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Email a FriendPosted by Rhonda @ A Naptime Novelist on Thursday, Jun 21, 2012 3:22 PM (EDT):
I am! Thanks for providing the links, Rebecca. Have a blessed retreat.
Kicking Off the Fortnight for Freedom
Posted by Rebecca Teti in Faith on Thursday, June 21, 2012 2:35 PM
The Fortnight for Freedom kicks off tonight, the Vigil of the Feast of Saints Thomas More and John Fisher.
Appropriately, the opening mass of the Fortnight will be celebrated tonight in Baltimore, the nation’s first diocese, and the see from which Bishop (later Archbishop) John Carroll forged the fledgling Church in America, a famous friendship with George Washington, and was among the first to articulate the proper relationship between Catholics and America.
Archbishop Lori will celebrate mass at the Basilica of the Assumption in Baltimore at 7 pm.
I will be on retreat for a few days and will miss it, but I hope some readers here will attend and leave some “color commentary” in the comment box later in the week.
For that matter, I hope you’ll tell us about any Fortnight-related activities you attend!
Tim Drake of the National Catholic Register has a round-up of archdiocesan activities and some cool videos to accompany the events.
Here are some daily reflections on religious liberty prepared by the bishops’ conference for personal or group use.
Maybe we as a Faith&Family community can commit to praying the prayer for religious liberty daily as the bishops recommend.
Who’s in?
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Posted by JRM on Thursday, Jun 21, 2012 4:37 PM (EDT):
I’m in. We just planned and emailed invitations for our July 4th Religious Freedom party. We will be saying a patriotic rosary found here http://www.penitents.org/patrioticrosary.htm , reading the Declaration of Independence, and the parents and older kids will be taking turns going to one of two hours of adoration at our very close by church. We will also have a bounce house for the littlest ones, giant water ballon launchers for the bigger ones, badmitton, and, of course, fire works. It should be good, spiritual fun!
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