The American TFP

Our Lady Help of Christians, Celebrates Pope’s Liberation From Prison

by Cesar Franco January 16, 2017May 23, 2012

This commemoration was introduced in the liturgical calendar by decree of Pope Pius VII on September 16, 1815, in thanksgiving for his happy return to Rome after a long and painful captivity in Savona and France due to Napoleon’s tyrannical power. By order of Napoleon, Pius VII was arrested, 5 July, 1808, … Read more

The Blessing of a Statue of Our Lady of Sorrows

by Elias Bartel Bartel December 22, 2016September 28, 2010

On September 15, the feast of Our Lady of Sorrows, friends gathered at the TFP-Louisiana center in Lafayette for the installation of an impressive, life-size statue of Our Lady of Sorrows. The day was forecast by the weatherman to be thoroughly hot and miserably humid, but it proved to be an … Read more