Blessed News!!!

I hope everyone had a happy and safe Fourth of July!!!!  It is a time to be thankful for the gifts and blessings that we have received from Almighty God.  I had a wedding rehearsal last evening and at the dinner that followed I offered the grace before meals and thanked God for the blessing of freedom that we live and share on this Independence Day!  Right now, there are a lot of attacks on our freedoms, religious liberty and the sanctity of marriage.  We cannot give up on the battle.  We need to proclaim the Good News, not just with words but with our very lives.  That leads to the blessed news of today which is being reported.  Our Holy Father, Pope Francis, has signed off on the canonization decree for Blessed John Paul II and Blessed John XXIII.  A second miracle has been attributed to Blessed John Paul and the Holy Father waived the second miracle for John XXIII so both popes can be canonized at the same time.  We are thankful for the gifts of these two popes in recent church history and we look forward to them being raised to the altars of sainthood.  Blessed John Paul II and Blessed John XXIII, pray for us!!!