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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 1st
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 1st 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 13th 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
13th 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.
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