Dear Fellow Parish Bulletin Reps: August is dedicated to The Immaculate Heart of Mary The Holy Father’s Intentions for the Month of August, 2019: Families, Schools of Human Growth: That families, through their life of prayer and love, become ever more clearly “schools of true human growth”. Feasts for August: John Mary Vianney (8/4), Dedication of St. Mary Major (8/5), Transfiguration (8/6), Dominic (8/8), Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (8/9), Clare (8/11), Jane Frances de Chantal (8/12), Maximilian Kolbe (8/14), Assumption (8/15), Pius X (8/21), Queenship of Mary (8/22), Rose of Lima (8/23), Monica (8/27), Augustine (8/28), Passion of St John the Baptist (8/29). “Give yourself up into the arms of your heavenly Mother.” ~ St. Padre Pio.
August is considered the ‘transitional’ month in our seasonal calendar. We begin to wind own from our summer travels, vacations, fall festivals, harvest time.
