Let Your Kingdom come! Your Will be done!

"When the time for Pentecost was fulfilled, they were all in one place together. And suddenly there came from the sky a noise like a strong driving wind, and it filled the entire house in which they were. Then there appeared to them tongues as of fire, which parted and came to rest on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in different tongues, as the Spirit enabled them to proclaim." - Acts 2:1-4

Get to know the Holy Spirit! Read some teachings from the Popes about the Holy Spirit.

Miracles: Healing for a Broken World by Fr. Stefan is about people from the area who have experienced healing, and is available on Amazon.com.  Proceeds go to the Paul Stefan Home for Expectant Mothers.

 Cardinal Arinze said in 2004 that Charismatic Renewal represents "a considerable contribution" which can "help us to pay more attention to the Holy Spirit, who teaches us how to pray, how to witness to Jesus in society," Through the Renewal we learn, "to witness to Jesus as the Apostles did after Pentecost," who "were no longer afraid."

Upcoming Events

International Catholic Charismatic Renewal Services (ICCRS) Leadership Training Course
September 12-19,  Steubenville, Ohio
The Vatican's office that provides pastoral guidance to the Charismatic Renewal will be sponsoring this great opportunity to learn and grow in the Holy Spirit with people from all over the world. Not to be missed! Register online.

Diocesan Charismatic Retreat - "In Search of Treasure"
September 17-19
Dominican Retreat House in McLean, VA
Our spiritual director will be Fr. Sam Vaccarella, TOR, Executive Director of the new San Damiano Spirituality Center of the Arlington Diocese.  Praise and Worship will be provided by His Songs. There will be daily Mass, prayer meeting, challenging talks, small group sharing, quiet time, and great food in a beautiful location. For those who have never attended a retreat, this is a wonderful opportunity in a local setting to be re-ignited in your faith.
For more info please contact 703-569-5470, or email.

Father Larry Richards - Parish Mission
Sept 20-23, 7-9pm
Author of Be A Man, exciting, challenging speaker.
St. Mary of Sorrows 5222, Sideburn Rd., Fairfax
For more info: Contact the church or call 703-978-4141
www.thereasonforourhope.org

CWIA Prayer Breakfast
Saturday Sept. 25, 9am-noon
Susan Wallace will give her witness.
Holiday Inn Old Town, 625 1st St., Alexandria, VA 22314
For reservations call 703-971-3633

Healing, Hope and Mercy Conference
Saturday, October 9, 9am - 7pm
Catholic University's Pryzbyla Conference Center
620 Michigan Ave, NE, Washington, DC      Register online.

Prayer, Healing Mass, fellowship, and speakers including:

Susan Tassone - Author of The Way of the Cross for the Holy Souls in Purgatory.

Colleen Willard - Healed after prayer and pilgrimage from Hashimoto's thyroiditis, myofascial fibromyalgia, severe osteomalacia, and a critical adrenal insufficiency.

Sondra Abrahams - Saw glimpses of Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory in a near death experience which has moved this devout Catholic wife, mother, and grandmother to speak all over the US and Canada to bring people back to God.

Fr. Lightner - Experienced healing in Confession and left behind a promising future in football to become a priest.

Fr. Wendell - After three hours of clinical death, he made a pilgrimage and saw Christ in a vision, calling him to leave behind his career and become a priest.

Praise and Worship with Dave and Dawn Kinsman.

Jeremy Camp Concert
Sunday Oct. 24, 7pm
Hylton Memorial Chapel, Woodbridge
$16.50 for Center Balcony
26 tickets reserved. DEADLINE to order is Oct. 2. Make checks payable to Susan Wallace

National Service Committee - Conference
October 29 - 31, St. Paul, MN
Speakers include Bishop Sam Jacobs, Fr. Dave Pivonka, Fr. Raniero Cantalamessa and Peter Herbeck.
Register online.

Unbound Conference
Nov. 5-6
St. Agnes Parish Hall, 5422 Old Frederick Rd, Baltimore, MD
Neil Lozano, author of Unbound: A Practical Guideto Deliverance and Resisting the Devil - A Catholic Perspective on Deliverance
More Information and registration is online.

Flyer to share with others: here.

Monthly Eucharistic Adoration with Praise and Worship
1st Saturday of every month, 7:00-8:30pm, with the Catholic music group VISION
St. Leo the Great Catholic Church
3700 Old Lee Highway, Fairfax, VA

Monthly Healing Mass - 2nd Saturday of every month
St. Mary of Sorrows Catholic Church
5222 Sideburn Rd., Fairfax, VA
7:00pm: Mass
8:15pm: Testimonies, praise, and individual prayer for healing with the laying on of hands  

CRSC presents An Evening of Charismatic Prayer and Praise
These are a diocesan-wide call to gather in prayer in celebration and thanksgiving for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit and seek guidance on how to appreciate and use that outpouring in our lives, our Church, and the world. Below is a word from the leader of Refuge Prayer Group at St. Francis de Sales:

The closer we get to entering into His full glory, the greater the resistance to pull us back. The power of unity is our strength. In the Spirit, I saw the gladiators as they were in the Coliseum and as the chariots came out, individually they would have all died, but as they came together as one, they found their true strength to defend and defeat the enemy. We are to push forward into the realm of the impossible. It is as if God is saying, 'The everyday Christian life as I have designed is impossible for natural humans, but I have created you supernatural, to be vessels that allows MY GLORY to flow through. You must learn to be One Church, Have One Mind, One Mission, Be One Body, with many members. I cannot allow my full glory to flow through only one or two of you, it will overwhelm you, I need all of you acting as one to flow through.

- About 500 people praising God, singing "Mighty To Save," during ADORE 2097 at St. Anthony Catholic Church in Falls Church, April 2008