OFFICE HOURS

Monday - Thursday 9:00AM - 3:00PM

Pastoral Team

Rev. Fr. Kevin O’Keefe

Deacon Ray Brown

Deacon Steven Mancuso

There will be a Virtus: Protecting God's Children session held at the church on Tuesday, September 17th at 6:00pm. This is required for all those over 18 years of age who work with children/minors in their ministry and have not already completed a Virtus session. Any other adults interested in attending are invited to do so. All registration must be completed online prior to the day of the session. The link for this session is https://www.virtusonline.org/virtus/reg_list2.cfm?theme=0&theOrgID=17973. If you have any questions or want further details please speak with Deacon Steven.

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION CATHECHIST AND ASSISTANT NEEDED. PLEASE CONTACT OFFICE OR DEACON STEVEN MANCUSO

Sunday Masses English: 10:00AM Spanish: 12:30PM

Daily Mass Monday-Thursday 9:30AM

Confessions Sundays 9:15AM to 9:45AM - 11:45AM to 12:15PM

or by appointment

GOD IS ENOUGH

Many outstanding thinkers in the Church have devoted themselves to the study of humility. Saints such as Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, and Teresa of Ávila have helped us appreciate the essence of humility. Basically, humility accepts the simple truth that God creates everything—and provides all that we creatures require. Humility, then, is faith applied to daily life. If I am created in God’s very image, and if my life’s goal is to unite with God in paradise, then God desires only paradise for me. Practically speaking, that means all day, every day, God will provide just exactly what I need to grow in holiness. Furthermore, God does this for me just as much as for every other creature on earth. All the gifts and talents that we have come from God, and everything we see as failure or weakness could never lie beyond God’s powerful redemption.

IN GOD WE TRUST

Humility requires that we trust God to give us everything we need to live this life in such a way that we will live forever in paradise. This level of trust in God’s providence is a gift, and it takes time to cultivate. Little by little, if we really, truly, deeply know that God wants to give us heaven, then common difficulties lose much of their power to unnerve us. In humility, we can let someone else have the last cookie. In humility, we can rejoice in a coworker’s promotion. In humility, we can clean a mess we did not create. We can accept incompleteness, exclusion, and sacrifice because of the absolute certainty that God alone provides what we need. Jesus himself asks us to choose this humble way of life. “For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled,” he says in Luke’s Gospel today, “but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.” That is not just poetic rhetoric. Jesus actually means for humility to change our lives. He challenges us to “invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind; blessed indeed will you be because of their inability to repay you. For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.” Today’s Readings: Sir 3:17–18, 20, 28–29; Ps 68:4–5, 6–7, 10–11; Heb 12:18–19, 22–24a; Lk 14:1, 7–14 Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co., Inc.

September 1, 2019 22st Sunday in Ordinary Time

August 25, 2019

Collections

Regular Collection $958

Building Fund

$1,162

Bishop Annual Appeal $

WILL RESUME IN SEPTEMBER 15th

Adult Faith Formation Classes

Meet every Sunday at 11:15 in

Church conference room. For more information please

contact our office or Mrs. Lukens (229) 794-9140

St. Anthony of Padua

Prayer Garden

Support us by ordering a memorial brick for our prayer

garden. The cost is $100 we do offer payment plan. To order a

brick or if you have any question about our engraved bricks,

please feel free to contact the

Parish Office.

Registration We will be working on updating our Parish files and will ask that everyone fill a church registration form again. This will help fix all incorrect and missing information.

Please Update!

Adoration Of The Blessed Sacrament

First Saturday 7:00 PM - 10 PM

Rosary Ministry Our Rosary makers meet

every 3rd Thursday of the month at 11:30am. For more information please

contact Kathy Giddens at (229)482-2364

Knights of Columbus Round table meeting

Parish Hall Second Sunday of the month

at 11:15AM

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION PROGRAM

SEPTEMBER 2019 – MAY 2020 CLASSES BEGIN ON SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 15th

REGISTRATION: AUGUST 18 & 25, SEPTEMBER 1st A COPY OF YOUR CHILD’S BAPTISMAL CERTIFICATE

IS REQUIERED AT THE TIME OF REGISTRATION BOOK DONATION $25 PER CHILD

RACHEL’S VINEYARD POST ABORTION HEALING RETREAT:

September 6-8, 2019 There is a special ministry for any woman, man, family member, or friend, who is struggling with the emotional, spiritual and psychological pain after an abortion. A Rachel’s Vineyard Weekend Retreat offers an opportunity to find healing, hope and forgiveness. Come experience the mercy and compassion of God through this healing weekend. For additional information contact Stephanie May at 912-306-0406, or stephmay@bellsouth.net, or visit the website at www.rachelsvineyard.org All calls and inquiries are strictly confidential. Come and be restored. Our next retreat is near Augusta, Ga.

Let us pray for the health of: Eva and Alfonso Angel, Nayar Prado Bisogno, Zelma Toro, Ann Lukens, Raymond Moore, Daniela Borrero, Stephanie Nelson Phyllis Fletcher, Patrick Hunter, Trip Lasseter, Misty Lasseter, Madalyn Touchton, Kelly Raynor

For the Eternal rest of: Vincent Mancuso, Maria de Jesus Gallegos Chris Remick, All faithful Departed

TREASURES FROM OUR TRADITION

The readings today center on mindfulness, awareness of where we stand in God’s plan. The mountain of Sinai carries a message of the majesty and distance of God, while Jesus’ presence as host of the banquet speaks of intimacy and mystery. September’s shadow calls us all to mindfulness as we prepare to return to life outside of summer. The Christian life holds these two places of knowledge of God in careful balance. Even in the accounts of the Passion we see the table of the upper room in balance with the Mount of Olives. Altar means “high place,” yet it is also a table. The former liturgy of the Latin Rite began with the priest bowing at the foot of the altar’s three steps, chanting Introibo ad altare Dei, or “I will go to the altar of God,” followed by the altar servers’ response, “The God who gives joy to my youth.” Many parishioners can recall and recite this scene by heart. As with so many things in liturgy, there are layers of meaning in our worship. The altar table evokes memories of the high places once reserved for encounter with the holy, and the intimacy of the table where hospitality draws us to share food and drink. —James Field, Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.