vocations. Please come and join us.

 

FOOD FOR THE POOR

Please join us next weekend of April 19/20, 2008 to hear Rev. John C. Fabian, O.P. speak at all the Holy Masses about a ministry providing direct relief to the poor throughout Latin America and the Caribbean.

       Father Fabian will share what he has witnessed about Food For The Poor mission to care for the destitute as a means of living out the Gospel mandate to love one another. On this weekend 2nd Collection will be for Food for the Poor. Thank you very much for your generosity and support.

       Fr. Fabian was ordained for The Order of Preachers, the Dominicans, in 1959. He has worked as a Campus

Minister at Purdue University and served as a Chaplain in the US. Navy before joining Food For The Poor. Please welcome warmly Father Fabian. SPECIAL ENVELOPE ARE PLACED IN THE PEW. THANK YOU FOR YOUR GENOROSITY

 

FIRST HOLY COMMUNION

       On Sunday, May 18th; the children of our Parish

receive, for the  first time in their lives, Holy Communion.  Please pray for our children waiting for their VERY IMPORTANT DAY, when they receive, for the first time,  Jesus in the Holy Eucharist; and pray also for their parents and teachers.

 

OUR CONGRATULATIONS  TO ALL THE CHILDREN AND TO THEIR PARENTS.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Learn more about the

Insititute of Christ the King

The Institute of Christ the King has been serving our parish since 2005 when Bishop Vigneron appointed Fr. Wiener chaplain to the Traditional Latin Rite community at St. Margaret Mary and his Delegate for the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite in the Oakland diocese. The work that has been done here in these three years and that continues to develop the constantly growing traditional community, now and in the future, is specifically characterized by the Institute’s spirituality. It seems therefore important for the whole parish to learn more about this spiritual character of Fr. Wiener’s community in which he has been trained for the priesthood and which continues to be his spiritual root and family. We present in this and in the following issues of our bulletin the Institute and its specific spiritual identity:

The Institute of Christ the King is, for ecclesiastical standards, a very young foundation. Our founder, Monsignor Gilles Wach, S.T.D., supported decisively by the co-founder, Father Phillipe Mora, S.T.D., had the Institute canonically erected the 1st of September 1990. Originally, the young French abbé, Gilles Wach, never intended to start a foundation at all, but during the 1980's, working for Cardinal Silvio Oddi in Rome and with a priestly association in France, he was approached by more and more young men who wanted a traditional Catholic formation to the priesthood. Finally, he decided to make an attempt to bring them together and to follow their formation in some way. Several Roman Cardinals, though, urged him to decide for the foundation of a religious community, so that the idea of the Institute took form already as soon as 1988.

Providence, at this moment, helped to find a Bishop who was ready to give this courageous enterprise a canonical foundation. At that time the situation in France was too tense to realize the idea of the Institute in the home country of our founder, but God is very inventive. He finally brought us in contact with the late Bishop of Mouila in Gabon, Monsignor Obamba, who invited the young community to help him in his Diocese with missionary work and gave it the needed canonical erection. At the same time, he appointed our founder his Vicar General with which goes officially the title Monsignor. Soon, with the help of the German Augustinus Cardinal Mayer, OSB, a member of the Roman Curia, Monsignor Wach was able to find an appropriate location for the Seminary and Motherhouse of his quickly growing community. The Benedictines of Fontgombault in France had decided to close a priory that they maintained in Gricigliano, near Florence in Tuscany Florence.

[To be continued]

Third Thursday’s Adoration

“Eucharistic adoration is simply the natural consequence of the eucharistic celebration, which is itself the Church's supreme act of adoration. Receiving the Eucharist means adoring Him whom we receive. Only in this way do we become one with Him, and are given, as it were, a foretaste of the beauty of the heavenly liturgy. The act of adoration outside Mass prolongs and intensifies all that takes place during the liturgical celebration itself.”

 

Pope Benedict XVI. in his Encyclical “Sacramentum Caritatis”