St. Francis de Sales, Mableton, GA

09/29/2025

Special 7PM High Mass tonight in honor of St. Michael the Archangel

09/29/2025

Fr Hathaway thanks you for your responding to his proposal to return Sunday Mass to the church, piece meal, namely, 7 am Mass at the church, 8:30 am & 11:30 am Masses at the gym, and a 1 pm Mass at the church. (This will allow Youth Catechism to meet from 10 am to 11 am without difficulty.) Many have said they prefer keeping the 8 am & 10:30 am time slots.

10/18/2024

October 18.--ST. LUKE.
ST. LUKE, a physician at Antioch, and a painter, became a convert of St. Paul, and afterwards his fellow-laborer. He is best known to us as the historian of the New Testament. Though not an eye-witness of Our Lord’s life, the Evangelist diligently gathered information from the lips of the apostles, and wrote, as he tells us, all things in order. The acts of the Apostles were written by this Evangelist as a sequel to his Gospel, bringing the history of the Church down to the first imprisonment of St. Paul at Rome. The humble historian never names himself, but by his occasional use of “we” for “they” we are able to detect his presence in the scenes which he describes. We thus find that he sailed with St. Paul and Silas from Troas to Macedonia; stayed behind apparently for seven years at Philippi, and, lastly, shared the shipwreck and perils of the memorable voyage to Rome. Here his own narrative ends, but from St. Paul’s Epistles we learn that St. Luke was his faithful companion to the end. He died a martyr’s death some time afterwards in Achaia.
Reflection.--Christ has given all He had for thee; do thou give all thou hast for Him.

10/15/2024

October 15.--ST. TERESA.
WHEN a child of seven years, Teresa ran away from her home at Avila in Spain, in the hope of being martyred by the Moors. Being brought back and asked the reason of her flight, she replied, “I want to see God, and I must die before I can see Him.” She then began with her brother to build a hermitage in the garden, and was often heard repeating “Forever, forever”. Some years later she became a Carmelite nun. Frivolous conversations checked her progress towards perfection, but at last, in her thirty-first year, she gave herself wholly to God. A vision showed her the very place in hell to which her own light faults would have led her, and she lived ever after in the deepest distrust of self. She was called to reform her Order, favored with distinct commands from Our Lord, and her heart was pierced with divine love; but she dreaded nothing so much as delusion, and to the last acted only under obedience to her confessors, which both made her strong and kept her safe. She died on October 4, 1582.
Reflection.--”After all I die a child of the Church.” These were the Saint’s last words. They teach us the lesson of her life--to trust in humble, childlike obedience to our spiritual guides as the surest means of salvation.

10/11/2024

10/04/2024

https://allianceoftwoheartsgeorgia.com/

The Daily Family Communion of Reparation culminates in the First Friday-First Saturday Communion of Reparation

09/29/2024

September 29.--ST. MICHAEL, Archangel.
“MI-CA-EL,” or “Who is like to God?” Such was the cry of the great Archangel when he smote the rebel Lucifer in the conflict of the heavenly hosts, and from that hour he has been known as “Michael,” the captain of the armies of God, the type of divine fortitude, the champion of every faithful soul in strife with the powers of evil. Thus he appears in Holy Scripture as the guardian of the children of Israel, their comfort and protector in times of sorrow or conflict. He it is who prepares for their return from the Persian captivity, who leads the valiant Maccabees to victory, and who rescues the body of Moses from the envious grasp of the Evil One. And since Christ’s coming the Church has ever venerated St. Michael as her special patron and protector. She invokes him by name in her confession of sin, summons him to the side of her children in the agony of death, and chooses him as their es**rt from the chastening flames of purgatory to the realms of holy light. Lastly, when Antichrist shall have set up his kingdom on earth, it is Michael who will unfurl once more the standard of the Cross, sound the last trumpet, and binding together the false prophet and the beast, hurl them for all eternity into the burning pool.
Reflection.--”Whenever,” says St. Bernard, “any grievous temptation or vehement sorrow oppresses thee, invoke thy guardian, thy leader; cry out to him, and say, ‘Lord, save us, lest we perish!’”

09/21/2024

September 21.--ST. MATTHEW, Apostle.
ONE day, as Our Lord was walking by the Sea of Galilee, He saw, sitting at the receipt of custom, Matthew the publican, whose business it was to collect the taxes from the people for their Roman masters. Jesus said to him, “Follow Me;” and leaving all, Matthew arose and followed Him. Now the publicans were abhorred by the Jews as enemies of their country, outcasts, and notorious sinners, who enriched themselves by extortion and fraud. No Pharisee would sit with one at table. Our Saviour alone had compassion for them. So St. Matthew made a great feast, to which he invited Jesus and His disciples, with a number of these publicans, who henceforth began eagerly to listen to Him. It was then, in answer to the murmurs of the Pharisees, that He said, “They that are in health need not the physician. I have not come to call the just, but sinners to penance.” After the Ascension, St. Matthew remained some years in Judaea, and there wrote his gospel, to teach his countrymen that Jesus was their true Lord and King, foretold by the prophets. St. Matthew afterward preached the Faith far and wide, and is said to have finished his course in Parthia.
Reflection.--Obey all inspirations of Our Lord as promptly as St. Matthew, who, at a single word, “laid down,” says St. Bridget, “the heavy burden of the world to put on the light and sweet yoke of Christ.”

09/18/2024

Ember week

09/12/2024

https://nolacatholic.org/news/prayers-for-hurricane-season

Prayers for protection from storms, to prevent storms and to avert storms.

06/18/2024

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/reports-vatican-planning-to-enforce-a-final-ban-of-traditional-latin-mass-likely-on-july-16/

Sources told Rorate Caeli that Vatican officials want to ban the Latin Mass in a manner ‘as wide, final, and irreversible as possible,’ and a source informed LifeSiteNews that this ban is likely to be issued on the two-year anniversary of Traditionis Custodes.

06/04/2024

https://cowboystatedaily.com/2024/06/01/wyoming-catholic-college-students-surrender-their-phones-for-four-years/

Wyoming Catholic College students put their phones in a locked cupboard for four years at the school in Lander. Some are surprised how disconnecting from their devices opens their minds.