Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Lent
PRAY FOR RELIGIOUS LIBERTY!
The USCCB has offered a prayer for religious liberty. Pray with us.
O God our Creator, from your provident hand we have received our right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. You have called us as your people and given us the right and the duty to worship you, the only true God, and your Son, Jesus Christ. Through the power and working of your Holy Spirit, you call us to live out our faith in the midst of the world, bringing the light and the saving truth of the Gospel to every corner of society.
We ask you to bless us in our vigilance for the gift of religious liberty. Give us the strength of mind and heart to readily defend our freedoms when they are threatened; give us courage in making our voices heard on behalf of the rights of your Church and the freedom of conscience of all people of faith.
Grant, we pray, O heavenly Father, a clear and united voice to all your sons and daughters gathered in your Church in this decisive hour in the history of our nation, so that, with every trial withstood and every danger overcome–for the sake of our children, our grandchildren, and all who come after us–this great land will always be “one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”
We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen.
STOP HHS
Catholic Bishops Call For Prayer For Religious Liberty
March 16, 2012
WASHINGTON—The Administrative Committee of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), at its March 13-14 meeting in Washington, called for a nationwide prayer campaign for protection of religious freedom and conscience rights from several threats, including the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services mandate that forces employers, including religious ones, to provide contraception/sterilization in their health plans.
“We call upon the Catholic faithful, and all people of faith, throughout our country to join us in prayer and penance for our leaders and for the restoration of our First Freedom—religious liberty—which is not only protected in the laws and customs of our great Nation, but rooted in the teachings of our great Tradition,” the bishops said in “United for Religious Freedom” a March 14 statement. “Prayer is the ultimate source of our strength—for without God, we can do nothing; but with God, all things are possible.”
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PSALM OF THE DAY
Today is the day to say …
The Lord of hosts is with us; our stronghold is the God of Jacob
GOSPEL
Jn 5:1-16
There was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now there is in Jerusalem at the Sheep Gate a pool called in Hebrew Bethesda, with five porticoes. In these lay a large number of ill, blind, lame, and crippled. One man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had been ill for a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be well?” The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up; while I am on my way, someone else gets down there before me.” Jesus said to him, “Rise, take up your mat, and walk.” Immediately the man became well, took up his mat, and walked. Now that day was a sabbath. So the Jews said to the man who was cured, “It is the sabbath, and it is not lawful for you to carry your mat.” He answered them, “The man who made me well told me, ‘Take up your mat and walk.” They asked him, “Who is the man who told you, ‘Take it up and walk?’” The man who was healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had slipped away, since there was a crowd there. After this Jesus found him in the temple area and said to him, “Look, you are well; do not sin any more, so that nothing worse may happen to you.” The man went and told the Jews that Jesus was the one who had made him well. Therefore, the Jews began to persecute Jesus because he did this on a sabbath.
SAINT OF THE DAY
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March 20: St. Salvator of Horta
TUESDAY MASS TIMES
6:30a
St. Theresa (Des Moines)
7a
St. Anthony (Des Moines)
7:15a
St. Francis of Assisi (West Des Moines)
7:45a
St. Luke the Evangelist (Ankeny) Mass @ Saint Anne’s Episcopal Church (Ankeny)
8a
All Saints (Des Moines)
Assumption (Granger)
Holy Trinity (Beaverdale)
Sacred Heart (West Des Moines)
St. Augustin (Des Moines)
St. Cecilia (Ames)
St. Mary of Nazareth (Des Moines)
St. Pius X (Urbandale)
St. Thomas Aquinas (Indianola)
8:15a
St. John the Apostle (Norwalk)
8:30a
Our Lady’s Immaculate Heart (Ankeny)
St. Joseph (Des Moines)
8:40a
St. Anthony (Des Moines)
9am
St. John’s Parish (Adel) @ Dallas County Care facility Adel
St. Elizabeth Seton (Carlisle)
Noon
Basilica of St. John (Des Moines)
St. Francis of Assisi (West Des Moines)
St. Thomas Aquinas Church & Catholic Student Center (Ames)
12:10p
St. Ambrose Cathedral (Des Moines)
5:00p
St. Catherine of Siena Catholic Student Center (Des Moines)
5:30p
Christ the King (Des Moines)
Our Lady of the Americas (Des Moines)
St. Boniface (Waukee)
St. Cecilia (Ames)
St. John’s (Adel)
6p
St. Joseph (Winterset)
St. Pius X (Urbandale)
RECONCILIATION
6-6:30p
Christ the King (Des Moines)
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1150 KWKY CATHOLIC RADIO PRAYER
Lord Jesus, You commanded your followers to go out and preach the Gospel to all creation. Your servant Blessed Pope John Paul II proclaimed that “radio offers perhaps the closest equivalent today of what Jesus was able to do with large groups through His preaching.”
We ask your guidance for the ministry of 1150 KWKY Catholic Radio that we may affectively and consistently convey your message to Iowa as well as the Diocese of Des Moines and remain faithful to the teachings and values of the Catholic Church. Empower the 1150 KWKY Catholic radio staff to walk with you and to labor beside you in their efforts.
Inspire all listeners today through the grace of your Holy Spirit to understand more fully your desire for them and through the ministry of Catholic radio, touch their hearts and change their lives. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen.
