The Self-Denial of Our Blessed Mother by Msgr. Charles Mangan posted on February 3rd, 2007

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The Self-Denial of Our Blessed Mother

Monsignor Charles M. Mangan

prayer requests posted on January 29th, 2007

PLEASE PRAY MAY GOD GUIDE ME THANKS RICH C NJ

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Please pray for healing and reconciliation of my sacramental marriage to my husband Gregory. JMJ Gloria P

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Our prayers for you and your petitions are lifted in our daily prayers and Mass. God Bless you all!

twohearts

prayer request from Edith posted on January 19th, 2007

Please pray for my 83 year old mother who is very sick, she had an operation months ago and her health is deteriorating. Please pray for her recovery that she’d be able to walk again. Thank you so much. Edith

Catholic Movies on TV posted on January 19th, 2007

Two excellent Catholic movies will be broadcast on television (TCM) over the next few months:

A Man for All Seasons (about St. Thomas More) (duration of movie = 120 min.)
Jan. 23 12:30 a.m.
Feb. 24 8:00 p.m.

The Bells of St. Mary's (duration of movie = 126 min.)
Feb. 21 4:00 p.m.
Mar. 25 4:00 p.m.

Also, the biblical epic movie, Ben-Hur, will also appear on TCM on Feb. 22 at 8:00 p.m. (223 min.)

Bob

prayer request for others posted on January 17th, 2007

Dear brothers and sisters,

Prayers are needed for the following people. Cathy Mardesic, a 22 year old who's in a bad way suffering from cancer. Some in my parish have said she is close to death. Please pray to St Peregrine, the Cancer saint and Servant of God, Frank Duff for a miracle.

Another person is Kristian Kesina. He's a 12 year old boy from Canberra who's suffering from autism. Lately he's had some recurring episodes. Please pray that he and his family can have some relief.

Ilija Jurkovic, a family friend has cancer.

Tina Pascua, a fellow legionary has had many operations. I think she has cancer.

There are many others as well in the parish and beyond.

You are in my prayers

Damir

prayer request posted on December 19th, 2006

Please pray for me and my family,i am going through alot,i am suffering from physical as well as mental issues as i type now,Please pray to God,Jesus,Mother Mary and and Padre Pio for me.Im very lost and feel i have no where to turn. I will be praying for each and every one of you as well. Thank You and may God bless each and every one of you. Sincerily Fawn


Hi!

I hope all of you are in good shape upon reading my letter. I ask all of you to please pray for my siblings and brother in-law to pass their Philippine Bar exams. Their Bar exams result will be on March or April next year. Please pray for them. They really need your prayers. Thank you and God bless you and your loved Ones.
TinG Franco


Received this just now and it touches our lives and our hearts here in the Noel family so please please pray for Father. He is a friend of ours and is indeed a holy priest...he was the one who sent his associate priest to give me Last Rites when I went down in April. Please pray with all assertiveness for his healing and comfort!
Trusting in God the Father for yet another miracle through the Blood of Jesus His Son!
Vicki

Pope Benedict XVI in Turkey posted on December 3rd, 2006

Dear Hope and Trenton, here is just one of the many articles written about the visit of His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI to Turkey. Predictably the "I'm more Catholic than the Pope, (in fact the Pope isn't even Catholic)" brigade have reacted with utterly predictable indignation over the Holy Father's visit to a mosque, where he, (Oh! scandal of scandals!), prayed with Muslims, even, ( dare I even say it?) facing Mecca while doing so. It is extremely presumptuous of any of us to sit in judgement on the Pope for doing this. Do they really imagine that, at that moment, Pope Benedict was invoking the "blessing" of the (false) Prophet Mohammed. The Holy Father went to Turkey for one reason, and one reason only; to embrace the Turkish nation, and the Turkish people; ALL OF THEM, with the love of Christ. And this is precisely what has been achieved, under the sure direction of the Holy Spirit; the Spirit of Life, the Spirit of Truth, the Spirit of Love. I have not the slightest doubt that, as the Pope prayed with Muslims in their mosque, he was imploring the Holy Spirit to open their eyes to the Light of Truth, by whatever means necessary.

The Holy Obedience of Blessed Mary posted on November 20th, 2006

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The Holy Obedience of Blessed Mary

by Monsignor Charles M. Mangan

Father Cantalamessa on the End of the World posted on November 20th, 2006

Code: ZE06111725 Date: 2006-11-17

Pontifical Household Preacher on Sunday's Gospel

ROME, NOV. 17, 2006 (Zenit.org).- Here is a translation of a
commentary by the Pontifical Household preacher, Capuchin Father Raniero Cantalamessa, on the readings from this Sunday's liturgy.

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33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time (b)
Daniel 12:1-3; Hebrews 10:11-14, 18; Mark 13:24-32

The Gospel of the second to last Sunday of the liturgical year is the classic text on the end of the world. There has always been someone who has taken it upon themselves to wave this page of the Gospel in the face of their contemporaries and provoke psychosis and fear. My advice is to be calm and to not let yourself be in the least bit troubled by these visions of catastrophe.

2 prayer requests posted on November 3rd, 2006

Please pray for my 83 year old mother who is very sick, she had an operation months ago and her health is deteriorating. Please pray for her recovery that she’d be able to walk again. Thank you so much. Edith



Please keep my mom in your prayers. She fell today, breaking a bone in her arm and will have a hard time doing normal, everyday things. Thanks.

John

We will raise both prayer requests to heaven and take them with us to Mass. God Bless you both and your mothers.......

The Always Relevant Little Flower by Monsignor Charles Mangan posted on October 31st, 2006

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The Always Relevant Little Flower

Monsignor Charles M. Mangan

Halloween undermines eternal truths of Christian faith, says Argentinean bishop posted on October 31st, 2006

http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/myprint/print.php

BuenosAires, Oct generic cialis. 30, 2006 (CNA) - In all letter to the faithful of his diocese, Bishop Rinaldo Fidel Bredice of Santa Rosa said the pagan feast of Halloween undermines the eternal truths of the Christian faith, and he exhorted Catholics to celebrate worthily the feasts of All Saints and November 1 and of All Souls on November 2 online pharmacy.

“The preaching of the truth is our weapon: let us take advantage of the Feast of All Saints and the Memorial of All Souls to proclaim the four last things: death, judgment, hell, and heaven,” Bishop Bredice explained cialis.

435 years after the event, Lepanto is lost posted on October 29th, 2006

Dear Hope and Trenton, Below is an article carried on Spirit Daily which has been reprinted from The Detroit News. What this represents is a token reversal of the gains won for the Church and the world at the Battle of Lepanto in 1571. But it is far more than a mere token. What this forebodes is that all of the great victories won for us by the all-powerful intercession of Our Blessed Lady under the title of "Help
of Christians" are about to be lost. Who do we blame for this? Do we blame Islam? Not one little bit. It is my unshakable belief that, had successive generations of the Baptised been any where near faithful to their baptismal covenant, there would never have been any Islam, or any of the other diabolical errors that have had as their inevitable
consequence a persecution, and necessary purification of the Catholic Church. All of the great persecutions in the history of the Church, from the fourth century onward, have come in the wake of, and as a direct result of apostasy. And never before in the history of the Church has their been an apostasy of such magnitude as that in which we are now so completely immersed.


Yours in the Most Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, Stewart.


Detroit church to be reborn as a mosque

Prayer Request posted on October 26th, 2006

Please keep Hope's parents and family in your prayers.

They live extremely close to where the fires are raging in Southern California. We just got a call from Hope's mother saying that there was smoke from the blaze in the distant filing the lobby of the building where she works. She was driving home and there was ash falling everywhere and all the cars were driving with their lights on because it was dark (at 5pm PDT).

Please pray that they remain safe....God Bless!!

~~The Crew

Extraordinary ministers of Eucharist barred from purifying vessels posted on October 26th, 2006

By Nancy Frazier O'Brien
Catholic News Service

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- At the direction of Pope Benedict XVI, extraordinary ministers of holy Communion will no longer be permitted to assist in the purification of the sacred vessels at Masses in the United States.

In an Oct. 23 letter, Bishop William S. Skylstad, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, asked his fellow bishops to inform all pastors of the change, which was prompted by a letter from Cardinal Francis Arinze, prefect of the Vatican Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments.

The U.S. bishops had asked the Vatican to extend an indult -- or church permission -- in effect since 2002 allowing extraordinary ministers of holy Communion to help cleanse the Communion cups and plates when there were not enough priests or deacons to do so.

Catholic Citizens have a Duty to Vote in Accord with Church’s Social Teaching, Bishops State posted on October 19th, 2006

CHICAGO, Ill. - October 19, 2006 - (Catholic Online) – Catholic citizens have a duty to vote and must exercise that responsibility in accord with principles of Catholic social teaching, including, first and foremost, the dignity of the human person and the right to life from conception to natural death, said the Illinois bishops.

In the Oct. 6 Catholic Conference of Illinois statement, “Elections, Conscience and the Responsibility to Vote,” the 12 bishops stressed that with one-quarter of the Midwest U.S. state’s population and almost one-third of the U.S. citizenry being Catholic “a renewed ‘Catholic vote’ could become a political force for justice in Illinois and the nation.”

Further, they urged “Catholics to become more aware of Catholic moral and social teaching and to become more involved in the political process.”

Noting that “elections can be difficult for Catholics” as the choices are critical to the future and as debate is often characterized by “partisan bickering,” the Illinois bishops stressed the importance that voting be seen as “about fundamental moral choices.”

“As citizens, we ought to desire the best possible political leaders to help us achieve the common good, and we have a responsibility to participate in the political process by voting,” Chicago Cardinal Francis George, the state’s five other ordinaries and six auxiliary bishops said.


“We must cast our vote through prayerful consideration and in accordance with our conscience formed by the Catholic faith” based upon “the authentic moral teaching of the church,” they said.

The bishops said that Catholics must “inform and form our consciences as citizens in accordance with the principles of Catholic social teaching.”

They called “the dignity of every human person and each one’s basic right to life from conception to natural death” a non-negotiable principle of Catholic faith and for non-Catholics who believe that society “should protect its weakest members.”

“Other principles,” the Illinois bishops added, “include the call to community and participation, the centrality of the family, the dignity of work and rights of workers, the principles of solidarity and subsidiarity, and the commitment to stewardship of the environment.”

Catholics should make their voting decisions based on the candidates “most committed to being a public servant dedicated to the common good,” the 12 bishops said, adding that that dedication requires the inclusive protection of law of the dignity of the human person from conception to natural death.

“Any candidate who supports a public policy where part of humanity – such as the pre-born, the elderly, the handicapped or the sick – is excluded from the protection of law and treated as if they were non-persons,” they said, “is gravely deficient in his or her view of the requirements of a just society.”


Faced with the possibility of finding the candidates for public office falling “short of a vision of the common good as rich and full as Catholic social teaching,” the Catholic voter should consider becoming more active in the political process.


“We call on Catholics who understand and accept the church’s teaching to become more engaged in political life,” the Illinois bishops said. “We urge Catholics to run for office, work within the political parties, contribute time to campaigns and join diocesan legislative networks, community organizations and other efforts to apply Catholic principles in the public square.”

Besides Cardinal George, other signers of the statement were Bishop Thomas G. Doran of Rockford, Bishop George J. Lucas of Springfield-in-Illinois, Bishop Daniel R. Jenky of Peoria, Bishop Edward K. Braxton of Belleville, Bishop J. Peter Sartain of Joliet and Chicago auxiliary bishops George J. Rassas, Francis J. Kane, John R. Manz, Thomas J. Paprocki, Gustavo Garcia-Siller and Joseph N. Perry.

In an Oct. 15 column, “Religion, reason, voting,” that appeared in The Catholic New World, the official publication of the Archdiocese of Chicago, Cardinal George followed up with the Catholic conference statement, stressing that Catholics must form their consciences and “use that formation to make political choices.”

“Conscience is not an excuse for doing something irrational,” he said. “This is not easy, because principles are clear but practice often is clouded by confusion of fact and the distraction of various forms of self-interest.”

He called “intellectually dishonest” the actions of the Catholic politician “who excuses his or her decision to allow the killing of the unborn and of others who can’t protect themselves because he or she doesn’t want to ‘impose Catholic doctrine on others.’”

The protection of right to life is “a principle of reason” and “a matter of the common good,” the cardinal said. “It is not imposing Catholic morality on anybody.”

He said there is a disconnect which leads to a sense of frustration when comparing the church’s “beautiful teaching with the political, economic and social order in which we now live.”

“It’s important to vote in a democratic society, even though much of our life is governed by decisions of unelected bureaucrats and judges and editors and economic players whose names we do not recognize unless there is a scandal of some sort,” he added.

He asked that the faithful be guided by the church’s social doctrine in fulfilling their civic duty.

announcements posted on October 9th, 2006

First off, we want to Congratulate Gerald, on his first grandchild... see the following email;

*** DENOBLE * NEWS * FLASH ***

Mary and Gerald DeNoble, are pleased to announce the birth of their first grandchild; Claire Alexandria Simmers

Born to Rachel and William Simmers, October 10th at 6:15 am local time at Paparangi, Wellington, New Zealand weighing 8 pounds and sporting brown hair.

Baby Claire is fine and mother, Rachel, is recovering! Please add Claire and her parents to your prayers.

Mary aand Gerald DeNoble
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We wish to ask for prayers for Trenton's grandmother Barbara Freeman, who passed away this Oct 9th. Please keep her especially in your prayers as she was a protestant her whole life, and has very few people in her life who will pray for the repose of her soul. If she is in purgatory, we need all the prayers for her. Trenton thanks all of you for your prayers.

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Another prayer request: A friend of my daughter in law, a young mother just received word that the child she is carrying has down syndrome. She is frightened and unsure, and we pray that they will see their way clear in seeing this child brought to life and loved no matter what. The young girls name is Amber Lisenby

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