ST. MONICA PARISH

24 NEWLY CONFIRMED YOUNG PEOPLE
"Be Sealed with the Gift of the Holy Spirit"

When Frances Cabrini received the Sacrament of Confirmation, she was more perfectly bound to the Church as a true witness to Christ and more urgently called to spread and defend the faith in word and deed. She heard that call and responded with extraordinary generosity. This is her story.

This spirited woman was born in Italy in 1850. Early on, she felt the call to religious life, but no congregation accepted her because of her poor health. At age twenty-seven, her missionary zeal led her to found a new congregation, the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart. Within a few years, she and her sisters had opened six orphanages.
 

At her canonization in 1946, Pius XII said this in his homily:
 

Wheredid she acquire all that strengthand the inexhaustible energy by which she was able to perform so many good works and to surmount so many difficulties? She accomplished all this through the faith that was always so vibrant in her heart; through the divine love  that burned within her; and, finally, through the constant prayer by which she was so closely united to God.... She never let anything turn her aside from striving to please God and to work for his glory for which nothing, aided by grace, seemed too difficult or beyond human strength. (Liturgy of the Hours, vol. IV, 2022)

 

Mother Cabrini lived deeply the mission of the Church to bring Christ’s compassion and care to all people. She responded generously to the grace of the Sacrament of Confirmation that binds Christians to such a deeper identification with the Church and her mission. Read More Here

Frances Cabrini is just one of the countless Catholics whose life after receiving the Sacrament of Confirmation was led by the Holy Spirit to do wonders for Christ and His Church. Like St. Cabrini, there are 24 young people from our parish community who are also on their path to doing great wonders for our Church and their faith. 

Yours in Christ,
Fr. Michael Estaris

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Come Holy Spirit,
fill the hearts of your faithful
and kindle in them the fire of your love.
end forth your Spirit and they shall be created.
And You shall renew the face of the earth.

O, God, who by the light of the Holy Spirit,
did instruct the hearts of the faithful,
grant that by the same Holy Spirit
we may be truly wise and ever enjoy His consolations,
Through Christ Our Lord. Amen.

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Nosotros, en la Parroquia de Santa Mónica  continuamos la misión de Jesucristo de llevar la buena nueva de salvación a nuestra comunidad. Guiada por el Magisterio de la Iglesia Católica Romana, estamos comprometidos a amar, servir a Dios, y alimentar nuestra fe a través de la Sagrada Escritura, las Tradiciones, y los Sacramentos.

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