LENTEN SCHOOL CONFESSIONS AND HOMEBOUND COMMUNION CALLS START TODAY..........

Today is my youngest brother Thomas' 49th Birthday and it is also the 33rd anniversary of the election for the Los Rios Community College District Board of Trustees, in which I was a candidate. Here at Sacred Heart today begins six days of parish School Confessions for Msgr.Walton and I, as we celebrate the Sacrament of Reconciliation with each class, one class per day. I then will start Holy Communion and Anointing of the Sick calls to the home bound in the parish, as a Lenten visitation to them over the next two weeks. Additionally, the next three Wednesdays I will be presiding at Mass at each of the three Convalescent Care centers served by Sacred Heart, Saylor Lane, McKinley Manor, and Sherwood.....On the liturgical calendar besides being Monday of the 3rd week of Lent, it is also the Memorial of St. John of God, a sixteenth century shepherd, soldier, and entrepeneur, who was converted to the Catholic-Christian Faith atage 42, and founded the Order of the Hospitallers, numbering 1,300 religious members today. I became acquainted with the St. John of God religious order in Kilkenny, Ireland as their convent was across the road from St. Kieran's College where a number of Sisters served through the years, including Sister "Mother" Gregory, as three generations of lay lads and seminarians, called her; and also at that time they operated a hospital for long term patients, where for the last four years of her life, Mrs. Kavanagh resided and was cared for until her passing in June 1987. St. John of God is the patron saint of hospitals, the sick, nurses, and booksellers..........With Prayers and Blessings For The Health Of Your Body And Soul, Fr. Troy