Screaming Protesters Leave After 800 Catholics Pray to St. Michael & Our Lady at Catholic Conference

Praise God, amen, amen, amen, alleluia!!

Requiem aeternam dona ei, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat ei. Requiescat in pace. Amen! ... ❤️🙏❤️

Then shalt thou call, and the Lord shall hear; thou shalt cry, and He shall say: “Here I am. For I, the Lord thy God, am merciful.”

—Isaiah 58:9


Our Lord will let Himself be touched if we carry out during Lent the three indispensable works which the Holy Scriptures recall to us in these days: prayer, fasting and almsgiving. To simplify them, let us speak rather of prayer, penance, and other people who stand in need of our help; we can refer to them as “the three P’s,” “the three priorities of Lent.” It all amounts to the three battles we have to wage against our weaknesses.

The first work to carry out is prayer, because it is not by our own power that we will manage to flee sin, nor to make reparation for the evil which we have done: without Our Lord, those are impossible! Lent is the opportune time to ask Him to change our heart and to teach us how to see; how to love people and things as He sees them and loves them.

The second work prescribed by the Church is penance. We have to discipline our body to submit it to our soul. Isaiah explains that the privation of food will not please Our Lord, if we are not trying at the same time to struggle against our faults. Our body and our soul have often sinned together, and they must make reparation together.

Finally, the third work to carry out concerns other people, our neighbor. Prayer has to do with our duties toward God, penance concerns our duties toward ourselves, and fraternal charity regards our duties toward other people. We may not have money, but we understand very well that money is not the only thing that we can share with others: we can give our time (by rendering service), share our joys, our good mood, our smiles, our talents, lend our games, and also make efforts at patience at home or outside the home. Yes, Lord, teach us to be always more generous and patient!

Lord Jesus, I see very well the need to make practical resolutions for better fulfilling my duties toward Thee, toward my neighbor and toward myself. I wish, during this Lent, to combine these three complementary aspects in order to make reparation for my past sins and to lead from now on a true Christian life.

Naaman went down and washed in the Jordan seven times, according to the word of Eliseus, and he was cleansed of his leprosy.

—Epistle: 4th Book of Kings 5:14


Naaman, who is mentioned in today’s Epistle, was a general of the army of the king of Syria. He was a pagan. It turns out he has caught leprosy. Leprosy is a terrible disease which eats away at the whole body. He learns that there is in Israel an all-powerful God who could heal him.

And so he goes there. He is an important man and he expected to be received with all the honors due to his rank. Yet a simple servant of the prophet Eliseus comes to tell him to wash seven times in the Jordan in order to recover his health. Naaman is furious! There are rivers in Syria whose waters are better than those of the Jordan! However, his own servants point out to him that if Eliseus had asked him to do difficult things in order to be healed, he would have done them. Why not, then, carry out what he prescribed? It is so simple... Naaman therefore went and washed himself seven times in the Jordan, and he came out healed.

This bath prepared by the God of all mercy represents the seven sacraments and especially the sacrament of penance. It is principally that sacrament which brings healing to our souls. Let us not neglect it by lack of a spirit of faith. Let us prepare ourselves for it in seeking out our failures toward the commandments of God and of the Church, as well as toward our duty of state. Let us aim first at finding the most frequent and the most voluntary faults, for it is those which reveal the shape of our soul and tell us the points we should give priority to correcting.

Lord Jesus, in order to make good confessions, I resolve never to omit my evening examination of conscience. To make that examination, I will begin by thanking Thee for the graces received during the day that is ending, and then I will try to meet Thy gaze or the gaze of Thy holy Mother, to see what in my day has displeased Thee. I will make concrete resolutions for the next day in fighting constantly against my predominant fault and in practicing the contrary virtue. I will then make my act of contrition.

Jesus said, “Young man, I say to thee, arise!” And he that was dead sat up, and began to speak. And He gave him to his mother.

—Gospel: St. Luke 7:14-16


Jesus encounters a funeral procession in Naim. A young man is being buried, the only son of a widow. A numerous crowd is accompanying this weeping woman to the place of burial of her child.

As St. Ambrose explains, this woman is the image of the Church who weeps for all the souls that live far from God. But the Church does not content herself with weeping. She constantly addresses ardent supplications to Heaven for the unfaithful Christians who, by indifference, by pride or by the draw of the passions, are walking the path to perdition and are going from the spiritual death of their soul toward eternal death.

The crowd which accompanies this woman represents the whole of the faithful who share in the prayers of the Church. These ardent prayers touch the heart of Jesus. He says to the woman of Naim, “Weep not.” Then He says to the young man, “I say to thee, arise!” And he that was dead sat up, and began to speak. And He gave him to his mother.

Today, Jesus very often renews this miracle of the resurrection of the child of the Gospel. As St. Augustine emphasizes, just as “this mother is full of joy at the resurrection of her child, likewise the Church, our mother, rejoices at the men who rise again spiritually every day in her bosom.”

O Jesus, I want to unite my prayer and my sacrifices to Thine own, so that all those who need to rise again to true life might hear Thy voice. May they arise to obtain resurrection through the sacrament of penance! Then I will be able to cry out, in turn, with the inhabitants of Naim, “God hath visited His people!” (Lk. 7:16).

All power is given to me in heaven and in earth. Going therefore, teach ye all nations; baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and behold I am with you all days, even to the consummation of the world.

To idiot K-Tards in LYN who think The One Holy Catholic Church is endorsing gay marriage ...



WHAT DID THE POPE REALLY SAY?

Lots of sputtering about blessings, given or withheld with the latest media spin on our Holy Father’s words on the issue.

On blessings:
Re: the Holy Father and his Dicastry.

It's the spin the press wants.
It is NOT the point of the Holy Father's words.

Remember at every Mass the priest blesses sinners: couples living together, those using contraception, adulterers, etc etc. AND that's the point of the blessing: God deigns to bless everyone. What we DO with the Grace the blessing imparts is up to us.
The pope is simply saying that a priest can bless anyone/everyone. He also notes that a priest can consecrate ONLY males with females for the blessing of marriage. There is a distinction (always has been) in the point and power/authority of blessings. Some can be given by the non ordained if given in an individual's name, like a dad giving HIS blessing to a marriage.

But when done in the name of the whole Body, ordination is a prerequisite.

Now the Church is stating the obvious (as it often does) that in the Name of the Church, a priest can bless a gay couple, as in asking God to help and guide them. He CANNOT bless a gay couple in the manner of uniting them as one in a covenant relationship forever.
The "matter" is not present for the "form" to be used or be effective. (If i consecrate pretzels and beer at a campus Mass the "matter" required, bread and wine is not present, and the "form" is not effective. The lack of the proper matter indicates that it is being done outside the mind of the Church and cannot be effective outside the Body's intent.)

Remember in the sacrament of marriage a Priest/deacon acts as a witness. The COUPLE ENACT THE SACRAMENT. the ordained simply testifies to the effectiveness of their act as according to the faith of the church

Same with marriage. The "matter" is the male/female couple. Not present, not effective, not in the mind of the Church. BUT JUST AS I BLESS MANY THINGS at a given Mass (water) and ask God to help the persons, the objects etc to become a sign of grace, it is NOT the same as a consecratory blessing( eg. Of the bread and wine). Our Holy Father isn't saying anything really new.

If we can bless a house, we can bless people in need or those seeking God's love.
Blessings do not impart approval. They impart grace which can help lead to approval.


This post has been edited by khool: Dec 22 2023, 12:15 PM

Lack of knowledge pastor/priest is the one who endorsed gay marriage

Twist and turn the truth.