The New St. John Neumann CMA Guild website is now up and running!
You’ll find new resources (with additional ones to come), an inviting landing page for you and members of your practice team, enhanced visibility for events, web-based registration for our events, monthly newsletter, donations and payment transactions. Please take a few minutes to look around the site.
Our webmaster is putting the finishing touches on a few of the pages. Please stay tuned—some great videos and links to digital education resources focusing on ethical issues, professional challenges to practicing clinicians, integrating work with faith, family and community—are on their way!
Sunday, October 19th, The Annual St. Luke’s Mass & Brunch, beginning at 11 AM
Cathedral Basilica of Sts. Peter and Paul, 18th St. and Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia
Brunch follows: Pastoral Center adjacent to the Basilica, 222 N. 17th St., 1st Floor.
Keynote Address by Matt Bowman of Alliance Defending Freedom
“Protections of Conscience & Personal Moral Beliefs in the Workplace”
Please wear your white coat or symbol of your specific health profession and remain after Mass for group photo
St. John Neumann CMA Guild Commits to Prayer Intentions for the Coming Year
At the request of Bishop Chylinski, former Rector of St. Charles Seminary, our priests, seminarians, and professed religious, our Guild has committed this coming year to praying for priestly and religious vocations for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. Our secondary intentions are for the welfare of our Holy Father Pope Leo XIV, for family life, and for renewal and growth within our St. John Neumann Guild.
Among the prayers you can find on the new St. John Neumann Guild website is this Prayer for Vocations:
Father, in your plan for our salvation you provide shepherds for your people. Fill your Church with the spirit of courage and love.
Give the Church more priests, worthy ministers for your altars and ardent but gentle servants of the Gospel. Grant also to us an increase in vocations to the Religious Life. May more of our young people respond to your call in a spirit of joyful generosity.
May they serve your people in love by following in the footsteps of Christ your Son and provide by their way of life a convincing sign of Your Kingdom. We ask this through Christ, Our Lord. Amen.
October is the Month of the Holy Rosary
The students who attended the Welcome Picnic last month were gifted Rosary bracelets to encourage them in their prayer lives. The Rosary has its roots tracing back to the early monastic practice of reciting 150 Psalms, later adapted for laypeople as 150 Hail Marys. Tradition holds that the Virgin Mary gave the Rosary to St. Dominic in the 13th century to combat heresy and promote devotion. Over time, saints like St. Louis de Montfort, St. Pio and St. John Paul II became key promoters of the Rosary, emphasizing its power for spiritual growth and intercession.
Our Lady of Fatima appeared over six months in 1917 (during World War I) to three children in Portugal. Our Blessed Mother asked the children of Fatima to pray the Rosary daily for peace in the world and to make sacrifices for the conversion of sinners. She also urged them to offer their sufferings to God as acts of reparation for the sins of humanity. You can read more about Mary’s appearances and messages to the children of Fatima here:
https://www.ncregister.com/features/mary-s-fatima-messages-to-the-shepherd-children.
In the year 2000, St. John Paul I wrote an Apostolic Letter on the Rosary, a wonderful reflection on this prayer tradition. Worth reading! https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/apost_letters/2002/documents/hf_jp-ii_apl_20021016_rosarium-virginis-mariae.html
