The Friday Flocknote
This Week at Saint Andrew
Sat May 8, 2:30pm: Confession
Sat May 8, 4:00pm: Vigil Mass
Sun May 9, 7:30am, 9:00am, 10:30am: Mass
Mon May 10, 7:30am: Mass
Tue May 11, 7:30am: Mass
Wed May 12, 7:30am: Mass
Wed May 12, 6pm - 8pm
Exposition, Adoration, Benediction, and Our Lady of Perpetual Help Novena
Our evening adoration will begin with the Exposition of the Most Blessed Sacrament at 6:00pm inside the church, followed by the Novena to Our Lady of Perpetual Help, continuing with Adoration, and ending with Benediction at 8:00pm.
Thur May 13, 7:30am: Daily Mass (Ascension Thursday - Holy Day transferred to Sunday May 16)
Fri May 14, 7:30am: Daily Mass
The Lord has revealed to the nations his saving power.
Video of the Week:
How to Love Your Difficult Parents
Saint of the Week:
Our Lady of Fatima
Feast Day - May 13
20th Century
Mary appeared to three peasant children near Fatima, Portugal, six times between May 13 and October 13, 1917, and asked for prayers for world peace and an end to World War I, for sinners, and for the conversion of Russia. She entrusted the children with three secrets, regarding devotion to her Immaculate Heart, a vision of hell, and a “bishop in white” shot by soldiers firing bullets and arrows.
Many connect the third secret to the attempted assassination of Blessed Pope John Paul II on May 13, 1981, and the pope thanked Mary for guiding the bullet and saving him. At the Vatican last October 13, Pope Francis stood before the statue of Our Lady from the Fatima shrine and formally entrusted the world to Mary.
Do Catholics worship Mary? No! Carl Olson explains:
“The Incarnation, the central event in salvation history, radically changed the relationship between God and man precisely because God became man — and He did so by being born of the Virgin Mary. Every devotion shown to Mary by Catholics (and the Eastern Orthodox) is based in the belief she is the Mother of God. But this devotion is not worship; that is for God alone.”