Mary Mother of GOD15 Promises of the Virgin Mary to those who recite the Rosary 
Saints of this Day November 07 Séptimo Idus Novémbris
Et álibi aliórum plurimórum sanctórum Mártyrum et Confessórum, atque sanctárum Vírginum. And elsewhere in divers places, many other holy martyrs, confessors, and holy virgins. Пресвятая Богородице спаси нас! (Santíssima Mãe de Deus, salva-nos!) 1463 St. Didacusis living proof that God “chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong” (1 Corinthians 1:27). San Diego, California, is named for this Franciscan, who was canonized in 1588. “He
was born in Spain with no outstanding reputation for learning, but like our
first teachers and leaders unlettered as men count wisdom, an unschooled
person, a humble lay brother in religious life. [God chose Didacus] to show
in him the abundant riches of his grace to lead many on the way of salvation
by the holiness of his life and by his example and to prove over and over
to a weary old world almost decrepit with age that God's folly is wiser than
men, and his weakness is more powerful than men”.
(Bull of Canonization).
November
7 - Our Lady of the Pond (Dijon, France, 1531) The Palm of Virginity
Following a tradition
based on the Gospel of Saint Peter and the Book of James, some people consider
the “brothers and the sisters” of Jesus Joseph's children,
born out of a first wedlock he may have had prior to marrying the Blessed
Virgin.
Those who speak thus want
to safeguard Mary's honor in her virginity until the end. Of course they
can't admit that the body chosen for the instrument of the Word who said,
“The Holy Spirit will come
upon you and the power of the Most High will cover you with its shadow,” could have lain with
a man, after having received the Holy Spirit's visit and the shadow of the
power of the Most High.
I believe that the palm
of virginity must belong to Jesus among men and to Mary among women. How
could we, without impiousness, allot to another woman the palm of virginity?
Origen 3rd century A.D.
100
AD Saint
Prosdocimus (Prosdecimus) of Padua; venerated as the first bishop of Padua.
Of Greek origin, tradition holds that he was sent from Antioch by Saint Peter
the Apostle. 3rd v. Amaranthus
of Albi Saint Gregory of Tours attests to the martyrdom
300 St. Hieron Martyr with Hesychius & 31 Armenians Nicander, and thirty Armenians. They suffered at Melitene. 313 St. Achillas Bishop of Alexandria theologian lived in era of dispute in Church 360 St. Melasippus Martyr with Carina, his wife, and Anthony, their son 400 St. Rufus of Metz Bishop for nearly 3 decades 6th v. St. Tremorus murdered while still an infant by his father 547 ST HERCULANUS, BISHOP OF PERUGIA, MARTYR 675 St. Gebetrude Third abbess of the Benedictine Abbey of Remiremont 693 St. Florentius of Strasbourg Irish bishop curing the blind and deaf 700 St. Amarand Bishop and Benedictine abbot 739 St. Willibrord Apostle of Frisians Netherlands missionary archbishop 6 or 8th v.? St. Cumgar Monastic founder 9th v. St. Blinlivet 25th bishop of Vannes; asceticism and prayerfulness 1053 The Monk Lazaros of Galiseia was born in Lydia, in the city of Magnesium; The brethren buried the body of the saint at the pillar, upon which he had pursued asceticism. The saint was glorified by many miracles after his death St. Ernest Abbot Benedictine Abbey of Zwiefalten martyr Crusades Mecca 1225 St. Engelbert Archbishop of Cologne martyr 1280 BD MARGARET COLONNA, VIRGIN 1300
BD MATTHIA
OF MATELICA, VIRGIN Miracles incorrupt in 1756; Miracles became
so frequent at her grave that the body was soon moved to a tomb beside the
high altar of the chapel, where her veneration was continued without interruption.
In 1756 the tomb had to be moved on account of repairs, and the Bishop of
Camerino took the opportunity to examine the relics; the body was found to
be incorrupt and giving off a pleasant smell. It was re-enshrined under the
altar of St Cecilia, and since then miracles have again been reported there.
1365 BD PETER
OF RUFFIA, MARTYR
; nominated inquisitor general for Piedmont,
Upper Lombardy and Liguria. Several sects were active in northern Italy at
that time, particularly the Waldensians, and for fourteen years Bd Peter
laboured among them. The measure of his success was also the measure of the
hatred which the more stubborn heretics had for him.
1463 St. Didacusis
living proof that God “chose what is foolish in the world to shame the
wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong” (1 Corinthians 1:27). 1717 Bl. Anthony
Baldinucci Jesuit missionary preacher; His father, painter and writer by profession,
after recovery from an illness, which he attributed to the intercession of
St Antony of Padua, vowed his next child to that saint; and when a boy was
born in 1665, appropriately within the octave of his feast, he had him baptized
Antony and brought up with the idea of becoming a priest. The Baldinucci
family lived in the same house in the via degli Angeli at Florence in which
St Aloysius Gonzaga had lived for a time when a child, and the intimate memory
of this young saint had much influence on the growing Antony. When he was
sixteen he offered himself to the Society of Jesus and was accepted, in spite
of his rather uncertain health.
1773 St. Hyacinth
Castaneda Martyr of Vietnam a Dominican1773 St. Vincent Liem Vietnamese Dominican martyr native 1814 Bl. Peter Ou Chinese martyr; native; six hundred converts Saint Amandin Patron of Saint-Amandin (Cantal) and of a church in Clermont- Ferrand |
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Saint Sergius I; On April
10, 689, Sergius I baptised King Caedwalla of Wessex in Rome. He also
ordained Saint Willibrord as bishop of the
Frisians, and the Liber Pontificalis states he also ordained Berthwald as
Archbishop of Canterbury. Pope Saint Sergius I (c. 650
– September 8, 701) was pope from 687 to 701. Selected to end a schism between
Antipope Paschal and Antipope Theodore, Sergius I ended the last disputed
sede vacante of the Byzantine
Papacy. In 693, St. Willibrord went to Rome to seek papal approval for his labors, Pope Sergius I (r. 687-701) gave his full approbation and, during Willibrord's second Roman visit, the pontiff consecrated him archbishop to the Frisians, in 696, with his see at Utrecht. |
| Saints of this Day November 07 Séptimo Idus Novémbris On Death and Life "Man Needs Eternity -- and Every Other Hope, for Him, Is All Too Brief" Pope BENEDICT XVI'S Holy Father's Prayer Intentions For 2011 for November General Intention: That the family may be respected by all in its identity and that its irreplaceable contribution to all of society be recognized. Missionary Intention: That in the mission territories where the struggle against disease is most urgent, Christian communities may witness to the presence of Christ to those who suffer 
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Mary
Mother
of GOD -- Her Rosary Here Mary Mother of GOD 15 Promises of the Virgin Mary to those who recite the Rosary Mary's Divine Motherhood 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).
breviary.net/martyrology/mart10
07 stlukeorthodox.com/html/saints/
usccb.org ewtn.com St Patricks 1107Catechism 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).
domcentral.org/life/martyr Nov syriac oca.org glaubenszeugen.de/tage/kai/07 Serbian http://www.copticchurch.net Melkite Monthly Saints with pics here http://www.stfrancisenid.com/memorials.htm antiochian.org/AW-WomenSaints--wonderful icons Lutheran Saints One Saint per day stthomasirondequoit.com/SaintsAlive/index.htm stjohndc.org God's Humourous Saints
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A MYSTERY TO BE BELIEVED POST-SYNODAL APOSTOLIC EXHORTATION
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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.
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.” 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. |
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Pius IX 1846--1878 • Leo XIII 1878-1903 • Pius X 1903-1914• Benedict XV 1914-1922 • Pius XI 1922-1939 • Pius XII 1939-1958 • John XXIII 1958-1963 • Paul VI 1963 to 1978 • John Paul • John Paul II 10/16/1975-4/2/2005Benedict 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 Christianity is not a moral code or a philosophy,
but
an encounter with
a person” -- Benedict XVI
Quote: Pope Paul VI’s 1969
Instruction
on the
Contemplative Life includes
this passage:
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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
XVIThat 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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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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years of the Catholic Church
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My heart hath uttered a good word, Lady: it is sweetened with honey-flowing dew. By thy sanctity let my sins be purged: by thy integrity may incorruption be bestowed upon me. By thy virginity may my soul be loved by Christ: and joined to him by the bond of love. By thy fecundity I, a captive, am redeemed: by thy virginal bringing forth I am delivered from eternal death. By thy most worthy Son I, a lost one, am restored: and from the exile of misery I am led back to the homeland of beatitude. Glory be to the Father who created the Universe,
and the Son who gave up His life so that we may live forever,
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. Join us on CatholicVote.org. Be part of a new
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Saint Frances Xavier Seelos Practical Guide
to Holiness
1. Go to Mass with deepest
devotion. 2. Spend a half hour to reflect upon your main failing
& make resolutions to avoid it.3. Do daily spiritual reading for at least 15 minutes, if a half hour is not possible. 4. Say the rosary every day. 5. Also daily, if at all possible, visit the Blessed Sacrament; toward evening, meditate on the Passion of Christ for a half hour, 6. Conclude the day with evening prayer & an examination of conscience over all the faults & sins of the day. 7. Every month make a review of the month in confession. 8. Choose a special patron every month & imitate that patron in some special virtue. 9. Precede every great feast with a novena that is nine days of devotion. 10. Try to begin & end every activity with a Hail Mary My God, I believe, I adore, I trust and I love
Thee. I beg pardon for those who do not believe, do not
adore, do not
O most Holy trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, I adore Thee profoundly. I offer Thee the most precious Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ, present in all the Tabernacles of the world, in reparation for the outrages, sacrileges and indifference by which He is offended, and by the infite merits of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary. I beg the conversion of poor sinners, Fatima Prayer, Angel of Peace The
voice of the Father is heard, the Son enters the water, and
the Holy Spirit appears in the form of a dove.
THE
spirit and example of the world imperceptibly instil the error
into the minds of many that there is a kind of middle way of going
to Heaven; and so, because the world does not live up to the gospel,
they bring the gospel down to the level of the world. It is not
by this example that we are to measure the Christian rule, but words
and life of Christ. All His followers are commanded to labour to become
perfect even as our heavenly Father is perfect, and to bear His image
in our hearts that we may be His children. We are obliged by the gospel
to die to ourselves by fighting self-love in our hearts, by the mastery
of our passions, by taking on the spirit of our Lord.
These
are the conditions under which Christ makes His promises and
numbers us among His children, as is manifest from His words which
the apostles have left us in their inspired writings. Here is
no distinction made or foreseen between the apostles or clergy
or religious and secular persons. The former, indeed, take upon
themselves certain stricter obligations, as a means of accomplishing
these ends more perfectly; but the law of holiness and of disengagement
of the heart from the world is general and binds all the followers of
Christ.
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God loves variety.
He doesn't mass-produce his saints. Every saint is unique each
the result of a new idea.
As the liturgy says: Non est inventus
similis illis--there are no two exactly alike.
It is we with our lack of imagination, who paint the same haloes on all the saints. Dear Lord, grant us a spirit not bound by our own ideas and preferences. Grant that we may be able to appreciate in others what we lack in ourselves. O Lord, grant that we may understand that every saint must be a unique praise of Your glory. Catholic saints are holy people and human people who lived extraordinary lives. Each saint the Church honors
responded to God's invitation to use his or her unique gifts.
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The 15 Promises of the Virgin Mary to those who recite
the Rosary ) Revealed to St. Dominic and Blessed Alan)
1. Whoever
shall faithfully serve me by the recitation of the Rosary, shall receive
signal graces. 2. I promise my special protection and the
greatest graces to all those who shall recite the Rosary. 3.
The Rosary shall be a powerful armor against hell, it will destroy vice,
decrease sin, and defeat heresies. 4. It will cause virtue
and good works to flourish; it will obtain for souls the abundant mercy of
God; it will withdraw the hearts of people from the love of the world and
its vanities, and will lift them to the desire of eternal things. Oh,
that soul would sanctify them by this means. 5. The
soul that recommends itself to me by the recitation of the Rosary shall not
perish. 6. Whoever shall recite the Rosary devoutly, applying
themselves to the consideration of its Sacred Mysteries shall never be conquered
by misfortune. God will not chastise them in His justice, they shall
not perish by an unprovided death; if they be just, they shall remain in
the grace of God, and become worthy of eternal life. 7.
Whoever shall have a true devotion for the Rosary shall not die without
the Sacraments of the Church. 8. Those who are faithful
to recite the Rosary shall have during their life and at their death the
light of God and the plentitude of His graces; at the moment of death they
shall participate in the merits of the Saints in Paradise. 9.
I shall deliver from purgatory those who have been devoted to the Rosary.
10. The faithful children of the Rosary shall merit a high
degree of glory in Heaven. 11. You shall obtain all
you ask of me by the recitation of the Rosary. 12. I shall
aid all those who propagate the Holy Rosary in their necessities. 13.
I have obtained from my Divine Son that all the advocates of the Rosary shall
have for intercessors the entire celestial court during their life and at
the hour of death. 14. All who recite the Rosary are my
children, and brothers and sisters of my only Son, Jesus Christ. 15.
Devotion to my Rosary is a great sign of predestination.
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Aramaic dialect of Edessa, now known as Syriac
The exact date of the introduction
of
Christianity into Edessa
{Armenian Ourhaï in Arabic Er Roha, commonly
Orfa or Urfa, its present name} is not
known. It is certain, however, that the Christian community
was at first made up from the Jewish population of the city.
According to an ancient legend, King Abgar V, Ushana, was
converted by Addai,
who was one of the seventy-two disciples.
In fact, however, the first King of Edessa to embrace
the Christian Faith was Abgar IX (c. 206) becoming official
kingdom religion.
Christian council
held at Edessa
early as 197 (Eusebius, Hist.
Eccl., V,xxiii). In 201 the city was devastated
by
a great flood, and the Christian church
was destroyed (“Chronicon Edessenum”,
ad. an. 201).
In 232 the relics of the Apostle St. Thomas were brought from India,
on
which occasion his Syriac Acts were written.
Under Roman domination martyrs
suffered
at Edessa: Sts.
Scharbîl and Barsamya,
under Decius; Sts. Gûrja,
Schâmôna, Habib, and others under
Diocletian.
In the meanwhile Christian
priests from Edessa evangelized Eastern Mesopotamia and Persia, established
the first Churches in the kingdom of the Sassanides. Atillâtiâ, Bishop of Edessa,
assisted
at the Council of Nicæa (325).
The “Peregrinatio
Silviæ” (or Etheriæ) (ed. Gamurrini,
Rome, 1887, 62 sqq.) gives an account
of the many sanctuaries at Edessa about
388.
Although Hebrew had been the
language
of the ancient Israelite kingdom, after
their return from Exile the Jews turned
more and more to Aramaic, using it for parts
of the books of Ezra and Daniel in the Bible.
By the time of Jesus,
Aramaic was the main language of Palestine,
and quite a number of texts from the Dead Sea Scrolls
are also written in Aramaic.
Aramaic continued to be an
important language for Jews, alongside
Hebrew, and parts of the Talmud are written
in it. After Arab conquests of the
seventh century, Arabic quickly replaced Aramaic as the main language of
those who converted to Islam, although in out of the way places, Aramaic
continued as a vernacular language of Muslims.
Aramaic, however, enjoyed
its greatest success
in Christianity. Although
the New Testament wins written in
Greek, Christianity had come into existence
in an Aramaic-speaking milieu, and it was the
Aramaic dialect of Edessa, now known as Syriac,
that became the literary language of a large number
of Christians living in the eastern provinces
of the Roman Empire and in the Persian Empire,
further east. Over the course of the centuries the
influence of the Syriac Churches spread eastwards
to China (in Xian, in western China, a Chinese-Syriac inscription dated
781 is still to be seen);
to southern India where the state of Kerala
can boast more Christians of Syriac liturgical
tradition than anywhere else in the world.
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Meeting of the
Saints walis
(saints
of Allah)Great men covet to embrace martyrdom
for
a cause and principle.
So was the case with
Hazrat Ali.
He could have made a compromise with the evil
forces of his time and, as a result, could
have led a very comfortable,
easy
and luxurious life. But he was not
a person who would succumb to such temptations.
His upbringing, his education and his
training in the lap of the holy Prophet made
him refuse such an offer.Rabia Al-Basri (717–801 C.E.) She was first to set forth the doctrine of mystical love and who is widely considered to be the most important of the early Sufi poets. An elderly Shia pointed out that during his pre-Partition childhood it was quite common to find pictures and portraits of Shia icons in Imambaras across the country. Shah Abdul Latif: The Exalted Sufi Master born 1690 in a Syed family; died 1754. In ancient times, Sindh housed the exemplary Indus Valley Civilisation with Moenjo Daro as its capital, and now, it is the land of a culture which evolved from the teachings of eminent Sufi saints. Pakistan is home to the mortal remains of many Sufi saints, the exalted among them being Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai, a practitioner of the real Islam, philosopher, poet, musicologist and preacher. He presented his teaching through poetry and music - both instruments sublime - and commands a very large following, not only among Muslims but also among Hindus and Christians. Sindh culture: The Shah is synonymous with Sindh. He is the very fountainhead of Sindh's culture. His message remains as fresh as that of any present day poet, and the people of Sindh find solace from his writings. He did indeed think for Sindh. One of his prayers, in exquisite Sindhi, translates thus: “Oh God, may ever You on Sindh bestow abundance rare! Beloved! All the world let share Thy grace, and fruitful be.” Shia Ali al-Hadi, died 868 and son Hassan al-Askari 874. These saints are the 10th and 11th of Shia's 12 most revered Imams. Baba Farid Sufi 1398 miracle, Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki renowned Muslim Sufi saint scholar miracles 569 A.H. [1173 C.E.] hermit gave to poor, Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti greatest mystic of his time born 533 Hijri (1138-39 A.D.), Hazrat Ghuas-e Azam, Hazrat Bu Ali Sharif, and Hazrat Nizamuddin Aulia Sufi Saint Hazrath Khwaja Syed Mohammed Badshah Quadri Chisty Yamani Quadeer (RA) 1236-1325 welcomed people of all faiths & all walks of life |
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THE BLESSED
MOTHER AND ISLAM
By Father
John Corapi. Site http://www.fathercorapi
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.
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
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The pillars of father's preaching
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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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