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March for Life

Parliament Hill

Ottawa, ON

May 9, 2013

  Kids Camp 

            1440 Finch Ave. West

            Etobicoke, ON

            May 25, 2013

  CFC-FFL Eastern Region Conference 

1250 Markham Road, Scarborough ON

May 31 - June 1, 2013

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The highest courage is to dare to be yourself in the face of adversity, choosing right over wrong, ethics over convenience, and truth over popularity.

Travel the path of integrity without looking back, for THERE IS NEVER A WRONG TIME TO DO THE RIGHT THING.

- Bishop Soc Villegas
25 July 2007


WHO WE ARE, WHAT WE DO

Through all of our 29 years, we have spoken much of our vision and mission, who we are, what we are called to do. We know that we are an evangelistic and missionary community. This has been true from the very beginning and has never changed. We do our work within the context of family renewal. That is one distinct factor that distinguishes us from other renewal movements.
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PORTA FIDEI

OF THE SUPREME PONTIFF
BENEDICT XVI

FOR THE INDICTION OF THE YEAR OF FAITH

1. The “door of faith” (Acts 14:27) is always open for us, ushering us into the life of communion with God and offering entry into his Church. It is possible to cross that threshold when the word of God is proclaimed and the heart allows itself to be shaped by transforming grace. To enter through that door is to set out on a journey that lasts a lifetime. It begins with baptism (cf. Rom 6:4), through which we can address God as Father, and it ends with the passage through death to eternal life, fruit of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, whose will it was, by the gift of the Holy Spirit, to draw those who believe in him into his own glory (cf. Jn 17:22). To profess faith in the Trinity – Father, Son and Holy Spirit – is to believe in one God who is Love (cf. 1 Jn 4:8): the Father, who in the fullness of time sent his Son for our salvation; Jesus Christ, who in the mystery of his death and resurrection redeemed the world; the Holy Spirit, who leads the Church across the centuries as we await the Lord’s glorious return.

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CFC-FFL Health Ministry


CFC-FFL Work With the Poor & Health Ministries, together with Intellicare (an HMO company), conducted an initial Annual Physical Examination (APE) at CFC Brampton Restoration Village on Sunday, Apr.22, 2012, at the RV site at Grezar, Brgy. Bagbag, Novaliches. Doctors from the CFC-FFL Health Ministry were on hand to do the physical assessment while Intellicare bought along their mobile clinic & staff to do the CBC, Fecalysis, Urinalysis, and X-Ray. A total of 170 beneficiaries (adults & children) availed of the services. The activity is part of a comprehensive health program for the RV site with Intellicare as partner. They will be conducting a yearly APE to monitor the health conditions of the beneficiaries. Intellicare has sponsored the on-going construction of a permanent clinic at the 3rd floor of the RV community center .
by: Bonjie Bonjibud


Project: BABY DIAPERS & WIPES

As seen in this picture are the donations collected during the 2012 Advent Appeal  for Diapers and Wipes received by St. Mary Doolittle of the Sisters of Life. Compare to last year's appeal, our collections increased more than threefold this year and Sisters of Life was so much grateful for the timely delivery of diapers, wipes and petroleum jellies which they said had provided relief to them due to the increasing number of mothers who gave birth to babies saved from abortion. Families they now serve include those refugees and migrant workers whom they discovered to be very vulnerable to sending their children to abortion mills. Collections came from almost all chapters in the GTA District but this time we noted the active participation of the Handmaids and YFL.

 

If you wish to donate to the Baby Diapers & Wipes deposit your donations to the 

Work With the Poor bank Account:

Bank: TD Canada Trust
Transit #: 1878
Account #: 5219693

For tax receipts purposes, donors are advised to e-mail tel@rogers.com the following information:

1. Full name of donor
2. Complete Address of donor
3. Amount deposited
4. Date of deposit.
5. Branch number or location where money was deposited.


Archbishop of Ottawa Appoints CFC-FFL Ottawa Chaplain

Archbishop Terrence Prendergast of Ottawa appointed Rev Fr Pedro Arana as the CFC-FFL Ottawa Chaplain for a three-year term. Click here to read the official document.


CBCP Gives Recognition to CFC- FFL

The Episcopal Commission on the Laity (ECLA) of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the  Philippines (CBCP) has given formal recognition to the Couples for Christ Foundation for Family and Life (CFC FFL) as a National Private Association of the Lay Faithful.  Click here to read more... 

Click on the image below to view the Recognition Letter.


CFC FFL Gets Ecclesiastical Recognition

The Archdiocese of Lingayen-Dagupan has given Ecclesiastical Recognition to the Couples for Christ Foundation for Family & Life on November 17, 2009.  Click on the image below to view the Ecclesiastical Recognition document.


CFC-FFL Servant General Re-Appointed 

to the Pontifical Council of Family

After having been re-appointed by Pope Benedict XVI to the Pontifical Council for the Family, the Padillas admitted that they are facing truckload of works to do with the Council given the numerous attacks being directed against the Church’s doctrines on family and life.  Click here to read more...

Click on the images below to view the Pontifical documents.


OUR THEME FOR 2013
BE.LI.EV.E
Next year, our Catholic Church has proclaimed the Year of Faith (from October 11, 2012 to November 24, 2013). On October 7 to 28 this year, Pope Benedict XVI is convening the Synod of Bishops to discuss “The New Evangelization for the Transmission of the Christian Faith.” Faith and the New Evangelization go together. The New Evangelization is all about propagating the Christian faith, both in renewing the Church and also in accomplishing her missio ad gentes. Faith in Jesus is at the core of the New Evangelization and it is our faith that pushes us to proclaim the good news of salvation in Jesus to the whole world.

For 2013, our theme is on faith.
Our 2013 theme
FAITH WORKS WONDERS!

“Amen, amen, I say to you,
whoever believes in me will do the works that I do,
and will do greater ones than these,
because I am going to the Father.”

(John 14:12)

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Habemus Papam Franciscum

 

Pope Francis I is the 266th pope, successorof St. Peter.  He was born on 17 December 1936 Jorge Mario Bergoglio in Flores, Buenos Aires City, one of the five children of Mario José Bergoglio, an Italian immigrant, and his wife Regina María Sívori, a housewife born in Buenos Aires to a family of northern Italian origin.  

 

Jorge Bergoglio has been a supporter of the San Lorenzo de Almagro football club since his childhood.  Jorge Bergoglio is also a fan of the films of Tita Merello and of neorealism and of tango dancing, with an "intense fondness" for the traditional music of Argentina and Uruguay known as the milonga.

 

He graduated from the technical secondary school Escuela Nacional de Educación with a chemical technician's diploma; during that period he had a job as a bouncer in a Buenos Aires bar to earn money and fund his studies.  He worked for a few years in that capacity in the foods section at Hickethier-Bachmann Laboratory.  The only known health crisis of his youth is that at the age of 21 he suffered from life-threatening pneumonia and cysts and had part of a lung removed shortly afterwards.

 

Jorge Bergoglio is conversant in Spanish, Latin, Italian, German, French, Ukrainian, and English.

 

He was ordained as a priest in 1969.  He served as head of the Society of Jesus in Argentina from 1973 to 1979.  In 1998 he became the Archbishop of Buenos Aires, and in 2001 a cardinal.  He chose the papal name Francis in honor of Saint Francis of Assisi. Besides being the first pope to choose the name Francis, he is also the first pope to be a Jesuit; the first pope to come from the Americas and from the Southern Hemisphere.

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Photo shows Country Servant of Canada CFCFFL, Kit Galema, receiving a commemorative collage from the Restoration Village residents to thank CFCFFL Canada for providing the funds to help construct the BATA Pre school 2nd floor. The 3rd floor will house the Intellicare donated health clinic to be opened shortly.


KFL Canada Declares Love for Mama Mary

KFL and YFL members from the CFC-FFL GTA district gathered in 3 locations in October to pray the Living Rosary.   Shown below are CFC-FFL kids and youth from the GTA Central Cluster at St. Margaret Mary Church in Woodbridge;

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St. Peter Julian Eymard Chapel

The blessing of the Blessed Sacrament Chapel in Goa (India) for which the members of CFC-FFL community contributed generously in cash and prayers is photographed by Fr Justin Sequeira.  The St. Peter Julian Eymard Chapel was blessed on the 29th of November, 2012 by the Archbishop of Goa, Rt. Rev. Dr. Filip Neri Ferrao.  Click here to see more pictures...


Latest Articles From the Servant General
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THE NEW EVANGELIZATION (Part 33) - HARDSHIPS IN THE WORK

April 28, 2013

The call to the New Evangelization can be euphoric. God’s people can become all excited (I hope so) and be gung-ho about moving ahead. After all, we fight for a victorious God. But we really need to be aware that as we plunge into spiritual warfare, we will be bloodied. The enemy opposes those who assault his dominion in the world, and especially when our intent is to help bring people into the kingdom of God.

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OUR THEME FOR 2013 (Part 44) - GREATER WORKS

April 27, 2013

The Lord today reiterates our theme verse. “Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever believes in me will do the works that I do, and will do greater ones than these, because I am going to the Father.” (Jn 14:12). The call to the New Evangelization is about faith, faith that works, faith that works wonders. It is about meeting and knowing Christ, living Christ, and sharing Christ.

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THE WAY FORWARD IN CHRIST (Part 55) - SOLIDARITY

April 9, 2013

One key word for us in the Church and in community is solidarity. Solidarity essentially means unity and stewardship. This was the situation of the first Christian community established after Pentecost. “The community of believers was of one heart and mind, and no one claimed that any of his possessions was his own, but they had everything in common.” (Acts 4:32).
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ON EVANGELIZATION AND MISSION (Part 41) - GO AND EVANGELIZE
April 6, 2013

Jesus said to the Eleven, and by extension tells all of us who are his disciples: “Go into the whole world and proclaim the gospel to every creature.” (Mk 16:15). This is the call to do rapid, massive and worldwide evangelization.

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LOVING ONE ANOTHER (Part 13) - FAITH IS VICTORY OVER THE WORLD
January 10, 2013
We are called to love one another. This is because of who our God is, and what He commands us to do. God loves us with an eternal love, creating us in His image and likeness. God manifested that love by sending His own Son into the world to suffer and die for us. “We love because he first loved us.” (1 Jn 4:19).  

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ON THE TRIUNE GOD (Part 9) / LOVING ONE ANOTHER (Part 12) - 
LOOKING TO PERFECT LOVE
January 9, 2013
Jesus restored us to our relationship with the Father. At the core of our Christian faith is this relationship. It is a relationship of love--God’s love for us and our love for God, with God acting first and unilaterally. “We have come to know and to believe in the love God has for us.” (1 Jn 4:16a). How can we be assured that this mutual love is in place? Well, God’s love is already proven, and so it is up to us to respond in love. How can we be assured that we are with God and He is with us?  

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FINANCIAL STEWARDSHIP (Part 16) - WHAT TWO WIDOWS CAN TEACH US 

November 11, 2012

God loves the poor. Jesus’ mission is to the poor (Lk 4:18). In the mission of Christians they are to be mindful of the poor (Gal 2:10). We today speak of a preferential option for the poor. In CFC-FFL this is one of our Core Values.  

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The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI with members and consulters of the Pontifical Council for the Family, Vatican City, February 8, 2010. Note Archbishop Soc Villegas on the right and Frank & Gerry Padilla on the left.


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Consecration of CFCFFL to 

Blessed Virgin Mary

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Scripture Reading

Today's Reading and Podcast


Click here to watch  the last Mass iof Pope Benedict XVI in public.

Click here to read more stories surrounding the resignation.


Divine Mercy Series

What is Divine Mercy?

Talk on Divine Mercy 

by Fr. Manny Cruz 


CFC-FFL
COMMUNITY PRAYER 2013


Almighty Father in heaven, awesome and glorious are you in your majesty. From all eternity you have had the greatest plan for us all, for a future filled with hope. May your name be always exalted through all the earth.

Jesus Christ our Savior and Lord, you have loved us with an everlasting love, and have established your friendship with us. We desire to live as you live, following you as your disciple along the path of holiness. Help us to share the good news of your love and your salvation to many others. Increase our faith, so that we might do even greater works.

Holy Spirit, touch the hearts of the faithful, so that they may meet Christ, live Christ and share Christ. Help us to mainstream Catholic lay evangelization in this Year of Faith, in response to the call to the New Evangelization. Open our eyes and hearts to experience the faith that truly works wonders.

Triune God, continue to work in our lives so that we remain faithful and steadfast in faith, as we proclaim that faith throughout the world. Then may all peoples and nations bow down before you in worship.

Mama Mary, you are our model of faith. Please always guide us and keep us covered in your mantle of grace and blessing.

May the faith of all God’s people move mountains.

Amen.

Books & Magazine

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Our book "Stories from Prison" is presented to Pope Benedict XVI by Frank & Gerry Padilla at the Vatican. The pope is now aware of our work in prison. Please support our prison ministry. Give a donation to the ministry and receive a complimentary copy of the book (they are not for sale). Call our Home Office or FFL Shoppe for details. 


SOUND THE TRUMPETS MAGAZINE

Get your copy now. Call Risa Arguelles at the FFL Shoppe at (632) 7182213 or e-mail her at arguellesrisa@yahoo.com


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