Feast Day of St. Therese and Novena

October 15th marks the Feast Day of St. Thérèse of Lisieux (1873–1897) also known as the Little Flower. Here is a link to EWTN's novena. If you begin tomorrow (Wednesday) it will end on the 15th.

What is a novena?

Taken from www.catholicanswers.com

A novena is simply the pious practice of praying for a particular intention nine times. It is usually done with one prayer over a nine-day period but can be done by praying the same prayer nine times in a row. Any formal, informal, or spontaneous prayer done in a set of nine times constitutes a novena. You may use a formal novena that is approved for devotional use or you may put together your own set of prayers for your private use. The only requirement is that the prayers not be said with the intention to manipulate an answer from God. Whatever they are—if they are said faithfully and with trust in God that he will answer your prayer in the manner he wills to do so—they are fine.

FOCA Novena

I know I am a bit behind on this since the novena actually started on Sunday, but prayer has no time so do the novena a few extra times today to make up for the late start. Novena's are so powerful and if you are new to them this is a great one to start with. The Freedom of Choice Act is set to be signed Jan.21-22 for more information visit here

FOCA Novena:
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Pray the rosary every day with the intention of stopping FOCA as well as 2 days of fasting starting Jan.11 and ending Jan. 19.

If you are unaware of FOCA and all of the terrible things it will do here is a list of just a few of the things FOCA will change:

• Your taxes will help fund abortions
• All hospitals including catholic will be required to preform abortions
• Partial birth abortion will be legal and have no limitations
• Parental notification or minors having abortions will no longer be required
• essentially the government will take over the issue on abortion at a much deeper level

This terrifies me and should terrify you as well. Please pray. There is also a movement asking everyone to have a mass said on Jan.22 with the intention of changing Obama's heart toward the issue of abortion. You can read more about it here.