ACTS Missions St. Louis Chapter

01/22/2023

Please lift up your prayers for Zachery Streb, son of Missy Knaub. He is in critical condition. Please pray for him and his family that he recovers. Thank you.

01/13/2021

ACTS Missions-St. Louis (Chapter) donated and this would be an opportunity for parishes or individuals to do the same.

On January 1, 2021, our beloved friend, Sally Cherre passed away. Her dear friend and co-w… Sarah Heep needs your support for Chapel Chairs for Sally Cherre

01/08/2021

Martha's Hands in the news.

As hospital employees and residents and staff in long-term care facilities receive the second shot of the vaccine, home care providers wonder when they will be able to receive the

09/03/2020

Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus climbs into Peter’s boat without asking permission. He simply commandeers this vessel that is central to the fisherman’s life and commences to give orders. This represents something of enormous moment: the invasion of grace.

Though God respects our relative independence, he is not the least bit content to leave us in a “natural” state. Instead, he wants to live in us, to become the Lord of our lives, moving into our minds, wills, bodies, imaginations, nerves, and bones.

This commandeering of nature by grace does not involve the compromising of nature but rather its perfection and elevation. When Jesus moves into the house of the soul, the powers of the soul are heightened and properly directed; when Jesus commands the boat of the natural human life, that life is preserved, strengthened, and given a new orientation.

This is signaled symbolically by the Lord’s directive to put out into the deep water. On our own, we can know and will within a very narrow range, seeking those goods and truths that appear within the horizon of our natural consciousness, but when grace invades us, we are enticed into far deeper waters.

https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/090320.cfm

08/02/2020

St. Eusebius of Vercelli, herald of Christ's divinity, pray for us!

07/31/2020

07/22/2020

St. Mary Magdalene, companion of Jesus who witnessed his crucifixion and resurrection, pray for us!

07/22/2020

07/18/2020

St. Camillus de Lellis, gambling addict who became a Capuchin novice, pray for us!

07/15/2020

Friends, in this next video in a series of brief reflections on Vatican II and the Church—recorded during a recent conversation with Rocco Buttiglione for the Hildebrand Project—I discuss the actual purpose of Vatican II.

The Church, at certain periods, had crouched behind medieval walls, keeping its treasure to itself. But through the council’s missionary focus, the Church’s gates have been opened—not so much to let the modern world in, but to let the beauty and holiness of the Church out.

Watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rIuHQ_fhQk

07/14/2020

Friends, in the coming days, I will be sharing a series of brief video reflections—recorded during a recent conversation with Rocco Buttiglione for the Hildebrand Project—on Vatican II, Catholic liturgy and tradition, and the mission of evangelization. In this first video, I reflect on Pope St. John Paul II. Though I never met him, he meant the world to me. What a model to have—his papacy was a lodestar for a new generation, and with it came a fresh wind blowing through the Church.

Watch the full video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiJQOF3wxh0