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News from Dan Lynch Apostolates
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The US Bishops 9 Days for Life Novena begins Tuesday, January 21 and continues through Wednesday, January 29, 2020. It is a multi-faceted novena for the respect and protection of every human life.
Please join us and thousands of Catholics nationwide in this novena for a Culture of Life through the Intercession of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Patroness of the Unborn.
Read more HERE.
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 Week of Prayer for Christian Unity January 18 - 25, 2020 The theme for the 2020 Week of Prayer for Christian Unity finds its origins in the Acts of the Apostles (Acts 27:18 – 28:10). The theme is “They showed us unusual kindness.” (Acts 28:2). Fr. James Loughran, SA, Director of the Graymoor Ecumenical and Interreligious Institute noted that “as we gather annually throughout the world to pray for the unity of Christians we are reminded of the importance of need for “unusual kindness” in that dialogue the leads to growth in unity. We do this in a world where separation and division hinder the quest for Christian Unity. In 2020, we are being called to show unusual kindness towards one another.” Read more HERE.
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On January 5 we celebrate the feast of Bishop St. John Neumann. He was born in Czechoslovakia in 1811 and raised in a German family that prayed daily morning and evening prayers together with the Rosary. His mother attended daily Mass and gave alms of food and clothing to her poorer neighbors. He had a good example of family prayer and charity. He completed his seminary education but was not ordained because they had no need of priests!
Read more HERE.
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We are starting off the New Year on January 4 by celebrating the feast of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton. She was our first native born to be canonized. She was two years old in 1776 when she became a charter citizen of the United States of America. She lived on to become a mother, a widow and a foundress of the Sisters of Charity of St. Joseph’s, the first community for religious women to be established in the United States. She also founded St. Joseph's Catholic school, the first Catholic parish school in the United States. Like all of our American Saints, she is a model of holiness for us.
Read more HERE.
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Today we celebrate the Feast of the Holy Family. The Holy Family exemplifies God’s design for marriage and the family. His design for marriage and the family is that a man and a woman, husband and wife, unite forever in a marriage that is open to new life through the procreation and education of their children. This marriage bond is faithful, lifelong, exclusive and unchangeable. God establishes a true marriage bond and so it cannot be dissolved. Untrue marriages may be declared null.
Read more HERE.
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On November 14, 2019, Jesus King of All Nations gave a message. As we approach the great feast of His birth on Christmas, let us respond to His urgent call to do as He asks,
Read more HERE.
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 Bishops lead Rosaries with Our Lady of America Image
Shortly before the United States Bishops' Conference in Baltimore, Maryland, on November 12th and13th, Jack Ames, Director of Defend Life, called me and told me that he was organizing Rosary processions on each of those days with some of the bishops.
I told Jack that I would try to make our Visitation Image of Our Lady of America available for the processions. The Image was in the custody of faithful Guardian Mary Ann Harold in Boston, Massachusetts. She is the founder of radio station WQPH 89.3, Queen of Perpetual Help, an EWTN affiliate. She calls it “the smallest radio station on the planet.” Mary Ann volunteered to personally drive the nine-hour trip to the Conference with the Image and brochures and holy cards of Our Lady of America to distribute.
Read more HERE.
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As we approach the Feast of Christ the King that we will celebrate this Sunday, let us reflect on the recent message of Jesus King of All Nations of July 22. In His message, contained below, with His scriptural quotes that confirm it, Jesus tells us that He is accomplishing the work of His Devotion "My enthronement in the hearts of mankind and the public acknowledgment of My Sovereign Kingship by the authorities in the holy Church and in the state."
Read more HERE.
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“My House Will Be Called a House of Prayer.”
Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out with a whip all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those selling doves. And He declared to them, “It is written, ‘My house will be called a house of prayer.’” (Matthew 21:12).
At the Amazon Synod, the house of prayer of Santa Maria, a Catholic church in Rome, was violated by the placement in it of several statues of an Amazonian idol, Pachamama (Mother Earth). In the spirit of Jesus driving buyers and sellers out of the temple, two young men removed the idols from the church, took them to the Tiber River and, as seen around the world, threw them in.
Read more HERE.
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On September 2, 2019, Our Lady appeared to Medjugorje visionary Mirjana Soldo and said, “I am telling you that it is high time for you to kneel before my Son to acknowledge Him as your God, the center of your life.”
According to the Mystic Post website, Father Livio Fanzaga, Director of Radio Maria in Medjugorje, translated the original message in Croatian to mean “no time” rather than “high time.” He said, “I believe that the time of secrets coincides with the 40th year of appearances.” Less than two years are left before that anniversary. Read more HERE.
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"This should not come as a surprise to somebody. They should not walk into their place of work and have to do something that they're clearly opposed to!"
That’s what my daughter, Maggie Eisenbarth, mother of nine and the Respect Life Coordinator for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Burlington, Vermont, said after the Federal Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued a Notice of Violation on August 28th against the University of Vermont Medical Center (UVMMC), Vermont’s largest hospital.
Read more HERE.
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In 1976, St. John Paul II, when he was Cardinal Karol Wojtyla, was in the United States at the Eucharistic Congress in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for the bicentennial celebration of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. In his address, he warned us, “We are now standing in the face of the greatest historical confrontation humanity has ever experienced. I do not think that the wide circle of the American society, or the whole wide circle of the Christian community realize this fully. We are now facing the final confrontation between the Church and the anti-church, between the Gospel and the anti-Gospel, between Christ and the Antichrist. The confrontation lies within the plans of Divine Providence. It is, therefore, in God's plan, and it must be a trial which the Church must take up, and face courageously.”
Read more HERE.
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A mass shooting is defined as three or more deaths in a single incident occurring in a public place.
In 2018, there were 307 mass shootings in the United States, so many that most people cannot remember them. Twelve of those mass shootings occurred after one in a Pittsburgh synagogue on October 27, 2018. In less than 3 weeks thereafter, 12 mass shootings left 79 shot of whom 23 were killed. On November 7 at a bar in Thousand Oaks, California, 13 were killed. Most recently, between July 28 and August 4, three mass shootings in the United States left 34 people dead and dozens more wounded in Dayton, Ohio, El Paso, Texas and in Gilroy, California.
Read more HERE.
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Bonnie Engstrom asked for help from Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen as she watched lifesaving measures being taken for her son, who had been born at home just moments before without a pulse or drawing breath.
After 61 minutes, just as emergency room personnel were about to pronounce him dead, he began to breathe and his heart rate shot up to a normal level for a newborn. Despite a dire prognosis for his future, the boy has thrived and is now a healthy 8-year-old who likes chicken nuggets, Star Wars and riding his bicycle.
Read more HERE.
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