J.M.J.
Dear Friends who love Our Lord and Our Lady, "Taking the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to Heaven, He said the blessing, broke the loaves, and gave them to the disciples, who in turn gave them to the crowds. They all ate and were satisfied, and they picked up the fragments left over—twelve wicker baskets full. Those who ate were about five thousand men, not counting women and children.” As the saying goes, "God is never outdone in generosity." He takes the ordinary and makes it fruitful. One commentator writes: "The feeding of the five thousand is the only miracle of Jesus that is recounted in all four Gospels. The principal reason for that may be that it was seen as anticipating the Eucharist and the final Banquet in the Kingdom (Mt 8:11; 26:29), but it looks not only forward but backward, to the feeding of Israel with manna in the desert at the time of the Exodus (Ex 16), a miracle that in some contemporary Jewish expectation would be repeated in the messianic age (2 Bar 29:8). It may also be meant to recall Elisha’s feeding a hundred men with small provisions (2 Kgs 4:42-44).
+Please remember the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus this First Friday, August 7th. To make the Nine First Fridays as Our Lord requested at Paray-le-Monial is an amazing gift from God.
+Please dress in a dignified and modest manner for Mass and whenever we enter a Catholic Church because Jesus Christ is present in the Tabernacle.
+We pray for the sick, including Kathy Engerbrecht, Father David Stevens and Father Antonio Ramos.
+May God through Our Blessed Mother reward you, Kevin and Pam Janssen, for the beautiful bench that now sits in front of the Statue of Our Lady of Perpetual Help near Saint Martin of Tours Church.
+We pray for the repose of the Soul of Virginia Lee Kayser, whose Funeral Mass will be this Thursday, August 6th at 10:30 a.m. in Saint Mary of Mercy Church.
"What is Your Question?"
by Father Ben Miriam
Q. Who is the Patron Saint of cancer patients?
A. Saint Peregrine Laziosi (circa 1260-1345). He was from Italy and became a priest of the Order of the Servants of Mary. He is invoked the world over for those who suffer with cancer. May Saint Peregrine pray for all of us!
*Next Sunday, August 9th . . . the 9:00 a.m. Confessions in Alexandria as usual
*Wednesday, August 5th . . . Most Holy Rosary (6:30 p.m.) and Confessions (7:00 p.m.) in Alexandria as usual
*Monday, August 3rd . . . Saint Martin of Tours Church, Emery
6:30 p.m. Confessions
7:15 p.m. Recitation of the Most Holy Rosary
*Wednesday, August 5th . . . Visit with Monsignor Mangan
12:30 p.m.--4:00 p.m.
Saint Stephen Parish Hall, Bridgewater
*Thursday, August 6th . . . Funeral Mass +Virginia Lee Kayser
10:30 a.m. Saint Mary of Mercy Church
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