Sundays 7:30, 9:00, 11:30 AM, and 5:45 PM
Bishop’s Note
Today is the devotional feast of Our Lady of Fatima. Although she is not commemorated in the Holy Mass, we honor her by obeying her request to pray the Rosary every day, but in a special way today by offering to her Immaculate Heart the full fifteen decades in public candlelight procession. We usually have a large crowd, each person with a flickering candle in his hand. It is a sight to behold! I know the angels will be there in great numbers to help us pray well to their Queen. That is no fairytale…truly, they will be there hovering above us, going back and forth between heaven and earth, delivering our prayers to heaven and descending with graces for the world; helping this soul to fight his distractions, and that soul to pray more fervently; ven working on the poor passersby who seldom think of God or heaven. Our Lady and the Angels! What a Sunday it will be!
Did you get a chance to see the Northern Lights last Thursday evening? They were only faintly visible above the church, but some of you had very good pictures. God is wonderful in all His works, and worthy to be praised. Oh, there were the hurricanes, too, and we praise His Will for that as well. Bishop Selway wrote to tell me that everyone was okay. Fr. McKenna’s parents said they were fine. There is, I am sure, going to be quite a mess to clean up though.
The Oblates made a short video asking for help in raising money for their new house. You can find it on our website as well as on Fr. Lehtoranta’s. I did manage to find one house that is about ten minutes away and seems to have all that they would need, including room for growth. At present, one could without too much inconvenience fit eleven people there. It is a little on the higher end of what we thought we would need to pay for a house in this area. But it has five bedrooms, three bathrooms, and is in a quiet neighborhood. We are seriously considering that location, but are continuing to look at different options. Please say a prayer to St. Joseph.
This week is a “quiet” one, but there are still plenty of opportunities for Mass and, of course, daily October Devotions. Our students get Columbus Day off. I am sure they are happy about that. They do work hard and have been so well behaved this year.
I think that is all for now. Remember the Rosary and the Angels! How great is our holy Faith!
– Bishop McGuire
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