Please pray for the teens while they are on their Mission Trip.

The teens are M.I.A!! Yes we are missing in action again. Where are we this time? We are off for a few days performing some service work in a migrant farm worker community as well as serving at the Migrant Mission Center at a work camp in Tampa Bay. A group of 10 of us will be joining a group of 21 from St Peter’s Catholic Church in Jupiter, Florida. The trip will take place from June 28th to July 2nd, 2009 and we promise to give you a full report once we get back. Please keep us in your prayers.

Dear Lord,

We pray that the Blessed Mother wrap her mantle around your priests and through her intercession strengthen them for their ministry.

We pray that Mary will guide your priests to follow her own words, "Do whatever He tells you” (Jn 2:5).

May your priests have the heart of St. Joseph, Mary’s most chaste spouse.

May the Blessed Mother’s own pierced heart inspire them to embrace all who suffer at the foot of the cross.

May your priests be holy, filled with the fire of your love seeking nothing but your greater glory and the salvation of souls.

Amen.

Saint John Vianney, pray for us.

Holy Name's Website has just received a face-lift.  The website has been redesigned from the the ground up.  Built using the same software used by many professional websites, individual ministry leaders can post news, schedules or request help in just minutes.  After registering on the website, you can subscribe to an email newsletter; allowing you to receive parish news directly to your email inbox. You can also subscribe to an email Prayer Chain so you may request the prayers of your fellow parishioners and receive prayer requests.

An extensive contact page gives the phone and email contact information for ministry leaders at the click of a button.  Their pictures will allow us to recognize each other in the community and put a names to the faces.

Our website event calendar is now powered by Google Calendar for a comprehensive view of events in our busy faith community.  You can add events to your own personal Google Calendar, so you will never forget a meeting again.

Every member of this website will help it thrive.  We have a weblinks section ready to be filled with the great websites that YOU visit every day; everything from Catholic Blogs and News to Pope Benedict XVI's online presence at The Vatican's website.  We count on you to let us know where the best Catholic sites are.

Do you want to help build this new web ministry with me?  I hope to keep you current with our parish news and everyone can help.  If you have feedback about this site or would like to help provide content, please let me know.

Are you feeling burned out, stressed out and worn out?  Have you taken your spiritual temperature lately?  You just might be suffering from spiritual paralysis.

How does God fit in your life?  How do you fit into the lives of those you touch?  Have you been doing everything the “world” has told you to do to be successful and still you come up sort of empty?  Especially when you know all along there has to be so much more to your life.  You and I together, and with your peers, can explore the proven way to wholeness.  We have created an environment away from the “world” in which this transformation can take place.   I am inviting you to give yourself the gift of retreat. Yes, a retreat!

 
The Feast of Corpus Christi(Latin - Body of Christ) honors the Real Presence of Jesus in the Holy Eucharist. Traditionally celebrated on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday in order to associate it with the Institution on the Eucharist on Holy Thursday.  The feast, now known as the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ, is transferred to the following Sunday in the United States, Canada and Australia.  It was customary to have a Procession of the Blessed Sacrament and Benediction after Mass.

Feast of Corpus Christi from FishEaters.com 

A Corpus Christi Reflection from Fr Z. on WDTPRS.com

Parts of Pope Benedict's Corpus Christi Sermon

Evacuation:
• Check to see if you are in an evacuation area.
• Know where the emergency shelters are.

Special Medical Needs:
• Pre register for a Special Care Shelter if you need oxygen, nebulizer treatments or are on a ventilator.

All photo galleries have been uploaded to the new location at photos.holynameofjesuschurch.net.  Please remember that evey photo purchase supports Holy Name.

The year will begin with the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, “a day of priestly sanctification,” according to a press release from the Vatican.  On that day, the Holy Father “will celebrate Vespers before relics” of St. Jean Marie Vianney, patron saint of priests. 

The Year will end in St. Peter's Square, in the presence of priests from all over the world "who will renew their faithfulness to Christ and their bonds of fraternity."

The means to obtain the indulgence are as follows:

Just 22 days after conception a human embryo’s heart begins beating. The little heart will beat nearly 54 million times before he or she is born!

By 6 weeks plus 2 days after conception the brain waves of an unborn child can be recorded by EEG (electroencephalogram).

At just 10 weeks after conception nails and fingerprints begin to emerge in patterns that will uniquely identify a child throughout his or her entire life.

At 9 weeks after conception unborn children begin thumb-sucking. Between 12 and 16 weeks they often touch their mouths, up to 50 times an hour. Teeth start to grow by 13 weeks. Beginning at 14 weeks developmental differences between boys and girls begin to appear: female fetuses move their mouths much more frequently than males.

--The Endowment for Human Development, www.ehd.org

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