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"Man
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Brief"
Saint of the Day June 04 Prídie Nonas Júnii
The saints “a cloud of witnesses over our head”, showing us life of Christian perfection is possible.
BENEDICT XVI'S PRAYER INTENTIONS FOR
June 2012
General Intention: Christ,
Present in the Eucharist. That believers may recognize in the Eucharist
the living presence of the Risen One who accompanies them in daily life.
Missionary Intention:
European Christians. That Christians in Europe may rediscover their
true identity and participate with greater enthusiasm in the proclamation
of the Gospel.
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Mary
Mother of GOD
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Mother of GOD
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Promises of
the Virgin Mary
to those
who recite the Rosary
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Promises of the Virgin Mary to those who recite the Rosary
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
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.”
(Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, 61).
Mary Mother of GOD Mary's
Divine Motherhood: FEASTS OF OUR LADY
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who recite the Rosary
Saint of the Day June 04 Prídie Nonas Júnii
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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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 fourth of the full Rosary of 20
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 20 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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XV 1914-1922 •
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• John XXIII 1958-1963 • Paul VI 1963 to 1978 • John Paul • John Paul II 10/16/1975-4/2/2005 Benedict XVI
"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.
Popes mentioned
in articles of Saints today
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).
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."
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).
God calls each one of us to be a saint
in order to get into heaven.
"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
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
"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).
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
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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
85
Incline thine ear, O Lady, and hear me: turn thy face to me, and have mercy
on me.
May the inflowing of thy sweetness delight the souls of the saints:
and the infusion of thy charity be sweet above the sweetest honey.
The resplendence of thy glory enlightens the mind: and the light of thy
mercies leads to salvation.
The fountain of thy goodness inebriates the thirsty: and the aspect of thy
countenance draws men away from sin.
To know thee and to learn thee is the root of immortality: and to declare
thy virtues is the way of salvation.
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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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His Holiness Aram I, current (2008) Catholicos of Cilicia of Armenians, whose
See is
located in Lebanese town of Antelias. The
Catholicosate was founded in Sis, capital
of Cilicia, in the year 1441 following
the move of the Catholicosate of All Armenians
back to its original See of Etchmiadzin in Armenia.
The Catholicosate of Cilicia enjoyed local jurisdiction,
though spiritually subject to the authority
of Etchmiadzin. In 1921 the See was transferred
to Aleppo in Syria, and in 1930 to Antelias.
Its jurisdiction currently extends
to Syria, Cyprus, Iran and Greece.
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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.
680 Shiite saint Imam Hussein, grandson of Islam's Prophet Muhammad Known as Ashoura and observed
by Shiites
across the world, the 10th day of the lunar
Muslim month of Muharram: the
anniversary of the 7th century death
in battle of one of Shiite Islam's most beloved
saints. Imam Hussein died in the 680
A.D. battle fought on the plains outside Karbala, a
city in modern Iraq that's home to the saint's shrine.
The battle over a dispute about the leadership
of the Muslim faith following Muhammad's death
in 632 A.D. It is the defining event in Islam's split
into Sunni and Shiite branches. The occasion
is the source of an enduring moral lesson. "He sacrificed
his blood to teach us not to give in to corruption, coercion,
or use of force and to seek honor and justice." According
to Shiite beliefs, Hussein and companions were denied
water by enemies who controlled the nearby Euphrates.
Streets get partially covered with blood from
slaughter of hundreds of cows and sheep. Volunteers
cook the meat and feed it to the poor. Hussein's
martyrdom recounted through a rich body of prose, poetry
and song remains an inspirational example of sacrifice
to many Shiites, 10 percent of the world's estimated 1.3
billion Muslims.
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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
Quadri Chisty Yamani
Quadeer (RA)
1236-1325
welcomed people of
all faiths & all walks
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801 Rabi'a
al-'Adawiyya Sufi One of the most famous Islamic mystics
(b. 717). This 8th century saint
was an early Sufi who had a profound influence on later Sufis,
who in turn deeply influenced the European mystical love and
troubadour traditions. Rabi'a was a woman of Basra, a seaport
in southern Iraq. She was born around 717 and died in 801
(185-186). Her biographer, the great medieval poet Attar,
tells us that she was "on fire with love and longing" and that men
accepted her "as a second spotless Mary" (186). She was, he
continues, “an unquestioned authority to her contemporaries" (218).
Rabi'a began her ascetic life in a small
desert cell near Basra, where she lost herself in prayer and
went straight to God for teaching. As far as is known,
she never studied under any master or spiritual director.
She was one of the first of the Sufis to teach that Love alone was
the guide on the mystic path (222). A later Sufi taught that
there were two classes of "true believers": one class sought a master
as an intermediary between them and God -- unless they could see
the footsteps of the Prophet on the path before them, they would
not accept the path as valid. The second class “...did not
look before them for the footprint of any of God's creatures, for they
had removed all thought of what He had created from their hearts,
and concerned themselves solely with God. (218)
Rabi'a was of this second kind. She
felt no reverence even for the House of God in Mecca:
"It is the Lord of the house Whom I need; what have I to do with
the house?" (219) One lovely spring morning a friend asked her
to come outside to see the works of God. She replied, "Come
you inside that you may behold their Maker. Contemplation
of the Maker has turned me aside from what He has made" (219).
During an illness, a friend asked this woman if she desired anything.
"...[H]ow can you ask me such a question
as 'What do I desire?' I swear by the glory of God that
for twelve years I have desired fresh dates, and you know that
in Basra dates are plentiful, and I have not yet tasted them.
I am a servant (of God), and what has a servant to do with desire?"
(162)
When a male friend once suggested she should
pray for relief from a debilitating illness, she said,
"O Sufyan, do you not know Who it is that
wills this suffering for me? Is it not God Who wills
it? When you know this, why do you bid me ask for what is
contrary to His will? It is not well to oppose one's
Beloved." (221)
She was an ascetic. It was her custom
to pray all night, sleep briefly just before dawn, and then
rise again just as dawn "tinged the sky with gold" (187).
She lived in celibacy and poverty, having renounced the world.
A friend visited her in old age and found that all she owned were
a reed mat, screen, a pottery jug, and a bed of felt which doubled
as her prayer-rug (186), for where she prayed all night, she also
slept briefly in the pre-dawn chill. Once her friends offered
to get her a servant; she replied,
"I should be ashamed to ask for the things
of this world from Him to Whom the world belongs, and how should
I ask for them from those to whom it does not belong?" (186-7)
A wealthy merchant once wanted to give her
a purse of gold. She refused it, saying that God, who
sustains even those who dishonor Him, would surely sustain her,
"whose soul is overflowing with love" for Him. And she added
an ethical concern as well:
"...How should I take the wealth of someone
of whom I do not know whether he acquired it lawfully or not?"
(187)
She taught that repentance was a gift from
God because no one could repent unless God had already accepted
him and given him this gift of repentance. She taught that
sinners must fear the punishment they deserved for their sins,
but she also offered such sinners far more hope of Paradise than most
other ascetics did. For herself, she held to a higher ideal,
worshipping God neither from fear of Hell nor from hope of Paradise,
for she saw such self-interest as unworthy of God's servants; emotions
like fear and hope were like veils -- i.e., hindrances to the vision
of God Himself. The story is told that once a number of Sufis
saw her hurrying on her way with water in one hand and a burning torch
in the other. When they asked her to explain, she said:
"I am going to light a fire in Paradise
and to pour water on to Hell, so that both veils may vanish
altogether from before the pilgrims and their purpose may be sure..."
(187-188)
She was once asked where she came from.
"From that other world," she said. "And where are you
going?" she was asked. "To that other world," she replied
(219). She taught that the spirit originated with God in
"that other world" and had to return to Him in the end. Yet
if the soul were sufficiently purified, even on earth, it could look
upon God unveiled in all His glory and unite with him in love.
In this quest, logic and reason were powerless. Instead, she
speaks of the "eye" of her heart which alone could apprehend Him and
His mysteries (220).
Above all, she was a lover, a bhakti, like
one of Krishna’s Goptis in the Hindu tradition. Her hours
of prayer were not so much devoted to intercession as to communion
with her Beloved. Through this communion, she could discover
His will for her. Many of her prayers have come down to
us:
"I
have made Thee the Companion of my heart,
But my body is available for those who seek its company,
And my body is friendly towards its guests,
But the Beloved of my heart is the Guest of my soul."
[224]
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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
Protonotarius
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
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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 (580) |
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