Survey for all families. Are you interested in the FEAST (Families Eating And Sharing Together) events at church? Could you use a “Parents’ Night Off”? Please go to https://www.surveymonkeycom/r/ZFPY5BK and give us your feedback!
 

PREPARES is conducting a diaper drive from July 1 through August 12. That is the most-needed item for young families in the area. We need diapers of all sizes including newborn, Size 2, 3, 4, 5 and pull-ups sizes 2T/3T and size 3T/4T. Please place them in the large box at the church entrance. If you would rather donate money, please put a clearly marked donation in the collection. It will be used for a bulk purchase of needed diaper sizes.

(CNS photo/Paul Haring)
       
Pope Francis is often called a “man of Vatican II.” In his newly-released Gaudete et Exsultate, he offers a powerful magisterial reflection on the Council’s “universal call to holiness”:

“Rejoice and be glad” (Mt 5:12), Jesus tells those persecuted or humiliated for his sake. The Lord asks everything of us, and in return he offers us true life, the happiness for which we were created. He wants us to be saints and not to settle for a bland and mediocre existence. (§1)

Gaudete et Exsultate (GE) is an apostolic exhortation, a type of document that ranks below an encyclical but above everyday papal homilies and speeches. It is the third one issued by Francis, after Evangelii Gaudium and Amoris Laetitia. 
From Gaudete et Exsultate: An Overview by Bill McCormick, SJ, of The Jesuit Post
https://thejesuitpost.org/2018/04/gaudete-et-exsultate-an-overview/