PRAYER INTENTIONS

Please keep the following people in your prayers:

Shirley Adams, Larry Beverly, Helen Callahan, Kevin Chase, Keith Curran, Barbara Dowell, Carolyn Dukes,  Loretta Green, David Grigsby, Betty Harper, Jane Harper, Jerry Hoover, Barbara Howard, Alma Johnson, Bob Johnson, Bill Julian,  Bruce Leverette, Harold Looney, Nan Lunn, Jane Meier, Freda McCracken, Ruth McMahon, Winifred O’Toole, Carl Pope, Bernice Riley, Mike Roberts, Nancy Roberts, Olive Savoy, Chloe Smith, David Sturm, Jimmie Ruth Watson, Stephen Watson, Truman Willard                

Also, for those who are serving our country overseas, and the victims of natural disasters.

 

OFFER OF THANKSGIVING

 

 

    Church           Budgeted   $2500

  Offertory received            $2129

  Difference                     -  $371

                                     

   Votive candles (October)          $15.25

  

COUNTERS FOR OCT. 122nd:
Marion Rice & June Webb

 

BULLETIN ANNOUNCEMENTS Please place any  announcements you wish to publicize in the bulletin in the mailbox by the Religious Ed. Hall or email to stmarys@alltel.net or rainabo@yahoo.com (Christen Cook) Thanks!

SOCIAL HALL Needing to use the Social Hall for a meeting or event? Please call Deanna Holmer at 706-297-7493 to check on availability/guidelines for using the Hall.

ADORATION: Starting Friday July 6th there will be Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament at 1:00 PM. This will be held every Friday at this time.

 

RCIA: Are you looking for a way to serve others or 

deepen your own spiritual  life?  We are in need 

of volunteers to serve as sponsors for our  

candidates in RCIA.  If you are interested in 

helping others on their  journey to Christ, 

please contact Joanna Griggs, (706)886-0031.

LADIES LUNCHEON - Thursday, October 18 - 

11:30 at the Java Station on Big ARoad. 

 Their new chef has promised an interesting 

and delicious menu. LetRobbie Franzmathis 

(706/779=2342) or Mary Ruetten (706/886-0627)

 know ifyou're able to join us.

THANKS!! – To the faithful souls swho showed up

 for the clean-up day (Jose Flores, Rita and 

Gordie Nash, Steve & Yvonne Dessauer, Joan Akins 

– and especially John & Greg Pyne).

 

SAINT MARY’S WEBSITE: Our website is now up 

and operating. The address is:

www.stmarystoccoaga.com

THANKSGIVING MASS: – The CCD Children’s

 Thanksgiving Mass will be on Wednesday, 

November 14th. The children hope to help feed

 six families again this year. Will you please 

helup us in this endeavor? Please find in the

 Narthex grocery bags with a list attached of 

suggested foods for the baskets and a pumpkin

 for donations to help buy turkeys and other 

perishable foods. Thank you for your help!!

CHILI COOK-OFF/SILENT AUCTION: On Saturday, 

November 10th, after the 6 pm Mass, the High School

 CCD class will be hosting a Chili cook-off as a 

fundraiser for an upcoming retreat. The cost is 

$7.00 for adults and $3.00 for kids 10 and under.

 There will be a prize given for the best chili –

 be sure to donate a crockpot of your world famous 

recipe!! For more information, please call 

Sarah Parker at 706-886-5567 or Nancy Shurtz at 

706-599-1954.

CONGRATULATIONS – To Mary Ruetten, the winner 

of the suit donated by Lanier Clothes to raise 

money for the March of Dimes!!

St. Paul of The Cross / Feast Day Oct.  20th ~

St. Paul of the Cross was born at Ovada in the

 Republic of Genoa, January 3, 1694. His infancy

 and youth were spent in great innocence and piety. 

He was inspired from on high to found a 

congregation; in an ecstacy he beheld the 

habit which he and his companions were to wear.

 After consulting his director, Bishop Gastinara 

of Alexandria in Piedmont, he reached the 

conclusion that God wished him to establish a 

congregation in honor of the Passion of 

Jesus Christ. On November 22, 1720, the bishop

 vested him with the habit that had been shown 

to him in a vision, the same that the Passionists 

wear at the present time. From that moment 

the saint applied himself to repair the Rules 

of his institute; and in 1721 he went to Rome to 

obtain the approbation of the Holy See. At first

 he failed, but finally succeeded when Benedict 

XIV approved the Rules in 1741 and 1746. Meanwhile 

St. Paul built his first monastery near Obitello. 

Sometime later he established a larger community 

at the Church of St. John and Paul in Rome. 

For fifty years St. Paul remained the indefatigable

 missionary of Italy. God lavished upon him the 

greatest gifts in the supernatural order, but he 

treated himself with the greatest rigor, and 

believed that he was a useless servant and a 

great sinner. His saintly death occurred at 

Rome in the year 1775, at the age of eighty-one.

 He was canonized by Pope Pius IX in 1867. 

His feast day is October 20.