Fall/Winter Season Sunday: 8:00 am; 11:00 am Childrens Liturgy of the Word: 11:00 am Saturday:5:00 pm Spanish: Sunday - 6:30 pm Children's Liturgy Needed  Volunteers Children's Liturgy will resume after Labor Day. Adult volunteers are needed. See the bulletin. Holy Hour First Tues.   English & Spanish. 7 to 8PM. For more information call the office. Spanish Prayer Group 8-9pm  Mondays "Vida Nueva" prayer group, all are welcome. Fr. Griffin Hall, 15 Cherry Street.		Savor Nantucket Order Our Award Winning Parish Cookbook Click here to order online. Daily Liturgical Celebration 8 am Monday - Friday Eucharistic Service Friday, August 27 No Mass, there will be a Liturgy of the Word and the Distribution of Holy Communion. Reconciliation The Sacrament of Reconciliation is available every Saturday at 4 PM. More Information . . . Bernard of Clairvaux (1191-1253) August 20/Memorial Adviser of popes, preacher of the Second Crusade, defender of the faith, healer of a schism, reformer of a monastic Order, Scripture scholar, theologian and eloquent preacher: any one of these titles would distinguish an ordinary man. Yet Bernard was all of these—and he still retained a burning desire to return to the hidden monastic life of his younger days. In the year 1111, at the age of 20, Bernard left his home to join the monastic community of Citeaux. His five brothers, two uncles and some 30 young friends followed him into the monastery. Within four years a dying community had recovered enough vitality to establish a new house in the nearby valley of Wormwoods, with Bernard as abbot. The zealous young man was quite demanding, though more on himself than others. A slight breakdown of health taught him to be more patient and understanding. The valley was soon renamed Clairvaux, the valley of light. His ability as arbitrator and counselor became widely known. More and more he was lured away from the monastery to settle long-standing disputes. On several of these occasions he apparently stepped on some sensitive toes in Rome. Bernard was completely dedicated to the primacy of the Roman See. But to a letter of warning from Rome he replied that the good fathers in Rome had enough to do to keep the Church in one piece. If any matters arose that warranted their interest, he would be the first to let them know. Shortly thereafter it was Bernard who intervened in a full-blown schism and settled it in favor of the Roman pontiff against the antipope. The Holy See prevailed on Bernard to preach the Second Crusade throughout Europe. His eloquence was so overwhelming that a great army was assembled and the success of the crusade seemed assured. The ideals of the men and their leaders, however, were not those of Abbot Bernard, and the project ended as a complete military and moral disaster. Bernard felt responsible in some way for the degenerative effects of the crusade. This heavy burden possibly hastened his death, which came August 20, 1153.