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Light in the Darkness: The Power of Saints 2023 Cincinnati Men’s Retreat • Saturday, January 28th, 8am-4pm
Christian men are called to be leaders when times get tough. At the Cincinnati Men’s Retreat, Father Nathan will show you how to do that. His framework will provide the foundation for action as you become the leader you are called to be in your family, workplace, and culture. Retreat we be held at St. Ignatius of Loyola Parish, 5222 North Bend Road, Cincinnati, OH, 45247. Cost is $60, register now at https://bit.ly/FrNathanMensRetreat2023.
Movie Night Coming! A committee is being formed to bring the The Chosen to Saint Ignatius. If you are familiar with The Chosen and are interested in joining this planning team please contact Ginny Gagliarducci 513-207-1710 or Ginnie Reynolds 513-325-8863
What if I told you that there is no problem, no matter how difficult it is, whether temporal or above all spiritual, in the personal life of each one of us, of our families… that cannot be solved by standing on one foot each day for 15-20 minutes. What if I said it again…that there is no problem, no matter how difficult it is, that cannot be solved by doing this.
Would you do it?
Would you try it even if you were a skeptic? Would you do it out of desperation for a situation in which you find yourself or a loved one? Would you do it if it came from a source whose fidelity and love were the most solid you have ever known?
Sister Lucia dos Santos, one of the children to whom Our Lady appeared at Fatima said these very words about the rosary, which arguably is much easier to recite than standing on one foot for 15 minutes.
Journey with us over the next 15 weeks as we explore and dive into the power of the Holy Rosary by sharing the 15 promises revealed to St. Dominic by Our Lady (to whom the rosary was first given in the 12th century) and later to Blessed Alan de la Roche (who reignited devotion to the rosary in the 15th century).
Can we trust what Mary has promised? Is there even any question?
Is your heart aching, your world in turmoil or are your anxieties many? Are your children struggling, a loved one ill, a marriage in distress or any other life difficulty weighing heavily on your soul? Are you seeking God’s will for your life, discerning or questioning a big decision, or feeling stagnant in you relationship with God? Join us each week and we will unlock the power of the rosary and then invite you to take up this beautiful devotion. We will journey together, as a parish community, and reveal the beautiful fruits and abundant graces that spill from recitation of the rosary.
The power of the rosary will change your life.
Rosary articles are shared by our Parish Health Minister, Kate Rewwer.
We will be taking a break for the month of August! Check back for updates at the end of August.
More information about the Holy Family School of Faith Daily Meditations can be found at https://www.schooloffaith.com/daily-rosary-meditations
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What is a relic? Relics are physical objects that have a direct association with the saints or with Our Lord. They are usually broken down into three classes: First class relics are the body or fragments of the body of a saint, such as pieces of bone or flesh. Second class relics are something that a saint personally owned. Third class relics are those items that a saint touched or that have been touched to a first, second, or another third-class relic of a saint. Relics are not “magic items” to be used in a superstitious way.
The teaching of the Catholic Church with regard to the veneration of relics is summed up in a decree of the Council of Trent (Session XXV) which teaches that “the holy bodies of holy martyrs and of others now living with Christ—which bodies were the living members of Christ and ‘the temple of the Holy Spirit’ (1 Corinthians 6:19) and which are by Him to be raised to eternal life and to be glorified are to be venerated by the faithful, for through these [bodies] many benefits are bestowed by God on men…”
Updated List of Relics
Relics are kept in a reliquary. The large reliquary holds all the relics; sometimes small reliquaries are used to house relics of individual saints. Each relic also has to be authenticated, and special certificates of authenticity for the relics shown in the reliquary on display in church are kept in the parish offices. The new reliquary at St. Ignatius is located near the St. Joseph statue on the side closest to the parish office. A list of the included saints is posted for reference. Bishop Fernandes has donated these to St. Ignatius Parish in the hopes that the lives of the saints will inspire the whole parish to holiness in imitation of the saints who followed Christ and spent their lives in his service. As the Catechism of the Catholic Church (828) says, “The saints have always been the source and origin of renewal in the most difficult moments in the Church’s history. Indeed, holiness is the hidden source and infallible measure of her apostolic activity and missionary zeal.”
New Relics Installed in the Reliquary
Now that the case is full, we reorganized all the relics to be alphabetical by the saint’s first name.
New Relics
St. Bernard of Clairvaux, Abbot & Confessor
St. Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows, Confessor
St. Gemma Galgani, Virgin
St. Genevieve, Virgin
St. Henry II, Emperor
St. Joseph, Spouse of the Blessed Virgin
St. Julie Billiart, Virgin
St. Madeleine Sophie Barat, Virgin
Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God
St. Paul of the Cross, Confessor
St. Stanislaus Kostka, Confessor
St. Vincent Strambi, Bishop & Confessor
Are you looking for a way to encourage your 6-12 year old child to pray daily, develop a spiritual life, and participate fully during Sunday Mass? MagnifiKid magazines may be able to help! If you’d like to preview a copy of MagnifiKid magazines, you can find a sample in the Holy Family Chapel (Cry Room). To reserve subscriptions now for 2023, visit https://bit.ly/MagnifiKIDMagazinesOrder2023
to complete a short form by November 17.
Every week, MagnifiKid offers:
• readings and the prayers of the Sunday Mass with explanations of the difficult words and the meaning of the rituals
• suggested prayer for Morning and Evening
• suggestions on how to live the entire week with the Lord; Various games, a comic, and activities to help children learn about Christian life and culture
• A page intended for the parents with suggestions for family prayers.
For $14-17* per year, each subscriber will receive a monthly package that contains a booklet of 16 color pages for each Sunday as well as special issues for major feast days. These monthly packages will be reserved for your family in the Parish Office Lobby so that you can pick them up on your way into Mass. *St. Ignatius Parish is offering a bulk ordering rate, so the price is dependent upon the number of subscriptions received by November 17. You’ll be contacted about the payment once all reservations are made and the bulk rate is determined. Questions? Please contact Elaine Kroger at ekroger@sainti.org or 661-6565 x2725
Pilgrimage 2023 to Montserrat/Man esa, Lourdes, Lisieux, and Tours
The Ignatian year began on May 20, 2021 (500th Anniversary of the day he was injured) and concluded on July 31, 2022 (his Feast Day). St. Ignatius of Loyola (1:41) once said, “Few souls understand what God would accomplish in them if they were to abandon themselves unreservedly to Him, and if they were to allow His grace to mold them accordingly.” It is this sense of complete and unconditional abandonment of himself to wholeheartedly serve God through serving the poor that is at the core of St. Ignatius’ life journey. Looking to grow in faith and reach a deeper connection with Ignatius’ life and spirituality, our group intends to walk in the footsteps of St. Ignatius, delve into St. Ignatius’ lived experiences through exploration of historical sites where he walked, accompanied the poor, and prayed.
The Ignatian part of our pilgrimage is intended to give us not only the chance to reflect on where Ignatius was, but also to encounter people who embody and know about Ignatius’ spiritual exercises.
Our group will reflect on what Ignatius called the ‘discernment of spirits’ where we try to be attentive to the graces and challenges presented to us each day and our desire to make a firmer commitment to following God and Christ more closely as Ignatius did. It is fitting that we finish our journey in Paris, where Ignatius spent 10 years studying philosophy and theology at the University of Paris.
Here Ignatius shared his Spiritual Exercises with his fellow students and companions, among whom were his roommates Francis Xavier and Peter Favre. In 1534, in a small church at Montmartre near Paris, they joined Ignatius and five other companions in consecrating their lives to service in the Church by personal vows. Thus was formed the initial brotherhood that would become the Society of Jesus.
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Interested? Call and schedule an informational meeting to answer your questions. Contact Greg Niehaus at 541-5560 (W) or 598-8880 (H)
Itinerary & Videos
Day 1 (Tuesday, June 6): Fly overnight to Barcelona, Spain.
Day 2 (Wednesday, June 7): Barcelona – We meet our Tour Director at the airport in Barcelona and have a welcome dinner featuring regional wines.
Day 3 (Thursday, June 8): Barcelona (1:39 … 18:05) We will take an expert led tour of Barcelona (0:24 … 6:20) including La Sagrada Familia (Gaudi’s masterwork-in progress), Montjuïc (where the 1992 Olympic Games took place), etc. Then we will take a walking tour of Barcelona as we explore other Ignatian sites with our guide.
Day 4 (Friday, June 9): Barcelona – Montserrat (18:05 – 20:18) Today we visit Montserrat (1:21). Once he recovered, Ignatius set out on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land to connect more deeply to Jesus in the very places where he lived, as many Catholics still do. He is said to have experienced a vision of Mary encouraging him to pilgrimage. During his pilgrimage, he shed his material items in various stops in Spain, he relinquished his sword and dagger at the Montserrat Monastery and lived in Manresa as a beggar for about a year, praying seven hours per day.
Our visit to Montserrat, meaning “serrated mountains,” may include meeting with a Benedictine monk from the monastery that has been on the mountain since the 9th century. Enjoy a morning walk followed by prayer in the Basilica. Explore this sacred site and see the “Black Madonna,” a place of pilgrimage for centuries. Then, following the morning program in Montserrat, we will take a short drive to Manresa. We may possibly have the mini retreat room booked followed by a tour of the House of Spiritual Exercises.
The journey (15 miles) from Montserrat to Manresa may give us an opportunity to spend time in silence, reflecting on what we wish to leave behind and what we wish to look forward to as we move into the future, just as Ignatius pondered on his journey. With a local guide, we will tour the cave in which St. Ignatius spent a lot of time praying and reading in solitude, during the year he spent in Manresa(1:28). It was during this time that the seeds of inspiration for writing his Spiritual Exercises were planted. Lunch in Manresa is included.
We continue our journey to the principality of Andorra (2:04) where we will spend the evening. After settling in our hotel, we will gather for an included dinner in Andorra La Vella.
Day 5 (Saturday, June 10): We will make our way over the Pyrenees to Lourdes (2:12). We will arrive in Lourdes (2:52) and spend a free afternoon getting to know the city. Then, in the evening, we will attend the Marian Procession which has occurred every night since 1872, ending at a Mass in the Grotto of the Apparition.
Day 6 (Sunday, June 11): We will set off on a sightseeing tour of Lourdes (1:49), France’s most sacred Christian pilgrimage site including the houses of Bernadette, Sanctuary (2) of Our Lady of Lourdes (the Rosary Basilica and Grotto of Massabielle), and Basilica of Saint Pius X. Then we transfer to the city of Bordeaux where, after an included dinner, we will spend the evening.
Day 7 (Monday, June 12): We will meet up with a guide for a tour of Bordeaux (2:00 … 8:48). In the afternoon we’ll board a high-speed TGV train to Paris where we will ride the funicular to the top of Montmartre (1:07). It is there that, on the morning of August 15, 1534, Ignatius of Loyola and his companions took vows at St. Pierre de Montmartre. The mountain top is dominated by the Basilica of the Sacred Heart (Sacre Coeur).
Day 8 (Tuesday, June 13): A guided tour introduces us to “the City of Light” and the architecture, scenery, and history of its many sites: Place de la Concorde, Champs-Élysées, Arc de Triomphe, Les Invalides, and Eiffel Tower. We will catch a glimpse of Notre-Dame Cathedral. Later we will have time to see more of Paris (2:34 … 24:24).
In 1528, Ignatius of Loyola arrived in Paris, alone and on foot, to begin the midlife university studies that helped him shape the plan for the new Society of Jesus that he submitted to the pope in 1539. Ignatius’ experiences in Paris are documented as that of a “fool for Christ” who at one point had to beg for subsistence, but who “intended to prove that economic realities were not the only indicators of whether to honor or belittle a man.” He studied at the College de Montaigu and then at the age of 43 obtained a master’s degree from the University of Paris.
We will stop at Sorbonne University built over the old Sorbonne, then called the University of Paris where, beginning at the age of 38, Ignatius of Loyola studied, met and roomed with Francis Xavier and Peter Faber. At the age of 44, presumed to be too old and sick, he was turned down for doctoral studies. Next, we will visit the Church of Etienne du Mont, containing the Shrine of St. Genevieve. Ignatius studied here at St. Barbe.
In the afternoon we head to the world’s largest art museum, the Louvre. Later, we will enjoy a free evening or add an excursion dinner in Paris and a Seine River Cruise.
Day 9 (Wednesday, June 14): We travel by train to the sacred town of Lisieux (4:40 … 28:28), home to the Carmelite monastery where St. Therese spent her life. We will meet up with a local guide for a tour of what is considered France’s second most important pilgrimage site. We will enter the Buissonnets (the childhood home of Therese Martin), wander the Basilica of Sainte-Therese, walk down to Ermitage Sainte-Therese, and visit the Carmel of Lisieux.
The impact of The Story of a Soul, a collection of her autobiographical manuscripts, printed and distributed a year after her death to an initially very limited audience, was quite significant. Therese was beatified in 1923, and canonized in 1925, by Pope Pius XI only 28 years after her death. She rapidly became one of the most popular saints of the 20 th century. Therese of Lisieux is the patron saint of aviators, florists, illness(es) and missions. By the Apostolic Letter Divini Amoris Scientia (The Science of Divine Love), Pope John Paul II declared her the 33rd Doctor of the Church, the youngest person, and one of only four women so named.
We transfer back to Paris via train, then sit down for an included dinner.
Day 10 (Thursday, June 15): (a) a free day in Paris, or (b) a day in Tours (3:42).
Day 11 (Friday, June 16): We transfer to the airport and depart for home.
Please consider signing up to offer a day of fasting and prayer in the month of October for peace between Russia and Ukraine. You do not have to fast a full day or even from food if you are unable to do so. If you are new to fasting, you could start with just skipping breakfast or lunch and offering a few Hail Marys or a decade of the rosary. The goal is to have every day in the month of October covered by one of our parishioners as we join together in prayer and sacrifice for our suffering brothers and sisters at war. Thanks so much for considering!
Class starts Thursday, September 8th, 2022 at the Ignatius Center (across the street) from St. Ignatius Loyola Church.
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St. Francis Seraph School Supply Drive The annual St. Francis Seraph school supply drive will be held at all masses on August 6-7. The school serves approximately 200 inner city children of various faiths and cultures and depends on donated items. Critically needed items include pencil bags, 2 pocket folders with prongs, college ruled paper, packs of blue and black pens, fine tipped dry erase markers for personal white boards as well as 8-packs with assorted. colors of washable markers, thin-line washable markers and crayons. Please drop these and other supplies off in the office or church vestibule. For any questions please contact Tom Federle at federle5@yahoo.com.
