Two cancellations this week: Transforming Loss is canceled for Thursday at 6:30 PM. Healing Journey of Grief is canceled for Saturday at 10:30 AM.

We have an elderly parishioner in need of transportation to and from Mass.  He lives in Steiner Ranch, Longhorn Village. The current family transporting him cannot do it every weekend. Please call the parish office if you can help.

Austin Interfaith Non-Partisan Accountability Session
Many of our families are facing real challenges that call for action from elected officials. How do the candidates stand on the real issues like affordability, quality education, living wages, immigration, healthcare and community safety? As we head to the November 6 election, Austin Interfaith will hold a strictly non-partisan candidate "Accountability Session" with candidates for Austin Mayor, City Council, state legislature, and U.S. Congress in Travis County.
Rather than endorse candidates, we will ask them to support our agenda! This agenda was created through a process of community meetings throughout Travis County including meetings held here are Emmaus.
Everyone is invited to come and learn where the various candidates stand. 
The Accountability Session will be held at 3 PM on October 21 at University United Methodist Church, 2409 Guadalupe Street. Free parking is available at the UUMC designated parking lot and Platinum Garage next to the church.
For more information contact austininterfaith@austininterfaith.org.

Prayer at Abortion Clinic: More prayer warriors are needed for this Saturday, especially between 2:00 - 4:00 PM.
You can save a beautiful life! Sign-up are here: https://www.volunteersignup.org/HDHPD

October 13-14: Special collection for 2018 Disasters
Thank you! $6,573 was taken-in this past weekend of disaster relief.

World Mission Sunday collection this weekend, October 20&21
We are called to offer our prayers and our generous financial support, through The Society for the Propagation of the Faith, to continue the mission of Jesus. This weekend we “speak up” through our prayers and personal sacrifices for our brothers and sisters in the Missions. As little as…

• $25 helps support a catechist for a month in Latin America
• $75 provides for the work of religious Sisters in Africa
• $100 assists children in schools in Asia

As always, our prayers are our most treasured gift to the Missions. Prayers and financial help, offered on WORLD MISSION SUNDAY, join those of Catholic parishes through-out the USA, to support mission priests, religious Sisters and Brothers, and lay catechists who are Christ’s witnesses to a world so in need of His healing love and peace. This collection will be taken-up at the same time, so please mark your contribution as "World Mission."

Truck or Treat will be Wednesday, October 24, 6:30 - 8:30 PM, sign-up to bring your decorated car and goodies: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30E0E4CADAE2AA2F49-trunk 

See all the Graphics below for everything happening these next few weeks!

Wood for Free!
We have wood no longer being used for Fall Fest and it is available to you for free!  First-come, first-served. Please got to the back of the campus, basement entrance, by the main entrance to the PLC.  There is also a basketball hoop and back board. And there are plastic fence lattice pieces. Free - Free - Free!!

And the Funnies...

A young man is feeling ill and visits a doctor. While he waits in the reception room, a nun comes out of the examination office. She is haggard and ashen. When the man sees the doctor, he says, "I just saw that nun leaving; she looked absolutely terrible."
The doctor says, "I just told her she's pregnant."
The man exclaims: "Oh my, is she really?"
"Of course not," says the doctor, "but it sure cured her hiccups."