Prayer to Our Holy Guardian Angels

Heavenly Father, Your infinite love for us has chosen a blessed angel in heaven and appointed him our guide during this earthly pilgrimage. Accept our thanks for so great a blessing. Grant that we may experience the assistance of our holy protector in all our necessities. And you, holy, loving angel and guide, watch over us with all the tenderness of your angelic heart. Keep us always on the way that leads to heaven, and cease not to pray for us until we have attained our final destiny, eternal salvation. Then we shall love you for all eternity. We shall praise and glorify you unceasingly for all the good you have done for us while here on earth. Especially be a faithful and watchful protector of our children. Take our place, and supply what may be wanting to us through human frailty, short-sightedness, or sinful neglect. Lighten, O you perfect servants of God, our heavy task. Guide our children that they may become like unto Jesus, may imitate Him faithfully, and persevere till they attain eternal life. Amen.

From the Pastor    

      Happy Easter! He has Risen!  Alleluia!

Thank you to all the Teens who came to the retreats this past week and a big Thanks to all the parents and grandparents who did some encouraging.  We had 67 teens who attended on both days and I hope they enjoyed the experience.  Our young people are our greatest assets and we need to continue to nurture and help them grow.  We are very grateful for the NET team and for all these young Catholic men and women who give so generously of their lives to service of the Church as missionaries and evangelists.  I would like to thank also our host families who gave our traveling NET team a place to lay their head and eat a meal or two.  Special thanks to, Mary and Manny Casillas, Petra Villegas, Kathryn and Ralph Reves, Art and LaDonna Sandoval and their families. 

     This has been an exciting week for our Church with the visit of our Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI to the United States.  I watched with so much anticipation the Papal Masses and activities.  We have been truly blessed.  Our own Bishop Kicanas played a very prominent role in his visit as the Vice-President of the National Council of Catholic Bishops (NCCB).  Bishop Kicanas was right there the entire trip with our Holy Father and next weekend on April 27th he will be here in Globe at Holy Angels with all of us.  He will be conferring the Sacrament of Confirmation on 18 youth of our parish and of OLBS in Miami in the morning.  Our Mass will be at 2:00 pm also on that day he will be celebrating his own 40th Anniversary of Ordination to the Priesthood.  You are welcome to attend the Confirmation Mass if you would like or come by and visit afterward in the courtyard and congratulate our Shepherd of our Diocese.

     This week all the priests of the Diocese will gather with Bishop Kicanas for our 2008 Annual Priest Convocation from Wednesday to Friday in Phoenix.  We will discussing issues in the Priesthood and business of the Diocese.  Please keep us in your prayers this week as we all gather.  Make sure you look at the Mass schedule for this week for the changes in daily Mass times.  This weekend we will have our open house of our parish offices you are welcome to come downstairs after Mass and look around.  We are still not completely finished, but you are welcome to come and take a look.  Thank you to everyone who helped to get things moved and in place. 

                            Yours in Christ,  Fr. Rudy Rosales