Our Lady Of The Lakes- Monticello

09/14/2022

Reminder about our Pastorate Picnic on September 18th. RSVP through Flocknote invitation. If you did not receive one, please call the office.

04/07/2022

Confirmation 2022

03/28/2022

02/10/2022

Happy Feast of St. Scholastica

Today is the feast day of St. Scholastica, twin sister of St. Benedict. She was inspired by the life of holiness her brother led - just goes to show that a good Christian witness matters!

https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/saint/st-scholastica-143

02/05/2022

February 05 | Saint Agatha

As in the case of Agnes, another virgin-martyr of the early Church, almost nothing is historically certain about this saint except that she was martyred in Sicily during the persecution of Emperor Decius in 251.

Legend has it that Agatha, like Agnes, was arrested as a Christian, tortured, and sent to a house of prostitution to be mistreated. She was preserved from being violated, and was later put to death.

She is claimed as the patroness of both Palermo and Catania. The year after her death, the stilling of an eruption of Mt. Etna was attributed to her intercession. As a result, apparently, people continued to ask her prayers for protection against fire.

Reflection

The scientific modern mind winces at the thought of a volcano’s might being contained by God because of the prayers of a Sicilian girl. Still less welcome, probably, is the notion of that saint being the patroness of such varied professions as those of foundry workers, nurses, miners and Alpine guides. Yet, in our historical precision, have we lost an essential human quality of wonder and poetry, and even our belief that we come to God by helping each other, both in action and prayer?

Source | Franciscan Media

01/31/2022

Blessed Feast of Saint John Bosco

Mary, Help of Christians, pray for us.
Saint John Bosco, pray for us.