New Website

We now have a new website!  This website will no longer be updated, please visit us at: http://www.frassatiny.com

January Dinner and Holy Hour

Happy New Year!  Our monthly Dinner and Holy Hour at the Church of St. Vincent Ferrer will take place Sunday, January 9th.

               January 9th  Dinner and Holy Hour

               5:30 Mass at St. Vincent Ferrer* (869 Lexington Avenue)

               Dinner follows Mass at approximately 6:30 p.m.

               Holy Hour follows dinner at approximately 7:45 p.m.

               Requested contribution: $10 per person

*St. Vincent Ferrer is at 869 Lexington, between 65th and 66th Streets.  Take the F to 63rd, or the 6 to 68th; also close to the 101,102, 103 and the Crosstown 68th Street buses. 

Vigil for All Nascent Human Life

On the eve of the first Sunday of Advent – Saturday evening November 27, 2010 – Pope Benedict XVI will lead a Vigil for Nascent (Unborn) Human Life at St. Peter’s in Rome, and he has asked the world’s Bishops and priests to do the same in their own dioceses and parishes.

The Sisters of Life We will be participating in the Chanting of Vespers at Vincent Ferrer Parish (Lexington between 65th and 66th Streets) at 7 p.m. with Reverend Walter Wagner, O.P.  preaching

All are welcome!

The Pope describes the... intention of the Vigil as follows: “The time of preparation for Holy Christmas is a favorable moment to invoke Divine protection over each human being called to existence, also as thanksgiving to God... for the gift of life received from our parents.”

Handmaid's Prayer Group

All Young Adult Ladies are Welcome

to join the

Handmaid's Prayer Group

hosted by the

Franciscan Sisters of the Renewal

for an evening of

Prayer, Worship & Adoration

on

Friday, November 19, 2010 at 730pm

at

Our Lady of Guadelupe

3537 Bainbridge Ave

Bronx, NY 10467

PLEASE RSVP by Thurs. afternoon

(718) 547-9840 (leave a message)

*If you are able please bring nonperishable food, ie. can goods, dry food, etc. as a donation for the food pantry for the Christmas season. Thank you!

Half Marathon Results

Below are the results from the Frassati Half Marathon that took place in Central Park on October 16.  Congratulations to all of our runners!

Anthony Cammarata 1:29

Brother Simon 1:37

Dan Dengler 1:44

Michael Hannon 1:46

Marc Cammarata 1:54

Tamara Losleben 1:55

Sandra Koch 1:58

Karolina Waseleqiez 2:00

Joseph Reciniello 2:03

Dan Donohue 2:03

Justine Steenblock 2:12

Heidi Cinquegrana 2:11

Emily Thomas 2:21

Kathy Dubowski 2:21

Prayer Request

The Billingsley family have 7 kids and are a wonderful Catholic family in the Nashville parish. They are experiencing tremendous suffering now because their oldest son, 17 year old Marshall, was diagnosed with Stage 4 Ewing's Sarcoma - an extremely rare bone cancer that has spread to his lung. He just began 8 weeks of chemo, to be followed by surgery. Because the cancer was so far along when they caught it, he has been given a 10%-30% chance of survival. Please keep this family in your prayers daily (the father is currently unemployed as the Saturn factory where he was working closed), that their suffering may not be in vain and that they will trust in the Lord.

There is a flourishing devotion to Bl. Pier Girogio Frassati among the Nashville Catholic community. Christine Wohar, head of FrassatiUSA, lives here in town! Since he needs one more miracle to his name for canonization, we are asking him to intercede on behalf of Marshall Billingsley and grant a miraculous healing. Please join us in praying the prayer below and pass it on to all who would be interested in furthering Bl. Pier Giorgio's cause. If we could get this to spread viral online that would be fantastic.

Pier Giorgio said, “Prayer is the noble supplication which we lift up to the throne of the Most High. It is the most efficient means to obtain from God the graces which we need.” 
(Speech to the Catholic Youth of Pollone, July 29, 1923)

"O merciful God,
Who through the perils of the world
deigned to preserve by Your grace
Your servant Pier Giorgio Frassati
pure of heart and ardent of charity,
listen, we ask You, to our prayers and,
if it is in Your designs that he be glorified by the Church,
show us Your will,
granting us the graces we ask of You, particularily, a complete and miraculous healing for Marshall Billingsley,
through his intercession,
by the merits of Jesus Christ, Our Lord, Amen."

Frassati Half Marathon

The Frassati Half Marathon will take place in Central Park on October 16th.  To register, mail your completed registration form and check to:

FRASSATI FELLOWSHIP

c/o K. DUBOWSKI

614 W 114th Street, New York, NY 10025

The cost of the race is:
$20 post marked before September 30th, 2010
$25 post marked after September 30th, 2010
Please note: Registration will not be accepted after October 13, 2010.

The registration fee will support the cause for the canonization of Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati.

For questions about the race, or to volunteer to help, email us at: frassati.marathon@gmail.com