Confirmation...

1. deepens divine filiation, unites us more firmly to Christ.
2. increases the gifts of the Holy Spirit in us.
3. establishes more perfect bond with the Church.
4. gives the special strength of the Spirit to profess/defend the faith

Sacramental CPR

 Each session will help you, the S/CPR participant, . . . to pray/think on/develop your “fire and zeal” and to act, specifically, as to an area of your life where such heat / energy / grace (“GracEnergy”) is (a) less than the energy-filled kind that Christ’s Sacraments bless us with and  (b) how we can gain more “divinely-appointed nourishment” to infuse us and to sustain us – namely, from the S/Penance, or Reconciliation, and S/Eucharist. 

The Four (4) Workshops

 1.  “Confirmation deepens divine filiation, unites us more firmly to Christ.”  [e1abE]

To keep the “filiation” intact and robust and truthful and kind, we’ve got to have continual discernment (see my 7-30-06, 5:36 a, p 3/4)

[I learned, yesterday, in a WFME-94.7 teaching, that in Scripture Jehovah, LORD, is always capitalized; this fits my unanswered Q/A with Msgr. F re what I said , then, to read, “Lord, Lord.” The A ought to have been, Yes there is a difference for the Christian! When we/I see and say and hear and think those two Names as for Jesus, as Son, and G-d, as Father, thus the “Lord, LORD.” ]

Text/Readings: Catechism of the Catholic Church, in full or in the Compendium edition.

Pope Benedict XVI, “God is Love,” 2006 Encyclical

                   “The Seven Essentials of the New Evangelization” (“7eE”) This is an article by now-Cardinal Avery Dulles based on a talk he gave as a 20 year retrospective on the 1967 encyclical, Evangelii Nuntiandi, of Pope Paul VI.

2.  “Confirmation increases the gifts of the Holy Spirit in us.”   [e1cE]

Consider the gift of “Admonish the sinner.” One has to admit, “This is so very difficult!” Scripture ( n. ______ ) tells us, about  “the speck in your brother’s eye, and the boulder in  our own eye”!

But consider this story.

This “silver in God’s fire” story is perfect for describing { the * in PSC* as the apogee of one’s life } how God turns fires in life – even if set by Enemies of GoOD – in so many episodes in one’s life, to “silver.” I / We, as “acting person(s)” must come to fully appreciate this about God and our chastising struggles in life. I / We come to say, “I know that you, Lord, LORD, smile J upon something  proclaimed or acted upon, maybe, even, completed by me / us. It is then that we/I know, God proclaims – maybe in “a still, small voice;” maybe in a word by someone with whom we are acting  or someone who was . . . visited in prison by you! God: “I see my image in you / it." or “I see God’s image in what you, --- Your Name Here -- , just did for the glory of God.”

Here is part of the story. The entire story is in Workshop 2 Appendices.

The woman thought about God holding us in such a hot spot; then she
>>thought again about the verse that says: "He sits as a refiner and
>>purifier of silver." She asked the silversmith if it was true that
>>he had to sit there in front of the fire the whole time the silver
>>was being refined. The man answered that yes, he not only had to
>>sit there holding the silver, but he had to keep his eyes on the
>>silver the entire time it was in the fire. If the silver was left a
>>moment too long in the flames, it would be destroyed.
>>
>>The woman was silent for a moment. Then she asked the silversmith,
>>"How do you know when the silver is fully refined?" He smiled at
>>her and answered, "Oh, that's easy -- when I see my image in it."
>>
>>If today you are feeling the heat of the fire, remember that God
>>has his eye on you and will keep watching you until He sees His
>>image in you.

Text/Readings: [ Christefidelis Laici  ], Encyclical of Pope John Paul II

 3.  “Confirmation . . . more perfect bond with the Church.”  [ e2E ]

 Text/Readings:

Erasmus, Handbook of the Militant Christian (Enchiridion Militis Christiani) 1501, Translated with an introductory essay by John P. Dolan, Ph.D., Fides Publishers, Notre Dame, Indiana 1962 Nihil Obstat & Imprimatur given.

4.  “Confirmation . . . special strength of the spirit to profess [ our faith ] and defend the faith"  [e3,4,5,6,7E]  

n. . . . with St. Paul and Fr. Issac Hecker, “I have run my race, ______,  I have kept the faith {See these words in St. Paul the Apostle Church, 57 St. NYC. Mother church of the Paulist Fathers (C.S.P.) and place of the sarcophagus of IH.)  

 Text/Readings:

____________

 Special note for how this program cross-applies to the entire “seed of Abraham,” that is, to Ishmaelites, or Arabians, Israelites, or Hebrews, all Christian denominations, Muslims, to include Sunnis, Shiites and . . . Sufis, as well as to all those who, as the Salem, or Jerusalem, priest-king, Melchizedek, founded their faith in belief and practice of worship of the “Most High LORD” – the Great Spirit of so many indigenous, Native peoples, worldwide!!

 Jesus made Religion very simple, “Love G-d, and love your neighbor as yourself,” which included, “Love one another, as I have loved you.” “Keep to G-d’s Commandments.”

Paul, the Apostle to the Gentiles, and model evangelist for all believers in the Holy One of Israel, preached very clearly, that in the eyes of the LORD there is no Greek nor Jew, Master nor Slave, man nor woman, rich nor poor; sons and daughters are we, each of us, to G-d.

 Finally, it was Pope John Paul II, in his talk before the leaders of all religions in a meeting in Assisi, Italy – which he convened in [ 2001 ] – who said, Each person is free to choose his/her religion, and more recently, Pope Benedict XVI, who said, “Religion cannot be spread by the sword.”

 In no way do I propose this S/CPR Program – in any of its religious formats - as one to be taught for the leaders of any faith body; they have enuf problems keeping their flocks intact! This project is for hardy souls – “militant” believers in the LORD of Hosts __ who are 100% absolutely convinced, as I am, that G-d cries out for us to love one another and all Creation! Butt, saying that, these same “hardy souls” ought also to understand this element of this S/CPR effort: We will not tolerate anyone purposely putting any of God’s Creation, among humanity or in Nature, in any minute situation where he/she/they/it are in any need of CPR! Moses (Gen. __: __ ) showed the way in this by having “sanctuaries” where inveterate murderers and criminals lived among themselves:  Beware, those of you, who would disrupt the peace, who cannot abide a society under Psalm 85, “a place where truth and kindness embrace, justice and peace kiss;” a place where people live under a G-d -- whether or not YOU so believe – Who, as described in Psalm 84, is “the sun and shield” of all.  

Workshop Appendices

 Workshop 1

 Workshop 2

 {See this originally added to .doc in Religion Folder, Temporal matters . . . ]

. . . Excellent for *7-L – { New: Note the “mirror image” effect when we look at a Word in the mirror – and the person is held upside down at childbirth ] This story, per Malachi 3: 3 – and see what I found, yesterday in Holy People, Holy Land –  so well describe the process of living and doing our Calling – in the “fire of Divine Love.” Thus, we live in the way of the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, as long as we know of and persist in G-d’s  G O o D Crucible J and, by such example, build the Earth – edify all temporal, material matters –  by “Thy Will as it is in Heaven” – the same work and wait is called for, until . . . “Then she asked the silversmith, "How do you know when the silver is fully refined?" He smiled at
>>her and answered, "Oh, that's easy -- when I see my image in it."

Subject: Malachi 3:3 for everyone.
>>
>>Malachi 3:3 says: "He will sit as a refiner and purifier of
>>silver."
>>This verse puzzled some women in a Bible study and they wondered
>>what this statement meant about the character and nature of God.
>>One of the women offered to find out the process of refining silver
>>and get back to the group at their next Bible Study.
>>
>>That week, the woman called a silversmith and made an appointment
>>to watch him at work. She didn't mention anything about the reason
>>for her interest beyond her curiosity about the process of refining
>>silver.  As she watched the silversmith, he held apiece of silver
>>over the fire and let it heat up. He explained that in refining
>>silver, one needed to hold the silver in the middle of the fire
>>where the flames were hottest as to burn away all the impurities.
>>
>>The woman thought about God holding us in such a hot spot; then she
>>thought again about the verse that says: "He sits as a refiner and
>>purifier of silver." She asked the silversmith if it was true that
>>he had to sit there in front of the fire the whole time the silver
>>was being refined. The man answered that yes, he not only had to
>>sit there holding the silver, but he had to keep his eyes on the
>>silver the entire time it was in the fire. If the silver was left a
>>moment too long in the flames, it would be destroyed.
>>
>>The woman was silent for a moment. Then she asked the silversmith,
>>"How do you know when the silver is fully refined?" He smiled at
>>her and answered, "Oh, that's easy -- when I see my image in it."
>>
>>If today you are feeling the heat of the fire, remember that God
>>has his eye on you and will keep watching you until He sees His
>>image in you.
>>
>>Please pass this on right now. This very moment, someone needs to
>>know that God is watching over them. And, whatever they're going
>>through, they'll be a better person in the end. "Life is a coin.
>>You can spend it anyway you wish, but you can only spend it once."
>>>  

Workshop 3

Workshop 4

 What follows, as mentioned above, is a flyer that was placed – with permission of the Holy Name of Mary Church pastor, Fr. Michael Keane, a Fourth Degree Sir Knight – in the HNM bulletin by its Legion of Mary!

 The flyer can be re-done and used as a S/CPR invitation by any group who cares to sponsor S/CPR!

 An invitation for you, from the Legion of Mary, Holy Name of Mary Church

 Come, participate . . .

 Help us to develop a New Ministry in Adult Re-Evangelization with a Sacramental CPR Program. We will work with each other to resuscitate the Graces of Confirmation in our 22-35 year old, Confirmed Catholic men and women.

 Come to a  LOM meeting on Weds. 7:15 pm, in the HNM Reconciliation Room, or any special Sacramental CPR meetings.

 How do I get started on re-evangelizing 22-35 year olds – my “kids” included?

 Start now, peacefully and within your heart, by reciting one Hail Mary for this intention. And here, too, is part of a prayer of LOM members: “Confer on us, O Lord, . . . that fullness of faith in you and trust in Mary . . . to kindle everywhere the fires of divine love; to inflame those who are lukewarm; enlighten those who are in darkness and in the shadow of death; to bring back life to those who are dead in sin.”

Please contact us (see below) and we will provide you with more.

Do I have to be a LOM member?

We would like you to be, but No. This ministry is open to all. You can join us at 8 p.m., or join us when we start with the Rosary of Mary, some LOM prayers and other LOM work with the “divinely-appointed nourishment” of the Sacraments -- we go forth to bring the glad tidings of Jesus to others in our parish. Since 1921, the ways and means of doing the LOM apostolate are guided by our Legio Mariae Handbook.

What do you have planned for this age group?

A program has been drafted that we would like to offer in the Fall 2006, but which we would like to work out, test out, informally, over the summer. We will work on S/CPR after our regular Wednesday meetings, for an hour or so starting at 8:00 pm; and at other times that we can gather. (See over for our current plan for Sacramental CPR.)

Come, pray / study / act with us on this effort. Our goal is to cultivate the Virtue of Religion in ourselves and to work on ways to reach out to our own “children,” and those of others, who have fallen away from the Church and Mary, from our Faith.

Sponsored by

Knights of Columbus - Fourth Degree, Father Joseph A. Damin Assembly  [incl. Cortlandt,  Croton-on-Hudson, Ossining, Peekskill and Yorktown Heights.  [Ask a Knight for info.]

Dominican Laity-Third Order, Our Lady of the Poor Chapter, Ossining [Meets on 1^st Sun]

Legion of Mary, Holy Name of Mary Praesidium, Croton-on-Hudson [Meets every Wed.]

Sacramental CPR

Each session will help you, the S/CPR participant, . . .

to pray/think on/develop your “fire and zeal” and to act, specifically, as to an area of your life where such heat / energy / grace (“GracEnergy”) is

 (a) less than the energy-filled kind that Christ’s Sacraments bless us with

      and  

 (b) how we can gain more “divinely-appointed nourishment” to infuse us and to

      sustain us – namely, from the S/Penance, or Reconciliation, and S/Eucharist.

The Four (4) Workshops

1.  “Confirmation deepens divine filiation, unites us more firmly to Christ.”  [e1abE]

[  2006 Nov. __  /  2007 Feb. __ --  Peekskill Council  ]

To keep the “filiation” intact and robust and truthful and kind, we’ve got to have continual discernment (see my 7-30-06, 5:36 a, p 3/4)

[I learned, yesterday, in a WFME-94.7 teaching, that in Scripture Jehovah, LORD, is always capitalized; this fits my unanswered Q/A with Msgr. F re what I said , then, to read, “Lord, Lord.” The A ought to have been, Yes there is a difference for the Christian! When we/I see and say and hear and think those two Names as for Jesus, as Son, and G-d, as Father, thus the “Lord, LORD.” ]

 Text/Readings: Catechism of the Catholic Church, in full or in the Compendium edition.

  Pope Benedict XVI, “God is Love,” 2006 Encyclical

                          “The Seven Essentials of the New Evangelization” (“7eE”) This is an article

    by now-Cardinal Avery Dulles based on a talk he gave as a 20 year    

    retrospective on the 1967 encyclical, Evangelii Nuntiandi, of Pope Paul VI.

 2.  “Confirmation increases the gifts of the Holy Spirit in us.”   [e1cE]

 [  2006 Nov. __ / 2007 Mar. __ -- Croton-on-Hudson, Holy Name of Mary Council  ]

Consider the gift of “Admonish the sinner.” One has to admit, “This is so very difficult!” Scripture ( n. ______ ) tells us, about  “the speck in your brother’s eye, and the boulder in  our own eye”!

But consider this story.

This “silver in God’s fire” story is perfect for describing { the * in PSC* as the apogee of one’s life } how God turns fires in life – even if set by Enemies of GoOD – in so many episodes in one’s life, to “silver.” I / We, as “acting person(s)” must come to fully appreciate this about God and our chastising struggles in life. I / We come to say, “I know that you, Lord, LORD, smile J upon something  proclaimed or acted upon, maybe, even, completed by me / us. It is then that we/I know, God proclaims – maybe in “a still, small voice;” maybe in a word by someone with whom we are acting  or someone who was . . . visited in prison by you! God: “I see my image in you / it." or “I see God’s image in what you, --- Your Name Here -- , just did for the glory of God.”

Here is part of the story. The entire story is in Workshop 2 Appendices.

The woman thought about God holding us in such a hot spot; then she
>>thought again about the verse that says: "He sits as a refiner and
>>purifier of silver." She asked the silversmith if it was true that
>>he had to sit there in front of the fire the whole time the silver
>>was being refined. The man answered that yes, he not only had to
>>sit there holding the silver, but he had to keep his eyes on the
>>silver the entire time it was in the fire. If the silver was left a
>>moment too long in the flames, it would be destroyed.
>>
>>The woman was silent for a moment. Then she asked the silversmith,
>>"How do you know when the silver is fully refined?" He smiled at
>>her and answered, "Oh, that's easy -- when I see my image in it."
>>
>>If today you are feeling the heat of the fire, remember that God
>>has his eye on you and will keep watching you until He sees His
>>image in you.
 

Text/Readings: [ Christefidelis Laici  ], Encyclical of Pope John Paul II

3.  “Confirmation . . . more perfect bond with the Church.”  [ e2E ]

[  2006 Dec. __   / 2007 Apr. __ -- Ossining Council, Parish Hall, St. Augustine Church  ]

Text/Readings:

Erasmus, Handbook of the Militant Christian (Enchiridion Militis Christiani) 1501, Translated with an introductory essay by John P. Dolan, Ph.D., Fides Publishers, Notre Dame, Indiana 1962 Nihil Obstat & Imprimatur given.

4.  “Confirmation . . . special strength of the spirit to profess [ our faith ] and defend the faith ]  [e3,4,5,6,7E]  

n. . . . with St. Paul and Fr. Issac Hecker, “I have run my race, ______,  I have kept the faith {See these words in St. Paul the Apostle Church, 57 St. NYC. Mother church of the Paulist Fathers (C.S.P.) and place of the sarcophagus of IH.)

[  2006 Dec. __ / May __ -- Yorktown Council, St. Patrick’s Church  ]

 Text/Readings:

____________

 Special note for how this program cross-applies to the entire “seed of Abraham,” that is, to Ishmaelites, or Arabians, Israelites, or Hebrews, all Christian denominations, Muslims, to include Sunnis, Shiites and . . . Sufis, as well as to all those who, as the Salem, or Jerusalem, priest-king, Melchizedek, founded their faith in belief and practice of worship of the “Most High LORD” – the Great Spirit of so many indigenous, Native peoples, worldwide!!

Jesus made Religion very simple, “Love G-d, and love your neighbor as yourself,” which included, “Love one another, as I have loved you.” “Keep to G-d’s Commandments.”

Paul, the Apostle to the Gentiles, and model evangelist for all believers in the Holy One of Israel, preached very clearly, that in the eyes of the LORD there is no Greek nor Jew, Master nor Slave, man nor woman, rich nor poor; sons and daughters are we, each of us, to G-d.

 Finally, it was Pope John Paul II, in his talk before the leaders of all religions in a meeting in Assisi, Italy – which he convened in [ 2001 ] – who said, Each person is free to choose his/her religion, and more recently, Pope Benedict XVI, who said, “Religion cannot be spread by the sword.”

 In no way do I propose this S/CPR Program – in any of its religious formats - as one to be taught for the leaders of any faith body; they have enuf problems keeping their flocks intact! This project is for hardy souls – “militant” believers in the LORD of Hosts __ who are 100% absolutely convinced, as I am, that G-d cries out for us to love one another and all Creation! Butt, saying that, these same “hardy souls” ought also to understand this element of this S/CPR effort: We will not tolerate anyone purposely putting any of God’s Creation, among humanity or in Nature, in any minute situation where he/she/they/it are in any need of CPR! Moses (Gen. __: __ ) showed the way in this by having “sanctuaries” where inveterate murderers and criminals lived among themselves:  Beware, those of you, who would disrupt the peace, who cannot abide a society under Psalm 85, “a place where truth and kindness embrace, justice and peace kiss;” a place where people live under a G-d -- whether or not YOU so believe – Who, as described in Psalm 84, is “the sun and shield” of all.  

 Workshop Appendices

 Workshop 1

 Workshop 2

{See this originally added to .doc in Religion Folder, Temporal matters . . . ]

. . . Excellent for *7-L – { New: Note the “mirror image” effect when we look at a Word in the mirror – and the person is held upside down at childbirth ] This story, per Malachi 3: 3 – and see what I found, yesterday in Holy People, Holy Land –  so well describe the process of living and doing our Calling – in the “fire of Divine Love.” Thus, we live in the way of the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, as long as we know of and persist in G-d’s  G O o D Crucible J and, by such example, build the Earth – edify all temporal, material matters –  by “Thy Will as it is in Heaven” – the same work and wait is called for, until . . . “Then she asked the silversmith, "How do you know when the silver is fully refined?" He smiled at
>>her and answered, "Oh, that's easy -- when I see my image in it."

Subject: Malachi 3:3 for everyone.
>>
>>Malachi 3:3 says: "He will sit as a refiner and purifier of
>>silver."
>>This verse puzzled some women in a Bible study and they wondered
>>what this statement meant about the character and nature of God.
>>One of the women offered to find out the process of refining silver
>>and get back to the group at their next Bible Study.
>>
>>That week, the woman called a silversmith and made an appointment
>>to watch him at work. She didn't mention anything about the reason
>>for her interest beyond her curiosity about the process of refining
>>silver.  As she watched the silversmith, he held apiece of silver
>>over the fire and let it heat up. He explained that in refining
>>silver, one needed to hold the silver in the middle of the fire
>>where the flames were hottest as to burn away all the impurities.
>>
>>The woman thought about God holding us in such a hot spot; then she
>>thought again about the verse that says: "He sits as a refiner and
>>purifier of silver." She asked the silversmith if it was true that
>>he had to sit there in front of the fire the whole time the silver
>>was being refined. The man answered that yes, he not only had to
>>sit there holding the silver, but he had to keep his eyes on the
>>silver the entire time it was in the fire. If the silver was left a
>>moment too long in the flames, it would be destroyed.
>>
>>The woman was silent for a moment. Then she asked the silversmith,
>>"How do you know when the silver is fully refined?" He smiled at
>>her and answered, "Oh, that's easy -- when I see my image in it."
>>
>>If today you are feeling the heat of the fire, remember that God
>>has his eye on you and will keep watching you until He sees His
>>image in you.
>>
>>Please pass this on right now. This very moment, someone needs to
>>know that God is watching over them. And, whatever they're going
>>through, they'll be a better person in the end. "Life is a coin.
>>You can spend it anyway you wish, but you can only spend it once."
>>>  

Workshop 3

Workshop 4

What follows, as mentioned above, is a flyer that was placed – with permission of the Holy Name of Mary Church pastor, Fr. Michael Keane, a Fourth Degree Sir Knight – in the HNM bulletin by its Legion of Mary!

 The flyer can be re-done and used as a S/CPR invitation by any group who cares to sponsor S/CPR!

 An invitation for you, from the Legion of Mary, Holy Name of Mary Church

 Come, participate . . .

 Help us to develop a New Ministry in Adult Re-Evangelization with a Sacramental CPR Program. We will work with each other to resuscitate the Graces of Confirmation in our 22-35 year old, Confirmed Catholic men and women.

Come to a  LOM meeting on Weds. 7:15 pm, in the HNM Reconciliation Room, or any special Sacramental CPR meetings.

How do I get started on re-evangelizing 22-35 year olds – my “kids” included?

Start now, peacefully and within your heart, by reciting one Hail Mary for this intention. And here, too, is part of a prayer of LOM members: “Confer on us, O Lord, . . . that fullness of faith in you and trust in Mary . . . to kindle everywhere the fires of divine love; to inflame those who are lukewarm; enlighten those who are in darkness and in the shadow of death; to bring back life to those who are dead in sin.”

Please contact us (see below) and we will provide you with more.

Do I have to be a LOM member?

We would like you to be, but No. This ministry is open to all. You can join us at 8 p.m., or join us when we start with the Rosary of Mary, some LOM prayers and other LOM work with the “divinely-appointed nourishment” of the Sacraments -- we go forth to bring the glad tidings of Jesus to others in our parish. Since 1921, the ways and means of doing the LOM apostolate are guided by our Legio Mariae Handbook.

What do you have planned for this age group?

A program has been drafted that we would like to offer in the Fall 2006, but which we would like to work out, test out, informally, over the summer. We will work on S/CPR after our regular Wednesday meetings, for an hour or so starting at 8:00 pm; and at other times that we can gather. (See over for our current plan for Sacramental CPR.)

Come, pray / study / act with us on this effort. Our goal is to cultivate the Virtue of Religion in ourselves and to work on ways to reach out to our own “children,” and those of others, who have fallen away from the Church and Mary, from our Faith.

Sponsored by

Knights of Columbus - Fourth Degree, Father Joseph A. Damin Assembly  [incl. Cortlandt, 

      Croton-on-Hudson, Ossining, Peekskill and Yorktown Heights.  [Ask a Knight for info.]

Dominican Laity-Third Order, Our Lady of the Poor Chapter, Ossining [Meets on 1^st Sun]

Legion of Mary, Holy Name of Mary Praesidium, Croton-on-Hudson [Meets every Wed.]

For more information:   hnmlom@bestweb.net   914/271-6563    Fax 914/827-9625

God is Love. (Deus Caritas Est)  Pope Benedict XVI

Sacramental CPR,

         A Program for Resuscitating and Re-energizing Confirmation’s GracEnergy!

The Re-Evangelization of our 22-35 year old Catholic men and women?! Let’s do it!

The Catholics we seek to work with have received the Sacrament of Confirmation, but have suffered from what Pope John Paul II called the “Culture of Death;” what Pope Benedict XVI calls the “tyranny of relativism.” Let’s say that what too many of this age group have bought into is the Burger King-value system of  . . . Have it Your Own Way!   The im-morals of “Sex and the City.” For too many, the way is to diss  “Religion.”

“Civilization of Love.” The Lay Faithful are asked to lead this New Millennium by how we live; in how we pray, work, buy and play. To lead, Catholics must cultivate the Virtue of Religion; we know how our lives depend on the “divinely-appointed nourishment” of the Sacraments. (Legion of Mary Handbook) In this apostolate, the Sacrament ofConfirmation and its graces are at the center.

Our textbook is Pope Benedict XVI’s first encyclical, “God is Love” (Deus Caritas Est).  “The Church has to play her part [for “the most just society possible”] through rational argument and she has to reawaken the spiritual energy  without which justice, which always demands sacrifice, cannot prevail and prosper. … openness of mind and will to the demands of the common good is something which concerns the Church deeply.” [28. a.] He concludes, “those who have drunk from the fountain of God’s love … become in their turn a fountain from which ‘flow rivers of living water’ (John 7: 38).”

So, as Pope John Paul II urged in his last book, Arise, Let Us Be On Our Way!

Why the “CPR”?  What’s with “ resuscitation”?!

Resuscitation is necessary, because too, too many of the people of God, in general, are now comatose. Our consciences – God’s “still, small voice within,” or as one Methodist minister called it, “God’s fifth columnist” within each person – call us to Choose life! But that “breath of the Spirit of God” does not stir us. As Peter of Rheims, a 13^th C. Dominican priest, said it: “Anyone who is not burning will not be able to set anyone else on fire. Also they should be radiant with their doctrine, their example and their good reputation. ‘You are the light of the world.’ (Mt. 5:14)”

Is this you; are your children, their friends, “on fire”? Consider this flyer as a spark!

 We are planning workshops at area Knights of Columbus Councils to help S/CPR participants to pray and think and talk about our “fire and zeal” and, mostly, to act, specifically, as to an area of our lives where such heat / energy / grace is . . .

 (a) less than the energy-filled kind that Christ’s Sacraments bless us with     and  

 (b) how we can gain more “divinely-appointed nourishment” to infuse us and to

      sustain us – namely, from the Eucharist and Penance, or S/Reconciliation.

 Please e-mail/fax us for material for the S/CPR Fall 2006 Sessions or your home use in the Sacramental Resuscitation! of yourself and your loved ones.

For more information:   hnmlom@bestweb.net   914/271-6563    Fax 914/827-9625 

God is Love. (Deus Caritas Est)  Pope Benedict XVI

Sacramental CPR,

         A Program for Resuscitating and Re-energizing Confirmation’s GracEnergy!

 The Re-Evangelization of our 22-35 year old Catholic men and women?! Let’s do it!

 The Catholics we seek to work with have received the Sacrament of Confirmation, but have suffered from what Pope John Paul II called the “Culture of Death;” what Pope Benedict XVI calls the “tyranny of relativism.” Let’s say that what too many of this age group have bought into is the Burger King-value system of  . . . Have it Your Own Way!   The im-morals of “Sex and the City.” For too many, the way is to diss  “Religion.”

 “Civilization of Love.” The Lay Faithful are asked to lead this New Millennium by how we live; in how we pray, work, buy and play. To lead, Catholics must cultivate the Virtue of Religion; we know how our lives depend on the “divinely-appointed nourishment” of the Sacraments. (Legion of Mary Handbook) In this apostolate, the Sacrament ofConfirmation and its graces are at the center.

 Our textbook is Pope Benedict XVI’s first encyclical, “God is Love” (Deus Caritas Est).  “The Church has to play her part [for “the most just society possible”] through rational argument and she has to reawaken the spiritual energy  without which justice, which always demands sacrifice, cannot prevail and prosper. … openness of mind and will to the demands of the common good is something which concerns the Church deeply.” [28. a.] He concludes, “those who have drunk from the fountain of God’s love … become in their turn a fountain from which ‘flow rivers of living water’ (John 7: 38).”

So, as Pope John Paul II urged in his last book, Arise, Let Us Be On Our Way!

 Why the “CPR”?  What’s with “ resuscitation”?!

 Resuscitation is necessary, because too, too many of the people of God, in general, are now comatose. Our consciences – God’s “still, small voice within,” or as one Methodist minister called it, “God’s fifth columnist” within each person – call us to Choose life! But that “breath of the Spirit of God” does not stir us. As Peter of Rheims, a 13^th C. Dominican priest, said it: “Anyone who is not burning will not be able to set anyone else on fire. Also they should be radiant with their doctrine, their example and their good reputation. ‘You are the light of the world.’ (Mt. 5:14)”

Is this you; are your children, their friends, “on fire”? Consider this flyer as a spark!

 We are planning workshops at area Knights of Columbus Councils to help S/CPR participants to pray and think and talk about our “fire and zeal” and, mostly, to act, specifically, as to an area of our lives where such heat / energy / grace is . . .

 (a) less than the energy-filled kind that Christ’s Sacraments bless us with     and  

 (b) how we can gain more “divinely-appointed nourishment” to infuse us and to

      sustain us – namely, from the Eucharist and Penance, or S/Reconciliation.

 Please e-mail/fax us for material for the S/CPR Fall 2006 Sessions or your home use in the Sacramental Resuscitation! of yourself and your loved ones.