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The Community of Hope is a Catholic
charitable organization. We dedicate our efforts
to providing assistance to those that are in
physical, emotional, spiritual, and financial need. We recognize that as a
community we must care for one another. The Community of Hope lay apostolate has been established with the purpose of encouraging hope and faith for all people throughout New England. The Community of Hope is dedicated to providing those less fortunate with assistance and support. This could take whatever form is deemed necessary to fit that particular need. "To restore all things in Christ has ever been the motto of the Church, and it is in a special way Our own in the perilous times in which We live." Pope St. Pius X: Il Fermo Proposito |
The MONTH of January is dedicated in honor OF THE
Holy Name of Jesus & the holy family
PROMINENT FEAST OF JANUARY
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Circumcision of Our Lord Jesus Christ |
January 1st |
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Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus |
January 2nd |
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Epiphany of Our Lord |
January 6th |
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Holy Family Sunday (for the The Little Litany of the Holy Family click here...) |
January 8th |
| Commemoration of the Baptism of Our Lord Jesus Christ | January 13th |
| Feast of St. Paul, First Hermit, Abbot | January 15th |
| Feast of St. Antony the Great, Abbot | January 17th |
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Feast of St. Peter's Chair at Rome (The Chair of Unity Octave begins) |
January 18th |
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Feast of Margaret of Hungary, Virgin |
January 19th |
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Feast of St. Agnes, Virgin , Martyr |
January 21st |
| Feast of St. Raymond of Penafort, Confessor | January 23rd |
| Feast of St. Timothy, Martyr | January 24th |
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Conversion of St. Paul |
January 25th |
| Feast of St. John Chrysostom, Bishop, Confessor, Doctor | January 27th |
| Feast of St. Francis de Sales, Bishop, Confessor, Doctor | January 29th |
| Feast of St. John Bosco, Confessor | January 31st |
The Chair of Unity Octave
January 18 until January 25th
Click here for Unity Octave Prayers...
The Chair of Unity Octave, which extends from the Feast of the Chair of St. Peter at Rome (January 18) until the Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul (January 25), which prayers are prescribed for each separate day of the Octave
History of The Chair of Unity Octave
On October 3, 1899, the eve of the feast of St. Francis of Assisi, the Rev. Lewis Thomas Wattson, an Episcopal clergyman later known as the Very Rev. Paul James Francis, S.A., arrived at Graymoor, N.Y. to establish a community of Episcopal Franciscans called the Friars of the Atonement. A year previously, Miss Lurana White, a devout young woman, had founded in the same place a community of Episcopal nuns known as the Sisters of the Atonement.
For ten years the two communities were jointly known as the Society of the Atonement and lived the monastic life as members of the Protestant Episcopal Church. Looking about him on a largely irreligious world, Father Paul grieved most because Christians seemed divided into warring sects and factions. He began to preach corporate reunion of the Episcopal Church with the Roman Catholic Church. Because of this he was banned from the pulpits of the Episcopal Church.
In his brown robe and sandals, Father Paul took his message to the streets and parks of New York. He caused quite a sensation. Father Paul James Francis was determined to carry on a vigorous apostolate for the return of all separated Christians to communion with the Holy See. To further this aim, he inaugurated in 1908 the Chair of Unity Octave (Jan. 18-25).
One year later, the members of the Society themselves received the grace of conversion, and on October 30, 1909, they entered the Catholic Church in a body. It astonished no one when he took his own advice and brought his community with him into the Catholic Church. With the blessing of Pope St. Pius X, they were permitted to continue as a religious society in the Catholic Church and were commissioned to carry on the apostolate of Christian unity as their community aim.
The Chair of Unity Octave was also approved as a Catholic devotion by Pope Benedict XV in an Apostolic Brief in 1916. In 1921, at their annual meeting in Washington, the Catholic hierarchy of the United States unanimously adopted the Octave for all the dioceses in the country.
Under the patronage of St. Peter, the first Vicar of Christ, Bishop of Rome, and St. Paul, the Apostle of the Gentiles, the Chair of Unity Octave has flourished and grown. It is now observed in many parts of the world.
"Devotions for the Chair of Unity Octave" published by the Atonement Friars of Graymoor, New York, 1960, pp. 5-6.
We would like to thank everyone who has supported us throughout the years. Community of Hope has been blessed to send over 850,000 sacramentals, internationally, for Our Lady, since 2001! Please continue to help Our Lady's Mission through your prayers and generosity.
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