Our Team at the Dragon Boat Races

 We are grateful to all of the time that our team put into practicing for this event and for reserving the time on the day of the race.  Our team members were Mike, Alice and Anne Lilly, Kathy Cranford, Mark Smith and Janet Yoder. Also a big thanks goes to Barbara Lazzati for all her work, without whom we would not have had a t-shirt, a hat for the competition, decorations for the tent much less snacks and drinks for the racers or chairs to sit upon. Her husband, John Lazzati assisted with driving, setup and many other tasks in the sweltering heat. Finally, we thank Kathleen Talty for all of her leadership as she was the head honcho at St. Ignatius in coordinating this event. Many thanks to all!

Photo by Harry Bosk Harry Bosk PR & Photography

As we've mentioned before, throughout the years St. Ignatius Church has played a great role in fighting poverty, and shaping the lives of the people of Baltimore. With the involvement of parishioners, St. Ignatius Loyola Academy was birthed. This school is a tuition-free Jesuit middle school for boys serving low-income families of diverse ethnicities and faiths. The Academy was founded in 1993, under the leadership of its first President, Rev. William J. Watters, SJ., and was modeled after the Nativity Mission Center School in New York City. The Academy was housed next door to our church from 1993 until this past fall when it moved to Baltimore's Federal Hill neighborhood. 

 Last Friday, it was a wonderful thing to host the 22nd St. Ignatius Loyola Academy Mass of the Holy Spirit as it kicked off the school year. We thought we would include a few photos of the Mass for your enjoyment. We hope you can sense in viewing these shots how vital the ministry of St. Ignatius Church is and continues to be as it offers practical hope and help to those who have very little way to overcome the difficulties of their lives. May God Bless these lives as they receive a quality and Christ-centered education. CLICK HERE to view more photos.

10 Inspiring Quotes by Mother Teresa
 

This past week we saw the 17th anniversary of the death of Mother Teresa. 

 Mother Teresa, the Roman Catholic nun who died in 1997, is most remembered for serving the poor across the world.

 She was unafraid to embrace the most destitute: kissing the hands of India's lepers, picking maggots from wounds of people lying in streets and hugging dying AIDS patients.

 When told, in 1979, she had won the Nobel Peace Prize, she said, "I am unworthy." She was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 2003.

 Here ere are some of her most inspiring quotes:

 1. "I see God in every human being. When I wash the leper's wounds I feel I am nursing the Lord himself. Is it not a beautiful experience?" - From a 1974 interview.

 2. "We are called upon not to be successful, but to be faithful," she told her official biographer Navin Chawla.

 3. "The poor give us much more than we give them. They're such strong people, living day to day with no food. And they never curse, never complain. We don't have to give them pity or sympathy. We have so much to learn from them." - From a 1977 interview.

 4. "I choose the poverty of our poor people. But I am grateful to receive it (the Nobel) in the name of the hungry, the naked, the homeless, of the crippled, of the blind, of the lepers, of all those people who feel unwanted, unloved, uncared for throughout society, people that have become a burden to the society and are shunned by everyone." - She said when accepting the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.

 5. "If luxury creeps in, we lose the spirit of the order," she said. "To be able to love the poor and know the poor we must be poor ourselves."

 6. "I have never been in a war before, but I have seen famine and death. I was asking (myself) what do they feel when they do this? I don't understand it. They are all children of God. Why do they do it. I don't understand." - Beirut, 1982, during fighting between the Israeli army and Palestinian guerrillas.

 7. "God will find another person, more humble, more devoted, more obedient to him, and the society will go on." - She said in Calcutta in 1989, after announcing her intention to retire.

 8. "I was expecting to be free, but God has his own plans." - She said in Calcutta in 1990, when the sisters of her order persuaded her to withdraw her resignation.

 9. "Please choose the way of peace... In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread. But that never can, nor never will justify the suffering, pain and loss of life your weapons will cause." - Letter to George Bush and Saddam Hussein in January 1991.

 10. "The other day I dreamed that I was at the gates of heaven. And St. Peter said, 'Go back to Earth, there are no slums up here.'" - Mother Teresa was quoted as telling Prince Michael of Greece in 1996.

Sources: USA TODAY research; Associated Press

Fr. Robert Barron on Mother Teresa and Her Sisters

An Evening of Entertainment

 

The Cabaret at Germano's

300 S. High Street

Little Italy, Baltimore, MD 21202

• Dinner seating at 6:00 - music at 7:30
• Cover charge $15, plus food & drink
• Valet Parking Available
• For Cabaret Reservations call 410-752-4515 or make Reservations  online at: www.germanospiattini.com