAKWITHA to have faith in Him and to love Him with your 8:15am +Mary Jennerjahn whole heart. 12:10pm +Wilma Rodriguez 5:30pm +Miguel Angel Zapata (Vigil for Sunday Mass) Father Thomas Santa, CSsR

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