MASS SCHEDULES

Weekend Masses:
Sunday
6:30am, 8:30am,
10:15am 12:00
Noon & 7:30pm
Saturday
4:30pm (Vigil)

Weekday Masses:
Monday thru Friday:
7:00am & 9:15am
Saturday:
9:15am Mass
7:00am
Communion Service

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Confession Schedules
Monday
7:00pm - 7:30pm
Wednesday
10:00am - 10:30am
Saturday,
3:00pm - 4:00pm


Office Hours
Monday thru Thursday
8:00am - 8:00pm
Friday
8:00am - 7:30pm
Saturday
9:00am - 1:00pm
Sunday
Closed

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Parish Office
513.661.6565
Fax
513.389.3241
E-Mail
office@sainti.org

5222 North Bend Road
Cincinnati, OH 45247

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Deacon Tony Gagliarducci
Thoughts from the Deacon's Desk
Deacon Tony's homilies
Tony Talks
E V A N G E L I S M

I'm a "slow learner", as some of my deaconate formation classmates would say when they would talk of me and each other in good humor. It was our way of saying "... he doesn't get it yet!" Truly when I started to read the Archbishop's columns on Gratitude, I didn't get it yet. I kept thinking in theological terms not in real life terms s I might understand gratitude in my own life. However, the other day I did begin to "get it" when I was reflecting on my favorite line in all of the hymns we Christians sing. That favorite line is "....My soul rejoices in God my savior". I realized at that moment that the line is totally about gratitude and that gratitude is the fundamental basis for my own faith. I finally "get it"

In 1975, my eighteen month old son, Daniel, died very suddenly. The doctors weren't totally sure what caused his death and friends and family tried there best to somehow find words of comfort; but, nothing seemed to lift the agonizing sorrow from my heart and soul. Only a few months into the painful mourning, I made a Cursillo weekend. It was there that great light was cast upon the tragic event and much hope supplanted in my heart through an encounter with Christ. I had been away from the Church and my relationship with God had grown stale and dormant. But, through powerful graces that I was given that weekend and remain with me to this very day, my life has become one of joy and hope. I started to rebuild my relationship with God by living out the message of Mt. 25. I became a foster parent, I worked for the good of developmentally delayed children through a priest friend and I became part of a prison ministry team. The giving I was now involved in was bring me new hope and joy and confidence about the meaning of life and our calling as Christian persons. My soul was rejoicing in God my Savior as I walked forward in life's journey following the path He lit.

Do I know Christ as my savior? I sure do. Those saving graces that I have been given have kept me from a life of hopelessness, despair, depression, bitterness and anger. I am truly grateful to God for his saving gifts. In Psalm 40 it says:

He drew me out of the pit of destruction,
Out of the mud of the swamp;
He set my feet upon a crag; he made firm my steps.
And he put a new song into my mouth, a hymn to our God.

These words ring powerfully in my life… they are indeed words of gratitude. My closing throught is that you also might have words from Holy Scripture which have special meaning of thanks to God for his gifts to you. Don't be a "slow-learner", "get it" today.