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disgruntledexplainer ¡ 1 day ago
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no, screw you, the Pope can complain about whatever he wants, just like you and me, and if he owes anyone at all an apology it certainly isn't about this. talking about the state of the world is ONE OF THE POPE'S MANY JOBS. he's not just there to look pretty and spout useless platitudes, he SHOULD be calling out injustices when he sees it. I happen to think he's wrong about this, but saying he doesn't have the right to say it is not just wrong, it's MORONIC.
"catholic" reddit is a disgrace; a bunch of baptists with crucifixes.
this is a friendly reminder that Americanism is a heresy, and the idea that the Church should stay out of political affairs, one way or the other, is part of that heresy.
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pharmaciacatholica ¡ 27 days ago
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Creation Theology Resources
Here are some resources that I think are good reads for those interested in the topic; I will likely add stuff as I come across more in the future. Like everyone else, I am always learning more.
Fathers:
Saint Theophilus of Antioch, Letter to Autolycus (A.D. 183)
Book II chapters 10-33
Book III chapter 24
Saint Ephraim the Syrian, Commentary on Genesis (A.D 306-373)
Saint Basil the Great, Hexaemeron (A.D 330-379)
Saint Gregory of Nyssa, On the Making of Man (A.D. 335-395)
Saint Ambrose of Milan, Commentary on Genesis (A.D. 339-397)
Specifically, Book I chapter 2 and 3
Saint John Chrysostom, Homilies on Genesis (A.D. 347-407)
Saint Augustine (A.D. 354-430)
The Confessions; Book XI, Book XII, and Book XIII
On the Literal Interpretation of Genesis
City of God; Books XI-XVI
Doctors:
Venerable Bede, The Reckoning of Time (A.D. 708)
Specifically, chapter 66
Saint John Damascene, On the Orthodox Faith (A.D. 673-735)
Specifically, Book II chapter 1 and 2
Saint Bonaventure, Breviloquium (A.D. 1221-1274)
Specifically, Parts II and III
Saint Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae (A.D. 1225-1274)
Prima Pars; Questions 44-46, 65-74, 90-92, 102
Councils:
Council of Trent (A.D. 1545-1563)
Session IV, Decree Concerning the Edition and the Use of the Sacred Books
Session V, Decree Concerning Original Sin
Catechism of Trent, Production of Man (page 42)
Second Vatican Council (A.D 1965)
Dei Verbum
Roman Pontiffs
Pope Leo XIII
Arcanum Divinae; specifically, paragraph 5
Providentissimus Deus
Pope Pius XII
Divino Afflante Spiritu
Humani Generis *the crown jewel, in my opinion*
Pope Saint John Paul II
Evangelium Vitae; specifically, chapter 2 parts 39-43
Pope Francis
Laudato Si; specifically, chapter 2
Pontifical Biblical Commission
Miscellaneous Articles
The Four Senses of Scripture
Creation and Divine Freedom
The Theological Importance of Creation
Is Genesis 1-11 Intended to be Historical
The Mathematical Impossibility of Evolution
The Metaphysical Impossibility of Human Evolution
Against Polygenism
Should Catholics Believe in Evolution
Lex Orandi, Lex Credendi
The Pontifical Academy of Sciences and the Crisis of Faith
Books
Haydock Bible Commentary
Genesis 1-3
Studies in the Theology of Creation Volume 1 by Gideon Lazar (no pdf available currently)
The Doctrines of Genesis 1-11 by Fr. Victor Warkulwiz
A Catholic Introduction to the Bible: The Old Testament by John Bergsma and Brant Pitre
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thepastisalreadywritten ¡ 4 months ago
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SAINT OF THE DAY (October 1)
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On October 1, Catholics around the world honor the life of St. ThÊrèse of the Child Jesus, or St. ThÊrèse of Lisieux on her feast day.  
ThÊrèse was born on 2 January 1873 in Alençon, France, to pious parents, both of whom are scheduled to be canonized in October 2016.
Her mother died when she was four, leaving her father and elder sisters to raise her.
On Christmas Day 1886, Thérèse had a profound experience of intimate union with God, which she described as a “complete conversion.” 
Almost a year later, in a papal audience during a pilgrimage to Rome in 1887, she asked for and obtained permission from Pope Leo XIII to enter the Carmelite Monastery at the young age of 15.
On entering, she devoted herself to living a life of holiness, doing all things with love and childlike trust in God.
She struggled with life in the convent but decided to make an effort to be charitable to all, especially those she didn’t like.
She always performed little acts of charity and sacrifices, not caring how unimportant they seemed. 
These acts helped her come to a deeper understanding of her vocation.
She wrote in her autobiography that she had always dreamed of being a missionary, an Apostle, a martyr – yet she was a nun in a quiet cloister in France. How could she fulfill these longings?
“Charity gave me the key to my vocation. I understood that the Church had a Heart and that this Heart was burning with love.
I knew that one love drove the members of the Church to action, that if this love were extinguished, the apostles would have proclaimed the Gospel no longer, the martyrs would have shed their blood no more.
I understood that Love comprised all vocations, that Love was everything, that it embraced all times and places...in a word, that it was eternal!
Then in the excess of my delirious joy, I cried out: O Jesus, my Love...my vocation, at last I have found it...My vocation is Love!”
ThÊrèse offered herself as a sacrificial victim to the merciful Love of God on 9 June 1895, the Feast of the Most Holy Trinity.
The following year, on the night between Holy Thursday and Good Friday, she noticed the first symptoms of Tuberculosis, the illness which would lead to her death.
ThÊrèse recognized in her illness the mysterious visitation of the divine Spouse and welcomed the suffering as an answer to her offering the previous year. 
She also began to undergo a terrible trial of faith, which lasted until her death a year and a half later. 
“Her last words, ‘My God, I love you,’ are the seal of her life,” said Pope John Paul II.
ThÊrèse died on 30 September 1897.
Since her death, millions have been inspired by her ‘little way’ of loving God and neighbor.
Many miracles have been attributed to her intercession. She had predicted during her earthly life that “My Heaven will be spent doing good on Earth.”
Saint Thérèse was proclaimed a Doctor of the Church by Pope John Paul II in 1997 — 100 years after her death at the age of 24.
She is only the third woman to be so proclaimed, after Saint Catherine of Siena and Saint Teresa of Avila.
St. ThÊrèse once wrote:
'You know well enough that Our Lord does not look so much at the greatness of our actions, nor even at their difficulty, but at the love with which we do them."
Pope Pius XI beatified her on 29 April 1923 and canonized on 17 May 1925.
The roses are the most traditional attribute associated with the iconography of Saint Therese of Lisieux.
She is often depicted holding roses or surrounded by roses, or throwing roses from heaven, or holding a crucifix covered with roses.
In her writings, she often used flowers and roses as metaphors, either to refer to herself or to the acts of love she wanted to do.
She referred to herself as the "Little Flower of Jesus" in the garden of God. 
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cruger2984 ¡ 1 year ago
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THE DESCRIPTION OF SAINT FRANCES XAVIER CABRINI The Patron of Immigrants Feast Day: November 13
Before she became the patron of immigrants, she was born Maria Francesca Cabrini on July 15, 1850, in Sant'Angelo Lodigiano, in the Lombard Province of Lodi, then part of the Austrian Empire. She was the youngest of the thirteen children of farmers Agostino Cabrini and Stella Oldini. Only four of the thirteen survived beyond adolescence.
Born two months early, Maria was small and weak as a child and remained in delicate health throughout her life. During her childhood, she visited an uncle, Don Luigi Oldini of Livagra, a priest who lived beside a swift canal. While there, she made little boats of paper, dropped violets in them, called the flowers 'missionaries', and launched them to sail off to India and China. Francesca attended a school run by the Daughters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus at thirteen, then she graduated cum laude with a teaching degree five years later.
After her parents died in 1870, she applied for admission to the Daughters of the Sacred Heart at Arluno. These sisters were her former teachers, but reluctantly, they told her she was too frail for their life.
Cabrini took religious vows in 1877 and added Xavier (Saverio) to her name to honor the Jesuit saint, St. Francis Xavier, the patron saint of missionary service. She had planned, like Francis Xavier, to be a missionary in the Far East.
In November 1880, Cabrini and seven other women who had taken religious vows with her founded the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. The sisters took in orphans and foundlings, opened a day school to help pay expenses, started classes in needlework and sold their fine embroidery to earn a little more money. The institute established seven homes and a free school and nursery in its first five years. Its good works brought Cabrini to the attention of Giovanni Scalabrini, Bishop of Piacenza, and of Pope Leo XIII.
In September 1887, Cabrini went to seek the pope's approval to establish missions in China. Instead, he urged that she go to the United States to help the Italian immigrants who were flooding to that nation, mostly in great poverty. 'Not to the East, but to the West' was his advice.
Along with six other sisters, Cabrini left for the United States, arriving in New York City on March 31, 1889. While in New York, she encountered disappointment and difficulties. Michael Corrigan, the third archbishop of New York, who was not immediately supportive, found them housing at the convent of the Sisters of Charity. She obtained the archbishop's permission to found the Sacred Heart Orphan Asylum in rural West Park, New York, later renamed Saint Cabrini Home. She organized catechism and education classes for the Italian immigrants and provided for many orphans' needs. She established schools and orphanages despite tremendous odds. She was as resourceful as she was prayerful, finding people who would donate what she needed in money, time, labor, and support. Cabrini was naturalized as a United States citizen in 1909.
While preparing Christmas candy for local children, Cabrini died on December 22, 1917 at the age of 67 due to malaria in Columbus Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. Her body was initially interred at what became Saint Cabrini Home, the orphanage she founded in West Park, Ulster County, New York. She was beatified on November 13, 1938, by Pope Pius XI, and canonized on July 7, 1946, by Pope Pius XII, a year after World War II ended. In 1950, Pope Pius XII named Frances Xavier Cabrini as the patron saint of immigrants, recognizing her efforts on their behalf across the Americas in schools, orphanages, hospitals, and prisons.
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amicidomenicani ¡ 2 years ago
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Question Hello Father Bellon, I would like to thank you for your pastoral service and I would appreciate it if you could read this email of mine. I apologize if you've found the previous email messy and difficult to understand. I have two doubts at the moment. I. Do we all have the same rights and the same duties? In his latest encyclical All Brothers, Pope Francis affirmed that all men [as well as women] have the same rights and duties. So far so good but, unless His Holiness was referring only to some (fundamental) rights and duties, this may seem contrary to the teaching that the Church has spread over the centuries. Precisely, men are equal in dignity, but the inequalities of rights and powers come from the same Author of nature (SS Leo XIII, encyclical Quod Apostolici Muneris, 1878), and that the disparities of culture, possessions and social position are in conformity with the divine and natural law are not necessarily contrary to the spirit of brotherhood and community (SS Pius XII, Christmas Radio Message of 24 December 1944, 1944). Not to mention the doctrine (see for instance Leo XIII) according to which democracy is only one amongst the legitimate forms of government. Can the Church be a reliable guide in the faith if it contradicts her own teachings?  If there is no contradiction between today's magisterium and the old one, could the magisterium be a little clearer about these fundamental principles? II. According to the Bible, should wives and husbands have the same role within the family? Father Bellon, I believe that the relations between the members of the family must, in part, be established by traditions and civil laws (SS Pius XI, encyclical Casti Connubii, par. II, 1930, and SS Giovanni Paolo II, encyclical Familiaris consortio , art.25, 1981), my question, however, concerns the essential aspects of marriage as established by the Holy Scriptures. In the Bible, reference is often made to the duty of wives to be submissive to their husbands, but a passage from the Apostle Paul's Letter to the Ephesians, the one in which we read be submissive to one another, seems to refer to a more equal relationship between the spouses. Some say that the scriptures are influenced by the culture and mentality that dominated the centuries in which its authors lived. However, the Church teaches that God inspired biblical authors to write only what He wanted (Universal Catechism of the Catholic Church, art.106), therefore each verse more than the culture of the writers should reflect the wisdom of the Holy Spirit who inspired them.  So we should consider that God asks Christian spouses to be submissive to one another, and He strengthens this commandment over wives alone in many other passages. Reflecting on it, I thought that perhaps God asks for two different types of submission to wives and husbands: He asks obedience to the wives and to the husbands to take care of their wives, even giving up their hobbies or always pushing for what they want. For example, the Apostles (the hierarchy of the Church) were subjected to Jesus Christ as the Messiah and consubstantial Son of God, but even Jesus was in some way subject to the Apostles when he had to give up his interests to worry about those slow-thinking men, especially when he humbly washed their feet.  It seems to me that Blessed Giuseppe Toniolo (Treviso, 1845 - Pisa, 1918) saw in this last gesture an example for the human hierarchy of every time. All this without omitting that, as S.S. Pius XI said, the "human" laws can determine in a more precise way the characteristics of this submission, and I add, by bringing the rights and duties of the spouses closer to make them more equal. What do you think? Did I go completely astray? Am I too slow to understand? Answer from the Priest Dear friend, with some delay (almost a year) I reply to your email. I beg your pardon. 1. With reference to the two question
s you asked me: About the first one: Pope Francis said that all men, clearly including women, have the same rights and the same duties. Which is very true. The expression "all men" is equivalent to all people. All people, including children, have the same rights and duties. 2. In the Instruction Donum Vitae (it is an instruction of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith of February 22, 1987) we read: "The human being is to be respected and treated as a person from the moment of conception; and therefore from that same moment his rights as a person must be recognized, among which in the first place is the inviolable right of every innocent human being to life"(DV I, 1). 3. Distinctions are implicitly included in this statement, in particular the distinction between absolute rights and conditional rights.  For example: every person has the right and the duty to participate in social life through elections. Children are also people. Do they have the right to vote? Obviously yes, as they are people. And yet, since going to vote requires at least a minimum knowledge of public life, it is required to carry out an act of such responsibility when the subject has acquired a level of maturity. Similarly, children as persons also have the right to marry. But in fact society prevents it because marriage requires the maturity necessary to assume the marital rights and duties. 4. If you keep these distinctions in mind, you will realize that there is no contradiction between the various interventions of the Magisterium, Sometimes, in fact, the magisterium simply refers to absolute rights. While other times it refers to conditional rights, which are regulated by society. 5. The opinion expressed on democracy, considered as one of the legitimate forms, is also correct. We cannot deny a priori that the democratic system can be improved in the future. 6. The second question concerns husband and wife having the same role within the family. The expression you used is quite vague, because if the spouses have the same rights and duties as spouses, they nevertheless have different duties within the family. Some of them derive from nature, such as the task of carrying children in one's womb, of giving birth to them, of nursing them. Others, on the other hand, derive from customs or cultures. In the past, certain tasks were entrusted to husbands and others to wives, such as cooking or keeping the house tidy. It cannot be denied that women are more predisposed to cleanliness and order. We see it in their own behavior and in their clothing. 7. Regarding submission, you did well to remember Ephesians 5:21 where the Holy Spirit says: "Be submissive to one another in the fear of the Lord". Precisely because he is speaking of mutual submission, St. Paul explains in the following verse: “You wives are subject to your husbands” which goes along with the first verse. 8. St. Paul also says that the husband is "the head of the wife, just as Christ is the head of the church". The fact that he is a leader does not affect the equal dignity of the spouses. Precisely by appealing to the equality of spouses, the Church rejects polygamy, which manifests a superiority of man over woman because it would be up to man to decide how many wives to have. Nor does it mean that the husband is the owner of the wife. But just as the Church is all for the Lord, so also the wife is all for her husband. She is happy to live for him. And this in the same way in which the husband is happy to give himself to his wife down to the last drop of blood as Christ did for the Church, of which he made himself a servant. 9. It is true that St. Paul as an inspired author wrote everything that the Holy Spirit willed. But it is also right to recognize that the Holy Spirit also inspired him in drawing from the society of the time the concept of submission of the wife to her husband. However, not to place an in
equality between the two as was believed in those days, but to purge submission from any possible interpretation of man's domination over woman, to lead to a new concept of submission, which is that of mutual submission. And it’s not only about mutual submission, which is already a great thing, but of reciprocal submission in the Lord, the only Lord of the husband and wife, the first and irreplaceable spouse of each of them. 10. Starting precisely from the divine affirmation that "the two are one flesh" it is out of place to speak of the superiority of the husband over his wife and vice versa. Mutual submission is the fruit of that love for which we give ourselves in totality to one another and voluntarily make ourselves servants for the good of the other. It is submission in love, which leads us to be happy to give ourselves to each other to the last drop of blood. This mutual service emerges in a particularly beautiful text by Tertullian, a Christian writer of the second century: "How will I be able to expose the happiness of that marriage which the Church unites, the Eucharistic offering confirms, the blessing seals, the angels announce and the Father ratifies? ... What a yoke that of two faithful united in one hope, in one observance, in one servitude! They are both brothers and both serve together; there is no division as to spirit and as to flesh. Indeed they are truly two in one flesh and where the flesh is one, the spirit is one ”(Ad uxorem, II; VIII, 6-8). Thank you for giving me the opportunity to clarify these concepts. At the same time I am pleased with you because if I am not mistaken you are that young man who is approaching faith, or better said, our Lord. I accompany you with my prayer and I bless you. Father Angelo 08 January 2022 | A priest replies - Moral theology - Cardinal virtues
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they think CHARITY is wrong!?!?! dang, they're taking the short bus to hell. Jesus had some pretty strong things to say about those who ignore the poor, like in Matthew 21:41-45, or Luke 16:19-31.
As for racism, if they're Catholic they should read Encyclical Sublimis Deus by Pope Paul III, or In Plurimis by Pope Leo XIII, or Nostra Aetate by Pope Paul VI, or Mitt Brennender Sorge by Pope Pius XI. Just because members of The Church have engaged in racist practices in the past doesn't mean that those practices were in line with the teaching of The Church, let alone Christ Himself. We are more than capable of hypocrisy, unfortunately.
Regarding immigration, I there's nothing in the bible saying that people can't have a secure border for the sake of public safety that I know of. However, there is no need to be cruel about it; cruelty is for the devil. And we certainly shouldn't be splitting up families either.
I HAVE seen people celebrate when liberal states get harmed by liberal policies, and it is troubling. Proverbs 24:17-18 says we should not rejoice when our enemy stumbles, lest The Lord be displeased with our behavior. I have to admit, I myself occasionally fall to this, though I am trying to correct this behavior.
trying to find christian blogs on this website is a russian roulette, either the people running the blogs are okay or they're freaky "what have children ever done for me" ancaps
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tradcatholic ¡ 5 years ago
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WHEN YOU START PRAYING THE DAILY ROSARY, YOU CAN STOP FEARING DEATH...
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The Fifteen Promises of Mary Granted to those who Recite the Rosary Daily
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The Blessed Virgin Mary Promised to Saint Dominic and to all who follow that "Whatever you ask in the Rosary will be granted." She left for all Christians Fifteen Promises to those who recite the Holy Rosary.
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Imparted to Saint Dominic and Blessed Alan de la Roche
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1. Whoever shall faithfully serve me by the recitation of the Rosary, shall receive signal graces.
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2. I promise my special protection and the greatest graces to all those who shall recite the Rosary.
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3. The Rosary shall be a powerful armor against hell, it will destroy vice, decrease sin, and defeat heresies.
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4.The Rosary will cause virtue and good works to flourish; it will obtain for souls the abundant mercy of God; it will withdraw the hearts of men from the love of the world and its vanities, and will lift them to the desire for eternal things. Oh, that souls would sanctify themselves by this means.
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5. The soul which recommends itself to me by the recitation of the Rosary, shall not perish.
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6. Whoever shall recite the Rosary devoutly, applying himself to the consideration of its sacred mysteries shall never be conquered by misfortune. God will not chastise him in His justice, he shall not perish by an unprovided death; if he be just he shall remain in the grace of God, and become worthy of eternal life.
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7. Whoever shall have a true devotion for the Rosary shall not die without the sacraments of the Church.
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8. Those who are faithful to recite the Rosary shall have during their life and at their death the light of God and the plenititude of His graces; at the moment of death they shall participate in the merits of the saints in paradise.
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9. I shall deliver from Purgatory those who have been devoted to the Rosary.
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10. The faithful children of the Rosary shall merit a high degree of glory in Heaven.
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11. You shall obtain all you ask of me by the recitation of the Rosary.
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12. All those who propagate the Holy Rosary shall be aided by me in their necessities.
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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.
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14. All who recite the Rosary are my sons and daughters, and brothers and sisters of my only Son Jesus Christ.
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15. Devotion of my Rosary is a great sign of predestination.
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Don't let anyone tell you that praying the Rosary is "meaningless repetition" (when we don't pray it, we don't know it, anyway, and how could we?). If you ever feel the temptation to stop, because it feels "tedious," that's when you keep going, if only because love is not a feeling, but an act of the will. Take your time; praying it effectively and loving it is gradually learned. And the appetite does come with the meal. Turn "tedium" into persistence.
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The Rosary is the ‘weapon’ for these times.” -Padre Pio
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“Give me an army saying the Rosary and I will conquer the world.” – Blessed Pope Pius IX
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“The greatest method of praying is to pray the Rosary.” – Saint Francis de Sales
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“Some people are so foolish that they think they can go through life without the help of the Blessed Mother. Love the Madonna and pray the rosary, for her Rosary is the weapon against the evils of the world today. All graces given by God pass through the Blessed Mother.” Padre Pio
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“Go to the Madonna. Love her! Always say the Rosary. Say it well. Say it as often as you can! Be souls of prayer. Never tire of praying, it is what is essential. Prayer shakes the Heart of God, it obtains necessary graces!” -Padre Pio
“The Rosary is a powerful weapon to put the demons to flight and to keep oneself from sin…If you desire peace in your hearts, in your homes, and in your country, assemble each evening to recite the Rosary. Let not even one day pass without saying it, no matter how burdened you may be with many cares and labors.” – Pope Pius XI
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“The Rosary is the most excellent form of prayer and the most efficacious means of attaining eternal life. It is the remedy for all our evils, the root of all our blessings. There is no more excellent way of praying.” Pope Leo XIII
“The Most Holy Virgin in these last times in which we live has given a new efficacy to the recitation of the Rosary to such an extent that there is no problem, no matter how difficult it is, whether temporal or above all spiritual, in the personal life of each one of us, of our families…that cannot be solved by the Rosary. There is no problem, I tell you, no matter how difficult it is, that we cannot resolve by the prayer of the Holy Rosary.” -Sister Lucia dos Santos of Fatima
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“The Rosary is a long chain that links heaven and earth. One end of it is in our hands and the other end is in the hands of the Holy Virgin…The Rosary prayer rises like incense to the feet of the Almighty. Mary responds at once like a beneficial dew, bringing new life to human hearts.”
St. Therese of Lisieux
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“When people love and recite the Rosary they find it makes them better.” -St. Anthony Mary Claret
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The Rosary is the most beautiful and the most rich in graces of all prayers; it is the prayer that touches most the Heart of the Mother of God…and if you wish peace to reign in your homes, recite the family Rosary.~Pope Saint Pius X
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When you say your Rosary, the angels rejoice, the Blessed Trinity delights in it, my Son finds joy in it too, and I myself am happier than you can possibly guess. After the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, there is nothing in the Church that I love as much as the Rosary.~Our Lady to Blessed Alan de la Roche
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One day, through the Rosary and the Scapular, Our Lady will save the world.~Saint Dominic
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Even if you are on the brink of damnation, even if you have one foot in hell, even if you have sold your soul to the devil as sorcerers do who practice black magic, and even if you are a heretic as obstinate as a devil, sooner or later you will be converted and will amend your life and will save your soul,IF YOU SAY THE HOLY ROSARY devoutly every day until death for the purpose of knowing the truth and obtaining contrition and pardon for your sins-Saint Louis de Montfort
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“When you say your Rosary, the angels rejoice, the Blessed Trinity delights in it, my Son finds joy in it too, and I myself am happier than you can possibly guess. After the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, there is nothing in the Church that I love as much as the Rosary.” - Our Lady to Blessed Alan de la Roche
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Even if You Pray the Rosary for Years and See No Improvement Spiritually, Do Not Give Up. Mary and Jesus Will Always Come to Your Aide.
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Imprimatur: Patrick J. Hayes, D.D. Archbishop of New York
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26th April >> (@VaticanNews) #PopeFrancis As #Pope Francis invites everyone to pray the #Rosary throughout May, we explore the dedication of various Popes through the centuries to this ancient devotion.
The Popes and the Rosary
This May, during the month dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary, Pope Francis has invited the faithful to renew their love for the Most Holy Rosary, a prayer fully immersed in the Gospel. In this article, Vatican News looks at the dedication of various Popes throughout the centuries to this ancient devotion.
John Charles Putzolu
It is necessary to go back to the 15th century to Pope Sixtus IV to find when the Rosary was officially approved by the Catholic Church. The practice probably originated with the Cistercians in the two previous centuries as an aid for illiterate people. The recitation of prayers and psalms in succession, gradually became a series of 150 Hail Marys. Greeting Mary so many times was compared to offering her a wreath of roses, the “Rosary”.
The Rosary over two centuries
Promoted by the Dominicans in the 15th century, the Rosary took the form of a meditation on the life of Christ, while the Our Father and the Hail Marys were recited. In the 16th century, the Dominican theologian, Antonio Ghislieri, who became Pope St Pius V, structured the Rosary around 15 mysteries. On 7 October 1571, he instituted the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary.
John Paul II in 2002 completed the Rosary with five new mysteries: The Luminous Mysteries were added to the Joyful, Sorrowful and Glorious mysteries.
Between 1571 and 2002, the Popes never ceased to encourage the recitation of the Rosary. In September 1893, in the Encyclical Laetitiae sanctae, Leo XIII stated that he was “convinced that the Rosary, if devoutly used, is bound to benefit not only the individual but society at large”, whose evils he denounced at the dawn of the second Industrial Revolution, which was deepening the imbalance between the social classes.
Prayer in difficult times
Pius XI foresaw the wave of National Socialism (Nazism) and Stalinism coming. In 1937, two years before the beginning of the Second World War, in his Encyclical Ingravescentibus malis, he observed that if the people of the twentieth century, “with its derisive pride, refuse the Rosary, there is an innumerable multitude of holy men of every age and every condition who have always held it dear”. He addresses the faithful, asking them to recite the Rosary at home so that “the enemies of the divine name (...) may be finally bent and led to penance and return to the straight path, trusting to the care and protection of Mary”.
Pius XI added: “The Holy Rosary, besides, not only serves admirably to overcome the enemies of God and Religion, but is also a stimulus and spur to the practice of evangelic virtues which it injects and cultivates in our souls”.
John XXIII recites the Rosary for new-borns
On May 4, 1963, while the Church was engaged in the Second Vatican Council, St John XXIII welcomed the first Italian Living Rosary pilgrimage, during which “Good Pope John” met many sick children. “You are dear to us, like the apple of our eyes,” the Supreme Pontiff said to them. “You are dear to us above all because, with the natural liveliness of your years, you are little children who pray,” he told them. He praised their “commitment to recite at least one decade of the Holy Rosary every day,” adding that a day without prayer is like “a sky without sun, a garden without flowers”.
Already in 1961, an attachment to the Apostolic Letter Il religioso convegno, noted that St John, in his daily Rosary, prayed for babies born in the past 24 hours, as he recited the third decade of the Joyful mysteries. He offered the “ten Hail Marys” in order to “recommend to Jesus all children born (...) from all human lineages, who, (...) by night, by day, have come into the world on the whole surface of the earth”.
In the Encyclical Grata recordatio of 1959, John XXIII encouraged daily recitation of the Rosary, affirming that the Rosary is an excellent means of meditative prayer, which, he said, “We never fail to recite it each day in its entirety”. He invited the faithful to pray the Rosary for the upcoming Ecumenical Council (Vatican II) and for “the renewed vigour of all the Christian virtues” expected of the Church.
In the wake of the Council, Pope St Paul VI dedicated an Apostolic Exhortation entitled Marialis cultus to Marian veneration in which he “intended to encourage the restoration, in a dynamic and more informed manner, of the recitation of the Rosary”. He also emphasized “the importance of a further essential element in the Rosary, in addition to the value of the elements of praise and petition, namely the element of contemplation. Without this the Rosary is a body without a soul, and its recitation is in danger of becoming a mechanical repetition of formulas”. St Paul VI goes on “to recommend strongly the recitation of the family Rosary”.
John Paul II’s favourite prayer
St. John Paul II, who himself was deeply devoted to the Virgin Mary (Totus Tuus was his episcopal motto), encouraged the recitation of the Rosary many times during the 27 years of his pontificate. In 2002 he published an Apostolic Letter dedicated specifically to the Rosary, Rosarium Virginis Mariae. In it, he described the Rosary as a prayer which “in the sobriety of its elements” concentrates “all the depth of the Gospel message in its entirety”, and through which “the faithful receive abundant grace, as though from the very hands of the Mother of the Redeemer”. St John Paul II explains that in his youth he always gave an important place to this prayer, which was his favourite. He had already confessed this in 1978 two weeks after his election. It was in this Letter that he proclaimed the year of the Rosary from October 2002 to October 2003, inviting the faithful to “contemplate with Mary the face of Christ”.
At the dawn of the third millennium, the Polish Pope stressed “the urgent need to counter a certain crisis of the Rosary, which in the present historical and theological context can risk being wrongly devalued, and therefore no longer taught to the younger generation”. Concerned then by the critical situation of the family “increasingly menaced by forces of disintegration on both the ideological and practical planes”, he proposed the Rosary as “an effective aid to countering the devastating effects of this crisis typical of our age”.
The New Springtime of the Rosary
Benedict XVI, too, wished to revitalize the recitation of the Rosary: “The Holy Rosary is not a pious practice banished to the past, like prayers of other times thought of with nostalgia,” he said at the end of his prayer at the Roman Basilica of Saint Mary Major on 3 May 2008. “Instead, the Rosary is experiencing a new Springtime”, he said. “Without a doubt, this is one of the most eloquent signs of love that the young generation nourish for Jesus and his Mother, Mary. In the current world, so dispersive, this prayer helps to put Christ at the centre”.
Three years earlier, in a Message to young Catholics in the Netherlands, he wrote that “The recitation of the Rosary can help you learn the art of prayer with Mary's simplicity and depth”. During an Audience in May 2006, Benedict XVI invited the faithful “to intensify the pious practice of the Holy Rosary”. He said to young spouses: “I wish you may make use of the recitation of the Rosary in your family as a moment of spiritual growth under the maternal gaze of the Virgin Mary”. Speaking to the sick, he urged them “to turn with trust to Our Lady through this pious exercise, entrusting to her all of your needs”.
Again, difficult times
In October 2018, Pope Francis asked all the faithful to pray the Rosary every day, so that the Virgin Mary may help the Church in a period marked by “the revelation of sexual abuse, power and conscience on the part of clerics, consecrated persons and lay people, causing internal divisions”.
Today Francis renews this invitation on the eve of the Marian month in 2020, in order to contemplate together “the face of Christ with the heart of Mary”. Praying the Rosary “will make us even more united as a spiritual family and will help us overcome this time of trial”, writes the Holy Father as he assures everyone, and especially “those suffering most greatly”, of his prayer.
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59. However, these very social changes, which have created and increased the need of cooperation between the clergy and laity to which We have just referred, have themselves brought along in their wake new and most serious problems and dangers. As an after-effect of the upheaval caused by the Great War and of its political and social consequences, false ideas and unhealthy sentiments have, like a contagious disease, so taken possession of the popular mind that We have grave fears that even some among the best of our laity and of the clergy, seduced by the false appearance of truth which some of these doctrines possess, have not been altogether immune from error.
60. Many believe in or claim that they believe in and hold fast to Catholic doctrine on such questions as social authority, the right of owning private property, on the relations between capital and labor, on the rights of the laboring man, on the relations between Church and State, religion and country, on the relations between the different social classes, on international relations, on the rights of the Holy See and the prerogatives of the Roman Pontiff and the Episcopate, on the social rights of Jesus Christ, Who is the Creator, Redeemer, and Lord not only of individuals but of nations. In spite of these protestations, they speak, write, and, what is more, act as if it were not necessary any longer to follow, or that they did not remain still in full force, the teachings and solemn pronouncements which may be found in so many documents of the Holy See, and particularly in those written by Leo XIII, Pius X, and Benedict XV.
61. There is a species of moral, legal, and social modernism which We condemn, no less decidedly than We condemn theological modernism.
- Pope Pius XI, Ubi Arcano Dei Consilio (On the Peace of Christ in HIs Kingdom), 1922.
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1st October >> Daily Reflection/Commentary on Today’s Saint of the Day for Roman Catholics: Saint Therese of the Child Jesus, Virgin and Doctor (Memorial).
St Therese of the Child Jesus, Virgin and Doctor (Memorial)
Marie Francoise Therese Martin was born on 2 January 1873 at Alencon, southwest of Rouen in the north of France. She was the youngest daughter of Louis Martin, a watchmaker, and his wife, Zelie-Marie Guerin, a lacemaker, who died of breast cancer when Theresa was four years old. Both parents had wanted to enter religious life and, when they could not, hoped their children would do so. There were nine children but only five girls survived.
Therese grew up in a traditional religious home having little contact with the world, typical of middle-class Catholicism of the time. In 1877 the family moved to Lisieux in Normandy, where an aunt helped to look after the girls and where Theresa went to the Benedictine convent of Notre Dame du Pre. One after the other her elder sisters entered the Carmelite convent in Lisieux. At 15, after her sister Marie entered the convent, Thérèse tried follow her but the superior of the convent would not allow it on account of her age. Later, her father took Thérèse on a pilgrimage to Rome and, during a general audience with Pope Leo XIII, she asked him to allow her to enter at 15 but the Pope said: “Well, my child, do what the superiors decide.” Soon after, the Bishop of Bayeux gave his consent for her to enter as a postulant in 1888.
Her name in religion was Sister Therese of the Infant Jesus and of the Holy Face.
The following year, 1894, her father suffered a stroke and died and the fourth sister, who had been looking after him, was now able to enter the Carmel.
Not surprisingly, the overall description of Therese’s life is easily told. She followed the daily routine of a Carmelite sister from day to day but did so with great commitment and devotion.
Apart from being made assistant to the novice mistress in 1893 at the age of 20, she never held any other significant responsibility in the community.
Thérèse is known for her “Little Way”. In her quest for sanctity, she realized that it was not necessary to accomplish heroic acts, or “great deeds”, in order to attain holiness and to express her love of God. She wrote, “Love proves itself by deeds, so how am I to show my love? Great deeds are forbidden me. The only way I can prove my love is by scattering flowers and these flowers are every little sacrifice, every glance and word, and the doing of the least actions for love.” (She would later be known as the “Little Flower”.)
Therese’s final years were marked by a steady decline that she bore without complaint. In 1895 she suffered a haemorrhage which was the first sign of the tuberculosis which was to bring about her early death. On the morning of Good Friday, 1896, she began bleeding at the mouth brought on by a pulmonary hemoptysis. Her TB had now taken a turn for the worse.
As a result, she was not able, as she had so dearly wanted, to offer herself for a Carmelite mission foundation in Hanoi, Vietnam (then French Indo-China). She remained on in the Lisieux convent, accepting great suffering without complaint. In July 1897 she was moved to the convent infirmary, and just three months later died on 30 September 1897, at age 24. On her death-bed, she is reported to have said, “I have reached the point of not being able to suffer any more, because all suffering is sweet to me.”
Carmelite convent in Lisieux
It is most likely that, like most Sisters in her secluded situation, nothing more would have been heard of her. However, she had been told, under obedience to write a short spiritual autobiography now known as L’Histoire d’une Ame (Story of a Soul). She began writing in 1895 a memoir of her childhood under instructions from her sister Pauline, known in religion as Mother Agnes of Jesus. While on retreat in September 1896, Therese wrote the second part, consisting of a letter to her eldest sister, Sister Marie of the Sacred Heart. In June 1897 when Mother Agnes realised the gravity of Thérèse’s illness; she immediately asked Mother Marie, the prioress, to allow Thérèse write another memoir with more details of her religious life. It was published after Therese’s death, after editing by her sister Pauline (Mother Agnes).
The book became a religious best-seller of the 20th century and was translated into most European languages and in Asia as well. Its publication was accompanied by reports of miraculous cures and countless ‘favours’ granted through her intercession. It is still in print.
Since 1973 further editions (including the original version of Story of a Soul), her letters, poems, prayers, and plays she wrote for convent recreations have been published.
Pope Pius X signed the decree starting the process of canonization on 10 June 1914. Pope Benedict XV, in an unusual move, dispensed with the usual 50-year delay required between death and beatification. On 14 August 1921, he promulgated a decree on the heroic virtues of Thérèse and gave an address on Thérèse’s way of confidence and love, as a model for the whole Church.
Therese was beatified in April 1923 and canonized two years later, on 17 May 1925 by Pope Pius XI, just 28 years after her death. Her feast day was added to the Catholic liturgical calendar in 1927, to be celebrated on October 3. In 1969, Pope Paul VI moved it to 1 October, the day after her death.
ThÊrèse of Lisieux is the patron saint of AIDS sufferers, aviators, florists, illness, and missions. In 1927 Pope Pius XI named her a patron of the missions (with St Francis Xavier) and in 1944 Pope Pius XII named her co-patroness of France with St. Joan of Arc.
By the Apostolic Letter Divini Amoris Scientia ("The Science of Divine Love") of 19 October 1997, Pope John Paul II declared her a Doctor of the Universal Church, one of only three women so named (the others being Teresa of Avila and Catherine of Siena). In fact, Thérèse was the only saint named as a Doctor of the Church during John Paul II’s pontificate.
While presenting a deceptively simple and even pious image, it is clear that Therese was very close to the message of the Gospel and, in her sufferings, she showed a great spirit of courage, strength and self-sacrifice. Her interior asceticism was based on selfless and unconditional obedience rather than on simple exterior acts of penance.
The influence of her spirituality would lead many in her own convent, in her Order and in the Church generally to a greater appreciation of the asceticism arising from a faithful living out of ordinary community and daily life.
In art Theresa is represented in a Carmelite habit holding a bunch of roses in memory of her promise to “let fall a shower of roses” of miracles and other favours.
Some things which Therese said:
I am a very little soul, who can offer only very little things to the Lord.
I will spend my Heaven doing good on earth.
After my death I will let fall a shower of roses.
While desiring to be a priest, I admire and envy the humility of St. Francis of Assisi and I feel the vocation of imitating him in refusing the sublime dignity of the priesthood.
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Christ the King - Feast Day: Last Sunday of October (Latin Calendar) - Last Sunday of November - Ordinary Time
Consecration of the Human Race To the Sacred Heart of Jesus - Plenary Indulgence attached to Feast Day
Indulgences: for the Act of Consecration of the Human Race To the Sacred Heart of Jesus are as follows:
(Leo XIII, 11 June 1899, and Pius XI, 11 October 1925).
1. Indulgence of 300 days (Partial) each time
2. On the Feast of Christ the King, to be solemnly read with the litany of the sacred heart before the blessed sacrament exposed: then,
A. Seven years and Seven Quarantines (Partial);
B. A Plenary Indulgence (Last Sunday of Oct. and Last Sunday before advent) supposing Confession, Communion and prayers for the Popes intention.
The Act of Consecration was taken from the Latin Ordo 2011-- (pages 89-90) which is for the use of Roman Catholic Clergy who celebrate Mass and the Divine Office in accordance with the rubrics established by Pope John XXIII in Rubricarum instructum on the 25 July 1960.
The Litany of the Sacred Heart of Jesus which in of itself, carries a 300 day indulgence (partial) by Pope Leo XIII was taken from the Saint Andrew Daily Missal, Imprimatur 1945 and published by Saint Bonaventure Publications (pages 1904-06). This Missal is used when celebrating the pre-1962 Traditional Latin Rite Mass.
Other Indulgences
Sacred Heart of Jesus, Thy Kingdom Come!
Indulgence: 300 days (Partial), each time recited - Pius X, July 6, 1906
Sacred Heart of Jesus, I Trust in Thee.
Indulgences: 300 days, (Partial), each time recited -
Plenary, once a month, under the usual conditions,
For all who recite it daily during the month. - Pius X, May 27, 1905.
Act of consecration of the human race To the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Feast Day of Christ the King
(Last Sunday of October—Latin Rite)
(Last Sunday before Advent—Novus Ordo)
Most Sweet Jesus, Redeemer of the human race, look down upon us humbly prostrate before Thy altar. We are Thine, and Thine we wish to be; but, to be more surely united to Thee, behold each one of us freely consecrates himself today to Thy Most Sacred Heart.
Many indeed have never known Thee: Many too, despising Thy precepts, have rejected Thee. Have mercy on them all, most merciful Jesus, and draw them to Thy Sacred Heart. Be Thou King, O Lord, not only of the faithful children who have never forsaken Thee, but also of the prodigal children who have abandoned Thee: Grant that they may quickly return to their Father’s house lest they die of wretchedness and hunger.
Be Thou King of those who are deceived by erroneous opinions or whom discord keeps aloof, and call them back to the harbor of truth and unity of faith, so that soon there may be but one flock and one shepherd.
Be Thou King of those who are still involved in the darkness of idolatry or of Islam, and refuse not to draw them all into the light and Kingdom of God. Turn Thine eyes of mercy toward the children of that race, once Thy chosen people. Of old they called down upon themselves the Blood of the Savior; May It now descend upon them a laver of redemption and of life.
Grant, O Lord, to Thy Church assurance of freedom and immunity from harm; give peace and order to all nations, and make the earth resound from pole to pole with one cry: Praise to the Divine Heart that wrought our salvation; To it be glory and honor forever. Amen.
Litany of the Sacred Heart
(300 days’ indulgence once a day. Leo XIII).
Lord, have mercy on us.
Christ, have mercy on us.
Lord, have mercy on us.
Christ, hear us.
Christ, graciously hear us.
God the Father of heaven, have mercy on us.
God the Son, Redeemer of the world, have mercy on us.
God the Holy Ghost, have mercy on us.
Holy Trinity one God, have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, Son of the eternal Father, have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, formed by the Holy ghost in the womb of the Virgin Mother, have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, hypostatically united to the Eternal Word, have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, of infinite majesty, have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, holy temple of God, have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, tabernacle of the most High, have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, house of God and gate of heaven, have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, burning furnace of charity, have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, vessel of justice and love, have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, full of goodness and love, have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, abyss of all virtues, have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, worthy of all praise, have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, king and center of all hearts, have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, in which are all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge, have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, in which dwelleth all the fullness of the divinity, have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, in which the Father is well pleased, have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, of whose fullness we have all received, have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, desire of eternal hills, have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, patient and abounding in mercy, have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, rich unto all that call upon Thee, have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, fountain of life and holiness, have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, the propitiation for our sins, have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, filled with reproaches, have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, bruised for our sins, have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, made obedient unto death, have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, pierced with a lance, have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, source of all consolation, have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, our life and resurrection, have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, our peace and reconciliation, have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, victim for our sins, have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, salvation of them that hope in Thee, have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, hope of them that die in Thee, have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, delight of all the Saints, have mercy on us.
Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world, spare us, O Lord.
Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world, graciously hear us, O Lord.
Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world, have mercy on us.
V. Jesus, meek and humble of heart.
R. Make our heart like unto Thine.
Let Us Pray
Almighty and eternal God, consider the Heart of Thy well beloved Son and the praises and satisfaction He offers Thee in the name of sinners; appeased by worthy homage, pardon those who implore Thy mercy, in the name of the same Jesus Christ Thy Son who lives and reigns with Thee world without end. Amen.
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On October 1, Catholics around the world honor the life of St. ThÊrèse of the Child Jesus, or St. ThÊrèse of Lisieux on her feast day.
St. ThÊrèse was born on 2 January 1873 in Alençon, France, to pious parents, both of whom were canonized by Pope Francis on 18 October 2015.
Her mother died when she was four, leaving her father and elder sisters to raise her.
On Christmas Day 1886, Thérèse had a profound experience of intimate union with God, which she described as a “complete conversion.”
Almost a year later, in a papal audience during a pilgrimage to Rome, in 1887, she asked for and obtained permission from Pope Leo XIII to enter the Carmelite Monastery at the young age of 15.
On entering, she devoted herself to living a life of holiness, doing all things with love and childlike trust in God.
She struggled with life in the convent but decided to make an effort to be charitable to all, especially those she didn’t like.
She always performed little acts of charity and sacrifices, not caring how unimportant they seemed.
These acts helped her come to a deeper understanding of her vocation.
She wrote in her autobiography that she had always dreamed of being a missionary, an Apostle, a martyr – yet she was a nun in a quiet cloister in France. How could she fulfill these longings?
“Charity gave me the key to my vocation. I understood that the Church had a Heart and that this Heart was burning with love.
I knew that one love drove the members of the Church to action; that if this love were extinguished, the apostles would have proclaimed the Gospel no longer.
The martyrs would have shed their blood no more.
I understood that Love comprised all vocations, that Love was everything, that it embraced all times and places...in a word, that it was eternal!
Then in the excess of my delirious joy, I cried out: O Jesus, my Love...my vocation, at last I have found it...My vocation is Love!”
ThÊrèse offered herself as a sacrificial victim to the merciful Love of God on 9 June 1895, the feast of the Most Holy Trinity.
The following year, on the night between Holy Thursday and Good Friday, she noticed the first symptoms of tuberculosis, the illness which would lead to her death.
ThÊrèse recognized in her illness the mysterious visitation of the divine Spouse and welcomed the suffering as an answer to her offering the previous year.
She also began to undergo a terrible trial of faith, which lasted until her death on 30 September 1897.
“Her last words, ‘My God, I love you,’ are the seal of her life,” said Pope John Paul II.
Since her death, millions have been inspired by her ‘little way’ of loving God and neighbor.
Many miracles have been attributed to her intercession. She had predicted during her earthly life that “My Heaven will be spent doing good on Earth.”
She is popularly known in English as the 'Little Flower of Jesus,' or simply the 'Little Flower.'
Pope Pius XI beatified ThÊrèse on 29 April 1923 and canonized on 17 May 1925.
Saint Thérèse was proclaimed a Doctor of the Church by Pope John Paul II in 1997 — 100 years after her death at the age of 24.
She is only the third woman to be so proclaimed, after Saint Catherine of Siena and Saint Teresa of Avila.
She is the patron saint of missions and of florists.
St. ThÊrèse wrote:
'You know well enough that Our Lord does not look so much at the greatness of our actions, nor even at their difficulty, but at the love with which we do them."
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THE DESCRIPTION OF SAINT JOHN OF GOD The Founder of the Brothers Hospitallers of Saint John of God Feast Day: March 8 (International Womens' Day)
"Whether you like it or not, you will grow apart from human beings. However, Christ is faithful and always with you. For Christ provides all things."
John of God was born Joao Duarte Cidade, on March 8, 1495, in Montemor-o-Novo, now in the District of Évora, Kingdom of Portugal, the son of André Cidade and Teresa Duarte, a once-prominent family that was impoverished but had great religious faith.
Having spent some years in the Spanish army, where he experienced all sorts of vices, he repented and resolved to dedicate himself to God. At the age of 40, John went to Africa for a few months, hoping to win the crown of martyrdom. Back in Spain, he started in Granada a shop of religious pictures and books.
In 1537, he was so impressed by the sermons of St. John of Avila, that he began acting as a madman, and was consequently confined in a mental hospital, where he became aware of the horrible conditions of the patients. This dramatic experience convinced him to put up a new hospital that could offer a more humane care to the sick and the poor.
In 1539, he hired a house in Granada where, with some recruits, he laid the foundations of the Brothers Hospitallers. He was named John of God by Sebastian Ramirez, the Bishop of Tui, on account of his simplicity.
While begging, he used to chant the refrain: 'Do good to yourself by doing good to others.'
One day, the archbishop confronted him about the accusation that his hospital was a refuge for sinful women. With humility, John replied: 'I confess that I know of no bad person in my hospital except myself alone.'
John died due to pneumonia on his 55th birthday - March 8, 1550, in Granada, after he had plunged into a river to save a young man from drowning.
Beatified by Pope Urban VIII in 1630, canonized by Pope Alexander VIII sixty years later, and declared as the Patron of Hospitals by Pope Leo XIII in 1886, and in 1930 he was further proclaimed patron saint of nurses and their associations by Pope Pius XI.
His major shrine can be found at the Basilica of St. John of God, in Granada, Spain.
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Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini - Feast Day: November 13th - Both Calendars
Patron Saint of Immigrants Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini is often shown against a background of New Your harbor with the Statue of Liberty.
Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini
1850-1917
Upon the bright blue skies of the great valley of Lombardy south of Milan, Maria Francesca Cabrini first saw the light of day. She grew up on the farm where she was born, the youngest of the 15 children of Agostino Cabrini and Stella Oldini whom he had brought as his bride from Milan many years before.
The land in the Lombard valley is generous, as everyone knows, but it does not give its riches without a price. Agostino worked his land hard and, like his neighbors, probably worked his sons hard also. The girls did not have to drive the plow horse or pitch hay, but they did their share of weeding and feeding the animals, carrying the noonday meal to the men in the fields and beating the dirt out of the laundry by the river bank before leaving it to bleach in the afternoon sun. It was a good walk from Maria Francesca’s farm to the mighty Po which was off in the center of the valley, reaching to the northwest into the towering mountains far away and sweeping eastward into the Adriatic. Looking back, one can see the Po as a kind of symbol of Maria Francesca’s life, taking its start in the rich land and even richer history of Lombardy and moving out of Italy to the sea and to the world. The little girl growing up knew nothing of the future, of course, but the hand of the Lord was at work.
Personal Courage
Frail of physique all her life, she often aroused the admiration of those who knew her because, paradoxically, she was evidently stronger than she looked. One wonders if her secret were not a kind of tough-minded personal courage which she developed on the farm. As the last of the long line of children, she spent her childhood with her parents in their older, quieter years. She was still a school child when her big brothers and sisters were being married. She was probably left to herself quite often and developed her own defenses against life’s sorrows and disappointments. The Italian peasant is always a somewhat stoic person as indeed are most peasants, buffeted as they are by the sun, the wind and the storms that can carry off a year’s work of planting and harvesting in a month long drought or a raging flood. In Maria Francesca’s case, her natural stoicism was undoubtedly baptized into conformity to God’s will. Not without its significance is the fact that the death in the same year (1870) of both her parents was not the shattering end of all for the young girl of twenty, but actually the beginning of her glorious career.
By 1870, Maria Francesca had already completed school and had, with top honors, received her teacher’s certificate. (Her far-sighted parents had chained none of the children to the land.) When her parents were laid to rest, she applied for admission in the religious congregation of the Daughters of the Sacred Heart at Arluno. These sisters were her former teachers and the bonds of friendship were strong. Reluctantly, they told her she was too frail for their life. Undaunted, she took the advice of her pastor, Don Antonio Serrati, and went to work as a lay helper at an orphanage in nearby Codozno. Three years later, she took religious vows. Domestic problems led to the closing of the orphanage in 1880 and the bishop of Lodi, Msgr. Dominic Gelmini, urged Maria Francesca to found her own community. Monsignor Serrati helped her by buying a house and here, joined by seven of the former orphans, she began the congregation now known as the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart, Nov. 14, 1880.
Mother Cabrini’s dream had always been a missionary one. Even as a child she had been an avid reader of the Annals of the Propagation of the Faith. Now that she had sisters to help, her mission zeal was stronger than ever. She would follow the Po to the sea. Then China perhaps, or Africa. It was not the Po, however, but the Tiber that was to carry her out to sea.
Having written a rule, nothing would do but to bring it to Rome and get it approved by the Holy Father himself. And while she was about it, she decided she might start one, maybe two, houses in Rome. Sophisticated churchmen, Cardinals included, were startled and amused at her apparent naivete. New convents in Rome preposterous! And a Rule submitted to the Pope personally without careful scrutiny and canonical judgements—really!
But before she left Rome, the convents were started and Pope Leo XIII not only read the rule but received her in private audience. It was in this audience that the Holy Father turned Mother Cabrini’s face westward to America rather than to China. True, China was still very much a mission land, but America had its own needs. Among these were the pastoral care of the thousands of Italians recently arrived in the United States.
New York, U.S.A.
So not to China but to Chinatown and a fast growing "Little Italy" on New York’s East Side, came Mother Cabrini and six other sisters, arriving March 23,1889. Her first meeting with archbishop Corrigan was less than auspicious and he as much as told her that her projected orphanage was out of the question and she might just as well pack up and go home. Mother Cabrini waited out the archbishop’s tantrum and in the end won him over. With a touch of Irish wit, he made peace not with an olive branch but by personally delivering to her the palm he had carried in the Palm Sunday Procession.
Now with the archbishop’s blessing she raised money to buy a house for a convent and orphanage. Soon afterward she began the small hospital that was to become Columbus Hospital and later Cabrini Health Care Center. The remaining twenty-eight years of her life were taken up with personal apostolate, direction of her sisters, travels and building. Like all the saints, she had an insatiable hunger for the spreading of Christ’s kingdom. Her strength was in prayer and unshakable trust in God.
Hospitals, orphanages, convents, schools sprang up from her inspiration in Italy, France, Spain, Panama, Chile, Argentina, Brazil as well as throughout the United States. She became an American citizen in Seattle in 1909 and in 1910 was named General Superior for life. Her official home thereafter was at Sacred Heart Orphanage, West Park, New York. It was there she was buried after she had died in Chicago, December 22, 1917. In 1933 the remains were transferred to the chapel at Mother Cabrini High School, 701 Fort Washington Avenue, Bronx, N.Y. This has been a place of pilgrimage ever since.
Beatified by Pope Pius XI in 1938, she was canonized by Pope Pius XII in 1946. At the time of her death, a long time friend, Cardinal Mundelein of Chicago, recalled the paradox of her dynamic power in so frail a frame and asked: "does not all this fulfill the concept of a noble woman?" It does indeed.
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