 For the Week of November 29, 2009
Our Lord Jesus Christ The King
FROM THE PASTOR
We at St. Benedict’s will begin collecting canned and dried goods for Manna House in Florence
which will be distributed to those in need. There will be a basket or baskets each week in the narthax or entrance to the church where you may place your offering. The food offerings will be brought forward at the preparation of gifts with the bread and wine and placed near the altar. After Mass they will be stored and taken to Manna House each week by The Knights of Columbus. Please remember to bring an offering each week so that, as we are fed with the bread of Heaven, we may, in turn, fed Our Lord in the guise of those in need
Ladies of Mary Advent Party
All ladies of St. Benedict’s parish are invited to attend the annual Ladies of Mary Advent party at The Holy Cross Abbey on December 9, 2009. The time will be 11:30 a.m. for lunch. The cost for the Abbey’s delicious holiday buffet is $14.50 per person. Please call Virginia Rankin 784-3546 by December 2nd to R.S.V.P. and for more information on Carpool and gift exchange. See you there.
The Knights of Columbus will be selling Breakfast Burritos on Sundays in the parish center on the following dates, Nov. 22nd, Dec 6th, 20th. The burritos will be sold for $3.00ea or 2 x $5.00, 25% of the profit will be donated back to the church. Please help our Knights in there effort to help support St. Benedict’s Parish.
VOLUNTEERS
We are in need of a few volunteers to help out with Offertory counting. The volunteer would help out counting the Offertory collection in the parish office on Monday at 9:00 a.m. The time involved is about 2 hours per month. We also are in need of a volunteer to help out in the parish office on Thursday’s from 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. The duties would be to help answer the phone and greet parishioners when they come to the office. Both of these volunteer spots are very important to help run the church. If you are interested or have questions, please contact Michele in the parish office.
Pope Names Florida Pastor Father Fernando Isern
As Bishop of Pueblo Diocese
Update: the new bishop will be ordained and installed in a ceremony at Massari Arena, Colorado State University, 2200 Bonforte Blvd. in Pueblo on Dec. 10. Father Fernando Isern appeared October 15 at a news conference at the Archdiocese of Miami's Pastoral Center. He said he chose as his motto a phrase found in the second letter to the Corinthians, Chapter 5, Verse 4: “Caritas Christi urget nos” (“The love of Christ compels us”). He said he did so because it was the episcopal motto of St. Antonio Maria Claret, archbishop of Santiago, Cuba, from 1851 to 1857. “His diocese was similar to mine. It is wide, it is large, it is beautiful, it has mountains. I plan to do the same thing he did. I plan to embrace my diocese with a missionary spirit,” Bishop-elect Isern said.
The Rev. Fernando Isern, pastor of Our Lady of Lourdes parish in Southwest Miami-Dade, has been named bishop-elect of the Pueblo Diocese by Pope Benedict XVI. He will be ordained and installed in his new assignment on December 10, 2009, at Sacred Heart Cathedral in Pueblo. Miami Archbishop John C. Favalora said, “As pastor of Our Lady of Lourdes Parish, Father Isern administers one of the largest parishes in the archdiocese, a community quite diverse, a community whose spirituality and service are quite well known and admired.” Favalora said. Father Isern, 51, was born in Havana and ordained a priest in 1993. He has been pastor of Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church since 2003. He also oversees Archbishop Coleman Carroll High School and Our Lady of Lourdes Elementary School. Father Isern graduated from Florida International University in 1982. He was ordained a priest for the Miami Archdiocese in 1993. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Florida International University, Miami. He attended St. John Vianney College Seminary in Miami and St. Vincent de Pau Regional Seminary in Boynton Beach, Florida. Father Isern will be the fourth bishop of the Pueblo diocese, which has 97,000 Catholics spread out across the entire southern half of Colorado, from the Utah border in the west to the Kansas border in the east. Bishops are selected from a confidential list of three names submitted to the Pope for consideration. The three names are taken from a list created by U.S. bishops every three years.
Pope Benedict XVI has accepted the resignation of Bishop Tafoya effective December 10, 2009. Archbishop Charles Chaput of the Denver Diocese said October 15, “Bishop Arthur Tafoya has served the church in the Diocese of Pueblo in a distinguished way for many years, He will be greatly missed as a brother and leader as he begins a well-earned retirement. But he can take joy and confidence — as we do — in the character of the man who now takes up his duties
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Bishop Tafoya to Retire December 10—