Men’s Prayer Breakfast — May 25th

The Guardian of the Redeemer Catholic Men’s Fellowship will sponsor a Men’s Prayer Breakfast on Saturday, May 25th at Our Lady of Sorrows Hall (St Monica’s Parish) in West Wyoming.  Msgr John Esseff will speak on the theme of his latest book:  Building the Kingdom of Love:  The Triumph of the Sacred Heart.  The Prayer Breakfast will begin at 8:30 and conclude at 10:00.  Doors will open at 8:00.  There is no specific charge for the breakfast, but donations will be accepted.  All men are most welcome, and are strongly encouraged to register by Wednesday, May 22nd (it helps us ensure that we have enough food!).  Please see this flyer for registration information.

Celebrate Pentecost with the CCR this Saturday

Fr Pio Mandato FMHJ

This Saturday, May 18th, our friends in the Catholic Charismatic Renewal of the Scranton diocese will celebrate Pentecost with their annual half-day event at St Nicholas parish auditorium in Wilkes Barre.  All of the information is available on this flyer.  (Note that Fr Pio Mandato FMHJ is scheduled to speak at 10:00).  Since there’s no charge, and you don’t need to stay the entire day, feel free to stop by at any time, even if it’s only for an hour or so.  Come, Holy Spirit!!

Christian in the military? Don’t ask, don’t tell.

Even though the “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy may no longer apply to homosexuals in the military, if this article is accurate, it may soon apply to Christians in the military.

Real men of God endure torture

This article contains excerpts from the testimony of Romanian Greek Catholic Bishop Ioan Ploscaru describing some of what he had to endure while imprisoned by the communist government.

Can’t.  Even.  Imagine.

Holy Hour — April 28th

The Guardian of the Redeemer CMF will be hosting a Eucharistic Holy Hour on Sunday, April 28th starting at 5:00 p.m. at St Monica’s Parish, 8th Street, West Wyoming.  The Holy Hour is in response to the US Bishops’ recent pastoral initiative calling Catholics to prayer and penance with the intention of building a culture that is favorable to life, marriage and religious liberty.  All are welcome (men, women and children). 

Fr Bergman

Father Eric Bergman, Pastor of St Thomas More Catholic Parish, will offer a meditation on marriage.  Light refreshments will be served during a time of fellowship after the Holy Hour.

Here is a printable flyer for the event.

FOCUS New Evangelization Prayer Breakfast…

…in Philadelphia on May 10th.  Check out the All-Star lineup of speakers, and the venue.  Curtis Martin explains REACH here.

More from Michigan

Brothers, they are tearin’ it up in Michigan!  Recently, I posted Paco’s men’s retreat talks.  Today the Archdiocese of Detroit had a mini-conference for men.  Here’s the talk that Fr John Riccardo gave to the guys this morning.  His basic theme was “The Real Crisis in the Church is This:  We Don’t Know Jesus!”  Get ready to be challenged to ‘drop your nets’ (cf. Luke 5:11).