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Twenty-Seventh Sunday of the Year
5 October 2007
Dear Friends in Christ,
A few items for your attention:
1. By ancient custom, November is a month dedicated to prayers for the dead, when we ask that, having been redeemed by the Lord Jesus, they may finally be purified of every stain of sin and come to share the glory of the saints in light. On 2 November each year the Church keeps the Feast of All Souls, which is dedicated to the noble purpose of remembering the holy dead, and in your contribution envelopes you will find an entry for All Souls with spaces for the names of those you want to remember at the altar during this November. Please be sure to write those names on the envelope so that their intentions will be offered here during the month of the dead. In addition to that envelope, we will also place a Book of the Dead by the Lady Chapel throughout November so that you can write the names of your beloved dead for others to read and remember in prayer. 2. An essential component of all prayer is sacred silence, in which we wait upon the LORD with reverence and devotion. For this reason, we should make every effort to preserve an atmosphere of silence in the church both before and after Mass, and I ask everyone to help us do that by conversing outside the church or inside Sacred Heart Hall. Once we come through the doors of the church and until we pass back out into the world, we should always be mindful that we are in the presence of the Lord Jesus in the Most Blessed Sacrament and reserve our conversation to Him. 3. At this moment there are three young people from St. Mary’s in spiritual formation: Jason Oakes is a seminarian at the Pontifical College Josephinum in Columbus, Ohio; Sister Catherine Anne Pelicano is a postulant in Nashville, Tennessee with the Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia; and a young man who does not wish to be named yet is testing his vocation with the monks at the Charterhouse in Vermont, an abbey of the most strictly cloistered monks in the world. In addition to these three, there are several others in the parish presently discerning the possibility of the priesthood or religious life. Please remember these young Christians in your prayers and lift them to the Throne of Grace for the gift of finding and following the will of God for their lives. 4. Last Wednesday in Charleston, the College of Consultors elected Monsignor Martin Laughlin, former Vicar General and present pastor of St. Gregory’s Church, Blufton, to serve as our diocesan administrator until the installation of our next bishop. Please continue to pray that the Holy Father will send us a shepherd after the Heart of Christ.Praised be Jesus Christ! Now and forever!
Father Newman