After yesterday”s Angelus prayer, the Holy Father called attention to the observance of the Day of Charity for the Pope and this week’s celebration of the Feast of Sts. Peter and Paul.  During his English-language greeting, the Holy Father said he hopes that through the pilgrims prayers, Tuesday’s celebration of “Rome’s feast-day” will be an occasion for “all who come on pilgrimage to Rome (to) be renewed and strengthened in faith, hope and love.”  To read more, click on the CatholicNewsAgency news item.

Related story: Early evidence of devotion to apostles found in Rome catacombs

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Breaking News: Pope announces Pontifical Council for Renewed Evangelization.

*In this excerpt of the 1981 movie “Peter and Paul” (starring Anthony Hopkins et al.), we hear the famous words of the Apostle Paul “I have finished the race, I have kept the faith…”:

Happy Feast of Sts. Peter & Paul!

EWTN news: Thousands of Priests at Prayer Vigil for Year for Priests

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We got this link from a friend: http://www.defense4priests.com/

Please take a look and bookmark

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Here’s a link to the Hymn “Immaculate Mother”:  http://sites.google.com/site/liturgysongs/mother

Happy Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary!

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Here’s the link: Television Specials

Sharing here a few of the videos found on the Priests channel of EWTN:

Fr. John Corapi

Fr. Thomas Euteneuer

Fr. Benedict Groeschel

Fr. Frank Pavone

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Here’s a link to an instrumental of the beautiful hymn: “O Sacred Heart [O Love Divine]“

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The Catholic Encyclopedia defines apologetics as “the comprehensive, scientific vindication of the grounds of Christian, Catholic belief, in which the calm, impersonal presentation of underlying principles is of paramount importance, the refutation of objections [which is specific to 'apologies'] being added by way of corollary”.

We share here with you the links to the websites of the more prominent Catholic apologists that we know:

• Scott Hahn
• Patrick Madrid
• Stephen ‘Steve’ Ray
• Francis Beckwith
• FREE Catholic (Apologetics and Evangelism) Books (FB group by Godwin Delali “Gadel” Adadzie. If you ‘Facebook friend’ Gadel, he’ll give you the profiles of the important apologists who are in FB.)

*Please send in names or links which you think we ought to add here.

An interesting aspect that these apologists have in common is their conversion to Catholicism.  We invite you to read the conversion story of each of the above.

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A conversion story that we featured in the Opus Dei forum is that of Oskari Juurikkala, Finnish.  Surely you’ve watched that video of a TV interview with him and his Mom:

We actually got Oskari to leave us a personal message on the forum  He says: “The interview was quite a miracle in a number of ways, one being that it was a top show and the interviewer was courteous throughout – really interested in the truth. The original covered many other topics too, but we translated the part about my conversion and vocation…” Kindly read the entire forum thread.

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In his message for the 44th World Communications Day, Pope Benedict invites us to “discover new possibilities for carrying out [their] ministry to and for the Word of God”.

In the Opus Dei Today forum, we’ve put concrete applications of the Pope’s messages for the World Communications Day:

- Interview with Antonio Gonzalez, May 2009;
- “Religion in the age of the Internet: history, opportunities, and challenges” by Antonio Mencia.

How about YOU?
How have you put into practice the Pope’s invitation to positively influence this ‘Digital Generation’?

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