Guest Posted January 10, 2018 Posted January 10, 2018 Short Biography Frederic Ozenham - Founder St Vincent de Paul Society Daily Reflection – January 9 - St Vincent de Paul Societ y “When in charity we feel we must give some spiritual counsel, we must never be so egotistical as to expect a hungry man, or one distracted by worry over the rent to listen to our words about God until we have helped to relieve his misery.” – Bl. Frederic Ozanam
Guest Posted January 11, 2018 Posted January 11, 2018 BIOGRAPHY ---oOo--- Depression Prayer of St Padre Pio "Stay with me Lord" "Stay with me, Lord, for it is necessary......" (I have this prayer written in the back of my Missal as a thanksgiving after Mass or Holy Communion) Stay with me, Lord, for it is necessary to have you present so that I do not forget you. You know how easily I abandon you. Stay with me, Lord, because I am weak, and I need your strength, so that I may not fall so often. Stay with me, Lord, for you are my life, and without you, I am without fervor. Stay with me, Lord, for you are my light, and without you, I am in darkness. Stay with me, Lord, to show me your will. Stay with me, Lord, so that I hear your voice and follow you. Stay with me, Lord, for I desire to love you very much, and always be in your company. Stay with me, Lord, if you wish me to be faithful to you. Stay with me, Lord, for as poor as my soul is, I want it to be a place of consolation for you, a nest of love. Amen.~St. Pio of Pietrelcina, Prayer After Communion
Guest Posted January 12, 2018 Posted January 12, 2018 Quote Can you see the holiness in those things you take for granted - a paved road or a washing machine? If you concentrate on finding what is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul. - Rabbi Harold Kushner Biography - St Margeurite Bourgeoys
Guest Posted January 13, 2018 Posted January 13, 2018 General Audience 2007 - About St Hilary of Poitiers ---oOo--- Daily Reflection St Vincent de Paul Society Quote Jan 10, 2018 “God accepts the undertakings of one who presents things frankly just as they are.” – St. Vincent de Paul
Guest Posted January 15, 2018 Posted January 15, 2018 Quote God is always previous, God is always there first, and if you have any desire for God, and for the things of God, it is God himself who put it there. - A. W. Tozer Vatican Biography - St Arnold Janssen Quote Saw my GP today, I am having another epidural injection in the facet joint on my left hand side. I need to have it before I travel interstate to see my son and his wife on 26th February. If it has a positive affect on the pain in my left leg, then when I come home, I will have another shot in the right hand side. I need to have the first shot very soon as the first week at least might be the same kind of pain as when I had the shot for the narrowing of my spinal canal - and that was mainly a backache such as I have never experienced before. Thankfully it does pass. Thankfully too, Buddie is back to his normal diet - all diarrhoea now in the past. Friday he has his arthritis shot. Tomorrow I see my psychiatrist for my routine visit. Laudate Dominum Fiat Voluntas Tua
Guest Posted January 15, 2018 Posted January 15, 2018 My SD has sent me an email and will contact me at the end of the month to make a date to call out and see me. His calling on me rather than the other way around spares me taxi fares. Every so often I will send him an email updating where I might be at spiritually. After my last email, Father sent back that I have had a heavy cross to bear, which of course is true in 'spiritual language'. It also has a very sound basis in our theology. However, I don't think of any problems and difficulties that way. To me, my difficulties and problems are something Divine Providence has permitted for a very good reason(s) of which I am ignorant. Those reasons might be connected to me, or it might be connected to something else. While I also believe that mysteriously it always involves both. My task to me is not to give things a 'holy tag', rather it is to work through as I can and leave the rest to God. St Mary of The Cross MacKillop (our first Aussie saint) "Do what you can and leave the rest to God". I simply do not think in terms of "difficult cross to bear". Matthew Chapter 11 "Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest.Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart; and you will find rest for your selves.For my yoke is easy, and my burden light."
Guest Posted January 16, 2018 Posted January 16, 2018 Quote Bad situations don’t have to make us bitter—they can make us better! God can use the good, the bad, the happy, the sad to mold us into the people He wants us to be. Our goal should be to focus not on what others do to us but what God will do through us. Rest assured, what others may intend for evil, God will use for good. - Skip Heitzig Short Biography - St Joseph Vaz, first saint for Sri Lanka
Guest Posted January 17, 2018 Posted January 17, 2018 St Vincent de Paul Society Daily Reflection – January 16 “Grace has its moments. Let us abandon ourselves to the providence of God and be very careful not to run ahead of it.” – St. Vincent de Paul
Guest Posted January 17, 2018 Posted January 17, 2018 The treasurer from our parish St Vinnies rang me earlier today. She had been into Head Office and the assistant to the office manager sent her regards saying I had been really missed (I used to work voluntary in head office). It is a good feeling to be remembered fondly. All in all, I must now have been working voluntary for St Vinnies for over 10 years in both head office and our parish. Buddie is coughing again and so is back on the codeine, which seems to work for him and supress the cough. Buddie has separation anxiety and the last couple of days I have had to go out, so today he is sitting in front of the front door. I guess he figures that if he goes to sleep as he most often does, I can't get out the front door without him knowing. He is getting old now as is my cat, Missie. They have been such wonderful loyal and loving companions that I think they deserve my very best in their later years. I will be striving to give them my best in gratitude for outstanding service and companionship. Tomorrow and Friday here it will be 105.8F here. I have cancelled the Vet appointment on Friday for Buddies arthritis shot and will remake when the weather gets cooler. It is far too hot to be out and about. Tomorrow, however, I have a hairdressing appointment and I really need my hair cut, it grows very quickly spring and summer; hence I will be keeping that appointment. My brother will take me. At the moment, my hair looks like a wild and wiry mop sitting on top of my head.
Guest Posted January 17, 2018 Posted January 17, 2018 Dear Lord, I thank You for the gift of Buddie and Missie
Guest Posted January 18, 2018 Posted January 18, 2018 When we find that — through God’s grace and forgiveness — we are living spiritually harmonious lives, then we’ll understand that disobedience is without a doubt more horrible than hell, and more painful. Why? Because it goes against the essential grain of our good, God-given nature. - Julian of Norwich
Guest Posted January 19, 2018 Posted January 19, 2018 God is as willing to heal believers as He is to forgive unbelievers. Know this, if He was merciful enough to forgive you when you were unconverted, He is merciful enough to heal you now that you are in His family! - T. L. Osborn
Guest Posted January 20, 2018 Posted January 20, 2018 (edited) "Under the slightest disappointments and afflictions we are apt to fall into discouragement, and to imagine, by our sloth and impatience, that our situation is of all others the most unhappy and intolerable. If nature feels, and we implore the divine mercy, and a deliverance, if this may be conducive to God's honor, we must be careful never to sink under the trials, or consent to the least secret murmuring: we must bear them if not with joy, at least with perfect submission; and remain assured that God only seems to withdraw himself from us, that we may follow him more earnestly, and unite ourselves more closely to him St. Vincent of Zaragossa: January 22 . d. 304." "Learn to Preserve Inner Peace" : https://catholicexchange.com/learn-preserve-inner-peace Quote St Vincent of Saragossa A patron saint for perseverance About St Vincent of Saragossa: Most of what we know about this saint comes from the poet Prudentius. His Acts have been rather freely colored by the imagination of their compiler. But Saint Augustine, in one of his sermons on Saint Vincent, speaks of having the Acts of his martyrdom before him. We are at least sure of his name, his being a deacon, the place of his death and burial. According to the story we have, the unusual devotion he inspired must have had a basis in a very heroic life. Vincent was ordained deacon by his friend Saint Valerius of Zaragossa in Spain. The Roman emperors had published their edicts against the clergy in 303, and the following year against the laity. Vincent and his bishop were imprisoned in Valencia. Hunger and torture failed to break them. Like the youths in the fiery furnace, they seemed to thrive on suffering. Valerius was sent into exile, and Dacian, the Roman governor, now turned the full force of his fury on Vincent. Tortures that sound very modern were tried. But their main effect was the progressive disintegration of Dacian himself. He had the torturers beaten because they failed. Finally he suggested a compromise: Would Vincent at least give up the sacred books to be burned according to the emperor’s edict? He would not. Torture on the gridiron continued, the prisoner remaining courageous, the torturer losing control of himself. Vincent was thrown into a filthy prison cell—and converted the jailer. Dacian wept with rage, but strangely enough, ordered the prisoner to be given some rest. Friends among the faithful came to visit him, but he was to have no earthly rest. When they finally settled him on a comfortable bed, he went to his eternal rest. "Learn to recover your soul’s calmness https://catholicexchange.com/learn-preserve-inner-peace Take this rule, whenever you fall into a fault, be it great or small, even though you may have committed the same four thousand times in a day, and always voluntarily and with advertency: never allow yourself to fall into a state of morose bitterness, and do not be disquieted, nor waste your time by scrutinizing yourself. But at once acknowledge what you have done, and, humbly regarding your own weakness, turn lovingly to your God, and say to Him with your lips, or with your mind only, “Lord, I have done this, being what I am, and nothing else could be expected from me, save only these and similar faults, and I would not have stopped where I did, had not Thy goodness lifted me up and continued with me. I give Thee thanks for that from which Thou hast preserved me, and I grieve over that which I have done through not corresponding with Thy grace. Pardon me, and give me grace that I may never offend Thee anymore, and may nothing ever separate me from Thee, whom I desire ever to serve and to obey.” Having done this, do not .........." Read more on above link "If those who are of an anxious and restless temperament would give heed to what has been here said, they would discover how great is their blindness in thus losing time, to their own great hurt. And this warning should be carefully noted, for it is one of the keys that the soul has for unlocking great spiritual treasures, and thereby for becoming rich in a short time." Edited January 20, 2018 by BarbaraTherese
Guest Posted January 20, 2018 Posted January 20, 2018 When my husband, James Rowles, was in the seminary, he was invited to preach at a small rural church. However, the man who was to introduce him to the congregation had trouble pronouncing his name. So James offered this verbal clue: “Remember rolls, like hot buttered rolls.” It worked. When it came time for the introduction, the man announced, “We are pleased to have with us the Reverend James Biscuits.” Ruth Rowles, Halifax, Virginia https://www.rd.com/jokes/religion/
Guest Posted January 20, 2018 Posted January 20, 2018 St Vincent de Paul Society Quote of the Day – January 20 "I hope that your past fidelity to these rules and your patience in waiting so long for them will obtain for you from the goodness of God the grace to observe them with greater ease in the future (XII:10)."
Guest Posted January 21, 2018 Posted January 21, 2018 CATACOMBS OF ST. AGNES Via Nomentana, 349 – 00162 ROME Phone and Fax: +39 06 86 10 840 santagnese@santagnese.net www.santagnese.net Person in charge: Rev. Edoardo Parisotto Visiting hours: 9:00 – 12:00 / 4:00 – 6:00 p.m. Closed on Sunday and holiday mornings Closed in November Bus ATAC: 90, 60, 36 The famous and very young Roman martyr Agnes was buried in this catacomb on the left side of Via Nomentana where a hypogeum that belonged to her family probably already existed. We know that Agnes died at just twelve years of age and underwent tremendous torments: fire, according to Pope Damasus; decapitation, according to St. Ambrose and Prudentius, while according to others, the veins in her neck were severed. As a matter of fact, devotion to Agnes boomed right after her martyrdom. Roman and foreign pilgrims visited her tomb. She was also venerated very much by Emperor Constantine’s family. The Emperor’s daughter, Constantina (transformed by pious legends into St. Costanza) had a grandiose circular basilica built near the cemetery, of which only some masonry work remains today, and she wanted to be buried near the saint. For this purpose she had a splendid cylindrical mausoleum built, with a dome decorated inside by brightly colored mosaics with cupids gathering grapes. Constantina was buried in a porphyry sarcophagus (which is in the Vatican Museums today. A copy was put in the mausoleum). On Agnes’ tomb in the catacomb, Pope Honorius I (625-638) had the present-day basilica built, which replaced a more ancient edifice from the time of Pope Symmachus (498-514). The basilica is partially below ground, with a narthex, three naves and a women’s gallery. The apse is decorated with a splendid mosaic representing Agnes between Popes Honorius and Symmachus. The catacomb is rather poorly preserved because it was visited without interruption over the course of the centuries
Guest Posted January 22, 2018 Posted January 22, 2018 "On his blindness" (John Milton) When I consider how my light is spent Ere half my days in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide Lodg'd with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he returning chide; "Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?" I fondly ask. But Patience to prevent That murmur, soon replies: "God doth not need Either man's work or his own gifts; who best Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best. His state Is kingly. Thousands at his bidding speed And post o'er land and ocean without rest: They also serve who only stand and wait."
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