My Dear Parishioners,
Blessings from our Lord be with you and with our beloved deceased family, friends and parishioners. Sadly, two more of our parishioners passed to eternal life recently. First, Myrna Straub, a long-time parishioner, passed to eternal life on Sunday, January 17. Her funeral was held in our church on Tuesday, January 26. Second, Janet Duke, our parishioner and beloved teacher, suddenly passed to eternal life on Sunday, January 17. She was a faithful parishioner and a lifelong teacher at All Saints Catholic School. Everyone who knew her, including myself, loved her. She was a gentle person who lived to serve our Lord in our children at All Saints Catholic School. There was nothing that she would not do for anyone. Janet was a very special person who was well loved by so many people, especially her many students for 30 years. Let us thank God for Janet’s love for our church and school. May she and our deceased parishioners rest in peace eternally for she was faithful and true to Jesus on earth with her time, talent, and treasure. To thank God for Janet, we held a special all school Mass for her last Friday. Soon, we will have something at the school as a memorial for Janet’s lifelong service to All Saints Catholic School. Since September 2020, we have had two grades attending daily Mass per day. So far, our students and staff have been doing very well; we will start having four grades attend daily Mass per day beginning this week. We are also planning to have our 8th graders read the readings and petitions when they attend Mass. We are so blessed to have daily Mass in a large church, where it is safe for everyone. Please continue using hand sanitizer before and after Mass. Everyone is invited to join our children and all the angels and saints thanking and praising God at Holy Mass. Life is short unless you have Jesus in you, Fr. Hien My Dear Parishioners,
Prayers and thanksgiving to God for all the angels and saints who will always love us and pray for us until we are in heaven with our Lord. May we learn from the Holy Angels and Saints to devote our life, heart, mind, and soul to Jesus every day. Jesus loves us dearly, may we love him unconditionally, especially during this time in life. Many people have turned away from our beloved country, communities, families, and worst of all, away from God. Our country and families need us now more than ever before with our love for one another and for God. Please never change your loving hearts for God and your loved ones. Pray for peace, healing, and heavenly blessings. Again, our Bishop has asked us to pray to Mother Mary and St. Joseph throughout this new year. Please keep them close to your hearts everyday with your prayers. Most importantly, please pray for all dads that they would imitate the saintly example of St. Joseph to their wives and families, especially their children. The family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph are in heaven, may our entire family be one day too. Let us help each other to love Jesus and put His teachings into practice. He is the way, the truth, and the life for all peoples on earth and in heaven. Love you all, Fr. Hien Consecration to St. Joseph: O Glorious Patriarch and Patron of the Church! O Virgin Spouse of the Virgin Mother of God! O Guardian and Virginal Father of the Word Incarnate! In the presence of Jesus and Mary, we choose you this day to be our father, guardian, and protector. O great St. Joseph, whom God has made the Head of the Holy Family, accept us, we beseech you, though utterly unworthy, to be a member of your “Holy House.” Present us to your Immaculate Spouse; ask her also to adopt us as her children. With her, pray that we may constantly think of Jesus, and serve Him faithfully to the end of our lives. O Terror of Demons, increase in us virtue, protect us from the evil one, and help us not to offend God in any way. O Spiritual Father, we hereby consecrate ourselves to you. In faithful imitation of Jesus and Mary, we place ourselves and all our concerns under your care and protection. To you, after Jesus and Mary, we consecrate our bodies and souls, with all their faculties, our spiritual growth, our homes, and all our affairs and undertakings. Forsake us not, but adopt us as servants and children of the Holy Family. Watch over us at all times, but especially at the hour of death. Console and strengthen us with the presence of Jesus and Mary, so that with you, we may praise and adore the Holy Trinity for all eternity. Amen My Dear Parishioners,
Blessings from Our Lord be with you all. We were asked by our Bishop Kemme to pray throughout this year to our Blessed Mother and St. Joseph for the good of our diocese, families, and country. May our Lord, Blessed Mother and St. Joseph keep all of us healthy, safe, saintly, and always faithful to God and one another, especially during this pandemic time. Consecration to the Blessed Virgin Mary: Most Holy Virgin Mary, Tender Mother of all, we consecrate the Catholic Diocese of Wichita, all our parishes, schools, religious institutes, chapels, hospitals, clinics, all our ministries, all our families, and each and every person to your Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart, O Queen of the Most Holy Rosary. Please accept our consecration, Dearest Mother, and use us as you wish to accomplish your designs upon the world. O Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, Queen of the Most Holy Rosary and Queen of the world, rule over us together with the Sacred Heart of Jesus Christ, Our King. Save us from the spreading flood of paganism, relativism, heresy, and apostasy. Kindle in our hearts and homes the love of purity, the practice of virtuous life, an ardent zeal for souls, a deeper love for Christ your Son in the Eucharist and fidelity to all the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church. We come with confidence to you, O Throne of Grace and Mother of Fair Love. Inflame us with the same Divine Fire which has inflamed your own Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart. Make our hearts and homes your shrine and through us make the Heart of Jesus together with your rule triumphant in every heart and home. Amen. (Due to limited space, prayer to St. Joseph will be in next week’s bulletin). Please join me in extending our love, prayer, and sympathy to the families of three parishioners who just passed to eternal life. Barbara Pate was 86 years old, died on Friday, January 8. Her rosary will be on Thursday, January 14 at 7:00 pm and her funeral Mass will be Friday, January 15 at 11:00 am, at All Saints Catholic Church by Fr. Patrick Malone. Jason Fritts, who was 50 years old, died Monday, December 28, 2020. Funeral Mass for Jason was held in our church on Thursday, January 7. Ray McCulloch, Jr., was 83 years old and died on Monday, January 4. We celebrated his funeral Mass on Friday, January 8 in our church of All Saints. I had the honor to celebrate Holy Masses for both Jason and Ray. They were put to rest on Friday, January 8 at Ascension Cemetery. May their souls and the souls of all our beloved ones be with Our Lord for eternal life. We pray and hope that we will see them in our Heavenly Father’s home of heaven. Resurrected Jesus, save your people, Fr. Hien My Dear Parishioners,
Happy Feast of the Baptism of Our Lord Jesus. Today, we are to remind ourselves of our own baptisms in Christ, that is, to recognize the heavenly grace God bestowed upon us on the day of our baptism. This special grace made us beloved sons and daughters of our God, destined for eternal life. Please keep your Catholic faith alive within you by having a personal relationship with God, especially through your daily prayers and thanksgiving to God. None of us will ever be able to thank God enough on earth, therefore, let us desire to thank and to praise God with all the angels and saints in heaven. Liturgically, the baptism of the Lord is the end of the Christmas season. Next weekend, it will be the second Sunday of ordinary time of cycle B. Personally, I want to thank everyone for your commitment to God by attending our Holy Masses. Christmas Masses were amazing, so many people attended, and our church was so beautiful. Thank you to all those who helped me make our church beautiful for Christmas and New Year, including those who donated money for the flowers. Thank you also for your personal Christmas cards, best wishes, countless prayers, and gifts, including monetary, to me. I am blessed to be here at All Saints and to be loved by so many. Thank You! I love you all and let us continue putting God first, and always loving one another as a church family. Finally, please join me in welcoming back our children to school on January 12. We will be focusing a lot on their Catholic faith and helping many of them receive their sacraments of First Confession and First Holy Communion, and the sacrament of Confirmation for our 7th and 8th graders in May. Please pray for the safety of our children and our teachers and staff. God bless, Fr. Hien |
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