The Evening of Reparation is THIS Monday (Third Monday), September 21. Doors open at 5:30 pm with Eucharistic Exposition and the option for Confession. The Holy Hour of Reparation is at 6:00 pm followed by the Mass of Reparation. Jesus’ death on the Cross was the ultimate reparation for sinful mankind, and according to private revelation the Blessed Mother offered reparation during her Son’s Passion for sins and sinners. American and the world need your prayers.
Please RSVP for the St. Francis Day Solemnity Mass Reception on Sunday, October 4 so we can get an approximate headcount for the food. The Franciscan Crown Rosary is at 11:30 am, Mass is at Noon, followed by the FREE Reception. (EVERYTHING WILL BE OUTSIDE in “Creation’s Cathedral”!) Please call or text (248) 514-1747. THANK YOU!
If anyone has plans to visit the National Shrine of Our Lady of Champion (near Green Bay, Wisconsin), please let me know (call/text: 313-727-9784 or abunacalcio1982@gmail.com). Brother Louie, whom I live with, would like to visit there.
The November 3 elections are fast approaching. Prayer is needed to implore God for leaders who, while certainly not perfect, are the most acceptable to Him. GOD CAN DECIDE. Many of us pray a daily Rosary and some pray one or more throughout the week. I am asking those to pray a daily Rosary to pledge an extra Rosary for elections all across America for God to choose the political candidate most pleasing to Him—whatever the race. (YOU CAN MAKE OTHER PERSONAL PRAYER COMMITMENTS ON YOUR OWN, OF COURSE.) If you do not pray a daily Rosary, please consider praying a daily Rosary (as Our Lady requested at all 6 apparitions at the 1917 apparitions at Fatima) and simply including the elections as one of your intentions. To MAKE YOUR PLEDGE, you need only provide your name—nothing else. Please contact Margaret Williams (cell/text: 315-420-0711 or email: margo0767@yahoo.com) and simply give your name. GOD BLESS AMERICA. May we humbly be “One Nation Under God” and so be a blessing to humanity and to the world. Little fliers are available with this information at the shrine or could be emailed to you.
The READING ASSIGNMENT for those attending the Tuesday Evening Marian Catechesis at the shrine is the following:
- Read up to page 146 for Tuesday, Sept. 22;
- Read up to page 190 (end of the book) for Tuesday, Sept. 29.
To communicate with me, please DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS EMAIL. Call/text me at (313) 727-9784 or email me abunacalcio1982@gmail.com. St. Joseph of Cupertino, the “flying friar,”, pray for us!
In Jesus, Mary & Joseph,
Fr. Alex Kratz, OFM
Spiritual Director of Terra Sancta Ministries