Celebrate Another Successful Arise Session

After every Arise Session, we have had a different event to celebrate the completion of another successful Arise season. We've had collations, Masses, and a breakfast. This time, we're having something really special, and not only for Arise participants and their families, but for the entire parish. We'd like to spread our joy!

We would like all Arise groups and their families and friends to come to the musical presentation of the Hard But Right Way. This is a dramatic and musical presentation of John Runyan's classic Pilgrim's Progress. It's an inspirational story that will touch your heart and is excellent for ALL ages. The production company is a Christian rock group that has performed for all age groups including some correctional facilities. They are from the New York City area and typically perform "The Hard But right Way" to packed audiences. They have received wonderful reviews and we are very pleased to present them to Franklin.

Tickets cost $ 20 per family. If the cost poses a hardship on a family, the fee will be waived. Also, single people can bring friends and that's considered a family. An Arise group is a family. If you want, come alone and you'll be charged just $ 10.00.

The HARD BUT RIGHT WAY -- Saturday April 10, 2010 -- 7:30 PM St. Mary's Church

Tickets Available from Arise Team Leaders, St. Mary's Basketball Coaches and the Rectory.

There is a God

Have you ever met someone who says that they don't believe in God? "I don't believe in what I don't see." "I don't believe in what I can't feel or see?"

Read Jeremiah 2:19

There was a priest, named Emil J. Kapaun, who died in a Communist prison camp. He was a military chaplain in the Korean War. He was captured and ministered to his fellow prisoners. His captors tried to make him recant his beliefs. But Father Kapaun said that "God was as real as the air they breathed but could not see, and as the thoughts they had and spoke, but could not see or feel." Father Kapaun died in the prison hospital. His cause for sainthood began in 2008.

Pray for the Pope

Read:
Psalm 40:3

Pray for Pope Benedict VI.
Pray for our Pastor, Father Brian Manning.
Pray for our Parochial Vicar, Father Frank Campo.
Pray for our Pastoral Associate, Nan Rafter.

Pray for all priests.
Pay for all religious.

Lord have mercy on us all.

What do you Think?

Arise, arise put on thy strength... Isaiah 52:1.

I'd like your opinion. What do you think this means? Isaiah 52: 7?

What are they talking about? Beautiful feet? The mountain has feet?

It's not either. It's talking about the preacher who is crossing the mountain. He is spreading the Good News. Thank God he has good feet to do this, huh? Arise, wake up and join him.

The Hard But Right Way

After every Arise Session, we have had a different event to celebrate the completion of another successful Arise season. We've had collations, Masses, and a breakfast. This time, we're having something really special, and not only for Arise participants and their families, but for the entire parish. We'd like to spread our joy!

We would like all Arise groups and their families and friends to come to the musical presentation of the Hard But Right Way. This is a dramatic and musical presentation of John Runyan's classic Pilgrim's Progress. It's an inspirational story that will touch your heart and is excellent for ALL ages. The production company is a Christian rock group that has performed for all age groups including some correctional facilities. They are from the New York City area and typically perform "The Hard But right Way" to packed audiences. They have received wonderful reviews and we are very pleased to present them to Franklin.

Tickets cost $ 20 per family. If the cost poses a hardship on a family, the fee will be waived. Also, single people can bring friends and that's considered a family. An Arise group is a family. If you want, come alone and you'll be charged just $ 10.00.

The HARD BUT RIGHT WAY -- Saturday April 10, 2010 -- 7:30 PM St. Mary's Church

Tickets Available from Arise Team Leaders, St. Mary's Basketball Coaches and the Rectory.