Sunday, November 3, 2024
Claire’s Corner-Set your clock’s back tonight
Daylight Saving Time Ends, commonly known as "fall back," is the annual practice of moving clocks one hour backward in order to allow for more daylight in the evening during the warmer months. This change effectively shifts the hours of daylight to better align with the hours when most people are awake and active, providing additional daylight for work, leisure, and energy conservation. The primary purpose of this time shift is to make better use of daylight and reduce energy consumption, as well as to decrease the number of traffic accidents and crime rates.
The concept of Daylight Saving Time was first proposed by Benjamin Franklin in 1784 but was not widely adopted until World War I when Germany implemented the practice to conserve fuel. Since then, numerous countries have adopted, adjusted, and abandoned the time change based on local needs and preferences. In the United States, Daylight Saving Time was standardized by the Uniform Time Act of 1966, which established the specific dates for the beginning and end of the time change. However, individual states and territories are not required to observe the change, and Arizona and Hawaii currently do not implement Daylight Saving Time.
Daylight Saving Time ends in the United States on the first Sunday in November, marking the return to Standard Time. At this time, clocks are turned back one hour, effectively increasing the number of morning daylight hours while resulting in earlier sunsets in the evening.
Daylight Saving Time Ends facts
- Arizona, Hawaii, and four US territories (Guam, American Samoa, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands) do not observe Daylight Savings Time.
- Research suggest that daylight savings time is related to a rise in heart attacks, while the end of daylight savings time saw a slight decrease the first three days after the time change.
· How to celebrate Nov 3rd
o Want to have a truly eventful day? Start by celebrating Zero Tasking Day, where you can kick back and relax without worrying about crossing items off your to-do list.
§ Embrace Orphan Sunday by reaching out to local shelters and organizations, offering your time to help those in need.
§ National Sandwich Day calls for a tasty lunch, so why not try making your own unique sandwich creation?
· As Daylight Savings Ends, enjoy that extra hour of sleep or use it as an opportunity to savor a leisurely breakfast.
o National Accessory Day invites you to show off your personal style by mixing and matching accessories to elevate your outfit.
§ National Homemaker Day is the perfect excuse to tidy up your living space or try a new recipe.
· On Give Someone a Dollar Day, brighten a stranger’s day by surprising them with a small token of kindness.
o Dive into Japanese Culture Day by exploring Japanese cuisine or learning about traditional customs.
§ Embrace One Health Day by prioritizing your well-being through exercise and healthy eating habits.
· For World Jellyfish Day, consider visiting a local aquarium or creating jellyfish-themed crafts with your friends or family.
o Smart Home Day encourages you to improve your living space with simple tech upgrades or organization hacks. National Housewife Day celebrates the hard work of homemakers, so take a moment to appreciate the efforts of those who keep our homes running smoothly.
Introduction to Jonah
The story of
Jonah has great theological import. It concerns a disobedient prophet who
rejected his divine commission, was cast overboard in a storm and swallowed by
a great fish, rescued in a marvelous manner, and returned to his starting
point. Now he obeys and goes to Nineveh, the capital of Israel’s ancient enemy.
The Ninevites listen to his message of doom and repent immediately. All, from
king to lowliest subject, humble themselves in sackcloth and ashes. Seeing
their repentance, God does not carry out the punishment planned for them. At
this, Jonah complains, angry because the Lord spares them. This fascinating
story caricatures a narrow mentality which would see God’s interest extending
only to Israel, whereas God is presented as concerned with and merciful to even
the inhabitants of Nineveh, the capital of the Assyrian empire which brought
the Northern Kingdom of Israel to an end and devastated Jerusalem in 701 B.C.
The Lord is free to “repent” and change his mind. Jonah seems to realize this
possibility and wants no part in it. But the story also conveys something of
the ineluctable character of the prophetic calling. The book is replete with
irony, wherein much of its humor lies. The name “Jonah” means “dove” in Hebrew,
but Jonah’s character is anything but dove-like. Jonah is commanded to go east
to Nineveh but flees toward the westernmost possible point, only to be
swallowed by a great fish and dumped back at this starting point. The sailors
pray to their gods, but Jonah is asleep in the hold. The prophet’s preaching is
a minimum message of destruction, while it is the king of Nineveh who calls for
repentance and conversion; the instant conversion of the Ninevites is greeted
by Jonah with anger and sulking. He reproaches the Lord in words that echo
Israel’s traditional praise of his mercy. Jonah is concerned about the loss of
the gourd but not about the possible destruction of 120,000 Ninevites. Unlike
other prophetic books, this is not a collection of oracles but the story of a
disobedient, narrow-minded prophet who is angry at the outcome of the sole
message he delivers. It is difficult to date but almost certainly is postexilic
and may reflect the somewhat narrow, nationalistic reforms of Ezra and
Nehemiah. As to genre, it has been classified in various ways, such as parable
or satire. The “sign” of Jonah is interpreted in two ways in the New Testament:
His experience of three days and nights in the fish is a “type” of the
experience of the Son of Man, and the Ninevites’ reaction to the preaching of
Jonah is contrasted with the failure of Jesus’ generation to obey the preaching
of one who is “greater than Jonah”[1].
NOVEMBER 3 Twenty-Fourth Sunday
after Pentecost
ST. HUBERT patron of hunters
Jonah,
Chapter 1, Verse 5
5 Then the sailors were AFRAID, and each one cried to his god. To lighten the ship for themselves, they threw its cargo into the sea. Meanwhile, Jonah had gone down into the hold of the ship and lay there fast asleep.
According to bible-study-for-everyone.com[2]:
Christians regard the
prophet Jonah as a type foreshadowing Jesus. Jesus said that he did not come
for the healthy but for the sick. The healthy are well and they know it. So,
they have no need of a doctor. But the sick may be diseased and not know it. They
require someone to diagnose their sickness and prescribe the remedy. They need
a healer. People can be sick physically. And they can be sick mentally,
spiritually, emotionally. For instance, the physical ailment of blindness is
plain because the person cannot see. But there is also the blindness of
selfishness. People can be blind in many ways. A person can be blind to
themselves. They see with their eyes, but they do not understand what they see.
Or they can be blind as to their experience. They interact with their world and
with other people but remain isolated and lonely because they cannot see the
depth and love within their relationships. Or they have very deep emotional or
mental feelings, but they do not see (understand) from where the feelings came.
They do not know what the feelings indicate. They are in the dark as to any
remedy. Jesus came in order for us to understand, to see and gain a remedy. He
came as the source of knowledge, as light in darkness and as the cure for our
illness. Those in light do not need a lamp but those in darkness need the
light. Jesus was sent as the light that shines in the darkness. From the
beginning to the end of the bible the theme is repeated. Humankind is lost due
to deafness, blindness, ignorance, stupidity, arrogance, selfishness and greed.
That is the first act of the play. The second act is God seeking and searching
for lost humankind, looking for them in the various places of their fear, the haunts of darkness, the hiding
places of those who are afraid of God. The final act is played out in the
response of each individual and society, each nation and epoch of human
history.
Will man and God be
enemies or friends?
Will God win and
regain the trust and fidelity of his creation?
Or will humankind
forever remain estranged?
Will the people always wander outside in desolation, or will they be admitted once again into the intimacy of the Garden of Paradise?
ON KEEPING THE LORD'S DAY HOLY[3]
CHAPTER I
DIES DOMINI
The Celebration of the Creator's
Work
"Shabbat": the
Creator's joyful rest
11. If the first page of the Book of
Genesis presents God's "work" as an example for man, the same is true
of God's "rest”: “On the seventh day God finished his work which he had
done" (Gn 2:2). Here too we find an anthropomorphism charged with a
wealth of meaning.
It would be banal to interpret God's
"rest" as a kind of divine "inactivity". By its nature, the
creative act which founds the world is unceasing and God is always at work, as
Jesus himself declares in speaking of the Sabbath precept: "My Father is
working still, and I am working" (Jn 5:17). The divine rest of the
seventh day does not allude to an inactive God but emphasizes the fullness of
what has been accomplished. It speaks, as it were, of God's lingering before
the "very good" work (Gn 1:31) which his hand has wrought, in
order to cast upon it a gaze full of joyous delight. This is a
"contemplative" gaze which does not look to new accomplishments but
enjoys the beauty of what has already been achieved. It is a gaze which God
casts upon all things, but in a special way upon man, the crown of creation. It
is a gaze which already discloses something of the nuptial shape of the
relationship which God wants to establish with the creature made in his own
image, by calling that creature to enter a pact of love. This is what God will
gradually accomplish, in offering salvation to all humanity through the saving
covenant made with Israel and fulfilled in Christ. It will be the Word
Incarnate, through the eschatological gift of the Holy Spirit and the
configuration of the Church as his Body and Bride, who will extend to all
humanity the offer of mercy and the call of the Father's love.
Twenty-Fourth Sunday after
Pentecost[4]
GOSPEL. Matt, xxiv. 15-35
At that time Jesus said to His disciples: When you shall see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place: he that readeth, let him understand. Then they that are in Judea, let them flee to the mountains. And he that is on the house-top, let him not come down to take anything out of his house: and he that is in the field let him not go back to take his coat. And woe to them that are with child, and that give suck in those days. But pray that your flight be not in the winter, or on the Sabbath. For there shall be then great tribulation, such as hath not been from the beginning of the world until now, neither shall be. And unless those days had been shortened, no flesh should be saved; but for the sake of the elect those days shall be shortened. Then if any man shall say to you: Lo here is Christ, or there, do not believe him. For there shall arise false Christs and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders, insomuch as to deceive (if possible) even the elect. Behold I have told it to you beforehand. If therefore they shall say to you: Behold, He is in the desert, go ye not out; behold, He is in the closets, believe it not. For as lightning cometh out of the east, and appeareth even into the west: so, shall also the coming of the Son of man be. Wheresoever the body shall be, there shall the eagles also be gathered together. And immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be moved. And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn: and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with much power and majesty. And He shall send His angels with a trumpet, and a great voice: and they shall gather together His elect from the four winds, from the farthest parts of the heavens to the utmost bounds of them. And from the fig-tree learn a parable: when the branch thereof is now tender, and the leaves come forth, you know that summer is nigh. So, you also, when you shall see all these things, know ye that it is nigh, even at the doors. Amen, I say to you, that this generation shall not pass, till all these things be done. Heaven and earth shall pass away, but My words shall not pass away.
Explanation: “The abomination of
desolation,” of which Christ makes mention, is the desecration of the temple,
at the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans, when it was profaned in the most
frightful manner, by robbery, murder, conflagration, and the setting up of
idols about forty years after the death of Christ. While the Jewish population
were perishing, the Christians, following the warning of Christ, fled over the
mountains to the city of Pella. Thereby Jesus would indicate how great the
danger would be should they be obliged to fly in winter, or on the Sabbath-day,
on which they were forbidden to make a journey of more than five hundred paces.
St. Hubert[5]
Late in the eighth century, so runs the story, a hunter
named Hubert, neither better nor worse than he should have been, was tracking a
stag through the forest of the Ardennes. As he readied himself to shoot the
animal with his arrow, he was startled when the stag turned suddenly in its
flight, and he saw between its antlers a luminous cross. This experience caused
Hubert to change his way of life, and he never hunted again. Yet only a few
centuries later he was known as the patron of hunters, and is a saint greatly
honored in France and Belgium.
Saint Hubert lived a full life. He became bishop of Tongres
and traveled through his huge diocese on horseback and by boat, preaching and
building churches to the glory of God. He was the friend of the great of his
day — Pepin of Heristal and Charles Martel among them — and also of the poor.
In particular his heart went out to prisoners, and he would secretly place food
for them before their dungeon windows. As he died, he said to those about him,
"Stretch the pallium over my mouth for I am now going to give back to God
the soul I received from Him."
In parts of France and Belgium there has long been a custom
of holding stag hunts on Saint Hubert's Day, and the hunters gather before the
chase for Mass and the blessing of men and horses and dogs. After the hunt is
over, those taking part gather for a bountiful breakfast consisting of fish,
meat, salad, cheese, and dessert. Naturally the meat is venison of some sort,
and the salad may well be one of dandelion greens.
Excerpted from Feast Day
Cookbook
Patron: Archers; dog bite; dogs; forest workers;
furriers; hunters; hunting; huntsmen; hydrophobia; liege, Belgium; machinists;
mad dogs; mathematicians; metal workers; precision instrument makers; rabies;
smelters; trappers.
Things to Do:
·
Have roast venison in honor of St. Hubert,
patron of hunters.
·
Have some Jagermeister.
·
Feast of the day: Wild
Boar Bolognese Sauce.
·
Join the International Order of Saint Hubertus.
Please pray for the soul of a great priest and friend of mine who I had
the pleasure of knowing while stationed in Belgium-Father Paul Wolff as it was,
he who introduced me to St. Hubert.
The Wolff of the Ardennes
Men are frequently blinded by fear and as a result often
harmed themselves. The grace of God gives confidence to see the right and to
stand when called. Father Paul was called to stand and became General Patton’s
guide during the “Battle of the Bulge” while he was still a teen. Father Paul
Wolff was 15 years old when he first joined the Belgium resistance during the
years of the Nazi occupation of World War II. He was the youngest member of the
Belgium resistance. Unfortunately, he and other members of his group were
captured and at 17 he was tortured, condemned to death and imprison in the Nazi
Prison in Liege, Belgium. There he languished yet his faith would not allow him
to lose all hope and the resistance still worked to get him and the others
(256) out. Part of the plan was to get a radio to the prisoners. To do this the
resistance secreted small parts of a crystal radio inside bars of soap.
Interestingly these were “Lever” brother bars of soap and were large about the
size of a brick. Father Paul related that during the Nazi occupation not all
Jews were in German prisons if they were of use to the Nazi’s. In this case the
soap bars were made by the Lever Jews and the radio parts were easily hidden
inside the soap bars. Father Paul stated that when they received the soap, they
then washed their hands raw in wearing away the soap to get to the radio part.
Then after several bars they constructed the radio which was the Morse code
type. Father Paul typed in code in English which he spoke along with German and
French the words over and over “SOS SOS 256 prisoners in Liege prison condemned
to death SOS SOS.” They hoped someone would get the message and somehow, they
would be rescued. All they had was hope.
Father also related that it drove the Nazi’s crazy because
they intercepted the message but never suspected it was coming from the prison.
Father Paul said that in the cell they were in there was only one barred
window, but it was so high that to look out it required a person to stand on
the shoulders of a fellow prisoner. He further relayed that they when they
would see women that were friendly with the guards coming and going, they would
call them the nastiest things they could think of calling them. Yet one day
during an air raid while the guards were hiding as deep as they could go; one
of these young women (secret agent) came and taking the heel of her shoe wrote
on the pavement that during the air raid they are going to be rescued by
commandoes and they were. Father Paul stated neither he nor the others ever
lost hope.
After his escape he went underground. He
was a friend of King Leopold III. He served as General Patton's Belgian guide
during the battle of the bulge.
December 24, 1944
Father Paul communicated to me the tale
about the battle of the bulge that has not been recorded in history. During
WWII the US Army was segregated and black men were not mixed with white men.
Black men mostly served in support roles such as transportation and as cooks,
etc. During the Battle of the Bulge’ Hitler sent in a special operations team
to confuse and destroy the American Army. It was composed of American NAZI’s
and German’s, who spoke perfect American slang, knew the culture, baseball
stuff, etc. These Spec Ops were equipped with American Uniforms and equipment
that was captured by Gen. Rommel from North Africa. Father Wolff was at a
meeting with Gen. Patton, Bradley, Eisenhower, and the English Gen. Montgomery
in Luxembourg City on the evening of Dec. 24th, 1944. The Generals were very
excited and afraid because of the effect these NAZI spec ops were having in the
warzone and since they had murdered many men. They did not know what to do. Patton,
who was a visionary, suddenly stood up and said, I know exactly what to do.
From this time forward nothing in the American Army will move without a black
American in the group. Patton knew there were no black NAZI’s. As a result,
black units were moved forward and integrated and as far as I know this was the
first time in American History since the Civil War. As a result, the NAZI spec
ops team was neutralized.
Basic Elk Hunting Workout Program[6]
Elk hunters who want to
consistently harvest elk on public land need to be in top physical
condition. For those of you who have had success in the past, you know
that once your elk is on the ground, the real work begins. Typically, the most
physically demanding part of any elk hunt is carrying 70 to 100 pounds of elk
meat and gear out of the backcountry. Doing this multiple times in a short
period will truly test your physical limits. Bottom line: elk are massive
animals that live in rugged country – bring your “A” game and be ready for a
challenge!
I realize most of us don’t
have time to spend 2 hours in the gym every day getting ready to go on a fall
elk hunt. However, no matter where you are on the fitness spectrum, there is
always room for improvement, and it requires some dedication and determination
to get results. When I am out elk hunting, there is no greater sense of
accomplishment than spotting an elk or hearing a bull down in the bottom of a
deep canyon, and knowing I can go after that elk with no physical reservations.
Basically, if I can see it or hear it, I can hunt it.
In this week’s feature
article, I would like to introduce you to a basic workout program that will
help you build both strength and endurance. I like this program because
it can be personalized based on your current strength and conditioning level and
can be done in less than an hour in the gym per workout. In other
words, I believe the results of this program will benefit both those who
regularly exercise and those who need to get started. Elk season is less than
six months away. It’s go time!
I have used this program
for 90 days and it works! The program requires you to work out three
times a week and focuses on only five lifts (Squats, Bench Press, Overhead
Press, Barbell Rows, and Dead Lifts). Because of the focus on strength and endurance,
all of these lifts are full body lifts meaning they focus on large, major
muscle groups rather than small isolation muscle groups. It is
recommended that these lifts be broken up into an A workout and a B Workout
(see chart below).
Workout A
Squat – 5X5
Bench Press – 5X5
Barbell Rows – 5X5
Workout B
Squat – 5X5
Overhead Press – 5X5
Deadlift* – 3X5
Since your legs will get
you in and out of the mountains, you will be doing squats for both
workouts. You will perform each of these lifts by doing 5 sets of 5 reps
except for the deadlift, which you will do 3 sets of 5 reps. If you’re new to
lifting, just start with the 45-pound bar. If you have experience lifting, 45
lbs may seem a little light. However, you will increase the weight by 5
lbs every time you complete your 5 sets of 5 reps. I recommend you start with
lower weight and make sure your form is correct before you get into the heavier
weights.
30 Day Sample Workout
Week 1 –
Monday (Workout A), Wednesday (Workout B), Friday (Workout A)
Week 2 –
Monday (Workout B), Wednesday (Workout A), Friday (Workout B)
Week 3 –
Monday (Workout A), Wednesday (Workout B), Friday (Workout A)
Week 4 –
Monday (Workout B), Wednesday (Workout A), Friday (Workout B)
Remember that after you
complete all sets for a given workout, increase the weight by 5 lbs. for the
next workout. (This means adding 2 ½ lbs. to each side of the bar)
Technically you will be adding 10 lbs. per week when doing the same workout
twice in that week.
Catechism of the Catholic
Church
PART ONE: THE PROFESSION
OF FAITH
SECTION
TWO-I. THE CREEDS
CHAPTER
THREE-I BELIEVE IN THE HOLY SPIRIT
Article 12-"I BELIEVE IN LIFE EVERLASTING"
Day 143
IN BRIEF
1051
Every man receives his eternal recompense in his immortal soul from the moment
of his death in a particular judgment by Christ, the judge of the living and
the dead.
1052
"We believe that the souls of all who die in Christ's grace . . . are the
People of God beyond death. On the day of resurrection, death will be
definitively conquered, when these souls will be reunited with their
bodies" (Paul VI, CPG # 28).
1053
"We believe that the multitude of those gathered around Jesus and Mary in
Paradise forms the Church of heaven, where in eternal blessedness they see God
as he is and where they are also, to various degrees, associated with the holy
angels in the divine governance exercised by Christ in glory, by interceding
for us and helping our weakness by their fraternal concern" (Paul VI, CPG
# 29).
1054
Those who die in God's grace and friendship imperfectly purified, although they
are assured of their eternal salvation, undergo a purification after death, so
as to achieve the holiness necessary to enter the joy of God.
1055 By
virtue of the "communion of saints," the Church commends the dead to
God's mercy and offers her prayers, especially the holy sacrifice of the
Eucharist, on their behalf.
1056
Following the example of Christ, the Church warns the faithful of the "sad
and lamentable reality of eternal death" (GCD 69), also called
"hell."
1057
Hell's principal punishment consists of eternal separation from God in whom
alone man can have the life and happiness for which he was created and for
which he longs.
1058 The
Church prays that no one should be lost: "Lord, let me never be parted
from you." If it is true that no one can save himself, it is also true
that God "desires all men to be saved" (1 Tim 2:4), and that for him
"all things are possible" (Mt 19:26).
1059
"The holy Roman Church firmly believes and confesses that on the Day of
Judgment all men will appear in their own bodies before Christ's tribunal to
render an account of their own deeds" (Council of Lyons II [1274]: DS 859;
cf. DS 1549).
1060 At
the end of time, the Kingdom of God will come in its fullness. Then the just
will reign with Christ for ever, glorified in body and soul, and the material
universe itself will be transformed. God will then be "all in all" (1
Cor 15:28), in eternal life.
"Amen"
1061 The
Creed, like the last book of the Bible, ends with the Hebrew word amen.
This word frequently concludes prayers in the New Testament. the Church
likewise ends her prayers with "Amen."
1062 In
Hebrew, amen comes from the same root as the word "believe." This
root expresses solidity, trustworthiness, faithfulness. and so we can
understand why "Amen" may express both God's faithfulness towards us
and our trust in him.
1063 In the
book of the prophet Isaiah, we find the expression "God of truth"
(literally "God of the Amen"), that is, the God who is faithful to
his promises: "He who blesses himself in the land shall bless himself by
the God of truth [amen]." Our Lord often used the word
"Amen," sometimes repeated, to emphasize the trustworthiness of
his teaching, his authority founded on God's truth.
1064 Thus
the Creed's final "Amen" repeats and confirms its first words:
"I believe." To believe is to say "Amen" to God's words,
promises and commandments; to entrust oneself completely to him who is the
"Amen" of infinite love and perfect faithfulness. the Christian's
everyday life will then be the "Amen" to the "I believe" of
our baptismal profession of faith:
May your Creed be for you as a mirror. Look at yourself in
it, to see if you believe everything you say you believe. and rejoice in your
faith each day.
1065 Jesus
Christ himself is the "Amen." He is the definitive
"Amen" of the Father's love for us. He takes up and completes our
"Amen" to the Father: "For all the promises of God find their
Yes in him. That is why we utter the Amen through him, to the glory of
God":
Through him, with him, in him,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
all glory and honor is yours,
almighty Father,
God, for ever and ever.
AMEN.
Orphan
Sunday[7]
True religion is taking care of widows and orphans.
Orphan Sunday is a time to
stand up for the orphans of the world. In truth, there are likely no more
vulnerable human beings in the entire world than those thousands upon thousands
of children in this world who have no mother or father, due to all sorts of
tragedies that have occurred in their lives, ranging from accidents, to
sicknesses, to war. Whatever the reason, orphaned children need our help in any
way we can offer it.
Over the years, many different
churches and organizations have hosted events they called, “Orphan Sundays” in
an effort to raise awareness of the orphans in our areas, their problems and
needs. The Christian Alliance started their own version of Orphan Sunday back
in, when a American visitor to Africa Gary Schneider attending a church service
in Zambia was moved by the pastor’s call to care for the numerous orphans in a
local community plagued by hunger bordering on starvation, poverty and AIDS. At
that time especially, children who were orphans were in a particularly terrible
situations, as they were often left to fend for themselves, a thing that no
child is prepared to do. Because of this, many children’s entire lives became
jeopardized, as they had no way to make enough money to get to school in hopes
of getting an education and a decent job in the future. Even though the locals
attending the service were mostly extremely poor themselves, at the end of the
service, many of them stepped forward to offer their support, some even giving
away their own clothes or shoes to help the children. Moved by this display of
generosity, Schneider decided to help Zambian leaders take care of the Zambian
orphans by getting the word out about this new practice, and it spread like
wildfire. By 2003 these efforts had spread to the United States. The Christian
Alliance honors the Zambian church Schneider had visited for the gift of Orphan
Sunday and the inspiration they gave people all over the world to care about
the orphan; in fact, Orphan Sunday is often called, “Zambia’s gift to the
world”. Nowadays, the Christian Alliance includes more 150 respected
ministries, and Orphan Sunday is celebrated in thousands of churches across the
globe in over 50 nations.
How to Celebrate Orphan Sunday
The best way to celebrate
Orphan Sunday is find something you can do for the sadly fatherless and
motherless children the Zambians have been doing their best to look after for
all these years. And it doesn’t stop there! Though Zambia is where the whole event
started, it is definitely not the only place in the world where we can find
orphaned children—there are children who have lost their parents in every
community that could use your help. Orphan Sunday is your opportunity to rouse
church, community and friends to God’s call to care for the orphan. Each Orphan
Sunday event is different, depending on who it’s led by—the believer in any
local church, along with their priest or pastor, get together to decide what
actions they could take stand to benefit their local orphans as well as orphans
worldwide. Events range from sermons on God’s heart for the orphan, whose
plight Christians believe is especially important to, to fundraisers, live
concerts, and even to foster family recruiting.
Daily Devotions
·
Today in honor of the
Holy Trinity do the Divine Office giving your day to God. To honor God REST: no
shopping after 6 pm Saturday till Monday. Don’t forget the internet.
·
Unite in the work of the Porters of St. Joseph by joining them
in fasting: Today's Fast: An
increase of the Faithful.
·
Litany of the Most Precious
Blood of Jesus
·
Offering to
the sacred heart of Jesus
·
Rosary
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