FAITH FORMATION NEWS

Faith Formation Office – 210-342-3826 gloria.asilva@stgregorys.net
Sunday Classes from 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Summer Office Hours - Monday - Friday, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. 

Registration for faith formation classes will be held Sunday, August 23rd and August 30th in the
Parish Hall, 11am – 1pm. All Archdiocese Covid-19 Health and Safety policies will be taken during
registration. All 2019-2020 families will receive registration forms with necessary information in the mail next week. Forms should be completed, both sides, at home and dropped off with payment on these days.
 
If you are new to our faith formation program please call our office and registration forms will be mailed to you. Classes are scheduled to begin Sunday, September 13th, two options will be offered to our families. Our letter will include the details or you may call us for further information.
 
Confirmation and First Communion photos are in, please call the office to schedule a time for pick up Monday through Friday from 9am to 5pm.
     
                                              “Stay with us”   “Quédate con nosotros”

  YOUTH MINISTRY

All meetings have been cancelled.

Due to this uncertain time, our Youth Group has no events or gatherings planned for this summer. 
We ask all our youth to remain in prayer. Below is a story and prayer to St. Aloysius Gozaga, Feast day, June 21 and saint for youth. 
 
St. Aloysius Gonzaga was born in 1568 to a noble Italian family, the eldest of seven children, and was
destined for the military. However, by the time he was 9 years of age he chose the religious life and made a personal vow of chastity. As a safeguard against sexual temptation he always kept his eyes downcast in the presence of women. Although many tried to dissuade him from his chosen vocation, he was eventually allowed to renounce his inheritance and enter the seminary in order to become a Jesuit priest. While he was studying in Rome, there was an outbreak of the plague. Aloysius volunteered to care for the sick, despite the delicateness of his own health. As a result, he contracted the disease and died at the age of 23, before completing his priestly studies. St. Aloysius was connected with two great figures of the Counter-Reformation: he received his First Holy Communion at the age of 12 from St. Charles Borromeo, and his Last Rites from St. Robert Bellarmine, both of whom served as his spiritual advisers. On the night of his death June 21, 1591, St. Mary Magdalene de Pazzi had a vision of him being received into great glory. St. Aloysius Gonzaga is the patron saint of youth and bodily purity.
 
O Saint Aloysius, adorned with angelical manners, although I am thy unworthy servant,
I recommend to thee in an especial manner the chastity of my soul and body; I conjure thee,
by thy angelical purity, to commend me to Jesus Christ, the spotless Lamb, and to His most holy Mother, the Virgin of virgins. Amen.                                         

PULL FOR HEARTS ~ Our can pull tabs collection continues.  Can pull tabs benefit the Ronald McDonald House.  Please drop them off at the Youth Ministry Office. 

Cell Phone fundraiser continues. We ask you to bring in your old cell phones to the Religious Education office.           
                                                    Thank you for all your support!

 "Seekers of Truth"