Highlights

• Have you picked up your Photo Directory?   Those who participated by coming to have their picture taken, are invited to pick up their free copy at your earliest convenience.  Please be sure to sign the pick up sheet.
• Please note:  No Tuesday Mass this week.
• Spend one hour a week in quiet prayer before the Blessed Sacrament.  2 Adoration Hours are available!     Wednesdays:  7-8 am &  6-7 pm are needing a committed adorer.  Interested?  Please call Don at 364-1185
• The Financial Report for September is available in the Parish Narthex

Christmas still seems far away

but this is the time when the Vincentians have to start planning for the Christmas hampers for the less fortunate in our community.  If you, or someone you know, needs a hamper for Christmas, please call the parish office.  We always hear in the gospel how much Jesus loves the poor, so please, do not be shy, it is our privilege to help.

World Mission Sunday is on Oct. 22nd

He dispatched his servants to summon the invited guests to the feast” Mt 22:3

There is wealth of meaning carried by the imagery used in the readings of today.  The end-time is depicted as a banquet, a time of great happiness.  The power of that image was much evident to the people of Isaiah’s or Christ’s time, than it is to our own.  The feast celebrated on the mountain in Isaiah, the wedding feast in the Gospels in a word, a meal done well, experienced rightly, all of that is life as God intended it to be, life done well, acted out rightly.  Matthew’s story is so overlaid with symbols that it is easy to forget the central image of God as a gracious host who hopes that everyone will come to his banquet of life.  The invitations to the banquet that is given us is an invitation to nothing less than life itself, life as God means it to be.  And that, it done rightly, is a thing to celebrate.

This year’s World Mission Sunday theme:  Hearts on fire, feet on the move  (cf.Lk 24:13-35)

 CWL October Meeting:  Monday, Oct. 16th, 2 pm

Come out to the church on Monday afternoon 1:30pm, October 16^th for the next general meeting.  Members from the Diocesan level will be present for discussion and sharing.  We are Catholic women united.  We are a sisterhood.  We are a blessing for the church.  Let’s plan a future together in growing and serving. Members and all women of the parish are invited.

A Men’s Cursillo Weekend will be held Oct. 26 – 29th.  For more information contact the parish office.

Card Parties on Tuesday afternoons     Solo & Euchre  – Beginning at 1:30 pm   Admission is $2.00  Everyone welcome – bring a friend

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This Sunday’s Gospel

Matthew 22:1-14

Discussion Questions:

• How have you responded to your call to the banquet?
• What does it mean to be in the Kings’ presence ‘without wedding clothes’?