Saturday, July 30, 2016
Holy Hour of Adoration to celebrate the opening of the 100th Anniversary of the Miracle of the Sun at Fatima within the Extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy.
In anticipation of the 100th Anniversary of Fatima next year, the is a call for parishes to hold a holy hour of adoration on October 13th, 2016. For more information please visit: Solidarity in Prayer
Friday, July 29, 2016
Meatless Friday Meal - Succotash
This version of succotash is made with Edamame, (soy bean) instead of the traditional Lima Beans.
Ingredients:
1 large green pepper (or any other color sweet pepper), diced evenly.
Kernels of two large fresh corn on the cob
1 package of frozen Edamame, cooked according to package direction. Drain, cool and remove from pods
Salt and pepper to taste
1 tablespoon butter
Melt the butter in a large cast iron skillet. Add all ingredients and fry on medium high heat for approximately 3 to 5 minutes or until some of the vegetables start to brown. Salt and pepper to taste.
Serves two or three. This recipe can be doubled.
Tuesday, July 26, 2016
ACN News - South Sudan – ‘The worst is still to come’
By Clare Creegan
A project
partner of Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) has warned that the upsurge of
fighting in South Sudan will mean a worsening of the humanitarian crisis affecting
millions of civilians.
One of the Catholic
charity’s South Sudanese project partners, who cannot be named for security
reasons, described how renewed violence in Juba has caused immense suffering
and increased insecurity amongst its people.
Referring
to calls from the governments of neighboring countries Uganda and Kenya for
their citizens to leave South Sudan, he said, “The way the various governments all over the world are panicking and
acting shows that they fear that something terrible is still to happen.”
“One can even hear
that ‘the worst is still to come!’”
The religious Brother also described how the South Sudanese people were
prohibited from leaving the country and were suffering from food shortages –
but thanked ACN for their solidarity.
He said, “Let’s pray
that the nightmare in Juba and all around the country is soon coming to an end.”
“People just cannot
stand this hell any longer. I am seeing people leaving Juba in big numbers,
mostly to Uganda, whenever they find a possibility and when they can afford
it.”
Through the Church,
1,385 registered families – which numbered 7,183 displaced people – were able
to receive support at St. Paul’s Seminary campus in Juba.
The renewed fighting
is a major setback for South Sudan’s peace process which had been troubled by ceasefire
violations and localized outbreaks of violence since the peace agreement signed
by rival leaders President Salva Kiir and Vice President Riek Machar in August
2015.
Tensions
came to a head on July 7, following an attack in Juba close to where the
President and Vice President were meeting.
Continued fighting is reported to have left more than 300 dead
and the death toll is expected to rise as fears of a return to civil war
increase.
Aid to the Church in
Need is supporting ongoing projects in South Sudan including aid to help build
a presbytery for the newly established parish in Barsherki in the Diocese of
Wau.
In 2015, the charity
also gave more than $950,000 to fund the Church’s pastoral work with refugees
in South Sudan.
With picture of people waiting for transportation to escape the violence (© ACN)
Editor’s Notes:
Directly under the
Holy Father, Aid to the Church in Need supports
the faithful wherever they are persecuted, oppressed or in pastoral need.
ACN is a Catholic charity - helping to bring Christ to the world through
prayer, information and action.
Founded in 1947 by Father Werenfried van Straaten, whom Pope John Paul
II named “An Outstanding Apostle of Charity,” the organization is now at work
in over 145 countries throughout the world.
The charity undertakes thousands of projects every year including
providing transport for clergy and lay Church workers, construction of church
buildings, funding for priests and nuns and help to train seminarians. Since
the initiative’s launch in 1979, 43 million Aid to the Church in Need Child’s Bibles have been distributed
worldwide.
For more information contact Michael Varenne at
michael@churchinneed.org or call
718-609-0939 or fax718-609-0938. Aid to the Church in Need, 725 Leonard Street,
PO Box 220384, Brooklyn, NY 11222-0384. www.churchinneed.org
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