St Francis of Assisi and Holy Cross Parishes

09/15/2026

09/15/2026

Blessed are you, O Virgin Mary;
without dying you won the Martyr’s crown
beneath the Cross of the Lord.
Alleluia, alleluia.

Tuesday, September 15, 2026

Most Immaculate and Sorrowful Heart of Mary, I thank you for the unending depth of compassion you had for those who sinned against your Son and for loving me with that same love. As you grieve with a holy sorrow over my own sins, please pray for me, that I will more fully understand your compassion. As I do, I pray that I will be able to more fully imitate and participate in that love, flowing from your pure and perfect Sorrowful Heart.
Our Lady of Sorrows, pray for me.
Jesus, I trust in You.(MyCatholicLife)

✝️ Memorial of Our Lady of Sorrows✝️
Celebrant:Rev Richard Goodin

🕍9AM Mass St Francis of Assisi Church
🙏🏻 Cole Nalley (BirthDay)

📖 From the Gospel according to John
19:25-27

Standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother
and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas,
and Mary Magdalene.
When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple there whom he loved
he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son.”
Then he said to the disciple,
“Behold, your mother.”
And from that hour the disciple took her into his home.

09/14/2026

We adore you, O Christ, and we bless you,
because by your Cross you have redeemed the world.
Alleluia, alleluia.

Monday, September 14, 2026

Most glorious and triumphant Lord, You gave Your life for the salvation of my soul, using the most horrific act of cruelty as the means of Your redeeming grace. I open myself to that grace today and pray that You bestow it in superabundance. I also pray that I will have the courage and wisdom to embrace my crosses every day of my life, uniting them to Your Cross, and trusting that You will use these sacrifices as a means of the further bestowal of Your love on the world.
Saving Cross of Christ, have mercy on me.
Jesus, I trust in You.(MyCatholicLife)

✝️Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross✝️

But may I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. ~Galatians 6:14

📖 From the Gospel according to John
3:13-17

Jesus said to Nicodemus:
"No one has gone up to heaven
except the one who has come down from heaven, the Son of Man.
And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert,
so must the Son of Man be lifted up,
so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life."

For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son,
so that everyone who believes in him might not perish
but might have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world,
but that the world might be saved through him.

09/13/2026

Amen 🙏🏻

09/13/2026

John 13:34

I give you a new commandment, says the Lord:
love one another as I have loved you.
Alleluia, alleluia

September 13, 2026

Most generous Lord, You forgive more than seventy-seven times—more than seventy times seven. Your mercy is unconditional in its origin and limitless in its reach, yet it bears one condition: that I, too, show mercy to others. Grant me, dear Lord, a heart that is merciful like Yours, one that participates in and reflects Your Divine Mercy. May I forgive as I have been forgiven, so that the full debt of my sin may be wiped away and that others may be drawn to You through the witness of mercy in my life.
Jesus, I trust in You.(MyCatholicLife)

✝️ Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time✝️
Celebrant:Rev Richard Goodin

🕊️Confession 7-750AM
🕍8AM Mass Holy Cross Church
🙏🏻Pat Lyvers
🙏🏻Louis Wheatley
🙏🏻Bernard and Gary Norris
🙏🏻Frankie Blanford and Deceased Children
🙏🏻Charles and Wilhelmenia Taylor
🙏🏻Scott Willett and Deceased Family
🙏🏻James W. Blanford
🙏🏻John and Marguerite Hagan & Family
🙏🏻Linda (1st Anniversary) and Billy Mattingly
🙏🏻Joe Pat and Jeanie Lyvers
🙏🏻Alton and Christine Mattingly
🙏🏻Howard and Sue Ella Cissell withDeceased Daughters
🙏🏻Smith Fogle
🙏🏻Tommy Green and Deceased Children
🙏🏻Kelly Shulthise Carr
🙏🏻Charlie Meredith

🕍10AM Mass St Francis of Assisi Church
🙏🏻 Stacy Lawson

📖 From the Gospel according to Matthew
18:21-35

Peter approached Jesus and asked him,
“Lord, if my brother sins against me,
how often must I forgive?
As many as seven times?”
Jesus answered, “I say to you, not seven times but seventy-seven times.
That is why the kingdom of heaven may be likened to a king
who decided to settle accounts with his servants.
When he began the accounting,
a debtor was brought before him who owed him a huge amount.
Since he had no way of paying it back,
his master ordered him to be sold,
along with his wife, his children, and all his property,
in payment of the debt.
At that, the servant fell down, did him homage, and said,
‘Be patient with me, and I will pay you back in full.’
Moved with compassion the master of that servant
let him go and forgave him the loan.
When that servant had left, he found one of his fellow servants
who owed him a much smaller amount.
He seized him and started to choke him, demanding,
‘Pay back what you owe.’
Falling to his knees, his fellow servant begged him,
‘Be patient with me, and I will pay you back.’
But he refused.
Instead, he had the fellow servant put in prison
until he paid back the debt.
Now when his fellow servants saw what had happened,
they were deeply disturbed, and went to their master
and reported the whole affair.
His master summoned him and said to him, ‘You wicked servant!
I forgave you your entire debt because you begged me to.
Should you not have had pity on your fellow servant,
as I had pity on you?’
Then in anger his master handed him over to the torturers
until he should pay back the whole debt.
So will my heavenly Father do to you,
unless each of you forgives your brother from your heart.”

09/12/2026

John 14:23

Whoever loves me will keep my word,
and my Father will love him,
and we will come to him.

Alleluia, alleluia.

September 12, 2026

Dearest Mother Mary, Mother of God and my mother, I love you and call upon you to receive me into your motherly heart so that you will present me to your Son, Jesus. Your Son entrusted me to your motherly care as He hung upon the Cross, and I now imitate that entrustment by giving myself to you as my mother. Please gain for me every grace I need to be faithful to God’s will, so that I will imitate the fidelity that you manifested in your own life. Mother Mary, pray for me.
Jesus, I trust in You.(MyCatholicLife)

✝️Twenty-Fourth Sunday Eve in Ordinary Time✝️
🌹Holy Name of the Blessed Virgin Mary-Memorial🌹
Celebrant:Rev Richard Goodin

🕊️Confession 3-350PM
🕍4PM Mass St Francis of Assisi Church
🙏🏻For The People

📖 From the Gospel according to Luke
6:43-49

Jesus said to his disciples:
“A good tree does not bear rotten fruit,
nor does a rotten tree bear good fruit.
For every tree is known by its own fruit.
For people do not pick figs from thornbushes,
nor do they gather grapes from brambles.
A good person out of the store of goodness in his heart produces good,
but an evil person out of a store of evil produces evil;
for from the fullness of the heart the mouth speaks.

“Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ but not do what I command?
I will show you what someone is like who comes to me,
listens to my words, and acts on them.
That one is like a man building a house,
who dug deeply and laid the foundation on rock;
when the flood came, the river burst against that house
but could not shake it because it had been well built.
But the one who listens and does not act
is like a person who built a house on the ground
without a foundation.
When the river burst against it,
it collapsed at once and was completely destroyed.”