On Monday, September 1st we will participate in the Gaithersburg parade. Please wear any red youth group t-shirt (WYD, Benedict XVI or Pro-Life). You should arrive at the Girard business center in Old Town by 10:45am. We will be meeting in the blue zone (same place as last year) on the parade route. Navigate to Gaithersburg's website to see a map of the route and to get more information.
http://www.gaithersburgmd.gov/poi/default.asp?POI_ID=773&TOC=107;84;99;773
A party will take place at the Gorres' house after the parade. Please be prepared to arrange transportation. All family members are invited.
Feel free to call Erin for more information.
Saturday, August 30, 2008
Labor Day Parade
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Mark Your Calendars....
Courage...I love you this much! "Be on your guard, stand firm in the faith, be courageous, be strong.
Your every act should be done with love." 1Corinthians 16:13-14
CA #29 High School Youth Retreat
October 31st- November 2nd, 2008
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
No youth group the last week of summer...
Last night at youth group we prayed the rosary outside together by candlelight. This marks the end of our summer youth program. Now we will take a little time off to prepare for the school year. Please join us on Friday, September 5th from 7:30-9:30pm for our Friday night kick-off!
Latin the Language of the Church
Fr. Avelino is teaching us how to say the rosary in Latin! If you'd like to practice at home, here are the prayers....
(Our Father) PATER NOSTER, qui es in caelis, sanctificetur nomen tuum. Adveniat regnum tuum. Fiat voluntas tua, sicut in caelo et in terra. Panem nostrum quotidianum da nobis hodie, et dimitte nobis debita nostra sicut et nos dimittimus debitoribus nostris. Et ne nos inducas in tentationem, sed libera nos a malo. Amen.
(Hail Mary) AVE MARIA, gratia plena, Dominus tecum. Benedicta tu in mulieribus, et benedictus fructus ventris tui, Iesus. Sancta Maria, Mater Dei, ora pro nobis peccatoribus, nunc, et in hora mortis nostrae. Amen.
(Glory Be) GLORIA, Patri et Filio, et Spiritui Sancto. Sicut erat in principio, et nunc, et semper, et in saecula saeculorum. Amen.
Friday, August 15, 2008
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Listen with the ears of your heart.
Is God calling you to a radical life of love
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Pray. Reflect. Discern.
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Today's Saint
St. Maximilian Kolbe
Feast Day: August 14th 
"I don’t know what’s going to become of you!” How many parents have said that? Maximilian Mary Kolbe’s reaction was, “I prayed very hard to Our Lady to tell me what would happen to me. She appeared, holding in her hands two crowns, one white, one red. She asked if I would like to have them—one was for purity, the other for martyrdom. I said, ‘I choose both.’ She smiled and disappeared.” After that he was not the same.
He entered the minor seminary of the Conventual Franciscans in Lvív (then Poland, now Ukraine), near his birthplace, and at 16 became a novice. Though he later achieved doctorates in philosophy and theology, he was deeply interested in science, even drawing plans for rocket ships.
Ordained at 24, he saw religious indifference as the deadliest poison of the day. His mission was to combat it. He had already founded the Militia of the Immaculata, whose aim was to fight evil with the witness of the good life, prayer, work and suffering. He dreamed of and then founded Knight of the Immaculata,, a religious magazine under Mary’s protection to preach the Good News to all nations. For the work of publication he established a “City of the Immaculata”—Niepokalanow—which housed 700 of his Franciscan brothers. He later founded one in Nagasaki, Japan. Both the Militia and the magazine ultimately reached the one-million mark in members and subscribers. His love of God was daily filtered through devotion to Mary.
In 1939 the Nazi panzers overran Poland with deadly speed. Niepokalanow was severely bombed. Kolbe and his friars were arrested, then released in less than three months, on the feast of the Immaculate Conception. 
In 1941 he was arrested again. The Nazis’ purpose was to liquidate the select ones, the leaders. The end came quickly, in Auschwitz three months later, after terrible beatings and humiliations.
A prisoner had escaped. The commandant announced that 10 men would die. He relished walking along the ranks. “This one. That one.” As they were being marched away to the starvation bunkers, Number 16670 dared to step from the line. “I would like to take that man’s place. He has a wife and children.” “Who are you?” “A priest.” No name, no mention of fame. Silence. The commandant, dumbfounded, perhaps with a fleeting thought of history, kicked Sergeant Francis Gajowniczek out of line and ordered Father Kolbe to go with the nine. In the “block of death” they were ordered to strip naked and the slow starvation began in darkness.
But there was no screaming—the prisoners sang. By the eve of the Assumption four were left alive. The jailer came to finish Kolbe off as he sat in a corner praying. He lifted his fleshless arm to receive the bite of the hypodermic needle. It was filled with carbolic acid. They burned his body with all the others. He was beatified in 1971 and canonized in 1982.
Quote:
“Courage, my sons. Don’t you see that we are leaving on a mission? They pay our fare in the bargain. What a piece of good luck! The thing to do now is to pray well in order to win as many souls as possible. Let us, then, tell the Blessed Virgin that we are content, and that she can do with us anything she wishes” (Maximilian Mary Kolbe, when first arrested).
- from http://www.americancatholic.org/Features/SaintOfDay/default.asp?id=1107
St. Maximilian Kolbe- Pray for us!
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Don't Forget to go to Mass on Friday
The Assumption of Mary into Heaven
August 15th is a Holy Day of Obligation.
This is a day on which all Catholics are required to attend Mass.
The Catechism teaches us that:
“Finally; the Immaculate Virgin, preserved free from all stain of original sin, when the course of her earthly life was finished, was taken up body and soul into heavenly glory, and exalted by the Lord as Queen over all things, so that she might be the more fully conformed to her Son, the Lord of lords and conqueror of sin and death.” The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin is a singular participation in her Son's Resurrection and an anticipation of the resurrection of other Christians.” -CCC #966“
You'll find St. Martin's Mass schedule on our parish website at www.stmartinsweb.com.
Come and eat at the Table of the Lord. Learn about Mary's life in Heaven and the place that God has prepared for each of us in our life to come.
Mary, Queen of Heaven, pray for us!
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