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Not HHS Mandate but rather IHS Mandate HHS – Health and Human Services IHS - A monogram of the name of Jesus Christ

(Received in email) "Hail Mary, full of grace. The Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death.  Amen"

Access: Catholic Advocate Catholics constitute at least 25 percent of voters in national elections. By their votes, these millions of Catholics have the power to make our country a better nation, more welcoming to life, more supportive of families, and more effective in its programs to help the poor and marginalized. Pope John Paul II and, more recently, Pope Benedict XVI and the United States bishops have called on Catholics to renew their participation in American political life. That participation means, above all, taking the moral and social principles of the Catholic Faith into the voting booth. Catholics should be guided by a few basic principles when considering their participation in politics. Catholics are obliged to participate in politics by voting. Their legislators are elected to serve and protect the common good, human dignity, and rights of human persons. As voters, they should have a clear understanding of the principles of Catholic moral and social teaching, and t...

We are to make:   The invisible God - visible through us   The inexplicable God - explicable through us   The incomprehensible God - comprehensible through us   The untouchable God - touchable through us   The unseen God - seen through us   The unheard God - heard through us   The unnoticed God - noticed through us   The unreachable God - reachable through us   The unbelievable God - believable through us   The unknown God - known through us   The unloved God - loved through us

Access: Catholics Called to Witness   In an address to the U.S. bishops on January 19th, 2012, Pope Benedict emphasized the importance of the laity in the protection of religious liberty:     "[I]t is imperative that the entire Catholic community in the United States come to realize the grave threats to the Church's public moral witness presented by a radical secularism which finds increasing expression in the political and cultural spheres... Of particular concern are certain attempts being made to limit that most cherished of American freedoms, the freedom of religion...     "Here once more we see the need for an engaged, articulate and well-formed Catholic laity endowed with a strong critical sense vis-à-vis the dominant culture and with the courage to counter a reductive secularism which would delegitimize the Church's participation in public debate about the issues which are determining the future of American society."   We have work to do! ...

(Received in email) Dear Friends and Family, This is a link to a blog that I started back in May, to write my reflections , and post others' reflections, on the gift of our special children. I plan on beginning to post on it often, because I realize that it is a powerful therapy for me, and I hope it will be healing and enlightening to others. If anyone else would like to share their reflections on this topic, I would welcome them, and would post any encouraging, uplifting, enlightening reflections that you send. The writing can be very simple. It's not the sophistication of the writing that enlightens or heals. It is the faith, hope, and love that it springs from. May God give us ears to hear all that He wants to teach us through our special children! Cami http://loveistheanswertosofia.blogspot.com/ Profile Cami Murphy - Del Rio, Texas, United States   This is a blog of spiritual reflections about the gift that God has given us (the whole world) through our spec...

  The Official Prayer for World Youth Day 2013 Below is the Official Prayer for World Youth Day 2013 which will be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. * * *   Oh, Father, You sent Your Eternal Son to save the world and chose men and women, through Him, with Him and in Him, to proclaim the Good News to all nations.   Grant us the graces necessary so that joy may shine in the faces of all young people, the joy of being, by the power of the Holy Spirit, the evangelists the Church needs in the Third Millennium.   Oh Christ, Redeemer of humanity, the image of Your open arms on the top of Corcovado welcomes all people.   In Your paschal offering, You brought us by the Holy Spirit to an encounter of sonship with the Father.   Young people, who are fed by Eucharist, hear You in Your Word and meet You as their brother, need your infinite mercy to run the paths of the world missionary-disciples of the New Evangelization.   Oh Holy Spirit, Love of the Fa...

100 Days until Election Day: A To-Do List STATEN ISLAND, NY -- For people who believe in the sanctity of all human life, Nov. 6, Election Day, will be the most important day of the year. “With just 100 days to go, we all need to make sure we’re doing everything we can to encourage friends, family members, co-workers – everyone we know --   to make plans to get out and vote,” said Father Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life. Here’s a checklist of things everyone can do to ensure a high voter turnout. *Organize a voter registration drive at your church on Sept. 9,. Voter Registration Sunday ( www.priestsforlife.org/vote ). *Encourage youth who will turn 18 by Election Day to register. *Begin making plans for transporting senior citizens and those without transportation to the polls. *Remind those who will be away on Election Day to obtain absentee ballots. *Look into early voting rules in your state ( www.priestsforlife.org/states ). *Print out the Priests ...

                                                                          Twinkling stars in the heaven above are smiling down on babies with love! Join us for a Baby Shower honoring The Pregnancy Center on Sunday, August 5th at 2:00 p.m. St. Joseph Catholic Church Parish Hall Del Rio, Texas Hosted by the St. Joseph Catholic Women Money Tree Or Pampers (Size:   Newborn, 1 or 2)

August Ongoing (Tues.- Weds.) San Antonio Int'nl Airport Catholic Information Booth 8th (Thurs.) 7:30pm-9pm Eucharistic Healing Service 16th (Thurs.) 2pm-3:30pm Tea with St. Helena 25th (Sat.) 8am Golf Tournament 25-26th (Sat.-Sun.) Come Visit our Table at Fullness of Truth Conference September Ongoing (Weds.) 8pm-9pm Catholicism Live! on TV/Radio Ongoing (Tues.- Weds.) San Antonio Int'nl Airport Catholic Information Booth 13th (Thurs.) 2pm-3:30pm Tea with St. Peter Claver 21-22nd (Fri.-Sat.) 2012 Catholic Women's Conference October Ongoing (Weds.) 8pm-9pm Catholicism Live! on TV/Radio Ongoing (Tues.- Weds.) San Antonio Int'nl Airport Catholic Information Booth 18th (Thurs.) 2pm-3:30pm Tea with St. Alonso Rodriguez 22-November 2 Pilgrimage to Rome, Assisi, San Giovanni Rotondo Coming Soon! "Encountering Christ" with Bishop Oscar Cantu Prayer Brunch - Dec. 1 "Who Is The Man of The Shroud?" Exhibiti...

This Sunday, July 29, 2012 marks 100 days until Election Day on Tuesday, November 6, 2012. That's three short months to determine who we'll entrust with the task of restoring our religious liberties and defending our Catholic values.

The Games, says the Olympic Charter, seek “a way of life based on the joy of effort, the educational value of good example and respect for universal fundamental ethical principles.” This is “Olympism,” a movement which, the Charter adds, seeks “the harmonious development of man, with a view to promoting a peaceful society concerned with the preservation of human dignity.” The founder of the modern Games was a Jesuit-educated French aristocrat and school reformer, Baron Pierre de Coubertin, who saw sport as a means of reviving his country’s prowess after defeat in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71. Impressed by his visits to English public schools, which showed, he wrote, how “organized sport can create moral and social strength,” he tried without success to persuade French education to incorporate more sport. That failure led to a new idea: a festival of international athleticism modelled on the competition held every four years in the ancient Greek city of Olympia...

  From the height of the Shrine of Our Lady of the Rock – one of the major points of devotion in the city of Rio de Janeiro – were displayed the faces of saints and blesseds that will provide heavenly assistance to those who travel to World Youth Day 2013 in Rio. The Local Organizing Committee named five patron saints and thirteen holy intercessors. The chosen patrons: Our Lady of Aparecida, St. Sebastian, St. Antonio Galvao de Santana, St. Therese of Lisieux, and Blessed John Paul II. The named intercessors, which have been selected as role models for youth, are: St. Rosa de Lima, St. Teresa de Los Andes, Blessed Laura Vicuña, Blessed Jose de Anchieta, Blessed Albertina Berkenbrock, Blessed Chiara Luce Badano, Blessed Sister Dulce, Blessed Adílio Daronch, Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati, Blessed Isidore Bakanja, Blessed Ozanam, St. George, and Saints Andrew Kim and Companions.

  Reemergence of the Church Militant: HHS Mandate Calls us to Spiritual Battle   For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.(Eph. 6:11,12)

Prayer to St. Anne and St. Joachim Great and glorious patriarch, St Joachim, and good St Anne, what joy is mine when I consider that you were chosen among all God's holy ones to assist in the fulfillment of the mysteries of God, and to enrich our earth with the great Mother of God, Mary most holy. By this singular privilege, you have become most powerful with both the Mother and her Son, so as to be able to obtain for us the graces that are needful to us. With great confidence I have recourse to your mighty protection, and I commend to you all my needs, both spiritual and temporal, and those of my family. Especially do I entrust to your keeping the particular favor that I desire and look for from your intercession. (Mention your petition.) And since you were a perfect pattern of the interior life, obtain for me the grace to pray earnestly, and never to set m heart on the passing goods of this life. Give me a lively and enduring love for Jesus and Mary. Obtain for m...

Pastoral Messages from the Texas Bishops Federal government has no place defining religion and religious ministry By Bishop Wm. Michael Mulvey Diocese of Corpus Christi The Church and Politics By Bishop Kevin Farrell Diocese of Dallas

Heavenly Father, Almighty God, Lord God, Most High. As I am using water to wash myself, to drink and to live; I want to thank you for this most precious gift. I bless water in your Holy Name and I ask you to bless it once more, so that we may continue to enjoy this gift. You sanctified water even at the beginning of creation as Your Spirit hovered above the waters. You sanctified water in such way, that we learned in the Holy Scriptures that several times you miraculously washed lepers clean, and then you sanctified water in the person of Your Son Jesus Christ as He was baptized with water in the Jordan river. We become sanctified by baptism with water in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Water in indispensable to life, it has a great similarity to Your Spirit. In You we live, we move and have our being. We would die without you. In the same way in water we live, we move and have our being. Without water we would die. Your spirit cleanses our s...

Our birth certificate is when we clock in to our earthly life   Our death certificate is when we clock in to our eternal life

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DENVER (Catholic News Service - CNS) -- Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila of Denver and his auxiliary, Bishop James D. Conley, offered prayers and support to the victims, survivors and the community after a gunman killed at least a dozen people and wounded dozens more during a July 20 midnight screening of the movie "The Dark Knight Rises" in Aurora. "For those who were killed, our hope is the tender mercy of our God," the bishops said in a joint statement. "'Neither death nor life,' reflected St. Paul, 'can separate us from the love of God.' “For those who were wounded -- physically, emotionally and spiritually -- our hope is in their recovery and renewal. To them we offer our prayers, our ears to listen, and our hearts to love. The road to recovery may be long, but in hope we are granted the gift of new life." Archbishop Aquila and Bishop Conley also prayed for the shooter. "We hope also for the perpetrator of ...