Damien the Blessed

H/T to Cy of Therese's Roses. Mahalo for pointing out the great videos on the Diocesan website!

VIDEO

Words and Music by Patrick Downes The Editor of the Hawaii Catholic Herald and arrangements by Robert M. Mondoy.

Sung by Alika of the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace Choir.

Jesus: Through the Streets of Honolulu

VIDEO OF THE EUCHARISTIC PROCESSION

Our Lady of Saturday

O Mary, who entered the world without stain of sin, obtain for me from God
that I may leave it without sin.

-New Saint Joseph People's Prayer Book

Vocation Video: Fisher of Men Wins Award

"The Priesthood is tough...It's for real men..." John Cardinal O'Connor

"The U.S. bishops' video promoting priestly vocations -- called by one viewer "the best look at the priesthood I have ever seen on film" -- was named winner of the Gabriel Award. Zenit Article

"Fishers of Men," an 18-minute DVD that is part of a vocational recruitment project launched last year by the U.S. episcopal conference, received today the Gabriel Award in California, given by the Catholic Academy for Communication Arts Professionals..."

My original post

In Preparation for the Month of November

which is traditionally dedicated to the Holy Souls in Purgatory.

At the Church where I attend daily Mass, there is a binder already available for us to note our deceased loved ones' names. At our home parish, we were asked to submit names of any loved ones who have passed away in the past year. On All Soul's Day, a Mass will be celebrated and we get to light candles for them.

My friend Mary Ann emailed me the link to the updated blog Friends of the Poor Souls The following excerpts are from the November/December Newsletter:

The Dogma of Purgatory is too much forgotten by the majority of the faithful. This truly deplorable forgetfulness was a great sorrow to St. Francis de Sales. This pious doctor of the Church said, "We do not sufficiently remember our dear departed; their memory seems to perish with the sound of the funeral bells." The principle causes of this are ignorance and lack of faith; our notions on the subject of Purgatory are too vague, our faith is too feeble...

Visit to a Cemetery

Visit to a Church or Oratory on All Souls Day [November 2]

Be sure to visit their blog for more details on helping the Poor Souls.

Keep mind, that Masses said during a person's life are MORE powerful than those said after they have passed away.

Another reminder, your venial sins are wiped away with each time you attend Holy Mass devoutly and reverently and receive Holy Communion.

Another Holy tip :-) You can offer your Holy Communion for someone else to benefit from it.

Praying for Our Priests

The following was also shared by Denise:

A PRAYER FOR PRIESTS

Keep them, I pray Thee, dearest Lord,
Keep them, for they are Thine -
Thy priests whose lives burn out before
Thy consecrated shrine.
Keep them, for they are in the world,
Though from the world apart;
When earthly pleasures tempt, allure, -
Shelter them in Thy heart.
Keep them, and comfort them in hours
Of loneliness and pain,
When all their life of sacrifice
For souls seems but in vain.
Keep them, and O remember, Lord,
They have no one but Thee,
Yet they have only human hearts,
With human frailty.
Keep them as spotless as the Host.
That daily they caress;
Their every thought and word and deed,
Deign, dearest Lord, to bless.

Imprimatur: +D. Card. Dougherty, Arch. of Philadelphia

Our Father Hail Mary Mary, Queen of the Clergy, pray for them.


THE PRIESTHOOD IS A MASTERPIECE OF
CHRIST'S DIVINE LOVE, WISDOM AND POWER

NEVER ATTACK A PRIEST

"Jesus, Mary, I love You, Save Souls."
CRITICISM OF PRIESTS

Our Lord's revelations to Mutter Vogel

"One should NEVER attack a priest, even when he's in error, rather one should pray and do penance that I'll grant him My grace again. He alone fully represents Me, even when he doesn't live after My example!" (page 29, Mutter Vogel's Worldwide Love, St. Grignion Publishing House, Altoting, South Germany (29. 6. 1929)).

When a Priest falls we should extend him a helping hand THROUGH PRAYER AND NOT THROUGH ATTACKS! "I myself will be his judge, NO ONE BUT I!" "Whoever voices judgment over a priest has voiced it over Me; child, never let a Priest be attacked, take up his defense." (Feast of Christ the King 1937) "Child, Never judge your confessor, rather pray much for him and offer every Thursday, through the hands of My blessed Mother, Holy Communion (for Him) (18.6. 1939)&nsp; "Never again accept an out-of-the-way word about a Priest, and speak no unkind word (about them) EVEN IF IT WERE TRUE! Every Priest is My Vicar and My heart will be sickened and insulted because of it! If you hear a judgment (against a Priest) pray a Hail Mary." (28. 6. 1939)

"If you see a Priest who celebrates the Holy Mass unworthily then say nothing about him, rather tell it to Me alone! I stand beside him on the altar!" "Oh pray much for My priests, that they'll love purity above all, that they'll celebrate the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass with pure hands and heart. Certainly the Holy Sacrifice is one and the same even when it is celebrated by an unworthy priest, but the graces called down upon the people is not the same!" (28. 2. 1938)

Mary. Queen of the Clergy, pray for them.



Pieta

Under the section: #36 The Priesthood

Saint JoseMaria Escrivá - On Priests

My friend Denise emailed me the following: The bold emphasis was added by me. I believe I have posted this previously, maybe in the Summer when I visited my parents and read The Way there but it is always a good reminder.

66

A Priest — whoever he may be — is always another Christ

67

Though you well know it, I shall remind you again that a Priest is 'another Christ'. And that the holy Spirit has said: 'Nolite tangere Christos meos — do not touch my Christs'

68

Presbyter — Priest — means, literally, an elderly man. If old age deserves veneration, think how much more you ought to venerate the Priesthood


69

It shows very little refinement — and great lack of respect — to make fun of a Priest, whoever he is, and whatever the pretext!

70
71
72

Don't place a Priest in peril of losing his dignity. It is a virtue which, without being pompous, he simply must have.

How that young cleric — a friend of ours — prayed for it: 'Lord, grant me... eighty years of dignity!'

Pray for it for the whole Priesthood, and you will have done a good thing
73

It cut you to the heart to hear people say that you had spoken badly of those Priests. And I am glad that it hurt: for now I am sure you have the right spirit!
74

To love God and not venerate his Priests... is not possible.
75

Like the good sons of Noah, throw the mantle of charity over the defects you see in your father, the Priest.

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You can check them out at: Escrivá Works

Then click onto The Way and you can go to the contents.

A Catchy Little Apologetics Tune - Nicean Blues

H/T to Tom of LoveToBeCatholic Be sure to check out his new blog! Mahalo Tom!!

Another Question

Here's another question for you:

Is it wrong to choose not to judge or criticize a bishop's apparent wrongdoings, etc.

My very good friend and I get along very well(obviously, otherwise we wouldn't be friends ;-) until something like what happened recently in SF comes up in conversation. Then we part ways.

We don't stop being friends but the conversation comes to a dead stop.

Why?

Why are the Converts treated this way?

Both of the following were written by Marie, a convert Catholic, and a very fine Catholic at that!
Why I Stayed: A Catholic Conversion

No Converts Please, We're Catholic