Dear Friend,

Thanks to your prayers for Cardinal Burke, he is making great strides in his healing and recovery. Please find the Letter of Gratitude from His Eminence here.

How often do we make the sign of the cross? Gaze upon our Crucified Lord on the cross? Kiss a Crucifix?  Is it once daily or several times during the day and night? 

How important the Cross is today, in this upside-down world – take hold of it, so that you and your family are not swept away from the one, true Catholic Church. 

Pay heed to this sad news: a newly ordained priest has committed suicide.  One of the last good deeds he did was to help his mother prepare for Hurricane Ida. In this day and age, we read of more priests taking their lives – why?

In another part of that state, the rector of a National Shrine moved the Feast Day Holy Mass (usually celebrated on the Sunday closest to the feast) to the following Sunday due to a major league football home game!! Why? Because “many devotees are ticket holders and others love to watch the game on TV. In addition, the traffic for a home game interferes with getting to the Shrine for our Mass.”  

More and more, society disregards that Sundays are holy days in which we worship God, Our Creator and are to thank Jesus at Holy Mass for dying on the cross for our sins!

Remember, as the world spirals downward, out of control, the Cross stands firm! 

Let us bring our personal petitions, for those of the world and especially for the restoration of good health for Cardinal Burke, to the foot of the Cross, where Our Lady of Sorrows stays close to her Son.

 “Virgin of all virgins best, listen to my fond requests.” (Taken from the Stabat Mater)

Please submit your intentions for Ten Days of Holy Masses, the Exaltation of the Holy Cross – the 7 Sorrows of Our Lady, from September 6 – September 15.

Including:

The Feast Day of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross on September 14

The Feast Day of the 7 Sorrows of Our Lady on September 15

**All you have to do is submit your intentions and you will automatically receive ten days of prayers, beginning on Monday, September 6th. And please include an intention for Cardinal Burke to be restored to good health. 

We shall stand firm, united in hope beneath the Cross of Christ, throughout our problems, difficulties and challenges in this unpredictable world.

Your friend in Jesus and Mary,

Thomas McKenna

Catholic Action For Faith And Family
http://www.catholicaction.org/