Nov 12/feast of St. Albert the Great

-Last Sunday's homily is available by email
 -This Sunday's Scriptures can be found at www.usccb.org
-check out this week's LinC Letter on the back of the parish bulletin or at www.saint-albert.org/
-I will be celebrating mass  at 5:30 PM on Saturday and at 8:00 AM and 11:00 AM  on Sunday

 Keep your lamp burning!

 As we celebrate the feast of Saint Albert the great at all of our weekend masses we are acknowledging not only our patron but our community. The form of this acknowledgment is in our “adopt a friend in prayer“ ministry.   All of the members of our parish community who are: preparing for the celebration of a sacrament (communion, confirmation, matrimony), are serving in the military,  are discerning a religious or priestly vocation, or are bereaved  have had their names written on a prayer card designed for their circumstance. Parishioners are invited to pick up one or more of these individuals in prayer. The cards are available at the entrances of the church.

 St. Augustine has famously interpreted the parable of the 10 virgins ( and  the oil in their lamps specifically) as our call to prepare ourselves for the coming of Christ’s kingdom through good works. It is insufficient to claim a relationship to the bridgeroom (let us in), rather  we must manifest or express our relationship to the bridegroom through good works.

 One might see our celebration of our patron and our parish community of St Albert in the same way. It is insufficient to claim to be a member of St. Albert the Great parish community without intentionally and actively caring for the members of the community in their most important journey of faith.  By praying for individuals in our community we might be able to better claim “I know you“.