The annual St. Anthony’s Polish Feast will be held on Saturday evening, October 26, right after the 5:00pm Mass. In preparation for this celebration, we would like to invite everyone to join in praying a Novena to St. John Paul II, whose feast day (Oct. 22) we celebrate during the week leading up to our Polish feast. As a parish community, we will begin the novena on October 18 so that we can pray the final day’s prayer altogether before we feast on the 26th! Our parish intention for the novena will be: We pray for an increase in holiness amongst all youth and families at St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church; we ask for wisdom and zeal to be upon our youth and adult faith formation ministries and upon those who lead them; and we ask for an increase in vocational calls to the clergy and religious life amongst our parish. St. John Paul II, pray for us!