by SrDeniseSickinger | Sep 23, 2023 | a current event, Ad maiorem Dei gloriam and the salvation of souls!, Choose Life, Choose to Love, Courage, Faith
Join us and other coalition partners to demand legislators STOP voting for Anti-Child, Anti-Parent, and Anti-Life legislation. Click here to email us that you will be attending one of the protests. We can send you more details and answer specific questions (parking, signs, rules, etc…) Serving the families of New Jersey, The NJFPC...
by SrDeniseSickinger | Jul 27, 2023 | Ad maiorem Dei gloriam and the salvation of souls!, Children, Choose Life, Choose to Love, Courage of the Truth, Parenting, Teens and Young Adults
Annual Family Policy Council Alliance conference “Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.” Romans 12:12 Dear Denise Ann, I just returned from the Family Policy Counsel Alliance gathering this past Saturday and it was very encouraging to hear what the other states are doing and ultimately, what God is doing in our country. I bring good news that there is hope for New Jersey! To be honest, at times I was jealous of those 17 States that passed a “Help Not Harm” bill that applies to minors and prohibits doctors or anyone from blocking healthy puberty, prescribing cross-sex hormones, or performing surgery to modify a child’s body to appear more like the opposite sex. Conversations with other Family Policy leaders were valuable as we shared our challenges as well as our successes. I was able to tout our Motion to Intervene against Governor Murphy and Attorney General Matt Platkin who are suing NJ school boards that wish to inform parents of their children’s emotional, mental, and physical health issues. As Christians, we often relate to different biblical characters during the different seasons of our lives. Recently, I have been reading the book of Nehemiah, a man...
by SrDeniseSickinger | Jan 19, 2022 | Accompaniment, Ad maiorem Dei gloriam and the salvation of souls!, Choose to Love, Fraternal Love, God's love for us, Happiness, Love, Love of God and Each Other, Sanctity, Truth
from Catholic Exchange AL SMITH Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen was a man for all seasons. Over his lifetime, he spent himself for souls, transforming lives with the clear teaching of the truths of Christ and His Church through his books, radio addresses, lectures, television series, and his many newspaper columns. As a much sought-after lecturer, his topics ranged from the social concerns of the day to matters of faith and morals. With an easy and personable manner, Sheen could strike up a conversation on just about any subject, making numerous friends as well as converts. During his presentations, Archbishop Sheen would offer his trademark words of benediction, “God love you”. Sheen explained that his phrase “God love you” means God is love, God loves you, and you ought to love God in return. Along with his familiar parting phrase of “God love you”, Archbishop Sheen was known for beginning his lectures with the greeting “Friends”. This salutation had a twofold meaning: he was referring to the scripture passage “I no longer call you servants… instead, I have called you friends.” (John 15:15). And, he wanted to make friends with men and women of all faiths, in the hope of...
by SrDeniseSickinger | Dec 2, 2021 | Ad maiorem Dei gloriam and the salvation of souls!, Children, Choose Life, Choose to Love, Proclaiming Christ, Sacredness of All Life, Teens and Young Adults
VATICAN DICASTERY DISABILITY VATICAN The #IamChurch campaign for persons with disabilities begins from 6 December with a series of video testimonies of Christians living with disabilities. By Benedict Mayaki, SJ The Vatican’s Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life announced the launch on Monday of a campaign dedicated to persons living with disabilities. Tagged #IamChurch, the campaign, which begins on 6 December, will consist of five videos containing the testimonies of Christians living with disabilities from different parts of the world who recount their experience of faith and affirm, “I am Church!” “I am Church” through Baptism In his message to persons with disabilities on the occasion of the International Day dedicated to them, Pope Francis noted that Baptism gives each one of us, “without exclusion or discrimination, the possibility of exclaiming, ‘I am Church!'” Echoing the Pope’s words, the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life launched the videos, which will be released weekly, with the aim of highlighting the contribution that persons with disabilities offer to the ecclesial community on a daily basis. The videos will illustrate the work of evangelization carried out by some young deaf persons in Mexico, of a monastery in France where several nuns with...
by SrDeniseSickinger | Nov 11, 2021 | Accompaniment, Ad maiorem Dei gloriam and the salvation of souls!, Choose to Love, Communion of Saints, Fraternal Love, God's love for us, Love of God and Each Other, Pilgrimage, Teens and Young Adults
SOURCE: https://catholicexchange.com/blessed-pier-giorgio-frassatis-apostolate-of-charity NOVEMBER 10, 2021 CHRISTINE M. WOHAR Every one of you knows that the foundation of our religion is Charity. — Pier Giorgio Frassati In the moving account of the death of Pier Giorgio Frassati written by his sister Luciana, his actions in his final hours showed the depth of his compassion for the poor and sick whom he took care of regularly. It was Friday, July 3, 1925. He would have normally gone that day to the weekly meeting of his Conference of St. Vincent de Paul. Instead, he was bedridden with a fatal diagnosis of polio and surrounded by his grieving family. Almost completely paralyzed at this point, he asked his sister to bring some items from his study and then wrote these barely legible instructions: These are the injections for Converso. The pawn ticket belongs to Sappa; I had forgotten it, renew it on my account. Unnoticed Acts of Giving Requests like these would not have come as a surprise to his friend who received this note. After all, this was how Pier Giorgio spent so much of his life — doing one unnoticed act of charity after another. Providing medicine, schoolbooks, bus tickets, food, and...
by SrDeniseSickinger | Sep 15, 2021 | a current event, Accompaniment, Ad maiorem Dei gloriam and the salvation of souls!, Children, Choose to Love, Events / Calendar, Online Course, Outreach, Preventive System, Social Commitment, Teens and Young Adults
Minori stranieri non accompagnati, Salesiani per il Sociale lancia la piattaforma digitale per la formazione e aggiornamento degli operatori 14 Settembre 2021/in Intorno a noi / Viene lanciato ufficialmente il Digital notebook, L’accompagnamento dei minori non accompagnati in Europa: le esperienze dei Professionisti del sociale che rappresenta un valido strumento per tutti gli operatori che lavorano sul campo a supporto dei minori stranieri non accompagnati. Già il 16 ottobre 2020 era stata lanciata la piattaforma inglese e francese, all’interno del webinar internazionale, Caring for unaccompanied minors in Europe e ad oggi è disponibile anche in italiano, greco e tedesco. La piattaforma è frutto del lavoro svolto all’interno del progetto Building knowledge from local practices: a solution for better care and support of unaccompanied minors in Europe, che ha coinvolto 7 partner europei: Apprentis d’Auteuil in Francia, in qualità di capofila, Salesiani per il Sociale APS in Italia, Christliches Jugenddorfwerk Deutschlands in Germania, The Smile of a Child in Grecia e partner del campo di ricerca, Università di Ghent in Belgio, Università del Bedfordshire in Inghilterra e Osservatorio sulla migrazione dei minori – Università di Poitiers in Francia. Questo strumento offrirà agli operatori l’occasione di una formazione continua e la possibilità di confrontarsi con una community di esperti nel settore e con altri operatori che operano nei diversi paesi. Durante...
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