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!) R.
Deo grátias. R.
Thanks be to God.
2023November is the month of the Holy Souls in Purgatory since 1888; 23,658 Lives Saved Since 2007 Mary Mother of GOD 15 Promises of the Virgin Mary to those who recite the Rosary Our Bartholomew Family Prayer List Joyful Mystery on Monday Saturday Glorius Mystery on Sunday Wednesday Sorrowful Mystery on Friday Tuesday Luminous Mystery on Thursday Veterens of War Acts of the Apostles Nine First Fridays Devotion to the Sacred Heart From the writings of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque How do I start the Five First Saturdays? Mary Mother of GOD 15 Promises of the Virgin Mary to those who recite the Rosary . CAUSES OF SAINTS Goodbye Vern Bartholomew 1917-2017 on All Saints/All Souls day Requiescat in pace; Thanks for being such a great Dad Before prayer, endeavor to realize whose Presence
you are approaching, and to whom you are about to speak. We can never
fully understand how we ought to behave towards God, before whom the
angles tremble.-- St. Teresa of Avila
The dedication of the basilicas of Saints Peter and Paul, Apostles
the first of
which was built by the emperor Constantine on the Vatican hill over
the grave of Saint Peter but having fallen into ruins in days of old,
was rebuilt on a larger scale and re-consecrated on this very day; the second, built on the Ostian Way by the
emperors Theodosius and Valentinianus lamentably destroyed by fire and re-consecrated
on the tenth day of December after the interior was restored.
The brotherhood
of the Apostles and the unity of the Church are in some way expressed
in their common celebration. Burning the candle at both ends for God's
sake may be foolishness to the world, but it is a profitable Christian
exercise-for so much better the light. Only one thing in life matters.
Being found worthy of the Light of the World in the hour of His visitation.
We need have no undue fear for our health if we work hard for the kingdom
of God; God will take care of our health if we take care of His cause.
In any case it is better to burn out than to rust out.
-- Bishop Fulton Sheen
November 18 – Our Lady of the Rosary of Chiquinquirá
(Venezuela)
An initiative of the Association Mary of Nazareth November 18 – Our Lady of Chiquinquira (Venezuela, 1749) Miraculousy restored Our Lady of Chiquinquira is the queen
and patroness of Colombia. Chiquinquira, whose name means place of mists
and marshes, is in a region of the Andes located more than 6,500 ft above
sea level. The history of this temple dates back to 1560. A painting
of the Madonna, commissioned by the Spanish Dominicans to inspire the faith
of Indians and settlers, then hung in a chapel. There, it slowly deteriorated,
to the point that only the frame remained, empty of its original image
of the Blessed Virgin Mary. A few years later, that image miraculously
reappeared inside, with no signs of damage or deterioration. This marked
the beginning of the series of miracles attributed to Our Lady through
this image. The typology of the icon of Chiquinquira belongs to the "Hodigitria"
Madonnas, the one who points to the Child Jesus. The Marian Shrine
of Our Lady of the Rosary of Chiquinquira, where this icon is venerated,
is in the care of the Dominicans. Saint John Paul II visited it in 1986.
www.chretiensmagazine.fr
We must be a reflection of Mary to help
disheartened souls
We must help disheartened souls as there are
so many. Let us follow the path that Our Lord made ready for us, by
faithfully responding to grace, and fighting the good fight of the Lord.
When we speak of prayer, sacrifice, or Eucharistic adoration, it does
not resonate in people’s hearts anymore. God has been abandoned for pleasure
and material wealth.Jesus, who is everything to Mary, is everything to us as well. Mary is completely His. She gave up everything—her life and her whole being—she sacrificed everything for Him and for us. May our lives belong totally to Him, following Mary's example. Avec Marie vivre le combat spirituel, Entretiens spirituels B6 -Noël 40 November 18 – Our Lady of Chiquinquira (Venezuela, 1749) The dedication of the basilicas of Saints Peter and Paul, Apostles November 18 – – Our Lady of Alttöting The Virgin Mary brought two children back to life Our Lady of Alttöting, which dates from the end of the Carolingian era (10th century), is the most famous and oldest Marian shrine in Bavaria, Southern Germany. The shrine became famous in 1489 when the
first miracle occurred. A little 3-year old boy drowned in a creek, and his
body was removed but a half an hour later. His mother, in tears, carried him
running to the chapel. There she placed the body of her child on the altar
and begged the Virgin Mary to bring him back to life. And suddenly the miracle
happened—God did choose to bring the child back to life.
Shortly afterwards, a second miracle happened.
This time a little 6-year old boy fell from a horse that was pulling a
large cart. As it could not be stopped in time, the cart crushed the child.
The child was dead and there was no hope of saving him. His parents turned
to Our Lady of Altötting and prayed, and the next day the boy was
alive again.
Before becoming Pope Benedict XVI, Joseph Ratzinger went
to that church regularly from the age of 7 with his family, then as a
seminarian, priest, teacher, Cardinal-Archbishop, and as Prefect of the
Doctrine of the Faith. Moreover, his body kept no traces
of his injuries.
The Mary of Nazareth Team Source : nova.evangelisation.free.fr Pope Francis releases his prayer intention for the month of November, asking the faithful to pray that the Lord will bless him. “If Children Are
Seen as a Burden, Something Is Wrong”
A society that
does not like to be surrounded
by children and considers them
a concern, a weight, or a risk,
is a depressed society.
“When life multiplies, society is
enriched, not impoverished.”Children are a gift of society, never a possession. Pope Francis. 303 St. Hesychius of Antioch Martyred Roman soldier 304 St. Romanus and Barula 7yr old Martyrs of Syria 378 St. Maximus 19th bishop of Mainz revered scholar 430 St. Oriculus and Companions Martyrs in Carthage 450 St. Nazarius monk and abbot of the community of Lerins 6th v.St. Mawes Welsh hermit and abbot 6th v.St. Keverne Saint of Cornwall 588 St. Frigidian of Lucca B (RM) (also known as Frediano, Frigdianus) Miraculously, the river followed him 690 St. Mummolus Benedictine abbot and Irish companion of St. Fursey 750 St. Anselm Benedictine abbot in Lerins 782 St. Thomas of Antioch Syria Hermit saint for relief against pestilence 952 St. Odo spread Cluny's influence to monasteries 1619 Bl. John Shoun Martyr of Japan a Japanese from Meako 1619 St. Leonard Kimura Martyr of Japan with companions 1852 St. Rose Phillipine Duchesne Virgin dream of serving Native Americans November 18 - The Rosary Virgin of Chiquinquira
(Venezuela, 1749)
Mary lights up a humble home Our Lady of
Chiquinquira (Columbia, 1586).
According to
tradition, one day in the year 1749, a humble laundress went to the
shores of Lake Macaraibo to wash her laundry. Suddenly, she saw a
piece of wood floating on the water and she brought it home with her
thinking she could use it to cover the jar of water she kept in the
corridor of her home.The next morning, the woman heard something banging as if someone were calling for help. She went to see what had happened and noticed to her stupefaction that the piece of wood she had left in the corridor was now shining and that upon its surface now appeared Our Lady of Chiquinquira (Columbia, 1586). The woman ran into the street and cried, “It’s a miracle!” Crowds came to admire the miracle. The poor woman’s humble home soon became a Marian shrine. Later, the Macaraibo authorities decided to transfer the miraculous image to the cathedral. However during the procession, the small painting became so heavy that the two men who were carrying it could no longer advance. All efforts to move the painting were in vain, until someone, with Divine inspiration, suggested that " Our Lady did not desire to go to the cathedral, but preferred to be placed in a church dedicated to Saint John of God. Immediately after the new direction was taken the image returned to its normal weight again and the procession was allowed to continue. On May 18, 1920, Pope Benedict XV
declared the Church of Saint John of God a minor basilica.
One hundred and ninety-three years after the
first miracle, on November 18, 1942, the image of the Rosary Virgin of Chiquinquira
of Maracaibo was canonically crowned and the day was declared a national
feast day.
Adapted from:
www.chinitademaracaibo.4t.com November 18 - Our Lady of Chiquinquirá
(Colombia, 1562) The Virgin of the Rosary "La Chinta"
In the mid-16th
century a Spanish painter created a portrait of the Virgin of the
Rosary, known as "La Chinta". He used pigments from the soil, herbs
and flowers of the region of Colombia, and his canvas was a rough cloth
woven by Indians. The image of Mary is about a meter high. She has a
small, sweet smile, both her face and the Christ Child's are light colored,
and she looks as if she is about to take a step. She wears a white toque,
a rose-colored robe, and a sky blue cape. A rosary hangs from the little
finger of her left hand, and she holds a scepter in her right hand. She
cradles the Christ Child in her left arm, and looks towards him. Christ
has a little bird tied to his thumb, and a small rosary hangs from his
left hand.In 1562, the portrait was placed in a rustic chapel, exposed to the air. The roof leaked and soon the damage caused by humidity and sunlight completely obscured the image. In 1577, the damaged painting was moved to Chiquinquirá and stored in an unused room. Later, Maria Ramos, a pious woman from Seville, cleaned up the little chapel and hung the faded canvas in it. Though the image was in terrible shape, she still loved to sit and contemplate it. On Friday, December 26, in the year 1586, the faded and damaged image was suddenly restored. Its colors were now bright, the canvas cleaner, the image clear and seemingly brand new. The healing of the image continued as small holes and tears in the canvas self-sealed. It still bears traces of its former damage, for instance the figures appear to be brighter and clearer from a distance than up close. For 300 years the painting hung unprotected. Pilgrims touched thousands of objects against the frail cotton cloth. This rough treatment should have destroyed it, but repaired itself somehow and goes on unscathed. Pope Pius VII declared Our Lady of Chiquinquirá patroness of Colombia in 1829, and granted a special liturgy in her honor. In 1897, a thick glass plate was added to protect it from the weather and the excessive touching of the faithful. The image was canonically crowned in 1919, and in 1927 her sanctuary was declared a Basilica. Adapted from www.catholic-forum.com/saints/mary The Caliph Who Defied the Coptic Church (II)
November 18 - The
Rosary Virgin of Chiquinquira (Venezuela, 1749)
Simon the Tanner's existence could have remained unknown, if an incident at the court didn't cause a local earthquake, figuratively and effectively. The Caliph was known to invite different religious leaders to debate in his presence. His Islamized Jewish vizier and Pope Abraam were present at one of those meetings and the pope got the upper hand. The Jew sought to embarrass Abraam and quoted the famous verse where the Lord, Jesus Christ, said in Saint Matthew (17:20): "Amen, I say to you, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, Move from here to there, and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you." Caliph Al-Muizz saw a unique opportunity in this debate and ordered Abraam to prove that Christ's words were true by moving Mokattam Mountain to the east, which would permit the expansion of the new town of Cairo. If he refused or was unable to accomplish this feat he would face two alternatives: either convert to Islam or leave Egypt. The patriarch asked in consternation and obtained an allotted time of three days before giving him an answer. He prayed God to inspire him and appealed to the Coptic people to fast with him for three days, from dawn to dusk, and to pray fervently that God would ward off this test. The third day at dawn the Virgin Mary appeared
to Abraam in a dream and said to him:
"Do not
fear, faithful shepherd." The tears that you shed in this Church,
the fasts and prayers you and your people have offered will not be
in vain. Get up and go to the iron gate opening onto the market place.
There you will find a one-eyed man carrying a water jar. Through him the
miracle will occur."Adapted from an article by Mohamed Salmawy published in the weekly AL-AHRAM, March 8, 2000. November 18 - THE ROSARY VIRGIN OF CHIQUINQUIRA
(1749)
Women didn't
have a place in the genealogies of that time. They were not held
as 'begettors' nor counted as 'generation'. Of them one said that
they conceived and gave birth to - at the most that they begot for their
husband, in reference to him (in Lk 1:13 we examined this particular
point).The Infancy Gospel According to Saint Matthew (IV) Here Matthew is unusual and contrasts with Luke - in a strange way, because the latter, who shed much light on the women of the Gospel more than the other evangelists, doesn't breathe a word about Mary in his genealogy (3: 23-28). It is a genealogy without the mother. So why does Matthew, who is more influenced by masculine prejudices, give Mary a key role? He doesn't say that Mary begot Christ. If he mentions her, it is less as the biological origin of Christ than as the sign and witness of God's transcendent action expressed in 1:18 and 20. It is in that respect that he points out her role, without telling us anything of her person, her grace, feelings, and merits, unlike Luke 1. In a significant manner, he situates her as sign of God and the unique human origin of Christ, in a sense that doesn't explain but outlines.
Matthew leaves the place of the begettor empty, to link Christ only
to God his Father (...).
Mary is mentioned
and counted in the genealogy of Matthew as the human sign of this
exclusive paternity, more than the human and biological origin of
Christ. Matthew considered Mary in a singular and profoundly theological
way.Rene Laurentin The Gospels of Christmas, Desclee,
1999
God
loves variety. He doesn't mass-produce his saints. Every saint is
unique, for each is the result of a new idea.
Each saint the Church honors responded to God's
invitation to use his or her unique gifts. 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. God calls each one of us to be a saint in order to get into heaven: saints are allowed into heaven. |
On
Death
and Life
"Man Needs Eternity -- and Every Other Hope, for Him, Is All Too Brief" Пресвятая Богородице спаси нас! (Santíssima Mãe de Deus, salva-nos!) Month by Month of Saintly Dedications The Rosary html Mary Mother of GOD -- Her Rosary Here Mary Mother of GOD Mary's Divine Motherhood: FEASTS OF OUR LADY of the Virgin Mary to those who recite the Rosary May 9 – Our Lady of the Wood (Italy, 1607) Months of Dedication January is the month of the Holy Name of Jesus since 1902; March is the month of Saint Joseph since 1855; May, the month of Mary, is the oldest and most well-known Marian month, officially since 1724; June is the month of the Sacred Heart since 1873; July is the month of the Precious Blood since 1850; August is the month of the Immaculate Heart of Mary; September is the month of Our Lady of Sorrows since 1857; October is the month of the Rosary since 1868; November is the month of the Holy Souls in Purgatory since 1888; December is the month of the Immaculate Conception. In all, five months of the year are dedicated to Mary. The idea of dedicating months came from Rome and promotion of the month of Mary owes much to the Jesuits. arras.catholique.fr Pray that the witness of 40 Days for Life bears abundant fruit, and that we begin again each day to storm the gates of hell until God welcomes us into the gates of heaven. either when one patiently suffers much, or when one suffers things which one is able to avoid and yet does not avoid. Christ endured much on the cross, and did so patiently, because when he suffered he did not threaten; he was led like a sheep to the slaughter and he did not open his mouth.-- St. Thomas Aquinas We begin our day by seeing
Christ
in the consecrated
bread, and
throughout
the day we continue
to see Him in
the torn bodies of our
poor. We pray,
that is, through our work,
performing
it with Jesus, for Jesus
and upon Jesus.
--
Mother
Teresa
The poor are our
prayer. They carry God in them.
Prayer means
praying everything,
praying
the work.
We meet
the Lord who
hungers and
thirsts, in the
poor.....and
the poor could
be you or I or any
person kind enough
to show us his or
her love and to come to our
place.
Because
we cannot
see Christ, we
cannot express
our love to Him
in person.
But our neighbor
we can see, and we can do for
him or her what we would love to
do for Jesus if He were visible.
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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 love
Thee.
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,
Amen
Fatima
Prayer,
Angel
of Peace
Mary's
Divine
MotherhoodPope Francis and Pope Benedict XVI { 2013 } 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. Nine
First
Fridays
Devotion
to the
Sacred Heart
From
the writings
of
St. Margaret
Mary Alacoque
How do I start the Five First Saturdays? From the writings of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque Called in the Gospel “the Mother of Jesus,” Mary is acclaimed by Elizabeth, at the prompting of the Spirit and even before the birth of her son, as “the Mother of my Lord” (Lk 1:43; Jn 2:1; 19:25; cf. Mt 13:55; et al.). In fact, the One whom she conceived as man by the Holy Spirit, who truly became her Son according to the flesh, was none other than the Father's eternal Son, the second person of the Holy Trinity. Hence the Church confesses that Mary is truly “Mother of God” (Theotokos). Catechism of the Catholic Church 495, quoting
the
Council
of Ephesus
(431):
DS 251.
“The Blessed
Virgin
was eternally
predestined,
in conjunction
with the incarnation
of the
divine
Word, to be
the Mother
of God. By
decree of
divine Providence,
she served
on earth as the
loving mother
of the
divine Redeemer,
an
associate
of unique
nobility,
and the
Lord's humble
handmaid.
She conceived,
brought
forth,
and
nourished Christ.”
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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 geeral and binds all the followers of Christ. Feasts of Our Lady.html
January to December
ICONS
breviary.net/martyrology/mart11 18 stlukeorthodox.com/html/saints/ usccb.org ewtn.com St Patricks 18 domcentral.org/life/martyr Nov syriac oca.org glaubenszeugen.de/tage/kai/11 18 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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THE EUCHARIST,
A MYSTERY
TO BE
BELIEVED POST-SYNODAL APOSTOLIC EXHORTATION
Morning
Prayer
and
Hymn
Meditation
of
the Day
Prayer
for Priests
Our
Bartholomew
Family Prayer
List
HereSACRAMENTUM CARITATIS OF THE HOLY FATHER BENEDICT XVI There are over 10,000 named saints beati from history and Roman Martyology Orthodox sources Miracles by Century 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 1000 1100 1200 1300 1400 1500 1600 1700 1800 1900 Miracles_BC Lay Saints |
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.” |
“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. |
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. |
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. |
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.
There
are over 10,000 named saints beati
from history
and Roman Martyology Orthodox sources Patron_Saints.html Widowed_Saints html Indulgences The Catholic Church in China LINKS: Marian Shrines India Marian Shrine Lourdes of the East Lourdes 1858 China Marian shrines 1995 Kenya national Marian shrine Loreto, Italy Marian Apparitions (over 2000) Quang Tri Vietnam La Vang 1798 Links to Related MarianWebsites Angels and Archangels Saints Visions of Heaven and Hell Widowed Saints html Doctors_of_the_Church Acts_Of_The_Apostles Roman Catholic Popes Purgatory Uniates Chalcedon |
Mary the
Mother of
Jesus
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Miraculous_Medal_Novena
Patron
Saints
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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 10/16/1975-4/2/2005 • Benedict XVI (2005 - 2013) • Francis (2013 Pope St. Clement (92-101): Since all things lie open to His
eyes
and ears,
let us hold Him
in awe and rid ourselves
of impure desires
to do works
of evil, so that
we may be protected
by His mercy
from the
judgement that
is to come.
Which of us
can escape
His mighty
hand?
"The answers to many of life's questions can be found by reading the Lives of the Saints. They teach us how to overcome obstacles and difficulties, how to stand firm in our faith, and how to struggle against evil and emerge victorious." 1913 Saint Barsanuphius of Optina The more "extravagant" graces
are bestowed
NOT
for the benefit
of the
recipients
so much
as FOR benefit
of others.
Non est inventus similis illis God calls each one of us to be a saint in
order
to get into
heaven.
Popes mentioned in articles of Saints today
Pope Pius XII -- When
Mother Rose Philippine Duchesne died at age 83 in St. Charles, Mo.,
Fr. De Smet wrote her religious Sisters: “No greater saint ever died
in Missouri or perhaps in the whole Union.” He urged them to write
a biography, but it was not done. The apostle of the Sacred Heart who
came to America to work and save the souls of Indians was put aside in
death, just as she was in life. Forty-three years after her death in 1852,
Philippine‘s cause was officially opened at the Vatican and Pope Pius
X declared her “Venerable.” On May 12, 1940, she was beatified by Pope
Pius XII, and canonized 44 years later on July 3, 1988.
Paul VI Proclaims Mary "Mother
of the Church" (1964) November 11
Eugenio Pacelli Proclaims the Dogma of the Assumption (1950) A divinely revealed dogma
“After
we have poured forth prayers of supplication again and again
to God, and have invoked the light of the Spirit of Truth, for
the glory of Almighty God who has lavished his special affection
upon the Virgin Mary, for the honor of her Son, the immortal King
of the Ages and the Victor over sin and death, for the increase of
the glory of that same august Mother, and for the joy and exultation of
the entire Church; by the authority of our Lord Jesus Christ, of the Blessed
Apostles Peter and Paul, and by our own authority, we pronounce, declare,
and define it to be a divinely revealed dogma: that the Immaculate Mother
of God, the ever Virgin Mary, having completed the course of her earthly
life, was assumed body and soul into heavenly glory. Hence if anyone,
which God forbid, should dare wilfully to
deny or to call into doubt that which we have defined,
let him know that he has fallen away completely from the divine
and Catholic Faith.”
After
the Pope proclaimed this Dogma, a ray of sunlight shined
forth on Saint Peter’s Basilica.
Pius XII - Munificentissimus
Deus - Defining the Dogma of the Assumption, 1 November
1950
Festívitas
ómnium Sanctórum, quam in honórem beátæ
Dei Genitrícis Vírginis Maríæ
et sanctórum Mártyrum Bonifátius Papa
Quartus, cum templum Pántheon tértio Idus Maji
dedicásset, célebrem et generálem instítuit
agi quotánnis in urbe Roma. Sed Gregórius
item Quartus póstmodum decrévit, eándem festivitátem,
quæ váriis modis jam in divérsis Ecclésiis
celebrabátur, in honórem ómnium Sanctórum
solémniter hac die ab univérsa Ecclésia
perpétuo observári.
The Festival of All Saints, which Pope Boniface IV, after the dedication of the Pantheon, ordained to be kept generally and solemnly every year on the 13th of May, in the city of Rome, in honour of the blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God, and of the holy martyrs. It was afterwards decreed by Gregory IV that this feast, which was then celebrated in many dioceses, but at different times, should be on this day kept by the whole Church in honour of all the saints.
The air which we breathe, the bread
which we eat, the heart which throbs in our bosoms, are not
more necessary for man that he may live as a human being, than
is prayer for the Christian that he may live as a Christian.-- St.
John Eudes
Solemnity of All Saints
“'Be holy as I am holy,' says the Lord.
As Christians we are all called to holiness because we are
His children. Every Christian should be a saint. Indeed,
for a Christian to live in a state of sin is a monstrous
contradiction”. --Curé
d'Ars.
It
has recently been claimed that the decline in the cult of
saints and in pilgrimages to holy places is spiritually beneficial
for Christians, so that their attention will be turned exclusively
towards Jesus. There is, however, a danger to the faith in attempting
to become too intellectual and sophisticated, and thereby becoming
too cold, methodical, and rational.
In the face of the divine mysteries
and matters that are beyond human comprehension our minds
should be kept open.
“The
saints are like so many little mirrors in which Jesus Christ
sees Himself. In His apostles He sees His zeal and love for
the salvation of souls; in the martyrs He sees His constancy,
suffering, and painful death; in the hermits He sees His obscure
and hidden life; in the virgins He sees His spotless purity; and
in all the saints He sees His unbounded charity.
And when we honor the
virtues of the saints, we are but worshipping the virtues of Jesus Christ...”
-- John Baptiste Marie Vianney Curé d'Ars We
render God a worship of adoration and dependence with faith,
hope, love, and a profound
humbling of our souls before His supreme Majesty. We honor
the saints with a feeling of respect and veneration for the
favors God granted them, for the virtues they practiced, and
for the glory with which God has crowned them in heaven. We commend
ourselves to their prayers.
“It is a most precious
grace that God should have destined the saints to be our protectors and our
friends. Saint
Bernard said that the honor
we give them is less a glory for them than a help to us, and
that we may call upon them with full confidence because they know
how greatly we are exposed to dangers on earth, for they remember
the perils that they themselves had to face during their lifetimes.” -- Curé
d'Ars.
The friendship that binds us to all the
saints, and which is encouraged and commemorated by the feast-days
of the Church, is not the invention of a handful of bigots or a
commercial stunt manufactured by merchants of religious medallions.
The communion of saints answers a definite need, and insofar as we
neglect any one of the forms of spiritual life we are cutting ourselves
off from a source of divine grace and making ourselves just a little
blinder than we are already.
We
too can be saints and we must all strive to become so.
“The saints were mortals
like us, weak and subject to the passions, as we are. We
have the same help, the same means of grace, the same sacraments,
but we must be like them and renounce the pleasures of the
world, shunning the evils of the world as much as we can and
remaining faithful to grace. We must take the saints as our models
or be damned, that we must live either for heaven or for hell. There
is no middle way.” --Saint
John Vianney.
The
Church has celebrated some feast in honor of the saints
from the period of primitive Christianity. There is tentative
evidence of the celebration to honor all the martyrs in the writings
of Tertullian (died 223) and
Gregory of Nyssa (died 395).
It was definitely observed at the time of Saint Ephraem (died 373),
who in the Nisibene Hymnus mentions a feast kept in honor of
“the
martyrs of all the earth” on
May 13. It should be noted that on May 13, c. 609, Pope Saint Boniface IV
dedicated the Pantheon of Rome in honor of our Lady and
all martyrs--another instance of something pagan baptized
by Christianity for a new purpose dedicated to God.
The Venerable Bede (673-735) says
that the pope designed that “the
memory of all the saints might in future be honored in the
place which had formerly been devoted to the worship, not of
gods, but of demons.”
By
411 as indicated in the Syriac Short Martyrology, throughout
the Syrian Church the Friday
in the Octave of Easter was celebrated as the feast of “all
the martyrs.”
Chaldean Catholics still maintain
Easter Friday in honor of the martyrs.
Since at least the time
of Saint
John Chrysostom (died 407 - - one of the Three Holy Hierarchs),
the Byzantine churches
have kept a feast of all the martyrs on the Sunday after Pentecost
(Chrysostom, A panegyric
of all the martyrs that have suffered throughout the world)
Saint
John Chrysostom.
We
are not quite sure how November 1 came to be commemorated
in
honor of all the saints in the West.
We do know that by AD 800,
Blessed Alcuin of York
was in the habit of keeping the solemnitas sanctissima of
All Saints on November 1, preceded by a three-day fast. His friend
Bishop Arno of Salzburg had presided over a synod in Bavaria
(Germany) which included that day in its list of holy days (Walsh).
Blessed
AlcuinWhy has the Church included
such a day in its calendar? To honor all the saints--known
and unknown to us--reigning together in glory; to give
thanks to God for the graces with which He crowns all the elect;
to excite ourselves to humble imitation of their virtues; to
implore the Divine Mercy through the help of these intercessors;
and to repair any failures in not having properly honored God
in His saints on their individual feast days.
Saint
Bernard wrote:
“It is our interest to honor the memory of the saints, not theirs. Would you know how it is our interest? from the remembrance of them I feel, I confess, a triple vehement desire kindled in my breast--of their company, of their bliss, and of their intercession. “First,
of their company. To think of the saints is in some measure
to see them. Thus we are in part, and this the better part of
ourselves, in the land of the living, provided our affection
goes along with our thoughts or remembrance: yet not as they are.
The saints are there present, and in their persons; we are there
only in affection and desires. Ah! when shall we join our fathers?
when shall we be made the fellow-citizens of the blessed spirits,
of the patriarchs, prophets, apostles, martyrs, and virgins? when shall
we be mixed in the choir of the saints?
“The remembrance of each
one among the saints is, as it were, a new spark, or rather
torch, which sets our souls more vehemently on fire, and makes
us ardently sigh to behold and embrace them, so that we seem
to ourselves even now to be amongst them. And from this distant
place of banishment we dart
our affections sometimes towards the whole assembly, sometimes
towards this, and sometimes that happy spirit. What sloth
is it that we do not launch our souls into the midst of those happy
troops, and burst hence by continual sighs! The church of the first-born
waits for us; yet we loiter. The saints earnestly long for our arrival;
yet we despise them. Let us with all the ardor of our souls prevent
those who are expecting us; let us hasten to those who are waiting for
us.”
Secondly, he mentions
the desire of their bliss; and, lastly, the succor of their intercession,
and adds:
“Have pity on me, have pity on me, at least you, my friends. You know our danger, our frail mould, our ignorance, and the snares of our enemies; you know our weakness, and the fury of their assaults. For I speak to you who have been under the like temptation; who have overcome the like assaults; have escaped the like snares; and have learned compassion from what you yourselves have suffered.--We are members of the same Head.--Your glory is not to be consummated without us...” Bernard
of Clairvaux, Serm. 5 de fest. omnium
sanct., n. 5, 6.
In
his sermon on the Vigil of Saints Peter and Paul, Bernard
also writes: “He
who was powerful on earth is more powerful in heaven, where he stands before
the face of his Lord. And if he had compassion on sinners,
and prayed for them while he lived on earth, he now prays
to the Father for us so much the more earnestly as he more truly
knows our extreme necessities and miseries; his blessed country
has not changed, but increased his charity. Though now impassible,
he is not a stranger to compassion: by standing before the throne
of mercy, he has put on the tender bowels of mercy...”
November 1st - All Saints Day - OUR LADY OF THE PALM (1755, Cadiz, Spain) Mary and the Souls in Purgatory
(I): What is Purgatory?
The Church teaches
two things about purgatory, truths that are clearly defined
as dogmas of faith: first, that there is a purgatory; secondly,
that the souls in purgatory can be helped by the petitions of the
faithful, especially by the holy sacrifice of the Mass.The Holy Church of God, considered in its totality, is composed of three parts: the Church militant, the Church triumphant, and the Church suffering, or purgatory. This triple Church constitutes the mystical body of Jesus Christ, and the souls in purgatory are no less her members than the faithful on earth and the elect in heaven. In the Gospel, the Church is ordinarily called the Kingdom of God; purgatory, just like heaven and the Church on earth, is a province of that vast Kingdom. The three sister-Churches have between them an incessant exchange, a continual communication, called the Communion of Saints. These relationships have no other object than to lead souls to glory, the final term toward which all the elect tend. The word purgatory means sometimes a place, sometimes a state half-way between hell and heaven. It is, properly speaking, the situation of the souls who, at the time of death, find themselves in a state of grace, but haven't completely expiated their faults or attained the degree of purity necessary to enjoy the vision of God. Purgatory is therefore a temporary state, which ends in the beatific life. Rev. Fr. François-Xavier Schouppe, s.j. The Dogma of Purgatory Illustrated by Facts and Private Revelations
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. The more "extravagant"
graces are bestowed not for the benefit of the recipients
so much as for the benefit of others.
November 1, 2006 Feast of All Saints
The
earliest certain observance of a feast in honor of all the
saints is an early fourth-century commemoration of “all the
martyrs.” In the early seventh century,
after successive waves of invaders plundered the catacombs,
Pope Boniface IV gathered up some 28 wagonloads of bones and reinterred
them beneath the Pantheon, a Roman temple dedicated to all the gods.
The pope rededicated the shrine as a Christian church. According
to Venerable Bede, the pope intended “that
the memory of all the saints might in the future be honored in the
place which had formerly been dedicated to the worship not of gods
but of demons.” (On the Calculation of Time).
But
the rededication of the Pantheon, like the earlier commemoration
of all the martyrs, occurred in May. Many Eastern Churches still
honor all the saints in the spring, either during the Easter
season or immediately after Pentecost.
How
the Western Church came to celebrate this feast in November
is a puzzle to historians. The Anglo-Saxon theologian Alcuin observed the feast on November
1 in 800, as did his friend Arno, Bishop of Salzburg. Rome
finally adopted that date in the ninth century.
Comment:
This feast first honored martyrs. Later, when Christians
were free to worship according to their conscience, the Church
acknowledged other paths to sanctity. In the early centuries
the only criterion was popular acclaim, even when the bishop's
approval became the final step in placing a commemoration on the
calendar. The first papal canonization occurred in 993; the lengthy
process now required to prove extraordinary sanctity took form
in the last 500 years. Today's feast honors the obscure as well as
the famous—the saints each of us have known.
Quote: “After this I had
a vision of a great multitude, which no one could count,
from every nation, race, people, and tongue. They stood before
the throne and before the Lamb, wearing white robes and holding
palm branches in their hands.... [One of the elders] said to me,
‘These are the ones who have survived the time of great distress;
they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of
the Lamb’” (Revelation 7:9,14).
November 1 - Queen of All Saints (608)
Our Lady of Folgoët
Salaün was such a simpleton that his contemporaries of the 15th century considered him a madman. He could only say two words: "Ave Maria" (Hail Mary) and he repeated those two words over and over. One year on November 1, Salaün was found dead near a tree trunk, by the edge of the woods, at the far end of the parish of Guic-Elleau in France and the townspeople buried him immediately on the spot. Later, a beautifully smelling lily grew up from his grave, with this inscription on it written in gold letters, the only two words he had pronounced all his life: "Ave Maria." In 1365, the first stone was laid for a church that is now the jewel of all the churches of Brittany: Notre-Dame de Folgoët (Our Lady of the Madman of the Woods). The statue of Our Lady was crowned by the Church in 1888? November 1 - All Saints As the
world returns to the love of Mary…
The term ‘Woman’ indicated a
wider relationship to all humanity than ‘Mother.’ It meant that
she (Mary) was to be not only his mother, but that she was also
to be the mother of all mankind, as he was the Savior of all mankind.
She was now to have many children—not according to the flesh, but
according to the spirit. Jesus was her firstborn in the flesh in
joy; John was her second-born in the spirit of sorrow; and we are
her millionth and millionth born.(…) Every objection against devotion to Mary grows in the soil of an imperfect belief in the Son. It is a historical fact that, as the world lost the Mother, it also lost the Son. It may be that, as the world returns to the love of Mary, it will also return to a belief in the divinity of Christ. Venerable Fulton J. Sheen American Bishop. His cause for sainthood was opened in 2002 John
Paul II -- October 16 - The Purity
of the Blessed Virgin Mary - John Paul II becomes
Pope (1978)
Benedict_XVI_Patriarch_Bartholomew
"Christianity
is not a moral code or a philosophy,
but an encounter with a person" -- Benedict XVI 1667-1669 Pope Clement IX; elected to the papacy by the unanimous Sacred College vote; idol of the Romans erudition application to business, his extreme charity, affability towards great and small; 2 days/week occupied confessional in St. Peter's church heard any one who wished to confess; frequently visited hospitals, lavish in alms to the poor; he did little or nothing to advance or enrich his family; aversion to notoriety, refused to permit his name to be placed on the buildings erected during his reign; declared blessed, Rose of Lima, first American saint, solemnly canonized S. Maria Maddalena dei Pazzi and St. Peter of Alcantara; death of the beloved pontiff was long lamented by Romans, who considered him, if not the greatest, at least the most amiable of the popes.
Pope Leo XIII
The best way to make our pleas heard The Rosary, a kind of prayer that seems to contain, as it were, a final pledge of affection and to sum up in itself the honor due to Our Lady… There has seemed to be no better means of conducting sacred solemnities or of obtaining protection and favors. (Encyclical Octobri Mense). There are, of course, more ways than one to win her protection by prayer, but as for Us, We think that the best and most effective way to her favor lies in the Rosary. (Encyclical Adjutricem populi, 1895). So that our pleas have the greatest effect… let us has recourse to Mary… through the Rosary (1891). Mrs Adjoubei’s Rosary
Bishop Roncalli, the future Pope John
XXIII
As he left Bulgaria
in 1934, Bishop Roncalli, the future Pope John
XXIII, stated, "If a Slavic, catholic
or not, knocks on my door, it will be opened and he will be greeted like
a true friend." Later, a Slavic arrived one day at the airport of Fiumicino
who asked to see Pope John XXIII.
His reply was immediate, "Let him come!"
The meeting was
set for March 7th.After
the general audience, the Pope called
for Mr. Adjoubei and his wife, Rada, a young
woman from Khrushchev. He received them in his library
and asked them to be seated.
" The Pope looked
at her smiling, "I know the name of your sons... the third
is called Yan, or John like me... They spoke about many things including the Saints of Russia and the beauty of Orthodox liturgy. Then John XXIII picked up a string of rosary beads that was laid on his table. "Madam, this is
for you. My entourage taught me that I should give currencies or stamps to
a non-Catholic princess; but I still give you a Rosary because priests, in
addition to the biblical prayer of the psalms, also have this popular form
of prayer. For me, the Pope, it is like fifteen open windows - fifteen mysteries
- through which I contemplate, in the light of the Lord, the events of the
world. I say a rosary in the morning, another at the beginning of the afternoon,
and another in the evening.
Look, I made
a great impression by telling the journalists that in the
fifth joyful mystery - "he listened and questioned them"
- I was really praying for... I made an impression on those
people when I said that, in the third joyful mystery - the Birth
of Jesus - I prayed for all the babies who are born in the
past twenty-four hours, because, Catholics or not, they will find
the wishes of the Pope upon their entry into life. When I recite the third mystery, I will also remember your children, Madam." Mrs Adjoubei, who held the Rosary in her hands, answered, "Thank you, Holy Father, how grateful I am to you! I will tell my children what you said... When you are back home, give him a special hug from me... " Rosary for the Church, #14 - 1973 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. APOSTLES:
COLLABORATORS IN TRUE JOY
VATICAN CITY, 10 SEP 2008 (VIS) - At his general audience
this morning, celebrated in the Paul VI
Hall, the Pope dedicated his catechesis to St. Paul's
view of the meaning of apostolate.The Pauline concept of apostleship went "beyond that of the group of Twelve" explained the Holy Father. "It was characterised by three elements: the first was the fact of having seen the Lord, in other words of having encountered Him in a way that marked his life. ... Definitively then, it is the Lord Who confers the apostolate, not individual presumption. Apostles do not make themselves but are created so by the Lord".
The second characteristic
is that of "having been sent. In fact, the
Greek term 'apostolos' means envoy, ... the representative
of a principal. ... Once again the idea emerges of
an initiative arising from someone else, from God
in Jesus Christ, to Whom one is duty-bound", of "a mission
to be accomplished in His name, putting all personal
interests aside".
AG/ST. PAUL/...VIS 080910 (480)"Announcing the Gospel and the consequent founding of Churches" is the third requisite. "The tile of apostle", said Pope Benedict, "is not and cannot be a merely honorary title. It truly, even dramatically, involves the entire existence of the person concerned". St. Paul also defined apostles as "servants of God, Whose grace acts in them", said the Pope. "A typical element of the true apostle ... is a form of identification between the Gospel and the evangeliser, both share the same destiny. Indeed no-one so much as Paul highlighted how announcing the cross of Christ is a 'stumbling block and foolishness' to which many react with misunderstanding and refusal. That happened then and it should be no surprise that the same thing happens today". "With the stoical philosophy of his time, Paul shared the idea of tenacious perseverance in all the difficulties he had to face; but he went beyond the merely human perspective by recalling ... God's love and Christ's. ... This is the certainty, the profound joy that guided the Apostle though all those events: nothing can separate us from the love of God, and this love is the real treasure of human life". "As we may see, St. Paul gave himself to the Gospel with all his life", said the Holy Father in conclusion. "He undertook his ministry with faithfulness and joy that he 'might by all means save some'. And though aware of his own relationship of paternity - even, indeed, of maternity - towards the Churches, his attitude to them was one of complete service, declaring: "I do not mean to imply that we lord it over your faith; rather, we are workers with you for your joy'. This remains the mission of all the apostles of Christ in all times: to be collaborators of true joy".
JOHN PAUL I ANGELUS Sunday,
10 September 1978
At Camp David, in America, Presidents Carter
and Sadat and Prime Minister
Begin are working for peace in the Middle
East. All men are hungry and thirsty for peace,
especially the poor, who pay more and suffer more
in troubled times and in wars; for this reason they
look to the Camp David meeting with interest and great
hope. The Pope, too, has prayed, had prayers said, and
is praying the Lord may deign to help the efforts of these
politicians.
I was very favourably impressed by the fact that the three Presidents wished to express their hope in the Lord publicly in prayer. President Sadat's brothers in religion are accustomed to say as follows: "there is pitch darkness, a black stone and on the stone a little ant; but God sees it, and does not forget it". President Carter, who is a fervent Christian, reads in the Gospel; "Knock, and it will be opened to you; ask, and it will be given you. Even the hairs of your head are all numbered." And Premier Begin recalls that the Jewish people once passed difficult moments and addressed the Lord complaining and saying: "You have forsaken us, you have forgotten us!" "No!"—He replied through Isaiah the Prophet—"can a mother forget her own child? But even if it should happen, God will never forget his people". Also we who are here have the same sentiments; we are the objects of undying love on the part of God. We know: he has always his eyes open on us, even when it seems to be dark. He is our father; even more he is our mother. He does not want to hurt us, He wants only to do good to us, to all of us. If children are ill, they have additional claim to be loved by their mother. And we too, if by chance we are sick with badness, on the wrong track, have yet another claim to be loved by the Lord. With these sentiments I invite you to pray together with the Pope for each of us, for the Middle East, for Iran, and for the whole world. © Copyright 1978 - Libreria Editrice Vaticana "Peace
destroys
nothing; War destroys everything" Paul
VI
Paul VI_Athenagoras_05_01_1964"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). "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."
THE COMMEMORATION
OF OUR LADY OF MOUNT CARMEL
THE patronal feast of the Carmelite Order was originally the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary on August 15; but between 1376 and 1386 the custom arose of observing a special feast of our Lady, to celebrate the approbation of their rule by Pope Honorius III in 1226. This custom appears to have originated in England; and the observance was fixed for July 16, which is also the date that, according to Carmelite tradition, our Lady appeared to St Simon Stock and gave him the scapular. At the beginning of the seventeenth century it became definitely the "scapular feast" and soon began to be observed outside the order, and in 1726 it was extended to the whole Western church by Pope Benedict XIII. In the proper of the Mass for the day no mention is made of the scapular or of St Simon's vision, but they are referred to in the lessons of the second nocturn at Matins; and our Lady's scapular is mentioned in the proper preface used by the Carmelites on this feast 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).
Benedict_XVI_Patriarch_Bartholomew
Jesus Christ
is the blessing for every man and
woman ...
The Church, in giving us
Jesus, offers us the fullness of
the Lord’s blessing. This
is precisely the mission of the people
of God: to spread to all peoples
God’s blessing made flesh in Jesus
Christ. And Mary, the first and
most perfect disciple of Jesus,
the first and most perfect believer,
the model of the pilgrim Church, is the
one who opens the way to the Church’s
motherhood and constantly sustains
her maternal mission to all mankind. Mary’s
tactful maternal witness has accompanied
the Church from the beginning.
She, the Mother of God, is also the Mother
of the Church, and through the Church,
the mother of all men and women, and of every
people. …
Let us look to Mary, let us contemplate the Holy Mother of God. I suggest that you all greet her together, just like those courageous people of Ephesus, who cried out before their pastors when they entered Church: “Hail, Holy Mother of God!” What a beautiful greeting for our Mother. There is a story – I do not know if it is true – that some among those people had clubs in their hands, perhaps to make the Bishops understand what would happen if they did not have the courage to proclaim Mary “Mother of God”! I invite all of you, without clubs, to stand up and to greet her three times with this greeting of the early Church: “Hail, Holy Mother of God!” Pope Francis; Homily, Holy Mass on the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God Chinese Catholics Celebrate Pentecost, World
Day of Prayer for Church in China
Sacraments of Initiation Administered During Course of Celebrations Hail, Holy Mother of God -- Pope Francis By Staff Reporter Rome, May 27, 2015 (ZENIT.org) Many Chinese Catholic communities celebrated the World Day of Prayer for the Church in China last Sunday, reported Fides. Pope Benedict XVI instituted this day of prayer in 2007. The May 24 prayer day coincides with the Marian feast day of Our Lady Help of Christians, and this year it coincided with the feast of Pentecost. At the end of last Wednesday's General Audience in the Vatican, Pope Francis remembered the prayer day for the Asian nation. In China on the prayer day, the sacraments of Christian initiation were administered to seven catechumans, 13 infants, and 38 adults in the He Bei province's parishes of Yan Jiao and of Bao Ding, as well as in the Zhe Jiang province's parish of Long Gang in the diocese of Wen Zhou. The feast day of Our Lady Help of Christians is celebrated at the Shrine of Our Lady of Sheshan in Shanghai and on the day, the parish of Chang Shu in the diocese of Su Zhou, along with many other communities, prayed: "Let us pray for the Church in China, that faces major challenges in the life of the Church and society. Let us pray so that the Holy Spirit guides us ... and may Our Lady Help of Christians protect us." Four infants were also baptized during Mass in Chang Shu. Also to celebrate, the parish of Yi Shan in the Diocese of Wen Zhou in the province of Zhe Jiang held a solemn Marian procession, so that, as observers noted, "the Church is one and united and a witness of love." Moreover, religious and some lay people of the diocese of Nan Chong, located in the southern province of Sichuan, went on a pilgrimage not only to celebrate the special feasts of Sunday, but also to celebrate the Year of Consecrated Life. During it, those partaking exchanged their experiences of vocation, faith, mission and pastoral activity. Pope Francis called for the Year of Consecrated Life at the end of his meeting with 120 superior generals of male institutes last November. The year started on the First Sunday of Advent, the weekend of Nov. 29, 2014, and ends on Feb. 2, 2016, the World Day of Consecrated Life. (D.C.L.) “Where there is no honor for the elderly,
there is no future for young
people.”
Pope Francis:
“It
Is a Mortal Sin When Children
Don't Visit Their Elderly Parents.”By Deborah Castellano Lubov VATICAN CITY, March 04, 2015 (Zenit.org) – “Where there is no honor for the elderly,
there is no future for young people.”
During
his weekly General
Audience in St. Peter’s
Square, Pope Francis
made this strong statement while
continuing his catechesis on
the family, with this and next week
focusing on the elderly.
Confining this week’s address
to their problematic current condition,
the Holy Father said the elderly
are ignored and that a society
that does this is perverse.While noting that life has been lengthened thanks to advances in medicine, he lamented that while the number of older people has multiplied, "our societies are not organized enough to make room for them, with proper respect and concrete consideration for their fragility and their dignity.” “As long as we are young, we are led to ignore old age, as if it were a disease to be taken away. Then when we become older, especially if we are poor, sick and alone, we experience the shortcomings of a society planned on efficiency, which consequently ignores the elderly.” He went on to quote his predecessor Pope Benedict XVI, who, when visiting a nursing home in November 2012, “used clear and prophetic words: ‘The quality of a society, I would say of a civilization, is judged also on how the elderly are treated and the place reserved for them in the common life.’" Without a space for them, Francis highlighted, society dies.
Cultures, he
decried, see the elderly
as a burden who do not produce
and should be discarded.
“You do not
say it openly, but you do
it!” he exclaimed. "Out
of our fear of weakness and
vulnerability, we do not
tolerate and abandon the elderly,"
he said. “It’s sickening
to see the elderly discarded.
It is ugly. It’s a sin. Abandoning
the elderly is a mortal sin.”
“Children who
do not visit their elderly
and ill parents have
mortally sinned. Understand?”
The Pope expressed his dismay at children who go months without seeing a parent, or how elderly are confined to little tables in their kitchens alone, without anyone caring for them. He noted that he observed this reality during his ministry in Buenos Aires. Unwilling to accept limits, society, he noted, doesn’t allow elderly to participate and gives into the mentality that only the young can be useful and enjoy life.
The whole society
must realize, the
Pope said, the elderly
contain the wisdom of
the people.
The tradition
of the Church, Pope Francis
reaffirmed, has always
supported a culture of
closeness to the elderly, involving
affectionately and supportively
accompanying them in
this final part of life.
The Church cannot, and does
not want to, Francis underscored,
comply with a mentality of impatience,
and even less of indifference
and contempt towards
old age.Sooner or later, we will all be old, he said. If we do not treat the elderly well, he stressed we will not be treated well either. “We must awaken the collective sense of gratitude, of appreciation, of hospitality, which make them feel the elderly living part of his community.” Concluding his address, Pope Francis noted how old age will come to all one day and reminded the faithful how much they have received from their elders. He also challenged them to not take a step back and abandon them to their fate. Pope Francis: “It is very different to try and
grow in the faith without
Mary's help. It is something
else. It is like growing
in the faith, yes, but in a
Church that is an orphanage.
A Church without Mary is an
orphanage. With Mary—she
educates us, she makes us grow, she
accompanies us,
she touches consciences. She
knows how to touch consciences,
for repentance.”
Pope
Francis Speech
of October 25, 2014,
to the Schönstatt
Apostolic Movement
on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of its founding . "Whatever you ask for in prayer,
believe that
you shall receive it, and it
shall come to you. St. Mark 11:24"
Nazareth is the School
of the
Gospel (II)
It is first a lesson
of silence.
May the esteem of silence be born in us anew, this admirable and indispensable condition of the spirit, in us who are assailed by so much clamor, noise and shouting in our modern life, so noisy and hyper sensitized. O silence of Nazareth, teach us recollection, interiority, disposition to listen to the good inspirations and words of the true masters; teach us the need and value of preparation, study, meditation, personal and interior life, and prayer that God alone sees in secret. It is a lesson of family life. May Nazareth teach us what a family is, with its communion of love, its austere and simple beauty, its sacred and inviolable character; let us learn from Nazareth how sweet and irreplaceable is the formation one receives within it; let us learn how primordial its role is on the social level. It is a lesson of work. Nazareth, the house of the carpenter's son; it is there that we would like to understand and celebrate the severe and redeeming law of human labor; there, to reestablish the conscience of work's nobility; to remind people that working cannot be an end in itself, but that its freedom and nobility come, in addition to its economic value, from the value that finalize it; how we wish to salute here all the workers of the world and show them their great model, their divine brother, the prophet of all their just causes, Christ Our Lord. Homily of Paul VI
in Nazareth
January 5, 1964
Pope Francis: The Kingdom
of
God is found in silence,
not in causing a
spectacle (Video)
He explained that it can also be found in day to day life By Staff
Let
me (Pope Francis)
just recall
the words referring
to the mystery
we celebrate today:
“The immaculate
Virgin preserved
free from all stain
of original sin,
was taken up body and
soul into heavenly glory,
when her earthly
life was over, and exalted
by the Lord as Queen over
all things” (no. 59).
Then towards the end, there is: “The Mother of Jesus in the glory which she possesses in body and soul in heaven is the image and the beginning of the Church as it is to be perfected in the world to come. Likewise, she shines forth on earth, until the day of the Lord shall come” (no. 68). Pope Francis "Whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that
you shall receive
it, and
it shall come
to you. St. Mark
11:24"
January 5 – Our Lady of Good Counsel (Bergamo, Italy) Pope Francis: "Place your vocation in her hands" At the opening of the seminarians’ pilgrimage in France, which was held at Lourdes through Monday, November 10, 2014, Pope Francis sent a special message in the form of three pieces of advice: "Mary accompanied Jesus in his mission. She was present
at Pentecost
when the disciples
received the Holy Spirit.
She accompanied
the first steps of the Church
in a maternal way.
During these days in Lourdes,
confide in her,
place your vocation in her
hands, and ask her to make
you pastors according to
God’s own heart. Let her strengthen
you on these three key
points that I mentioned: brotherhood,
prayer, and mission.
I wholeheartedly give you my Apostolic Blessing and I ask
you to
pray for me. Thank you."www.aleteia.org "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). "Whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that
you shall receive
it, and
it shall come
to you. St. Mark
11:24"
Pope St. Clement: Since all things lie open to His eyes
and ears,
let us hold
Him in awe and
rid ourselves
of impure desires
to do works
of evil, so that
we may be protected
by His mercy
from the judgement
that is
to come.
Which of us
can escape
His mighty
hand?
Cross Not
Optional,
Says
Benedict
XVI
Reflects
on Peter's "Immature" Faith CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy, AUG. 31, 2008 (Zenit.org).-
The
Pope
said this
before reciting
the midday
Angelus
with several
thousand
people gathered
in the courtyard
of the papal
summer
residence
at Castel
Gandolfo,
south
of Rome.Taking up one's cross isn't an option, it's a mission all Christians are called to, says Benedict XVI. 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.'"
Christ
also
knew that
"the resurrection
would
be the
last word,"
Benedict
XVI
added."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." 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."
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 THE PSALTER OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY PSALM 200 O Lady, in thy strength our heart shall rejoice: and in the sweetness of thy name our soul shall be consoled. From thy throne send us wisdom: by which we shall be sweetly enlightened in all truth. Give us grace to abstain from carnal desires: that the light of thy grace may arise in our hearts. How sweet are thy words, O Lady, to them that love thee: how sweet is the shower of thy graces. I will sing unto thy glory and honor: and in thy name I will glory forever. Rejoice, ye Heavens, and be glad, O Earth: because Mary will console her servants and will have mercy on her poor. Our
Father,
who art in
Heaven,
Hallowed
be Thy
Name, Thy
Kingdom come
Thy Will
be done, on earth
as it is in
Heaven; give
us this
day our daily
Bread,
and forgive
us our
trespasses
as we forgive
those
who trespass
against
us; and
lead us not into
temptation
but deliver
us from
evil; Amen
Hail
Mary,
full of
Grace,
the Lord is
with thee,
Blessed
art Thou
amoung women,
and
Blessed is
the fruit
of Thy womb
JESUS,
Holy
Mary, Mother
of
God pray for
us sinners,
now and
at the hour
of our death;
Amen
Eternal
rest,
grant
unto them
of Lord,
and let Thy
Perpetual
Light
shine upon
them;
Amen.
Indulgence of 500 days for each of these prayers. Cross Not
Optional,
Says
Benedict
XVI
Reflects
on Peter's "Immature" Faith CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy, AUG. 31, 2008 (Zenit.org).-
The
Pope
said this
before
reciting
the midday
Angelus
with
several
thousand
people gathered
in the courtyard
of the papal
summer
residence
at Castel
Gandolfo,
south of Rome.Taking up one's cross isn't an option, it's a mission all Christians are called to, says Benedict XVI. 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.'"
Christ
also
knew that
"the resurrection
would
be the
last word,"
Benedict
XVI
added."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." 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”
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 "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).
March 22 - Marialis Cultus by Paul VI (1974)
–
Birth of Lucia of Fatima (1907)
A culminating moment in the salvation dialogue between God and man With regard to Christ, the East and the West, in the inexhaustible riches of their liturgies, celebrate this solemnity as the commemoration of the salvific "fiat" of the Incarnate Word, who, entering the world, said: "God, here I am! I am coming to obey Your will." They commemorate it as the beginning of the redemption and of the indissoluble and wedded union of the divine nature with human nature in the one Person of the Word. With regard to Mary, these liturgies celebrate it as a feast of the new Eve, the obedient and faithful virgin, who with her generous "fiat" became through the working of the Spirit the Mother of God, but also the true Mother of the living, and, by receiving into her womb the one Mediator, became the true Ark of the Covenant and true Temple of God. These liturgies celebrate it as a culminating moment in the salvific dialogue between God and man, and as a commemoration of the Blessed Virgin's free consent and cooperation in the plan of redemption. Pope Paul VI
Apostolic Exhortation Marialis Cultus on the devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary §6, February 1974 Christianity is not a moral code or a philosophy,
but
an encounter
with
a person”
-- Benedict XVI 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
Aram
I CatholicosThat 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. |
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. |
THE
PSALTER OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN
MARY PSALM 128
My enemies have often troubled me from my youth up: deliver me, O Lady, and vindicate my cause from them. Give them not power over my soul: keep my interior and my exterior. Obtain for us pardon for our sins: let it be given to us by the grace of the Holy Spirit. Make us do penance worthily and praiseworthily: that we may come to God by a blessed end. Show us then with a gracious and serene countenance: the glorious fruit of thy womb. For thy spirit is kind: thy grace fills the whole world. Thunder, ye heavens, from above, and give praise to her: glorify her, ye earth, with all the dwellers therein. Rejoice, ye Heavens, and be glad, O Earth: because Mary will console her servants and will have mercy on her poor. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost as it was in the beginning and will always be.
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.
There
are over 10,000 named saints beati
from
history
and Roman Martyology Orthodox sources Patron_Saints.html Widowed_Saints html Indulgences The Catholic Church in China LINKS: Marian Shrines India Marian Shrine Lourdes of the East Lourdes 1858 China Marian shrines 1995 Kenya national Marian shrine Loreto, Italy Marian Apparitions (over 2000) Quang Tri Vietnam La Vang 1798 Links to Related MarianWebsites Angels and Archangels Saints Visions of Heaven and Hell Widowed Saints html Doctors_of_the_Church Acts_Of_The_Apostles Roman Catholic Popes Purgatory Uniates Chalcedon |
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of
Jesus
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The
great
psalm
of
the
Passion,
Chapter
22,
whose
first
verse
“My
God,
my God,
why
hast
thou
forsaken
me?”
Jesus pronounced on the cross, ended with the vision: “All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the Lord; and all the families of the nations shall worship before him” For kingship belongs to the LORD, the ruler over the nations. All who sleep in the earth will bow low before God; All who have gone down into the dust will kneel in homage. And I will live for the LORD; my descendants will serve you. The generation to come will be told of the Lord, that they may proclaim to a people yet unborn the deliverance you have brought. |
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Pope
Benedict
XVI
to
The
Catholic
Church
In China
{whole
article
here}
2000 years of the Catholic Church
in China The saints “a cloud of witnesses over our head”, showing us life of Christian perfection is possible. Join us on CatholicVote.org. Be part of a new
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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 (2013)
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.
Ecc7V,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. |
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801 Rabi'a
al-'Adawiyya
Sufi
One of
the most
famous
Islamic
mystics
(b. 717). This 8th century saint was an early Sufi who had a profound influence on later Sufis, who in turn deeply influenced the European mystical love and troubadour traditions. Rabi'a was a woman of Basra, a seaport in southern Iraq. She was born around 717 and died in 801 (185-186). Her biographer, the great medieval poet Attar, tells us that she was "on fire with love and longing" and that men accepted her "as a second spotless Mary" (186). She was, he continues, “an unquestioned authority to her contemporaries" (218). Rabi'a began her ascetic life in a small desert cell near Basra, where she lost herself in prayer and went straight to God for teaching. As far as is known, she never studied under any master or spiritual director. She was one of the first of the Sufis to teach that Love alone was the guide on the mystic path (222). A later Sufi taught that there were two classes of "true believers": one class sought a master as an intermediary between them and God -- unless they could see the footsteps of the Prophet on the path before them, they would not accept the path as valid. The second class “...did not look before them for the footprint of any of God's creatures, for they had removed all thought of what He had created from their hearts, and concerned themselves solely with God. (218) Rabi'a was of this second kind. She felt no reverence even for the House of God in Mecca: "It is the Lord of the house Whom I need; what have I to do with the house?" (219) One lovely spring morning a friend asked her to come outside to see the works of God. She replied, "Come you inside that you may behold their Maker. Contemplation of the Maker has turned me aside from what He has made" (219). During an illness, a friend asked this woman if she desired anything. "...[H]ow can you ask me such a question as 'What do I desire?' I swear by the glory of God that for twelve years I have desired fresh dates, and you know that in Basra dates are plentiful, and I have not yet tasted them. I am a servant (of God), and what has a servant to do with desire?" (162) When a male friend once suggested she should pray for relief from a debilitating illness, she said, "O Sufyan, do you not know Who it is that wills this suffering for me? Is it not God Who wills it? When you know this, why do you bid me ask for what is contrary to His will? It is not well to oppose one's Beloved." (221) She was an ascetic. It was her custom to pray all night, sleep briefly just before dawn, and then rise again just as dawn "tinged the sky with gold" (187). She lived in celibacy and poverty, having renounced the world. A friend visited her in old age and found that all she owned were a reed mat, screen, a pottery jug, and a bed of felt which doubled as her prayer-rug (186), for where she prayed all night, she also slept briefly in the pre-dawn chill. Once her friends offered to get her a servant; she replied, "I should be ashamed to ask for the things of this world from Him to Whom the world belongs, and how should I ask for them from those to whom it does not belong?" (186-7) A wealthy merchant once wanted to give her a purse of gold. She refused it, saying that God, who sustains even those who dishonor Him, would surely sustain her, "whose soul is overflowing with love" for Him. And she added an ethical concern as well: "...How should I take the wealth of someone of whom I do not know whether he acquired it lawfully or not?" (187) She taught that repentance was a gift from God because no one could repent unless God had already accepted him and given him this gift of repentance. She taught that sinners must fear the punishment they deserved for their sins, but she also offered such sinners far more hope of Paradise than most other ascetics did. For herself, she held to a higher ideal, worshipping God neither from fear of Hell nor from hope of Paradise, for she saw such self-interest as unworthy of God's servants; emotions like fear and hope were like veils -- i.e., hindrances to the vision of God Himself. The story is told that once a number of Sufis saw her hurrying on her way with water in one hand and a burning torch in the other. When they asked her to explain, she said: "I am going to light a fire in Paradise and to pour water on to Hell, so that both veils may vanish altogether from before the pilgrims and their purpose may be sure..." (187-188) She was once asked where she came from. "From that other world," she said. "And where are you going?" she was asked. "To that other world," she replied (219). She taught that the spirit originated with God in "that other world" and had to return to Him in the end. Yet if the soul were sufficiently purified, even on earth, it could look upon God unveiled in all His glory and unite with him in love. In this quest, logic and reason were powerless. Instead, she speaks of the "eye" of her heart which alone could apprehend Him and His mysteries (220). Above all, she was a lover, a bhakti, like one of Krishna’s Goptis in the Hindu tradition. Her hours of prayer were not so much devoted to intercession as to communion with her Beloved. Through this communion, she could discover His will for her. Many of her prayers have come down to us: "I have made Thee the Companion of my heart, But my body is available for those who seek its company, And my body is friendly towards its guests, But the Beloved of my heart is the Guest of my soul." [224] |
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Colombia
was
among
the
countries
Mother
Angelica
visited.
In Bogotá, a Salesian priest - Father Juan Pablo Rodriguez - brought Mother and the nuns to the Sanctuary of the Divine Infant Jesus to attend Mass. After Mass, Father Juan Pablo took them into a small Shrine which housed the miraculous statue of the Child Jesus. Mother Angelica stood praying at the side of the statue when suddenly the miraculous image came alive and turned towards her. Then the Child Jesus spoke with the voice of a young boy: “Build Me a Temple and I will help those who help you.” Thus began a great adventure that would eventually result in the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament, a Temple dedicated to the Divine Child Jesus, a place of refuge for all. Use this link to read a remarkable story about The Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament Father Reardon, Editor of The Catholic
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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
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;
Affiliations
and
Indulgences
Litany of Loretto in Stained glass
windows
here.
Nave
Sacristy
and
Residence
Here
Member -- St. Paul Seminary
faculty.
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
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THE BLESSED
MOTHER
AND
ISLAM
By Father
John
Corapi.
June 19, Trinity Sunday, 1991: Ordained Catholic Priest under
Pope
John
Paul
II;
By Father John Corapithen 2,000,000 miles delivering the Gospel to millions, and continues to do so. THE BLESSED MOTHER AND ISLAM By Father John Corapi.
June 19, Trinity Sunday, 1991: Ordained Catholic Priest under
Pope
John
Paul
II;
By Father John Corapithen 2,000,000 miles delivering the Gospel to millions, and continues to do so.
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. Islam is a religion of peace. 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.
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Father John Corapi
goes to the heart of the contemporary world's
many
woes
and wars,
whether
the wars
in Afghanistan,
Iraq,
Lebanon,
Somalia,
or the
Congo,
or
the natural
disasters
that
seem
to be increasing
every
year,
the
moral
and spiritual
war is
at the basis
of
everything.
“Our
battle
is not
against
human
forces,”
St.
Paul asserts,
“but
against
principalities
and powers,
against
the world
rulers
of this
present
darkness...”
(Ephesians
6:12).
The “War to end all wars” is the moral and spiritual combat that rages in the hearts and minds of human beings. The outcome of that unseen fight largely determines how the battle in the realm of the seen unfolds. The title talk, “With the Moon Under Her Feet,” is taken from the twelfth chapter of the Book of Revelation, and deals with the current threat to the world from radical Islam, and the Blessed Virgin Mary's role in the ultimate victory that will result in the conversion of Islam. Few Catholics are aware of the connection between Islam, Fatima, and Guadalupe. Presented in Father Corapi's straight-forward style, you will be both inspired and educated by him. About Father John Corapi. Father Corapi is a Catholic
priest
.
The pillars of father's
preaching
are
basically:
Love
for
and
a relationship
with
the
Blessed
Virgin
Mary
Leading a vibrant and loving relationship with Jesus Christ Great love and reverence for the Most Holy Eucharist from Holy Mass to adoration of the Blessed Sacrament An uncompromising love for and obedience to the Holy Father and the teaching of the Magisterium of the Church God Bless
you
on your
journey
Father
John
Corapi
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Algerian martyrs are models for the Church, archbishop says Nov 16, 2018 - 03:01 am .- Archbishop Paul Desfarges of Algiers has said that Bishop Pierre Claverie and his 18 companions, who were martyred in Algeria between 1994 and 1996, are “models for our lives as disciples today and tomorrow.” Francesco Spinelli to be canonized after healing of a newborn in DR Congo Oct 9, 2018 - 05:01 pm .- Among those being canonized on Sunday are Fr. Franceso Spinelli, a diocesan priest through whose intercession a newborn was saved from death in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Algerian martyrs to be beatified in December Sep 14, 2018 - 06:01 pm .- The Algerian bishops' conference has announced that the beatification of Bishop Pierre Claverie and his 18 companions, who were martyred in the country between 1994 and 1996, will be held Dec. 8. 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Sainthood causes advance, including layman who resisted fascism Jun 17, 2017 - 09:22 am .- Pope Francis on Friday recognized the heroic virtue of six persons on the path to canonization, as well as the martyrdom of an Italian man who died from injuries of a beating he received while imprisoned in a concentration camp for resisting fascism. Solanus Casey, Cardinal Van Thuan among those advanced toward sainthood May 4, 2017 - 10:47 am .- Pope Francis on Thursday approved decrees of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints advancing the causes for canonization of 12 individuals, including the American-born Capuchin Solanus Casey and the Vietnamese cardinal Francis Xavier Nguen Van Thuan. Pope clears way for canonization of Fatima visionaries Mar 23, 2017 - 06:44 am .- On Thursday Pope Francis approved the second and final miracle needed to canonize Blessed Francisco and Jacinta Marto, two of the shepherd children who witnessed the Fatima Marian apparitions. 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Brooklyn diocese advances sainthood cause of local priest Jun 25, 2019 - 03:01 am .- The Bishop of Brooklyn accepted last week the findings of a nine-year diocesan investigation into the life of Monsignor Bernard John Quinn, known for fighting bigotry and serving the African American population, as part of his cause for canonization. Fr. Augustus Tolton, former African American slave, advances toward sainthood Jun 12, 2019 - 05:03 am .- Fr. Augustus Tolton advanced along the path to sainthood Wednesday, making the runaway slave-turned-priest one step closer to being the first black American saint. Pope Francis will beatify these martyred Greek-Catholic bishops in Romania May 30, 2019 - 03:01 pm .- On Sunday in Blaj, Pope Francis will beatify seven Greek-Catholic bishops of Romania who were killed by the communist regime between 1950 and 1970. Woman who served Brazil’s poorest to be canonized May 14, 2019 - 06:53 am .- Pope Francis Tuesday gave his approval for eight sainthood causes to proceed, including that of Bl. Dulce Lopes Pontes, a 20th-century religious sister who served Brazil’s poor. Seven 20th-century Romanian bishops declared martyrs Mar 19, 2019 - 12:01 pm .- Pope Francis declared Tuesday the martyrdom of seven Greek-Catholic bishops killed by the communist regime in Romania in the mid-20th century. Pope advances sainthood causes of 17 women Jan 15, 2019 - 11:12 am .- Pope Francis approved Tuesday the next step in the canonization causes of 17 women from four countries, including the martyrdom of 14 religious sisters killed in Spain at the start of the Spanish Civil War. Nineteen Algerian martyrs beatified Dec 10, 2018 - 03:08 pm .- Bishop Pierre Claverie and his 18 companions, who were martyred in Algeria between 1994 and 1996, were beatified Saturday during a Mass in Oran. The Algerian martyrs shed their blood for Christ, pope says Dec 7, 2018 - 10:02 am .- Ahead of the beatification Saturday of Bishop Pierre Claverie and his 18 companions, who were martyred in Algeria between 1994 and 1996, Pope Francis said martyrs have a special place in the Church. Algerian martyrs are models for the Church, archbishop says Nov 16, 2018 - 03:01 am .- Archbishop Paul Desfarges of Algiers has said that Bishop Pierre Claverie and his 18 companions, who were martyred in Algeria between 1994 and 1996, are “models for our lives as disciples today and tomorrow.” Francesco Spinelli to be canonized after healing of a newborn in DR Congo Oct 9, 2018 - 05:01 pm .- Among those being canonized on Sunday are Fr. Franceso Spinelli, a diocesan priest through whose intercession a newborn was saved from death in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Algerian martyrs to be beatified in December Sep 14, 2018 - 06:01 pm .- The Algerian bishops' conference has announced that the beatification of Bishop Pierre Claverie and his 18 companions, who were martyred in the country between 1994 and 1996, will be held Dec. 8. Now a cardinal, Giovanni Angelo Becciu heads to congregation for saints' causes Jun 28, 2018 - 11:41 am .- Newly-minted Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu will resign from his post as substitute of the Secretariat of State tomorrow, in anticipation of his appointment as prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints later this summer. Pope Francis creates new path to beatification under ‘offering of life’ Jul 11, 2017 - 06:22 am .- On Tuesday Pope Francis declared a new category of Christian life suitable for consideration of beatification called “offering of life” – in which a person has died prematurely through an offering of their life for love of God and neighbor. Twentieth century Polish nurse among causes advancing toward sainthood Jul 7, 2017 - 06:14 am .- Pope Francis on Friday approved a miracle attributed to the intercession of the Venerable Hanna Chrzanowska, a Polish nurse and nursing instructor who died from cancer in 1973, paving the way for her beatification. Sainthood causes advance, including layman who resisted fascism Jun 17, 2017 - 09:22 am .- Pope Francis on Friday recognized the heroic virtue of six persons on the path to canonization, as well as the martyrdom of an Italian man who died from injuries of a beating he received while imprisoned in a concentration camp for resisting fascism. Solanus Casey, Cardinal Van Thuan among those advanced toward sainthood May 4, 2017 - 10:47 am .- Pope Francis on Thursday approved decrees of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints advancing the causes for canonization of 12 individuals, including the American-born Capuchin Solanus Casey and the Vietnamese cardinal Francis Xavier Nguen Van Thuan. Pope clears way for canonization of Fatima visionaries Mar 23, 2017 - 06:44 am .- On Thursday Pope Francis approved the second and final miracle needed to canonize Blessed Francisco and Jacinta Marto, two of the shepherd children who witnessed the Fatima Marian apparitions. Surgeon and father among sainthood causes moving forward Feb 27, 2017 - 11:03 am .- Pope Francis recognized on Monday the heroic virtue of eight persons on the path to canonization, including an Italian surgeon and father of eight who suffered from several painful diseases throughout his life. |
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8
Martyrs
Move
Closer
to Sainthood
8 July, 2016
Posted by ZENIT Staff on 8 July, 2016 The angel appears to Saint Monica This morning, Pope Francis received Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, Cardinal Angelo Amato. During the audience, he authorized the promulgation of decrees concerning the following causes: *** MIRACLES: Miracle attributed to the intercession of the Venerable Servant of God Luis Antonio Rosa Ormières, priest and founder of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Guardian Angel; born July 4, 1809 and died on Jan. 16, 1890 MARTYRDOM: Servants of God Antonio Arribas Hortigüela and 6 Companions, Missionaries of the Sacred Heart; killed in hatred of the Faith, Sept. 29, 1936 Servant of God Josef Mayr-Nusser, a layman; killed in hatred of the Faith, Feb. 24, 1945 HEROIC VIRTUE: Servant of God Alfonse Gallegos of the Order of Augustinian Recollects, Titular Bishop of Sasabe, auxiliary of Sacramento; born Feb. 20, 1931 and died Oct. 6, 1991 Servant of God Rafael Sánchez García, diocesan priest; born June 14, 1911 and died on Aug. 8, 1973 Servant of God Andrés García Acosta, professed layman of the Order of Friars Minor; born Jan. 10, 1800 and died Jan. 14, 1853 Servant of God Joseph Marchetti, professed priest of the Congregation of the Missionaries of St. Charles; born Oct. 3, 1869 and died Dec. 14, 1896 Servant of God Giacomo Viale, professed priest of the Order of Friars Minor, pastor of Bordighera; born Feb. 28, 1830 and died April 16, 1912 Servant of God Maria Pia of the Cross (née Maddalena Notari), foundress of the Congregation of Crucified Sisters Adorers of the Eucharist; born Dec. 2, 1847 and died on July 1, 1919 |
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Sunday,
November
23
2014 Six
to Be Canonized
on Feast
of Christ
the King. On the List Are Lay Founder of a Hospital and Eastern Catholic Religious VATICAN CITY, June 12, 2014 (Zenit.org) - Today, the Vatican announced that during the celebration of the feast of Christ the King on Sunday, November 23, an ordinary public consistory will be held for the canonization of the following six blesseds, who include a lay founder of a hospital for the poor, founders of religious orders, and two members of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church, an Eastern Catholic Church in full communion with the Holy See: -Giovanni Antonio Farina (1803-1888), an Italian bishop who founded the Institute of the Sisters Teachers of Saint Dorothy, Daughters of the Sacred Hearts -Kuriakose Elias Chavara (1805-1871), a Syro-Malabar priest in India who founded the Carmelites of Mary Immaculate -Ludovico of Casoria (1814-1885), an Italian Franciscan priest who founded the Gray Sisters of St. Elizabeth -Nicola Saggio (Nicola da Longobardi, 1650-1709), an Italian oblate of the Order of Minims -Euphrasia Eluvathingal (1877-1952), an Indian Carmelite of the Syro-Malabar Church -Amato Ronconi (1238-1304), an Italian, Third Order Franciscan who founded a hospital for poor pilgrims |
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CAUSES
OF SAINTS
July 2015. Pope Recognizes Heroic Virtues of Ukrainian Archbishop Recognition Brings Metropolitan Archbishop Andrey Sheptytsky Closer to Beatification By Junno Arocho Esteves Rome, July 17, 2015 (ZENIT.org) Pope Francis recognized the heroic virtues of Ukrainian Greek Catholic Archbishop Andrey Sheptytsky. According to a communique released by the Holy See Press Office, the Holy Father met this morning with Cardinal Angelo Amato, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints. The Pope also recognized the heroic virtues of several religious/lay men and women from Italy, Spain, France & Mexico. Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky is considered to be one of the most influential 20th century figures in the history of the Ukrainian Church. Enthroned as Metropolitan of Lviv in 1901, Archbishop Sheptytsky was arrested shortly after the outbreak of World War I in 1914 by the Russians. After his imprisonment in several prisons in Russia and the Ukraine, the Archbishop was released in 1918. The Ukrainian Greek Catholic prelate was also an ardent supporter of the Jewish community in Ukraine, going so far as to learn Hebrew to better communicate with them. He also was a vocal protestor against atrocities committed by the Nazis, evidenced in his pastoral letter, "Thou Shalt Not Kill." He was also known to harbor thousands of Jews in his residence and in Greek Catholic monasteries. Following his death in 1944, his cause for canonization was opened in 1958. * * * The Holy Father authorized the Congregation to promulgate the following decrees regarding the heroic virtues of: - Servant of God Andrey Sheptytsky, O.S.B.M., major archbishop of Leopolis of the Ukrainians, metropolitan of Halyc (1865-1944); - Servant of God Giuseppe Carraro, Bishop of Verona, Italy (1899-1980); - Servant of God Agustin Ramirez Barba, Mexican diocesan priest and founder of the Servants of the Lord of Mercy (1881-1967); - Servant of God Simpliciano della Nativita (ne Aniello Francesco Saverio Maresca), Italian professed priest of the Order of Friars Minor, founder of the Franciscan Sisters of the Sacred Hearts (1827-1898); - Servant of God Maria del Refugio Aguilar y Torres del Cancino, Mexican founder of the Mercedarian Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament (1866-1937); - Servant of God Marie-Charlotte Dupouy Bordes (Marie-Teresa), French professed religious of the Society of the Religious of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary (1873-1953); - Servant of God Elisa Miceli, Italian founder of the Rural Catechist Sisters of the Sacred Heart (1904-1976); - Servant of God Isabel Mendez Herrero (Isabel of Mary Immaculate), Spanish professed nun of the Servants of St. Joseph (1924-1953) |
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October
01,
2015
Vatican
City,
Pope Authorizes
following
Decrees (ZENIT.org) By Staff Reporter Polish Layperson Recognized as Servant of God Pope Authorizes Decrees Pope Francis on Wednesday authorised the Congregation for Saints' Causes to promulgate the following decrees: MARTYRDOM - Servant of God Valentin Palencia Marquina, Spanish diocesan priest, killed in hatred of the faith in Suances, Spain in 1937; HEROIC VIRTUES - Servant of God Giovanni Folci, Italian diocesan priest and founder of the Opera Divin Prigioniero (1890-1963); - Servant of God Franciszek Blachnicki, Polish diocesan priest (1921-1987); - Servant of God Jose Rivera Ramirez, Spanish diocesan priest (1925-1991); - Servant of God Juan Manuel Martín del Campo, Mexican diocesan priest (1917-1996); - Servant of God Antonio Filomeno Maria Losito, Italian professed priest of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer (1838-1917); - Servant of God Maria Benedetta Giuseppa Frey (nee Ersilia Penelope), Italian professed nun of the Cistercian Order (1836-1913); - Servant of God Hanna Chrzanowska, Polish layperson, Oblate of the Ursulines of St. Benedict (1902-1973). |
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March
06 2016 MIRACLES
authorised
the Congregation
to promulgate
the following
decrees:
Pope Francis received in a private audience Cardinal Angelo Amato, prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, during which he authorised the Congregation to promulgate the following decrees: MIRACLES – Blessed Manuel González García, bishop of Palencia, Spain, founder of the Eucharistic Missionaries of Nazareth (1877-1940); – Blessed Elisabeth of the Trinity (née Elisabeth Catez), French professed religious of the Order of Discalced Carmelites (1880-1906); – Venerable Servant of God Marie-Eugène of the Child Jesus (né Henri Grialou), French professed priest of the Order of Discalced Carmelites, founder of the Secular Institute “Notre-Dame de Vie” (1894-1967); – Venerable Servant of God María Antonia of St. Joseph (née María Antonio de Paz y Figueroa), Argentine founder of the Beaterio of the Spiritual Exercise of Buenos Aires (1730-1799); HEROIC VIRTUE – Servant of God Stefano Ferrando, Italian professed priest of the Salesians, bishop of Shillong, India, founder of the Congregation of Missionary Sisters of Mary Help of Christians (1895-1978); – Servant of God Enrico Battista Stanislao Verjus, Italian professed priest of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, coadjutor of the apostolic vicariate of New Guinea (1860-1892); – Servant of God Giovanni Battista Quilici, Italian diocesan priest, founder of the Congregation of the Daughters of the Crucified (1791-1844); – Servant of God Bernardo Mattio, Italian diocesan priest (1845-1914); – Servant of God Quirico Pignalberi, Italian professed priest of the Order of Friars Minor Conventual (1891-1982); – Servant of God Teodora Campostrini, Italian founder of the Minim Sisters of Charity of Our Lady of Sorrows (1788-1860); – Servant of God Bianca Piccolomini Clementini, Italian founder of the Company of St. Angela Merici di Siena (1875-1959); – Servant of God María Nieves of the Holy Family (née María Nieves Sánchez y Fernández), Spanish professed religious of the Daughters of Mary of the Pious Schools (1900-1978). April 26 2016 MIRACLES authorised the Congregation to promulgate the following decrees: Here is the full list of decrees approved by the Pope: MIRACLES – Blessed Alfonso Maria Fusco, diocesan priest and founder of the Congregation of the Sisters of St. John the Baptist (1839-1910); – Venerable Servant of God John Sullivan, professed priest of the Society of Jesus (1861-1933); MARTYRDOM – Servants of God Nikolle Vinçenc Prennushi, O.F.M., archbishop of Durres, Albania, and 37 companions killed between 1945 and 1974; – Servants of God José Antón Gómez and three companions of the Benedictines of Madrid, Spain, killed 1936; HEROIC VIRTUES – Servant of God Thomas Choe Yang-Eop, diocesan priest (1821-1861); – Servant of God Sosio Del Prete (né Vincenzo), professed priest of the Order of Friars Minor, founder of the Congregation of the Little Servants of Christ the King (1885-1952); – Servant of God Wenanty Katarzyniec (né Jósef), professed priest of the Order of Friars Minor Conventual (1889-1921); – Servant of God Maria Consiglia of the Holy Spirity (née Emilia Paqualina Addatis), founder of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Addolorata, Servants of Mary (1845-1900); – Servant of God Maria of the Incarnation (née Caterina Carrasco Tenorio), founder of the Congregation of the Franciscan Tertiary Sisters of the Flock of Mary (1840-1917); – Servant of God , founder of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Family of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (1851-1923); – Servant of God Ilia Corsaro, founder of the Congregation of the Little Missionaries of the Eucharist (1897-1977); – Servant of God Maria Montserrat Grases García, layperson of the Personal Prelature of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei (1941-1959). |
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