St. Francis de Sales

UPDATE ON FATHER RAPHAEL
This week Fr. Raphael received an early birthday present - a lovely banner with pictures of his St Francis de Sales Parish Family. Thank you to Kathy Tretter for making this happen! Annette is working with the staff to see that it gets mounted in his room. Don't forget to send him a birthday greeting!! The big day is August 4th.

Annette reports that she had a good conversation with Father Raphael's speech therapist. He still has a feeding tube but is getting and tolerating more puréed meals. Once they know he is in taking enough calories they can remove the feeding tube, but that will still take some time. He is starting to talk more, which is good. He is receiving a lot of mail and they joke that the mailman is coming just for him! Thank you to everyone for your cards and notes. It is helpful to him! He has a wall of cards hanging up in his room. He is in good spirits in general and progressing.

Below is Father’s NEW mailing address.

Fr. Raphael Iannone  c/o Adira at Riverside
120 Odell Ave.  Room L03Door
Yonkers, NY 10701

Prayer for Priests

By St. John Vianney (Feast Day – August 4)

God, please give to your Church today many more priests after your own heart.
May they be worthy representatives of Christ the Good Shepherd.
May they wholeheartedly devote themselves to prayer and penance;
be examples of humility and poverty; shining models of holiness;
tireless and powerful preachers of the Word of God;
zealous dispensers of your grace in the sacraments.
May their loving devotion to your Son Jesus in the Eucharist and to Mary his Mother
be the twin fountains of fruitfulness for their ministry. Amen.

St. John Vianney, patron of priests, pray for us

PARISH NEWS
There will be a Communion Service in our church at 8:30 am on Wednesdays. The service is about 20 minutes long and includes the day's readings, some reflection, intercessions, the Lord's Prayer, a sign of peace, and Communion. You are welcome to attend.

Fr. Kiely welcomes parishioners from St. Francis de Sales to his liturgies as he opens St. John's in West Hurley this weekend, as space allows (71 people). Masses are as follows:
                              SATURDAY 5 pm Mass
                              SUNDAY 8 am and noon Mass
                              MONDAY and WEDNESDAY, 9 am Mass

PARISH ROSARY AND PRAYERS FOR ST. FRANCIS DE SALES PARISH... Sodality members will lead the parish in praying the Rosary and other prayers to help preserve our parish. Join us in the Church on Tues. June 30th at 11 AM. For more information contact Pam 688-2642.