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SAVE THE DATES
***Second Annual Farmers Market continues Friday, July 10, from 4-7pm in front of the parish garage, and runs weekly through mid-August***
***Parish Picnic returns, Sunday, Sept. 13, site TBA***
***6th Annual Harvest of Hope Dinner,
featuring Bishop Anthony B. Taylor
of Little Rock, Arkansas
Friday, Oct. 2, 6pm ***
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"ST. AUGUSTINE - CONFESSING CHRIST"
ADULT FAITH FORMATION'S SUMMER BIBLE STUDY - Every other Monday evening for six weeks at 7:30 p.m. beginning June 1st.
Please contact Millie Martin at martin1mil@aol.com, for more information.
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Thank you to all who supported our parish youth group fudraising activities.
Our teens have worked, prayed and studied hard together this past year so they all deserve a little
fun!! Money raised will go to our youth group's camping trip this summer.
If you would like to join or for more information, please send email to Maria Narvaez at
precious_loka9@yahoo.com or call the parish office anytime.
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ST GIANNA LIFE PROMOTION SOCIETY
Grounded in the consistent ethic of life, the St. Gianna Life
Promotion Society engages in prayer, education and action to foster
a culture that celebrates the sanctity of life at all stages. The
group seeks to make connections between Gospel teachings and the
respectful and dignified treatment of all human life.
St. Gianna meetings are held every second Tuesday of the month.
For more information, contact Ellen Maughan at 732-249-
3096.
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CHARITY AND JUSTICE
JUSTICE FOR IMMIGRANTS -- STATEMENT OF HIS EMINENCE CARDINAL FRANCIS GEORGE, OMI
ARCHBISHOP OF CHICAGO
PRESIDENT, UNITED STATES CONFERENCE OF CATHOLIC BISHOPS
JUNE 18, 2009
On behalf of the United States Catholic Bishops, gathered in San Antonio, Texas, at our annual spring meeting, I would ask President Barack Obama and congressional leaders of both parties to work together to fashion and enact comprehensive immigration reform legislation before the end of the year.
It has been clear for years that the United States immigration system requires repair and that reform legislation should not be delayed.
We urge respect and observance of all just laws, and we do not approve or encourage the illegal entry of anyone into our country. From a humanitarian perspective, however, our fellow human beings, who migrate to support their families, continue to suffer at the hands of immigration policies that separate them from family members and drive them into remote parts of the American desert, sometimes to their deaths. This suffering should not continue.
Now is the time to address this pressing humanitarian issue which affects so many lives and undermines basic human dignity. Our society should no longer tolerate a status quo that perpetuates a permanent underclass of persons and benefits from their labor without offering them legal protections. As a moral matter, we must resolve the legal status of those who are here without proper documentation so that they can fully contribute their talents to our nation’s economic, social and spiritual well being.
Only through comprehensive reform can we restore the rule of law to our nation’s immigration system.
We urge President Obama and congressional leaders to meet as soon as possible to discuss and draft comprehensive immigration reform legislation, with the goal of making it law by the end of 2009. The Catholic bishops of our country stand ready to assist in this effort.
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Joe Grau, conference president
MENS' ROTATING HOMELESS SHELTER at SACRED HEART
Thanks to those who have donated time or other resources to make
the stay of men in our parish hall this past winter. The mens' shelter runs
twice each winter. Please contact Bob McLaughlin if you would like to
offer any assistance. New members are always welcome to join our SVdP conference.
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WE COME TO DO HIM HOMAGE
"The Eucharist is a priceless treasure: by not only celebrating
it but also by
praying before it outside of Mass we are enabled to make contact
with the very wellspring
of grace." - Pope John Paul II |
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IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: ADORATION
OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT Adoration is held from 8:30-
12:00noon every first Friday of the month. (Note: from June-September, Adoration is in the Parish Hall Chapel.)
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