VOL Parish Weekly Bulletin July 16, 2017 | Page 4

July 16, 2017 Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Hurricane Prayer Our Father in Heaven, through the powerful intercession of Our Lady of Prompt Succor and Saint Jude, spare us from all harm during this hurricane season, and protect us and our homes from all disasters of nature. Our Lady of Prompt Succor and Saint Jude hasten to help us. We ask this through Christ Our Lord. Amen. Pray for our Military VOL will place in the last bulletin of the month the names of our active duty soldiers so that we can pray for them. By name! Daily! Please contact our Parish Secretary, Kelli Bourgeois at 347-2203 or email [email protected], with the names of your active duty loved ones. Let us show our love for them with our prayers. 4 Welcome to Not a member? Want to become one? Call Mr. Danny @ 957-5848. New members always welcome!! Youth in grades 5 – 7 are invited to attend meetings the second Saturday of each month in the youth room. Meetings start at 6:30 p.m. and end at 8 p.m. Teens in grades 8 – 12 are invited to attend CYO meetings the 4th Saturday of every month in the youth room. Meetings start at 6:30 p.m. and end at 8 p.m. MONTH 6 – Developing Baby Spiritual Adoption Program Your spiritually adopted baby is developing quite beautifully now. His/her weight is approaching 2 pounds. Babies born prematurely at this time have a very good chance of surviving. The medical advances in caring for extremely small newborn infants are extraordinary indeed. Each passing year, we witness medical advances that allow medical professionals to save younger and younger premature infants. Please Pray Jesus, Mary and Joseph, I love you very much. I beg you to spare the life of the unborn baby that I have spiritually adopted who is in danger of abortion. Prayer of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen @volparish /visitationofourlady /volparish @volparish During the nine month Spiritual Adoption campaign, the development of the pre-born child will be displayed in the vestibule of the church. Please remember to pray daily for your Spiritual Adopted Baby and the baby’s mother and father. By: Damian Zablocki (VOL Summer Intern) Every year I make a pilgrimage to Newark, New Jersey. That may sound like a strange place to make a pilgrimage, but in that place I found a beautiful devotion at the Feast to Our Lady of Mount Carmel, still celebrated today. During the big immigrations to the United States of Italians during the late 1800’s through 1950, they would sail from the Bay of Naples. Not far from the Bay lies the Church of Carmine Maggiore, the Church dedicated to Our Lady of Mount Carmel. The Italians, before boarding to set sail for the United States, would pray in this church and ask for the intercession of the Blessed Mother for their trip and their new lives. When they arrived in the States, in an act of thanksgiving they would form their new parishes and name a great number of them after Our Lady of Mount Carmel. For this reason we sometimes have in New Jersey and New York numerous parishes that bear this title within miles of one another. I have always enjoyed this feast day, with its processions through the streets of the neighborhood, marching band leading, church bells ringing and the faithful braving the summer heat to honor the Most Blessed Mother of God under Her title Our Lady of Mount Carmel. On this pilgrimage be assured of my prayers and hope for all blessings for the entire Parish of Visitation of Our Lady! ~Our Lady of Mount Carmel, pray for us! Santa Maria del Monte Carmelo prega per noi!