6/12/11 - St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church
6/12/11 - St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church 6/12/11 - St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church
Page 8 Around the Diocese Camping Retreat St. Anthony Retreat is offering a special retreat for adults who love the outdoors and want to experience prayer and God’s presence in an outdoor setting. The retreat includes the first and last night accommodations at St. Anthony Retreat Center, with three nights camping in Sequoia National Park. The cost of the retreat is $400 which includes a private room and bath at St. Anthony Retreat, park fees, reserved campsites and campsite fees as well as all meals and reflection materials. We will set up our bas camp at a group campground at Dorst Creek within Sequoia National Park. We will hike to Muir Grove on Tuesday (a gorgeous hike to a secluded group of Giant Sequoias), and to Little Baldy on Wednesday (a hike with spectacular views of the western divide). Both hikes are moderate and about 5 miles round trip. There will be ample time in the afternoons for journaling, reading and quiet reflection with common prayer and reflection at the end of each day. And best of all, there will be cooks to take care of our meals - and we do eat very well! The retreat begins at 3:00pm on Sunday afternoon, June 26. The afternoon and evening will be used as an orientation to the retreat. On Monday morning we will leave for Sequoia National Park. (St. Anthony Retreat Center is just three miles to the entrance to the park.) Retreatants will need to bring their own camping/backpacking equipment (including tent and sleeping bag) and be in good physical condition for hiking in moderate 6,000 to 8,000 feet elevation. Because participation in this retreat is limed to a total of 12 people you are encouraged to register ASAP. Sister Danielle Witt will be leading the retreat. For more information, please call the Retreat Center at 561-4595. Catholic Charities in Need of Volunteers Volunteers are needed at Catholic Charities to assist in our outreach efforts. There is a special need for a bilingual receptionist, volunteer coordinator and project assistants in the intake department, event coordinator for the Senior Companions Program. Thrift Store assistant, help in the food pantry, security guards, fund development and website developer. Times are flexible and individual schedules can be arranged. Contact Jody Hudson, Operation Director at 237-0851 ext. 1122 for more information. Immaculate Heart Radio You are invited to participate in Immaculate Heart Radio’s Summer Pledge Drive June 20 - 23 Tune in and listen to your favorite shows Experience the excitement of our LIVE pledge drive Don’t miss out on the hourly gift give-a-ways and so much more. . . 1250AM 1240AM 1050AM or online at ihradio.com PICO All are welcome to join PICO for the California State Budget Crisis Action @ the Capital in Sacramento on Tuesday, June 14th. Busses will be leaving from Our Savior’s Lutheran Church @ 6:30am to arrive by 10:00am for the Action on the steps of the Capital. Legislative visits will continue until 3:00pm, you will return home by 6:00pm. If you have any questions, please call the parish office. For the weekend of June 5, 2011 This week’s plate income: $26,091.00 Last year’s plate income: $26,605.54 Difference: - $ 514.54 Year to Date Plate Collection: 7/1/2009 - 5/31/2010: $ 1,105,299.38 7/1/2010 - 5/31/2011: $ 1,131,114.74 Difference: + $ 25,815.36 Our next second collection will be for: Priest Retirement Fund held on Father’s Day weekend. Sister Disciples of the Divine Master presents A day of Retreat Where: Sister Disciples of the Divine Master Convent When: Saturday, June 18, 2011 Time: 9:00 - 3:00pm Who: Young Single Women ages 18 - 35 Please bring a sack lunch, notebook and pen. For registration please call Sr. Tiziana at 275-9978
News You Can Use Page 9 St. Agnes Mission Church Please note the changes to our schedule for the summer. No Daily Mass Monday - Saturday No Confessions - Confessions will be heard at St. Anthony’s Adoration is only on Tuesdays from 7:00 - 8:00pm Come Holy Spirit Come, Holy Spirit. Fill the hearts of your faithful and make the fire of your love burn within them. Send forth your spirit and there shall be another creation. And you shall renew the face of the earth. Let us pray: O God, you have instructed the hearts of the faithful by the light of the Holy Spirit. Grant that through the same Holy Spirit we may always be truly wise and rejoice in his consolation. Through Christ our Lord. Amen. St. Anthony of Padua Doctor of the Church Feast day: June 13 b.1195 d.1231 Saint Anthony was canonized (declared a saint) less than one year after his death. There is perhaps no more loved and admired saint in the Catholic Church than Saint Anthony of Padua, a Doctor of the Church. Though his work was in Italy, he was born in Portugal. He first joined the Augustinian Order and then left it and joined the Franciscan Order in 1221, when he was 26 years old. The reason he became a Franciscan was because of the death of the five Franciscan protomartyrs -- St. Bernard, St. Peter, St. Otho, St. Accursius, and St. Adjutus -- who shed their blood for the Catholic Faith in the year 1220, in Morocco, in North Africa, and whose headless and mutilated bodies had been brought to St. Anthony’s monastery on their way back for burial. St. Anthony became a Franciscan in the hope of shedding his own blood and becoming a martyr. He lived only ten years after joining the Franciscan Order. So simple and resounding was his teaching of the Catholic Faith, so that the most unlettered and innocent might understand it, that he was made a Doctor of the Church by Pope Pius XII in 1946. Saint Anthony was only 36 years old when he died. He is called the “hammer of the Heretics” His great protection against their lies and deceits in the matter of Christian doctrine was to utter, simply and innocently, the Holy Name of Mary. When St. Anthony of Padua found he was preaching the true Gospel of the Catholic Church to heretics who would not listen to him, he then went out and preached it to the fishes. This was not, as liberals and naturalists are trying to say, for the instruction of the fishes, but rather for the glory of God, the delight of the angels, and the easing of his own heart. St. Anthony wanted to profess the Catholic Faith with his mind and his heart, at every moment. He is typically depicted with a book and the Infant Child Jesus, to whom He miraculously appeared, and is commonly referred to today as the "finder of lost articles." Upon exhumation, some 336 years after his death, his body was found to be corrupted, yet his tongue was totally incorrupt, so perfect were the teachings that had been formed upon it. Prayer to Saint Anthony, Example of Humility Dear St. Anthony, after all these years in the school of Christ, I still haven't learned the lesson of true humility. My feelings are easily ruffled. Quick to take offense, I am slow to forgive. St. Anthony, Example of Humility, teach me the importance and necessity of this Christian virtue. In the presence of Jesus, who humbled Himself and whom the Father exalted, remember also these special intentions of mine. (Name them.)
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Around the Diocese<br />
Camping Retreat<br />
<strong>St</strong>. <strong>Anthony</strong> Retreat is <strong>of</strong>fering a special retreat for adults who love the outdoors<br />
and want to experience prayer and God’s presence in an outdoor setting. The retreat<br />
includes the first and last night accommodations at <strong>St</strong>. <strong>Anthony</strong> Retreat Center, with three<br />
nights camping in Sequoia National Park. The cost <strong>of</strong> the retreat is $400 which includes a<br />
private room and bath at <strong>St</strong>. <strong>Anthony</strong> Retreat, park fees, reserved campsites and campsite fees as well as all meals and<br />
reflection materials.<br />
We will set up our bas camp at a group campground at Dorst Creek within Sequoia National Park. We will hike to<br />
Muir Grove on Tuesday (a gorgeous hike to a secluded group <strong>of</strong> Giant Sequoias), and to Little Baldy on Wednesday (a<br />
hike with spectacular views <strong>of</strong> the western divide). Both hikes are moderate and about 5 miles round trip. There will be<br />
ample time in the afternoons for journaling, reading and quiet reflection with common prayer and reflection at the end <strong>of</strong><br />
each day. And best <strong>of</strong> all, there will be cooks to take care <strong>of</strong> our meals - and we do eat very well!<br />
The retreat begins at 3:00pm on Sunday afternoon, June 26. The afternoon and evening will be used as an<br />
orientation to the retreat. On Monday morning we will leave for Sequoia National Park. (<strong>St</strong>. <strong>Anthony</strong> Retreat Center is just<br />
three miles to the entrance to the park.) Retreatants will need to bring their own camping/backpacking equipment<br />
(including tent and sleeping bag) and be in good physical condition for hiking in moderate 6,000 to 8,000 feet elevation.<br />
Because participation in this retreat is limed to a total <strong>of</strong> <strong>12</strong> people you are encouraged to register ASAP. Sister Danielle<br />
Witt will be leading the retreat.<br />
For more information, please call the Retreat Center at 561-4595.<br />
<strong>Catholic</strong> Charities in Need <strong>of</strong> Volunteers<br />
Volunteers are needed at <strong>Catholic</strong> Charities to assist in our outreach efforts. There is a special need for a bilingual<br />
receptionist, volunteer coordinator and project assistants in the intake department, event coordinator for the Senior Companions<br />
Program. Thrift <strong>St</strong>ore assistant, help in the food pantry, security guards, fund development and website developer.<br />
Times are flexible and individual schedules can be arranged. Contact Jody Hudson, Operation Director at<br />
237-0851 ext. 1<strong>12</strong>2 for more information.<br />
Immaculate Heart Radio<br />
You are invited to participate in Immaculate Heart Radio’s<br />
Summer Pledge Drive<br />
June 20 - 23<br />
Tune in and listen to your favorite shows<br />
Experience the excitement <strong>of</strong> our LIVE pledge drive<br />
Don’t miss out on the hourly gift give-a-ways and so much more. . .<br />
<strong>12</strong>50AM <strong>12</strong>40AM 1050AM<br />
or online at ihradio.com<br />
PICO<br />
All are welcome to join PICO for the California <strong>St</strong>ate Budget Crisis Action @ the Capital in Sacramento on Tuesday, June 14th.<br />
Busses will be leaving from Our Savior’s Lutheran <strong>Church</strong> @ 6:30am to arrive by 10:00am for the Action on the steps <strong>of</strong> the Capital.<br />
Legislative visits will continue until 3:00pm, you will return home by 6:00pm. If you have any questions, please call the parish <strong>of</strong>fice.<br />
For the weekend <strong>of</strong> June 5, 20<strong>11</strong><br />
This week’s plate income: $26,091.00<br />
Last year’s plate income: $26,605.54<br />
Difference: - $ 514.54<br />
Year to Date Plate Collection:<br />
7/1/2009 - 5/31/2010: $ 1,105,299.38<br />
7/1/2010 - 5/31/20<strong>11</strong>: $ 1,131,<strong>11</strong>4.74<br />
Difference: + $ 25,815.36<br />
Our next second collection will be for: Priest Retirement Fund<br />
held on Father’s Day weekend.<br />
Sister Disciples <strong>of</strong> the Divine Master<br />
presents<br />
A day <strong>of</strong> Retreat<br />
Where: Sister Disciples <strong>of</strong> the Divine Master Convent<br />
When: Saturday, June 18, 20<strong>11</strong><br />
Time: 9:00 - 3:00pm<br />
Who: Young Single Women ages 18 - 35<br />
Please bring a sack lunch, notebook and pen.<br />
For registration please call Sr. Tiziana at 275-9978
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