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Yesterday at the annual Real Options pregnancy center banquet I spoke to General Don Bolduc who is running for the US Senate in NH
His campaign’s website is here:
Update: To make it clear he is a candidate for US senate in NH not the NH senate
Update 2: Linked by Granite Grok, thanks Mike
Fr. Leonard Mary’s trip to Massachusetts sponsored by WQPH 89.3 Radio is coming closer and for those who didn’t hear about it before here are the details and a big change to the Boston by land and by sea event:
First the stuff that hasn’t changed
Tuesday October 26th
10:30 AM Holy Rosary Church 118 Thresa Street Fitchburg Mass.
NOTE: You do NOT have to buy a ticket to the luncheon to attend the Rosary, Mass and healing service
Wednesday October 27th
9:30 AM St. Bernard’s Parish & St. Camillus Church 333 Mechanic Street Fitchburg Mass.
NOTE: You do NOT have to buy a ticket to the luncheon to attend the Rosary, Mass and healing service
6:30 PM St. Joseph’s Church (upper church) 114 High Street Medford Mass.
Thursday October 28th
1:30 PM St. Raphael’s Church 512 High Street Medford Mass
All of the events above are unchanged from a week ago
There have been updates to the Saturday event(s) all changes will be indicated by Bold italics
Saturday October 30th
7:10-7:15 AM Bus Leaves Holy Rosary Parish 118 Theresa St. at 7:7:15 AM for Medford Mass.
8:30 AM St. Joseph church 114 High Street (lower church) Medford Mass
Note you do NOT have to buy a ticket if you wish to travel to Medford on your own to attend Fr. Leonard’s morning Mass.
I will be at the Fitchburg and Boston events. Hope to see you there.
Here’s some big news from WQPH 89.3 FM Fitchburg. Fr. Leonard Mary Revilla is coming to Massachusetts.
Here is the flyer as a PDF if you wish to join us
You’ll want to sign up for those events ASAP. I’ll be at the Fitchburg and tentatively at Boston events (by Land)
In all the excitement I forgot to post about the October Indulgence Calendars. They are available for Download here
The Blank Calendar
Feel free to use the blank calendar at your parish to make your own indulgence calendar.
UPDATE: Some good news for those who wanted to go on the Boston Land and Sea event.
The bus for the event will start in Fitchburg at the Madonna of the Holy Rosary Church. Be there for between 6:45 and 7 AM. From Fitchburg it will go to Medford for the 8:30 Mass at St. Joseph’s church. After mass the bus will head into Boston as planned. The land event will continue as planned for $90 in the North End, but the price of the sea portion has dropped from $240 down to only $150
So call now at 781-391-1496 to reserve your spot now!
Be generous to all the living, and withhold not your kindness from the dead.
Sirach 7:33
A couple of days ago at work I was listening to music on my very old iPod that I bought off my son’s friend about 15 years ago when I suddenly had the thought to put on Manheim Steamroller.
That might seem an odd choice as Christmas is half a year away but we are asked to keep the spirit of Christmas in our hearts all year long so I put on the album while I was working. I had forgotten how much I enjoyed it and the concerts I had gone to with my wife and kids the latest being at the Colonial in Boston before this insanity took place
As I was doing my work it occurred to me that this pleasure along with the joy of those concerts was one more thing that I and millions of others owed to Rush Limbaugh who had introduced Chip Davis and his music to his audience and thus to the country and world. I found myself thinking about the impact he had on the nation culturally and politically from the initial victory of the GOP breaking the 40 year run of Democrat control of the house in 1994 to his role along with Sarah Palin in the 63 seat red wave in 2010.
One might consider this a debt we can’t repay as he’s been dead now for several months but by an odd coincidence as I was thinking of all I owed him I remembered a project that I’m working on The Indulgence Calendar.
I’ll be writing more about the indulgence Calendar (along with some downloads) on Memorial day but the bottom line is that if you are a Catholic there IS something you can do for Rush Limbaugh: You can earn an indulgence for him.
Now Rush wasn’t Catholic but that doesn’t matter. You can earn an indulgence for any deceased person and the merits of said indulgences do not depend on if the subject was Catholic thus I propose:
I propose this date because
Now to earn an indulgence there are certain norms that must be followed here are the ones that apply from my indulgence calendar
11. No unbaptized person nor any Christian who is currently under the penalty of excommunication may earn an indulgence.
12. You must ACTIVELY seek and or state your intention to obtain an indulgence for the act or prayer that carries it to be valid.
So if you are a Catholic going to mass and receiving communion on Sunday all you have to do, in addition to receiving communion to earn an indulgence for Rush Limbaugh Sunday May 30th is:
Additionally Earning an indulgence for the dead in purgatory is a spiritual work of mercy so in doing this for Rush we are also helping ourselves along our path to Christ.
Oh and fyi, there is no limit to the number of partial indulgences that you can earn in a day as long as you declare your intention to earn it so feel free to obtain multiple indulgences for Rush and maybe one for yourself.
If you want to learn more about indulgences stop by on May 31st and I’ll introduce you to my Indulgence Calendar Project which launches June 1st.
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