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Saints of this Day November
20 Duodécimo Kaléndas Decémbris.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!) “We cultivate a very small field for Christ, but we love it, knowing that God does not require great achievements but a heart that holds back nothing for self.... The truest crosses are those we do not choose ourselves.... He who has Jesus has everything.” St.
Rose Philippine Duchesne opened American Indian Missions.
November 20 - Francis Cardinal Spellman
dedicated National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception (Washington, D.C., 1959) Most
Holy Theotokos Forefeast of the Entry into the Temple
The Feast of the Entry of the Most Holy Theotokos into the Temple has only one day of prefeast. The hymns for today praise St Anna for bringing her daughter, the living temple of God, to the Temple in Jerusalem: tent of the congregation: dedication of Solomon's Temple; the gate of the sanctuary which faces east. God enters through this gate, which is shut so that no one else can enter by it. 9th v. B.C. St Obadiah The Holy Prophet [or Abdia] fourth of the Twelve Minor Prophets; He was from the village of Betharam, near Sichem, and he served as steward of the impious Israelite King Ahab. In those days the whole of Israel had turned away from the true God and had begun to offer sacrifice to Baal, but Obadiah faithfully served the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in secret. The God-inspired work of St Obadiah is the fourth of the Books of the Twelve Minor Prophets in the Bible, and contains predictions about the New Testament Church. St. Bassus Denis, Agapitus, and 40 Companions Martyrs of Heraclea Thrace 297 St. Octavius, Solutor, and Adventor Martyrs patron saints of Turin 300 St. Dasius Martyred Roman soldier slain at Durosturum Bulgaria 302 St. Ampelus Martyred with companion 306 St. Agapius of Caesarea M (RM) 343 St. Nerses of Sahgerd B & Companions MM (RM) 343 SS Martyr Thekla and many other men and women who suffered in Persia 343 St. Nerses Persian bishop martyr 450+ St Proclus the Archbishop of Constantinople 446 Saint Proclus, Archbishop of Constantinople (Orthodox) Catholic Nov 24 477 St. Benignus Archbishop Milan 525 Saint Silvester of Châlons -sur-Saône "the glory of confessors" B (RM) 535 Saint Simplicius of Verona B (RM) 6th V. St. Eval British bishop in Cornwall St. Maxentia of Beauvais Irish/Scottish virgin martyr 690 St. Autbodus Irish missionary hermit 760 Saint Eudo of Corméry humility OSB Abbot (AC) 816 Venerable Gregory Decapolite gifts of prophecy and wonderworking permitted to hear angelic singing in praise of the Holy Trinity Saint Colman this saint is remembered on November 20 in Wales THE PRESENTATION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY THIS feast is popularly associated with a story that the parents of our Lady brought her to the Temple at Jerusalem when she was three years old and left her there to be brought up, related in several of the apocryphal gospels, e.g. in the Protevangelium of James. And the child was two years old, and Joachim said, “Let us take
her up to the Temple of the Lord, that we may pay the vow that we have vowed,
lest perchance the Lord send to us and our offering be not received”. And
Anne said, “Let us wait for the third year, in order that the child may not
seek for father or mother”. And Joachim said, “Let us so wait”. And the child
was three years old…and they went up into the Temple of the Lord, and the
priest received her and kissed her and blessed her, saying, “The Lord has
magnified thy name in all generations. In thee, on the last of the days,
the Lord will manifest His redemption to the sons of Israel.” And he set
her down upon the third step of the altar, and the Lord God sent grace upon
her; and she danced with her feet and all the house of Israel loved her.
And her parents went down marvelling, and praising the Lord God because the
child had not turned back. And Mary was in the Temple of the Lord as if she
were a dove that dwelt there. It
is not stated anywhere in the liturgy of the Roman church that this is the
occasion of the presentation celebrated in today’s feast. The festival is
not a very ancient one, even in the East where it originated: the Entrance
of the All-holy Mother of God into the Temple. It seems probable that its
origin was in the commemoration of the dedication of New St Mary’s church
at Jerusalem in 543. In the West the first, and sporadic, observance of it
was in the eleventh century, in England. Here it was, to quote Edmund Bishop,
a real liturgical feast and was actually
observed in practice. Assurance of the fact is supplied by the Canterbury
Cathedral Benedictional. In its proper place in this Benedictional (i.e. between the feasts of St Martin, November 11, and St Cecily, November 22) is a “Benedictio de praentatione
sancte Marie”. This is that feast of the Presentation which after appearing
in our English books of Winchester and Canterbury only to disappear again,
was started in Latin Christendom in the later decades of the fourteenth century
our English essay of 350 years earlier being forgotten by all the world usque in hodiernum diem (Liturgica Histori ca, p. 257). The feast won general acceptance
only gradually and was not finally admitted to the Western calendar till
the pontificate of Sixtus V (1585). See Kellner,
Heortology, pp. 265—266 Schuster, The Sacramentary,
vol. v, pp. 290—291 Holweck, Calendarium Liturgicum
(1925), p. 386 S. Beissel, Verehrung Marias in Deutschland,
vol. i, p . 306 vol ii, p. 386. It is curious that in none of these
sources is any mention made of the fact that as early as the eleventh century
the feast of the Presentation of our Lady was liturgically celebrated in
England, and that at Canterbury itself: see the Henry Bradshaw Society’s
edition of the Canterbury Benedictional, p. 116. This celebration seems to
have had some diffusion in England. It is found in the calendar of an East
Anglian Horae (Christ’s Coll. Camb., MS. 6, early thirteenth
century) in the form “Oblacio B.M.V.”. In this form also it occurs in two
Worcester books of the same date see The Leofric Collectar, vol.
ii, p. 599. That the feast was somehow introduced from the East may be inferred
from the fact that we find it attached to this same day (November 21) in
the Greek synaxaries (the text is printed in Delehaye’s edition, cc. 243—244.)
and these synaxaries certainly date from the tenth century. In the Henry
Bradshaw Society’s reprint of the Missale Romanum of 1474 (vol. ii, pp. 251—253) is an interesting
note which, while pointing out that the Presentation feast does not
occur in the calendar or text of the 1474 edition, prints a Mass for the
feast from a Roman missal of 1505. This includes a long sequence so barbarously
worded that one can readily believe that St Pius VThe Feast of the Presentation (1941) E. Campana, Maria nell culto cattolico, vol. (1943), pp. 207—214; and N.
Chirat, Mélanges(1945) pp. 12
7—143. thought it better to suppress the feast altogether— as
he did—rather than tolerate the continued recitation of such doggerel. For
later references to the feast’s origins, see M. J. Kishpaugh,
The Power of the Rosary (II) Then they all fell to their knees and with tears streaming down their faces, bawling like children, they recited the Hail Mary over the ocean, and their prayers reached heaven. The rosary ended and the missionary spoke again: "Do not be afraid! Our Mother the Blessed Virgin has heard us! We are out of danger!" "Out of danger?" the crew screamed. "Don't you see that we are already within fire reach? "Have faith!" insisted Grignion de Montfort. At that moment there was a strong gale. The enemy ships were turned and tossed like walnut shells, and they disappeared over the horizon. The crew of the ship was saved and they alighted on the island singing the Magnificat. When some poor fishermen heard about the miracle, they were all ears to the missionary's preaching. Everyone asked to confess, except the governor, and they became fervent Christians, always remaining faithful to the rosary. The Caliph Who Defied the Coptic Church (IV) November 20 - Our Lady of Bozzola (Italy, 15th C.) Researchers have attempted to find historic proof of this miracle and the true existence of Saint Simon. Mottokan Mountain is actually crossed by three faults. Pope Abraam the Syrian chose to declare the 3-day fast as a definitive rule, adding them to the 40 days of fasting before Christmas. Inside the so-called "Suspended Church" of the Virgin Mary in Old Cairo is an icon, hanging on the northern wall of the courtyard, representing Abraam, Saint Simon the Tanner and the Virgin Mary. It is said to be the copy of a more ancient icon that has been lost. Taking into account the known date of the renovation of the Abu Sifein Church authorized by decree in A.D. 979, the miracle is believed to have occurred in that same year. The 3-day fast addition to the Advent fast gives an indication of the date of the miracle. Since the Christmas fast begins on September 28 in Egypt-ending on their "Christmas day" (January 7 according to Coptic calendar) the miracle occurred on November 17 (18 Hatur 695 AM). In 1969, Mokattam Mountain became the city's landfill by a ruling of the governor of Cairo. This is where the Christian community of Cairo moved and they have charge of collecting and sorting the trash. Since that time many miracles have occurred there and in the 1970s the great church of Saint Simon was built on the mountain to serve the faith of this vibrant community, poor but traditionally very fervent. In 1989, archeological research was done with blessing of His Holiness Shenouda III in search of relics of Saint Simon. Some manuscripts suggested that in the 16th century Popes Johannes X and Ghobrial IV (see the History of the Patriarchs by Youssab) had been buried alongside Saint Simon the Tanner in Al-Habach in Old Cairo. On August 4, 1991, during the renovation of the ancient Church of Saint Mary in Babylon El-Darag, skeletal remains of a man in his fifties were discovered. Not far from there a thousand-year-old clay pot was unearthed inscription saying tomb of Saint Simon the Tanner. The presence at his side of the patriarchs' tombs was additional proof of his importance. The results of a thorough investigation convinced His Holiness Shenouda III the bones were those of Saint Simon. The findings were officially confirmed on July 7, 1992, the date on which three different churches were conferred the honor of housing his relics: the Church of Saint Mary in Babylon El-Darag, the Suspended Church of Saint Mary, and the Church of Saint Simon the Tanner in Mokattam. Adapted from an article by Mohamed Salmawy published in the weekly AL-AHRAM, March 8, 2000. 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. Nov 20 Cardinal Spellman Consecrates the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. (1959) The Presentation of the Virgin Mary in the Temple (I) Mary, brought to the Temple to prepare herself - through a retreat, through humility and love - for her incomparable destiny, also received the mission to perfect, at the foot of figurative altars, the prayer of mankind, which was too weak to rain the Savior from the heavens. She was, says Saint Bernardine of Sienna, the blessed crowning of all expectations and demands of the advent of the Son of God; in her, as in a summit, all the desires of the saints who preceded her found their end and consummation. Dom Prosper Gueranger The Liturgical Year |
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869 St. Edmund
the Martyr king at 14 of the East Angles 870 Saint Humbert of the East Angles crowned Saint Edmund king on Christmas Day BM 1000 St. Leo of Nonantula Benedictine abbot of Nonantula 1000 St. Bernward tutor Benedictine from a Saxon family 1212
St. Felix
of Valois Hermit co-founder of the Trinitarians; a religious order dedicated to ransoming
Christian slaves who were captured during the Crusades: Pope Innocent III,
who not only gave his approval but also gave the founders a habit for their
order: white, with a red and blue cross. John and Felix then returned to
France, where their hermitage was renamed Cerfroid, in memory of the deer
which had appeared there.
1242 St. Edmund
Rich Archbishop of Canterbury baffled for discipline and justice1439 Blessed Ambrose Traversari Renaissance scholar attempted reunification Eastern & Western Churches OSB Cam. 1633 Saint Diodorus of Yuregorsk; received monastic tonsure when 19 Solovki monastery under igumen Anthony; Born
in the village of Turchasovo at the River Onega. His parents, Jerothei and
Maria, named their son Diomid. As a fifteen-year-old youth he went on pilgrimage
to the Solovki monastery, and then remained there as a novice. There he received
monastic tonsure when he was nineteen under the igumen Anthony; memory celebrated on November 20 because of the
Feast of the Icon of the Mother of God "Of the Sign,"
1837 St. Francis
Xavier Can nativeVietnam Martyr1852 St. Rose Philippine Duchesne care of poor /sick, opened school for street urchins risked life helping priests in the underground. 1922 Blessed Maria Fortunata Viti: Patronage against poverty, against temptations, impoverishment, insanity, loss of parents, mental illness, mentally ill people, poverty. 1885
Blessed Salvatore
Lilli, a Franciscan missionary in Armenia. He built schools and
clinics for the poor while he preached the Gospel: captured by Muslims and
murdered for refusing to convert to Islam.
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20 Duodécimo Kaléndas Decémbris.
On Death and Life "Man Needs Eternity -- and Every Other Hope, for Him, Is All Too Brief" Pope BENEDICT XVI'S Holy Father's Prayer Intentions For 2011 for November General Intention: That the family may be respected by all in its identity and that its irreplaceable contribution to all of society be recognized. Missionary Intention: That in the mission territories where the struggle against disease is most urgent, Christian communities may witness to the presence of Christ to those who suffer 
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Mary Mother of GOD 15 Promises of the Virgin Mary to those who recite the Rosary Mary's Divine Motherhood Called in the Gospel “the Mother of Jesus,” Mary
is acclaimed by Elizabeth, at the prompting
of the Spirit and even before
the birth of her son, as “the Mother of my Lord”
(Lk 1:43; Jn 2:1; 19:25; cf. Mt 13:55; et
al.). In fact, the One whom she conceived as
man by the Holy Spirit, who truly became her Son according to the flesh, was
none other than the Father's eternal
Son, the second person of the Holy
Trinity. Hence the Church confesses that
Mary is truly “Mother of God” (Theotokos).
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usccb.org ewtn.com St Patricks 1120Catechism 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.”domcentral.org/life/martyr Nov syriac oca.org glaubenszeugen.de/tage/kai/20 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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We are called upon with the whole Church militant
on earth to join in praising and thanking God for the grace
and glory he has bestowed on his saints. At the same time we
earnestly implore Him to exert His almighty power and mercy in
raising us from our miseries and sins, healing the disorders of
our souls and leading us by the path of repentance to the company of
His saints, to which He has called us.
THE saints and just,
from the beginning of time and throughout the world,
who have been made perfect, everlasting monuments of God’s
infinite power and clemency, praise His goodness without
ceasing; casting their crowns before His throne they give to
Him all the glory of their triumphs: “His gifts alone in us He crowns.”
They were once what we are now, travellers on earth they had the same weaknesses, which we have. We have difficulties to encounter so had the saints, and many of them far greater than we can meet with; obstacles from kings and whole nations, sometimes from the prisons, racks and swords of persecutors. Yet they surmounted these difficulties, which they made the very means of their virtue and victories. It was by the strength they received from above, not by their own, that they triumphed. But the blood of Christ was shed for us as it was for them and the grace of our Redeemer is not wanting to us; if we fail, the failure is in ourselves. |
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Pius IX 1846--1878 • Leo XIII 1878-1903 • Pius X 1903-1914• Benedict XV 1914-1922 • Pius XI 1922-1939 • Pius XII 1939-1958 • John XXIII 1958-1963 • Paul VI 1963 to 1978 • John Paul • John Paul II 10/16/1975-4/2/2005Benedict XVI “The answers to many of life's questions can be found by reading the Lives of the Saints. They teach us how to overcome obstacles and difficulties, how to stand firm in our faith, and how to struggle against evil and emerge victorious.” 1913 Saint Barsanuphius Christianity is not a moral code or a philosophy,
but
an encounter with
a person” -- Benedict XVI
Quote: Pope Paul VI’s
1969 Instruction
on the Contemplative Life includes
this passage:
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Benedict XVI receives
Orthodox Archbishop Hilarion
n September 18th, Pope Benedict XVI;
Archbishop Hilarion, president of the
Department for External Church Affairs
of the Patriarchate of Moscow.The Orthodox Archbishop is currently visiting the Vatican at the invitation of Cardinal Kasper, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity. This Pontifical Council underlined that the visit will confirm the ties of friendship between the Catholic Church and the Russian Orthodox Church, with a view to closer collaboration and to favor the presence of the Church in the lives of the peoples of Europe and the world. In addition, a further step in ecumenical relations is scheduled for the month of October in Cyprus: the meeting of the Joint International Commission for the Theological Dialogue between the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church, which will address the theme of Petrine Primacy. 
Benedict XVI met with
Aram I Catholicos of Cilicia, the
highest authority of the Orthodox Church.
The Pope remembered
the martyrs of the Armenian Church and
the Armenian genocide, without explicitly
mentioning it, and denounced the persecution
of Christians in modern times.
Benedict XVIThat testimony culminated in the twentieth century, which proved a time of Unspeakable suffering for your people. Most recently we have all been saddened by the escalation of persecution and violence against Christians in parts of the Middle East and elsewhere. The Catholicos is based in Lebanon. That is why, the Pope said, he prays every day for peace in this country and throughout the Middle East. Benedict XVI said there will only be peace in the region when each country is free to decide its own destiny and when every ethnic and religious group accepts and respects the others. Aram I emphasized that the churches must be means for peace and to achieve that they must recognize “all” genocides, even the Armenian.. The Catholicos recalled his meeting with John Paul II, adding that this visit represents a new step for ecumenical dialogue. Our meeting is an opportunity to pray and reflect together, and to renew our commitment and efforts for Christian unity. Armenian church members from all over the world join with Catholicos in making pilgrimages to Rome. |
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of the Passion, Chapter 22, whose
first verse “My God,
my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” Jesus pronounced on the cross, ended with the vision: “All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the Lord; and all the families of the nations shall worship before him” For kingship belongs to the LORD, the ruler over the nations. All who sleep in the earth will bow low before God; All who have gone down into the dust will kneel in homage. And I will live for the LORD; my descendants will serve you. The generation to come will be told of the Lord, that they may proclaim to a people yet unborn the deliverance you have brought. |
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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. THE PSALTER OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN
MARY PSALM 56
Have mercy on me, O Lady, have mercy on me: for my heart is prepared to seek out thy will. And I will rest in the shelter of thine arms: for sweet to me is thy refreshment. Thy hands have distilled the first myrrh: and thy fingers the unguents of graces. And a fragment of pomegranate is thy throat: and thy breath is sweet as an amalgam of choice smelling herbs. For thou art the mother of fair love and the anchor of hope: the harbor of safety, indulgence or pardon, and the gate of salvation. Glory be to the Father who created Heaven and earth; His only Son who lived and died for all of us; and the Holy Spirit the Lord giver of life, Who proceeds from the Father and Son, with the Father and Son He is Worshiped and Glorified, and He has spoken through the prophets: Amen. Join us on CatholicVote.org. Be part of a new
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Saint Frances Xavier Seelos Practical Guide
to Holiness
1. Go
to Mass with deepest devotion. 2. Spend a half hour to
reflect upon your main failing & make resolutions to
avoid it.3. Do daily spiritual reading for at least 15 minutes, if a half hour is not possible. 4. Say the rosary every day. 5. Also daily, if at all possible, visit the Blessed Sacrament; toward evening, meditate on the Passion of Christ for a half hour, 6. Conclude the day with evening prayer & an examination of conscience over all the faults & sins of the day. 7. Every month make a review of the month in confession. 8. Choose a special patron every month & imitate that patron in some special virtue. 9. Precede every great feast with a novena that is nine days of devotion. 10. Try to begin & end every activity with a Hail Mary My God, I believe, I adore, I trust and I love
Thee. I beg pardon for those who do not believe,
do not adore, do not
O most Holy trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, I adore Thee profoundly. I offer Thee the most precious Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ, present in all the Tabernacles of the world, in reparation for the outrages, sacrileges and indifference by which He is offended, and by the infite merits of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary. I beg the conversion of poor sinners, Fatima Prayer, Angel of Peace The
voice of the Father is heard, the Son enters the water,
and the Holy Spirit appears in the form of a dove.
THE
spirit and example of the world imperceptibly instil
the error into the minds of many that there is a kind of
middle way of going to Heaven; and so, because the world does
not live up to the gospel, they bring the gospel down to the
level of the world. It is not by this example that we are to measure
the Christian rule, but words and life of Christ. All His followers
are commanded to labour to become perfect even as our heavenly
Father is perfect, and to bear His image in our hearts that we may
be His children. We are obliged by the gospel to die to ourselves
by fighting self-love in our hearts, by the mastery of our passions,
by taking on the spirit of our Lord.
These
are the conditions under which Christ makes His promises
and numbers us among His children, as is manifest from
His words which the apostles have left us in their inspired
writings. Here is no distinction made or foreseen between
the apostles or clergy or religious and secular persons. The
former, indeed, take upon themselves certain stricter obligations,
as a means of accomplishing these ends more perfectly; but the
law of holiness and of disengagement of the heart from the world
is general and binds all the followers of Christ.
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God loves variety.
He doesn't mass-produce his saints. Every saint is unique
each the result of a new idea.
As the liturgy says: Non est inventus
similis illis--there are no two exactly alike.
It is we with our lack of imagination, who paint the same haloes on all the saints. Dear Lord, grant us a spirit not bound by our own ideas and preferences. Grant that we may be able to appreciate in others what we lack in ourselves. O Lord, grant that we may understand that every saint must be a unique praise of Your glory. Catholic saints are holy people and human people who lived extraordinary lives. Each saint the Church honors
responded to God's invitation to use his or her unique
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The 15 Promises of the Virgin Mary to those who recite
the Rosary ) Revealed to St. Dominic and Blessed
Alan)
1. Whoever
shall faithfully serve me by the recitation of the Rosary, shall receive
signal graces. 2. I promise my special protection and the
greatest graces to all those who shall recite the Rosary. 3.
The Rosary shall be a powerful armor against hell, it will destroy vice,
decrease sin, and defeat heresies. 4. It will cause virtue
and good works to flourish; it will obtain for souls the abundant mercy of
God; it will withdraw the hearts of people from the love of the world and
its vanities, and will lift them to the desire of eternal things. Oh,
that soul would sanctify them by this means. 5. The
soul that recommends itself to me by the recitation of the Rosary shall not
perish. 6. Whoever shall recite the Rosary devoutly, applying
themselves to the consideration of its Sacred Mysteries shall never be conquered
by misfortune. God will not chastise them in His justice, they shall
not perish by an unprovided death; if they be just, they shall remain in
the grace of God, and become worthy of eternal life. 7.
Whoever shall have a true devotion for the Rosary shall not die without
the Sacraments of the Church. 8. Those who are faithful
to recite the Rosary shall have during their life and at their death the
light of God and the plentitude of His graces; at the moment of death they
shall participate in the merits of the Saints in Paradise. 9.
I shall deliver from purgatory those who have been devoted to the Rosary.
10. The faithful children of the Rosary shall merit a high
degree of glory in Heaven. 11. You shall obtain all
you ask of me by the recitation of the Rosary. 12. I shall
aid all those who propagate the Holy Rosary in their necessities. 13.
I have obtained from my Divine Son that all the advocates of the Rosary shall
have for intercessors the entire celestial court during their life and at
the hour of death. 14. All who recite the Rosary are my
children, and brothers and sisters of my only Son, Jesus Christ. 15.
Devotion to my Rosary is a great sign of predestination.
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Aramaic dialect of Edessa, now known as Syriac
The exact date of the introduction
of Christianity into Edessa {Armenian Ourhaï
in Arabic Er Roha, commonly Orfa or Urfa, its present
name} is not known. It is certain, however,
that the Christian community was at first made up
from the Jewish population of the city. According to an
ancient legend, King Abgar V, Ushana, was converted
by Addai, who
was one of the seventy-two disciples. In
fact, however, the first King of Edessa to embrace
the Christian Faith was Abgar IX (c. 206) becoming official
kingdom religion.
Christian
council held at Edessa early
as 197 (Eusebius, Hist. Eccl., V,xxiii).
In 201 the city was devastated
by a great flood, and the Christian church
was destroyed (“Chronicon Edessenum”,
ad. an. 201).
In 232 the relics of the Apostle St. Thomas were brought from India,
on which occasion his Syriac Acts were
written.
Under Roman domination martyrs
suffered at Edessa: Sts. Scharbîl
and Barsamya, under Decius;
Sts. Gûrja,
Schâmôna, Habib, and others
under Diocletian.
In the meanwhile Christian
priests from Edessa evangelized Eastern Mesopotamia and Persia, established
the first Churches in the kingdom of the Sassanides. Atillâtiâ, Bishop of Edessa,
assisted at the Council of Nicæa
(325). The “Peregrinatio
Silviæ” (or Etheriæ) (ed.
Gamurrini, Rome, 1887, 62 sqq.) gives
an account of the many sanctuaries at
Edessa
about 388.
Although Hebrew had been the
language of the ancient Israelite kingdom,
after their return from Exile
the Jews turned more and more to Aramaic, using
it for parts of the books of Ezra and Daniel
in the Bible. By the time of Jesus, Aramaic was the
main language of Palestine, and quite
a number of texts from the Dead Sea Scrolls are
also written in Aramaic.
Aramaic continued
to be an important language for Jews,
alongside Hebrew, and parts of the Talmud
are written in it. After Arab conquests of the
seventh century, Arabic quickly replaced Aramaic as the main language of
those who converted to Islam, although in out of the way places, Aramaic
continued as a vernacular language of Muslims.
Aramaic,
however, enjoyed its
greatest success in Christianity.
Although the New Testament
wins written in Greek, Christianity
had come into existence in an Aramaic-speaking
milieu, and it was the Aramaic dialect
of Edessa, now known as Syriac, that became
the literary language of a large number of Christians
living in the eastern provinces of the Roman
Empire and in the Persian Empire, further east.
Over the course of the centuries the influence of
the Syriac Churches spread eastwards to China
(in Xian, in western China, a Chinese-Syriac inscription dated
781 is still to be seen);
to southern India where the state of Kerala
can boast more Christians of Syriac liturgical
tradition than anywhere else in the world.
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Meeting
of the Saints walis (saints
of Allah)Great men covet to embrace martyrdom
for a cause and principle.
So was the case with
Hazrat Ali.
He could have made a compromise with
the evil forces of his time and, as a result,
could have led a very comfortable,
easy and luxurious life. But he
was not a person who would succumb
to such temptations. His upbringing, his
education and his training in the lap of the
holy Prophet made him refuse such an offer.Rabia Al-Basri (717–801 C.E.) She was first to set forth the doctrine of mystical love and who is widely considered to be the most important of the early Sufi poets. An elderly Shia pointed out that during his pre-Partition childhood it was quite common to find pictures and portraits of Shia icons in Imambaras across the country. Shah Abdul Latif: The Exalted Sufi Master born 1690 in a Syed family; died 1754. In ancient times, Sindh housed the exemplary Indus Valley Civilisation with Moenjo Daro as its capital, and now, it is the land of a culture which evolved from the teachings of eminent Sufi saints. Pakistan is home to the mortal remains of many Sufi saints, the exalted among them being Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai, a practitioner of the real Islam, philosopher, poet, musicologist and preacher. He presented his teaching through poetry and music - both instruments sublime - and commands a very large following, not only among Muslims but also among Hindus and Christians. Sindh culture: The Shah is synonymous with Sindh. He is the very fountainhead of Sindh's culture. His message remains as fresh as that of any present day poet, and the people of Sindh find solace from his writings. He did indeed think for Sindh. One of his prayers, in exquisite Sindhi, translates thus: “Oh God, may ever You on Sindh bestow abundance rare! Beloved! All the world let share Thy grace, and fruitful be.” Shia Ali al-Hadi, died 868 and son Hassan al-Askari 874. These saints are the 10th and 11th of Shia's 12 most revered Imams. Baba Farid Sufi 1398 miracle, Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki renowned Muslim Sufi saint scholar miracles 569 A.H. [1173 C.E.] hermit gave to poor, Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti greatest mystic of his time born 533 Hijri (1138-39 A.D.), Hazrat Ghuas-e Azam, Hazrat Bu Ali Sharif, and Hazrat Nizamuddin Aulia Sufi Saint Hazrath Khwaja Syed Mohammed Badshah Quadri Chisty Yamani Quadeer (RA) 1236-1325 welcomed people of all faiths & all walks of life |
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Colombia was among the
countries Mother Angelica
visited. In Bogotá, a Salesian priest - Father Juan Pablo Rodriguez - brought Mother and the nuns to the Sanctuary of the Divine Infant Jesus to attend Mass. After Mass, Father Juan Pablo took them into a small Shrine which housed the miraculous statue of the Child Jesus. Mother Angelica stood praying at the side of the statue when suddenly the miraculous image came alive and turned towards her. Then the Child Jesus spoke with the voice of a young boy: “Build Me a Temple and I will help those who help you.” Thus began a great adventure that would eventually result in the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament, a Temple dedicated to the Divine Child Jesus, a place of refuge for all. Use this link to read a remarkable story about The Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament Father Reardon, Editor of The Catholic
Bulletin for 14 years Lover of the poor;
“A very Holy Man of God.”
Monsignor Reardon Protonotarius
Apostolicus Pastor 42 years BASILICA OF SAINT MARY Minneapolis MN 
America's First Basilica Largest Nave in the World
August 7, 1907-ground broke for the foundation
by
Archbishop Ireland-laying cornerstone May
31, 1908
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
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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.
Site http://www.fathercorapi
May 26 1991 Ordained Catholic Priest under
Pope John Paul II; then 2,000,000 miles delivering the Gospel to millions. As we watch the spectacle of the world seeming to self-destruct before our eyes, we can’t help but be saddened and even frightened by so much evil run rampant. Iraq, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Somalia, North Korea—It is all a disaster of epic proportions displayed in living color on our television screens. These are not ordinary times and this is not business as usual. We are at a crossroads in human history and the time for Catholics and all Christians to act is now. All evil can ultimately be traced to its origin, which is moral evil. All of the political action, peace talks, international peacekeeping forces, etc. will avail nothing if the underlying sickness is not addressed. This is sin. One person at a time hearts and minds must be moved from evil to good, from lies to truth, from violence to peace. Islam, an Arabic word that has often been defined as “to make peace,” seems like a living contradiction today. Although it is supposed to be a religion of peace, Islam has been hijacked by Satan and now operates in the dark space of international terrorism. As we celebrate the birthday of Our Lady, I am proposing that each one of us pray the Rosary for peace. Prayer is what must precede all other activity if that activity is to have any chance of success. Pray for peace, pray the Rosary every day without fail. There is a great love for Mary among Muslim people. It is not a coincidence that a little village named Fatima is where God chose to have His Mother appear in the twentieth century. Our Lady’s name appears no less than thirty times in the Koran. No other woman’s name is mentioned, not even that of Mohammed’s daughter, Fatima. In the Koran Our Lady is described as “Virgin, ever Virgin.” Archbishop Fulton Sheen prophetically spoke of the resurgence of Islam in our day. He said it would be through the Blessed Virgin Mary that Islam would be converted. We must pray for this to happen quickly if we are to avert a horrible time of suffering for this poor, sinful world. Turn to our Mother in this time of great peril. Pray the Rosary every day. Then, and only then will there be peace, when the hearts and minds of men are changed from the inside.
Father John Corapi
goes to the heart of the contemporary world's many woes
and wars, whether the wars in Afghanistan,
Iraq, Lebanon, Somalia, or the Congo, or the
natural disasters that seem to be increasing
every year, the moral and spiritual war is at the
basis of everything. “Our battle is not against
human forces,” St. Paul asserts, “but against principalities
and powers, against the world rulers of this
present darkness...” (Ephesians 6:12).
The “War to end all wars” is the moral and spiritual combat that rages in the hearts and minds of human beings. The outcome of that unseen fight largely determines how the battle in the realm of the seen unfolds. The title talk, “With the Moon Under Her Feet,” is taken from the twelfth chapter of the Book of Revelation, and deals with the current threat to the world from radical Islam, and the Blessed Virgin Mary's role in the ultimate victory that will result in the conversion of Islam. Few Catholics are aware of the connection between Islam, Fatima, and Guadalupe. Presented in Father Corapi's straight-forward style, you will be both inspired and educated by him. About Father John Corapi. Father Corapi is a Catholic priest
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The pillars of father's preaching
are basically:
Love for and a relationship
with the Blessed Virgin Mary
Leading a vibrant and loving relationship with Jesus Christ Great love and reverence for the Most Holy Eucharist from Holy Mass to adoration of the Blessed Sacrament An uncompromising love for and obedience to the Holy Father and the teaching of the Magisterium of the Church |
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He was elected king in 855 at the age of fourteen and began ruling Suffolk,
England, the following year. In 869 or 870, the Danes invaded Edmund’s realm,
and he was captured at Hone, in Suffolk. After extreme torture, Edmund was
beheaded and died calling upon Jesus. For 15 years Edmund ruled over the
East Angles with what all acknowledged as Christian dignity and justice.
He himself seems to have modelled his piety on that of King David in the
Old Testament, becoming especially proficient in reciting the Psalms in public
worship.
