"Visions of the children: messages from Medjugorje"
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Sunday, December 6, 2009
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Proclamation on Holy Love Ministires
Proclamation on Holy Love Ministries Will Test Hearts and Obedience
Have you ever visited this Apparition Site ?
Monday, November 16, 2009
Friday, November 6, 2009
Natuzza Evolo
ZENIT - Modern Mystic Mourned in Italy
Catholic Culture : Latest Headlines : 30000 Italians mourn
Natuzza Evolo
Are you aware of this woman's life?
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Holy See Welcomes Anglican Christians
Cardinal William Joseph Levada, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith; and Archbishop Augustine DiNoia, Secretary of the Congregation for the Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments, the Vatican Congregations who will oversee Anglican Christians entering into the full communion of the Catholic Church.
Holy See Welcomes Anglican Christians into Catholic Church
Response of the Traditional Anglican Communion
What is your reaction?
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Grieving
My Mother's body died October 14, 2009
This book has assisted me in adjusting to her passing:
Have you experienced the death of your Mother?
This book has assisted me in adjusting to her passing:
Have you experienced the death of your Mother?
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Friday, October 9, 2009
Knock Apparition
The Mayo News - Knock 'apparition' to attract 50000
http://www.mayonews
Are you aware of this Apparition Announcement?
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Monday, September 28, 2009
For Life!
Have you visited this website recently?
http://www.40daysforlife.com/splash.cfm
http://www.40daysfo
Pray and fast to end abortion … September 23–November 1
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Sunday, August 2, 2009
Mount professor Fr. Zylla dies - catholicherald.com - Arlington ...
Fr. Robert V. Zylla, O.S.C.
Associate Professor of Moral Theology, 1971
M.A., The Catholic University of America; S.T.B., S.T.L., S.T.D.(candidate), The Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas; Crosier Fathers
Will you please pray for the repose of his soul?
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Praise Be To God
http://www.rosaryofgodthefather.org/testimonial.asp
LAUS DEO - PRAISE BE TO GOD
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LAUS DEO - PRAISE BE TO GOD
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Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Monday, July 13, 2009
Olive Dawson
All Through Mary - Our Lady's Message of Mercy to the World ...
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Sunday, July 5, 2009
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Our Lady Talks Of Fasting
How to Fast - Gospa, Our Lady of Medjugorje
Messages of Our Lady of Sorrows in Kibeho, Rwanda
Have you heard of Our Lady of Sorrows in Kibeho, Rwanda?
Monday, May 18, 2009
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Archbishop Chaput
Archbishop Chaput: Media culture and compromise undermining Christian life
Archbishop Charles ChaputNew York City, N.Y., May 6, 2009 / 07:30 pm (CNA).- Archbishop of Denver Charles J. Chaput exhorted Catholics to follow the example of St. Paul by understanding their own times and being “possessed by the God of Truth.” Stressing the need to recognize the impact mass media has on thought and action, he warned that Catholics are losing the habits on which they have traditionally relied because of “vanity and compromise.”
The archbishop delivered his remarks to the American Bible Society in New York City on Wednesday. The Archbishop of Denver is in town to receive the Becket Fund’s Canterbury Medal, which is given to persons who “most resolutely refused to render to Caesar that which is God's.” Beginning his remarks with a reflection on the life of St. Paul, Archbishop Chaput said Paul was “a determined man.”
“As even St. Peter discovered, Paul never let shallow courtesies interfere with his witness for Jesus Christ. In fact, by today’s standards, Paul’s passion for Jesus borders on the unseemly. But of course, that says more about us than about him.”
Paul would go to such extremes because he knew the truth not only as a “collection of doctrines” but was “possessed by the God of truth, who gives life to those doctrines,” the archbishop said.
“There has never been, and there never will be, a greater missionary for Jesus than St. Paul. Through Paul, the Gospel reached the world. And our job as believers today is to be Paul once again to the world around us.”
“If we’re serious when we claim to be followers of Jesus Christ, then we need to understand our own times as well as Paul did his,” he counseled the Bible Society members.
The archbishop said this can be a problem because “the tools we rely on to inform us are the same tools we use to delude ourselves about the real world.”
“The American news and entertainment media, which now so often overlap, are the largest catechetical syndicate in history,” he continued.
Saying the media has helped create a culture based on “immediacy, brevity, visual stimulation, celebrity and self-absorption,” he warned this has great implications for the Christian’s place in American society.
To know our times, he said, it is crucial that we understand how mass media works on us. We can learn to judge them “soberly and critically,” but if we do not the consequences may be “very unhappy.”
Noting that the United States was founded in a time of print-based patterns of thought, he warned:
“The more sensory, immediate and emotional our culture becomes, the farther it gets from the habits of serious thought that sustain its ideals.”
As a remedy, he advised Catholics to give up computers, televisions, cell phones, and iPods for “just one night” a week.
“One night a week spent reading, talking with each other, listening to each other and praying over Scripture. We can at least do that much. And if we do, we’ll discover that eventually we’re sober again and not drunk on technology and our own overheated appetites.”
Turning to questions of public life, the archbishop noted President Barack Obama’s comments about America not considering itself a Christian nation. Saying the president’s words should not be taken out of context, he remarked that his comments come at a time when American leaders’ attitude towards religion and Christianity is “very different from the past, and much less friendly.”
The archbishop said it would be “foolish and delusional” to deny the United States’ Christian roots. He quoted Presidents Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln, who respectively said America was “born a Christian nation,” “founded on the principles of Christianity,” and firmly reliant on God’s providence.
Archbishop Chaput said that the public witness of many American Christians is “softening,” with some groups working “very vigorously” to secularize or de-Christianize public life and popular culture.
American Catholics have successfully fit themselves into American culture, so that “too many of us are happy with our complacency, vanity, compromises, comfort and bad formation.”
The habit of “vanity and compromise” is what is at work in the University of Notre Dame’s decision to honor President Obama at commencement, the archbishop remarked. Though “a sincere and able man,” the president’s views on life issues “run directly against Catholic belief.”
“And a Catholic institution should not honor that kind of behavior,” he said.
While human sinfulness is always present, the archbishop said, “What’s new about our current moment is that too many Christians have made peace with that sinfulness, baptized it with the language of personal conscience, and stopped trying to convert anybody -- including themselves.”
While a “post-Christian” society may seem similar to the world St. Paul confronted, it is in fact “much worse” because the old pagan world was ignorant of Christ, but today’s paganism involves “a specific choice against Jesus Christ.”
He denied there was such a thing as a “post-Christian” society, saying “The redemptive mission of Jesus Christ is unique, unrepeatable and forever. Christ is the center and meaning of history.
“There is nothing after Jesus Christ except a void.”
When Jesus commissioned the apostles to make disciples of all nations and baptize them, the archbishop said, “he was talking to you and me.”
“The lesson of St. Paul, now and for every generation, is that we need to engage the world with intelligence, a creative spirit and, most importantly, charity, which ‘bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.'”
Real charity depends on truth, not “shallow courtesies” and “false compromises.”
“Paul reminds us that charity ‘does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth’ (I Cor 13:6). In fact, no greater gift of love exists than sharing the truth with others. Only God’s truth sets us free.”
“Jesus himself did not claim to ‘preach’ the truth but to be the truth. That’s why a Christianity based only on technique or useful ideas or a system of good social principles will always fail. Christianity can only be anchored in a love for Jesus Christ.”
“The cross of Jesus Christ is not a ‘philosophy.’ It’s an instrument of killing stained with the blood of a Person who was once dead but is now alive.”
“Only if we really believe the Resurrection of Jesus Christ in our bones, only if we endure in proclaiming that truth,” he concluded, will we be able to share St. Paul’s relief and joy in “the crown of righteousness.”
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Swine Flu Panic
What is your opinion concerning the power of the media to introduce fear and panic concerning the reception of The Body And Blood Of Christ?
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
40 Days of Prayer and Fasting for Peace from April 21-May 30, 2009
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Friday, April 10, 2009
Monday, March 9, 2009
Lent 2009
http://www.vatican.va/liturgical_year/lent/2009/index_lent2009_en.html
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Are you familiar with this website?
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
The Abortion Issue
http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=44269
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/27/conscience.rollback/
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/28/us/politics/28abort.html?ref=us
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/mar/09030211.html
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/may/08051001.html
Have you read any of these articles?
http://www.cnn.
http://www.nytimes.
http://www.lifesite
http://www.lifesite
Have you read any of these articles?
Monday, March 2, 2009
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
David Little's Mission
http://www.zenit.
www.morecanada.
http://www.catholic
Are you aware of David Little's Mission?
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Shield of Mary
http://www.goodstjo
Shield of Mary
This powerful prayer (the manuscript tells us is said to have been found in the tomb of the Blessed Virgin Mary among the other things found therein when her assumption was discovered). The following are the powers of this prayer; - whoever reads it or hears it read or who ever carries a copy on this prayer with them will be saved from an unprovided death, from fire, from water, from dangerous falls and will be saved in battle. Moreover, the prayer is powerful in childbirth, in wounds, accidents and every disease, by its virtue everyone who recites (or carries it) and say one Pater, Ave and Credo in honour of Mary, The Immaculate Virgin, every day, she will appear to them three times before death, but particularly at the hour of death.
O, most benign Lord Jesus Christ, only son of the Father, God Almighty, God of Angels, only Son of the Most Glorious Virgin Mary, help me, a poor sinner, and assist me in every difficulty in which I am present.
Glorious Virgin, Mother of God, woman above every dignity, worthy of every praise, intercede for me, a poor sinner, with your own loving Son. Most honourable lady, mother of the human race and of angels, protect me from every evil, past, present and to come. I pray you, fruit of the patriarchs, light of the angels, compatriot of angels, sublime meditation of angels and archangels, beauty of virgins, river of the Trinity, not to desert me at the fearful hour of death. May my soul hear, as it parts from my body, your comforting words in the presence of your beloved Son and you, and may I attain eternal glory and abide with Him.
O Star of the Sea, gate of Heaven, temple of God, palace of Christ, harbour of health, flower of every nation, hope of the faithful, well of mercy, light of virgins, you converse and delight the angels and archangels, you are the temple in which is every joy of the human race. O most honourable Blessed Benign Lady, you strengthen us in every task. O mother of mercy look on me with eyes of mercy. I place myself under the patronage and protection of your holy hands, my soul and body, my thoughts words and deeds, that I may please your beloved Son and You. In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.
Pater-Ave-Credo.
Are you familiar with this prayer?
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Irving Houle Stigmatist
Irving C. “Francis” Houle passed away on Saturday, Jan. 3, 2009 ...
Were you aware of Irving Houle's suffering?
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
St. Scholastica
Litany of Saint Scholastica ...
Saint Scholastica
St. Scholastica Priory - Prayer
Have you ever asked for the intercession of St. Scholastica?
Monday, February 9, 2009
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Monday, February 2, 2009
Prayers through the Merits of St. Blaise (Feast Day February 3)
Prayers to St. Blaise
Bishop and Martyr,
Patron of Healthy Throats
O glorious Saint Blase, who by thy martyrdom didst leave to the Church a precious witness to the faith, obtain for us the grace to preserve within ourselves this divine gift, and to defend, without human respect, both by word and example, the truth of that same faith, which is so wickedly attacked and slandered in these our times. Thou who didst miraculously restore a little child when it was at the point of death by reason of an affliction of the throat, grant us thy mighty protection in like misfortunes; and, above all, obtain for us the grace of Christian mortification together with a faithful observance of the precepts of the Church, which may keep us from offending Almighty God. Amen.
For a Healthy Throat
Dear Bishop and lover of souls, you willingly bore heavy crosses in faithful imitation of Jesus. Similarly, with Christlike compassion, you cured many sufferers. Then after undergoing horrible tortures you died as a martyr for Christ. Obtain a cure for these (name them here) ills if this is agreeable to God. Amen.
Lord, here Your people through the intercession of St. Blase. Help us to enjoy peace in this life and find a lasting refuge in the next. Amen.
Novena to St. Blaise
(to be prayed for 9 consecutive days)
Preparatory Prayer
Almighty and Eternal God! With lively faith and reverently worshiping Thy Divine Majesty, I prostrate myself before Thee and invoke with filial trust Thy supreme bounty and mercy. Illumine the darkness of my intellect with a ray of Thy heavenly light and inflame my heart with the fire of Thy divine love, that I may contemplate the great virtues and merits of the saint in whose honor I make this novena, and following his example imitate, like him, the life of Thy divine Son.
Moreover, I beseech Thee to grant graciously, through the merits and intercession of this powerful Helper, the petition which through him I humbly place before Thee, devoutly saving, "Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven." Vouchsafe graciously to hear it, if it redounds to Thy greater glory and to the salvation of my soul. Amen.
Prayer in honor of St. Blaise
O God, deliver us through the intercession of Thy holy bishop and martyr Blase, from all evil of soul and body, especially from all ills of the throat; and grant us the grace to make a good confession in the confident hope of obtaining Thy pardon, and ever to praise with worthy lips Thy most holy name. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
Invocation of St. Blaise
St. Blaise, gracious benefactor of mankind and faithful servant of God, who for the love of our Savior did suffer so many tortures with patience and resignation; I invoke thy powerful intercession. Preserve me from all evils of soul and body. Because of thy great merits God endowed thee with the special grace to help those that suffer from ills of the throat; relieve and preserve me from them, so that I may always be able to fulfill my duties, and with the aid of God's grace perform good works. I invoke thy help as special physician of souls, that I may confess my sins sincerely in the holy sacrament of Penance and obtain their forgiveness. I recommend to thy merciful intercession also those who unfortunately concealed a sin in confession. Obtain for them the grace to accuse themselves sincerely and contritely of the sin they concealed, of the sacrilegious confessions and communions they made, and of all the sins they committed since then, so that they may receive pardon, the grace of God, and the remission of the eternal punishment. Amen.
Concluding Prayer
My Lord and my God! I offer up to Thee my petition in union with the bitter passion and death of Jesus Christ, Thy Son, together with the merits of His immaculate and blessed Mother, Mary ever virgin, and of all the saints, particularly with those of the holy Helper in whose honor I make this novena.
Look down upon me, merciful Lord! Grant me Thy grace and Thy love, and graciously hear my prayer. Amen.
Feastday: February 3
Patron of Throat Illnesses
Many Catholics might remember Saint Blaise's feast day because of the Blessing of the Throats that took place on this day. Two candles are blessed, held slightly open, and pressed against the throat as the blessing is said. Saint Blaise's protection of those with throat troubles apparently comes from a legend that a boy was brought to him who had a fishbone stuck in his throat. The boy was about to die when Saint Blaise healed him.
Very few facts are known about Saint Blaise. We believe he was a bishop of Sebastea in Armenia who was martyred under the reign of Licinius in the early fourth century.
The legend of his life that sprang up in the eighth century tell us that he was born in to a rich and noble family who raised him as a Christian. After becoming a bishop, a new persecution of Christians began. He received a message from God to go into the hills to escape persecution. Men hunting in the mountains discovered a cave surrounded by wild animals who were sick. Among them Blaise walked unafraid, curing them of their illnesses. Recognizing Blaise as a bishop, they captured him to take him back for trial. On the way back, he talked a wolf into releasing a pig that belonged to a poor woman. When Blaise was sentenced to be starved to death, the woman, in gratitude, sneaked into the prison with food and candles. Finally Blaise was killed by the governor.
Blaise is the patron saint of wild animals because of his care for them and of those with throat maladies.
In His Footsteps:Take time as Saint Blaise did to find out how you can help wild animals. Find out what is being done to support and protect the wildlife in your area. There is wildlife everywhere, even in cities. Even a birdfeeder can help God's creatures survive.
Prayer:Saint Blaise, pray for us that we may not suffer from illnesses of the throat and pray that all who are suffering be healed by God's love. Amen
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Have you ever had your throat Blessed at Mass asking for the intercession of St. Blaise?
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Pray for President Obama
Please pray for the President's conversion.
He is a full supporter of FOCA. He fully believes it is a woman's right to choose to kill the soul developing in her womb without regard for that life and it's future pursuit of life, liberty and happiness.
He is so confused as a professed Christian on this issue, that he is helping to cause confusion in the minds of some of his supporters and many of his neighbors.
He is a noted and very successful politician and now a very powerful President Of The United States.
A politician (from Greek "polis") is an individual who is involved in influencing public decision making through the influence of politics or a person who influences the way a society is governed through an understanding of political power and group dynamics. This includes people who hold decision-making positions in government, and people who seek those positions, whether by means of election, coup d'état, appointment, electoral fraud, conquest, right of inheritance (see also: divine right) or other means. Politics are not limited to governance through public office. Political offices may also be held in corporations, and other entities that are governed by self-defined political processes.
Will you consider praying that Almighty God will counsel his heart and convert his soul through the intercession of The Blessed Mother?
Friday, January 23, 2009
Does the Vice President have an informed conscience?
Are you aware of this among Catholics attending Mass?
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Monday, January 19, 2009
FOCA
View the 1 minute video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIBDmyzR5Uw&NR=1
Are you aware of The Freedom Of Choice Act?
Are you aware of The Freedom Of Choice Act?
Freedom of Choice Act
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
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