Wednesday, June 29, 2022
Saints Peter and Paul
Saturday, June 25, 2022
Immaculate Heart of Mary
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Luke 2:41-51
and when he was twelve years old,
they went up according to festival custom.
After they had completed its days, as they were returning,
the boy Jesus remained behind in Jerusalem,
but his parents did not know it.
Thinking that he was in the caravan,
they journeyed for a day
and looked for him among their relatives and acquaintances,
but not finding him,
they returned to Jerusalem to look for him.
After three days they found him in the temple,
sitting in the midst of the teachers,
listening to them and asking them questions,
and all who heard him were astounded
at his understanding and his answers.
When his parents saw him,
they were astonished,
and his mother said to him,
“Son, why have you done this to us?
Your father and I have been looking for you with great anxiety.”
And he said to them,
“Why were you looking for me?
Did you not know that I must be in my Father’s house?”
But they did not understand what he said to them.
He went down with them and came to Nazareth,
and was obedient to them;
and his mother kept all these things in her heart.
Friday, June 24, 2022
The Sacred Heart of Jesus - Solmenity
"As a nondenominational pastor, David Sanborn understood the idea of the love, mercy compassion of Jesus, but was a little taken aback at the idea that Catholics had a devotion to a *body part* of Jesus in the Sacred Heart devotion.?
?However, the more he came to understand that the devotion flowed forth from an understanding that Jesus is both fully human and fully divine, the more he came to realize just how profound it was to meditate on the fact that Jesus has not only a spiritual heart that breaks for us, but a physical heart that bled for us." Site Ref: Coming Home Network International/YouTube."
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I just love this... To hear of the conversion of our Protestant brothers and sisters to the Roman Catholic Church enriches me. Being a cradle Catholic it is refreshing when I listen to what they see and feel... Yes, the depth's of the unity with Christ in the Holy Eucharist and his Sacred Heart the bleed for us in the flesh and in the spirit. It is in the belief of the Most Holy Catholic Church they have found comfort and full unity with the Holy Trinity... Please take the time to visit the video below... thank you
Paige St. James
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❤️🔥 PRAYER to the Sacred Heart of Jesus... ❤️🔥
Sacred Heart of Jesus, You told us to ask and we shall receive, to seek and we shall find, to knock and the door shall be opened. Today, we ask, we seek, and we knock, in the sure and certain hope that you will hear us and answer us. Amen. (source unknown)
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On this day June 24, 2022 Roe vs Wade was
overturned by the highest court in the USA,
the Supreme Court.
God’s Fifth Commandment is clear, “You shall not murder.” This means, in the words of the Small Catechism, that “we should fear and love God so that we do not hurt or harm our neighbor in his body, but help and support him in every physical need.” God forbids us to take the life of another person, and this most certainly includes abortion. God’s Word also says, “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart” (Jer. 1:5). Psalm 139:16 says, “Your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in Your book before one of them came to be.”
Where are these little children?
Lord, your children here on earth do not understand that at conception we are human beings made in the likeness of You, Our God, God the Father.
I ask that all of the little children that have been lost from human
ignorance and greed
to please intercede for us here on earth.
We need to have a greater understanding...
Amen... Paige St. James for the world
Thursday, June 23, 2022
The Birth of St. John the Baptist, June 24th
"Birth of Saint John the Baptist"
June 24—Solemnity
Liturgical Color: White or Gold
Patron Saint of converts and epileptics
A rugged forerunner cuts a path for his cousin
"Only the Gospel of Saint Luke tells us the details of John’s birth. John’s mother and father were Elizabeth and Zechariah. They were beyond the age for having children. But Zechariah, a priest who served in the Temple in Jerusalem, was told one night by the Archangel Gabriel that Elizabeth would give birth to a boy they must name John. Zechariah was dumbfounded. Literally, when he disbelieved this annunciation, he was rendered speechless until the child’s birth. When his speech was finally restored, a torrent of praise gushed out in the canticle known as the Benedictus. It is prayed as part of the Breviary every single day at morning prayer by hundreds of thousands of priests and nuns the world over. Zechariah’s prayer of praise lives on." Site Reference: My Catholic Life.Com. My Catholic Life - St. John the Baptist
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Thank you Lord for St. John the Baptist who inspired the world... Paige St. James
Thursday, June 16, 2022
The Feast of Corpus Christi
We Remember you O'Lord...
Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ
"The Feast of Corpus Christi, also known as the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, is a Christian liturgical solemnity celebrating the Real Presence of the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ, in the elements of the Holy Eucharist" site ref: Wikipedia
"Corpus Christi has history dates back to the early Middle Ages, with the mystic, Saint Juliana of Liege (+1258), who, based on private revelations from God, advocated for a day celebrating the Holy Eucharist outside of Lent. For on Holy Thursday, we also commemorate the Eucharist, in its inauguration at the Last Supper, with the Triduum."
"Our Lord desired His own day, to foster devotion to this Sacrament of Sacraments, the source and summit of the Christian life, as our faith has it. A fruitful read is Pope John Paul II’s 1996 meditation on this feast on the 750th anniversary of its inauguration."
"In John chapter 6 - Christ’s own Bread of Life discourse, wherein The Word Himself promises us..."
"His ‘flesh to eat, and blood to drink"
"Catholics have always believed that..."
"Christ, the Word made Flesh"
"Which has left us his very ‘body, blood, soul and divinity’ present under the species,
that is, the appearance of simple bread and wine."
This I didn't know... That it was "Saint Thomas Aquinas who described with unsurpassed clarity the metaphysical reality of the ‘Real Presence’, that the Second Person of the Trinity, much as He presented Himself in human nature, now continues to ‘present’ Himself to us in the Eucharist.
There is the substance, the reality, of Christ, which we adore, and which we receive in Holy Communion. As the Church teaches, unlike regular food, which we turn into our substance, by consuming the Host...
We are transformed into His divine Being.
Hence, the necessity of receiving the Eucharist, weekly, even daily if possible and as we are able. As Christ taught us in His own prayer, ‘give us this day our daily bread’. The Greek for ‘daily’ is ‘epiousios‘, the ‘supersubstantial’ bread. As the Catechism puts it, this phrase “refers directly to the Bread of Life, the Body of Christ, the “medicine of immortality” without which we have no life within us‘. (CCC, 2837)"
Site Reference: Catholic Insight.com
More from Catholic Insight.com
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Bishop Robert Baron reflects...
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Paige St. James
Sunday, June 12, 2022
MOST HOLY TRINITY
Monday, June 6, 2022
The Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church
Sunday, June 5, 2022
The Story of St. Boniface
"Boniface, who was baptized Winfrid, lived in the eighth century. He was a brilliant monk in a Benedictine monastery in England. He was the head of a school, but he thought God wanted him to be a missionary. He went to Frisia (Northern Netherlands and Germany) to begin his work. A war forced him to return to England for a few years, but he did not give up. Next, he journeyed to Rome to ask the pope to tell him where to serve. Pope Gregory II changed Winfrid’s name to Boniface, which means “a man who does good deeds.” Then he sent Boniface to eastern Germany.
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For nearly 35 years, Boniface traveled all over Germany, preaching, teaching, and building schools, monasteries, and convents. He went to Rome to report to the pope about his work. There, the pope ordained him bishop and told him to return to Germany to continue missionary work. Boniface invited monks and sisters from England to come and help him. The monastery at Fulda is probably the most famous one started by Boniface.
As an old man, Boniface returned to Frisia to work among the pagans. One morning, while he was waiting to confirm a group of converts, a band of angry natives rushed into the church and murdered Boniface and about 50 converts. Today Saint Boniface is the patron of Germany."
Site Reference LoyolaPress.com
Prayer of St. Boniface...
Eternal God, the refuge and help of all your children,
we praise you for all you have given us,
for all you have done for us,
for all that you are to us.
In our weakness, you are strength,
in our darkness, you are light,
in our sorrow, you are comfort and peace.
We cannot number your blessings,
we cannot declare your love:
For all your blessings we bless you.
May we live as in your presence,
and love the things that you love,
and serve you in our daily lives;
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
~ written by St. Boniface (ca. 672-754)
According to one legend St Boniface, was the creator of the first Christmas tree. In the early part of the 8th century, St Boniface was sent into Germany as a missionary, with an aim of converting the pagans to Christianity. (Unknown source)
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