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2nd Annual Shrove Tuesday Brunch Plus the February Indulgence Calendar (and extra daily Plenary Indulgence available this year)

Posted: February 1, 2025 by datechguy in catholic, catholic devotions, special events
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At WQPH 89.3 FM we are getting ready for our 2nd Annual Shrove Tuesday Brunch. You can get your tickets online here:

The tickets include a brunch (ham & eggs, stuffed chicken, pene & meatballs), prayer, our guest speaker and relics for veneration. (We will have relics of St. Faustina, St. Camillus and a relic of the true cross present.)

It’s limited to 100 tickets so if you want a seat I’d move now. Click on the ticket and it will take you to the WQPH donate page, simply put “Brunch” on the paypal note as shown here:

also if you want to by a ticket or tickets for someone who can’t afford one add the word “patron” and we’ll give a ticket to an elderly or religious who wishes to go. If you buy 10 tickets you or your group will be considered a Sponsor of the event and be mentioned at the event.

If at all possible try and get your tickets by the 10th not only do you get better pricing but I’ll know if we need the large room or the small room at the venue.

Click on the ticket above or go to wqphradio.org for tickets. We will keep them at the door for you or mail them to you is you wish.

If you prefer to pay by Check, they can be made payable to ELRN (Eternal Life Radio Network) and mailed to:

WQPH 89.3 FM
P.O. Box 589
Medford, MA 02155

Oh and here is this month’s Indulgence Calendar:

indulgence calendar feb 2025Download

Don’t forget for this jubilee year you can earn 2 plenary indulgences each day.

WQPH 89.3 First Annual Shrove Tuesday Brunch Feb 13th 2024

Posted: January 21, 2024 by datechguy in catholic, catholic devotions, Church doctrine, media
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WQPH 89.3 FM Shirley/Fitchburg MA an EWTN Catholic Radio Station will be holding our 1st Annual Shrove Tuesday Brunch on Tuesday February 13th (the feast of the Holy Face of Jesus) at Slattery’s Restaurant 106 Lunenburg St, Fitchburg, MA 01420-4466 (978 342 8880) from 10:30 AM to 1:30 PM.

Enjoy a tasty brunch with your local WQPH show hosts (including yours truly who hosts Your Prayer Intentions Saturdays at Noon and Midnight as we prepare together for our Lenten Journey together while helping WQPH (Queen of Perpetual Help) continue to bring you the daily mass, the daily rosary and all our shows to help spread and maintain our Catholic Faith.

Tickets are $45 but only $40 if purchased by before February 4th. 

If you can’t go yourself consider sponsoring a member of the Clergy (Put “Clergy” in the subject line) or someone who might not be able to afford a ticket (Put “Sponsor” in the subject line) to come and share our brunch with us.

You can get tickets or sponsor someone to attend in several ways:

WQPH 89.3 FM
PO Box 589
Medford MA 02155

In all cases above in the subject line put

  • “Tickets” if you are buying tickets for yourself.
  • “Sponsor” if you wish to sponsor someone else to attend.
  • “Clergy” if you wish to buy a ticket for a local Priest, Nun or Deacon to attend.

Hope to see you there.

SPECIAL MATCHING OPPERTUNITY: WQPH has a donor who is offering to match $200 donations unrelated to this event. If you donate $200 to the station our sponsoring donor will match it

Ash Wednesday and my Favorite Old Testament Passage

Posted: February 26, 2020 by datechguy in catholic, Church doctrine
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Today is Ash Wednesday the beginning of Lent and the reason why so many people got drunk etc yesterday because traditionally this began a period of fasting and sacrificing to bring us closer to God and while many have abandoned the fasting/prayerful reflection part they’ve kept with full force the last big debauch.

Ash Wednesday is not the most popular devotion out there, you are given ashes which is a reminder of our mortality “Remember man that thou art dust and to dust you shall return.” Although because some consider that reminder too harsh a “Repent and believe in the Gospel” is substituted in some parishes.

But what I’ve always loved about Ash Wednesday is the first reading from scripture at Mass. Every Year the first reading is always this passage from the prophet Joel

Even now, says the LORD,
return to me with your whole heart,
with fasting, and weeping, and mourning;
Rend your hearts, not your garments,
and return to the LORD, your God.
For gracious and merciful is he,
slow to anger, rich in kindness,
and relenting in punishment.
Perhaps he will again relent
and leave behind him a blessing,
Offerings and libations
for the LORD, your God.

Blow the trumpet in Zion!
proclaim a fast,
call an assembly;
Gather the people,
notify the congregation;
Assemble the elders,
gather the children
and the infants at the breast;
Let the bridegroom quit his room
and the bride her chamber.
Between the porch and the altar
let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep,
And say, “Spare, O LORD, your people,
and make not your heritage a reproach,
with the nations ruling over them!
Why should they say among the peoples,
‘Where is their God?’”

Then the LORD was stirred to concern for his land
and took pity on his people.

Joel 2 12-18

Even now! Those are words of power and hope. Most importantly there are no qualifiers to those words

  • Even Now….unless you’ve had an abortion
  • Even now….unless you’ve cheated on your spouse
  • Even now…..unless you are a thief
  • Even now…..unless you are a drug dealier
  • Even now…..unless you are a murder
  • Even now…..unless you are a terrorist
  • Even now…..unless you are an atheist
  • Even now…..unless you promote sodomy
  • Even now…..unless you’ve sold your soul to the devil

In other words, it doesn’t matter what you’ve done in the past or where you are, if you are willing to turn your heart to God, his outstretched hand will be there.

And note the time given is the ever present NOW, the time that every man spends their entire life in. As long as you have breath in your body, even if that breath is your last God will accept your return in that ever present now.

Does that mean that the path that follows will be painless? Nope.

Does it mean that the path will be easy? Nope.

But it means that path is available at every present moment of your life and that the time to embrace the forgiveness of God is always NOW.

DaTechGuy on DaRadio with the Anchoress

Posted: March 11, 2011 by datechguy in catholic, DaTechGuy on DaRadio
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My guest today on DaTechGuy on DaRadio will be that most Catholic of Bloggers the Anchoress.

We will be talking about Lent and her take on the Church.

We will also have Roxeanne Deluca and James Marley joining us.

The second hour topics will include Wisconsin, Libya, and the budget battles in congress and NPR.

You can call in and join us at 508-438-0965 and if you are somehow out of our 50,000 Watt range you can listen online here.

Oh and BTW on Conservatively Speaking between 7 and 7:30 Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann is going to be calling in. You won’t want to miss it.

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