All parishioners are asked to dedicate time to increasing our personal and parish spiritual holiness through several initiatives and practices. Some of the ways in which we will individually and collectively increase our holiness are described below.
Some Spiritual Growth Resources to Explore this Lent
+Burning Hearts with Rachel Herbeck podcast: Join Rachel Herbeck as she uses Scripture to draw us into a deeply intimate conversation with the Lord. She asks us to consider two questions: What is God saying to us? And, what are we doing about it? You can find this
podcast on Apple podcasts or on RenewalMinistries.net.
+FORMED.org: Check out the multitude of resources using your FREE subscription to FORMED.org. For example, the library of Audio resources is vast which includes audiobooks, Saints, Scripture, apologetics, music, kids and Lent to name a few.
To access your FREE subscription to FORMED.org go to our website and click on ‘Quick Links’.
+Learning about the riches of our Catholic Faith by attending the new Adult Enrichment classes for adults.
+Receiving the sacraments often and regularly.
+Personal and family prayer; attending a Holy Hour regularly.
+Saint devotion
+Spiritually adopting Seminarians studying at St. Joseph Seminary in Charlotte.
Devotion to Our Parish Patron Saint
To help us know more about St. Francis of Assisi, our Patron saint, we will provide new tidbits of information about St. Francis of Assisi on a webpage devoted to him. Click here to view
Prior to Mass on weekends, we will recite the St. Francis of Assisi Parish Prayer.
Following daily Mass, we will recite the Prayer of St. Francis.
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace, where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen.