What A Beautiful Name - Hillsong Worship
St. Mary of the Assumption
Youth Ministry Golf Tournament
Sunday, September 19th
Tee Time is 1PM
Shining Rock Golf Club
Any teens ages 14 - 18 interested in joining our St. Mary's Youth Ministry Group , please email me @ kmoran@stmarymilford.org
One of our goals will be to take a Mission Trip through Group Missions, to
Dexter, Maine July 10th to July 16th 2022.
Below is a video about Group Missions.
The theme in 2022 Group Mission Trips will be calling everyone to Go Serve. On each trip, we will focus on God’s call on us to serve in freedom. We will discover that Jesus is the reason we serve. We will learn that serving is a way to give praise to God. We will challenge ourselves to serve even when no one notices. We will remember that the ultimate example of service is Jesus’ humility and willingness to die for us. And we will discover that God blesses us when we serve.
Looking for Service Hours for
Confirmation, Honor Society or
College Applications?
We could use your help!
If you would like to volunteer at the
St. Mary of the Assumption
Youth Ministry Golf Tournament
on Sunday, September 19th
Please email me @kmoran@stmarymillford.org
Jonathan Roumie and Catholify on The Chosen's Sermon on the Mount scene
Did Jesus Know His Grandparents?
Did Jesus know his grandparents?
Little is definitively known about Saints Joachim and Anne, and whether they survived to see their grandson, Jesus Christ.
It’s easy to forget that Jesus had grandparents. One of the reasons for that is because they don’t appear in the Bible and their lives are rather obscure.
What we do know is found in a pious text from the year 145, called The Protoevangelium of James. It names Jesus’ grandparents as “Joachim and Anne,” and the Church celebrates their lives on July 26 each year.
Did Joachim and Anne live to see Jesus?
In the The Protoevangelium of James, Jesus’ grandparents do not have any age assigned to them, nor are they recorded as having died.
Anne is described as being infertile, mourning the inability to have children.
And his wife Anne mourned in two mournings, and lamented in two lamentations, saying: I shall bewail my widowhood; I shall bewail my childlessness. And the great day of the Lord was at hand; and Judith her maid-servant said: How long do you humiliate your soul? Behold, the great day of the Lord is at hand, and it is unlawful for you to mourn.
Since she is mourning her barrenness, it is possible this went on for years. The story obviously draws upon other biblical stories of infertility, implying that they may have been older when they conceived Mary, the mother of Jesus.
Some historians claim that the average lifespan in ancient Israel would have been 40, meaning that Joachim and Anne may have died before they saw Jesus.
Artists have typically stayed away from depictions of Jesus with his grandparents, and only feature a youthful Mary.
Whatever may have happened, Jesus would have enjoyed the presence of his grandparents if they were still alive and welcomed their loving care.
5 Things You Didn't Know About The Crucifix
The Catholic Talk Show
In this episode of The Catholic Talk Show, the guys examine and ponder The Crucifix and things you never knew about it.
