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Friday, September 30, 2011

POPE BENEDICT XVI'S PRAYER INTENTIONS FOR OCTOBER

VATICAN CITY, 30 SEP 2011 (VIS) - Pope Benedict's general prayer intention for October is: "That the terminally ill may be supported by their faith in God and the love of their brothers and sisters".

  His mission intention is: "That the celebration of World Mission Day may foster in the People of God a passion for evangelisation with the willingness to support the missions with prayer and economic aid for the poorest Churches".
BXVI-PRAYER INTENTIONS/                                                       VIS 20110930 (80)


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Saint Therese of Lisieux Novena 2011.......Day Nine


Today is day nine, the final day of the novena to Saint Therese of Lisieux. Come and join in the novena at Pray More Novena's.

If you go to the site, you will find all the prayers for the novena, as well as the intentions of many people.

There are over 450 prayer intentions posted for this novena. You can go to read these intentions and post your own as well here.

Thursday, September 29, 2011

Saint Therese of Lisieux Novena 2011.......Day Eight


Today is day eight of the novena to Saint Therese of Lisieux. Come and join in the novena at Pray More Novena's. One more day of our joining with other Catholics from around the world in praying this novena remain after today.

If you go to the site, you will find all the prayers for the novena, as well as the intentions of many people.

Join us, and over 5,000 people from around the world in praying this novena to "The Little Flower".

There are over 450 prayer intentions posted for this novena. You can go to read these intentions and post your own as well here.

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Saint Therese of Lisieux Novena 2011... Day Seven


 Once more, it's time to go to Pray More Novena's, and join in the novena to Saint Therese of Lisieux. Today is day seven of the novena. Two more days of our joining with other Catholics from around the world in praying this novena remain.

If you go to the site, you will find all the prayers for the novena, as well as the intentions of many people.

Join us, and the other 5,000 people from around the world in praying this novena to "The Little Flower".

There are over 450 prayer intentions posted for this novena. You can go to read these intentions and post your own as well here.

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Saint Therese of Lisieux Novena 2011... Day Six


 It's time to go to Pray More Novena's, and join in the novena to Saint Therese of Lisieux. Today is day six of the novena.


If you go to the site, you will find all the prayers for the novena, as well as the intentions of many people.

Join us, and the other 5,000 people from around the world in praying this novena to "The Little Flower".

There are over 450 prayer intentions posted for this novena. You can go to read these intentions and post your own as well here.

Monday, September 26, 2011

Saint Therese of Lisieux Novena 2011... Day 5


 If you haven't been yet, let's go to Pray More Novena's, and join in the novena to Saint Therese of Lisieux. Today is day five of the novena.


If you go to the site, you will find all the prayers for the novena, as well as the intentions of many people.

Join us, and the other 5,000 people from around the world in praying this novena to "The Little Flower".

There are over 450 prayer intentions posted for this novena. You can go to read these intentions and post your own as well here.

Sunday, September 25, 2011

Saint Therese of Lisieux Novena 2011... Day 4



Please remember to go to Pray More Novena's, and join in the novena to Saint Therese of Lisieux. Today is day four of the novena.

If you go to the site, you will find all the prayers for the novena, as well as the intentions of many people.

Join us, and the other 5,000 people from around the world in praying this novena to "The Little Flower".

There are over 450 prayer intentions posted for this novena. You can go to read these intentions and post your own as well here.

Saturday, September 24, 2011

Saint Therese of Lisieux Novena 2011... Day Three


Let's not forget to go to Pray More Novena's, and join in the novena to Saint Therese of Lisieux. Today is the third day of the novena.

If you go to the site, you will find all the prayers for the novena, as well as the intentions of many people.

Join us, and the other 5,000 people from around the world in praying this novena to "The Little Flower".

Also, there are over 450 prayer intentions posted for this novena. You can go to read these intentions and post your own as well here.

Friday, September 23, 2011

Saint Therese of Lisieux Novena 2011... Day Two


Don't forget to go to Pray More Novena's, and join in the novena to Saint Therese of Lisieux. Today is the second day of the novena.

If you go to the site, you will find all the prayers for the novena, as well as the intentions of many people.

Join us in praying this novena to "The Little Flower".

Also, there are over 450 prayer intentions posted for this novena. You can go to read these intentions and post your own as well here.

Thursday, September 22, 2011

Saint Therese of Lisieux Novena 2011...Today is Day One



Don't forget to go to Pray More Novena's, and join in the novena to Saint Therese of Lisieux.

If you go to the site, you will find all the prayers for the novena, as well as the intentions of many people.


Join us in praying this novena to "The Little Flower".

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

CNS STORY: Tribunal studies healing attributed to intercession of Archbishop Sheen

 A short excerpt from a story from "Catholic News Service:
  • "Considered stillborn one year ago after his mother's healthy pregnancy and "a beautiful, short labor," James was without a pulse for the first 61 minutes of his life. It was only when doctors at OSF St. Francis Medical Center in Peoria were ready to call the time of death that his little heart started beating."

Click the link below to read the whole article:

CNS STORY: Tribunal studies healing attributed to intercession of Archbishop Sheen

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Saturday's Mass will feature preview of revised Missal's new musical settings

Saturday's Mass will feature preview of revised Missal's new musical settings

2011 Eucharistic Congress


The following link will take you to a website with complete information on the 2011 Eucharistic Congress hosted by the Diocese of Charlotte, NC.
2011 Eucharistic Congress

Monday, September 19, 2011

Saint Therese of Lisieux Novena 2011



I will be joining over 3600 Catholics to pray the St. Therese Novena.
I thought that perhaps regular readers of “Faith of the Fathers” blogs would like to join us in praying the novena, too.
There are thousands of people praying through this novena website and there will be millions praying around the world.
+ Sign up for handy email reminders to get the the novena prayers here: St. Therese Novena
+ If you have a website or blog, post about it there.
+ Email your friends and family and get them praying too!
Let’s get all the Catholics we know to pray this novena together to St. Therese.

Remember, the last thing the enemy wants any of us to do is pray, and certainly not for us to pray in unity through one of God's saints. So let's pray together, and give the enemy one more reason to quake in fear.

Saturday, September 17, 2011

College Campus Censorship: Abortion Activists Don't Trust Women | LifeNews.com


The following comes from this article on LifeNews.com:

  • Even if one agreed (which we don’t, of course) that a woman has the right to choose abortion, isn’t it a worthy conversation to talk about what results from that “choice”, both individually and societally? Obesity, anorexia, and bulimia are all the resultants of food “choice”. Should we shut down all conversation about those destructive consequences simply because people have the right to eat?  When I tried to engage these protesters to discuss the results of those choices (high abortion rates, poverty, fatherlessness) they could only respond with more chanting.
  • This attempt at censorship goes way beyond silencing prolife speech. Americans need to be concerned about the dangerous environment our nation’s colleges and universities have become that allow such behavior to quell freedom of expression. Unbeknownst to me, Lance Wheeler, of CampusReform.org, captured the whole bizarre scene on video. He works for The Leadership Institute, which launched the college campus watchdog group to visually document liberal censorship across the country.
Click below to read the entire article.

College Campus Censorship: Abortion Activists Don't Trust Women | LifeNews.com

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

COMMUNIQUE CONCERNING THE SOCIETY OF ST. PIUS X



VATICAN CITY, 14 SEP 2011 (VIS) - At midday today the Holy See Press Office released the following communique concerning the postion of the Society of St. Pius X:

  "On 14 September at the offices of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Cardinal William Joseph Levada, prefect of the congregation and president of the Pontifical Commission 'Ecclesia Dei'; Archbishop Luis Francisco Ladaria Ferrer S.J., secretary of the congregation, and Msgr. Guido Pozzo, secretary of the pontifical commission, met with Bishop Bernard Fellay, superior general of the Society of St. Pius X, who was accompanied by Fr. Niklaus Pfluger and Fr. Alain-Marc Nely, respectively first and second assistant general to the society.

  "Following the appeal of 15 December 2008, addressed by the superior general of the Society of St. Pius X to His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI, the Holy Father decided to remove the excommunication against the four bishops consecrated by Archbishop Lefebvre. At the same time, he approved the opening of discussions with the society in order to clarify doctrinal problems and to heal the existing rift.

  "In order to put the Holy Father's instructions into effect, a joint study commission was set up, composed of experts from the Society of St. Pius X and from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith who met in Rome on eight occasions between October 2009 and April 2011. Their discussions, which aimed to identify and study the essential doctrinal difficulties in the controversial issues, had the result of clarifying the positions of the two sides and their respective motivations.

  "While bearing in mind the concerns and demands presented by the Society of St. Pius X about protecting the integrity of the Catholic faith against Vatican Council II's 'hermeneutic of rupture' with Tradition (a theme addressed by Pope Benedict XVI in his address to the Roman Curia on 22 December 2005), the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith maintains that the fundamental basis for achieving full reconciliation with the Apostolic See is the acceptance of the text of the Doctrinal Preamble, which was handed over during a meeting on 14 September 2011. The Preamble defines certain doctrinal principles and criteria for the interpretation Catholic doctrine, which are necessary to ensure faithfulness to the Church Magisterium and 'sentire cum Ecclesia'. At the same time, it leaves open to legitimate discussion the examination and theological explanation of individual expressions and formulations contained in the documents of Vatican Council II and later Magisterium.

  "At the same meeting, certain suggestions were made for a canonical solution to the position of the Society of St. Pius X, with a view to achieving the desired reconciliation".
OP/                                                                                                   VIS 20110914 (450)


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Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Catholic Culture : Latest Headlines : Vatican, SSPX close to agreement?

Catholic Culture : Latest Headlines : Vatican, SSPX close to agreement?

Monday, September 12, 2011

Senator Santorum dominates CNN/Tea Party Debate

Senator Santorum dominates CNN/Tea Party Debate

Saturday, September 10, 2011

Why I Won't Watch (or Listen To) The 9-11 Memorial Service



With this being the ten year anniversary of the terrorist attacks on 9-11, one would hope that it would be a somber, reverent occasion. Somber it may be, but hardly any reverence is to be expected. 

This ten year "memorial service" has had reverence thrown out the front door, when Mayor Bloomberg decided to exclude the clergy. Not only that, the New York Police Department and Fire Departments have also been excluded as well. As far as I know, the Port Authority Police won't be there either.

As it has been so aptly pointed out numerous times by people more well known than myself, the police and fire departments weren't exactly invited the day of the attacks, but they showed up....did their jobs...and many lost their lives as a result.

It has also been pointed out, that Mayor Bloomberg's predecessor Rudy Giuliani made it a point to call Cardinal Edward Egan, Archbishop Emeritus of New York. Cardinal Edward Egan went immediately where for the next several days he would be anointing the dead, distributing rosaries to workers as they searched for survivors, and presiding over funerals. 

As a Christian, I can not fathom a memorial service with no clergy. I can fathom no memorial service where the police, firemen, and other first responders are excluded from giving honor and remembrance to their fallen comrades.

Do the politicians really and truly believe that they can take the place of excluded clergy? Do they think that they can take the place of the NYPD and NYFD to offer proper remembrance and honor to all the fallen first responders? Do the politicians think that they can comfort those who lost parents, sons, daughters, brothers and sisters?

I sure don't have as much faith in politicians as polticians seem to have faith in themselves. I expect this memorial service to turn into a political fiasco. I have a feeling, that this is going to turn into one big political campaign rally, with ample reminders from the media and the politicans present, that President Obama was the one who "got" Osama bin Laden, the "mastermind" behind the attacks.

Nope. If the NYPD, NYFD, first responders and the clergy are excluded, this is one American who won't be watching the politicians puff out their chests and make their grand proclamations. I have had enough of their grandstanding as it is. Don't need any more.

A Minor Change Or Two

I made a couple of changes to the blogs (most have the changes) and wanted to let "Faith of the Fathers" readers know about them.

First of all, I have taken the Welcome Page, Privacy Policy, etc., from the sidebar and moved them to the top of page as tabs located just under the title header of each blog. You can click the picture to enlarge it if you like.

I think it makes them more noticeable, especially since some advertisers whose ads appear on these blogs require a  "Privacy Policy" on websites and blogs where their ads appear.

The second change was for the "blogroll" or bloglists for Faith of the Fathers Blogs and My Favorite Catholic blogs, etc.. The list of favorite blogs was getting longer and longer, and as a result the load times for the blogs was also getting longer and longer.


This is the new "look" for the blogs lists and for the links for Faith of the Fathers blogs as well. Yes, just a good old fashioned scroll bar. The most  recently updated blogs appear first in the list, which means a blog showing listed first now, may not be a few minutes later. No blogs have been removed from the list, you just have to scroll down to find them.

This has made the pages load a bit faster (or so it seems to me, anyway), and prevents a l-o-n-g list taking up an entire sidebar.

I hope this makes the blogs better, and I appreciate all the subscribers and regular readers of Faith of the Fathers blogs.

One last thing, we now have a Facebook Page for "Faith of the Fathers" blogs, which you can go to here, and click the "Like" button. We still have our Group on Facebook here as well. Both get regular "updates" for new posts on all of our blogs, so if you are on Facebook you might want to join the group or "Like" our new page.

Once again, thank you to all of our readers and subscribers. We appreciate your support.

Saturday, September 03, 2011

Pro-Choice to Pro-Life . . . in Seconds!

The following clip is a from a documentary that will premiere September 26, 2011. You can watch the premiere on that day by going here 180 movie.com

Thursday, September 01, 2011

POPE BENEDICT XVI'S PRAYER INTENTIONS FOR SEPTEMBER 2011

 
 
VATICAN CITY, 1 SEP 2011 (VIS) - Pope Benedict's general prayer intention for September is: "That all teachers may know how to communicate love of the truth and instil authentic moral and spiritual values".

  His mission intention is: "That the Christian communities of Asia may proclaim the Gospel with fervour, witnessing to its beauty with the joy of faith".
BXVI-PRAYER INTENTIONS/                                                       VIS 20110901 (70)

You can find more information at: www.visnews.org

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