On
Death and Life
"Man Needs
Eternity -- and Every Other Hope, for Him, Is All
Too Brief"
DECREES
OF THE CONGREGATION FOR THE CAUSES OF SAINTS VATICAN CITY, 19 DEC 2011
(VIS)
Saint of the Day December 30
Tértio Kaléndas Januárii.
The saints “a cloud of witnesses over our head”, showing us life of Christian perfection is possible.
BENEDICT XVI'S PRAYER INTENTIONS FOR
December 2011
Peace among All Peoples.
General
Intention: That all peoples may
grow in harmony and peace through mutual understanding and respect.
Missionary
Intention: That children and young people may be messengers
of the Gospel and that they may be respected and preserved from
all violence and exploitation.
The Rosary
html Mary
Mother of GOD -- Her
Rosary Here
Mary
Mother
of GOD 15
Promises of the Virgin
Mary to those
who recite the Rosary
Mary's
Divine Motherhood
How do I start the Five First Saturdays?
Called in the Gospel “the Mother of Jesus,” Mary
is acclaimed by Elizabeth,
at the prompting of the Spirit
and even before the birth of her son, as
“the Mother of my Lord” (Lk 1:43; Jn
2:1; 19:25; cf. Mt 13:55; et al.). In fact,
the One whom she conceived as man by the
Holy Spirit, who truly became her Son according to the flesh, was
none other than the Father's
eternal Son, the second person
of the Holy Trinity. Hence the Church
confesses that Mary is truly
“Mother of God” (Theotokos).
Catechism of the Catholic Church 495, quoting
the Council of Ephesus (431):
DS 251.
“The Blessed
Virgin was eternally
predestined, in conjunction
with the incarnation of the
divine Word, to be the Mother of God.
By decree of divine Providence, she served
on earth as the loving mother of the divine
Redeemer, an associate of unique nobility,
and the Lord's humble handmaid. She
conceived, brought forth, and nourished
Christ.”
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usccb.org ewtn.com St Patricks 12 30
domcentral.org/life/martyr
Dec syriac
oca.org glaubenszeugen.de/tage/kai/30
Serbian
http://www.copticchurch.net
Melkite
Monthly Saints
with pics here http://www.stfrancisenid.com/memorials.htm
antiochian.org/AW-WomenSaints--wonderful
icons
Lutheran
Saints One Saint
per day stthomasirondequoit.com/SaintsAlive/index.htm
stjohndc.org God's Humourous
Saints
http://www.worldpriest.com/
Morning
Prayer and Hymn
Meditation
of the Day
Prayer
for Priests
Our Bartholomew Family Prayer List
Here
How to Stay Out of PURGATORY -- How
to Get others Out
POPES
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The_Litany_of_the_Blessed_Virgin.html
Patron_Saints.html
Angels and Archangels
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Marian
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We are called upon with the whole
Church militant on earth to join in praising
and thanking God for the grace and glory he has
bestowed on his saints. At the same time we earnestly
implore Him to exert His almighty power and mercy in raising
us from our miseries and sins, healing the disorders
of our souls and leading us by the path of repentance to the
company of His saints, to which He has called us.
They were once what we are
now, travellers on earth they had the same weaknesses,
which we have. We have difficulties to encounter
so had the saints, and many of them far greater than
we can meet with; obstacles from kings and whole nations,
sometimes from the prisons, racks and swords of persecutors.
Yet they surmounted these difficulties, which they made
the very means of their virtue and victories. It was by the
strength they received from above, not by their own, that
they triumphed. But the blood of Christ was shed for us as it
was for them and the grace of our Redeemer is not wanting to
us; if we fail, the failure is in ourselves.
THE saints and just,
from the beginning of time and
throughout the world, who have been made
perfect, everlasting monuments of God’s infinite
power and clemency, praise His goodness without
ceasing; casting their crowns before His throne they
give to Him all the glory of their triumphs: “His gifts
alone in us He crowns.”
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“The saints must be honored as friends of Christ
and children and heirs of God, as John the theologian and evangelist
says: ‘But as many as received him, he gave them the power to be made
the sons of God....’ Let us carefully observe the manner of life of
all the apostles, martyrs, ascetics and just men who announced the coming
of the Lord. And let us emulate their faith, charity, hope, zeal, life,
patience under suffering, and perseverance unto death, so that we may
also share their crowns of glory” Exposition of the Orthodox Faith
Called in the Gospel "the Mother of Jesus," Mary
is acclaimed by Elizabeth, at the prompting of the Spirit and even
before the birth of her son, as "the Mother of my Lord" (Lk 1:43; Jn
2:1; 19:25; cf. Mt 13:55; et al.). In fact, the One whom she conceived
as man by the Holy Spirit, who truly became her Son according to the
flesh, was none other than the Father's eternal Son, the second person
of the Holy Trinity.
Hence the
Church confesses that Mary is truly "Mother of God" (Theotokos).
Catechism
of the Catholic Church 495, quoting the Council of Ephesus (431):
DS 251.
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Nine First Fridays Devotion
to the Sacred Heart ... From the writings of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque
On Friday during Holy
Communion, He said these words to me, His unworthy slave, if I mistake
not:
"I promise you in the excessive mercy of my
Heart that its all-powerful love will grant to all those who receive
Holy Communion on nine first Fridays of consecutive months the grace
of final repentance; they will not die under my displeasure or without
receiving their sacraments, my divine Heart making itself their assured
refuge at the last moment."
Margaret Mary
was inspired by Christ to establish the Holy Hour and to pray lying
prostrate with her face to the ground from eleven till midnight on
the eve of the first Friday of each month, to share in the mortal sadness.
He endured when abandoned
by His Apostles in His Agony, and to receive holy Communion on the first
Friday of every month. In the first great revelation, He made known
to her His ardent desire to be loved by men and His design of manifesting
His Heart with all Its treasures of love and mercy, of sanctification
and salvation.
He appointed the Friday
after the octave of the feast of Corpus Christi as the feast of the
Sacred Heart; He called her "the Beloved
Disciple of the Sacred Heart", and the heiress of all Its treasures.
The love of the Sacred Heart was the fire which consumed her, and devotion
to the Sacred Heart is the refrain of all her writings. In her last
illness she refused all alleviation, repeating frequently: "What have
I in heaven and what do I desire on earth, but Thee alone, O my God",
and died pronouncing the Holy Name of Jesus.
With regard to this
promise it may be remarked: (1) that our Lord required Communion
to be received on a particular day chosen by Him; (2) that the nine Fridays
must be consecutive; (3) that they must be made in honor of His Sacred
Heart, which means that those who make the nine Fridays must practice
the devotion and must have a great love for our Lord; (4) that our Lord
does not say that those who make the nine Fridays will be dispensed from
any of their obligations or from exercising the vigilance necessary to lead
a good life and overcome temptation; rather He implicitly promises abundant
graces to those who make the nine Fridays to help them to carry out these
obligations and persevere to the end; (5) that perseverance in receiving
Holy Communion for nine consecutive First Firdays helps the faithful
to acquire the habit of frequent Communion, which our Lord eagerly desires;
and (6) that the practice of the nine Fridays is very pleasing to our
Lord He promises such great reward, and all Catholics should endeavor
to make nine Fridays.
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How do I start the Five
First Saturdays? by Fr. Tom O'Mahony
On July 13,1917, Our Lady appeared
for the third time to the three children of Fatima an showed them the
vision of hell and made the now - famous thirteen prophecies. In this
vision Our Lady said that 'GOD WISHES TO ESTABLISH IN THE WORLD DEVOTION
to Her Immaculate Heart and that She would come TO ASK FOR THE COMMUNION
OF REPARATION ON THE FIRST SATURDAYS...
Eight years later, on December 10, 1925, Our Lady
did indeed come back. She appeared (with the Child Jesus) to Lucia
in the convent of the Dorothean Sisters in Pontevedra.
The Child Jesus spoke first:
'HAVE COMPASSION ON THE HEART OF YOUR MOST HOLY
MOTHER WHICH IS COVERED WITH THORNS WITH WHICH UNGRATEFUL MEN PIERCE
IT AT EVERY MOMENT, WHILE THERE IS NO ONE TO REMOVE THEM WITH AN ACT
OF REPARATION.'
THE GREAT PROMISE
Our Lady then said: MY DAUGHTER LOOK AT MY HEART
SURROUNDED WITH THORNS WITH WHICH UNGRATEFUL MEN PIERCE IT AT EVERY
MOMENT BY THEIR BLASPHEMIES AND INGRATITUDE. YOU, AT LEAST, TRY TO CONSOLE
ME, AND SAY THAT I PROMISE TO ASSIST AT THE HOUR OF DEATH WITH ALL THE
GRACES NECESSARY FOR SALVATION, ALL THOSE WHO, ON THE FIRST SATURDAY OF
FIVE CONSECUTIVE MONTHS GO TO CONFESSION AND RECEIVE HOLY COMMUNION, RECITE
FIVE DECADES OF THE ROSARY AND KEEP ME COMPANY FOR A QUARTER OF AN HOUR
WHILE MEDITATING ON MYSTERIES OF THE ROSARY, WITH THE INTENTION OF MAKING
REPARATION TO ME.'
The Five Reasons
Lucia once asked this question
of Our Lord and received as an answer: 'MY DAUGHTER, THE MOTIVE IS
SIMPLE, THERE ARE FIVE KINDS OF OFFENCES AND BLASPHEMIES UTTERED AGAINST
THE IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY: (1) BLASPHEMIES AGAINST THE IMMACULATE
CONCEPTION: (2) BLASPHEMIES AGAINST HER VIRGINITY: (3) BLASPHEMIES AGAINST
HER DIVINE MATERNITY: (4) BLASPHEMIES OF THOSE WHO OPENLY SEEK TO FOSTER
IN THE HEARTS OF CHILDREN INDIFFERENCE OR EVEN HATRED FOR THIS IMMACULATE
MOTHER: (5) THE OFFENCES OF THOSE WHO DIRECTLY OUTRAGE HER IN HOLY IMAGES.'
From the above, it is easy to see that each of
the Five Saturdays can correspond to a specific offence. By offering
the graces received during each First Saturday as reparation for the offence
being prayed for, the participant can hope to help remove the thorns from
Our Lady's Heart.
What Do I Have To Do?
The devotion of First Saturdays, as requested
by Our Lady of Fatima, carries with it the assurance of salvation.
However, to derive profit from such a great promise of Our Lady, the
devotion must be properly understood and duly performed.
The requirements as stipulated by Our Lady are
as follows:
(1) CONFESSION, (2) COMMUNION, (3) FIVE DECADES
OF THE ROSARY, (4) MEDITATION ON ONE OR MORE OF THE ROSARY MYSTERIES
FOR FIFTEEN MINUTES, (5) TO DO ALL THESE THINGS IN THE SPIRIT OF REPARATION
TO THE IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY, and (6) TO OBSERVE ALL THESE PRACTICES
ON THE FIRST SATURDAY OF FIVE CONSECUTIVE MONTHS.
(1) CONFESSION: A reparative confession means
that the confession should not only be good (valid and licit), but
also be offered in the spirit of reparation, in this case, to Mary's
Immaculate Heart. This confession may be made on the First Saturday
itself or some days before or after the First Saturday within the preceding
octave would suffice.
(2) COMMUNION: The communion of reparation must
be sacramental duly received with the intention of making reparation.
This offering, like the confession, is an interior act and so no external
action to express the intention is needed.
(3) THE ROSARY: The Rosary mentioned
here was indicated by the Portuguese word 'terco' which is commonly
employed to denote a Rosary of five decades, since it forms a third
of the full Rosary of 15 decades. This too must recited in a spirit of
reparation.
(4) MEDITATION FOR FIFTEEN
MINUTES: Here the meditation on one mystery or more is to be made without
simultaneous recitation of the Rosary decade. As indicated, the meditation
may be either on one mystery alone for 15 minutes, or on all 15 mysteries,
spending about one minute on each mystery, or again, on two or more mysteries
during the period. This can also be made before each decade spending
three minutes or more in considering the mystery of the particular decade.
This meditation has likewise to be made in the spirit of reparation to
the Immaculate Heart.
(5) THE SPIRIT OF REPARATION: All these acts,
as said above, have to be done with the intention of offering reparation
to the Immaculate Heart of Mary for the offences committed against Her.
Everyone who offends Her commits, so to speak, a two-fold offence,
for these sins also offend her Divine Son, Christ, and so endanger
our salvation. They give bad example to others and weaken the strength
of society to withstand immoral onslaughts. Such devotions therefore
make us consider not only the enormity of the offence against God, but
also the effect of sins on human society as well as the need for undoing
these social effects even when the offender repents and is converted. Further,
this reparation emphasises our responsibility towards sinners who, themselves,
will not pray and make reparation for their sins.
(6) FIVE CONSECUTIVE FIRST SATURDAYS: The
idea of the Five First Saturdays is obviously to make us persevere
in the devotional acts for these Saturdays and overcome initial difficulties.
Once this is done, Our Lady knows that the person would become devoted
to Her immaculate Heart and persist in practising such devotion on all
First Saturdays, working thereby for personal self-reform and for the
salvation of others.
Unless Russia is converted, the movement against
God and for sin will continue to spread, promoting wars and persecutions,
and making the attainment for peace and justice impossible for this world.
One means of obtaining Russia's conversion is to practise the Fatima Message.
The stakes are so great that to encourage Catholics to practise the
devotion of the First Saturdays, Our Lady has assured us that She will
obtain salvation for all those who observe the first Saturdays for five
consecutive months in accordance with Her conditions.
At the supreme moment the departing person will
be either in the state of grace or not. In either case Our Lady will
be by his side. If in the state of grace, She will console and help
him to resist whatever temptations the devil might put before him in
his last attempt to take the person with him to hell. If not in the state
of grace, Our Lady will help the person to repent in a manner agreeable
to God and so benefit by the fruits of redemption and be saved.
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"The answers to many of life's questions
can be found by reading the Lives of the Saints. They teach
us how to overcome obstacles and difficulties, how to stand firm
in our faith, and how to struggle against evil and emerge victorious."
1913 Saint
Barsanuphius of Optina
The more "extravagant" graces
are bestowed NOT for the benefit of the recipients so much as
FOR benefit of others.
Non est inventus similis
illis
God calls each one of us to be a saint in
order to get into heaven.
Cross Not
Optional, Says Benedict XVI
Reflects
on Peter's "Immature" Faith CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy, AUG. 31, 2008 (Zenit.org).-
Taking
up one's cross isn't an option, it's a mission all Christians
are called to, says Benedict XVI.
The Pope said this
today before reciting the midday Angelus with several thousand people
gathered in the courtyard of the papal summer residence at Castel
Gandolfo, south of Rome.
Referring to the Gospel reading for today's
Mass, the Holy Father reflected on the faith of Peter, which
is shown to be "still immature and too much influenced by the
'mentality of this world.'” He explained
that when Christ spoke openly about how he was to "suffer much,
be killed and rise again, Peter protests, saying: 'God forbid,
Lord! No such thing shall ever happen to you.'"
"It is evident that the Master
and the disciple follow two opposed ways of thinking," continued
the Pontiff. "Peter, according to a human logic, is convinced
that God would never allow his Son to end his mission dying on the
cross. "Jesus, on the contrary, knows that
the Father, in his great love for men, sent him to give his life
for them, and if this means the passion and the cross, it is right
that such should happen."
Christ also knew that "the resurrection
would be the last word," Benedict XVI added.
Serious illness
The Pope continued, "If to
save us the Son of God had to suffer and die crucified, it
certainly was not because of a cruel design of the heavenly Father.
"The cause of it is the gravity of the sickness of which he must cure
us: an evil so serious and deadly that it will require all of his
blood.
"In fact, it is with his death
and resurrection that Jesus defeated sin and death, reestablishing
the lordship of God."
Popes mentioned
in articles of Saints today
St.
Felix I 269-274 Romæ natális sancti Felícis
Primi, Papæ et Mártyris, qui sub Aureliáno Príncipe
Ecclésiam rexit.
Ipsíus tamen festum tértio
Kaléndas Júnii celebrátur.
At
Rome, the birthday of St. Felix I, pope and martyr, who governed the Church
during the reign of Emperor Aurelian. His feast day is celebrated on
the 30th of May.
St. Innocent
I 401-417
St Leo the Great. 440-461
Sancti
Leónis Papæ Primi, cognoménto Magni, Confessóris et Ecclésiæ Doctóris,
cujus dies natális recólitur quarto Idus Novémbris.
Paul VI_Athenagoras_05_01_1964
Quote: Pope Paul VI’s
1969 Instruction
on the Contemplative Life includes this passage:
"To
withdraw into the desert is for Christians tantamount to
associating themselves more intimately with Christ’s passion,
and it enables them, in a very special way, to share in the
paschal mystery and in the passage of Our Lord from this world to
the heavenly homeland" (#1).
Christianity is not a moral code or a philosophy,
but an encounter
with a person”
--
Benedict XVI
Benedict_XVI_Patriarch_Bartholomew
Benedict XVI_Archbishop_Hilarion
Benedict
XVI receives Orthodox
Archbishop Hilarion
n September 18th, Pope Benedict XVI;
Archbishop Hilarion, president
of the Department for External Church
Affairs of the Patriarchate of Moscow.
The Orthodox
Archbishop is currently visiting
the Vatican at the invitation
of Cardinal Kasper, president of the
Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian
Unity.
This Pontifical
Council underlined that the
visit will confirm the ties of friendship
between the Catholic Church and the
Russian Orthodox Church, with a view
to closer collaboration and to favor
the presence of the Church in the lives
of the peoples of Europe and the world.
In addition,
a further step in ecumenical
relations is scheduled for the
month of October in Cyprus: the meeting
of the Joint International Commission
for the Theological Dialogue between
the Catholic Church and the Orthodox
Church, which will address the theme of
Petrine Primacy.
Benedict XVI met with Aram
I Catholicos of Cilicia, the
highest authority of the Orthodox
Church. The
Pope remembered the martyrs of the
Armenian Church and the Armenian
genocide, without explicitly mentioning
it, and denounced the persecution
of Christians in modern times.
Benedict XVI
That testimony culminated
in the twentieth century, which
proved a time of Unspeakable suffering
for your people. Most
recently we have all been saddened by
the escalation of persecution and violence
against Christians in parts of the
Middle East and elsewhere.
The Catholicos is based
in Lebanon. That is why, the Pope
said, he prays every day for peace in
this country and throughout the Middle
East. Benedict XVI said there will
only be peace in the region when each country
is free to decide its own destiny and when
every ethnic and religious group accepts
and respects the others. Aram I emphasized
that the churches must be means for peace and to
achieve that they must recognize
“all” genocides, even the Armenian..
The Catholicos recalled his meeting with John Paul II, adding that this visit
represents a new step for ecumenical dialogue.
Our meeting
is an opportunity to pray and
reflect together, and to renew our
commitment and efforts for Christian
unity.
Armenian
church members from all over the
world join with Catholicos in making
pilgrimages to Rome.
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The great
psalm of the Passion, Chapter
22, whose first verse
“My God, my God, why hast
thou forsaken me?”
Jesus pronounced on the cross, ended with
the vision: “All the
ends of the earth shall remember and
turn to the Lord;
and
all the families of the nations shall
worship before him” For kingship belongs to the LORD, the ruler
over the nations. All who sleep
in the earth will bow low before God; All who
have gone down into the dust will kneel in homage.
And I will live for the LORD;
my descendants will serve you. The generation to come will
be told of the Lord, that they may proclaim to a people yet
unborn the deliverance you have brought.
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Pope Benedict XVI to The Catholic
Church In China {whole
article here} 2000 years
of the Catholic
Church in China
The saints “a cloud of witnesses over our head”, showing us life of Christian perfection is possible.
THE PSALTER OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN
MARY PSALM 94
Come, let us rejoice to Our Lady: let us joyfully sing to the saving Mary,
our Queen.
Let us come before her presence with joy: and in canticles let us all praise
her together.
Come, let us adore, and fall down before her: let us confess our sins to
her with tears.
Obtain for us a full pardon, stand for us before the tribunal of God.
Receive our souls at our end: and lead us into eternal rest.
Glory
be to the Father who created Heaven and earth;
His only Son who lived and died for all of us;
and the Holy Spirit
the Lord giver of life, Who proceeds from the Father
and Son, with the Father and Son He is Worshiped and Glorified,
and He has spoken through the prophets: Amen.
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Saint Frances Xavier Seelos Practical Guide
to Holiness
1. Go to Mass
with deepest devotion. 2. Spend a half hour
to reflect upon your main failing & make resolutions
to avoid it.
3. Do daily spiritual reading for at least
15 minutes, if a half hour is not possible.
4. Say the rosary every day.
5. Also daily, if at all possible, visit
the Blessed Sacrament; toward evening, meditate
on the Passion of Christ for a half hour, 6.
Conclude the day with evening prayer & an examination
of conscience over all the faults & sins of the day.
7. Every month make a review of
the month in confession.
8. Choose a special patron every month
& imitate that patron in some special
virtue.
9. Precede every great feast with a novena
that is nine days of devotion. 10. Try to begin
& end every activity with a Hail Mary
My God, I believe, I adore, I trust and I love
Thee. I beg pardon for
those who do not believe, do not adore, do
not
O most Holy trinity, Father, Son
and Holy Spirit, I adore Thee profoundly.
I offer Thee the most
precious Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus
Christ, present in all the Tabernacles of the
world, in reparation
for the outrages, sacrileges and indifference by which
He is offended, and by the
infite merits of the Sacred Heart
of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
I beg the conversion of poor sinners, Fatima Prayer, Angel of Peace
The
voice of the Father is heard,
the Son enters the water, and the Holy Spirit
appears in the form of a dove.
THE
spirit and example of the world
imperceptibly instil the error into the
minds of many that there is a kind of middle way of going
to Heaven; and so, because the world does not live
up to the gospel, they bring the gospel down to the
level of the world. It is not by this example that we are to
measure the Christian rule, but words and life of Christ. All
His followers are commanded to labour to become perfect even
as our heavenly Father is perfect, and to bear His image in
our hearts that we may be His children. We are obliged by the
gospel to die to ourselves by fighting self-love in our hearts,
by the mastery of our passions, by taking on the spirit of
our Lord.
These
are the conditions under which
Christ makes His promises and numbers us
among His children, as is manifest from His words which
the apostles have left us in their inspired writings.
Here is no distinction made or foreseen between the
apostles or clergy or religious and secular persons.
The former, indeed, take upon themselves certain stricter
obligations, as a means of accomplishing these ends more perfectly;
but the law of holiness and of disengagement of the heart
from the world is general and binds all the followers of
Christ.
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God loves variety.
He doesn't mass-produce his
saints. Every saint is unique each the result
of a new idea.
As the liturgy says: Non est
inventus similis illis--there are no two exactly alike.
It is we with our lack of imagination,
who paint the same haloes on all the saints.
Dear Lord, grant us a spirit
not bound by our own ideas and preferences.
Grant that we may
be able to appreciate in others what we lack
in ourselves.
O Lord, grant that we may
understand that every saint must be a unique
praise of Your glory.
Catholic saints are holy people
and human people who lived extraordinary
lives.
Each saint the Church honors
responded to God's invitation
to use his or her unique gifts.
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The 15 Promises of the Virgin Mary to those who recite
the Rosary ) Revealed
to St. Dominic and Blessed Alan)
1. Whoever shall
faithfully serve me by the recitation of the Rosary, shall receive signal
graces. 2. I promise my special protection and the greatest
graces to all those who shall recite the Rosary. 3. The
Rosary shall be a powerful armor against hell, it will destroy vice, decrease
sin, and defeat heresies. 4. It will cause virtue and good
works to flourish; it will obtain for souls the abundant mercy of God; it
will withdraw the hearts of people from the love of the world and its vanities,
and will lift them to the desire of eternal things. Oh, that soul would
sanctify them by this means. 5. The soul that recommends
itself to me by the recitation of the Rosary shall not perish. 6.
Whoever shall recite the Rosary devoutly, applying themselves to the consideration
of its Sacred Mysteries shall never be conquered by misfortune. God
will not chastise them in His justice, they shall not perish by an unprovided
death; if they be just, they shall remain in the grace of God, and become
worthy of eternal life. 7. Whoever shall have a true devotion
for the Rosary shall not die without the Sacraments of the Church. 8.
Those who are faithful to recite the Rosary shall have during their life
and at their death the light of God and the plentitude of His graces; at
the moment of death they shall participate in the merits of the Saints in
Paradise. 9. I shall deliver from purgatory those who have
been devoted to the Rosary. 10. The faithful children of
the Rosary shall merit a high degree of glory in Heaven. 11.
You shall obtain all you ask of me by the recitation of the Rosary. 12.
I shall aid all those who propagate the Holy Rosary in their necessities.
13. I have obtained from my Divine Son that all the advocates
of the Rosary shall have for intercessors the entire celestial court during
their life and at the hour of death. 14. All who recite
the Rosary are my children, and brothers and sisters of my only Son, Jesus
Christ. 15. Devotion to my Rosary is a great sign of predestination.
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Aramaic dialect of Edessa, now known as Syriac
The exact date of the introduction
of Christianity into Edessa {Armenian Ourhaï
in Arabic Er Roha, commonly Orfa or Urfa,
its present name} is not known.
It is certain, however, that the Christian
community was at first made up from the Jewish
population of the city. According to an ancient
legend, King Abgar V, Ushana, was converted by
Addai, who
was one of the seventy-two disciples.
In fact, however, the first King of Edessa
to embrace the Christian Faith was Abgar IX (c.
206) becoming official kingdom religion.
Christian
council held at Edessa early
as 197 (Eusebius, Hist. Eccl.,
V,xxiii).
In 201 the city was devastated
by a great flood, and the Christian
church was destroyed (“Chronicon
Edessenum”, ad. an. 201).
In 232 the relics of the Apostle St. Thomas were brought from India,
on which occasion his Syriac
Acts were written.
Under Roman domination martyrs
suffered at Edessa: Sts. Scharbîl
and Barsamya, under Decius;
Sts. Gûrja,
Schâmôna, Habib, and others
under Diocletian.
In the meanwhile Christian priests
from Edessa evangelized Eastern Mesopotamia and Persia, established the first
Churches in the kingdom of the Sassanides. Atillâtiâ, Bishop of Edessa,
assisted at the Council of
Nicæa (325). The
“Peregrinatio Silviæ”
(or Etheriæ) (ed. Gamurrini,
Rome, 1887, 62 sqq.) gives an account
of the many sanctuaries at
Edessa
about 388.
Although Hebrew had been the
language of the ancient Israelite
kingdom, after their return
from Exile the Jews turned more and more
to Aramaic, using it for parts of the
books of Ezra and Daniel in the Bible.
By the time of Jesus, Aramaic
was the main language of Palestine,
and quite a number of texts from the
Dead Sea Scrolls are also written in Aramaic.
Aramaic continued to be
an important language for Jews,
alongside Hebrew, and parts of the Talmud
are written in it.
After Arab conquests of the seventh
century, Arabic quickly replaced Aramaic as the main language of those who
converted to Islam, although in out of the way places, Aramaic continued
as a vernacular language of Muslims.
Aramaic, however, enjoyed
its greatest success
in Christianity. Although
the New Testament
wins written in Greek, Christianity
had come into existence in an Aramaic-speaking
milieu, and it was the Aramaic dialect
of Edessa, now known as Syriac, that
became the literary language of a large number of
Christians living in the eastern provinces
of the Roman Empire and in the Persian Empire,
further east. Over the course of the centuries
the influence of the Syriac Churches
spread eastwards to China (in Xian, in western
China, a Chinese-Syriac
inscription dated 781
is still to be seen); to southern
India where the state of Kerala can boast
more Christians of Syriac liturgical
tradition than anywhere else in the world.
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Meeting of the
Saints walis
(saints
of Allah)
Great men covet to embrace martyrdom
for a cause and principle.
So was the case with
Hazrat Ali.
He could have made a compromise
with the evil forces of his time
and, as a result, could have led a very comfortable,
easy and luxurious life.
But he was not a person who would
succumb to such temptations. His
upbringing, his education and his
training in the lap of the holy Prophet made
him refuse such an offer.
Rabia Al-Basri (717–801
C.E.) She was first to set
forth the doctrine of mystical love
and who is widely considered to be the
most important of
the early Sufi poets. An elderly
Shia pointed out that during his pre-Partition
childhood it was quite common to
find pictures and portraits of Shia icons
in Imambaras across the country.
Shah Abdul Latif:
The Exalted Sufi Master born
1690 in a Syed family; died 1754. In
ancient times, Sindh housed the exemplary
Indus Valley Civilisation with Moenjo
Daro as its capital, and now, it is the
land of a culture which evolved from the teachings
of eminent Sufi saints. Pakistan is home to the
mortal remains of many Sufi saints, the exalted
among them being Shah
Abdul Latif Bhittai, a practitioner
of the real Islam, philosopher, poet,
musicologist and preacher. He presented his
teaching through poetry and music - both
instruments sublime - and commands
a very large following, not only among Muslims
but also among Hindus and Christians. Sindh
culture: The Shah is synonymous with Sindh. He
is the very fountainhead of Sindh's culture.
His message remains as fresh as that of any present
day poet, and the people of Sindh find solace from his
writings. He did indeed think for Sindh. One of his
prayers, in exquisite Sindhi, translates thus:
“Oh God, may ever You on Sindh bestow abundance rare!
Beloved! All the world let share Thy grace, and fruitful
be.”
Shia Ali al-Hadi,
died 868 and son Hassan al-Askari
874. These saints are the 10th and 11th
of Shia's 12 most revered Imams. Baba Farid Sufi
1398 miracle, Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki renowned Muslim
Sufi saint scholar miracles
569 A.H. [1173 C.E.] hermit gave
to poor, Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti greatest mystic
of his time born 533 Hijri (1138-39 A.D.), Hazrat Ghuas-e Azam, Hazrat Bu Ali Sharif, and Hazrat Nizamuddin Aulia
Sufi Saint Hazrath Khwaja Syed Mohammed Badshah
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Colombia
was among the countries
Mother Angelica
visited.
In Bogotá, a Salesian priest -
Father Juan Pablo Rodriguez - brought Mother
and the nuns to the Sanctuary of the Divine Infant Jesus to attend
Mass. After Mass, Father Juan Pablo took them
into a small Shrine which housed the miraculous statue
of the Child Jesus. Mother Angelica stood praying at the side
of the statue when suddenly the miraculous image came alive and
turned towards her. Then the Child Jesus spoke with the voice
of a young boy: “Build Me a Temple and I will
help those who help you.”
Thus began a great adventure that would
eventually result in the Shrine of the Most
Blessed Sacrament, a Temple dedicated to the
Divine Child Jesus, a place of refuge for all. Use this
link to read a remarkable
story about The Shrine
of the Most Blessed Sacrament
Father Reardon, Editor of The Catholic
Bulletin for 14 years Lover of the poor;
“A very Holy Man of God.”
Monsignor Reardon
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Apostolicus
Pastor 42 years
BASILICA OF SAINT MARY Minneapolis
MN
America's First Basilica Largest Nave in the World
August 7, 1907-ground broke for the foundation
by Archbishop
Ireland-laying cornerstone May 31, 1908
James
M. Reardon Publication History of
the
Basilica of Saint Mary 1955 {update}
Brief History of our
Beloved
Holy Priest Here and his
published books of Catholic History in North
America
Reardon, J.M. Archbishop Ireland; Prelate,
Patriot, Publicist, 1838-1918.
A Memoir (St. Paul; 1919); George Anthony Belcourt Pioneer
Catholic Missionary of the Northwest 1803-1874
(1955);
The Catholic Church IN THE DIOCESE OF
ST. PAUL from earliest origin to centennial
achievement 1362-1950 (1952);
The Church of Saint Mary of Saint Paul
1875-1922; (1932)
The Vikings in the American
Heartland;
The Catholic Total Abstinence Society in Minnesota;
James Michael Reardon
Born in Nova Scotia, 1872;
Priest, ordained by Bishop
Ireland;
Member -- St. Paul Seminary
faculty.
Affiliations
and Indulgences
Litany of Loretto in Stained glass
windows
here. Nave
Sacristy and Residence Here
Sanctuary spaces between them filled
with grilles of hand-forged wrought iron the life of our Blessed
Lady After
the crucifixon
Apostle statues Replicas of those in St John Lateran--Christendom's
earliest Basilica.
Ordered by Rome's first Christian Emperor,
Constantine the Great, Popes' cathedral and
official residence first millennium of Christian
history.
The only replicas ever made: in order from
west to east {1932}.
Saints Simon (saw),
Bartholomew
(knife), James the
Lesser (book), John
(eagle), Andrew (transverse
cross), Peter keys),
Paul
(sword), James
the Greater (staff), Thomas (carpenter's
square), Philip (serpent),
Matthew (book),
and Jude sword
Every
Christian must
be a living book wherein
one can read the teaching
of the gospel
It Makes No Sense Not To Believe In GOD
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THE BLESSED
MOTHER AND ISLAM
By Father
John Corapi. Site http://www.fathercorapi
June 19, Trinity Sunday, 1991: Ordained Catholic Priest under
Pope John Paul II;
then 2,000,000
miles delivering the Gospel to millions, and continues
to do so.
By Father
John Corapi, SOLT
Among the most important titles we
have in the Catholic Church for the Blessed Virgin Mary are Our Lady of Victory
and Our Lady of the Rosary. These titles can be traced back to one of the
most decisive times in the history of the world and Christendom. The Battle
of Lepanto took place on October 7 (date of feast of Our Lady of Rosary),
1571. This proved to be the most crucial battle for the Christian forces
against the radical Muslim navy of Turkey. Pope Pius V led a procession around
St. Peter’s Square in Vatican City praying the Rosary. He showed true pastoral
leadership in recognizing the danger posed to Christendom by the radical
Muslim forces, and in using the means necessary to defeat it. Spiritual battles
require spiritual weapons, and this more than anything was a battle that
had its origins in the spiritual order—a true battle between good and evil.
Today we have a similar spiritual battle in progress—a battle between the
forces of good and evil, light and darkness, truth and lies, life and death.
If we do not soon stop the genocide of abortion in the United States, we
shall run the course of all those that prove by their actions that they are
enemies of God—total collapse, economic, social, and national. The moral
demise of a nation results in the ultimate demise of a nation. God is not
a disinterested spectator to the affairs of man. Life begins at conception.
This is an unalterable formal teaching of the Catholic Church. If you do
not accept this you are a heretic in plain English. A single abortion is
homicide. The more than 48,000,000 abortions since Roe v. Wade in the United
States constitute genocide by definition. The group singled out for death—unwanted,
unborn children.
No other issue, not all other issues taken together, can constitute a proportionate
reason for voting for candidates that intend to preserve and defend this
holocaust of innocent human life that is abortion.
As we watch
the spectacle of the world seeming
to self-destruct before our
eyes, we can’t help but be saddened
and even frightened by so much evil run
rampant. Iraq, Lebanon, Afghanistan,
Somalia, North Korea—It is all a disaster
of epic proportions displayed in living
color on our television screens.
These
are not ordinary times and this is not
business as usual. We are at a crossroads
in human history and the time for Catholics
and all Christians to act is now. All evil
can ultimately be traced to its origin,
which is moral evil. All of the political action,
peace talks, international peacekeeping forces,
etc. will avail nothing if the underlying sickness
is not addressed. This is sin. One person at
a time hearts and minds must be moved from evil to good,
from lies to truth, from violence to peace.
Islam,
an Arabic word that has
often been defined
as “to make peace,” seems like a living
contradiction today. Although it
is supposed to be a religion of peace, Islam
has been hijacked by Satan and now
operates in the dark space of international
terrorism. As we celebrate the birthday
of Our Lady, I am proposing
that each one of us pray the Rosary
for peace. Prayer is what must precede all
other activity if that activity is to have
any chance of success. Pray for peace, pray the
Rosary every day without fail.
There
is a great love for Mary among Muslim
people. It is not a coincidence that
a little village named Fatima is where
God chose to have His Mother appear in the
twentieth century. Our Lady’s name appears
no less than thirty times in the Koran.
No other woman’s name is mentioned, not even
that of Mohammed’s daughter, Fatima. In the
Koran Our Lady is described as “Virgin, ever Virgin.”
Archbishop
Fulton Sheen prophetically
spoke of the resurgence of Islam
in our day. He said it would be through
the Blessed Virgin Mary that Islam would
be converted. We must pray for this
to happen quickly if we are to avert a horrible
time of suffering for this poor, sinful
world. Turn to
our Mother in this time of great
peril. Pray the Rosary every day.
Then, and only then will there be
peace, when the hearts and minds of men are
changed from the inside.
Talk
is weak. Prayer is strong.
Pray! God bless you, Father John Corapi
Site http://www.fathercorapi
Father Corapi's Biography
Father John Corapi is what
has commonly been called a late vocation.
In other words, he came to the priesthood
other than a young man. He was 44 years old
when he was ordained. From small
town boy to the Vietnam era US Army, from
successful businessman in Las Vegas and Hollywood
to drug addicted and homeless, to religious
life and ordination to the priesthood
by Pope John Paul II, to a life as a preacher
of the Gospel who has reached millions
with the simple message that God's Name is Mercy!
Father Corapi's academic credentials
are quite extensive. He received
a Bachelor of Business Administration
degree from Pace University
in the seventies. Then as an older
man returned to the university classrooms
in preparation for his life as a priest
and preacher. He received all of his
academic credentials for the Church
with honors: a Masters degree in Sacred Scripture
from Holy Apostles Seminary and Bachelor,
Licentiate, and Doctorate degrees in
dogmatic theology from the University
of Navarre in Spain.
Since his ordination to the priesthood
in 1991 Fr. Corapi has traveled
over 2,000,000 miles preaching
the Gospel. He has preached in 49
of the 50 states, all of the Canadian provinces
except NewFoundland, and several other
foreign countries. He is currently engaged
in preaching and teaching the Catholic faith
by way of the means of social communication:
television, radio, the internet, and
various other multi-media formats.
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Father John Corapi
goes to the heart of the contemporary world's many woes
and wars, whether
the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon,
Somalia, or the Congo, or the natural disasters
that seem to be increasing every year, the
moral and spiritual war is at the basis of
everything. “Our battle is not against human
forces,” St. Paul asserts, “but against principalities
and powers, against the world rulers of this
present darkness...” (Ephesians 6:12).
The
“War to end all wars” is the
moral and spiritual combat that rages
in the hearts and minds of human beings.
The outcome of that unseen fight largely
determines how the battle
in the realm of the seen unfolds.
The title
talk, “With the Moon Under Her
Feet,” is taken from the twelfth chapter
of the Book of Revelation, and deals
with the current threat to the world from
radical Islam, and the Blessed Virgin Mary's
role in the ultimate victory that will result
in the conversion of Islam. Few Catholics are aware
of the connection between Islam, Fatima, and Guadalupe.
Presented in Father Corapi's straight-forward
style, you will be both inspired and educated by
him.
About
Father John Corapi.
Father Corapi is a Catholic priest
.
The pillars of father's preaching
are basically:
Love for and a relationship
with the Blessed Virgin
Mary
Leading a
vibrant and loving relationship
with Jesus Christ
Great love
and reverence for the Most Holy
Eucharist from Holy Mass to
adoration of the Blessed Sacrament
An uncompromising
love for and obedience to
the Holy Father and the teaching
of the Magisterium of the Church
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LINKS:
Marian Apparitions (over 2000) India Marian Shrine
Lourdes of the East
Lourdes Feb 11- July 16, Loreto, Italy 1858
China
Marian shrines
May 23, 1995
Zarvintisya Ukraine Lourdes Kenya national
Marian shrine Quang Tri Vietnam La Vang 1798
Links
to Related Marian Websites Angels and Archangels
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Roman Catholic Popes
Purgatory
Uniates
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DECREES OF THE CONGREGATION
FOR THE CAUSES OF SAINTS VATICAN CITY, 19 DEC 2011 (VIS)
The Holy Father today received in audience Cardinal Angelo Amato
S.D.B., prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, and authorised
the promulgation of decrees concerning the following causes:
MIRACLES
- Blessed Giovanni Battista Piamarta, Italian priest and
founder of the Congregation of the Holy Family of Nazareth and of the
Congregation of the Humble Sister Servants of the Lord (1841-1913).
- Blessed Jacques Berthieu, French martyr and priest of
the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) (1838-1896).
- Blessed Maria del Carmen (born Maria Salles y Barangueras),
Spanish foundress of the Conceptionist Missionary Sisters of Teaching
(1848-1911).
- Blessed Maria Anna Cope, nee Barbara, German religious
of the Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis in Syracuse U.S.A.
(1838-1918).
- Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha, American laywoman (1656-1680).
- Blessed Pedro Calungsod, Filipino lay catechist and martyr
(1654-1672).
- Blessed Anna Schaffer, German laywoman (1882-1925).
- Servant of God Louis Brisson, French priest and founder
of the Oblates of St. Francis of Sales (1817-1908).
- Servant of God Luigi Novarese, Italian diocesan priest
and founder of the Silent Workers of the Cross (1914-1984).
- Servant of God Maria Luisa (nee Gertrude Prosperi), Italian
abbess of the convent of the Order of St. Benedict of Trevi (1799-1847).
- Servant of God Mother St. Louis (nee Maria Luisa Elisabeth
de Lamoignon, widow of Mole de Champlatreux), French foundress of the
Sisters of St. Louis (1763-1825).
- Servant of God Maria Crescencia (nee Maria Angelica Perez),
Argentinean professed religious of the Congregation of the Daughters
of Our Lady of the Orchard (1897-1932).
MARTYRDOM
- Servant of God Nicola Rusca, Swiss diocesan priest, killed
in hatred of the faith (1563-1618).
- Servants of God Luis Orencio (ne Antonio Sola Garriga) and
eighteen companions of the Institute of Brothers of Christian Schools;
Antonio Mateo Salamero, diocesan priest, and Jose Gorostazu Labayen,
layman, all killed in hatred of the faith in Spain in 1936.
- Servants of God Alberto Maria Marco y Aleman and eight companions
of the Order of Carmelites of the Ancient Observance, and Agustin Maria
Garcia Tribaldos and fifteen companions of the Institute of Brothers
of Christian Schools; all killed in hatred of the faith in Spain between
1936 and 1937.
- Servants of God Mariano Alcala Perez and eighteen companions
of the Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy, killed in hatred of
the faith in Spain between 1936 and 1937.
HEROIC VIRTUES
- Servant of God Donato Giannotti, Italian diocesan priest
and founder of the Congregation of Sisters Handmaidens of the Immaculate
Conception (1828-1914).
- Servant of God Marie-Eugene of the Child Jesus (ne Henri
Grialou), French professed priest of the Order of Discalced Carmelites
and founder of the Institute of Notre-Dame de Vie (1894-1967).
- Servant of God Alphonse-Marie (nee Elisabeth Eppinger),
French foundress of the Congregation of Sisters of the Blessed Saviour
(1814-1867).
- Servant of God Marguerite Lucia Szewczyk, Polish foundress
of the Congregation of the Daughters of the Sorrowful Mother of God
- Seraphic Sisters (1828-1905).
- Servant of God Assunta Marchetti, Italian co-foundress
of the Missionary Sisters of St. Charles (1871-1948).
- Servant of God Maria Julitta (nee Teresa Eleonora Ritz),
German professed sister of the Congregation of Sisters of the Redeemer
(1882-1966).
- Servant of God Maria Anna Amico Roxas, Italian laywoman
and foundress of the Society of St. Ursula (1883-1947). VIS 20111219
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