The Secular Franciscan

Hello  everyone,  I  must  appologize,  I  sent  out  the  wrong  information 
about  the start and  end  times  of  the 127  hours  of  adoration  at  Holy 
Trinity.

3-14 The  time  of  our  Franciscan  Holy  Hour  is  the  same,   Sunday,  March 18, 
from  8:00pm-9:00pm  at  Holy  Trinity  Catholic  Church  in  Peachtree  City.

The  127 hour  adoration  starts  this  Sunday,  March  18th.  at  6:30pm  and 
will  end by  the  start of  the  9:00am  mass  on  Saturday, March 24th.   You 
are  certainly  welcome  to  attend  any  other  time  besides  our  scheduled 
Franciscan  Holy  Hour.

Peace and  All  Good, Rose

Please keep the mother of Eleanore Lindelof, OFS in your prayers.  She has had a major stroke and is on a ventilator in the ICU at Piedmont-Fayette Hospital.
Blessings,
Theresa Ryan, OFS
Prayer Coordinator
Immaculate Conception Fraternity

ALSO, Please keep my daughter in your prayers. She is suffering from a major mental illness. Pray for her recovery. Pray that we may be patient,kind, understanding empathiatic and supportive as she goes through this time. Pray for her daughter (4 YO) that she gets the care that she needs.
Richard Garrett Professed

Immaculate Conception
Elections: The Roster has the names of all those that are professed, and can be
nominated for positions of office. We will have the job descriptions of the
var
ious offices available again so you can nominate yourself or someone else.
Please pray for our elections which will be held on Saturday, April 21st.
after  the 8:30am mass in San Damiano house. Please remember that this will be
on the 3rd. Saturday of April and will be our meeting for the month. We need as
many people there as possible, both professed and non-professed. We need the
professed to vote and to nominate themselves or be nominated. We need the
nonprofessed for support as well as to help out in many other way as to keep
score, by writing on the board and passing out and counting ballots.

Fair Share Contribution: Please also remember the Fair Share Contribution for
our Fraternity is due to Regional  in early March. The suggested amount is
$40.00 for every professed member.

Re: the extraction of Saints and Prayer partners: if you were not present at
the last meeting, you were not forgotten. We have them for you. I will bring
them to the next meeting and you can pick them up then.

Re: The Ritual of the Secular Franciscan Order Book. Some of you requested one.
The company only sent me a few. Please let me know if you were one of the ones
that ordered one. They cost $11.95 each.

November Memorial Service: if you lost a loved one between November 2010 and
October 2011 and did not make it to the Memorial Service in November please let
be know so you can receive a memorial ornament.

God Bless Rose Campbell OSF

A Prayer for Hope Beyond Unfairness
(Submitted by Willie)

Dear Lord, find within me a yielded and quiet spirit of submission.
To make that happen. I need you to come in like a flood.
Occupy me water finding empty spaces.
Occupy reserved portions of my life where anger is festering
and the secret places where grudges are being stored.
Sweep through my house… don’t miss a single area—cleanse every dark closet,
look under every rug. Let nothing go unnoticed
as you take full control of my motives as well as my actions.
Deep within my heart I pray that you would sweep me clean of blame and revenge,
of self-pity and keeping score.
Enable each one of us to be big enough to press on
regardless of what unfair treatment we’ve had to endure.
Take away the scars of ugly treatment and harsh words.
Forgiveness comes hard…but it’s essential.
Help us forgive even those who never acknowledge their wronging and hurting us?
Give us peace in place of turmoil and erase the memories that keep us offended.
We need fresh hope to go on!
I ask this in the name of him who had no sin and did no wrong,
but died, the just for the unjust: Jesus Christ our Lord.

Amen.

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