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  Vinny’s Corner ·           How to celebrate Oct 5th o     Start your day with some delicious polenta dishes? §    Look up simple recipes online and try your hand at making this versatile cornmeal dish. o     Later, sip on some homemade mead as a nod to  National Mead Day . You can easily make mead at home with basic ingredients like honey, water, and yeast. o     Wrap up your day by snuggling up with a warm apple betty dessert in honor of  National Apple Betty Day . Use simple pantry staples to whip up this comforting treat and enjoy the cozy flavors. ·           As evening falls, channel your inner spy with a James Bond movie marathon for  Global James Bond Day . Dress up in your best spy attire and indulge in some classic 007 action. ·           Throughout the day, remember t...

Today if you can go to confession and make the first Friday communion.  Next week we will be celebrating 14 holy helpers of the church. Reflecting on this I decided to enlist the aid of these 14 holy helper in my making the nine consecutive first Fridays requested by our Lord making them a part of my "master mind group". Problem? 14 does not go in nine. Then I realized that I also want to completed the 5 first Saturdays. Bingo 9+5=14. Last Months holy helper was St. Blaise.  I will ask St. Blaise to pray for me and guide me to our Lord's heart and in relay fashion hand me off at the approach of the 3rd first Friday to  Saint Giles  on the first Friday of October. Saint Aegidius  (Giles). He was from Athens, Greece. He left the city and retired to a remote place in France where he accepted a few other men who desired to live under his direction as monks. Charles Martel, grandfather of Charlemagne, King of the Franks, called him to court as a counselor. He wa...