tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65127813860181381452024-02-19T00:10:41.118-05:00Net of the Fisherman"..Let us set sail on the digital sea fearlessly, confronting open navigation with the same enthusiasm that has steered the Barque of the Church for 2,000 years."
Pope Benedict XVI, April 24,2010pdfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15448184057490711303noreply@blogger.comBlogger51125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6512781386018138145.post-28847178850062393912013-05-07T13:08:00.002-04:002018-06-10T15:06:17.229-04:00Modern Eugenicist Margaret Sanger<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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In September, 1957, Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, had an interview with journalist Mike Wallace. Mike Wallace is most recognized as the TV host of CBS' <i>60 Minutes</i>, which lasted 37 years. In the interview she expressed her opinion that the greatest sin was to birth a baby if it was disabled or deformed.<br />
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"Margaret Higgins Sanger, <i>September 14, 1879 – September 6, 1966, </i>was an American birth control activist,sex educator and nurse. Sanger coined the term <i>birth control</i>, opened the first birth control clinic in the United States, and established Planned Parenthood. Sanger's efforts contributed to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griswold_v._Connecticut" title="Griswold v. Connecticut">the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case</a> which legalized contraception in the United States. Sanger is a frequent target of criticism by opponents of birth control and has also been criticized for supporting eugenics, but remains an iconic figure in the American <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reproductive_rights" title="Reproductive rights">reproductive rights</a> movement." <span style="color: #cc0000;">*</span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-small;"><i>1</i></span><br />
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When considering the HHS Mandate coming through from U.S. President Obama, it is surprising to notice that this mandate not only attacks the Catholic Church, trying to remove its rights of Religious Freedom, but that Margaret Sanger actually spoke about this in her 1957 interview. I'm assuming this idea has been around for a while.<br />
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The Tax issue involving the Catholic Church is found at 0:13 seconds.<br />
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZdwpjArFjg&feature=related">Margaret Sanger's television interview with Mike Wallace, September 21st, 1957</a><br />
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It is also interesting to note, that Margaret Sanger's opinion that bringing children into the world that are "marred or marked" at birth with disease from their parents, or who grow up to be delinquents or prisoners, who live a <i>"somewhat as a human</i>", is the greatest sin a person could commit.<br />
Please Fast Forward the link above to 2:40 minutes. Isn't this what Hitler believed too? It was rumored that Sanger supported Hitler's Eugenics, but she denied it, but the words she uses in this taped interview only supports the idea that she supported Eugenics, whether she was aware of it or not. She believes it is the greatest sin to allow a disable child to live, and viewed them as somewhat human.<br />
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Delving into the work of Margaret Sanger, it seems as though, Sanger tried to seek support for her efforts in places where population control might have been greatly desired. Her quest took her to one of the most populated countries in the world, India. The Birth Control Feminist met with Mahatma Gandhi. Interestingly, Gandhi did not speak with Sanger on the first day of their meeting.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Margaret Sanger visiting with Mahatma Gandhi, December 1935</span><br />
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It was a day of silence for him and they met with him giving Margaret a generous smile. Although Gandhi lived in a country of great poverty and suffering, he did not agree with the views of Sanger.<span style="font-size: x-small;"></span><br />
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“<span style="color: #741b47;"><i>We went directly to his place and met, although this is his day of silence. He rose to greet me, smiling from ear to ear. I put down my bag and gloves and flowers and magazines inorder to take both his hands. He has an unusual light that shines in his face; that shines through the flesh; that circles around his head and neck like a mist with white sails of a ship coming through. It lasted only a few seconds, but it is there. When I looked again it was only the shiny appearance of his flesh that I saw but always the smile and a hospitable welcome</i></span>.”<br />
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Upon the next meeting, the conversation about Contraceptives commenced.<br />
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Sanger: "<span style="color: #cc0000;"><i>Women’s lack of control over fecundity results in overpopulation, in poverty, misery and war. Should women control this force which has made so much trouble in their lives? Do you see any practical solution for this problem, which in my humble opinion is the direct cause of much of the chaos in the world today</i>?</span>"<br />
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Gandhi: "<span style="color: #0b5394;"><i>if I can drive home to women’s minds the truth that they are free, we will have no birth control problem in India. If they will only earn to say “no” to their husbands when they approach them carnally! ... The real problem is that they do not want to resist them</i>."</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">"<i>My fundamental position is that so far as the women of India are concerned, even if the method you advocate were a solution, it is a long way off, for the women of India have so many things to think of now. Don't tell me of the educated girl of India. She will be your slave, much to her damage, I'm afraid.</i></span>"<span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-small;">*2</span><br />
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<i></i><i><span class="italicText">MR. GANDHI: </span><span style="color: #0b5394;">Yes it is. But when both want to satisfy animal passion without having to suffer the consequences of their act, it is not love. It is lust. But if love is pure it will transcend animal passion and will regulate itself. We have not had enough education of the passions. When a husband says, "Let us not have children but have relations," what is that but animal passion? If they do not want to have any more children, they should simply refuse to unite.</span></i><br />
<i></i><i><span class="italicText">MRS. SANGER:</span> <span style="color: #990000;">Then you hold that all sex union is lust except that for the specific purpose of having children?</span></i><br />
<i></i><i><span class="italicText">MR. GANDHI:</span> <span style="color: #0b5394;">Yes.</span></i><br />
<i></i><i><span class="italicText">MRS. SANGER:</span> <span style="color: #990000;">I think that is a weak position, Mr. Gandhi. The act is the same. The force that brings two people together is sex attraction a biological urge which finds expression in sex union. There are two kinds of passion, one is a force around which centers respect, consideration and reverence known as love. The [latter] kind may be the stepladder to God. I do not call that kind of love lust, even when it finds expression in sex union, with or without children.</span></i><br />
<i><span class="italicText">MR. GANDHI:</span> <span style="color: #0b5394;">I think there is a flaw in that position and the world will not have to wait long before it discovers it."</span></i><br />
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Following in the School of Margaret Sanger is Kermit Gosnell. Gosnell is now in the eyes of the media. Being numb to Gosnell's atrocious acts against mankind, the media was slow to report these atrocities to the world. When the media finally came around, the focus on Kermit Gosnell and his murderous acts, has brought a light sense of hope that perhaps one or even America on the whole might begin to wake up and see where Margaret Sanger's flawed idea has lead us.<br />
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It has certainly not lead us down a road to a flowery garden of peace, happiness and freedom, but down a road filled with horror, death and enslavement. Yes, there are many stories of mothers who have regretted their abortion, and who are now enslaved to their grief. The prophesized words of Jesus on His way of the Cross strikes the heart of us now: "<span style="background-color: #fffefd; color: #001320; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify;">For the time will come when you will say, 'Blessed are the childless women, the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!" Luke 23:29. </span><br />
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In this month of May, when the world seems to come back to life, may the Mother of all Life, the Mother of Jesus, intercede for us and shower us with all the Graces she embodies in Her Immaculate Heart, together with Her Son, Jesus' Mercy, for the conversion and healing of all hearts to His True Peace, His True Happiness and to His True Freedom. Amen.<br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-small;">*1</span> <span style="font-size: x-small;">Wikipedia</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-small;">*2</span> <a href="http://www.nyu.edu/projects/sanger/secure/newsletter/articles/gandhi_debate.html" style="color: #741b47;"><i style="color: #741b47;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Margaret Sanger Paper Project</span></i><span style="color: #741b47;">: "</span><span style="color: #741b47; font-size: x-small;">Gandhi and Sanger Debate Love, Lust and Birth Control,</span><span style="color: #741b47;">" </span><span style="color: #741b47; font-size: x-small;">#23, Winter 1999/2000</span></a><br />
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pdfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15448184057490711303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6512781386018138145.post-71761626286071886202012-11-26T09:36:00.004-05:002012-11-29T09:59:42.430-05:00Ave Maris Stella<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #990000;">During a riot at Rome, a mob came to the house where St. Bridget of Sweden lived; a leader talked of burning Bridget alive. She prayed to Our Lord to know if she should flee to safety. Jesus advised her to stay:<em> "It doesn't matter if they plot Thy death. My power will break the malice of Thy enemies: If Mine crucified Me, it is because I permitted it."</em> Our Blessed Mother Added <em><strong>"Sing as a group the Ave Maris Stella and I'll guard you from every danger."</strong></em></span><br />
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Ave Maris Stella is a popular liturgical hymn of unknown origin. It can be dated back to at least the 9th century for it is preserved in the Codex Sangallensis, a 9th century manuscript now in the Swiss Monastery of St. Gallen. Its appearance in the Codex points to a composition in possibly the 8th century. The hymn is frequently attributed to St. Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153) and sometimes has been attributed to King Robert (1031), both of whom are too late to have authored it. It has also been attributed to Venantius Fortunatus (d 609) and Paul the Deacon (d 787). It is found in ancient codices of the Divine Office for Vespers on Marian feasts. Today it is still in use in the Divine Office and in the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin.<br />
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<strong><u>What Does Ave Maris Stella Mean?</u></strong><br />
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That is what most likely is going through your mind. Ave Maris Stella comes
from <em></em>The Pieta. Ave Maris Stella means Hail thou star of ocean. So it
is Marian Related.<br />
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<strong><u>St Bridget of Sweden</u></strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Composed July 19th, 1992
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Brother John Raymond
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>"St. Bridget was born in Sweden in 1303. Her father and mother
were pious Catholics. The family would discuss the stories of the
martyrs who died for the faith in Sweden. The castle the family lived
in contained a chapel in which little child would attend Holy Mass
daily. When she was ten a sermon about Our Lord's sufferings pierced
her to the heart. She was so distraught that night that Jesus appeared
to her on the Cross. She asked Him who has done this. He replied,
"Those who despise Me and forget My love." For this time forward
Christ crucified was imprinted on her soul.
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>She married a wealthy man named Ulf who later was to occupy
a high office of the State. Saint Bridget became the mother of eight
children. Also she was in charge of running their vast estate. This
was no small task in the 1300's. There were spinning wheels and looms,
orchards and fields, brewing, storing fruit, baking, dovecots,
poultry yards, and beehives to contend with. Every day, before sitting
down to eat St. Bridget would serve a meal to twelve poor people. On
Thursdays she would even wash their feet in imitation of Our Blessed
Lord. St. Bridget would always take her children along on works of
mercy to the poor to train them in doing good works for others.
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>After twenty-five years of marriage St. Bridget and her husband
received an inspiration to voluntarily seperate and become religious.
For three years Ulf lived as a guest in a Cistercian abbey where he
died. Later St. Bridget was given permission to live as a guest of
this same monastery. She now began a life of intensive penance,
prayer, and mortification. She had frequent visions of Our Lord's
Passion along with representations of Heaven, hell and purgatory.
She would often see souls she had prayed for who were dying or in
purgatory ascending to Heaven.
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>Saint Bridget received the gift of prophecy. She administered
strong rebukes by Heaven's command to those leading evil lives. Many
denounced her and some even threatened to burn her. She advised many
high people in office, even the king himself.
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>Saint Bridget was entrusted with two main missions from Heaven
both of which she labored at diligently but were to be completed by
others. Our Lord revealed to her that He wished her to found a new
contemplative religious order based on a rule which He was to give
her. This new order, now known as the Bridgettines, were to have a
great impact on the Church under the guidance of her daughter, Saint
Katherine, who became the first Superior. Today there are still a
number of houses in Europe, such as Syon Abbey in Devon, England.
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>The second mission was to try to persuade the Holy Father to
return to Rome from France. Though she sent many messages to him she
would not live to see him return. But she paved the way for another
great mystic, St. Catherine of Siena who would succeed in bringing
the Pope back to Rome.
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>St. Bridget lived in Rome with her daughter Katherine. They
helped the poor, the afflicted, and the sinners. The miraculous began
to be publicly observed in the life of St. Bridget. She healed the
sick, was raised off the ground during prayer, and had many visions.
Long before she had joined the third order of Saint Francis and had
pleasure of seeing him in a vision when visiting his shrine. Before
her life came to a close she was commanded by Our Lord to visit the
Holy Land. During this visit she had many visions of the life of Jesus
and Mary.
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>Now as her life came to a close St. Bridget was to suffer the
martyrdom of faith. All visions and heavenly consolations ceased. She
was plagued with the temptation that her life was a failure. However
towards her last days on earth the Blessed Mother appeared to her and
exhorted her to practice patience in the expiation of the negligences
and defects of her life through her illnesses. She ended her life as
a lesson to us all with the words, "Lord into Thy hands I commend my
spirit."
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>After her death innumerable cures were reported through her
intercession. So great was the effect of this great saint that even
today the largely Lutheran Swedish nation honors her considering her
one of their great women of Sweden."</em></span></div>
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and friend of Jesus, the Church honors and invokes you universally, as the
patron of hopeless cases, of things almost despaired of. Pray for me, I am so
helpless and alone. Make use I implore you, of that particular privilege given
to you, to bring visible and speedy help where help is almost despaired of. Come
to my assistance in this great need that I may receive the consolation and help
of heaven in all my necessities, tribulations, and sufferings, particularly - (<i>here
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pdfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15448184057490711303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6512781386018138145.post-63089909056382464632012-09-18T16:50:00.001-04:002012-09-18T16:50:40.268-04:00Monica's Mothers: URGENT MESSAGE FROM FR. ANDREW APOSTOLI / Spiritua...<a href="http://monicasmothers.blogspot.com/2012/09/urgent-message-from-fr-andrew-apostoli.html?spref=bl">Monica's Mothers: URGENT MESSAGE FROM FR. ANDREW APOSTOLI / Spiritua...</a>: Dear Members of the World Apostolate of Fatima and all who love Our Lady, On November 6th, 2012, the United States of America will face...pdfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15448184057490711303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6512781386018138145.post-79731196324729600152012-09-18T13:50:00.001-04:002012-11-15T13:33:12.697-05:00In Gov. We Trust ?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Aaron Klein of the World Net Daily wrote: "It may be early in the campaign season, but the Communist Party USA already has seen fit to endorse Barack Obama for the 2012 election. . . . Sam Webb, chairman of the Communist Party USA, threw his support behind Obama's re-election bid."<br />
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"We make criticisms, but we do it in a certain context and with a certain strategic objective in mind. We are keenly aware of the fact that the agenda of the far right is to bring this administration and country to its knees, with a heavy dose of racism, lies and economic sabotage, setting the stage for a full blown return to power of the most reactionary, racist, anti-labor, anti-women, homophobic and militarist grouping in U.S. politics. " "...the election of Barack Obama was historic and gave space to struggle for a people's agenda." <em> </em><a href="http://www.peoplesworld.org/does-it-matter-which-party-wins/"><span style="color: #4c1130;"><em>http://www.peoplesworld.org/does-it-matter-which-party-wins/</em></span></a><br />
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"The Democratic State Assemblyman representing the district where the convention was held gave a great speech welcoming the convention as did several local union presidents. We also heard from Communists holding local office in a number of states.<br />
Leadership was elected including Sam Webb as national chairman, Jarvis Tyner as vice chairman and Roberta Wood as secretary-treasurer.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Communist Party USA National Chairman Sam Webb</span><br />
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The convention was united and enthusiastic and delegates left with renewed confidence and determination to work to consolidate the defeat of the ultra-right and move forward to repair the damage they have caused to democracy and the rights of working people.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Vice Chairman of CPUSA Jarvis Tyner, ran for office in consecutive order; VP of USA, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"> Govenor NY, Mayor NYC </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> Roberta Wood has served as Secretary Treasurer of the Communist Party since 2007</span><br />
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The main reports, resolutions the PowerPoint presentation will soon be available at the <a href="http://cpusa.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #4c1130;"><em>cpusa.org</em></span></a><span style="color: #4c1130;"><em> website where there is also a video of the opening session. Reports on the convention are on the </em></span><a href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #4c1130;"><em>peoplesworld.org</em></span></a><em> </em>website. Ohio delegates are anxious to meet with groups to discuss the convention and how to move ahead. Let me know if you would like to set up a meeting." <span style="color: #4c1130;"><u><em>http://peoplesworld.org/highlights-from-cpusa-s-29th-convention-includes-video</em></u></span><br />
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The words of untruth CPUSA use as a web to attract youth and unknowing people who are caring, are Race and Immigration. " Defeating the right-wing's use of racism and anti-immigrant hysteria was seen as critical to success in both the electoral and economic arenas." <a href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:LIgkGDRyUEoJ:peoplesworld.org/highlights-from-cpusa-s-29th-convention-includes-video+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us"><span style="color: #4c1130;"><em>http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:LIgkGDRyUEoJ:peoplesworld.org/highlights-from-cpusa-s-29th-convention-includes-video+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us</em></span></a><br />
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Their mantra is "This racist conspiracy can be defeated". It is their wedge to break apart the American fiber. Perhaps, Dinesh D'Sousa was right about the mentality of the American people voting for Barack Obama, to cleanse our past of Slavery in America.<em><span style="color: #4c1130;"> </span></em><a href="http://articles.nydailynews.com/2012-08-30/news/33504809_1_obama-s-america-rupert-murdoch-thumbs"><em><span style="color: #4c1130;">http://articles.nydailynews.com/2012-08-30/news/33504809_1_obama-s-america-rupert-murdoch-thumbs</span></em></a> and CPUSA uses this term liberally.<br />
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"Communist Party Resolves: Build united action against racism and for unity" <a href="http://www.cpusa.org/communist-party-resolves-build-united-action-against-racism-and-for-unity/"><em><span style="color: #4c1130;">http://www.cpusa.org/communist-party-resolves-build-united-action-against-racism-and-for-unity/</span></em></a><br />
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Taken from CPUSA Website:<em><span style="color: #4c1130;"> </span></em><a href="http://www.cpusa.org/defeating-the-rightwing-on-the-road-to-socialism/"><em><span style="color: #4c1130;">http://www.cpusa.org/defeating-the-rightwing-on-the-road-to-socialism/</span></em></a><em><span style="color: #4c1130;"> </span></em> "A good measure of this is the thousands of people who "like" us on Facebook. As of last week, 20,000 liked us on the People's World page and 18,000 liked us on the Communist Party page.<br />
And in both instances, the number steadily grows week by week.<br />
Here is a pool of possible new members if we work at it. Plus there are the hundreds of people in mass movements who appreciate our role and if approached right might well join the Party.<br />
What a difference that would make in our ability to bring to life our strategic policy both now and in the future!<br />
Can we do any less?"<br />
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Change? That's Obama's "Change",...it's no wonder CPUSA endorses Obama. At 4:53minutes into video, it's the change Obama had in mind<em><span style="color: #4c1130;">.</span></em><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=JVOkUGmERq0#!"><em><span style="color: #4c1130;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=JVOkUGmERq0#!</span></em></a><br />
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Fifty-six years following the anniversary of the greatest miracle of the sun in Fatima, October 13th, 1973, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBov2R-RNsw&feature=related">Our Lady of Akita gives humanity a message. </a><br />
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On October 13, the anniversary of the Miracle of the Sun at Fatima, 1973, Sr. Agnes heard the beautiful voice speaking from the statue once more: "The work of the devil will infiltrate even into the Church in such a way that one will see cardinals opposing cardinals, bishops against other bishops. The priests who venerate me will be scorned and opposed by their confreres, churches and altars will be sacked. The Church will be full of those who accept compromises and the devil will press many priests and consecrated souls to leave the service of the Lord. The demon would be especially implacable against souls consecrated to God. The thought of the loss of so many souls is the cause of my sadness. If sins increase in number and gravity, there will be no longer any pardon for them."<br /> <br />
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She continued, "As I told you, if people do not repent and better themselves, the Father will inflict a terrible punishment on all humanity. It will be a punishment greater than the Flood, such as one will never have seen before. Fire will fall from the sky and will wipe out a great part of humanity, the good as well as the bad, sparing neither priests nor faithful. The survivors will find themselves so desolate that they will envy the dead. The only arms which will remain for you will be the Rosary and the Sign left by my Son. Each day recite the prayers of the Rosary. With the Rosary pray for the Pope, the bishops and the priests."</div>
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Sr. Agnes was totally and incurably deaf when she entered the community, having lost her hearing on March 16, 1973. Sister was able to speak, and understood spoken messages by lip reading. As predicted by her guardian Angel, she temporarily regained her hearing on October 13, 1974. Deafness returned on March 7, 1975. Her hearing was permanently restored on May 30, 1982, as predicted by Our Lady during the first message of July 6, 1973. Both healings occurred instantaneously during Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. Sr. Agnes is today in sound health, except for the rheumatism that has affected her hands. <br /> <br />
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Dinesh D'Sousa, President of King's College in New York City, attempts to explain who Barack Obama is. He digs down into the roots of Obama's heritage and taps upon the evolution of Obama's philosophy. D'Sousa also presents the psychological mind of America, its purpose of why Obama was elected in the first place.<br />
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<span style="color: #783f04;"><i>"Kuwaiti's Royal Prince Abdullah al-Sabah converted To Christianity
from Islam. He stated, "If they kill me because of it, then I will appear before
Jesus Christ and I will be with Jesus Christ forever." The Royal Prince went on
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Peter O'Toole's performance sets the stage for the events that lead into the Cristado War.</div>
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As Forthnight for Freedom begins today, in response to the HHS Mandate in the United States, Catholics are praying for the removal of this burden as it goes against the consciences and teachings of the Catholic Church, and just as seriously, it is an attack on the Freedom of Religion. </div>
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<strong><span style="color: #444444;">Within one year of his death, Saint Anthony was canonized Saint. He died on June 13th, 1231.</span></strong><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47;"> <strong>Incorrupt tongue of Saint Anthony of Padua</strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-size: large;"><em>"O blessed tongue, which has always blessed God and caused others to bless Him,
now it appears evident how great were your merits before God!"</em></span> <span style="color: #444444;">1263, Words of Saint Bonaventure when St Anthony's tongue was discovered incorrupt.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Christ the Blessed was willing to give proof of the great sanctity of His most faithful servant St. Anthony, as well as to show how men ought to listen devoutly to his preaching by means of irrational animals. On one occasion, amongst others, he made use of fish to reprove the folly of faithless heretics, even as we read in the Old Testament that in ancient times he reproved the ignorance of Balaam by the mouth of an ass. <br /><br />St. Anthony was once in Rimini [Italy] where there were a great number of heretics. Wishing to lead them to the light of the veritable Faith and the way of truth, he preached to them for several days and reasoned with them on the Catholic Faith and Holy Scriptures. They not only resisted his words, but became more hardened of heart and obstinate, refusing to listen to him any longer. <br /><br />Seeing this, St. Anthony, by divine inspiration, went down to the shore where the river runs into the sea. From the bank between the river and the sea, he started to preach to the fish in the name of God, and said:</span><br />
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No sooner had he spoken these words than suddenly so great a multitude of fish, both great and small, approached the bank on which he stood, that never before had so many been seen either in that sea or that river. All kept their heads out of the water and attentively gazed at the face of St. Anthony. All were arranged in perfect order and most peacefully, the smaller ones in front near the bank, after them came those a little bigger, and last of all, where the water was deeper, the largest. <br />
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When they had placed themselves in this order, St. Anthony began to preach to them most solemnly, saying:<br />
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<em><span style="color: #20124d; font-size: large;">“My brother fishes, you are greatly obliged, as much as in your power, to return thanks to your Creator Who has given you so noble an element for your dwelling; for you have at your choice both sweet water and salt water. He gave you many places of refuge from the storms; He gave you yet more the pure and transparent water and the food for you to live. When God, your bountiful and kind Creator, made you, He gave you as a command to increase and multiply, and He gave you His blessing. In the universal Deluge, all the other creatures perished, and you alone were preserved from all harm. He gave you fins to enable you to go where you will. </span></em><br />
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<em><span style="color: #20124d; font-size: large;">“To you it was granted, by God’s command, to conserve the life of the Prophet Jonah, and then after three days, to throw him back, safe and sound, on dry land. It was you that gave the tribute-coin to Our Lord Jesus Christ when, because of his poverty, he had not wherewith to pay it. Finally, by a singular mystery, you served as nourishment of the eternal King Jesus Christ, before and after His Resurrection. </span></em><br />
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<em><span style="color: #20124d; font-size: large;">“Because of all these things, you are bound to glorify and bless the Lord who has given you blessings, so many and so much greater than the other creatures.”</span></em><br />
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Hearing these words and teachings of St. Anthony, the fish opened their mouths and bowed their heads, and with these and other signs of reverence they glorified God as much as was in their power. Then, St. Anthony, seeing the great reverence of the fish towards God their Creator, rejoiced greatly in spirit, and said in loud voice:<br />
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<em><span style="color: #20124d; font-size: large;">“Blessed be the eternal God, for the fishes of the sea glorify Him more than the men without faith, and the animals without reason listen to His word with greater attention than the sinful heretics.”</span></em><br />
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As St. Anthony continued to preach, the multitude of fish increased, and not one left the place it occupied. <br />
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-size: x-small;"><strong>At Rimini he was heckled by a heretic who denied the Real Presence of Jesus in the Eucharist. St. Anthony challenged the heretic to let his donkey choose between a file of sumptuous animal fodder or the Eucharist. As St. Anthony held the Blessed Sacrament, the donkey approached and knelt in adoration.</strong></span><br />
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The news of this miracle spread and the people of the city made haste to go and see it, including those hardened heretics we have spoken of above. The latter, seeing so marvelous and manifest a miracle, were touched in their hearts, and looked for St. Anthony to hear his words.<br />
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Then St. Anthony began to expound to them the Catholic Faith. So nobly did he preach that all those heretics were converted and returned to the true Catholic Faith. The faithful, also, were greatly comforted and strengthened in their faith.<br />
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After this, St. Anthony dismissed the fish with a blessing, and they all departed, giving marvelous signs of joy as they went. The people also, filled with joy, returned to the city. Then St. Anthony remained some days in Rimini, preaching and doing great spiritual good in the souls of his hearers.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Rita Jahanforuz, a Persian born woman whose family moved to Israel when she was little, sings a message of Peace. She remakes Persian Oldies in Tel Aviv and apparently she is a big hit in Tehran, where underground parties are playing her music. The cultural arts, the heart of a people, unifies a people, tells their story and exposes their soul. John Paul II, freed his polish people reminding them to be not afraid to be who they were meant to be. He repeated this same theme to artists around the world. He recognized the great gift of an artist, that empowered a person to achieve freedom. Again and again he challenged the chains of inordinate power, with the words "Be Not Afraid", "Be Not Afraid".</span> <br />
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71Hz-XxiRqg&feature=fvwrel"><strong><span style="color: #134f5c; font-size: large;">Rita singing </span></strong></a> <-- click here<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">When looking up RITA, she apparently has done a few concerts in New York City, Beverly Hills, California at an Israeli Leadership Council, and Washington DC, where she sang <strong>"</strong></span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXaU0dCuRdY&feature=related"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-size: large;"><strong>Let Freedom Ring</strong></span></a><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #4c1130;"><strong>"</strong></span> at Lincoln's Memorial.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">On the extreme left, the Communist Party undergoes a transformation, holding onto its same ideas, but changes in its appearance. The Communist Party-USA admitted on video that The United States of America is a very religious country. They use a movie, who American actor Mattew Modine, produced called "</span><a href="http://www.jesuswasacommiefilm.com/"><span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><strong>Jesus Is A Commie</strong></span></a><span style="font-size: large;">". It is a short film presenting quotes and ideas that produce an image that Jesus was a Communist. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A very conniving approach to recruiting the Youth of America, however many times the Catholic Church has spoken out against Socialism and Communism. </span><a href="http://www.vatican.va/"><em><strong><span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;">http://www.vatican.va/</span></strong></em></a><span style="font-size: large;"> . You would think the Catholic Church with its many services across the world helping over a billion people, the poor and the afflicted, would know the devastating effects of Communism upon humanity. </span><br />
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<b><a href="javascript:openWindow('cr/2425.htm');">2425</a></b> <span class="text1">The Church has rejected the totalitarian and atheistic ideologies associated in modem times with "communism" or "socialism." She has likewise refused to accept, in the practice of "capitalism," individualism and the absolute primacy of the law of the marketplace over human labor.<sup>207</sup> Regulating the economy solely by centralized planning perverts the basis of social bonds; regulating it solely by the law of the marketplace fails social justice, for "there are many human needs which cannot be satisfied by the market."<sup>208</sup> Reasonable regulation of the marketplace and economic initiatives, in keeping with a just hierarchy of values and a view to the common good, is to be commended.<strong><em><span style="color: #444444;"> </span></em></strong><a href="http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/p3s2c2a7.htm"><strong><em><span style="color: #444444;">Taken from The Catechism of the Catholic Church</span></em></strong></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So, William Jasper of <strong><em>"</em></strong><a href="http://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/faith-and-morals/item/11568-was-jesus-a-communist?-hollywood-communist-party-occupy-movement-say-%E2%80%9Cyes%E2%80%9D"><strong><em>The NewAmerican"</em></strong></a> had this to say about CPUSA's use of an Episcopalian priest, Rev. Tim Yeager</span>: <br />
<span style="color: #e69138;"><span style="color: #783f04;">"The Communist Party USA (CPUSA), naturally, finds Modine’s new film “inspiring,” and uses it in a live-stream online video of a recent presentation entitled,</span> <em><a href="http://www.livestream.com/cpusa/video?clipId=pla_169ba87a-0d1e-42a3-9cd6-74877eb62dc5&utm_source=lslibrary&utm_medium=ui-thumb" target="_blank">Was Jesus a Communist?</a></em> </span><span style="color: #783f04;"> The program featured Communist Party functionary Roberta Wood as host, along with Rev. Tim Yeager and Pat Flagg as the commentators. </span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04;">Rev. Yeager, of Grace Episcopal Church in Oak Park, Illinois, is Chairperson of the Communist Party USA’s Religion Commission. Pat Flagg is a member of the Commission. Yeager is also Financial Secretary/Treasurer of the National Organization of Legal Services Workers, United Auto Workers (UAW) Local Union 2320. In addition to his national CPUSA and union activism, Yeager is also an activist in Chicago-area politics, such as the Occupy Wall Street movement.Jesus is a Commie, the movie, is shown in many cities across the USA."</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.cpusa.org/search/SphinxSearchForm?Search=jesus+is+a+commie&action_results=Search"><strong><span style="color: #b45f06;">Video from CPUSA featuring Rev. Yeager</span></strong></a> admitting Jesus was a communist and how the people of the United States are a religious people.<br />
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CPUSA of course also realizes that they must also change their language, to appeal to the youth, so as not to appear as the old Communist Party the United States opposed in the 1950's. This is stated in YCPUSA.<br />
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<span style="color: #783f04;">"We have to recognize and put into context the language that Lenin uses in the text. During Lenin’s time period, there was still armed struggle being waged in different countries and the Soviet Union was just coming out of a civil war. The language and phrases that Lenin uses such as “iron discipline” of the Party and the “ruthless” struggle against the capitalist class reflects the climate of intense and deadly struggle that was taking place. Today, we would not use this type of language when discussing the work of the Party and the types of struggles that we are involved in.<br /><br /> Making all of these connections is more of an<strong><em> <span style="font-size: large;">art</span></em></strong> than a science and the world communist movement continues to debate, discuss and develop the ideas started within Lenin’s work." </span><span style="color: #444444;"><em>Taken from Young Communist League USA </em></span><a href="http://yclusa.org/article/articleview/1832/1/319/"><em><span style="color: #444444;">http://yclusa.org/article/articleview/1832/1/319/</span></em></a><em><span style="color: #444444;"> </span></em><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Arts as you can see can be used to express the beauty of God, His Love for mankind, and Love between humanity, or used as a tool to disillusion those seeking Truth.</span> </span><br />
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The Arts must be guided by prayer, the communication to and with God, our Creator, otherwise one will be a wreckage on the surf of life.<br />
May the prayers of those who are calling on God's protection and assistance for Religious Freedom, for Life of the Unborn babies, for the Sanctity of Marriage between one man and one woman, inspire those in the arts to "Be Not Afraid" to reign in the Culture of Peace and Life.<br />
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Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of Thy faithful and enkindle in them the
fire of Thy love.<br />
V. Send forth Thy Spirit and they shall be created.<br />
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renew the face of the earth.<br />
Let us pray. O God, Who didst instruct the hearts of the faithful by the
light of the Holy Spirit, grant us in the same Spirit to be truly wise, and ever
to rejoice in His consolation. Through Christ our
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The 9/11 Terrorist attack on New York's Trade Towers and a serendipitous meeting with a relative of Sister Marie de Grancey, led to the fantastic journey of discovery and grace. German Mystic, Anne Catherine Emmerich, who inspired American Actor, Mel Gibson to produce The Passion of Christ, also inspired Sr. Marie into discovering the last home of The Blessed Virgin Mother. A thousand years of Muslim pilgrims, visiting the sacred location, confirms the Home of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #20124d;">I happen to come across this and thought I would share. It has to do with the Holy Name of Jesus, IHS. Since, President Obama proved, from the beginning of his presidency, he did not respect Catholic Conscience w</span></span><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="color: #20124d; font-size: large;">ith the act of removing IHS from his speech @ Georgetown University, We as Catholics should use IHS to defeat Obama. "In this sign you shall conquer." Please read to understand: "In Hoc Signo vinces" – "In this sign, you shall conquer"</span> </span><br />
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<span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="color: #444444;">"After three nails were added under the insignia (together with a cross above), some noticed that the inscription now contained a “V” below the IHS – so that we see IHSV. (see image on the side) In this form it was adopted by St. Ignatius as the symbol of the Jesuits.<br /> IHSV was interpreted to mean In Hoc Signo Vinces, “In this sign, you shall conquer”. It was taken as a reference to the victory which Constantine won against Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge on 28 October 312. Before the battle, the future Emperor saw a sign in the sky (probably the Greek chi-rho X-P, the symbol of “Christ”) and heard the words εν τουτω νικα, which is Greek for “In this [sign], you shall conquer”. The phrase was translated into Latin and it was noticed that the first letters of each word added up to IHSV – thus was born the legend that IHS stood for Constantine’s vision and the Christianization of Rome.<br /> Most certainly, in the Holy Name of Jesus we shall conquer every enemy – and the last enemy to be destroyed is death itself."</span> <span style="color: #666666;"> (reference: </span><a href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:kTG0T0xrDWUJ:newtheologicalmovement.blogspot.com/2012/01/what-does-ihs-stand-for-meaning-of-holy.html+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us"><span style="color: #666666;">http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:kTG0T0xrDWUJ:newtheologicalmovement.blogspot.com/2012/01/what-does-ihs-stand-for-meaning-of-holy.html+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us</span></a><span style="color: #666666;"> )</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">WASHINGTON—The U.S. bishops have
issued a call to action to defend religious liberty and urged laity to work to
protect the First Freedom of the Bill of Rights. They outlined their position in
“Our First, Most Cherished Liberty.” The document was developed by the Ad Hoc
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(USCCB), approved for publication by the USCCB Administrative Committee March
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<span style="color: black;">“We have been staunch
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that duty today,” the bishops said in the document, “… for religious liberty is
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God, Father of all nations,<br />For freedom you have set us free in Christ Jesus
(Gal 5:1).<br />We praise and bless you for the gift of religious liberty,<br />the
foundation of human rights, justice, and the common good.<br />Grant to our
leaders the wisdom to protect and promote our liberties;<br />By your grace may we
have the courage to defend them, for ourselves and for all those who live in
this blessed land.<br />We ask this through the intercession of Mary Immaculate,
our patroness,<br />and in the name of your Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, in the
unity of the Holy Spirit,<br />with whom you live and reign, one God, for ever and
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<span style="color: #444444;">On April 18th, 1993, the Holy Father Pope John Paul II beatified Sr. Faustina Kowalska at St Peter's Square in Rome. It was the first Sunday after Easter- the very day that is to be celebrated as Divine Mercy Sunday, according to the Merciful Savior's revelations to Sister Faustina. Sister Faustina gained her official canonization on April 30th, 2000, again it was Mercy Sunday. In fact it was during this time the Holy Father also announced that the Second Sunday of Easter would now be celebrated as Divine Mercy Sunday throughout the universal Church.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">Jesus wished for the world to know of and to be submersed into the ocean of His Mercy. The Lord chose Sr. Faustina as the Apostle and Secretary of His mercy, so she would share the urgent message of Divine Mercy with our troubled modern world. St Faustina's writings produced a magnificent book.</span><br />
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</span></span></span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_1?_encoding=UTF8&sort=relevancerank&search-alias=books&ie=UTF8&field-author=Maria%20Faustina%20Kowalska"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Maria
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #e06666;">"<em>I am Love and Mercy itself (1074)</em><em>...Let no soul fear to draw near to Me, even though its sins be as scarlet (699) ...My Mercy is greater than your sins and those of the entire world (1485)... I let my Sacred Heart be piereced with a lance, thus opening wide the source of mercy for you. come then with trust to draw graces from this fountain. I never reject to draw a coontrite heart (1485)...Sooner would heaven and earth turn into nothingness than wold My mercy not embrace a trusting soul (1777)."</em></span></span></h1>
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<em><span style="color: #e06666; font-size: small;">"I am Love and Mercy itself. When a soul approaches Me with trust, I fill it with such an abundance of graces that it cannot contain them within itslef, but radiates them to other souls (1074)."</span></em></h1>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: small;">In 1931, Our Lord appeared to Saint Faustina in a vision. She saw Jesus clothed in a white garment with His right hand raised in blessing. His left hand was touching His garment in the area of the heart, from where two large rays come forth, one red and the other pale. She gazed intently at the Lord in silence, her soul filled with awe, but also with great joy. Jesus said to her:</span></h1>
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<em><span style="color: #e06666; font-size: small;">"Paint an image according to the pattern you see with the signature: Jesus I trust in You... Ipromise that the soul that will venerate this image will not perish. I also promise victory over [its] enemies already here on earth, especially at the hour of death.I Myself will defend it as My own glory (47,48)...I am offering people a vessel with which they are to keep coming for graces to the fountain of mercy. That vessel is this image with the signature: "Jesus, I trust in You" (327)... I desire that this image be venerated, first in your chapel, and [then] throughout the world (47).</span></em></h1>
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<span style="color: #e06666;"><em>"The two rays denote Blood and Water. The pale ray stands for the Water shich makes souls righteous. The red ray stands for the Blood which is the life of souls. These two rays issued forth from the depths of My tender mercy when My agonized Heart was opened by a lance on the Cross ... Happy is the one who will dwell in their shlter, for the just hand of God shall not lay hld of him (299) ... By means of this image I shall grant many graces to souls. it is to be a reminder of the demands of My mercy, because even the stroongest faith is of no avail without works (742)."</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">When St Faustina had a vision of an angel sent by God to chastise a certain city, she began to pray and received words interiorly as she began to see the Holy Trinity and felt the power of Jesus' grace within her.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #e06666;">"Eternal Father, I offer You the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of Your dearly beloved Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ, in atonement for our sinds and those of the whole world; for the sake of His sorrowful Passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world (476)."</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #e06666;">"<em>Encourage souls to say the Chaplet which I have given you (1541q) ... Whoever will recite it will receive great mercy at the hour of death (687) ... When they say this chaplet in the presence of the dying, I will stand between My Father and the dying person, not as the just Judge but as the Merciful Savior (1541) ... Priests will recommend it to sinners as their last hope of salvation. Even if there were a sinner most hardened, if he were to recite this chaplet ony once, he would receive grace from My infinite mercy (687) ...I desire to grant unimaginable graces to those souls who trust in My mercy (687) Through the Chaplet you will obtain everything, if what you ask for is compatible with My will (1731)."</em></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">The Chaplet may be said at any time, but Our Lord specifically told St Faustina to recite it during the nine days before the Feast of Mercy (the first Sunday after Easter). The Novena would begin on Good Friday, and continue until the Second Sunday of Easter. He then added:</span><br />
<em><span style="color: #e06666;">"By this Novena, [of Chaplets] I will Grant every possible grace to souls (796).</span></em><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">When Praying the Novena, recite the Divine Mercy Chaplet, yet each day add the intention for the soul as directed by Jesus: <a href="http://thedivinemercy.org/message/devotions/novena.php"><span style="color: #990000;">click here for the Nine Days Novena, top right in Red</span></a></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">Our Lord desires that every soul knows of his great Mercy. He gives a special promise of Mercy, which is complete forgiveness of sins and punishment on the Feast of Mercy.</span><br />
<span style="color: #e06666;"><em>"I want to grant a complete pardon to the souls that will got o Confession and receive Holy Communion on the Feast of My mercy (1109)."</em></span><br />
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<span style="color: #e06666;"><em>"Whoever approaches the Fountain of Life on this day will be granted complete forgiveness of sins and punishment (300)."</em></span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-size: x-large;"><strong>The Tomb is Empty ! He is Risen! Alleluia, Alleluia!</strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ordinarily today (March 25th) is the Solemnity of the Annunciation. It is celebrated this year on March 26th having been superseded by the Sunday liturgy. Because we are now in the season of Lent, Sunday, March 25th, previously called "Passion Sunday", marks the beginning of Passiontide, a deeper time of Lent. This is the third Sunday of the scrutinies for the preparation of adult converts, and the final Sunday of Lent before the beginning of Holy Week. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now, getting back to the Solemnity of the Annunciation of Our Lord, I have found a most beautiful homily. Before we go on, it is worthy of note that the old church calendar called this feast day; the <em>Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. </em>The homily comes from a Benedictine Monastary of Our Lady of the Cenacle. Their Life and Charism comes from <strong>‘Men Who Hold Their Gaze Directly Towards God’.</strong> Their spiritual father is St Benedict, one whose gaze was always on the Face of God.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #ffe599;"> "On April 1, 2005, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger gave a conference at Subiaco, the cradle of Benedictine life. Nineteen days later, as bishop of Rome, he assumed the name of Saint Benedict. Pope Benedict’s message at Subiaco identifies what the world needs above all else. <em>“We need,” he said, “men who hold their gaze directly towards God.”</em></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thank you Dear Lord, for coming to us, for keeping us company, for speaking to us, for living with us, and for giving us Your Heart.</span><br />
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<a href="http://cenacleosb.org/category/news/"><span style="color: #ffd966;">HOMILY FOR THE ANNUNCAITON OF THE BLESSED LADY</span></a> <span style="color: #666666;">(<--click here)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #ffd966;">An Icon Inspired by Pope John Paul II: The Virgin Mother, Adorer of the Eucharistic Face of Christ</span></div>
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Honoring the 7 Times Jesus Spilled His Precious Blood for Us, as Revealed by Our
Lady <br />to St. Bridget, and Approved by Pope Clement
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Our Lord made these promises to anyone
who recited/prayed these<br />Prayers for 12 entire years**:</span></div>
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</span><td><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">1. The soul who prays them <u>will suffer no
Purgatory</u>.</span><img align="right" height="298" hspace="0" src="http://www.2heartsnetwork.org/stbridget7.gif" width="150" /></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><br /><span style="color: purple; font-size: x-small;">2. The soul who prays them will be
accepted among the Martyrs as though <br />he had spilled his blood for his
faith.<br />3. The soul who prays them can choose three others whom Jesus will
then <br />keep in a state of grace sufficient to become holy.<br />4. No one in the
four successive generations of the soul who prays them <br />will be lost.<br />5.
The soul who prays them will be made conscious of his death one month <br />in
advance.</span></span><span style="color: purple; font-size: x-small;">
</span><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">** If the soul praying these prayers dies before
the entire 12 years of <br />prayers have been completed, the Lord will accept
them as having been <br />prayed in their entirety, because the intention of the
soul was to complete <br />them as directed.</span><br />
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</span><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">If a day or a few days are missed due to a valid
reason, they can be made up<br />for later, at the soul's earliest
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><em><strong>The 12 Year
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">O Jesus, now I wish to pray the Lord's
Prayer seven times in unity with the love with which You sanctified this prayer
in Your Heart. Take it from my lips into Your Divine Heart. Improve and complete
it so much that it brings as much honor and joy to the Trinity as You granted it
on earth with this prayer. May these pour upon Your Holy Humanity in
Glorification to Your Painful Wounds and the Precious Blood that You spilled
from them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><em><strong>First Prayer: The
Circumcision</strong></em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">Pray 1 Our Father, 1 Hail Mary,
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">Eternal Father, through Mary's
unblemished hands and the Divine Heart of Jesus, I offer You the first wounds,
the first pains, and the first Bloodshed as atonement for my and all of
humanity's sins of youth, as protection against the first mortal sin, especially
among my relatives.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><em><strong>Second Prayer: The
Suffering on the Mount of Olives</strong></em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">Pray 1 Our Father, 1 Hail Mary,
then:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">Eternal Father, through Mary's
unblemished hands and the Divine Heart of Jesus, I offer You the terrifying
suffering of Jesus' Heart on the Mount of Olives and every drop of His Bloody
Sweat as atonement for my and all of humanity's sins of the heart, as protection
against such sins and for the spreading of Divine and brotherly Love.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><em><strong>Third Prayer: The
Flogging</strong></em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">Pray 1 Our Father, 1 Hail Mary,
then:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">Eternal Father, through Mary's
unblemished hands and the Divine Heart of Jesus, I offer You the many thousands
of Wounds, the gruesome Pains, and the Precious Blood of the Flogging as
atonement for my and all of humanity's sins of the Flesh, as protection against
such sins and the preservation of innocence, especially among my
relatives.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><em><strong>Fourth Prayer: The
Crowning of Thorns</strong></em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">Pray 1 Our Father, 1 Hail Mary,
then:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">Eternal Father, through Mary's
unblemished hands and the Divine Heart of Jesus, I offer You the Wounds, the
Pains, and the Precious Blood of Jesus' Holy Head from the Crowning with Thorns
as atonement for my and all of humanity's sins of the Spirit, as protection
against such sins and the spreading of Christ's kingdom here on
earth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><em><strong>Fifth Prayer: The Carrying
of the Cross</strong></em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">Pray 1 Our Father, 1 Hail Mary,
then:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">Eternal Father, through Mary's
unblemished hands and the Divine Heart of Jesus, I offer You the Sufferings on
the way of the Cross, especially His Holy Wound on His Shoulder and its Precious
Blood as atonement for my and all of humanity's rebellion against the Cross,
every grumbling against Your Holy Arrangements and all other sins of the tongue,
as protection against such sins and for true love of the Cross.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><em><strong>Sixth Prayer: The
Crucifixion</strong></em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">Pray 1 Our Father, 1 Hail Mary,
then:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">Eternal Father, through Mary's
unblemished hands and the Divine Heart of Jesus, I offer You Your Son on the
Cross, His Nailing and Raising, His Wounds on the Hands and Feet and the three
streams of His Precious Blood that poured forth from these for us, His extreme
tortures of the Body and Soul, His precious Death and its non-bleeding Renewal
in all Holy Masses on earth as atonement for all wounds against vows and
regulations within the Orders, as reparation for my and all of the world's sins,
for the sick and the dying, for all holy priests and laymen, for the Holy
Father's intentions toward the restoration of Christian families, for the
strengthening of Faith, for our country and unity among all nations in Christ
and His Church, as well as for the Diaspora.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><em><strong>Seventh Prayer: The
Piercing of Jesus' Side</strong></em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">Pray 1 Our Father, 1 Hail Mary,
then:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">Eternal Father, accept as worthy, for
the needs of the Holy Church and as atonement for the sins of all Mankind, the
Precious Blood and Water which poured forth from the Wound of Jesus' Divine
Heart. Be gracious and merciful toward us. Blood of Christ, the last precious
content of His Holy Heart, wash me of all my and others' guilt of sin! Water
from the Side of Christ, wash me clean of all punishments for sin and extinguish
the flames of Purgatory for me and for all the Poor Souls. Amen.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"><strong>feast day: July
23</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Soviet regime was ostensibly committed to the complete annihilation of religious institutions and ideas. Militant atheism was central to the ideology of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and a high priority of all Soviet leaders. Communism required the abolition of religion. Convinced atheists were considered to be more virtuous individuals than those of religious belief.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The state established atheism as the only scientific truth.<sup> </sup>Criticism of atheism or the state's anti-religious policies was forbidden and could lead to forced retirement, arrest and/or imprisonment.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The history of Christianity in theSociet Union was not limited to repression and secularization. Soviet policy toward religion was based on the ideology of Marxism-Leninism, which made atheism the official doctrine of the Soviet Union. Marxism-Leninism has consistently advocated the control, suppression, and, ultimately, the elimination of religious beliefs.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The state was committed to the destruction of religion, and to this effect it destroyed churches , mosques and temples, ridiculed, harassed and executed religious leaders, flooded the schools and media with atheistic propaganda, and generally promoted 'scientific atheism' as the truth that society should accept.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After the Russian Revolution of 1917, there was speculation that the original icon was in fact preserved in St. Petersburg. Reportedly, an icon of Our Lady of Kazan was used in processions around Leningrad fortifications during the Siege of Leningrad. There was a conflicting theory that the image had been sold by the Bolsheviks abroad. Although such theories were not accepted by the Russian Orthodox Church, a reputed original (one of several in existence) was acquired by the Blue Army of Our Lady of Fatima and enshrined in Fatima , Portugal in the 1970s. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In 1993, the icon from Fátima was given to Pope John Paul II, who took it to the Vatican and had it installed in his study, where he venerated it for eleven years. In his own words, "it has found a home with me and has accompanied my daily service to the Church with its motherly gaze." John Paul II wished to visit Moscow or Kazan to personally return the icon to the Russian Orthodox Church. The icon was presented to the Russian Church unconditionally in August 2004. On August 26, 2004 it was exhibited for veneration on the altar of St Peter's Basilica and then delivered to Moscow. On the next feast day of the holy icon, July 21, 2005, the icon of Kazan was placed in the Annunciation Cathedral of the Kazan Kremlin.</span></div>pdfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15448184057490711303noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6512781386018138145.post-75229565464278201792012-03-12T15:51:00.001-04:002012-03-12T15:56:41.573-04:00The Devotion set up to the Immaculate Heart of Mary<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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What is the request of Our Lady of Fatima to defeat Communism in the world? <br />
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Our Lady came to Fatima in 1917 to warn us that the world
and the nations were sinking into serious sin, and this would result in
tremendous suffering during the 20<sup>th</sup> century. She specified that
there would be a Second World War, that Russia would be taken over by Communism
and spread atheism all over the world, and that the Pope would be shot.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Our Lady told us how to stop the spread of Communism and
restore the Christian faith to Russia. Today the Russian government requires
prayer and religious education in all the public schools throughout their
country. Russian leaders have publicly acknowledged the Queenship of Mary over
their country.<o:p></o:p><br />
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Our Lady told us how to restore the Christian culture of the
United States after the fall of the Soviet Union. She told us to pray for the
conversion of sinners and She gave us a prayer to say every day: “O my God, I
believe, I adore, I hope and I love Thee; I beg pardon for those who do not
believe, do not adore, do not hope and do not love Thee.” She told us to make
reparation to God for the sins of our country by offering up all of our daily
suffering for the love of Jesus, for the conversion of sinners and as
reparation for the sins committed against Her Immaculate Heart.<br />
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<o:p>She requested the we pray the Rosary everyday. She requested the Devotion of the First Five Saturdays to be practiced.</o:p><br />
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<o:p><strong><span style="font-size: large;">Devotion of the First Five Saturdays</span></strong>. </o:p><br />
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<o:p>"On December 10, 1925, Our Lady appreared with the Child Jesus to Lucia at the Dorothean Convent in Ponte Verde, Spain.</o:p><br />
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<o:p>Our Lord asked Lucia to "<em><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Have pity</span></em>" on the Heart of her "<em><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Most Holy Mother</span>"</em> and to offer acts of reparation.</o:p><br />
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<o:p>Then Our Lady said: "<em><span style="color: #674ea7;">Look, my daughter, at my heart encircled with thorns, with which ungrateful men peirce it at every moment by their blasphemies and ingratitude. You at least try to console me, and say that I promise to assist at the hour of death with all the graces necessary for salvation all those who, in the First Saturday of five consecutive months, confess, receive Holy Communion, recite five decades of the Rosary, and keep me company for fifteen minutes meditating on the mysteries of the Rossary, with the intention of making reparation to me</span>."</em></o:p><br />
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Each of the Five Saturdays is offered in reparation for the five ways Our Mother's Heart is Blasphemed. In a letter given by Sister Lucia to Fr. Jose Bernardine Gonzalves on June 12, 1930, she said that while in the convent chapel on the night of May 29-30, Our Lord revelaaed the reason for the five Saturdays.<br />
<span style="color: #351c75;">"<em>My daughter, the motive is simple: there are five ways in which people offend, and blaspheme against the Immaculate Heart of Mary.</em></span><br />
<em><span style="color: #351c75;">1) The Blasphemes agaiinst the Immaculate Conception.</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #351c75;">2) Against her virginity.</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #351c75;">3) Against the divine maternity, refusing at the sam time to accept her as the Mother of all mankind.</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #351c75;">4) Those who try publicly to implant in the children's hearts indifference, contempt and even hate agaiinst this Immaculate Mother.</span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #351c75;">5) Those who insult her directly in her sacred images."</span></em><br />
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The Three Little Children of Fatima<br />
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Jacinta Lucia Francisco</div>pdfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15448184057490711303noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6512781386018138145.post-47816375821698585482012-03-12T11:54:00.001-04:002012-03-18T11:57:30.219-04:00Our Lady of Fatima called Communism an Error to Three Little Children and Supplied the Reparation<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">What I am about to say may
sound naïve, but Our Lady of Fatima pointed out, and named distinctly and
directly, Russia. It was in Fatima where She showed how to remove the error of Communism in the world. The solution to erasing Communism from our society is Reparation to Her Immaculate Heart. Our Lady of Fatima said during the coinciding 6 months of
Communist takeover, "If my words are not heeded, Russia will spread her
errors throughout the world." "If my requests are fulfilled, Russia
will be converted and there will be peace....," Our Lady's requests were
made the time of the Communist takeover in Russia, May 1917 to October 1917. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">The take over in Russia only
took 6 months, is it not interesting that in the same six months all of the
events of Fatima occured? The urgency of Our Lady's message and warning ended with the punctuation mark of the great Miracle of the Sun. How could
the simple children of Portugal understand the evils of communism in a far way
place like Russia at the same time it was going on? This in itself should draw
attention to the goings on of Fatima. Jacinta while on her death bed, strongly
urged Lucia to make sure the world was told that the only way to Peace was
through the Immaculate Heart of Mary. It seems to me that the American people
do not know or have forgotten what Communism has done to people in other
Nations. It also seems that Americans (Catholics) are not aware of the
solution, but the communists know both. JPII having defeated the Communist
regime in Poland with the arms of Truth, realized after being shot on May 13</span><sup><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">th</span></sup><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">, was the Pope referred to in the
Third Secret. It is interesting how the KGB was found to be linked to his
assassination attempt. It was at this time that JPII took a calculated step in
fulfilling the request made by Our Lady of Fatima: "Consecrate Russia to my
Immaculate Heart". JPII not only conquered the communist regime in Poland with
the arms of Truth, but he also threw the mortal weapon at the heart of the blasphemous
heart of Communism, by Consecrating Russia on March 25th, 1984, Feast of the Annunciation. Today, Russia teaches God
in the public schools. But it doesn't end with the Consecration, it is only
part of the solution. It may sound simplistic, but the solution is devotion to
our Lady’s Immaculate Heart in the way that She asked. It is the Only way; Our
Lady said it and Jacinta’s last words said it. JPII has stated as have Pope
Benedict, that the messages of Fatima are more important now than ever. In
response to their convictions, the Vatican has placed a permanent decree on the
World Apostolate of Fatima, in October 7, 2010 to teach the world as part of
the New Evangelization. It is interesting to note, that the lifestyle which
leads to the act of abortion is mirrored in complete opposition by a lifestyle
which leads to the Act of Reparation to our Lady’s Immaculate Conception. How
many Catholics practice the First Five Saturdays? As naïve or simplistic as it
may sound, we have been told what to do to fight Communism: Our Lady pointed to
it, Jacinta pointed to it, Jesus pointed to it in February 1929, JPII pointed
to it and BXVI is pointing to it now with the Permanent Decree to teach it.
Learn the devotion to Our Lady’s Immaculate Heart and start practicing it.
Remember, the Miracle of the Sun, the greatest miracle ever in the history of
the world (after Jesus) was the exclamation point to the urgency of the
Message. World Apostolate of Fatima, is an International Association of
Pontifical Right, headquartered in Fatima Portugal with a U.S. National
Headquarter in NJ. It is the only Church approved Fatima devotional. It is the
devotional that Our Lady requested to be set up to Her Immaculate Heart, for
which purpose Sr Lucia lived "a while longer". Learn it and practice
it now! It is what Our Mother wants. It is for World Peace.</span><o:p></o:p><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.wafusa.org/"><strong><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><span style="color: purple;">The World Apotolate of Fatima</span></span></strong></a></span><o:p></o:p></div>pdfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15448184057490711303noreply@blogger.com0