Feast ~ Blessed Teresa of Calcutta

Difficult times produce great saints, what is God calling you to do?

Miracle Baby's Life Revived by Mother's Touch

Rejoice in the Lord always; again, I say, rejoice!

If you have received the gift of suffering,

then you are called to give praise to OUR LORD!

It is then you will receive peace....

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http://www.lifewithoutlimbs.org/

You are never alone....

Do you realize that there is someone else in the midst of your struggles?

Are you aware that Christ is there with you in your times of suffering?

Jesus Christ the third person of the Divine Trinity is with YOU, call on HIM when you are feeling that life is becoming a challenge to you and all you want to do is say, "I quit, I'm done, I can't do this anymore". No, you can not do this anymore without HIM! I would like to challenge you to turn to Jesus and Mary today, start with 5 minutes of prayer and quiet. Then build up from there to 15 minutes then 30 and if you can get to one hour a day, wonderful. Open your Bible and let the Holy Spirit speak to your heart, He is the best friend that you will ever have in your life time, get to know HIM.

You are not alone in your suffering Christ Jesus and his mother have suffered them for you. Jesus is ever present in the sacraments of Holy Mother Church, hold on to these gifts and graces that we have been left from God Our Father in Heaven. Keep them as a treasure in your life and your heart.

We the faithful are in this together, you are not alone! Let us fight the good fight, the battles are there, but Christ Jesus is greater and He has already won!

Christ awaits YOU in the Blessed Sacrament run to HIM...

AMEN.

Monthly St. Gianna Mass & Catholic Fertility Support Group

Please come and join the Dominican Friars if you live in New York City and you or a friend are struggling with fertility this Mass would be a wonderful place of support! Please click the address below for directions....

Monthly St. Gianna Mass & Catholic Support Group

Thursday, August 19, 2010

6:00 - 8:30 pm

St. Catherine of Sienna Parish

* 411 East 68th Street, NY

Join the Dominican Friars Healthcare Ministry and The Gianna Center for Women for a night of prayer, music, reflection and healing for couples faced with pregnancy-related difficulties.

Following Mass, a support group for Catholics with infertility and pregnancy-related difficulties will be held, led by staff from the Gianna Catholic Healthcare Center for Women.

Schedule

6:00-6:30 pm Confessions

6:30-7:15 pm Mass

7:30-8:30 pm Catholic Infertility Support Group
(2nd floor of the parish building)

All are welcome to attend this evening dedicated to healing for couples.

Whenever you are seized by melancholy...

A note from a Poor Clare Colettine nun to YOU... Please note this will be the last mail from "the Heart a Priest", until the Spirit speaks otherwise.

Dear Little hearts,

There are in life some situations that despite our best efforts, we are filled with sadness and melancholy, human contact seems remote even when we are surrounded by others....it is a state that somehow God allows, and it is a space where we should reach out to him.... unite our hearts to his own agony, to his desolation in the Garden of Gethsemane.... we will draw strength from the mere fact that Christ suffered and carried all this before.

Without a doubt if we trust and surrender God will send an angel of consolation to us.

From the Heart of A Priest.

Thoughts of Brother Pio- (Saint Padre Pio of Pietrelcina).

Whenever you are seized by melancholy, let your thoughts dwell on that fateful night on which the Son of God began the work of redemption in the solitude of Gethsemane and offer your own sufferings to the Divine Father, along with the sufferings of Jesus.

Renew your faith...

Dear Little hearts,

Let these words speak.......... and if through infirmity, sickness or other reasons it is not possible for you to actually attend Mass, never the less focus upon the Great Sacrifice of love.

The next best thing is simply to read, ponder upon the prayers of the Mass and unite our hearts to the Sacrifice being offered up all over the world, we can be present be desire. And then make a spiritual communion, acknowledging to Jesus that although you cannot at this moment receive him sacramentally, invite him to invade and possess your mind, your heart, your soul, your total being.... say to him with all you are " This is my Body Given up for you"....Love will unite you.

From the Heart of A Priest.

Thoughts of Brother Pio- (Saint Padre Pio of Pietrelcina).

Renew your faith by attending Holy Mass. Keep your mind focused on the mystery that is unfolding before your eyes. In your mind's eye transport yourself to Calvary and meditate on the Victim who offers Himself to Divine Justice, paying the price of your redemption.

This note came from the Poor Clare Colettines TMD

Remember Jesus is with You!

Thoughts of Saint Padre Pio of Pietrelcina

In darkness, at times of tribulation and distress of the spirit, Jesus is with you. In such a state

you see nothing but darkness, but I can assure you on God's behalf that

the light of the Lord is all around you and pervades your spirit. You see yourself forsaken and I assure you

that Jesus is holding you tighter than ever to His divine Heart.

I feel a great desire to abandon myself

Sharing a note to YOU from the Poor Clare Colettines TMD:

Dear Little hearts,

Inspirations to surrender oneself to God, to abandon the known and cast ourselves trustingly into the Lords arms can only be a praying , a moving of the Holy Spirit within us. Any journeying from self to God, any response from our own self centeredness to God centeredness is a touch, an embrace of the Holy Spirit.

The Holy Spirit is love and love desires union, and this inner desire that Saint Pio talks about in this extract is a genuine, authentic Divine Touch. We should always listen to such whisperings, they will bring us to a greater fullness of life. We will be sadly disappointed , it may be sooner or later, if we place our trust in the things of this world, they can disappear in an instant, and they belong only to the hear and now....far greater will be our happiness if we place our trust in God. The whole Christian journey is a pilgrimage of trust.

Many of us are wounded from having our trust broken, and it takes courage to begin again and to go on trusting, people may fail us God never will.

"From the Heart of A Priest"

Thoughts of Brother Pio- (Saint Padre Pio of Pietrelcina).

I feel a great desire to abandon myself with greater

trust to the Divine Mercy and to place my hope in God alone.

Don't worry about tomorrow

A note to you from a Poor Clare Colettine, TMD, Wales/UK

Dear Little hearts,

We all know that worry is useless, we all know it is fruitless, and yet coming to the acceptance and belief of that reality is a long, hard journey.

Presented with certain circumstances we are fearful, uncertain, and our inordinate imagination will present us with all kinds of mental pictures, of things that might, or could happen, which take our peace away.

Worry can be debilitating and exhausting leading nowhere, it is good to look back on our life and see how many times we have worried ourselves sick over something that in the final analysis, never became a reality!!!

Little by little we do learn.

Much better simply to throw ourselves into the arms of our Heavenly Father, the God who loves us, and will to trust and trust and trust. It is not easy but practise is a good thing and we will grow with every little surrender. Do not be robbed of your joy by being preoccupied with worry and worldly concerns, your Father knows your needs, he is with you and loves you, let it go.... and know peace.

We have many friends, much loved in America, please pray for the Bay State, for the 670 men and women with pending deployment, pray please for their families and loved ones. Ask Padre Pio to intercede for them all... In his lifetime many American soldiers visited Padre Pio, he was a priest for all.

"From the Heart of A Priest"

Thoughts of Brother Pio- (Saint Padre Pio of Pietrelcina).

Don't worry about tomorrow because the very same Heavenly Father who takes care of you today will have the same thought tomorrow and always. . . What does a child in the arms of such a Father have to fear? Be as children, who hardly ever think about their future as they have someone to think for them. They are sufficiently strong just by being with their father.

The Angelus

THE ANGELUS
by Jean Francois Millet
1814-1875

The Angel of the Lord declared to Mary: And she conceived of the Holy Spirit. Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen. Behold the handmaid of the Lord: Be it done unto me according to Thy word. Hail Mary . . . And the Word was made Flesh: And dwelt among us. Hail Mary . . . Pray for us, O Holy Mother of God, that we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ. Let us pray: Pour forth, we beseech Thee, O Lord, Thy grace into our hearts; that we, to whom the incarnation of Christ, Thy Son, was made known by the message of an angel, may by His Passion and Cross be brought to the glory of His Resurrection, through the same Christ Our Lord. Amen. "Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with you" (Lk 1:28) "Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb" (Lk 1:42).

St. Panteleimon, Medical Doctor and Martyr

St. Panteleimon showing him holding a medicine box.

Prayers for intercession

"You emulated God's mercy, and He granted you the power of healing, o Panteleimon, victorious martyr of Christ. Heal our spiritual diseases through your intercession, and as we constantly cry out to the Lord, 'Save us!' take away the temptations which the enemy always places before our steps."

"Grant, we beseech thee, Almighty God: that by the prayers of thy holy Martyr blessed Pantaleon, we may be delivered from all adversities which may happen to the body, and from all evil thoughts which may assault and hurt the soul."

Hannah's Tears ~ special intention for the day:

1. Please pray for our medical students that are now in college that they would be open to the practice of NaPro Technology.
2. All intentions that you may have to add....

Saints Natalia, Aurelius, Liliosa, Felix, and George, Martyrs

Thought it might be a good idea to bring you the saints for the day. I know that I could always use a boost to get me through the struggles of life each day.

So, if you have the time take a look at the link below and lets thank God for these beautiful saints!

Saints Natalia, Aurelius, Liliosa, Felix, and George, Martyrs

Feast day ~ Saints Anne & Joachim

MONDAY, JULY 26, 2010

All our information concerning the names and lives of Sts. Joachim and Anne, the parents of the Virgin Mary, is derived from apocryphal literature, the Gospel of the Nativity of Mary, the Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew and the Protoevangelium of James.

The Protoevangelium gives the following account: In Nazareth there lived a rich and pious couple, Joachim and Hannah. They were childless. When on a feast day Joachim presented himself to offer sacrifice in the temple, he was repulsed by a certain Ruben, under the pretext that men without offspring were unworthy to be admitted. Whereupon Joachim, bowed down with grief, did not return home, but went into the mountains to make his plaint to God in solitude. Also Hannah, having learned the reason of the prolonged absence of her husband, cried to the Lord to take away from her the curse of sterility, promising to dedicate her child to the service of God. Their prayers were heard; an angel came to Hannah and said: "Hannah, the Lord has looked upon thy tears; thou shalt conceive and give birth and the fruit of thy womb shall be blessed by all the world". The angel made the same promise to Joachim, who returned to his wife. Hannah gave birth to a daughter whom she called Miriam (Mary). Since this story is apparently a reproduction of the biblical account of the conception of Samuel, whose mother was also called Hannah, even the name of the mother of Mary seems to be doubtful. (read more ... from Catholic News Agency)

Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, pray for us...

Fom a sermon by Saint Leo the Great, pope

Mary conceived in her soul before she conceived in her body

A royal virgin of the house of David is chosen. She is to bear a holy child, one who is both God and man. She is to conceive him in her soul before she conceives him in her body. In the face of so unheard of an event she is to know no fear through ignorance of the divine plan; the angel tells her what is to be accomplished in her by the Holy Spirit. She believes that there will be no loss of virginity, she who is soon to be the mother of God. Why should she lose heart at this new form of conceiving when she has been promised that it will be effected through the power of the Most High? She believes, and her faith is confirmed by the witness of a previous wonder: against all expectation Elizabeth is made fruitful. God has enabled a barren woman to be with child; he must be believed when he makes the same promise to a virgin.

The Son of God who was in the beginning with God, through whom all things were made, without whom nothing was made, became man to free him from eternal death. He stooped down to take up our lowliness without loss to his own glory. He remained what he was; he took up what he was not. He wanted to join the very nature of a servant to that nature in which he is equal to God the Father. He wanted to unite both natures in an alliance so wonderful that the glory of the greater would not annihilate the lesser, nor the taking up of the lower diminish the greatness of the higher.

What belongs to each nature is preserved intact and meets the other in one person: lowliness is taken up by greatness, weakness by power, mortality by eternity. To pay the debt of our human condition, a nature incapable of suffering is united to a nature capable fo suffering, and true God and true man are forged into the unity that is the Lord. This was done to make possible the kind of remedy that fitted our human need: one and the same mediator between God and men able to die because of one nature, able to rise again because of the other. It was fitting, therefore, that the birth which brings salvation brought no corruption to virginal integrity; the bringing forth of Truth was at the same time the safeguarding of virginity.

Dearly beloved, this kind of birth was fitting for Christ, the power and the wisdom of God: a birth in which he was one with us in our human nature but far above us in his divinity. If he were not true God, he would not be able to bring us healing; if he were not true man, he would not be able to give us an example.

And so at the birth of our Lord, the angels sing in joy: Glory to God in the highest, and they proclaim peace to his people on earth as they see the heavenly Jerusalem being built from all the nations of the world. If the angels on high are so exultant at this marvelous work of God’s goodness, what joy should it not bring to the lowly hearts of men?

Let Jesus Reign in your Hearts and Your Homes!

The Enthronement of the Sacred Heart in Your Home from Marcy Klatt on Vimeo.

A mother's prayer...

Let It Be Done Unto Me by Danielle Rose

Sing a New Song to the Lord

Psalms
Chapter 98

1

A psalm. Sing a new song to the LORD, who has done marvelous deeds, Whose right hand and holy arm have won the victory.

2

The LORD has made his victory known; has revealed his triumph for the nations to see,

3

Has remembered faithful love toward the house of Israel. All the ends of the earth have seen the victory of our God.

4

Shout with joy to the LORD, all the earth; break into song; sing praise.

5

Sing praise to the LORD with the harp, with the harp and melodious song.

6

With trumpets and the sound of the horn shout with joy to the King, the LORD.

7

Let the sea and what fills it resound, the world and those who dwell there.

8

Let the rivers clap their hands, the mountains shout with them for joy,

9

Before the LORD who comes, who comes to govern the earth, To govern the world with justice and the peoples with fairness.

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God bless you!