Parish to sponsor Mass and novena for cancer patients and their families
July 29, 2019 at 12:37 p.m.
Incarnation-St. James Parish, Ewing, will hold a Mass and novena to St. Michael of the Saints, the patron saint of cancer patients, from May 31 to June 8 at their Incarnation Church worship site. A relic of the saint will be available for veneration each evening.
St. Michael of the Saints was born as Michael Argemir in Vich, Spain, in 1591. He became a Trinitarian friar in 1607 and ministered to the poor and sick of the region until his death in 1625. Argemir, whose feast day is June 8, was canonized by Pope Pius IX in 1862, and his intercession is credited with many cures of patients with cancerous tumors and lesions.
“A lot of people in our area and my parish know someone with cancer,” noted Trinitarian Father Santhosh George, pastor of Incarnation-St. James, whose family also has been touched by the disease. “We plan to make this an annual event.” Father George encourages area faithful to attend both the Mass and novena each evening and pray to the relic of St. Michael of the Saints, donated by a priest in Rome.
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Incarnation-St. James Parish, Ewing, will hold a Mass and novena to St. Michael of the Saints, the patron saint of cancer patients, from May 31 to June 8 at their Incarnation Church worship site. A relic of the saint will be available for veneration each evening.
St. Michael of the Saints was born as Michael Argemir in Vich, Spain, in 1591. He became a Trinitarian friar in 1607 and ministered to the poor and sick of the region until his death in 1625. Argemir, whose feast day is June 8, was canonized by Pope Pius IX in 1862, and his intercession is credited with many cures of patients with cancerous tumors and lesions.
“A lot of people in our area and my parish know someone with cancer,” noted Trinitarian Father Santhosh George, pastor of Incarnation-St. James, whose family also has been touched by the disease. “We plan to make this an annual event.” Father George encourages area faithful to attend both the Mass and novena each evening and pray to the relic of St. Michael of the Saints, donated by a priest in Rome.
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