Encouraging the Culture of Encounter with Jesus Christ, His Church, and All People Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Eucharistic Procession on Friday! Join us for a Eucharistic Procession on Friday, Oct. 28 after the 5:30pm Mass. The procession will form at 6:30 and we will walk south half a mile on Brown Street concluding with prayers and Solemn Benediction at Holy Ghost Ukrainian Catholic Church. Fr. Sal generously welcomed us to do this a few years ago (you may remember) and is doing so again. In a particular way we pray for him and his family as there is still much turmoil in his home country

Encouraging the Culture of Encounter with Jesus Christ, His Church, and All People Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Holy Land Gifts We thank the folks who were selling the religious items in the narthex last week. Thank you to all who purchased any items. Not only do you have something to help you pray or a gift for another, but a connection with actual olive wood from the Holy Land where our Lord literally walked, ministered, died, and rose! Keep that in mind when you look at the crucifix or statue you bought. Furthermore, your financial support helps our Christian brothers and sisters living in the holy land who struggle to make ends meet.

Encouraging the Culture of Encounter with Jesus Christ, His Church, and All People Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, EUCHARISTIC PROCESSION OCTOBER 28 @ 6:30! St. Paul’s will host a Eucharistic Procession after the 5:30pm Mass on October 28. We will start at St. Paul’s and then process outside down the street a 1/2 mile and end at Holy Ghost Ukrainian concluding there with Solemn Benediction. The Bishops have just begun a three year Eucharistic Revival. The first year of this initiative is a diocesan phase and next year the parish phase will start.

Encouraging the Culture of Encounter with Jesus Christ, His Church, and All People Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, October Prayers after Mass Our custom of praying brief prayers after all our parish Masses continues. As I have written before, they take place after the Dismissal marking the end of Mass (when the deacon of priest says, “Go forth …”), and we do them as a way to foster an attitude of prayer and thanksgiving. This is done with a hymn or certain prayers, or, for us on Sundays, we do both. These prayers are optional; no one is sinning if they do not stay for them.