Friday, January 23, 2004
The Spiritual Works of Mercy:
* To instruct the ignorant;
* To counsel the doubtful;
* To admonish sinners;
* To bear wrongs patiently;
* To forgive offences willingly;
* To comfort the afflicted;
* To pray for the living and the dead.
One form of spiritual mercy is to help those evangelizing and pastoring. A good program is The Committee on the Home Missions. In my home state, Mission churchs are an everyday reality...and this helps.
Mission
The bishops' Committee on the Home Missions (CHM) evangelizes by giving financial support to missionary activities that strengthen and extend the presence of the Church in the United States and its dependencies. Through its annual fundraising campaign, the Catholic Home Missions Appeal, the CHM educates U.S. Catholics regarding mission needs and invites them to assist fellow Catholics in the practice of their faith.
Link:
http://www.nccbuscc.org/hm/facts.htm
Funded Groups/Programs
The CHM primarily serves home mission dioceses, that is, those unable to provide their people with the basic pastoral ministries of word, worship and service without outside help. It may also give grants to other dioceses for particular projects, and to organizations and religious communities engaged in missionary work.
The CHM helps fund diocesan evangelization efforts, parish religious education programs, seminarian education, lay ministry training and the pastoral care of growing ethnic and migrant communities on both diocesan and national levels.
Funding Sources
The Catholic Home Missions Appeal was established by the bishops in June 1997 to guarantee continued funding for the home missions. The national date is the last Sunday in April.
Link:
http://www.nccbuscc.org/hm/facts.htm
* To instruct the ignorant;
* To counsel the doubtful;
* To admonish sinners;
* To bear wrongs patiently;
* To forgive offences willingly;
* To comfort the afflicted;
* To pray for the living and the dead.
One form of spiritual mercy is to help those evangelizing and pastoring. A good program is The Committee on the Home Missions. In my home state, Mission churchs are an everyday reality...and this helps.
Mission
The bishops' Committee on the Home Missions (CHM) evangelizes by giving financial support to missionary activities that strengthen and extend the presence of the Church in the United States and its dependencies. Through its annual fundraising campaign, the Catholic Home Missions Appeal, the CHM educates U.S. Catholics regarding mission needs and invites them to assist fellow Catholics in the practice of their faith.
Link:
http://www.nccbuscc.org/hm/facts.htm
Funded Groups/Programs
The CHM primarily serves home mission dioceses, that is, those unable to provide their people with the basic pastoral ministries of word, worship and service without outside help. It may also give grants to other dioceses for particular projects, and to organizations and religious communities engaged in missionary work.
The CHM helps fund diocesan evangelization efforts, parish religious education programs, seminarian education, lay ministry training and the pastoral care of growing ethnic and migrant communities on both diocesan and national levels.
Funding Sources
The Catholic Home Missions Appeal was established by the bishops in June 1997 to guarantee continued funding for the home missions. The national date is the last Sunday in April.
Link:
http://www.nccbuscc.org/hm/facts.htm
Sunday, January 18, 2004
St. Therese of Lisieux, on Love:
But this love of mine, how to show it? Love needs to be proved by action. Well, even a little child can scatter flowers, to scent the throne-room with their fragrance; even a little child can sing, in its shrill treble, the great canticle of Love. That shall be my life, to scatter flowers-to miss no single opportunity of making some small sacrifice, here by a smiling look, there by a kindly word, always doing the tiniest things right, and doing it for love.
Link of the day:
More of her description on her little way of love in action:
From the Casa Juan Diego Houston Catholic Workers Site
Roots of the Catholic Worker Movement: Saints and Philosophers who Influenced Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin: Saint Therese's Little Way demands Love in Action
http://www.cjd.org/paper/roots/rlove.html
But this love of mine, how to show it? Love needs to be proved by action. Well, even a little child can scatter flowers, to scent the throne-room with their fragrance; even a little child can sing, in its shrill treble, the great canticle of Love. That shall be my life, to scatter flowers-to miss no single opportunity of making some small sacrifice, here by a smiling look, there by a kindly word, always doing the tiniest things right, and doing it for love.
Link of the day:
More of her description on her little way of love in action:
From the Casa Juan Diego Houston Catholic Workers Site
Roots of the Catholic Worker Movement: Saints and Philosophers who Influenced Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin: Saint Therese's Little Way demands Love in Action
http://www.cjd.org/paper/roots/rlove.html
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