"In the world you shall have distress: but have confidence, I have overcome the world" (John 16:33).Image Source: Believed to be in the Public Domain
Thursday, January 5, 2006
"In the world you shall have distress: but have confidence, I have overcome the world" (John 16:33).Image Source: Believed to be in the Public Domain
A man has filed a lawsuit in Italy against the Catholic Church saying that it is continually spread lies by teaching that Jesus Christ existed!
This clearly misguided plaintiff, Luigi Cascioli, said, "I started this lawsuit because I wanted to deal the final blow against the Church, the bearer of obscurantism and regression."
Oh, Lord, how horrible this man is. May he be brought to the truth if it be in your will. Let us pray that his case will fail miserably. And let us be thankful we have Christ in the Church, the sacraments, the liturgy of the Word, and in our hearts. For we fell Him within us; let us praise Him and pray in reparation for those that do not believe:
O My Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of hell, and lead all souls to Heaven, especially those that most need your divine mercy. Amen
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This clearly misguided plaintiff, Luigi Cascioli, said, "I started this lawsuit because I wanted to deal the final blow against the Church, the bearer of obscurantism and regression."
Oh, Lord, how horrible this man is. May he be brought to the truth if it be in your will. Let us pray that his case will fail miserably. And let us be thankful we have Christ in the Church, the sacraments, the liturgy of the Word, and in our hearts. For we fell Him within us; let us praise Him and pray in reparation for those that do not believe:
O My Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of hell, and lead all souls to Heaven, especially those that most need your divine mercy. Amen
Taken on July 26, 2013. Copyright "A Catholic Life" Blog
Memorial (1969 Calendar): January 5
January 5th is the feastday of St. John Nepomucene Neumann (1811-1860), a bishop from the United States who did much missionary work and preaching. He is not found on the traditional Catholic calendar as we as only canonized in 1977. But his life is still one of great merits. He took the Great Commission seriously and went out to preach the Gospel.
Born on March 28, 1811, at Prachititz, Bohemia (Czech Republic), St. John Neumann lived as a quiet boy along with his four sisters and a brother. He was named after Saint John Nepomucene. Called to the religious life, St. John Neumann studied as a seminarian at Budweis, Bohemia, and he studied Theology at Charles Ferdinand University at Prague in 1833. Coincidentally, the date of St. John Neumann's ordination was pushed aside as the Bishop became ill. Since Bohemia had an abundance of priests, the ordination was not rescheduled. St. John Neumann walked most of the way through France and boarded a ship to America where he hoped to be ordained.
In 1836, there were 36 priests for the 200,000 Catholics in New York and New Jersey. Consequently, when St. John Neumann arrived that year, he was wholeheartedly welcomed by Bishop John Dubois. Ordained finally on June 28, 1936, St. John Neumann chose to work in an area with a small, unfinished church. When it was completed, he moved to a town with a small log cabin. He ate and drank very little, practiced penance, and continued to minister to the various ethnicities. St. John Neumann spoke 12 languages.
In 1840, St. John Neumann joined the Redemptorists at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and took his vows at Baltimore, Maryland in 1841. He was the first Redemptorist to do so in the United States. In 1852, he became Bishop of Philadelphia. Over the course of his life, St. John Neumann Built fifty churches and began building a cathedral along with opening nearly 100 schools. He wrote newspaper articles, two catechisms, and many works in German. St. John Neumann died on January 5, 1860, of a stroke at 13th and Vine Streets, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,. He was canonized by Paul VI in 1977.
He is the first American man and the first American bishop to be canonized. His body is today at the National Shrine of St. John Neumann in Philadelphia.
Listen to a 5-minute sermon on St. John Neumann.
January 5th is the feastday of St. John Nepomucene Neumann (1811-1860), a bishop from the United States who did much missionary work and preaching. He is not found on the traditional Catholic calendar as we as only canonized in 1977. But his life is still one of great merits. He took the Great Commission seriously and went out to preach the Gospel.
Born on March 28, 1811, at Prachititz, Bohemia (Czech Republic), St. John Neumann lived as a quiet boy along with his four sisters and a brother. He was named after Saint John Nepomucene. Called to the religious life, St. John Neumann studied as a seminarian at Budweis, Bohemia, and he studied Theology at Charles Ferdinand University at Prague in 1833. Coincidentally, the date of St. John Neumann's ordination was pushed aside as the Bishop became ill. Since Bohemia had an abundance of priests, the ordination was not rescheduled. St. John Neumann walked most of the way through France and boarded a ship to America where he hoped to be ordained.
In 1836, there were 36 priests for the 200,000 Catholics in New York and New Jersey. Consequently, when St. John Neumann arrived that year, he was wholeheartedly welcomed by Bishop John Dubois. Ordained finally on June 28, 1936, St. John Neumann chose to work in an area with a small, unfinished church. When it was completed, he moved to a town with a small log cabin. He ate and drank very little, practiced penance, and continued to minister to the various ethnicities. St. John Neumann spoke 12 languages.
In 1840, St. John Neumann joined the Redemptorists at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and took his vows at Baltimore, Maryland in 1841. He was the first Redemptorist to do so in the United States. In 1852, he became Bishop of Philadelphia. Over the course of his life, St. John Neumann Built fifty churches and began building a cathedral along with opening nearly 100 schools. He wrote newspaper articles, two catechisms, and many works in German. St. John Neumann died on January 5, 1860, of a stroke at 13th and Vine Streets, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,. He was canonized by Paul VI in 1977.
He is the first American man and the first American bishop to be canonized. His body is today at the National Shrine of St. John Neumann in Philadelphia.
Listen to a 5-minute sermon on St. John Neumann.
O Saint John Neumann, your ardent desire of bringing all souls to Christ impelled you to leave home and country; teach us to live worthily in the spirit of our Baptism which makes us all children of the one Heavenly Father and brothers and sisters of Jesus Christ, the first-born of the family of God.
Obtain for us that complete dedication in the service of the needy, the weak, the afflicted and the abandoned which so characterized your life. Help us to walk perseveringly in the difficult and, at times, painful paths of duty, strengthened by the Body and Blood of our Redeemer and under the watchful protection of Mary our Mother.
May death still find us on the sure road to our Father's House with the light of living Faith in our hearts. Amen.
Today is my last day of the Novena for the Protection of the Unborn. Is anyone else finishing the novena today?
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Wednesday, January 4, 2006
Please offer up a few prayers (Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be) for these intentions for Our Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI:Intention for the Apostleship of Prayer for the month of January, 2006 is: "That the effort to bring about the full communion of Christians may foster reconciliation and peace among all the peoples of the earth".
His missionary intention is: "That Christians may know how to welcome migrants with respect and charity, recognizing in each person the image of God".
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A reader asked me to post this again, so here is a prayer to venerate any saint. With so many of my readers getting special Saints for the Year, I wanted to post a prayer that anyone of you can say.
ETERNAL Father, I wish to honor St. (Name), and I give You thanks for all the graces You have bestowed upon him (her). I ask You to please increase grace in my soul through the merits of this saint, and I commit the end of my life to him (her) by this special prayer, so that by virtue of Your goodness and promise, St. (Name) might be my advocate and provide whatever is needed at that hour. Amen.
PROMISE: "When you wish to honor any particular saint and give Me thanks for all the graces I have bestowed on that saint, I increase grace in your soul through the merits of that saint. When you commit the end of your life to any of the saints by special prayers, I appoint those saints to be your advocates and to provide whatever you need at that hour."-Our Lord to St. Gertrude
From the book: Prayers and Heavenly Promises, Compiled from Approved Sources, by Joan Carroll Cruz.
NOTE: Catholics Don't "worship" saints; we simply honor them for their great lives for Our One Lord, Jesus Christ. Just as Jesus allowed the Disciples to assist at the Miracle of the Loaves, so Our Lord allows the saints to help us.
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ETERNAL Father, I wish to honor St. (Name), and I give You thanks for all the graces You have bestowed upon him (her). I ask You to please increase grace in my soul through the merits of this saint, and I commit the end of my life to him (her) by this special prayer, so that by virtue of Your goodness and promise, St. (Name) might be my advocate and provide whatever is needed at that hour. Amen.
PROMISE: "When you wish to honor any particular saint and give Me thanks for all the graces I have bestowed on that saint, I increase grace in your soul through the merits of that saint. When you commit the end of your life to any of the saints by special prayers, I appoint those saints to be your advocates and to provide whatever you need at that hour."-Our Lord to St. Gertrude
From the book: Prayers and Heavenly Promises, Compiled from Approved Sources, by Joan Carroll Cruz.
NOTE: Catholics Don't "worship" saints; we simply honor them for their great lives for Our One Lord, Jesus Christ. Just as Jesus allowed the Disciples to assist at the Miracle of the Loaves, so Our Lord allows the saints to help us.
Just a friendly reminder from your neighborhood blog to keep praying!
Today is my 8th day of the Novena for the Protection of the Unborn.
Please pray along with me if you have not as this novena can be started any time of the year. And, thank you to everything that is still praying in unity with me.
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Today is my 8th day of the Novena for the Protection of the Unborn.
Please pray along with me if you have not as this novena can be started any time of the year. And, thank you to everything that is still praying in unity with me.
Tuesday, January 3, 2006
Welcome, Anchoress readers!
One of the most popular Catholic blogs, the Anchoress, linked to my site about the Saint for the year project, so I wanted to let everyone know that it is still ongoing if you would like a saint please just ask. I am now close to reaching 200 requests! Thank you!
So, if you are looking for a saint, just comment below to request one or see these posts:
1. Original Message
2. Requests List
This has been a tremendous success! Thank you all. Would anyone be interested in doing this same thing again next year?
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One of the most popular Catholic blogs, the Anchoress, linked to my site about the Saint for the year project, so I wanted to let everyone know that it is still ongoing if you would like a saint please just ask. I am now close to reaching 200 requests! Thank you!
So, if you are looking for a saint, just comment below to request one or see these posts:
1. Original Message
2. Requests List
This has been a tremendous success! Thank you all. Would anyone be interested in doing this same thing again next year?
Today is my 7th day of the Novena for the Protection of the Unborn. Please pray along with me if you have not as this novena can be started any time of the year.And, thank you to everything that is still praying in unity with me including Darren. May God bless you.
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Double of II Class (1954 Calendar): January 2*
* According to the Traditional Catholic Calendar from 1911 and into the early 1960s, the Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus occurs on the Sunday of January 2nd, 3rd, 4th, or 5th. When no Sunday occurs on these days, then the feast is celebrated on January 2nd. Before 1911, this Feastday was kept on the Second Sunday after Epiphany.
For the name of "Jesus" means "God saves." "At the name of Jesus every knee should bend, of those in heaven and on earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father" (Phil 2:10-11)
Jesus Christ, The Great King of the World, knew rejection. He was rejected from the Inn in Bethlehem while still living in the womb. He knew cold as he lay in rags in Bethlehem. He knew hunger as the devil tempted Him in the desert for 40 days. He was rejected for His words on the Eucharist too. And He knew rejection - at the hour He needed them the most, all of his friends left Him to the Cross - only St. John would return.
Today let us recall Jesus Christ, who became like us, completely like us in all things but sin to be the sacrifice for our sins - our redemption. Let us honor His name, given to Him before His conception through the words of the angels. Read on the history of the Feast of the Holy Name
."If you think the name "Jesus" continually, and hold it firmly, it purges your sin, and kindles your heart; it clarifies your soul, it removes anger and does away with slowness. It wounds in love and fulfills charity. It chases the devil, and puts out dread. It opens heaven, and makes a contemplative man. Have Jesus in mind, for that puts all vices and phantoms out from the lover." - Richard Rolle (†1349) A hermit, a mystic, and a writer of devotional works and biblical translations. Taken from The Form of Perfect Living and Other Prose Treatises, Thomas Baker, 1910 London
For the list of proper prayers as said in the Traditional Mass for this day, please click here. And pray the Litany to the Holy Name of Jesus today especially.
Dom Gueranger writes:
"The feast of the Holy Name is of comparatively recent origin, its first promoter was St Bernardine of Siena, who lived in the fifteenth century. This holy man established the practice of representing the Holy Name of Jesus surrounded with rays, and formed into a monogram of its three first letters, ihs.[3] The custom spread rapidly through Italy, and was zealously propagated by the great St John of Capestrano, who, like St Bernardine of Siena, was of the Order of Friars Minor. The Holy See gave its formal approbation to this manner of honouring the Name of our Saviour, and, in the early part of the sixteenth century, Pope Clement VI, after long entreaties, granted to the whole Franciscan Order the privilege of keeping a special Feast in honour of the Most Holy Name of Jesus."Rome extended the same favour to various Churches; and, at length, the Feast was inserted in the universal Calendar. It was in the year 1721, at the request of Charles VI, Emperor of Germany, that Pope Innocent XII decreed that the Feast of the Most Holy Name of Jesus should be kept throughout the whole Church; he also chose the Second Sunday after the Epiphany as the day, but as we have already explained, the feast is now fixed for the Sunday following the Circumcision."
Prayer:
O God, Who didst constitute Thine only-begotten Son the Savior of mankind, and didst bid Him be called Jesus: mercifully grant, that we who venerate His holy Name on earth, may fully enjoy also the vision of Him in heaven. Through the same our Lord.
Prayer Source: 1962 Roman Catholic Daily Missal
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