Pray With Us The Chaplet Of The Heavenly Father For Nine Days

  

 THE LAMB CATHOLIC WORKER, Columbus - Please, we encourage all of you supporters to pray this fairly new chaplet for The Lamb Catholic Worker, for its people and its mission. This novena is to begin today and end on October 18th, the feast of St. Luke. Our special intention is for God's Will to be done, nothing more and nothing less.  We ask that He take the next bold and loving step for the Lamb Catholic Worker, according to His Will. It begins with the sign of the Cross, then the Apostle's Creed, three Hail Mary's and a Glory Be.  The ten "Hail Mary" beads are: Father, everything is possible for You!  Thank You Father!  After each decade is the "Hail Holy Queen" with five Glory Be's for the five wounds of Jesus.  There are other prayers but this is the basic structure.  Monica prayed it with Msgr. Mottet in his hospital room the night before his pacemaker surgery very recently.  He loves this chaplet from Croatia!  Thanks so much.

      To order a pamphlet from the publisher call: (416) 748-8559.  We want to wish a heartfelt thank you to Pope Benedict Emeritus for his assured prayers for us!    This Lamb CW site has reached, by the grace of God, over 13,000 viewers.

Happenings of The Lamb

Happenings of the Lamb

Inaugural Online Newsletter
Fall 2013

"You will keep in perfect peace all who trust in you, all whose thoughts are fixed on you."  Isaiah 26:31

We, at The Lamb Catholic Worker plan to put out a seasonal online and snail-mail newsletter (four times a year) with inspirations, happenings, updates, and needs of our budding community.  It will be "organic," so to speak, and may evolve or change over time.  We'll trust in the guidance of the Holy Spirit through the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the Immaculate heart of Mary, St. Joseph, Guardian of Truth and purity itself,  Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin.  We are also upheld in prayer through many of you Sick and Suffering Co-Catholic Workers offering up, powerfully, the pain and suffering of your illnesses and other crosses for us, in addition to Pope Benedict Emeritus' prayers (as he has assured us with a letter and picture sent [that we framed!]).
WE ARE PRAYING FOR OUR HOUSES, please pray for this too!  We long for a home for the poor here in the tradition of the Catholic Worker. One of us has prayed several years for this particular set of large abandoned houses to renovate modestly and call our Catholic Worker home. Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin, we need a miracle!  With that in mind, here are comforting words from God through sacred Scripture today:
INSPIRATIONS
"God, in your goodness, you have made a home for the poor." (Psalm 68:6-7) - the Psalm refrain!

"The father of orphans and defender of widows
is God in His holy dwelling.
God gives a home to the forsaken;
He leads forth prisoners to prosperity.
A bountiful rain you showered down, O God,
upon your inheritance....
in your goodness, O God, you provided it for the needy. "
(Psalm 68: 4-5, 6-7, 10-11)

In the same spirit was the moral of the Gospel today from Luke: (14:1,7-14) "When you hold a lunch or dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers or relatives or your wealthy neighbors, in case they invite you back and you have repayment.  Rather, ... invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind; blessed indeed will you be for their inability to repay you.  You will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous."

 “The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us. When we begin to take the lowest place, to wash the feet of others, to love our brothers with that burning love, that passion, which led to the Cross, then we can truly say, ‘Now I have begun.’” 

— Dorothy Day, co-founder of the Catholic Worker movement

HAPPENINGS
PRAY FOR SYRIA!  We must mention that first.
What exactly is our community doing while in this holding pattern waiting for our first monetary donation, or our first house of hospitality for mainly foreign-speaking homelss women and children?
First, we are building community and commitment.
To describe, we are setting aside more and more prior commitments (even good ones), to make time to be together in prayer, common meals, and extra time for particlar tasks to get this off the ground.  We are committing to living a pure and prayerful life, one embracing Lady Poverty, to ready ourselves for when we can move into a CW house.  Some already live together at The Lamb Catholic Worker Volunteer Corps House here.
We are building a base of Apostolic work commitment to the poor now:
--We are baking cookies for 175-180 men and women and serving them at the Open Shelter
-- We are committing to time sorting and giving away clothes, as well as distributing food at the Bishop Griffin center at Christ the King parish
-- We are assisting a family of 10 in trying to live a normal life by giving them food and diapers once a month, taking the children to mass, bringing them to the Lamb Volunteer Corps House for brunch or dinner, and taking them places (Ohio State Fair, swimming, etc.)
-- We are assisting a group of very low income boys every night with a snack after school, tutoring, sharing lives, sharing their poverty
-- We are committing to a Catholic presence at least once a month at the E. Broad St. Founders abortion facility. We pray the Rosary for these women, men, unborn babies, other children on their families and their situations, in addition to some sidewalk counseling.
--We have committed to Sunday CCD to the population at Christ the King Church
--We have gone to Appalachia with the Appalachian Project for 11 days this summer to build a house for a poor family of 11, to split and pile a winter's worth of wood for a widow and her 3  children, etc., etc.
--We are looking toward seasonal Clarification of Thought - gatherings for ourselves and the wider community on topics of social justice, with a presenter and discussion
UPDATES
We strongly desire to do a LOT more though, especially direct hospitality for and with the homeless in a Catholic Worker community. Our greatest update is that our EIN, or Tax I.D. number - 46-2489540 for our nonprofit corporation, is finished and ready to be utilized!  We have four stellar priests on our board as well: Msgr. Marv Mottet of Davenport, Iowa and Columbus priests, Fr. Denis Kigozi, Fr. David Schalk, and Fr. Justin Reis.  We cannot begin in a larger more authentic manner without you though.  All of you 9,800+ people from around the world who have viewed our online site- please remember us on your prayer list and on your charitable donation list, if possible.  We need a large amount to purchase the abandoned city block (basically) that we feel the Holy Spirit has in mind for this. While we have received the volunteer corps house, two dressers, two beds, and a set of single mattresses, our hands are tied right now until we get funding (although there are other avenues we are pursuing). Please, please pray for us.  Pray only that God's Will be done, nothing more and nothing less. Without God, we cannot succeed, but with God, we cannot fail, as Fr. Schalk said in his homily today.
Community status update: Elizabeth McFadden, Steubenville recent graduate and Master's of Social Work student at Ohio State, recently joined and moved in; and Andy Pasternack temporarily went on to Columbia University for a year for grad school.  We all have no doubt that he will be back though, especially when this gets up and running.

Our Needs
Four sought-after houses and large lot in between for city gardening (current value approx. $180,000.00)
Two or three sets of bunkbeds and their mattresses for our volunteer corps house

SOME GIVE BY GOING; SOME GO BY GIVING.
Your greatest gifts are your prayers and fasting for us!

The Sermon On The Mount Will Be Called Practical When Christians Make Up Their Minds To Practice It - Peter Maurin

THE LAMB CATHOLIC WORKER, Columbus

Mary's Intercessory Prayers are Powerful

  THE LAMB CATHLIC WORKER, Columbus - Pray the Rosary daily and trust in Mother Mary's intercessory prayers to God on our country's behalf and on the world's behalf. Mary, please pray for our counry and our world (Mariam to the Muslim world).
       Think about it, her prayers are powerful for people of all religions.  Ask her for prayers for you too; she has a love and humility beyond this world.  It is beautiful that she visited Fatima, a city named after a famous Muslim woman (Mohammed's fourth daughter).
       What do you think Mary was thinking and praying as her son was brutally whipped, taunted, and made to carry the cross?  Could it have been:
        "My life may be in danger as well because of the hostility of the crowds, so I must stay back and hidden.  Look how they are treating him!  Please be with Him.  I am scared, so I can't even imagine how much my "little boy" is suffering... and what it will all lead to on top of the hill!"
        "Please, God, no, please ease his suffering."
        "Please, send someone to wipe His face, He can't see where He is walking, with the blood dripping into His eyes so heavily."
        "Please, he keeps falling and they keep whipping Him! He can't do it alone.  Please have someone HELP Him, or to stop whipping Him so much!  Or at least, for selfish reasons of the centurion, if He were to die too soon, change his heart to have someone else carry that huge cross for Him!  He is too weak, and He keeps trying and trying to get up again and carry it.  He can't do it. He's getting up again! He is just staggering along already.  Please, don't make Him have to carry it."
       "Please send someone to cry over Him instead of all these people screaming into His face, spitting on Him, throwing things at Him, and making fun of Him! Look how beaten down physically and emotionally He is!  Please God, let Him feel a hint of love in this crowd!!"
       "Please help me to be brave enough to step forward, even if they do take me and do the same.  I want to be by my son, at this horrible time in His life.  I want Him to feel my love right now, please make a way for me to!  Please give me the courage, as all His followers have scattered. He needs me right now!"

       As you can see, with Simon helping Jesus, Veronica wiping His face, the women and children crying for Him, and Mary letting Him feel oneness with His mother during this terrible time, Mary's intercession was powerful.  She is the great elbow-nudger in the sky, if we let her be!  Our Lady, Queen of the Americas, pray for us!  Our Lady of Guadalupe, pregnant one who protects the unborn (and just born), pray for us!  Our Lady Queen of Peace, pray for us!  We love and honor you as Jesus did.  Intercede for our children, our families, and even our enemies, as Jesus desires.