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Raising up, supporting, maintaining
I am beyond thrilled to announce that I am now a regular contributor to a fantastic new online community for Catholic women– Suscipio! The title is Latin for “to raise up, support, maintain”, and that is what we do for each other at...
How I Found a Real Treasure
“Have you ever found a treasure?”, I once asked my father. He smiled a big smile and told me this story. That was many years ago and I have never forgotten it. “Once when I was about ten years old” my father told me, “I ...
File under: Confused
It has recently come to my attention that there seems to be a pretty big “worldview” gap between Catholics and Protestants. Or at least, the Catholics and Protestants I, personally, know. They seem totally fixated on that fact that we are...
One Thousand Gifts, XI
Today, it’s just one gift. 330) LIFE Today is the March for Life in D.C. I know a few people participating. I went to Mass today, am abstaining from meat, and said the rosary and the Divine Mercy chaplet. Abortion is such a horrible thing. It&#...
Deluxe Family Breakfast – Sunday January 29 – 9am to 1pm
The Deluxe Breakfast is this Sunday from 9am t0 1pm. Available during, before and after the morning masses. Enjoy your favourite breakfast dishes....
Game Day Sunday
In trying to fulfill my son’s needs for competition, challenge, strategy, sportsmanship and all those other more “fatherly” tasks, I found a really great solution: GAMES. Variety of styles, variety of content, NO technology (this is...
Pruning
In the early dawn, a young gardener was pruning his trees and shrubs. He had one choice currant bush which had gone too much to wood. He feared therefore that it would produce little, if any, fruit. Accordingly, he trimmed and pruned the bush and cut...
Will America as we have known it survive?
If ever there was a time for prayer and action for our Country this is it. I have watched the ever more rapid decline of America since my retirement 14 years ago. I just completed reading Mark Levine’s new book “Ameritopia” the unmaking of Amer...
The parable of the moth that succeeded
The moth looked ordinary in all respects. His body and wings were like the others. He had the typical light brown shade and his antennae had the standard branches. In fact, when he flew with a group, one could not identify him. But there was, indeed,...
Suing the government
On the heels of the government’s announcement yesterday (scroll down), here’s an interview with National Review Online’s Kathryn Lopez and Hanna Smith, senior council for the Beckett Fund for Religious Liberty. A sampling: LOPEZ: An...
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By: pelianito
Well done, sister Noel! May God continue to be praised in all you do and share and in the abundant gifts he has given you. Alleluia!...
By: pelianito
LauraLee, as I understand it, any of us can ask God to bless our home or our family, etc. But a priest is authorized to do it in the person of Christ. He can say "I bless you..." We need to bless in the name of Jesus. So at the end of mass the priest says, "I bless you in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit." But if it is a lay m...
By: Noel
Good news to share!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0lzDB6MTP0
The singer is saying,
'O, Lord, my Love, you stand before me, now,
New-risen from the dead,
Resplendent, alive! Alive...
Your scent is all of myrrh, (video ends here, but poem goes on)
Your face and hands are clean and pure
which lately I saw caked with blood.
O, Lord, my Love, c...
By: LauraLee
I am very chatty today, forgive me :)
I found this prayer on "Catholic Prayers for Reparation and the Conversion of Sinners for all" facebook page. It made me think of the Mark of God and I thought some might like to pray it:
A PRAYER TO REPRODUCE THE IMAGE OF GOD IN OUR SOULS:
I salute You, I adore You and I love You, adorable Face of my belo...
By: LauraLee
let me also add, I do not use the sacramentals and blessings as a priest would, but rather what I have read, been told, and understand lay people are allowed to do. But again, I have not received a formal blessing to do this other than my baptism...
By: LauraLee
Dawn in Texas: Wonderful testimony! Very uplifting … thank you for sharing your story
Noel … lovely testimony also! I did not know one had to be ‘deputized’ so to speak in order to bless things/people/situations. I have blessed, spiritually cleansed, consecrated my home, family, loved ones, etc., in prayer and with holy water, blessed s...
By: Becky
Family, I am asking for all of your precious prayers, please. My mother-in-law went to the doctor, and he told her has a mass on her breast. She goes in Monday for an ultrasound and mammogram. Please pray for a miracle, that it will go away. Her husband is having a hard time with it. Please pry for the family as well. Tjank you, all!...
By: Edith
Have to share the latest Mary Clark message, 'Precision', with all here: http://ft111.com/maryclark.htm...
By: anne
yes, so many dreams. preparation. Noel, thank you for your words on surrender. they really hit me.........pushing us to the wall, fear. Oh my goodness, spot on!!!
Pel and all about to go to Mass and will take you all. We are in an horrendous heatwave at present. Yesterday was Australia Day and tradition to have large fireworks over the city at nig...
By: June1
Desy, that was unbelievable. I wouldn't be surprised if it happens exactly like that.
I mentioned to a beloved priest I know that I had been having more dreams of that sort, as well, and that I really wanted him as a spiritual adviser and an "interpreter" of what the Lord is trying to tell me. He e-mailed me right back! :P
Incidentally, I have be...
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By: pelianito
Well done, sister Noel! May God continue to be praised in all you do and share and in the abundant gifts he has given you. Alleluia!...
By: pelianito
LauraLee, as I understand it, any of us can ask God to bless our home or our family, etc. But a priest is authorized to do it in the person of Christ....
By: Noel
Good news to share!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0lzDB6MTP0
The singer is saying,
'O, Lord, my Love, you stand before me, now,
New-risen from t...
By: LauraLee
I am very chatty today, forgive me :)
I found this prayer on "Catholic Prayers for Reparation and the Conversion of Sinners for all" facebook page. ...
By: LauraLee
let me also add, I do not use the sacramentals and blessings as a priest would, but rather what I have read, been told, and understand lay people are ...
By: LauraLee
Dawn in Texas: Wonderful testimony! Very uplifting … thank you for sharing your story
Noel … lovely testimony also! I did not know one had to b...
By: Becky
Family, I am asking for all of your precious prayers, please. My mother-in-law went to the doctor, and he told her has a mass on her breast. She goes ...
By: Edith
Have to share the latest Mary Clark message, 'Precision', with all here: http://ft111.com/maryclark.htm...
By: anne
yes, so many dreams. preparation. Noel, thank you for your words on surrender. they really hit me.........pushing us to the wall, fear. Oh my goodnes...
By: June1
Desy, that was unbelievable. I wouldn't be surprised if it happens exactly like that.
I mentioned to a beloved priest I know that I had been having m...
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