In God's love, the Eucharistic community of St. Teresa of Avila, Auburn, embraces and welcomes all as part of God's family.  We value every parishioner and strive to reflect the mercy, forgiveness, and healing of Jesus Christ.  

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Laudato Si’ Week 2022, to be held May 22-29, will mark the seventh anniversary of Pope Francis’ landmark encyclical on creation care. This global celebration will unite Catholics to listen and respond together to the cry of creation, rejoice in the progress we have made in bringing Laudato Si’ to life, and intensify our efforts through the dynamic Laudato Si’ Action Platform, walking the “Synodal” path.

WAYS TO HELP PRESERVE AND CARE FOR OUR COMMON HOME DURING LAUDATO SI' WEEK:
 

  ECO-SPIRITUALITY

• Plant a contemplation garden.   May is the perfect time to plant a garden to honor Mother Mary while caring for Mother Earth.  Cultivating a garden with flowers, fruits, and vegetables provides you and your loved ones with healthy food  while enriching the soil and cleaning the air.  Plus, it helps beautify the world and offers a place of contemplation.

• Take a nature walk.  Contemplate God’s creation while cultivating physical and spiritual health by incorporating nature walks into your routine, either by yourself or with friends and family.

• Say Grace.  Thank God for the gifts of creation by saying Grace before and after meals, making this gratitude a daily and consistent part of life.

• Opt for reusable shopping bags.  According to EarthDay.org, an estimated four trillion plastic bags are used each year worldwide. Keeping a few reusable bags handy to take to the grocery store helps cut back on plastic use and keeps bags out of landfills.

• Meatless Mondays.  Join the Meatless Monday campaign. This helpful website, among others, offers plant-based recipes and guides to help you implement Meatless Monday. Try going one step further by making meatless Fridays a part of the whole year, as opposed to something you do just during Lent. Fasting from meat benefits your health and helps the environment by cutting back on greenhouse gasses.

• Compost food waste.  While diverting food from landfills, composting helps enrich soil, promotes plant growth, and decreases greenhouse gasses.

• Frequent your local farmers market.   Supporting a local farmers market is a way to support and preserve God’s creation, especially farmers and artisans in your community. It also reduces transportation pollution and cuts back on trash and plastic bag usage, since produce is minimally packaged.

• The dishwasher is your friend.  Hand-washing dishes uses over two gallons of water per minute. If possible, use a dishwasher, which only uses 2-8 gallons per entire cycle.

• Use natural cleaning products. Substitute natural cleaning products for chemical cleaning products. Chemical cleaning products pose health risks and impact the environment as they are released into air and water sources. Switch to natural products, or learn to make your own by using household ingredients like baking soda, essential oils, lemon juice, and vinegar.

• Shop second-hand.  Shopping second-hand helps keep items out of landfills and conserves water. It’s also a creative way to care for the environment.

• Bring your own containers for restaurant take-out.

• Recycle, re-use, repair, re-purpose.

Care for Our Common Home (Laudato Si') ministry can provide more information and on-line resources to anyone interested in implementing any of these ideas.  Please contact Mary Jo Buettner at maryjobuettner@yahoo.com, and feel free to chek out the numerous resources on our ministry page HERE. 

There is also a week of daily global events hosted by laudatosiweek.org.

These events will be held to invite reflection and celebration of the seven Laudato Si’ Goals, with each event highlighting a different goal and region in the world.

On Sunday, May 22, Pope Francis will inaugurate the Laudato Si’ Week at the Sunday Angelus prayer from St. Peter’s Square in Rome.

Time:         12pm Rome
Location:   Vatican City

Follow the live broadcast by clicking HERE.

Click HERE for more information about the events of the week.

Looking for a place to serve? We have ministries in need of volunteers!

• Extraordinary Ministers of the Eucharist need additional volunteers - please click HERE for more information about this important liturgical ministry, and for contact information.

• Our Music Ministry needs additional male voices to join either the 5pm or 8:30am Mass choirs. We can always use more female voices in those choirs as well! We also need more children and youth to sing in our 10:30am choir. Click HERE for more information about the ministry, and for contact information.​

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Evening Online Rosary with
K of C Auburn Council 6149
Every Sunday @ 7:00pm

My brothers & sisters in Christ,

During difficult times, our faith tells us that we need to come together in prayer and pray to our Blessed Lord as one people. In accordance with that tradition, I would like to invite everyone to come and share in the Prayer of the Gospels with us online every Sunday evening at 7:00pm. Given the time of the year we will include the Litany for the Easter Season. This prayer can be accessed with the following link:

https://www.catholicdoors.com/prayers/litanies/p03455.htm

Leo Tolstoy said "Give me faith, Lord, and let me help others find it." 

The Knights of Columbus Auburn Council 6149 would like to offer this rosary publicly to help others find their faith and come together in common prayer. The rosary is our expression of faith, 
and we would like to offer this as a service to the Christian community and to those of like mind to come together and pray for the common good. 

The rosary can be accessed with either following link or with the following QR code shown below:

https://meet.google.com/wwf-hkmt-owk









We are open to questions, comments and feedback in an attempt to make this a more spirituality fulfilling experience. Also, if you have any prayers or intentions that you want to offer, please let me know. Comments, prayers & intentions can be addressed to me at kofc6149@gmail.com. 

"If I had an army to say the Rosary, I could conquer the world."
Blessed Pope Piux IX


I hope to see everyone there.

In Christo,

Hugh Paxton
Rosary Chairman
PGK of Auburn Council 6149
Auburn, California

For more information please contact Hugh Paxton at 530-613-1268 or by email at hugh_paxton@yahoo.com.