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Sunday December 7, 2014 at 7:00 PM PST-to-
Wednesday December 10, 2014 at 9:00 PM PST
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St. Mary Catholic Church
360-293-2101
stewardship@stmaryanacortes.org
In 1830, the Virgin Mary appeared to St. Catherine Labouré in three apparitions. During the third apparition, Our Lady was standing on a globe, crushing the head of a serpent under her feet with many rays of light streaming from rings on her fingers. She explained that the rays symbolize the graces that she obtains for those who ask for them. The Virgin Mary asked St. Catherine to have a medal struck with this image on the front and the aforementioned inscription around the image. The medal was originally called the Medal of the Immaculate Conception; however, because of the many answered prayers, conversions and cures, after seven years it became known as the “Miraculous Medal.”Miracles attributed to Our Lady’s intercession through the Miraculous Medal include the conversion of a young Jewish banker, Alphonse Ratisbonne. After accepting a challenge to wear the medal and to pray the Memorare, he had a vision of the Virgin Mary, an extraordinary conversion to the Faith, and was ordained to the sacred priesthood in 1847.
The promise attached to the medal is that all who wear this medal will receive great graces. Graces will abound for those who wear it with confidence.
FREE WILL DONATION OPPORTUNITY
A free will offering event to help support the works of Father James Kelleher, SOLT. You can choose to donate now or at the door. If you choose to donate now, you will receive a separate acknowledgement from our payment provider. This notification is in addition to your registering for the event.
To make an donation for the advent mission to support the works of SOLT please click the button above. It will take you to the parish's secured online giving module.
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Mission Priest - Lent & Advent
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You are Invited to attend our ADVENT 2014 MISSION at St. Mary Anacortes, Washington
This Advent make it a priority to grow in your relationship with Jesus. Learn the art of loving God through the example of the Blessed Mother and lives of selected saints, which you will be introduced to in this mission by Fr. James Kelleher, SOLT. - Fr. Marion, OSB
Fr Jim Kelleher SOLT has the trademark of teaching people how to evangelize by passing out the Miraculous Medal. With great enthusiasm, he speaks well about the Saints, Our Lady’s mediation with Christ, Adoration of the Holy Eucharist, and the Church. He has spoken frequently to doctors, lawyers, and business men, and has the pastime of filling up stadiums with tens of thousands of people to pray the rosary. He has spoken on EWTN and worked in television and radio. Having been a quarterback at Washington State, he enjoys passing the crowd a ball and going long for the Hail Mary pass.
MISSION THEME:
Jesus the Divine Physician: Transforming our heart, mind and soul.
MISSION PRESENTATION FORMAT
Sunday 7 p.m First talk with confessions following.
Monday thru Wednesday - two talks each day 9 a.m. & 7 p.m. . Evening talk is a repeat of the morning's in the church. Mass precedes each conference with hearing of confessions following each talk by Father Kelleher.
MISSION TALKS - DATE & TIME.
Sunday, December 7th @ 7 p.m. - The Most Holy Eucharist: From Eucharist to Communion, from Communion to Transformation.
Monday, December 8th - Holy Day of Obligation: Feast of the Immaculate Conception. Note: Collection taken up at the Masses on this day will be for St. Mary Church and not mission related.
9am & 7 pm: Devotion to Mary: The Power of Consecration to Jesus through Mary and praying the daily rosary.
Tuesday, December 9th : Freewill donation collected for the Mission.
9 am & 7 pm: St. Therese of Lisieux: Living the Little Way of Love.
Wednesday, December 10th : Freewill donation collected for the Mission.
9 am & 7pm: St. Maximilian Kolbe, St. John Paul II the Great and the New Evangelization: Winning souls for Christ, one person at a time.
More about Fr. James Kelleher, SOLT
Fr. James R. Kelleher, SOLT, S.T.D. was the founding President of Our Lady of Corpus Christi (OLCC), a Catholic undergraduate, liberal arts institution founded by the Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity (SOLT) in 1998.
Fr. Kelleher is an internationally recognized speaker on the topic of Eucharistic Adoration and the family rosary. He has fulfilled major speaking engagements at Marian and Eucharistic Conferences in the United States, England and India.
Fr. Kelleher founded the Eucharistic Family Rosary Crusade in 2005 and has since launched major crusades in the Dallas Cotton Bowl with 22,000 people in attendance and in Kansas City Royals Baseball Stadium with 25,000 participants in 2008. Both events were broadcast around the world on EWTN. Recently, on October 8th, 2011, Fr Kelleher organized Eucharistic Adoration and a Global Living Rosary for an overflow ,standing room only crowd of more than 4,000 people at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington D.C. This richly blessed event was also broadcast on EWTN.
In the summer of 2011, Fr. Kelleher joined forces with Fr. Tony Stephens of the Fathers of Mercy and Fr. John Sims Baker, Pastor of Vanderbilt Catholic Newman Center, to produce a 26 part video series on the YOUCAT, Youth Catechism of the Catholic Church, for Newman Connection.
Fr Jim Kelleher SOLT has the trademark of teaching people how to evangelize by passing out the Miraculous Medal. With great enthusiasm, he speaks well about the Saints, Our Lady’s mediation with Christ, Adoration of the Holy Eucharist, and the Church. He has spoken frequently to doctors, lawyers, and business men, and has the pastime of filling up stadiums with tens of thousands of people to pray the rosary. He has spoken on EWTN and worked in television and radio. Having been a quarterback at Washington State, he enjoys passing the crowd a ball and going long for the Hail Mary pass.
NO PAYMENT NECESSARY TO REGISTER. We need a headcount to ensure we have medals for all attendees.