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Quinquagesima Sunday, Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes and the Saints for 11 February

Quinquagesima Sunday:This Season is seventeen (17) days long and includes the three Sundays before Ash Wednesday.The length of the Season never changes but the start date is dependent on the movable date of Easter, which can fall between 22 March-25 April.For many early Christians Quinquagesima marked the time after which meat was forbidden. In many places, this Sunday and the next two days, were…

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Quote/s of the Day –16 April – Blessed are they who have not seen and have believed.

Quote/s of the Day –16 April – “The Month of the Resurrection” – Low Sunday, The Octave Day of Easter – 1 John 5:4-10, John 20. 19-31 – Scripture search here: https://www.drbo.org/ “ Blessed are they who have not seenand have believed.” John 20:29 “Your faith has saved you.” Luke 18:42 “The blind man does not ask the Lord for goldbut for Light. He sets little storeby asking anything but…

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THE THIRD SUNDAY IN LENT, St Pope Gregory the Great, Notre-Dames-des-Miracles / Our Lady of Miracles, France (1328) and Memorials of the Saints - 12 March

THE THIRD SUNDAY IN LENT St Pope Gregory the Great (540-604) – Father & Doctor of the Church – “Father of the Fathers” –Papacy 3 September 590-12 March 604 – Pope, Prefect of Rome, Monk, Abbot, Writer, Theologian, Teacher, Liturgist, Administrator, Diplomat, Political Negotiator, Apostle of Charity and Social Justice, Apostle of Pastoral Ministry, PeaceMaker.His Feast Day was moved in 1969.The…

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One Minute Reflection – 18 July –This is My commandment that you love one another, as I have loved you.

One Minute Reflection – 18 July – “The Month of the Most Precious Blood of Jesus” – St Camillus de Lellis MI (1550-1614) Confessor, Priest and Founder, “The Giant of Charity.” – 1 John 3:13-18, John 15:12-16 – Scripture search here: https://www.drbo.org/ “This is My commandment that you love one another, as I have loved you. Greater love than this no man hath that a man lay down his life for his…

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One Minute Reflection – 10 April – It all began from Galilee ... Acts 10:37

One Minute Reflection – 10 April – “The Month of the Resurrection” – Easter Monday – Acts 10:37-43, Luke 24:13-35 – Scripture search here: https://www.drbo.org/ “You know the word which hath been published through all Judea; for it began from Galilee …” – Acts 10:37 REFLECTION – “It is aptly said of our Redeemer that: “He is going on ahead of you into Galilee. You will see him there, as He said…

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One Minute Reflection – 21 March – ‘ … He weighs the heart and not the substance …’

One Minute Reflection – 21 March – Tuesday of the Fourth Week in Lent and the Memorial of St Benedict OSB (c 480-547) Abbot – Ecclesiasticus 45:1-6, Matthew 19:27-29 – Scripture search here: https://www.drbo.org/ “And everyone who has left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for My Name’s sake, shall receive a hundredfold and shall possess life…

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One Minute Reflection – 12 March – “Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste.” 

One Minute Reflection – 12 March – The Third Sunday in Lent and the Feast of St Gregory the Great (540-604) – Pope, Confessor, Father & Doctor of the Church, “Father of the Fathers” – Ephesians 5:1-9, Luke 11,14-28 – Scripture search here: https://www.drbo.org/ “Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste.” – Luke 11:17 REFLECTION – “No-one can have God as his father, if he does not have…

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Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes / Our Lady of Lourdes and Memorials of the Saints - 11 February

Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes / Our Lady of Lourdes and Memorials of the Saints – 11 February

Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes / Our Lady of Lourdes (11 February and 16 July of 1858) – (Optional Memorial)Our Lady of Lourdes:HERE:https://anastpaul.com/2021/02/11/our-lady-of-lourdes-and-memorials-of-the-saints-11-february/AND:https://anastpaul.com/2018/02/11/the-memorial-of-the-apparitions-of-our-lady-of-lourdes-our-lady-of-the-immaculate-conception-and-the-26th-world-day-of-prayer-for-the-sick/ St…

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Our Lady of Lourdes and Memorials of the Saints - 11 February

Our Lady of Lourdes and Memorials of the Saints – 11 February

Our Lady of Lourdes (11 February and 16 July of 1858) – (Optional Memorial)Our Lady of Lourdes:https://anastpaul.wordpress.com/2018/02/11/the-memorial-of-the-apparitions-of-our-lady-of-lourdes-our-lady-of-the-immaculate-conception-and-the-26th-world-day-of-prayer-for-the-sick/ In 1858, there lived in the village of Lourdes, a little peasant girl, Bernadette Soubirous, 14 years old, uneducated,…

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Quote/s of the Day - 11 February - Our Lady of Lourdes, St Gregory II

Quote/s of the Day – 11 February – Our Lady of Lourdes, St Gregory II

Quote/s of the Day – 11 February – The Memorial of Our Lady of Lourdes and St Pope Gregory II (669-731)

“I am the Immaculate Conception.”

Our Lady of Lourdes to St Bernadette 25 March 1858

St Pope Gregory II “Defender of Icons”

Here is an excerpt of one of his letters to the Emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire, Leo III the Isaurian, who became an iconoclast and issued an imperial decree forbidding…

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Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, 28th World Day of the Sick +2020 and Memorials of the Saints - 11 February

Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, 28th World Day of the Sick +2020 and Memorials of the Saints – 11 February

Our Lady of Lourdes (11 February and 16 July of 1858) – (Optional Memorial) Our Lady of Lourdes: https://anastpaul.wordpress.com/2018/02/11/the-memorial-of-the-apparitions-of-our-lady-of-lourdes-our-lady-of-the-immaculate-conception-and-the-26th-world-day-of-prayer-for-the-sick/

28th World Day of the Sick +2020 and the 7th…

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Saint of the Day - 11 February - Saint Pope Gregory II (669-731) "Defender of Icons"

Saint of the Day – 11 February – Saint Pope Gregory II (669-731) “Defender of Icons”

Saint of the Day – 11 February – Saint Pope Gregory II (669-731) “Defender of Icons”– Papacy began 19 May 715 – Papacy ended 11 February 731 the day of his death of natural causes.   Pope Gregory was a man of immense intellect and used his talents in negotiating peace in times of war and fought for the truth of the faith against heresies.  He was a miracle-worker who placed all his trust in God…

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Saint of the Day - February 11 - St Pope Gregory II 669-731 A Patron of Rome

Born in Rome, Gregory became involved in Church affairs from an early age. It was Pope St. Sergius I who noticed the fine qualities of the pious young man and ordained Gregory a subdeacon. He served under the next four popes as treasurer of the church, then librarian. He was assigned important missions and accompanied Pope Constantine to Constantinople for discussions with Emperor Justinian II. Upon the death of Constantine, Gregory was chosen pope and installed in 715. Gregory served as pope for 15 years. During that time he held synods to correct abuses, stop heresy and promote discipline and morality. He rebuilt a great portion of the walls of Rome to protect the city against attacks by the Lombards. He restored many churches, and was especially solicitous of the sick and aged. The great monastery near the church of St. Paul was reestablished, as was the abbey of Monte Cassino which had been destroyed by the Lombards 150 years before. He consecrated St. Boniface and St. Corbinian as bishops to go as missionaries to the tribes in Germany. Under Gregory, pilgrims from England increased greatly in numbers.