Issue No:  VM 241 (2004-23) June 4, 2004

From: Chevalier family From: Johanne Brownrigg From: richard and monica

Hello everyone,

If you are opposed to the new "taxes" for health care in Ontario, do pass this on and sign the petition by clicking the site below.

Thanks. Monica ...  http://www.taxpayer.com/ON_Honour_the_pledge.htm

I know that we mentioned this last week ... lets get counted - I will continue to encourage you to do so!

From: tedandjoanne From: United Mothers/Citizens Voice

Dear Edward & Joanne,

 A great big thank you to all of you who have sent off letters calling for the annulment of Bill C-250 and for your MP's stand on same-sex marriage. If you have not yet had a chance to do so, please send off a letter.  We need to let politicians know where we stand.  Remember, all it takes is 5 minutes to make a difference!

One month from today, on June 28, we will have the opportunity to profoundly influence the course that Canada will be pursuing over the next four years.

In politics, unlike the Olympics, there is no prize for second place. Either a bill like C-250 becomes law or it does not. Either a responsive pro-family candidate gets elected or constituents are stuck with an unresponsive anti-family politician or government for the next four years.

CANADA CANNOT AFFORD SECOND PLACE!

Now is the time to be pro-active!
So what do we do?  Well, there are two things that politicians listen to:  one is the knock on the door of a person holding a large cheque; and the other is the knock on the door of  "1 Million Canadians" speaking with a united voice.

In the past politicians could afford to ignore the best efforts of social conservative advocacy groups in Canada because, individually, these groups represented less than 10,000 Canadians.  The level of disrespect shown to these dedicated organizations at recent committee and court hearings has been appalling.

United Mothers and Citizens Voice is out to change that.

Imagine 1 million or even 100,000 Canadians uniting with ONE VOICE for a better Canada.

When we achieve that number you can be sure that ! politicians will be sitting up and paying attention because with politicians - numbers matter.

In order to make a difference, we need your help in spreading the word.  We are printing thousands of pass-along cards for you to share with friends, family, colleagues, organizations, and church congregations from coast to coast.  If you can help to distribute these, please go to the "volunteer" link at www.1millioncanadians.com and simply check off the "passalong" box in addition to any other volunteer opportunities that you may be interested in.

We look forward to sending some to you!

If you could also send a donation to help offset the cost of printing and shipping, we would really appreciate it! ($10 per 100 cards would be wonderful, tho! ugh not necessary.)

Lastly, let us begin charting the c! ourse of where WE WANT CANADA TO BE GOING.  Click on the "Act Now" button at www.1millioncanadians.com and send off a letter regarding our latest issue:  "Listen up:  I am Canadian!"

Every freedom loving Canadian should take a good hard look at these three statements:

Tax Me ... I'M CANADIAN.
Waste My Money... I'M CANADIAN.
Take Away My Freedom of Speech... I'M CANADIAN.

This is NOT what it should mean TO BE CANADIAN.

We invite you to speak out against these and other critical issues by sending off a letter to politicians and letting them know that this is DEFINITELY NOT what it means to be Canadian.  You can learn more about these issue! s at  "Listen Up:  I am Canadian!" at http://www.1clicklobbyist.ca/index.php?affid=2549

If we are successful in our election campaign we can look forward to spending a lot more time next fall, and over the next four years, writing thank you letters to our MP's for the wonderful legislation that they are introducing in the cause of a better Canada.

I think that this is a change worth working for right now!  I am sure you would agree.
Sincerely yours,  Michele Dow ... United Mothers & Citizen's Voice... Now you're being heard.

From: Cindy Walker
Subject: Post Card campaign

Good Morning;

Catholic Exchange is a great web site I have as my home page.  I saw this note this morning and thought it was important to tune in and see what John Pacheco is doing. 

Hope you all get to watch the interview.

God bless    Cindy

Canadian Viewers: Tune In!

While discussing John ... he had warned us about the following:

From: john pacheco@catholic-legate.com

Subject: CBC trash talk

Tonight {june 3rd} on CBC, there will be a report on how evangelical Christians are trying

to get the attention of the political parties.

My hope is that john has a videotape and that we can get to see this PAST taping.

Well many of you saw the circulated prayer request for the cervical cancer victim - please read below the following statement - it looked something like the following:

My Name is Gary "Nick" Hogman, Some of you receiving know me, some do not.

You have received this because I found your email address and just sent it to you.

My wife Cindy is 32 years old and has just been diagnosed 3 days ago with stage 4 cervical cancer and her chances for survival are very slim. She was pregnant with our second child and had miscarried at 5 months and now we know why. 

This is a request for you to forward this email to everyone you know asking for prayer. If you are religious or not. The more people that pray f! or her to be healed the better. Company email distributions, friends, family, people you don't even know. Just forward them this email and let them do the same,

Pray and forward. It only takes a second to hit forward and click on any
distribution list you have. Please do it and don't delete this, your prayer
will save her life. Please pray and ask everyone you know to pray to their
Lord, no matter what religion for the HEALING of Cindy, removal of all cancer in her body so she may enjoy all that life has to offer,! and to continue to be the wonderful mother to our 5 year old son Michael. The power of Prayer is unsurpassed. Unsurpassed.  I want the whole world to have her in their prayers the next few weeks. God will hear our cry.

Please do not be offended by my plea. This is only a request for your help.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart for reading this and helping with our quest for healing, no words can express how much power we have when we do a little extra to come together.

Regards, Cindy's in love husband.

From: lorena solomon

Subject: Walk to Cure Diabetes

Hello friends:

I am with a number of my co-workers here at the Aboriginal Healing Foundation are raising money for Diabetes - Walk for Cure Diabetes, on June 13, 2004.

I am requesting your financial support. If you choose to sponsor me you may do so online.  Here's how you can send a pledge:

Go to www.jdrf.ca,

Click on the Walk to Cure logo,

Click on Pledge a Walker,

Enter the team name: The Bannock Burners

Click Submit,

Click the Pledge Participant by your name,

Click Email this Page, and

Complete the information and send it off.

Once you have it, all you have to do is complete it.  It's only useful if they have a credit card ready, handy, stuff like that.

If the online sponsoring doesn't work please email me and I will make arrangements to meet up with you to pick up the donation.

Please help support this wonderful fundraiser. On a personal note: my mother and good friend has diabetes. My journey is for them.

Pass this on to your friends the more the better.

Thank you for your time and support

Lorena Solomon

Finance Assistant

The Aboriginal Healing Foundation

From: Fr. John Vandenakker

Subject: Fr. John's Trip to Tanzania

Hi folks.

I will be joining Tom Edwards and his Mission Team from Renewal Ministries next month (July 6-23) as they travel to Tanzania. Fr. Scott McCaig, Nick Simoni, Fr. Mark Goring & Fr. Randy Hendriks have all been there in the past with previous Mission Teams (you can see a report of a previous mision here: http://www.renewalministries.net/missions/Tanzania.html). I am very excited about going on such a wonderful missionary outreach! One of my principal tasks will be to lead a priests' retreat while over there and join in speaking at a number of other rallies. I have copied other info below that you might find interesting. Please pray for us!

Peace - Fr. John V.

///// FROM: TOM EDWARDS

Dear Team,

Our time is fast approaching for departure to Tanzania on July 7th. Please continue to enlist many intercessors to stand behind our efforts there.  As you know, our itinerary will include the National Charismatic Renewal Rally  for Tanzania in Mbeya.  A miniumum of 15,000 people will be

attending.  Our venues include daily rallies, workshops, a four day Priests retreat and a four day Sisters retreat.  The Bishop of Mbeya has issued an invitation to all his priests.  Renewal Ministries will be helping with their finances, both for priests and sisters, so we expect many to be present.  We will then move to Iringa for another large rally and workshops.

We are blessed to have one more priest added to our team bringing our total to 10 team members.  They are as follows:

Patrick and Diane Brown----Battle Ground, WA

Denny Donahue----------------Temecula, CA

Tom Edwards--------------------St. Augustine, FL

John Mathe-----------------------Interlachen, FL

Karen Stein----------------------Ann Arbor, MI

Sr. Rita D'Souza---------------Channing, TX

Fr. Timoth Graff-----------------Lodi, NJ

Fr. Maurice Larochelle-------Hampton, NH

Fr. John Vandenakker--------Ottawa, Ont., Canada

please click here to find out about the trip / what to be praying for and when the events are happening.

From: Graham Cuthbert
Subject: Raising Children of Character

The following is a link to an article on "Raising Children of Character" by Thomas Lickona:

http://catholiceducation.org/articles/education/ed0230.html

Thomas Lickona is a developmental psychologist and professor of education at the State University of New York at Cortland. He is the author of Character Matters: How to Help Our Children Develop Good Judgment, Integrity, and Other Essential Virtues (Touchstone, 2004) and the Christopher Award-winning book Educating for Character (Bantam Books, 1992). He has also written Raising Good Children (Bantam Doubleday 1994) and co-authored Sex, Love and You (Ave Maria Press, March 2003). Thomas Lickona was instrumental in development of the Center for the Fourth and Fifth Rs. He is on the Advisory Board of the Catholic Educator's Resource Center.

For a few weeks {including this week - where Ted & Joanne mention it up above - we have a few different entries about the 1 Million Canadians, and we also asked you all about The Angelicum  ... read on

From: johnp@catholic-legate.com

Subject: 1 Million Canadians.Com

Greetings everyone,

Early next week you will get a more formal e-mail from the Angelicum informing you of this effort:

www.1millioncanadians.com/passalongcard.htm

Last night, Steve Gonzalez and I spent 7 hours non-stop getting this Voter's Guide prepared:

http://www.1millioncanadians.com/voterguide.htm

This group means business, and I believe that they are going to be the unifying force of the pro-family groups in this country.  We need to get on this bandwagon and support them 100%.  And after we get on the bandwagon, we need to get off the bandwagon and start pushing it!

They will be running an Ad in the National Post tomorrow (Saturday). 

They have money and they mean business.

What YOU need to do is spread the word about their efforts.  Do it NOW, please.  Send the above links to your email address book and do your part during this election. 

John Pacheco The Angelicum 

HEY GOLFERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Are you ready? St Mary’s 14th Golf FunDay ... coming to you on June 26th... see your bulletin for details ... and I hope to see the church hall overflowing Saturday evening with that very important fundraiser for our parish’s youth, Thus enabling them to go to the Steubenville conference ... desert and a show / and a fundraiser for less than $10

JAMES 1:17