Family Night for 11/16/08: Faithfulness!
Welcome to this week’s episode of Family Night. Every week my wife Emily has put together a three page devotional to assist families in their discussion and application of the upcoming Sunday readings. To get started, we have provided an Introduction that explains how to use Family Night and the Family Night Prayers that you will introduce to your family. If you click on the blue words you will download the files. Family Night for November 16, 2008 focuses on the topic, Faithfulness. We hope you enjoy these devotionals that we use with our own children each week. Feel free to ask a question or leave a comment below.
Family Night for 11/09/08–Jesus Is the Temple
Welcome to this week’s episode of Family Night. Every week my wife Emily has put together a three page devotional to assist families in their discussion and application of the upcoming Sunday readings. To get started, we have provided an Introduction that explains how to use Family Night and the Family Night Prayers that you will introduce to your family. If you click on the blue words you will download the files. Family Night for November 9, 2008 is entitled “Jesus Is the Temple.” We hope you enjoy these devotionals that we use with our own children each week. Feel free to ask a question or leave a comment below.
Important Message From Michael O’Brien!
All Saints Day, 1 November 2008
Dear Friends,
From just north of the border, we Canadians, like other people throughout the world, are observing and praying for the coming federal election in the United States of America. I would prefer to keep private my counsel about political choices, because it is not my country. However, I am receiving letters from American subscribers and visitors to my studio website asking me some rather surprising questions about Barack Obama, related to one of my novels.
During the past year I have read a number of his pronouncements, and saw the smoke and mirrors beneath the rhetoric, but couldn’t understand why everyone south of the border (the other south of the border, the 49th parallel) was getting so excited about him, both pro and con. Then a few weeks ago a German friend called me immediately after Obama’s speech in Berlin, to say that the presidential candidate had mesmerized the crowds, and that a commentator on German television had said: “We have just heard the next President of the United States…and the future President of the World.” My friend felt that Obama bore an uncanny resemblance to the fictional character of the President in my novel Father Elijah. I have received several other letters saying the same thing and asking what I thought about it.
Important Message From Dr. Mary Healy - Election
Friends,
I wanted to share this letter, written by my friend Dr. Mary Healy. She articulates very well the situation we face with the upcoming election.
Dear friends and family,
I hope you’re all well! I am writing to share some thoughts with you about the upcoming election and an issue that is close to my heart: respect for the dignity of human life. If any of you are weighing the candidates’ positions on this along with other important issues at stake in this election, I hope you’ll bear with me by reading this letter and consider giving this issue a closer look.
There is no doubt that the next president (along with those elected to lower offices) will have an immense influence on the future of legal abortion in America — by the weight of presidential words and gestures, by public policy decisions, and most of all by judicial appointments to the Supreme Court and other federal courts.
Jeff to Talk Synod and Scripture Study
On Wednesday, October 22, Jeff will be on Kresta in the Afternoon with Al Kresta at 5:20 pm EST (4:20 pm CST). The show can be found on an Ave Maria affiliate, EWTN affiliate or Sirius Radio. (Here are the links: Immaculate Heart Radio, Ave Maria, EWTN, Sirius Radio)
With the historical Scripture Synod: The Word of God in the Life and the Mission of the Church nearing its close this Sunday, October 26, Jeff will be discussing ScriptureSynod.com, a website sponsored by The Great Adventure and dedicated to providing up-to-date information about the Synod. He will also be talking about the happenings in Rome with the Synod of Bishops these past two weeks as well as the importance Scripture Study holds for renewing a passion for the Word of God in the laity.
Earlier this week, Jeff was interview by Zenit. You can view that two-part interview here.
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