“It is not for you to know the times or seasons...."

 Thursday, May 5, 2016 - Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord

“It is not for you to know the times or seasons that the Father has established by His own authority.  But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you,and you will be My witnesses in Jerusalem, throughout Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”

"we have generated a lay elite, believing that only they are committed laymen who work in the things 'of the priests,' and we have forgotten, neglected the believer who often burns his hope in the daily struggle to live the faith."

• How Are Issues Advocated by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and its "partner organization, the National Committee for the Human Life Amendment" Faring Among Those Who Represent Pa in Washington, D.C.? (4/30/16)  Email Pa's Congressional Delegation.
• How is the Pro Life and Pro Marriage/Family Legislation Championed by the Pa Catholic Conference Faring Among Those Who Represent Bucks County in Harrisburg? (4/30/16).  Email all of Bucks County's delegation in Harrisburg.
• Particularly because there are differences in the parental notification law between NJ and Pa, the proximity of a Trenton abortuary should be of concern to pro life residents in Lower Bucks.  A Rosary and Divine Mercy Chaplet are said each Saturday at 9:45AM, near State and Clinton.
• Email pastors in Bucks with ads for an acknowledged abortifacient provider.
• Concerns about  "Catholic" hospitals in the Archdiocese: Email Archbishop Chaput.
• Email Archbishop Kurtz (USCCB president), Archbishop Chaput and the National Catholic Bioethics Center, to ask for an end to the use of emergency (so-called) contraception in Catholic hospitals.

"'velvet-gloved' persecutions that are 'cloaked in politeness': the ones that marginalize you, take your job away if you fail to adapt to laws that 'go against God the Creator'"

• FW: "Legislative alert from PA Pro-Life" (5/2/16)
•  "Target Stock Prices Plummet After 1 Million-Strong Boycott Over Transgender Bathroom Policy" (Christian Post, 5/2/16) 
• "when the radical priest come to get me released" (5/2/16) 
• "Marriage Unique for a Reason: May 2016 Newsletter" 
• FW: "People of Life e-Update: Celebrating Mothers and Defending Nurses" (4/28/16) 
• "Religious-Freedom Commission Approves List of 10 ‘Countries of Particular Concern’" (National Catholic Register, 4/25/16) 
• "Ex-Pa. senator, 90, announces same-sex marriage in op-ed" (CBS News, 4/24/16)
• April 24, 1916: "A Terrible Beauty is Born"
• Amoris Laetitia - Some thoughts (4/22/16)
• re: "Appeals court upholds Utah ski resort’s snowboard ban" (Salt Lake City Tribune, 4/19/16)
• "Double Standard" [re: conscience protection] (Courier Times, 4/14/16)
• "Obama admin cites Catholic Health Association to bolster case against Little Sisters" (LifeSiteNews, 4/13/16)