Friday, December 24, 2021
The Christmas Story - And the Heavenly Angels Sing
LOVE TO YOU AND TO ALL
Sunday, December 19, 2021
Angel Gabriel and 2 Holy Women
Site Reference: BIBLE GATEWAY
Sunday, December 12, 2021
An angel is pictured with Our Lady of Guadalupe
Remember, O most gracious Virgin of Guadalupe, that in your apparitions on Mount Tepeyac you promised to show pity and compassion to all who, loving and trusting you, who seek your help and protection. PLEASE hear our plea our supplications and grant us consolation and relief. We are full of hope that, relying on your help, nothing can trouble or affect us. As you have remained with us through your admirable image, so now obtain for us the graces we need. Amen.
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Thursday, December 9, 2021
Our Lady of Guadalupe and St. Juan Diego
Our Lady of Guadalupe and St. Juan Diego
The Story...
"Mesoamerica, the New World, 1521: The capital city of the Aztec empire falls under the Spanish forces. Less than 20 years later, 9 million of the inhabitants of the land, who professed for centuries a polytheistic and human sacrificing religion, are converted to Christianity. What happened in those times that produced such an incredible and historically unprecedented conversion?"
"In 1531 a "Lady from Heaven" appeared to a humble Native American at Tepeyac, a hill northwest of what is now Mexico City.
She identified herself as the ever virgin Holy Mary, Mother of the True God for whom we live, of the Creator of all things, Lord of heaven and the earth.
She made a request for a church to be built on the site, and submitted her wish to the local Bishop. When the Bishop hesitated, and requested her for a sign, the Mother of God obeyed without delay or question to the Church's local Bishop, and sent her native messenger to the top of the hill in mid-December to gather an assortment of roses for the Bishop.
After complying to the Bishop's request for a sign, She also left for us an image of herself imprinted miraculously on the native's tilma, a poor quality cactus-cloth, which should have deteriorated in 20 years but shows no sign of decay 489 years later and still defies all explanations of its origin.
Her message of love and compassion, and her universal promise of help and protection to all mankind, as well as the story of the apparitions, are described in the "Nican Mopohua", a 16th century document written in the native Nahuatl language.
There is reason to believe that at Tepeyac Mary came in her glorified body, and her actual physical hands rearranged the roses in Juan Diego’s tilma, which makes this apparition very special.
An incredible list of miracles, cures and interventions are attributed to Her. Yearly, between 18 - 20 million pilgrims visit the Basilica, making it Christianity's most visited sanctuary.
Altogether 25 popes have officially honored Our Lady of Guadalupe. His Holiness John Paul II visited her Sanctuary four times: on his first apostolic trip outside Rome as Pope in 1979, and again in 1990, 1999 and 2002.
The Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe is celebrated on December 12th. In 1999, Pope John Paul II, in his homily from the Solemn Mass at the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe, during his third visit to the sanctuary, declared the date of December the 12th as a Liturgical Holy Day for the whole continent.
During the same visit Pope John Paul II entrusted the cause of life to her loving protection, and placed under her motherly care the innocent lives of children, especially those who are in danger of not being born. "
Site Reference: https://www.sancta.org/intro.html
Please visit my resources - Our Lady of Guadalupe and Links about Our Lady of Guadalupe
Wednesday, December 8, 2021
An Angel, Announced the Birth of Mother Mary
Today DEC. 8TH we celebrate
THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION OF THE
BLESSED VIRGIN MARY.
On December 8, we honor Mary, the
St. Ann and St Joachim were her parents...
They both prayed for a child and were blessed with Our Heavenly Mother, Mary...
"Traditional account and legends"
"Information concerning their lives and names is found in the 2nd-century Protevangelium of James (“First Gospel of James”) and the 3rd-century Evangelium de nativitate Mariae (“Gospel of the Nativity of Mary”). According to these noncanonical sources, Anne (Hebrew: Ḥannah) was born in Bethlehem in Judaea. She married Joachim, and, although they shared a wealthy and devout life at Nazareth, they eventually lamented their childlessness. Joachim, reproached at the Temple for his sterility, retreated into the countryside to pray, while Anne, grieved by his disappearance and by her barrenness, solemnly promised God that, if given a child, she would dedicate it to the Lord’s service.
Both St. Anne and St. Joachim
received the vision of...
an angel, who announced that St. Anne would conceive
and bear a most wondrous child.
The couple rejoiced at the birth of their daughter, whom Anne named Mary. When the child was three years old, Joachim and Anne, in fulfillment of her divine promise, brought Mary to the Temple of Jerusalem, where they left her to be brought up."
Site Reference: Saints Anne and Joachim
Thursday, November 25, 2021
Thanksgiving with an Angel
HAVE YOU EVER ENCOUNTERED
An Angel?
This is a sweet video about an Angel's love at Thanksgiving that changed the life of a young Mother and her sons...
Thank you Lord for allowing this video to be shared on YouTube... Please enjoy this heartfelt story!
Sunday, November 21, 2021
A Favorite Day of Mine... Nov. 21st
Friday, November 19, 2021
November Angels
Yes, Faith was daring the Soul to go where it had never gone before...
November 19th
Monday, November 1, 2021
Holy Men and Women of God - Giving Thanks
This Month, November 2021 we Celebrate the Holy Saints and Holy Souls. Along with many Canonized Saints. Many Saints have had encounters with God's Holy Angels. In this Blog we try to share our and the Saints encounters with the Holy Angels.
I have found the most interesting Website that I am sharing with you now about this Month's Saints Feast Days... Check out the blue link below
"Highlights of the Month"
"During November, as in all of Ordinary Time (Time After Pentecost), the Liturgy signifies and expresses the regenerated life from the coming of the Holy Spirit, which is to be spent on the model of Christ's Life and under the direction of His Spirit. As we come to the end of the Church year we are asked to consider the end times, our own as well as the world's. The culmination of the liturgical year is the Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe. "This feast asserts the supreme authority of Christ over human beings and their institutions.... Beyond it we see Advent dawning with its perspective of the Lord's coming in glory."— The Liturgy and Time, A.G. Mortimort"
"This month the main feasts are the Solemnity of All Saints (November 1), The Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed (All Souls) (November 2), St. Martin de Porres (November 3), St. Charles Borromeo, (November 4), Feast of the Dedication of the Lateran Basilica in Rome (November 9), St. Leo the Great (November 10), St. Martin of Tours, (November 11), St. Josaphat (November 12), St. Frances Xavier Cabrini (November 13), St. Albert the Great (November 15), Sts. Margaret of Scotland and Gertrude (November 16), St. Elizabeth of Hungary (November 17), the The Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe (November 21), St. Cecilia (November 22), Sts. Clement I and St. Columban (November 23), St. Andrew Dung-Lac and Companions (November 24), St. Catherine of Alexandria (November 25),and St. Andrew (November 30)."
"The feast of the Presentation of Mary (November 21), is superseded by the Sunday Liturgy."
"Thanksgiving"
"The national holiday (USA) of Thanksgiving also falls on the last Thursday of November. There is a special liturgy which may be used on this day."
The tradition of eating goose as part of the Martin's Day celebration was kept in Holland even after the Reformation. It was there that the Pilgrims who sailed to the New World in 1620 became familiar with this ancient harvest festival. When, after one year in America, they decided to celebrate a three days' thanksgiving in the autumn of 1621, they went in search of geese for their feast. We know that they also had deer (a present from the Indians), lobsters, oysters, and fish. But Edward Winslow, in his account of the feast, only mentions that "Governor Bradford sent four men on fowling that so we might after a more special manner rejoice together, after we had gathered the fruit of our labours." They actually did find some wild geese, and a number of wild turkeys and ducks as well.
The Pilgrim Fathers, therefore, in serving wild turkeys with the geese, inaugurated one of the most cherished American traditions: the turkey dinner on Thanksgiving Day. They also drank, according to the ancient European tradition, the first wine of their wild-grape harvest. Pumpkin pie and cranberries were not part of the first Thanksgiving dinner in America, but were introduced many years afterward.
The second Thanksgiving Day in the New World was held by the Pilgrims two years later, on July 30, 1623. It was formally proclaimed by the governor as a day of prayer to thank God for their deliverance from drought and starvation, and for the safe arrival from Holland of the ship Anne.
In 1665 Connecticut proclaimed a solemn day of thanksgiving to be kept annually on the last Wednesday in October. Other New England colonies held occasional and local Thanksgivings at various times. In 1789 the federal Congress authorized and requested President George Washington to proclaim a day of thanksgiving for the whole nation. Washington did this in a message setting aside November 26, 1789 as National Thanksgiving Day.
After 1789 the celebration reverted to local and regional observance for almost a hundred years. There grew, however, a strong desire among the majority of the people for a national Thanksgiving Day that would unite all Americans in a festival of gratitude and public acknowledgment for all the blessings God had conferred upon the nation. It was not until October 3, 1863, that this was accomplished, when President Abraham Lincoln issued, in the midst of the Civil War, a Thanksgiving Proclamation. In it the last Thursday of November was set apart for that purpose and made a national holiday."
"Since then, every president has followed Lincoln's example, and annually proclaims as a "Day of Thanksgiving" the fourth Thursday in November. Only President Franklin D. Roosevelt changed the date, in 1939, from the fourth to the third Thursday of November (to extend the time of Christmas sales). This caused so much consternation and protest that in 1941 the traditional date was restored."
"Excerpted from the Handbook of Christian Feasts and Customs, Francis X. Weiser"
Footnote: Site Reference from Catholic Culture
Friday, October 22, 2021
St. John Paul II Pope
Friday, October 15, 2021
St. Teresa of Avila
Monday, October 11, 2021
St. John XXIII, Pope
GOOD POPE JOHN
St. Pope John XXIII
TODAY IS HIS FEAST DAY OCTOBER 11th
Quoted from Saint John XXIII Pope
"Everyone of us is entrusted to the care of an angel.
That is why we must have a lively and profound devotion to our own Guardian Angel, and why we should often and trustfully repeat the dear prayer we were taught in the days of our childhood.
May we never fail in this devotion to the angels! During our earthly pilgrimage we may often run the risk of having to face the natural elements in turmoil, or the wrath of men who may seek to do us harm. But our Guardian Angel is always present. Let us never forget him and always remember to pray to him."
"Original quote translated from Discorsi, Messaggi, Colloqui del Santo Padre Giovanni XXIII, della Poliglotta Vaticana, Vol II: 1959-1960, p. 762."
Site Reference: Visit catholicculture.org
Canonized a Saint on 27 April 2014
Saturday, October 9, 2021
Saint John Henry Newman
St. John Henry Newman
"John Henry Newman was born in February 1801, at the end of the Age of Enlightenment and the beginning of the Romantic Era. He grew up in a pius Anglican household. The eldest son of a banker in London, he was a great reader at school, especially of modern philosophy. At the age of 15, his last year at school, he converted to Evangelical Calvinism."
Quoted from and Referenced from EWTN
Canonised on October 13, 2019
Please see our earlier Post about this awesome Angel of God - Saint.
https://whileiwaitisaiah4031.blogspot.com/2021/07/angel-of-peace-st-john-henry-newman.html
Tuesday, October 5, 2021
Saint Faustina
St. Faustina...
King of Divine Mercy, Jesus Christ
"Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska of the Blessed Sacrament was born as Helena Kowalska, in Glogowiec, Leczyca County, north-west of Lódz in Poland on August 25, 1905. She was the third of 10 children to a poor and religious family. Faustina first felt a calling to the religious life when she was just seven-years-old and attended the Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament. After finishing her schooling, Faustina wanted to immediately join a convent. However, her parents refused to let her. Instead, at 16-years-old, Faustina became a housekeeper to help her parents and support herself. In 1924, Faustina experienced her first vision of Jesus. While at a dance with her sister, Natalia, Faustina saw a suffering Jesus and then went to a Cathedral. According to Faustina, Jesus instructed her to leave for Warsaw immediately and join a convent. Faustina packed her bags at once and departed the following morning. When she arrived in Warsaw, she entered Saint James Church in Warsaw, the first church she came across, and attended Mass. While in Warsaw, Faustina approached many different convents, but was turned away every time. She was judged on her appearances and sometimes rejected for poverty. Finally, the mother superior for the Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy decided to take in Faustina on the condition that she could pay for her own religious habit. Working as a housekeeper, Faustina began to save her money and make deposits to the Convent. On April 30, 1926, at 20-years-old, she finally received her habit and took the religious name of Sister Maria Faustina of the Blessed Sacrament and in 1928, she took her first religious vows as a nun." Above Quoted from: Catholic OnLine...
Learn more on St. Faustina Kowalska: Visit catholic.org on line and YouTube.
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Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska -
Divine Mercy in My Soul
I hope you enjoy this beautiful prayer as much as I do... Peace be with you!
Monday, October 4, 2021
Saint Francis of Assisi
The Spiritual Wings of St. Francis of Assisi
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St. Francis is famous for his simple thoughts and quotes... He was a loving and mystical person.
"He spent some time in lonely places, asking God for spiritual enlightenment. He said he had a mystical vision of Jesus Christ in the forsaken country chapel of San Damiano, just outside Assisi, in which the Icon of Christ Crucified said to him, "Francis, Francis, go and repair My house which, as you can see, is falling into ruins." "This is Quoted from wikipedia.org"
St. Francis prayed beneath this cross
Around 1224 St. Francis had an apparition of an angel while in deep prayer and meditation. Some say he was in a religious ecstasy. When he was gifted the Stigmata, which are the wounds of Christ, at that time. He is the Patron Saint of the nature, birds and animals. He is the founder of the Franciscan Order and other orders. He was also noted for having had the first live nativity scene, with live animals at Christmas. He loved Christ and the Holy Eucharist.
There is so much to be said about this wonderful saint...
I could spend everyday in this blog writing about him. Instead I am sharing some videos and links with you to help spur your interest in St. Francis of Assisi.
St. Francis ministered to the birds
as they flocked to him...
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Friday, October 1, 2021
Most Holy Rosary Month
In Honor of The Blessed Virgin Mary... The Mother of Jesus Christ.
Mary's month for us to become more aware and closer to her son, Jesus Christ and to her.
The Marian Library at Dayton University, in Dayton, Ohio, has an article on their website that is absolutely wonderful! They explain to us the highlights in history, the Prayers and usage of The Most Holy Rosary. There we also learn how The Most Holy Rosary was put into practice in the Holy Catholic Church.
I want to mention that it was St. Dominic through a vision and instruction of Mother Mary that the Rosary was prayed...
The Hail Mary is from The Gospel of Luke 1:28 - Thus the Hail Mary Prayer says "Blessed art thou amongst women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary Mother of God pray for us sinners now and at the Hour of our Death. Amen"
We do not pray to Mother Mary or any Saint as such... We are talking to her and them and asking her and them to intercede for us.
Catholics only pray to God, The Father, Son and Holy Spirit. This has been a grave misunderstanding...
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Please visit The Marian Library for more history at the link below: The History of the Most Holy Rosary
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Why pray the Rosary?
How to pray the Rosary...
The Glorious Mysteries (Prayed on Sunday and Wednesday)
St Therese of Lisieux, The Little Flower
"She was a French Catholic who became a Carmelite nun at an early age. She died in obscurity at the age of 24. However, after her death, her autobiography – Story of a Soul was published and became a best-seller around the world. Her books explained her spiritual path of love and selflessness, and she became one of only three females to be considered a doctor of the Catholic Church."
Quoted from Catholic Television
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Canonized on May 17, 1925 - 28 Years after her death.
Her Feast Day is October 1st.
She's a Doctor of the Catholic Church.
Her autobiography is a Book called: A Story of a Soul...
Link to purchase her autobiography
Please visit the Little Flower Website... Link is below
My Novena Rose Prayer
"O Little Therese of the Child Jesus, please pick for me a rose
from the heavenly gardens and send it to me as a message of love.
O Little Flower of Jesus, ask God to grant the favors
I now place with confidence in your hands . .
(mention in silence here)
St. Therese, help me to always believe as you did in
God’s great love for me, so that I might imitate your “Little Way” each day."
Amen
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My dear friends... this is a very powerful prayer. I personally have a great love and devotion to St. Therese, the Little Flower.
She came to me, on the night of the death of my father. He and I were doing this a novena prayer together for his recovery.
I was given a vision of her. My Vision: She was amongst beams of white light with a wild white rose at the end of each ray.
I wasn't sure who she was at first until the 5 pedal white roses appeared at the end of each ray of light.
She came out of darkness and grew closer to me... I questioned who she was and then it was as if I was given a knowing... It was my beloved St. Therese.
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She is such a wonderful friend to have in heaven to help you with the challenges that we are faced with. She has answered my prayer request many times... I included and some others as well receive a heavenly rose from her. I hope that you find her to be as warm and charming as I do. She is definitely a beautiful soul.
Blessings, Paige St. James
Wednesday, September 29, 2021
Archangels
St. Michael - The Warrior... (Who is like God)
St. Gabriel - God's Messenger... (Hero - God's Strength)
St Raphael - Healing... (Heal - God has Healed)
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All share this day - Our Messengers...
FEAST DAY SEPTEMBER 29TH
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Thank you for being our Superhero Angels...
Thank you for keeping us all Safe.
Faith Exposed with Cardinal Tagle
Tuesday, September 21, 2021
St. Matthew
I hope you enjoy this...
Meditation & Reflection for HOLY WEEK on the 7 Sorrows of Mother Mary
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