Affordable Connectivity Program
The Affordable Connectivity Program is a temporary FCC program to help households pay for internet service during the pandemic. If you’re eligible, this new benefit will provide a monthly credit up to $30 per month, or up to $75 in Tribal lands, toward your broadband service bill.
If you are a Spectrum Customer, you can apply for the program using this link:
https://www.spectrum.net/support/forms/affordable_connectivity_program
There are more detailed instructions on the web page above, and general guidelines are listed below:
A member of your household must meet one of the following criteria to qualify:
Qualifies for the Lifeline program;
Receives benefits under the free and reduced-price school lunch program, or the school breakfast program, including through the USDA Community Eligibility Provision, or did so in the 2019-2020 or 2020-2021 school year;
Received a Federal Pell Grant during the current award year;
Meets the eligibility criteria for a participating providers' existing low-income or COVID-19 program.
Merry Christmas From St Vincent de Paul
In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus
that the whole world should be enrolled.
This was the first enrollment,
when Quirinius was governor of Syria.
So all went to be enrolled, each to his own town.
And Joseph too went up from Galilee from the town of Nazareth
to Judea, to the city of David that is called Bethlehem,
because he was of the house and family of David,
to be enrolled with Mary, his betrothed, who was with child.
While they were there,
the time came for her to have her child,
and she gave birth to her firstborn son.
She wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him in a manger,
because there was no room for them in the inn.
Now there were shepherds in that region living in the fields
and keeping the night watch over their flock.
The angel of the Lord appeared to them
and the glory of the Lord shone around them,
and they were struck with great fear.
The angel said to them,
“Do not be afraid;
for behold, I proclaim to you good news of great joy
that will be for all the people.
For today in the city of David
a savior has been born for you who is Christ and Lord.
And this will be a sign for you:
you will find an infant wrapped in swaddling clothes
and lying in a manger.”
And suddenly there was a multitude of the heavenly host with the angel,
praising God and saying:
“Glory to God in the highest
and on earth peace to those on whom his favor rests.”
Year End Donations
Are you looking to make a charitable donation to be part of the 2021 Tax Year? It’s not too late! Make your donation before midnight, Dec 31, 2021 and your email receipt can be used to validate your charitable donation as part of the 2021 tax year.
St Vincent de Paul is a registered 501 (c)(3) charitable organization. (Tax ID / EIN: 75-1630370)
Please consult your tax advisor for details on how any charitable deductions would impact your specific tax situation
Happy Thanksgiving
Now, therefore, I, Rutherford B. Hayes, President of the United States, do appoint Thursday as a day of national thanksgiving and prayer; and I earnestly recommend that, withdrawing themselves from secular cares and labors, the people of the United States do meet together on that day in their respective places of worship, there to give thanks and praise to Almighty God for his mercies and to devoutly beseech their continuance.
A Day of Thanksgiving
“The completed circle of summer and winter, seedtime and harvest, has brought us to the accustomed season at which a religious people celebrates with praise and thanksgiving the enduring mercy of Almighty God. This devout and public confession of the constant dependence of man upon the divine favor for all the good gifts of life and health and peace and happiness, so early in our history made the habit of our people, finds in the survey of the past year new grounds for its joyful and grateful manifestation.
In all the blessings which depend upon benignant seasons, this has indeed been a memorable year. Over the wide territory of our country, with all its diversity of soil and climate and products, the earth has yielded a bountiful return to the labor of the husbandman. The health of the people has been blighted by no prevalent or widespread diseases. No great disasters of shipwreck upon our coasts or to our commerce on the seas have brought loss and hardship to merchants or mariners and clouded the happiness of the community with sympathetic sorrow. In all that concerns our strength and peace and greatness as a nation; in all that touches the permanence and security of our government and the beneficent institutions on which it rests; in all that affects the character and dispositions of our people and tests our capacity to enjoy and uphold the equal and free condition of society, now permanent and universal throughout the land, the experience of the last year is conspicuously marked by the protecting providence of God and is full of promise and hope for the coming generations.
Under a sense of these infinite obligations to the Great Ruler of times and seasons and events, let us humbly ascribe it to our own faults and frailties if in any degree that perfect concord and happiness, peace and justice, which such great mercies should diffuse through the hearts and lives of our people do not altogether and always and everywhere prevail. Let us with one spirit and with one voice lift up praise and thanksgiving to God for his manifold goodness to our land, his manifest care for our nation.
Now, therefore, I, Rutherford B. Hayes, President of the United States, do appoint Thursday as a day of national thanksgiving and prayer; and I earnestly recommend that, withdrawing themselves from secular cares and labors, the people of the United States do meet together on that day in their respective places of worship, there to give thanks and praise to Almighty God for his mercies and to devoutly beseech their continuance.”
Rutherford B. Hayes († 1893) was the 19th President of the United States of America. This text is the Thanksgiving Proclamation of 1877. / From Presidential Thanksgiving Proclamations, 1870-1879, Pilgrim Hall Museum, 1877. https://pilgrimhall.org/pdf/TG_Presidential_Thanksgiving_Proclamations_1870_1879.pdf.
All Saints and All Souls Day - Remembering those who have gone before us
Remembering those who have gone before us
November 1
All Saints Day
All Saints’ Day is a Holy Day of Obligation, and is celebrated the communion of saints.
Remember we are all called to be saints, and those saints who have gone before us remind us how to live.
November 2
All Souls’ Day
All Souls’ Day is an opportunity for Catholics to pray for those souls in purgatory, that will benefit from our prayers that they may be hurried along the path to heaven.
We remember our own mortality and ask for God’s mercy on all souls undergoing purification.
Yearning for Sanctity
The saints are not a small caste of chosen souls but an innumerable crowd to which the liturgy urges us to raise our eyes. This multitude not only includes the officially recognized saints, but the baptized of every epoch and nation who sought to carry out the divine will faithfully and lovingly. We are unacquainted with the faces and even the names of many of them, but with the eyes of faith we see them shine in God’s firmament like glorious stars.
But “why should our praise and glorification, or even the celebration of this solemnity, mean anything to the saints?” A famous homily of Saint Bernard begins with this question, and the response he offers us is timely:
“The saints, have no need of honor from us; neither does our devotion add the slightest thing to what is theirs. But I tell you, when I think of them, I feel myself inflamed by a tremendous yearning.”
This, then, is the meaning of today’s solemnity: looking at the shining example of the saints to reawaken within us the great longing to be like them; happy to live near God, in his light, in the great family of God’s friends. Being a saint means living close to God, to live in his family. And this is the vocation of us all. But how can we become holy, friends of God? We can first give a negative answer to this question: to be a saint requires neither extraordinary actions or works nor the possession of exceptional charisms. Then comes the positive reply: it is necessary first of all to listen to Jesus and then to follow him without losing heart when faced by difficulties.
Like the grain of wheat buried in the earth, those who trust him and love him sincerely accept dying to themselves. Indeed, he knows that whoever seeks to keep his life for himself loses it, and whoever gives himself, loses himself, and in this very way finds life. The saints’ biographies describe men and women who, docile to the divine plan, sometimes faced unspeakable trials and suffering, persecution and martyrdom. They persevered in their commitment. Their names are written in the book of life and heaven is their eternal dwelling place. The example of the saints encourages us to follow in their same footsteps and to experience the joy of those who trust in God. In the Preface of the Mass we will proclaim that the saints are friends and models of life for us. Let us invoke them so that they may help us to imitate them and strive to respond generously, as they did, to the divine call. In particular let us invoke Mary, Mother of the Lord and mirror of all holiness. May she, the All Holy, make us faithful disciples of her Son Jesus Christ! Amen.
- Pope Benedict XVI
reflection source: https://us.magnificat.net/home/discover
Last Chance to Purchase Tickets
Saturday, October 30th
$2,500 in total prizes
Grand Prize - $750
6:00 pm - Dinner, Auction and Wine Pull
7:00 pm - First Game
$360 Reserved Table Package ($480 Value)
Table for 8
1 raffle tickets / person
1 meal tickets / person
$400 Premium Table Package ($536 value)
Reserve Table Package - PLUS
1 Extra Blackout Game per person
1 Ink Dauber (required) per person
$40 Game Package Includes
Ten Games with 6 Bingo cards per game
Special Prizes per Game
One Black-Out Game for $750 Grand Prize
($45 day of event)
$10 Meal Package
Pork Schnitzel with hunter sauce, Red Cabbage, Hot German Potato Salad, Pickled Cucumber Salad
Vegetarian option on request
All prizes are pre-paid Visa gift cards
More Information and complete rules: https://www.svdpfrisco.org/bingo
SVDP Donation Collection THIS WEEKEND
Bundle Weekend
Saturday, October 23
Sunday, October 24
Donate those unwanted items in your closet. Dislodge the hodgepodge in your garage!
Bundle Weekend is your opportunity to help those in need by providing your gently used items to St. Vincent de Paul’s Thrift Store! The truck will be here to pick up your bundles on Saturday, Oct. 23 and Sunday, Oct. 24 from 8:00 am - 2:00 pm. The truck will be in its usual spot in the west parking lot of St Francis of Assisi Catholic Church - Frisco.
For a complete list of acceptable items, please visit https://www.svdpfrisco.org/bundle-weekend Your donations allow our stores and the mobile thrift truck to offer quality items at bargain prices. Plus, a portion of the proceeds are given to our own SVdP conference here at St. Francis!
Tax receipts for your donations are available at the truck.