Quotes about the Family
“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which the Lord your God gives you.”   -Exodus 20:12
“The Life of the parents is the book which children read.” –St. Augustine (354-430)
“The family is a necessary good for peoples, an indispensable foundation for society and a great and lifelong treasure for couples. It is a unique good for children, who are meant to be the fruit of the love, of the total and generous self-giving of their parents.” – Pope Benedict XVI, July 8, 2006
“The family that prays together, stays together.” – Father Patrick Peyton, C.S.C. Irish priest, promoter of the Rosary
“Tuberculosis and cancer are not the most terrible sicknesses. I think that a much more terrible sickness is to be unwanted and unloved.” – Bl. Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997)
“It is only the rock of total, irrevocable love between a man and a woman that can serve as the foundation on which to build society that will become a home for all mankind.” – Pope Benedict XVI, May 11, 2006
“If the family is in order, the State will be in order; if the State is in order, the great community of mankind will live in peace.” – Lu Buwei
“Today the family is looked down upon and mistreated. We are called to acknowledge how beautiful, true and good it is to start a family, to be a family today; and how indispensable the family is for the life of the world and the future of humanity.” – Pope Francis, February 20, 2014
Holy Day of Obligation
On January 1, 2015 we celebrate the Solemnity of Mary, The Holy Mother of God. Since it is a holy day of obligation, we will have a 5:30 PM Mass on New Year’s Eve, December 31st, at St. Anthony’s. On New Year’s Day Mass will be at 8:00 AM at St. Anthony’s and at 11:00 AM at Our Lady of the Hills.