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26 In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth,
27 to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin’s name was Mary.
28 And he came to her and said, “Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with you!”
29 But she was greatly troubled at the saying, and considered in her mind what sort of greeting this might be.
30 And the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God.
31 And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus.
32 He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Most High; and the Lord God will give to him the throne of his father David,
33 and he will reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there will be no end.”
34 And Mary said to the angel, “How shall this be, since I have no husband?”
35 And the angel said to her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be called holy, the Son of God.
36 And behold, your kinswoman Elizabeth in her old age has also conceived a son; and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren.
37 For with God nothing will be impossible.”
38 And Mary said, “Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord; let it be to me according to your word.” And the angel departed from her.

Man works thinking only of today. You must see things with the eyes of eternity without that mad urge for material things. From this will come peace and calmness and you will give life and vigor to ever so many without loosing your own vitality.

– St. Josemaria Escriva

From the epistles of Saint Paul we can see how important the ministry of devout women was for his apostolic work.  In the sixteenth chapter of the Epistle to the Romans, for example, he calls Phoebe a “deaconess” of the church at Cenchreae and notes that she was a benefactress to many, including himself.  What kind of woman must she have been that the Apostle confers on her the liturgical title of diakon [deacon, servant, minister]!  Granted, he does not use the term in the sacramental sense that it has today, but his use of it expresses, in consequence, an even deeper appreciation of this spiritual ministry.  It is also the title he uses by preference in referring to himself as a diakon  of the New Covenant in 2 Corinthians 6:4 and as a diakon  of Christ in 2 Corinthinans 11:23.  Whoever reads this will immediately realize that such women were not wronged or unappreciated because they could not be priests or apostles; he will realize that precisely as women they participated in a very special and indispensable manner in the building up of the Church.  Paul never said of a man what he writes here about Phoebe, namely, that she had become his patron and benefactor.  In the same vein he adds a greeting also to the mother of Rufus, who, he writes, had become “a mother to me also” (Rom 16:13).  In the preceding sentence he greets “the beloved Persis, who has worked hard in the Lord”.  In these women and in many others whom Scripture - especially the Gospels - mentions, Mary’s role is revealed from manifold perspectives.  The religious congregations of women are the permanent continuation and realization of the mystery of Mary in the Church.

From: Ordinariatskorrespondenz, no. 24, 1978 

Bel Air, MD - All charges have been dropped against the eighteen pro-lifers who were unjustly arrested on August 1, 2008, during the Maryland Face the Truth Tour (see: ).
Harford County’s State Attorney Joe Cassilly dismissed the charges earlier this week against eight adults and ten teenagers, who had been arrested without warning during a peaceful public pro-life testimony in Bel Air, Maryland, during the last stop on a tour sponsored by Defend Life.

While none of those taken into custody were told why they were being arrested, they were later charged with loitering, failure to obey a lawful order, and disorderly conduct.

“This decision by the State of Maryland to drop the charges shows that our side of the story was the true story,” said Defend Life Director Jack Ames, who was among those arrested. “There were no traffic jams. There were no people running in and out of traffic. There was no refusal to disperse. They plainly and simply violated our First Amendment rights!” 

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Aug 23, 2008
11:00 am	to	4:00 pm

Dear Friend in Christ,

Upcoming Event: St. Padre Pio Day – August 23, 2008 (five seats left on the Manhattan bus)

What: This is the 29th Annual Padre Pio Day at the National Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima in Washington, NJ. This is a day of prayer and reparation: there will be confessions, adoration, and Mass. The main celebrant is Bishop Tilman from Scranton, PA and the homilist is Fr. Andrew Apostoli, CFR.

When: Saturday, August 23, 2008 from 11am-4pm

Where: National Blue Army Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima in Washington, NJ.

Details: Buses leave from St. Agnes Church in Manhattan, 43rd Street between 3rd and Lexington Avenue. Time of departure will be 8:30am sharp. Cost of the trip is $25. For reservations, please contact Mario Bruschi at 917-597-3453. Bring your own lunch or you can purchase lunch at the refreshments stand on the shrine grounds.

1 And again Jesus spoke to them in parables, saying,
2 “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a marriage feast for his son,
3 and sent his servants to call those who were invited to the marriage feast; but they would not come.
4 Again he sent other servants, saying, `Tell those who are invited, Behold, I have made ready my dinner, my oxen and my fat calves are killed, and everything is ready; come to the marriage feast.’
5 But they made light of it and went off, one to his farm, another to his business,
6 while the rest seized his servants, treated them shamefully, and killed them.
7 The king was angry, and he sent his troops and destroyed those murderers and burned their city.
8 Then he said to his servants, `The wedding is ready, but those invited were not worthy.
9 Go therefore to the thoroughfares, and invite to the marriage feast as many as you find.’
10 And those servants went out into the streets and gathered all whom they found, both bad and good; so the wedding hall was filled with guests.
11 “But when the king came in to look at the guests, he saw there a man who had no wedding garment;
12 and he said to him, `Friend, how did you get in here without a wedding garment?’ And he was speechless.
13 Then the king said to the attendants, `Bind him hand and foot, and cast him into the outer darkness; there men will weep and gnash their teeth.’
14 For many are called, but few are chosen.”

Truly we are passing through disastrous times, when we may well make our own the lamentation of the Prophet: “There is no truth, and there is no mercy, and there is no knowledge of God in the land” (Hosea 4:1). Yet in the midst of this tide of evil, the Virgin Most Merciful rises before our eyes like a rainbow, as the arbiter of peace between God and man.

– St. Pius X

The Church assumed that everyone who celebrated Mass would have to say: “I have sinned, Lord; look not upon my sins.”  It was obligatory invocation of every priest. Like every other priest, the bishops, even the pope, had to recite it in their daily Mass.  The laity, too - all the other members of the Church - were called upon to unite themselves with that confession of guilt.  Consequently, all who were in the Church, without exception, had to acknowledge their sinfulness, ask forgiveness, and set themselves on the road that led to genuine conversion.  But this in no way meant that the Church as such was also a sinner.  The Church is a reality that surpasses the sum of her members in a mysterious and , at the same time, infinite way. 

In fact, in order to obtain Christ’s forgiveness, one must set over against one’s own sins the faith of Christ’s Church.  Today, however, many theologians, priests, and members of the laity seem to have forgotten this.  It is not only the change from I to we, from personal responsibility to emphasis on the collective element.  It is rather the reverse that seems to be spontaneously understood by us today, as though we would say: “Look not upon the sins of the Church but upon my faith.”  If this were actually to happen, the consequences would be drastic: the sins of individuals would become the sins of the Church, and faith would be reduced to a personal matter, to my own way of understanding and accepting God and his demands.  I really fear that this is today a widespread manner of feeling and thinking.  It is a further sign of how greatly the common Catholic consciousness has, in many places, distanced itself from an authentic understanding of the Church.

From: Zur Lage des Glaubens, pp. 52-53

With a single stroke of the pen, the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) would wipe away virtually every state law on abortion nationwide, allowing abortion-on-demand in all nine months of pregnancy for any reason and without any restrictions.

Twenty-four Senators (including Sen. Barack Obama) and 108 U.S. Representatives have co-sponsored this “Freedom of Choice Act.” The stated aim of this legislation is to “end the abortion wars.”

To these legislators, “ending the abortion wars” means allowing abortion for any reason, at any time, without restriction or regulation. This would eradicate state and federal laws that the majority of Americans support, such as:

• Bans on Partial Birth Abortion;
• Requirements that women be given information about the risks of getting an abortion;
• Only licensed physicians can perform abortions;
• Parents must be informed and give consent to their minor daughter’s abortion.

FOCA would erase these laws and prevent states from enacting similar protective measures in the future.

Americans United for Life (AUL), a pro-life law and policy organization, has prepared an analysis of the “Freedom of Choice Act.” Please click here to read AUL Vice President Denise Burke’s analysis of this horrendous legislation.

A key first step in fighting FOCA is to raise awareness and garner attention to what FOCA says and does.

Add your name to the FOCA petition.

1 “For the kingdom of heaven is like a householder who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.
2 After agreeing with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard.
3 And going out about the third hour he saw others standing idle in the market place;
4 and to them he said, `You go into the vineyard too, and whatever is right I will give you.’ So they went.
5 Going out again about the sixth hour and the ninth hour, he did the same.
6 And about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing; and he said to them, `Why do you stand here idle all day?’
7 They said to him, `Because no one has hired us.’ He said to them, `You go into the vineyard too.’
8 And when evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his steward, `Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last, up to the first.’
9 And when those hired about the eleventh hour came, each of them received a denarius.
10 Now when the first came, they thought they would receive more; but each of them also received a denarius.
11 And on receiving it they grumbled at the householder,
12 saying, `These last worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat.’
13 But he replied to one of them, `Friend, I am doing you no wrong; did you not agree with me for a denarius?
14 Take what belongs to you, and go; I choose to give to this last as I give to you.
15 Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or do you begrudge my generosity?’
16 So the last will be first, and the first last.”

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