Adult Faith Formation, October 10th -- Canterbury Tales, Session 4 -- The Wife of Bath's and the Clerk's Tales

 We focus mostly on the Tale of the Wife of Bath.

Sunday Sermon, October 8th -- Pope Leo XIII and the Rosary

 Pope Leo XIII published twelve encyclicals and five apostolic exhortations related to the Holy Rosary!  We consider the importance of the Rosary, especially in the Month of October, and give some ideas of how to pray the Rosary.

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Adult Faith Formation, October 3rd -- Canterbury Tales, Session 3 -- Tales of True Love and Romance: The Knight's Tale, The Miller's Tale, the Reeve's Tale

In this session, we discuss the way that Chaucer develops the idea of the novel, with the various characters (and their stories) interacting with (and against) each other in an over-arching plot line.

Class Schedule

Sept 12 -- Introduction

Sept 19 -- The General Prologue

Oct 3 -- The Knight's Tale, The Miller's Tale, The Reeve's Tale

Oct 10 -- The Wife of Bath's Tale, the Clerk's Tale

Oct 17 -- The Merchant's Tale, the Franklin's Tale

Oct 24 -- Review and looking ahead to the second half

Sunday Sermon, October 1st -- A Converted Life Wins Converts

 The parable of the two sons (Matthew 21) comes in the last public sermon our Lord gave -- on Tuesday of Holy Week, when Jesus had cleansed the Temple the day before and then spent this whole day preaching in the Temple area.

There are many memorable parables and lessons from this portion of public preaching - and this parable is an invitation to repentance.

We also see that the conversion of others should lead us to a deeper conversion, even as our own personal conversion is the best witness to bring others to the Church.

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Parish Schedule Changes, October 5th, 18th, 19th, 20th, 21st

 No 7am Mass on Thursday, October 5th -- Mass moved to 5:30pm followed by 6:30pm parish dinner to celebrate Jess entering Carmel!

No 7am Mass on Wednesday, October 18th -- Mass moved to 5:30pm (solemn Mass with incense) followed by 6:45pm parish dinner for our patronal feast of St Luke!

No 5:30pm confessions on Thursday, October 19th; no Mass or confessions on Friday, October 20th; no 9am Mass on Saturday, October 21st  ---  diocesan meetings in Billings.