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AS OCTOBER IS THE MONTH OF THE ROSARY, please reserve Thursday evenings to pray with your family at 7:00 p.m. in St. John's Chapel of the Angels. Bring your private intentions as well as the needs of our country. Let us pray that God's will is accomplished in the November elections so that our families receive abundant blessings.
"Wherever two or more are gathered…" Just think how powerful our prayers can be when we gather together and invoke Our Blessed Mother to intercede on our behalf to her Divine Son, Jesus Christ!
MARK THESE DATES: October 14, 21 & 28; Thursday evenings at 7:00 p.m. in the Chapel of the Angels. After the Family Rosary, we will also pray the Chaplet of Divine Mercy.
ALSO: LIVING ROSARY! St. John's Council of Catholic Women will host the Living Rosary in Church on Monday, October 18, at 7:00 p.m. A special blessing will be given to expectant mothers since October is both Rosary & Respect Life Month. If you (and your children) would like to participate as a "living bead" in the Rosary, please call Lois at (651) 633-6086; we will gather in St. Paul Plaza at 6:40 p.m. All are invited to join us! Hospitality will follow, and baskets will be at the baptismal font for donations to Our Lady of Good Counsel Cancer Home. Please bring the entire family.
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Respect Life & Other Events
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ST. JOHN'S RESPECT LIFE MEETING will be held on Tuesday, October 12, at 7:00 p.m. in Room 211. New ideas and new members are always welcome! God bless you.
SAN MIGUEL MIDDLE SCHOOL fundraiser dinner at Ol' Mexico Restaurant in Roseville on Thursday, October 14, at 6:30 p.m. to benefit inner-city, needy children.
PRAYER FOR VICTIMS of family violence, for people of all faiths, at St. Philip's Lutheran Church in Fridley (6180 NE Highway 65) on Thursday, October 14, at 7:00 p.m.
CRADLE OF HOPE benefit concert at the College of St. Kate's on Saturday, October 16, 8:00 p.m., featuring Irish tenor Ciaran Sheehan; please call (651) 690-6700 for tickets.
POPCORN SALE! Christmas is coming and Cub Scout popcorn makes an affordable gift for the holidays as well as the perfect gift for the person who already has everything. St. John's Cub Scout Pack 93 is selling popcorn after all Masses next weekend. Please support our young boys.
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ANNUAL OLD FASHIONED TURKEY DINNER with all the trimmings will be on Sunday, November 7. We will again have an "Auntie's Attic" booth of gently used items and crafts of all kinds. We need crafters! Please call Joyce today if you are interested, (651) 633-0131. We also need your homemade pies for dessert, and your generous donations to help defray the cost. Please volunteer to work; save this day for good food and lots of family fun! Call Loretta to sign up for your favorite work shift or if you have any questions, (651) 633-2857. WE NEED YOU; CALL TODAY!
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Connections: 10 October 2004 - 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time
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FOR ADVIL & ZOCOR, LET US BLESS THE LORD!
The next time your back creaks, your tooth aches, or your sinuses throb, consider this from Rabbi Harold S. Kushner, writing in his latest book, The Lord is My Shepherd: Healing Wisdom of the Twenty-Third Psalm: "Each night as I prepare for bed, I put drops in my eyes to fend off the threat of glaucoma that would rob me of my sight and take from me the pleasure of reading. Each morning at breakfast, I take a pill to control my blood pressure, and each evening at dinner, I take another pill to lower and control my cholesterol level. But instead of lamenting the ailments that come with growing older, instead of wishing that I were as young and fit as I once was, I take my medicine with a prayer of thanks that modern science has found ways to help me cope with these ailments. I think of my ancestors who didn't live long enough to develop complications and didn't even have pills to take if they did grow old."
CONNECTION: Gratitude is a conscious and intentional perspective of looking at our lives and our world. For men and women of faith, gratitude is an awareness that should be reflected in every moment of our lives. Like the leper in today's Gospel, we realize that we have been cured despite the problems we face, that our blessings far outweigh our struggles, that we have reason to rejoice and hope despite the sadness and anxieties we must cope with. It is that sense of gratitude that transforms cynicism and despair into optimism and hope, that turns the good we do into experiences of grace, and that makes us "whole" and "clean" in Christ's hope and love.
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