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. 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 THE MISSING PRECIOUS ONES Who would leave the ninety-nine in order to seek out the one, lost sheep? We sometimes read or see accounts of missing children. We cannot really grasp the feelings of the parents or family members. Their world stops. Their hearts ache. The parents do not forget their other children, but for a time, their focus is solely on the one who is missing. They join the search party, or sit anxiously by the phone, waiting for news of the return of the child. It is this sort of love that Jesus describes in the parable of the lost sheep. And yet, Jesus told the parable in response to criticism by Pharisees and scribes because he was welcoming sinners and eating with them. So, in Jesus’ parable, the sheep is not accidentally lost. The sheep has strayed. And still, the shepherd went out in search of it. The sheep is precious to the shepherd, even though it had wandered away. Like the Israelites in the desert who had created idols in Moses’ absence. Like us, when we turn away from God and God’s ways, doing what we feel like, rather than what we know is right and good. REJOICING WHEN THE LOST ARE FOUND The shepherd in the parable leaves the ninety-nine to seek out the one who had wandered, and only returns home when that one, that precious one, had been found. All are precious in the eyes of the shepherd. The woman turned her house upside down in order to find her lost coin and, upon finding it, called her friends and neighbors. Jesus welcomed sinners and ate with them. Have you wandered away, through your actions or inactions? Jesus’ parable assures us that there is great joy in heaven when the lost one repents. Turn back to the Lord, and know that there will be great rejoicing in heaven upon your return. Today’s Readings: Ex 32:7–11, 13–14; Ps 51:3–4, 12–13, 17, 19; 1 Tim 1:12–17; Lk 15:1–32 [1–10]
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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.
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
THE MISSING PRECIOUS ONES
Who would leave the ninety-nine in order to seek out the one, lost sheep? We sometimes read or see accounts of missing children. We cannot really grasp the feelings of the parents or family members. Their world stops. Their hearts ache. The parents do not forget their other children, but for a time, their focus is solely on the one who is missing. They join the search party, or sit anxiously by the phone, waiting for news of the return of the child. It is this sort of love that Jesus describes in the parable of the lost sheep. And yet, Jesus told the parable in response to criticism by Pharisees and scribes because he was welcoming sinners and eating with them. So, in Jesus’ parable, the sheep is not accidentally lost. The sheep has strayed. And still, the shepherd went out in search of it. The sheep is precious to the shepherd, even though it had wandered away. Like the Israelites in the desert who had created idols in Moses’ absence. Like us, when we turn away from God and God’s ways, doing what we feel like, rather than what we know is right and good.
REJOICING WHEN THE LOST ARE FOUND
The shepherd in the parable leaves the ninety-nine to seek out the one who had wandered, and only returns home when that one, that precious one, had been found. All are precious in the eyes of the shepherd. The woman turned her house upside down in order to find her lost coin and, upon finding it, called her friends and neighbors. Jesus welcomed sinners and ate with them. Have you wandered away, through your actions or inactions? Jesus’ parable assures us that there is great joy in heaven when the lost one repents. Turn back to the Lord, and know that there will be great rejoicing in heaven upon your return. Today’s Readings: Ex 32:7–11, 13–14; Ps 51:3–4, 12–13, 17, 19; 1 Tim 1:12–17; Lk 15:1–32 [1–10]
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.
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Adoration Of The Blessed Sacrament
First Saturday 7:00 PM to 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
Let us pray for the health of: Ray O’Keefe, Eva and Alfonso Angel, Nayar Prado Bisogno, Ann Lukens, Raymond Moore, Zelma Toro, Stephanie Nelson, Phyllis Fletcher, Patrick Hunter, Trip Lasseter, Misty Lasseter, Madalyn Touchton, Kelly Raynor, Daniela Borrero
For the Eternal rest of: Vincent Mancuso, Maria de Jesus Gallegos Chris Remick, All faithful Departed
Knights News: Knights of Columbus, Council 4913, continues to help our parishes and local community. Here are some donations for the last few months: $400.00 to the Boy Scouts at St. John’s $500.00 to Teachers Harvest, St Francis Center, Military Order of Purple Heart, and The Haven through our Charity of the Month Program. Distributed $5500 to LARC and Local Special Olympics raised from our Annual Tootsie Roll Drive Monthly, donated $200 to St Anthony of Padua Parish Wrote checks totaling $2700 to assist local families in need with food, housing , medical, utility bills If you would like to be part of this great organization, please contact GK Don Martin at 229-444-1037 or John Storrings, Council 4913 Membership Director at 229-412-1148 for more information.
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