On
Death and Life
"Man Needs Eternity
-- and Every Other
Hope, for Him, Is
All Too Brief"
Saints of this Day November
15 Décimo séptimo Kaléndas Decémbris
The saints “a cloud of witnesses over our head”, showing us life of Christian perfection is possible.
As the Church prepares to welcome seven new saints
this month remarkable servants of God.
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 bestowed NOT
for the benefit of the recipients so much as FOR the benefit of
others.
Pope
BENEDICT XVI'S Holy Father's Prayer Intentions
For November 2012
General Intention: Ministers
of the Gospel. That bishops, priests, and all ministers
of the Gospel
may bear the courageous witness of
fidelity to the crucified and risen Lord.
Missionary Intention:
Pilgrim Church. That the pilgrim Church on earth may
shine as a light to the nations
The Rosary
html
Mary
Mother
of GOD -- Her Rosary
Here
Mary
Mother of
GOD 15
Promises of
the Virgin
Mary to those
who recite the Rosary
Fatima Prayer,
Angel of Peace
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.
Pope
Benedict XVI Catholic
Church
In China {article
here}
1648 to1930 St. Augustine
Zhao
Rong and 120 Companions Christianity
arrived in China by way of Syria
-- 600s.
Depending on
China's relations with outside world,
Christianity
for centuries was free to grow or forced
to operate secretly.
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
of the Virgin
Mary to those who recite the
Rosary
Saints of this Day November
15 Décimo séptimo Kaléndas Decémbris
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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Serbian
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M elkite
Monthly Saints
with pics here
http://www.stfrancisenid.com/memorials.htm
a ntiochian.org/AW-WomenSaints--wonderful
icons
L utheran
Saints
One Saint per day stthomasirondequoit.com/ SaintsAlive/index.htm
stj ohndc.org God's Humourous
Saints
http://www.worldpriest.com/
Morning
Prayer
and Hymn
Meditation
of the
Day
Prayer
for Priests
Our
Bartholomew
Family Prayer List
Here
How to
Stay Out of PURGATORY -- How
to Get
others Out
POPES
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The_Litany_of_the_Blessed_Virgin.html
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Angels
and Archangels
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Acts
of the Apostles
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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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
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 {whole
article
here} 2000
years of the Catholic Church
in
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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.
Glory
be to the Father who
created Heaven and earth; His only
Son who lived and died for all of us;
and the
Holy Spirit the Lord giver
of life, Who proceeds from
the Father and Son, with the
Father and Son He is Worshiped and Glorified,
and He has spoken through the
prophets: Amen.
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Saint Frances Xavier Seelos Practical Guide
to Holiness
1.
Go to Mass with
deepest devotion. 2.
Spend a half hour to reflect
upon your main
failing & make resolutions
to avoid it.
3. Do daily
spiritual reading
for at least 15 minutes,
if a half hour
is not possible.
4. Say the rosary every
day.
5. Also daily,
if at all possible,
visit the Blessed
Sacrament; toward evening,
meditate on the
Passion of Christ for a
half hour, 6. Conclude
the day with evening
prayer & an examination
of conscience over
all the faults & sins
of the day.
7.
Every month make a
review of the month
in confession.
8. Choose
a special patron every
month & imitate
that patron in
some special virtue.
9. Precede
every great feast
with a novena that
is nine days of devotion.
10. Try to begin &
end every activity with
a Hail Mary
My God, I believe, I adore, I trust and I love
Thee.
I beg pardon for those
who do not believe,
do not adore, do not
O most Holy trinity, Father,
Son and Holy Spirit, I adore Thee profoundly.
I offer Thee the most
precious Body, Blood,
Soul and Divinity
of Jesus Christ, present
in all the Tabernacles of
the world, in reparation
for the
outrages, sacrileges and indifference
by which He is offended,
and by the
infite merits
of the Sacred Heart
of Jesus and the Immaculate
Heart of Mary.
I beg the conversion of poor sinners, Fatima Prayer, Angel of Peace
The
voice
of the Father is heard,
the Son enters the water,
and the Holy Spirit appears
in the form of a dove.
THE
spirit
and example of the world
imperceptibly instil
the error into the
minds of many that there is
a kind of middle way of going
to Heaven; and so, because the
world does not live up to the gospel,
they bring the gospel down to the
level of the world. It is not by this
example that we are to measure the
Christian rule, but words and
life of Christ. All His followers
are commanded to labour to become
perfect even as our heavenly Father
is perfect, and to bear His image
in our hearts that we may be His
children. We are obliged by the gospel
to die to ourselves by fighting
self-love in our hearts, by the mastery
of our passions, by taking on the spirit
of our Lord.
These
are the conditions under
which Christ makes His
promises and numbers
us among His children,
as is manifest from His words which
the apostles have left us
in their inspired writings.
Here is no distinction made
or foreseen between the
apostles or clergy or religious and
secular persons. The former,
indeed, take upon themselves
certain stricter obligations,
as a means of accomplishing
these ends more perfectly; but the
law of holiness and of disengagement
of the heart from the world is
general and binds all the followers
of Christ.
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God loves variety.
He doesn't
mass-produce his saints.
Every saint is unique
each the result
of a new idea.
As the liturgy says: Non est inventus
similis illis--there are no two exactly alike.
It is we
with our lack of imagination,
who paint
the same haloes on all
the saints.
Dear Lord, grant us a spirit not
bound by our own ideas and preferences.
Grant
that
we may be able to appreciate
in others what we
lack in ourselves.
O Lord, grant
that we may understand
that every saint
must be a unique praise
of Your glory.
Catholic saints are holy people
and human
people who lived extraordinary
lives.
Each saint the Church honors
responded
to God's invitation
to use his or her unique
gifts.
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The 15 Promises of the Virgin Mary to those who recite
the Rosary
) Revealed
to St. Dominic and
Blessed Alan)
1. Whoever shall faithfully
serve me by the recitation of the Rosary, shall receive signal
graces. 2. I promise my special protection and the greatest
graces to all those who shall recite the Rosary. 3. The Rosary
shall be a powerful armor against hell, it will destroy vice, decrease
sin, and defeat heresies. 4. It will cause virtue and good works
to flourish; it will obtain for souls the abundant mercy of God; it
will withdraw the hearts of people from the love of the world and its
vanities, and will lift them to the desire of eternal things. Oh,
that soul would sanctify them by this means. 5. The soul
that recommends itself to me by the recitation of the Rosary shall not
perish. 6. Whoever shall recite the Rosary devoutly, applying themselves
to the consideration of its Sacred Mysteries shall never be conquered
by misfortune. God will not chastise them in His justice, they
shall not perish by an unprovided death; if they be just, they shall
remain in the grace of God, and become worthy of eternal life. 7.
Whoever shall have a true devotion for the Rosary shall not die without
the Sacraments of the Church. 8. Those who are faithful to recite
the Rosary shall have during their life and at their death the light
of God and the plentitude of His graces; at the moment of death they shall
participate in the merits of the Saints in Paradise. 9. I shall
deliver from purgatory those who have been devoted to the Rosary. 10.
The faithful children of the Rosary shall merit a high degree of glory
in Heaven. 11. You shall obtain all you ask of me by the recitation
of the Rosary. 12. I shall aid all those who propagate the
Holy Rosary in their necessities. 13. I have obtained
from my Divine Son that all the advocates of the Rosary shall have for
intercessors the entire celestial court during their life and at the
hour of death. 14. All who recite the Rosary are my children, and
brothers and sisters of my only Son, Jesus Christ. 15.
Devotion to my Rosary is a great sign of predestination.
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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 of life |
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
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The Shrine
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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
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Promises of the Virgin Mary to those who recite the Rosary 
