Ultimately faith is the only key to the universe: Day 4 in Europe: Basel Switzerland: Rathaus The Basel Town Hall (German: Rathaus Basel, locally known as Roothuus) is a 500-year-old building dominating the Marktplatz in Bas...
Friday, November 30, 2018
Patricia and Johanna: Day 5 in Europe: Basel Switzerland:
Ultimately faith is the only key to the universe: Day 5 in Europe: London England - Adventures with ...: So I wasn't able to blog yesterday because of lack of time. I did get some pictures, so I may do it later. But I probably won't. W...
Wednesday, November 28, 2018
Patricia and Johanna: Day 3 in Europe: Basel Switzerland:
Ultimately faith is the only key to the universe: Day 3 in Europe: Basel Switzerland: This morning I went to Mass again at St. Clara's church. The Mass was said in Swiss/German, and again I stayed for adoration. I the...
Patricia and Johanna: Day 2 in Europe: Basel Switzerland:
Ultimately faith is the only key to the universe: Day 2 in Europe: Basel Switzerland: This is the view from our breakfast table. A tugboat pushing a barge down the Rhine river. This church below is the Elisabethenkirche...
Monday, November 26, 2018
Patricia and Johanna: Day 1 in Europe: Basel Switzerland:
Ultimately faith is the only key to the universe: Day 1 in Europe: Basel Switzerland: Johanna and I are in Basel Switzerland for four days. We leave for London Thursday. We arrived here yesterday pretty tired from our overnig...
Bishop Morlino's remarkable letter - Fr. Mark Goring, CC
Bishop Morlino's remarkable letter - Fr. Mark Goring, CC
Rosary Mission Reminder
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Fr. Chris Eggleton,
Marian Devotional Movement,
MDM,
Rosary Mission Blessed Sacrament Parish
Tuesday, November 20, 2018
Run With Life: Educate your MP on abortion not being a Charter ri...
Run With Life: Educate your MP on abortion not being a Charter ri...:
[Name of Member of Parliament]
House of Commons
Ottawa, Ontario
Canada
K1A 0A6
Theresa Winchester recently sent this letter to Justin Trudeau and to her MP.
I will send a copy to my own MP as well. I encourage others to copy and also send to their MP, with a handwritten note on Theresa's letter. Something like this:
"I agree with the author of this letter to the PM. There is no Charter right to abortion in Canada".
"I agree with the author of this letter to the PM. There is no Charter right to abortion in Canada".
Sign your letter and print your mailing address on it. You can mail your letter postage free to:
[Name of Member of Parliament]
House of Commons
Ottawa, Ontario
Canada
K1A 0A6
Icon of Our Lady of Persecuted Christians at Annunciation of the Lord Parish, Ottawa, ON
Thanks to our Knights of Columbus, Council 2008, the Icon of Our Lady of Persecuted Christians will be present in our Church for veneration from Monday November 19th, to Sunday, November 25th. All are welcome to spend time with the Icon during the week. Prayer cards are available.
When I arrived at our Church for our Monday evening Prayer Meeting last evening around 7:10, I noticed the beautiful icon was already installed in the Church and there were several parishioners from Nazareth Family Living praying before Our Lord Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, so I stayed for a short time and prayed as well. A young lady was singing and playing lovely worship music on the piano and Father Dan Dubroy was hearing confessions. It was all very beautiful
Our Prayer Meeting is every Monday at 7:30 so last night Joan our Leader suggested we pray silently in the Church with the Nazareth Group who had organized this time of adoration . This is an opportunity you just don't want to pass up.
Thank you Lord for this very special time
Monday, November 19, 2018
Advent Rosary Mission - 2018 - Blessed Sacrament Parish - Ottawa ON
http://www.blessedsacrament.ca/
December 7th and 8th
SCHEDULE
Friday 9:30 AM Holy Mass
Friday 11:00 AM DnA Live with Fr. Chris
$5.00 Light Lunch To Follow – Hospitality Provided By The Queenship Of Mary
IMPORTANT! EMAIL –
INFO@BLESSEDSACRAMENT.CA –
TO RSVP FOR THE LIGHT LUNCH
INFO@BLESSEDSACRAMENT.CA –
TO RSVP FOR THE LIGHT LUNCH
Friday 7:15 PM – 9:15 PM talk 1
Saturday 9:30 AM Holy Mass (rosary at 9:00 AM)
Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception
Celebrated by Archbishop Terrence Prendergast
Saturday 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM talk #2
meet and greet
Saturday 7:15 PM – 9:15 PM talk #3
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Sunday, November 18, 2018
Run With Life: Archbishop Prendergast supports Fr. Tony's Charter...
Run With Life: Archbishop Prendergast supports Fr. Tony's Charter...: Fr. Tony received this beautiful note from the Most Reverend Terrence Prendergast, S.J. Archbishop of Ottawa regarding Fr. Tony's Chart...
Friday, November 16, 2018
St. Faustina’s Prayer for Priests
St. Faustina’s Prayer for Priests
“O my Jesus, I beg Thee on behalf of the whole Church:
Grant it love and the light of Your Spirit,
and give power to the words of priests
so that hardened hearts might be brought to repentance
and return to You, O Lord.
Grant it love and the light of Your Spirit,
and give power to the words of priests
so that hardened hearts might be brought to repentance
and return to You, O Lord.
Lord, give us holy priests;
You yourself maintain them in holiness.
O Divine and Great High Priest,
may the power of Your mercy accompany them everywhere
and protect them from the devil’s traps and snares
which are continually being set for the souls of priests.
You yourself maintain them in holiness.
O Divine and Great High Priest,
may the power of Your mercy accompany them everywhere
and protect them from the devil’s traps and snares
which are continually being set for the souls of priests.
May the power of Your mercy, O Lord, shatter and bring to naught
all that might tarnish the sanctity of priests,
for You can do all things.”
all that might tarnish the sanctity of priests,
for You can do all things.”
Thursday, November 15, 2018
Prayer for Persecuted Christians
Run With Life: Safe access to abortion services is never safe for...
Run With Life: Safe access to abortion services is never safe for...: Today Maureen and I joined Fr. Tony Van Hee witnessing outside the abortion bubble zone near the abortion site in Ottawa. It was a very cold..
Tuesday, November 13, 2018
The End of the Church as we know it - Fr. Mark Goring, CC
Lord Have mercy!
Monday, November 12, 2018
Run With Life: Donations to Fr. Tony Van Hee's case
Run With Life: Donations to Fr. Tony Van Hee's case: Some people are not comfortable making on-line donations for Fr. Tony's case against the bubble zone. As an alternative, you can writ...
Saturday, November 10, 2018
Overview of Ottawa's 2018 40 Days for Life Campaign
Dear 40 Days Reps and Friends:
It is with gratitude that I convey my sincere appreciation and thankfulness to all 40 Days Reps who took on this important and vital role in this fall’s campaign.
All your efforts are valued and have contributed to at times a logistically challenging campaign in church and ministry group participation this year.
Outreach to churches and ministry groups began in late July. From this outreach, 28 churches, 3 ministry groups, and 1 small faith community committed to vigil day participation. Overall, 26.5 of the 40 days were committed vigil days, slightly down from overall vigil coverage last year. Special thanks to St. Hyacinth Parish, for committing to 2 separate vigil days this year. That was a first in our history of doing these campaigns.
As in previous years, efforts were made in other church communities to organize or strengthen themselves to eventually participate in a vigil day. Hopefully this will materialize with prayerful persistence and with exhortations of our pro-life responsibilities as people of faith.
We benefited from the intercessory prayer role of church communities that were either very small or very far out from downtown Ottawa.
As in previous years, there were committed individuals who helped out with a regular almost daily prayer vigil presence in covering uncommitted hours.
Thank You to all the clergy: pastors, assistant pastors, deacons, and religious sisters who participated in the vigil; your prayerful presence encourages the rest of us.
Given the logistical challenges of recurring thefts of our vigil site supplies throughout this campaign, the overall coverage of vigil hour participation is not fully known. Not all on-site vigil participation got recorded in our sign-in book. Based on the current posted website calendar, there was 82% coverage of the 480 total vigil hours. This is down from our 91% coverage in past campaigns. At the same time, we know that the 82% coverage was most likely higher because of vigil presences not recorded especially on uncommitted days.
In the pro-life movement, over the past decade, one of the most effective spiritual instruments God has been leading us in, are 40 Days for Life Campaigns. God has been encouraging us to keep on doing these campaigns, and as of Monday, Nov 5th, 414 known lives have been saved through this fall’s campaign. To God be all the glory! The final international results will be known later this month.
Given the current legislation criminalizing free speech and expression outside abortion facilities in Ontario it is tempting to grow fatigued in our enthusiasm and resolve to participate whole-heartedly in these campaigns.
However, it may well be that God is testing our resolve to participate fully in these public prayer vigil campaigns, after over a decade of doing them in Ottawa. With the current bubble zone restriction, do we slacken in our participation or do we keep on labouring? In my view, our response should be tied directly to our reality.
Which is: on average 1 in 5 babies are aborted in the womb; there are an estimated 100,000 abortions a day, and over 45 million abortions a year worldwide. In Canada, there are approximately 280 babies a day lost to surgical abortion, and this number does not include chemical abortions. These estimated overall numbers are declining somewhat in recent years, but they are nonetheless staggering. Abortion remains the leading cause of death in this country. At its root, abortion is a spiritual crisis, and 40 Days campaigns are a strong spiritual response to this pervasive crisis.
Comfortable Christianity and comfortable Catholicism isn’t an option with what is happening under our watch, because we know what our obligations are to those little ones that do not have a voice.
Please keep praying and challenging more of our pro-life brothers and sisters to support us with their sacrifices and prayer presence at the vigil site during our fall campaigns. We need them.
I will end with this short prayer taken from the daily devotionals of the American 40 Days Headquarters report on Canadian vigil sites in Ontario.
Father, help us to embrace the fact that we are our "brother’s keeper." When we try to cast off this responsibility please call to us to account, that we would be pleasing to you and to our "brother." Through the help and grace of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen.
Thank you so much for your participation in this year’s campaign.
For the least of our brethren,
Helena Szakowski
Church and Ministry Co-ordinator
Ottawa’s 2018 – 40 Days for Life Campaign
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Our Lady of The Cape - DnA Journal Episode - November 15
Thursday November 15 at 8:30 Pm
Friday, November 9, 2018
Wednesday, November 7, 2018
Abortion vs. Immigration: Are They Morally Equivalent in the Voting Booth?
https://churchpop.com/2018/11/06/abortion-vs-immigration-are-they-morally-equivalent-in-the-voting-booth-this-priest-explains/
“The Catholic voter must seek, above every other consideration, to protect the common good by opposing practices which attack its very foundations, thus in weighing all of the social conditions which pertain to the common good, we must safeguard, before all else,the good of human life, and the good of marriage and the family.”
Cardinal Raymond Burke
Cardinal Raymond Burke
Monday, November 5, 2018
Viganò confirmed by Sullins report - Fr. Mark Goring, CC
Now is the time to straighten out the Church
Saturday, November 3, 2018
Run With Life: Educating MPs on the United Nations Convention on ...
Run With Life: Educating MPs on the United Nations Convention on ...:
Letter from Theresa Winchester to her MP Neil Ellis
Letter from Theresa Winchester to her MP Neil Ellis
Letter from Theresa Winchester to her MP Neil Ellis
Just thought I'd write to you to remind you that Human Rights Day is coming up on Dec 10, same as every year for some time now. Friday, November 2, 2018
40 Days for Life Ottawa, Closing Rally, Sunday, November 4, 2018
We are coming to the conclusion of the 2018 – 40 Days
for Life campaign
If you want to join the prayer vigil at Queen and Bank
streets one more time before we end for this year, you can still come out to
pray on Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 7 am to 7 pm.
This weekend we have a time change. Remember to fall
back one hour.
Please join us for the closing rally on Sunday,
November 4. We are gathering on Queen St. at Bank St. at 7:00 pm. Everyone is
welcome.
We are pleased to have as our guest speaker, Rev. John
Counsell, a dynamic leader in Ottawa’s Christian community.
At 7:30 pm we will have a candle light procession to
St. Patrick’s Basilica for a reception. And we will conclude at 9:00 pm.
Come out and meet your fellow prayer warriors and
share your experiences over the last 40 days.
Yours for Life,
Wanda
Wanda Hartlin
Co-ordinator
40 Days for Life, Ottawa
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