New Year’s Resolutions

Dear Parish Family,
Do you want to be a Saint?
It has been less than one week and people are taking time to consider their New Year’s resolutions. Perhaps they are to be more healthy, lose weight, exercise more, get one’s financial house in order, work on relationships; whatever they may be. I would like to suggest that we all consider a New Year’s resolution to re-kindle, intensify or even begin a spiritual relationship with God and the Church. Consider setting aside a specific time each day for prayer, praying at the beginning of your day and/or at the end, praying the Rosary daily, using one of the many resources available of FORMED, saying grace each day as a family before meals, celebrating the Sacrament of Reconciliation (going to confession) on a regular basis (if you can’t remember that last time you went to confession it might be to long). Going to Mass on a regular basis, not just on Sunday but why not try one more day during the week. As our relationship with God strengthens, then we will see more opportunities to put our faith into practice, opportunities to share our faith, opportunities to help others. God wants you to be one, in fact that is why each of us was created; to be holy and live our lives according to the plan of God and the graces He gives us to enter into Eternal Life.
Happy New Year.
God Bless,
Fr. Dan

“Gently used” coats and jackets may be donated for the needy after Mass on the weekends of January 13 and January 20.

The clothing items can be deposited in boxes left at the front and rear entrances of the church.

Thank You!

Dear Parish Family,

Thank you!  On behalf of Deacon John, myself and Honey, I would like to say thank you to all who were so generous with your cards, gifts and well wishes for Christmas; we truly appreciate this.  Also, thank you for being such a wonderful parish family who truly care for one another and love the Lord and the Blessed Mother and are growing in faith, hope and love.  It is an honor and privilege to minister to and with you.   God Bless you and I pray for a holy, happy and blessed New Year.  –Fr. Dan

The Blessing of the “Bambinelli”

Dear Parish Family,

Next weekend, the Third Sunday of Advent, we will bless Baby Jesus figurines at all Masses.  You may bring your own baby Jesus figurines if you would like to have them blessed.  We will also have baby Jesus figurines available to be blessed and distributed.

The blessing of the “Bambinelli” [Baby Jesus figurines] as they are called in Rome, reminds us that the crib is a school of life where we can learn the secret of true joy. This does not consist in having many things but in feeling loved by the Lord, in giving oneself as a gift for others and in loving one another. Let us look at the crib. Our Lady and St Joseph do not seem to be a very fortunate family; their first child was born in the midst of great hardship; yet they are full of deep joy, because they love each other, they help each other and, especially, they are certain that God, who made himself present in the little Jesus, is at work in their story. And the shepherds? What did they have to rejoice about? That Newborn Infant was not to change their condition of poverty and marginalization. But faith helped them recognize the “babe wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger” as a “sign” of the fulfilment of God’s promises for all human beings, “with whom he is pleased” (Lk 2: 12, 14).     -National Catholic Register

God Bless,  Fr. Dan

Monday, December 18^th from 4-7pm

St. Francis Xavier Church will be open for quiet prayer and Confession.

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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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.

A Prayer for Easter

O Risen Jesus,

may I always seek and find you,

think about you, speak to you

and do everything

for your honor and glory.

Be always my hope, my peace,

my refuge and my help

in whom my heart is rooted,

so that I may never

be separated from you.  Amen.

―St. Bonaventure

Saturday, April 8 – Holy Saturday

No 4:30pm Mass

Easter Vigil Mass- Church- 8:00pm

Sunday, April 9 – Easter Sunday

Easter Mass- Church- 8:30am and 10:45am