Sun., Jan 30 Bake Sale after each Mass; proceeds
for the Church windows
Sat., Feb. 5 1st Saturday, (Holy Hour 7 am; Mass
8 am). Wear sashes, sing in choir,
meetings afterwards
Fri., Feb. 11 Lady Day

BLESSING OF CHILDREN will take place after
each Mass on Sunday, January 2nd
.

The
current debt, due in January, is $85,900. Those who
make a significant contribution will have their
names listed on a plaque in the vestibule.

If you are interested in joining the Parish
choir, see C.J. Strain, or Vincent Prado in the Parish
Hall half an hour before the 9:00 Sunday Mass. You
may also call our Parish secretary for their phone
numbers. New members are always welcome!

There is a new sign-up sheet
for altar flowers in the vestibule. We are grateful to all
have been providing flowers for the beauty of the
house of God.

Of the many promises Our Lord Jesus Christ did
reveal to Saint Margaret Mary in favor of souls
devoted to His Sacred Heart, the principal ones are as
follows:

1. I will give them all the graces necessary for
   their state of life.
2. I will give peace in their families.
3. I will console them in all their troubles.
4. I will be their refuge in life and especially in
   death.
5. I will abundantly bless all their undertakings.
6. Sinners shall find in My Heart the source and
   Infinite Ocean of mercy.
7. Tepid souls shall become fervent.
8. Fervent souls shall rise speedily to great
   perfection.
9. I will bless those places wherein the image of
   My Sacred Heart shall be exposed and
   venerated.
10. I will give to priests the power to touch the
    most hardened hearts.
11. Persons who propagate this devotion shall have
    their names eternally written in My Heart.
12. In the excess of the mercy of My Heart, I
    promise you that My all powerful love will
    grant to all those who will receive Communion
    on the First Fridays, for nine consecutive
    months, the grace of final repentance: they will
    not die in my displeasure, nor without receiving
    the sacraments; and My Heart will be their
    secure refuge in that last hour.

From his childhood, he was devoted to prayer before the Blessed
Sacrament, and, when from his twelfth year he was sent as a day
pupil to the Jesuit college at Rennes, he never failed to visit the
church before and after class. He joined a society of young men who
during holidays ministered to the poor and to the incurables in the
hospitals, and read for them edifying books during their meals. At
the age of nineteen, he went on foot to Paris to follow the course in
theology, gave away on the journey all his money to the poor,
exchanged clothing with them, and made a vow to subsist
thenceforth only on alms. He was ordained priest at the age of
twenty-seven, and for some time fulfilled the duties of chaplain in a
hospital. In 1705, when he was thirty-two, he found his true
vocation, and thereafter devoted himself to preaching to the people.
For seventeen years he preached the Gospel in countless towns and
villages. As an orator he was highly gifted, his language being
simple but replete with fire and divine love. His whole life was
conspicuous for virtues difficult for modern degeneracy to
comprehend: constant prayer, love of the poor, poverty carried to an
unheard-of degree, joy in humiliations and persecutions.
A year before his death, Father de Montfort founded two
congregations — the Sisters of Wisdom, who were to devote
themselves to hospital work and the instruction of poor girls, and the
Company of Mary, composed of missionaries. He had long
cherished these projects but circumstances had hindered their
execution, and, humanly speaking, the work appeared to have failed
at his death, since these congregations numbered respectively only
four sisters and two priests with a few brothers. But the blessed
founder, who had on several occasions shown himself possessed of
the gift of prophecy, knew that the tree would grow. At the
beginning of the twentieth century the Sisters of Wisdom numbered
five thousand and were spread throughout every country; they
possessed forty-four houses and gave instruction to 60,000 children.
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RACCOLTA # 205
O God, who for the redemption of the
world didst will to be born amongst men, to
be circumcised, to be rejected by the Jews,
to be betrayed by the traitor Judas with a
kiss, to be bound with cords, to be led to
slaughter as an innocent lamb, to be
shamelessly exposed to the gaze of Annas,
Caiphas, Pilate and Herod, to be accused by
false witnesses, to be tormented by scourges
and insults, defiled with spitting, crowned
with thorns, smitten with blows, struck with
a reed, blindfolded, stripped of Thy
garments, fastened to the Cross with nails,
lifted on the Cross, reckoned among
thieves, given gall and vinegar to drink and
wounded with a spear; do Thou, O Lord, by
these Thy most holy sufferings, upon which
I unworthily meditate, and by Thy Holy
Cross and death deliver me from the pains
of hell, and vouchsafe to bring me where
Thou didst bring the penitent thief who was
crucified with Thee, Who with the Father
and the Holy Ghost livest and reignest, one
God, world without end. Amen. Our
Father, Hail Mary, Glory be (five times).

An indulgence of 3 years. An indulgence of 5 years, if
this prayer is recited on Fridays in Lent. A plenary
indulgence on the usual conditions, if this prayer is
said with devotion daily for an entire month.