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September 2024
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1Saint Giles9:00 Mass 9:00AMMonth View September 1, 20242Blessed John Francis Burté and CompanionsMonth View September 2, 2024-
Monday, September 2These priests were victims of the French Revolution. Though their martyrdom spans a period of several years, they stand together in the Church’s memory because they all gave their lives for the same principle...Read More
3Saint Gregory the GreatMonth View September 3, 2024-
Tuesday, September 3Gregory was the prefect of Rome before he was 30. After five years in office he resigned, founded six monasteries on his Sicilian estate, and became a Benedictine monk in his own home at Rome.Read More
4Saint Rose of ViterboNo Weekday Mass7:00p Knights of Columbus MeetingMonth View September 4, 2024-
Wednesday, September 4Even as a child, Rose had a great desire to pray and to aid the poor. While still very young, she began a life of penance in her parents’ house. She was as generous to the poor as she was strict with herself...Read More
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Wednesday, September 4, 7:00 PM
The Saint Boniface Knights of Columbus, Council #16480 will hold their monthly meeting. We welcome those who are interested in becoming a Knight to attend any of the monthly meetings.Read More
5Saint Teresa of CalcuttaNo Weekday MassMonth View September 5, 20246Blessed Claudio GranzottoNo Weekday MassMonth View September 6, 2024-
Friday, September 6His artistic abilities, especially in sculpture, led to studies at Venice’s Academy of Fine Arts, which awarded him a diploma with the highest marks in 1929. Even then he was especially interested in religious art. When Claudio entered the Friars Minor four years later, his parish priest wrote, “The Order is receiving not only an artist but a saint.”...Read More
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7Blessed Frédéric Ozanam4:00p Vigil Mass 4:00PMMonth View September 7, 2024-
Saturday, September 7A man convinced of the inestimable worth of each human being, Frédéric served the poor of Paris well, and drew others into serving the poor of the world. Through the Saint Vincent de Paul Society, which he founded, his work continues to the present day...Read More
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8Nativity of the Blessed Virgin MaryMonth View September 8, 2024-
Sunday, September 8The Church has celebrated Mary’s birth since at least the sixth century. A September birth was chosen because the Eastern Church begins its Church year with September.Read More
9Saint Peter ClaverMonth View September 9, 2024-
Monday, September 9A native of Spain, young Jesuit Peter Claver left his homeland forever in 1610 to be a missionary in the colonies of the New World. He sailed into Cartagena, a rich port city washed by the Caribbean. He was ordained there in 1615.Read More
10Saint Thomas of Villanova6:30p Oktoberfest Planning MeetingMonth View September 10, 2024-
Tuesday, September 10Saint Thomas was from Castile in Spain and received his surname from the town where he was raised. He received a superior education at the University of Alcala and became a popular professor of philosophy there.Read More
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Tuesday, September 10, 6:30 PM - 7:30 PMOktoberfest Planning Meeting. All are welcome to attend. We need many helping hands, skills and ideas to make this fundraiser a success.Read More
11Saint CyprianNo Weekday Mass7:00p No Pastoral Council Meeting this monthMonth View September 11, 202412Most Holy Name of the Blessed Virgin MaryNo Weekday MassMonth View September 12, 202413Saint John ChrysostomNo Weekday MassMonth View September 13, 202414Exaltation of the Holy Cross4:00p Vigil Mass 4:00PMMonth View September 14, 2024-
Saturday, September 14Early in the fourth century, Saint Helena, mother of the Roman Emperor Constantine, went to Jerusalem in search of the holy places of Christ’s life. She razed the second-century Temple of Aphrodite, which tradition held was built over the Savior’s tomb, and her son built the Basilica of the Holy Sepulcher on that spot. During the excavation, workers found three crosses. Legend has it that the one on which Jesus died was identified when its touch healed a dying woman...Read More
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15Our Lady of SorrowsMonth View September 15, 2024-
Sunday, September 15For a while there were two feasts in honor of the Sorrowful Mother: one going back to the 15th century, the other to the 17th century. For a while both were celebrated by the universal Church: one on the Friday before Palm Sunday, the other in September...Read More
16Saint CorneliusMonth View September 16, 2024-
Monday, September 16There was no pope for 14 months after the martyrdom of Saint Fabian because of the intensity of the persecution of the Church. During the interval, the Church was governed by a college of priests. Saint Cyprian, a friend of Cornelius, writes that Cornelius was elected pope “by the judgment of God and of Christ, by the testimony of most of the clergy, by the vote of the people, with the consent of aged priests and of good men.”Read More
17Saint Robert Bellarmine6:30p Oktoberfest Planning MeetingMonth View September 17, 2024-
Tuesday, September 17When Robert Bellarmine was ordained in 1570, the study of Church history and the fathers of the Church was in a sad state of neglect. A promising scholar from his youth in Tuscany, he devoted his energy to these two subjects, as well as to Scripture, in order to systematize Church doctrine against the attacks of the Protestant Reformers...Read More
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Tuesday, September 17, 6:30 PM - 7:30 PMOktoberfest Planning Meeting. All are welcome to attend. We need many helping hands, skills and ideas to make this fundraiser a success.Read More
18Saint Joseph of CupertinoNo Weekday MassMonth View September 18, 202419Saint JanuariusNo Weekday MassMonth View September 19, 202420Saints Andrew Kim Taegon, Paul Chong Hasang, and CompanionsNo Weekday MassMonth View September 20, 2024-
Friday, September 20The first native Korean priest, Andrew Kim Taegon was the son of Christian converts. Following his baptism at the age of 15, Andrew traveled 1,300 miles to the seminary in Macao, China. After six years, he managed to return to his country through Manchuria. That same year he crossed the Yellow Sea to Shanghai and was ordained a priest...Read More
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21Saint Matthew. the Apostle and Evangelist10:00 Oktoberfest 20244:00p Vigil Mass 4:00PMMonth View September 21, 202422Saint Lorenzo Ruiz and CompanionsMonth View September 22, 2024-
Sunday, September 22Lorenzo was born in Manila of a Chinese father and a Filipino mother, both Christians. Thus he learned Chinese and Tagalog from them, and Spanish from the Dominicans whom he served as altar boy and sacristan.Read More
23Month View September 23, 202424Saint John Henry NewmanMonth View September 24, 2024-
Tuesday, September 24John Henry Newman, the 19th-century’s most important English-speaking Roman Catholic theologian, spent the first half of his life as an Anglican and the second half as a Roman Catholic. He was a priest, popular preacher, writer, and eminent theologian in both churches...Read More
25Saints Louis Martin and Zélie Guerin5:30p Eucharistic Adoration6:30p Weekday Mass - 6:30PMMonth View September 25, 2024-
Wednesday, September 25The home that Louis and Zélie created nurtured the sanctity of all their children, but especially their youngest, who is known to us as Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus. Louis and Zélie were beatified in 2008, and canonized by Pope Francis on October 18, 2015.Read More
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Wednesday, September 25, 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
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26Saint Paul VI8:00 Weekday Mass 8:00AMMonth View September 26, 2024-
Thursday, September 26Saint Pope Paul’s greatest accomplishment was the completion and implementation of Vatican II. Its decisions about liturgy were the first ones noticed by most Catholics, but its other documents—especially the ones about ecumenism, interfaith relations, divine revelation, religious liberty, the Church’s self-understanding and the Church’s work with the entire human family—have become the Catholic Church’s road map since 1965...Read More
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27Saint Vincent de Paul8:00 Weekday Mass 8:00AMMonth View September 27, 2024-
Friday, September 27The deathbed confession of a dying servant opened Vincent de Paul’s eyes to the crying spiritual needs of the peasantry of France. This seems to have been a crucial moment in the life of the man from a small farm in Gascony, France, who had become a priest with little more ambition than to have a comfortable life...Read More
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28Saint Wenceslaus4:00p Vigil Mass 4:00PMMonth View September 28, 2024-
Saturday, September 28If saints have been falsely characterized as “other worldly,” the life of Wenceslaus stands as an example to the contrary: He stood for Christian values in the midst of the political intrigues which characterized 10th-century Bohemia...Read More
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29Saints Michael, Gabriel, and RaphaelMonth View September 29, 2024-
Sunday, September 29Angels—messengers from God—appear frequently in Scripture, but only Michael, Gabriel and Raphael are named.Read More
30Saint JeromeMonth View September 30, 2024-
Monday, September 30Most of the saints are remembered for some outstanding virtue or devotion which they practiced, but Jerome is frequently remembered for his bad temper! It is true that he had a very bad temper and could use a vitriolic pen, but his love for God and his son Jesus Christ was extraordinarily intense; anyone who taught error was an enemy of God and truth, and Saint Jerome went after him or her with his mighty and sometimes sarcastic pen.Read More
1Saint Thérèse of LisieuxMonth View October 1, 2024-
Tuesday, October 1“I prefer the monotony of obscure sacrifice to all ecstasies. To pick up a pin for love can convert a soul.” These are the words of Thérèse of Lisieux, a Carmelite nun called the “Little Flower,” who lived a cloistered life of obscurity in the convent of Lisieux, France.Read More
2Feast of the Guardian Angels6:30p Weekday Mass - 6:30PM7:00p Knights of Columbus MeetingMonth View October 2, 2024-
Wednesday, October 2Perhaps no aspect of Catholic piety is as comforting to parents as the belief that an angel protects their little ones from dangers real and imagined. Yet guardian angels are not only for children. Their role is to represent individuals before God, to watch over them always, to aid their prayer, and to present their souls to God at death.Read More
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Wednesday, October 2, 7:00 PM
The Saint Boniface Knights of Columbus, Council #16480 will hold their monthly meeting. We welcome those who are interested in becoming a Knight to attend any of the monthly meetings.Read More
3Saint Theodora Guérin8:00 Weekday Mass 8:00AMMonth View October 3, 20244Saint Francis of Assisi8:00 Weekday Mass 8:00AMMonth View October 4, 2024-
Friday, October 4The patron saint of Italy, Francis of Assisi, was a poor little man who astounded and inspired the Church by taking the gospel literally—not in a narrow fundamentalist sense, but by actually following all that Jesus said and did, joyfully, without limit, and without a sense of self-importance.Read More
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5Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska4:00p Vigil Mass 4:00PMMonth View October 5, 2024 -
