Sunday, December 22, 2013
Thursday, December 19, 2013
Annual Walk for Life Jan. 25th
Cant make it all the way to San Francisco this year for the Annual Walk for Life? Look locally! There are Walks going on everywhere on the 25th. Check out the IHS Calendar for info on the Walk in the Hemet area:)
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Wednesday, December 18, 2013
Room in My Heart
O, Mary, did you not find a room for your Son? Here it is. I offer it to you in this heart of mine. It is cold and unworthy, truly. But are you not the Mother of God? the Almighty through grace? the Dispenser of all gifts? Do change this heart of mine and make it like yours. –Bl. Bartolo Longo
— from Through the Year With Mary
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Monday, December 16, 2013
Novena To
St. Peregrine
Glorious wonder-worker, St. Peregrine, you answered the divine call with a ready spirit, and forsook all the comforts of a life of ease and all the empty honors of the world to dedicate yourself to God in the Order of His holy Mother.
You labored manfully for the salvation of souls. In union with Jesus crucified, you endured painful sufferings with such patience as to deserve to be healed miraculously of an incurable cancer in your leg by a touch of His divine hand.
Obtain for me the grace to answer every call of God and to fulfill His will in all the events of life. Enkindle in my heart a consuming zeal for the salvation of all men.
Deliver me from the infirmities that afflict my body (especially.....).
Obtain for me also a perfect resignation to the sufferings it may please God to send me, so that, imitating our crucified Savior and His sorrowful Mother, I may merit eternal glory in heaven.
St. Peregrine, pray for me and for all who invoke your aid.
St. Peregrine was born in 1260 at Forlì, Italy
St. Peregrine
Glorious wonder-worker, St. Peregrine, you answered the divine call with a ready spirit, and forsook all the comforts of a life of ease and all the empty honors of the world to dedicate yourself to God in the Order of His holy Mother.
You labored manfully for the salvation of souls. In union with Jesus crucified, you endured painful sufferings with such patience as to deserve to be healed miraculously of an incurable cancer in your leg by a touch of His divine hand.
Obtain for me the grace to answer every call of God and to fulfill His will in all the events of life. Enkindle in my heart a consuming zeal for the salvation of all men.
Deliver me from the infirmities that afflict my body (especially.....).
Obtain for me also a perfect resignation to the sufferings it may please God to send me, so that, imitating our crucified Savior and His sorrowful Mother, I may merit eternal glory in heaven.
St. Peregrine, pray for me and for all who invoke your aid.
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| For so many years you bore in your own flesh this cancerous disease that destroys the very fibre of our being, and who had recourse to the source of all grace when the power of man could do no more. You were favoured with the vision of Jesus coming down from His Cross to heal your affliction. Ask of God and Our Lady, the cure of the sick whom we entrust to you. (Pause here and silently recall the names of the sick for whom you are praying) Aided in this way by your powerful intercession, we shall sing to God, now and for all eternity, a song of gratitude for His great goodness and mercy. Amen. | |
Sunday, December 15, 2013
Friday, December 13, 2013
Thursday, December 12, 2013
Thy Majesty
Thy Majesty
An array of splendor gathers to welcome the sun as a new day dawns.
Colors abounding in such beauty all reflect their very best as they spread across the sky.
Not a day goes by when the source of light is not exalted with such reverence.
Rising from the horizon, the sun's luminous rays penetrate the darkness which lingered over the land, now awakening all of creation.
Along with the sun's presence comes sight to all the earth's inhabitants,
or to those who were called to the light.
In it's absence we can do almost nothing except wait patiently for its arrival.
Many times its presence is falsified-artificial-man made... All of these substitutes cannot and do not come close to the real presence of the sun.
It is only the sun which can illuminate the earth with a life-giving light...we need it.
As the day slips away and night rolls in, that beautiful array of colors, which welcomed the sun,
once again gather to bid it fairwell.
Tis the purpose for which they were made, or so it seems - to give the sun the reverence it is due.
Though the sun soon disappears from sight, it never truly leaves us in complete darkness..
it's light is always with us.
It leaves its presence with us through the moon, as if to remind us that it is always there, watching and lighting our every step.
~Kara Kelly~
In Class Hero
Heartbeat's pounding, blood pressure's rising
all the blood goes to my head.
Hands start shaking, anticipating
what is about to be said.
That's not right, I've got to fight,
I really need to take a stand.
I bight the bullet, I go for it!
I find the strength to raise my hand.
-Kalia Kelly
all the blood goes to my head.
Hands start shaking, anticipating
what is about to be said.
That's not right, I've got to fight,
I really need to take a stand.
I bight the bullet, I go for it!
I find the strength to raise my hand.
-Kalia Kelly
Wednesday, December 11, 2013
Tuesday, December 10, 2013
Nelson Mandela- a saint?
Nelson Mandela...Culture Watch
Interesting article to give another perspective! Here's part that caught my eye:
"...as Peter Hammond reminds us, there is no reason to canonise the man, since Mandela was hardly a conservative or Christian icon: 'There’s a lot of Christians out there who idolize Nelson Mandela because they’ve been given false, misleading and incomplete information,' he said. 'He has pushed for the legalization of abortion, pornography [and] homosexual relationships. … [He was] trying to legalize prostitution. He’s a radical liberal.'"
Interesting article to give another perspective! Here's part that caught my eye:
"...as Peter Hammond reminds us, there is no reason to canonise the man, since Mandela was hardly a conservative or Christian icon: 'There’s a lot of Christians out there who idolize Nelson Mandela because they’ve been given false, misleading and incomplete information,' he said. 'He has pushed for the legalization of abortion, pornography [and] homosexual relationships. … [He was] trying to legalize prostitution. He’s a radical liberal.'"
Monday, December 9, 2013
Thursday, December 5, 2013
Liberated From Sin
God, sometimes I get so focused on the troubles in my life—at work, with my family, in my relationships—that I can almost forget the deepest problem you want to address in me: my sin. Help me this Advent to return to you and be liberated more from my sins.
— from The Advent of Christ
Wednesday, December 4, 2013
For us "control freaks" out there:
I found this inspiring and touching:)
http://rcspiritualdirection.com/2013/11/27/how-does-need-to-control-hamper-our-spiritual-lives
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http://rcspiritualdirection.com/2013/11/27/how-does-need-to-control-hamper-our-spiritual-lives
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Tuesday, December 3, 2013
Monday, December 2, 2013
Simply Catholic
Newsmax
Pope Francis Reaffirms Church Teachings
Wednesday, November 27, 2013 11:07 AM
By: Bill Donohue
Pope Francis has an uncanny ability to excite the passions of the left and the right, and he has done so again in his apostolic exhortation, "The Joy of the Gospel."
The Pope begins by outlining his principal interest, evangelization, calling on us to avoid being consumed by material pleasures that harm our interior life; when this happens, we shut out the voice of God.
He asks us to maintain good relations with Jews and Muslims, and beckons us not to judge Islam by the violence done in its name.
He hastens to add that the persecution of Christians in Islamic nations must end. He also reminds us that evangelization is "first and foremost about preaching the Gospel to those who do not know Jesus Christ or who have always rejected him." (His italics.)
The Pope is opposed to "excessive centralization," and to that end he implores us not to view the parish as "an outdated institution." He sees a vital role for the laity, who constitute "the vast majority of the people of God."
The Holy Father asks us to give more attention to the special role that women play in the church, and in society. However, he also says that the church teaching on an all-male priesthood is "not a question open to discussion." Motherhood, he insists, is a status conferred on women, one that allows them to exercise their special gift of serving others.
On economic issues, the Pope posits a clear animus toward unbridled capitalism, a view shared by his predecessors. But he is more pointed, rejecting "trickle-down" theories.
He is not rejecting a market-based economic model in favor of a socialist one — indeed he restates Catholic teaching on subsidiarity — but he is warning us against greed and the single-minded pursuit of profit.
"The private ownership of goods is justified by the need to protect and increase them," Pope Francis says, "so that they can better serve the common good; for this reason, solidarity must be lived as the decision to restore to the poor what belongs to them." This is welcome, but his focus on the structural causes of poverty, to the exclusion of the cultural causes, suggests an incomplete understanding of this issue. He is very much in the Latin American mode of thinking on this subject.
On abortion, Pope Francis flatly says that "the church cannot be expected to change her position on this question."
Indeed, he says it is not "progressive" to resolve problems "by eliminating a human life." Planned Parenthood has been doing this for decades.
The Holy Father's comments on the family are telling. "Marriage tends to be viewed as a form of mere emotional satisfaction that can be constructed in any way or modified at will," he says.
This is a clear shot at gay marriage, the proponents of whom have been quick to say that marriage is all about love. Nonsense, he says. The Pope cites French bishops that marriage is about "the depth of the obligation assumed by the spouses who accept to enter a total communion of life."
Pope Francis warns of the dangers of "secularist rationalism," and the radical individualism that it entails. He lays down a strong anchor by exhorting Catholics not to allow the forces of secularization to silence them; the church cannot reduce itself to "the sphere of the private and personal."
He wants a public, and full-throated, exercise of religion. "Who would claim to lock up in a church and silence the message of Saint Francis or blessed Teresa of Calcutta?"
Catholic League members will like the Pope's criticisms of our "media culture and some intellectual circles."
These segments of the population would like activist Catholics to muzzle themselves, keeping their hands off the normative order. But when Catholics bend to these militant secularists, they lose. "They end up stifling the joy of mission with a kind of obsession about being like everyone else and possessing what everyone else possesses."
Pope Francis is neither liberal nor conservative. He's simply Catholic, and a towering champion of its many causes.
The Pope begins by outlining his principal interest, evangelization, calling on us to avoid being consumed by material pleasures that harm our interior life; when this happens, we shut out the voice of God.
He asks us to maintain good relations with Jews and Muslims, and beckons us not to judge Islam by the violence done in its name.
He hastens to add that the persecution of Christians in Islamic nations must end. He also reminds us that evangelization is "first and foremost about preaching the Gospel to those who do not know Jesus Christ or who have always rejected him." (His italics.)
The Pope is opposed to "excessive centralization," and to that end he implores us not to view the parish as "an outdated institution." He sees a vital role for the laity, who constitute "the vast majority of the people of God."
The Holy Father asks us to give more attention to the special role that women play in the church, and in society. However, he also says that the church teaching on an all-male priesthood is "not a question open to discussion." Motherhood, he insists, is a status conferred on women, one that allows them to exercise their special gift of serving others.
On economic issues, the Pope posits a clear animus toward unbridled capitalism, a view shared by his predecessors. But he is more pointed, rejecting "trickle-down" theories.
He is not rejecting a market-based economic model in favor of a socialist one — indeed he restates Catholic teaching on subsidiarity — but he is warning us against greed and the single-minded pursuit of profit.
"The private ownership of goods is justified by the need to protect and increase them," Pope Francis says, "so that they can better serve the common good; for this reason, solidarity must be lived as the decision to restore to the poor what belongs to them." This is welcome, but his focus on the structural causes of poverty, to the exclusion of the cultural causes, suggests an incomplete understanding of this issue. He is very much in the Latin American mode of thinking on this subject.
On abortion, Pope Francis flatly says that "the church cannot be expected to change her position on this question."
Indeed, he says it is not "progressive" to resolve problems "by eliminating a human life." Planned Parenthood has been doing this for decades.
The Holy Father's comments on the family are telling. "Marriage tends to be viewed as a form of mere emotional satisfaction that can be constructed in any way or modified at will," he says.
This is a clear shot at gay marriage, the proponents of whom have been quick to say that marriage is all about love. Nonsense, he says. The Pope cites French bishops that marriage is about "the depth of the obligation assumed by the spouses who accept to enter a total communion of life."
Pope Francis warns of the dangers of "secularist rationalism," and the radical individualism that it entails. He lays down a strong anchor by exhorting Catholics not to allow the forces of secularization to silence them; the church cannot reduce itself to "the sphere of the private and personal."
He wants a public, and full-throated, exercise of religion. "Who would claim to lock up in a church and silence the message of Saint Francis or blessed Teresa of Calcutta?"
Catholic League members will like the Pope's criticisms of our "media culture and some intellectual circles."
These segments of the population would like activist Catholics to muzzle themselves, keeping their hands off the normative order. But when Catholics bend to these militant secularists, they lose. "They end up stifling the joy of mission with a kind of obsession about being like everyone else and possessing what everyone else possesses."
Pope Francis is neither liberal nor conservative. He's simply Catholic, and a towering champion of its many causes.
Charity
"CHARITY is a paradox, like modesty and courage. Stated baldly, charity certainly means one of two things -- pardoning unpardonable acts, or loving unlovable people." ~G.K. Chesterton: 'Orthodoxy.'
Advent/Christmas Calendar!
Great ideas in here for every day of the Advent/ Christmas Season!
Wishing you all a very blessed Advent Season:)
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