Filipino Families of Skokie

The Filipino Families of Skokie (FFOS) members’ next Novena prayer is scheduled  on Saturday, July 31  at 6:00pm.

The Filipino Families of Skokie was organized primarily as a spiritual group. The main purpose of our organization is to unite, promote, support, and engage in activities fostering and enriching the spiritual and cultural heritage of the members. In order to achieve these goals, member families are encouraged to attend and participate in parish functions and fund raising  and other activities designed in promoting the spirituality, camaraderie, and well being of member families to include:

The Bi-weekly novena devotions to the Santo Niño, Our Lady of Fatima, and San Lorenzo Ruiz de Manila.

 Please join us at Vic and Alice’s place this Saturday at 6:00 in the evening.

 Our Mother of Perpetual Help Novena

What has the Catholic Church done to effectively respond to sexual abuse by church personnel? – In PDF format from the usccb.org

“The Catholic Church has done more to protect children than almost any other organization in the United States…”

“…The Catholic Church has worked hard to protect children. Much has been done but more needs to be done. Until child sexual abuse is no longer a part of society, the Church will continue its efforts to stop it.”

Read the entire article.

article and photo source: http://www.usccb.org/

video source: Romereports YouTube  channel

July 18, Sunday,  is FFOS Annual Family Picnic. Bring  your family members and friends! We will have a lot of food, dancing, exercises, fun games, and most of all chit-chats! This is a guaranteed fun day!!

Venue: Proesel Park, Lincolnwood, IL.

Time: 11:30 am – 7:00 pm ( after the 10:00 am mass)

What to bring: Pot luck. You will be asked to pick a dish you will bring by a committee member.

Special thanks to: Robert & friends for the band and to Rudy for facilitating the venue permit.

Committee members:

• Lojo – Chair
• Ducanes
• Patenio
• Folkers
• Zarate
• Capili

Photo source: www.annunciationparish.org

Please join us for Coffee Hour every Sunday after the 10:00 AM Mass at Roberts’ Hall, St. Lambert Catholic Church in Skokie. You can also join our Holy Bible study at the adjacent room while enjoying your coffee. Donations for the Coffee Hour are appreciated. Please call Alice at 847-676-1069.

FFOS‘ Group assignment for Hospitality Sunday on July 18, 2010 is Group D with the following members:

Lojo – Chair
Folkers
Gualberto
Esangga
Fernando

The Filipino Families of Skokie (FFOS) members’ next Novena prayer is scheduled  on Saturday, July 17 at 1:00pm.

The Filipino Families of Skokie was organized primarily as a spiritual group. The main purpose of our organization is to unite, promote, support, and engage in activities fostering and enriching the spiritual and cultural heritage of the members. In order to achieve these goals, member families are encouraged to attend and participate in parish functions and fund raising  and other activities designed in promoting the spirituality, camaraderie, and well being of member families to include:

The Bi-weekly novena devotions to the Santo Niño, Our Lady of Fatima, and San Lorenzo Ruiz de Manila.

Please join us at  St. Lambert Church this Saturday for our novena and a Thanksgiving Mass for our anniversary at 1:00 in the afternoon.

Best regards,

Welcome home FFOS and St. Lambert Choir members who recently went on Alaskan cruise.

Summertime is cruise time indeed. And for those who experienced it, it is really an unforgettable good time with places, people, shopping, shows, games and food- a lot of it!

And talking about cruises, I remember this blog by Msgr. Charles Popey, pastor of  Holy Comforter-St. Cyprian parish, Washington, DC. and this video from Ignitermedia.com :

Is the Church a Cruise Ship or a Battleship?

“…Many it would seem surely think of the Church more like a cruise ship. One that exists for my pleasure and entertainment…

…It is a true fact that our parishes ought to work very hard to make sure the faithful are effectively served and helped to find God. Good sermons, excellent and obedient liturgy to include good music, a beautiful Church and dedicated clergy and lay staff. God deserves the very best and so do his people. However it also follows that the world does not exist merely to please me. No parish we attend will ever be exactly the way we want it. No priest preaches perfectly every Sunday. The choir does not always sing my favorites.

Some people stay away from Church and call it boring or say they aren’t being fed. But in the end, it’s not about you! We go to Mass to worship God because God is worthy, because God deserves our praise and because he has commanded us to be there. God has something important to say to us whether we want to hear it or not. He directs us to eat his flesh and drink his blood whether we like it or not. We must eat or we will die. Holy Mass is about God and what he is saying and doing…”

 Read the entire blog and some interesting comments.

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These two saints died as martyrs for their belief in Christ, Jesus. They are considered our greatest missionaries and were so important to the growth of our Church that we honor both of them with a single feast. Here are portions of Pope Paul II’s Homily on the the Solemnity of Sts Peter and Paul.

He (Jesus) said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” Simon Peter said in reply, “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.” Jesus said to him in reply, “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah. For flesh and blood  has not revealed this to you, but my heavenly Father.(Mt 16: 15-17)

Blessed are you, Peter! Blessed because you could not have humanly recognized this truth, which is central to the Church’s faith, except by God’s action. “No one”, Jesus said, “knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and any one to whom the Son chooses to reveal him” (Mt 11: 27).

“The Lord stood by me and gave me strength to proclaim the word fully, that all the Gentiles might hear it” (2 Tm 4: 17). These are the words of Paul to his faithful disciple Timothy.

The Lord had come to him in a blaze of light, saying:  ”Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me? ” (Acts 9: 4), while a mysterious force threw him to the ground. “Who are you, Lord?”, Saul had asked him. “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting!” (Acts 9: 5). This was Christ’s answer. Saul had been persecuting Jesus’ followers, and Jesus told him that it was he himself who was being persecuted in them. 

Could Saul have understood with his reason alone all that such an event entailed? Certainly not! It was, in fact, part of God’s mysterious plan. It would be the Father who would give Paul the grace of knowing the mystery of the redemption accomplished in Christ. It would be God who would enable him to understand the marvellous reality of the Church, which lives for Christ, with Christ and in Christ. And he, who had come to share in this truth, would continuously and tirelessly proclaim it to the very ends of the earth.

Read the entire Homily of His Holiness,  John-Paul II: Solemnity of Sts. Peter and Paul, 29 June 2000

article source: www.dailygospel.org

photo source: rclweb.com

The Filipino Families of Skokie (FFOS) members’ next Novena prayer is scheduled  on Saturday, July 3  at 6:00pm.

The Filipino Families of Skokie was organized primarily as a spiritual group. The main purpose of our organization is to unite, promote, support, and engage in activities fostering and enriching the spiritual and cultural heritage of the members. In order to achieve these goals, member families are encouraged to attend and participate in parish functions and fund raising  and other activities designed in promoting the spirituality, camaraderie, and well being of member families to include:

The Bi-weekly novena devotions to the Santo Niño, Our Lady of Fatima, and San Lorenzo Ruiz de Manila.

 Please join us at Bart and Ming’s  place this coming Saturday , July 3, 2010 at 6:00 in the evening.

“Let us make sure that none of God’s children ever feels alone.”
- Pope Benedict XVI

In September of 2006, Pope Benedict XVI gave a homily in which he explained that those who are baptized create one family of believers who are never alone. The Peter’s Pence Collection unites us in solidarity to the Holy See and its works of charity to those in need. Your generosity allows the Pope to respond to our suffering brothers and sisters with promptness, love, and compassion, so God’s people will not feel alone in their time of misfortune.

The Peter’s Pence Collection derives its name from an ancient custom. In ninth-century England. King Alfred the Great collected money – “pence” or pennies – from landowners as financial support for the Pope. Today, the Peter’s Pence Collection supports the Pope’s philanthropy by giving the Holy Father the means to provide emergency assistance to those in need because of natural disaster, war, oppression, and disease.

The Peter’s Pence Collection will be taken up in most Catholic parishes the weekend of June 26 – 27.

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picture and article source:  USCCB website