TASTE women (from 38 parishes) enjoying our first talk of the year 2011-2012 with Fr. Larry Swink.
A few of the women who Spiritually Adopted Priests/Seminarians to pray for. If you look closely you can see the mini stoles that were made from blessed altar cloth to remind them of their priest. Please pray for all priests!
Some of our Spiritual Mothers for our priests. See how we've grown!
Msgr. Mike Wilson, has strongly supported TASTE from its inception. Being a very active parish, Father has gone out of his way to welcome us and make sure we had room and a prayerful setting. We now have women attending from 38 parishes across the Baltimore-Washington area.
Fr. Larry Swink has been our energetic guide from the beginning. Known for his enthusiastic talks, Fr. Larry spoke to us six times last year! Father is determined that we "get it", in his loving and charismatic way. He doesn't beat around the bush...he explains what the Church teaches and why.
Some of us enjoying our first field trip up to Harrisburg, PA for a conference on the Dignity and Vocation of Women.
Our Chapel, where The TASTE Program is held. The Chapel is named after Our Lady, Queen of Apostles. The Chapel is located directly across the street from St. Mary of the Mills Catholic Church in Laurel, Maryland in Pallotti Prep High School.
Look What We Made!!! A TASTE Mom With Some Of Her Children! A Catholic Family Cookbook creation!
In the rectory enjoying one of our monthly brown bag lunches!
At TASTE we always offer Confession immediately following every class! Msgr. Mike (and many others) is always open and ready no matter how long it takes!
Pray For All Priests!
The TASTE Program
Taste
And See Take…Eat)
A weekly program offered to help
women fall completely in love with Jesus and the Church He founded.
We meet every Thursday (the day Jesus
instituted the priesthood) and learn the Truths of our Faith.
Our speakers are by invitation only and
are chosen for their orthodox teaching and zeal for the Lord.
Women from 38 different parishes come
from the Washington/Baltimore dioceses.
We began the program in 2007 and have
grown steadily in just a few years.
Our mission is to empower women to really know and understand their
Faith as well as to nurture our priests.
We have spiritually adopted priests and also pray for our priests during
the program.
Many fruits have come
from the program.One of our members heard our talk on Humanae Vitae and 2
weeks later decide to get her tubes untied so that she could follow Church
teaching and be open to life.
Many
of our members express a wonderful moment of now “getting it”. Several moms now attend daily Mass and many have
become catechists or have become actively involved in their parishes.
It’s a place to
come and know you are being taught the Truth.
Our Prayer
For All Priests
Please pray it with us every day!
O Jesus, Eternal Priest, keep your priests within the shelter of your Most Sacred Heart, where none can touch them.
Keep unstained their anointed hands, which daily touch your Sacred Body.
Keep unsullied their lips, daily tinged with Your Precious Blood.
Keep pure and unworldly their hearts, sealed with the sublime mark of the priesthood.
Let Your Holy Love surround and protect them from the world’s harmful ideas and practices.
Bless their labors with abundant fruit, and may the souls to whom they minister be their joy and consolation here, and their everlasting crown in the hereafter. Amen.
~ St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus
World Day of Prayer for ALL Priests
When? Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
2012 Friday, June 15th
2013 Friday, June 7th
O Jesus, our great High Priest, Hear my humble prayers on behalf of your priest, Father [N]. Give him a deep faith, a bright and firm hope and a burning love which will ever increase in the course of his priestly life. In his loneliness, comfort him In his sorrows, strengthen him In his frustrations, point out to him that it is through suffering that the soul is purified, and show him that he is needed by the Church, he is needed by souls, he is needed for the work of redemption. O loving Mother Mary, Mother of Priests, take to your heart your son who is close to you because of his priestly ordination, and because of the power which he has received to carry on the work of Christ in a world which needs him so much. Be his comfort, be his joy, be his strength, and especially help him to live and to defend the ideals of consecrated celibacy. Amen.
Please pray for your parish priest. Encourage him and help.. not by always offering ways for him to make things better but by YOU helping him. PRAY that his soul be pure and unworldly and that he is able to seek only the will of God.
Keep them, I pray Thee, dearest Lord, Keep them, for they are Thine - Thy priests whose lives burn out before Thy consecrated shrine.
Keep them, for they are in the world. Though from the world apart; When earthly pleasures tempt, allure, - Shelter them in Thy heart.
Keep them, and comfort them in hours Of loneliness and pain, When all their life of sacrifice For souls seems but in vain.
Keep them, and O remember, Lord, They have no one but Thee, Yet they have only human hearts, With human frailty.
Keep them as spotless as the Host, That daily they caress; Their every thought and word and deed, Deign, dearest Lord, to bless.
Please pray for all priests but most especially the priest who baptized you, gave you your first Holy Communion, heard your first Confession, Confirmed you, anointed you, married you, ordained you! May God shower upon all priests many blessings and may The Blessed Mother's mantle of love surround and protect them.
