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Sign up for the Golf Tournament

2nd Annual St. Francis Xavier Church Father Mike Donovan Scholarship Golf Tournament

Where: Sunset Ridge Golf Club
Date: Sunday, July 23, 2023

Golf Application

12:00 PM Registration! Golf will follow with a 1:00 p.m. shotgun.

The day will include 18 holes of golf with cart, contests, lunch and drinks at the turn as well as on the course and dinner back at the church hall.
All proceeds to benefit the Father Mike Donovan Scholarship.
The cost of the day will be $90 per golfer/$360 per team
Not a golfer? Join us for dinner back at the Church Hall @ 5:00 p.m. for $25

Hole sponsorships are available for $100 per hole.
For more information, please call Jay Austin @ 315-530-0978 or email: jaustin@lyncourtschool.org

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Reflections


Divine Mercy Sunday 4/16/23

Divine Mercy Sunday

Holy Hour 3:00pm 4/16/23

In 1931, Jesus appeared to Sr. Faustina in Poland and expressed his desire for a feast celebrating his mercy. The Feast of Mercy was to be on the Sunday after Easter and was to include a public blessing and liturgical veneration of His image with the inscription “Jesus, I trust in You.” This promise of mercy has been affirmed by the Church, which has made Divine Mercy Sunday an occasion for receiving a plenary indulgence, “the remission before God of the temporal punishment due to sin whose guilt has already been forgiven” (CCC, no. 1471). The plenary indulgence is granted to the faithful under the usual conditions (Confession, Eucharist, prayer for the intentions of the pope, and complete detachment from sin, even venial sin). The faithful may either take part in the prayers and devotions held in honor of Divine Mercy in any church or chapel or recite the Our Father and Creed in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament exposed or reserved in the tabernacle, adding a devout prayer to the merciful Lord Jesus. There are many aspects of the Divine Mercy devotion, including the Chaplet, the Divine Mercy image, and the “hour of great mercy” (3:00 p.m.). The popularity of these devotions, focused on the Lord’s infinite mercy, has grown rapidly in recent decades. Regarding the Chaplet of Divine Mercy, St. Faustina wrote that Jesus said to her, “At the hour of their death, I defend as My own glory every soul that will say this chaplet; or when others say it for a dying person” (Divine Mercy in My Soul, no. 811). Source: usccb.org.

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