Fortnight for Freedom

It's been a month since my last post! How the time flies!

I've been working, doing software development and IT work up in Burbank, plus some website-related and Oblate-related tech work on the side. It's been great being home and spending time with friends and the Oblates out here.

In the name of both truth and charity, as this blog is named, I wanted to make sure you are all aware of the US Bishops' call to observe the two weeks beginning today as the "Fortnight for Freedom" - an observance of "prayer, study, catechesis, and public action" surrounding the topic of religious liberty. This time period was chosen as it leads up to the commemoration of Independence Day on the secular calendar, and contains several saints who fought for their rights to religion despite political persecution.

I therefore invite you to visit the USCCB page, and inquire at your local parishes as to how you can participate more fully in this event, which calls us to invest ourselves in learning about what religious liberty means and why it is important that it be preserved.

At our Oblate parish in Hawaiian Gardens, CA, Saint Peter Chanel Catholic Church (12001 East 214th Street, Hawaiian Gardens, CA 90716), we will host the following events:

• Holy Hour - June 21, 2012, from 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm: praying that the religious liberty of the American Catholic can be preserved.
• Talk - June 25, 2012, from 7:45 to 8:45 pm in the Old Church: Fr. Larry will give a talk on St. Thomas More and the present crisis of Religious Liberty. 
• Holy Hour - June 28, 2012, from 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm: praying that the religious liberty of the American Catholic can be preserved.
• Talk - July 2, 2012, from 7:45 pm to 8:45 pm, in the Old Church: Fr. Larry Darnell and Fr. Ed Broom will have a talk on the Formation of Conscience on religious matters and politics. The life of some saints will be given as examples.
• Holy Hour - July 5, 2012, from 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm: praying that the religious liberty of the American Catholic can be preserved.

I hope you can join us or find ways to participate in your area. Let us entrust this time and our nation once again to Our Lady of Guadalupe, our patroness, trusting in her motherly care for us and her powerful intercession with her Son on our behalf.




Love the Immaculata!
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