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VOLUNTEERS WILLING TO PRAY FOR ORPHANS
VOLUNTEERS WILLING TO PRAY FOR ORPHANS
(No Financial Commitment Required)
April 1st - the feast day of Blessed Nuno of St. Mary - is a special day for The Blessed Nuno Society, a Catholic prayer apostolate and mission society made up of laity, clergy, and religious who have joined together to form a union of PRAYER. The primary purpose of the Society is the individual sanctification of its members.
The special object of the Society's work is to aid the educational, medical, spiritual, and general welfare needs of orphaned and homeless children
Several of the Society's projects are located just across the Arizona border in Agua Prieta, Sonora. In April 2006, the Blessed Nuno Society established mission offices in Tucson, Arizona and in Agua Prieta, Sonora to better serve its various projects along the Mexican border. The home office for the Society is in the Diocese of Duluth, Minnesota. Tim Heinan, the Society's Executive Director, lives in Tucson and is a parishioner at Our Mother of Sorrows.
To learn more, including how to enroll in the Society and become a part of its wonderful prayer apostolate, visit http://www.blessednuno.org/
NOTE: The annual Mass for Members wil take place on Wednesday April 2nd at 6:30 am at Our Mother of Sorrows Parish. Members and non-members are all invited to attend and join us in prayer for orphaned and homeless children throughout the world.
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Who was Blessed Nuno? Blessed Nuno of St. Mary (Nuno Alvares Pereira) died as a simple Carmelite brother on April 1, 1431 and was beatified on January 23, 1918.
Before entering the monastery as a widower, Nuno lived as a great knight, husband and father, and patriotic hero of his native Portugal. He was the Third Count of Ourem and Founder of the Royal House of Braganca.
After the marriage of his daughter, he renounced his many titles and gave away all his possessions. One third of his wealth was given to the poor and orphans. He built several churches including the beautiful Carmelite monastery in Lisbon, which he later entered as a humble brother.
He did much to spread the devotions of the rosary and the scapular in Portugal and is known as the "Precursor of Fatima", "The Holy Constable", and the "Peacemaker".
His memorial Mass is celebrated on April 1.
Information from The Blessed Nuno Society website
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