Knights of Columbus 14344 River East-Mother Teresa

06/14/2026

06/14/2026

Please keep these people in your daily prayers for this week and add anyone to this list who is in need of prayers;
Terry Barraclough
Max Schroeder
Tina Artz
Julie Marshall
Kisten Holmer
Mary Stapleton
Mike O'Rourke mother-in-law
Lenny Fetterman
Steve Nagy Jr.
Ruth Holmer
Stacy Small
Jerod Laver wife
Terry Lengel
Paul Mylnek
Matt Smith
Shellee Murcko
Matthew & Addison Albright
Dan Peacock
Katie Stapleton
Jim Repka
Doug Breno
Deacon’s son & daughter-in-law
Jacquelyn Breno
Matt Repka
Jeremiah & Britney Adkins
Thomas Van Camp
Chris Roper
Carole Horvath
Jim Libhart
Doug & Kim Sallows
Spike Langenderfer
Tim Stapleton
Carol Basinger
Estelle Johnson
For all those that don't believe, or no longer believe that they see the truth.
All Priests
All Seminarians
All Christians who are persecuted for their beliefs
All those who are unemployed or underemployed
All police, firefighters, nurses, doctors, caregivers, and EMS
All those that are fighting and/or recovering from cancer
All those who are pregnant

06/14/2026

“A flag stands for a nation, and the hand that carries it would retain it at the cost of a thousand deaths rather than let it be seized and desecrated by the enemy. It may be a small thing to violate a cloth that is red and white and blue, but it is no small thing to desecrate that for which it stands. So, likewise, in the terrestrial Paradise, the famous tree in which God reposed all the knowledge of good and evil, was a symbol, a moral limit which God imposed on the sovereignty of man to prove his obedience and love. To say it was only a fable is to miss the great truth that things may not only be, but may also signify, like a handshake or a smile.” Archbishop Fulton Sheen (Catholic Hour – Love’s Overflow 3/23/1930)

06/14/2026

Matthew 9:36—10:8
At the sight of the crowds, Jesus’ heart was moved with pity for them
because they were troubled and abandoned,
like sheep without a shepherd.
Then he said to his disciples,
“The harvest is abundant but the laborers are few;
so ask the master of the harvest
to send out laborers for his harvest.”

Then he summoned his twelve disciples
and gave them authority over unclean spirits
to drive them out and to cure every disease and every illness.
The names of the twelve apostles are these:
first, Simon called Peter, and his brother Andrew;
James, the son of Zebedee, and his brother John;
Philip and Bartholomew, Thomas and Matthew the tax collector;
James, the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddeus;
Simon from Cana, and Judas Iscariot who betrayed him.

Jesus sent out these twelve after instructing them thus,
“Do not go into pagan territory or enter a Samaritan town.
Go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
As you go, make this proclamation: ‘The kingdom of heaven is at hand.’
Cure the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, drive out demons.
Without cost you have received; without cost you are to give.”

06/13/2026

Memorial of Saint Anthony of Padua

The gospel call to leave everything and follow Christ was the rule of Anthony’s life. Over and over again God called him to something new in his plan. Every time Anthony responded with renewed zeal and self-sacrificing to serve his Lord Jesus more completely.

His journey as the servant of God began as a very young man when he decided to join the Augustinians in Lisbon, giving up a future of wealth and power to be a servant of God. Later, when the bodies of the first Franciscan martyrs went through the Portuguese city where he was stationed, he was again filled with an intense longing to be one of those closest to Jesus himself: those who die for the Good News.

So Anthony entered the Franciscan Order and set out to preach to the Moors. But an illness prevented him from achieving that goal. He went to Italy and was stationed in a small hermitage where he spent most of his time praying, reading the Scriptures and doing menial tasks.

The call of God came again at an ordination where no one was prepared to speak. The humble and obedient Anthony hesitantly accepted the task. The years of searching for Jesus in prayer, of reading sacred Scripture and of serving him in poverty, chastity and obedience had prepared Anthony to allow the Spirit to use his talents. Anthony’s sermon was astounding to those who expected an unprepared speech and knew not the Spirit’s power to give people words.

Recognized as a great man of prayer and a great Scripture and theology scholar, Anthony became the first friar to teach theology to the other friars. Soon he was called from that post to preach to the Albigensians in France, using his profound knowledge of Scripture and theology to convert and reassure those who had been misled by their denial of Christ's divinity and of the sacraments..

After he led the friars in northern Italy for three years, he made his headquarters in the city of Padua. He resumed his preaching and began wrtiting sermon notes to help other preachers.

Anthony should be the patron of those who find their lives completely uprooted and set in a new and unexpected direction. Like all saints, he is a perfect example of turning one's life completely over to Christ. God did with Anthony as God pleased—and what God pleased was a life of spiritual power and brilliance that still attracts admiration today. He whom popular devotion has nominated as finder of lost objects found himself by losing himself totally to the providence of God.

In his sermon notes, Anthony writes: "The saints are like the stars. In his providence Christ conceals them in a hidden place that they may not shine before others when they might wish to do so. Yet they are always ready to exchange the quiet of contemplation for the works of mercy as soon as they perceive in their heart the invitation of Christ."