✝ 18th Week in Ordinary Time ✝  



This day is full of beauty and adventure; help me Lord to be fully alive to it all.
During this day, may I become a more thoughtful person,
a more prayerful person, a more generous and kindly person.
Help me not to be turned in on myself but to be sensitive and helpful to others.
Let me do nothing today that will hurt anyone,
but let me help at least a little, to make life more pleasant for those I meet.
AMEN
 
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      ✙ Gracious God, please pour your love upon those who have asked to be remembered in our prayers:
Family of Robert Williams – Father of Gruenert Center staff Lisa Beasley during their time of grief.  May they find God’s consolation and peace.
Kathi Nick – former DPD employee. May She be filled with God’s graces as she enters begins the discernment process for becoming a Sister of the Poor Clares.
Family of Grace Winiasrsk - as they mourn the loss of their mother.
Mary Katas – For health and freedom from recurring sickness
Joan Meeks – Sister of Sister Joan Gercke, for patience, strength and healing
Will Memery – patience and God’s blessing during his recovery
Craig Maiocchi - Uncle of Patricia Potter, for a speedy recovery and return to health
Mary Katas – May she be freed from reoccurring sickness
Vincent Ferrone – Friend of Kim Tackert
Stanley -  Cousin of Staff member Cheryl, For strength and healing
Mike Schmidt -  Uncle of Gruenert staff member Diane, for a return to health
Josiah – For God’s guidance and protection
Lisa Beasley & Family- for comfort during this time of loss.
Rose Mwololo – during this difficult time of grief
Kirsten Yuroshek
Tavia – Great grandmother of Ashley, Director of Barnet House
Lester Esparza -  Father of Hope Eder
Christian Lavorgna – Son of CARE volunteer Ed Lavorgna
Lucy Cox – for strength
Daniel Healy 
Charlie Raab & Jim Daugherty
Jimmy Feehan - Brother of Julie Tatti
Chris Androski - husband of Barnet House volunteer Nina.
James Ondimu Ochoki – Father of Geoffrey Ondimu, Director of Basile Apartments
Anthony – for strength

For peace, justice and hope in our world.
May God bless our staff, residents, friends, volunteers and benefactors. 
May he turn his face toward you and give you peace.
  For the deceased and for their loved ones:

Robert Williams – Father of Gruenert Center staff Lisa Beasley
Mr. Hajjar  - friend of the Murray Family
Mother of Grace Winiasrsk – Gruenert Center Staff
Elizabeth “Erla” Galvan – Sister-in-law of Ana Galvan 
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✙ August 7 -  St. Cajetan 1480- 1547
St. Cajetan was born in Vicenza in Italy, and his father was a rich Count. He studied Law at the University of Padua and became a Lawyer and worked in the offices of the Pope in Rome. Cajetan later decided he wanted to be a priest. All his rich relatives were angry with him for becoming a priest. This did not stop St, Cajetan from joining a group of humble, simple men who devoted themselves to helping the sick and the poor.  He helped to care for people with horrible diseases that many others refused. Together with three other holy men, St. Cajetan started an order of religious priests called "Theatines." St. Cajetan died at the age of sixty-seven. Although he was very sick before he died, he lay on hard wooden boards, even though the doctor advised him to sleep on a mattress. "My Savior died on a cross," he said. "Let me at least die on wood."

✙ August 9 - Saint Edith Stein – Patron Saint of Europe.  Died in Auschwitz concentration camp

 Edith Stein, born in 1891 in Breslau, Poland, was the youngest child of a large Jewish family.  Eventually she became interested in the Catholic Faith, and in 1922, she was baptized at the Cathedral Church in Cologne, Germany. Eleven years later Edith entered the convent. Because of the ramifications of politics in Germany, Edith, whose name in religion was Sister Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, was sent to the Carmel at Echt, Holland. When the Nazis conquered Holland, Teresa was arrested, and, with her sister Rose, was sent to the concentration camp at Auschwitz. Teresa died in the gas chambers of Auschwitz in 1942 at the age of fifty-one.  Out of the unspeakable human suffering caused by the Nazis in Western Europe in the 1930's and 1940's, there blossomed the beautiful life of dedication, consecration, prayer, fasting, and penance of Saint Teresa. Even though her life was snuffed out by the satanic evil of genocide, her memory stands as a light undimmed in the midst of evil, darkness, and suffering. She was canonized on October 11, 1998.

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