Saint Anthony of Padua Catholic Church Falls Church, VA

07/07/2014

07/07/2014

San Antonio en las noticias locales

La Virgen María fue celebrada en un gran Encuentro Mariano el 28 de junio, que incluyó charlas, confesiones y una gran Misa bilingüe al aire libre en el campo de la Iglesia San Antonio de Padua en …

06/26/2014

¡INSCRIBANSE PARA LA CATEQUESIS!

La inscripción para las clases de Educación Religiosa (catequesis) ya esta abierta. Pase por la oficina parroquial pare recoger los formularios de inscripción o llame a la oficina para comunicarse con las coordinadoras. El horario de la catequesis bilingue (español/inglés) es los sábados de 4pm a 5pm, seguidas por la Misa en español a las 5:15pm. La catequesis en inglés se reune los domingos 9:45am a 10:45am, seguidos por la Misa en inglés a las 11:00am. Las clases comienzan el fin de semana del 13 y 14 de septiembre. No esperen para inscribirse ya que a partir del 4 de Agosto la cuota por inscripción aumenta. 703-820-7111 [email protected]

06/26/2014

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION REGISTRATION OPEN FOR 2014

The office of Religious Education is now accepting registrations for the 2014-2015 school year. Classes begin the weekend of September 13-14. The bilingual (English/Spanish) program meets on Saturdays from 4pm-5pm with Spanish Mass at 5:15pm. English language classes are held Sunday mornings 9:45am-10:45am with Mass at 11:00am. Stop by the Parish Office to pick up the forms or to speak with the coordinators. A late fee will apply to all registrations received August 4 and after. Please direct inquiries to Lia Salinas, Director of Religious Education, in the parish office.

06/25/2014

Encuentro Mariano - Acompañenos este sábado 28 de Junio en la cancha de la parroquia para el Encuentro Mariano que comienza a las 8:00 a.m. Durante todo el día habrá confesiones, Exposición del Santísimo Sacramento, charlas y la Sagrada Eucarístia a las 12:00 p.m. al aire libre con la participación de varios sacerdotes que concelebrarán. Hazte presente para que la Virgen te bendiga de una manera especial a ti, a tu familia, y a nuestra comunidad parroquial. El costo del Encuentro es de $20 por persona e incluye almuerzo. Boletos a la venta en la tienda y con los miembros de la Legion de Maria.

06/25/2014

Bi-Lingual Marian Encounter: Join the Legion of Mary this Saturday, June 28, 2014 for a day-long preparation for the reign of Jesus Christ. The day includes Confessions, Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament and a Noon Mass on the field. The speakers include Father Luciano Ciciarelli from the International Marian Movement and Father Charles Pope, a renowned Catholic speaker. The encounter starts at 8:00 a.m., for all who want to fill their hearts with the love of Jesus through Mary. The cost is $20 and includes lunch and headphones for simultaneous translation of the talks. Tickets are still available from the Spanish Legion of Mary, or in the gift store.

06/11/2014

Facts about Saint Anthony of Padua:

Saint Anthony was canonized (declared a saint) less than one year after his death.

There is perhaps no more loved and admired saint in the Catholic Church than Saint Anthony of Padua, a Doctor of the Church. Though his work was in Italy, he was born in Portugal. He first joined the Augustinian Order and then left it and joined the Franciscan Order in 1221, when he was 26 years old. The reason he became a Franciscan was because of the death of the five Franciscan protomartyrs -- St. Bernard, St. Peter, St. Otho, St. Accursius, and St. Adjutus -- who shed their blood for the Catholic Faith in the year 1220, in Morocco, in North Africa, and whose headless and mutilated bodies had been brought to St. Anthony’s monastery on their way back for burial. St. Anthony became a Franciscan in the hope of shedding his own blood and becoming a martyr. He lived only ten years after joining the Franciscan Order.

So simple and resounding was his teaching of the Catholic Faith, so that the most unlettered and innocent might understand it, that he was made a Doctor of the Church by Pope Pius XII in 1946. Saint Anthony was only 36 years old when he died. He is called the “hammer of the Heretics” His great protection against their lies and deceits in the matter of Christian doctrine was to utter, simply and innocently, the Holy Name of Mary. When St. Anthony of Padua found he was preaching the true Gospel of the Catholic Church to heretics who would not listen to him, he then went out and preached it to the fishes. This was not, as liberals and naturalists are trying to say, for the instruction of the fishes, but rather for the glory of God, the delight of the angels, and the easing of his own heart. St. Anthony wanted to profess the Catholic Faith with his mind and his heart, at every moment.

He is typically depicted with a book and the Infant Child Jesus, to whom He miraculously appeared, and is commonly referred to today as the "finder of lost articles." Upon exhumation, some 336 years after his death, his body was found to be corrupted, yet his tongue was totally incorrupt, so perfect were the teachings that had been formed upon it.

06/11/2014

SAN ANTONIO DE PADUA:

Predicador de la orden de los franciscanos
Festividad: 13 de junio
Fecha canonización: 1232
Nacionalidad: portugués


ORACIÓN

¡Oh admirable y esclarecido protector mío, San Antonio de Padua! Siempre he tenido grandísima confianza en que me habéis de ayudar en todas mis necesidades, rogando por mi al Señor a quien servisteis, a la Virgen Santísima a quien amasteis y al divino Niño Jesús que tantos favores os hizo. Rogadles por mi, para que por vuestra poderosa intercesión me concedan lo que pido.

¡Oh Glorioso San Antonio! Pues las cosas perdidas son halladas por vuestra mediación y obráis tantos prodigios con vuestros devotos; yo os ruego y suplico me alcancéis de la Divina Majestad el recobrar la gracia que he perdido por mis pecados, y el favor que ahora deseo y pido, siendo para Gloria de Dios y bien de mi alma. Amén.

06/11/2014

Saint Anthony of Padua Pray for us!

06/07/2014

Here's the link for all the Clergy Changes promulgated by Bishop Paul S. Loverde today after he ordain 6 new priests! Pray for our priests!

http://www.arlingtondiocese.org/newsdetails.aspx?Pageid=422&id=6898

Reverend Matthew J. DeForest �- from Parochial Vicar at the Church of Saint Anthony in Falls Church to Parochial Vicar at the Cathedral of Saint Thomas More in Arlington.

06/07/2014

Bishop Loverde announced this afternoon clergy assignments for the Diocese of Arlington. Included in these assignments were changes at Saint Anthony of Padua.

Reverend Stephen F. McGraw – from Parochial Administrator of the Church of Saint Anthony in Falls Church to Chaplain at Christendom College in Front Royal.

Reverend Matthew J. DeForest – from Parochial Vicar at the Church of Saint Anthony in Falls Church to Parochial Vicar at the Cathedral of Saint Thomas More in Arlington.

Reverend Marcus A. Pollard – from Parochial Vicar at the Church of Saint Mary in Alexandria to Pastor of the Church of Saint Anthony in Falls Church.

Reverend Jeb S. Donelan – from Parochial Vicar at the Church of All Saints in Manassas to Parochial Vicar at the Church of Saint Anthony in Falls Church.

We pray for Fathers McGraw and DeForest as they get ready to begin their new assignments at Christendom College and the Cathedral of St. Thomas More, respectively. Likewise, we pray for and welcome out two new priests, Frs Pollard and Donelan. Saint Anthony of Padua, pray for us!