Join the Father Paul Pinto, CSC and the Mission of Mercy Prayer Guild for their monthly Holy Hour to be held at the shrine today at 2:00PM. Holy Hour includes, Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, Chaplet of Divine Mercy, Holy Rosary, and the Sacrament of Reconciliation.
The next Holy Hour will be on November 22, 2020, at 2PM in the Shrine.
We want to thank everyone who attended our first annual Pasta Dinner Fundraiser! We hope you enjoyed the food. We also thank our volunteers who gave up their Saturday to help us with this task. Congratulations to all those who won the raffle prizes. #savesaintannes
Pope John Paul I (Latin:Ioannes Paulus I; Italian:Giovanni Paolo I; born Albino Luciani; 17 October 1912 – 28 September 1978) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City from 26 August 1978 until his death 33 days later. He was the first pope to have been born in the 20th century. His reign is among the shortest in papal history, resulting in the most recent year of three popes and the first to occur since 1605. John Paul I remains the most recent Italian-born pope, the last in a succession of such popes that started with Clement VII in 1523.
He was declared a Servant of God by his successor, St. John Paul II, on 23 November 2003, the first step on the road to sainthood. Pope Francis confirmed his heroic virtue on 8 November 2017 and named him as Venerable.
Since we’ve returned the Tabernacle back to the sanctuary in the lower church, we repurposed the chapel. We are happy to announce that St. Jude has been returned home to his original chapel. These photos show the chapel in the 1970s and the newly created Chapel today.
Just an update on our Santo Cristo Chapel reconstruction.
We’ve stripped out the destroyed platform and wallboard out of the space and are moving forward with remediation of the water ingress issues. As you saw in an earlier posting, we’ve obtained a beautiful new altar to replace the deteriorating wooden structure the image was reposing on.
Still to do: reconstruction of the platform and walls, painting, and ensure that further water damage will not occur. We are actively designing a new and more fitting decor for the floor (marble) and suitable screening and paint scheme to compliment the image of our Lord.
All this takes time, and, of course, funds to accomplish the goal of returning this Chapel to a place of prominence in the Shrine. While we are working forward, we are dependent on your generosity and assistance to be able to complete this renovation. We’re close with what we estimate the final cost will be, but are still asking for your assistance to push us over that goal.
Please consider making a donation to the cause by clicking on the link below and help push that red bar in the thermometer to the top!