The Friday Flocknote
This Week at Saint Andrew
Sat Jul 24
2:30pm: Confessions
4:00pm: Vigil Mass
Sun Jul 25
7:30am: Mass
9:00am: Mass
9:00am: Mass
10:30am: Mass
Mon Jul 26
7:00am: Holy Rosary
7:30am: Mass - Memorial of Saint Joachim and Saint Anne, parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary
8:00am: Divine Mercy Chaplet (Classroom C)
7:00am: Holy Rosary
7:30am: Mass - Memorial of Saint Joachim and Saint Anne, parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary
8:00am: Divine Mercy Chaplet (Classroom C)
8:30am - 12:00pm: Adoration of the Most Blessed Sacrament (following the cleaning of the church)
6:30pm: The Men of Saint Joseph at Saint Andrew (offsite, if interested in attending contact David Olio: 772-919-2555)
6:30pm: The Men of Saint Joseph at Saint Andrew (offsite, if interested in attending contact David Olio: 772-919-2555)
Tue Jul 27
7:00am: Holy Rosary
7:30am: Mass
8:00am: Divine Mercy Chaplet
7:00am: Holy Rosary
7:30am: Mass
8:00am: Divine Mercy Chaplet
8:00am - 12:00pm: Adoration of the Most Blessed Sacrament
Wed Jul 28
7:00am: Holy Rosary
7:30am: Mass
8:00am: Divine Mercy Chaplet
8:00am - 12:00pm: Adoration of the Most Blessed Sacrament
Thu Jul 29
7:00am: Holy Rosary
7:30am: Mass - Memorial of Saints Martha, Mary and Lazarus
8:00am: Divine Mercy Chaplet
7:00am: Holy Rosary
7:30am: Mass - Memorial of Saints Martha, Mary and Lazarus
8:00am: Divine Mercy Chaplet
8:00am - 12:00pm: Adoration of the Most Blessed Sacrament
Fri Jul 30
7:00am: Holy Rosary
7:30am: Mass
8:00am: Divine Mercy Chaplet
7:00am: Holy Rosary
7:30am: Mass
8:00am: Divine Mercy Chaplet
8:00am - 12:00pm: Adoration of the Most Blessed Sacrament
The hand of the Lord feeds us; he answers all our needs.
Video of the Week
The Real Presence of Jesus in the Eucharist
Saint of the Week
Saints Joachim and Saint Anne
Feast Day - July 26
Saints Anne and Joachim, the parents of the Virgin Mary, according to tradition derived from certain apocryphal writings. St. Anne is one of the patron saints of Brittany and Canada and of women in labour. As the grandparents of Jesus, Saints Anne and Joachim are also considered the patron saints of grandparents.
Information concerning their lives and names is found in the 2nd-century Protevangelium of James (“First Gospel of James”) and the 3rd-century Evangelium de nativitate Mariae (“Gospel of the Nativity of Mary”). According to these noncanonical sources, Anne was born in Bethlehem in Judaea. She married Joachim, and, although they shared a wealthy and devout life at Nazareth, they eventually lamented their childlessness. Joachim, reproached at the Temple for his sterility, retreated into the countryside to pray, while Anne, grieved by his disappearance and by her barrenness, solemnly promised God that, if given a child, she would dedicate it to the Lord’s service. Both received the vision of an angel, who announced that Anne would conceive and bear a most wondrous child. The couple rejoiced at the birth of their daughter, whom Anne named Mary. When the child was three years old, Joachim and Anne, in fulfillment of her divine promise, brought Mary to the Temple of Jerusalem, where they left her to be brought up.
According to later legends, Joachim died shortly after Mary’s birth, and Anne, encouraged by the Holy Spirit, remarried. Some traditions hold that Anne in her alleged subsequent marriage(s) became the grandmother of the Apostles John and James (sons of Zebedee), Simon, Jude, and James the Less (son of Alphaeus) and also of James, “the Lord’s brother.” Eastern literature on Anne, going back to the 4th century, does not follow the fantastic legends of medieval Western tradition.
Anne’s following was fervent in the Eastern church as early as the 4th century, and many churches, the first dating from the 6th century, were built in her honour. In the early 8th century Pope Constantine probably introduced her devotion to Rome, while Joachim’s cult was introduced in the West in the 15th century. Anne became extremely popular in the Middle Ages and influenced such theologians as Jean de Gerson, Konrad Wimpinar, and Johann Eck. In response to attacks on her cult by Protestant reformers, devotion to St. Anne was further promoted by post-Reformation popes.
The Protevangelium became the foundation for establishing the liturgical feasts of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary (September 8) and the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary (December 8). The dedication of Mary at the Temple became so important in church doctrine that by 1585 Pope Sixtus V included in the Western church calendar the liturgical feast of the Presentation of the Virgin Mary (November 21). Although this festival originated early in the East, probably at Jerusalem in 543, its first Western observance was recorded in England in the 11th century.
Information concerning their lives and names is found in the 2nd-century Protevangelium of James (“First Gospel of James”) and the 3rd-century Evangelium de nativitate Mariae (“Gospel of the Nativity of Mary”). According to these noncanonical sources, Anne was born in Bethlehem in Judaea. She married Joachim, and, although they shared a wealthy and devout life at Nazareth, they eventually lamented their childlessness. Joachim, reproached at the Temple for his sterility, retreated into the countryside to pray, while Anne, grieved by his disappearance and by her barrenness, solemnly promised God that, if given a child, she would dedicate it to the Lord’s service. Both received the vision of an angel, who announced that Anne would conceive and bear a most wondrous child. The couple rejoiced at the birth of their daughter, whom Anne named Mary. When the child was three years old, Joachim and Anne, in fulfillment of her divine promise, brought Mary to the Temple of Jerusalem, where they left her to be brought up.
According to later legends, Joachim died shortly after Mary’s birth, and Anne, encouraged by the Holy Spirit, remarried. Some traditions hold that Anne in her alleged subsequent marriage(s) became the grandmother of the Apostles John and James (sons of Zebedee), Simon, Jude, and James the Less (son of Alphaeus) and also of James, “the Lord’s brother.” Eastern literature on Anne, going back to the 4th century, does not follow the fantastic legends of medieval Western tradition.
Anne’s following was fervent in the Eastern church as early as the 4th century, and many churches, the first dating from the 6th century, were built in her honour. In the early 8th century Pope Constantine probably introduced her devotion to Rome, while Joachim’s cult was introduced in the West in the 15th century. Anne became extremely popular in the Middle Ages and influenced such theologians as Jean de Gerson, Konrad Wimpinar, and Johann Eck. In response to attacks on her cult by Protestant reformers, devotion to St. Anne was further promoted by post-Reformation popes.
The Protevangelium became the foundation for establishing the liturgical feasts of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary (September 8) and the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary (December 8). The dedication of Mary at the Temple became so important in church doctrine that by 1585 Pope Sixtus V included in the Western church calendar the liturgical feast of the Presentation of the Virgin Mary (November 21). Although this festival originated early in the East, probably at Jerusalem in 543, its first Western observance was recorded in England in the 11th century.
Why Do Catholics Believe in the Real Presence?
Carl Olson writes, "If Jesus had allowed some disciples to depart over a misunderstanding regarding metaphors (see Jn 6:66), what sort of teacher and Savior would He be? If the apostle John, writing his Gospel in the late first century, also failed to clarify Jesus’ intentions, what sort of apostle and Evangelist was he? And did it make sense that the Old Covenant could boast of manna — physical food given by miraculous means — but the New Covenant had a physical symbol only? No, it didn’t."