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Topic: Prophecy Meditation
28 AUG PROPHECY WARNING MEDITATIONS FOR AFRICAN DIASPORA CHRISTIANS --BLACK CATHOLICS, COPTICS, AND ORTHODOX LITURGICAL CHURCHES IN THE MYSTICAL BODY OF CHRIST
Black, African Saints Spirituality, Black Catholics, Coptic, Orthodox Christians in Africa, the Caribbean, Oceania, South Pacific Rim, Micronesia, Polynesia, Melanesia, Solomons, Marianas, Society and Marshall Islands, New Guinea, Indonesia, Malaysia, India, Palau, Tuvulu, Nauru, Australia and New Zealand.
PROPHECY WARNINGS MEDITATIONS FOR ORIENTAL BRANCHES OF BLACK CATHOLIC CHRISTIANS--LATIN, COPTIC, AND ORTHODOX RITES IN THE AFRICAN HISTORIC AND GEOLOGIC DIASPORA.
METAPHYSICAL PROPOSAL ON THE MODE OF USING HAWTHORN
FOR THE COMING PLAGUES…HAWTHORN
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As given by our BLESSED MOTHER MARYAM, August 5, 1880: "There will be a grave illness which human science will not be able to alleviate. This illness will attack firstly the heart, then the spirit, and at the same time, the tongue. It will be horrible.
The heat accompanying it will be a devouring fire insupportable and so intense that the members of the body affected will be red -- an unendurable fiery red. At the end of seven days this disease, sown like a seed in the field (incubation period) will spread everywhere rapidly and make great progress."
"My children, here is the ONLY remedy which could save you. You are familiar with the Hawthorn which grows practically in all hedges.
The leaves of the Hawthorn, not the wood, can arrest the progress of this disease."
"You will gather the leaves, not the wood. Even dry, they will keep their efficacy.
You will put them into boiling water and leave them there for 14 minutes, covering the receptacle so that the steam remains therein.
At the onset of this disease, one must use this remedy three times a day."
"This disease will produce a continual vomiting and nausea. If the remedy is taken too late, the part of the body affected will become black and in the black there will be seen a sort of pale, yellow streak."
NO ONE HAS TO BELIEVE ANYTHING! TEST. DISCERN THE SPIRIT!
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Note: It is a tradition that the Hawthorne was the plant from which Pilate’s Roman soldiers wove the CROWN OF THORNS.
BLACK CATHOLIC GOSPEL RADIO (Afrocentric Rosary, Stations of Cross, Chaplet of Divine Mercy)
MORE BLACK CATHOLIC GOSPEL RADIO
DEVOTIONS, PRAYERS FOR THE LITURGICAL CHURCHES AND ALL OTHER CHRISTIANS WHO SO DESIRE (INCLUDING LUTHERAN, EPISCOPALIAN, ANGLICAN, AND OTHER MEMBERS IN THE MYSTICAL BODY OF CHRIST –ALL CHRISTIANITY COMBINED):
SAID YOUR ROSARY, OR CHAPLET DIVINE MERCY TODAY? YOU CAN, HERE…
Afrocentric Rosary Mysteries by the Los Angeles St. Brigid Traditional Choir. Afrocentric Chaplets Divine Mercy moderated by James Wesly Smith
Pray the Joyful Mysteries on Monday and Saturday, the Luminous Mysteries on Thursday, the Sorrowful Mysteries on Tuesday and Friday, and the Glorious Mysteries on Wednesday and Sunday (with this exception: Sundays of Christmas season - The Joyful; Sundays of Lent – Sorrowful. Mysteries/Meditations are events in the Life of Yeshua(Jesus)!
See: HOW TO PRAY THE ROSARY DEVOTIONS MEMORY OF OUR LORD’S LIFE
FRIDAY-AFROCENTRIC SORROWFUL MYSTERIES ROSARY, STATIONS OF CROSS
Afrocentric Sorrowful Mysteries Rosary Pt I
Afrocentric Sorrowful Mysteries Rosary Pt II
Afrocentric Stations Cross Pt. I
Afrocentric Stations Cross Pt. I I
CHAPLET OF DIVINE MERCY
Daily Afrocentric Chaplet Divine Mercy PT I
Daily Afrocentric Chaplet Divine Mercy PT II
Daily Afrocentric Chaplet Divine Mercy PTlII
The Divine Office (Full Daily Liturgy of the Hours) Daily prayer by listening!
FULL LITURGY OF THE HOURS AND DIVINE OFFICE
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Daily Consecration to the Eternal Father
For the greater glory of God and for the salvation of all, I consecrate myself to You, O' Eternal Father, as one of Your faithful remnant. Behold, I come to do Your Will. With the help of Your Grace, I will keep Your Commandments. I will love and reverence You with all my heart, soul, mind and strength. I will love my neighbor as You love me.
I make this Consecration through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary and the Sacred Heart of Your beloved Son, Jesus.
O' Eternal Father, send forth Your Holy Spirit to restore my/our broken image and likeness of You. Send forth also Your entire Heavenly Court, all the celestial choirs of Your angels and all Your Saints, to aid me/us in my/our struggle against all the forces of evil in this present darkness. Amen. (Adapted from the Father of All Mankind Apostolate).
The Lord's Prayer
How many of us have said the “Our Father” with so little thought, so little reverence, and so little fruitfulness? However, when we are open to the Holy Spirit within us and pray from the heart, look at what can happen:"
Our Father, (“Our” Father—not “My” Father - all of God’s children of all races, all colors & all creeds)
Our Father, (Abba, “Daddy” God)
Who art in Heaven, (and Who art in me)
Hallowed be Thy Name. (Holy be Thy Name, praised be Thy Name, thanks be to Thy Most Holy Name)
Thy Kingdom come. (now - on earth and in me)
Thy Will be done, (now - on earth and in me)
on earth as it is in Heaven. (at the Throne of God, with the Trinity, Our Lady and all the Angels and Saints)
Give us this day our daily bread. (the Bread of your Divine Will, the Bread of Life in the Eucharist, and the bread we need to eat to sustain our bodies)
And forgive us our trespasses(forgive us our sins, our imperfections and our hesitancies in the face of temptation)
As we forgive those (or as we choose not to forgive those) who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation,(for we are weak, we are worthless, we are wretched & we are nothing)
But deliver us from evil.(for it is only through your grace, not by our works alonenor our merit that we can escape eternal damnation)
Amen. (So I hope. So be it).
Prayer to the Blessed Virgin Mary Protectress of Africa
Holy Mary, Mother of God, Protectress of Africa, you have given to the world the true Light, Jesus Christ. Through your obedience to the Father and the grace of the Holy Spirit, you have given us the source of our reconciliation and our justice, Jesus Christ, our peace and our joy.
Mother of Tenderness and Wisdom, show us Jesus, your Son and the Son of God. Guide our path of conversion, so that Jesus might shine his glory on us in every aspect of our personal, familial and social lives.
Mother, full of Mercy and Justice, through your docility to the Spirit, the Counselor, obtain for us the grace to be witnesses of the Risen Lord, so that we will increasingly become the salt of the earth and the light of the world.
Mother of Perpetual Help, we entrust to your maternal intercession the preparation and fruits of the Second Special Assembly for Africa. Queen of Peace, pray for us! Our Lady of Africa, pray for us!
BLACK SAINTS OF THE DAY
Black Saints of the day—From the Black Saints reference book (James Wesly Smith), 456 pages, paperback, 1000 lines of Black and African Saints in the Latin Rite, Coptic and Orthodox branches of the Mystical Body of Christ (combined Christianity) to year 599 A.D. Order quickly from www.booklocker.com/books/3088.html, from BarnesandNobles.com, Ingram Book Group internationally, Amazon, wherever online books are sold.
Jeremy with Saturninus, Felix, Ellas, Isaias, Samuel, Daniel, Martyrs
John, I am a saint of Kemet. Acha the Confessor was my brother. (1 Nov. (Acha’s feast).
John the Short of Kemet, November 9, (Probably the same as John the Short, of Kemet (Egypt) November 11).
John the Hermit of Kemet, June 12
John of Kemet, Hermit, Dec. 2
John with Theodota, Theoctista, and Eudoxia, Virgin martyrs, and Cyrus comforted us before and while our executions, martyred with Athanasia, 31 Jan
John with Theoctistus, martyred at Saint Saba, 20 March.
John of Shutp (Setes), father of Theodore, martyr and the “leader of an army.” 8 June.
John of Syracuse martyred in Africa. Sept. 23
John, son of Cleopatra in Kemet (307 A.D.), martyr, 19 Oct. (Probably the same as John with His Mother Cleopatra in Egypt, November 9).
John the Anchorite, of Kemet March 29
John the Clairvoyant, anchorite of Egypt (9th Century A.D.), St. 27 - March
John the Confessor of Kemet, beheaded in Palestine, and 40 Martyrs (310 A.D.), martyr, 20 Sept.
John the Dwarf. The sunrise of my life came around 339 A.D. I was born in the lower part of Kemet, and was called John Kolobos (Kolubas), being small of stature. I followed the friends of God, Poemen, and Ammoes (Amoes). The grace of God changed my irascible and cranky temperament into one of humility.
Being one who was solitary, (alone) I taught others that perfection comes from being always vigilant in our living quarters (cell). My residence was hewn in an underground cave.
God bade me to become ordained to the priesthood. In or about 405 A.D. Berbers raided the Sketis, and I retired across the Nile River to the Suez area. In St Antony’s mountain, I died.
John the Merciful, Patriarch of Alexandria November 24
John(called Barsanuphius)of Nitria in Kemet, Feb. 28 in non leap years. 29 Feb.
John, metropolitan of Thebes, the new merciful one, martyr, 29 April
John, Ethnus, Acrates, James, and Abraham. We are martyrs in Ethiopia Abyssinia. 3 Aug.
John and Abraham. We are martyrs of Gamnudi in lower Kemet withSt. James of Manug, at Farama, authorities beheaded us. 11 Aug.
John, Presbyter (Elder) at Tiberiopolis (361, 362 A.D.), martyr, 28 Nov.
Jonah the Sabbaite, 21 Sept.
Joseph, Rogatus, martyr in Africa with Catula, Autus, Victorinus, Saturninus, Salitor, Aprilis, and Coliondola. 24 March
Jucundianus with Theodore, the bishop, martyrs in the Northwestern part of Africa. 4 July.
Juinstinian (Justianian?), Virgins, at Carthage, Africa, 15 June
Jules D’acfahs, I visited Absadah in jail. He was a priest martyr from I Behnesa, Kemet during the Diocletian persecutions. .
Julia, Virgin martyr of Carthage (around 440 A.D. or 613 A.D.) 16 July
Julia of Carthage, Virgin-martyr. 16 - July
Julia (Julitta) of Tabenna in Kemet, 14 June
Julia, and martyred with 54 companions at Africa. 2 Feb.
Julia, Julius, Potamia, Crispian, Felix
Abba Julian. Near the end, people saw me as skin and bones, due to the extreme practices of penance and denial I endured. God graced me with the ability and gift to heal those suffering from illness.
Julian, at Antinoe, Kemet, and others with him (313 A.D.), martyrs, 8 Jan.
Julian, Alexander, Cronion, Julian, Macarius, and 13 companions at Alexandria, Martyrs. 30 Oct.
Julian of Anazarbus (3rd century), martyr, 16 March
Julian of Kemet (Egypt)
Julian, Ptolemy, Ingen, Soldiers, see Theophilus.
Julian with Victor, and Pamphilus, martyred at Alexandria with12 Feb.
Julian, Vincent, and 27 Companions, martyrs;
Julianus, Tryphon, Cyrion, Eulogius, another Cyrion, Menelaus, Porphyrius, Apricus, Justus, Orestes, Hemerion, and Julius, martyred at Alexandria 3 July.
Julitta (Julia) of Tabenna in Kemet, St. 14 - June
Julius, Potamia, Crispian, Felix.
Julius, Paulus, Geruntius, Januarius, Saturninus, Successus, Catus, Pia. Martyrs in Africa, around 300 A.D. 19 Jan. 14 Jan.
Julius, Carpias, Damias, Saccus, and 400 companions. We were martyred in Africa, 27 May.
Julius, Tryphon, Cyrion, Eulogius, another Cyrion, Menelaus, Porphyrius, Apricus, Justus, Julianus, Orestes, and Hemerion, martyred at Alexandria 3 July.
Justus, Rufinus, Marcus, Valerius Victor, Paulus, Honoratus, Donatus, Baricus, Vitalis, Januarius, and martyred in Africa. 16 Nov.
MORE RESOURCES (Some of the links might be broken, as they are old so verify)
ORTHODOX RITE www.orthodox.cn/saints/placeoflivesofsaints/4en.htm
www.pomog.org/saintlist.shtml
cygnus.uwa.edu.au/~jgrapsas/pages/lives.htm
directory.google.com/./Religion_and_Spirituality/ Christianity/Denominations/Orthodox/Saints_and_Martyrs/
dmoz.org/Society/Religion_and_Spirituality/ Christianity/Denominations/Orthodox/Saints_and_Martyrs/
gnisios.narod.ru/saints.html
holyorthodoxy.tripod.com/prophecy.html
http://goarch.org
http://www.saintmarkboca.net/index.cfm?page=daily_reading&contentType=temp&readingType=saint&contentid=251
home.zonnet.nl/chotki/orthodox_saints.htm
http//search.tserkovnost.org/
http//stjrussianorthodox.com/stjrusorthodoxy.htm
http//www.ausorthodox.com/ms.htm
http//www.ausorthodox.com/ms.htm
http//www.cof.rutgers.edu/calendar.html
http//www.copticchurch.net/synaxarium
http//www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/palladius-lausiac.html
http//www.orthodoxinfo.com/search.cfm
http//www.saint-mary.net/coptic_faith/Introductiontothe Coptic OrthodoxChurch.pdf
http//www.unicorne.org/orthodoxy/articles/saints_icons/main.htm saints.grettir.org/
www.2net.co.yu/osvecenje/es05.htm
www.abbamoses.com/
www.ausorthodox.com/msaints.htm
www.geocities.com/Athens/Troy/1187/links.html
www.goarch.org/access/calendar/
www.goarch.org/en/Chapel/calendar.asp
www.in2greece.com/english/saints/saints.htm
www.lasvegasorthodox.com/library/Orthodox_saints/
www.odox.net/Icons-Agnes.htm
www.orthodox.net/links/saints.html
www.orthodox.net/saints/
www.orthodoxenglbtinternet.co.uk/saintsint.htm
www.pogledi.co.yu/english/saints.php
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www.unicorne.org/orthodoxy/hiver2004/rcsaints.htm
COPTIC RITE
Coptic Synaxarium Search Page
atheism.about.com/library/ glossary/western/bldef_coptic.htm
dir.yahoo.com/./Faiths_and_Practices/ Christianity/Denominations_and_Sects/Orthodox/Coptic/
home.ptd.net/~yanney/previous_issues.html
http//directory.google.com/Top/Society/Religion_and_Spirituality/Christianity/Denominations/Orthodox/s_and_Martyrs/
http//dmoz.org/Society/Religion_and_Spirituality/Christianity/Denominations/Orthodox/s_and_Martyrs/C/
http//gavras.customer.netspace.net.au/Lives%20of%20Orthodox%20s.htm
http//home.it.net.au/~jgrapsas/pages/lives.htm
http//home.ptd.net/~yanney/
http//icias.com/e.o/coptic_c.htm
http//membres.lycos.fr/jmdoggy/textes/copticsynaxarium1995uk2.html
http//pharos.bu.edu
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http//pharos.bu.edu/cn/exhibits/Pictures.html
http//pharos.bu.edu/cn/synexarion
http//rejoyse.com/
http//www.abbamoses.com/
http://www.copticcentre.com/copticsaints.html
http//www.ains.net.au/%7Ejohnh/Saints.html
http://www.ains.net.au/%7Ejohnh/Saints.html
http//www.coptic.net/
http//www.coptic.net/CopticWeb
http//www.coptic.net/EncyclopediaCoptica
http//www.copticchurch.net/topics/synexarion/index.html
http//www.ethiopianhistory.com/aksum/nine_saints.html
http//www.goarch.org/access/calendar/index.asp?D=10/21/2003&T=10
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www.opuslibani.org.lb/coptimenu.html
www.stmark.toronto.on.coptorthodox.ca/
www.stmarkcocclevelorg/
www.stmarkcocclevelorg/copticchurch.html
www.stshenouda.com/
www.stshenouda.com/coptlang.htm
LATIN RITE
catholicism.about.com/cs/saints/
directory.google.com/Top/Society/Religion_and_Spirituality/ Christianity/Denominations/Catholicism/Saints/
http//198.62.75.1/www2/kerygma/ccc/searchcat.html
http//dickinsg.intrasun.tcnj.edu/diaspora/kemet.html
http//www.catholic forum.com/s/
http//www.catholic forum.com/s/indexsnt.htm
http//www.catholic.org/s/
http//www.catholic.org/s/
http//www.catholicforum.com/s/
http//www.catholicforum.com/s/indexsnt.htm
http//www.catholic-forum.com/saints/candidates/candidate.htm
http//www.cin.org/s.html
http//www.cin.org/s.html
http//www.cin.org/s/agnes.html
http//www.cin.org/s/agnes.html
http//www.geocities.com/wally_mo/egypt_lang.html
http//www.kidinfo.com/World_History/OldEgypt.htm
And still more…
Ecole Glossary,
Open Directory Project
For All The Saints
Catholic Encyclopedia
e.g. Passion of Saint Menas of Cotyaeum
Coptic Encomium
Ethiopic Synaxarium
Be aware that Yeshua, Jesus the Christ, wants His Church reunited. It will be! For in God’s eyes, there exists one, holy catholic (which means universal), and apostolic church in the Mystical Body of Christ(all Christianity combined).
Black Saints Videos https://www.angelfire.com/realm/blackcatholics/BlackSaintsVideos.html
Part I https://www.youtube.com/v/sUnU4xR5D9E
Part II https://www.youtube.com/watchv=jMnYwZEfBg4
Black Saints Videos
https://www.angelfire.com/realm/blackcatholics/BlackSaintsVideos.html
PROPHECY MEDITATIONS TODAY
Test! Discern The Spirit! Accept what speaks to YOUR SOUL/SPIRIT. Disregard the rest!
from such as Seers, OLOE, ERA OF PEACE, J.Leary, and Fr. Doucette, Anne Hidden Lay Apostle, Sharon Fitzpatrick, Lousie Tomkiel, Carol Ameche, and others. Fair use, educational and religious purposes, 17 U.S.C. for those in the African Historic and Geologic Diaspora who would otherwise not be exposed to such,
Rev. Fr. Melvin Doucette
Thursday, August 27, 2009
"All are to praise the Father"
Dear Friends,
Rules and Orders
So what is to be done, brothers? When you assemble, one has a psalm, another an instruction, a revelation, a tongue, or an interpretation. Everything should be done for building up. If anyone speaks in a tongue, let it be two or at most three, and each in turn, and one should interpret. But if there is no interpreter, the person should keep silent in the church and speak to himself and to God.
Two or three prophets should speak, and the others discern. But if a revelation is given to another person sitting there, the first one should be silent. For you can all prophesy one by one, so that all may learn and all be encouraged. Indeed, the spirits of prophets are under the prophets' control, since he is not the God of disorder but of peace. ... If anyone thinks that he is a prophet or a spiritual person, he should recognize that what I am writing to you is a commandment of the Lord. If anyone does not acknowledge this, he is not acknowledged. So, my brothers, strive eagerly to prophesy, and do not forbid speaking in tongues, but everything must be done properly and in order. 1 Cor 14:26-33, 37-40
Below you will find a message of Our Lord and Savior given to Joseph. Jesus spoke to him these words,
"The Holy Spirit is at work among many believers in the world. As it was in the time of St. Paul, the Holy Spirit gives gifts to various people. One might received the gift of tongues, another the gift to interpret tongues, and another might be given the gift of prophecy.
When people assemble to pray, let them use these gifts to enlighten and to encourage the people present and to give honor to the Father. All are to praise the Father for all the wonderful things He does for every person. Thank Him for your life, your health, for all the food you have to eat every day, thank Him for the air you breathe and for the sunshine that makes everything grow.
There are so many things you need to thank and praise the Lord for. So when you gather to pray give thanks to your heavenly Father and read psalms, a passage from the Bible, sing a hymn and give a prophecy and do it all in a proper and orderly way.
I thank all those who use the gifts given to them by the Holy Spirit and I bring them peace. I bless you all."
Father Melvin August 26, 2009
Rev. Fr. Melvin Doucette,
Friday, August 28, 2009
"Spend time with Me today"
Dear Friends,
The Gospel Teaching
Now I am reminding you, brothers, of the Gospel I preached to you, which you indeed received and in which you also stand. Through it you are also being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you, unless you believed in vain. For I handed on to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the scriptures; that he was buried; that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the scriptures; that he appeared to Kephas, then to the Twelve.
After that, he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at once, most of whom are still living, though some have fallen asleep. After that he appeared to James, then to all the apostles. Last of all, as to one born abnormally, he appeared to me. For I am the least of the apostles ... because I persecuted the church of God.
But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me has not been ineffective. Indeed, I have toiled harder than all of them; not I, however, but the grace of God that is with me. Therefore, whether it be I or they, so we preach and so you believe. 1 Cor 15:1-11
This morning the sun is shining bright but it is cool. It will go up past 20 degree Celsius this afternoon. We might get some rain later on.
I celebrated Holy Mass last evening at 7:00 p.m. at the little shrine of Our Lady of Prince Edward Island. I will celebrate Holy Mass today at the same time and tomorrow Holy Mass will be at 9:30 a.m. A good number of people are expected tomorrow morning. The Newsletter is ready and I hope to have it duplicated today and tomorrow and send it out next week.
Below is the message given by Our Lord and Savior and received by Joseph. Jesus spoke to him these words,
"My brothers and sisters, I am in great pain as I hang upon the cross for your salvation. They have pierced my hands and my feet and blood is flowing from my many wounds. The crown of thorns driven into my head causes Me great suffering and the blood is flowing into My eyes and all over My face.
I can hardly breathe in this position and I am offering Myself to the Father in sacrifice for all your sins. I am calling you from the cross to leave your sins behind and to come and follow Me. I suffered this horrible death because I love you and I want you with Me forever.
Come and look at Me on the cross today. See what your sins have done to Me and repent. I am the Son of God who came down to earth to show you the way to heaven. I opened the doors of heaven, which were closed after the great sin of Adam and Eve. I won for you many graces by My suffering and I give them to you if you ask for them. You need them because without those graces you cannot do anything good. Spend time with Me today."
Father Melvin
[Fr. Doucette: 307] Mon, Aug 24, 2009: "Work at it every day
The Rev. Fr. Melvin Doucette, M..Afr./ 1704 Palmer Road, RR 2 Tignish, PE (Prince Edward Island) C0B 2B0 / CANADA Tel: 902-882-2004 / Email: melvin.doucette@...
Monday, August 24, 2009
"Work at it every day"
Dear Friends,
The Way of Love
If I speak in human and angelic tongues but do not have love, I am a resounding gong or a clashing cymbal. And if I have the gift of prophecy and comprehend all mysteries and all knowledge; if I have all faith so as to move mountains but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give away everything I own, and if I hand my body over so that I may boast but do not have love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, love is not pompous, it is not inflated, it is not rude, it does not seek its own interests, it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury, it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never fails. If there are prophecies, they will be brought to nothing; if tongues, they will cease; if knowledge, it will be brought to nothing. For we know partially and we prophesy partially, but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. When I was a child, I used to talk as a child, think as a child, reason as a child; when I became a man, I put aside childish things. At present we see indistinctly, as in a mirror, but then face to face. At present I know partially; then I shall know fully, as I am fully known. So faith, hope, love remain, these three; but the greatest of these is love. 1 Cor 13:1-13v
Here is a message from Our Lord and Savior given to Joseph. Jesus spoke to him these words,
My dear friends, you know the commandment that I gave you: Love one another as I have loved you. All your obligations towards God and your neighbour are fulfilled if you love them with all your heart. You are not to be jealous of your neighbour.
You will forget about yourself and love the other, as there is no self-love in true love. You will be ready to help all those who are suffering or in need of food or clothes. You will also pray for the sick, the handicapped and all those in need. You will be ready to forgive all those who hurt you in any way. You will study My life as it is given in the Gospels and work with My grace to follow Me. Remember, love is the perfection of all law but it takes a lifetime of work with My help to achieve this. Work at it every day. I love you.
Father Melvin
Medjugorje Day By Day Aug 26 - FASTING WITH THE HEART
Medjugorje Day By Day Aug 26 - FASTING WITH THE HEART
ITS TIME for a Faith Lift
"For on that day when her death was so close, she was not concerned that her body should be sumptuously wrapped or embalmed with spices, nor with any thought of choosing a monument or even for burial in her own country.
Of such things she gave us no command, but only desired to be remembered at Thy altar, which she had served without ever missing so much as a day, on which she knew that the Holy Victim was offered, by whom the handwriting is blotted out of the decree that was contrary to us, by which offering too the enemy was overcome who, reckoning our sins and seeking what may be laid to our charge, found nothing in Him, in Whom we are conquerors. Who shall restore to Him His innocent blood? Who shall give Him back the price by which He purchased us and so take us from Him? To this sacrament of our redemption
Thy handmaid had bound her soul by the bond of faith." (St. Augustine, writing of his mother St. Monica)
Mother Teresa - I for God and God for me. I live for God and give up my own self, and in this way God lives for me.
Meditations by Padre Pio - If you succeed in over coming temptations it has the effect of soap on dirty linen (AdFA, 158).
Archbishop Fulton Sheen - The less said the better sometimes!
"There are moments when it is very difficult to express one's views, for example, when a husband is asked how he likes his wife's new hat, or how he likes her new Italian haircut - which to him resembles unstrung spaghetti. Women, when faced with something they do not like, generally go into ecstasies of praise in order to cover up their real mind. Men generally descend to monosyllables or a long grunt. When a man gets mad at his wife at cards he generally calls her `dear' but with such a coolness as to make her think she is a `Frigidear'. Tact, in such difficult moments, does not mean lying, nor smoothness at the expense of truth, but it does mean circumspection."
St. Faustina's diary http://www.marian.org/directory_flash.html -
At eleven o'clock Jesus said to me, My host, you are refreshment for My tormented Heart. I thought, after these words, that my heart would burn up. And He brought me into such close intimacy with Himself that my heart was espoused to His Heart in a loving union, and I could feel the faintest stir of His Heart and He, of mine.
The fire of my created love was joined to the ardor of His eternal love. This one grace surpasses all others in its immensity. His Trinitarian Being enveloped me entirely, and I am totally immersed in Him.
My littleness is, as it were, wrestling with this Immortal Mighty One. I am immersed in incomprehensible love and incomprehensible torture because of His Passion. All that concerns His Being is imparted to me also. (1056)
Up to now, Jesus has been bringing me to know about, and to have a presentiment of, this grace, but today He granted it to me. I would not even dare to dream about it. My heart is in ceaseless ecstasy, as it were, although outwardly nothing disturbs my contacts with my neighbor or my attending to various matters. Nothing is capable of interrupting my ecstasy, nor can anyone suspect it, because I have asked God to protect me from detection by people. And, together with this grace, there entered my soul a whole ocean of light, enabling me to understand God and myself. Amazement overwhelms me entirely and leads me as if into a new ecstasy [aroused by the fact] that God has deigned to descend to me, who am so little. (1057)
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-- Remember that the Christian life is one of action; not of speech and daydreams. Let there be few words and many deeds, and let them be done will. -St. Vincent Pallotti
Icons are Byzantine-style paintings or representation of Christ, the Blessed Mother and other saints. Icons are a dominant religious artistic form in Eastern Churches. Icons often take the places of statutes when they are used.
Medjugorje Day By Day Aug 28 - ST. AUGUSTINE
Mother Teresa - To possess God we must allow Him to possess our souls. How poor we would be if God had not given us the power of giving ourselves to Him; how rich we are now!
Meditations by Padre Pio - Padre Pio's Prayer After Holy Communion
Stay with me, Lord, for it is necessary to have You present so that I do not forget You. You know how easily I abandon You.
Stay with me, Lord, because I am weak and I need Your strength, that I may not fall so often.
Stay with me, Lord, for You are my life and without You I am without fervor.
Stay with me, Lord, for You are my light and without You I am in darkness.
Stay with me, Lord, to show me Your will.
Stay with me, Lord, so that I hear Your voice and follow You.
Stay with me, Lord, for I desire to love You very much and always be in Your company.
Stay with me, Lord, if You wish me to be faithful to You.
Stay with me, Lord, as poor as my soul is I want it to be a place of consolation for You, a nest of Love.
Stay with me, Jesus, for it is getting late and the day is coming to a close and life passes, death, judgment and eternity approaches. It is necessary to renew my strength, so that I will not stop along the way and for that, I need You. It is getting late and death approaches, I fear the darkness, the temptations, the dryness, the cross, the sorrows.
O how I need You, my Jesus, in this night of exile! Stay with me tonight, Jesus, in life with all its dangers, I need You. Let me recognize You as Your disciples did at the breaking of the bread, so that the Eucharistic Communion be the Light which disperses the darkness, the force which sustains me, the unique joy of my heart.
Stay with me, Lord, because at the hour of my death, I want to remain united to You, if not by Communion, at least by grace and love.
Stay with me, Lord, for it is You alone I look for, Your Love,Your Grace, Your Will, Your Heart, Your Spirit, because I love You and ask no other reward but to love You more and more. With a firm love, I will love You with all my heart while on earth and continue to love You perfectly during all eternity. Amen.
Archbishop Fulton Sheen - True passion takes guts and courage
"To revive passion in hearts, one must first understand it. Passion signifies receiving or suffering something or submitting to something. From this, follow two indispensable conditions for passion: knowledge, and some organic or physical change in our sensible nature."
St. Faustina's diary http://www.marian.org/directory_flash.html - August 1937. After Holy Communion, I saw the Lord Jesus in all His majesty, and He said to me, My daughter, during the weeks when you neither saw Me nor felt My presence, I was more profoundly united to you than at times [when you experienced) ecstasy. And the faithfulness and fragrance of your prayer have reached Me.
After these words, my soul became flooded with God's consolation. I did not see Jesus, and there was only one word I could utter and that was: "Jesus." And after pronouncing that Name, my soul was again filled with light and deeper recollection, which lasted uninterruptedly for three days. However, outwardly I could still carry out my usual duties.
My whole being was stirred to its most secret depths. God's greatness does not frighten me, but makes me happy. By giving Him glory, I myself am lifted up. On seeing His happiness, I myself am made happy, because all that is in Him flows back upon me. (1246)
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Quote of the Day - He who faithfully prays to God for the necessaries of this life is both mercifully heard, and mercifully not heard. For the physician knows better than the sick man what is good for the disease. -St. Augustine
Today's Tidbit - Late have I loved Thee, O Lord; and behold, Thou wast within and I without, and there I sought Thee. Thou was with me when I was not with Thee. Thou didst call, and cry, and burst my deafness. Thou didst gleam, and glow, and dispel my blindness. Thou didst touch me, and I burned for Thy peace. For Thyself Thou hast made us, and restless our hearts until in Thee they find their ease. Late have I loved Thee, Thou Beauty ever old and ever new. Thou hast burst my bonds asunder; unto Thee will I offer up an offering of praise. St. Augustine
MEDJUGORJE DAY BY DAY
for a day are taken from a daily meditation book based on the Messages of Our Lady of Medjugorje by Father Richard J. Beyer, Ave Maria Press.
AUGUST 28 - ST. AUGUSTINE
The following is Our Lady's monthly message for May, 1990:
Dear children, I wish to help you grow in renunciation
and mortification. In this way you will be able to understand the beautiful life of those who especially give themselves to me. Dear children, God blesses you day after day and wishes to change your life. Therefore, pray that you may have the strength to change it (Monthly Message May 25, 1990).
John the Baptist also called the people to change their live by turning from sin:
In those days John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness of Judea, proclaiming, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near"(Mt 3:1-2).
Reflection:
St. Augustine was born in Africa in 354. His young adulthood was a stormy period, including fathering a child out of wedlock. In his twenties he moved to Milan, Italy, where he became a professor of rhetoric, but his personal life continued to be stormy and wayward.
While in Milan, two things happened to him. First, he became increasingly unhappy with his personal life, and second, he became attracted to Christianity. It was in this frame of mind that he sat down one day and began to ponder his life. Suddenly de broke into tears and began to cry out to God: "and you, Lord! How long will you be angry with me? Forever? Why not at this very hour put an end to my life?"
Augustine said later:
I was crying out like this when, suddenly, I heard the voice of a child. It seemed to say, "Take and read! Take and read!" I stood up, for now the voice seemed like a command to read the Bible. I got a Bible and opened it, and the first words my eyes fell upon were from the letter of Paul to the Romans. They read: "Throw off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light; let us conduct ourselves properly as in the day, not in orgies and drunkenness. not in rivalry and jealousy. But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the desires of the flesh"(Rom 13:12-14).
When Augustine read this, he stopped. There was not need to go on. He says: "My heart was suddenly flooded with a light that erased all my doubts. And my soul was filled with a deep peace."
Application:
Today, as Our Lady asks, pray for the strength to continue your ongoing conversion
MEDJUGORJE DAY BY DAY
These thoughts for a day are taken from a daily meditation book based on the Messages of Our Lady of Medjugorje by Father Richard J. Beyer, Ave Maria Press.
AUGUST 26 - FASTING WITH THE HEART
Today Our Lady speaks of fasting "with the heart":
Dear children, today I call you to begin fasting with the heart. There are many people who fast only because everyone else is fasting. It has become an empty practice. And so I ask the parish to fast out of gratitude to God for allowing me to remain so long with you. Dear children, fast and pray with the heart (Weekly Message September 20, 1984).
In Luke's gospel, Jesus fasts in the wilderness:
Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness, where for forty days he was tempted by the Devil. He ate nothing at all during those days, and when they were over, he was famished (Lk 4:1-2).
Reflection:
At times, Our Lady of Medjugorje speaks of "fasting with the heart," a term meaning, first of all, accepting the invitation to fast with confidence in God, who will bring forth beautiful fruits from our efforts.
Second, it means to anticipate and welcome the spiritual dynamic that will begin to reshape our lives; this includes a deeper sense of repentance, a joyous realization of God's forgiveness, and a growing love, faith and hope.
Fasting with the heart also means experiencing a new freedom from material things, for we will begin to see the essential in life and not be mired in the superfluous. It means growing in a profound love for God and neighbor, a deepening joy in Christ, and new eyes to see as the Lord sees. Ultimately, to fast with the heart is a gift of grace, not a penance, from the heavenly Father.
Application:
Can you identify any changes that have happened to you since you began fasting? What changes would you like to see?
Medjugorje Day By Day Aug 25 - ST. JOSEPH CALASANCTIUS
Medjugorje Day By Day Aug 25 - ST. JOSEPH CALASANCTIUS
"Love the Immaculate with all your heart, fly often to Her by means of ejaculations, or simply with the thought of Her, and She will teach you how to return to Jesus a love without measure for the love which He showed on the Cross and in the most Blessed Sacrament of the altar." (St. Maximilian Kolbe)
Mother Teresa - There is no limit to God's love. It is without measure and its depth cannot be sounded.
Meditations by Padre Pio - My children, we can never prepare ourselves too much for Communion
Archbishop Fulton Sheen -
Honesty and innocence are lost too soon in growing out of childhood
"In regards insincerity, children do not have this duplicity because they are natural and it is acquired. If their mother tells them to tell a stranger at the door that she is not at home, they will invariably say, `My mother told me to tell you that she is not at home.' I know of a mother who, after an introduction to several ladies who had dropped in for tea, asked her child, `Now which one did I say was my best friend?' The child in the presence of all answered, `The one with the big teeth.' It takes some falling away from the childlike simplicity that purchases Heaven, before one develops the film of dishonesty."
St. Faustina's diary http://www.marian.org/directory_flash.html -
Today, the Majesty of God enveloped and transpierced my soul to its very depths. The greatness of God is pervading my being and flooding me so that I am completely drowning in His greatness. I am dissolving and disappearing entirely in Him as in my life-source, as in perfect life. (983)
My Lord and my God, You know that it is You alone whom my soul has come to love. My soul is entirely drowned in You, O Lord. Even if I did not accomplish any of the things that You have made known to me, O Lord, I would be completely at peace because I would have done what I could. (989)
This evening, when I heard the hymn, "Good night, Holy Head of my Jesus," on the radio, my spirit was suddenly swept away to God's mysterious bosom, and I knew in what the greatness of a soul consists and what matters to God: love, love, and once again, love. And I understood how all that exists is saturated with God, and such a love of God inundated my soul that I am at a loss to describe it. Happy the soul that knows how to love unreservedly, for in this lies its greatness. (997)
Aug 25
Quote of the Day - In order to avoid discord, never contradict anyone except in case of sin or some danger to a neighbor; and when necessary to contradict others, do it with tact and not with temper. -St. Louis IX
MEDJUGORJE DAY BY DAY
AUGUST 25 - ST. JOSEPH CALASANCTIUS
We are called to evangelize through the Madonna's words and miracles at Medjugorje:
I am anxious for people to know what is happening in Medjugorje. Speak about it so that everyone will be converted (Special Message 1985).
And in Matthew's gospel, the risen Christ also gives his disciples a special charge:
Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you (Mt. 28:19-20).
Reflection:
St .John Calasanctius took this commission of Christ to heart in his evangelization and teaching of the young.
Born in 1557, he was ordained a priest and later dedicated himself to caring for poor children, founding a religious order pledged to that work. "This ministry," he once wrote, "is directed to the well-being of body and soul. At the same time that it shapes behavior, it also fosters devotion and Christian doctrine."
Application:
Deeply devoted to the Blessed Virgin, St. Joseph Calasanctius wrote this Trinitarian Prayer of Praise to Mary. Let us offer it now for all children that live in poverty:
Let us offer praise and thanksgiving to the Most Holy
Trinity who has shown us the Virgin Mary,
Clothed with the sun, the moon beneath her feet, and on her head a mystic crown of 12 stars.
Let us praise and thank the divine Father who elected her for His daughters. Our Father.
Praised be the divine Father who predestined her to be the Mother of his divine Son. Hail Mary.
Praised be the divine Father who preserved her from all stain in her conception. Hail Mary.
Praised be the divine Father who adorned her at her birth with his most beautiful gifts. Hail Mary.
Praised be the divine Father who gave her St. Joseph to be her companion and chaste spouse. Hail Mary. Glory be..
Let us praise and thank the divine Son who chose her for his Mother.
Our Father.
Praised be the divine Son who became incarnate in her bosom and there abode for 9 months. Hail Mary.
Praised be the divine Son who was born of her and was nourished by her. Hail Mary..
Praised be the divine Son who in his childhood was taught by her.
Hail Mary.
Praised be the divine Son who revealed to her the mystery of the redemption of the world. Hail Mary. Glory be.
Let us praise and thank the Holy Spirit who took her for his spouse.
Our Father.
Praised to the Holy Spirit who took her for his spouse. Our Father.
Praised to the Holy Spirit who revealed first to her his name of Holy Spirit. Hail Mary.
Praised to the Holy Spirit by whose miracle she was at once Virgin and Mother. Hail Mary.
Praised to the Holy Spirit by whose power she was the living temple of the ever blessed Trinity. Hail Mary.
Praised to the Holy Spirit by whom she was exalted in heaven above every living creature. Hail Mary. Glory Be.
Message to Sharon Fitzpatrick August 26,2009
PRAYER GROUP ROSARY - WEDNESDAYS, 7:00 P.M. - SUNDAYS, 3:00 P.M. OUR LADY OF LOURDES GROTTO (BEHIND HOSPITAL) PANA, IL MESSAGE FROM HEAVEN SHARON FITZPATRICK - LOCUTIONIST
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 2009
MY DEAR DEAR PRECIOUS LITTLE CHILDREN,
I GREET YOU WITH TRUE LOVE AND I GATHER YOU ALL INTO MY IMMACULATE HEART. AS WE PRAY I QUICKLY GRASP EACH PRAYER AND GIVE TO IT MY FRAGRANCE. HENCE YOU CAN BE ASSURED THAT THEY ARE PLACED BEFORE THE FATHER IN A MOST PLEASING WAY. YOUR PRAYERS TAKE ON SPECIAL IMPORTANCE BECAUSE THEY ARE THE RESULT OF THE TRUTH WHICH HAS BEEN PLACED IN YOU.
EACH PRAYER HAS MUCH WEIGHT AND IS CONSIDERED FOR THE MANY, MANY PETITIONS OF ONES HEART AND SOUL. THE WORLD ALSO BENEFITS, BECAUSE YOU GIVE TO ME SO FREELY ALL YOUR MANY ROSARIES WHICH ARE THEN USED IN THE MOST DIFFICULT SITUATIONS WHETHER IT BE FAMILY OR NATION. BUT I ASSURE YOU THAT YOUR PRAYERS ARE MOST POWERFUL ESPECIALLY AGAINST ALL EVIL.
LITTLE ONES, BE CAREFUL THAT YOU DO NOT LOSE HOPE. EVERYTHING YOU CARRY IN YOUR HEARTS ARE GIVEN CONSIDERATION. BE AT PEACE WHEN YOU PRAY AND THEREFORE PRAY CONSTANTLY.
I GIVE TO YOU THIS NIGHT MUCH NEEDED GRACE. YOU ARE FORTIFIED WITH IT AND IT SHALL CAUSE IN YOU A NEW UNDERSTANDING OF THE TIMES IN WHICH YOU LIVE. LET THIS GRACE WORK IN YOU AND FOR YOU AND GUARD IT WELL.
MY LITTLE PRIEST-SON I IMPLORE TO GIVE TO YOU THE BLESSING OF CHRIST. ONLY FROM THE HEARTS OF THE PRIEST CAN YOU RECEIVE THIS BLESSING. RECEIVE IT DEAR CHILDREN WITH LOVE - IT IS GIVEN WITH LOVE AND THEN GIVE YOUR HEARTS OVER TO PRAISE AND GRATITUDE, PRAISING AND THANKING GOD NOW AND FOREVER.
SHORT POWERFUL PRAYER THROUGH ST. JOSEPH
"Glorious St. Joseph, tender-hearted father, faithful guardian of Jesus, chaste spouse of the Mother of God, I ask you to join me in praising God the Father through His Divine Son who died on the cross and rose again to give us sinners new life. Through the Holy Name of Jesus, pray with me that we may obtain from the eternal Father the favor we ask. (here state your intention)."
Say this prayer for nine consecutive days.
Fear not! God is your shelter (the 23rd Psalm and the Lord’s Prayer. God never fails). Don’t fail him. Call on Jesus. Jesus on the mainline, tell him what you want!
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