Pastor's Notes - 10/28/2018

I want to thank Dan and Amanda Williams as the chairpersons and Wanda and Linda Zeitzman as the co-chairs for this year's Sausage Dinner.   Also would like to thank all who worked, participated and supported our annual Sausage Dinner.   We had a great turnout!
 
The other two relics which are in our reliquary are:

St. Ivonis, or, St. Yves

Born in Brittany in 1253, as a young man Ivonis began a career in law. He was outstanding in his practice, but eventually felt the tug of God to become a Franciscan, first as an associate, then as a full member and priest. But shortly after his ordination as a Franciscan priest, the bishop appointed him to serve as judge and lawyer of the poor. With great zeal, care, and charity, Ivonis fulfilled his duties. Amongst many other services, he often used the law to defend the poor against unjust taxation from the king. He earned the title of ‘Advocate and Patron of the Poor.’ He is a patron saint of lawyers.
 
St. Anthony of Padua

Originally named Ferdinand, he was born in 1195 in Lisbon, Portugal to a powerful family of nobility. By age 15, Ferdinand had heard the call of Christ to religious life and joined the Augustinian priests, giving his prodigious mind to study and prayer. However, after witnessing the first Franciscan martyrs carried through town back to Italy, his heart became inflamed with desire to become a martyr for Christ, and joined the Franciscans, taking the name Anthony. At the command of St. Francis, Anthony became a teacher and outstanding preacher. God blessed his preaching with many miracles and many more converts. He converted so many from error, he earned the title ‘Hammer of Heretics’. 30 years after his death, they unearthed his remains, finding most reduced to dust… except the tongue with which Anthony spoke so beautifully and compellingly about Christ. The tongue was still as red and flexible as one living. St. Anthony is the patron saint of lost things and lost souls.
 
Thank you for all the sacrifices that you make to aid us in "fulfilling the Mission of Jesus.”