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ADORATION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT: Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament is held throughout the year every Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday from 6 am to 9 pm at St. John’s Church Adoration Chapel downstairs. CATHOLIC CALENDARS: Calendars for 2008 indicating the special holy days and saints of the Catholic Church are available for your home or workplace. This year they are on the theme of Christian stewardship. CONGRATULATIONS! St. James Parish is among 22 parishes of the Diocese of Ogdensburg who have surpassed their Bishop’s Fund goal for 2007. According to the Bishop’s Fund director, the parishioners of St. James contributed and/or pledged a total of $ 6,970 to the Bishop’s Fund this year. The Parish goal was $ 6,899. The Bishop’s Fund total as of this week is $967,186 or 80% of its goal. Thank you for all you do in support of the Bishop’s Fund Appeal. NEW BEGINNINGS: “NEW BEGINNINGS” is a group of divorced and separated people that meet every Thursday at 7:00 PM at St. Peter’s Church, Plattsburgh in the Upper Room. The first meeting will take place on Thursday, October 18th. For more information contact St. Peter’s Rectory at 563-1692. JOINING THE SAINTS: All Saints Day, a holy day of obligation, is celebrated on Thursday. After a month long blitz in preparation for Halloween many Catholics are unaware that the Halloween traditions had their origins in the All Saints/All Souls traditions of the Catholic Church. Most of us have names that go back to a Saint. Make an effort to find out about the life of your patron saint. And parents: tell your children the story of the saint after whom you named your child! You can find all the information you want to know about your namesake or patron saints on the following web site: www.catholic-forum.com/saints/indexsnt.htm. IN MEMORY OF OUR DEPARTED FAMILY: The Catholic Church invites us in the month of November to remember all those who have died. Death is the end of our earthly journey. We are told by Jesus, however, that when we have finished the work given to us to do on earth, we will be taken to an everlasting life in heaven. The Church encourages us to prepare ourselves for that hour of death by prayer and by living out our faith the best we can. Mary, our Blessed Mother, gave us her prayer, the Hail Mary, in which she mentions she will be with us at the hour of death. Let us pray daily to her and to St. Joseph, the Patron Saint of a happy death, to free us from any fear of death. During this month let us remember especially those from St. James Parish who were called by death to their everlasting life since last November and whose funeral and/or burial was in this parish.
Barbara Robare |
