April 14, 2025

TASTE EVENTS

• LAST WEEK — TASTE hosted a Healing Mass at St. Mary of the Mills Church, with our spiritual director, Fr. Larry Swink as celebrant. Fr. Swink's homily was incredibly inspiring and although we did not record it, we have recreated his homily as best as we could from his brief notes. MORE.
  View the program and learn about the saints’ relics available for veneration as well as the relics used to pray over attendees. LINK.
• THIS WEEK — TASTE is on Easter break. There will be no meeting. We will resume on May 1 for our final talk of the year.

• DISCUSSION —There will be NO small group discussion in person this week. When we return after the Easter Break, we will discuss both Mary's Way of the Cross and our Healing Mass.  However, the on-line zoom small group will meet one final time before our Easter break. The Zoom small group meets on the following Tuesday morning. Details on how to join can be found in a link at the bottom of this message.

OTHER EVENTS / INTEREST ITEMS

• 4/26 – FEAST OF BLESSED GILES SPRING FESTIVAL — The Little Portion Farm on the grounds of the Shrine of St. Anthony is hosting a Spring Festival in honor of Blessed Giles, Farmer and Friar.  One of our own, Helen Griffith, will be playing with her band at this event.  Come for a farm fresh meal, live music, farm tours (by Michele Cardamone's husband Mike), plant sales, and games.  See LINK.

• 4/26 – BENEFIT FOR WORLD VILLAGES FOR CHILDREN — St. Jude's Catholic Church in Rockville will be hosting this benefit with special guest Fr. Dan Leary. This is the organization Kevin Wells spoke to us about in his TASTE TALK on 10/21/2021. See HERE for additional details. Register at this LINK.

• 9/22 – PILGRIMAGE TO IRELAND — Join Fr. Michael DeAscanis of St. Louis Catholic Church in Clarksville, MD on a 12-day pilgrimage to Ireland from September 22 - October 3, 2025.  LINK

PRAYER REQUESTS

• Please continue to pray for our TASTE program and our speakers. This week, please pray for:

• OUR SPEAKERS AND FRIENDS OF TASTE:  Fr. Larry Swink for healing and support.

• OUR TASTE MEMBERS AND FAMILIES: 1) Jeannie Williams' daughter Debby Rekos, for healing and support, in her new diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis, 2) Healing for Maureen Filiault’s grandson Xavier who had a seizure, 3) Linda Lupaczyk for healing of her back and ankle pain, 4) Nancy Beckfeld, mother-in-law of Joy Parker, for guidance to decide next steps, 5) Maryanna Rice's continued healing, 6) Kate Christianson for eradication of her cancer, 7) Andrew, Larissa Cymerman's brother-in-law, in thanksgiving for a successful stem cell transplant and for a positive outcome for healing from blood cancer, 8) God's complete physical and spiritual healing for Helen Griffith's brother-in-law Rod, and 9) Maureen Filiault's sister, Nancy's healing from anxiety.
• We also pray for peace and comfort to the families of each of the people mentioned above.   New prayer requests can be sent to Joy Parker at joyparker73@gmail.com.