ACTION ITEM! Seven Sisters Apostolate for Saturday

This post is absolutely and blatantly self-serving! I shudder to think about my present situation if there weren’t people praying for me out there. I am so grateful to all of you.

Therefore, I want to underscore a special group.

Do you know about the Seven Sisters Apostolate?

In a nutshell, 7 women and perhaps a couple alternates, commit for 1 year to 1 hour of prayer for 1 priest each week.   Hence, there is a lady on Monday, one on Tuesday, etc., ideally in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament.

In some cases, though this is not obligatory, the priest or bishop may not even know who they are.

There are good resources at their site.

Perhaps some of you readers might, in your goodness, consider doing this, for me and for other priests as well.

Anyone wanting to accept this Prayer commitment respond to SevenSistersApostolate@gmail.com

Here’s the email I received.

Hello Father, One of your sisters, DH from ___ has to leave the group due to more frequent travel requirements. So could you please post a request again for Saturday?

There is no set time for the Holy Hour, just that it be offered on Saturday.

Anyone able to do this may email Janette Howe the foundress at sevensistersapostolate@gmail.com
Janette will then forward their names to me, the anchoress for the group and I will contact them. This procedure has worked very well in the past.

Thank you, Father!
Blessings, Mary Clare Wareham

PS We just had our Seven Sisters Twin Cities area Day of Reflection at Maternity of Mary last Saturday. I thought of Father Francis Dudley, former pastor who we knew and loved as spiritual director of our Rosary Procession committee. Both Janette’s son Father Spencer Howe and our spiritual director Father Joseph Johnson spoke. Both quite bold talks and I thought, this is the fruit: strengthening the priests to be able to speak clearly about all things related to the Church and our spiritual life, regardless of the fallout.

Father Howe quoted from Cardinal Ratzinger’s Spirit of the Liturgy. He kept saying that ideas have consequences. Going back to the Enlightenment and the French Revolution he related how Reason became God. Notre Dame recently restored after the fire, also burned during that time and heads of statues were cut off just as they were by the guillotine. Now the Church is suffering because of mediocrity. We don’t build Cathedrals anymore like they did in the Middle Ages. We are content to give God just the ordinary. A lot of plain concrete. He cited the Jews withholding the perfect lambs and bulls, sacrificing instead the lame and blemished. They withheld their best. And so God also withdrew His choicest blessings. We must, he said, restore beauty in the Liturgy, in Liturgical art, music, vestments, sacred vessels and coverings; poetry also is important and communicates truth exceedingly well. I noted at the Mass , the Corporal was properly used, unfolded and refolded and placed into the Burse. I wanted much to obtain his notes and will email him. He also had one quote from the Spirit of the Liturgy that I partly missed, perhaps you know it…something like ‘the liturgy without beauty becomes the first rung of hell’…does that sound familiar?

Father Johnson spoke on a similar theme, he decried “polyester vestments” and how shopping on Sunday started back in the 70s making Sunday a catch up day to get ready for Monday and back to work. His father a farmer always wore his “Sunday Best” to Mass each week, now people come in flip flops and jeans, shorts and tee shirts.
Again he said a lot more but I didn’t take notes at the time.

I think these concepts resonate with you also.

Blessings, Father! Here is the November Communique
https://sevensistersapostolate.org/november-2025-communique/