Traditional Latin Mass in Maryland

I was just notified of the IHM National Home School and Parent Conference, 2009. Here is the home page for the Conference which is scheduled for Friday and Saturday, June 12th and 13th, 2009. Here is the schedule for the Conference . The Conference is FREE and the roster of speakers is excellent. Note that the Conference has been posted to the Special Event Calendar !

My friend sent this to me today by email and I thought I'd share it with all... PRESS RELEASE DIVINE MERCY CARE’S PRO-LIFE PHARMACY OPENS IN CHANTILLY, VA Contact: Bob Laird - 703-934-5552 (office)/703-732-0681 (cell) (10/21/08, Chantilly, VA) – DMC Pharmacy opened today in Chantilly, VA with a blessing of the building by the Most Reverend Paul S. Loverde, Bishop of Arlington. The DMC pharmacy is the newest addition to the Divine Mercy Care family of healthcare services. DMC Pharmacy is a pro-life pharmacy specifically designed to meet the pharmaceutical needs in a prolife, pro-woman, and pro-family atmosphere. Located in the Sully Place Shopping Center, in the heart of Chantilly, VA, DMC Pharmacy provides a convenient opportunity for families and individuals to have their prescriptions filled and their pharmaceutical questions answered in a friendly environment. Divine Mercy Care is a 501(c)(3) non-profit Catholic healthcare organization in Northern Virginia that also operates the...

My email "friend" gave me a "heads up" on this story by Rob Stein from the Washington Post abstracted here on the Pew Forum . It is on a drugstore opening in Chantilly, VA which will be "pro-life." The pharmacy is one of a small but growing number of drugstores around the country that have become the latest front in a conflict pitting patients' rights against those of health-care workers who assert a "right of conscience" to refuse to provide care or products that they find objectionable. "The United States was founded on the idea that people act on their conscience -- that they have a sense of right and wrong and do what they think is right and moral," said Tom Brejcha, president and chief counsel at the Thomas More Society, a Chicago public-interest law firm that is defending a pharmacist who was fined and reprimanded for refusing to fill prescriptions for birth control pills. "Every pharmacist has the right to do the sa...

My ever vigilant friend in West Virginia has alerted me to a series of Home School Conferences . The National Conference is scheduled for June 13th and 14th at the Dulles Expo and Conference Hall . Directions can be found here . The speakers list is shown here and includes a number of superb guests . The full schedule is linked here . Note the following (as pointed out by my friend): On Saturday, June 14, Fr. Joseph Fessio will have two talks: 9:30-10:15 am Pope Benedict XVI and the Mass "Learn about the themes from his classic text The Spirit of the Liturgy. What does pope Benedict XVI say about sacrifice, music, participation, kneeling, the tabernacle, adoration and the direction of prayer?" 3:00-3:45 pm Pope Benedict XVI and the Motu Proprio "The Motu Proprio was not just a short-term solution to the problem of some schismatics and a few people with nostalgia for the old Mass. It is rather part of a plan to renew the whole Church, announced ...