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Mass Schedule
Summer Season

Sunday: 7:00am; 8:30am; 10:00am; 11:30am
Sconset Chapel: 8:45 am
Saturday:5:00 pm

Spanish: Sunday - 7:00 pm


Announcements


Children's Liturgy

  Labor Day

Children's Liturgy will resume after Labor Day. Adult volunteers are needed. See the bulletin.

Holy Hour

First Tues.  each month

English & Spanish. 7 to 8PM. November 6th - December 4th - January 1st For more information call the office.

Spanish Prayer Group

7-9pm  Mondays

"Vida Nueva" prayer group, all are welcome. Fr. Griffin Hall, 15 Cherry Street.

Reconcilliation

4:00 pm  Saturdays

The Sacrament of Reconciliation is available every Saturday at 4 PM.

Savor Nantucket

Our new Parish Cookbook is at the printer!
Click here to sign up to receive an email when online ordering is available!

Special Masses This Week
Fall/Winter Schedule starts

Sept 6-7


News and Events
RELIGIOUS EDUCATION

Registration: Grade 1 and new students, please call Elaine at 508.257.9868.

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Saint This Week
St. Augustine (354- 458)

August 28/Doctor

A Christian at 33, a priest at 36, a bishop at 41: many people are familiar with the biographical sketch of Augustine of Hippo, sinner turned saint. But really to get to know the man is a rewarding experience. There quickly surfaces the intensity with which he lived his life, whether his path led away from or toward God. The tears of his mother, the instructions of Ambrose and, most of all, God himself speaking to him in the Scriptures redirected Augustine’s love of life to a life of love. Having been so deeply immersed in creature-pride of life in his early days and having drunk deeply of its bitter dregs, it is not surprising that Augustine should have turned, with a holy fierceness, against the many demon-thrusts rampant in his day. His times were truly decadent—politically, socially, morally. He was both feared and loved, like the Master. The perennial criticism leveled against him: a fundamental rigorism. In his day, he providentially fulfilled the office of prophet. Like Jeremiah and other greats, he was hard-pressed but could not keep quiet. “I say to myself, I will not mention him,/I will speak in his name no more./But then it becomes like fire burning in my heart,/imprisoned in my bones;/I grow weary holding it in,/I cannot endure it” (Jeremiah 20:9). Comment: Augustine is still acclaimed and condemned in our day. He is a prophet for today, trumpeting the need to scrap escapisms and stand face-to-face with personal responsibility and dignity.

 


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