The Friday Flocknote
This Week at Saint Andrew
Wed Apr 28, 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.
The stone rejected by the builders has become the cornerstone.
Video of the Week:
How to Question Your Faith Well
Saint of the Week:
Saint Fidelis of Sigmaringen
Feast Day - April 24
c. 1577 - 1622
Born in Sigmaringen (Germany), Mark Roy studied philosophy and law at the University of Freiburg in Breisgau. After tutoring young aristocrats and traveling Europe with them, he began practicing law in Alsace, where he quickly became “the poor person’s lawyer.” But, disillusioned over other lawyers’ behavior, he gave up the law to follow a vocation in religious life.
As an ordained Capuchin named Fidelis, he was renowned for his holiness, preaching and leadership. He was superior at several houses before being invited to eastern Switzerland to call Protestants back to Catholicism. This mission, complicated by the politics of the time and hatred of the Catholic Habsburgs, became increasingly dangerous and led to his murder by opponents. He was canonized in 1746.
Is it a sin to doubt your faith?
Father Joseph Esper writes that doubt itself is not a sin and can lead us to greater faith. “To recognize Jesus as Lord, however, does not immunize us from crises of faith. St. Jane Frances de Chantal suffered frequent doubts and temptations against the Faith late in life, but she remained cheerful and active; St. Thérèse of Lisieux responded to a similar situation with determination, crying out, ‘I will believe!’ when tempted by disbelief,” he writes.