Remember that you are dust, and to dust, you shall return.
Remember that you are dust, and to dust, you shall return.
During Lent, let us spend the gift of time this Lenten season seeking the wisdom of heart taught by self-sacrifice, so that, dead to sin, we may rise to new life in Christ, in whom death has died.
O Lord, you have been our refuge from one generation to the next. Before the mountains were born or the earth or the world brought forth, you are God, without beginning or end.
You turn men back to dust and say: “Go back, sons of men.” To your eyes a thousand years are like yesterday, come and gone, no more than a watch in the night.
You sweep men away like a dream, like grass which springs up in the morning. In the morning it springs up and flowers: by evening it withers and fades.
So we are destroyed in your anger, struck with terror in your fury. Our guilt lies open before you; our secrets in the light of your face.
All our days pass away in your anger. Our life is over like a sigh. Our span is seventy years or eighty for those who are strong.
And most of these are emptiness and pain. They pass swiftly and we are gone. Who understands the power of your anger and fears the strength of your fury?
Make us know the shortness of our life that we may gain wisdom of heart. Lord, relent! Is your anger forever? Show pity to your servants.
Mobile Food Pantry, Saturday Feb 26th
Catholic Charities of Dallas
Saturday, February 26, 2022
1:00 pm to 2:30 pm
St Francis of Assisi Catholic Church, Frisco TX
Families receiving government benefits such as SNAP, TANF, SSI, NSLP, Medicare and Medicaid. NO PROOF IS REQUIRED.
Families who fall under the Federal Poverty Guidelines become eligible to receive food services. NO PROOF IS REQUIRED.
Families facing a temporary crisis due to natural disasters and homelessness automatically become eligible to receive services.
To receive food please, provide one form of ID. Once you become a CCD Client, you are eligible to receive food assistance once per month, any given day of the month.
For other Mobile Food Pantry locations and additional services, please see the Catholic Charities of Dallas link below:
Mobile Food Pantry, Saturday Feb 12th
Catholic Charities of Dallas
Saturday, February 12th
12:30 PM
St Francis of Assisi Catholic Church, Frisco TX
Families receiving government benefits such as SNAP, TANF, SSI, NSLP, Medicare and Medicaid. NO PROOF IS REQUIRED.
Families who fall under the Federal Poverty Guidelines become eligible to receive food services. NO PROOF IS REQUIRED.
Families facing a temporary crisis due to natural disasters and homeless- ness automatically become eligible to receive services.
To receive food please, provide one form of ID. Once you become a CCD Client, you are eligible to receive food assistance once per month, any given day of the month.
For other Mobile Food Pantry locations and additional services, please see the Catholic Charities of Dallas link below:
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.