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St.Katharine Drexel, S.B.S.: School builder and founder of the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament for Indians and Colored People
When she asked Pope Leo XIII to send more missionaries to Wyoming, he asked her, "Why don't you become a missionary?" As a young, wealthy, educated girl from Philadelphia, this was hardly the expected lifestyle for young Katharine Drexel. But raised in a devout family with a deep sympathy for the poor, Katharine gave up everything to become a missionary to the Indians and African Americans. She founded schools in thirteen states for African Americans, forty mission centers and twenty-three rural schools. She also established fifty missions for Indians in sixteen different states. She died at the age of ninety-six and was canonized in the year 2000.
To find out more about St. Katharine Drexel, S.B.S click on the following link: http://www.vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/saints/ns_lit_doc_20001001_katharine-drexel_en.html
Monday, February 25: "Life: A Journey of Transformation" Part 1, 7:00 PM in the church; Tuesday, February 26: Women's Faith Sharing Group, 6:30 AM to 7:30 AM; "Life: A Journey of Transformation" Part 2, 7:00 PM in the church; Wednesday, February 27 "Life: A Journey of Transformation" Part 3, 7:00 PM in the church; NO Religious Education Classes; High School Youth MInistry 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM in the Loft; Thursday, February 28: Men's Faith Sharing Group, 6:00 AM to 7:00 AM in the Gathering Space; "Life: A Journey of Transformation" Mass at 7:00 PM in the church; Friday, March 1: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament beginning at 9:00 AM and ending with Benediction at Noon; Stations of the Cross, 4:00 PM in the church; Men's Club All You Can Eat Fish Fry, in the Fr. Robert Agnew Parish Center, serving 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM; Sunday, March 3: NO Sunday School
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1st Reading: Genesis 15:5-12, 17-18; 2nd Reading: Phillipians 3:20-4:1; Gospel: Luke 9: 28b-36
Adults: How are your priorities affected by your faith in Jesus Christ? Children: When you have important choices to make, do you and your family pray to make the right choice?
Tuesday, February 19: Women's Faith Sharing Group, 6:30 AM to 7:30 AM; Wednesday, February 20: Religious Education Classes for Grades 1-7, 6:15 PM to 7:30 PM; High School Youth MInistry 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM in the Loft; Thursday, February 21: Men's Faith Sharing Group, 6:00 AM to 7:00 AM in the Gathering Space; The Bible and the Mass, 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM in the Conference Room; Friday, February 22: Stations of the Cross, 4:00 PM in the church; Sunday, February 24: Sunday School, 10:15 AM to 11:30 AM
O God, eternal shepherd, who govern your flock with unfailing care, grant in your boundless fatherly love a pastor for your Church who will please you by his holiness and to us show watchful care. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
