<p><span class=Apple-style-span style=font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px; ><div><p style=font-family: Verdana Arial Helvetica sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px; margin-right: 30px; ><em>He that hath ears to hear let him hear. (Matthew 11:15)</em></p><p style=font-family: Verdana Arial Helvetica sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px; margin-right: 30px; >DignityUSA invites you to a day of fasting prayer and witness on November 14 2005 as the U.S. Council of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) begins its meeting in Washington DC. We are especially inviting those who live in and around the DC area to join us for various events surrounding these meetings.</p><p style=font-family: Verdana Arial Helvetica sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px; margin-right: 30px; >We call the Church to &ldquo;Conversation and Conversion&rdquo; around issues of its gay lesbian bisexual and transgender brothers and sisters. As members of the Body of Christ we come to share our lives hopes dreams and sorrows with our Bishops so they and the entire Church might come to a conversion of the mind and heart.</p><p style=font-family: Verdana Arial Helvetica sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px; margin-right: 30px; >What can you or your Chapter do?</p></div><ol><li style=font-family: Verdana Arial Helvetica sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px; padding-bottom: 6px; ><div>Join with other members of DignityUSA and its supporters as we stand a 24 hour vigil and fast outside the Hyatt Hotel in Washington DC at 11:30 am on Sunday November 14th or at the opening Mass of the USCCB at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception on Monday November 15 2005 at 4:30 pm. For information regarding the witness in Washington DC contact: Patty Hayes<a href=mailto:phayeser1@yahoo.com style=font-family: Verdana Arial Helvetica sans-serif; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0 0 102); text-decoration: none; >phayeser1@yahoo.com</a>.</div></li><li style=font-family: Verdana Arial Helvetica sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px; padding-bottom: 6px; >Join in solidarity with those in Washington DC as individuals and groups in your homes or as Chapters in this time of fasting prayer and witness.</li><li style=font-family: Verdana Arial Helvetica sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px; padding-bottom: 6px; ><div>The witness at the USCCB is but a beginning. DignityUSA encourages you and your chapter to use this season of Advent as a time to communicate with your local bishops. Your words and thoughts communicated with your bishop are the most powerful forces for conversion of the mind and heart. You may find ways to have &ldquo;conversation&rdquo; with your own bishop in whatever way seems fitting for your situation.</div></li></ol><div><p style=font-family: Verdana Arial Helvetica sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px; margin-right: 30px; >When we speak they will hear. When they hear we cannot be invisible.</p><p style=font-family: Verdana Arial Helvetica sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px; margin-right: 30px; >For information regarding any of these events/actions please contact: Patty Hayes<a href=mailto:phayeser1@yahoo.com style=font-family: Verdana Arial Helvetica sans-serif; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0 0 102); text-decoration: none; >phayeser1@yahoo.com</a>.</p><div><span class=Apple-style-span style=font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;><br /></span></div><p align=left style=font-family: Verdana Arial Helvetica sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px; margin-right: 30px; >&nbsp;</p></div></span></p>