Next Saturday Meeting - March 7

Our next Saturday meeting will be March 7, 2015, 7:00am-8:00am in the Parish Meeting Room.

Thanks to Rob for volunteering to facilitate our discussion of Chapter 12 of Peter Kreeft’s Catholic Christianity and the weekend’s readings.

Coffee starts at 6:30!

Here's a link to the event listing: http://www.sbmmff.com/events/2015/3/7/saturday-monthly-meeting

Thanks to Gene and Bobby for facilitating our February meeting!

Please email Leon Shadowen at lshadowen@aol.com to volunteer to facilitate a meeting!

Annual Lenten Pilgrimage to the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception - March 14

The Men's Ministry Pilgrimage to the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington is on Saturday, March 14.

The Lenten Pilgrimage includes a tour of the largest Catholic basilica in the United States, opportunity for Confession, a private Mass in the Slovakian Chapel celebrated by Fr. Stefan, Stations of the Cross, and lunch at an Irish Pub.

We depart from St. Bridget's front lot at 6:30 am (offer it up as part of your Lent). We are usually back in Richmond by 5:30-6:00 p.m. If you want to go, please contact Mike Kozak at ckoz654@aol.com

For details go to the event link: http://www.sbmmff.com/events/2015/3/14/annual-lenten-pilgrimage-to-the-shrine-of-the-immaculate-conception

 

 

Next Saturday Meeting

Our next Saturday meeting will be March 7, 2015, 7:00am-8:00am in the Parish Meeting Room.

Thanks to Rob for volunteering to facilitate our discussion of Chapter 12 of Peter Kreeft’s Catholic Christianity and the weekend’s readings.

Coffee starts at 6:30!

Here's a link to the event listing: http://www.sbmmff.com/events/2015/3/7/saturday-monthly-meeting

Thanks to Gene and Bobby for facilitating our February meeting!

Please email Leon Shadowen at lshadowen@aol.com to volunteer to facilitate a meeting!

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Kozak's Korner - Recommended Reading

Next Saturday Meeting

Our next Saturday meeting will be March 7, 2015, 7:00am-8:00am in the Parish Meeting Room.

Thanks to Rob for volunteering to facilitate our discussion of Chapter 12 of Peter Kreeft’s Catholic Christianity and the weekend’s readings.

Coffee starts at 6:30!

Here's a link to the event listing: http://www.sbmmff.com/events/2015/3/7/saturday-monthly-meeting

Thanks to Gene and Bobby for facilitating our February meeting!

Please email Leon Shadowen at lshadowen@aol.com to volunteer to facilitate a meeting!

Kozak's Korner - Recommended Reading, Etc.

The Way of Serenity by Jonathan Morris

The Didache Bible Ignatius Press

The Joy of the Gospel by Pope Francis

The Sidewalk Chronicles - For info on this movie go to  http://www.catholicmediaworks.org/sidewalk_chronicles

ZENIT - The World Seen From Rome: Being Good Without God

Being Good Without God

Religion's Contribution to Society

By Father John Flynn, LC

ROME, February 01, 2015 (Zenit.org) - In an essay published last December Peter Hitchens, brother of the late Christopher Hitchens, a renowned atheist, reflected on the importance of religion.

In his essay, published December 3 on the Website of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Hitchens acknowledged that atheists can arrive at some moral principles, such as the Golden Rule, or doing to others what you would like done to you, but he also maintained that Christianity goes a lot further.

“Christianity requires much more, and above all does not expect to see charity returned. To love thy neighbour as thyself is a far greater and more complicated obligation, requiring a positive effort to seek the good of others, often in secret, sometimes at great cost and always without reward,” he said.

He rejected the affirmation made by his brother that the injunction to love thy neighbor as being too extreme, and pointed to the example given by mothers, doctors and nurses as showing that people are indeed prepared to make big sacrifices for others.

For the rest of this article go to:

http://www.zenit.org/en/articles/being-good-without-god--2?utm_campaign=dailyhtml&utm_medium=email&utm_source=dispatch

Stopping an Abortion That's Already Started

Walk for Life Speaker Explains How She Gave Birth to Healthy Boy After RU-486

By Kathleen Naab

SAN FRANCISCO, January 21, 2015 (Zenit.org) - This Saturday, thousands of pro-lifers will converge on San Francisco for the annual Walk for Life West Coast. One of the speakers at the event is Rebekah Buell, a young mother who planned to end the life of her son with the abortion pills RU-486.

ZENIT spoke with Buell about her choice to use chemical abortion and what she did when she changed her mind.

ZENIT: Tell us your experience of abortion.

Buell: I never thought I would be an abortion consumer, yet at 18 years old I found myself pregnant for the second time. The news of this pregnancy crushed me; here I was in my first year of college, in the midst of a divorce, and already a mother to an 11-month-old little boy. I thought being a single mother to two children would be completely impossible.

In order to not further disappoint my family, and to not further complicate my education, I made the decision to have a chemical abortion, which is a two-step process. On March 13, 2013, I walked into a Planned Parenthood clinic, sat down, and swallowed the RU-486 abortion pill, the first pill that is designed to cause the death of the unborn child. I was then sent home with the second set of pills (Misoprostol) and instructed to take them 24 hours later, as that is what causes the “fetus” to be expelled.

For the rest of this article go to:

http://www.zenit.org/en/articles/stopping-an-abortion-that-s-already-started?utm_campaign=dailyhtml&utm_medium=email&utm_source=dispatch
 

 

US Supreme Court to Decide on Same-Sex 'Marriage' from Zenit.org

Archbishop: "It's hard to imagine how the essential meaning of marriage ... consistent with every society throughout all of human history, could be declared illegal"

WASHINGTON, D.C., January 17, 2015 (Zenit.org) - The U. S. Supreme Court granted a request Friday to review the November 2014 decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit upholding the constitutionality of marriage laws in Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee.

The decision regarding same-sex marriage is expected in June or July.

Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Subcommittee for the Promotion and Defense of Marriage, responded to the Court’s action, saying, “A decision by the Supreme Court on whether a state may define marriage as the union of one man and one woman may be the most significant Court decision since the Court’s tragic 1973 Roe v. Wade decision making abortion a constitutional right.”

The anniversary of that decision is next week, Jan. 22, and will be marked by the annual March for Life in D.C., as well as the West Coast Walk for Life.

Pope Francis just today spoke against a redefinition of marriage. At a meeting with families in Manila, he said: "While all too many people live in dire poverty, others are caught up in materialism and lifestyles which are destructive of family life and the most basic demands of Christian morality. This is the ideological colonization. The family is also threatened by growing efforts on the part of some to redefine the very institution of marriage, by relativism, by the culture of the ephemeral, by a lack of openness to life."

For the rest of this article go to: http://www.zenit.org/en/articles/us-supreme-court-to-decide-on-same-sex-marriage?utmcampaign=dailyhtml&utmmedium=email&utm_source=dispatch