Online Family Faith Formation
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Welcome to
Online Family Faith Formation
at Holy Trinity
One of our primary goals at Holy Trinity is to help families strengthen their relationship with Christ, and grow in their knowledge of the Catholic Faith, together.
Working closely with our pastor, Father Joe, our Religious Education team will ensure that every family has access to solid, engaging online resources.
This page will be updated each week with videos, and other resources for those families who would like to continue participating in family catechesis.
I hope you find this resource helpful and that it enables your family to become true disciples of Jesus Christ, as we continue our mission of passing on the treasure of our Catholic faith to our children.
Sincerely,
Ms. Nancy Rullo, Director of Religious Education
Phone No. 718-767-0095
E-Mail: holytrinityfaithformation@verizon.net -
AUGUST - Dedicated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary
The month of Augustis dedicated to the Immaculate Heart. Since the 16th century Catholic piety has assigned entire months to special devotions. The month of August is traditionally dedicated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. The physical heart of Mary is venerated (and not adored as the Sacred Heart of Jesus is) because it is united to her person and is the seat of her love (especially for her divine Son), virtue, and inner life. Such devotion is an incentive to a similar love and virtue.This devotion has received new emphasis in this century from the visions given to Lucy Dos Santos, oldest of the visionaries of Fatima, in her convent in Tuy, in Spain, in 1925 and 1926. In the visions Our Lady asked for the practice of the Five First Saturdays to help make amends for the offenses committed against her heart by the blasphemies and ingratitude of men. The practice parallels the devotion of the Nine First Fridays in honor of the Sacred Heart.
On October 31, 1942, Pope Pius XII made a solemn Act of Consecration of the Church and the whole world to the Immaculate Heart. Let us remember this devotion year-round, but particularly through the month of August.
Excerpted from The Prayer Book by Reverend John P. O'Connell, M.A., S.T.D. and Jex Martin, M.A.
August Saint Feast Days To Celebrate
August 1- St. Alphonsus Liguori’s Feast Day- Italian
- lawyer and bishop
- Doctor of the Church
August 3- St. Lydia’s Feast Day- biblical
- bringer of purple cloth
August 4- St. John Vianney’s Feast Day- priest
- patron of parish priests
August 6- Feast Of The Transfiguration Of The Lord- story from the Bible
- Jesus is seen in all of his glory by Peter, James, and John
August 8- St. Dominic’s Feast Day- patron of astronomers
August 10- St. Lawrence’s Feast Day- deacon
- martyr
- patron of seminarians
August 12- St. Jane Frances de Chantal’s Feast Day- widow with 4 children
- worked with St. Francis de Sales
August 13- St. John Berchman’s Feast Day- patron of altar servers
August 14- St. Maximilian Kolbe’s Feast Day- priest
- martyr
- prisoner in Auschwitz concentration camp
August 15- The Assumption Of The Blessed Virgin Mary
August 15- St. Tarcisius’s Feast Day- patron of first communicants
- died defending the Eucharist at age 12
August 18- St. Helena’s Feast Day- credited with finding the true cross
August 19- St. John Eudes’ Feast Day- priest
- recognized as the author of the liturgical devotion to the Sacred and Immaculate hearts
August 20- St. Bernard’s Feast Day- French monk
- composed the prayer “The Memorare”
- very devoted to the image of Jesus Crucified
- patron of candle makers
August 21- The Feast Of Our Lady Of Knock- Ireland
- Mary, Joseph, John The Evangelist, and a lamb appeared in bright white, witnessed by 15 people
August 21- Saint Pius X- pope
- called “The Pope Of The Blessed Sacrament”
August 22- The Queenship Of The Blessed Virgin Mary- Mary, queen of all the Saints
August 23- St. Rose Of Lima’s Feast Day, and St. Zacchaeus’s Feast Day- from Peru, South America
- patroness of South America and against vanity
- known for rubbing pepper on her face to ruin her complexion since she was so beautiful and didn’t wish to be married
- first Saint of the Americas
August 24- St. Bartholomew’s Feast Day- apostle
August 26- Our Lady Of Czestochowa- Poland
August 27- St. Monica’s Feast Day- known for converting her husband and her son through prayer and fasting
- influenced by St. Ambrose
- patron Saint of mothers, women in troubled marriages, and alcoholics
- mother of St. Augustine
August 28- St. Augustine’s Feast Day- son of St. Monica
- patron of theologians