Another icon of Mary Theotokos apparition :)

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Earliest Marian apparitions

A quick intro to the Church's 1st approved Marian apparition (aleteia.org)

Meet Our Lady of the Pillar, the first apparition of the Virgin Mary in history | Catholic News Agency

Our Lady of the Snows | uCatholic

The Greatest Apparition in History! Fr. Chris Alar Finally Makes it to E...

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The Greatest Apparition in History! Fr. Chris Alar Finally Makes it to E...

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IMPORTANT: Education and Gender Transitioning : The Cass Review Shames the Gay-Rights Establishment… - Andrew Doyle

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The True Root of Freedom | Os Guinness meets Winston Marshall | ARC Off-...

Excellent reflection :)

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Metal singer performs "Amazing Grace"

Surprising Facts About Jainism

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Saint Augustine MOVIE Link

SAINT AUGUSTINE MOVIE. "RESTLESS HEART" PART 1-2 (youtube.com)

MARK our lady of africa chapel

Biggest restructuring of Irish Church in 1000 years, my view.

The Chaplet of the Precious Blood | Dare to Live in Him

https://daretoliveinhim.wordpress.com/precious-blood-devotions/the-chaplet-of-the-precious-blood/

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St Nicholas helping survive shipwreck

Simon Stock 1951 CARMELITE PRAYER BOOK

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Matthew 11 - JESUS CARRIES Your Yoke of Burden WITH YOU - Brant Pitre

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One Of The Deepest Conversations You Will Listen To About God | Dr. John...

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Atheist MIT Professor Converts to Christianity After Discovering THIS

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BETTER LINK: St. Maximus Confessor - On The Cosmic Mystery of Jesus Christ. | PDF | Jesus | God

On the Cosmic Mystery of Jesus Christ_ St. Maximus the Confessor.pdf (archive.org)

Raymond J. de Souza: Thanks to his faith, Navalny was more free than his jailers | National Post

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Same Sex Couple Blessings | Fudicia Supplicans Contradiction with Fr Cri...

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St Charbel Makhlouf

Holiness is not luck; holiness is a choice. Do not expect it to be offered to you from outside; it is necessary to live it and to realize it inside. The kingdom of heaven is within you. Holiness is a grace and a decision: the grace is given to you by God, and it is up to you to make your decision. You are potentially saints; strive to be saints in reality.

Dame de Merci

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Oscar Romero quotes

"You and I are responsible for seeing that Christ's message reaches everyone. "

Remember, I am trying to speak as a member of a people, of a diocese.

Although it is true that I am the bishop of the diocese, still I am not the only one with a prophetic mission.

It is my whole people, all of my priests, all my religious, the Catholic schools, and all who form the Catholic community.

In the name of all of you, beloved lay people who listen to me and reflect with me, I tell what our prophetic mission is, what we must preach with our witnessing and with our words before the Salvadoran people, who so much need this Christian light.

You and I are responsible for seeing that Christ's message reaches everyone. 112

JULY 15, 1979

I am glad, brothers and sisters, that our church is persecuted

precisely for its preferential option for the poor and for trying to become incarnate in the interest of the poor and for saying to all the people,

to rulers,

to the rich and powerful: unless you become poor, unless you have a concern for the poverty of our people as though they were your own family,

you will not be able to save society.

JULY 15, 1979

Christ arisen has put in history's womb the beginning of a new world

To come to Mass on Sunday

is to immerse oneself in that beginning, which again becomes present and is celebrated on the altar at Mass.

And we who go forth from Mass know we have proclaimed the death that saved the world and proclaimed the resurrection of Christ, who lives as hope,

so that all the universe of heaven and earth

may join together,

all things in heaven and on earth may come together in Christ.

JULY 15, 1979

Mary, Star of Evangelization 10

July 16 is an important date on the calendar of popular devo-tion. It is the feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. I recall something very accurate that a missionary said in expressing his admiration for the deep hold that this devotion has among us.

He called Our Lady of Mount Carmel "our people's best mis-sionary."

Indeed, I believe there is not a village in El Salvador where the appeal of the Blessed Virgin under the title of Our Lady of Mount Carmel is not felt on this feast day. This is so whether in the general rejoicing of a patronal festival or in a confraternity's simple observance, whether attending Mass or saying a prayer at the altar of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, whether in the village church or in some hamlet or in a home where a family preserves as a precious heirloom an image venerated by their grandparents.

Today, when pastoral experts in their deliberations and briefings are placing great importance on folk religion or popular devotion, the devotion to Our Lady of Mount Carmel is a phenomenon that deserves our attention. We should nurture it as

one of those providential resources that the church enjoys for performing its essential task of evangelizing.

In the Magna Carta of evangelization, the exhortation "Evan-gelization in the Modern World," the late Paul VI used the pastoral experience of the world's bishops to put forth effective norms for ascertaining the exceptional values of these popular devotions. There is no doubt that these enthusiastic religious displays include many deviations, such as fanaticism, supersti-tion, selfish interest, and even doctrinal error, along with the important positive elements of evangelization. But, when properly used, these expressions of our peoples soul are genuine worship of our God and, for many, perhaps the only opportunities for a meeting with the Lord

A pilgrimage to Our Lady of Mount Carmel, or the action of preparing to receive the classic scapular, or of recalling and renewing this alliance with Mary, can lead us to the goal of evan-gelization, which is sincere conversion and the expression, through the sacraments, of our adherence to the gospel and its hard demands. There should thus be no doubt that July 16 is a privileged day for our pastoral work.

The feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel is thus a precious heritage of today's church, which is the timeless church. It must do with its inherited treasures what is done with any inheritance - not squander it but manage it well.

It would be unforgivable to destroy or to belittle these lovely and pious expressions of our people merely because they do not fit more sophisticated theological criteria. The wise thing to do is to take these means that our early evangelizers left us and enhance them with the resources of pastoral renewal.

To those whom the Lord has put in charge of church commu-nities, pastoral charity should suggest the norms to follow in regard to popular piety, which is so fruitful and yet at the same time so vulnerable. Above all, one must be sensitive to it, quick

to appreciate its inner nature and undeniable values, and ready to help it overcome its risks of deviation. When it is properly guided, this popular piety can increasingly become a genuine encounter with God in Jesus Christ for the masses of our people.''

If this is the case for popular piety in general, then the teaching of Paul VI will be even more valid when those masses of people surround the Virgin Mary like loving children. The same document becomingly calls her the Star of Evangelization.

JULY 13, 1979

Choices of the Heart (1983) MARTYRS OF EL SALVADOR

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Why I could not attend a same-sex wedding: INSIGHTFUL

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"We wish them a good demise": Cardinal Ambongo's harsh attack against Westerners

Bit of humour ;)

https://international.la-croix.com/news/religion/we-wish-them-a-good-demise-cardinal-ambongos-harsh-attack-against-westerners/19055

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Kolbe 14 Feb

Soon after their arrival from mission in Japan, Fr  Kolbe was arrested by Nazi forces – simply for being a religious leader – and held for several months, while many of his community members were exiled. 

Upon his release, Kolbe continued to publish the Knights of the Immaculata, but now, rather than demonstrating religious apathy, the Franciscan challenged the new Nazi regime. The German governor responded by shutting down the press, suppressing the congregation, dispersing the brothers, and imprisoning Kolbe.

On May 28th, 1941, he was transferred to Auschwitz and branded as prisoner 16670

Benedict XVI 14 Feb ‘God and the World’ with Peter Seewald

Jesus is the Son of God, who comes from God and is at the same time true man. In him we meet not merely human genius and human heroism, but God, who becomes visible through him. One might say that in the body of Jesus, torn open on the Cross, we can see what God is like, that is, one who opens himself to us to this extent.

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In the end, we are making our feelings the measure for knowing who God is and how we should live. But feelings are changeable, and quite soon we come to realize for ourselves that we are building on treacherous foundations.

However obvious as a way forward that may seem at first

—there, again, I come across mere human ideas, which in the end remain dubious. The essence of faith, however, is that I do not meet with something that has been thought up, but that here something meets me that is greater than anything we can think of for ourselves.

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"God loved you first!" it says, in the teaching of Christ. And he loves you without respect for your origin or standing. What does that mean?

One should take this sentence as literally as can be, and I try to do that. For it is truly the great power in our lives and the consolation that we need. And it's not seldom that we need it.

He loved me first, before I myself could love at all. It was only because he knew me and loved me that I was made.

So I was not thrown into the world by some operation of chance, as Heidegger says, and now have to do my best to swim around in this ocean of life, but I am preceded by a perception of me, an idea and a love of me. They are present in the ground of my being.

What is important for all people, what makes their life significant, is the knowledge they are loved. The person in a difficult situation will hold on if he knows, Someone is waiting for me, someone wants me and needs me. God is there first and loves me. And that is the trustworthy ground on which my life is standing and on which I myself can construct it.

Mama aureole Jesus schematic

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Buechner: The Sacred Journey

Jesus Christ refused the crown that Satan offered him in the wilder-ness, Buttrick said, but he is king nonetheless because again and again he is crowned in the heart of the people who believe in him. And that inward coronation takes place, Buttrick said, "among confession, and tears, and great laughter."

Elizabeth of the Trinity

"OH, JESUS, GUARD MY HEART; IT IS ALL YOURS; I HAVE ALREADY GIVEN IT TOTALLY TO YOU; IT

NO LONGER BELONGS TO ME..." Elizabeth of the Trinity

St Chromatius

St. Paul says [cf. Romans 13:11-14] - remaining awake and vigilant.

St. Chromatius of Aquileia wrote: "May the Lord remove such a danger from us so that we are never lulled into the sleep of infidelity; but may he grant his grace and his mercy so that we can always be vigilant in fidelity to him" [Sermon 32, 4]. JOHN PAUL II / BENEDICT XVI

IMITATION OF CHRIST

MY CHILD, in this life you are never safe, and as long as you live the weapons of the spirit will ever be necessary to you. You dwell among enemies. You are subject to attack from the right and the left. If, there-fore, you do not guard yourself from every quarter with the shield of patience, you will not remain long unscathed

Moreover, if you do not steadily set your heart on Me, with a firm will to suffer everything for My sake, you will not be able to bear the heat of this battle or to win the crown of the blessed. You ought, there-fore, to pass through all these things manfully and to oppose a strong hand to whatever stands in your way. For to him who triumphs heavenly bread is given, while for him who is too lazy to fight there remains much misery.

IMITATION OF CHRIST

Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel's Message to Pope Francis on Same-Sex Blessings

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JBP comments on TOP RAP SONG Globally

A Psychological Breakdown of a Rap Song youtu.be

You Can Now Wear a Recreation of Scotland's Oldest Tartan | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine

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German theologian: Fiducia Supplicans...pushes Church into ‘free fall’

My thoughts rather precisely:

German theologian: Fiducia Supplicans breaks with Scripture, pushes Church into 'free fall' - LifeSite (lifesitenews.com)

Modern-Day Hermits and Society

Modern-Day Hermits: Answering the Call to Solitude, Prayer – Catholic World Report

How do you recite the Carthusian Rosary? CARTHUSIAN ROSARY TRADITION

 

Immaculate Heart of Mary's Hermitage How do you recite the Carthusian Rosary? From : How do you recite the Carthusian Rosary? (tripod.com)

The Carthusian Rosary does not have five mysteries which are different according to the days of the week. Yet to each Hail Mary there is consacrated a particular mystery of the life of Christ, and the Our Father (which could be preceded by the Glory be to the Father, etc.) is simply inserted in the series of 50 Hail Mary prayers to give to the full prayer a Trinitarian and doxological conclusion. Who recites it is always free, however, to pause at will on a particular mystery and to repeat it for as many times as he wishes to do so, also adding other mysteries from the life of Christ, or else changing the wording of the themes according to one’s own personal devotions. The formula is therefor more flexible from that of the Dominican Rosary as more widely known. As it aims to lead towards contemplation, the vocal recital could be paused as soon as one begins to enter, and the person simply remains in silence with the Lord. Then, when this more contemplative phase comes to an end, the vocal recital starts again slowly. Finally, according to the time available, it would not be necessary to recite all 50 Hail Mary prayers, but everybody can choose the number that he can or wants to recite, sohowever that more attention is given to heed more to quality than to quantity. Ten Hail Mary prayers said slowly while attentively meditating one or more Christological mysteries, are more appreciated that thirty of them hastily recited. Yet again, the aim is above all to arrive at authentically contemplative prayer.  Following are the 50 themes of Dominic of Prussia: 1. …Jesus, conceived of the Holy Spirit during the Annunciation of the Angel. 2. … Jesus, who together with you who has conceived him, visits Saint Elizabeth. 3. … Jesus, to whom you, virgin in body and soul, have given birth with joy. 4. … Jesus, whom you have fed from your virginal breast, adoring in him the creator. 5. … Jesus, whom you have swaddled in clothes and placed him in a crib. 6. … Jesus, who the Angels celebrated singing Gloria in excelsis, and the shepherds visited in Bethlehem. 7. … Jesus, who received his circumcsion on the eighth day, and was given the name of Jesus. 8. … Jesus, who the Magi adored while filling him with gifts. 9. … Jesus, who was carried by you to the Temple and presented to God, his Father. 10. … Jesus, who was received in the arms of old Simon, and recognized by the holy widow Anna. 11. … Jesus, with whom you fled into Egypt, because of Herod’s persecution. 12. … Jesus, with whom you returned home seven years later, as told by the Angel. 13. … Jesus, lost in Jerusalem when he was twelve years old, and found again in the temple after three days. 14. … Jesus, who each day grew further in age and grace before God and men. 15. … Jesus, whom John had baptized in the Jordan and shown out to be the Lamb of God. 16. … Jesus, who, having fasted for forty days in the desert, has won over the temptations put to him by the Enemy. 17. … Jesus, who, after having chosen the disciples, preached the kingdom of God. 18. … Jesus, who opened the eyes of the blind, healed lepers, rose to their feet paralyzed persons and freed those possessed by the devil. 19. … Jesus, whose feet were washed with Mary Magdalene’s tears, dried with her hair, anointed with her perfume. 20. … Jesus, who rose Lazarus and other persons who were dead. 21. … Jesus, triumphally acclaimed by his people on Palm Sunday. 22. … Jesus, who in the Last Supper instituted the sacrament of his Body and Blood. 23. … Jesus, who in the garden, after having prayed for long, sweat profuse blood. 24. … Jesus, who, meeting his enemies, gave up himself willingly into their hands. 25. … Jesus, captured and bound with force by those sent by the Jews, was so led to the high priest. 26. … Jesus, who, being falsely accused, was blindfolded, hit and covered with spit. 27. … Jesus, before Caiphas and Pilate, is given the burden of the cross to bear like a malefactor. 28. … Jesus, has his clothes taken off and is cruelly whipped on order given by Pilate. 29. … Jesus, crowned with thorns, is covered with a purple mantle and hailed king by mocking soldiers. 30. … Jesus, who is condemned to a wicked death and led to face torment between two thieves. 31. … Jesus, nailed to the cross and made to drink gall and vinegar. 32. … Jesus, while praying for his murderers, said: "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they are doing." 33. … Jesus, who said to the thief who was crucified on his right hand: "Truly I say to you, today you will be with me in heaven." 34. … Jesus, who said to you, his Mother: "Mother, here is your son" ; and to John: "Here is your Mother." 35. … Jesus, who cried from the cross: "My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?" 36. … Jesus, who said: "I thirst!", and after having tasted the vinegar he cried out: "It is all accomplished." 37. … Jesus, who at the end cried out: "Father, in your handsI put my spirit." 38. … Jesus, who for us, poor sinners, has suffered a cruel and painful death. 39. … Jesus, whose side was pierced with a spear, pours out Blood and Water for the forgiveness of our sins. 40. … Jesus, whose sacred body was brought down from the cross, was received in your arms according to a pious saying. 41. … Jesus, whose body was wrapped in a sheet and wrapped with herbs and sspices was laid in the grave by holy men. 42. … Jesus, whose grave was sealed and guards put beside it by the Jews. 43. … Jesus, whose holy soul descended to Hades, to conduct the holy patriarchs to heaven. 44. … Jesus, who rose from the dead on the third day, filling you, his holy Mother, with an ineffable joy. 45. … Jesus, who after his Resurrection often appeared spesso to his disciples and friends to strengthen their faith. 46. … Jesus, who, before you and his apostoles, ascended into heaven and is sitting on the firght hand of the Father. 47. … Jesus, who, as he had promised, sent the Holy Spirit on his apostles on Pentecost Sunday. 48. … Jesus, who has finally called you to him, oh sweet Mother of his, placing you on his right hand and crowning you with glory. 49. … Jesus, who wants to call us after this miserable life, us servants of his and yours, and receive us in his Father’s Kingldom. 50. … Jesus, who reigns together with the Farther and the Holy Spirit, and with you Most Holy Mother, triumpant and glorious for ever.  After Adolph of Essen’s vision, the use was confirmed of having each theme followed by an Alleluia. Each mystery of the life of Christ, including the Passion mysteries, thus become above all else an action of grace and praise to Dio, for the Love which he has revealed and offered through them. This is the air of joy which runs through the Rosary, and it cannot but remind us of the renowned ‘Akathistos hymn’, its equivalent, which is sung in the Christian East. Domenico di Prussia raccomandava infine una preghiera mariana per concludere il Rosario: "Oh Immaculate, ever blessed and glorious Virgin Mary, Mother of God; oh Temple of God, the most beautiful of all temples; oh Doorway of the Kingdom of Heaven through which the whole world has been saved, do hear me mercifully, and become my sweet protectress, for me a poor and wretched sinner. Be my help in all my needs. Amen."  How the Carthusian Rosary persisted in time Even after the "Dominican Rosary" appeared, which had the Carthusian for its inspiration (and in which it has therefore always ‘survived’), the saying of the Carthusian Rosary such as it is, was never lost completely among Christians. It continued being kept in honour up to the 17th century, and praised by holy men (particularly by the Benedectine monk Louis de Blois), and is recited in the vicinity of Trèves up to the present day. Its practice had mostly diminished above all due to the indulgences which were granted by Popes to the "Dominican Rosary", convinced as they were of the authenticity of St Dominic’s vision which never took place. Yet even this Rosary evolved in some German and Swiss regions, where after the name of Jesus they added some themes reminescent of those of Dominic of Prussia; to this type of Rosary were granted the same indulgences by means of a Vatican decree of the 21st January 1921. It was this practice that was recalled by Paul VI in Marialis cultus and, basing oneself on this document, it was the practice which Pope Jophn Paul II proposes to extend.  A few suggestions The original Carthusian Rosary At first, the recital of the Hail Mary ended immediately after the theme (followed therefore by the final Amen and then the Alleluia), the second part not being yet universally made use of, neither with the Carthusians themselves with whom it first appeared. In thus always concluding with the mystery of Christ, an accent was made on the Christological dimension of the prayer, the same as was Mary’s role which leads to her Son. Nothing at all impedes one from praying that way even today. The Alleluia said after the Amen could be followed by a brief silence, and this way of recital leads more easily to contemplation. Ecumenical value of the original Carthusian Rosary The ecumenical value of the original Carthusian Rosary cannot but be underlined. Since the text of the greeting to the Virgin having been taken from the Word of God, it could actually be recited together with Protestant brothers and sisters (see the document of the Dombes Group on "the Virgin Mary in the history of salvation"), and the themes which track the life of Christ attribute to this prayer a Christocentric aspect which conforms with them in a perfect manner. We have also already referred to the existing harmony between the Carthusian Rosary and the "Akathistos hymn" which is so close to the heart of Oriental Christians, through the introduction of the Alleluia after each theme. Second part of the Hail Mary prayer For whoever choses to go back to the original form of the Carthusian Rosary, yet wishes also to keep the second part of the Ave Maria prayer, a simple method would be to recite it before each Glory prayer.

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Yemenite vs Samaritan vs Modern Hebrew (Can they understand each other?)