St. Mary's Sunday Bulletin October 28, 2007

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.