"There was no room for them to stay in the inn." ~ Luke 2:7
Dr. Charles Drew was an African-American Graduate of prest igious Amherst University. A surgical consultant for the U.S. Army, he dev eloped the process for preserving blood and using it for transfusion. incre dibly, he was not allowed to donate his blood to the Red Cross Blood Bank. because he was black. More incredibly and more tragically, after a car ac cident in 1950, he was refused his own discovery, at a North Carolina hos pital.
He died during the long drive to find a hospital that would treat black patients. ~ Mark Link, S.J.
What are Knights doin g to combat prejudice in the nation we love? What more might we do?
"There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but the re must never be a time when we fail to protest it." ~ Elie Wiesel
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"Praise God with trumpets.... Praise God with drums and danc ing." ~ Psalm 150:3-4
Julia Ward Howe was an American poet and a ctivist. She worked for the abolition of slavery, the vote for women, pri son reform, and world peace. She penned the stirring lyrics of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" to provide more suitable words for the melody "John Brown's Body."
The hymn went on to become the marching song of the N orth, just as "Dixie" became the marching song of the South. ~ Mark Link, S.J.
What unique set of talents do we Knights possess and how might we better use them to greater service of God and nation?
"God se nt His singers upon earth with songs of sadness and mirth, That they might touch the hearts of men and bring the m back to heaven again." ~ Henry Wordsworth Longfellow
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St. Jerome Emiliani; St. Josephine Bakhita, Virgin
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"The Spirit.... will lead you into all the truth." ~ Joh n 16:13
In 1858, a girl named Bernadette reported apparitions of Ma ry at a hillside in Lourdes, France. Sick people visited the site and w ere cured. Over, 1,300 cures are well documented.
In the 1930s, A lexis Carrel, a skeptical New York surgeon and Nobel Prize winner, went t o Lourdes to investigate the claims. While there, he witnessed a girl bein g cured. He stood in silence, totally stunned. That night, he went for a long walk. Ending up in a church, he prayed:
"I still doubt... Bene ath... intellectual pride a smothered dream persists... the dream of believ ing."
He returned to his hotel and recorded his observations. In The Voyage of Lourdes, he describes what then happened:
"A n ew coolness penetrated the open window. I felt the serenity of nature enter my soul with gentle calm. All intellectual doubts had vanished." ~ Mar k Link, S.J.
How do you understand such miracles...
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St. Scholastica, Virgin
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"Those who declare publicly that they belong to me, I will do the same for them before my Father in heaven." ~ Matthew 10:32 The preacher at F.W. de Klerk's inauguration made a disturbing point. He said that the South African president had the awesome responsibility of dis cerning God's will and acting on it. This planted a seed in de Kl erk's mind that grew and grew. Slowly, it led him to pursue the dismantlin g of the dehumanizing apartheid system and granting citizenship to 35 milli on blacks. de Klerk said later that he knew that in pursuing this unpopular policy he would be rejected by his own people, but this did not deter him . ~ Mark Link, S.J.
In what areas can the Knights display the same political bravery?
'Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sl eep, we grow strong or weak, and at last some crisis show us what we have become." ~ Bishop Westcott
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Our Lady of Lourdes
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"If my people, who are called by my name, will humble them selves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways; then wil l I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land." ~ 2 Chronicles 7:14
We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven. We have been preserved these many years in peace and pr osperity .We have grown in numbers, wealth and power as no other nation ha s ever grown.
But we have forgotten God.
We have forgotten th e gracious Hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched a nd strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own.
Intoxicate with unbroken success, we have b ecome too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace., too proud to pray to the God that made us! It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power, so confe...
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Ave Maria Catholic Church, 9056 E Parker Rd, Parker, CO 80138, USA
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Hot breakfast at 5:45 am followed by discussion. Please join
us. For more information contact Brad Riddell at 303-548-
6184 or Bill Was serman at 954-817-5706.
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"These are shadows of things to come; but the substance bel ongs to Christ." ~ Colossians 2:17
Tip O'Neill was a member of t he House of Representatives for 34 years. In the memoirs of his political l ife, Tip says that he'll never forget a day in Missouri in 1960 when he wa s with Jack Kennedy in a campaign parade. He wrote: "Somebody mentioned that in the neighborhood we were driving through there was a good deal of c oncern over the Catholic issue. Then we passed a Catholic school, with all the nuns standing outside, holding their Kennedy signs. 'Stop the car,' said Jack. He gout out and shook hands with all the sisters, and I loved h im for it." ~ Mark Link, S.J.
How ready am I to witness to the goal s of the Knights even if it means risking my own popularity?
"He who sells principles for popularity is soon bankrupt." ~ E .C. McKenzie