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The Feast of All Saints
Friday, November 1st, is a Holy Day of Obligation this year.
Our Mass schedule is: 6:30 am, 8:00 am, 10:00 am & 7:00 pm.
All Souls Day is Saturday, November 2nd.
At our Masses this weekend we have the beautiful custom
of reading the names of our parishioners
who died this past year during the Petitions.
Have you considered a “planned gift” to our parish? A planned gift is just what it sounds like–a gift that is part of your overall financial or estate plan. Most planned gifts are made out of assets rather than income and are therefore typically significant. Planned gifts may be made during your lifetime or through your estate. Would you include your parish as “one of your children” in your estate planning? You can make a major impact on the future of our parish and our school with a planned gift. Give me a call if you would like to discuss this or you could contact the Roman Catholic Foundation of Eastern Missouri (rcfstl.org/planned-giving) who helps us with our SMMA Endowment Funds.
I encourage all our Liturgical Ministers to join us for our Annual Appreciation Dinner Friday evening, October 25, in the Parish Center. We don’t want to forget anyone, so if you’re wondering….. is that for me?….. I would say YES! Further information is here.
We are offering the Anointing of the Sick next Sunday at 2:00 pm in the church. If you know of someone who would need a ride to get here, that would be an excellent gift of your time & talent.
November is fast approaching. The Feast of All Saints, Friday, November 1st, IS a Holy Day of Obligation this year. Our Mass schedule is: 6:30 am, 8:00 am, 10:00 am & 7:00 pm.
All Souls Day is Saturday, November 2nd. At our Masses that weekend we have the beautiful custom of reading the names of our parishioners who died this past year during the Petitions.
October brings thoughts of HALLOWEEN! We love celebrating Halloween with the children of our parish. Remember, we always greet them in the Parish/School Office Lobby on Halloween evening, from 6:00 – 7:30 pm. Bring your children or grandchildren by for “giant candy bars!”
God Bless!
 Msgr. Norb Ernst – Pastor
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Blessed Jerzy Popiełuszko, a Martyr of Our Times
Blessed Jerzy Popiełuszko, a Martyr of Our Times
Blessed Jerzy Popiełuszko was killed Oct. 19, 1984."For it is better to suffer for doing good, if suffering should be God’s will, than to suffer for doing evil. For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, in order to bring you to God."
1 Peter 3:17-18a
St. Isaac Jogues (1607–1646) was born in France to a middle-class family, and at the age of 17 entered a Jesuit seminary where he displayed a talent for writing and teaching. He was ordained in January of 1636 at the age of 29, and three months later was sent as a missionary priest to the rugged wilderness of New France (now Canada) to work among the Huron and Algonquin Native American tribes. Despite the hardship of life in the wilderness, Isaac experienced great spiritual joy in his mission. One day, six years into his work, he was captured by a Mohawk-Iroquois war party. He was enslaved and ritually tortured, in addition to being malnourished and inadequately clothed. His hands were severely mutilated and many of his fingers destroyed, which prevented his ability to say Mass. He continued to preach the faith and was named Ondessonk, "the indomitable one," by his Mohawk captors. After over a year in captivity he escaped with the help of Dutch settlers. He went back to France where he was honored as a "living martyr." He obtained special permission from the pope to say Mass with his mutilated hands. Instead of continuing his life in peace, St. Isaac was zealous to return to his mission field. He returned to New France, and by that time a peace treaty was arranged between the warring native tribes allowing him to work among the Mohawks. However, when they suffered a crisis of crop failure and epidemic disease, the Mohawks blamed the Christians for sorcery and attacked the settlers. St. Isaac Jogues died after being tomahawked in the head, and his body was thrown into the Mohawk River. He is the patron of the Americas and Canada. Isaac Jogues earned the name "Apostle of the Mohawks" for his work. New York state's first Catholic baptismal record was due to his priestly ministry. He and his companions were the first martyrs of the North American continent officially recognized by the Church. His feast day is October 19th.
"Faith and love are like the blind man’s guides. They will lead you along a path unknown to you, to the place where God is hidden."
— St. John of the Cross
St. Luke the Evangelist (1st c.) was a well-educated Greek physician and a native of Antioch in Syria. He was one of the earliest converts to Christianity, believed to have been one of Jesus' seventy disciples. He was a follower of St. Paul the Apostle and spent most of his life evangelizing with him in Asia Minor up until the time of Paul's martyrdom in Rome. Luke wrote a canonical account of his apostolic journeys with Paul (the Book of Acts) as well as a biography on the life of Christ (the Gospel of Luke). The two books of Luke's Gospel and the Acts of the Apostles were originally a single work. The intimate accounts contained in Luke's gospel of the early years of Christ's life (the Visitation, the Nativity, the Presentation, etc.) lead many scholars to believe that one of the eyewitnesses he interviewed was the Blessed Virgin Mary herself. According to tradition he was also a skilled artist and painted the first icons of Our Lady with the Child Jesus. Several of these icons are still venerated today, the most famous of which hangs in the Church of St. Mary Major in Rome. St. Luke is the patron saint of many trades including artists, painters, doctors, surgeons, and bachelors. His feast day is October 18th.