OUR MISSION STATEMENT TO SPREAD THE GOOD NEWS OF JESUS CHRIST TO ALL GOD S PEOPLE BY WORD AND ACTION. THE 02 05 06 08 ST. MARK YOUTH MISSION TRIP HELPS THE NEEDY GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP INFORMATION WHAT IS BENEDICTION? WOMEN S GUILD MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION Winged Lion AUGUST 2014 St. Mark the Evangelist Catholic Church 8th Annual Golf Tournament Fundraiser World Breastfeeding Week! Saturday, August 2 nd from 10am to 3pm St. Mark the Evangelist Community Gym Educational Booths & Sales Vendors Presentations by special guests from San Antonio Raffle Drawings Live Music Food Trucks Nursing Portraits Pre-register at www.latchonsa.com Presented in part by St. Mark s own Young Families in Christ Ministry and San Antonio Natural Parenting. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Food donations to St. Vincent de Paul Society will be gladly accepted. For more information or sponsorship, please contact Lina Deleon at linaf.deleon@gmail.com. Saturday, Sept. 13 SilverHorn Golf Club See the St. Mark website to download the registration form. Teams are forming now! SPONSORS WANTED! The St. Mark 8th Annual Golf Tournament Committee would like to invite you to show your support for your community by becoming one of our Tournament Sponsors. Generosity as a sponsor will be recognized on the Company Donation Board, which will be viewed by all participants, as well as through the signage on the golf course. Please contact Tony Aldrich at 842-1275 to secure your spot on our list of sponsors.
St. Mark Youth not spiritually neglected, the teens always gained in wisdom and love from the home owners we served. We have scraped, painted, repaired and cleaned over 40 homes and 6 churches on the west side of San Antonio. Photo from the first Catholic Heart Workcamp Mission trip in summer of 2003. SAN ANTONIO NEIGHBORS Youth Mission Camp St. Mark has been involved in eleven teen mission trips dating back to the summer of 2003. We attended our first mission trip with Catholic Heart Workcamp (CHWC) at an Indian reservation in Oklahoma. The next two years we served in Harlingen, TX. In 2006, we were blessed to bring CHWC to San Antonio and transformed Guadalupe street with our brightly colored homes. For the next two years we continued our relationship with CHWC and serving the San Antonio west side. Finally in 2009, we began our first St. Mark youth camp appropriately called SAN ANTONIO NEIGHBORS - YOUTH MISSION CAMP. For the last six years our parish has been part of the only Catholic Teen Mission Trip in our city run by a local parish. Our efforts allow us to serve in one of the poorest neighborhoods in the nation. However, This was one of the most rewarding events of the year. Our teens could continue to grow and learn about their faith and put it into action. By day the real heroes, the adults and teens (who slept on the floor for a week), often worked in 100 degree weather. Honestly, there was rarely a complaint. During that week we were family, and everyone worked together to get the job done. In the evenings, we had amazing speakers and teachers to bring us closer to the Gospel message of Jesus Christ. Often our week began with Msgr. Kevin and Dot Hamlin s blessings at the Opening Mass. We continued through the week to be nourished with the Eucharist at 6:15 am Mass, a hearty breakfast and praise and worship from our teen musicians. On a good day, Frank Peacher would dance and teach the Cumbia for us. My husband Shane would always get the teens dancing and singing with his DJ skills and video talent. Rich Mazzara, a permanent fixture of these mission trips, would send us off with instructions and blessings. Adult chaperones loaded up vans with ice, water, first aid kit, tools, and counting heads as they prepared for the worksites. Parents would begin to show up, putting together lunches with love and goodies for our teens. One set of parents would leave and another group showed up to prepare supper and clean up. All along our many parishioners displayed their love through serving our teens, by praying for them, and financially supporting our camp to help us pay the bills and keep our teens safe through the day. This was truly a Parish wide event with Photo from the first Catholic Heart Workcamp Mission trip held in San Antonio during the summer of 2006 at Our Lady of the Lake University. Over 200 youth attended.
2014 Mission Trip many St. Mark partners. I cannot personally mention or begin to thank the many who prayed for us, volunteered and financially supported us with money, meals and supplies. However, I know that for each of you who gave in any way, your reward is out of this world! When we all get home we will tell the stories of the deeds that really mattered on our journeys here on earth, and the greatest of blessings will be to see those lives that where touched by Jesus love and our generosity. May God continue to bless the most amazing community of St. Mark the Evangelist; I am privileged and honored to have served with so many saints of the Church. God is good..all the Time! Cindy Hamilton Facts of Life From the Alan Guttmacher Institute: There are 1.1 million U.S. abortions each year. Nearly 1 in 4 (22%) of pregnancies end in abortion. 50% of women now seeking abortion have had at least one previous abortion. The U.S. abortion rate is among the highest of developed countries. 51% of abortions are performed on women less than 25 years of age. Approximately 1/3 of American women have had an abortion by age 45. Abortion disproportionately affects black and Hispanic women.
Mobile Loaves and Fishes Family 5K Run/Race June 7, 2014 Just as the sun was rising the volunteers began to arrive. Within a few moments, decorations, registration, coffee and various sponsor tables were set up and ready. The pavilion began filling with runners and walkers of all ages. Children enjoyed playing in the Tumble Bus. After a beautiful rendition of the National Anthem, sung by Alisa Lomas, the race began. In less than 18 minutes the first runner crossed the finish line. For the next hour other runners and walkers would follow. Everyone enjoyed a beautiful morning in the park. Funds and awareness were raised about the needs of our homeless brothers and sisters in San Antonio. A big THANK YOU to everyone who helped make the 5K such a success! HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE NEXT YEAR! THANKS TO OUR MANY SPONSORS!
It s gearing up to be a busy summer for Mobile Loaves & Fishes, Inc.! We are putting the finishing touches to ready the new kitchen for continued food preparation for our runs and to pass the Metro Health inspection. Thanks to all who have put so much time and effort into this project. (Your money and gifts have also been a great resource!) We are also holding fundraisers to support our Mission - --feed our brothers and sisters in need. All are welcome to join in the fun! Here is a list of our upcoming events: The Pumpkin Patch Fall Fun For All! Event Dates: October 18-31 st Join our Pumpkin Patch Committee on the following Mondays for patch planning meetings: July 28 August 18 September 8 September 15 September 22 October 6 Craft homemade items for the Women s Guild Craft Show Event Dates: September 27 & 28 Join us on the following Thursdays at 6:30pm in the meeting hall of Daily Bread to craft with us: July 31 August 14 August 28 September 11 Also, join us for dinner, and support Mobile Loaves & Fishes at the same time!!! Just eat at Mooyah Burgers, located at 22502 US Hwy 281 N (near the highway in the TPC shopping center), on Sunday, August 10th, between 4 and 10pm. Make sure you mention MLF, and the ministry will receive 15-25% of sales!!!! See you there. The Core Team will also have a Visioning Day on Sunday, August 10th, from noon to 3:30pm at Karen Bell s residence. Mobile Loaves and Fishes is in need of two new delivery daytime teams... What are you doing for lunch on the Third Monday or the Third Wednesday of each month? Would you like to serve a great group of people? MLF is in need of volunteers to staff these two delivery teams. The teams would drive the MLF truck to Catholic Worker House, unload the meal, assist in serving clients at CWH, return to St. Marks for minor cleanup...and then feel wonderfully accomplished for the rest of the day!!! Please email Ann Alderete at anneaux@aol.com or call 210-410-2631 for more information. The St. Mark the Evangelist Grief Support Group invites you to join us in a four-week program for those who are grieving the loss of a loved one. Knowing that we are forever changed by bereavement, we hope that our time together can help you: Understand the process of grief, Assess where you are in your grief, and Plan for how you will continue to heal and live a good life. Place: St. Mark the Evangelist Ave Maria Room Contact: Catherine Lopez, (210) 494-1660 Dates: Thursdays, August 14th, 21st, & 28th, and September 4th Time: 7:00pm Facilitator: Vivian Vance Healing of the Family Tree Mass August 20, 2014 In the Day Chapel - 7pm till 9pm (Bring your religious items, salt, oil and water for a blessing) ~ CELEBRANT ~ FR. JOSEPH MARY MARSHALL, S.M. PASTOR, ST. MARY MAGDALEN CHURCH St. Mark the Evangelist Grief Support Group For the intentions of the lost, sick and the poor please join us as we pray before T H E B L E S S E D S A C R A M E N T Concluding with a 6:30am Mass on Thursday Morning 7:00 pm Charismatic Praise and Worship 7:30 pm Charismatic Mass and Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick Genogram provided (used to identify repetitive patterns of behavior and to recognize hereditary tendencies) Please bring your Prayer Petitions to be prayed over and blessed at Mass Prayer Teams will be available for your special intentions For any further information Contact: carmenfrankel@gmail.com
The Passion of St. John the Baptist August 29, 2014 Martyrdom of John the Baptist In addition to the feast of the nativity of St. John the Baptist (June 24), the Church, since the fourth century, commemorates the martyrdom of Christ's precursor. According to the Roman Martyrology, this day marks "the second finding of his most venerable head." The body of the saint was buried in Samaria. In the year 362 pagans desecrated the grave and burned his remains. Only a small portion of his relics were able to be saved by monks and sent to St. Athanasius at Alexandria. The head of the saint is venerated at various places. That in the Church of St. Sylvester in Rome belongs to a martyr-priest John. Also in the Dominican church at Breslau the Baptist's head is honored. Excerpted from The Church's Year of Grace, Pius Parsch There is no doubt that blessed John suffered imprisonment and chains as a witness to our Redeemer, whose forerunner he was, and gave his life for him. His persecutor had demanded not that he should deny Christ, but only that he should keep silent about the truth. Nevertheless, he died for Christ. Does Christ not say: "I am the truth"? Therefore, because John shed his blood for the truth, he surely died for Christ. Through his birth, preaching and baptizing, he bore witness to the coming birth, preaching and baptism of Christ, and by his own suffering he showed that Christ also would suffer. Such was the quality and strength of the man who accepted the end of this present life by shedding his blood after the long imprisonment. He preached the freedom of heavenly peace, yet was thrown into irons by ungodly men. He was locked away in the darkness of prison, though he came bearing witness to the Light of life and deserved to be called a bright and shining lamp by that Light itself, which is Christ. To endure temporal agonies for the sake of the truth was not a heavy burden for such men as John; rather it was easily borne and even desirable, for he knew eternal joy would be his reward. Since death was ever near at hand, such men considered it a blessing to embrace it and thus gain the reward of eternal life by acknowledging Christ's name. Hence the apostle Paul rightly says: "You have been granted the privilege not only to believe in Christ but also to suffer for his sake." He tells us why it is Christ's gift that his chosen ones should suffer for him: "The sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed in us." Saint Bede the Venerable What is Benediction? Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament is a service of worship and blessing centered on the Catholic belief in the real presence of Jesus in the Eucharist. It began in the middle ages as a popular devotional exercise. In recent years the frequency of its celebration has lessened, but it remains in our liturgical books. Some older Catholics remember it fondly; some younger Catholics have never heard of it. After Vatican Council II, the Catholic Church revised its order of service for benediction along with all the other liturgical rites. The full title, Rite of Eucharistic Exposition and Benediction, helps explain its purpose. The faithful gaze at an unconsumed host from a previous Mass and worship the presence of the risen Christ in that host. The ceremony has four parts: exposition, adoration, benediction, and reposition. During exposition, the minister goes to the tabernacle and removes a large host reserved there. Placing it in a monstrance (a windowed liturgical vessel that displays the host), the minister sets the object of our devotion on the altar. The period of adoration may be lengthy. Prayers, Scripture readings, songs, homily, and silence may fill the time. At the close of this period, if the minister is a priest or a deacon, he blesses the assembly with the monstrance and says a concluding prayer. This blessing is the benediction from which the service derives its name. If a communion minister is presiding, he or she does not give a blessing. Finally, the minister removes the Blessed Sacrament from the monstrance and places it back in the tabernacle, an action called reposition. Traditionally, Catholics have sung two popular eucharistic hymns during the adoration, O Salutaris Hostia and Pange Lingua, but any eucharistic hymn will serve. A litany of acclamations to God, The Divine Praises, usually concluded benediction, but the revised liturgy does not specifically include them. Any acclamation or song of praise may close the service. Benediction enhances our devotion to the Eucharist and whets our appetite for the Mass. The main reason we have eucharistic bread is to consume it with the cup in communion with one another and with Christ. However, it may also serve as an object of praise, a vision of the great treasure we share at every Mass. Written by Paul Turner. Copyright 2012 Resource Publications, Inc., 160 E. Virginia St. #170, San Jose, CA 95112, (408) 286-8505.
Check out the latest on our website St. Mark s Preschool G FOR ENROLLIN 2014-2015 www.stmarkevangelist.com CONGRATULATIONS!!! SINCE 1980 Holy Land Trip Ages 18 months - 5 years 9am - 2pm, Mon. - Thurs. 9am-Noon, Friday Our St. Marks Fearless CYO 5th Grade Girls Volleyball Team were the city champs and also finished 7th out of 32 teams in the Junior National Volleyball Competition in Florida last week. Walk where the Master walked. Join Msgr. Kevin Ryan as we return to the Holy Land April 15th to April 26th, 2015. Contact John Thabet at 494-3553. St. Mark the Evangelist Catholic Church 1602 Thousand Oaks @ Hwy. 281 210-494-9282 FUNDRAISER EVENT FOR MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES SUNDAY, AUGUST 10, 2014 TIME 4 P.M. 10 P.M. STONE OAK SHOPPING CENTER (TPC) 22502 US HWY 281 NORTH Mooyah will donate a percentage of all sales Mission Statement: Providing food to our brothers and sisters in need. Skeet Tournament St. Mary s Catholic Center at Texas A&M University in College Station invites each incoming freshman and transfer student to one of the two When: August 30 from 9AM-3PM Connect 2014 Retreats: Where: Comal Co. Shooting Sports Monday, August 25 through Tuesday, August 26; OR Why: Raise funds for Seton Home Friday, August 29 through Saturday, August 30. Skeet BBQ Live Music Fun Family Event Connect 2014 is a great way to start college life, learn about the dynamic Catholic presence at TAMU, and make new friends. For more information or to register, call 979-846-5717 or visit www.aggiecatholic.org/connect. Door Prizes-Raffle and Auction Items Registration is open!!! For more information please go to: www.kofc7613org and look for the flyer or contact: artramirezsa@sbcglobal.net
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