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Prayer Chalice for Vocations

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Prayer Chalice for Vocations 

Our Prayer Chalice for Vocations program at Holy Spirit needs more families to help us continue this very important ministry. If you would like to receive the chalice at the Sunday Mass you attend, please sign up in the Traveling Prayer Chalice book located on the Vocations table in the gathering space. Someone from the ministry committee will contact you prior to your chosen Sunday to receive the chalice.

On the Saturday or Sunday that you have chosen, a chalice will be presented to you at Mass. Please come to the foot of the altar, during the Prayer for Vocations, to receive the chalice and a blessing from Fr. Rudi or one of our deacons.

Inside the prayer chalice are the names of the priest, religious, the ordained and deacon candidates who serve Holy Spirit Parish. You will also receive a prayer packet with suggested ways to pray, as well as the names of the clergy serving in our diocese, so that you can also include them in your prayers.

From there you are free to choose your unique manner of praying for them. It may be by reciting the prayers in the chalice, or maybe you might want to ask God to bless each one as you speak their names, or you might choose to spend an hour in front of the Blessed Sacrament as you lift them up in prayer, or you might choose to pray a daily Rosary for an increase in vocations. When and how often you pray for them during the week could potentially bear fruit for yourself, your family, as well as our diocese. God does amazing things when we pray.

Please bring the prayer packet and chalice with you to Mass the following Saturday/Sunday. You may place it on the Eucharist Ministry table in the gathering space at least 15 minutes before Mass, so that the ceremonial minister can take it to the altar before Mass begins.

Thank you for considering committing to be a part of the Prayer Chalice ministry by receiving the chalice and committing to pray for vocations. Thank you.

Thanksgiving Dinner

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Make plans now to attend the annual Knights of Columbus Thanksgiving dinner on Sunday, November 11th! 
Meal Served 11:00—1:00 PM
Takeout available 9:00—1:00
Adults: $10   Children: $5
Meal includes: Turkey and all the   trimmings, dessert and tea.
Meal tickets will not be presold.

  Your support helps the Knights fund their charitable causes. We hope you can join us. Read more…..  Knights Corner


Month of the Rosary

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The month of October is dedicated to the Holy Rosary, one of the best known of all Catholic devotions. The Rosary is a form of contemplative prayer.  Many great popes, saints, and Christian leaders have exhorted us to pray the rosary. It’s a powerful prayer, they say, one that can change your life, strengthen the family, bring peace to the world, convert entire nations, and win the salvation of souls. Edward Sri 


The Rosary is a Scripture-based prayer. It begins with the Apostles’ Creed, which summarizes the great mysteries of the Catholic faith. How to Pray the Rosary

4-H Project

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What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him?i If a brother or sister has nothing to wear and has no food for the day, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, keep warm, and eat well,” but you do not give them the necessities of the body, what good is it?  James 2:14-16 

Riley and Reagan Stokes are sponsoring an Unmentionable Collection as a part of their 4-H Project. Please see the flyer in this week’s bulletin for more details and a personal letter from them. They are working to help children at the Boy’s Ranch and Children’s Home. 

You may place your items in their collection boxes in the Gathering Space or bring to the office. Thank you for your generosity and support helping these two young ladies help other children. that need our support.

Serve at St. Benedict’s

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Holy Spirit serves dinner at St. Benedict’s to the homeless and food insecure quite each week. Many compassionate HSCP parishioners serve either on Monday evenings, on the 2nd Thursday of the month, every 6 weeks on Saturday evenings, and breakfast every Sunday morning. Thank you to all our volunteers. As you may have already realized your efforts are appreciated by those you serve. You’re a blessing to them.

There are some openings to help serve on our Thursday assignment. Please take some time to consider helping serve on the second Thursday of the month from 4:40—6:00 pm or on the 5th Saturday.

If you prefer to work behind the scenes, another opportunity is to prepare food every 5th Saturday. If you can help, please email amy@holyspiritlubbock.org or call the office and let us know when you can help. Thank you!

Thank you for Mini Retreats!

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A Month of Mini—Retreats

A very special thank you to the Evangelization Committee for organizing our month of mini-retreats by preparing weekly readings as well as lining up speakers.

We are grateful to speakers Eben Emerson, Charles Giles, Kathryn Loskill, Marla Cottenoir, Rob Hogan, Satcy Saultz,  Deacon Daniel Romo, Kelly Shehan, Tricia Vowels and Jennifer Emerson. Through your willingness to share your personal experiences we have all been given reasons to reflect on our own personal story and awareness how Jesus is working in each of our lives.

If you would like to hear their stories again or one you missed, all are available on our parish website:

Mini Retreats

 

18th Sunday in Ordinary Time

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The Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time                                                               1031 in Hymnal

First Reading — Exodus 16:2-4,12-13

Second Reading — Ephesians 4:17,20-24

Gospel — John 6:24-35

A Gospel Reflection :

All four Gospels relate the miracle of the Feeding of the Five Thousand, which comes immediately before the passage we hear in today’s Gospel, taken from St John. This text begins what is known as the ’Bread of Life Discourse’ (John 6. 22–59), which we start today and will continue reading over the next two Sundays. It is the morning after the night before, and the people go across the lake looking for Jesus – because, as he says, ‘they have eaten all the bread they can eat’. Through dialogue, Jesus helps them to see that it is the Father who has always provided for them – a theme reinforced in the First Reading and Psalm. Jesus also reveals something new to them: he himself is the sign they seek. Through his gift of living bread, he is offering them renewal of their minds and the ability to walk in the way of goodness and truth (Second Reading). This week, let’s give time for dialogue with the Lord that we, too, might respond to his desire to give himself totally to us, so that our deepest hunger and thirst may be satisfied. (From Pathways to God)

 

RCIA MOVING TO WEDNESDAY NIGHTS

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RCIA MOVING TO WEDNESDAY NIGHTS                                                   

Beginning after Labor Day

The Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults  begin classes the week after Labor Day.   RCIA will begin meeting on Wednesday night from 7—9 pm. Child care is provided.

RCIA classes will begin on Wednesday, September 12, from 7:00-9:00 PM at Holy Spirit Catholic Church. We will meet every Wednesday evening until May of 2019. School holidays are observed so no classes will be held the week of Thanksgiving, the two weeks during Christmas, or during Spring Break.
The Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults is the result of the directives from Vatican Council II, called by Saint Pope John XXIII, to help initiate adults into the Catholic Christian Community. Lessons and discussions from our Team of Twelve cover: the History of the Church, the Mass, the Eucharist, the Bible, the Church Fathers, Prayers, Saints, the Liturgical Calendar, Holy Days of the Church, the Vatican, Marriage, the Creeds, our Virgin Mary, and so much more. Read more here