The Friday Flocknote
This Week at Saint Andrew
Wed Apr 21, 6pm - 8pm: Exposition, Adoration, Benediction, and Our Lady of Perpetual Help Novena
Our evening adoration will begin with the Exposition of the Most Blessed Sacrament at 6:00pm inside the church, followed by the Novena to Our Lady of Perpetual Help, continuing with Adoration, and ending with Benediction at 8:00pm.
Lord, let your face shine on us.
Video of the Week:
Overcoming Disagreement Fatigue
Saint of the Week:
Saint Magdalen of Canossa
Feast Day - April 16
c. 1844 - 1879
As a child in a poor French family in the Hautes-Pyrenees town of Lourdes, Bernadette suffered both asthma and cholera. Uneducated, she had not made her first Communion by 1858, the year she experienced 18 visions of a beautiful lady calling herself the Immaculate Conception and calling for penance and pilgrimage. Bernadette was unchanged by this extraordinary experience, and in 1866 became a member of the Sisters of Charity, taking the name Maria-Bernarda. Chronically ill after 1875 with worsening asthma and tuberculosis of the bones, she died at age 35. When she was canonized in 1933, it was not for being the Lourdes visionary, but for her simple life of prayer, devotion and obedience.
How long is the Easter season?
It’s 50 days! The season of Easter culminates with the feast of Pentecost, which is identified in the Bible as the conclusion of the Jewish harvest festival, writes Philip Kosloski.