Dear Friend,

This Sunday is Father's Day where we honor all fathers.

As Catholic Action is a family of souls, we have asked that a Mass be celebrated for the intentions of all of the fathers related to our Catholic Action family.

Father’s Day is a chance for every man to reflect on his father’s legacy – and his own; undoubtedly, today’s culture continues to try to couch fatherhood as being irrelevant while placing many demands upon each one that ends up taking their time away from family and children. We are consoled knowing God has a better plan and for a father, his primary focus should be his wife and his children. That is his vocation! 

Fathers are also called to be the spiritual leader of the family. To do so, they must be thoroughly convinced the Fatherhood of God is imaged in the father within the family. In other words, fathers are required to answer the call to be an example of Christ’s love in their own families as well as in their parish communities and in the world.

In recent months, fathers have had to set up their spiritual leadership while sheltering at home. In so doing, they have found the need to draw upon a particular strength and resiliency in order to effectively move their families to the path forward from the fog of the pandemic scare, economic uncertainty and civil unrest and back to the mission of Christ and to the fundamental truths of our Catholic faith that have contributed invaluably to the greater common good.

As we honor fathers and as we provide them a moment to bask in the love and praise we have for them, we take note that dads are a work in progress and, we pray, saints in the making. In our intentions then, we pray that all fathers rekindle their sense of mission, to claim their most vital role as a Catholic father and to rediscover the nature that is built within them to serve, to challenge and to continually grow in this way.

We pray especially to the Sacred Heart of Jesus that He bless all fathers and their families on this special day.

Your fellow Rosary Warrior and Faith Defender in Christ,

Thomas J. McKenna 
Founder and President
Catholic Action For Faith And Family
http://www.catholicaction.org/