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June God’s Special Children Mass: 2p, St , 444 Metairie Road June 12 of the MONTH FEAST DAY: 108 Blessed Polish Martyrs June 12 PRAYER and PRESENCE RESUMES!!!! life. IF you’re fully vaccinated against Covid and want to join us

to pray for and visit St. Anthony Nursing Home residents who don’t get many visitors, please call Yvette at 874-9225. June 13 St. Josephine Bakhita’s Intercessors: 2nd Sunday of every month, 9am Topic of the Month: In church, Rosary for victims, survivors & perpetrators of human trafficking

End of Life Join us EVERY THURSDAY from 8:30a to 10:30a to pray and witness at the ABORTION FACILITY at 2701 Gen. Pershing (near Baptist Hospital)

______Pope Francis' World Day of the Sick 2019 message A really FUN Corporal Work of Mercy

for a really SERIOUS End-of-Life Cause!

Prayer For Those Close to Death Angels’ Place provides ongoing support services and respite care to children with life threatening illnesses and their families. Lord Jesus Christ, The respect life committee is sponsoring a drive throughout the month of June to as You stood by the bed of good collect toys, books, and games for the children who are limited to their hospital beds or chemo infusion chairs. Saint and gently led him home to heaven, so shepherd We are looking for things that would appeal to babies through teen years. life and life socialministry justice every soul about to die to a Examples are: touchy feely baby board books, legos, small cars or dolls, paint by paradise*St. Edward of perfect the peace. Confessor Let the. number kits, any craft kits, or books on sports for our older children. Surprise us! tears we shed upon their passing The children would also love small, soft, sweet lap blankets that they could hold stand witness to our love for them onto as a comfort during medical tests, chemo, or extended hospital stays. and the depth of our thanksgiving for the gift of their lives and the Please drop off your donations to the office or leave in the back of church throughout the entire month of June. If you have any questions about the drive, grace of a good death. For You are please call Yvette at 504-874-9225. If you’d like more info about Angels’ Place, Lord, forever and ever. Amen. visit https://www.angelsplacenola.org/.

For additional local resources, videos, and education on end-of-life issues: st. edward’s st. https://nolacatholic.org/end-of-life-issues

Christ has no body but yours, SAINT OF THE MONTH

No hands, No feet on earth but yours, 108 BLESSED POLISH MARTYRS – June 12 Yours are the eyes with which He looks with compassion on Today we celebrate the lives of 108 Catholics this world, from who were murdered by the Nazis Yours are the feet with which He walks to do good, during World War II and beatified by St. John Yours are the hands, with Paul II in 1999. They include 3 bishops, which He blesses all the world. 52 priests, 8 female and 26 male religious, Yours are the hands, yours are 3 seminarians, and 9 laypersons. Among them the feet, yours are the eyes, were Marianna Biernacka, a farmer’s widow you are His body. who asked the occupation forces to arrest her Christ has no body now on earth but yours. instead of her pregnant daughter-in-law; Saint Teresa of Avila Grzegorz Frackowiak, a young friar, who was beheaded for running an underground If you desire to use magazine; Sister Kemensa Staszewska, who was your God-given put to death in Auschwitz because she had tried IDEAS, to hide Jewish girls in her convent; TIME, Father Jozef Kowalski, who secretly TREASURE, administered communion to his fellow prisoners in Auschwitz; and Father Bronislaw Komorowski, who helped Poles resist the nationalistic influences in or Danzig before the war. He was arrested in 1939, beaten and sent to live in an

TALENT underground cell in the Stutthof concentration camp, where he was tortured and life and life socialministry justice to help the Church in severely beaten, and finally killed on Good Friday, 1940, along with other Polish areas of activists. We celebrate the feast day of these 108 Polish Martyrs on June 12. POVERTY, RACISM, PRAYER IMMIGRATION, Lord God, we honor the 108 Polish martyrs who were faithful to Christ CRIMINAL JUSTICE, even to the point of shedding their blood for Him. Through their HUMAN TRAFFICKING, intercession, increase our own faith and renew our courage to follow their or any example of love. Help us to work in your Church for the salvation of all. RESPECT LIFE ISSUE, We ask this through Christ Our Lord. Amen.

st. edward’s st. Call us at 504-874-9225