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All Diocese of Burlington priests will gather with the Bishop Tuesday through Thursday, September 6 - 8, for the annual Presbyteral Days. There will be no daily Masses at the Cathedral until Friday, September 9 when the 12:05 PM Mass resumes in the Chapel.

Thank you to Robin Hall and Dot Commo, for all of their work on the flower beds adjacent to the church stairs. We have all enjoyed the beautiful display of flowers this past spring and throughout the summer. Thank you for making our Cathedral grounds beautiful! We appreciate it!

Msgr. Routhier will celebrate Mass outside at the New Mount Calvary Cemetery on Labor Day, Sept. 5, at 9:00 AM. Rain location is the Cathedral Chapel. There are no 11:30 AM Confessions or 12:05 PM Mass. The Parish Office and Joseph's House are closed for the day.

Monsignor will give a talk Wednesday, August 24, at St. Anne's Shrine, Isle La Motte as part of the Summer Reflection Series. The presentation will follow the 11:15 AM Mass at the Shrine. The parish daily 12:05 PM Mass at the Cathedral chapel is cancelled that day. Six priests will share their reflections each Wednesday at the Shrine, July 27 through August 31: August 24: Rev. Monsignor Peter Routhier Topic: The Role of Saints in the Life of the Church; August 31: Rev. Richard Myhalyk, S.S.E. Topic: How We See God: Our Spiritual Lens on Life. Call or email questions at (802) 928-3362 or [email protected].

I am sharing a final-week's promotion of the 40 Hours Adoration at St. Anthony's. Prayers to the Holy Archangels for a Culture of Life in Vermont St. Michael the Archangel, loyal champion of God and His people, I turn to you with confidence and seek your powerful intercession. For the love of God, Who made you so glorious in grace and power, and for the love of the Mother of Jesus, the Queen of the Angels, be pleased to hear my prayer. You know the value on my soul in the eyes of God. May no stain of evil ever disfigure its beauty. Help me to conquer the evil spirit who tempts me. I desire to imitate your loyalty to God and Holy Mother Church and your great love for God and people. And since you are God’s messenger for the care of his people, I entrust to you this special request: Give us Wisdom in our work for a Culture of Life. St. Michael, since you are, by the Will of the Creator, the powerful intercessor of Christians, I have great confidence in your prayers. I earnestly trust that if it is God’s holy Will, my petition will be granted. Pray for me, St. Michael, and also for those I love. Protect us in all dangers of body and soul. Help us in our daily needs. Through your powerful intercession, may we live a holy life, die a happy death, and reach heaven where we may praise and love God with you forever. Amen. St. Gabriel the Archangel, I venerate you as the “Angel of the Incarnation,” because God has specially appointed you to bear the messages concerning the God-Man to Daniel, Zechariah, and the Blessed Virgin Mary. Give me tenderness and devotion for our Mother, more like your own. I venerate you also as the “strength from God,” because you are the giver of God’s strength, consoler and comforter chosen to strengthen God’s faithful and to teach them important truths. I ask for the grace of a special power of the will to strive for holiness of life. Steady my resolutions, renew my courage, comfort and console me in the problems, trials, and sufferings of daily living, as you consoled our Savior in His agony and Mary in her sorrows and Joseph in his trials. I put my confidence in you. St. Gabriel, I ask you especially for this favor: Give us Strength in our work for a Culture of Life. Through your earnest love for the Son of God-Made-Man and for His blessed Mother, I beg of you, intercede for me that my request may be granted, if it be God’s holy Will. Pray for us, St. Gabriel the Archangel. That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ. Let us Pray. Almighty and ever-living God, since You chose the Archangel Gabriel from among all the Angels to announce the mystery of Your Son’s Incarnation, mercifully grant that we who honor him on earth may feel the benefit of his patronage in heaven. You live and reign for ever. Amen. Holy Archangel Raphael, standing so close to the throne of God and offering Him our prayers, I venerate you as God’s special Friend and Messenger. I choose you as my Patron and wish to love and obey you as young Tobiah did. I consecrate to you my body and soul, all my work, and my whole life. I want you to be my Guide and Counselor in all the dangerous and difficult problems and decisions of my life. Remember, dearest, St. Raphael, that the grace of God preserved you with the good Angels in heaven when the proud ones were cast into hell. I entreat you, therefore, to help me in my struggle against the world, the spirit of impurity, and the devil. Defend me from all dangers and every occasion of sin. Direct me always in the way of peace, safety, and salvation. Offer my prayers to God as you offered those of Tobiah, so that through your intercession I may obtain the graces necessary for the salvation of my soul. I ask you to pray that God grant me this favor if it be His holy Will: Give us holiness to live out a Culture of Life. St. Raphael, help me to love and serve my God faithfully, to die in His grace, and finally to merit to join you in seeing and praising God forever in heaven. Amen. Fr. Tim Naples

You are invited to attend a webinar hosted by the USCCB Committee on Pro-Life Activities. It is intended to help our parish observe Respect Life Month in October. This webinar will show the materials that are available to use in our parish. The USCCB has beautiful pro-life materials on the website. To register for the webinar on August 17 at 2:00 PM (Eastern) click the title above

This beautiful Marian feast is not a Holy Day of Obligation this year because it falls on Monday. The Cathedral will celebrate this feast day at the 12:05 PM Mass in the Chapel. This sublime dogma was defined in November, 1950 by Pope Pius XII, in the Apostolic Constitution Munificentissimus Deus, “Most Bountiful God.” The pope proclaimed the Assumption of Mary in these words: "The Immaculate Mother of God, the ever-virgin Mary, having completed the course of her earthly life, was assumed body and soul into heaven."  Our Lady’s Assumption, however, was celebrated since ancient times.  This feast marks God’s completion of His great work on earth with the Mother of God.  We honor Mary at her conception, birth, maternity, her title as Mother of God, and on other special occasions such as the Feasts of Our Lady of Sorrows and of the Holy Rosary.  In a week, we celebrate Mary’s Queenship, as she reigns over Heaven and Earth.