St. Anthony Catholic Church
Davenport, Iowa
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Please Return Your Rice Bowls to either:
Parish Office or
Sunday thru Friday 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Church
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Getting to Know Father Rudy
by John Cooper
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Very, very young Father Rudy with his aunt Lucy Juarez in downtown Davenport.
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Father Rudy today as he heads into his new assignment.
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Everyone has a story, including Father Rudolph "Rudy" Juarez who will become our pastor on July 1. I appreciate Father Rudy taking time out of his schedule to respond to some questions about his early years.
Father Rudy,
I understand that you were born and raised in Davenport. Can you tell us about your parents? Where were they from?
What did they do? What was their faith life like?
My parents were Manuel Jerome Juarez. Dad was born in 1908 in Chihuahua, Mexico and immigrated to the United States in 1917 to El Paso, Texas during the Mexican Revolution. He followed the crops through Colorado, Nebraska and Minnesota and finally settled in Davenport because my grandfather Jose Vidal Juarez got a job on the Rock Island lines.
Because Mexicans were not welcome in the city, they lived in the famous settlement along the Mississippi called Cook's Point. That was in the mid-1930's. My parents met during WWII and my father brought my mother to live in Iowa. My father was a laborer at J.I. Case most of his adult life.
My mother, Leonor Olvera, was born in Gregory, Texas right near Corpus Christi. She cleaned offices in downtown Davenport. Together they raised six children: Manuel Jr., Joseph Augustine, Robert, Mary Alice - me and my younger brother Richard Jerome. All live in the Quad-Cities, except for Manuel who passed in 2015. We lived in Bettendorf from up until I was 9 years old when we moved to Davenport in 1963 to live on Tremont Avenue just south of the old St. Katherine - St. Mark's academy, where my brother Joe still lives. My parents were not particularly religious, and save for some devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe, our Mass attendance was sporadic.
CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE READING FATHER'S STORY....
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CHURCH OPEN FOR PRIVATE PRAYER
Sunday through Friday 10 a.m. until 1 p.m.
Closed on Saturdays
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Preparing for Our Merger with St. Mary's
Learn About Groups That Will Become Part of St. Anthony
Grupo de Oracion Luz y Esperanza or Prayer Group Light & Hope
Through sacred scripture, the Prayer Group Light & Hope clearly understands that praying means talking to God our Father to strengthen our faith. Every time we sing and pray and open our hearts to God our Father, we share our feelings with Him.
Light and Hope prayer group got started in 2001 by Msgr. Marvin A. Mottet and supported by Rev. Rudolph Juarez.
Light and Hope prayer group gets together to pray for our community’s needs, to share God’s word, to strengthen our faith and to also keep our Hispanic religious traditions from our Holy Church. Expressions of this include: live representation of the Stations of the Cross (Viacrucis), Stations of the Inn (Posadas), novena prayer and devotions to Our Holy Mother, Our Lady of Guadalupe.
Once things return to normal, we invite everyone to join us to pray every Friday from 5:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. and every Thursday for growth in faith from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 pm.
“For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them” Mt. 18:20
For more information, please contact Rosario Castel at 563.209.6422
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As you know the diocese gives us an Annual Appeal goal to reach. This year's goal is $86,227. We are currently $16,783 short of meeting our goal by June 30. Whatever we are short, we must pay to the diocese. If you haven't given to the ADA, please consider doing so.
I encourage you to read a bit of Father Rudy's story in today's newsletter. Father Rudy and I are friends and I will be supporting him in his transition to St. Anthony.
May Almighty God bless you in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
Yours in Christ,
Father Apo
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First Friday Divine Mercy Chaplet and Rosary
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Join us in praying the Divine Mercy Chaplet and Rosary this Friday at 7 p.m.
All you need to do is...
DIAL - (312) 626-6799
ENTER ID
858 1668 7909
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You DO NOT need internet to participate.
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Pope Francis Prays for Healing in United States
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Prayer for Good Humor
by St. Thomas More
Grant me, O Lord, good digestion, and also something to digest.
Grant me a healthy body, and the necessary good humor to maintain it.
Grant me a simple soul that knows to treasure all that is good
and that doesn’t frighten easily at the sight of evil,
but rather finds the means to put things back in their place.
Give me a soul that knows not boredom, grumblings, sighs and laments, nor excess of stress, because of that obstructing thing called “I.”
Grant me, O Lord, a sense of good humor.
Allow me the grace to be able to take a joke to discover in life a bit of joy, and to be able to share it with others. Amen.
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