Christ Our Light Bazaar
September 2008
CHRIST OUR LIGHT CATHOLIC CHURCH
24th Annual Homecoming Bazaar
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2008 ~ 11:30am until ????
Grimes County Fairgrounds ~ Navasota, TX
Air Conditioning ~ Auction 1:00 P.M. ~ Booths & Games
Chicken Fried Steak or Chicken Breast with Krolczyk Sausage or Mexican Dinners
Saint Vincent de Paul
April 2006
Meditation: The essences of discipleship is that we carry his cross. Disciples go wherever the Master goes. Coming to understand who Jesus is, his mission, and how that relates to us his disciples is not an easy task; it takes a lifetime. Like Jesus, to be faithful followers by taking up our cross means we feel this in the depths of our humanity: we will suffer, we will lose heart, we will cry out to God to take life's miserable lot away from us. But also like Jesus we have divine life which gives us the strength to carry our cross. It is divine life pulsating within us - which we first receive at our baptism - that raises up our humanity enabling us to be faithful disciples carrying our crosses.
Our crosses today may take many forms, for example:
-laboring daily, and persevering in the service of the poor
-sharing the helplessness and pain of the marginalized
-accepting painful events, that we can do nothing about
-bearing sickness, our own and that of others
-coming to grips with aging
-enduring the death of friends and family
The following of the crucified Lord is the supreme act of faith; it is a surrender in hope and love into the incomprehensible mystery of God. Saint Vincent de Paul was deeply devoted to the Providence of God. He recommends to us to accept all things: When something unexpected happens to us in body and mind, good or bad, we are to accept is without fuss as from God's loving hand. If we could live by that ideal of Saint Vincent, we would have great peace in our lives.
Reflection: What crosses am I carrying in being a disciple of Jesus? Do I see my crosses, as Saint Vincent, the Providence of God?
Visitors Guide To Our Church
August 2005
The full title of this church is 'The Church of the Nativity of Mary' as seen on the outside corner stone at the right as one ascends the steps to the entrance. The church was rededicated in 1917 on September 8th, the Feast of the Nativity of Mary. For this reason, the annual church festival was originally celebrated on that day, regardless of the day of the week on which it fell. Eventually, after World War II, the festival/homecoming was moved to the Sunday of the Labor Day weekend, where it remains to this day.
The first Catholic congregation of Plantersville was started at the request of some large landowners who brought laborers over from Poland to help in the fields after the War Between the States. This practice was not unusual. The Polish population of Chappell Hill, near Brenham, Texas originated in the same way. The first services were held in a home and in 1873 a small (20x50 ft) church was built within Plantersville. It is said that the cross on the church was placed by the Minister of the Baptist Church, showing a remarkable ecumenical spirit for the times.
A little something about Stoneham
May 2003
Stoneham is on a dirt road at the junction of the Missouri Pacific and the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe railways, a mile south of State Park Road 234 in southern Grimes County. It was established by farm families in the vicinity of Hurricane Creek who began migrating onto a projected line of the Central and Montgomery Railway in 1879. In that year the railroad acquired a right-of-way from local landowner John H. Stoneham, for whom the town was named.
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