 Saint of the Day June 24 Octávo Kaléndas Júlii.
Mary Mother of GOD Mary's
Divine Motherhood
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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
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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Nine
First Fridays Devotion to the Sacred Heart
From the writings of St.
Margaret Mary Alacoque
How do I start the Five First Saturdays?
Decrees
of Vatican's Saint Congregation
Testify to 10 Miracles; 10 Cases of Heroic Virtue; 1 Martyrdom
“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
NINE BEATIFICATIONS APPROVED BY THE POPE
6/8/10
Papal
Intention: for June 2010, Benedict
XVI pray
especially
General Intention: That priests, united to the Heart of Christ,
may always be true witnesses of the caring and merciful love of God.
Missionary Intention: That the Holy Spirit may bring forth from our
communities numerous missionary vocations, willing to fully consecrate
themselves to spreading the Kingdom of God.
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.
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. Patron_Saints.html
THE
PSALTER OF THE
BLESSED VIRGIN MARY PSALM 48
Hear ye these things, all ye nations: give ear, all ye who desire to
enter the kingdom of God.
Honor the Virgin Mary: and ye will find life and perpetual salvation.
Keep thy poor servants, O Lady: join them with a happy union to Christ.
By the fruit of thy womb, refresh and sustain the hunger of thy little
ones.
For after thy bringing forth thou hast remained incorrupt: and after
thy Son, inviolate.
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.
June 24 - OUR LADY
OF CLOS-EVRARD (Trier, Germany)
In Honor of Our Lady
Hail, O most Holy Mother of God our Redeemer, Who through you came to
live with us and we with Him.
Hail, O revered and Immaculate Mother of God! He who from the highest
heaven, without leaving heaven,
Came into your womb as into His own home, He, the same Christ the Lord,
made you worthy
Of passing from this worldly place to the heavenly home, Which He gave
to the saints who awaited Him.
Hail, Mary, splendid spiritual paradise! You have gathered,
through the power of the Holy Spirit,
The fruit of life and immortality, The One who was begotten of the
Father, Christ our Lord.
We, partakers of His life through true belief In Him have been given
life. He built for you in paradise a tabernacle
Where you dwell with your glorified body. Through you for us, too, the
door is opened.
Hail, O most adorned and shining refuge! You have been made the
Mother of God.
The human race, shipwrecked on the sea of life, In you is saved.
Through you it has obtained the gifts of life
From the One who honored you in time And glorifies you forever and ever.
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Prayer and Hymn Meditation
of
the Day
Prayer
for Priests
Our Bartholomew Family Prayer
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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.
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;
and 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
breviary.net/martyrology/mart06/mart0624 stlukeorthodox.com/html/saints/june/ usccb.org ewtn.com Irondequoit .org
Saints Alive
domcentral.org/life/martyrJune syriac oca.org glaubenszeugen.de/tage/June
Serbian http://www.copticchurch.net
Melkite
Monthly Saints with pics here http://www.stfrancisenid.com/memorials.htm http://www.franciscan-sfo.org/sts/saints06.htm
One Saint per day
stthomasirondequoit.com/SaintsAlive/index.htm
stjohndc.org God's
Humourous Saints
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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
since He promises such great reward, and that all Catholics should
endeavor to make the 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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God loves variety. He
doesn't
mass-produce his saints. Every saint is
unique, for each is 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 that is 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. God calls each one of us to
be a
saint in order to get into
heaven: only
saints are allowed into heaven. The more "extravagant"
graces are bestowed NOT for the
benefit of the recipients so much as FOR the benefit of others.
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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
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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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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.
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.
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.
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
1236-1325 welcomed people of all faiths & all walks of life Sufi Saint Hazrath Khwaja
Syed Mohammed Badshah Quadri Chisty Yamani Quadeer (RA)
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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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visited. In Bogotá, a Salesian priest -
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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:
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
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BASILICA OF SAINT MARY Minneapolis
MN
America's First Basilica
Largest Nave in the World
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foundation by Archbishop Ireland-laying cornerstone 5/31/1908
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Brief
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Reardon, J.M. Archbishop
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A Memoir (St. Paul;
1919);
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by Rome's first Christian Emperor, Constantine the Great. It
became the
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Christian history. The only
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Simon
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(eagle), Andrew (transverse cross), Peter (keys), Paul (sword),
James the
Greater
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Thomas (carpenter's square), Philip (serpent), Matthew (book),
and Jude (sword).
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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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Father
John Corapi, SOLT
PO Box 9440 Kalispell MT 59904
 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.
THE
BLESSED MOTHER AND ISLAM
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
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NINE
BEATIFICATIONS APPROVED BY THE POPE
VATICAN CITY, 8 JUN 2010 (VIS) - The Office of Liturgical
Celebrations of the Supreme Pontiff has announced that the following
rites of beatification, approved by the Holy Father, will be held over
coming months:
- Manuel Lozano Garrido, Spanish layman, on Saturday 12 June in
Linares, Spain.
- Lojze Grozde, Slovenian layman and martyr, on 13 June, 11th
Sunday of Ordinary Time, in Celje Slovenia.
- Stephen Nehme (ne Joseph), Lebanese professed religious of the
Order of Maronites, on 27 June, 13th Sunday of Ordinary Time, in
Kfifan, Lebanon.
- Leopoldo Sanchez Marquez de Alpandeire (ne Francesco), Spanish
professed layman of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchins, on 12
September, 24th Sunday of Ordinary Time, in Granada, Spain.
- Mary of the Immaculate Conception (nee Maria Isabella Salvat y
Romero), Spanish superior general of the Institute of Sisters of the
Company of the Cross, on Saturday 18 September in Seville, Spain.
- Chiara Badano, Italian lay woman, on Saturday 25 September at
the Shrine of Our Lady of Divine Love, Rome.
- Anna Maria Adorni, Italian foundress of the Congregation of
Handmaidens of Blessed Mary Immaculate and of the Institute of the Good
Shepherd of Parma, on 3 October, 27th Sunday of Ordinary Time, in
Parma, Italy.
- Szilard Bogdanffy, Romanian bishop and martyr, on Saturday 30
October, in Oradea Mare, Romania.
- Barbara of the Blessed Trinity (nee Barbara Maix), Austrian
foundress of the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, on Tuesday 9
November, Feast of the dedication of the Lateran Basilica, in Porto
Alegre, Brazil.
OCL/ VIS 20100608 (270)
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1890-1945 Mother Pierina de Micheli Daughters of the Immaculate Conception of
Buenos Aires Spread Devotion to Christ St. Mary Major
to Host Its 1st Beatification
By Mariaelena Finessi
ROME, MAY 28, 2010 (Zenit.org).- This Sunday the Basilica of St. Mary
Major will be the site of the first beatification ever held within its
walls -- that of a woman religious from Milan, Pierina de
Micheli. Archbishop Angelo Amato, prefect of the Congregation for
Saints' Causes, will celebrate the ceremony, in representation of
Benedict XVI. "It is the first time that a beatification takes
place in this basilica," said an emotional Sister Nora Antonelli,
superior general of the Daughters of the Immaculate Conception of
Buenos Aires, the community to which Pierina belonged. "We are
delighted that our request was accepted."
Mother Pierina (1890-1945), a mystic, dedicated her life to spreading
devotion to the face of Christ and, at the same time, to the fight
against Satan. This was discovered in her personal diary, found by the
sisters in the cell of the convent after her death.
Father Fabrizio Poloni, episcopal delegate for Saints' Causes of the
Diocese of Novara, said that when Pierina was an adolescent she had
supernatural experiences. For example, when she was only a child, she
thought she heard Jesus' voice saying to her, "Is no one going to give
me a kiss of love on the face to repair Judas' kiss?" The
little girl promised to give him that kiss: Then came her suffering
over her religious vocation, to the point that -- as biographers
Mariella Scatena and Piersandro Vazan recall -- the young girl prayed
also to the Virgin of Graces "because 'she did not want the vocation,
what is more, she had made a novena to lose it.'" However, Mother
Pierina would eventually spread devotion to the image of Christ's face.
She had it struck in a medal, popular especially in Latin America where
her religions congregation is present.
The same year Pierina had
the medal made, 1938, photographer Giovanni Bruner
made an artistic photograph of the holy Shroud, which
reflected the same image.
Adapting
The postulator for Mother Pierina's cause, Andrea Ambrosi, explained
how the process leading to her beatification has been difficult. He
took up the task of directing her cause in 1995, at the request of the
director of the Holy Spirit Institute, which Pierina founded. The
cause had begun in 1962 and been "bogged down," he explained. So he and
the director worked together to bring it to completion in March 2009. A
few days later, the Pope authorized the recognition of a miracle
attributed to Pierina's intercession: A man who had suffered an
aneurism and was dying recovered fully after a couple of hours of
prayer for Pierina's intercession.
The stalled process was due in large part, Ambrosi explained, to all
the changes to protocol for saints' causes. "Of course the cause
had to be adapted to the changes," he said. "It was started according
to the Code of Canon Law of 1917, then, it followed a much more complex
normative. It stopped in 1969 when the reform of the 'Sanctitas
Clarior' came into being. I had to leave the previous reforms to follow
these new ones and then, in 1983, came the apostolic constitution
'Divinus Perfectionis Magister,' which once again revolutionized the
whole process."
In any case, all the
necessary approvals have been given
and Pierina is
set to make history with her beatification in Mary's basilica.
And why not in her native Milan? Ambrosi classified
Pierina as
"more Roman than many" Romans.
In addition to founding the Holy Spirit Institute there,
dedicated to
education, Mother Pierina was also in the Eternal City for the worst
period of World War II, which were the last years of her life.
Ambrosi explained, "She was loved because she helped everyone who
approached her -- from priests to families, from young people to the
neediest."
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