Saturday, October 23, 2010
Prayer for the Spirit of Mary
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| Our Lady with St. Louis Marie de Montfort |
My Powerful Queen,
you are all mine through your mercy,
and I am all yours.
Take away from me all that may displease God
and cultivate in me all that is pleasing to him,May the light of your faith
dispel the darkness of my mind,
your deep humility
take the place of my pride,
your continual sight of God
fill my memory with his presence;
may the fire of the charity of your heart
inflame the lukewarmness of my own heart;
may your virtues take the place of my sins;
may your merits be my enrichment
and make up for all
that is wanting in me before God.
My beloved Mother,
grant that I may have no other spirit but your spirit,
to know Jesus Christ and his divine Will
and to praise and glorify the Lord,
that I may love God with burning love like yours.
- St. Louis de Montfort
Friday, October 22, 2010
Prayer for Homemakers
Dear Lord,
in the minds of most people
making a home is a job of little import
and even less talent.
Help me to realize that the opposite is the case -
it is the most important job of all
and it requires a multitude of talents.
Providing a home for living persons
who are made in your image
means helping them inevitably get closer to you.
By my slight efforts
I can influence the members of my family
in hundreds of ways
to become better people and better Christians.
Grant me the grace to know how to handle any situation,
the strength to do the ordinary every day things,
the love to overcome all animosities,
and the joy to dispel all boredom.
Help me to grow as a person every day,
to fulfill myself in all the areas
that are necessary for a homemaker -
loving relationships, mental effort, manual work.
Give me the strength to bring my family closer to Jesus
not so much by my words as by my actions.
- New Saint Joseph People's Prayer Book, Catholic Book Publishing
World Over - Suffering - Raymond Arroyo with Jeni Stepanek, Ph.D. and Da...
Many of you will recognize Dr. Stepanek's son Mattie. Caution: Sometimes a tear-jerker.
Very pro-life witness of a mother who suffered the loss of all her children.
Eight Reasons Why Men Only Should Serve at Mass
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| Mass Celebrating the Closing of the Year for Priests |
To raise the possibility of an all-male liturgical ministry is to invite tribulation. Those who prefer the traditional arrangement of male altar servers, lectors, and so on are nervous about vocalizing their convictions, let alone acting upon them. This in itself is significant: Regardless of where one stands on the issue, it should give us pause that many Catholics, from the pious in the pews to prelates in the Vatican, stand in fear of being stigmatized as supporters of a 4,000-year-old tradition, faithfully kept by God's chosen people from the days of Abraham until the Catholic Church began changing its practices in the 1970s.Inside Catholic: Eight Reasons Why Men Only Should Serve at Mass
But let us have courage and look again with fresh eyes. Such an investigation is necessary, especially if we wish to continue admitting women into the service of the sanctuary. G. K. Chesterton once complained of would-be reformers that they "do not know what they are doing because they do not know what they are undoing." His grievance was that reformers either do not sufficiently study the original rationale for the thing they are dismantling, or they assume "all their fathers were fools." Yet advocates for female liturgical ministers might go further and say that our fathers were not fools but worse: oppressors, sexists, misogynists. This forces us to ask: Are sins of bias the real reason behind an all-male liturgical ministry? What precisely are we undoing?
To address these questions, we turn to eight distinctions...
H/T Pewsitter
Meet the 24 new cardinals - Special Congratulations to Archbishop Raymond Burke!
The cardinals wear red to symbolize "their willingness to shed blood for the increase of the Christian Faith."
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| Archbishop Raymond Leo Burke |
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