Catholic Faith References
We’re called to take up our cross. Apostle Paul says in Colossians 📖 1:24 that, “We are called to join our sufferings
with the sufferings of Christ.” He says, “We’re called to fill up that which is lacking in the sufferings of Christ, in our bodies. - USCCB 🌐
We need to help (works of mercy) and share Jesus (patiently evangelizing them, especially our loved ones - families, relatives, and friends). We, Roman Catholic church members, should all do our best to become closer to God through devotion, regular examination of conscience, asking God's forgiveness/sacraments, also by often praying, penance/fasting/abstinence, almsgiving, continuous CF studies, and following the teachings and guidelines of the church as well as contributing to its mission.⛪
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Daily RCC Gospel Readings
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📌 Catechism of the Catholic Church #PraxiFidesCCC 📜
Current Roman Catholic Church Calendar information 📰 and references 🌐 https://www.usccb.org/resources/2024cal.pdf
Ordinary Time: May 20 to November 30, 2024
Lent 2024 February 14 to March 31, 2024
Click the links below👇🏻
📃 Canon Law topics on Sacred Time
🗓️ Lent Calendar 2024 for everyday reference
👉🏻 Stations of the Cross for Vocation
📖 Scriptural stations of the Cross
Personal Reflections 📖 Selected Bible Story 📕 for families, relatives and friends
Book of Daniel 📃 Stories of the 4 Kingdoms 📝 One of my Fave and own reflection 📖 #PraxiFides 🙏
🫅First King
Lesson 👨🏫
Acknowledge the glory of God above your own.
🫅Second King
Lesson 👨🏫
Acknowledge that the Most High is sovereign over the kingdoms of men and don't insult your God most especially, everything that is sacred to Him.
🫅Third King
Lesson 👨🏫
God is the living God, and he endures forever. His Kingdom will not be destroyed, His dominion will never end, He rescues and he saves. He performs signs and wonders in the heavens and on the earth. He rescues Daniel from the powerful lions.
(Excerpts from the movie - The book of Daniel)
🫅Fourth King
Lesson 👨🏫
Build the temple of the Lord (Excerpts from the movie - The book of Daniel)
The leader should be a shepherd of his people.
Summary of reflections and other references 📖
A wise king is capable of choosing whom to trust.
Worthy counsel is rare indeed. (Excerpts from the movie - The book of Daniel)
Don't ask advises from sorcerers, astrologers, magicians, diviners, and evil doers. Don’t consult from spirit healers, fortune tellers, don’t rely on horoscopes, magnets, amulets, and other paraphernalia from occult practitioners. Be careful of buying antics (might have bad spirits and infested) Let us all trust the Lord. 🙏
📌God have given authority to the Leaders (Government and other institutions), and parents/husbands should ask for wisdom from God. Obey God's will whatevever hardships you may endure.
Wisdom of Solomon 8:7 📖
Cardinal Virtues 😍
1. Justice
2. Prudence
3. Fortitude
4. Temperance
1 Peter 3:7 📖
Likewise, you husbands should live with your wives in understanding, showing honor to the weaker female sex, since we are joint heirs of the gift of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.
Ephesians 5:23 📖
For the husband is head of his wife just as Christ is head of the church, he himself the savior of the body.
1 Corinthians 7:3-4 📖
The husband should fulfill his duty toward his wife, and likewise the wife toward her husband.
A wife does not have authority over her own body, but rather her husband, and similarly a husband does not have authority over his own body, but rather his wife.
1 Samuel 15:22 📖
Obedience is better than sacrifice.
Proverbs 21:3 📖
To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.
In the New Testament, Paul unlocks the image of the rock and says clearly that the foundation stone is Jesus Christ himself (Rom 9:33, 1 Cor 10:4). 📜
Rom 9:33 📖
Behold, I am laying a stone in Zion
that will make people stumble
and a rock that will make them fall,
and whoever believes in him shall not be put to shame.”
1 Cor 10:4 📖
and all drank the same spiritual drink, for they drank from a spiritual rock that followed them,* and the rock was the Christ.
Jesus tells him that his new name is Peter, which means “rock,” and that he will be given the keys to the kingdom of heaven. Keys are symbolic of authority and show that Peter is Christ’s choice to be head of his Church. 📜
Matthew 16:18-19 📖
And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the powers of death shall not prevail against it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven
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We need to help (works of mercy) and share Jesus (with others especially our loved ones - families, relatives & friends). We Roman Catholic church members, should all do our best to become closer to God through devotion, regular examination of conscience, asking God's forgiveness/sacraments, also by praying, fasting/abstinence, almsgiving, continuous CF studies, and following the teachings and guidelines of the church.⛪
2024 📲Teachings, Bible, and Prayer References in Reels
May 20, 2024 Update
Teachings, Bible, and Prayers link 📲 reels
Our Role
https://www.facebook.com/reel/813078790372082/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
Dedicate Ourselves to God
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1502807720321272/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
Prayers
📕🙏🏻 How to Pray
https://www.facebook.com/reel/821541156572008/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
https://www.facebook.com/reel/435199069095246/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
🙏🏻 Nicene Creed
https://www.facebook.com/reel/2423151421212562/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
Sacred Heart of Jesus Prayer
https://www.facebook.com/reel/797597222283696/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
🙏🏻 Perimeter Prayer
https://www.facebook.com/reel/2138710893137109/
https://www.facebook.com/reel/398032639832973
🙏🏻 Prayer for Renewed Strength
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1318163089570240/
🙏🏻 Prayer Holy Trinity
https://www.facebook.com/reel/845296640653948
🙏🏻 Prayer Glory Be
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1396301301276003
🙏🏻 Prayer – to Holy Family
https://www.facebook.com/reel/787080580145247
🙏🏻 Prayer Fatima decade
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1407325263478131
🙏🏻 Immaculate Heart
https://www.facebook.com/reel/2724084171091624/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
🙏🏻 Kyrie eleison – Lord have mercy
https://www.facebook.com/reel/443005478083820
🙏🏻 Hail Mary
https://www.facebook.com/reel/274560228924152
🙏🏻 Hail Holy Queen
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1101980360947997
Miraculous Medal
https://www.facebook.com/reel/420505867128373
🙏🏻 Memorae Prayer
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1467634440816616
🙏🏻 Mt. Carmel
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1480143709523504
🙏🏻 Prayer - Guardian Angel
https://www.facebook.com/reel/2400231303517260
🙏🏻 Prayer St. Michael
https://www.facebook.com/reel/445679741137642
🙏🏻 Prayer for One Couple
https://www.facebook.com/reel/340847448408533
🙏🏻Benedict Medal
https://www.facebook.com/reel/269481972874192
🙏🏻 3 O’clock Prayer
https://www.facebook.com/reel/2190903251270928
🙏🏻 Prayer for Holy church and Priests – St Faustina
https://www.facebook.com/reel/932587731921135
🙏🏻 Prayer for Priests
https://www.facebook.com/reel/905133441364211
🙏🏻 Prayer for Student – St Thomas
https://www.facebook.com/reel/923560289414568
🙏🏻 Prayer for Elected Officials
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1150766605922876/
🙏🏻 Prayer to Holy Angels
https://www.facebook.com/reel/975313756793466/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
🙏🏻 Impeding Mass Attendance
https://www.facebook.com/reel/808471854519694/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
🙏🏻 Deliverance
https://www.facebook.com/reel/444829828224407/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
🙏🏻 Divine Praises
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1871157549997765/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1380867865928073/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
📕 Are You with Christ?
https://www.facebook.com/reel/955049469412616/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
https://www.facebook.com/reel/3755771268033653/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
https://www.facebook.com/reel/439613278549090/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
https://www.facebook.com/reel/3656344381274722/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
https://www.facebook.com/reel/3265408213756038/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
https://www.facebook.com/reel/728926786103812/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1142602896937123/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1330970071317833/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
https://www.facebook.com/reel/326678543424072/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
https://www.facebook.com/reel/786374823445673/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
📕 Life Lessons - Rich - Greed - Pharasees - Deny God
https://www.facebook.com/reel/25663372833261179/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1146097683492989/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1403312760388005/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
🌐 Mary Help of Christians
https://www.facebook.com/reel/3750636788507200/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
https://www.facebook.com/reel/423116353804548/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
Mary - Craigie OLP
https://www.facebook.com/reel/7100726290038711/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
📜 🌐⛪CCC Mary
Prayer for Hastening of the triump of Immaculate Heart of Mary
https://www.facebook.com/reel/456253503630342/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
https://www.facebook.com/reel/6773666122735173
🌐Fatima 1
https://www.facebook.com/reel/894873402435570/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
🌐Fatima 2
https://www.facebook.com/reel/453335000377140/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
🌐 Dignity of Priests - NCReg - St Alphonsus
https://www.facebook.com/reel/2142234656141197/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
https://www.facebook.com/reel/429896039769290/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
🌐 Maronite Calendar
https://www.facebook.com/reel/935691708303579/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
Sin, Faith and Duty
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/nv28UGoeBRxKdQPB/?mibextid=14AR8G
📕 Dignity of Priests - John Baptist
https://www.facebook.com/reel/940644674204404/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
📕 Footprints in the Sand
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1931713103965845/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
📕Guardian Angel
https://www.facebook.com/reel/765964308821366/
🙏🏻 Angelus Tagalog
https://www.facebook.com/reel/405339285473685
🙏🏻 Angelus
https://www.facebook.com/reel/947302370437615
📕 Guardian Angel Tagalog
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1175002403883400
📕 Armor of God
https://www.facebook.com/reel/297828336668267
📕 One Flock with Jesus
https://www.facebook.com/reel/747824980509583/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
https://www.facebook.com/reel/750274397235963/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
https://www.facebook.com/reel/806483574680982/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
📕 Faith and Works
https://www.facebook.com/reel/297828336668267
📕 Lukewarm
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1749638125446815
📕📜 Lukewarm CCC tagalog
https://www.facebook.com/reel/406782305279017
📕 Our Father
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1464329854462233
📕 Our Father tagalog
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1464329854462233
📕 The Magnificat
https://www.facebook.com/reel/787298509923881
📕No Private Interpratation
https://www.facebook.com/reel/362981510075623/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
📕 Christian Value 1 - No Persona lInterpratation
https://www.facebook.com/reel/414200571497303/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
📕Christian Value 2
https://www.facebook.com/reel/7479328828782328/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
📕Christian Value 3
https://www.facebook.com/reel/7479328828782328/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
📕 Fasting and Abstinence - Discipline
https://www.facebook.com/reel/458743553368928/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
📕 Not all legal is moral
https://www.facebook.com/reel/865262895615877/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
Obedience to the Church ⛪ #ExaminationOfConscience 🙏
Jesus is the Head of the Church
📕 https://www.facebook.com/reel/1204398434273102/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
Salvation
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1582417359244316/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
⛪ Church as Authority
https://www.facebook.com/reel/772535548274786
📕 Obedience
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1538390936717342/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
📕 Obedience
https://www.facebook.com/reel/3674852772788858/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
Right Way of Worship
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1097162808069923/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
Spreading misleading information
https://www.facebook.com/reel/462643773087199/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
https://www.facebook.com/reel/772173698266591/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
https://www.facebook.com/reel/825168096305321/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
https://www.facebook.com/reel/383180421368227/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
📄 We Are Called
https://www.facebook.com/reel/311298918449278/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
⛪📜🙏🏻Catechism, Canon Law and Other Teachings
Bible Scholars
https://www.facebook.com/reel/687912976706505/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
2024 Calendar RCC Synod
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1272883520336831/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
https://www.facebook.com/reel/970477370731175/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
https://www.facebook.com/reel/7745148438830510/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
📕Wisdom - 4 Cardinal Virtues
https://www.facebook.com/reel/803295941172460/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
Pentecost Sunday
🙏🏻Holy Spirit Prayer
https://www.facebook.com/reel/716156947181087/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
Pentecost 4 links
4 https://www.facebook.com/reel/489811440045504/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
3 https://www.facebook.com/reel/1093763118590041/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
2 https://www.facebook.com/reel/1479112279654427/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
1 https://www.facebook.com/reel/1167227417749670/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
🌐 Easter
https://www.facebook.com/reel/370639518733762/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
⛪Lent Season 📜 Pascal Triduum
https://www.facebook.com/reel/286089944523989
⛪Sacramentals
3 https://www.facebook.com/reel/713729970759596/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
2 https://www.facebook.com/reel/1126012702026023/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
1 https://www.facebook.com/reel/841213681156991/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
Old Testament ref - Sacrilege of Objects
https://www.facebook.com/reel/3347783012185582/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1458325241737989/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
📕Punishment - Leprosy
https://www.facebook.com/reel/7520097544711225/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
⛪Sacraments
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1836589236851883/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
https://www.facebook.com/reel/461180423120738/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
⛪ Baptismal Promises
https://www.facebook.com/reel/627701489548214
Anointing of the sick
https://www.facebook.com/reel/865262895615877/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
Wedding
About the Cost 💰
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1873859343074999/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
⛪ Act of Contrition
https://www.facebook.com/reel/955432992955971
🙏🏻⛪ Prayer Before Confession
https://www.facebook.com/reel/3154776257992252
🙏🏻⛪ Someone asked when is the best time - Confession
https://www.facebook.com/reel/988827659266351
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🌐One, Holy, Catholic, Apostolic Church - Rites
https://www.facebook.com/reel/348504191051902/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
https://www.facebook.com/reel/3556806477869055
https://www.facebook.com/reel/2741987785950550/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
📜 Hell CCC
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1138571520822309/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
📜Sick Person CCC
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1078378543259734/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
📜 Salvation CCC
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1582417359244316/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
📜 Theological virtue - Charity
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1239476017413899
📜 Theological virtue – Hope
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1497736690809930
📜 Theological virtue - Faith
https://www.facebook.com/reel/2418303378356055
📜 CCC Sins - definition
https://www.facebook.com/reel/919607503233322
Superstitious beliefs Tagalog
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1375863119789127/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
📜 CCC Devotion
https://www.facebook.com/reel/813365810631971
📜 CCC Pray – Bible
https://www.facebook.com/reel/915671130024801/
📜 CCC How to Pray
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1789438691577331
📜 CCC Lay People
https://www.facebook.com/reel/2351199718384098
📜My Catechism Book
https://www.facebook.com/reel/343869468280487/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
📜⛪ Works of Mercy
📜 All listed
https://www.facebook.com/reel/970086568064078
Corporal
📜⚰️7 Bury the dead
https://www.facebook.com/reel/933888588046891
📜 Visit the Imprison
https://www.facebook.com/reel/784171723146294
📜 Shelter
https://www.facebook.com/reel/727593769558802
📜 Clothe
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1174466500380511
📜 Give Drink
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1144355026950033
📜 Feed the Hungry
https://www.facebook.com/reel/720857360241810
🌐 Sait Teresa of Avila 10 parts
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1172041687493251/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
https://www.facebook.com/reel/755556086335573/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1575854146581466/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
https://www.facebook.com/reel/383142024685931/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
https://www.facebook.com/reel/768887908538378/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
https://www.facebook.com/reel/802388631918404/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
https://www.facebook.com/reel/7912827868768708/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
https://www.facebook.com/reel/373996865631271/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
https://www.facebook.com/reel/474088478287273/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
https://www.facebook.com/reel/669564958579507/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
🌐 Meaning of Amen
https://www.facebook.com/reel/741744541428116/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
⛪ Steps of Confession - Children
https://www.facebook.com/reel/789723283041994
🙏🏻⛪ About Intercession/Saints
https://www.facebook.com/reel/7100408886736647
Prayers of the Saints
https://www.facebook.com/reel/396153746630233/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
🎤 Testimony
https://www.facebook.com/reel/821431306480001
📕 Tagalog – Mabuting tagasunod
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1120618712609295
📕 Repentance
https://www.facebook.com/reel/981181726765742
🙏🏻 My Own Benedictine Medal with prayer
https://www.facebook.com/reel/2752710988222831
🌐 Rules of Benedict
https://www.facebook.com/reel/412237814841973/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
https://www.facebook.com/reel/849448806992598/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
https://www.facebook.com/reel/328068360286417/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
🌐Padre Pio story about Confession
https://www.facebook.com/reel/390858217239336/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
https://www.facebook.com/reel/416468954354032/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
https://www.facebook.com/reel/2158080604553358/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
https://www.facebook.com/reel/987190592273670/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
https://www.facebook.com/reel/737910961835785/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
https://www.facebook.com/reel/792142079149895/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1585566188922425/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
https://www.facebook.com/reel/934324654914961/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
🌐Lessons from Padre Pio
https://www.facebook.com/reel/3705272253074258/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
https://www.facebook.com/reel/409732255150582/?s=fb_shorts_tab&stack_idx=0
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Ask forgiveness and Do Penance
Pandemic - Corona Virus
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⛪ Marriage Vows
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🎥 Clip of Ivanhoe chapel
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Information from the Holy Scripture/Bible
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About Wealth
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📕 Cloth of the Priest
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Reminders to Christians
📕 Avoid Sins
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Ask Forgiveness
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📕Wisdom
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📕 Kingdom of God
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📕 Expenses – Sirach Tagalog
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📕 Charlatans Tagalog- Timothy
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📕 Food Selection
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📕 Much has been given much is required
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📕 Sirach – Wisdom and Law
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📕 Salvation
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📕 Salvation tagalog
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📕Believe in Jesus
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📕Praying in Bible
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🚙⛪📜📕 Holyweek – Indulgence Catechism
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📜 Indulgence CCC
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📕 Woes for rich
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📕 Happy People
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📕 Confession – Occult Practices
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📕 Free will – Choose Holy or Sinful
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📕 Receiving Sacraments of Reconciliation for Kids
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📕 About the Bible
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📕 Not Bible alone
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📕 Best Time for Confession?
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📕 Obedience to Government/Leaders
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📕 Obedience to God - Deuteronomy
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📕 Anti-Christ
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⛪ 2024 Holy Week
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⛪Triduum
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⛪📕 Tradition - Timothy
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⛪ Physical Structure of church
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📕 Illness
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📕 Procession
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📕 Any worldly Things or activities
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📕 Intercession
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📕 Feast Celebration
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📕 Procession and Music
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📕 Healing Through Faith
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📕 Traditions
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📕 Procession
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📕Improving/prayer
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📕 Sto Nino in Bible
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Mysteries of Holy Rosary
📍 Joyful
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Stations of the Cross links.
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Spiritual Warfare
Authority to Cast out Evil Spirits - Holy Life
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Spiritual Warfare
📕 Authority
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🌐 Spreading the Gospel
2024 🥰 Contemporary 3 📕 Selected Bible references
My Selected Holy Bible reference for today
Part 3
Exposing evil 📕 #PraxiFidesQuotes 📋
The sin of being silent. ⚠️
9. Ezekiel 3:18-19 📖
If I say to the wicked, “You shall surely die,” and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, in order to save his life, that wicked person shall die for his iniquity, but his blood I will require at your hand. But if you warn the wicked, and he does not turn from his wickedness, or from his wicked way, he shall die for his iniquity, but you will have delivered your soul.
How can you justify the wicked and stand up for the devil rather than God? How can you call what goes against God’s Word good? How can you love what God hates? Whose side are you on?
10. Isaiah 5:20 📖
Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.
11. James 4:4 📖
You adulterers! Don’t you know that friendship with the world means hostility with God? So whoever wants to be a friend of this world is an enemy of God.
12. 1 Corinthians 10:20-21 📖
No, I imply that what pagans sacrifice they offer to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be participants with demons. You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons.
13. 1 John 2:15 📖
Stop loving the world and the things that are in the world. If anyone persists in loving the world, the Father’s love is not in him.
2024 😇 Deliverance Prayer 1 🙏🏻 Perimeter Prayer
Perimeter Prayer
Lord Jesus Christ, in thy love and mercy establish a perimeter of protection around N. and myself and all our loved ones, those who pray for us and their loved ones. May the Holy Angels guard him/her/us and all our possessions, establishing a perimeter of protection around N., rendering him/her/us immune from any kind of demonic influence. I ask that no demonic bondage, door, demonic entity, portal, astral projection or disembodied spirit may enter the space of 100 yards in all directions of him/her/us. I ask that any demons within this vicinity or any that should try to enter here be rendered deaf, dumb, and blind; that Thou would strip them of all weapons, armor, power, illusions, and authority; that Thou would bind, rebuke and disable them from communicating or interacting with each other in any way. Remove them, sending them directly to the foot of Thy Cross. Jesus, Son of the Most High, I ask this in Thy Glorious and Most Holy Name. Amen.
(Ripperger, Laity, p. 39)
🌐 https://www.catholicexorcism.org/deliverance-prayers-for-the-laity
2024 😇 Deliverance Prayer 2 🙏🏻 Severing Ties, Bonds, and Attachments
Severing Ties, Bonds, and Attachments
For severing the ties, bonds and attachments of deeply rooted spirits in the heart (including traumas, deep hurts and wounds), mind or any physical ailment.
With the sword of St. Michael, the sword of Our Lady and the sword of Our Lord’s Cross, I sever and break any and all ties, bonds and attachments I have in my heart (mind) or that N. has to me in his (her) heart (mind).
Making a plunging movement with the cross towards the heart, the top of the head or the general area of the physical ailment, trace a cross in the area of contact, using any or all of these or other suitable words.
With the sword of St. Michael: Quis ut Deus (Who is like unto God.) (3x)
With the sword of our Lady: Ecce ancilla Domini. Fiat mihi secundum verbum tuum (Behold the Handmaiden of the Lord. Be it done unto me according to thy word.) (3x)
Magnificat anima mea Dominum ( My soul magnifies the Lord.) (3x)
Quodcumque dixerit vobis, facite! (Do whatever he tells you.) (3x)
With the sword of our Lord’s Cross: Vade Satana (Be gone Satan). (3x)
Exi de homine (Come out of the man.) (3x)
Crux sacra sit mihi lux, non draco sit mihi dux. (May the Holy Cross be my light, the dragon will never be my guide.) (3x)
(adapted from Ripperger, Laity, p. 28)
🌐 https://www.catholicexorcism.org/deliverance-prayers-for-the-laity
2024 😇 Deliverance Prayer 3 🙏🏻 Prayer for Breaking Curses of the Occult
Prayer for Breaking Curses of the Occult
I ask Jesus to bind in the Most Precious Blood any and all evil curses, pacts, spells, seals, hexes, vexes, triggers, trances, vows, demonic blessings, voodoo, or any other demonic bondages sent against N. or myself, or any of our loved ones or any of our possessions; I ask Him to bind them all and break them in the Name of the Father and of the Son + and of the Holy Spirit. (Thrice)
Another Form
I ask Jesus to bind any evil spirits associated with any and all evil curses, pacts, spells, seals, hexes, vexes, triggers, trances, vows, demonic blessings, or any other demonic bondages sent against N. or myself, or any of our loved ones or any of our possessions, and I ask Thee to bind all evil spirits separately and individually and break all seals. In the Name of the Father and of the Son + and of the Holy Spirit. (Thrice)
(Ripperger, Laity, p. 25-26.)
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2024 🥰 Contemporary 2 📕 Selected Bible references
My Selected Holy Bible reference for today
Part 2
Exposing evil 📕 #PraxiFidesQuotes 📋
Do you allow your brothers to go down a dark path and remain rebellious towards the Word of God? Have courage and rebuke, but do it kindly, humbly, and gently.
6. James 5:20 📖
let him know that whoever brings back a sinner from his wandering will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.
7. Galatians 6:1 📖
Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted.
8. Matthew 18:15-17 📖
If your brother sins against you, go and confront him while the two of you are alone. If he listens to you, you have won back your brother. But if he doesn’t listen, take one or two others with you so that ‘every word may be confirmed by the testimony of two or three witnesses. If, however, he ignores them, tell it to the congregation. If he also ignores the congregation, regard him as an unbeliever and a tax collector.
📍 Loyalty to the Gospel and the Church ⛪ My Favorite Bible references 📝
Studying 📚 Are you done?
It’s a continuous process…
Let's all do our best to become closer to God through devotion, regular examination of conscience, asking God's forgiveness/sacraments, also by often Praying, fasting/abstinence, almsgiving, and following the teachings and guidelines of the church ⛪️ He (Jesus) is the head of the body, the church (Col. 1:18) 🙏🏼 #PraxiFidesQuotes 📋
📖 Matthew 6:33-34
But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
📖 Matthew 6:33-34
However this kind does not go out but by prayer and fasting.
📖 James 2:14-17
What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save them? Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,” but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it? In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.
📖 1 Peter 4:18
And if it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will become of the ungodly and the sinner?
📖 1 Peter 5:8
Be sober and vigilant. Your opponent the devil is prowling around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.
📖 2 Peter 1:20
Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
📖 Mark 16:15
Go into the whole world and proclaim the good news to all creation.
📖 Galatians 1:9
As we have said before, and now I say again, if anyone preaches to you a gospel other than the one that you received, let that one be accursed!
📖 2 Thessalonians 2:15
Therefore, brothers, stand firm and hold fast to the traditions that you were taught, either by an oral statement or by a letter of ours.
📖 Romans 10
But how can they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how can they believe in him of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone to preach? And how can people preach unless they are sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring [the] good news!” But not everyone has heeded the good news; for Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed what was heard from us?” Thus faith comes from what is heard, and what is heard comes through the word of Christ.
📖 Luke 12:47-48
That slave who knew what his master wanted, but did not prepare himself or do what was wanted, will receive a severe beating. But the one who did not know and did what deserved a beating will receive a light beating. From everyone to whom much has been given, much will be required; and from the one to whom much has been entrusted, even more will be demanded.
📗Excerpts from 📝 Hosea 4 "There is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land."
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
📍 "Ignorance of the Law excuses no one"
Pentecost 👉🏻 Daily Gospel Sharing and Catholic Teaching 📃 references
My Selected Reference/s for Today 🌐
March 22, 2024 👉🏻 Daily Gospel Sharing and Catholic Teaching 📃 references
My Selected Reference/s for Today 🌐
March 21, 2024 👉🏻 Daily Gospel Sharing and Catholic Teaching 📃 references
My Selected Reference/s for Today 🌐
By Fr. Jose S. - AMOE with PACE
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March 20, 2024 👉🏻 Daily Gospel Sharing and Catholic Teaching 📃 references
My Selected Reference/s for Today 🌐
Prayer to Saint Joseph
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Prayer to Holy Spirit
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March 19, 2024 👉🏻 Daily Gospel Sharing and Catholic Teaching 📃 references
My Selected Reference/s for Today 🌐
⛪️ Catechism References #PraxiFidesCCC📜 CCC 2094 Sin against Love
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March 18, 2024 👉🏻 Daily Gospel Sharing and Catholic Teaching 📃 references
My Selected Reference/s for Today 🌐
Also 📜 CCC starting from 2041
Precepts of the Catholic Church ⛪️ and the confession 🙏🏼 is included in 2042.
Based on CCC teaching 📜
2120 Sacrilege consists in profaning or treating unworthily the sacraments and other liturgical actions, as well as persons, things, or places consecrated to God. Sacrilege is a grave sin especially when committed against the Eucharist, for in this sacrament the true Body of Christ is made substantially present for us See less
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March 17, 2024 👉🏻 Daily Gospel Sharing and Catholic Teaching 📃 references
My Selected Reference/s for Today 🌐
People should never blame God
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Spiritual life is a daily battle to grow in holiness and virtue
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March 16, 2024 👉🏻 Daily Gospel Sharing and Catholic Teaching 📃 references
My Selected Reference/s for Today 🌐
Even the demons don't want to be in hell 📕
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📌Lent Season 2024 📖 USCCB reference 🌐 usccb.org/lent
References 📕 and reflection 🙏🏻
⛪ Start of the Lent, Holy Week and Ressurection
“Dear brothers and sisters, may the Holy Spirit inspire and sustain us this Lent in our ascent with Jesus, so that we may experience his divine splendour and thus, confirmed in faith, persevere in our journey together with him, glory of his people and light of the nations.” —Pope Francis
🌐 From February 14 to March 30
https://www.usccb.org/resources/Lent-2024-calendar_English.pdf
March 15, 2024 ⛪ Fourth Week of Lent 📕 Gospel Reference
My Gospel references for today 📕
15 MARCH ⛪ Friday of the 4th week of Lent
First reading 📖 Wisdom 2:1,12-22
Let us lie in wait for the virtuous man and condemn him to a shameful death
Psalm 🎶
The Lord turns his face against the wicked
to destroy their remembrance from the earth.
The just call and the Lord hears
and rescues them in all their distress.
Gospel
John 📖 7:1-2,10,25-30
They would have arrested him, but his time had not yet come
Jesus stayed in Galilee; he could not stay in Judaea, because the Jews were out to kill him.
As the Jewish feast of Tabernacles drew near, after his brothers had left for the festival, he went up as well, but quite privately, without drawing attention to himself. Meanwhile some of the people of Jerusalem were saying, ‘Isn’t this the man they want to kill? And here he is, speaking freely, and they have nothing to say to him! Can it be true the authorities have made up their minds that he is the Christ? Yet we all know where he comes from, but when the Christ appears no one will know where he comes from.’
Then, as Jesus taught in the Temple, he cried out:
‘Yes, you know me
and you know where I came from.
Yet I have not come of myself:
no, there is one who sent me
and I really come from him,
and you do not know him,
but I know him because I have come from him
and it was he who sent me.’
They would have arrested him then, but because his time had not yet come no one laid a hand on him.
March 14, 2024 👉🏻 Sacrament of Penance 📃 Canon Law Topic 14 series of references
My Selected Canon Law Topic 📃
CHAPTER II.
§2. In urgent necessity, any confessor is obliged to hear the confessions of the Christian faithful, and in danger of death, any priest is so obliged.
https://www.vatican.va/archive/cod-iuris-canonici/eng/documents/cic_lib4-cann959-997_en.html#CHAPTER_II.
March 14, 2024 😇 Sacrament of Reconciliation 🌐 List of Sins for Confession 15 series of references
My Selected Article 🌐 Series of References
Post 15 of 15 Examination of Conscience ⛪ #PraxiFidesLent 🙏🏻
15 Mortal Sins 😇 Catholics Are Missing in Their Confessions by Fr Nix August 3rd, 2019
📌15. Receiving Holy Communion with any of the above sins on your heart. The Catechism of Pope St. Pius X says: “He who goes to Communion in mortal sin receives Jesus Christ but not His grace; moreover, he commits a sacrilege and renders himself deserving of sentence of damnation.” Furthermore, the Council of Trent (an infallible Council) says: “For no crime is there heavier punishment to be feared from God than for the unholy or irreligious use of the Eucharist.” (Trent, De Euch v.i.) Please, if you have committed any of the above sins, go to confession before receiving the most holy Body and Blood of the Lord.
Finally, if your parish priest or confessor doubts any of the above are mortal sins, please tell him I will debate him publicly on the Magisterium in any place, in any forum (his parish, street corner, or on YouTube) at any time he wants.
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https://www.padreperegrino.org/2019/08/mortalsins/
March 14, 2024 ⛪ Fourth Week of Lent 📕 Gospel Reference
My Gospel references for today 📕
14 MARCH ⛪Thursday of the 4th week of Lent
First reading📖 Exodus 32:7-14
Moses pleads with the Lord his God to spare Israel
Psalm 🎶
They fashioned a calf at Horeb
and worshipped an image of metal,
exchanging the God who was their glory
for the image of a bull that eats grass.
Gospel 📖 John 5:31-47
You place your hopes on Moses but Moses will be your accuser
Jesus said to the Jews:
‘Were I to testify on my own behalf,
my testimony would not be valid;
but there is another witness who can speak on my behalf,
and I know that his testimony is valid.
You sent messengers to John,
and he gave his testimony to the truth:
not that I depend on human testimony;
no, it is for your salvation that I speak of this.
John was a lamp alight and shining
and for a time you were content to enjoy the light that he gave.
But my testimony is greater than John’s:
the works my Father has given me to carry out,
these same works of mine testify
that the Father has sent me.
Besides, the Father who sent me
bears witness to me himself.
You have never heard his voice,
you have never seen his shape,
and his word finds no home in you
because you do not believe in the one he has sent.
‘You study the scriptures,
believing that in them you have eternal life;
now these same scriptures testify to me,
and yet you refuse to come to me for life!
As for human approval, this means nothing to me.
Besides, I know you too well: you have no love of God in you.
I have come in the name of my Father
and you refuse to accept me;
if someone else comes in his own name
you will accept him.
How can you believe,
since you look to one another for approval
and are not concerned
with the approval that comes from the one God?
Do not imagine that I am going to accuse you before the Father:
you place your hopes on Moses,
and Moses will be your accuser.
If you really believed him
you would believe me too,
since it was I that he was writing about;
but if you refuse to believe what he wrote,
how can you believe what I say?’
March 13, 2024 👉🏻 Sacrament of Penance 📃 Canon Law Topic 13 series of references
My Selected Canon Law Topic 📃
CHAPTER II.
Can. 986 §1. All to whom the care of souls has been entrusted in virtue of some function are obliged to make provision so that the confessions of the faithful entrusted to them are heard when they reasonably seek to be heard and that they have the opportunity to approach individual confession on days and at times established for their convenience.
https://www.vatican.va/archive/cod-iuris-canonici/eng/documents/cic_lib4-cann959-997_en.html#CHAPTER_II.
March 13, 2024 😇 Sacrament of Reconciliation 🌐 List of Sins for Confession 14 series of references
My Selected Article 🌐 Series of References
Post 14 of 15 Examination of Conscience ⛪ #PraxiFidesLent 🙏🏻
15 Mortal Sins 😇 Catholics Are Missing in Their Confessions by Fr Nix August 3rd, 2019
📌14. Skipping Friday Penance. From the earliest days of Christianity, Fridays were a day of fasting, since Jesus died for us on a Friday. In fact, all the way up to Vatican II, Catholics had to refrain from meat for about 50 Fridays a year. This was bound under mortal sin. Has that changed? No. The new Code of Canon Law released under Pope John Paul II has only changed the type of penance, not the requirement for a Friday penance. Now, the suggestion is still to stay meatless, but a substitutionary penance is permitted in the new 1983 code. In other words, we are still bound under grave matter to do some penance (physically hard act of returning to God) on Fridays, even if it is not refraining from meat. But to refrain from meat is the clearest indication we are not skirting around such grave matter, so I highly suggest all readers (except the very old, very young, sick and pregnant) to refrain from meat on all Fridays except 1st class Feasts (solemnities in the new calendar.)
Finally, if your parish priest or confessor doubts any of the above are mortal sins, please tell him I will debate him publicly on the Magisterium in any place, in any forum (his parish, street corner, or on YouTube) at any time he wants.
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March 13, 2024 ⛪ Fourth Week of Lent 📕 Gospel Reference
My Gospel references for today 📕
13 MARCH ⛪ Wednesday of the 4th week of Lent
First reading 📖 Isaiah 49:8-15
On the day of salvation I will help you
Psalm 🎶
The Lord is kind and full of compassion,
slow to anger, abounding in love.
How good is the Lord to all,
compassionate to all his creatures.
Gospel
John 5:17-30
The dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and all who hear it will live
Jesus said to the Jews, ‘My Father goes on working, and so do I.’ But that only made them even more intent on killing him, because, not content with breaking the sabbath, he spoke of God as his own Father, and so made himself God’s equal.
To this accusation Jesus replied:
‘I tell you most solemnly,
the Son can do nothing by himself;
he can do only what he sees the Father doing:
and whatever the Father does the Son does too.
For the Father loves the Son
and shows him everything he does himself,
and he will show him even greater things than these,
works that will astonish you.
Thus, as the Father raises the dead and gives them life,
so the Son gives life to anyone he chooses;
for the Father judges no one;
he has entrusted all judgement to the Son,
so that all may honour the Son
as they honour the Father.
Whoever refuses honour to the Son
refuses honour to the Father who sent him.
I tell you most solemnly,
whoever listens to my words,
and believes in the one who sent me,
has eternal life;
without being brought to judgement
he has passed from death to life.
I tell you most solemnly,
the hour will come – in fact it is here already –
when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God,
and all who hear it will live.
For the Father, who is the source of life,
has made the Son the source of life;
and, because he is the Son of Man,
has appointed him supreme judge.
Do not be surprised at this,
for the hour is coming when the dead will leave their graves
at the sound of his voice:
those who did good will rise again to life;
and those who did evil, to condemnation.
I can do nothing by myself;
I can only judge as I am told to judge,
and my judging is just,
because my aim is to do not my own will,
but the will of him who sent me.’
March 12, 2024 👉🏻 Sacrament of Penance 📃 Canon Law Topic 12 series of references
My Selected Canon Law Topic 📃
CHAPTER II.
Can. 985 The director of novices and his associate and the rector of a seminary or other institute of education are not to hear the sacramental confessions of their students residing in the same house unless the students freely request it in particular cases.
https://www.vatican.va/archive/cod-iuris-canonici/eng/documents/cic_lib4-cann959-997_en.html#CHAPTER_II.
March 12, 2024 😇 Sacrament of Reconciliation 🌐 List of Sins for Confession 13 series of references
My Selected Article 🌐 Series of References
Post 13 of 15 Examination of Conscience ⛪ #PraxiFidesLent 🙏🏻
15 Mortal Sins 😇 Catholics Are Missing in Their Confessions by Fr Nix August 3rd, 2019
📌13. Denying the Catholic faith, including any involvement in the occult, even tarot cards or Ouija boards. Jesus said: “So everyone who acknowledges me before men, I also will acknowledge before my Father who is in heaven, but whoever denies me before men, I also will deny before my Father who is in heaven.”—Mt 10:32-33. Dabbling in other religions is a direct denial of Jesus Christ, as is permitting your children to play with tarot cards and Ouija boards. All of these are mortal sins that must be confessed before receiving Holy Communion. Is reading Harry Potter or letting your children read Harry Potter a mortal sin? I don’t know, but I’d encourage you to listen to Fr. Ripperger (an exorcist) at minute 57 link.
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March 12, 2024 ⛪ Fourth Week of Lent 📕 Gospel Reference
My Gospel references for today 📕
12 MARCH ⛪ Tuesday of the 4th week of Lent
First reading 📖 Ezekiel 47:1-9,12
Wherever the water flows, it will bring life and health
Psalm 🎶
God is for us a refuge and strength,
a helper close at hand, in time of distress,
so we shall not fear though the earth should rock,
though the mountains fall into the depths of the sea.
Gospel 📖 John 5:1-3,5-16
The healing at the pool of Bethesda
There was a Jewish festival, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now at the Sheep Pool in Jerusalem there is a building, called Bethzatha in Hebrew, consisting of five porticos; and under these were crowds of sick people – blind, lame, paralysed – waiting for the water to move. One man there had an illness which had lasted thirty-eight years, and when Jesus saw him lying there and knew he had been in this condition for a long time, he said, ‘Do you want to be well again?’ ‘Sir,’ replied the sick man ‘I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is disturbed; and while I am still on the way, someone else gets there before me.’ Jesus said, ‘Get up, pick up your sleeping-mat and walk.’ The man was cured at once, and he picked up his mat and walked away. Now that day happened to be the sabbath, so the Jews said to the man who had been cured, ‘It is the sabbath; you are not allowed to carry your sleeping-mat.’ He replied, ‘But the man who cured me told me, “Pick up your mat and walk.”’ They asked, ‘Who is the man who said to you, “Pick up your mat and walk”?’ The man had no idea who it was, since Jesus had disappeared into the crowd that filled the place. After a while Jesus met him in the Temple and said, ‘Now you are well again, be sure not to sin any more, or something worse may happen to you.’ The man went back and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had cured him. It was because he did things like this on the sabbath that the Jews.
March 11, 2024 👉🏻 Sacrament of Penance 📃 Canon Law Topic 11 series of references
My Selected Canon Law Topic 📃
CHAPTER II.
§2. A person who has been placed in authority cannot use in any manner for external governance the knowledge about sins which he has received in confession at any time.
https://www.vatican.va/archive/cod-iuris-canonici/eng/documents/cic_lib4-cann959-997_en.html#CHAPTER_II.
March 11, 2024 😇 Sacrament of Reconciliation 🌐 List of Sins for Confession 12 series of references
My Selected Article 🌐 Series of References
Post 12 of 15 Examination of Conscience ⛪ #PraxiFidesLent 🙏🏻
15 Mortal Sins 😇 Catholics Are Missing in Their Confessions by Fr Nix August 3rd, 2019
📌12. Saying the Name of Jesus in Vain. In the Second Part of the Second Part, question 122 article 3, St. Thomas Aquinas expounds on Exodus 20:7, “Thou shalt not take the name of…thy God in vain,” by saying that this is actually blasphemy, and that “blasphemy or any word or deed that is an insult to God is much more grievous than perjury.” Thus, saying “Jesus Christ!” in vain (not in prayer or praise or supplication) is a mortal sin. Remember, as I said above, that sins exacting death in the Old Testament usually cause spiritual death in the New Testament. Please remember that the name of Jesus is as holy as the name Yahweh, because it is the same person, God. If someone said the latter in the Old Testament, they would be stoned to death. Nowadays, in the New Covenant, judgment is reserved, which is why we do not die immediately upon committing a mortal sin like saying God’s name in vain. In short, we have time to confess this sin before judgment. Now, I doubt that saying “Oh my God! is a mortal sin.” Also, if you slam your finger in your car door and yell Our Lord’s Most Holy Name, it is probably not a mortal sin since you did not act with full consent. Obviously, if you’re going through childbirth or being tortured for Christ, yelling the holy name of “Jesus!” is not only not sinful, but even meritorious, as you are begging Him for help! But just going around and misusing the Holy Name of Jesus in a willy-nilly manner is most certainly a mortal sin that calls down punishment on you and those around you. As I always tell youth groups: “When you say the name of Jesus in prayer, angels come to you and demons flee. When you misuse the name of Jesus, angels flee and demons come to you.”
Finally, if your parish priest or confessor doubts any of the above are mortal sins, please tell him I will debate him publicly on the Magisterium in any place, in any forum (his parish, street corner, or on YouTube) at any time he wants.
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March 10, 2024 👉🏻 Sacrament of Penance 📃 Canon Law Topic 10 series of references
My Selected Canon Law Topic 📃
CHAPTER II.
Can. 982 Whoever confesses to have denounced falsely an innocent confessor to ecclesiastical authority concerning the crime of solicitation to sin against the sixth commandment of the Decalogue is not to be absolved unless the person has first formally retracted the false denunciation and is prepared to repair damages if there are any.
Can. 983 §1. The sacramental seal is inviolable; therefore it is absolutely forbidden for a confessor to betray in any way a penitent in words or in any manner and for any reason.
§2. The interpreter, if there is one, and all others who in any way have knowledge of sins from confession are also obliged to observe secrecy.
Can. 984 §1. A confessor is prohibited completely from using knowledge acquired from confession to the detriment of the penitent even when any danger of revelation is excluded.
https://www.vatican.va/archive/cod-iuris-canonici/eng/documents/cic_lib4-cann959-997_en.html#CHAPTER_II.
March 10, 2024 😇 Sacrament of Reconciliation 🌐 List of Sins for Confession 11 series of references
My Selected Article 🌐 Series of References
Post 11 of 15 Examination of Conscience ⛪ #PraxiFidesLent 🙏🏻
15 Mortal Sins 😇 Catholics Are Missing in Their Confessions by Fr Nix August 3rd, 2019
📌11. Getting Drunk or High. I will be coming out with a podcast or blog post on drugs in the future, so let’s briefly focus on why getting drunk on alcohol is a mortal sin. Getting drunk is not a mortal sin only because it leads to doing other mortal sins (like most people say today), but also in and of it itself, drunkenness overturns the greatest natural gift given to us, our reason. The threshold to balance between buzzed and drunk for St. Alphonsus Liguori is not as difficult to meet as some might have thought: “It is certain among all authorities that for it to be the case that drunkenness to be a mortal sin it is required that it would be perfect drunkenness, namely that it would altogether deprive one of the use of reason, just as St. Thomas teaches (II IIæ q. 150, a. 2), and with all the doctors. The malice of drunkenness consists in this, that a man, wishing and knowing, deprives himself of the use of reason. St. Antoninus teaches the same thing in p. 2 tit. 6, c. 3 § 1. This is why one would not sin mortally that did not altogether lose the use of reason from drinking wine, even if the mind were disturbed, but not so much that he were not able to discern between good and evil, as the authors commonly say…{It is] the common opinion to teach that drunkenness is not a mortal sin if it would deprive one from reason for only a brief period.”—St. Alphonsus Liguori Theologia Moralis, book II (in the Gaude edition it is a different number, but I forget which)
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March 9, 2024 👉🏻 Sacrament of Penance 📃 Canon Law Topic 9 series of references
My Selected Canon Law Topic 📃
CHAPTER II.
§2. In administering the sacrament, the confessor as a minister of the Church is to adhere faithfully to the doctrine of the magisterium and the norms issued by competent authority.
Can. 979 In posing questions, the priest is to proceed with prudence and discretion, attentive to the condition and age of the penitent, and is to refrain from asking the name of an accomplice.
Can. 980 If the confessor has no doubt about the disposition of the penitent, and the penitent seeks absolution, absolution is to be neither refused nor deferred.
Can. 981 The confessor is to impose salutary and suitable penances in accord with the quality and number of sins, taking into account the condition of the penitent. The penitent is obliged to fulfill these personally.
https://www.vatican.va/archive/cod-iuris-canonici/eng/documents/cic_lib4-cann959-997_en.html#CHAPTER_II.
March 9, 2024 😇 Sacrament of Reconciliation 🌐 List of Sins for Confession 10 series of references
My Selected Article 🌐 Series of References
Post 10 of 15 Examination of Conscience ⛪ #PraxiFidesLent 🙏🏻
15 Mortal Sins 😇 Catholics Are Missing in Their Confessions by Fr Nix August 3rd, 2019
📌10. Denying your workers a fair wage. Pope St. Pius X writes in his Catechism, “The sins that are said to cry to God for vengeance are these four: (1) Willful murder; (2) The sin of sodomy; (3) Oppression of the poor; (4) Defrauding labourers of their wages.” Those last two must be highly considered by any Catholic business owners out there. These are the four most serious sins that the Church has put forth. This is not antiquated devotionals of Fr. Nix. This is the Magisterium of the Catholic Church. Many more parts of our articulated faith and morals are infallible than just the two ex-cathedra statements.
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March 8, 2024 👉🏻 Sacrament of Penance 📃 Canon Law Topic 8 series of references
My Selected Canon Law Topic 📃
CHAPTER II.
Can. 975 Besides by revocation, the faculty mentioned in can. 967, §2 ceases by loss of office, excardination, or loss of domicile.
Can. 976 Even though a priest lacks the faculty to hear confessions, he absolves validly and licitly any penitents whatsoever in danger of death from any censures and sins, even if an approved priest is present.
Can. 977 The absolution of an accomplice in a sin against the sixth commandment of the Decalogue is invalid except in danger of death.
Can. 978 §1. In hearing confessions the priest is to remember that he is equally a judge and a physician and has been established by God as a minister of divine justice and mercy, so that he has regard for the divine honor and the salvation of souls.
https://www.vatican.va/archive/cod-iuris-canonici/eng/documents/cic_lib4-cann959-997_en.html#CHAPTER_II.
March 8, 2024 😇 Sacrament of Reconciliation 🌐 List of Sins for Confession 9 series of references
My Selected Article 🌐 Series of References
Post 9 of 15 Examination of Conscience ⛪ #PraxiFidesLent 🙏🏻
15 Mortal Sins 😇 Catholics Are Missing in Their Confessions by Fr Nix August 3rd, 2019
📌9. Missing Sunday Mass without good reason and/or unnecessary work on Sunday. It used to be that unnecessary work on a Sunday was considered to be over two hours of work. St. John Vianney, who saw people pushing their farming carts around on Sunday. He said, “I see them pushing their carts and I see them pushing them into hell.” Could we not say that at a Wal-Mart on Sunday? “I see them pushing their carts, and I see them pushing them into hell.” Again, a caveat is in order here. There is necessary work on Sunday. For example, the medical field requires workers on Sunday: “Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do harm, to save life or to kill?”—Mark 3:4. Or, if you have a big feast for your family on Sunday, of course it may be necessary to do a couple hours of clean up. Also excepted is charity work: cleaning up your Church, or working at a soup kitchen. These are not only permitted, but even encouraged on Sundays. But all in all, we should work on Saturdays like Jews work on Fridays to get everything done. I can already hear a lot of priests reading this blog post and their response to me: “But under the new law we are free in Jesus Christ so why compare us to Old Testament Jews and the Sabbath?” My answer: “Precisely so we can be the free sons of God on Sundays with our families.”
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March 8, 2024 ⛪ Fourth Week of Lent 📕 Gospel Reference
My Gospel references for today 📕
8 MARCH ⛪ Friday of the 3rd week of Lent
First reading 📖 Hosea 14:2-10
A call to conversion and promise of safety
Psalm 🎶
A voice I did not know said to me:
‘I freed your shoulder from the burden;
your hands were freed from the load.
You called in distress and I saved you.
Gospel 📖 Mark 12:28-34
'You are not far from the kingdom of God'
One of the scribes came up to Jesus and put a question to him, ‘Which is the first of all the commandments?’ Jesus replied, ‘This is the first: Listen, Israel, the Lord our God is the one Lord, and you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind and with all your strength. The second is this: You must love your neighbour as yourself. There is no commandment greater than these.’ The scribe said to him, ‘Well spoken, Master; what you have said is true: that he is one and there is no other. To love him with all your heart, with all your understanding and strength, and to love your neighbour as yourself, this is far more important than any holocaust or sacrifice.’ Jesus, seeing how wisely he had spoken, said, ‘You are not far from the kingdom of God.’ And after that no one dared to question him any more.
March 7, 2024 👉🏻 Sacrament of Penance 📃 Canon Law Topic 7 series of references
My Selected Canon Law Topic 📃
CHAPTER II.
Can. 973 The faculty to hear confessions habitually is to be granted in writing.
Can. 974 §1. The local ordinary and the competent superior are not to revoke the faculty to hear confessions habitually except for a grave cause.
§2. When the faculty to hear confessions has been revoked by the local ordinary who granted it as mentioned in can. 967, §2, a presbyter loses the faculty everywhere. If some other local ordinary has revoked the faculty, the presbyter loses it only in the territory of the one who revokes it.
§3. Any local ordinary who has revoked the faculty of some presbyter to hear confessions is to inform the proper ordinary of incardination of the presbyter or, if he is a member of a religious institute, his competent superior.
§4. If the proper major superior of a presbyter has revoked the faculty to hear confessions, the presbyter loses the faulty to hear the confessions of members of the institute everywhere. If some other competent superior has revoked the faculty, however, the presbyter loses it only with regard to the subjects in the jurisdiction of that superior.
https://www.vatican.va/archive/cod-iuris-canonici/eng/documents/cic_lib4-cann959-997_en.html#CHAPTER_II.
March 7, 2024 😇 Sacrament of Reconciliation 🌐 List of Sins for Confession 8 series of references
My Selected Article 🌐 Series of References
Post 8 of 15 Examination of Conscience ⛪ #PraxiFidesLent 🙏🏻
15 Mortal Sins 😇 Catholics Are Missing in Their Confessions by Fr Nix August 3rd, 2019
📌8. Greatly harming someone’s reputation. St. Ignatius of Loyola writes, “If I reveal a hidden mortal sin of another, I sin mortally. If I reveal a hidden venial sin, I sin venially; if his defect, I manifest my own.” That means that if I gossip that my neighbor committed adultery, it puts me in mortal sin, as I have revealed a hidden mortal sin. But key to this phrase is the word “hidden” because if you reveal, for example, that your mother no longer goes to Mass or your father left the Catholic Church, these are public mortal sins. Not that they should be talked about a lot, but discussing a public mortal sin, say of a politician, where it is not good practice for the Catholic, is not mortal sin. Another exception to this is intervention. For example, if your neighbor is sexually molesting his children, you are required to call the police. If your uncle is an alcoholic, you may need to have an intervention. It is not a sin to discuss these things, but it always must be for physical safety and eternal salvation of others. Also, be sure to avoid couching the gossip of mortal sins into prayer: “Yeah, that gal in our Bible Study really needs prayers because she keeps flirting with the priest.” Again, St. Ignatius of Loyola: “If I reveal a hidden mortal sin of another, I sin mortally.”
Finally, if your parish priest or confessor doubts any of the above are mortal sins, please tell him I will debate him publicly on the Magisterium in any place, in any forum (his parish, street corner, or on YouTube) at any time he wants.
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March 7, 2024 ⛪ Fourth Week of Lent 📕 Gospel Reference
My Gospel references for today 📕
7 MARCH ⛪ Thursday of the 3rd week of Lent
First reading 📖 Jeremiah 7:23-28
Here is the nation that will not listen to the voice of the Lord its God
Psalm 🎶
Come, ring out our joy to the Lord;
hail the rock who saves us.
Gospel 📖 Luke 11:14-23
Know that the kingdom of God has overtaken you
Jesus was casting out a devil and it was dumb; but when the devil had gone out the dumb man spoke, and the people were amazed. But some of them said, ‘It is through Beelzebul, the prince of devils, that he casts out devils.’ Others asked him, as a test, for a sign from heaven; but, knowing what they were thinking, he said to them, ‘Every kingdom divided against itself is heading for ruin, and a household divided against itself collapses. So too with Satan: if he is divided against himself, how can his kingdom stand? – since you assert that it is through Beelzebul that I cast out devils. Now if it is through Beelzebul that I cast out devils, through whom do your own experts cast them out? Let them be your judges then. But if it is through the finger of God that I cast out devils, then know that the kingdom of God has overtaken you. So long as a strong man fully armed guards his own palace, his goods are undisturbed; but when someone stronger than he is attacks and defeats him, the stronger man takes away all the weapons he relied on and shares out his spoil.
‘He who is not with me is against me; and he who does not gather with me scatters.’
March 6, 2024 👉🏻 Sacrament of Penance 📃 Canon Law Topic 6 series of references
My Selected Canon Law Topic 📃
CHAPTER II.
Can. 968 §1. In virtue of office, a local ordinary, canon penitentiary, a pastor, and those who take the place of a pastor possess the faculty of hearing confessions, each within his jurisdiction.
§2. In virtue of their office, superiors of religious institutes or societies of apostolic life that are clerical and of pontifical right, who have executive power of governance according to the norm of their constitutions, possess the faculty of hearing the confessions of their subjects and of others living day and night in the house, without prejudice to the prescript of can. 630, §4.
Can. 969 §1. The local ordinary alone is competent to confer upon any presbyters whatsoever the faculty to hear the confessions of any of the faithful. Presbyters who are members of religious institutes, however, are not to use the faculty without at least the presumed permission of their superior.
https://www.vatican.va/archive/cod-iuris-canonici/eng/documents/cic_lib4-cann959-997_en.html#CHAPTER_II.
March 6, 2024 😇 Sacrament of Reconciliation 🌐 List of Sins for Confession 7 series of references
My Selected Article 🌐 Series of References
Post 7 of 15 Examination of Conscience ⛪ #PraxiFidesLent 🙏🏻
15 Mortal Sins 😇 Catholics Are Missing in Their Confessions by Fr Nix August 3rd, 2019
📌7. Chronic failure to catechize your kids. Many good mothers and fathers occasionally miss some catechetical lessons for their kids, and that is not a big deal. That is why I say it’s only a mortal sin if you had a chronic (lifetime) failure to catechize your children. So, if you fail to learn the Catholic faith and fail to teach it to your children (and I don’t mean to just Sunday Mass, I mean the fullness of the Catholic faith) then this is a mortal sin. This is especially directed at biological fathers and priests, as you are called to be the main catechizers of your families and flocks. Look, none of this is legalism. It all comes down to love: “If you love me, you will keep my commandments.”—Jn 14:15. How can your children know Jesus if you don’t teach them how to pray and meditate and pray the Rosary? The Rosary, when prayed correctly, truly introduces us to Jesus Christ so your kids will never hear this from Our Lord at the end of their lives: “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’”—Mt 7:21-23
Finally, if your parish priest or confessor doubts any of the above are mortal sins, please tell him I will debate him publicly on the Magisterium in any place, in any forum (his parish, street corner, or on YouTube) at any time he wants.
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March 6, 2024 ⛪ Fourth Week of Lent 📕 Gospel Reference
My Gospel references for today 📕
6 MARCH ⛪ Wednesday of the 3rd week of Lent
First reading 📖 Deuteronomy 4:1,5-9
Keep these laws and observe them
Moses said to the people:
‘Now, Israel, take notice of the laws and customs that I teach you today, and observe them, that you may have life and may enter and take possession of the land that the Lord the God of your fathers is giving you.
‘See, as the Lord my God has commanded me, I teach you the laws and customs that you are to observe in the land you are to enter and make your own. Keep them, observe them, and they will demonstrate to the peoples your wisdom and understanding. When they come to know of all these laws they will exclaim, “No other people is as wise and prudent as this great nation.” And indeed, what great nation is there that has its gods so near as the Lord our God is to us whenever we call to him? And what great nation is there that has laws and customs to match this whole Law that I put before you today?
‘But take care what you do and be on your guard. Do not forget the things your eyes have seen, nor let them slip from your heart all the days of your life; rather, tell them to your children and to your children’s children.’
Psalm 🎶
O praise the Lord, Jerusalem!
Zion, praise your God!
Gospel 📖 Matthew 5:17-19
I have not come to abolish the Law and the Prophets but to complete them
Jesus said to his disciples: ‘Do not imagine that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets. I have come not to abolish but to complete them. I tell you solemnly, till heaven and earth disappear, not one dot, not one little stroke, shall disappear from the Law until its purpose is achieved. Therefore, the man who infringes even one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be considered the least in the kingdom of heaven; but the man who keeps them and teaches them will be considered great in the kingdom of heaven.’
March 5, 2024 👉🏻 Sacrament of Penance 📃 Canon Law Topic 5 series of references
My Selected Canon Law Topic 📃
CHAPTER II.
Can. 967 §1. In addition to the Roman Pontiff, cardinals have the faculty of hearing the confessions of the Christian faithful everywhere in the world by the law itself. Bishops likewise have this faculty and use it licitly everywhere unless the diocesan bishop has denied it in a particular case.
§2. Those who possess the faculty of hearing confessions habitually whether by virtue of office or by virtue of the grant of an ordinary of the place of incardination or of the place in which they have a domicile can exercise that faculty everywhere unless the local ordinary has denied it in a particular case, without prejudice to the prescripts of can. 974, §§2 and 3.
§3. Those who are provided with the faculty of hearing confessions by reason of office or grant of a competent superior according to the norm of cann. 968, §2 and 969, §2 possess the same faculty everywhere by the law itself as regards members and others living day and night in the house of the institute or society; they also use the faculty licitly unless some major superior has denied it in a particular case as regards his own subjects.
https://www.vatican.va/archive/cod-iuris-canonici/eng/documents/cic_lib4-cann959-997_en.html#CHAPTER_II.
March 5, 2024 😇 Sacrament of Reconciliation 🌐 List of Sins for Confession 6 series of references
My Selected Article 🌐 Series of References
Post 6 of 15 Examination of Conscience ⛪ #PraxiFidesLent 🙏🏻
15 Mortal Sins 😇 Catholics Are Missing in Their Confessions by Fr Nix August 3rd, 2019
📌6. Homosexual Acts. All sexual sins (heterosexual or homosexual) are mortal sins if committed with consent. But homosexual sins are not only under the category of mortal, but under the category of mortal PLUS sins that are said to cry to God for vengeance. This means that sodomy is one of the four worst mortal sins you can commit. There is nothing wrong with same-gender friendship, but ramming a penis in an anus is filthy and evil and violent. That is what sodomy is. I know there are some priests out there committing sodomy, and other priests out there not committing sodomy but celebrating those who do commit sodomy. Let me be very blunt for the sake of your soul: If you are committing homosexual sins and do not repent, confess them and try your best to stop, you will go to hell forever. I’m sorry to be blunt, but I say this because I love you, and I really believe God can forgive everyone’s sins. Everyone knows God is merciful, but He is also powerful enough to forgive such filthy sins and make you clean again.
Finally, if your parish priest or confessor doubts any of the above are mortal sins, please tell him I will debate him publicly on the Magisterium in any place, in any forum (his parish, street corner, or on YouTube) at any time he wants.
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March 5, 2024 🥰 7 Corporal Works of Mercy 📜 Catechism 7 of 7 series of references
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Post 7 of 7 ⛪ THE 7 CORPORAL WORKS OF MERCY
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Lenten Season 😇 Examination of Conscience
Works of Mercy ⛪️CCC 2447 #PraxiFidesCCC 📜
The Corporal Works of Mercy are oriented toward the body.
📌Bury the Dead
Tobit 1 📖
17 I would give my bread to the hungry and clothing to the naked. If I saw one of my people who had died and been thrown behind the wall of Nineveh, I used to bury him.
18 Sennacherib returned from Judea, having fled during the days of the judgment enacted against him by the King of Heaven because of the blasphemies he had uttered; whomever he killed I buried. For in his rage he killed many Israelites, but I used to take their bodies away by stealth and bury them. So when Sennacherib looked for them, he could not find them.
The Seven Corporal Works of Mercy and their Holy Scripture references are:
📌Feed the Hungry
📌Give Drink to the Thirsty
📌 Clothe the Naked
📌 Shelter the Homeless
📌 Visit the Sick
📌 Visit the Imprisoned
📌Bury the Dead
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March 5, 2024 ⛪ Fourth Week of Lent 📕 Gospel Reference
My Gospel references for today 📕
Peace be with you - Families, relatives and friends 🥰
March 5 ⛪ Tuesday of the 3rd week of Lent
First reading 📖 Daniel 3:25,34-43
Let our sacrifice to you today be a contrite soul and humbled spirit
Psalm 🎶
Lord, make me know your ways.
Lord, teach me your paths.
Gospel
Matthew 18:21-35
To be forgiven, you must forgive
Peter went up to Jesus and said, ‘Lord, how often must I forgive my brother if he wrongs me? As often as seven times?’ Jesus answered, ‘Not seven, I tell you, but seventy-seven times. ‘And so the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who decided to settle his accounts with his servants. When the reckoning began, they brought him a man who owed ten thousand talents; but he had no means of paying, so his master gave orders that he should be sold, together with his wife and children and all his possessions, to meet the debt. At this, the servant threw himself down at his master’s feet. “Give me time” he said “and I will pay the whole sum.” And the servant’s master felt so sorry for him that he let him go and cancelled the debt. Now as this servant went out, he happened to meet a fellow servant who owed him one hundred denarii; and he seized him by the throat and began to throttle him. “Pay what you owe me” he said. His fellow servant fell at his feet and implored him, saying, “Give me time and I will pay you.” But the other would not agree; on the contrary, he had him thrown into prison till he should pay the debt. His fellow servants were deeply distressed when they saw what had happened, and they went to their master and reported the whole affair to him. Then the master sent for him. “You wicked servant,” he said “I cancelled all that debt of yours when you appealed to me. Were you not bound, then, to have pity on your fellow servant just as I had pity on you?” And in his anger the master handed him over to the torturers till he should pay all his debt. And that is how my heavenly Father will deal with you unless you each forgive your brother from your heart.’
March 4, 2024 👉🏻 Sacrament of Penance 📃 Canon Law Topic 4 series of references
My Selected Canon Law Topic 📃
CHAPTER II.
THE MINISTER OF THE SACRAMENT OF PENANCE
Can. 965 A priest alone is the minister of the sacrament of penance.
Can. 966 §1. The valid absolution of sins requires that the minister have, in addition to the power of orders, the faculty of exercising it for the faithful to whom he imparts absolution.
§2. A priest can be given this faculty either by the law itself or by a grant made by the competent authority according to the norm of can. 969.
https://www.vatican.va/archive/cod-iuris-canonici/eng/documents/cic_lib4-cann959-997_en.html#CHAPTER_II.
March 4, 2024 😇 Sacrament of Reconciliation 🌐 List of Sins for Confession 5 series of references
My Selected Article 🌐 Series of References
Post 5 of 15 Examination of Conscience ⛪ #PraxiFidesLent 🙏🏻
15 Mortal Sins 😇 Catholics Are Missing in Their Confessions by Fr Nix August 3rd, 2019
📌5. In marriage, anything unnatural. The two greatest moral theologians of the Church, St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Alphonsus Ligouri both teach that anal sex in marriage is a mortal sin. Even Catholic Answers once had an article explaining that any form of insertion-based oral-sex is a mortal sin—even in marriage. If you confess this sin, expect many parish priests to say, “it’s not a sin.” Then, you will say, “But St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Alphonsus Liguori both say it’s a mortal sin.” Then, your parish priest will probably say: “But they’re not infallible.” This reveals his total lack of understanding of Divine Revelation – that so much more than ex-cathedra statements are infallible in the Catholic Church. I don’t have time to re-vamp every priest’s six years in a single blog post on mortal sins and how hundreds of Popes agree with those two saints, so please just go to a traditional priest who knows this…or…pull out a modernist priest’s favorite line: “Please just respect my conscience in confessing this!”
Finally, if your parish priest or confessor doubts any of the above are mortal sins, please tell him I will debate him publicly on the Magisterium in any place, in any forum (his parish, street corner, or on YouTube) at any time he wants.
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March 4, 2024 🥰 7 Corporal Works of Mercy 📜 Catechism 6 of 7 series of references
My Selected Article 📜 and Holy Bible 📕 references for today
Post 6 of 7 ⛪ THE 7 CORPORAL WORKS OF MERCY
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Lenten Season 😇 Examination of Conscience
Works of Mercy ⛪️CCC 2447 #PraxiFidesCCC 📜
The Corporal Works of Mercy are oriented toward the body.
📌Visit the Imprisoned
Matthew 25:36 📖
36 naked and you clothed me, ill and you cared for me, in prison and you visited me.’
The Seven Corporal Works of Mercy and their Holy Scripture references are:
📌Feed the Hungry
📌Give Drink to the Thirsty
📌 Clothe the Naked
📌 Shelter the Homeless
📌 Visit the Sick
📌 Visit the Imprisoned
📌Bury the Dead
Continue & Read Full 🌐 USCCB
March 4, 2024 ⛪ Fourth Week of Lent 📕 Gospel Reference
My Gospel references for today 📕
Peace be with you - Families, relatives and friends 🥰
March 4 ⛪ Monday of the 4th week of Lent
First reading 📖 2 Kings 5:1-15
There were many lepers in Israel, but only Naaman, the Syrian, was cured
Psalm 🎶
My soul is thirsting for God,
the God of my life;
Gospel 📖 Luke 4:24-30
No prophet is ever accepted in his own country
Jesus came to Nazara and spoke to the people in the synagogue: ‘I tell you solemnly, no prophet is ever accepted in his own country.
‘There were many widows in Israel, I can assure you, in Elijah’s day, when heaven remained shut for three years and six months and a great famine raged throughout the land, but Elijah was not sent to any one of these: he was sent to a widow at Zarephath, a Sidonian town. And in the prophet Elisha’s time there were many lepers in Israel, but none of these was cured, except the Syrian, Naaman.’
When they heard this everyone in the synagogue was enraged. They sprang to their feet and hustled him out of the town; and they took him up to the brow of the hill their town was built on, intending to throw him down the cliff, but he slipped through the crowd and walked away.
March 3, 2024 👉🏻 Sacrament of Penance 📃 Canon Law Topic 3 series of references
My Selected Canon Law Topic 📃
Can. 963 Without prejudice to the obligation mentioned in can. 989, a person whose grave sins are remitted by general absolution is to approach individual confession as soon as possible, given the opportunity, before receiving another general absolution, unless a just cause intervenes.
Can. 964 §1. The proper place to hear sacramental confessions is a church or oratory.
§2. The conference of bishops is to establish norms regarding the confessional; it is to take care, however, that there are always confessionals with a fixed grate between the penitent and the confessor in an open place so that the faithful who wish to can use them freely.
§3. Confessions are not to be heard outside a confessional without a just cause.
https://www.vatican.va/archive/cod-iuris-canonici/eng/documents/cic_lib4-cann959-997_en.html#CHAPTER_II.
March 3, 2024 😇 Sacrament of Reconciliation 🌐 List of Sins for Confession 4 series of references
My Selected Article 🌐 Series of References
Post 4 of 15 Examination of Conscience ⛪ #PraxiFidesLent 🙏🏻
15 Mortal Sins 😇 Catholics Are Missing in Their Confessions by Fr Nix August 3rd, 2019
📌 4. Before marriage, making-out or anything more passionate than that. St. Thomas Aquinas writes: “I answer that a thing is said to be a mortal works. One may sin in two ways. First, by reason of its species, and in this way a kiss, caress, or touch does not, of its very nature, imply a mortal sin, for it is possible to do such things without lustful pleasure, either as being the custom of one’s country, or on account of some obligation or reasonable cause. Secondly, a thing is said to be a mortal sin by reason of its cause: thus he who gives an alms, in order to lead someone into heresy, sins mortally on account of his corrupt intention. Now it has been stated above (FS, Q[74], A[8]), that it is a mortal sin not only to consent to the act, but also to the delectation of a mortal sin. Wherefore since fornication is a mortal sin, and much more so the other kinds of lust, it follows that in such like sins not only consent to the act but also consent to the pleasure is a mortal sin. Consequently, when these kisses and caresses are done for this delectation, it follows that they are mortal sins, and only in this way are they said to be lustful. Therefore in so far as they are lustful, they are mortal sins…
Finally, if your parish priest or confessor doubts any of the above are mortal sins, please tell him I will debate him publicly on the Magisterium in any place, in any forum (his parish, street corner, or on YouTube) at any time he wants.
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March 3, 2024 🥰 7 Corporal Works of Mercy 📜 Catechism 5 of 7 series of references
My Selected Article 📜 and Holy Bible 📕 references for today
Post 5 of 7 ⛪ THE 7 CORPORAL WORKS OF MERCY
Selected Article 📜 and Holy Bible 📕 references for today
Lenten Season 😇 Examination of Conscience
Works of Mercy ⛪️CCC 2447 #PraxiFidesCCC 📜
The Corporal Works of Mercy are oriented toward the body.
📌 Visit the Sick
Matthew 25:36 📖
36 naked and you clothed me, ill and you cared for me, in prison and you visited me.’
The Seven Corporal Works of Mercy and their Holy Scripture references are:
📌Feed the Hungry
📌Give Drink to the Thirsty
📌 Clothe the Naked
📌 Shelter the Homeless
📌 Visit the Sick
📌 Visit the Imprisoned
📌Bury the Dead
Continue & Read Full 🌐 USCCB
March 3, 2024 ⛪ Third Week of Lent 📕 Gospel Reference
My Gospel references for today 📕
Peace be with you - Families, relatives and friends 🥰
March 3 ⛪ Sunday of the 3rd week of Lent
First reading 📖 Exodus 20:1-17+
The Law given at Sinai
Psalm 🎶
The law of the Lord is perfect,
it revives the soul.
Second reading 📖 1 Corinthians 1:22-25
The crucified Christ, the power and wisdom of God
While the Jews demand miracles and the Greeks look for wisdom, here are we preaching a crucified Christ; to the Jews an obstacle that they cannot get over, to the pagans madness, but to those who have been called, whether they are Jews or Greeks, a Christ who is the power and the wisdom of God. For God’s foolishness is wiser than human wisdom, and God’s weakness is stronger than human strength.
Gospel 📖 John 2:13-25
Destroy this sanctuary and in three days I will raise it up
Just before the Jewish Passover Jesus went up to Jerusalem, and in the Temple he found people selling cattle and sheep and pigeons, and the money-changers sitting at their counters there. Making a whip out of some cord, he drove them all out of the Temple, cattle and sheep as well, scattered the money-changers’ coins, knocked their tables over and said to the pigeon-sellers, ‘Take all this out of here and stop turning my Father’s house into a market.’ Then his disciples remembered the words of scripture: Zeal for your house will devour me. The Jews intervened and said, ‘What sign can you show us to justify what you have done?’ Jesus answered, ‘Destroy this sanctuary, and in three days I will raise it up.’ The Jews replied, ‘It has taken forty-six years to build this sanctuary: are you going to raise it up in three days?’ But he was speaking of the sanctuary that was his body, and when Jesus rose from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the scripture and the words he had said.
During his stay in Jerusalem for the Passover many believed in his name when they saw the signs that he gave, but Jesus knew them all and did not trust himself to them; he never needed evidence about any man; he could tell what a man had in him.
March 2, 2024 👉🏻 Sacrament of Penance 📃 Canon Law Topic 2 series of references
My Selected Canon Law Topic 📃
TCan. 962 §1. For a member of the Christian faithful validly to receive sacramental absolution given to many at one time, it is required not only that the person is properly disposed but also at the same time intends to confess within a suitable period of time each grave sin which at the present time cannot be so confessed.
§2. Insofar as it can be done even on the occasion of the reception of general absolution, the Christian faithful are to be instructed about the requirements of the norm of §1. An exhortation that each person take care to make an act of contrition is to precede general absolution even in the case of danger of death, if there is time.
https://www.vatican.va/archive/cod-iuris-canonici/eng/documents/cic_lib4-cann959-997_en.html#CHAPTER_II.
March 2, 2024 😇 Sacrament of Reconciliation 🌐 List of Sins for Confession 3 series of references
My Selected Article 🌐 Series of References
Post 3 of 15 Examination of Conscience ⛪ #PraxiFidesLent 🙏🏻
15 Mortal Sins 😇 Catholics Are Missing in Their Confessions by Fr Nix August 3rd, 2019
📌 3. Immodesty, Including Wearing Leggings and Short Shorts. I could quote countless saints here, but the most succinct description is what the Mother of God said at Fatima: “Certain fashions will be introduced that will offend Our Lord very much.”—Our Lady of Fatima, 1917. What are these certain fashions? If not leggings and short shorts, then what? Strangely, many Catholic women know this quote from Fatima, but they only apply it to women who wear less than themselves. Ladies, when you hear that quote from Our Lady of Fatima that certain fashions will lead you (and the men who look at you) to hell, are you imagining some imaginary time in the year 3022 when some fashion gets worse than leggings and short shorts? What could be more revealing than something that shows every nook and cranny below your waist? What would this magical outfit be that could be worse than that? There is nothing. Rather, let me assure you: The Mother of God very much meant that short shorts, leggings and bikinis will lead you to hell, including letting your little girls wear leggings. If you wear these things to Mass, you should also confess sacrilege. Or, if you don’t believe my interpretation of Mary’s words, then go for it. Wear it and let your daughters prance around Target in short-shorts and leggings. But might I suggest Pascal’s wager for this one: If your parish priest is right and Fr. Nix is wrong on his interpretation of Fatima, then the most you have lost is a little “comfort” in avoiding leggings for believing me in an erroneous state. But if Fr. Nix is correct in his interpretation (that Mary meant nothing worse than leggings and short-shorts) then just meditate on your first 15 seconds in hell. As Fr. Z says, just meditate on your first 15 seconds in hell. Meditate on that 7000 degree furnace for fifteen seconds and the realization that you just lost God forever because you thought leggings (again, that showed every nook and cranny of your nether-regions to every man around you) led you and countless men to hell for the sake of “comfort.” Am I using fear of hell to get you to stop wearing leggings and short shorts? Hell yes, I am.
Finally, if your parish priest or confessor doubts any of the above are mortal sins, please tell him I will debate him publicly on the Magisterium in any place, in any forum (his parish, street corner, or on YouTube) at any time he wants.
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March 2, 2024 🥰 7 Corporal Works of Mercy 📜 Catechism 4 of 7 series of references
My Selected Article 📜 and Holy Bible 📕 references for today
Post 4 of 7 ⛪ THE 7 CORPORAL WORKS OF MERCY
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Lenten Season 😇 Examination of Conscience
Works of Mercy ⛪️CCC 2447 #PraxiFidesCCC 📜
The Corporal Works of Mercy are oriented toward the body.
📌Shelter the Homeless
Matthew 25:35 📖
35 For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, a stranger and you welcomed me.
The Seven Corporal Works of Mercy and their Holy Scripture references are:
📌Feed the Hungry
📌Give Drink to the Thirsty
📌 Clothe the Naked
📌 Shelter the Homeless
📌 Visit the Sick
📌 Visit the Imprisoned
📌Bury the Dead
Continue & Read Full 🌐 USCCB
March 2, 2024 ⛪ First Saturday - Second Week of Lent 📕 Gospel Reference
My Gospel references for today 📕
Peace be with you - Families, relatives and friends 🥰
March 2 ⛪ Saturday of the 3rd week of Lent
First reading 📖 Micah 7:14-15,18-20
Have pity on us one more time
Psalm 🎶
My soul, give thanks to the Lord
all my being, bless his holy name.
Gospel 📖 Luke 15:1-3,11-32
The prodigal son
The tax collectors and the sinners were all seeking the company of Jesus to hear what he had to say, and the Pharisees and the scribes complained. ‘This man’ they said ‘welcomes sinners and eats with them.’ So he spoke this parable to them:
‘A man had two sons. The younger said to his father, “Father, let me have the share of the estate that would come to me.” So the father divided the property between them. A few days later, the younger son got together everything he had and left for a distant country where he squandered his money on a life of debauchery.
‘When he had spent it all, that country experienced a severe famine, and now he began to feel the pinch, so he hired himself out to one of the local inhabitants who put him on his farm to feed the pigs. And he would willingly have filled his belly with the husks the pigs were eating but no one offered him anything. Then he came to his senses and said, “How many of my father’s paid servants have more food than they want, and here am I dying of hunger! I will leave this place and go to my father and say: Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you; I no longer deserve to be called your son; treat me as one of your paid servants.” So he left the place and went back to his father.
‘While he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was moved with pity. He ran to the boy, clasped him in his arms and kissed him tenderly. Then his son said, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I no longer deserve to be called your son.” But the father said to his servants, “Quick! Bring out the best robe and put it on him; put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet. Bring the calf we have been fattening, and kill it; we are going to have a feast, a celebration, because this son of mine was dead and has come back to life; he was lost and is found.” And they began to celebrate.
‘Now the elder son was out in the fields, and on his way back, as he drew near the house, he could hear music and dancing. Calling one of the servants he asked what it was all about. “Your brother has come” replied the servant “and your father has killed the calf we had fattened because he has got him back safe and sound.” He was angry then and refused to go in, and his father came out to plead with him; but he answered his father, “Look, all these years I have slaved for you and never once disobeyed your orders, yet you never offered me so much as a kid for me to celebrate with my friends. But, for this son of yours, when he comes back after swallowing up your property – he and his women – you kill the calf we had been fattening.”
‘The father said, “My son, you are with me always and all I have is yours. But it was only right we should celebrate and rejoice, because your brother here was dead and has come to life; he was lost and is found.”’
March 1, 2024 👉🏻 Sacrament of Penance 📃 Canon Law Topic 1 series of references
My Selected Canon Law Topic 📃
TITLE IV. THE SACRAMENT OF PENANCE (Cann. 959 - 997)
Can. 959 In the sacrament of penance the faithful who confess their sins to a legitimate minister, are sorry for them, and intend to reform themselves obtain from God through the absolution imparted by the same minister forgiveness for the sins they have committed after baptism and, at the same, time are reconciled with the Church which they have wounded by sinning.
CHAPTER I.
THE CELEBRATION OF THE SACRAMENT
Can. 960 Individual and integral confession and absolution constitute the only ordinary means by which a member of the faithful conscious of grave sin is reconciled with God and the Church. Only physical or moral impossibility excuses from confession of this type; in such a case reconciliation can be obtained by other means.
Can. 961 §1. Absolution cannot be imparted in a general manner to many penitents at once without previous individual confession unless:
1/ danger of death is imminent and there is insufficient time for the priest or priests to hear the confessions of the individual penitents;
2/ there is grave necessity, that is, when in view of the number of penitents, there are not enough confessors available to hear the confessions of individuals properly within a suitable period of time in such a way that the penitents are forced to be deprived for a long while of sacramental grace or holy communion through no fault of their own. Sufficient necessity is not considered to exist when confessors cannot be present due only to the large number of penitents such as can occur on some great feast or pilgrimage.
§2. It belongs to the diocesan bishop to judge whether the conditions required according to the norm of §1, n. 2 are present. He can determine the cases of such necessity, attentive to the criteria agreed upon with the other members of the conference of bishops.
https://www.vatican.va/archive/cod-iuris-canonici/eng/documents/cic_lib4-cann959-997_en.html#CHAPTER_II.
March 1, 2024 😇 Sacrament of Reconciliation 🌐 List of Sins for Confession 2 series of references
My Selected Article 🌐 Series of References
Post 2 of 15 Examination of Conscience ⛪ #PraxiFidesLent 🙏🏻
15 Mortal Sins 😇 Catholics Are Missing in Their Confessions by Fr Nix August 3rd, 2019
📌 2. Masturbation and/or Pornography, before marriage or within marriage. Some saints have pointed out that sins which exacted physical death in the Old Covenant (Judaism) are frequently the sins that cause spiritual death in the New Testament (Catholicism.) God directly only kills a few people in the Old Testament, and Onan is one of them: “But Onan knew that the offspring would not be his. So whenever he went in to his brother’s wife he would waste the semen on the ground, so as not to give offspring to his brother. And what he did was wicked in the sight of the Lord, and He put him to death also.”—Gen 38:9-10. Thus, sterilization and masturbation and the use of the condom is a mortal sin even when no pornography is used. How about pornography without masturbation? This too is a mortal sin since Jesus said “But I say to you, that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.”—Mt 5:28.” In this vein, simply lusting after a woman or a man on the street can be mortal sin! But thankfully St. Francis De Sales (a doctor of the Church) gives us some parameters to know if we consented to such temptations.
Finally, if your parish priest or confessor doubts any of the above are mortal sins, please tell him I will debate him publicly on the Magisterium in any place, in any forum (his parish, street corner, or on YouTube) at any time he wants.
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March 1, 2024 🥰 7 Corporal Works of Mercy 📜 Catechism 3 of 7 series of references
My Selected Article 📜 and Holy Bible 📕 references for today
Post 3 of 7 ⛪ THE 7 CORPORAL WORKS OF MERCY
Selected Article 📜 and Holy Bible 📕 references for today
Lenten Season 😇 Examination of Conscience
Works of Mercy ⛪️CCC 2447 #PraxiFidesCCC 📜
The Corporal Works of Mercy are oriented toward the body.
📌 Clothe the Naked
Matthew 25:36 📖
36 naked and you clothed me, ill and you cared for me, in prison and you visited me.’
The Seven Corporal Works of Mercy and their Holy Scripture references are:
📌Feed the Hungry
📌Give Drink to the Thirsty
📌 Clothe the Naked
📌 Shelter the Homeless
📌 Visit the Sick
📌 Visit the Imprisoned
📌Bury the Dead
Continue & Read Full 🌐 USCCB
March 1, 2024 ⛪ First Friday - Second Week of Lent 📕 Gospel Reference
My Gospel references for today 📕
Peace be with you - Families, relatives and friends 🥰
1 MARCH ⛪ First Fiday
Friday of the 2nd week of Lent
First reading 📖nesis 37:3-4,12-13,17-28
Psalm 🎶
The Lord called down a famine on the land;
he broke the staff that supported them.
He had sent a man before them,
Joseph, sold as a slave.
Gospel
Matthew 21:33-43,45-46
This is the landlord's heir: come, let us kill him
Jesus said to the chief priests and the elders of the people, ‘Listen to another parable. There was a man, a landowner, who planted a vineyard; he fenced it round, dug a winepress in it and built a tower; then he leased it to tenants and went abroad. When vintage time drew near he sent his servants to the tenants to collect his produce. But the tenants seized his servants, thrashed one, killed another and stoned a third. Next he sent some more servants, this time a larger number, and they dealt with them in the same way. Finally he sent his son to them. “They will respect my son” he said. But when the tenants saw the son, they said to each other, “This is the heir. Come on, let us kill him and take over his inheritance.” So they seized him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. Now when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?’ They answered, ‘He will bring those wretches to a wretched end and lease the vineyard to other tenants who will deliver the produce to him when the season arrives.’ Jesus said to them, ‘Have you never read in the scriptures:
It was the stone rejected by the builders
that became the keystone.
This was the Lord’s doing
and it is wonderful to see?
‘I tell you, then, that the kingdom of God will be taken from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit.’
When they heard his parables, the chief priests and the scribes realised he was speaking about them, but though they would have liked to arrest him they were afraid of the crowds, who looked on him as a prophet.
February 29, 2024 😇 Sacrament of Reconciliation 🌐 List of Sins for Confession 1 series of references
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Post 1 of 15 Examination of Conscience ⛪ #PraxiFidesLent 🙏🏻
15 Mortal Sins 😇 Catholics Are Missing in Their Confessions by Fr Nix August 3rd, 2019
📌 1. Contraception, IVF, and Abortion. Most readers here know that abortion is murder. But many Catholics do not know that contraception (in marriage or out of marriage) is a mortal sin. Both sterilization (of the man or woman) and/or the condom (male or female) is a mortal sin. These must be confessed to enter sanctifying grace. But there is a worse contraceptive sin than even the condom or sterilization within marriage: Many Catholics do not know that the Oral Contraceptive and the IUD function half the time as a contraceptive and half the time as an abortifacient. I explained the medicine of that in this podcast here. This means that Catholic women on the Pill (and the men who sleep with them) should confess their sorrow not only for the mortal sin of contraception in marriage, but also having killed any of their own children through the use of the Pill, the shot or the birth-control implant in the arm. All of these OCs are chemically wired to first stop ovulation and then, as a back-up, to slough off the inner-lining of the uterus to eject newly formed individuals (your children!) into the toilet. As most readers know, IVF requires you to sacrifice about 20 of your own children via both “embryo reduction” and “freezing” to get about two of them born. Thus, IVF is literally murdering and freezing many of your children to get a few born for yourself. God can quickly forgive the murder of children. If even a priest as intense as me will not scream at anyone in the confessional for this sin, then neither will any priest out there. Just confess it, even if you didn’t know it.
Finally, if your parish priest or confessor doubts any of the above are mortal sins, please tell him I will debate him publicly on the Magisterium in any place, in any forum (his parish, street corner, or on YouTube) at any time he wants.
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February 29, 2024 🥰 7 Corporal Works of Mercy 📜 Catechism 2 of 7 series of references
My Selected Article 📜 and Holy Bible 📕 references for today
Post 2 of 7 ⛪ THE 7 CORPORAL WORKS OF MERCY
Selected Article 📜 and Holy Bible 📕 references for today
Lenten Season 😇 Examination of Conscience
Works of Mercy ⛪️CCC 2447 #PraxiFidesCCC 📜
The Corporal Works of Mercy are oriented toward the body.
The Seven Corporal Works of Mercy and their Holy Scripture references are:
📌2. Give Drink to the Thirsty
📖 Isaiah 55:1
All you who are thirsty,
come to the water!
You who have no money,
come, buy grain, and eat;
Come, buy grain without money,
wine and milk without cost!
📌Feed the Hungry
📌 Clothe the Naked
📌 Shelter the Homeless
📌 Visit the Sick
📌 Visit the Imprisoned
📌Bury the Dead
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February 29, 2024 ⛪ Second Week of Lent 📕 Gospel Reference
My Gospel references for today 📕
Feb. 29 ⛪ Thursday of the 2nd week of Lent
First reading 📖 Jeremiah 17:5-10
A curse on the man who puts his trust in man and turns from the Lord
Psalm 🎶
Happy indeed is the man
who follows not the counsel of the wicked;
nor lingers in the way of sinners
Gospel Luke 16:19-31
Dives and Lazarus
Jesus said to the Pharisees: ‘There was a rich man who used to dress in purple and fine linen and feast magnificently every day. And at his gate there lay a poor man called Lazarus, covered with sores, who longed to fill himself with the scraps that fell from the rich man’s table. Dogs even came and licked his sores. Now the poor man died and was carried away by the angels to the bosom of Abraham. The rich man also died and was buried.
‘In his torment in Hades he looked up and saw Abraham a long way off with Lazarus in his bosom. So he cried out, “Father Abraham, pity me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am in agony in these flames.” “My son,” Abraham replied “remember that during your life good things came your way, just as bad things came the way of Lazarus. Now he is being comforted here while you are in agony. But that is not all: between us and you a great gulf has been fixed, to stop anyone, if he wanted to, crossing from our side to yours, and to stop any crossing from your side to ours.”
‘The rich man replied, “Father, I beg you then to send Lazarus to my father’s house, since I have five brothers, to give them warning so that they do not come to this place of torment too.” “They have Moses and the prophets,” said Abraham “let them listen to them.” “Ah no, father Abraham,” said the rich man “but if someone comes to them from the dead, they will repent.” Then Abraham said to him, “If they will not listen either to Moses or to the prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone should rise from the dead.”’
February 28, 2024 🥰 7 Corporal Works of Mercy 📜 Catechism 1 of 7 series of references
My Selected Article 📜 and Holy Bible 📕 references for today
Lenten Season 😇 Examination of Conscience
Works of Mercy ⛪️CCC 2447 #PraxiFidesCCC 📜
Reference 7 of 7 📜
📌Pray for the Living and the Dead
2 Maccabees 12:38-46 📖
38 So Judas having gathered together his army, came into the city Odollam: and when the seventh day came, they purified themselves according to the custom, and kept the sabbath in the place.
39 And the day following Judas came with his company, to take away the bodies of them that were slain, and to bury them with their kinsmen, in the sepulchres of their fathers.
40 And they found under the coats of the slain some of the donaries of the idols of Jamnia, which the law forbiddeth to the Jews: so that all plainly saw, that for this cause they were slain.
41 Then they all blessed the just judgment of the Lord, who had discovered the things that were hidden.
42 And so betaking themselves to prayers, they besought him, that the sin which had been committed might be forgotten. But the most valiant Judas exhorted the people to keep themselves from sin, forasmuch as they saw before their eyes what had happened, because of the sins of those that were slain.
43 And making a gathering, he sent twelve thousand drachms of silver to Jerusalem for sacrifice to be offered for the sins of the dead, thinking well and religiously concerning the resurrection,
44 (For if he had not hoped that they that were slain should rise again, it would have seemed superfluous and vain to pray for the dead,)
45 And because he considered that they who had fallen asleep with godliness, had great grace laid up for them.
46 It is therefore a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from sins.
February 28, 2024 ⛪ Second Week of Lent 📕 Gospel Reference
My Gospel references for today 📕
Feb. 28 ⛪ Wednesday of the 2nd week of Lent
First reading 📖 Jeremiah 18:18-20
My enemies are digging a pit for me
Psalm 🎶
Release me from the snares they have hidden
for you are my refuge, Lord.
Gospel Matthew 20:17-28
They will condemn the Son of Man to death
Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, and on the way he took the Twelve to one side and said to them, ‘Now we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man is about to be handed over to the chief priests and scribes. They will condemn him to death and will hand him over to the pagans to be mocked and scourged and crucified; and on the third day he will rise again.’
Then the mother of Zebedee’s sons came with her sons to make a request of him, and bowed low; and he said to her, ‘What is it you want?’ She said to him, ‘Promise that these two sons of mine may sit one at your right hand and the other at your left in your kingdom.’ ‘You do not know what you are asking’ Jesus answered. ‘Can you drink the cup that I am going to drink?’ They replied, ‘We can.’ ‘Very well,’ he said ‘you shall drink my cup, but as for seats at my right hand and my left, these are not mine to grant; they belong to those to whom they have been allotted by my Father.’
When the other ten heard this they were indignant with the two brothers. But Jesus called them to him and said, ‘You know that among the pagans the rulers lord it over them, and their great men make their authority felt. This is not to happen among you. No; anyone who wants to be great among you must be your servant, and anyone who wants to be first among you must be your slave, just as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.’
February 28, 2024🧑🏻🤝🧑 Mixed Marriage 📃 Canon Law Topic reference for Today
My Selected Canon Law Topic 📃
Someone asked what does he/she need since she was Married in a Catholic Church/Matrimonial Ceremony (Mixed Marriage)
CHAPTER VI. MIXED MARRIAGES
Can. 1124n Marriage between two baptized persons, one of whom was baptized in the Catholic Church or received into it after baptism, and the other a member of a Church or ecclesial community not in full communion with the Catholic Church, cannot be celebrated without the express permission of the competent authority.
If he/she wants to be a member of RCC formally
📍Catechism process needed
📍Like the sacrament of Reconciliation
Not yet in the full communion of the Church ⛪
So:
📌Do not serve in the Church for the meantime
📌But should also not receive the Holy Eucharist (because this will be considered as sacrilege)
Can. 1378 — § 1. A person who, apart from the cases already foreseen by the law, abuses ecclesiastical power, office, or function, is to be punished according to the gravity of the act or the omission, not excluding by deprivation of the power or office, without prejudice to the obligation of repairing the harm.
§ 2. A person who, through culpable negligence, unlawfully and with harm to another or scandal, performs or omits an act of ecclesiastical power or office or function, is to be punished according to the provision of can. 1336 §§ 2-4, without prejudice to the obligation of repairing the harm.
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February 27, 2024 🥰 7 Spiritual Works of Mercy 📜 Catechism 7 of 7 series of references
My Selected Article 📜 and Holy Bible 📕 references for today
Lenten Season 😇 Examination of Conscience
Works of Mercy ⛪️CCC 2447 #PraxiFidesCCC 📜
Reference 7 of 7 📜
📌Pray for the Living and the Dead
2 Maccabees 12:38-46 📖
38 So Judas having gathered together his army, came into the city Odollam: and when the seventh day came, they purified themselves according to the custom, and kept the sabbath in the place.
39 And the day following Judas came with his company, to take away the bodies of them that were slain, and to bury them with their kinsmen, in the sepulchres of their fathers.
40 And they found under the coats of the slain some of the donaries of the idols of Jamnia, which the law forbiddeth to the Jews: so that all plainly saw, that for this cause they were slain.
41 Then they all blessed the just judgment of the Lord, who had discovered the things that were hidden.
42 And so betaking themselves to prayers, they besought him, that the sin which had been committed might be forgotten. But the most valiant Judas exhorted the people to keep themselves from sin, forasmuch as they saw before their eyes what had happened, because of the sins of those that were slain.
43 And making a gathering, he sent twelve thousand drachms of silver to Jerusalem for sacrifice to be offered for the sins of the dead, thinking well and religiously concerning the resurrection,
44 (For if he had not hoped that they that were slain should rise again, it would have seemed superfluous and vain to pray for the dead,)
45 And because he considered that they who had fallen asleep with godliness, had great grace laid up for them.
46 It is therefore a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from sins.
February 27, 2024 ❌ Sin of Apostacy 📃 Canon Law Topic reference for Today
My Selected Canon Law Topic 📃
Feb 27 - Canon Law Reference #PraxiFidesCL 📃
When someone leaves the Roman Catholic Church Faith ⛪
📌It is considered as "Sin of Apostasy"
canon law reference 📃
Cann. 1364 - 1369
An apostate from the faith, a heretic or a schismatic incurs a latae sententiae excommunication, without prejudice to the provision of can. 194 § 1 n. 2; he or she may also be punished with the penalties mentioned in can. 1336 §§ 2-4.
§ 2. If a long-standing contempt or the gravity of scandal calls for it, other penalties may be added, not excluding dismissal from the clerical state.
Ccc 📜
Can. 751 Heresy is the obstinate denial or obstinate doubt after the reception of baptism of some truth which is to be believed by divine and Catholic faith; apostasy is the total repudiation of the Christian faith; schism is the refusal of submission to the Supreme Pontiff or of communion with the members of the Church subject to him.
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https://www.catholic.com/encyclopedia/apostasy
vatican.va on canon law
February 27, 2024 ⛪ Second Week of Lent 📕 Gospel Reference
My Gospel references for today 📕
February 2, Tuesay ⛪ Second Week of Lenten Season
First reading 📖 Isaiah 1:10,16-20
Cease to do evil; learn to do good
Psalm o🎶
‘But how can you recite my commandments
and take my covenant on your lips,
you who despise my law
and throw my words to the winds,
Gospel
Matthew 23:1-12
They do not practise what they preach
Addressing the people and his disciples Jesus said, ‘The scribes and the Pharisees occupy the chair of Moses. You must therefore do what they tell you and listen to what they say; but do not be guided by what they do: since they do not practise what they preach. They tie up heavy burdens and lay them on men’s shoulders, but will they lift a finger to move them? Not they! Everything they do is done to attract attention, like wearing broader phylacteries and longer tassels, like wanting to take the place of honour at banquets and the front seats in the synagogues, being greeted obsequiously in the market squares and having people call them Rabbi.
‘You, however, must not allow yourselves to be called Rabbi, since you have only one master, and you are all brothers. You must call no one on earth your father, since you have only one Father, and he is in heaven. Nor must you allow yourselves to be called teachers, for you have only one Teacher, the Christ. The greatest among you must be your servant. Anyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and anyone who humbles himself will be exalted.’
February 26, 2024 🥰 7 Spiritual Works of Mercy 📜 Catechism 6 of 7 series of references
My Selected Article 📜 and Holy Bible 📕 references for today
Selected Article 📜 and Holy Bible 📕 references for today
Lenten Season 😇 Examination of Conscience
Works of Mercy ⛪️CCC 2447 #PraxiFidesCCC 📜
Reference 6 of 7 📜 Part 1
📌Comfort the Afflicted
Psalms 9:8-11 📖
8 The LORD rules forever,
has set up his throne for judgment.
9It is he who judges the world with justice,
who judges the peoples with fairness.
10 The LORD is a stronghold for the oppressed,
a stronghold in times of trouble.
11 Those who know your name trust in you;
you never forsake those who seek you, LORD.
23 Then I will proclaim your name to my brethren;
in the assembly I will praise you:
24 “You who fear the LORD, give praise!
All descendants of Jacob, give honor;
show reverence, all descendants of Israel!
25 For he has not spurned or disdained
the misery of this poor wretch,
Did not turn away* from me,
but heard me when I cried out.
26 I will offer praise in the great assembly;
my vows I will fulfill before those who fear him.
27 The poor* will eat their fill;
those who seek the LORD will offer praise.
May your hearts enjoy life forever!”
Psalms 22:23-27 📖
23 Then I will proclaim your name to my brethren;
in the assembly I will praise you:
24 “You who fear the LORD, give praise!
All descendants of Jacob, give honor;
show reverence, all descendants of Israel!
25 For he has not spurned or disdained
the misery of this poor wretch,
Did not turn away from me,
but heard me when I cried out.
26 I will offer praise in the great assembly;
my vows I will fulfill before those who fear him.
27 The poor* will eat their fill;
those who seek the LORD will offer praise.
May your hearts enjoy life forever!”
More 👇🏻
Psalms 27:4-5; 30:2-4,
Psalms 46:2; 55:22,
Psalms 56; 71:20-22,
Psalms 116; 119:49-50
Jeremiah 29:11-14
Lamentations 3:21-24, 31-33
Nahum 1:7-8
Matthew 11:28-30
John 14:15-18, 27; 16:22-23
2 Corinthians 5:17
1 Peter 5:5-11
Revelation 21:4
February 26, 2024 🙏🏻 Blessed Objects 📃 Canon Law Topic reference for Today
My Selected Canon Law Topic 📃
Feb 26 - Canon Law Reference
Disposing of Blessed Objects #PraxiFidesCL 📃
Can. 1171 Sacred objects, which are designated for divine worship by dedication or blessing, are to be treated reverently and are not to be employed for profane or inappropriate use even if they are owned by private persons.
A brief article that addresses the question of how to treat blessed objects by Fr. William Saunders
What should I do with my old blessed palm? I also have some broken statues and rosaries that were blessed? Since they are blessed, I am sure that I should not just throw these out. Are there any guidelines? —A reader in Sterling
As Catholics, we are accustomed to having religious objects "blessed." Here a bishop or a priest imparts a blessing which signifies the permanent sanctification and dedication of an object for some sacred purpose. This blessing is technically termed "a constitutive blessing." For example when a bishop dedicates, or classically speaking, consecrates, an altar, that altar must only be used for sacred purposes, particularly the offering of the Mass. Or, when a chalice is blessed, it becomes a sacred vessel dedicated solely to sacred usage. Once a religious object is blessed and dedicated for divine worship or veneration, it must be treated with reverence and not be used in either an improper or profane way (cf. Code of Canon Law, #1171).
However, blessed religious objects break or wear from use. The basic rule for the disposition of these items is to burn or to bury them. During the 1800s, both the Sacred Congregation for the Rites and the Holy Office (now known respectively as the Sacred Congregation for the Sacraments and Divine Worship and the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith) issued various determinations concerning this issue. Here are a few examples: A chalice which becomes "unserviceable" is not to be sold, but must be used for some other sacred purpose or melted. Vestments, altar cloths, and linens must be destroyed. Polluted or excess holy water must be poured into the ground. Palms are to be burned, and the ashes then used for distribution on Ash Wednesday or returned to the ground. A broken rosary or religious statue normally would be buried. In all, the underlying idea is that what has been dedicated to God should be returned to God. Never should one just "throw out" what has been dedicated to God.
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https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?recnum=3802
February 26, 2024 ⛪ Second Week of Lent 📕 Gospel Reference
My Gospel references for today 📕
February 26, Monday ⛪ Second Week of Lenten Season
First reading 📖 Daniel 9:4-10
Yours is the integrity, Lord; ours the shame
O Lord, God great and to be feared, you keep the covenant and have kindness for those who love you and keep your commandments: we have sinned, we have done wrong, we have acted wickedly, we have betrayed your commandments and your ordinances and turned away from them. We have not listened to your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to our kings, our princes, our ancestors, and to all the people of the land. Integrity, Lord, is yours; ours the look of shame we wear today, we, the people of Judah, the citizens of Jerusalem, the whole of Israel, near and far away, in every country to which you have dispersed us because of the treason we have committed against you. To us, Lord, the look of shame belongs, to our kings, our princes, our ancestors, because we have sinned against you. To the Lord our God mercy and pardon belong, because we have betrayed him, and have not listened to the voice of the Lord our God nor followed the laws he has given us through his servants the prophets.
Psalm 🎶
Do not hold the guilt of our fathers against us.
Let your compassion hasten to meet us;
Gospel 📖 Luke 6:36-38
Grant pardon, and you will be pardoned
Jesus said to his disciples: ‘Be compassionate as your Father is compassionate. Do not judge, and you will not be judged yourselves; do not condemn, and you will not be condemned yourselves; grant pardon, and you will be pardoned. Give, and there will be gifts for you: a full measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be poured into your lap; because the amount you measure out is the amount you will be given back.’
February 25, 2024 🥰 Days of Penance 📃 Canon Law Topic 5 series of references
My Selected Canon Law Topic 📃 and Catechism 📜 references for today
Lenten Season 😇 Examination of Conscience
📌Number 1 from "The Five Precepts of the Church" (from CCC 2041-2043) is also related to the topic below 👇🏻
Canon Law Chapter II
Topic 5 📜
Days of Penance
Can. 1253 The conference of bishops can determine more precisely the observance of fast and abstinence as well as substitute other forms of penance, especially works of charity and exercises of piety, in whole or in part, for abstinence and fast.
Full from 🌐 Vatican Canon Law and Catechism
February 25, 2024 ⛪ Sunday of the First Week of Lent 📕 Gospel Reference
My Gospel references for today 📕
February 25, Sunday ⛪ First Week of Lenten Season
First reading 📖 Genesis 22:1-2,9-13,15-18-
The sacrifice of Abraham, our father in faith
Psalm 🎶
I trusted, even when I said:
‘I am sorely afflicted,’
O precious in the eyes of the Lord
is the death of his faithful.
Second reading 📖 Romans 8:31-34
God did not spare his own Son
With God on our side who can be against us? Since God did not spare his own Son, but gave him up to benefit us all, we may be certain, after such a gift, that he will not refuse anything he can give. Could anyone accuse those that God has chosen? When God acquits, could anyone condemn? Could Christ Jesus? No! He not only died for us – he rose from the dead, and there at God’s right hand he stands and pleads for us.
Gospel 📖 Mark 9:2-10
This is my Son, the Beloved
Jesus took with him Peter and James and John and led them up a high mountain where they could be alone by themselves. There in their presence he was transfigured: his clothes became dazzlingly white, whiter than any earthly bleacher could make them. Elijah appeared to them with Moses; and they were talking with Jesus. Then Peter spoke to Jesus: ‘Rabbi,’ he said ‘it is wonderful for us to be here; so let us make three tents, one for you, one for Moses and one for Elijah.’ He did not know what to say; they were so frightened. And a cloud came, covering them in shadow; and there came a voice from the cloud, ‘This is my Son, the Beloved. Listen to him.’ Then suddenly, when they looked round, they saw no one with them any more but only Jesus.
As they came down from the mountain he warned them to tell no one what they had seen, until after the Son of Man had risen from the dead. They observed the warning faithfully, though among themselves they discussed what ‘rising from the dead’ could mean.
February 25, 2024 🥰 Cathedral 📃 Catholic Definition of Terms 2 series of references
Catholic Definition of Terms references for today
In relation to the Feast Day of Saint Peter's Chair (February 22)
cathedral ⛪Christian church
Cathedral, in Christian churches that have an episcopal form of church government, the church in which a residential bishop has his official seat or throne, the cathedra. Cathedral churches are of different degrees of dignity. There are cathedral churches of simple diocesan bishops, of archbishops or metropolitans, of primates, patriarchs, and, in the Roman Catholic Church, of the pope. A cathedral church is not necessarily large and magnificent, although most cathedrals have become so. Since the territorial organization of the early church followed that of the Roman Empire, cathedrals from the first were established wherever possible in towns, not in villages. In the early European Middle Ages, the town in which a cathedral church was situated became known as the cathedral city.
Read more 🌐 https://www.britannica.com/topic/cathedral-Christian-church
February 25, 2024 😇 Quote from a Saint 🙏🏻
Story from a Saint for today 😇
Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself. I mean, do not be disturbed because of your imperfections, and always rise up bravely from a fall. I am glad that you make a daily new beginning; there is no better means of progress in the spiritual life than to be continually beginning afresh, and never to think that we have done enough. 😇Saint Francis de Sales
February 25, 2024 🥰 7 Spiritual Works of Mercy 📜 Catechism 5 of 7 series of references
My Selected Article 📜 and Holy Bible 📕 references for today
Selected Article 📜 and Holy Bible 📕 references for today
Lenten Season 😇 Examination of Conscience
Works of Mercy ⛪️CCC 2447 #PraxiFidesCCC 📜
Reference 5 of 7📜
The Spiritual Works of Mercy are oriented toward the soul. Though ideally applicable for all faithful, not everyone is considered capable or obligated to perform the first three Spiritual Works of Mercy before they possess the proper tact, knowledge or canonical training to do so. The remaining four Spiritual Works of Mercy are considered to be an obligation of all faithful to practice unconditionally.
📌 Forgive Offenses Willingly
Matthew 6 📖
14 If you forgive others their transgressions, your heavenly Father will forgive you.
15 But if you do not forgive others, neither will your Father forgive your transgressions.
Matthew 18 📖
“A Brother who sins”
15 “If your brother sins [against you], go and tell him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have won over your brother.
16 If he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, so that ‘every fact may be established on the testimony of two or three witnesses.’
17 If he refuses to listen to them, tell the church. If he refuses to listen even to the church, then treat him as you would a Gentile or a tax collector.
18 Amen, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
19 l Again, [amen,] I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything for which they are to pray, it shall be granted to them by my heavenly Father.
20 For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.”
Full from 🌐 http://cmvic.net/
February 24, 2024 🙏🏻 Days of Penance 📃 Canon Law Topic 4 series of references
My Selected Canon Law Topic 📃 and Catechism 📜 references for today
Lenten Season 😇 Examination of Conscience
📌Number 1 from "The Five Precepts of the Church" (from CCC 2041-2043) is also related to the topic below 👇🏻
Canon Law Chapter II
Topic 4 📜
Days of Penance
Can. 1252 The law of abstinence binds those who have completed their fourteenth year. The law of fasting binds those who have attained their majority, until the beginning of their sixtieth year. Pastors of souls and parents are to ensure that even those who by reason of their age are not bound by the law of fasting and abstinence, are taught the true meaning of penance.
Full from 🌐 Vatican Canon Law and Catechism
February 24, 2024 ⛪ Saturday of the First Week of Lent 📕 Gospel Reference
My Gospel references for today 📕
February 24, Saturday ⛪ First Week of Lenten Season
First reading📖 Deuteronomy 26:16-19
You will be a people consecrated to the Lord
Moses said to the people: ‘The Lord your God today commands you to observe these laws and customs; you must keep and observe them with all your heart and with all your soul.
‘You have today made this declaration about the Lord: that he will be your God, but only if you follow his ways, keep his statutes, his commandments, his ordinances, and listen to his voice. And the Lord has today made this declaration about you: that you will be his very own people as he promised you, but only if you keep all his commandments; then for praise and renown and honour he will set you high above all the nations he has made, and you will be a people consecrated to the Lord, as he promised.’
Psalm 🎶
They are happy whose life is blameless,
who follow God’s law!
Gospel 📖 Matthew 5:43-48
Pray for those who persecute you
Jesus said to his disciples: ‘You have learnt how it was said: You must love your neighbour and hate your enemy. But I say this to you: love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you; in this way you will be sons of your Father in heaven, for he causes his sun to rise on bad men as well as good, and his rain to fall on honest and dishonest men alike. For if you love those who love you, what right have you to claim any credit? Even the tax collectors do as much, do they not? And if you save your greetings for your brothers, are you doing anything exceptional? Even the pagans do as much, do they not? You must therefore be perfect just as your heavenly Father is perfect.’
February 24, 2024 🥰 Cathedra 📃 Catholic Definition of Terms 1 series of references
Catholic Definition of Terms references for today
In relation to the Feast Day of Saint Peter's Chair (February 22, 2024)
Cathedra ⛪ Roman chair
The chair or throne (thronos) of a bishop in his cathedral church, on which he presides at solemn functions. Originally the bishop's cathedra stood in the center of the apse, flanked on either side, though on a lower plane, by the benches of the assisting priests.
Read more 🌐 https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03437a.htm
Cathedra, (Latin: “chair,” or “seat”), Roman chair of heavy structure derived from the klismos—a lighter, more delicate chair developed by the ancient Greeks.
The cathedra was used in the early Christian basilica as a raised bishop’s throne placed near the wall of the apse, behind the altar. Later, a bishop’s principal church, or seat, within his diocese was designated a cathedral. The term ex cathedra (“from the seat, or throne”) was used in Roman Catholicism to distinguish solemn pronouncements by the pope on matters of faith or morals and therefore binding on the laity.
Read more 🌐 https://www.britannica.com/topic/cathedra
February 24, 2024 🥰 Post 2 📲 CF experience series of posts
My Selected Canon Law Topic 📃 and Catechism 📜 references for today
Lenten Season 😇 Examination of Conscience
Post 2 📲 Sharing my CF experiences…. It is a continuous process 🚙 and we need to improve our prayer life 😇 #PraxiFidesLent 🙏🏼
Looking back on my journey of being a practicing Catholic ⛪️
I was in the confessional and I forgot my other sins. After the session with the priests, I realized some lists in my head were not mentioned. I just checked and planned the schedule of my next confession to include the others that I have not mentioned. ⛪️ #PraxiFidesPrecepts5
February 23, 2024 🥰 7 Spiritual Works of Mercy 📜 Catechism 4 of 7 series of references
My Selected Article 📜 and Holy Bible 📕 references for today
Lenten Season 😇 Examination of Conscience
Works of Mercy ⛪️CCC 2447
Reference 4 of 7📜
The Spiritual Works of Mercy are oriented toward the soul. Though ideally applicable for all faithful, not everyone is considered capable or obligated to perform the first three Spiritual Works of Mercy before they possess the proper tact, knowledge or canonical training to do so. The remaining four Spiritual Works of Mercy are considered to be an obligation of all faithful to practice unconditionally.
📌 Bear Wrongs PAtiently
📖 Matthew 5:38-48
Teaching About Retaliation
38 “You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’
39 But I say to you, offer no resistance to one who is evil. When someone strikes you on [your] right cheek, turn the other one to him as well.
40 If anyone wants to go to law with you over your tunic, hand him your cloak as well.
41 Should anyone press you into service for one mile,* go with him for two miles.
42 Give to the one who asks of you, and do not turn your back on one who wants to borrow.a
Love of Enemies.
43 “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’
44 But I say to you, love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you,
45 that you may be children of your heavenly Father, for he makes his sun rise on the bad and the good, and causes rain to fall on the just and the unjust.
46 For if you love those who love you, what recompense will you have? Do not the tax collectors do the same?
47 And if you greet your brothers only, what is unusual about that? Do not the pagans do the same?
48 So be perfect, just as your heavenly Father is perfect.
📖 Luke 6:27-36
Love of Enemies.
27 “But to you who hear I say, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,
28 less those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.
29 o the person who strikes you on one cheek, offer the other one as well, and from the person who takes your cloak, do not withhold even your tunic.
30 ive to everyone who asks of you, and from the one who takes what is yours do not demand it back.
31 o to others as you would have them do to you.
32 or if you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners love those who love them.
33 nd if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners do the same.
34 f you lend money to those from whom you expect repayment, what credit [is] that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, and get back the same amount.
35 ut rather, love your enemies and do good to them, and lend expecting nothing back; then your reward will be great and you will be children of the Most High, for he himself is kind to the ungrateful and the wicked.
36 e merciful, just as [also] your Father is merciful.
📖1 Peter 2:18-19
Christian Slaves.
18 Slaves, be subject to your masters with all reverence, not only to those who are good and equitable but also to those who are perverse.n
19 For whenever anyone bears the pain of unjust suffering because of consciousness of God, that is a grace.
Full from 🌐 http://cmvic.net/
February 23, 2024 🙏🏻 Days of Penance 📃 Canon Law Topic 3 series of references
My Selected Canon Law Topic 📃 and Catechism 📜 references for today
Lenten Season 😇 Examination of Conscience
📌Number 1 from "The Five Precepts of the Church" (from CCC 2041-2043) is also related to the topic below 👇🏻
Canon Law Chapter II
Topic 3 📜
Days of Penance
Can. 1251 Abstinence from meat, or from some other food as determined by the Episcopal Conference, is to be observed on all Fridays, unless a solemnity should fall on a Friday. Abstinence and fasting are to be observed on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday.
Full from 🌐 Vatican Canon Law and Catechism
February 23, 2024 ⛪ Saint Polycarp - Bishop & Martyr 📕 Gospel Reference
My Gospel references for today 📕
February 23, Friday ⛪ First Week of Lenten Season
Commemoration of Saint Polycarp, Bishop, Martyr
First reading 📖1 Peter 5:1-4
Watch over the flock, not simply as a duty but gladly
Now I have something to tell your elders: I am an elder myself, and a witness to the sufferings of Christ, and with you I have a share in the glory that is to be revealed. Be the shepherds of the flock of God that is entrusted to you: watch over it, not simply as a duty but gladly, because God wants it; not for sordid money, but because you are eager to do it. Never be a dictator over any group that is put in your charge, but be an example that the whole flock can follow. When the chief shepherd appears, you will be given the crown of unfading glory.
Psalm 🎶
Psalm 22(23)
The Lord is my shepherd;
there is nothing I shall want.
Fresh and green are the pastures
where he gives me repose.
Near restful waters he leads me,
to revive my drooping spirit.
He guides me along the right path;
he is true to his name.
If I should walk in the valley of darkness
no evil would I fear.
You are there with your crook and your staff;
with these you give me comfort.
You have prepared a banquet for me
in the sight of my foes.
My head you have anointed with oil;
my cup is overflowing.
Surely goodness and kindness shall follow me
all the days of my life.
In the Lord’s own house shall I dwell
for ever and ever.
Gospel 📖 Matthew 16:13-19
You are Peter and on this rock I will build my Church
When Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi he put this question to his disciples, ‘Who do people say the Son of Man is?’ And they said, ‘Some say he is John the Baptist, some Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.’ ‘But you,’ he said ‘who do you say I am?’ Then Simon Peter spoke up, ‘You are the Christ,’ he said ‘the Son of the living God.’ Jesus replied, ‘Simon son of Jonah, you are a happy man! Because it was not flesh and blood that revealed this to you but my Father in heaven. So I now say to you: You are Peter and on this rock I will build my Church. And the gates of the underworld can never hold out against it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven: whatever you bind on earth shall be considered bound in heaven; whatever you loose on earth shall be considered loosed in heaven.’
February 23, 2024 😇 Post 1 📲 CF experience series of posts
My Selected Canon Law Topic 📃 and Catechism 📜 references for today
Lenten Season 😇 Examination of Conscience
Post 1 📲 Sharing my CF experiences…. It is a continuous process 🚙 and we need to improve our prayer life 😇 #PraxiFidesLent 🙏🏼
Looking back to my journey of being a practicing Catholic ⛪️
I remember I was not able to practice all the basics, like the Precepts of the Church, especially being right on time coming into Holy Mass ⛪️#PraxiFidesPrecepts5
We need to help (works of mercy) and share Jesus (patiently evangelizing them, especially our loved ones - families, relatives, and friends). We, Roman Catholic church members, should all do our best to become closer to God through devotion, regular examination of conscience, asking God's forgiveness/sacraments, also by often praying, penance/fasting/abstinence, almsgiving, continuous CF studies, and following the teachings and guidelines of the church as well as contributing to its mission.⛪ #PraxiFidesCCC 🙏🏼
February 22, 2024 🥰 7 Spiritual Works of Mercy 📜 Catechism 3 of 7 series of references
My Selected Article 📜 and Holy Bible 📕 references for today
Lenten Season 😇 Examination of Conscience
Works of Mercy ⛪️CCC 2447
Reference 3 of 7📜
The Spiritual Works of Mercy are oriented toward the soul. Though ideally applicable for all faithful, not everyone is considered capable or obligated to perform the first three Spiritual Works of Mercy before they possess the proper tact, knowledge or canonical training to do so. The remaining four Spiritual Works of Mercy are considered to be an obligation of all faithful to practice unconditionally.
📌Counsel the Doubtful
📖 Matthew 13:18-23
The Explanation of the Parable of the Sower.
18 “Hear then the parable of the sower.
19 The seed sown on the path is the one who hears the word of the kingdom without understanding it, and the evil one comes and steals away what was sown in his heart.
20 The seed sown on rocky ground is the one who hears the word and receives it at once with joy.
21 But he has no root and lasts only for a time. When some tribulation or persecution comes because of the word, he immediately falls away.
22 The seed sown among thorns is the one who hears the word, but then worldly anxiety and the lure of riches choke the word and it bears no fruit.
23 But the seed sown on rich soil is the one who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit and yields a hundred or sixty or thirtyfold.”
📖 Mark 4:13-20
13 Jesus said to them, “Do you not understand this parable?d Then how will you understand any of the parables?
14 The sower sows the word.
15 These are the ones on the path where the word is sown. As soon as they hear, Satan comes at once and takes away the word sown in them.
16 And these are the ones sown on rocky ground who, when they hear the word, receive it at once with joy.
17 But they have no root; they last only for a time. Then when tribulation or persecution comes because of the word, they quickly fall away.
18 Those sown among thorns are another sort. They are the people who hear the word,
19 but worldly anxiety, the lure of riches, and the craving for other things intrude and choke the word, and it bears no fruit.
20 But those sown on rich soil are the ones who hear the word and accept it and bear fruit thirty and sixty and a hundredfold.”
📖Mark 9:14-29
The Healing of a Boy with a Demon.
14 When they came to the disciples,f they saw a large crowd around them and scribes arguing with them.
15 Immediately on seeing him, the whole crowd was utterly amazed. They ran up to him and greeted him.
16 He asked them, “What are you arguing about with them?”
17 Someone from the crowd answered him, “Teacher, I have brought to you my son possessed by a mute spirit.
18 Wherever it seizes him, it throws him down; he foams at the mouth, grinds his teeth, and becomes rigid. I asked your disciples to drive it out, but they were unable to do so.”
19 He said to them in reply, “O faithless generation, how long will I be with you? How long will I endure you? Bring him to me.”
20 They brought the boy to him. And when he saw him, the spirit immediately threw the boy into convulsions. As he fell to the ground, he began to roll around and foam at the mouth.
21 Then he questioned his father, “How long has this been happening to him?” He replied, “Since childhood.
22 It has often thrown him into fire and into water to kill him. But if you can do anything, have compassion on us and help us.”
23 Jesus said to him, “‘If you can!’ Everything is possible to one who has faith.”
24 Then the boy’s father cried out, “I do believe, help my unbelief!”
25 Jesus, on seeing a crowd rapidly gathering, rebuked the unclean spirit and said to it, “Mute and deaf spirit, I command you: come out of him and never enter him again!”
26 Shouting and throwing the boy into convulsions, it came out. He became like a corpse, which caused many to say, “He is dead!”
27 But Jesus took him by the hand, raised him, and he stood up.
28 When he entered the house, his disciples asked him in private, “Why could we not drive it out?”
29 He said to them, “This kind can only come out through prayer.”
📖 Luke 8:11-15
The Parable of the Sower Explained.
11 “This is the meaning of the parable. The seed is the word of God.h
12 Those on the path are the ones who have heard, but the devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts that they may not believe and be saved.
13 Those on rocky ground are the ones who, when they hear, receive the word with joy, but they have no root; they believe only for a time and fall away in time of trial.
14 As for the seed that fell among thorns, they are the ones who have heard, but as they go along, they are choked by the anxieties and riches and pleasures of life, and they fail to produce mature fruit.
15 But as for the seed that fell on rich soil, they are the ones who, when they have heard the word, embrace it with a generous and good heart, and bear fruit through perseverance.
📖 John 14:27
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give it to you. Do not let your hearts be troubled or afraid.
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February 22, 2024 ⛪ Saint Peter's Chair 📕 Gospel Reference
My Gospel references for today 📕
February 22, Thursday ⛪ First Week of Lenten Season
Feast of Saint Peter's Chair
First reading 📖1 Peter 5:1-4
Watch over the flock, not simply as a duty but gladly
Now I have something to tell your elders: I am an elder myself, and a witness to the sufferings of Christ, and with you I have a share in the glory that is to be revealed. Be the shepherds of the flock of God that is entrusted to you: watch over it, not simply as a duty but gladly, because God wants it; not for sordid money, but because you are eager to do it. Never be a dictator over any group that is put in your charge, but be an example that the whole flock can follow. When the chief shepherd appears, you will be given the crown of unfading glory.
Psalm 🎶
Psalm 22(23)
The Lord is my shepherd;
there is nothing I shall want.
Fresh and green are the pastures
where he gives me repose.
Near restful waters he leads me,
to revive my drooping spirit.
He guides me along the right path;
he is true to his name.
If I should walk in the valley of darkness
no evil would I fear.
You are there with your crook and your staff;
with these you give me comfort.
You have prepared a banquet for me
in the sight of my foes.
My head you have anointed with oil;
my cup is overflowing.
Surely goodness and kindness shall follow me
all the days of my life.
In the Lord’s own house shall I dwell
for ever and ever.
Gospel 📖 Matthew 16:13-19
You are Peter and on this rock I will build my Church
When Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi he put this question to his disciples, ‘Who do people say the Son of Man is?’ And they said, ‘Some say he is John the Baptist, some Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.’ ‘But you,’ he said ‘who do you say I am?’ Then Simon Peter spoke up, ‘You are the Christ,’ he said ‘the Son of the living God.’ Jesus replied, ‘Simon son of Jonah, you are a happy man! Because it was not flesh and blood that revealed this to you but my Father in heaven. So I now say to you: You are Peter and on this rock I will build my Church. And the gates of the underworld can never hold out against it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven: whatever you bind on earth shall be considered bound in heaven; whatever you loose on earth shall be considered loosed in heaven.’
February 22, 2024 🙏🏻 Days of Penance 📃 Canon Law Topic 2 series of references
My Selected Canon Law Topic 📃 and Catechism 📜 references for today
Lenten Season 😇 Examination of Conscience
📌Number 1 from "The Five Precepts of the Church" (from CCC 2041-2043) is also related to the topic below 👇🏻
Canon Law Chapter II
Topic 2 📜
Days of Penance
Can. 1250 The penitential days and times in the universal Church are every Friday of the whole year and the season of Lent.
Full from 🌐 Vatican Canon Law and Catechism
February 21, 2024 🥰 7 Spiritual Works of Mercy 📜 Catechism 2 of 7 series of references
My Selected Article 📜 and Holy Bible 📕 references for today
Lenten Season 😇 Examination of Conscience
Works of Mercy ⛪️CCC 2447
Reference 2 of 7📜
The Spiritual Works of Mercy are oriented toward the soul. Though ideally applicable for all faithful, not everyone is considered capable or obligated to perform the first three Spiritual Works of Mercy before they possess the proper tact, knowledge or canonical training to do so. The remaining four Spiritual Works of Mercy are considered to be an obligation of all faithful to practice unconditionally.
📌 To instruct the ignorant.
📖 Matthew 28:19-20
19 Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the holy Spirit,
20 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, until the end of the age.”
📖 Mark 16:14-18
14 But later, as the eleven were at the table, he appeared to them and rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart because they had not believed those who saw him after he had been raised.
15 He said to them, “Go into the whole world and proclaim the gospel to every creature.
16 Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved; whoever does not believe will be condemned.
17 These signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will drive out demons, they will speak new languages.
18 They will pick up serpents [with their hands], and if they drink any deadly thing, it will not harm them. They will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”
📖 Luke 24:47-49
47 and that repentance, for the forgiveness of sins, would be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem.
48 You are witnesses of these things.
49 And behold I am sending the promise of my Father upon you; but stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high.”
📖 John 20:21
said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you.”
📖 2 Timothy 3:16-17
16 All scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching, for refutation, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
17 so that one who belongs to God may be competent, equipped for every good work.
📖 2 Timothy 4:1-5
I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingly power:
2 proclaim the word; be persistent whether it is convenient or inconvenient; convince, reprimand, encourage through all patience and teaching.
3 For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine but, following their own desires and insatiable curiosity, will accumulate teachers
4 and will stop listening to the truth and will be diverted to myths.
5 But you, be self-possessed in all circumstances; put up with hardship; perform the work of an evangelist; fulfill your ministry.
The Seven Spiritual Works of Mercy and their Holy Scripture references are:
1 - To admonish the sinner.
2 - To instruct the ignorant.
3 - To counsel the doubtful.
4 - To comfort the sorrowful.
5 - To bear wrongs patiently.
6 - To forgive all injuries.
7 - To pray for the living and the dead.
Full from 🌐 http://cmvic.net/
February 21, 2024 ⛪ First Week of Lenten Season 📕 Gospel Reference
My Gospel references for today 📕
February 21, Wednesday ⛪ First Week of Lenten Season
First reading 📖 Jonah 3:1-10
The Ninevites repent, and God spares them
The word of the Lord was addressed to Jonah: ‘Up!’ he said ‘Go to Nineveh, the great city, and preach to them as I told you to.’ Jonah set out and went to Nineveh in obedience to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was a city great beyond compare: it took three days to cross it. Jonah went on into the city, making a day’s journey. He preached in these words, ‘Only forty days more and Nineveh is going to be destroyed.’ And the people of Nineveh believed in God; they proclaimed a fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest to the least. The news reached the king of Nineveh, who rose from his throne, took off his robe, put on sackcloth and sat down in ashes. A proclamation was then promulgated throughout Nineveh, by decree of the king and his ministers, as follows: ‘Men and beasts, herds and flocks, are to taste nothing; they must not eat, they must not drink water. All are to put on sackcloth and call on God with all their might; and let everyone renounce his evil behaviour and the wicked things he has done. Who knows if God will not change his mind and relent, if he will not renounce his burning wrath, so that we do not perish?’ God saw their efforts to renounce their evil behaviour, and God relented: he did not inflict on them the disaster which he had threatened.
Psalm 🎶
Psalm 50(51):3-4,12-13,18-19
Have mercy on me, God, in your kindness.
In your compassion blot out my offence.
O wash me more and more from my guilt
and cleanse me from my sin.
A pure heart create for me, O God,
put a steadfast spirit within me.
Do not cast me away from your presence,
nor deprive me of your holy spirit.
For in sacrifice you take no delight,
burnt offering from me you would refuse,
my sacrifice, a contrite spirit.
A humbled, contrite heart you will not spurn.
Gospel 📖 Luke 11:29-32
As Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so will the Son of Man be a sign
The crowds got even bigger, and Jesus addressed them:
‘This is a wicked generation; it is asking for a sign. The only sign it will be given is the sign of Jonah. For just as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so will the Son of Man be to this generation. On Judgement day the Queen of the South will rise up with the men of this generation and condemn them, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and there is something greater than Solomon here. On Judgement day the men of Nineveh will stand up with this generation and condemn it, because when Jonah preached they repented; and there is something greater than Jonah here.’
February 21, 2024 🙏🏻 Days of Penance 📃 Canon Law Topic 1 series of references
My Selected Canon Law Topic 📃 and Catechism 📜 references for today
Lenten Season 😇 Examination of Conscience
📌Number 1 from "The Five Precepts of the Church" (from CCC 2041-2043) is also related to the topic below 👇🏻
Canon Law Chapter II
Topic 1 📜
Days of Penance
Can. 1249 The divine law binds all the Christian faithful to do penance each in his or her own way. In order for all to be united among themselves by some common observance of penance, however, penitential days are prescribed on which the Christian faithful devote themselves in a special way to prayer, perform works of piety and charity, and deny themselves by fulfilling their own obligations more faithfully and especially by observing fast and abstinence, according to the norm of the following canons.
Full from 🌐 Vatican Canon Law and Catechism
February 20, 2024 ⛪ First Week of Lenten Season 📕 Gospel Reference
My Gospel references for today 📕
Feb. 20 ⛪️ Tuesday of the 1st week of Lent
First reading 📖 Isaiah 55:10-11
📍The word that goes out from my mouth does not return to me empty
Thus says the Lord: ‘As the rain and the snow come down from the heavens and do not return without watering the earth, making it yield and giving growth to provide seed for the sower and bread for the eating, so the word that goes from my mouth does not return to me empty, without carrying out my will and succeeding in what it was sent to do.’
Psalm 🎶
Glorify the Lord with me.
Together let us praise his name.
Gospel 📖 Matthew 6:7-15
📍How to pray
Jesus said to his disciples: ‘In your prayers do not babble as the pagans do, for they think that by using many words they will make themselves heard. Do not be like them; your Father knows what you need before you ask him. So you should pray like this:
‘Our Father in heaven,
may your name be held holy,
your kingdom come,
your will be done,
on earth as in heaven.
Give us today our daily bread.
And forgive us our debts, as we have forgiven those who are in debt to us.
And do not put us to the test,
but save us from the evil one.
‘Yes, if you forgive others their failings, your heavenly Father will forgive you yours; but if you do not forgive others, your Father will not forgive your failings either.’
February 20, 2024 🥰 7 Spiritual Works of Mercy 📜 Catechism 1 of 7 series of references
My Selected Article 📜 and Holy Bible 📕 references for today
Lenten Season 😇 Examination of Conscience
Works of Mercy ⛪️CCC 2447
Reference 1 of 7📜
The Spiritual Works of Mercy are oriented toward the soul. Though ideally applicable for all faithful, not everyone is considered capable or obligated to perform the first three Spiritual Works of Mercy before they possess the proper tact, knowledge or canonical training to do so. The remaining four Spiritual Works of Mercy are considered to be an obligation of all faithful to practice unconditionally.
📌 Admonish the sinner.
Iron is sharpened by iron; one person sharpens another. 📖 Proverbs 27:17
I tell you, in just the same way there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous people who have no need of repentance. 📖 Luke 15:7
proclaim the word; be persistent whether it is convenient or inconvenient; convince, reprimand, encourage through all patience and teaching. 📖 2 Timothy 4:2
The Seven Spiritual Works of Mercy and their Holy Scripture references are:
1 - To admonish the sinner.
2 - To instruct the ignorant.
3 - To counsel the doubtful.
4 - To comfort the sorrowful.
5 - To bear wrongs patiently.
6 - To forgive all injuries.
7 - To pray for the living and the dead.
Full from 🌐 http://cmvic.net/
February 19, 2024 🙏🏻 Bible Study Group📕My Bible Reference for today
My CCC 📜 and Holy Bible 📕 references for today
Lenten Season 😇 Examination of Conscience
My Holy Bible 📕 Study night 👨🏻🏫 with PPP team 😇 PraxiFides 🙏🏼 #PraxiFidesCL 📜 #PraxiFidesCCC
Ashes in the 📚 Sacred Scripture
Joshua 7:6 📖
6 Joshua and the elders of Israel tore their clothing and lay prostrate before the Ark of the Lord until evening, with dust on their heads.
2 Samuel 1:2 📖
1-2 Saul was dead and David had returned to Ziklag after slaughtering the Amalekites. Three days later a man arrived from the Israeli army with his clothes torn and with dirt on his head as a sign of mourning. He fell to the ground before David in deep respect.
Revelation 18:19 📖
And they will throw dust on their heads in their sorrow and say, “Alas, alas, for that great city! She made us all rich from her great wealth. And now in a single hour all is gone. . . . ”
Filipino Languag 👇🏻
Josue 7:6 📖
6 Pinunit ni Josue at ng pinuno ng Israel ang kanilang kasuotan dahil sa matinding paghihinagpis. Nagpatirapa sila sa harap ng Kaban ng Tipan ni Yahweh. Naglagay din sila ng abo sa ulo bilang tanda ng kalungkutan hanggang sa paglubog ng araw.
2 Samuel 1:2 📖
2 Nang sumunod na araw, dumating buhat sa labanan ang isang lalaking punit ang kasuotan at puno ng alikabok ang ulo. Lumapit ito kay David at nagpatirapa bilang pagbibigay-galang.
Revelation 18:19 📖
19 Nagsabog sila ng abo sa kanilang ulo at nanangis, “Kalagim-lagim! Kalagim-lagim ang nangyari sa dakilang lungsod! Yumaman ang lahat ng tumigil sa kanyang daungan! Ngunit sa loob lamang ng isang oras ay nawalan ng kabuluhan!”
February 20, 2024 🥰 Days of Penance 📃 Canon Law Introduction series of references
My Selected Canon Law Topic 📃 and Catechism 📜 references for today
Lenten Season 😇 Examination of Conscience
Introduction Topic 📜
Canon is the Greek word for rule, norm, standard or measure. It is used in several ways in church language:
The canon of Sacred Scripture is the list of books recognized by the church as inspired by the Holy Spirit.
Before the liturgical reforms of the Second Vatican Council, the single eucharistic prayer used universally in the Latin Mass was called the Roman Canon. Now that there are four eucharistic prayers in general use, they are usually referred to as Eucharistic Prayer I, II, III or IV, but they may also be called canons. The first of these is still called the Roman Canon because it is nearly identical to the original Roman Canon.
Canon is another name for a law in the Code of Canon Law. (Adjective form is canonical.)
Canon Law is a code of ecclesiastical laws governing the Catholic Church. In the Latin or Western Church, the governing code is the 1983 Code of Canon Law, a revision of the 1917 Code of Canon Law. A separate but parallel Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches, issued in 1990, governs the Eastern Catholic churches. That document was the first comprehensive code of church law governing all Eastern Catholic churches.
Full from 🌐 USCCB
February 19, 2024 ⛪ First Week of Lenten Season 📕 Gospel Reference
My Gospel references for today 📕
February 19, Monday ⛪ First Week of Lenten Season
First reading 📖 Leviticus 19:1-2,11-18
📍Only pass judgment on your neighbor according to justice
Psalm 🎶
The precepts of the Lord are right,
they gladden the heart.
Gospel 📖 Matthew 25:31-46
I was naked and you clothed me; sick, and you visited me
📍Corporal and Spiritual "Works of Mercy" 👇🏻
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uFQM9JmJzSGkcG7boQqAHpQiZyaasrvs/view?usp=sharing
Jesus said to his disciples: ‘When the Son of Man comes in his glory, escorted by all the angels, then he will take his seat on his throne of glory. All the nations will be assembled before him and he will separate men one from another as the shepherd separates sheep from goats. He will place the sheep on his right hand and the goats on his left.
‘Then the King will say to those on his right hand, “Come, you whom my Father has blessed, take for your heritage the kingdom prepared for you since the foundation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me food; I was thirsty and you gave me drink; I was a stranger and you made me welcome; naked and you clothed me, sick and you visited me, in prison and you came to see me.” Then the virtuous will say to him in reply, “Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you; or thirsty and give you drink? When did we see you a stranger and make you welcome; naked and clothe you; sick or in prison and go to see you?” And the King will answer, “I tell you solemnly, in so far as you did this to one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did it to me.”
‘Next he will say to those on his left hand, “Go away from me, with your curse upon you, to the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you never gave me food; I was thirsty and you never gave me anything to drink; I was a stranger and you never made me welcome, naked and you never clothed me, sick and in prison and you never visited me.” Then it will be their turn to ask, “Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty, a stranger or naked, sick or in prison, and did not come to your help?” Then he will answer, “I tell you solemnly, in so far as you neglected to do this to one of the least of these, you neglected to do it to me.”
‘And they will go away to eternal punishment, and the virtuous to eternal life.’
February 19, 2024 🥰 Precepts of the Church 📜 Catechism 5 of 5 series of references for today
My Selected Article 📜 and Holy Bible 📕 references for today
Lenten Season 😇 Examination of Conscience
From the Precepts of the Church⛪️CCC 2042-2043
Reference 5 of 5 📜
V. You shall contribute to the support of the Church.
Have I . . .
❓Tithed regularly?
❓Contributed a just amount of my time and talents to support my parish and the work of the Church?
📍This does not necessarily in the form of cash, especially for those who do not have regular income
📖 2 Thessalonians 2:15
Therefore, brothers, stand firm and hold fast to the traditions that you were taught, either by an oral statement or by a letter of ours.
We need to help (works of mercy) and share Jesus (with others especially our loved ones - families, relatives & friends). We should all do our best to become closer to God through devotion, regular examination of conscience, asking God's forgiveness/sacraments, also by often praying, fasting/abstinence, almsgiving, continuous CF studies and following the teachings and guidelines of the church.⛪
https://www.stpatrickcatholicparish.org/confession-guide-for-adults
February 19, 2024 🥰 Works of Mercy 📕My Bible Reference for today
My CCC 📜 and Holy Bible 📕 references for today
Lenten Season 😇 Examination of Conscience
Isaiah 📖 58:6-7
Authentic Fasting That Leads to Blessing
6 Is this not, rather, the fast that I choose:
releasing those bound unjustly,
untying the thongs of the yoke;
Setting free the oppressed,
breaking off every yoke?
7 Is it not sharing your bread with the hungry,
bringing the afflicted and the homeless into your house;
Clothing the naked when you see them,
and not turning your back on your own flesh?
📜2447 The works of mercy are charitable actions by which we come to the aid of our neighbor in his spiritual and bodily necessities. Instructing, advising, consoling, comforting are spiritual works of mercy, as are forgiving and bearing wrongs patiently. The corporal works of mercy consist especially in feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless, clothing the naked, visiting the sick and imprisoned, and burying the dead. Among all these, giving alms to the poor is one of the chief witnesses to fraternal charity: it is also a work of justice pleasing to God:
📍He who has two coats, let him share with him who has none and he who has food must do likewise. But give for alms those things which are within; and behold, everything is clean for you. If a brother or sister is ill-clad and in lack of daily food, and one of you says to them, "Go in peace, be warmed and filled," without giving them the things needed for the body, what does it profit?
We need to help (works of mercy) and share Jesus (with others especially our loved ones - families, relatives & friends). We should all do our best to become closer to God through devotion, regular examination of conscience, asking God's forgiveness/sacraments, also by often praying, fasting/abstinence, almsgiving, continuous CF studies and following the teachings and guidelines of the church.⛪
📌242 cf. Isaiah 58:6-7; Hebrews 13:3.
📌243 cf. Matthew 25:31-46.
📌244 cf. Tobit 4:5-11; Sirach 17:22; Matthew 6:2-4.
📌245 Luke 3:11.
📌246 Luke 11:41.
📌247 James 2:15-16; cf. 1 John 3:17.
February 18, 2024 🙏🏻 Precepts of the Church 📜 Catechism 4 of 5 series of references for today #EcumenismWeekend
My Selected Article 📜 and Holy Bible 📕 references for today
Lenten Season 😇 Examination of Conscience
From the Precepts of the Church⛪️CCC 2042-2043
Reference 4 of 5 📜
IV. You shall observe the days of fasting and abstinence established by the Church.
Have I . . .
❓Done penance every Friday for the previous year (if not abstaining from meat, then some other form of penance)?
❓Abstained from meat on Ash Wednesday and the Fridays of Lent (if I am 14 years of age or older)?
❓Fasted on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday (if I am between the ages of 18 and 59)?
❓Spent time in prayer, doing spiritual and corporal works of mercy, and practicing self-denial?
📖 2 Thessalonians 2:15
Therefore, brothers, stand firm and hold fast to the traditions that you were taught, either by an oral statement or by a letter of ours.
We need to help (works of mercy) and share Jesus (with others especially our loved ones - families, relatives & friends). We should all do our best to become closer to God through devotion, regular examination of conscience, asking God's forgiveness/sacraments, also by often praying, fasting/abstinence, almsgiving, continuous CF studies and following the teachings and guidelines of the church.⛪
https://www.stpatrickcatholicparish.org/confession-guide-for-adults
February 18, 2024 🥰 Bible Study Group📕My Bible Reference for today #EcumenismWeekend
My CCC 📜 and Holy Bible 📕 references for today
Lenten Season 😇 Examination of Conscience
My Holy Bible 📕 Study night 👨🏻🏫 with PPP team 😇 PraxiFides 🙏🏼 #PraxiFidesCL 📜 #PraxiFidesCCC
📍Someone who was baptised in Jesus’ name and became a member of Jesus’ Church
And…
⚠️ Denying our Lord Jesus and not following his will and commandments
📖 Matthew 10:32-33
32 “If anyone publicly acknowledges me as his friend, I will openly acknowledge him as my friend before my Father in heaven.
33 But if anyone publicly denies me, I will openly deny him before my Father in heaven.
📖 Hebrews 6:4-6
4 There is no use trying to bring you back to the Lord again if you have once understood the Good News and tasted for yourself the good things of heaven and shared in the Holy Spirit, 5 and know how good the Word of God is, and felt the mighty powers of the world to come, 6 and then have turned against God. You cannot bring yourself to repent again if you have nailed the Son of God to the cross again by rejecting him, holding him up to mocking and to public shame.
📖 1 John 2:18-19
18 Dear children, this world’s last hour has come. You have heard about the Antichrist who is coming—the one who is against Christ—and already many such persons have appeared. This makes us all the more certain that the end of the world is near. 19 These “against-Christ” people used to be members of our churches, but they never really belonged with us or else they would have stayed. When they left us it proved that they were not of us at all.
📖 Revelation 2:10
Stop being afraid of what you are about to suffer—for the devil will soon throw some of you into prison to test you. You will be persecuted for ‘ten days.’ Remain faithful even when facing death and I will give you the crown of life—an unending, glorious future.
Filipino 🇵🇭 Language 👇
Ang pagtanggi sa ating Panginoong Hesus at hindi pagsunod sa kanyang kalooban at utos
📖 Mateo 10:32-33
32 “Ang sinumang kumilala sa akin sa harapan ng mga tao ay kikilalanin ko rin naman sa harapan ng aking Amang nasa langit.
33 Ngunit ang sinumang ikaila ako sa harap ng mga tao ay ikakaila ko rin sa harap ng aking Amang nasa langit.”
📖 Hebreo 6:4-6
4 Sapagkat paano pang panunumbalikin upang magsisi ang mga tumalikod na sa kanilang pananampalataya? Dati'y naliwanagan na sila, nakalasap ng makalangit na kaloob at naging kabilang sa mga tumanggap ng Espiritu Santo. 5 Nakalasap na rin sila ng kabutihan ng Salita ng Diyos, at nakadama ng kapangyarihan ng Diyos na lubusang mahahayag sa panahong darating. 6 Kapag sila'y tumalikod pagkatapos malasap ang lahat ng ito, hindi na sila maaaring panumbalikin upang magsisi sapagkat muli nilang ipinapako sa krus at inilalantad sa kahihiyan ang Anak ng Diyos.
📖 1 Juan 2:18-19
18 Mga anak, ito na ang huling panahon! Tulad ng inyong narinig, darating ang kaaway ni Cristo. Ngayon nga'y marami nang lumilitaw na mga kaaway ni Cristo, kaya't alam nating malapit na ang wakas. 19 Kahit na sila'y mga dati nating kasamahan, ang mga taong iyon ay hindi natin tunay na kasama. Sapagkat kung sila'y tunay na atin, nanatili sana silang kasama natin. Ngunit umalis sila upang maging maliwanag na silang lahat ay hindi tunay na kasama natin.
📖 Pahayag 2:10
Huwag kang matakot sa mga pag-uusig na malapit mo nang danasin. Makinig ka! Ipabibilanggo ng diyablo ang ilan sa inyo bilang pagsubok; magdurusa kayo sa loob ng sampung araw. Manatili kang tapat hanggang kamatayan, at gagantimpalaan kita ng korona ng buhay.
📌Canon Law Reference 📃 #PraxiFidesCL
Can. 751 Heresy is the obstinate denial or obstinate doubt after the reception of baptism of some truth which is to be believed by divine and Catholic faith; apostasy is the total repudiation of the Christian faith; schism is the refusal of submission to the Supreme Pontiff or of communion with the members of the Church subject to him.
📌 Might also include "Sacrilege "
Based on CCC teaching 📜 #PraxiFidesCCC
2120 Sacrilege consists in profaning or treating unworthily the sacraments and other liturgical actions, as well as persons, things, or places consecrated to God. Sacrilege is a grave sin especially when committed against the Eucharist, for in this sacrament the true Body of Christ is made substantially present for us.
February 18, 2024 📜 The 5th Sorrowful Mystery - The Crucifixion and Death 🌐 References for today #EcumenismWeekend
My Selected CCC 📜 and Holy Bible 📕 references for today
Understanding the "Holy Rosary" CCC 2673 to 2679 😇
Continuation of "The Holy Rosary"
Sorrowful Mysteries
The Five Sorrowful Mysteries are traditionally prayed on Tuesdays, Fridays, and, during the season of Lent, on Sundays:
Fifth: The Crucifixion and Death
“When they came to the place called the Skull, they crucified him and the criminals there, one on his right, the other on his left. [Then Jesus said, 'Father, forgive them, they know not what they do.'] They divided his garments by casting lots. The people stood by and watched; the rulers, meanwhile, sneered at him and said, 'He saved others, let him save himself if he is the chosen one, the Messiah of God.' Even the soldiers jeered at him. As they approached to offer him wine they called out, 'If you are King of the Jews, save yourself.' Above him there was an inscription that read, 'This is the King of the Jews.' Now one of the criminals hanging there reviled Jesus, saying, 'Are you not the Messiah? Save yourself and us.' The other, however, rebuking him, said in reply, 'Have you no fear of God, for you are subject to the same condemnation? And indeed, we have been condemned justly, for the sentence we received corresponds to our crimes, but this man has done nothing criminal.' Then he said, 'Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.' He replied to him, 'Amen, I say to you, today you will be with me in Paradise.'
"It was now about noon and darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon because of an eclipse of the sun. Then the veil of the temple was torn down the middle. Jesus cried out in a loud voice, 'Father, into your hands I commend my spirit'; and when he had said this he breathed his last.” - Luke 23:33-46
Fruit of the mystery: Sorrow for our Sins
Filipino Language 👇🏻
Ikalima: Ang Pagkapako at Pagkamatay ni Jesus sa Krus
33 Nang dumating sila sa isang bundok na tinatawag na Bungo, ipinako nila si Jesus sa krus. Ipinako rin ang dalawang kriminal, isa sa kanyang kanan at isa sa kaliwa. [34 Sinabi ni Jesus, “Ama, patawarin mo sila sapagkat hindi nila nalalaman ang kanilang ginagawa.”][b]
Nagpalabunutan ang mga kawal upang paghati-hatian ang kasuotan niya. 35 Ang mga tao nama'y nakatayo roon at nanonood, habang si Jesus ay kinukutya ng mga pinuno ng bayan. Sinabi nila, “Iniligtas niya ang iba; iligtas niya ngayon ang kanyang sarili kung siya nga ang Cristo na hinirang ng Diyos!”
36 Nilait din siya ng mga kawal. Nilapitan siya ng isa at inalok ng maasim na alak, 37 kasabay ng ganitong panunuya, “Kung ikaw nga ang Hari ng mga Judio, iligtas mo ang iyong sarili.”
38 Mayroon ding nakasulat sa kanyang ulunan [sa wikang Griego, Latin at Hebreo],[c] “Ito ang Hari ng mga Judio.”
39 Tinuya rin siya ng isa sa mga salaring nakapako sa tabi niya, “Hindi ba ikaw ang Cristo? Iligtas mo ang iyong sarili at pati na rin kami.”
40 Ngunit pinagsabihan naman ito ng kanyang kasama, “Wala ka na bang takot sa Diyos? Ikaw ay pinaparusahan ding tulad niya! 41 Tama lamang na tayo'y parusahan nang ganito dahil sa ating mga ginawa; ngunit ang taong ito'y walang ginawang masama.” 42 At sinabi pa nito, “Jesus, alalahanin mo ako kapag naghahari ka na.”
43 Sumagot si Jesus, “Sinasabi ko sa iyo, isasama kita ngayon sa Paraiso.”
44 Nang magtatanghaling-tapat na, hanggang sa ikatlo ng hapon, nagdilim sa buong lupain. 45 Nawalan ng liwanag ang araw at ang tabing ng Templo'y napunit sa gitna. 46 Sumigaw nang malakas si Jesus, “Ama, sa mga kamay mo'y ipinagkakatiwala ko ang aking espiritu!” At pagkasabi nito, nalagot ang kanyang hininga. - Lucas 23:33-46
Bunga ng Misteryo: Kalungkutan para sa ating mga Kasalanan
February 18, 2024 ⛪ First Sunday of Lent 📕 Gospel Reference
My Gospel references for today 📕
Feb 18. First Sunday ⛪ of Lenten Season
1st Sunday of Lent
First reading 📖 Genesis 9:8-15
📍'There shall be no flood to destroy the earth again
Psalm 🎶
Lord, make me know your ways.
Lord, teach me your paths.
Second reading 📖
1 Peter 3:18-22
📍The water on which the Ark floated is a type of the baptism which saves you now
Gospel 📖 Mark 1:12-15
Jesus was tempted by Satan, and the angels looked after him
The Spirit drove Jesus out into the wilderness and he remained there for forty days, and was tempted by Satan. He was with the wild beasts, and the angels looked after him.
After John had been arrested, Jesus went into Galilee. There he proclaimed the Good News from God. ‘The time has come’ he said ‘and the kingdom of God is close at hand. Repent, and believe the Good News.’
February 17, 2024 🙏🏻 Precepts of the Church 📜 Catechism 3 of 5 series of references for today #EcumenismWeekend
My Selected Article 📜 and Holy Bible 📕 references for today
Lenten Season 😇 Examination of Conscience
From the Precepts of the Church⛪️CCC 2042-2043
Reference 3 of 5 📜
📍 You shall receive the sacrament of the Eucharist at least during the Easter season.
Have I . . .
❓Fulfilled my Easter duty to receive Holy Communion at least once during Lent or Easter?
📖 2 Thessalonians 2:15
Therefore, brothers, stand firm and hold fast to the traditions that you were taught, either by an oral statement or by a letter of ours.
We need to help (works of mercy) and share Jesus (with others especially our loved ones - families, relatives & friends). We should all do our best to become closer to God through devotion, regular examination of conscience, asking God's forgiveness/sacraments, also by often praying, fasting/abstinence, almsgiving, continuous CF studies and following the teachings and guidelines of the church.⛪
https://www.stpatrickcatholicparish.org/confession-guide-for-adults
February 17, 2024 ⛪Saturday after Ash Wednesday 📕 Gospel Reference
My Gospel references for today 📕
Feb 17. Saturday ⛪ After Ash Wednesday
First reading 📖 Isaiah 58:9-14
📍You will be like a spring whose waters never run dry
Psalm 🎶
Turn your ear, O Lord, and give answer for I am poor and needy.
Gospel 📖 Luke 5:27-32
📍Jesus comes not to call the virtuous, but sinners to repentance
Jesus noticed a tax collector, Levi by name, sitting by the customs house, and said to him, ‘Follow me.’ And leaving everything he got up and followed him.
In his honour Levi held a great reception in his house, and with them at table was a large gathering of tax collectors and others. The Pharisees and their scribes complained to his disciples and said, ‘Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?’ Jesus said to them in reply, ‘It is not those who are well who need the doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the virtuous, but sinners to repentance.’
February 17, 2024 📜 The Holy Rosary 18 - The Carrying of the Cross 🌐 References for today #EcumenismWeekend
My Selected CCC 📜 and Holy Bible 📕 references for today
Understanding the "Holy Rosary" CCC 2673 to 2679 😇
Continuation of "The Holy Rosary"
Sorrowful Mysteries
The Five Sorrowful Mysteries are traditionally prayed on Tuesdays, Fridays, and, during the season of Lent, on Sundays:
Fourth: The Carrying of the Cross
“They pressed into service a passer-by, Simon, a Cyrenian, who was coming in from the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to carry his cross. They brought him to the place of Golgotha (which is translated Place of the Skull).” - Mark 15:21-22
Fruit of the mystery: Patience
Filipino Language 👇🏻
Ikaapat: Ang Pagpasan ng Krus
21 Nasalubong nila sa daan ang isang lalaking galing sa bukid, si Simon na taga-Cirene na ama nina Alejandro at Rufo. Pilit nilang ipinapasan sa kanya ang krus ni Jesus. 22 Kanilang dinala si Jesus sa lugar na tinatawag na Golgotha, na ang ibig sabihi'y “Pook ng Bungo.” - Marcos 15:21-22
Bunga ng Misteryo: Pasensya
February 16, 2024 🥰 Precepts of the Church 📜 Catechism 2 of 5 series of references for today #EcumenismWeekend
My Selected Article 📜 and Holy Bible 📕 references for today
Lenten Season 😇 Examination of Conscience
From the Precepts of the Church⛪️CCC 2042-2043
Reference 2 of 5 📜
📍 You shall confess your sins at least once a year
📖 2 Thessalonians 2:15
Therefore, brothers, stand firm and hold fast to the traditions that you were taught, either by an oral statement or by a letter of ours.
We need to help (works of mercy) and share Jesus (with others especially our loved ones - families, relatives & friends). We should all do our best to become closer to God through devotion, regular examination of conscience, asking God's forgiveness/sacraments, also by often praying, fasting/abstinence, almsgiving, continuous CF studies and following the teachings and guidelines of the church.⛪
https://www.stpatrickcatholicparish.org/confession-guide-for-adults
February 16, 2024 📜 The Holy Rosary 17 - The Crowning with Thorns 🌐 References for today #EcumenismWeekend
My Selected CCC 📜 and Holy Bible 📕 references for today
Understanding the "Holy Rosary" CCC 2673 to 2679 😇
Continuation of "The Holy Rosary"
Sorrowful Mysteries
The Five Sorrowful Mysteries are traditionally prayed on Tuesdays, Fridays, and, during the season of Lent, on Sundays:
Third: The Crowning with Thorns
“Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus inside the praetorium and gathered the whole cohort around him. They stripped off his clothes and threw a scarlet military cloak about him. Weaving a crown out of thorns, they placed it on his head, and a reed in his right hand. And kneeling before him, they mocked him, saying, 'Hail, King of the Jews!'” - Matthew 27:27-29
Fruit of the mystery: Courage
Filipino Language 👇🏻
Ikatlo: Ang Paglagay ng Koronang Tinik
27 Si Jesus ay dinala ng mga kawal ng gobernador sa palasyo nito,
at nagkatipon ang buong batalyon sa paligid niya.
28 Siya'y hinubaran nila at sinuotan ng isang balabal na matingkad na pula.
29 Kumuha sila ng matitinik na baging, ginawa itong korona at ipinutong sa kanya. Pagkatapos, pinahawak sa kanyang kanang kamay ang isang tangkay ng tambo. Siya'y niluhud-luhuran nila at kinutya ng ganito, “Mabuhay ang Hari ng mga Judio!” - Mateo 27:27-29 📖
Bunga ng Misteryo: lakas ng loob
February 16, 2024 😇 Lenten Season 📜 Confession Guide series of references for today #EcumenismWeekend
My Selected CCC 📜 and Holy Bible 📕 references for today
Short reference 😊 For this Lenten Season
We can use as a guide 🙏🏼 in “Confession”
Repentance and forgiveness of sins should be preached in his name to all nations - Excerpts from Luke 24 📖
FYI Catechism ⛪️ CCC
📜1849 THE DEFINITION OF SIN - Sin is an offense against reason, truth, and right conscience; it is failure in genuine love for God and neighbor caused by a perverse attachment to certain goods. It wounds the nature of man and injures human solidarity. It has been defined as "an utterance, a deed, or a desire contrary to the eternal law.
📜1868 Sin is a personal act. Moreover, we have a responsibility for the sins committed by others when we cooperate in them:
📍 by participating directly and voluntarily in them;
📍 by ordering, advising, praising, or approving them;
📍 by not disclosing or not hindering them when we have an obligation to do so;
📍 by protecting evil-doers
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Filipino Language 👇🏻
Maikling repetensya 😊 Para sa Kwaresma
Maari gamitin bilang gabay 🙏🏼 sa “Kumpisal”
FYI Katekismo ng Simbahan ⛪️ CCC
📜1849 ANG KAHULUGAN NG KASALANAN - Ang kasalanan ay isang pagkakasala laban sa katwiran, katotohanan, at tamang budhi; ito ay kabiguan sa tunay na pag-ibig sa Diyos at sa kapwa na dulot ng isang masamang kagustuhan sa mga bagay bagay. Ito ay sumasakit sa kalikasan ng tao at nakakapinsala sa pagkakaisa ng tao. Ito ay tinukoy bilang "isang pagbigkas, isang gawa, o isang pagnanais na salungat sa walang hanggang batas.
📜1868 Ang kasalanan ay isang personal na gawa. Bukod dito, mayroon tayong pananagutan para sa mga kasalanang nagawa ng iba kapag tayo ay nagtutulungan sa kanila:
📍 sa pamamagitan ng direktang pakikilahok at kusang loob sa kanila;
📍 sa pamamagitan ng pag-uutos, pagpapayo, pagpupuri, o pag-apruba sa kanila;
📍 sa pamamagitan ng hindi pagsisiwalat o hindi paghadlang sa kanila kapag mayroon tayong obligasyon na gawin ito;
📍 sa pamamagitan ng pagprotekta sa mga gumagawa ng masama
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February 16, 2024 ⛪ Friday Lenten Season 📕 Gospel Reference
My Gospel references for today 📕
Friday after ⛪ Ash Wednesday
First reading 📖 Isaiah 58:1-9
"The sort of fast that pleases me"
📍I set before you today life or death, blessing or curse
Psalm 🎶
📍Have mercy on me, God, in your kindness.
Gospel 📖 Matthew 9:14-15
When the bridegroom is taken from them, then they will fast
John’s disciples came to Jesus and said, ‘Why is it that we and the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not?’ Jesus replied, ‘Surely the bridegroom’s attendants would never think of mourning as long as the bridegroom is still with them? But the time will come for the bridegroom to be taken away from them, and then they will fast.’
February 15, 2024 🙏🏻 Precepts of the Church 📜 Catechism 1 of 5 series of references for today
My Selected Article and Holy Bible references for today
We need to help (works of mercy) and share Jesus (with others especially our loved ones - families, relatives & friends). We Roman Catholic church members, should all do our best to become closer to God through devotion, regular examination of conscience, asking God's forgiveness/sacraments, also by often praying, fasting/abstinence, almsgiving, continuous CF studies and following the teachings and guidelines of the church.⛪
Lenten Season ⛪️ Examination of Conscience
From the Precepts of the Church ⛪️ CCC 2042-2043
Reference 1 of 5 📜
📍You shall attend Mass on Sundays and on holy days of obligation and rest from servile labor.
📍Specific Example of Holidays of Obligation in the Philippines (Other countries may differ)
👉🏻Immaculate Conception (December 8)
👉🏻Christmas Day or Nativity of Our Lord (December 25)
👉🏻Solemnity of Mary, the Mother of God (January 1)
(3rd Commandment 📕Remember to keep holy the Lord’s Day)
Filipino 🇵🇭 Language 👇
Panahon ng Kuwaresma ⛪️ Pagsusuri sa Konsensya
Mula sa Mga Utos ng Simbahan⛪️CCC 2042-2043
Reperensya 1 ng 5 📜
📍Dapat kang dumalo sa Misa tuwing Linggo at sa mga banal na araw ng obligasyon at pahinga mula sa pagtatrabaho.
(Ikatlong utos 📕Tandaan na panatilihing banal ang Araw ng Panginoon)
https://www.stpatrickcatholicparish.org/confession-guide-for-adults
February 15, 2024 📜 The Holy Rosary 16 - Scourging at the Pillar 🌐 References for today
My Selected CCC 📜 and Holy Bible 📕 references for today
Understanding the "Holy Rosary" CCC 2673 to 2679 😇
Continuation of "The Holy Rosary"
Sorrowful Mysteries
The Five Sorrowful Mysteries are traditionally prayed on Tuesdays, Fridays, and, during the season of Lent, on Sundays:
Second: The Scourging at the Pillar
“Then he released Barabbas to them, but after he had Jesus scourged, he handed him over to be crucified.” - Matthew 27:26
Fruit of the mystery: Mortification
Filipino Language 👇🏻
Ikalawa: Ang Paghampas kay Jesus
Pinalaya nga ni Pilato si Barabbas at ipinahagupit naman si Jesus. Pagkatapos, ibinigay siya sa kanila upang ipako sa krus. - Mateo 27:26 📖
Bunga ng Misteryo: Paghihirap
February 15, 2024 ⛪ Thursday Lenten Season 📕 Gospel Reference
My Gospel references for today 📕
Thursday after ⛪ Ash Wednesday
First reading 📖 Deuteronomy 30:15-20
📍I set before you today life or death, blessing or curse
Psalm 🎶
Psalm 1:1-4,6
📍Happy indeed is the man who follows not the counsel of the wicked;
Gospel 📖 Luke 9:22-25
Whoever loses his life for my sake will save it
Jesus said to his disciples:
‘The Son of Man is destined to suffer grievously, to be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes and to be put to death, and to be raised up on the third day.’
Then to all he said:
‘If anyone wants to be a follower of mine, let him renounce himself and take up his cross every day and follow me. For anyone who wants to save his life will lose it; but anyone who loses his life for my sake, that man will save it. What gain, then, is it for a man to have won the whole world and to have lost or ruined his very self?’
February 15, 2024 🙏🏻 Lenten Season - Prayer and Litany 🌐 references for today
Prayer and Litany 🙏🏻
Fatima Prayer
O my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of hell, lead all souls to heaven, especially those in most need of your mercy. 🙏🏼
Litany of the Passion 🙏🏻
Lord, have mercy
Christ, have mercy
Lord, have mercy
Christ, hear us.
Christ, graciously hear us.
God the Father of heaven,
have mercy on us.
God the Son, Redeemer of the world,
Have mercy on us.
God the Holy Spirit,
Have mercy on us.
Holy Trinity, one God,
Have mercy on us.
Jesus, the eternal Wisdom,
Have mercy on us.
Jesus, conversing with men,
Have mercy on us.
Jesus, hated by the world,
Have mercy on us.
Jesus, sold for thirty pieces of silver,
Have mercy on us.
Jesus, prostrate in prayer,
Have mercy on us.
Jesus, strengthened by an angel,
Have mercy on us.
Jesus, agonizing in a bloody sweat,
Have mercy on us.
Jesus, betrayed by Judas with a kiss,
Have mercy on us.
Jesus, bound by the soldiers,
Have mercy on us.
Jesus, forsaken by your disciples,
Have mercy on us.
Jesus, before Annas and Caiaphas,
Have mercy on us.
Jesus, struck by a servant on the face,
Have mercy on us.
Jesus, accused by false witnesses,
Have mercy on us.
Jesus, declared worthy of death,
Have mercy on us.
Jesus, spit upon in the face,
Have mercy on us.
Jesus, blindfolded,
Have mercy on us.
Jesus, smitten on the cheek,
Have mercy on us.
Jesus, thrice denied by Peter,
Have mercy on us.
Jesus, delivered up to Pilate,
Have mercy on us.
Jesus, despised and mocked by Herod,
Have mercy on us.
Jesus, clothed in a white garment,
Have mercy on us.
Jesus, rejected for Barabbas,
Have mercy on us.
Jesus, torn by sources,
Have mercy on us.
Jesus, bruised for our sins,
Have mercy on us.
Jesus, regarded as a leper,
Have mercy on us.
Jesus, covered with a purple robe,
Have mercy on us.
Jesus, crowned with thorns,
Have mercy on us.
Jesus, struck with a reed,
Have mercy on us.
Jesus, demanded for crucifixion,
Have mercy on us.
Jesus, condemned to death,
Have mercy on us.
Jesus, given up to your enemies,
Have mercy on us.
Jesus, laden with the Cross,
Have mercy on us.
Jesus, led as a lamb to the slaughter,
Have mercy on us.
Jesus, stripped of your garmenets,
Have mercy on us.
Jesus, fastened with nails to the Cross,
Have mercy on us.
Jesus, wounded for our iniquities,
Have mercy on us.
Jesus, praying for your murderers,
Have mercy on us.
Jesus, reputed with the wicked,
Have mercy on us.
Jesus, blasphemed on the Cross,
Have mercy on us.
Jesus, reviled by the malefactor,
Have mercy on us.
Jesus, giving Paradise to the thief,
Have mercy on us.
Jesus, commending Saint John to your Mother as her son,
Have mercy on us.
Jesus, forsaken by your Father,
Have mercy on us.
Jesus, given fall and vinegar to drink,
Have mercy on us.
Jesus, testifying that all things written concerning you were accomplished
Have mercy on us.
Jesus, commending your spirit into the hands of your Father,
Have mercy on us.
Jesus, obedient even unto death,
Have mercy on us.
Jesus, pierced with a lance,
Have mercy on us.
Jesus, made a propiation for us,
Have mercy on us.
Jesus, taken down from the Cross,
Have mercy on us.
Jesus, laid in a sepulcher,
Have mercy on us.
Jesus, rising gloriously from the dead,
Have mercy on us.
Jesus, ascending into heaven,
Have mercy on us.
Jesus, our Advocate with the Father,
Have mercy on us.
Jesus, sending down the Holy Spirit,
Have mercy on us.
Jesus, exalting your Mother,
Have mercy on us.
Jesus, who shall come to judge the living and the dead,
Have mercy on us.
Be merciful,
spare us, O Lord.
Be merciful,
graciously hear us, O Lord.
From all evil,
deliver us, O Jesus.
From all sin,
deliver us, O Jesus.
From anger, hatred, and every evil will,
deliver us, O Jesus.
From war, famine, and pestilence,
deliver us, O Jesus.
From all dangers of mind and body,
deliver us, O Jesus.
From everlasting death,
deliver us, O Jesus.
Through your most pure conception,
deliver us, O Jesus.
Through your miraculous nativity,
deliver us, O Jesus.
Through your humble circumcision,
deliver us, O Jesus.
Through your baptism and fasting,
deliver us, O Jesus.
Through your labors and watchings,
deliver us, O Jesus.
Through your cruel scourging and crowning,
deliver us, O Jesus.
Through your thirst, and tears, and nakedness,
deliver us, O Jesus.
Through your precious death and Cross,
deliver us, O Jesus.
Through your glorious resurrection and ascension,
deliver us, O Jesus.
Through your sending forth the Holy Spirit, the Paraclete,
deliver us, O Jesus.
On the day of judgment, we sinners,
we beseech you, hear us.
That you would spare us,
we beseech you, hear us.
That you would pardon us,
we beseech you, hear us.
That you would bring us to true penance,
we beseech you, hear us.
That you would pour into our hearts the grace of the Holy Spirit,
we beseech you, hear us.
That you would defend and propagate your Church,
we beseech you, hear us.
That you would preserve and increase all societies assembled in your holy Name,
we beseech you, hear us.
That you would bestow upon us true peace, humility, and charity,
we beseech you, hear us.
That you would give us perseverance in grace and in your holy service,
we beseech you, hear us.
That you would deliver us from unclean thoughts, the temptations of the devil, and everlasting damnation,
we beseech you, hear us.
That you would unite us to the company of your Saints,
we beseech you, hear us.
That you would graciously hear us,
we beseech you, hear us.
Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world;
spare us, O Lord.
Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world;
graciously hear us, O Lord.
Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world;
have mercy on us.
Christ hear us.
Christ, graciously hear us.
Lord, have mercy.
Christ, have mercy.
Lord, have mercy.
We adore you, O Christ, and we bless you, because by your holy Cross you have redeemed the world.
February 14, 2024 ⛪ Ash Wednesday & Valentines Day 📕 My Bible references for today
Prayer and Litany 🙏🏻
Ash Wednesday 🥰 #PraxiFides 🙏🏼
Sign of the Cross ⛪ in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit
Ash Wednesday ⛪ marks the start of the holy season (40 days) of Lent, a time for reflection and repentance in preparation for the celebration of Easter.
We’re called to take up our cross. Apostle Paul says in Colossians 📖 1:24 that, “We are called to join our sufferings. with the sufferings of Christ.” He says, “We’re called to fill up that which is lacking in the sufferings of Christ, in our bodies. - USCCB 🌐
We need to help (works of mercy) and share Jesus (with others especially our loved ones - families, relatives & and friends).
🙏🏻 Praying, fasting/abstinence, almsgiving, & continuous studies
Excerpts from 📖 Genesis Chapter 3
"Until you return to the ground, from which you were taken;
For you are dust, and to dust you shall return."
Excerpts from 📖 Matthew Chapter 28
📍in "the name of the Father,
and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit,
teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you.
And behold, I am with you always, until the end of the age."
More Readings 📜🌐👇🏻
The following explanation from Aleteia includes a few beautiful options for a parental blessing from Scripture:
Parents have the weighty task of bringing their children to God. The Catechism of the Catholic Church explains how, “Through the grace of the sacrament of marriage, parents receive the responsibility and privilege of evangelizing their children. Parents should initiate their children at an early age into the mysteries of the faith of which they are the ‘first heralds’ for their children” (CCC 2225)…
One blessing that is frequently used is from the book of Numbers and is referred to as the Aaronic Blessing: “The Lord bless you and keep you. The Lord let his face shine upon you, and be gracious to you. The Lord look upon you kindly and give you peace” (Numbers 6:24-26).
Another blessing comes from the book of Tobit, where Tobit gives his son Tobias a blessing before he departs on a journey: “May God in heaven protect you on the way and bring you back to me safe and sound; may his angel accompany you” (Tobit 5:17).
A simple way to do this would be to take a bit of holy water (if available) and trace the sign of the cross on the forehand of your child (or simply place your hand on their head). While doing this you can pray any of the above prayers, or just say, “May God bless you in the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit.”
“This is how to bless your children”, Aleteia Magazine
Filipino Language 👇🏻
Excerpts from 📖 1 Corinthians 13
4 Love is very patient and kind, never jealous or envious, never boastful or proud, 5 never haughty or selfish or rude. Love does not demand its own way. It is not irritable or touchy. It does not hold grudges and will hardly even notice when others do it wrong. 6 It is never glad about injustice, but rejoices whenever truth wins out. 7 If you love someone, you will be loyal to him no matter what the cost. You will always believe in him, always expect the best of him, and always stand your ground in defending him.
8 All the special gifts and powers from God will someday come to an end, but love goes on forever.
Hango sa 📖 1 Corinto 13
4 Ang pag-ibig ay matiyaga at magandang-loob, hindi maiinggitin, hindi mayabang ni mapagmataas man, 5 hindi magaspang ang pag-uugali, hindi makasarili, hindi magagalitin, o mapagtanim ng sama ng loob sa kapwa. 6 Hindi ito natutuwa sa masama, sa halip ay nagagalak sa katotohanan. 7 Ang pag-ibig ay matiisin, mapagtiwala, puno ng pag-asa, at nagtitiyaga hanggang wakas.
February 14, 2024 😇 Quote from a Saint 🙏🏻 Part 7
Story from a Saint for today 😇 By Kathleen Beckman
Padre Pio Story
Letter of Padre Benedetto, spiritual director to Padre Pio
“…Don’t worry about the darkness however much it afflicts you. It is useful, however, to make the Sign of the Cross every now and then on your forehead while saying these words, “May the Holy Spirit enlighten our senses and our hearts with his grace”, or else, “Seat of Wisdom, pray for us.” In temptations against faith, invoke St. Michael and Sts. Peter and Paul.
You want the dawn to break while you are sometimes enjoying midday, but your soul, which wants to have the light continually, feels when it passes into the shadow, that it has never enjoyed the light. On this earth it is mainly winter, and darkness lasts longer than the splendors of light. The time of eternal light will come and then you’ll enjoy the reward of the darkness endured. I earnestly hope and I am convinced that for you this light will begin already in the present life. I bless you and wish you an everlasting noon.”
Lesson
Don’t worry. Trust does more to strengthen the soul.
Make the sign of the cross on your forehead and pray to the Holy Spirit and/or to Mary, Seat of Wisdom.
When in the darkness of spiritual desolation or spiritual warfare, we may forget that we ever experienced the consolation of love and light. A spiritual diary helps us to remember.
Great is God’s reward for the persevering, believing person –starting on earth and climaxing in Paradise.
No creature is greater than the Master. Christ’s life on earth is lived in us who believe. We suffer, die and rise in Him.
https://catholicexchange.com/spiritual-warfare-lessons-from-st-padre-pio/
February 14, 2024 🥰 Station of the Cross 📕Lenten Season Bible & Article references for today
My Selected Article with Holy Bible references for today
What is Lent?
Lent is a 40-day season commencing on Ash Wednesday and ending at sundown on Holy Thursday. During this season Catholics are called to enter more deeply into the mystery of Jesus’ suffering, death, and Resurrection at Easter.
Let’s all make the coming days meaningful with our love ones, especially with gatherings that should include often Praying and Gospel Sharing”
"Go into the whole world and proclaim the good news to all creation." Mk. 16:15 📖
Let's start with the basics and do our part within ourselves practicing of Catholic faith with piety.
We also need to help (works of mercy) and share Jesus (with others especially our loved ones - families, relatives & friends). We Roman Catholic church members, should all do our best to become closer to God through devotion, regular examination of conscience, asking God's forgiveness/sacraments, also by praying, fasting/abstinence, almsgiving, continuous CF studies and following the teachings and guidelines of the church.
Scriptural Way of the Cross 🌐 https://www.usccb.org/about/justice-peace-and-human-development/upload/cchd-scriptural-way-of-the-cross.pdf
Prayer and Praise 🌐 https://www.usccb.org/resources/Prayer-Stations-of-the-Cross.pdf
February 14, 2024 📜 The Holy Rosary 15 - The Sorrowful Mysteries 🌐 References for today
My Selected CCC 📜 and Holy Bible 📕 references for today
Understanding the "Holy Rosary" CCC 2673 to 2679 😇
Continuation of "The Holy Rosary"
Sorrowful Mysteries
The Five Sorrowful Mysteries are traditionally prayed on Tuesdays, Fridays, and, during the season of Lent, on Sundays:
First: The Agony in the Garden
“Then Jesus came with them to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to his disciples, 'Sit here while I go over there and pray.' He took along Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to feel sorrow and distress. Then he said to them, 'My soul is sorrowful even to death. Remain here and keep watch with me.' He advanced a little and fell prostrate in prayer, saying, 'My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me; yet, not as I will, but as you will.'” - Matthew 26:36-39 📖
Fruit of the Mystery: Obedience to God’s Will
Filipino Language 👇🏻
Una: Nanalangin si Jesus sa Getsemani
36 Isinama ni Jesus ang kanyang mga alagad sa isang lugar na tinatawag na Getsemani. Sinabi niya sa kanila, “Dito muna kayo't mananalangin ako sa dako roon.” 37 Ngunit isinama niya sina Pedro at ang dalawang anak ni Zebedeo. Nagsimulang mabagabag at maghirap ang kanyang kalooban, 38 kaya't sinabi niya sa kanila, “Ako'y halos mamatay sa tindi ng kalungkutan. Maghintay kayo rito at samahan ninyo ako sa pagpupuyat!”
39 Lumayo siya nang kaunti, nagpatirapa siya at nanalangin, “Ama ko, kung maaari po, ilayo ninyo sa akin ang kopang ito ng paghihirap. Ngunit hindi po ang kalooban ko, kundi ang kalooban ninyo ang mangyari.” - Mateo 26:36-39 📖
Bunga ng Misteryo: Pagsunod sa Kalooban ng Diyos
February 14, 2024 ⛪ Start of Lenten Season - Ash Wednesday📕 Gospel Reference
My Gospel references for today 📕
Ash Wednesday
First reading 📖 Joel 2:12-18
Let your hearts be broken, not your garments torn
‘Now, now – it is the Lord who speaks –
come back to me with all your heart,
fasting, weeping, mourning.’
Let your hearts be broken, not your garments torn,
turn to the Lord your God again,
for he is all tenderness and compassion,
slow to anger, rich in graciousness,
and ready to relent.
Who knows if he will not turn again, will not relent,
will not leave a blessing as he passes,
oblation and libation
for the Lord your God?
Sound the trumpet in Zion!
Order a fast,
proclaim a solemn assembly,
call the people together,
summon the community,
assemble the elders,
gather the children,
even the infants at the breast.
Let the bridegroom leave his bedroom
and the bride her alcove.
Between vestibule and altar let the priests,
the ministers of the Lord, lament.
Let them say,
‘Spare your people, Lord!
Do not make your heritage a thing of shame,
a byword for the nations.
Why should it be said among the nations,
“Where is their God?”’
Then the Lord, jealous on behalf of his land,
took pity on his people.
Psalm or canticle 🎶
Psalm 50(51):3-6,12-14,17
Have mercy on me, God, in your kindness.
In your compassion blot out my offence.
O wash me more and more from my guilt
and cleanse me from my sin.
My offences truly I know them;
my sin is always before me
Against you, you alone, have I sinned;
what is evil in your sight I have done.
A pure heart create for me, O God,
put a steadfast spirit within me.
Do not cast me away from your presence,
nor deprive me of your holy spirit.
Give me again the joy of your help;
with a spirit of fervour sustain me,
O Lord, open my lips
and my mouth shall declare your praise.
Second reading 📖 2 Corinthians 5:20-6:2
Be reconciled to God
We are ambassadors for Christ; it is as though God were appealing through us, and the appeal that we make in Christ’s name is: be reconciled to God. For our sake God made the sinless one into sin, so that in him we might become the goodness of God. As his fellow workers, we beg you once again not to neglect the grace of God that you have received. For he says: At the favourable time, I have listened to you; on the day of salvation I came to your help. Well, now is the favourable time; this is the day of salvation.
Gospel 📖 Matthew 6:1-6,16-18
Your Father who sees all that is done in secret will reward you
Jesus said to his disciples: ‘Be careful not to parade your good deeds before men to attract their notice; by doing this you will lose all reward from your Father in heaven. So when you give alms, do not have it trumpeted before you; this is what the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets to win men’s admiration. I tell you solemnly, they have had their reward. But when you give alms, your left hand must not know what your right is doing; your almsgiving must be secret, and your Father who sees all that is done in secret will reward you.
‘And when you pray, do not imitate the hypocrites: they love to say their prayers standing up in the synagogues and at the street corners for people to see them; I tell you solemnly, they have had their reward. But when you pray, go to your private room and, when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in that secret place, and your Father who sees all that is done in secret will reward you.
‘When you fast do not put on a gloomy look as the hypocrites do: they pull long faces to let men know they are fasting. I tell you solemnly, they have had their reward. But when you fast, put oil on your head and wash your face, so that no one will know you are fasting except your Father who sees all that is done in secret; and your Father who sees all that is done in secret will reward you.’
February 13, 2024 😇 Quote from a Saint 🙏🏻 Part 6
Story from a Saint for today 😇 By Kathleen Beckman
Padre Pio Story - August 4, 1917
“Satan with his malignant wiles never tires of waging war on me and attacking my little citadel, besieging it on all sides. In a word, Satan is for me like a powerful foe who, when he resolves to capture a fortress is not content to attack one wall or one rampart, but surrounds it entirely, attacks and torments it on every side. My dear Father, the malignant wiles of Satan strike terror into my heart, but from God alone through Jesus Christ I hope for the grace to obtain the victory continually and never to be defeated.”
Lesson
In spiritual warfare, by acknowledging our weakness, we depend upon God’s mercy that is always
Satan is not interested in half measures against us. Therefore, he attacks from all sides. We must be battle ready in the state of grace, walking with the Church Militant.
Satan may strike fear in us but we are able to turn that fear trigger into the virtue of faith because God provides grace.
https://catholicexchange.com/spiritual-warfare-lessons-from-st-padre-pio/
February 13, 2024 🙏🏻 Lenten Season 📜 My Catechism & 📕 Bible references for today
My Catechism 📜 and Holy Bible 📕 references for today
THE FIVE PRECEPTS OF THE CHURCH ( CCC 2041-2043 )
1. You shall attend Mass on Sundays and on holy days of obligation and rest from servile labor
2. You shall confess your sins at least once a year
3. You shall receive the sacrament of the Eucharist at least during the Easter season
4. You shall observe the days of fasting and abstinence established by the Church
5. You shall help to provide for the needs of the Church.
Obedience during Lenten Season 📜 Fasting and abstinence
📌Romans 5:19: "For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous."
📌Psalm 128:1: "Blessed are all who fear the Lord, who walk in obedience to him."
📌Exodus 19:5: "Now if you obey me fully and keep my covenant, then out of all nations you will be my treasured possession."
📌Deuteronomy 11:1: "Love the LORD your God and keep his requirements, his decrees, his laws, and his commands always."
📌John 15:9: "As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love."
Filipino Language 👇
Mga Gabay ng Simbahan ⛪️
1. Dapat kang dumalo sa Misa tuwing Linggo at sa mga banal na araw ng obligasyon at pahinga mula sa lingkod na paggawa
2. Dapat mong ipagtatapat ang iyong mga kasalanan kahit man lang minsan sa isang taon
3. Dapat kang tumanggap ng sakramento ng Eukaristiya kahit man lamang sa panahon ng Pasko ng Pagkabuhay
4. Dapat mong ipagdiwang ang mga araw ng pag-aayuno at pag-iwas na itinatag ng Simbahan
5. Dapat kang tumulong sa paglalaan ng mga pangangailangan ng Simbahan.
February 13, 2024 📜 The Holy Rosary 14 - The Assumption and Coronation of the Blessed Virgin Mary 🌐 References for today
My Selected CCC 📜 and Holy Bible 📕 references for today
Understanding the "Holy Rosary" CCC 2673 to 2679
Continuation of "The Holy Rosary"
Fourth: The Assumption
“Behold, from now on will all ages call me blessed. The Mighty One has done great things for me, and holy is his name.” - Luke 1:48-49 📖
Fruit of the Mystery: Devotion to Mary
Fifth: The Coronation of Mary
“A great sign appeared in the sky, a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.” - Revelation 12:1 📖
Fruit of the mystery: Grace of a happy death
Filipino Language 👇🏻
Ikaapat: Ang Pag-akyat sa Langit ng Mahal na Birhen
sapagkat nilingap niya akong kanyang abang alipin!
Mula ngayon, ang lahat ng tao'y tatawagin akong pinagpala;
dahil sa mga dakilang bagay na ginawa sa akin ng Makapangyarihan.
Banal ang kanyang pangalan! - Lucas 1:48-49 📖
Bunga ng misteryo: Debosyon kay Maria
Ikalima: Ang Pagkorona sa Mahal na Birheng Maria
Kasunod nito'y lumitaw sa langit ang isang kakaibang palatandaan: isang babaing nadaramtan ng araw at nakatuntong sa buwan, at ang ulo'y may koronang binubuo ng labindalawang (12) bituin. 2 Malapit na siyang manganak kaya't napapasigaw siya dahil sa matinding hirap. - Pahayag 12:1 📖
Bunga ng misteryo: Biyaya ng masayang kamatayan
https://www.usccb.org/how-to-pray-the-rosary
The Magnificat 🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶
Luke 1:46-55 📖
46 And Mary said,
Mary’s Song of Praise 🎶
“My soul magnifies the Lord,
47 and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior,
48 for he has regarded the low estate of his handmaiden.
For behold, henceforth all generations will call me blessed;
49 or he who is mighty has done great things for me,
and holy is his name.
50 And his mercy is on those who fear him
from generation to generation.
51 He has shown strength with his arm,
he has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts,
52 he has put down the mighty from their thrones,
and exalted those of low degree;
53 he has filled the hungry with good things,
and the rich he has sent empty away.
54 He has helped his servant Israel,
in remembrance of his mercy,
55 as he spoke to our fathers,
to Abraham and to his posterity for ever.”
Filipino Language 👇🏻
Lucas 1:46-55 📖
Ang Awit ng Pagpupuri ni Maria 🎶
46 At sinabi ni Maria,
“Ang puso ko'y nagpupuri sa Panginoon,
47 at ang aking espiritu'y nagagalak sa Diyos na aking Tagapagligtas,
48 sapagkat nilingap niya akong kanyang abang alipin!
Mula ngayon, ang lahat ng tao'y tatawagin akong pinagpala;
49 dahil sa mga dakilang bagay na ginawa sa akin ng Makapangyarihan.
Banal ang kanyang pangalan!
50 Ang kanyang kahabagan ay para sa lahat ng salinlahing may takot sa kanya.
51 Ipinakita niya ang lakas ng kanyang mga bisig,
nilito niya ang mga may palalong isip.
52 Tinanggal sa kanilang luklukan ang mga may kapangyarihan,
at itinaas ang mga nasa abang kalagayan.
53 Pinasagana niya sa mabubuting bagay ang mga kapus-palad,
at pinaalis nang walang dalang anuman ang mga mayayaman.
54 Tinulungan niya ang Israel na kanyang lingkod,
at hindi niya kinalimutang kahabagan ito.
55 Tulad ng kanyang ipinangako sa ating mga ninuno,
kay Abraham at sa lahi nito, magpakailanman!”
February 13, 2024 ⛪ Last Tuesday before Lenten Season 📕 Gospel Reference
My Gospel references for today 📕
Feb. 13 - Last Tuesday before Lenten Season
"Everyone who is tempted is attracted and seduced by his own wrong desire"
First reading 📖James 1:12-18
Temptation is not from God
Happy the man who stands firm when trials come. He has proved himself, and will win the prize of life, the crown that the Lord has promised to those who love him.
Never, when you have been tempted, say, ‘God sent the temptation’; God cannot be tempted to do anything wrong, and he does not tempt anybody. Everyone who is tempted is attracted and seduced by his own wrong desire. Then the desire conceives and gives birth to sin, and when sin is fully grown, it too has a child, and the child is death.
Make no mistake about this, my dear brothers: it is all that is good, everything that is perfect, which is given us from above; it comes down from the Father of all light; with him there is no such thing as alteration, no shadow of a change. By his own choice he made us his children by the message of the truth so that we should be a sort of first-fruits of all that he had created.
Psalm 🎶
Happy the man whom you teach, O Lord,
whom you train by means of your law;
Gospel 📖 Mark 8:14-21
Be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod
The disciples had forgotten to take any food and they had only one loaf with them in the boat. Then he gave them this warning, ‘Keep your eyes open; be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod.’ And they said to one another, ‘It is because we have no bread.’ And Jesus knew it, and he said to them, ‘Why are you talking about having no bread? Do you not yet understand? Have you no perception? Are your minds closed? Have you eyes that do not see, ears that do not hear? Or do you not remember? When I broke the five loaves among the five thousand, how many baskets full of scraps did you collect?’ They answered, ‘Twelve.’ ‘And when I broke the seven loaves for the four thousand, how many baskets full of scraps did you collect?’ And they answered, ‘Seven.’ Then he said to them, ‘Are you still without perception?’
February 12, 2024 😇 Quote from a Saint 🙏🏻 Part 5
Story from a Saint for today 😇 By Kathleen Beckman
Padre Pio Story - May 9, 1915
“The enemies are continually rising up, Father, against the ship of my spirit and they cry out in unison: “Let us knock him down, let us crush him, since he is weak and cannot hold out much longer”. Alas, my dear Father, who will set me free from those roaring lions all ready to devour me?”
Lesson
Though we pass through moments of extreme trial when the crushing power of the enemy is felt and our weakness is all too apparent, trust in God wins the day.
The devil crushes the soul. The Lord lifts up the soul. If the Lord reprimands, He does so with gentleness and utmost charity, never crushing the soul. But the devil’s aim is soul crushing. Know your enemy. Know yourself. Know the Almighty One. Christ and you proclaim victory over all evil.
https://catholicexchange.com/spiritual-warfare-lessons-from-st-padre-pio/
February 12, 2024 🥰 Exposing Evil Part 1 📕 My Bible references for today
My Selected Holy Bible reference for today
Bible 📕 References on Exposing evil - Part 1
1. Ephesians 5:11-12 📖
Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them. It is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret.
2. Psalm 94:16 📖
Who will rise up for me against the wicked? Who will stand for me against those who practice iniquity?
3. John 7:24 📖
Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.
4. Titus 1:10-13 📖
For there are many who are insubordinate, empty talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision party. They must be silenced, since they are upsetting whole families by teaching for shameful gain what they ought not to teach. One of the Cretans, a prophet of their own, said, Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons. This testimony is true. Therefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith.
5. 1 Corinthians 6:2 📖
Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases?
February 12, 2024 📜 The Holy Rosary 13 - The Ascension and Descent of the Holy Spirit 🌐 References for today
My Selected CCC 📜 and Holy Bible 📕 references for today
Understanding the "Holy Rosary" CCC 2673 to 2679
Continuation of "The Holy Rosary"
Second: The Ascension
“So then the Lord Jesus, after he spoke to them, was taken up into heaven and took his seat at the right hand of God.” - Mark 16:19 📖
Fruit of the mystery: Hope
Third: The Descent of the Holy Spirit
“When the time for Pentecost was fulfilled, they were all in one place together. And suddenly there came from the sky a noise like a strong driving wind, and it filled the entire house in which they were. Then there appeared to them tongues as of fire, which parted and came to rest on each one of them. And they were all filled with the holy Spirit and began to speak in different tongues, as the Spirit enabled them to proclaim.” - Acts 2:1-4 📖
Fruit of the mystery: Wisdom
Filipino Language 👇🏻
Ikalawa: Ang Pag-akyat kay Jesus sa Langit
Pagkatapos niyang magsalita sa kanila, ang Panginoong Jesus ay iniakyat sa langit at umupo sa kanan ng Diyos. - Marcos 16:19 📖
Bunga ng misteryo: Pagasa
Ikatlo: Ang Pagdating ng Espiritu Santo
Nagkakatipon silang lahat sa isang lugar nang sumapit ang araw ng Pentecostes. 2 Walang anu-ano'y may ingay na nagmula sa langit, na tulad ng ugong ng malakas na hangin, at napuno nito ang bahay na kinaroroonan nila. 3 May nakita silang parang mga dilang apoy na dumapo sa bawat isa sa kanila, 4 at silang lahat ay napuspos ng Espiritu Santo at nagsimulang magsalita ng iba't ibang wika, ayon sa ipinagkaloob sa kanila ng Espiritu. - Gawa 2:1-4 📖
Bunga ng misteryo: Karunungan
February 12, 2024 ⛪ Last Monday before Lenten Season 📕 Gospel Reference
My Gospel references for today 📕
Feb. 12 - Last Monday of Week 5 in Ordinary Time
First reading 📖 James 1:1-11
Your faith is put to the test so that your patience may make you complete
From James, servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ. Greetings to the twelve tribes of the Dispersion.
My brothers, you will always have your trials but, when they come, try to treat them as a happy privilege; you understand that your faith is only put to the test to make you patient, but patience too is to have its practical results so that you will become fully-developed, complete, with nothing missing.
If there is any one of you who needs wisdom, he must ask God, who gives to all freely and ungrudgingly; it will be given to him. But he must ask with faith, and no trace of doubt, because a person who has doubts is like the waves thrown up in the sea when the wind drives. That sort of person, in two minds, wavering between going different ways, must not expect that the Lord will give him anything.
It is right for the poor brother to be proud of his high rank, and the rich one to be thankful that he has been humbled because riches last no longer than the flowers in the grass; the scorching sun comes up, and the grass withers, the flower falls; what looked so beautiful now disappears. It is the same with the rich man: his business goes on; he himself perishes.
Psalm 🎶
The law from your mouth means more to me
than silver and gold.
Gospel 📖 Mark 8:11-13
No sign shall be given to this generation
The Pharisees came up and started a discussion with Jesus; they demanded of him a sign from heaven, to test him. And with a sigh that came straight from the heart he said, ‘Why does this generation demand a sign? I tell you solemnly, no sign shall be given to this generation.’ And leaving them again and re-embarking, he went away to the opposite shore.
February 11, 2024 😇 Quote from a Saint 🙏🏻 Part 4 #EcumenismWeekend
Story from a Saint for today 😇 By Kathleen Beckman
Padre Pio Story - June 25, 1911
“My dear Father, what is God’s purpose in allowing the devil so much freedom? Despair is trying to take hold of me, yet, believe me, Father, I have no intention of displeasing God. I cannot account for and much less understand how it can ever be possible that such a resolute will prepared to do good can be combined with all these human miseries. If you perceive, then, that my soul is in danger, help me, for I want at all costs to save my soul and to offend God no more.”
Lesson
During times of spiritual attacks, God usually provides someone such as a spiritual director, or confessor, or spiritual friend to help us resist despair or discouragement that are never of God.
We can train our will to be resolute and prepared to do good despite our human misery.
We may feel confounded by spiritual attacks but as Pio writes we must want at all costs to save our soul and not to offend God.
https://catholicexchange.com/spiritual-warfare-lessons-from-st-padre-pio/
February 11, 2024 📜 The Holy Rosary 12 - The Glorious Mysteries 🌐 References for today #EcumenismWeekend
My Selected CCC 📜 and Holy Bible 📕 references for today
Understanding the "Holy Rosary" CCC 2673 to 2679
Continuation of "The Holy Rosary"
Glorious Mysteries
Glorious Mysteries are traditionally prayed on Wednesdays and, outside the seasons of Advent and Lent, on Sundays:
First: The Resurrection
“But at daybreak on the first day of the week, they took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb.They found the stone rolled away from the tomb; but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. While they were puzzling over this, behold, two men in dazzling garments appeared to them. They were terrified and bowed their faces to the ground. They said to them, 'Why do you seek the living one among the dead? He is not here, but he has been raised.'” - Luke 24:1-5 📖
Fruit of the mystery: Faith
Filipino Language 👇🏻
Una: Ang Muling Pagkabuhay ni Jesus
Maagang-maaga pa ng araw ng Linggo, ang mga babae ay nagbalik sa libingan, dala ang mga pabangong inihanda nila. 2 Nang dumating sila doon, nakita nilang naigulong na ang batong nakatakip sa libingan. 3 Ngunit nang pumasok sila, wala roon ang bangkay ng Panginoong Jesus. 4 Samantalang nagtataka sila kung ano ang nangyari, biglang lumitaw sa tabi nila ang dalawang lalaking nakakasilaw ang damit. 5 Dahil sa matinding takot, sila'y nagpatirapa. Tinanong sila ng mga lalaki, “Bakit ninyo hinahanap ang buháy sa lugar ng mga patay? - Lucas 24:1-5 📖
Bunga ng misteryo: Pananampalataya
February 11, 2024 ⛪ Last Sunday before Lenten Season 📕 Gospel Reference
My Gospel references for today 📕
Feb. 11 - Last Sunday of Week 5 in Ordinary Time
Peace be with you - families, relatives and friends 🥰 #EcumenismWeekend ⛪️ #PraxiFides 🙏🏼
Let’s all make the coming days meaningful with our loved ones, especially with gatherings that should include often Praying and Gospel Sharing” 😇
Let's all do our best to become closer to God through devotion, regular examination of conscience, asking God's forgiveness/sacraments, also by often Praying, fasting/abstinence, almsgiving, and following the teachings and guidelines of the church.🙏
First 📖 Leviticus 13:1-2,44-46
The unclean man must live outside the camp
Psalm 🎼
Happy the man whose offense is forgiven,
whose sin is remitted.
Second 📖 1 Corinthians 10:31-11:1
Take me for your model, as I take Chris
Gospel 📖 Mark 1:40-45
The leprosy left the man at once, and he was cured
A leper came to Jesus and pleaded on his knees: ‘If you want to’ he said ‘you can cure me.’ Feeling sorry for him, Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him. ‘Of course I want to!’ he said. ‘Be cured!’ And the leprosy left him at once and he was cured. Jesus immediately sent him away and sternly ordered him, ‘Mind you say nothing to anyone, but go and show yourself to the priest, and make the offering for your healing prescribed by Moses as evidence of your recovery.’ The man went away, but then started talking about it freely and telling the story everywhere, so that Jesus could no longer go openly into any town, but had to stay outside in places where nobody lived. Even so, people from all around would come to him.
February 10, 2024 😇 Quote from a Saint 🙏🏻 Part 3 #EcumenismWeekend
Story from a Saint for today 😇 By Kathleen Beckman
Padre Pio Story - May 18, 1913
“Now, my dear Father, who could tell you all that I had to bear! I have been alone by night and alone by day! From that day I became involved in a bitter strife with those ugly wretches. They tried to make me believe that I had been rejected by God for ever”.
Lesson
The temptation that God has completely rejected us is a common diabolical tactic. We should cling to the truth of God’s covenant of love even in the darkness of spiritual warfare.
The spiritual director notes, “Padre Pio does not retreat nor admit defeat. He declares sincerely and firmly that he willingly accepts every kind of torment and tribulation, if only he may remain steadfast and faithful to his promises and ensure his salvation” (Padre Peio of Pietrelcina, Letters, 1, published by Our Lady of Grace Capuchin Friary, Italy, 1984, p 153)
We should remain faithful to our obligation to God and keep our eyes fixed on eternal salvation—the bigger context of life.
https://catholicexchange.com/spiritual-warfare-lessons-from-st-padre-pio/
February 10, 2024 📜 The Holy Rosary 11 - The Institution of the Eucharist 🌐 References for today #EcumenismWeekend
My Selected CCC 📜 and Holy Bible 📕 references for today
Understanding the "Holy Rosary" CCC 2673 to 2679
Continuation of "The Holy Rosary"
Luminous Mysteries
The Five Luminous Mysteries are traditionally prayed on Thursdays:
Fifth: The Institution of the Eucharist
“While they were eating, Jesus took bread, said the blessing, broke it, and giving it to his disciples said, 'Take and eat; this is my body.'” - Matthew 26:26 📖
Fruit of the mystery: Adoration
Filipino Language 👇🏻
Ikalima: Ang Banal na Hapunan
Habang sila'y kumakain, dumampot si Jesus ng tinapay, at matapos magpasalamat sa Diyos ay pinaghati-hati niya iyon, ibinigay sa mga alagad at sinabi, “Kunin ninyo ito at kainin. Ito ang aking katawan.” - Mateo 26:26 📖
Bunga ng misteryo: Pagsamba
February 10, 2024 ⛪ Saturday of week 5 of Ordinary Time 📕 Gospel Reference
My Gospel references for today 📕
Feb. 10 - Saturday of Week 5 in Ordinary Time
First reading 📖 Song of Songs 8:6-7
The flash of love is a flame of the Lord himself
Psalm 🎶
Like our ancestors, we have sinned, we have acted wickedly, guiltily;
Gospel 📖 Luke 10:38-42
Martha works; Mary listens
Jesus came to a village, and a woman named Martha welcomed him into her house. She had a sister called Mary, who sat down at the Lord’s feet and listened to him speaking. Now Martha who was distracted with all the serving said, ‘Lord, do you not care that my sister is leaving me to do the serving all by myself? Please tell her to help me.’ But the Lord answered: ‘Martha, Martha,’ he said ‘you worry and fret about so many things, and yet few are needed, indeed only one. It is Mary who has chosen the better part; it is not to be taken from her.’
February 9, 2024 😇 Quote from a Saint 🙏🏻 Part 2 #EcumenismWeekend
Story from a Saint for today 😇 By Kathleen Beckman
Padre Pio Story - August 17, 1910
“I laugh at all this as being of no account, following your advice. It sometimes worries me, though, that I am not quite sure if I have been ready to put up a fight at the enemy’s very first attack”.
Lesson 🧑🏻🏫
Following the advice of his spiritual director, St. Pio is attempting to keep things in perspective, not to give too much credit to the demons.
Pio reminds us that we must immediately fight off the devil’s first attack that will be aimed at our most vulnerable area (illicit relationships, sin-patterns, vices, etc.)
https://catholicexchange.com/spiritual-warfare-lessons-from-st-padre-pio/
February 9, 2024 ⛪ Friday of week 5 of Ordinary Time 📕 Gospel Reference
My Gospel references for today 📕
Feb. 09 - Friday of Week 5 in Ordinary Time
First reading 📖 1 Kings 11:29-32,12:19
Solomon is unfaithful; the Lord moderates his wrath
Psalm 🎶
Let there be no foreign god among you
Gospel 📖 Mark 7:31-37
'He makes the deaf hear and the dumb speak'
Returning from the district of Tyre, Jesus went by way of Sidon towards the Sea of Galilee, right through the Decapolis region. And they brought him a deaf man who had an impediment in his speech; and they asked him to lay his hand on him. He took him aside in private, away from the crowd, put his fingers into the man’s ears and touched his tongue with spittle. Then looking up to heaven he sighed; and he said to him, ‘Ephphatha’, that is, ‘Be opened.’ And his ears were opened, and the ligament of his tongue was loosened and he spoke clearly. And Jesus ordered them to tell no one about it, but the more he insisted, the more widely they published it. Their admiration was unbounded. ‘He has done all things well,’ they said ‘he makes the deaf hear and the dumb speak.’
February 9, 2024 📜 The Holy Rosary 10 - The Transfiguration 🌐 References for today #EcumenismWeekend
My Selected CCC 📜 and Holy Bible 📕 references for today
Understanding the "Holy Rosary" CCC 2673 to 2679
Continuation of "The Holy Rosary"
Luminous Mysteries
The Five Luminous Mysteries are traditionally prayed on Thursdays:
Fourth: The Transfiguration
“After six days Jesus took Peter, James, and John his brother, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. And he was transfigured before them; his face shone like the sun and his clothes became white as light.” - Matthew 17:1-2 📖
Fruit of the mystery: Desire for holiness
Filipino Language 👇🏻
Ikaapat: Ang Pagbabagong-anyo
Pagkaraan ng anim na araw, isinama ni Jesus si Pedro at ang magkapatid na Santiago at Juan, at sila'y umakyat sa isang mataas na bundok. 2 Habang sila'y naroroon, nakita nilang nagbago ang anyo ni Jesus, nagliwanag na parang araw ang kanyang mukha at nagningning sa kaputian ang kanyang damit. ” - Mateo 17:1-2 📖
Bunga ng misteryo: Pagnanais para sa kabanalan
February 8, 2024 😇 Quote from a Saint 🙏🏻 Part 1
Story from a Saint for today 😇 By Kathleen Beckman
Padre Pio Story - December 20, 1910
“I am in the hands of the devil who is trying to snatch me from the arms of Jesus. Dear God! What a war he is waging against me! There are moments in which I am on the point of losing my reason through the continual violence I must do myself. How many tears and groans, dear Father, I send up to heaven in order to be set free. But no matter, I will never tire of praying to Jesus.”
Lesson 🧑🏻🏫
The aim of the devil is to take us from the arms of Jesus, to isolate us from God. In writing to his spiritual director, he brings the struggle into the light and receives prayers.
It is necessary to do violence to our self, to engage our free will in resisting diabolical temptations.
Amidst tears and groans, we must turn to God, not away from God to be set free.
Perseverance is necessary to pray until the trial ends.
https://catholicexchange.com/spiritual-warfare-lessons-from-st-padre-pio/
February 8, 2024 ⛪ Thursday of week 5 of Ordinary Time 📕 Gospel Reference
My Gospel references for today 📕
Feb. 08 - Thursday of Week 5 in Ordinary Time
First reading 📖 1 Kings 11:4-13
For the sake of my servant David, I will leave you one tribe
Psalm 🎶
They are happy who do what is right,
who at all times do what is just.
O Lord, remember me
out of the love you have for your people.
Gospel 📖 Mark 7:24-30
The astuteness of the Syro-Phoenician woman
Jesus left Gennesaret and set out for the territory of Tyre. There he went into a house and did not want anyone to know he was there, but he could not pass unrecognised. A woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit heard about him straightaway and came and fell at his feet. Now the woman was a pagan, by birth a Syrophoenician, and she begged him to cast the devil out of her daughter. And he said to her, ‘The children should be fed first, because it is not fair to take the children’s food and throw it to the house-dogs.’ But she spoke up: ‘Ah yes, sir,’ she replied ‘but the house-dogs under the table can eat the children’s scraps.’ And he said to her, ‘For saying this, you may go home happy: the devil has gone out of your daughter.’ So she went off to her home and found the child lying on the bed and the devil gone.
February 8, 2024 📜 The Holy Rosary 9 - Jesus' Proclamation of the Kingdom of God 🌐 References for today
My Selected CCC 📜 and Holy Bible 📕 references for today
Understanding the "Holy Rosary" CCC 2673 to 2679
Continuation of "The Holy Rosary"
Luminous Mysteries
The Five Luminous Mysteries are traditionally prayed on Thursdays:
Third: Jesus' Proclamation of the Coming of the Kingdom of God
“'This is the time of fulfillment. The kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and believe in the gospel.'” - Mark 1:15 📖
Fruit of the Mystery: Conversion
Filipino Language 👇🏻
Ikatlo: Ang Pagpapahayag ng Kaharian ng Diyos
Sinabi niya, “Dumating na ang takdang panahon. Malapit nang maghari ang Diyos![e] Kaya magsisi na kayo't talikuran ang inyong mga kasalanan. Paniwalaan ninyo ang Magandang Balita!” - Marcos 1:15 📖
Bunga ng misteryo: Pagbabalik-loob
February 7, 2024 ⛪ Wedesday of week 5 of Ordinary Time 📕 Gospel Reference
My Gospel references for today 📕
Feb. 07 - Wednesday of Week 5 in Ordinary Time
First reading 📖1 Kings 10:1-10
The Queen of Sheba saw all the wisdom of Solomon
Psalm 🎶
Commit your life to the Lord
Gospel 📖 Mark 7:14-23
It is what comes out of a man that makes him unclean
Jesus called the people to him and said, ‘Listen to me, all of you, and understand. Nothing that goes into a man from outside can make him unclean; it is the things that come out of a man that make him unclean. If anyone has ears to hear, let him listen to this.’
When he had gone back into the house, away from the crowd, his disciples questioned him about the parable. He said to them, ‘Do you not understand either? Can you not see that whatever goes into a man from outside cannot make him unclean, because it does not go into his heart but through his stomach and passes out into the sewer?’ (Thus he pronounced all foods clean.) And he went on, ‘It is what comes out of a man that makes him unclean. For it is from within, from men’s hearts, that evil intentions emerge: fornication, theft, murder, adultery, avarice, malice, deceit, indecency, envy, slander, pride, folly. All these evil things come from within and make a man unclean.’
February 7, 2024 🥰 Corinthians 📕 My Bible reference for today
My Selected Holy Bible reference for today
Our Future Destiny
2 Corinthians 5:6-10 📖
6 So we are always courageous, although we know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord,
7 for we walk by faith, not by sight.
8 Yet we are courageous, and we would rather leave the body and go home to the Lord.
9 Therefore, we aspire to please him, whether we are at home or away.
10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive recompense, according to what he did in the body, whether good or evil.
2 Corinto 5: 6-10 📖
6 Kaya't laging malakas ang aming loob. Alam naming habang kami'y narito pa sa katawang-lupa, hindi kami makakapasok sa tahanang inihanda ng Panginoon. 7 Sapagkat namumuhay kami batay sa pananampalataya at hindi sa mga bagay na nakikita. 8 Malakas ang aming loob at mas gusto pa nga naming iwan ang katawang ito na aming tinatahanan ngayon, upang manirahan na sa piling ng Panginoon. 9 Kaya naman, ang pinakananais namin ay maging kalugud-lugod sa kanya, maging nasa katawang-lupa o maging nasa piling na niya. 10 Sapagkat lahat tayo'y haharap sa hukuman ni Cristo at tatanggap ng nararapat ayon sa ating mga gawang mabuti o masama, nang tayo'y nabubuhay pa sa katawang ito.
February 7, 2024 📜 The Holy Rosary 8 - The Wedding at Cana 🌐 References for today
My Selected CCC and Holy Bible references for today
Understanding the "Holy Rosary" CCC 2673 to 2679
Continuation of "The Holy Rosary"
Luminous Mysteries
The Five Luminous Mysteries are traditionally prayed on Thursdays:
First: The Wedding Feast at Cana
“On the third day there was a wedding in Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. Jesus and his disciples were also invited to the wedding. When the wine ran short, the mother of Jesus said to him, 'They have no wine.' [And] Jesus said to her, 'Woman, how does your concern affect me? My hour has not yet come.' His mother said to the servers, 'Do whatever he tells you.'” - John 2:1-5 📖
Fruit of the mystery: To Jesus through Mary
Filipino Language 👇🏻
Unat: kasalan sa Cana
1 Nang ikatlong araw, may kasalan sa Cana sa Galilea, at naroon ang ina ni Jesus. 2 Si Jesus at ang kanyang mga alagad ay inanyayahan din sa kasalan. 3 Naubos ang alak, kaya't sinabi ng ina ni Jesus sa kanya, “Anak, wala na silang alak.”
4 Sinabi ni Jesus, “Ipaubaya na lang po ninyo ito sa akin, Ginang.[a] Hindi pa ito ang aking tamang oras.”
5 Sinabi ng kanyang ina sa mga naglilingkod, “Gawin ninyo ang anumang sabihin niya sa inyo.” - Juan 2:1-5 📖
Bunga ng misteryo: Kay Hesus sa pamamagitan ni Maria
February 6, 2024 ⛪ Tuesday of week 5 of Ordinary Time 📕 Gospel Reference
My Gospel reference for today 📕
Feb. 06 - Tuesday of Week 5 in Ordinary Time
READING OF THE DAY
First reading
Galatians 2:19-20 📖
I live now with the life of Christ who lives in me
Through the Law I am dead to the Law, so that now I can live with God. I have been crucified with Christ, and I live now not with my own life but with the life of Christ who lives in me. The life I now live in this body I live in faith: faith in the Son of God who loved me and who sacrificed himself for my sake.
Matthew 28:16-20 📖
Go and make disciples of all nations
The eleven disciples set out for Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had arranged to meet them. When they saw him they fell down before him, though some hesitated. Jesus came up and spoke to them. He said, ‘All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go, therefore, make disciples of all the nations; baptise them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teach them to observe all the commands I gave you. And know that I am with you always; yes, to the end of time.’
February 6, 2024 🥰 The Holy Rosary 7 - The Luminous Mysteries 🌐 References for today
My Selected CCC 📜 and Holy Bible 📕 references for today
Understanding the "Holy Rosary" CCC 2673 to 2679
Continuation of "The Holy Rosary"
Luminous Mysteries
The Five Luminous Mysteries are traditionally prayed on Thursdays:
First: The Baptism of Christ in the Jordan
“After Jesus was baptized, he came up from the water and behold, the heavens were opened [for him], and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove [and] coming upon him. And a voice came from the heavens, saying, 'This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.'” - Matthew 3:16-17 📖
Fruit of the mystery: Openness to the Holy Spirit
Filipino Language 👇🏻
Una: Ang Pagbibinyag sa Ilog ng Jordan
17 At isang tinig mula sa langit ang nagsabi, “Ito ang minamahal kong Anak na lubos kong kinalulugdan! - Mateow 3:16-17 📖
Bunga ng misteryo: Pagiging bukas sa Banal na Espiritu
February 6, 2024 🥰 Proverbs📕 My Bible reference for today
My Selected Holy Bible reference for today
Proverbs 6:16-19 📖
16 There are six things the Lord hates,
seven that are detestable to him:
17 haughty eyes,
a lying tongue,
hands that shed innocent blood,
18 a heart that devises wicked schemes,
feet that are quick to rush into evil,
19 a false witness who pours out lies
and a person who stirs up conflict in the community.
February 6, 2024 😇 Quote from a Saint 🙏🏻 Today
Quote from a Saint for today 😇
"I am not worthy to be called Catholic if I cannot defend my faith" - St. Cyril of Alexandria
February 5, 2024 ⛪ Monday of week 5 of Ordinary Time 📕 Gospel Reference
My Gospel reference for today 📕
Excerpts from Homily of Pope Francis 😇
📌 Let us not forget that the only legitimate way to look at a person from the top down is when you stretch out a hand to help them get up. 📌 The only one. And this is the mission that Jesus entrusted to the Church.
📌 The Son of God manifests his Lordship not “from the top down”, not from a distance, but in bending down, stretching out his hand; he manifests his Lordship in closeness, in tenderness, in compassion.
📌 Closeness, tenderness, and compassion are the style of God.
- Key points from Pope (Angelus, 7 February 2021)
Feb. 05 - Monday of Week 5 in Ordinary Time
READING OF THE DAY
First reading 📖 1 Corinthians 1:26-31
God chose what is foolish by human reckoning, to shame the wise
📌those whom the world thinks common and contemptible are the ones that God has chosen
📌if anyone wants to boast, let him boast about the Lord.
Psalm 🎶
My life is in your hands, deliver me
from the hands of those who hate me.
Let your face shine on your servant.
Save me in your love.
Gospel 📖 Luke 9:23-26
The Son of Man is destined to suffer grievously
Jesus said:
‘If anyone wants to be a follower of mine, let him renounce himself and take up his cross every day and follow me. For anyone who wants to save his life will lose it; but anyone who loses his life for my sake, that man will save it. What gain, then, is it for a man to have won the whole world and to have lost or ruined his very self? For if anyone is ashamed of me and of my words, of him the Son of Man will be ashamed when he comes in his own glory and in the glory of the Father and the holy angels.’
February 5, 2024 😇 Prayer from a Saint 🙏🏻 Today
Prayer from a Saint for today 😇
Novena Prayer To be done from February 5 to February 14 📅
Day 1 to Day 9 – St. Valentine Novena Prayer 🥰
Let us begin, In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
O glorious advocate and protector, St. Valentine, Look with pity upon our wants, hear our prayers, relieve by your intercession the miseries under which we labor, and obtain for us the divine blessing, that we may be found worthy to join you in praising the Almighty for all eternity: through the merits of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
Amen. 🙏🏻
(Mention your request here…)
St. Valentine, pray for us 😇
Say 1: Our Father… Say 1: Hail Mary… Say 1: Glory Be…
February 5, 2024 📜 The Holy Rosary 6 - The Finding at the Temple 🌐 References for today
My Selected CCC 📜 and Holy Bible 📕 references for today
Understanding the "Holy Rosary" CCC 2673 to 2679
Continuation of "The Holy Rosary"
Joyful Mysteries
The Five Joyful Mysteries are traditionally prayed on Mondays, Saturdays, and, during the season of Advent, on Sundays:
5th Joyful Mysteries: The Finding in the Temple
“Each year his parents went to Jerusalem for the feast of Passover, and when he was twelve years old, they went up according to festival custom. After they had completed its days, as they were returning, the boy Jesus remained behind in Jerusalem, but his parents did not know it. Thinking that he was in the caravan, they journeyed for a day and looked for him among their relatives and acquaintances, but not finding him, they returned to Jerusalem to look for him. After three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions, and all who heard him were astounded at his understanding and his answers.” - Luke 2:41-47 📖
Fruit of the Mystery: Devotion to Jesus
Filipino Language 👇🏻
Ikaapat: Ang Batang si Jesus sa Loob ng Templo
41 Taun-taon, tuwing Pista ng Paskwa, ang mga magulang ni Jesus ay pumupunta sa Jerusalem. 42 Nang siya'y labindalawang taon na, dumalo sila sa pista, ayon sa kanilang kaugalian. 43 Sila'y umuwi na pagkatapos ng pista. Ang batang si Jesus ay nagpaiwan sa Jerusalem ngunit hindi ito napansin ng kanyang mga magulang. 44 Sa pag-aakalang siya ay kasama ng pangkat, nagpatuloy sila sa maghapong paglalakbay. Pagkatapos, siya ay hinanap nila sa kanilang mga kamag-anak at mga kakilala, ngunit 45 hindi nila natagpuan si Jesus. Kaya't bumalik sila sa Jerusalem upang doon maghanap. 46 Pagkalipas ng tatlong araw, si Jesus ay natagpuan nila sa loob ng Templo. Siya'y nakaupong kasama ng mga guro. Nakikinig siya at nagtatanong sa kanila, 47 at ang lahat ng nakakarinig sa kanya ay hangang-hanga sa kanyang pang-unawa at mga sagot. - Lukas 2:41-47 📖
Bunga ng Misteryo: Debosyon kay Hesus
February 4, 2024 🥰 Superstitious Beliefs 📜 Catechism and Bible 📕 References for today #EcumenismWeekend
My Selected CCC references for today
Superstitious beliefs
Just Say "God Bless" to everyone ❌ not Good luck
Numbers 6:24 📖
"The LORD bless you and keep you"
Proverbs 10:22 📖
"The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it."
📌It is not God who has been absent, but the people who have walked away from God by idolatrous acts and rituals. That is the reason for their punishment.
Read full 🌐 USCCB
Col 2:20-22 📖
20 If you died with Christ to the elemental powers of the world, why do you submit to regulations as if you were still living in the world?
21 “Do not handle! Do not taste! Do not touch!”
22 These are all things destined to perish with use; they accord with human precepts and teachings.
📌 So fully has Christ enlightened them that they need no other source of religious knowledge or virtue.
Mark 7:6-8 📖
6 He responded, “Well did Isaiah prophesy about you hypocrites, as it is written:
‘This people honors me with their lips,
but their hearts are far from me;
7 In vain do they worship me,
teaching as doctrines human precepts.’
8 You disregard God’s commandment but cling to human tradition.”
😇 Don't worry
Baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit,
I teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, until the end of the age. - Excerpts from Matthew 28:20 📖
Other References from CCC 2111 📜
Superstition is the deviation of religious feeling and of the practices this feeling imposes. It can even affect the worship we offer the true God, e.g., when one attributes an importance in some way magical to certain practices otherwise lawful or necessary. To attribute the efficacy of prayers or of sacramental signs to their mere external performance, apart from the interior dispositions that they demand, is to fall into superstition.
Full and More 🌐
http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/p3s2c1a1.htm
Filipino Language 👇🏻
Sabihin mo lang "Pagpalain ka ng Diyos" ❌ hindi Swertehin ka Sana
Mga Bilang 6:24 📖
Pagpalain ka nawa at ingatan ni Yahweh;
Mga Kawikaan 10:22 📖
Ang pagpapala ni Yahweh ay kayamanan,
na walang kasamang kabalisahan.
📌Hindi ang Diyos ang lumiban, kundi ang mga tao na lumayo sa Diyos sa pamamagitan ng idolatrosong mga gawain at mga ritwal. Iyon ang dahilan ng kanilang parusa.
Colosas 2:20-22 📖
20 Namatay na kayo na kasama ni Cristo at hindi na sakop ng mga alituntunin ng mundong ito. Bakit pa kayo sumusunod sa mga alituntuning tulad ng 21 “Huwag hahawak nito,” “Huwag titikim niyan,” “Huwag gagalawin iyon”? 22 Ang mga ito'y utos at katuruan lamang ng tao, at nauukol sa mga bagay na nauubos kapag ginagamit. 23 Sa kaanyuan, para ngang ayon sa karunungan ang ganoong uri ng pagsamba, pagpapakumbaba at pagpapahirap sa sariling katawan. Ngunit ang mga ito ay walang silbi sa pagpigil sa hilig ng laman.
Markos 7:6-8 📖
6 Sinagot sila ni Jesus, “Mga mapagkunwari! Tama nga ang sinabi ni Isaias tungkol sa inyo, nang kanyang isulat,
‘Ang paggalang sa akin ng bayang ito ay pakunwari lamang,
sapagkat ito'y sa bibig at hindi sa puso bumubukal.
7 Walang kabuluhan ang kanilang pagsamba,
sapagkat itinuturo nilang galing sa Diyos ang kanilang mga utos.’
8 Binabaliwala ninyo ang utos ng Diyos, at ang sinusunod ninyo'y mga tradisyon ng tao.”
Mga sipi mula sa Mateo 28:20 📖
Binibinyagan sila sa pangalan ng Ama, at ng Anak, at ng Espiritu Santo,
Tinuturuan ko silang tuparin ang lahat ng iniutos ko sa iyo. At narito, ako ay kasama ninyo palagi, hanggang sa katapusan ng panahon.
📌Other References from CCC 2111 📜
Ang pamahiin ay ang paglihis ng relihiyosong damdamin at ng mga gawaing ipinapataw ng damdaming ito. Maaari pa nga itong makaapekto sa pagsamba na iniaalay natin sa tunay na Diyos, hal., kapag ang isang tao ay nag-bibigay ng kahalagahan sa ilang paraan na kaakit-akit sa ilang mga gawain kung hindi man ayon sa batas o kinakailangan. Upang maiugnay ang bisa ng mga panalangin o ng mga tanda ng sakramento sa kanilang panlabas na pagganap, bukod sa mga panloob na disposisyon na kanilang hinihingi, ay mahulog sa pamahiin.
February 4, 2024 ⛪ Sunday of week 4 of Ordinary Time 📕 Gospel Reference
My Gospel reference for today 📕
Excerpts from Homily of Pope Francis 😇
📌 Let us not forget that the only legitimate way to look at a person from the top down is when you stretch out a hand to help them get up. 📌 The only one. And this is the mission that Jesus entrusted to the Church.
📌 The Son of God manifests his Lordship not “from the top down”, not from a distance, but in bending down, stretching out his hand; he manifests his Lordship in closeness, in tenderness, in compassion.
📌 Closeness, tenderness, and compassion are the style of God.
- Key points from Pope (Angelus, 7 February 2021)
Feb. 04 - Sunday of week 4 in Ordinary Time
READING OF THE DAY
First reading 📖 Jb 7:1-4, 6-7
Job spoke, saying:
Is not man's life on earth a drudgery?
Are not his days those of hirelings?
He is a slave who longs for the shade,
a hireling who waits for his wages.
So I have been assigned months of misery,
and troubled nights have been allotted to me.
If in bed I say, "When shall I arise?"
then the night drags on;
I am filled with restlessness until the dawn.
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle;
they come to an end without hope.
Remember that my life is like the wind;
I shall not see happiness again.
Second reading 📖 1 Cor 9:16-19, 22-23
Brothers and sisters:
If I preach the gospel, this is no reason for me to boast,
for an obligation has been imposed on me,
and woe to me if I do not preach it!
If I do so willingly, I have a recompense,
but if unwillingly, then I have been entrusted with a stewardship.
What then is my recompense?
That, when I preach,
I offer the gospel free of charge
so as not to make full use of my right in the gospel.
Although I am free in regard to all,
I have made myself a slave to all
so as to win over as many as possible.
To the weak I became weak, to win over the weak.
I have become all things to all, to save at least some.
All this I do for the sake of the gospel,
so that I too may have a share in it.
Gospel 📖 Mark 1:29-39
On leaving the synagogue
Jesus entered the house of Simon and Andrew with James and John.
Simon's mother-in-law lay sick with a fever.
They immediately told him about her.
He approached, grasped her hand, and helped her up.
Then the fever left her and she waited on them.
When it was evening, after sunset,
they brought to him all who were ill or possessed by demons.
The whole town was gathered at the door.
He cured many who were sick with various diseases,
and he drove out many demons,
not permitting them to speak because they knew him.
Rising very early before dawn, he left
and went off to a deserted place, where he prayed.
Simon and those who were with him pursued him
and on finding him said, "Everyone is looking for you."
He told them, "Let us go on to the nearby villages
that I may preach there also.
For this purpose have I come."
So he went into their synagogues,
preaching and driving out demons throughout the whole of Galilee.
February 4, 2024 📜 The Holy Rosary 5 - The Presentation at the Temple 🌐 References for today #EcumenismWeekend
My Selected CCC 📜 and Holy Bible 📕 references for today
Understanding the "Holy Rosary" CCC 2673 to 2679
Continuation of "The Holy Rosary"
Joyful Mysteries
The Five Joyful Mysteries are traditionally prayed on Mondays, Saturdays, and, during the season of Advent, on Sundays:
4th Joyful Mysteries: The Presentation in the Temple
“When eight days were completed for his circumcision, he was named Jesus, the name given him by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.
"When the days were completed for their purification according to the law of Moses, they took him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord, just as it is written in the law of the Lord, 'Every male that opens the womb shall be consecrated to the Lord,' and to offer the sacrifice of 'a pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons,' in accordance with the dictate in the law of the Lord.” - Luke 2:21-24 📖
Fruit of the mystery: Purity of Heart and Body
Filipino Language 👇🏻
Ikaapat: Ang Paghahain ng Anak ng Diyos sa Templo
21 Pagsapit ng ikawalong araw, tinuli ang bata at pinangalanang Jesus. Ito ang pangalang sinabi ng anghel bago pa siya ipaglihi.
22 Nang sumapit ang araw ng kanilang pagtupad sa seremonya ng paglilinis ayon sa Kautusan ni Moises, pumunta sila sa Jerusalem. Dinala nila ang sanggol upang iharap sa Panginoon, 23 sapagkat ganito ang nasusulat sa Kautusan ng Panginoon, “Bawat panganay na lalaki ay itatalaga sa Panginoon.” 24 Nag-alay din sila ng handog ayon sa nakasaad sa Kautusan ng Panginoon: magkapares na ibong batu-bato, o kaya'y dalawang inakay na kalapati. - Lukas 2:21-24 📖
Bunga ng misteryo: Kadalisayan ng Puso at Katawan
February 3, 2024 ⛪ Saturday of week 4 of Ordinary Time 📕 Gospel Reference
My Gospel reference for today 📕
Feb. 03 - Saturday of week 4 in Ordinary Time
Early Promise of Solomon’s Reign
READING OF THE DAY
A reading from the Book of Kings 📖 1 Kings 3:4-13
Solomon went to Gibeon to sacrifice there,
because that was the most renowned high place.
Upon its altar Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings.
In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream at night.
God said, “Ask something of me and I will give it to you.”
Solomon answered:
“You have shown great favor to your servant, my father David,
because he behaved faithfully toward you,
with justice and an upright heart;
and you have continued this great favor toward him, even today,
seating a son of his on his throne.
O LORD, my God, you have made me, your servant,
king to succeed my father David;
but I am a mere youth, not knowing at all how to act.
I serve you in the midst of the people whom you have chosen,
a people so vast that it cannot be numbered or counted.
Give your servant, therefore, an understanding heart
to judge your people and to distinguish right from wrong.
For who is able to govern this vast people of yours?”
The LORD was pleased that Solomon made this request.
So God said to him: “Because you have asked for this–
not for a long life for yourself,
nor for riches, nor for the life of your enemies,
but for understanding so that you may know what is right–
I do as you requested.
I give you a heart so wise and understanding
that there has never been anyone like you up to now,
and after you there will come no one to equal you.
In addition, I give you what you have not asked for,
such riches and glory that among kings there is not your like.”
GOSPEL OF THE DAY 📖 Mark 6:30-34
The Apostles gathered together with Jesus
and reported all they had done and taught.
He said to them,
“Come away by yourselves to a deserted place and rest a while.”
People were coming and going in great numbers,
and they had no opportunity even to eat.
So they went off in the boat by themselves to a deserted place.
People saw them leaving and many came to know about it.
They hastened there on foot from all the towns
and arrived at the place before them.
When Jesus disembarked and saw the vast crowd,
his heart was moved with pity for them,
for they were like sheep without a shepherd;
and he began to teach them many things.
February 3, 2024 📜The Holy Rosary 4 - The Nativity 🌐 References for today #EcumenismWeekend
My Selected CCC and Holy Bible references for today
Understanding the "Holy Rosary" CCC 2673 to 2679
Continuation of "The Holy Rosary"
Joyful Mysteries
The Five Joyful Mysteries are traditionally prayed on Mondays, Saturdays, and, during the season of Advent, on Sundays:
3rd Joyful Mysteries: The Nativity
“In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that the whole world should be enrolled. This was the first enrollment, when Quirinius was governor of Syria. So all went to be enrolled, each to his own town. And Joseph too went up from Galilee from the town of Nazareth to Judea, to the city of David that is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family of David, to be enrolled with Mary, his betrothed, who was with child. While they were there, the time came for her to have her child, and she gave birth to her firstborn son. She wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.” - Luke 2:1-7 📖
Fruit of the mystery: Poverty
Filipino Language 👇🏻
Ikatlo: Ang Pagsilang ni Jesus
1 Nang panahong iyon, iniutos ni Emperador Augusto na magkaroon ng sensus sa lahat ng nasasakupan ng Imperyo ng Roma. 2 Ang unang sensus na ito ay ginawa noong si Cirenio ang gobernador ng Siria. 3 Kaya't umuwi ang mga tao sa sarili nilang bayan upang magpatala.
4 Mula sa Nazaret, isang lungsod sa Galilea, si Jose ay pumunta sa Judea, sa Bethlehem na bayang sinilangan ni Haring David, sapagkat siya'y mula sa angkan ni David. 5 Kasama rin niyang umuwi upang magpatala si Maria na kanyang magiging asawa, na noon ay nagdadalang-tao. 6 Habang sila'y nasa Bethlehem, sumapit ang oras ng panganganak ni Maria. 7 Isinilang niya ang kanyang panganay, na isang lalaki. Binalot niya sa lampin ang sanggol at inihiga sa isang sabsaban, sapagkat wala nang lugar para sa kanila sa bahay-panuluyan. - Lukas 2:1-7 📖
Bunga ng misteryo: Kahirapan
February 3, 2024 😇 Quote from a Saint 🙏🏻 Today
Quote from a Saint for today 😇
“This is the cause of all evils, the not knowing the Scriptures. We go into battle without arms, and how are we to come off safe?” - St. John Chrysostom
https://epicpew.com/7-st-john-chrysostom-quotes-to-challenge-you/
February 2, 2024 😇 Homily from Pope Francis 🙏🏻 Today
Prayer from Saints for today 😇
Homily Reference
Let us look at Simeon and Anna: although they were advanced in years, they did not spend their days mourning a past that never comes back, but instead embraced the future opening up before them. Brothers and sisters, let us not waste today by looking back at yesterday, or dreaming of a tomorrow that will never come; instead, let us place ourselves before the Lord in adoration and ask for eyes to see goodness and to discern the ways of God. The Lord will give them to us, if we ask him. With joy, with courage, without fear. (…) Simeon took Jesus into his arms (cf. v. 28). It is a touching scene, full of meaning and unique in the Gospels. God has placed his Son in our arms too, because embracing Jesus is the essential thing, the very heart of faith. Sometimes we risk losing our bearings, getting caught up in a thousand different things, obsessing about minor issues or plunging into new projects, yet the heart of everything is Christ, embracing him as the Lord of our lives. (Homily, Presentation of our Lord, 2 February 2022)
February 2, 2024 ⛪ Friday of week 4 of Ordinary Time 📕 Gospel Reference
My Gospel reference for today 📕
Feb. 02 - Friday of week 4 in Ordinary Time
"The Presentation of the Lord"
First reading 📖 Malachi 3:1-4
The Lord you are seeking will suddenly enter his Temple
The Lord God says this: Look, I am going to send my messenger to prepare a way before me. And the Lord you are seeking will suddenly enter his Temple; and the angel of the covenant whom you are longing for, yes, he is coming, says the Lord of Hosts. Who will be able to resist the day of his coming? Who will remain standing when he appears? For he is like the refiner’s fire and the fullers’ alkali. He will take his seat as refiner and purifier; he will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, and then they will make the offering to the Lord as it should be made. The offering of Judah and Jerusalem will then be welcomed by the Lord as in former days, as in the years of old.
Psalm or canticle 🎶
Psalm 23(24):7-10
O gates, lift high your heads;
grow higher, ancient doors.
Let him enter, the king of glory!
Who is the king of glory?
The Lord, the mighty, the valiant,
the Lord, the valiant in war.
O gates, lift high your heads;
grow higher, ancient doors.
Let him enter, the king of glory!
Who is he, the king of glory?
He, the Lord of armies,
he is the king of glory.
Gospel 📖 Luke 2:22-40+
"My eyes have seen your salvation"
When the day came for them to be purified as laid down by the Law of Moses, the parents of Jesus took him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord, – observing what stands written in the Law of the Lord: Every first-born male must be consecrated to the Lord – and also to offer in sacrifice, in accordance with what is said in the Law of the Lord, a pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons.
Now in Jerusalem there was a man named Simeon. He was an upright and devout man; he looked forward to Israel’s comforting and the Holy Spirit rested on him. It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not see death until he had set eyes on the Christ of the Lord. Prompted by the Spirit he came to the Temple and when the parents brought in the child Jesus to do for him what the Law required, he took him into his arms and blessed God; and he said:
‘Now, Master, you can let your servant go in peace,
just as you promised;
because my eyes have seen the salvation
which you have prepared for all the nations to see,
a light to enlighten the pagans
and the glory of your people Israel.’
As the child’s father and mother stood there wondering at the things that were being said about him, Simeon blessed them and said to Mary his mother, ‘You see this child: he is destined for the fall and for the rising of many in Israel, destined to be a sign that is rejected – and a sword will pierce your own soul too – so that the secret thoughts of many may be laid bare.’
There was a prophetess also, Anna the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was well on in years. Her days of girlhood over, she had been married for seven years before becoming a widow. She was now eighty-four years old and never left the Temple, serving God night and day with fasting and prayer. She came by just at that moment and began to praise God; and she spoke of the child to all who looked forward to the deliverance of Jerusalem.
When they had done everything the Law of the Lord required, they went back to Galilee, to their own town of Nazareth. Meanwhile the child grew to maturity, and he was filled with wisdom; and God’s favour was with him.
February 2, 2024 📜 Understanding The Holy Rosary 3 - The Joyful Mysteries 🌐 References for today #EcumenismWeekend
My Selected CCC 📜 and Holy Bible 📕 references for today
Understanding the "Holy Rosary" CCC 2673 to 2679
Continuation of "The Holy Rosary"
Joyful Mysteries
The Five Joyful Mysteries are traditionally prayed on Mondays, Saturdays, and, during the season of Advent, on Sundays:
1st Joyful Mysteries: The Annunciation
“In the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a town of Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man named Joseph, of the house of David, and the virgin’s name was Mary.” - Luke 1:26-27
Fruit of the mystery: Humility
2nd Joyful Mysteries: The Visitation
“During those days Mary set out and traveled to the hill country in haste to a town of Judah, where she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth. When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the infant leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth, filled with the holy Spirit, cried out in a loud voice and said, 'Most blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb.'” - Luke 1:39-42 📖
Fruit of the mystery: Love of Neighbor
Filipino Language 👇🏻
Una: Ipinahayag ang Pagsilang ni Jesus
26 Nang ikaanim na buwan ng pagdadalang-tao ni Elizabeth, ang anghel na si Gabriel ay isinugo ng Diyos sa Nazaret na isang bayan sa Galilea, upang kausapin ang 27 isang dalaga na ang pangala'y Maria. Siya ay nakatakda nang ikasal kay Jose, isang lalaking buhat sa angkan ni David.
Ikalawa: Ang Pagdalaw ni Maria kay Elizabeth
39 Hindi nagtagal at si Maria'y nagmamadaling pumunta sa isang bayan sa bulubundukin ng Juda. 40 Pagdating sa bahay ni Zacarias, binati niya si Elizabeth. 41 Nang marinig ni Elizabeth ang pagbati ni Maria, biglang gumalaw ang sanggol sa kanyang sinapupunan at siya ay napuspos ng Espiritu Santo. 42 Napasigaw siya sa galak, “Pinagpala ka sa mga babae, at pinagpala rin ang dinadala mo sa iyong sinapupunan! - Lukas 1:39-42 📖
Bunga ng misteryo: Pagmamahal sa Kapwa
February 2, 2024 🥰 Letter of Paul to Philippians 📕 My Bible reference for today #EcumenismWeekend
My Selected Holy Bible reference for today
It's Friday - Fasting and Abstinence Needed
Philippians 3:17-21 📖
"Wrong Conduct and Our Goal"
⚠️ "Their God is their stomach"
17 Join with others in being imitators of me, brothers, and observe those who thus conduct themselves according to the model you have in us.
18 For many, as I have often told you and now tell you even in tears, conduct themselves as enemies of the cross of Christ.
19 Their end is destruction. Their God is their stomach; their glory is in their “shame.” Their minds are occupied with earthly things.
20 But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we also await a savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.
21 He will change our lowly body to conform with his glorified body by the power that enables him also to bring all things into subjection to himself.
February 2, 2024 😇 Prayer from Saints 🙏🏻 Today
Prayer from Saints for today 😇 Excerpts from Tobit 8 📖
Powerful Marriage Prayer of Tobias and Sarah 🙏🏻
Blessed are you, O God of our fathers,
praised be your name forever and ever.
Let the heavens and all your creation
praise you forever.
You made Adam and you gave him his wife Eve
to be his help and support;
and from these two the human race descended.
You said, ‘It is not good for the man to be alone;
let us make him a partner like himself.’
Now, Lord, you know that I take this wife of mine
not because of lust,
but for a noble purpose.
Call down your mercy on me and on her,
and allow us to live together to a happy old age.”
They said together, “Amen, amen,” and went to bed for the night. 😇
February 1, 2024 🥰 Letter of Paul to Corintians 📕 My Bible reference for today
My Selected Holy Bible reference for today
"Love"
Love is patient and kind, It doesn’t envy or boast
and it’s never proud. Love is not rude or selfish,
It doesn’t get angry easily, or keep track of wrongs.
Love doesn’t delight in bad things but it rejoices in the truth. Love always protects, trusts, hopes and perseveres. Love never fails.
– Letter of Paul to the Corinthians 13 📖
Filipino Language 👇🏻
Pag-ibig
4 Ang pag-ibig ay matiyaga at magandang-loob, hindi maiinggitin, hindi mayabang ni mapagmataas man, 5 hindi magaspang ang pag-uugali, hindi makasarili, hindi magagalitin, o mapagtanim ng sama ng loob sa kapwa. 6 Hindi ito natutuwa sa masama, sa halip ay nagagalak sa katotohanan. 7 Ang pag-ibig ay matiisin, mapagtiwala, puno ng pag-asa, at nagtitiyaga hanggang wakas.
- Corinto 13 📖
February 1, 2024 😇 Quote from a Saint 🙏🏻 Today
Prayer from a Saint for today 😇
Month of February is Dedicated to The Holy Family and Happy Marriage 🥰
"The family that prays together stays together" 🙏🏻
By Patrick Peyton, CSC - also known as "The rosary priest", was an Irish-born Catholic priest of the Congregation of Holy Cross, and founder of the Family Rosary Crusade. He popularized the phrases "The family that prays together stays together" and "A world at prayer is a world at peace". 😇
Father Patrick Peyton, C.S.C. devoted his priestly life to spreading the devotion to Mary and encouraging family prayer, especially the Rosary. He used radio, television, and film, and 540 Rosary Rallies worldwide to accomplish his mission.
Today, Father Peyton's messages that "The Family That Prays Together Stays Together" and "A World at Prayer is a World at Peace" are still well known around the world. His Cause for Sainthood was officially opened in 2001 and he is currently named Venerable. With your prayers, hopefully he will be recognized as a Saint for Family Prayer!
February 1, 2024 ⛪ Thursday of week 4 of Ordinary Time 📕 Gospel Reference
My Gospel reference for today 📕
Feb. 01 - Thursday of week 4 in Ordinary Time
First reading 📖 1 Kings 2:1-4,10-12
"David's dying exhortation to Solomon"
Canticle 🎶
Yours, Lord, is the kingdom;
you are supreme above all.
Both honour and riches come from you.
Gospel 📖 Mark 6:7-13
"Take nothing with you"
Jesus made a tour round the villages, teaching. Then he summoned the Twelve and began to send them out in pairs giving them authority over the unclean spirits. And he instructed them to take nothing for the journey except a staff – no bread, no haversack, no coppers for their purses. They were to wear sandals but, he added, ‘Do not take a spare tunic.’ And he said to them, ‘If you enter a house anywhere, stay there until you leave the district. And if any place does not welcome you and people refuse to listen to you, as you walk away shake off the dust from under your feet as a sign to them.’ So they set off to preach repentance; and they cast out many devils, and anointed many sick people with oil and cured them.
February 1, 2024 📜 Understanding The Holy Rosary 2 🌐 References for today
Understanding the "Holy Rosary" CCC 2673 to 2679
How to Pray the Rosary
The Rosary is a Scripture-based prayer. It begins with the Apostles' Creed, which summarizes the great mysteries of the Catholic faith. The Our Father, which introduces each mystery, is from the Gospels. The first part of the Hail Mary is the angel's words announcing Christ's birth and Elizabeth's greeting to Mary. St. Pius V officially added the second part of the Hail Mary. The Mysteries of the Rosary center on the events of Christ's life. There are four sets of Mysteries: Joyful, Sorrowful, Glorious and––added by Saint John Paul II in 2002––the Luminous.
The repetition in the Rosary is meant to lead one into restful and contemplative prayer related to each Mystery. The gentle repetition of the words helps us to enter into the silence of our hearts, where Christ's spirit dwells. The Rosary can be said privately or with a group.
Praying the Rosary
Familiarize yourself and/or your group with the prayers of the rosary.
Make the Sign of the Cross.
Holding the Crucifix, say the Apostles' Creed.
On the first bead, say an Our Father.
Say one Hail Mary on each of the next three beads.
Say the Glory Be
For each of the five decades, announce the Mystery (perhaps followed by a brief reading from Scripture) then say the Our Father.
While fingering each of the ten beads of the decade, next say ten Hail Marys while meditating on the Mystery. Then say a Glory Be.
(After finishing each decade, some say the following prayer requested by the Blessed Virgin Mary at Fatima: O my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of hell; lead all souls to Heaven, especially those who have most need of your mercy.)After saying the five decades, say the Hail, Holy Queen, followed by this dialogue and prayer:
V. Pray for us, O holy Mother of God.
R. That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.
Let us pray: O God, whose Only Begotten Son, by his life, Death, and Resurrection, has purchased for us the rewards of eternal life, grant, we beseech thee, that while meditating on these mysteries of the most holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary, we may imitate what they contain and obtain what they promise, through the same Christ our Lord. Amen.
(A prayer to St. Joseph may also follow.) Conclude the Rosary with the Sign of the Cross.
https://www.usccb.org/how-to-pray-the-rosary
February 1, 2024 📜 Understanding The Holy Rosary 1 📜 Catechism and Holy Bible 📕 series of references for today
My Selected CCC 📜 and Holy Bible 📕 references for today
Understanding the "Holy Rosary" CCC 2673 to 2679
Understanding the "Holy Rosary"
In communion with the holy Mother of God
2673 In prayer the Holy Spirit unites us to the person of the only Son, in his glorified humanity, through which and in which our filial prayer unites us in the Church with the Mother of Jesus.27
2674 Mary gave her consent in faith at the Annunciation and maintained it without hesitation at the foot of the Cross. Ever since, her motherhood has extended to the brothers and sisters of her Son "who still journey on earth surrounded by dangers and difficulties."28 Jesus, the only mediator, is the way of our prayer; Mary, his mother and ours, is wholly transparent to him: she "shows the way" (hodigitria), and is herself "the Sign" of the way, according to the traditional iconography of East and West.
2675 Beginning with Mary's unique cooperation with the working of the Holy Spirit, the Churches developed their prayer to the holy Mother of God, centering it on the person of Christ manifested in his mysteries. In countless hymns and antiphons expressing this prayer, two movements usually alternate with one another: the first "magnifies" the Lord for the "great things" he did for his lowly servant and through her for all human beings29 the second entrusts the supplications and praises of the children of God to the Mother of Jesus, because she now knows the humanity which, in her, the Son of God espoused.
2676 This twofold movement of prayer to Mary has found a privileged expression in the Ave Maria:
Hail Mary [or Rejoice, Mary]: the greeting of the angel Gabriel opens this prayer. It is God himself who, through his angel as intermediary, greets Mary. Our prayer dares to take up this greeting to Mary with the regard God had for the lowliness of his humble servant and to exult in the joy he finds in her.30
Full of grace, the Lord is with thee: These two phrases of the angel's greeting shed light on one another. Mary is full of grace because the Lord is with her. The grace with which she is filled is the presence of him who is the source of all grace. "Rejoice . . . O Daughter of Jerusalem . . . the Lord your God is in your midst."31 Mary, in whom the Lord himself has just made his dwelling, is the daughter of Zion in person, the ark of the covenant, the place where the glory of the Lord dwells. She is "the dwelling of God . . . with men."32 Full of grace, Mary is wholly given over to him who has come to dwell in her and whom she is about to give to the world.
Blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. After the angel's greeting, we make Elizabeth's greeting our own. "Filled with the Holy Spirit," Elizabeth is the first in the long succession of generations who have called Mary "blessed."33 "Blessed is she who believed. . . . "34 Mary is "blessed among women" because she believed in the fulfillment of the Lord's word. Abraham, because of his faith, became a blessing for all the nations of the earth.35 Mary, because of her faith, became the mother of believers, through whom all nations of the earth receive him who is God's own blessing: Jesus, the "fruit of thy womb."
2677 Holy Mary, Mother of God: With Elizabeth we marvel, "And why is this granted me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?"36 Because she gives us Jesus, her son, Mary is Mother of God and our mother; we can entrust all our cares and petitions to her: she prays for us as she prayed for herself: "Let it be to me according to your word."37 By entrusting ourselves to her prayer, we abandon ourselves to the will of God together with her: "Thy will be done."
Pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death: By asking Mary to pray for us, we acknowledge ourselves to be poor sinners and we address ourselves to the "Mother of Mercy," the All-Holy One. We give ourselves over to her now, in the Today of our lives. And our trust broadens further, already at the present moment, to surrender "the hour of our death" wholly to her care. May she be there as she was at her son's death on the cross. May she welcome us as our mother at the hour of our passing38 to lead us to her son, Jesus, in paradise.
2678 Medieval piety in the West developed the prayer of the rosary as a popular substitute for the Liturgy of the Hours. In the East, the litany called the Akathistos and the Paraclesis remained closer to the choral office in the Byzantine churches, while the Armenian, Coptic, and Syriac traditions preferred popular hymns and songs to the Mother of God. But in the Ave Maria, the theotokia, the hymns of St. Ephrem or St. Gregory of Narek, the tradition of prayer is basically the same.
2679 Mary is the perfect Orans (pray-er), a figure of the Church. When we pray to her, we are adhering with her to the plan of the Father, who sends his Son to save all men. Like the beloved disciple we welcome Jesus' mother into our homes,39 for she has become the mother of all the living. We can pray with and to her. The prayer of the Church is sustained by the prayer of Mary and united with it in hope.40
IN BRIEF
2680 Prayer is primarily addressed to the Father; it can also be directed toward Jesus, particularly by the invocation of his holy name: "Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on us sinners."
2681 "No one can say 'Jesus is Lord', except by the Holy Spirit" (1 Cor 12:3). The Church invites us to invoke the Holy Spirit as the interior Teacher of Christian prayer.
2682 Because of Mary's singular cooperation with the action of the Holy Spirit, the Church loves to pray in communion with the Virgin Mary, to magnify with her the great things the Lord has done for her, and to entrust supplications and praises to her.
Filipino Language 👇🏻
Sa pakikipag-isa sa banal na Ina ng Diyos
2673 Sa panalangin, pinag-iisa tayo ng Banal na Espiritu sa persona ng bugtong na Anak, sa kanyang niluwalhating sangkatauhan, kung saan at kung saan ang ating anak na panalangin ay nagkakaisa sa atin sa Simbahan kasama ang Ina ni Jesus.27
2674 Si Maria ay nagbigay ng kanyang pagsang-ayon sa pananampalataya sa Pagpapahayag at pinanatili ito nang walang pag-aalinlangan sa paanan ng Krus. Mula noon, ang kanyang pagiging ina ay umabot sa mga kapatid ng kanyang Anak "na naglalakbay pa rin sa lupa na napapaligiran ng mga panganib at kahirapan."28 Si Jesus, ang tanging tagapamagitan, ang paraan ng ating panalangin; Si Maria, ang kanyang ina at ang amin, ay ganap na malinaw sa kanya: siya ay "ipinapakita ang daan" (hodigitria), at siya mismo ang "Tanda" ng daan, ayon sa tradisyonal na iconograpiya ng Silangan at Kanluran.
2675 Simula sa natatanging pakikipagtulungan ni Maria sa paggawa ng Banal na Espiritu, binuo ng mga Simbahan ang kanilang panalangin sa banal na Ina ng Diyos, na nakasentro ito sa persona ni Kristo na ipinakita sa kanyang mga misteryo. Sa hindi mabilang na mga himno at antipona na nagpapahayag ng panalanging ito, dalawang galaw ang kadalasang naghahalili sa isa't isa: ang una ay "nagpapalaki" sa Panginoon para sa "mga dakilang bagay" na ginawa niya para sa kanyang hamak na lingkod at sa pamamagitan nito para sa lahat ng tao29 ang pangalawa ay ipinagkatiwala ang mga pagsusumamo at papuri. ng mga anak ng Diyos sa Ina ni Hesus, dahil alam na niya ngayon ang sangkatauhan na, sa kanya, ang Anak ng Diyos ay kinasal.
2676 Itong dalawang beses na paggalaw ng panalangin kay Maria ay nakatagpo ng isang pribilehiyong pagpapahayag sa Ave Maria:
Aba Ginoong Maria [o Magalak, Maria]: ang pagbati ng anghel Gabriel ay nagbubukas ng panalanging ito. Ang Diyos mismo ang bumati kay Maria, sa pamamagitan ng kanyang anghel bilang tagapamagitan. Ang ating panalangin ay nangahas na tanggapin ang pagbating ito kay Maria na may kinalaman sa Diyos sa kababaan ng kanyang abang lingkod at upang magbunyi sa kagalakan na nasusumpungan niya sa kanya.30
Puno ng biyaya, ang Panginoon ay sumasaiyo: Ang dalawang pariralang ito ng pagbati ng anghel ay nagbibigay liwanag sa isa't isa. Si Maria ay puno ng biyaya dahil kasama niya ang Panginoon. Ang biyayang napupuno sa kanya ay ang presensya niya na siyang pinagmumulan ng lahat ng biyaya. "Magsaya ka... O Anak na babae ng Jerusalem... ang Panginoon mong Diyos ay nasa gitna mo."31 Si Maria, na kung saan ang Panginoon mismo ay naninirahan, ay personal na anak na babae ng Sion, ang kaban ng tipan, ang lugar kung saan nananahan ang kaluwalhatian ng Panginoon. Siya ang “tahanan ng Diyos . . . kasama ng mga tao.”32 Puno ng biyaya, si Maria ay ganap na ibinigay sa kanya na naparito upang manahan sa kanya at na kanyang ibibigay sa mundo.
Pinagpala ka sa mga babae at pinagpala ang bunga ng iyong sinapupunan, si Hesus. Pagkatapos ng pagbati ng anghel, ginagawa naming sariling pagbati ang pagbati ni Elizabeth. "Napuspos ng Banal na Espiritu," si Elizabeth ang una sa mahabang sunod-sunod na henerasyon na tinawag si Maria na "pinagpala."33 "Mapalad ang naniwala. . . . ang katuparan ng salita ng Panginoon. Si Abraham, dahil sa kanyang pananampalataya, ay naging isang pagpapala para sa lahat ng mga bansa sa lupa.35 Si Maria, dahil sa kanyang pananampalataya, ay naging ina ng mga mananampalataya, na sa pamamagitan niya ay tinatanggap siya ng lahat ng mga bansa sa lupa na siyang sariling pagpapala ng Diyos: si Jesus, ang "bunga ng iyong sinapupunan."
2677 Santa Maria, Ina ng Diyos: Namangha tayo kay Elizabeth, "At bakit ipinagkaloob sa akin ito, na ang ina ng aking Panginoon ay lumapit sa akin?"36 Dahil ibinigay niya sa atin si Jesus, ang kanyang anak, si Maria ay Ina ng Diyos at ating ina; maipagkakatiwala natin sa kanya ang lahat ng ating mga alalahanin at mga petisyon: ipinagdarasal niya tayo habang nanalangin siya para sa sarili: “Mangyari nawa sa akin ang ayon sa iyong salita.”37 Sa pamamagitan ng pagtitiwala sa ating sarili sa kanyang panalangin, sabay nating isinusuko ang ating sarili sa kalooban ng Diyos. kasama niya: "Matupad ang iyong kalooban."
Ipanalangin mo kaming mga makasalanan, ngayon at sa oras ng aming kamatayan: Sa paghiling kay Maria na ipagdasal kami, kinikilala namin ang aming sarili na mga kaawa-awang makasalanan at iniharap namin ang aming sarili sa "Ina ng Awa," ang Banal na Isa. Ibinibigay natin ang ating sarili sa kanya ngayon, sa Ngayon ng ating buhay. At ang aming pagtitiwala ay higit na lumalawak, na sa kasalukuyang sandali, upang isuko ang "oras ng aming kamatayan" nang buo sa kanyang pangangalaga. Nawa'y nariyan siya tulad ng pagkamatay ng kanyang anak sa krus. Nawa'y tanggapin niya tayo bilang ating ina sa oras ng ating pagpanaw38 upang akayin tayo sa kanyang anak, si Hesus, sa paraiso.
2678 Ang medyebal na kabanalan sa Kanluran ay binuo ang panalangin ng rosaryo bilang isang tanyag na kapalit para sa Liturhiya ng mga Oras. Sa Silangan, ang litanya na tinatawag na Akathistos at ang Paraclesis ay nanatiling malapit sa tanggapan ng koro sa mga simbahang Byzantine, habang ang mga tradisyong Armenian, Coptic, at Syriac ay mas gusto ang mga sikat na himno at kanta kaysa sa Ina ng Diyos. Ngunit sa Ave Maria, theotokia, ang mga himno ni St. Ephrem o St. Gregory ng Narek, ang tradisyon ng panalangin ay karaniwang pareho.
679 Si Maria ay ang perpektong Oran (pray-er), isang pigura ng Simbahan. Kapag nananalangin tayo sa kanya, sinusunod natin siya sa plano ng Ama, na nagpadala ng kanyang Anak upang iligtas ang lahat ng tao. Tulad ng minamahal na alagad, tinatanggap natin ang ina ni Jesus sa ating tahanan, 39 sapagkat siya ay naging ina ng lahat ng nabubuhay. Maaari tayong manalangin kasama at sa kanya. Ang panalangin ng Simbahan ay itinataguyod ng panalangin ni Maria at kaisa nito sa pag-asa.40
SA MADALING SABI
2680 Ang panalangin ay pangunahing iniuukol sa Ama; maaari rin itong idirekta kay Jesus, lalo na sa pamamagitan ng pagtawag sa kanyang banal na pangalan: "Panginoong Jesu-Kristo, Anak ng Diyos, maawa ka sa aming mga makasalanan."
2681 "Walang makapagsasabing 'Si Jesus ay Panginoon', maliban sa pamamagitan ng Espiritu Santo" (1 Cor 12:3). Inaanyayahan tayo ng Simbahan na tawagin ang Banal na Espiritu bilang panloob na Guro ng panalanging Kristiyano.
2682 Dahil sa iisang pakikipagtulungan ni Maria sa pagkilos ng Banal na Espiritu, gustung-gusto ng Simbahan na manalangin sa pakikipag-isa kay Birheng Maria, upang palakihin kasama niya ang mga dakilang bagay na ginawa ng Panginoon para sa kanya, at ipagkatiwala sa kanya ang mga pagsusumamo at papuri.
January 31, 2024 🥰 Letter of Paul to Galatians 📕 My Bible reference for today
My Selected Holy Bible references for today
Galatians 5:1 📖
For freedom Christ set us free; so stand firm and do not submit again to the yoke of slavery.
Galatians 5:13-26 📖
Freedom for Service
13 For you were called for freedom, brothers.j But do not use this freedom as an opportunity for the flesh; rather, serve* one another through love.
14 For the whole lawk is fulfilled in one statement, namely, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
15 But if you go on biting and devouring one another, beware that you are not consumed by one another.
16 l I say, then: live by the Spirit and you will certainly not gratify the desire of the flesh.
17 For the flesh has desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; these are opposed to each other, so that you may not do what you want.
18 But if you are guided by the Spirit, you are not under the law.n
19 Now the works of the flesh are obvious: immorality, impurity, licentiousness,
20 idolatry, sorcery, hatreds, rivalry, jealousy, outbursts of fury, acts of selfishness, dissensions, factions,
21 occasions of envy,* drinking bouts, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
22 In contrast, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness,
23 gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.r
24 Now those who belong to Christ [Jesus] have crucified their flesh with its passions and desires.
25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also follow the Spirit.
26 Let us not be conceited, provoking one another, envious of one another.
Filipino Language 👇🏻
Galacia 5:1 📖
Malaya na tayo dahil pinalaya tayo ni Cristo. Kaya magpakatatag kayo at huwag nang paalipin pang muli!
Galacia 5:13-26 📖
13 Mga kapatid, tinawag kayo upang maging malaya. Ngunit huwag naman ninyong gamitin ang inyong kalayaan upang masunod ang hilig ng laman, kundi maglingkod kayo sa isa't isa sa diwa ng pag-ibig. 14 Sapagkat ang buong Kautusan ay nauuwi sa isang pangungusap, “Ibigin mo ang iyong kapwa gaya ng pag-ibig mo sa iyong sarili.” 15 Ngunit kung kayo'y nagkakagatan at nagsasakmalang parang mga hayop, mag-ingat kayo at baka tuluyan ninyong sirain ang isa't isa.
16 Sinasabi ko sa inyo, mamuhay kayo ayon sa Espiritu at hindi ninyo pagbibigyan ang mga pagnanasa ng laman. 17 Sapagkat ang mga pagnanasa ng laman ay laban sa kagustuhan ng Espiritu, at ang kagustuhan ng Espiritu ay laban sa mga pagnanasa ng laman. Magkalaban ang dalawang ito kaya napipigilan kayo sa paggawa ng nais ninyong gawin. 18 Kung pinapatnubayan kayo ng Espiritu, wala na kayo sa ilalim ng Kautusan.
19 Hindi maikakaila ang mga gawa ng laman: pakikiapid, kahalayan at kalaswaan; 20 pagsamba sa diyus-diyosan, pangkukulam, pagkapoot, pag-aaway-away, pagseselos, pagkakagalit at kasakiman, pagkakampi-kampi at pagkakabaha-bahagi, 21 pagkainggit, [pagpatay][a] paglalasing, walang habas na pagsasaya, at iba pang katulad nito. Muli ko kayong binabalaan: ang gumagawa ng mga ito ay hindi magkakaroon ng bahagi sa kaharian ng Diyos.
22 Subalit ang bunga ng Espiritu ay pag-ibig, kagalakan, kapayapaan, pagtitiyaga, kabaitan, kabutihan, katapatan, 23 kahinahunan, at pagpipigil sa sarili. Walang batas laban sa mga ganito. 24 At ipinako na sa krus ng mga nakipag-isa kay Cristo Jesus ang kanilang laman at ang masasamang hilig nito. 25 Kung binigyan tayo ng buhay ng Espiritu, mamuhay rin tayo ayon sa Espiritu. 26 Huwag tayong maging palalo, huwag nating galitin ang isa't isa, at huwag rin tayong mainggit sa isa't isa.
January 31, 2024 😇 Prayer from a Saint 🙏🏻 Today
Prayer from a Saint for today 😇
Prayer to Redeem Lost Time, by St. Teresa of Avila
O my God! Source of all mercy! I acknowledge Your sovereign power. While recalling the wasted years that are past, I believe that You, Lord, can in an instant turn this loss to gain. Miserable as I am, yet I firmly believe that You can do all things. Please restore to me the time lost, giving me Your grace, both now and in the future, that I may appear before You in “wedding garments.” Amen
January 31, 2024 ⛪ Wednesday of week 4 of Ordinary Time 📕 Gospel Reference
My Gospel reference for today 📕
Jan 31 - Wednesday of week 4 in Ordinary Time
First reading 📖 Philippians 4:4-9
If there is anything you need, pray for it.
Psalm 🎶
My soul, give thanks to the Lord
all my being, bless his holy name.
Gospel 📖 Matthew 18:1-5
"Unless you become like little children you will not enter the kingdom of heaven"
The disciples came to Jesus and said, ‘Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?’ So he called a little child to him and set the child in front of them. Then he said, ‘I tell you solemnly, unless you change and become like little children you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. And so, the one who makes himself as little as this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
‘Anyone who welcomes a little child like this in my name welcomes me.’
January 31, 2024 🥰 God's Will and Man's Freedom 3 📜 Catechism references for today
My Selected CCC references for today
Continuation...
CCC reference for today
II. HUMAN FREEDOM IN THE ECONOMY OF SALVATION
📍 refusing God's plan of love, he deceived himself and became a slave to sin. (excerpts from 1739)
📍By deviating from the moral law man violates his own freedom, becomes imprisoned within himself, disrupts neighborly fellowship, and rebels against divine truth. (excerpts from 1740)
📍The Holy Spirit has been given to us and, as the Apostle teaches, "Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom."36 Already we glory in the "liberty of the children of God." (excerpts from 1741)
📖2 Cor 17.
📖37 Rom 8:21.
1742 Freedom and grace. The grace of Christ is not in the slightest way a rival of our freedom when this freedom accords with the sense of the true and the good that God has put in the human heart. On the contrary, as Christian experience attests especially in prayer, the more docile we are to the promptings of grace, the more we grow in inner freedom and confidence during trials, such as those we face in the pressures and constraints of the outer world. By the working of grace, the Holy Spirit educates us in spiritual freedom in order to make us free collaborators in his work in the Church and in the world:
Almighty and merciful God,
in your goodness take away from us all that is harmful,
so that, made ready both in mind and body,
we may freely accomplish your will.38
👇In Brief
📌1743 "God willed that man should be left in the hand of his own counsel (cf. Sir 15:14), so that he might of his own accord seek his creator and freely attain his full and blessed perfection by cleaving to him" (GS 17 § 1).
📌1744 Freedom is the power to act or not to act, and so to perform deliberate acts of one's own. Freedom attains perfection in its acts when directed toward God, the sovereign Good.
📌1745 Freedom characterizes properly human acts. It makes the human being responsible for acts of which he is the voluntary agent. His deliberate acts properly belong to him.
📌1746 The imputability or responsibility for an action can be diminished or nullified by ignorance, duress, fear, and other psychological or social factors.
📌1747 The right to the exercise of freedom, especially in religious and moral matters, is an inalienable requirement of the dignity of man. But the exercise of freedom does not entail the putative right to say or do anything.
📌1748 "For freedom Christ has set us free" (Gal 5:1).
Filipino Language 👇🏻
📍 Sa pagtanggi sa plano ng pag-ibig ng Diyos, nilinlang niya ang kanyang sarili at naging alipin ng kasalanan. (mga sipi mula 1739)
📍Sa pamamagitan ng paglihis sa moral na batas ay nilalabag ng tao ang kanyang sariling kalayaan, nakukulong sa kanyang sarili, nakakagambala sa pakikipagkapwa-tao, at nagrerebelde laban sa banal na katotohanan. (mga sipi mula sa 1740)
📍Ang Banal na Espiritu ay ibinigay sa atin at, gaya ng itinuro ng Apostol, "Kung saan naroroon ang Espiritu ng Panginoon, mayroong kalayaan."36 Ipinagmamalaki na natin ang "kalayaan ng mga anak ng Diyos." (mga sipi mula sa 1741)
📖2 Cor 17.
📖37 Rom 8:21.
1742 Kalayaan at biyaya. Ang biyaya ni Kristo ay hindi sa pinakamaliit na paraan isang karibal ng ating kalayaan kapag ang kalayaang ito ay naaayon sa kahulugan ng totoo at kabutihan na inilagay ng Diyos sa puso ng tao. Sa kabaligtaran, gaya ng pinatutunayan ng karanasang Kristiyano lalo na sa pananalangin, mas masunurin tayo sa mga pahiwatig ng biyaya, lalo tayong lumalago sa panloob na kalayaan at kumpiyansa sa panahon ng mga pagsubok, tulad ng mga kinakaharap natin sa mga panggigipit at mga hadlang sa labas ng mundo. Sa pamamagitan ng paggawa ng biyaya, tinuturuan tayo ng Banal na Espiritu sa espirituwal na kalayaan upang tayo ay maging malayang katuwang sa kanyang gawain sa Simbahan at sa mundo:
Makapangyarihan sa lahat at mahabaging Diyos,
sa iyong kabutihan ay alisin mo sa amin ang lahat ng nakakapinsala,
upang, maging handa sa isip at katawan,
malaya naming maisakatuparan ang iyong kalooban.38
👇Sa madaling sabi
📌1743 "Ninais ng Diyos na ang tao ay maiwan sa kamay ng kanyang sariling payo (cf. Sir 15:14), upang sa kanyang sariling kusa ay hanapin ang kanyang lumikha at malayang makamit ang kanyang ganap at pinagpalang kasakdalan sa pamamagitan ng pagkapit sa kanya" (GS 17 § 1).
📌1744 Ang kalayaan ay ang kapangyarihang kumilos o hindi kumilos, at sa gayon ay magsagawa ng mga sadyang gawa ng sarili. Ang kalayaan ay nakakamit ng pagiging perpekto sa mga kilos nito kapag nakadirekta sa Diyos, ang pinakamataas na kabutihan.
📌1745 Ang kalayaan ay nagpapakita ng wastong katangian ng mga kilos ng tao. Ginagawa nitong responsable ang tao sa mga kilos kung saan siya ang boluntaryong ahente. Ang kanyang mga sinasadyang kilos ay nararapat sa kanya.
📌1746 Ang responsibilidad para sa isang aksyon ay maaaring mabawasan o mapawalang-bisa sa pamamagitan ng kamangmangan, pagpilit, takot, at iba pang sikolohikal o panlipunang salik.
📌1747 Ang karapatan sa paggamit ng kalayaan, lalo na sa mga usaping pangrelihiyon at moral, ay isang hindi maiaalis na pangangailangan ng dignidad ng tao. Ngunit ang pagsasakatuparan ng kalayaan ay hindi nangangailangan ng palagay na karapatang magsabi o gumawa ng anuman.
📌1748 "Para sa kalayaan ay pinalaya tayo ni Kristo" (Gal 5:1).
January 30, 2024 🥰 Letter of Paul to Corinthians 📕 My Bible reference for today
My Selected Holy Bible references for today
Sin against the First 3 commandments
1 Cor 10:14-22 📖
Warning against Idolatry.
14 Therefore, my beloved, avoid idolatry.
15 I am speaking as to sensible people; judge for yourselves what I am saying.
16 The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ?
17 Because the loaf of bread is one, we, though many, are one body, for we all partake of the one loaf.
18 Look at Israel according to the flesh; are not those who eat the sacrifices participants in the altar?
19 So what am I saying? That meat sacrificed to idols is anything? Or that an idol is anything?
20 No, I mean that what they sacrifice, [they sacrifice] to demons,* not to God, and I do not want you to become participants with demons.
21 You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and also the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and of the table of demons.
22 Or are we provoking the Lord to jealous anger? Are we stronger than he?
January 30, 2024 🥰 God's Will and Man's Freedom 2 📜 Catechism references for today
My Selected CCC references for today
Continuation...
CCC reference for today
PROLIFERATION OF SIN 👇
1865 Sin creates a proclivity to sin; it engenders vice by repetition of the same acts. This results in perverse inclinations which cloud conscience and corrupt the concrete judgment of good and evil. Thus sin tends to reproduce itself and reinforce itself, but it cannot destroy the moral sense at its root.
1868 Sin is a personal act. Moreover, we have a responsibility for the sins committed by others when we cooperate in them:
❌ by participating directly and voluntarily in them;
❌ by ordering, advising, praising, or approving them;
❌ by not disclosing or not hindering them when we have an obligation to do so;
❌ by protecting evil-doers.
1869 Thus sin makes men accomplices of one another and causes concupiscence, violence, and injustice to reign among them. Sins give rise to social situations and institutions that are contrary to divine goodness. "Structures of sin" are the expression and effect of personal sins. They lead their victims to do evil in their turn. In an analogous sense, they constitute a "social sin."
January 30, 2024 ⛪ Tuesday of week 4 of Ordinary Time 📕 Gospel Reference
My Gospel reference for today 📕
Jan 30 - Tuesday of week 4 in Ordinary Time
First reading 📖 2 Samuel 18:9-10,14,24-25,30-19:3
“David mourns Absalom”
Absalom happened to run into some of David’s followers. Absalom was riding a mule and the mule passed under the thick branches of a great oak. Absalom’s head caught fast in the oak and he was left hanging between heaven and earth, while the mule he was riding went on. Someone saw this and told Joab. ‘I have just seen Absalom’ he said ‘hanging from an oak.’ Joab took three lances in his hand and thrust them into Absalom’s heart while he was still alive there in the oak tree.
David was sitting between the two gates. The lookout had gone up to the roof of the gate, on the ramparts; he looked up and saw a man running all by himself. The watch called out to the king and told him. The king said, ‘If he is by himself, he has good news to tell.’ The king told the man, ‘Move aside and stand there.’ He moved aside and stood waiting.
Then the Cushite arrived. ‘Good news for my lord the king!’ cried the Cushite. ‘The Lord has vindicated your cause today by ridding you of all who rebelled against you.’ ‘Is all well with young Absalom?’ the king asked the Cushite. ‘May the enemies of my lord the king’ the Cushite answered ‘and all who rebelled against you to your hurt, share the lot of that young man.’
The king shuddered. He went up to the room over the gate and burst into tears, and weeping said, ‘My son Absalom! My son! My son Absalom! Would I had died in your place! Absalom, my son, my son!’ Word was brought to Joab, ‘The king is now weeping and mourning for Absalom.’ And the day’s victory was turned to mourning for all the troops, because they learned that the king was grieving for his son. And the troops returned stealthily that day to the town, as troops creep back ashamed when routed in battle.
Psalm 🎶
Turn your ear, O Lord, and give answer
for I am poor and needy.
Gospel 📖 Mark 5:21-43+
“Little girl, I tell you to get up”
When Jesus had crossed in the boat to the other side, a large crowd gathered round him and he stayed by the lakeside. Then one of the synagogue officials came up, Jairus by name, and seeing him, fell at his feet and pleaded with him earnestly, saying, ‘My little daughter is desperately sick. Do come and lay your hands on her to make her better and save her life.’ Jesus went with him and a large crowd followed him; they were pressing all round him.
Now there was a woman who had suffered from a haemorrhage for twelve years; after long and painful treatment under various doctors, she spent all she had without being any the better for it, in fact, she was getting worse. She had heard about Jesus, and she came up behind him through the crowd and touched his cloak. ‘If I can touch even his clothes,’ she had told herself ‘I shall be well again.’ And the source of the bleeding dried up instantly, and she felt in herself that she was cured of her complaint. Immediately aware that power had gone out from him, Jesus turned round in the crowd and said, ‘Who touched my clothes?’ His disciples said to him, ‘You see how the crowd is pressing round you and yet you say, “Who touched me?”’ But he continued to look all round to see who had done it. Then the woman came forward, frightened and trembling because she knew what had happened to her, and she fell at his feet and told him the whole truth. ‘My daughter,’ he said ‘your faith has restored you to health; go in peace and be free from your complaint.’
While he was still speaking some people arrived from the house of the synagogue official to say, ‘Your daughter is dead: why put the Master to any further trouble?’ But Jesus had overheard this remark of theirs and he said to the official, ‘Do not be afraid; only have faith.’ And he allowed no one to go with him except Peter and James and John the brother of James. So they came to the official’s house and Jesus noticed all the commotion, with people weeping and wailing unrestrainedly. He went in and said to them, ‘Why all this commotion and crying? The child is not dead, but asleep.’ But they laughed at him. So he turned them all out and, taking with him the child’s father and mother and his own companions, he went into the place where the child lay. And taking the child by the hand he said to her, ‘Talitha, kum!’ which means, ‘Little girl, I tell you to get up.’ The little girl got up at once and began to walk about, for she was twelve years old. At this they were overcome with astonishment, and he ordered them strictly not to let anyone know about it, and told them to give her something to eat.
January 29, 2024 🥰 God's Will and Man's Freedom 1 📜 Catechism references for today
My Selected Holy Bible references for today
God's Will
“For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother, and sister, and mother.” (Matthew 12:50)
📌 When we pray the Our Father prayer, we pray “Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.”(Matthew 6:10)
❌ Not our will!!!
📌Definition of God's will from the teachings:
Obey God's commandment. If we desire union with God and holiness above all else, then we will accomplish his will.
📍Definition of Virtue
Taken in its widest sense virtue means the excellence of perfection of a thing, just as vice, its contrary, denotes a defect or absence of perfection due to a thing. In its strictest meaning, however, as used by moral philosophers and theologians, it signifies a habit superadded to a faculty of the soul, disposing it to elicit with readiness acts conformable to our rational nature. (Excerpts from newadvent)
😇 THE 3 THEOLOGICAL VIRTUES
(1 Corinthians 13:13)
❤️Faith/pananampalataya
❤️Hope/pag-asa
❤️Charity/pag-ibig
😇For every decision, we will need to understand the 4 Cardinal Virtues (Wisdom of Solomon 8:7)
1. Justice/hustisya
2. Prudence/maingat na pag iisip
3. Fortitude/katatagan ng loob
4. Temperance/pagtitimpi
📍Excerpts from “The Penitential Act”
"I have greatly sinned, in my thoughts and in my words, in what I have done and in what I have failed to do"
THE DEFINITION OF SIN - Sin is an offense against reason, truth, and right conscience; it is failure in genuine love for God and neighbor caused by a perverse attachment to certain goods. It wounds the nature of man and injures human solidarity. It has been defined as "an utterance, a deed, or a desire contrary to the eternal law.
Let's all do our best to become closer to God through devotion, regular examination of conscience, asking God's forgiveness/sacraments, also by often Praying, fasting/abstinence, almsgiving, and following the teachings and guidelines of the church.🙏
Next important key words:
A. Captial sins
B. Capital virtues
Filipino Version 👇
“Kalooban ng Diyos”
Sapagka't sinomang gumaganap ng kalooban ng aking Ama na nasa langit, ay siyang aking kapatid na lalake at aking kapatid na babae, at ina. (Mateo 12:50)
📌 Kapag tayo ay nagdarasal ng panalangin ng Ama Namin, nananalangin tayo ng "Dumating nawa ang iyong kaharian. Masunod nawa ang iyong kalooban dito sa lupa tulad ng sa langit.” (Mateo 6:10)
❌ Hindi ang ating kalooban!!
📌Kahulugan ng kalooban ng Diyos mula sa mga turo: Sundin ang utos ng Diyos. Kung ninanais natin ang pagkakaisa sa Diyos at ang kabanalan higit sa lahat, kung gayon ay matutupad natin ang kanyang kalooban.
📍Kahulugan ng Kabutihan
Kung kinuha sa pinakamalawak na kahulugan nito, ang birtud ay nangangahulugang ang kahusayan ng pagiging perpekto ng isang bagay, tulad ng bisyo, ang kabaligtaran nito, ay nagpapahiwatig ng isang depekto o kawalan ng pagiging perpekto dahil sa isang bagay. Sa pinakamahigpit na kahulugan nito, gayunpaman, gaya ng ginamit ng mga moral na pilosopo at teologo, ito ay nagpapahiwatig ng isang ugali na idinagdag sa isang faculty ng kaluluwa, na itinatapon ito upang makakuha ng may kahandaang kumilos na naaayon sa ating makatwirang kalikasan.
😇 THE 3 THEOLOGICAL VIRTUES
(1 Corinthians 13:13)
❤️Faith/pananampalataya
❤️Hope/pag-asa
❤️Charity/pag-ibig
😇 Bawat disisyon ay kailangang unawain natin ang 4 na Kardinal Kabutihan (Karunungan 8:7)
1. Justice/hustisya
2. Prudence/maingat na pag iisip
3. Fortitude/katatagan ng loob
4. Temperance/pagtitimpi
📍kuha mula sa “Pagsisi”
"lubha akong nagkasala, sa isip, salita, at sa gawa, sa aking pagkukulang"
ANG KAHULUGAN NG KASALANAN - Ang kasalanan ay isang pagkakasala laban sa katwiran, katotohanan, at tamang budhi; ito ay kabiguan sa tunay na pag-ibig sa Diyos at sa kapwa na dulot ng isang masamang pagkalugmik sa bagay. Ito ay pumipinsala sa buhay ng tao at sa kabuuan ng tao. Ito ay tinukoy bilang "isang pagdadalita, gawa, o isang pagnanais na salungat sa walang hanggang batas ng Diyos.
Mga susunod sa importanting salita:
A. Kapital na kasalanan
B. Kapital na kabutihan
Gawin nating lahat ng ating makakaya upang maging mas malapit sa Diyos sa pamamagitan ng debosyon, regular na pagsusuri sa konsensya, paghingi ng kapatawaran/sakramento sa Diyos, gayundin sa pamamagitan ng Pagdarasal, pag-aayuno/pag-iwas, paglilimos, at pagsunod sa mga turo at alituntunin ng simbahan. 🙏🏼
CCC References from Part 2. HUMAN FREEDOM IN THE ECONOMY OF SALVATION
📍 refusing God's plan of love, he deceived himself and became a slave to sin. (excerpts from 1739)
📍By deviating from the moral law man violates his own freedom, becomes imprisoned within himself, disrupts neighborly fellowship, and rebels against divine truth. (excerpts from 1740)
📍The Holy Spirit has been given to us and, as the Apostle teaches, "Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom."36 Already we glory in the "liberty of the children of God." (excerpts from 1741)
📖2 Cor 17.
📖37 Rom 8:21.
1742 Freedom and grace. The grace of Christ is not in the slightest way a rival of our freedom when this freedom accords with the sense of the true and the good that God has put in the human heart. On the contrary, as Christian experience attests especially in prayer, the more docile we are to the promptings of grace, the more we grow in inner freedom and confidence during trials, such as those we face in the pressures and constraints of the outer world. By the working of grace, the Holy Spirit educates us in spiritual freedom in order to make us free collaborators in his work in the Church and in the world:
Almighty and merciful God,
in your goodness take away from us all that is harmful,
so that, made ready both in mind and body,
we may freely accomplish your will.38
In Brief
📌1743 "God willed that man should be left in the hand of his own counsel (cf. Sir 15:14), so that he might of his own accord seek his creator and freely attain his full and blessed perfection by cleaving to him" (GS 17 § 1).
📌1744 Freedom is the power to act or not to act, and so to perform deliberate acts of one's own. Freedom attains perfection in its acts when directed toward God, the sovereign Good.
📌1745 Freedom characterizes properly human acts. It makes the human being responsible for acts of which he is the voluntary agent. His deliberate acts properly belong to him.
📌1746 The imputability or responsibility for an action can be diminished or nullified by ignorance, duress, fear, and other psychological or social factors.
📌1747 The right to the exercise of freedom, especially in religious and moral matters, is an inalienable requirement of the dignity of man. But the exercise of freedom does not entail the putative right to say or do anything.
📌1748 "For freedom Christ has set us free" (Gal 5:1).
January 29, 2024 ⛪ Monday of week 4 of Ordinary Time 📕 Gospel Reference
My Article reference for today 📕
Let’s all start the week with “Prayers and Gospel Sharing” 😇
WORDS OF THE HOLY FATHER 🎤
📌 When Jesus begins to preach, the first to pay the consequences is precisely the evil that afflicts the world.
📌 The evil spirits curse: “What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are, the Holy One of God” (Mark 1:24).
📌 Evil can no longer harm us: the strong man has arrived to take possession of his house (cf. Mk 3:23-27). And this strong man is Jesus, who gives us, too, the strength to take possession of our inner house. (Excerpts 🎤 from GA, 27/02/19)
Let's all do our best to become closer to God through devotion, regular examination of conscience, asking God's forgiveness/sacraments, also by often Praying, fasting/abstinence, almsgiving, and following the teachings and guidelines of the church.🙏
Reading
2 Samuel 📖 15:13-14, 30; 16:5-13
An informant came to David with the report,
"The children of Israel have transferred their loyalty to Absalom."
At this, David said to all his servants
who were with him in Jerusalem:
"Up! Let us take flight, or none of us will escape from Absalom.
Leave quickly, lest he hurry and overtake us,
then visit disaster upon us and put the city to the sword."
As David went up the Mount of Olives, he wept without ceasing.
His head was covered, and he was walking barefoot.
All those who were with him also had their heads covered
and were weeping as they went.
As David was approaching Bahurim,
a man named Shimei, the son of Gera
of the same clan as Saul's family,
was coming out of the place, cursing as he came.
He threw stones at David and at all the king's officers,
even though all the soldiers, including the royal guard,
were on David's right and on his left.
Shimei was saying as he cursed:
"Away, away, you murderous and wicked man!
The LORD has requited you for all the bloodshed in the family of Saul,
in whose stead you became king,
and the LORD has given over the kingdom to your son Absalom.
And now you suffer ruin because you are a murderer."
Abishai, son of Zeruiah, said to the king:
"Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king?
Let me go over, please, and lop off his head."
But the king replied: "What business is it of mine or of yours,
sons of Zeruiah, that he curses?
Suppose the LORD has told him to curse David;
who then will dare to say, 'Why are you doing this?'"
Then the king said to Abishai and to all his servants:
"If my own son, who came forth from my loins, is seeking my life,
how much more might this Benjaminite do so?
Let him alone and let him curse, for the LORD has told him to.
Perhaps the LORD will look upon my affliction
and make it up to me with benefits
for the curses he is uttering this day."
David and his men continued on the road,
while Shimei kept abreast of them on the hillside,
all the while cursing and throwing stones and dirt as he went.
GOSPEL OF THE DAY 📖 Mark 5:1-20
Jesus and his disciples came to the other side of the sea, to the territory of the Gerasenes.
When he got out of the boat,
at once a man from the tombs who had an unclean spirit met him. The man had been dwelling among the tombs, and no one could restrain him any longer, even with a chain.
In fact, he had frequently been bound with shackles and chains, but the chains had been pulled apart by him and the shackles smashed,
and no one was strong enough to subdue him.
Night and day among the tombs and on the hillsides
he was always crying out and bruising himself with stones.
Catching sight of Jesus from a distance,
he ran up and prostrated himself before him,
crying out in a loud voice,
"What have you to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God?
I adjure you by God, do not torment me!"
(He had been saying to him, "Unclean spirit, come out of the man!")
He asked him, "What is your name?"
He replied, "Legion is my name. There are many of us."
And he pleaded earnestly with him
not to drive them away from that territory.
Now a large herd of swine was feeding there on the hillside.
And they pleaded with him,
"Send us into the swine. Let us enter them."
And he let them, and the unclean spirits came out and entered the swine.
The herd of about two thousand rushed down a steep bank into the sea,
where they were drowned.
The swineherds ran away and reported the incident in the town and throughout the countryside.
And people came out to see what had happened.
As they approached Jesus,
they caught sight of the man who had been possessed by Legion,
sitting there clothed and in his right mind.
And they were seized with fear.
Those who witnessed the incident explained to them what had happened to the possessed man and to the swine.
Then they began to beg him to leave their district.
As he was getting into the boat,
the man who had been possessed pleaded to remain with him.
But Jesus would not permit him but told him instead,
"Go home to your family and announce to them
all that the Lord in his pity has done for you."
Then the man went off and began to proclaim in the Decapolis what Jesus had done for him; and all were amazed.
January 28, 2024 🥰 Exodus 📕 My Bible references for today #EcumenismWeekend
My Selected Holy Bible references for today
Sin against the First 3 commandments
Let’s all make this day meaningful with our loved ones, especially with gatherings that should include Praying and Gospel Sharing” to become closer to God. 🙏🏼
Sample Punishments ⚠️
📍might be because of the disobedience and sin against the first 3 commandments or any grave sin:
❌ pagan rituals offering to spirits/like consulting fortune-tellers/ superstitious beliefs (idolatry)
❌ sacrilege
❌ sin of apostasy
May experience:
📌 business problems/financial difficulties
📌 conflicts within the family
📌 continues life/career difficulties
📌 continuous health issues even death
Excerpts from Hosea 📖 Chapter 4
“People are ruined because of lack of knowledge”
Exodus 34:7 📖
Continuing his love for a thousand generations, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion, and sin; yet not declaring the guilty guiltless, but bringing punishment for their parents’ wickedness on children and children’s children to the third and fourth generation!
Let's all do our best to become closer to God through devotion, regular examination of conscience, asking God's forgiveness/sacraments, also by Praying, fasting/abstinence, almsgiving, and following the teachings and guidelines of the church.🙏
Pamilya, kamag-anak at kaibigan 🥰
Gawin nating makabuluhan ang araw na ito kasama ang ating mga mahal sa buhay lalo na sa mga pagtitipon na dapat kasama ang Pagdarasal at Pagbabahaginan ng Ebanghelyo” para mas mapalapit sa Diyos. 🙏🏼
Halimbawang mga Kaparusahan ⚠️
📍maaaring dahil sa pagsuway at kasalanan sa unang 3 utos o anumang mabigat na kasalanan:
❌ paganong mga ritwal na nag-aalay sa mga espiritu/idoletry
❌ kalapastanganan
❌ kasalanan ng apostasiya
Maaaring maranasan:
📌 problema sa negosyo/kahirapang pinansyal
📌 alitan sa loob ng pamilya
📌 patuloy na kahirapan sa buhay o karera
📌 patuloy na isyu sa kalusugan at maaring kamatayan
Ilang bahagi mula sa Hosea 📖 Kabanata 4
“Nalipol ang aking bayan dahil sa kamangmangan”
Exodo 34:7 📖
Tinutupad ko ang aking pangako maging sa libu-libo, at patuloy kong ipinapatawad ang kanilang kasamaan, pagsuway at pagkakasala. Ngunit hindi ko pinalalampas ang kasalanan ng ama at ang pagpaparusa ko'y hanggang sa ikatlo at ikaapat na salinlahi.”
Gawin nating lahat ang ating makakaya upang maging mas malapit sa Diyos sa pamamagitan ng debosyon, regular na pagsusuri ng budhi, paghingi ng kapatawaran/sakramento sa Diyos, gayundin sa pamamagitan ng Pagdarasal, pag-aayuno/pag-iwas, paglilimos, at pagsunod sa mga turo at alituntunin ng simbahan.🙏
January 28, 2024 🥰 Risen - A Soldier who becomes Christ's Follower 📽️ My movie reference for today
My movie references for today 📽️
"Risen" 🎥 Movie
In 33 AD, a Roman Tribune in Judea is tasked to find the missing body of Jesus Christ, who rose from the dead.
📌 Storyline
Follows the epic Biblical story of the Resurrection, as told through the eyes of a non-believer. Clavius, a powerful Roman Military Tribune, and his aide Lucius, are tasked with solving the mystery of what happened to Yahshua in the weeks following the crucifixion, in order to disprove the rumors of a risen Messiah and prevent an uprising in Jerusalem.
Key 🔑 points were excerpts from the Holy Bible 📕
Let's all do our best to become closer to God through devotion, regular examination of conscience, asking God's forgiveness/sacraments, also by often Praying, fasting/abstinence, almsgiving, and following the teachings and guidelines of the church.🙏
Netflix 🎥
January 28, 2024 ⛪ Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time 📕 Gospel Reference
My Gospelreference for today 📕
Jan. 28, 2024 ⛪️ Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Let’s all make this day meaningful with our love ones especially with gatherings that should include Praying and Gospel Sharing” to become closer to God. 🙏🏼
First reading 👇
Deuteronomy 18:15-20 📖
I will raise up a prophet and put my words into his mouth
Moses said to the people: ‘The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like myself, from among yourselves, from your own brothers; to him you must listen. This is what you yourselves asked of the Lord your God at Horeb on the day of the Assembly. “Do not let me hear again” you said “the voice of the Lord my God, nor look any longer on this great fire, or I shall die”; and the Lord said to me, “All they have spoken is well said. I will raise up a prophet like yourself for them from their own brothers; I will put my words into his mouth and he shall tell them all I command him. The man who does not listen to my words that he speaks in my name, shall be held answerable to me for it. But the prophet who presumes to say in my name a thing I have not commanded him to say, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die.”’
Psalm or canticle
Psalm 94(95):1-2,6-9
Come, ring out our joy to the Lord;
hail the rock who saves us.
Let us come before him, giving thanks,
with songs let us hail the Lord.
Come in; let us bow and bend low;
let us kneel before the God who made us:
for he is our God and we
the people who belong to his pasture,
the flock that is led by his hand.
O that today you would listen to his voice!
‘Harden not your hearts as at Meribah,
as on that day at Massah in the desert
when your fathers put me to the test;
when they tried me, though they saw my work.’
Second reading 👇
1 Corinthians 7:32-35 📖
Give your undivided attention to the Lord
I would like to see you free from all worry. An unmarried man can devote himself to the Lord’s affairs, all he need worry about is pleasing the Lord; but a married man has to bother about the world’s affairs and devote himself to pleasing his wife: he is torn two ways. In the same way an unmarried woman, like a young girl, can devote herself to the Lord’s affairs; all she need worry about is being holy in body and spirit. The married woman, on the other hand, has to worry about the world’s affairs and devote herself to pleasing her husband. I say this only to help you, not to put a halter round your necks, but simply to make sure that everything is as it should be, and that you give your undivided attention to the Lord.
Gospel 👇
Mark 1:21-28 📖
“The Cure of a Demoniac”
Unlike the scribes, he taught them with authority
Jesus and his disciples went as far as Capernaum, and as soon as the sabbath came he went to the synagogue and began to teach. And his teaching made a deep impression on them because, unlike the scribes, he taught them with authority.
In their synagogue just then there was a man possessed by an unclean spirit and it shouted, ‘What do you want with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are: the Holy One of God.’ But Jesus said sharply, ‘Be quiet! Come out of him!’ And the unclean spirit threw the man into convulsions and with a loud cry went out of him. The people were so astonished that they started asking each other what it all meant. ‘Here is a teaching that is new’ they said ‘and with authority behind it: he gives orders even to unclean spirits and they obey him.’ And his reputation rapidly spread everywhere, through all the surrounding Galilean countryside.
😇 Let's all do our best to become closer to God through devotion, regular examination of conscience, asking God's forgiveness/sacraments, also by Praying, fasting/abstinence, almsgiving, and following the teachings and guidelines of the church.🙏
January 27, 2024 🥰 Peter 📕 My Bible references for today #EcumenismWeekend
My Selected Holy Bible references for today
1 Peter 5:5-11 📖
“Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.”
Advice to the Community⚠️
5 Likewise, you younger members, be subject to the presbyters. And all of you, clothe yourselves with humility in your dealings with one another, for:
“God opposes the proud
but bestows favor on the humble.”
6 So humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time.
7 Cast all your worries upon him because he cares for you.
8 Be sober and vigilant. Your opponent the devil is prowling around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.
9 Resist him, steadfast in faith, knowing that your fellow believers throughout the world undergo the same sufferings.
10 The God of all grace who called you to his eternal glory through Christ Jesus will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you after you have suffered a little.
11 To him be dominion forever. Amen
Filipino Language 👇
1 Pedro 5:5-11 📖
“Maging handa kayo at magbantay. Ang diyablo, ang kaaway ninyo, ay parang leong umuungal at aali-aligid na naghahanap ng malalapa.”
Payo sa Komunidad ⚠️
5 At kayo namang mga kabataan, pasakop kayo sa matatandang pinuno ng iglesya. At kayong lahat ay magpakumbaba sapagkat, “Sinasalungat ng Diyos ang mapagmataas, ngunit pinagpapala niya ang mababang-loob.”
6 Kaya nga, pasakop kayo sa kapangyarihan ng Diyos at dadakilain niya kayo pagdating ng takdang panahon.
7 Ipagkatiwala ninyo sa kanya ang inyong mga alalahanin sa buhay sapagkat siya ay nagmamalasakit sa inyo.
8 Maging handa kayo at magbantay. Ang diyablo, ang kaaway ninyo, ay parang leong umuungal at aali-aligid na naghahanap ng malalapa.
9 Labanan ninyo siya at magpakatatag kayo sa inyong pananampalataya sa Diyos. Tulad ng alam ninyo, hindi lamang kayo ang nagtitiis ng mga kahirapan, kundi gayundin ang inyong mga kapatid sa buong daigdig.
10 Pagkatapos ninyong magtiis sa loob ng maikling panahon, ang Diyos, na siyang pinanggagalingan ng lahat ng pagpapala, ang siyang magbibigay sa inyo ng kagalingan, katatagan, at lakas ng loob at isang pundasyong di matitinag. Siya ang tumawag sa inyo upang makibahagi kayo sa kanyang walang hanggang kaluwalhatian, kasama ni Cristo.
11 Sa kanya ang kapangyarihan magpakailanman! Amen.
January 27, 2024 ⛪ Fourth Saturday in Ordinary Time 📕 Gospel Reference
My Gospel reference for today 📕
Jan. 27, 2024 ⛪️ Fourth Saturday in Ordinary Time
Let’s all make this day meaningful with our love ones, especially with gatherings that should include Praying and Gospel Sharing” to become closer to God. 🙏🏼
First reading 📖 2 Samuel 12:1-7,10-17
David's penitence over Uriah
The Lord sent Nathan the prophet to David. He came to him and said:
‘In the same town were two men,
one rich, the other poor.
The rich man had flocks and herds
in great abundance;
the poor man had nothing but a ewe lamb,
one only, a small one he had bought.
This he fed, and it grew up with him and his children,
eating his bread, drinking from his cup,
sleeping on his breast; it was like a daughter to him.
When there came a traveller to stay, the rich man
refused to take one of his own flock or herd
to provide for the wayfarer who had come to him.
Instead he took the poor man’s lamb
and prepared it for his guest.’
David’s anger flared up against the man. ‘As the Lord lives,’ he said to Nathan ‘the man who did this deserves to die! He must make fourfold restitution for the lamb, for doing such a thing and showing no compassion.’
Then Nathan said to David, ‘You are the man. So now the sword will never be far from your House, since you have shown contempt for me and taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.”
‘Thus the Lord speaks, “I will stir up evil for you out of your own House. Before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to your neighbour, and he shall lie with your wives in the sight of this sun. You worked in secret, I will work this in the face of all Israel and in the face of the sun.”’
David said to Nathan, ‘I have sinned against the Lord.’ Then Nathan said to David, ‘The Lord, for his part, forgives your sin; you are not to die. Yet because you have outraged the Lord by doing this, the child that is born to you is to die.’ Then Nathan went home.
The Lord struck the child that Uriah’s wife had borne to David and it fell gravely ill. David pleaded with the Lord for the child; he kept a strict fast and went home and spent the night on the bare ground, covered with sacking. The officials of his household came and stood round him to get him to rise from the ground, but he refused, nor would he take food with them.
Psalm or canticle
Psalm 50(51):12-17
A pure heart create for me, O God,
put a steadfast spirit within me.
Do not cast me away from your presence,
nor deprive me of your holy spirit.
Give me again the joy of your help;
with a spirit of fervour sustain me,
that I may teach transgressors your ways
and sinners may return to you.
O rescue me, God, my helper,
and my tongue shall ring out your goodness.
O Lord, open my lips
and my mouth shall declare your praise.
Gospel 📖 Mark 4:35-41
'Even the wind and the sea obey him'
With the coming of evening, Jesus said to his disciples, ‘Let us cross over to the other side.’ And leaving the crowd behind they took him, just as he was, in the boat; and there were other boats with him. Then it began to blow a gale and the waves were breaking into the boat so that it was almost swamped. But he was in the stern, his head on the cushion, asleep. They woke him and said to him, ‘Master, do you not care? We are going down!’ And he woke up and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, ‘Quiet now! Be calm!’ And the wind dropped, and all was calm again. Then he said to them, ‘Why are you so frightened? How is it that you have no faith?’ They were filled with awe and said to one another, ‘Who can this be? Even the wind and the sea obey him.’
😇 Let's all do our best to become closer to God through devotion, regular examination of conscience, asking God's forgiveness/sacraments, also by Praying, fasting/abstinence, almsgiving, and following the teachings and guidelines of the church.🙏
January 27, 2024 😇 Stories of Saints
Stories of Saints for today 😇
Brief Story about Timothy & Titus 😇
📍 Titus is credited with leading the Church of Crete well into his 90s, overturning paganism and promoting the faith through his prayers and preaching. Unlike Timothy, Titus was not martyred, but died peacefully in old age.
On Jan. 26, the Roman Catholic Church celebrates the liturgical memorial of Saints Timothy and Titus, close companions of the Apostle Paul and bishops of the Catholic Church in its earliest days.
Both men received letters from St. Paul, which are included in the New Testament.
Pope Benedict XVI discussed these early bishops during a general audience on Dec. 13, 2006, noting “their readiness to take on various offices” in “far from easy” circumstances. Both saints, the Pope said, “teach us to serve the Gospel with generosity, realizing that this also entails a service to the Church herself.”
The son of a Jewish mother and a non-Jewish father, Timothy came from Lystra in present-day Turkey. His mother, Eunice, and his grandmother, Lois, are known to have joined the Church, and Timothy himself is described as a student of Sacred Scripture from his youth.
After St. Paul’s visit to Timothy’s home region of Lycaonia, around the year 51, the young man joined the apostle and accompanied him in his travels. After religious strife forced Paul to leave the city of Berea, Timothy remained to help the local church. Paul later sent him to Thessalonica to help the Church during a period of persecution.
The two met up again in Corinth, and Timothy eventually journeyed to Macedonia on Paul’s behalf. Problems in the Corinthian Church brought Timothy back for a time, after which he joined Paul and accompanied the apostle in subsequent travels.
Like Paul, Timothy endured a period of imprisonment in the course of his missionary work. His release is mentioned in the New Testament Epistle to the Hebrews.
Around the year 64, Timothy became the first bishop of the Church of Ephesus. During that same year, he received the first of two surviving letters from St. Paul. The second, written the next year, urges Timothy to visit St. Paul in Rome, where he was imprisoned before his martyrdom.
Ancient sources state that St. Timothy followed his mentor in dying as a martyr for the faith. In the year 93, during his leadership of the Church in Ephesus, he took a stand against the worship of idols and was consequently killed by a mob. The pagan festival he was protesting was held Jan. 22, and this date was preserved as St. Timothy’s memorial in the Christian East.
In contrast with Timothy’s partial Jewish descent and early Biblical studies, St. Titus – who was born into a pagan family – is said to have studied Greek philosophy and poetry in his early years. But he pursued a life of virtue, and purportedly had a prophetic dream that caused him to begin reading the Hebrew Scriptures.
According to tradition, Titus journeyed to Jerusalem and witnessed the preaching of Christ during the Lord’s ministry on earth. Only later, however – after the conversion of St. Paul and the beginning of his ministry – did Titus receive baptism from the apostle, who called the pagan convert his “true child in our common faith.”
St. Paul was not only Titus’ spiritual father, but also depended on his convert as an assistant and interpreter. Titus accompanied Paul to the Apostolic Council of Jerusalem during the year 51, and was later sent to the Corinthian Church on two occasions. After the end of Paul’s first imprisonment in Rome, the apostle ordained Titus as the Bishop of Crete.
Paul sent his only surviving letter to Titus around the year 64, giving instructions in pastoral ministry to his disciple as he prepared to meet up with him in the Greek city of Nicopolis. Titus evangelized the region of Dalmatia in modern Croatia before returning to Crete.
Titus is credited with leading the Church of Crete well into his 90s, overturning paganism and promoting the faith through his prayers and preaching. Unlike St. Timothy, St. Titus was not martyred, but died peacefully in old age.
January 26, 2024 ⛪ Friday of week 3 of Ordinary Time 📕 Gospel Reference #EcumenismWeekend
My Article reference for today 📕
Jan. 26, 2024 ⛪️ Friday of week 3 in Ordinary Time
A reading from the Second Letter of Paul to Timothy 📖 2 Tm 1:1-8
"Bear your share of hardship for the Gospel with the strength that comes from God."
GOSPEL OF THE DAY
Gospel according to 📖 Markk 4:26-34
"Seed Grows of Itself"
26 He said, “This is how it is with the kingdom of God; it is as if a man were to scatter seed on the land
27 and would sleep and rise night and day and the seed would sprout and grow, he knows not how.
28 Of its own accord the land yields fruit, first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.
29 And when the grain is ripe, he wields the sickle at once, for the harvest has come.”
30 He said, “To what shall we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable can we use for it?
Filipino Version 📕 Markos 4:26-34
"Ang Talinghaga ng Binhing Tumutubo"
26 Sinabi ni Jesus: Ang paghahari ng Diyos ay katulad sa isang tao na nagtanim ng binhi sa lupa.
27 Siya ay natutulog at bumabangon araw at gabi. Ang binhi ay sumisibol at lumalaki na hindi niya nalalaman kung papaano. 28 Ito ay sapagkat ang lupa mismo ang nagpapabunga sa mga binhi, una muna ang usbong, saka uhay, pagkatapos ay mga hitik na butil sa uhay. 29 Kapag hinog na ang bunga, kaagad na ipinagagapas niya ito sapagkat dumating na ang anihan.
Ang Talinghaga ng Butil ng Mustasa
30 Gayundin, sinabi ni Jesus: Sa ano natin itutulad ang paghahari ng Diyos o sa anong talinghaga natin ihahambing ito?
31 Katulad ito ng binhi ng mustasa na itinatanim sa lupa. Ito ang pinakamaliit sa lahat ng mga binhi na itinatanim sa lupa. 32 Kapag naitanim at lumago, ito ay nagiging pinakamalaki sa mga gulay. Lumalago ang mga sanga nito na anupa’t ang mga ibon sa himpapawid ay makakapamugad sa lilim nito.
33 Nangaral sa kanila si Jesus ng salita sa pamamagitan ng maraming talinghagang tulad nito, ayon sa kakayahan nilang makinig. 34 Hindi siya nagsalita sa kanila maliban sa pamamagitan ng talinghaga. Ngunit ipinapaliwanag niya nang bukod sa kaniyang mga alagad ang lahat ng mga bagay.
January 26, 2024 🥰 Sacrilege Part 2 - Holy Bible 📕 Reference 📜 Catechism Reference Today #EcumenismWeekend
My Selected Holy Bible references for today
Learn and obey the teachings
Excerpts from 📖 Hosea Chapter 4
“My people are ruined for lack of knowledge!”
Excerpts from 📖 1 Corinthians 11
27 Therefore whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord unworthily will have to answer for the body and blood of the Lord.
28 A person should examine himself,* and so eat the bread and drink the cup.
29 For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body, eats and drinks judgment* on himself.
30 That is why many among you are ill and infirm, and a considerable number are dying.
📌 Paul turns to another abuse connected with the liturgy, and a more serious one, for it involves neglect of basic Christian tradition concerning the meaning of the Lord’s Supper. Paul recalls that tradition for them and reminds them of its implications.
Read full from 🌐 USCCB
Excerpts from 📖 Hosea Chapter 4
“Nalipol ang aking bayan dahil sa kamangmangan!”
Mula sa 📖 1 Corinto 11
27 Kaya, ang sinumang kumakain ng tinapay at umiinom sa kopa ng Panginoon sa paraang di nararapat ay nagkakasala sa katawan at dugo ng Panginoon.
28 Kaya't dapat siyasatin ng tao ang kanyang sarili bago siya kumain ng tinapay at uminom sa kopa.
29 Sapagkat ang sinumang kumakain at umiinom nang hindi kinikilala ang kahalagahan ng katawan ng Panginoon ay kumakain at umiinom ng kahatulan laban sa kanyang sarili.
30 Iyan ang dahilan kung bakit mahihina at sakitin ang marami sa inyo, at may ilan ngang namatay na.
🥰 Thank you po Bor Wendell, Angel, Junrei, John Doe, and to all members of Punto for Punto🎥
January 26, 2024 🥰 James 📕 My Bible references for today #EcumenismWeekend
My Selected Holy Bible references for today
Reminders again about the Commandments
Sin of Partiality 📖
📍falls short in one particular, has become guilty in respect to all of it.
1. My brothers, show no partiality as you adhere to the faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ.
2 For if a man with gold rings on his fingers and in fine clothes comes into your assembly, and a poor person in shabby clothes also comes in,
3 and you pay attention to the one wearing the fine clothes and say, “Sit here, please,” while you say to the poor one, “Stand there,” or “Sit at my feet,”
4 have you not made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil designs?
5 Listen, my beloved brothers. Did not God choose those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom that he promised to those who love him?
6 But you dishonored the poor person. Are not the rich oppressing you? And do they themselves not haul you off to court?
7 Is it not they who blaspheme the noble name that was invoked over you?
8 However, if you fulfill the royal* law according to the scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.
9 But if you show partiality, you commit sin, and are convicted by the law as transgressors.
10 For whoever keeps the whole law, but falls short in one particular, has become guilty in respect to all of it.
11 For he who said, “You shall not commit adultery,” also said, “You shall not kill.” Even if you do not commit adultery but kill, you have become a transgressor of the law.
12 So speak and so act as people who will be judged by the law of freedom.
13 For the judgment is merciless to one who has not shown mercy; mercy triumphs over judgment.
Babala Laban sa Pagtatangi 📖
📌 Ang lumalabag sa isang utos, kahit tumutupad sa iba pa, ay lumalabag sa buong Kautusan.
1. Mga kapatid ko, bilang mga mananampalataya kay Jesu-Cristo na ating maluwalhating Panginoon, dapat maging pantay-pantay ang tingin ninyo sa lahat ng tao. 2 Kung may pumasok sa inyong kapulungan na isang lalaking may mga singsing na ginto at nakadamit nang magara, at dumating din doon ang isang dukha na gusgusin ang damit, 3 at inasikaso ninyong mabuti ang nakadamit nang magara at sinabi sa kanya, “Dito kayo maupo,” at sinabi naman ninyo sa mahirap, “Tumayo ka na lang diyan,” o kaya'y, “Sa sahig ka na lang umupo,” 4 nagtatangi na kayo at humahatol nang mali.
5 Mga kapatid kong minamahal, makinig kayong mabuti! Hindi ba't pinili ng Diyos ang mahihirap sa mundong ito upang maging mayaman sa pananampalataya at maging kasama sa kahariang ipinangako niya sa mga umiibig sa kanya? 6 Ngunit hinahamak ninyo ang mahihirap. Hindi ba't ang mayayaman ang umaapi sa inyo at sila ang kumakaladkad sa inyo sa hukuman? 7 Hindi ba't sila rin ang lumalait sa marangal na pangalang ibinigay sa inyo ng Diyos?
8 Mabuti ang inyong ginagawa kung tinutupad ninyo ang utos ng Diyos na ating hari, ayon sa Kasulatan, “Ibigin mo ang iyong kapwa gaya ng pag-ibig mo sa iyong sarili.” 9 Ngunit kung nagtatangi kayo ng tao, kayo'y nagkakasala, at batay sa Kautusan, dapat kayong parusahan. 10 Ang lumalabag sa isang utos, kahit tumutupad sa iba pa, ay lumalabag sa buong Kautusan, 11 sapagkat ang Diyos na nagsabing, “Huwag kang mangangalunya,” ay siya ring nagsabing, “Huwag kang papatay.” Kung hindi ka man nangangalunya, ngunit pumapatay ka naman, nilalabag mo pa rin ang Kautusan. 12 Kaya't mag-ingat kayo sa inyong pagkilos at pananalita, sapagkat hahatulan kayo ayon sa kautusang nagpapalaya sa inyo. 13 Walang awang hahatulan ang di-marunong maawa; ngunit mangingibabaw ang awa sa paghatol.
January 26, 2024 🥰 About Fortune Tellers 📜 Catechism Reference Today #EcumenismWeekend
My CCC reference for today 📜
Please don’t believe and follow 😇 Fortune Tellers
Thank you, Fr. Darwin G. 🎥 for the lecture 🧑🏻🏫
❌ THIS POPULAR LADY - Rudy B.
🙏🏻 Let us pray for these kinds of people (fortune-tellers) to turn back to God
Deuteronomy 18:10-14 📖
Babala ukol sa MANGHUHULA
9 “Kapag kayo'y naroon na sa lupaing ibibigay sa inyo ni Yahweh, huwag kayong gagaya sa kasuklam-suklam na gawain ng mga tao roon. 10 Sinuman sa inyo'y huwag magsusunog ng kanyang anak bilang handog. Huwag kayong manghuhula, huwag gagawin ang ginagawa ng mga mangkukulam, 11 ng mga mananawas, at ng mga sumasangguni sa mga espiritu ng namatay. 12 Sinumang gumawa ng alinman sa mga ito ay kasusuklaman ni Yahweh na inyong Diyos. Pakatatandaan ninyo na iyan ang dahilan kaya niya itataboy ang mga nakatira sa lupaing pupuntahan ninyo. 13 Lubos kayong maging tapat sa Diyos ninyong si Yahweh. 14 Ang mga bansang inyong sasakupin ay sumusunod sa mga manghuhula at mga naniniwala sa mga agimat. Subalit ang mga ito ay ipinagbabawal sa inyo ng Diyos ninyong si Yahweh.
Deuteronomy 18:10-14 📖
10 Let there not be found among you anyone who causes their son or daughter to pass through the fire,* or practices divination, or is a soothsayer, augur, or sorcerer,
11 or who casts spells, consults ghosts and spirits or seeks oracles from the dead.
12 Anyone who does such things is an abomination to the LORD, and because of such abominations the LORD, your God, is dispossessing them before you.
13 You must be altogether sincere with the LORD, your God.
14 Although these nations whom you are about to dispossess listen to their soothsayers and diviners, the LORD, your God, will not permit you to do so.
CCC reference 👇
2114 Human life finds its unity in the adoration of the one God. The commandment to worship the Lord alone integrates man and saves him from an endless disintegration. Idolatry is a perversion of man's innate religious sense. An idolater is someone who "transfers his indestructible notion of God to anything other than God."
⚠️ Divination and magic
2115 God can reveal the future to his prophets or to other saints. Still, a sound Christian attitude consists in putting oneself confidently into the hands of Providence for whatever concerns the future, and giving up all unhealthy curiosity about it. Improvidence, however, can constitute a lack of responsibility.
2116 All forms of divination are to be rejected: recourse to Satan or demons, conjuring up the dead or other practices falsely supposed to "unveil" the future.48 Consulting horoscopes, astrology, palm reading, interpretation of omens and lots, the phenomena of clairvoyance, and recourse to mediums all conceal a desire for power over time, history, and, in the last analysis, other human beings, as well as a wish to conciliate hidden powers. They contradict the honor, respect, and loving fear that we owe to God alone.
2117 All practices of magic or sorcery, by which one attempts to tame occult powers, so as to place them at one's service and have a supernatural power over others - even if this were for the sake of restoring their health - are gravely contrary to the virtue of religion. These practices are even more to be condemned when accompanied by the intention of harming someone, or when they have recourse to the intervention of demons. Wearing charms is also reprehensible. Spiritism often implies divination or magical practices; the Church for her part warns the faithful against it. Recourse to so-called traditional cures does not justify either the invocation of evil powers or the exploitation of another's credulity.
January 25, 2024 🥰 Proverbs and Peter 📕 My Bible references for today
My Selected Holy Bible references for today
Don't Do Personal Interpretation
📌 Let's help others 📕 Mark. 16:1
Proverbs 12:15 📖
The way of fools is right in their own eyes,
but those who listen to advice are the wise.
2 Peter 1:20-21 📖
No Personal Interpretation
20 Know this first of all, that there is no prophecy of scripture that is a matter of personal interpretation,
21 for no prophecy ever came through human will; but rather human beings moved by the holy Spirit spoke under the influence of God.
January 25, 2024 🥰 Sacrilege Part 1 📜 Catechism Reference Today
My Canon Law reference for today 📜
Lack of Knowledge
Excerpts from Hosea 📖 Chapter 4
“People are ruined because of lack of knowledge”
Another reference ⛪️ CCC #EcumenismWeekend
About Taking Holy Eucharist 😇
📍We should always do examination of concscience
📍People needs to consult Canon Lawyer
📍Exceptions may be explained by the Bishops
❌ should not take Holy Eucharist / Communion
- people under the state of mortal sin
- without (perfect contrition) confession
- Civilly married couple
- A person cannot receive any absolution 👉🏻 should start with the right process
📌 Aversion to sacred things (and other consecrated to God) might be because of evils spirits.
Based on CCC teaching 📜
2120 Sacrilege consists in profaning or treating unworthily the sacraments and other liturgical actions, as well as persons, things, or places consecrated to God. Sacrilege is a grave sin especially when committed against the Eucharist, for in this sacrament the true Body of Christ is made substantially present for us.
Reperensya ⛪️ CCC
Patungkol sa pagtanggap ng Banal na Eukaristiya 😇
📍Dapat lagi tayong magsagawa ng pagsusuri sa konsensya
📍 Dapat magkonsulta sa mga pinuno
❌Hindi dapat kumuha ng Banal na Eukaristiya/Komunyon :
- mga taong nasa ilalim ng estado ng mortal na kasalanan
- nang walang (tunay na pagsisisi) pag-amin
- kasal ayon lamang sa batas
- Ang isang tao ay hindi makakatanggap ng anumang pagpapatawad
📌 Ang pagkamunghi sa mga sagradong bagay (at iba pang nakalaan sa Diyos) ay maaaring dahil sa masasamang espiritu.
Base ayon sa turo ng CCC 📜
2120 Ang Sacrilege ay binubuo sa paglapastangan o pagtrato nang hindi karapat-dapat sa mga sakramento at iba pang liturhikal na pagkilos, gayundin sa mga tao, bagay, o mga lugar na inilaan sa Diyos. Ang sacrilege ay isang mabigat na kasalanan lalo na kapag ginawa laban sa Eukaristiya, dahil sa sakramento na ito ang tunay na Katawan ni Kristo ay naroroon nang malaki para sa atin.
Highlighted from 🌐
My First Catechism book / with Nihil Obstat from Church Leaders
And can be found on
👉🏻 any CCC books 📚 as well
January 25, 2024 ⛪ Thursday of week 3 of Ordinary Time 📕 Gospel Reference
My Article reference for today 📕
Jan. 25, 2024 ⛪️ Thursday of week 3 in Ordinary Time
First reading 📖 Acts 22:3-16
'Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?'
The Conversion of Saint Paul, Apostle…
Psalm or canticle
Psalm 116(117) 🎶
O praise the Lord, all you nations,
acclaim him all you peoples!
Strong is his love for us;
he is faithful for ever.
Gospel 📖 Mark 16:15-18
Go out to the whole world; proclaim the Good News
Jesus showed himself to the Eleven and said to them:
‘Go out to the whole world; proclaim the Good News to all creation. He who believes and is baptised will be saved; he who does not believe will be condemned. These are the signs that will be associated with believers: in my name they will cast out devils; they will have the gift of tongues; they will pick up snakes in their hands, and be unharmed should they drink deadly poison; they will lay their hands on the sick, who will recover
January 25, 2024 😇 Quote from a Saint
Quote from a Saint for today 😇
14 of 14 Of The Most Inspiring Quotes from St. Faustina’s Diary
Faustina was born in 1905. Through her and her diary, Jesus communicates to the world the message of His Mercy. Not only have we been blessed with the Divine Mercy Chaplet and Divine Mercy Novena, but here is the 14th of 14 most inspiring quotes from St. Faustina's Diary.
“Today the Lord said to me, ‘Daughter, when you go to confession, to this fountain of My mercy, the Blood and Water which came forth from My Heart always flows down upon your soul and ennobles it. Every time you go to confession, immerse yourself entirely in My mercy, with great trust, so that I may pour the bounty of My grace upon your soul. When you approach the confessional, know this, that I Myself am waiting there for you. I am only hidden by the priest, but I Myself act in your soul. Here the misery of the soul meets the God of Mercy. Tell souls that from this fount of mercy souls draw graces solely with the vessel of trust. If their trust is great, there is no limit to My generosity. The torrent of grace inundate humble souls. The proud remain always in poverty and misery, because My grace turns away from them to humble souls.” (1602, page 568)
https://www.coraevans.com/blog/article/the-most-inspiring-quotes-from-st.-faustinas-diary
January 24, 2024 🥰 The Hour of our Death is Uncertain 📕 My Bible reference for today
My vlog references for today 📽️
Families, relatives, and friends 🥰
The our of our Death is uncertain
"Vigilant and Faithful Servants" - Excerpts from 📖 Luke chapter 12
"Servant’s master will come on an unexpected day and at an unknown hour"
45 But if that servant says to himself, ‘My master is delayed in coming,’* and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants, to eat and drink and get drunk,
46 then that servant’s master will come on an unexpected day and at an unknown hour and will punish him severely and assign him a place with the unfaithful.
47 That servant who knew his master’s will but did not make preparations nor act in accord with his will shall be beaten severely;
48 and the servant who was ignorant of his master’s will but acted in a way deserving of a severe beating shall be beaten only lightly. Much will be required of the person entrusted with much, and still more will be demanded of the person entrusted with more.
Filipino 👇
45 Ngunit kung sasabihin ng aliping iyon sa kanyang sarili, ‘Matatagalan pa ang pag-uwi ng aking panginoon,’ bubugbugin niya ang mga kapwa niya aliping lalaki at babae, at siya'y kakain, iinom at maglalasing, 46 darating ang kanyang panginoon sa araw na hindi niya inaasahan at sa oras na hindi niya alam. Buong lupit siyang paparusahan[b] ng kanyang panginoon, at isasama sa mga suwail.
47 “Ang aliping nakakaalam ng kalooban ng kanyang panginoon ngunit nagpapabaya, o ayaw tumupad sa ipinapagawa nito ay paparusahan nang mabigat. 48 Ngunit ang aliping hindi nakakaalam ng kalooban ng kanyang panginoon, magkulang man siya sa kanyang tungkulin, ay paparusahan lamang nang magaan. Ang binigyan ng maraming bagay ay hahanapan ng marami; at ang pinagkatiwalaan ng lalong maraming bagay ay pananagutin ng lalong marami.”
January 24, 2024 🥰 Funerals for our Love ones 📜 Catechism Reference Today
My Canon Law reference for today 📜
Funerals for our loved ones (believers and non-believers)
CHAPTER II.
THOSE TO WHOM ECCLESIASTICAL FUNERALS MUST BE GRANTED OR DENIED
Can. 1183
§1📍When it concerns funerals, catechumens must be counted among the Christian faithful.
§2📍 The local ordinary can permit children whom the parents intended to baptize but who died before baptism to be given ecclesiastical funerals.
§3📍 In the prudent judgment of the local ordinary, ecclesiastical funerals can be granted to baptized persons who are enrolled in a non-Catholic Church or ecclesial community unless their intention is evidently to the contrary and provided that their own minister is not available.
Can. 1184
§1📌. Unless they gave some signs of repentance before death, the following must be deprived of ecclesiastical funerals:
❌️1/ notorious apostates, heretics, and schismatics;
❌️2/ those who chose the cremation of their bodies for reasons contrary to Christian faith;
❌️3/ other manifest sinners who cannot be granted ecclesiastical funerals without public scandal of the faithful.
📌§2. If any doubt occurs, the local ordinary is to be consulted, and his judgment must be followed.
Can. 1185 Any funeral Mass must also be denied a person who is excluded from ecclesiastical funerals.
⚠️ Let us all start sharing the gospels and teachings starting within our families
⚠️⚠Some of our loved ones does not have any idea about sacrilege (CCC reference 2120)
⚠️ Let us help our loved ones turn to God at an early stage
January 24, 2024 🥰 Obedience is Above Everything 📽️ My vlog reference for today
My vlog references for today 📽️
Families, relatives and friends 🥰
Key points 🔑 "Obey the God's commandment" - Offerings are nothing
First Part:
Why there is a problem, someone is sick - we always need to ask ourselves:
📍Do the right thing
📍Do the will of God
📍Pay your debts
📍love your enemies
📍God sometimes teaches us/ask for forgiveness
📍We need to humble ourselves and learn to listen
Second Part:
📌Don't complaint because of inconvenience
📌If there is no solution, that is not a problem.
📌Pain, sickness, and death are just part of life.
📌People are just weary of where to go after they die.
📌Follow God's commandments.
"You will not go to heaven because you are healthy or your prayers are answered, it is because you have obeyed God".
"Pray and don't worry". 🙏🏻 Lord if you will it...
Reference from 😇 Fr. Dave C. - January 23 (Full and More content 🌐 on YT)
January 24, 2024 ⛪ Wednesday of week 3 of Ordinary Time 📕 Gospel Reference
My Article reference for today 📕
Jan. 24, 2024 ⛪️ Wednesday of week 3 in Ordinary Time
First reading 📖 Ephesians 3:8-12
I, who am less than the least of all saints, have been entrusted with this special grace
Psalm 🎶
If you trust in the Lord and do good,
then you will live in the land and be secure.
Gospel 📖 John 15:9-17
You are my friends if you do what I command you
Jesus said to his disciples:
‘As the Father has loved me,
so I have loved you.
Remain in my love.
If you keep my commandments
you will remain in my love,
just as I have kept my Father’s commandments
and remain in his love.
I have told you this
so that my own joy may be in you
and your joy be complete.
This is my commandment:
love one another, as I have loved you.
A man can have no greater love
than to lay down his life for his friends.
You are my friends,
if you do what I command you.
I shall not call you servants any more,
because a servant does not know
his master’s business;
I call you friends,
because I have made known to you
everything I have learnt from my Father.
You did not choose me:
no, I chose you;
and I commissioned you
to go out and to bear fruit,
fruit that will last;
and then the Father will give you
anything you ask him in my name.
What I command you
is to love one another.’
January 24, 2024 😇 Quote from a Saint
Quote from a Saint for today 😇
13 of 14 Of The Most Inspiring Quotes from St. Faustina’s Diary
Faustina was born in 1905. Through her and her diary, Jesus communicates to the world the message of His Mercy. Not only have we been blessed with the Divine Mercy Chaplet and Divine Mercy Novena, but here is the 13th of 14 most inspiring quotes from St. Faustina's Diary.
“‘I remind you, My daughter, that as often as you hear the clock strike the third hour, immerse yourself completely in My mercy, adoring and glorifying it; invoke its omnipotence for the whole world, and particularly for poor sinners; for at that moment mercy was open wide for every soul. In this hour you can obtain everything for yourself and for others for the asking; it was the hour of grace for the whole world – mercy triumphed over justice.’” (1572, page 558
https://www.coraevans.com/blog/article/the-most-inspiring-quotes-from-st.-faustinas-diary
January 23, 2024 🥰 Discipleship & Suffering 📽️ My vlog reference for today
My vlog references for today 📽️
Families, relatives and friends 🥰
Key points 🔑 from the Talk Title: "Discipleship and Suffering" 🙏🏻
The greatest tragedy today is, that man has (sometimes too much) focus on eradicating: ❌Suffering, ❌Pain/Sickness, and even❌Death
📌It should be "SIN" that needs to be eradicated / sin is an abuse of freedom
📌People don't usually ask themselves if he is prepared before they die
📌People focus on Physical healing
⚠️People leave God and don't want any relationship with God,
because they want to live their own lives.
⚠️They remove also Protection and blessings from God and therefore, they are left vulnerable to the attacks of the evil one to the capriciousness of nature.
⚠️They are not protected in any way because they desire to save themselves.
⚠️ They were leaving the faith because they believed that they would become wealthy and other material and temporal benefits,
⚠️ They want to be free from any illness, pain, or suffering and focus on the pleasures of the ego.
Filipino Language 👇🏻
Ang pinakadakilang trahedya ngayon ay, na ang tao ay may (minsan ay sobra) nakatuon sa pagpuksa: ❌Pagdurusa, ❌Karamdaman at maging❌Kamatayan
📌Dapat ay "KASALANAN" ang kailangang puksain / ang kasalanan ay pag-abuso sa kalayaan
📌Hindi karaniwang tinatanong ng mga tao ang kanilang sarili kung handa na ba siya bago sila mamatay
📌Tutok ang mga tao sa Pisikal na kagalingan
⚠️Iniiwan ng mga tao ang Diyos at ayaw ng anumang kaugnayan sa Diyos,
dahil gusto nilang mamuhay ng sarili nilang buhay.
⚠️Tinatanggal din nila ang Proteksyon at mga pagpapala mula sa Diyos at samakatuwid, sila ay naiwang mahina sa mga pag-atake ng masamang espiritu sa mga kapritso.
⚠️Hindi sila protektado sa anumang paraan dahil gusto nilang iligtas ang kanilang sarili ng wala ang Diyos.
⚠️ Umalis sila sa pananampalataya dahil naniniwala sila na sila ay yayaman at iba pang materyal at temporal na benepisyo,
⚠️ Gusto nilang maging malaya sa anumang sakit, pananakit, o pagdurusa at tumuon sa mga kasiyahang pansarili
Reference from the Talk: "Discipleship and Suffering"
by 😇 Fr. Jose F.S. from AMOE in partnership with PACE (Full and More content 🌐)
January 23, 2024 ⛪ Tuesday of week 3 of Ordinary Time 📕 Gospel Reference
My Article reference for today 📕
Jan. 23, 2024 ⛪️ Tuesday of week 3 in Ordinary Time
First reading 📖 2 Samuel 6:12-15,17-19
David dances before the ark of the Lord
📌 Just like the Filipino Tradition during Procession
PSALM 🎶
The Lord, the mighty, the valiant, the Lord, the valiant in war.
Gospel 📖 Mark 3:31-35
Who are my mother and my brothers? Those that do the will of God
The mother and brothers of Jesus arrived and, standing outside, sent in a message asking for him. A crowd was sitting round him at the time the message was passed to him, ‘Your mother and brothers and sisters are outside asking for you.’ He replied, ‘Who are my mother and my brothers?’ And looking round at those sitting in a circle about him, he said, ‘Here are my mother and my brothers. Anyone who does the will of God, that person is my brother and sister and mother.’
📌 "Anyone who does the will of God, that person is my brother and sister and mother."
January 23, 2024 😇 Quote from a Saint
Quote from a Saint for today 😇
12 of 14 Of The Most Inspiring Quotes from St. Faustina’s Diary
Faustina was born in 1905. Through her and her diary, Jesus communicates to the world the message of His Mercy. Not only have we been blessed with the Divine Mercy Chaplet and Divine Mercy Novena, but here is the 12th of 14 most inspiring quotes from St. Faustina's Diary.
“‘I am love and Mercy Itself. There is no misery that could be a match for My mercy, neither will misery exhaust it, because as it is being granted – it increases. The soul that trusts in My mercy is most fortunate, because I Myself take care of it.’” (1273, page 459)
https://www.coraevans.com/blog/article/the-most-inspiring-quotes-from-st.-faustinas-diary
January 22, 2024 🥰 John 📕 Holy Bible reference for today
My Holy Bible reference for today 📕
John 10:27 📖
"My sheep hear my voice;
I know them, and they follow me."
Indeed, those who hear the voice of the Shepherd will not be taken away from the hand of God.
📌But hearing is not enough; following is the condition set by the Shepherd.
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January 22, 2024 🥰 Parts of the Holy Eucharist 5 📜 Catechism Reference Today
My Article reference for today 📜
Parts of the Holy Eucharist Celebration ⛪️ Part 5
📍Communion: Holy Communion, the reception of the Body and Blood of Christ in the Eucharist.
📍Concluding Rites: “To the Conclud- ing Rites belong the following: brief announcements . . . ; the Priest’s Greet- ing and Blessing . . . ; the Dismissal of the people by the Deacon or the Priest, so that each may go back to doing good works, praising and blessing God; the kissing of the altar by the Priest and the Deacon, followed by a profound bow to the altar by the Priest, the Deacon, and the other ministers” (GIRM, no. 90).
Full content 🌐 USCCB
https://www.usccb.org/prayer-and-worship/the-mass/order-of-mass/upload/parts-of-the-mass.pdf
January 22, 2024 ⛪ Monday of week 3 of Ordinary Time 📕 Gospel Reference
My Gospel reference for today 📕
Jan. 22, 2024 ⛪️
First reading 📖 2 Samuel 5:1-7,10
'You shall be the shepherd of my people'
PSALM 🎶
My hand shall always be with him
and my arm shall make him strong.
Gospel 📖 Mark 3:22-30
A kingdom divided against itself cannot stand
But no one can make his way into a strong man’s house and burgle his property unless he has tied up the strong man first. Only then can he burgle his house.
January 22, 2024 😇 Quote from a Saint
Quote from a Saint for today 😇
11 of 14 Of The Most Inspiring Quotes from St. Faustina’s Diary
Faustina was born in 1905. Through her and her diary, Jesus communicates to the world the message of His Mercy. Not only have we been blessed with the Divine Mercy Chaplet and Divine Mercy Novena, but here is the 11th of 14 most inspiring quotes from St. Faustina's Diary.
Everyone in the world can belong to this group. A member of this group ought to perform at least one act of mercy per day; at least one, but there can be many more, for such deeds can easily be carried out by anyone, even the very poorest. For there are three ways of performing an act of mercy: the merciful word, by forgiving, and by comforting; secondly, if you can offer no word, then pray-that too is mercy; and thirdly, deeds of mercy. And when the Last Day comes, we shall be judged from this, and on this basis we shall receive the eternal verdict. (1157-1158, page 424)
https://www.coraevans.com/blog/article/the-most-inspiring-quotes-from-st.-faustinas-diary
January 21, 2024 🥰 Deuteronomy 📕 Holy Bible reference for today #EcumenismWeekend
My Holy Bible reference for today 📕
Deuteronomy 30 📖
15 See, I have today set before you life and good, death and evil.j
16 If you obey the commandments of the LORD, your God, which I am giving you today, loving the LORD, your God, and walking in his ways, and keeping his commandments, statutes and ordinances, you will live and grow numerous, and the LORD, your God, will bless you in the land you are entering to possess.
17 If, however, your heart turns away and you do not obey, but are led astray and bow down to other gods and serve them,
18 I tell you today that you will certainly perish; you will not have a long life on the land which you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess.
19 I call heaven and earth today to witness against you:m I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Choose life, then, that you and your descendants may live,
20 by loving the LORD, your God, obeying his voice, and holding fast to him. For that will mean life for you, a long life for you to live on the land which the LORD swore to your ancestors, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give to them.
Deuteronomio 30 📖
15 “Binibigyan ko kayo ngayon ng pagpipilian: buhay o kamatayan; kasaganaan o kahirapan;
16 kapag sinunod ninyo ang mga utos na ibinibigay ko sa inyo ngayon mula kay Yahweh na inyong Diyos, at kung mahal ninyo siya at ginagawa ang kanyang kagustuhan, pagpapalain niya kayo sa lupaing ibibigay niya sa inyo. Bibigyan niya kayo ng mahabang buhay at gagawing isang malaking bansa.
17 Ngunit kapag tumalikod kayo at ayaw nang makinig sa kanya, sa halip ay naglingkod sa ibang mga diyos,
18 ngayon pa'y sinasabi ko sa inyong malilipol kayo. Hindi kayo magtatagal sa lupaing sasakupin ninyo sa ibayo ng Jordan.
19 Saksi ko ang langit at ang lupa na ngayo'y inilahad ko sa inyo ang buhay o kamatayan, at ang pagpapala o sumpa. Kaya, piliin ninyo ang buhay para kayo at ang inyong lahi ay mabuhay nang matagal.
20 Ibigin ninyo si Yahweh, sundin siya at manatiling tapat sa kanya upang kayo at ang inyong salinlahi ay mabuhay nang matagal sa lupaing ipinangako niya sa ninuno ninyong sina Abraham, Isaac at Jacob.
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January 21, 2024 🥰 Parts of the Holy Eucharist 4 📜 Catechism Reference Today #EcumenismWeekend
My Article reference for today 📜
Parts of the Holy Eucharist Celebration ⛪️ Part 4
📍Communion Rite: The preparatory rites, consisting of the Lord’s Prayer, the Rite of Peace, and the Fraction, lead the faithful to Holy Communion (see GIRM, no. 80). The Prayer after Communion expresses the Church’s gratitude for the mysteries celebrated and received.
📍Rite of Peace: The rite “by which the Church entreats peace and unity for herself and for the whole human family, and the faithful express to each other their ecclesial communion and mutual charity before communicating in the Sacrament” (GIRM, no. 82).
📍Fraction: “The Priest breaks the Eucharistic Bread. . . . The gesture of breaking bread done by Christ at the Last Supper . . . in apostolic times gave the entire Eucharistic Action its name” (GIRM, no. 83).
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January 21, 2024 ⛪ Third Sunday of Ordinary Time 📕 Gospel Reference
My Gospelreference for today 📕
Jan. 21, 2024 ⛪️ Sunday Holy Mass
3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time ⛪️
First reading: Jonah 3:1-5,10 📖
The people of Nineveh renounce their evil behavior
Psalm 🎶
Lord, make me know your ways.
Lord, teach me your paths.
Second reading: 1 Corinthians 7:29-31 📖
The world as we know it is passing away
Gospel: Mark 1:14-20 📖
I will make you into fishers of men
📌 ‘The time has come’ he said ‘and the kingdom of God is close at hand. Repent, and believe the Good News.’
📍we are all called in different means
January 20, 2024 🥰 Parts of the Holy Eucharist 3 📜 Catechism Reference Today #EcumenismWeekend
My Article reference for today 📜
Parts of the Holy Eucharist Celebration ⛪️ Part 3
📍Consecration: The consecration is that part of the Eucharistic Prayer during which the priest prays the Lord’s words of institution of the Eucharist at the Last Supper. Through this prayer the bread and wine become the risen Body and Blood of Jesus.
📍Anamnesis: From the Greek, meaning “remembrance.” We remember Jesus’ his- torical saving deeds in the liturgical action of the Church, which inspires thanksgiv- ing and praise. Every Eucharistic Prayer contains an anamnesis or memorial in which the Church calls to mind the Pas- sion, Resurrection, and glorious return of Christ Jesus.
📍Doxology: A Christian prayer that gives praise and glory to God often in a special way to the three divine Persons of the Trinity. Liturgical prayers, including the Eucharistic Prayer, tra- ditionally conclude with the Doxology “to the Father, through the Son, in the Holy Spirit.”
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January 20, 2024 ⛪ Saturday of week 2 of Ordinary Time 📕 Gospel Reference
My Article reference for today 📕
Jan. 20, 2024 ⛪️ Saturday Holy Mass
2 Samuel 1:1-4,11-12,17,19,23-27 📖
David's lament over Saul and Jonathan
Mark 3:20-21 📖
Jesus' relatives were convinced he was out of his mind
Jesus went home, and once more such a crowd collected that they could not even have a meal. When his relatives heard of this, they set out to take charge of him, convinced he was out of his mind.
📌 Let us start sharing the gospel with our family
Let's all do our best to become closer to God through devotion, regular examination of conscience, asking God's forgiveness/sacraments, also by Praying, fasting/abstinence, almsgiving, and following the teachings and guidelines of the church.🙏
January 20, 2024 🥰 Peter & James 📕 Holy Bible reference for today #EcumenismWeekend
My Holy Bible reference for today 📕
1 Peter 4:18 📖 #EcumenismWeekend
And if it is hard for even the good man to get salvation, what chance has the man without religion or the sinner?
James 1:27 📖
27 Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
January 19, 2024 🥰 Parts of the Holy Eucharist 2 📜 Catechism Reference Today #EcumenismWeekend
My Article reference for today 📜
Parts of the Holy Eucharist Celebration ⛪️ Part 2
📍Creed: A brief, normative summary statement or profession of Christian faith. The Nicene Creed, which is recited or chanted at Mass, comes from the Councils of Nicea (AD 325) and Con- stantinople (AD 381).
📍Canon of the Mass: The central part of the Mass, also known as the Eucharistic Prayer or anaphora, which is the prayer of thanksgiving and consecration. It begins with the Preface Dialogue (i.e., “The Lord be with you. . . . Lift up your hearts. . . . Let us give thanks to the Lord our God”) and concludes with a final Doxology (“Through him, and with him, and in him”) and Amen.
📍Epiclesis: The prayer petitioning the Father to send the Holy Spirit to sanc- tify offerings of bread and wine so that they may become the Body and Blood of Christ.
Full content 🌐 USCCB
January 19, 2024 🥰 Mark 📕 Holy Bible reference for today #EcumenismWeekend
My Holy Bible reference for today 📕
Excerpts from 📖 1 Samuel 24:3-21
"The Lord will be the Judge"
GOSPEL OF THE DAY 📖 Mark 3:13-19
"The Mission of the Twelve"
Jesus went up the mountain and summoned those whom he wanted
and they came to him.
He appointed Twelve, whom he also named Apostles,
that they might be with him
and he might send them forth to preach
and to have authority to drive out demons:
He appointed the Twelve:
Simon, whom he named Peter;
James, son of Zebedee,
and John the brother of James, whom he named Boanerges,
that is, sons of thunder;
Andrew, Philip, Bartholomew,
Matthew, Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus;
Thaddeus, Simon the Cananean,
and Judas Iscariot who betrayed him.
January 19, 2024 😇 Quote from a Saint
Quote from a Saint for today 😇
9 of 14 Of The Most Inspiring Quotes from St. Faustina’s Diary
Faustina was born in 1905. Through her and her diary, Jesus communicates to the world the message of His Mercy. Not only have we been blessed with the Divine Mercy Chaplet and Divine Mercy Novena, but here is the 9th of 14 most inspiring quotes from St. Faustina's Diary.
“O Christ, if my soul had known, all at once, what it was going to have to suffer during its lifetime, it would have died of terror at the very sight; it would not have touched its lips to the cup of bitterness. But as it has been given to drink a drop at a time, it has emptied the cup to the very bottom. O Christ, if You Yourself did not support the soul, how much could it do of itself? We are strong, but with Your strength; we are holy, but with Your holiness. And of ourselves, what are we? - less than nothing...” (1655, page 587)
https://www.coraevans.com/blog/article/the-most-inspiring-quotes-from-st.-faustinas-diary
January 18, 2024 🥰 Parts of the Holy Eucharist 1 📜 Catechism Reference Today
My Article reference for today 📜
Parts of the Holy Eucharist Celebration ⛪️
The Mass follows a “fundamental structure which has been preserved throughout
the centuries down to our own day” (CCC no. 1346). Though the Mass is one unified act of worship, it consists of many parts, each with its own purpose and meaning. The entries in this article follow the order in which the parts occur in the Mass.
📍Introductory Rites: “The rites that pre- cede the Liturgy of the Word, namely, the Entrance, the Greeting, the Penitential Act, the Kyrie, the Gloria in excelsis (Glory to God in the highest) and Collect, have the character of a beginning, an introduction, and a preparation. Their purpose is to ensure that the faithful, who come together as one, establish communion and dispose themselves properly to listen to the word of God and to celebrate the Eucharist worthily” (General Instruction of the Roman Missal [GIRM], no. 46).
📍Collect: “The [opening] prayer . . . through which the character of the celebration finds expression” (GIRM, no. 54). This prayer literally “collects” the prayers of all who are gathered into one prayer led by the priest celebrant.
📍Liturgy of the Word: “The main part of the Liturgy of the Word is made up of the readings from Sacred Scripture together with the chants occurring between them. As for the Homily, the Profession of Faith, and the Universal Prayer, they develop and conclude it” (GIRM, no. 55).
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January 18, 2024 😇 Quote from a Saint
Quote from a Saint for today 😇
"Stand firm in the faith! Do not let yourselves be confused!"
-- Benedict XVI's final message
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January 18, 2024 🥰 Matthew 📕 Holy Bible reference for today
My Holy Bible reference for today 📕
Matthew 6:33-34 📖
33 But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
34 “Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
January 17, 2024 🥰 Reconciliation and Marriage 5 📜 Responsibilities to society
My Article reference for today 📜
Part 5 of today's reference 📜 God is the Center of the Relationship 💒
The Two Shall Become One: The Sacrament of Reconciliation and Marriage 👰🏻♀️🤵🏻♂️
An Examination of Conscience for Married Persons - Part 5
Responsibilities to society:
Have I been a Christian witness to those with whom I work or associate? Have I spoken to anyone about the Gospel and how important it is to believe in Jesus?
Have I held resentments and anger against those with whom I work, relatives or friends? Have I forgiven them?
Have I been unethical in my business dealings? Have I stolen or lied?
Have I allowed the Gospel to influence my political and social opinions?
Have I had a proper Christian concern for the poor and needy?
Have I paid my taxes?
Have I fostered or nurtured hatred toward my “political” enemies, either local, national or international?
Have I been prejudiced toward others because of race, color, religion or social status?
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January 17, 2024 🥰 Reconciliation and Marriage 4 📜 Responsibilities to children
My Article reference for today 📜
Part 4 of today's reference 📜 God is the Center of the Relationship 💒
The Two Shall Become One: The Sacrament of Reconciliation and Marriage 👰🏻♀️🤵🏻♂️
An Examination of Conscience for Married Persons - Part 4
Responsibilities to children:
Have I cared for the spiritual needs of my children? Have I been a shepherd and guardian as God has appointed me? Have I tried to foster a Christian family where Jesus is Lord? Have I taught my children the Gospel and the commandments of God?
Have I prayed with them?
Have I been persistent and courageous in my training and teaching? Have I disciplined them when necessary? Have I been lazy and apathetic?
Have I talked with them to find out their problems, concerns and fears? Have I been affectionate toward them? Have I hugged them and told them that I love them? Have I played or recreated with them?
Have I been impatient and frustrated with them? Have I corrected them out of love in order to teach them what is right and good? Have I treated them with respect? Have I spoken to them in a sarcastic or demeaning way?
Have I held resentments against them? Have I forgiven them?
Have I been of one heart and mind with my spouse in the upbringing of the children? Or have I allowed disagreements and dissension to disrupt the training, educating and disciplining of our children?
Have I undermined the role of authority in the eyes of my children by speaking negatively against God, the Church, my spouse or others who hold legitimate authority over them?
Have I been a good Christian witness to my children in what I say and do? Or do I demand one standard for them and another for myself?
Have I been properly generous with my children regarding money and physical and material well-being? Have I been miserly? Have I been extravagant, thus spoiling them?
Read full 🌐 USCCB
January 17, 2024 🥰 Reconciliation and Marriage 3 📜 Responsibilities to my spouse
My Article reference for today 📜
Part 3 of today's reference 📜 God is the Center of the Relationship 💒
The Two Shall Become One: The Sacrament of Reconciliation and Marriage 👰🏻♀️🤵🏻♂️
An Examination of Conscience for Married Persons - Part 3
Responsibilities to my spouse:
Have I cared for my spouse? Have I been generous with my time? Have I been affectionate and loving? Have I told my spouse that I love him or her?
Have I been concerned about the spiritual well-being of my spouse?
Have I listened to my spouse? Have I paid attention to his orher concerns, worries, and problems? Have I sought these out?
Have I allowed resentments and bitterness toward my spouse to take root in my mind? Have I nurtured these? Have I forgiven my spouse for the wrongs he or she has committed against me?
Have I allowed misunderstanding, miscommunication or accidents to cause anger and mistrust? Have I nurtured criticaland negative thoughts about my spouse?
Have I manipulated my spouse in order to get my own way?
Have I tried to bully or overpower my spouse?
Have I spoken sharply or sarcastically to my spouse? Have I spoken in a demeaning or negative way? Have I injured my spouse through taunting and negative teasing? Have I called my spouse harsh names or used language that is not respectful?
Have I physically abused my spouse?
Have I gossiped about my spouse?
Have I undermined the authority and dignity of my spouse through disrespect and rebelliousness?
Have I been moody and sullen?
Have I bickered with my spouse out of stubbornness and selfishness?
Have I lied or been deceitful to my spouse?
Have I misused sexuality? Have I used sexual relations solely for my own selfish pleasure? Have I been too demanding in my desire for sexual fulfillment? Have I been loving and physically affectionate in my sexual relations or have I used sexual relations in a way that would be demeaning or disrespectful to my spouse? Have I refused sexual relations out of laziness, revenge or manipulation?
Have I refused to conceive children out of selfishness or material greed? Have I used artificial means of contraception?
Have I had an abortion or encouraged others to have one?
Have I masturbated?
Have I flirted or fostered improper relationships with someone else, either in my mind or through words and actions?
Have I used pornography: books, magazines or movies?
Have I committed adultery?
Have I misused alcohol or drugs?
Have I been financially responsible?
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January 17, 2024 🥰 Reconciliation and Marriage 2 📜 Responsibilities to God
My Article reference for today 📜
Part 2 of today's reference 📜 God is the Center of the Relationship 💒
The Two Shall Become One: The Sacrament of Reconciliation and Marriage 👰🏻♀️🤵🏻♂️
An Examination of Conscience for Married Persons - Part 2
Responsibilities to God:
Have I gone to Mass every Sunday? Have I participated at Mass or have I day dreamed or been present with a blank mind?Have I prayed every day (15-20 minutes)?Have I read the Bible? Have I studied the truths of our faith and allowed them to become more part of the way I think and act? Have I read any spiritual books or religious literature?Have I told God that I want to love him with my whole heart, mind and strength? Do I hold any resentments toward God?Have I recognized my need for Jesus and his salvation? Have I asked the Holy Spirit to empower me to live the Christian life, to be a proper husband/wife and parent?Have I been financially generous to the Church? Have I participated in parish or religious activities?Have I held resentments toward the Church or Church authorities? Have I forgiven them?
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January 17, 2024 🥰 Reconciliation and Marriage 1 📜 Called to Be Holy
My Article reference for today 📜
Part 1 of today's reference 📜 God is the Center of the Relationship 💒
The Two Shall Become One: The Sacrament of Reconciliation and Marriage 👰🏻♀️🤵🏻♂️
God calls most men and women to the married vocation. This is a great honor and an immense challenge. To fulfill this marvelous calling we need Christ’s help; we need his Spirit’s power.
Called to Be Holy 😇
The Second Vatican Council has emphasized that “all in the Church… are called to holiness” (Constitution on the Church, n. 39). Christian marriages are an essential means used by God to sanctify the members of Christian families. 🥰
“The sacrament of marriage is the specific source and original means of sanctification for Christian married couples and families” (Role of the Christian Family, n. 56). As married couples, we are to examine our lives in light of the responsibilities we have to God’s call to holiness. These responsibilities are fourfold in nature: 1) to God; 2) to our spouse; 3) to our children; 4) to society at large. By rooting out sin and through the healing and empowering effects of the Sacrament of Reconciliation, we will be able to attain the holiness to which we are called. ⛪️
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January 17, 2024 🥰 Ephesians 📕 Holy Bible reference for today
My Holy Bible reference for today 📕
Ephesians 5:21-33 📖
Wives and Husbands
21 Be subordinate to one another out of reverence for Christ.
22 Wives should be subordinate to their husbands as to the Lord.
23 For the husband is head of his wife just as Christ is head of the church, he himself the savior of the body.
24 As the church is subordinate to Christ, so wives should be subordinate to their husbands in everything.
25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ loved the church and handed himself over for her
26 to sanctify her, cleansing her by the bath of water with the word,
27 that he might present to himself the church in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.
28 So also husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
29 For no one hates his own flesh but rather nourishes and cherishes it, even as Christ does the church,
30 because we are members of his body.w
31“For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother
and be joined to his wife,
and the two shall become one flesh.”
32 This is a great mystery, but I speak in reference to Christ and the church.y
33 In any case, each one of you should love his wife as himself, and the wife should respect her husband.
January 17, 2024 🥰 Marriage Vows 📜 My CCC reference for today
My Article reference for today 📜
Marriage vows ⛪️ Holy Sacrament of Matrimony 💒
The most important part of a wedding is what is commonly known as the exchange of vows.
These words are the heart—the essential element—of the sacrament of marriage; they form the covenant that establishes the couple’s marriage.
The Church calls the exchange of vows consent—that is, the act of will by which a man and a woman give themselves to each other, and accept the gift of the other. The marriage can’t happen without the declaration of consent (CCC #1625 - 1631).
Exchange of Vows 🥰🎤💞
📍Priest: Since it is your intention to enter into the covenant of Holy Matrimony, join your right hands, and declare your consent before God and his Church.
📍Groom: I, _____ , take you, _____ , to be my wife. I promise to be true to you in good times and in bad, in sickness and in health. I will love you and honor you all the days of my life.
📍Bride: I, _____ , take you, _____ , to be my husband. I promise to be faithful to you in good times and in bad, in sickness and in health, to love you and to honor you all the days of my life.
Gloria, in excelsis Deo! 🙏🏼
January 16, 2024 🥰 Wisdom and the Cardinal Virtues📜 My article reference for today
My Article reference for today 📜
THE FOUR CARDINAL VIRTUES (Wisdom of Solomon 8:7)
1. Justice/hustisya
2. Prudence/maingat na pag iisip
3. Fortitude/katatagan ng loob
4. Temperance/pagtitimpi
https://www.catholic.com/encyclopedia/prudence
https://www.catholic.com/encyclopedia/temperance
https://www.catholic.com/encyclopedia/justice
https://www.catholic.com/encyclopedia/fortitude
https://www.catholic.com/magazine/print-edition/cardinal-virtues
https://www.catholic.com/encyclopedia/cardinal-virtues
January 16, 2024 🥰 Letter of Paul to Timothy 📕 Holy Bible reference for today
My Article reference for today 📕
2 Timoteo 3:13-15 📖
13 samantalang ang masasama ay lalo namang magpapakasama, at ang manlilinlang ay patuloy na manlilinlang at sila man ay malilinlang din.
14 Ngunit ikaw, magpatuloy ka sa mga aral na natutunan mo at matibay mong pinaniwalaan, sapagkat kilala mo ang mga nagturo nito sa iyo.
15 Mula pa sa pagkabata alam mo na ang Banal na Kasulatan, na may kapangyarihang magbigay sa iyo ng karunungan tungo sa kaligtasan sa pamamagitan ng pananampalataya kay Cristo Jesus.
English 📖
13 But wicked people and charlatans will go from bad to worse, deceivers and deceived.
14 But you, remain faithful to what you have learned and believed, because you know from whom you learned it,
15 and that from infancy you have known [the] sacred scriptures, which are capable of giving you wisdom for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
January 16, 2024 😇 Quote from a Saint
Quote from a Saint for today 😇
8 of 14 Of The Most Inspiring Quotes from St. Faustina’s Diary
Faustina was born in 1905. Through her and her diary, Jesus communicates to the world the message of His Mercy. Not only have we been blessed with the Divine Mercy Chaplet and Divine Mercy Novena, but here is the 6th of 14 most inspiring quotes from St. Faustina's Diary.
“When I see that the burden is beyond my strength, I do not consider or analyze it or probe into it, but I run like a child to the Heart of Jesus and say only one word to Him: “You can do all things.” And then I keep silent, because I know that Jesus Himself will intervene in the matter, and as for me, instead of tormenting myself, I use that time to love Him.” (1033, page 392)
https://www.coraevans.com/blog/article/the-most-inspiring-quotes-from-st.-faustinas-diary
January 15, 2024 🥰 James 📕 Holy Bible reference for today
My Article reference for today 📕
Warning against Presumption
James 4:13-15 📖
13 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we shall go into such and such a town, spend a year there doing business, and make a profit”—
14 you have no idea what your life will be like tomorrow.* You are a puff of smoke that appears briefly and then disappears.h
15 Instead you should say, “If the Lord wills it,* we shall live to do this or that.”
16 But now you are boasting in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.
17 So for one who knows the right thing to do and does not do it, it is a sin.
Another version 📖 James 4:13-15
Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.” Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.”
January 15, 2024 🥰 Vlog 📜 My Vlog reference for today
My Vlog reference for today 📜
Selected 📽️ vlog from 🙏🏼 Fr. Dave
Prayer guide 😇 ACTS
🔖Adoration
🔖 Contrition
🔖 Thanksgiving
🔖 Supplication
Pray more…
📍Prayer is a relationship to God
📍There must be an awareness who is God
📍Recognizing the call
📍Realizing who you are before you give your supplication
Full 🌐 Fr. Dave Youtube
January 15, 2024 🥰 Duties of Laity 📜 My article reference for today
My Article reference for today 📜
DUTIES AND RIGHTS OF THE LAITY
Having come through Baptism to the supernatural life, being members of the Christian society and adopted children of God, the laity belong to the “chosen race”, the “royal priesthood” (I Peter, ii, 9) formed of all those who are born again in Christ.
The first duty of a Christian is to believe; the first obligation imparted to the laity is, therefore, to learn the truths of faith and of religion, at first by means of the catechism and religious instruction, and later by being present at sermons, missions, or retreats. If they are thus obliged to learn, they have the right to be instructed and consequently to require their priests to give them and their children Christian teaching in the ordinary way. Second, a Christian‘s moral conduct should be in keeping with his faith; he must, therefore, preserve his spiritual life by the means which Jesus has established in His Church: the Divine service, especially the Mass, the Sacraments, and other sacred rites.
Full contents 🌐
January 14, 2024 🥰 Lamentation📕 Holy Bible reference for today #EcumenismWeekend
My Holy Bible reference for today 📕
Excerpts from Lamentation Chapter 3 📖
Filipino 📖 version
37 Walang anumang bagay na nangyayari na hindi pinahihintulutan ng Panginoon. 38 Ang Kataas-taasang Dios ang nagpapasya kung ang isang bagay na mabuti o masama ay mangyayari. 39 Kaya bakit tayo magrereklamo kung pinarurusahan tayo dahil sa ating kasalanan? 40 Ang dapat ay siyasatin natin ang ating pamumuhay at magbalik-loob sa Panginoon. 41 Buksan natin ang ating mga puso at itaas ang ating mga kamay sa Dios na nasa langit.
English 📖 version
37 Who speaks so that it comes to pass,
unless the Lord commands it?
38 Is it not at the word of the Most High
that both good and bad take place?
39 What should the living complain about?
about their sins!
40 Let us search and examine our ways,
and return to the LORD!
41 Let us lift up our hearts as well as our hands
toward God in heaven!
Excerpts from 😍 Lamentations Chapter 3 🌐 full
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/lamentations/3
January 14, 2024 🥰 Cardinal Virtues 4 of 4 📜 My article reference for today #EcumenismWeekend
My Article reference for today 📜
Fortitude (4 of 4 cardinal virtues) Wisdom of Solomon 8:7
Justice / hustisya
Justice is here taken in its ordinary and proper sense to signify the most important of the cardinal virtues. It is a moral quality or habit which perfects the will and inclines it to render to each and to all what belongs to them. Of the other cardinal virtues, prudence perfects.
Full contents 🌐
https://www.catholic.com/encyclopedia/justice
https://www.catholic.com/magazine/print-edition/cardinal-virtues
https://www.catholic.com/encyclopedia/cardinal-virtues
January 14, 2024 ⛪ First Sunday of Ordinary Time 📕 Gospel Reference
My Article reference for today 📕
Jan. 14, 2024 ⛪️ Sunday Holy Mass
Excerpts from 😍 1 Corinthians 6:13-15,17-20 📖
Do not sin against your own body
The body is not meant for fornication: it is for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. God, who raised the Lord from the dead, will by his power raise us up too.
Gospel
Excerpts from 😍 John 1:35-42 📖
'We have found the Messiah'
Jesus looked hard at him and said, ‘You are Simon son of John; you are to be called Cephas’ – meaning Rock.
January 13, 2024 🥰 Cardinal Virtues 3 of 4 📜 My article reference for today #EcumenismWeekend
My Article reference for today 📜
Fortitude (3 of 4 cardinal virtues) Wisdom of Solomon 8:7
Fortitude / lakas ng loob #EcumenismWeekend
St. Thomas keeps as close to Aristotle as he may, departing from him as to the dignity, perhaps, which is to be found in the passive martyr’s death, as to the hope of future life, and as to the character of virtue as a matter mainly of fine conduct aesthetically. He calls the specific virtue of fortitude that which braves the greatest dangers and therefore that which meets the risk of life in battle.
Fortitude as one of the gifts from the Holy Ghost is a supernatural virtue, and passes beyond the Aristotelian range. It is what, as Christians, we must always have in mind in order to make our actions acceptable for eternal life.
Full contents 🌐
https://www.catholic.com/encyclopedia/tempetance
https://www.catholic.com/magazine/print-edition/cardinal-virtues
https://www.catholic.com/encyclopedia/cardinal-virtues
January 13, 2024 🥰 First Saturday of Ordinary Time📕 Gospel #EcumenismWeekend
😇 Saturday Mass ⛪️January 13, 2024
“Your light must shine in the sight of men”
‘It is not the healthy who need the doctor, but the sick. I did not come to call the virtuous, but sinners.’
Excerpts from Mark 2:13-17 📖
📍 we sinners need to ask forgiveness to God and do penance 🙏🏼
📍 we should make our family gatherings more meaningful by sharing the gospel and giving advices 🙏🏼
📍 Let's all do our best to become closer to God through devotion, regular examination of conscience, asking God's forgiveness/sacraments, also by Praying, fasting/abstinence, almsgiving, and following the teachings and guidelines of the church.🙏
January 13, 2024 😇 Quote from a Saint
Quote from a Saint for today 😇
7 of 14 Of The Most Inspiring Quotes from St. Faustina’s Diary
Faustina was born in 1905. Through her and her diary, Jesus communicates to the world the message of His Mercy. Not only have we been blessed with the Divine Mercy Chaplet and Divine Mercy Novena, but here is the 6th of 14 most inspiring quotes from St. Faustina's Diary.
“He who knows how to forgive prepares for himself many graces from God. As often as I look upon the cross, so often will I forgive with all my heart.” (390, page 175).
https://www.coraevans.com/blog/article/the-most-inspiring-quotes-from-st.-faustinas-diary
January 12, 2024 🥰 Mark 📕 Holy Bible reference for today #EcumenismWeekend
My Article reference for today 📕
Mark 2:1-12 📖
"The Healing of a Paralytic"
1 When Jesus returned to Capernauma after some days, it became known that he was at home.*
2 Many gathered together so that there was no longer room for them, not even around the door, and he preached the word to them.
3 They came bringing to him a paralytic carried by four men.
4 Unable to get near Jesus because of the crowd, they opened up the roof above him. After they had broken through, they let down the mat on which the paralytic was lying.
5 When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, “Child, your sins are forgiven.”
6 Now some of the scribes were sitting there asking themselves,
7 “Why does this man speak that way?* He is blaspheming. Who but God alone can forgive sins?”b
8 Jesus immediately knew in his mind what they were thinking to themselves, so he said, “Why are you thinking such things in your hearts?
9 Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Rise, pick up your mat and walk’?
10 But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority to forgive sins on earth”—
11 he said to the paralytic, “I say to you, rise, pick up your mat, and go home.”
12 He rose, picked up his mat at once, and went away in the sight of everyone. They were all astounded and glorified God, saying, “We have never seen anything like this.”
January 12, 2024 🥰 Cardinal Virtues 2 of 4 📜 My article reference for today #EcumenismWeekend
My Article reference for today 📜
Prudence (2 of 4 cardinal virtues) Wisdom of Solomon 8:7
Prudence / maingat na pag iisip
Prudence (Lat., prudentia, contracted from providentia, seeing ahead), one of the four cardinal virtues.
That is done by the particular moral virtue within whose province it falls. Prudence, therefore, has a directive capacity with regard to the other virtues. It lights the way and measures the arena for their exercise. The insight it confers makes one distinguish successfully between their mere semblance and their reality. It must preside over the eliciting of all acts proper to any one of them at least if they be taken in their formal sense.
Full content 🌐
https://www.catholic.com/encyclopedia/prudence
https://www.catholic.com/magazine/print-edition/cardinal-virtues
January 12, 2024 😇 Quote from a Saint
Quote from a Saint for today 😇
6 of 14 Of The Most Inspiring Quotes from St. Faustina’s Diary
Faustina was born in 1905. Through her and her diary, Jesus communicates to the world the message of His Mercy. Not only have we been blessed with the Divine Mercy Chaplet and Divine Mercy Novena, but here is the 6th of 14 most inspiring quotes from St. Faustina's Diary.
“O my Jesus, You have tested me so many times in this short life of mine! I have come to understand so many things, and even such that now amaze me. Oh, how good it is to abandon oneself totally to God and to give Him full freedom to act in one’s soul!” (134, page 74)
https://www.coraevans.com/blog/article/the-most-inspiring-quotes-from-st.-faustinas-diary
January 11, 2024 🥰 Filipino Catholic 2 #PraxiFides📕Understading the Holy Bible references
My Article reference for today 📕⛪📖
"After the ⛪️ Feast of the Black Nazarene🙏🏼
Theme: “IBIG PO NAMING MAKITA SI HESUS”
“Let’s all share Jesus with other people”
Understanding 📜📖 Catholic Traditions - Day 2:
Catholic Traditions: Temple, Procession and Feast
“The Ark Brought to the Temple”
Exodus 25:18-22 📖
18 Make two cherubim of beaten gold for the two ends of the cover;
19 make one cherub at one end, and the other at the other end, of one piece with the cover, at each end.
20 The cherubim shall have their wings spread out above, sheltering the cover with them; they shall face each other, with their faces looking toward the cover.
21 This cover you shall then place on top of the ark. In the ark itself, you are to put the covenant which I will give you.
22 There I will meet you and there, from above the cover, between the two cherubim on the ark of the covenant, I will tell you all that I command you regarding the Israelites.
Isaiah 56:5 📖
New International Version
to them I will give within my temple and its walls a memorial and a name better than sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting name that will endure forever.
Joshua 7:6 📖
6 Joshua, together with the elders of Israel, tore their garments and fell face down before the ark of the LORD until evening; and they threw dust on their heads.
Exodus 20:3-5
Exodus 25:19-22
Ezekiel 41:17-19, 22
2 Chronicles 10:2
1 Kings 8:1-6
2 Kings 23:15-18
Acts 9:40
Catechism ⛪
CCC 266
CCC 152
CCC 2132
January 11, 2024 🥰 Cardinal Virtues 1 of 4 📜 My article reference for today
My Article reference for today 📜
Temperance (1 of 4 Cardinal Virtues) Wisdom of Solomon 8:7
"Temperance"(pagtitimpi) is the first virtue that perfects man's ability to act well with one self from within ones self.
The first of the subjective parts of temperance is abstinence, which indicates a cutting back of food. Quoting Augustine, Thomas writes:
It makes no difference whatever to virtue what or how much food a man takes, so long as he does it with due regard for the people among whom he lives, for his own person, and for the requirements of his health: but it matters how uncomplainingly he does without food when bound by duty or necessity to abstain.
Full content 🌐
https://www.catholiceducation.org/en/education/catholic-contributions/the-virtue-of-temperance.html
Gluttony is seldom such; drunkenness is so when it is complete, that is when it destroys the use of reason for the time being. Chastity as a part of temperance regulates the sensual satisfactions connected with the propagation of the human species. The contrary vice is lust. As these pleasures appeal with special vehemence to human nature, it is the function of chastity to interpose the norm of reason.
Thus it will decide that they are altogether to be refrained from in obedience to a higher vocation or at any rate only availed of with reference to the purposes of marriage. Chastity is not fanaticism; much less is it insensibility. It is the carrying out of the mandate of temperance in a particular department where such a steadying power is acutely needed.
Full content 🌐
https://www.catholic.com/encyclopedia/temperance
https://www.catholic.com/magazine/print-edition/cardinal-virtues
January 11, 2024 🥰 Catechism Reference📜 Call for Holiness
My Article reference for today 📜 CCC "Christian Holiness"
"They may wholeheartedly devote themselves to the glory of God and to the service of their neighbor"
2012 "We know that in everything God works for good with those who love him . . . For those whom he fore knew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the first-born among many brethren. and those whom he predestined he also called; and those whom he called he also justified; and those whom he justified he also glorified." (Rom 8:28-30)
2013 "All Christians in any state or walk of life are called to the fullness of Christian life and to the perfection of charity."65 All are called to holiness: "Be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect." (Mt 5:48)
In order to reach this perfection the faithful should use the strength dealt out to them by Christ's gift, so that . . . doing the will of the Father in everything, they may wholeheartedly devote themselves to the glory of God and to the service of their neighbor. Thus the holiness of the People of God will grow in fruitful abundance, as is clearly shown in the history of the Church through the lives of so many saints.
2014 Spiritual progress tends toward ever more intimate union with Christ. This union is called "mystical" because it participates in the mystery of Christ through the sacraments - "the holy mysteries" - and, in him, in the mystery of the Holy Trinity. God calls us all to this intimate union with him, even if the special graces or extraordinary signs of this mystical life are granted only to some for the sake of manifesting the gratuitous gift given to all.
2015 The way of perfection passes by way of the Cross. There is no holiness without renunciation and spiritual battle. (2 Tim. 4) Spiritual progress entails the ascesis and mortification that gradually lead to living in the peace and joy of the Beatitudes:
He who climbs never stops going from beginning to beginning, through beginnings that have no end. He never stops desiring what he already knows.
2016 The children of our holy mother the Church rightly hope for the grace of final perseverance and the recompense of God their Father for the good works accomplished with his grace in communion with Jesus. Keeping the same rule of life, believers share the "blessed hope" of those whom the divine mercy gathers into the "holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband." (Rev 21:2.)
More Holy Bible Readings 📜
Romans 8:28-30 📖
28 We know that all things work for good for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose.
29 For those he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, so that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.
Matthew 5:48 📖
So be perfect, just as your heavenly Father is perfect.
2 Timothy 4 📖
Solemn Charge, Reward for Fidelity, Paul's Personal Requests and Final Greetings
Patience, courage, constancy, and endurance are required despite the opposition, hostility, indifference, and defection of many to whom the truth has been preached. - USCCB
Full CCC contents from 🌐
January 10, 2024 🥰 Filipino Catholic 1 #PraxiFides 📕Understading the Holy Bible references
My Article reference for today 📕⛪📖
"After the ⛪️ Feast of the Black Nazarene🙏🏼
Theme: “IBIG PO NAMING MAKITA SI HESUS”
“Let’s all share Jesus with other people”
Understanding 📜📖 Catholic Traditions - Day 1:
Catholic Traditions: Consecration, Believing in miracles, and Healing
Jesus said to her, “Daughter, your faith has saved you; go in peace.”
John 10:14-6 📖
14 “I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me— 15 just as the Father knows me and I know the Father—and I lay down my life for the sheep. 16 I have other sheep that are not of this sheep pen. I must bring them also. They too will listen to my voice, and there shall be one flock and one shepherd.
1 King 8:1-6 📖
8 Then King Solomon summoned into his presence at Jerusalem the elders of Israel, all the heads of the tribes and the chiefs of the Israelite families, to bring up the ark of the Lord’s covenant from Zion, the City of David.
Mark 5:27-29 📖
27 When she heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak, 28 because she thought, “If I just touch his clothes, I will be healed.” 29 Immediately her bleeding stopped and she felt in her body that she was freed from her suffering.
Mark 8:34
1 Chronicles 15:14:16
Luke 2:41-42
Songs of Solomon 1:5
Matthew 2:23
Isaiah 9:6
Luke 8:44-45, 48
Mark 5:34
Acts 19:11-13
January 10, 2024 😇 Quote from a Saint
Quote from a Saint for today 😇
5 of 14 Of The Most Inspiring Quotes from St. Faustina’s Diary
Faustina was born in 1905. Through her and her diary, Jesus communicates to the world the message of His Mercy. Not only have we been blessed with the Divine Mercy Chaplet and Divine Mercy Novena, but here is the 5th of 14 most inspiring quotes from St. Faustina's Diary.
A soul does not benefit as it should from the sacrament of confession if it is not humble. Pride keeps it in darkness. The soul neither knows how nor is it willing, to probe with precision the depths of its own misery. It puts on a mask and avoids everything that might bring it recovery.” (113, page 63)
https://www.coraevans.com/blog/article/the-most-inspiring-quotes-from-st.-faustinas-diary
January 10, 2024 🥰 Authority 📕 Gospel & Holy Bible references for today
My references for today 📜📕🙏🏼 about the Authority
First reading 📖
1 Samuel 3:1-10,19-20
'Speak, Lord, your servant is listening'
Psalm 🎶 Happy the man who has placed his trust in the Lord.
Gospel 📖
Excerpts from Mark 1:29-39
He cast out devils and cured many who were suffering from disease.
📕Other related readings 😍
Matthew 10:1 📖 The Mission of the Twelve
Then he summoned his twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits to drive them out and to cure every disease and every illness.
Matthew 16:18 📖 Authority
And so I say to you, you are Peter, and upon this rock, I will build my church,* and the gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against it.
Ephesians 5:21 📖 Christ is head of the church
For the husband is head of his wife just as Christ is head of the church, he himself the savior of the body.
📌God has given authority to the Leaders (Government and other institutions), and parents/husbands should ask for wisdom from God. Obey God's will whatever hardships you may endure.
📍Be careful in giving and asking advice without wisdom from someone.
🤓 Breake time ☕️ #ATMatWork 👨🏻💻
January 9, 2024 🥰 Catholic Tradition - Feast of the Black Nazarene📜 My book, vlogs, and Holy Bible references for today
My references for today 🎥📖🙏🏼 about the Philippine Catholic ⛪ Culture
Excerpts from "Translacion" 🎥 Bro. Wendell 📽️ for continuous explanation
Commandments of God and guides based on references:
Exodus 20:3-5
Exodus 25:19-22
Ezekiel 41:17-19, 22
2 Chronicles 10:2
1 Kings 8:1-6
2 Kings 23:15-18, focus also on verse 17
Isaiah 56:5
Joshua 7:6
Acts 9:40
Catechism ⛪
CCC 266
CCC 152
CCC 2132
Check also the Webster’s dictionary “idols”
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January 9, 2024 🥰 Quote from a Saint 😇
My quote reference for today 📜
Pleasing God
You must concentrate on pleasing God alone, and if He is pleased, you must be pleased. - Pio of Pietrelcina
Trying to please others before pleasing God is inverting the first and second great commandments. - Lynn G. Robbins
January 9, 2024 🥰 Romans 📕 My holy bible reference 🙏🏻 During grieving times
My holy bible reference for today 📕
Romans 8:14-23 📖
14 For those who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God.
15 For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you received a spirit of adoption, through which we cry, “Abba,* Father!”
16 The Spirit itself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,
17 and if children, then heirs, heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if only we suffer with him so that we may also be glorified with him.
18 I consider that the sufferings of this present time are as nothing compared with the glory to be revealed for us.
19 For creation awaits with eager expectation the revelation of the children of God;
20 for creation was made subject to futility, not of its own accord but because of the one who subjected it, in hope
21 that creation itself would be set free from slavery to corruption and share in the glorious freedom of the children of God.
22 We know that all creation is groaning in labor pains even until now;
23 and not only that, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, we also groan within ourselves as we wait for adoption, the redemption of our bodies.
Readings 📖 for a special friend today
Sending healing prayers to the grieving fam 🙏
You will surely be missed Engr. Luisito 🤛 by our group
January 8, 2024 🥰 Quote from a Saint 😇 Suffering
My quote reference for today 📜
Shared from Facebook "Voice of Padre Pio"
Padre Pio On Suffering
"Suffering is expiation."
"Suffering is necessary for our souls."
"In suffering we give something to God, witch we cannot do in Paradise."
"He who begins to love must be ready to suffer."
"Suffering is a most powerful lever to raise man up again."
"Glory will be ours on condition that we endure suffering."
"The Angels are jealous of us because they can't suffer."
"Bearing physical and spiritual ailments is the worthiest gift we can offer to Jesus."
"Suffering is a sure sign that God loves us."
"Accepting the sufferings we will perfect and sanctify us."
January 8, 2024 🥰 Marriage and Family 📜 My article reference for today
My Article reference for today 📜
“Final Confrontation between the Lord and Satan will be over Family and Marriage.”
Cardinal Carlo Caffarra revealed these prophetic words in an interview with Aleteia in 2017, explaining how he had received a handwritten note from Sr. Lucia.
The letter ended, saying (in 1983 or 1984): “Father, a time will come when the decisive battle between the kingdom of Christ and Satan will be over marriage and the family. And those who will work for the good of the family will experience persecution and tribulation
Protection from Family:
📌Spiritual authority from Sacrament of Matrimony📌Parents should make way for unity among members as well as devotion and lead the fam
📌Mass and confession/penance
📌 children should learn to pray 🙏🏼
📌 Blessing the home 🏠 regularly
Others points:
Sin against first commandment:
❌Supertition
❌Idoletry
❌ remove Good luck charms and idols
All refers to CCC 2111 📜
📝 Excerpts from Fr. Jocis
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January 8, 2024 ⛪ Feast of the Baptism of our Lord Jesus 🌐 My Article reference for today
My article references for today 📜
Feast of the Baptism of the Lord
Read
"The origin and foundation of Christian Baptism is Jesus. Before starting his public ministry, Jesus submitted himself to the baptism given by John the Baptist. The waters did not purify him; he cleansed the waters... Jesus did not need to be baptized because he was totally faithful to the will of his Father and free from sin. However, he wanted to show his solidarity with human beings in order to reconcile them to the Father. By commanding his disciples to baptize all nations, he established the means by which people would die to sin.
In Baptism, the Holy Spirit moves us to answer Christ's call to holiness. In Baptism, we are asked to walk by the light of Christ and to trust in his wisdom. We are invited to submit our hearts to Christ with ever deeper love." —USCC for Adults, pp. 184-185
Reflect
"In the one Body of Christ, all the members share 'a common dignity' so that 'no inequality arising from race or nationality, social condition or sex' exists, for all are one in Christ (Lumen Gentium [Dogmatic Constitution on the Church], no. 32)." — Sacraments and Social Mission, "Baptism," pg. 3
🌐 USCCB
January 7, 2024 🥰 Liturgical Calendar 📜 My article reference for today #EcumenismWeekend
My Article reference for today 📜
Liturgical Year & Calendar ⛪️
7 January - THE EPIPHANY OF THE LORD 👑
8 January - The Baptism of the Lord 🇻🇦
9 January 🗓️
- Tuesday (Start) of the first week in Ordinary Time
"Christ yesterday and today… All time belongs to him and all the ages." (Easter Vigil)
Liturgical Year
The liturgical year is made up of six seasons:
📌Ordinary Time - divided into two sections (one span of 4-8 weeks after Christmas Time and another lasting about six months after Easter Time), wherein the faithful consider the fullness of Jesus' teachings and works among his people
📌Advent - four weeks of preparation before the celebration of Jesus' birth
📌Christmas - recalling the Nativity of Jesus Christ and his manifestation to the peoples of the world
📌Lent - a six-week period of penance before Easter
📌Sacred Paschal Triduum - the holiest "Three Days" of the Church's year, where the Christian people recall the suffering, death, and resurrection of Jesus
📌Easter - 50 days of joyful celebration of the Lord's resurrection from the dead and his sending forth of the Holy Spirit
Full and More 🌐 USCCB
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liturgical_year
January 7, 2024 🥰 O Come, All Ye Faithful 🎶Song for the Last day of Christmas
O come, all ye faithful 🎶
O come, all ye faithful, joyful and triumphant
O come ye, o come ye to Bethlehem
O come and behold Him, born the King of Angels
O come, let us adore Him (3x)
Christ the Lord
O come, all ye faithful (2x)
O come, all ye faithful to Bethlehem
O come, all ye faithful
O come, all ye faithful
O come, all ye faithful to Bethlehem
O sing, choirs of angels, sing in exultation
O come, o come ye to Bethlehem
O come and behold Him, born the King of Angels
O come, let us adore Him (3x)
Christ the Lord
O come, all ye faithful
O come, all ye faithful
O come, all ye faithful to Bethlehem
O come, all ye faithful
O come, all ye faithful
O come, all ye faithful to Bethlehem
O come all ye
O come all ye faithful
O come all ye (repeat 7x)
O come all ye faithful (3x)
O come all ye faithful to Bethlehem
O come all ye faithful (2x)
O come all ye faithful to Bethlehem
O come all ye faithful (2x)
Born the King of Angels
O come, let us adore Him (2x)
Christ the Lord
O come all ye faithful (2x)
O come all ye faithful to Bethlehem
January 7, 2024 ⛪ Celebrating The Epiphany of our Lord 😇 #EcumenismWeekend
The Epiphany of the Lord
First reading 📖
Isaiah 60:1-6
Above you the glory of the Lord appears
Psalm 71(72):1-2,7-8,10-13 🎶
O God, give your judgement to the king,
to a king’s son your justice,
that he may judge your people in justice
and your poor in right judgement.
Second reading 📖
Ephesians 3:2-3,5-6
It has now been revealed that pagans share the same inheritance.
Gospel 🙏
Excerpts from Matthew 2:1-12 📖
The visit of the Magi
The sight of the star filled them with delight, and going into the house they saw the child with his mother Mary, and falling to their knees they did him homage. Then, opening their treasures, they offered him gifts of gold and frankincense and myrrh. But they were warned in a dream not to go back to Herod, and returned to their own country by a different way.
Key Points 👉
📌 The name Epiphany comes from the Greek epiphaneia, meaning “appearance” or “manifestation,” and refers to the manifestation of Jesus Christ to the world.
📝 Does this mean astrology is okay?
❌️No. As the Catechism explains:
All forms of divination are to be rejected: recourse to Satan or demons, conjuring up the dead or other practices falsely supposed to “unveil” the future. Consulting horoscopes, astrology . . . contradict the honor, respect, and loving fear that we owe to God alone [CCC 2116].
God may have arranged for certain signs to attend the birth of his Son, but this is the opposite of what astrology involves.
😇 Pope Benedict explains:
The Fathers have emphasized a further aspect. Gregory Nazianzen says that at the very moment when the Magi adored Jesus, astrology came to an end, as the stars from then on traced the orbit determined by Christ (cf. Poem. Dogm. V 55–64: PG 37, 428–429).
🌐 full and Continuation https://www.ncregister.com/blog/9-things-you-need-to-know-about-epiphany
🌐 https://www.britannica.com/topic/Epiphany
🌐https://www.catholic.com/encyclopedia/epiphany
January 6, 2024 🥰 Sacrament of Matrimony 📜 My article reference for today Part 2 #EcumenismWeekend
My Article references for today 📜 Sacrament of Matrimony ⛪️
Examination of Conscience 📜 Continuation Part 3 of 3
An Examination of Conscience for Married Persons
Responsibilities to God:
Have I gone to Mass every Sunday? Have I participated at Mass or have I daydreamed or been present with a blank mind? Have I prayed every day (15-20 minutes)? Have I read the Bible? Have I studied the truths of our faith and allowed them to become more part of the way I think and act? Have I read any spiritual books or religious literature? Have I told God that I want to love him with my whole heart, mind and strength? Do I hold any resentments toward God?
Responsibilities to my spouse:
Have I cared for my spouse? Have I been generous with my time? Have I been affectionate and loving? Have I told my spouse that I love him or her?
Responsibilities to children:
Have I cared for the spiritual needs of my children? Have I been a shepherd and guardian as God has appointed me? Have I tried to foster a Christian family where Jesus is Lord? Have I taught my children the Gospel and the commandments of God? Have I prayed with them?
Responsibilities to society:
Have I been a Christian witness to those with whom I work or associate? Have I spoken to anyone about the Gospel and how important it is to believe in Jesus?
Have I held resentments and anger against those with whom I work, relatives, or friends?
Full Contents from 🌐 USCCB
https://www.usccb.org/prayer-and-worship/sacraments-and-sacramentals/penance
January 6, 2024 🥰 Sacrament of Penance 📜 My article reference for today Part 1 #EcumenismWeekend
My Article references for today 📜 Sacrament of Reconciliation ⛪️
Continuation Part 2 of 3 😍
Penance
Penance is an experience of the gift of God's boundless mercy. Not only does it the Sacrament of Penance free us from our sins but it also challenges us to have the same kind of compassion and forgiveness for those who sin against us. We are liberated to be forgivers. We obtain new insight into the words of the Prayer of St. Francis: "It is in pardoning that we are pardoned."
The Two Shall Become One: The Sacrament of Reconciliation and Marriage
Pope John Paul II has stated: “The Church is deeply convinced that only by the acceptance of the Gospel are the hopes that man legitimately places in marriage and in the family capable of being fulfilled” (Role of Christian Family in the Modern World, n. 3).
Willed by God in the very act of creation, marriage, and the family are interiorly ordained to fulfillment in Christ and have need of his graces in order to be healed from the wounds of sin and restored to their “beginning,” that is, to the full understanding and the full realization of God’s plan (Role of the Christian Family, n. 3).
Full Contents from 🌐 USCCB
https://www.usccb.org/prayer-and-worship/sacraments-and-sacramentals/penance
January 6, 2024 🥰 Deuteronomy 📕 My holy bible reference for today
My holy bible reference for today 📕
Deuteronomy 18:19-20 📖
19 Anyone who will not listen to my words which the prophet speaks in my name, I myself will hold accountable for it.
20 But if a prophet presumes to speak a word in my namel that I have not commanded, or speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die.
January 5, 2024 🥰 Luck 📜 My article reference for today #EcumenismWeekend
My Article reference for today 📜
Do not believe in Luck ⚠️
CCC 2111 📜
Superstition
Superstition is the deviation of religious feeling and of the practices this feeling imposes. It can even affect the worship we offer the true God, e.g., when one attributes an importance in some way magical to certain practices otherwise lawful or necessary. To attribute the efficacy of prayers or of sacramental signs to their mere external performance, apart from the interior dispositions that they demand, is to fall into superstition.
Full and More 🌐
http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/p3s2c1a1.htm
January 5, 2024 🥰 Meaning of the 12th Day of Christmas 🎄#EcumenismWeekend
My articles and holy bible references for today 📕
Meaning of the 9th day of Christmas 🎶 From the Song
Jan. 4 - CF reference Christmas Season 🌲
📍Let us understand the 12 Points in Apostles' Creed
Apostles' Creed
I believe in God,the Father almighty,Creator of heaven and earth,and in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord,who was conceived by the Holy Spirit,born of the Virgin Mary,suffered under Pontius Pilate,was crucified, died and was buried;he descended into hell;on the third day he rose again from the dead;he ascended into heaven,and is seated at the right hand of God the Father almighty;from there he will come to judge the living and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Spirit,the holy catholic Church,the communion of saints,the forgiveness of sins,the resurrection of the body,and life everlasting.
Amen.
Full contents 🌐📜📖
http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/p1s2c3a8.htm
https://www.usccb.org/beliefs-and-teachings/what-we-believe
https://isidore.co/aquinas/english/Creed.htm
https://www.catholic.com/encyclopedia/apostles-creed
January 5, 2024 🥰 Deuteronomy 📕 My holy bible reference for today
My Article & Holy bible references for today 📕
Deuteronomy 18:19-20 📖
"Alam kong walang pinakamabuti sa tao kundi magpakaligaya at gawin ang pinakamabuti habang siya'y nabubuhay." - Excerpts from Ecclesiastes 📖
There is an appointed time for everything and a time for every affair under the heavens. (Ecclesiastes 3:1 📖)
Arriving at an older age is to be considered a privilege: not simply because not everyone has the good fortune to reach this stage in life, but also, and above all, because this period provides real possibilities for better evaluating the past, for knowing and living more deeply the Paschal Mystery, for becoming an example in the Church for the whole People of God. - Pope Saint John Paul II
The just shall flourish like the palm tree, shall grow like a cedar of Lebanon.
Planted in the house of the Lord, they shall flourish in the courts of our God.
They shall bear fruit even in old age, always vigorous and sturdy,
As they proclaim: "The Lord is just; our rock, in whom there is no wrong."
(Psalm 92:13-16 📖)
Excerpts from USCCB 🌐
January 4, 2024 🥰 Prayer Life 📽️My vlog reference for today
My vlog references for today 📽️
Key points to Bro Dino 📽️ Topic Jan. 4, 2024
Luke 9:23-25 📖
23 Then he said to all, “If anyone wishes to come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily* and follow me.
24 For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it.
25 What profit is there for one to gain the whole world yet lose or forfeit himself?
📌 Practice self-denial every day/Discipline is self-denial
📌 Lack of elementary discipline can easily be attacked by the devil (Oppression, depression, obsession) - Fr. Chad Ripperger
📌 Be consistent in your prayer life (by schedule/anywhere)
📌 Those who don't pray won't be saved - St. Alphonsus
📌 Penitence/Fasting and abstinence
📌 Get rid of distractions
📌 Denying the comfort
📍 Freedom is doing the will of God
📍As you progress in prayer, you will also notice that some defects start to dissipate
Full and More content 🌐
January 4, 2024 🥰 Meaning of the 11th Day of Christmas 🎄
My articles and holy bible references for today 📕
Meaning of the 9th day of Christmas 🎶 From the Song
Jan. 4 - CF reference Christmas Season
📍Let us read about the Apostles of Christ
The twelve apostles are Peter, Andrew, James (son of Zebedee), John, Philip, Bartholomew, Thomas, Matthew, James (son of Alphaeus), Thaddeus, Simon (the Zealot), and Judas.
As you indicate, Judas took his own life (Matt. 27:1-5), and St. John, the son of Zebedee, was assigned by Jesus to take of his mother Mary (John 19:25-27), and a strong tradition holds that he later died of natural causes at an old age in Ephesus.
Full contents and More 🌐
https://www.catholic.com/qa/were-all-twelve-apostles-martyred
https://www.catholic.com/magazine/print-edition/successors-of-the-apostles
January 3, 2024 🥰 Remind Ourselves 📽️My vlog reference for today
My vlog references for today 📽️
THE WORLD IS MUCH BIGGER THAN YOU THINK
📌 Constantly remind ourselves, don’t complain
📌 Everything that happened has God’s permission, it doesn’t mean God wanted it. There are times that God allows to happen for our own good.
📌We need to humble ourselves to God 🙏🏼
😇 St. Bazil Bishop & Doctor of the Church
- there are people who complained about the rain forgetting that the rain has produced much abundance in the lives of many
When things are not happening according to our wishes, God has allowed it for the better good of everyone 😊
January 3, 2024 🥰 Letter of Paul to Colossians 📕 My holy bible reference for today
My holy bible reference for today 📕
Colossians 1:24 📖
We’re called to take up our cross. In fact, Apostle Paul says in Colossians 1:24 that, “We are called to join our sufferings with the sufferings of Christ.” He says, “We’re called to fill up that which is lacking in the sufferings of Christ, in our bodies. - USCCB
Let's all do our best to become closer to God through devotion, regular examination of conscience, asking God's forgiveness/sacraments, also by Praying, fasting/abstinence, almsgiving, and following the teachings and guidelines of the church. #PraxiFides
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January 3, 2024 🥰 Meaning of the 10th Day of Christmas 🎄
My articles and holy bible references for today 📕
Meaning of the 9th day of Christmas 🎶 From the Song
Jan. 3 - CF reference Christmas Season
📍Let us read about the 10 Commandments
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS from Exodus
1. I, the Lord, am your God. You shall not have other gods besides me.
2. You shall not take the name of the Lord God in vain
3. Remember to keep holy the Lord's Day
4. Honor your father and your mother
5. You shall not kill
6. You shall not commit adultery
7. You shall not steal
8. You shall not bear false witness
9. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife
10. You shall not covet your neighbor's goods.
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The Ten Commandments are, aside from the Two Great Commandments ("Love thy God..." and "Love thy neighbor..."), the most fundamental biblical expression of Judeo-Christian morality. Unfortunately, they have become a focus of some rather trivial controversies, including how they are to be divided and abbreviated. They have also been subject to some not-so-trivial consequences, such as the nature of their authority and whether they apply today in unmodified form. In this paper, we will take a look at the first two issues, and in another we will look at the latter two.
Continue 🌐
https://www.ewtn.com/.../division-of-the-ten-commandments...
January 2, 2024 🥰 James 📕 My holy bible reference for today
My holy bible reference for today 📕
James 2:10 📖
For whoever keeps the whole law, but falls short in one particular, has become guilty in respect to all of it.
January 2, 2024 🥰 Meaning of the 9th Day of Christmas 🎄Part 1
My articles and holy bible references for today 📕
Meaning of the 9th day of Christmas 🎶 From the Song
Jan. 2 - CF reference Christmas Season 🌲
📌Let us understand the 9 Charismatic gifts 🎁
Please refer also to CCC references below:
767, 768, 798, 799, 800, 801, 951, 2003, 2004 and 2703
Full contents start from
The Church - revealed by the Holy Spirit
http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/ccc_toc2.htm
THE NINE SPIRITUAL GIFTS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT (1 Corinthians 12, Romans 12, and Ephesians 4, 1 Peter 4)
Class of Gifts of the Holy Spirit known as Charismata:
1. Gift of speaking with wisdom and knowledge
2. Gift of discipleship or apostleship
3. Gift of Faith
4. Gift of healing
5. Gift of miracles
6. Gift of prophecy
7. Gift of discerning spirits
8. Gift of tongues
9. Gift of interpreting speeches
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January 2, 2024 🥰 Meaning of the 9th Day of Christmas 🎄Part 2
My articles and holy bible references for today 📕
Meaning of the 9th day of Christmas 🎶 From the Song
Jan. 2 - CF reference Christmas Season 🌲
📌Let us understand the 9 Choirs of Angels
The Nine Choirs of Angels
👼🏻Seraphim
These are the highest order or choir of angels. They are the angels who are attendants or guardians before God's throne. They praise God, calling, "Holy Holy Holy is the Lord of Hosts". the only Bible reference is Isaiah 6:1-7. One of them touched Isaiah's lips with a live coal from the altar, cleansing him from sin. Seraphim have six wings, two cover their faces, two cover their feet, and two are for flying.
👼🏻Cherubim
Cherubim rank after the seraphim and are the second highest in the nine hierarchies or choirs of angels. In the New Testament, they are alluded to as celestial attendants in the Apocalypse (Rv 4-6).
👼🏻Thrones
Thrones are the Angels of pure Humility, Peace and Submisssion. They reside in the area of the cosmos where material form begins to take shape. The lower Choir of Angels need the Thrones to access God.
👼🏻Dominions
Dominions are Angels of Leadership. They regulate the duties of the angels, making known the commands of God.
👼🏻Virtues
Virtues are known as the Spirits of Motion and control the elements.
👼🏻Powers
Powers are Warrior Angels against evil defending the cosmos and humans.
👼🏻Archangels
Archangels are generally taken to mean "chief or leading angel" ( Jude 9; 1 Thes 4:16), they are the most frequently mentioned throughout the Bible. They may be of this or other hierarchies as St. Michael Archangel, who is a princely Seraph. The Archangels have a unique role as God's messenger to the people at critical times in history and salvation (Tb 12:6, 15; Jn 5:4; Rv 12:7-9) as in The Annunciation and Apocalypse.
👼🏻Principalities
In the New Testament Principalities refers to one type of spiritual (metaphysical) being which are now quite hostile to God and human beings. (Rom 8:38; 1 Cor 15:24; Eph 1:21; 3:10; 6:12; Col 1:16; 2:10, 15)
👼🏻Angels
These angels are closest to the material world and human begins. They deliver the prayers to God and God's answers and other messages to humans. Angels have the capacity to access any and all other Angels at any time. They are the most caring and social to assist those who ask for help.
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📍 Fallen Angels
Demons are fallen angels under the command of Satan, those who are still free after the Gen. 6 affair. Satan is called the Prince, or Ruler, of all demons in Matthew 9:34; 12:24; Mark 3:22; Luke 11:15. Demons are also called the ministers, or ambassadors of Satan, Luke 4:35; 9:1,42; John 10:21. Satan is brilliant, an administrative genius. He has an excellent organization, mentioned in Eph. 6:10-12 (READ) The Bible also makes a distinction between demon possession and demon influence.
https://www.catholic.org/saints/angels/fallen.php...
January 1, 2024 🥰 House Blessing 🌐 My Article reference for today
My holy bible references for today 📕
Jan. 1 - CF reference Christmas Season we Decide
Let us all pray in our family and do house blessings and also to animals
As we welcome the opening of the year...
Let's all do our best to become closer to God through devotion, regular examination of conscience, asking God's forgiveness/sacraments, also by Praying, fasting/abstinence, almsgiving, and following the teachings and guidelines of the church.
https://www.catholic.org/prayers/prayer.php?p=1653
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January 1, 2024 🥰 Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God 🌐 My Article references for today
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2024 Article References - January 1 🎅🏻 8th Day of Christmas #PraxiFides
My First Article Reference 📜
January 1 is the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God, honoring the Blessed Virgin Mary and her motherhood of Jesus Christ.
Mary’s title as Mother of God was first declared at the Council of Ephesus, in 431. The early Church celebrated a feast called the anniversary of the Mother of God however this began to be overshadowed and by the 7th century, it was simply celebrated as the octave day of Christmas, the eighth day following Jesus birth, when he was circumcised.
In the 13th century, January 1 began to be celebrated as the feast of the Circumcision of the Lord, while still being orientated towards Mary, glorifying her maternity. In 20th century, the mention of the circumcision was removed, and the day was dedicated to Mary as the Holy Mother of God.
https://www.bbcatholic.org.au/evangelis.../feast-days-saints 🌐
My Second Article Reference
Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God - First Vespers and Te Deum in thanksgiving for the past year
Saint Peter's Basilicaat 17
Homily of Pope Francis December 31, 2022
“Born of a woman” (Gal 4:4).
When, in the fullness of time, God became man, he did not come swooping down into the world from heaven on high. He was born of Mary. He was not born to a woman but of a woman. This is essentially different – it means that God wanted to take on flesh from her. He did not use her, but asked for her “yes”, for her consent. And so, with her began the slow journey of the gestation of a humanity free from sin and filled with grace and truth, filled with love and faithfulness. A beautiful, good and true humanity, made in the image and likeness of God, but at the same time, woven with our flesh offered by Mary…never without her…always with her consent…in freedom, gratuitously, respectfully, in love.
Continue 🌐
https://www.vatican.va/.../vat.../en/2022/12/31/te-deum.html
January 1, 2024 🥰 Meaning of the 8th Day of Christmas 🎄
My articles and holy bible references for today 📕
Jan. 1 - CF reference Christmas Season
Meaning of the 8th day of Christmas From the Song
Matthew 5:1-12 📖
The Sermon on the Mount.
1 When he saw the crowds, he went up the mountain, and after he had sat down, his disciples came to him.
2 He began to teach them, saying:
The Beatitudes*
3 “Blessed are the poor in spirit,
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
4 Blessed are they who mourn,
for they will be comforted.
5 Blessed are the meek,
for they will inherit the land.
6 Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness,
for they will be satisfied.
7 Blessed are the merciful,
for they will be shown mercy.
8 Blessed are the clean of heart,
for they will see God.
9 Blessed are the peacemakers,
for they will be called children of God.
10 Blessed are they who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness,
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
11 Blessed are you when they insult you and persecute you and utter every kind of evil against you falsely because of me.
12 Rejoice and be glad, for your reward will be great in heaven. Thus they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
Blessed are the poor in spirit
To be “poor in spirit” is to be humble, recognize our sinfulness, and to trust in more in God than in the things of the world (see Matthew 6:25-34).
Families, relatives and friends
Let's all do our best to become closer to God through devotion, regular examination of conscience, asking God's forgiveness/sacraments, also by Praying, fasting/abstinence, almsgiving, and following the teachings and guidelines of the church.
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Article references for today
I. THE BEATITUDES - CCC 1716
http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/p3s1c1a2.htm
What Does It Mean to Be Poor in Spirit?
We know who the poor are, but who are the poor in spirit? And why should we count ourselves among their number?
FR. SEBASTIAN WALSHE • 2/13/2023
Full contents
https://www.catholic.com/.../what-does-it-mean-to-be-poor...
December 31, 2023 🥰 Holy Family 📕 My Article reference for today #EcumenismWeekend
My Article reference for today 📕
Dec. 31-Christmas SeasonFeast of Holy Family
Consecration Prayer to the Holy Family
“O Jesus, our most loving Redeemer, who having come to enlighten the world with Thy teaching and example, didst will to pass the greater part of Thy life in humility and subjection to Mary and Joseph in the poor home of Nazareth, thus sanctifying the Family that was to be an example for all Christian families, graciously receive our family as it dedicates and consecrates itself to Thee this day. Do Thou protect us, guard us and establish amongst us Thy holy fear, true peace and concord in Christian love: in order that by living according to the divine pattern of Thy family we may be able, all of us without exception, to attain to eternal happiness.
Mary, dear Mother of Jesus and Mother of us, by the kindly intercession make this our humble offering acceptable in the sight of Jesus, and obtain for us His graces and blessings. O Saint Joseph, most holy Guardian of Jesus and Mary, help us by thy prayers in all our spiritual and temporal needs; that so we may be enabled to praise our divine Savior Jesus, together with Mary and Thee, for all eternity.”
December 31, 2023 🥰 Proverbs 📕 My holy bible reference for today
My holy bible reference for today 📕
Proverbs 4:23-27 📖
23 With all vigilance guard your heart,
for in it are the sources of life.
24 Dishonest mouth put away from you,
deceitful lips put far from you.
25 Let your eyes look straight ahead
and your gaze be focused forward.
26 Survey the path for your feet,
and all your ways will be sure.
27 Turn neither to right nor to left,
keep your foot far from evil.
December 31, 2023 🥰 Meaning of the 7th Day of Christmas 🎄Part 1 #EcumenismWeekend
My articles and holy bible references for today 📕
Meaning of the 7th day of Christmas 🎶 From the Song
📍Let us understand the 7 Sacraments
Meaning of the 7th day of Christmas 🎄
From the Song 🎶 #PraxiFides 🙏🏼 ⛪️😇🙏🏼
THE SEVEN SACRAMENTS
1. Baptism (Matthew 28:16-20)
2. Confirmation (Acts 8:14–17, 9:17, 19:6 and Hebrews 6:2)
3. Holy Communion (Luke 22:19 -20)
4. Confession (John 20:21-23)
5. Marriage (Genesis 2:24)
6. Holy Orders (1 Peter 2:9)
7. Anointing of the Sick (James 5:14)
Sacrament of Baptism 👶🏻 Matthew 28:16-20 📖
The Commissioning of the Disciples.
16 The eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had ordered them.
17 When they saw him, they worshiped, but they doubted.
18 Then Jesus approached and said to them, “All power in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
19 Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the holy Spirit,
20 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, until the end of the age
Read the full content… 🌐
https://www.catholic.au/s/article/The-Sacraments-of-the-Church
December 31, 2023 🥰 Meaning of the 7th Day of Christmas 🎄Part 2 #EcumenismWeekend
My articles and holy bible references for today 📕
Meaning of the 7th day of Christmas 🎶 From the Song
📍Let us understand the 7 Gifts of the Holy Spirit 🎁😇🙏🏼
Isaiah 11:2-5 📖
2 The spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him:
a spirit of wisdom and of understanding,
A spirit of counsel and of strength,
a spirit of knowledge and of fear of the LORD,
3 and his delight shall be the fear of the LORD.
Not by appearance shall he judge,
nor by hearsay shall he decide,
4 But he shall judge the poor with justice,
and decide fairly for the land’s afflicted.
He shall strike the ruthless with the rod of his mouth,
and with the breath of his lips he shall slay the wicked
5 Justice shall be the band around his waist,
and faithfulness a belt upon his hips.
Read the Article… 🌐
https://www.catholic.com/magazine/print-edition/the-seven-gifts-of-the-holy-spirit
December 30, 2023 🥰 Quote from a Saint 📕 About Confession
My holy bible references for today 📕
John 9:31 📖
We know that God does not listen to sinners, but if one is devout and does his will, he listens to him.
God Wants You to Confess Your Sins to a Priest
Here’s a breakdown of how it’s used in the New Testament outside 1 John 1:9:
📍God’s promise that he spoke to Abraham (Acts 7:17)
📍Jesus confessing to damned hypocrites what their fate will be (Matt. 7:23)
📍John the Baptist confessing to the Jewish leaders that he is not the Christ (John 1:20)
📍The Jewish leaders not confessing aloud their internal belief in Jesus (John 12:42)
📍Christians confessing their beliefs to other people (Matt. 10:32; Luke 12:8; John 9:22; Acts 24:14; Rom. 10:9-10; 1 Tim. 6:12; Titus 1:16; 1 John 2:23, 4:2, 4:15)
📍Non-Christians making promises, declarations, or confessions of belief/disbelief to other people (Matthew 14:7, Acts 23:8, Hebrews 11:13, 1 John 4:3, 2 John 1:7)
Full contents 🌐
https://www.catholic.com/magazine/print-edition/god-chooses-to-uses-human-intermediaries
Some facts about 😇 St John Vianney:
📌 He is the patron saint of parish priests.
📌 He was a champion of the poor.
📌 He spent 11 to twelve hours each day working to reconcile people with God. In the summer months, he often worked 16-hour days and refused to retire.
Continue... 🌐
December 30, 2023 🥰 Part 2 📕 My holy bible & CCC references for today
My holy bible references for today 📕
Part 2 - Understanding the Bible 📕
📌 Don't just do private interpretation of Bible
Excerpts from Matt. 18:17 📖
"If he refuses to listen even to the church, then treat him as you would a Gentile"
2 thessalonians 2:15 📖
Therefore, brothers, stand firm and hold fast to the traditions that you were taught, either by an oral statement or by a letter of ours.
1 Timothy 3:15 📖
But if I should be delayed, you should know how to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of truth.
2 Pet. 3:15-16 📖
15 And consider the patience of our Lord as salvation, as our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given to him, also wrote to you,m
16 speaking of these things as he does in all his letters. In them there are some things hard to understand that the ignorant and unstable distort to their own destruction, just as they do the other scriptures.
2 Pet 1:20-21 📖
20 Know this first of all, that there is no prophecy of scripture that is a matter of personal interpretation,
21 for no prophecy ever came through human will; but rather human beings moved by the holy Spirit spoke under the influence of God
Continue... 🌐
December 30, 2023 🥰 Meaning of the 6th Day of Christmas 🎄My article references for today
My articles and holy bible references for today 📕
Meaning of the 6th day of Christmas 🎶 From the Song
📍Let us understand the 6 days of Creation
One must take account of the interpretations offered by the Church Fathers-the source of the Church’s Tradition-and by the magisterium, the shepherd and arbiter of the Church’s Tradition.
Reading Scripture in this way provides two potential limits that are helpful in narrowing the field of possible interpretations. One is not free to advance a scriptural interpretation that contradicts “the unanimous consent of the Fathers” or contradicts what has been infallibly proposed by the magisterium.
Though the majority of Church Fathers took the six days of creation as being six literal days, there was not moral unanimity among them on this question. In addition later Catholic authorities (e.g., Thomas Aquinas; see ST 1:74:2) recognized a diversity of permissible interpretations.
Read the full content… 🌐
https://www.catholic.com/magazine/print-edition/the-six-days-of-creation
December 30, 2023 🥰 Part 1 📕 My holy bible & CCC references for today
My holy bible references for today 📕
Don't just do private interpretation of the Bible 📖
📍The authority of the apostles and the Church preceded the Bible, and the Tradition of the Church is an equally infallible authority (2 Thess. 2:15; CCC 80–83). The Bible is part of the apostolic Tradition.
📍The authoritative interpretation of the Bible is the prerogative of the Catholic Church (1 Tim. 3:15; Matt. 18:17; CCC 85-88).
📍The Bible is not always easy to understand (2 Pet. 3:15-16) and needs to be understood within its historical and contextual framework and interpreted within the community to which it belongs.
📍Individuals can and should read the Bible and interpret it for themselves—but within the framework of the Church’s authoritative teaching and not based on their own private interpretation (2 Pet 1:20-21)
Continue... 🌐
December 29, 2023 🥰 Meaning of the 5th Day of Christmas 🎄My article references for today
My articles and holy bible references for today 📕
Meaning of the 5th day of Christmas 🎶 From the Song
📍 Let us understand the Pentateuch
Excerpts from Encyclopedia 🌐 Pentateuch
The first "five" books of the Old Testament
A. GENESIS
From the nature of its contents, the book consists of two rather unequal parts; cc. i-xi presents the features of a general history, while cc. xii-1 contain the particular history of the Chosen People
B. EXODUS
The various laws are given and promulgated as occasion requires them; hence they are intimately connected with the history of the people.
C. LEVITICUS
Called by Rabbinic writers “Law of the Priests” or “Law of the Sacrifices”, contains nearly a complete collection of laws concerning the Levitical ministry.
D. NUMBERS
at times called “In the Desert” by certain Rabbinic writers because it covers practically the whole time of Israel’s wanderings in the desert.
E. DEUTERONOMY
A partial repetition and explanation of the foregoing legislation together with an urgent exhortation to be faithful to it.
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catholic.com/encyclopedia
December 29, 2023 🥰 Matthew 📕 My holy bible reference for today
My holy bible reference for today 📕
Matthew 10:28 📖
"Not all legal is Moral"
28 Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell.
December 29, 2023 🥰 #PraxiFides 📕 My holy bible references for today
My holy bible references for today 📕
About Sharing the Gospel as a spiritual person 😇
Matthew 5:16 📖
Just so, your light must shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your heavenly Father.
Romans 10:2 📖
I testify with regard to them that they have zeal for God, but it is not discerning.
John 10:16 📖
I have other sheep that do not belong to this fold. These also I must lead, and they will hear my voice, and there will be one flock, one shepherd.
Ephesians 5:23 📖
For the husband is head of his wife just as Christ is head of the church, he himself the savior of the body.
Ephesians 2:10 📖
For we are his handiwork, created in Christ Jesus for the good works that God has prepared in advance, that we should live in them.
Jeremia 10:21 📖
How stupid are the shepherds!
The LORD they have not sought;
For this reason they have failed,
and all their flocks scattered.
1 Corinthians 14:37 📖
If anyone thinks that he is a prophet or a spiritual person, he should recognize that what I am writing to you is a commandment of the Lord.
James 2:24 📖
See how a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.
December 29, 2023 🥰 Catechism Reference 📜Mortal Sin
My CCC reference for today 📜
Remind ourselves to go to confession and repent 🙏🏼Death is uncertain ⚰️
Mortal Sin 📄 CCC 1035 ⛪️
The teaching of the Church affirms the existence of hell and its eternity. Immediately after death, the souls of those who die in a state of mortal sin descend into hell, where they suffer the punishments of hell, "eternal fire." The chief punishment of hell is eternal separation from God, in whom alone man can possess the life and happiness for which he was created and for which he longs.
Excerpts from Hosea 4:6 📖
My people are ruined for lack of knowledge!
Revelation 16:15 📖 Sanctifying Grace
“Behold, I am coming like a thief.” Blessed is the one who watches and keeps his clothes ready, so that he may not go naked and people see him exposed.
Read full content and other references 🌐
December 28, 2023 😇 Quote from a Saint
Quote from a Saint for today 😇
4 of 14 Of The Most Inspiring Quotes from St. Faustina’s Diary
“I will not allow myself to be so absorbed in the whirlwind of work as to forget about God. I will spend all my free moments at the feet of the Master hidden in the Blessed Sacrament.” (82, page 42)
https://www.coraevans.com/blog/article/the-most-inspiring-quotes-from-st.-faustinas-diary
December 28 2023 🥰 Meaning of the 4th Day of Christmas 🎄My article references for today
My articles and holy bible references for today 📕
Meaning of the 4th day of Christmas 🎶 From the Song
📍Let us understand where the Evangelists Got Their Information
The Gospels provide details about Jesus' earthly ministry, but how did the authors come up by this evidence? by JIMMY AKIN
Continue… 🌐 References:
December 27, 2023 🥰 Matthew 📕 My holy bible reference for today
My holy bible reference for today 📕
Matthew 12:30 📖
30 Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters.
December 27, 2023 🥰 Meaning of the 3rd Day of Christmas 🎄My article references for today
My articles and holy bible references for today 📕
Meaning of the 3rd day of Christmas 🎶 From the Song
📍 Let us understand the meaning of the 3 Theological virtues.
Romans 5:1-5 📖 Faith, Hope and Love ❤️
1 Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
2 through whom we have gained access by faith to this grace in which we stand, and we boast in hope of the glory of God.
3 Not only that, but we even boast of our afflictions, knowing that affliction produces endurance,
4 and endurance, proven character, and proven character, hope,
5 and hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out into our hearts through the holy Spirit that has been given to us.
📍 Moral/Cardinal virtues:
prudence, justice, temperance, and fortitude 😍
See also:
1 Corinthians 13:13 📖 Love
🌐 References:
https://www.catholic.com/qa/whats-the-catholic-understanding-of-virtue
December 26, 2023 😇 Reminders during these holidays
Reminders during these holidays and the upcoming new year:
📍 You don't need fireworks to keep evil spirits away from your house and places
📍 Start by practicing faith inside the house by also regularly doing house blessings
📍 Evil spirits will go away if we are close to God - repentance and prayers
📍 We have to start the change in ourselves by getting closer to God
📍 Start by lessening unnecessary habits
No to other beliefs like horoscope, divination, spirit healers, astrology, etc. ❌
No to bad company and wasting time ❌
No to the prosperity gospel ❌
PM me for gospel sharing and foundations
December 26, 2023 ⛪ Celebrating the Holy Eucharist 📕 2nd Day of Christmas
TUE 26 December 🎄 2nd Day of Christmas Holy Mass ⛪
First reading: Acts 6:8-10,7:54-59 - The martyrdom of Stephen
Psalm 🎶 30(31):3-4,6,8,16-17
Gospel according to Matthew 10:17-22 📖
The Spirit of your Father will be speaking in you
📌 do not worry about how to speak or what to say; what you are to say will be given to you when the time comes
📌 You will be hated by all men on account of my name; but the man who stands firm to the end will be saved.’
Saint Stephen - the first Martyr Pray for us… 🙏🏻
Let us all celebrate the 2nd day of Christmas 🎅🏻continue gospel sharing and share the faith
More reference https://melbournecatholic.org/connect/daily-mass-readings
December 26, 2023 🥰 Meaning of the 2nd Day of Christmas 🎄My article references for today
My articles and holy bible references for today 📕
Meaning of the 2nd day of Christmas 🎶 From the Song
📌 Let us understand the meaning of the Old & New leading to the Ark of the new covenant
📌 Compare David 2 Samuel 6:9-15 and the ark to Luke’s account of the Visitation Luke 1:39-45
See more 🌐 References:
https://www.catholic.com/.../mary-the-ark-of-the-new...
https://www.motherofallpeoples.com/
https://www.ewtn.com/.../origin-of-the-twelve-days-of...
Also, refer to Scott Hann’s explanation...
December 25, 2023 🥰 Christmas Homily 📽️My vlog references for today
My vlog references for today 📽️
CHRISTMAS DAY IS A MOMENT OF GRACE
December 25, 2023 ⛪ Celebrating Christmas 😇 Birth of Our Lord Jesus
December 25, 2023 🎄 Christmas Day ⛪
Reading 1, Isaiah 52:7-10
Responsorial Psalm 🎶 Psalms 98:1, 2-3, 3-4, 5-6
Reading 2, Hebrews 1:1-6
According to John 1:1-18 📖
Celebrating Holy Eucharist - Birth of our Lord Jesus Christ
With the Archbishop ⛪ The Most Reverend Dr Philip Freier Gloria in excelsis Deo 🎶
Wishing everyone a 🥰 Merry and Blessed Christmas🎄
Peace be with you all our families, relatives, and friends… Let us share love and celebrate this Christmas day 🎅🏻 Feliz Navidad 🎺
December 25, 2023 😇 Message from Pope Francis
Message from Pope Francis 🧾
The word as made flesh...
Pope Francis, Urbi et Orbi Bessing,
December 25, 202
"Jesus is born in our midst; he is God with us. He comes to accompany our daily lives, to share with us in all things: our joys and sorrows, our hopes and fears. He comes as a helpless child. He is born in the cold night, poor among the poor. In need of everything, he knocks at the door of our heart to find warmth and shelter.”
December 24, 2023 🥰 Homily Before the Birth 📽️My vlog reference for today #EcumenismWeekend
My vlog references for today 📽️
DON'T WAIT FOR TOMORROW TO SAY THANK YOU
December 24, 2023 😇 Quote from a Saint
Quote from a Saint for today 😇
3 of 14 Of The Most Inspiring Quotes from St. Faustina’s Diary
“Great love can change small things into great ones, and it is only love which lends value to our actions. And the purer our love becomes, the less there will be within us for the flames of suffering to feed upon, and the suffering will cease to be a suffering for us; it will become a delight! By the grace of God, I have received such a disposition of heart that I am never so happy as when I suffer for Jesus, whom I love with every beat of my heart.” (303, page 140)
https://www.coraevans.com/blog/article/the-most-inspiring-quotes-from-st.-faustinas-diary
December 24, 2023 ⛪ Preparation for the birth of our Lord 📕#EcumenismWeekend
My holy bible reference for today 📕
Preparation for the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ - Dec. 24 4th Sunday of the Advent #ArvzAnne #EcumenismWeekend
For families, relatives and friends
Peace be with you everyone #PraxiFides
First Reading: Second Samuel 7: 1-5, 8b-12, 14a, 16
Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 89: 2-3, 4-5, 27, 29
Second Reading: Romans 16: 25-27
Alleluia: Luke 1: 38
Gospel: Luke 1: 26-38 📖
Jeremiah 9:23-24
Let’s all make this day meaningful with our loved ones specially with gatherings that should include Praying and Gospel Sharing” to become closer to God.
December 23, 2023 😇 Quote from a Saint
Quote from a Saint for today 😇
2 of 14 Of The Most Inspiring Quotes from St. Faustina’s Diary
Faustina was born in 1905. Through her and her diary, Jesus communicates to the world the message of His Mercy. Not only have we been blessed with the Divine Mercy Chaplet and Divine Mercy Novena, but here is the 2nd of 14 most inspiring quotes from St. Faustina's Diary.
“O my God, how sweet it is to suffer for You, suffer in the most secret recesses of the heart, in the greatest hiddenness, to burn like a sacrifice noticed by no one, pure as crystal, with no consolation or compassion. My spirit burns in active love. I waste no time in dreaming. I take every moment singly as it comes, for this is within my power. The past does not belong to me; the future is not mine; with all my soul I try to make use of the present moment. (351, page 157)
https://www.coraevans.com/blog/article/the-most-inspiring-quotes-from-st.-faustinas-diary
December 23, 2023 🥰 Jeremiah 📕 My holy bible reference for today
My holy bible reference for today 📕
Jeremiah 9:23-24 📖
23 This is what the LORD says: “Let not the wise boast of their wisdom or the strong boast of their strength or the rich boast of their riches,
24 but let the one who boasts boast about this: that they have the understanding to know me, that I am the LORD, who exercises kindness, justice, and righteousness on earth, for in these I delight,” declares the LORD.
December 22, 2023 😇 Quote from a Saint
Quote from a Saint for today 😇
2 of 14 Of The Most Inspiring Quotes from St. Faustina’s Diary
Faustina was born in 1905. Through her and her diary, Jesus communicates to the world the message of His Mercy. Not only have we been blessed with the Divine Mercy Chaplet and Divine Mercy Novena, but here is the 2nd of 14 most inspiring quotes from St. Faustina's Diary.
“O my God, how sweet it is to suffer for You, suffer in the most secret recesses of the heart, in the greatest hiddenness, to burn like a sacrifice noticed by no one, pure as crystal, with no consolation or compassion. My spirit burns in active love. I waste no time in dreaming. I take every moment singly as it comes, for this is within my power. The past does not belong to me; the future is not mine; with all my soul I try to make use of the present moment. (351, page 157)
https://www.coraevans.com/blog/article/the-most-inspiring-quotes-from-st.-faustinas-diary
December 22, 2023 🥰 John📕 My holy bible reference for today
My holy bible reference for today 📕
The Good Shepherd
John 10:9-12 📖
9 I am the gate. Whoever enters through me will be saved, and will come in and go out and find pasture.
10 A thief comes only to steal and slaughter and destroy; I came so that they might have life and have it more abundantly.
11 I am the good shepherd. A good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
12 A hired man, who is not a shepherd and whose sheep are not his own, sees a wolf coming and leaves the sheep and runs away, and the wolf catches and scatters them.d
* [10:1–21] The good shepherd discourse continues the theme of attack on the Pharisees that ends Jn 9. The figure is allegorical: the hired hands are the Pharisees who excommunicated the cured blind man. It serves as a commentary on Jn 9. For the shepherd motif, used of Yahweh in the Old Testament, cf. Ex 34; Gn 48:15; 49:24; Mi 7:14; Ps 23:1–4; 80
Continue on 🌐 USCCB
December 21, 2023 🥰 Serious Sin 🌐 My article references for today
My article reference for today 🌐
ST. MAXIMILIAN KOLBE ON SERIOUS SIN
Have you ever struggled with a grave sin? I mean something really serious. You want with all your heart to break this sin’s power in your life, but no matter how hard you struggle and pray, you just keep falling into it. You are constantly feeling guilty, and the guilt keeps you from approaching Our Lord through fear. In confession, you find yourself humiliated to be confessing the same serious matter yet again. But no matter how much you hate the presence of this sin in your life, you just can’t stop committing it.
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https://catholicgentleman.com/2013/08/st-maximilian-kolbe-on-serious-sin/
December 21, 2023 😇 Quote from a Saint
Quote from a Saint for today 😇
"Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ." - Saint Jerome
December 21, 2023 🥰 Timothy📕 My holy bible reference for today
My holy bible reference for today 📕
The Gifts Timothy Has Received
2 Timothy 1:1-14 📖
10 but now made manifest through the appearance of our savior Christ Jesus, who destroyed death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel,
11 for which I was appointed preacher and apostle and teacher.
12 On this account I am suffering these things; but I am not ashamed, for I know him in whom I have believed and am confident that he is able to guard what has been entrusted to me until that day.
13 Take as your norm the sound words that you heard from me, in the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.k
14 Guard this rich trust with the help of the holy Spirit that dwells within us.
December 20, 2023 🥰 Advent 🌐 My article references for today
My article reference for today 🌐
🎅🏻 Advent Calendar 2023 🎄
The word Advent is from the Latin adventus for "coming" and is associated with the four weeks of preparation for Christmas. Advent always contains four Sundays, beginning on the Sunday nearest the feast of St. Andrew the Apostle (November 30) and continuing until December 24.
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🌐 EWTN
https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/seasons-and-feast-days/advent-14416
🌐 USCCB
https://www.usccb.org/resources/Advent-Calendar-2023%20English.pdf
December 20, 2023 🥰 Acts of the Apostles 📕 My holy bible reference for today
My holy bible reference for today 📕
Daily Reading for Wednesday, December 20, 2023
Gospel from Acts 16:31 📖
And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus and you and your household will be saved.” 🙏🏻
December 20, 2023 ⛪Gospel according to Luke 📖
My holy bible reference for today 📕
Daily Reading for Wednesday, December 20, 2023
Reading 1, Judges 13:2-7, 24-25
Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 71:3-4, 5-6, 16-17
Gospel from Luke 1:26-38 📖
26 In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town in Galilee called Nazareth,
27 to a virgin betrothed to a man named Joseph, of the House of David; and the virgin's name was Mary.
28 He went in and said to her, 'Rejoice, you who enjoy God's favor! The Lord is with you.'
29 She was deeply disturbed by these words and asked herself what this greeting could mean,
30 but the angel said to her, 'Mary, do not be afraid; you have won God's favour.
31 Look! You are to conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you must name him Jesus.
32 He will be great and will be called Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his ancestor David;
33 he will rule over the House of Jacob for ever and his reign will have no end.'
34 Mary said to the angel, 'But how can this come about, since I have no knowledge of man?'
35 The angel answered, 'The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will cover you with its shadow. And so the child will be holy and will be called Son of God.
36 And I tell you this too: your cousin Elizabeth also, in her old age, has conceived a son, and she whom people called barren is now in her sixth month,
37 for nothing is impossible to God.'
38 Mary said, 'You see before you the Lord's servant, let it happen to me as you have said.' And the angel left her. 🙏🏻
December 19, 2023 🥰 Holy Rosary 🌐 My article reference for today
My article reference for today 🌐
The History of the Rosary
Author: Fr. William Saunders
Please explain the history and background of the rosary. Is it true that the Blessed Mother gave it to St. Dominic?
The rosary is one of the most cherished prayers of our Catholic Church. Introduced by the Creed, the Our Father, three Hail Marys and the Doxology ("Glory Be"), and concluded with the Salve Regina, the rosary involves the recitation of five decades consisting of the Our Father, 10 Hail Marys and the Doxology. During this recitation, the individual meditates on the saving mysteries of our Lord's life and the faithful witness of our Blessed Mother.
Journeying through the Joyful, Sorrowful and Glorious mysteries of the rosary, the individual brings to mind our Lord's incarnation, His passion and death and His resurrection from the dead. In so doing, the rosary assists us in growing in a deeper appreciation of these mysteries, in uniting our life more closely to our Lord and in imploring His graced assistance to live the faith. We also ask for the prayers of our Blessed Mother, who leads all believers to her Son.
The origins of the rosary are "sketchy" at best. The use of "prayer beads" and the repeated recitation of prayers to aid in meditation stem from the earliest days of the Church and has roots in pre-Christian times. Evidence exists from the Middle Ages that strings of beads were used to count Our Fathers and Hail Marys. Actually, these strings of beads became known as "Paternosters," the Latin for "Our Father."
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https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/library/history-of-the-rosary-1142
December 19, 2023 ⛪ Gospel according to Luke 📖
My holy bible reference for today 📕
Daily Reading for Tuesday December 19, 2023
Reading 1, Judges 13:2-7, 24-25
Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 71:3-4, 5-6, 16-17
Gospel from Luke 1:5-25 📖
17 With the spirit and power of Elijah, he will go before him to reconcile fathers to their children and the disobedient to the good sense of the upright, preparing for the Lord a people fit for him.' 🙏🏻
December 19, 2023 😇 Quote from a Saint
Quote from a Saint for today 😇
1 of 14 Of The Most Inspiring Quotes from St. Faustina’s Diary
Faustina was born in 1905. Through her and her diary, Jesus communicates to the world the message of His Mercy. Not only have we been blessed with the Divine Mercy Chaplet and Divine Mercy Novena, but here is the 1st of 14 most inspiring quotes from St. Faustina's Diary.
“Suffering is a great grace; through suffering the soul becomes like the Savior; in suffering love becomes crystallized; the greater the suffering, the purer the love.” (#57, page 29)
https://www.coraevans.com/blog/article/the-most-inspiring-quotes-from-st.-faustinas-diary
December 18, 2023 🥰 The Fatima Prayers 📜My prayer reference for today
My article reference for today 📜
THE MIRACLE OF THE SUN AT FATIMA – OCTOBER 13, 1917
The Fatima Prayers
1) The Fatima Prayer (Decade Prayer)
O my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of hell, lead all souls to Heaven, especially those most in need of Thy mercy. Amen.
2) The Pardon Prayer
My God, I believe, I adore, I hope and I love Thee. I beg pardon for all those that do not believe, do not adore, do not hope, and do not love Thee. Amen.
3) The Angel’s Prayer
O Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, I adore Thee profoundly. I offer Thee the most precious Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Jesus Christ present in all the tabernacles of the world, in reparation for the outrages, sacrileges, and indifferences by which He is offended. By the infinite merits of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I beg the conversion of poor sinners. Amen.
4) The Eucharistic Prayer
Most Holy Trinity, I adore Thee! My God, my God, I love Thee in the Most Blessed Sacrament. Amen.
5) The Sacrifice Prayer
O Jesus, it is for the love of Thee, in reparation for the offenses committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary, and for the conversion of poor sinners [that I do this]. Amen.
https://www.goodcatholic.com/fatima-prayers-given-by-mary-and-the-angel/
December 18, 2023 🥰 Catechism Reference 📜Precepts of the Church
My CCC reference for today 📜
THE FIVE PRECEPTS OF THE CHURCH ( CCC 2041-2043 )
1 - You shall attend Mass on Sundays and on holy days of obligation and rest from servile labor
2 - You shall confess your sins at least once a year
3 - You shall receive the sacrament of the Eucharist at least during the Easter season
4 - You shall observe the days of fasting and abstinence established by the Church
5 - You shall help to provide for the needs of the Church.
For families, relatives and friends 😍
📌Let’s examine ourselves, don’t forget to pray, fast/abstain, almsgiving, and the sacraments.
⚠️ Ask God for forgiveness/confess immediately if you commit a grave sin or mortal sin (we don’t know the hour of our death) and repent.
📲 PM or call me for gospel sharing anytime 😍
https://www.usccb.org/sites/default/files/flipbooks/catechism/494/
December 18, 2023 ⛪ Gospel according to Matthew 📖
My holy bible reference for today 📕
Daily Reading for Monday December 18, 2023
Reading 1, Jeremiah 23:5-8
Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 72:1, 12-13, 18-19
Gospel from Matthew 1:18-24 📖
20 He had made up his mind to do this when suddenly the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, 'Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because she has conceived what is in her by the Holy Spirit. 🙏🏻
December 17, 2023 😇 Quote from a Saint
Quote from a Saint for today 😇
"Miss no single opportunity of making some small sacrifice, here by a smiling look, there by a kindly word; always doing the smallest right and doing it all for love."
December 17, 2023 🥰 Synodality 📜My article reference for today
My article reference for today 📜
Synodality: A Guide for the Perplexed
From October 2021 to April 2022, the first phase of a two-year synod begins: The Synod on Synodality. The theme of this Synod is: For a Synodal Church: Communion, Participation, Mission.
https://melbournecatholic.org/news/synodality-a-guide-for-the-perplexed
December 17, 2023 ⛪ Gospel according to John 📖 #EcumenismWeekend
Gaudete Sunday 🎅🏻 Dec. 17, 3rd Week of Advent 🎄
First Reading: Isaiah 61: 1-2a, 10-11
Responsorial Psalm: Luke 1: 46-48, 49-50, 53-54
Second Reading: First Thessalonians 5: 16-24
Alleluia: Isaiah 61: 1
Gospel John 1: 6-8, 19-28 📖
For families, relatives and friends 😍 Peace be with you everyone 🥰 #PraxiFides 🙏🏼 #EcumenismWeekend ⛪️
Let’s all make this day meaningful with our loved ones especially, with gatherings that should include Praying and Gospel Sharing” to become closer to God. 🙏🏼
📌 22 From all appearance of evil refrain yourselves.
He came as a witness to testify to the light so that all might believe through him. (7)
He said, “I am the voice of one crying out in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord,’” (23)
Do we hear the voice of the one calling us out? He once said, “Repent and be baptized.” We ask the Holy Spirit to help us realize our faults and repent.
December 16, 2023 😇 Quote from a Saint
Quote from a Saint for today 😇
11 of 14 Of The Most Inspiring Quotes from St. Faustina’s Diary
Faustina was born in 1905. Through her and her diary, Jesus communicates to the world the message of His Mercy. Not only have we been blessed with the Divine Mercy Chaplet and Divine Mercy Novena, but here is the 11th of 14 most inspiring quotes from St. Faustina's Diary.
“Everyone in the world can belong to this group. A member of this group ought to perform at least one act of mercy per day; at least one, but there can be many more, for such deeds can easily be carried out by anyone, even the very poorest. For there are three ways of performing an act of mercy: the merciful word, by forgiving, and by comforting; secondly, if you can offer no word, then pray-that too is mercy; and thirdly, deeds of mercy. And when the Last Day comes, we shall be judged from this, and on this basis, we shall receive the eternal verdict.” (1157-1158, page 424)
https://www.coraevans.com/blog/article/the-most-inspiring-quotes-from-st.-faustinas-diary
December 16, 2023 ⛪ Gospel according to Matthew 📖 #EcumenismWeekend
Saturday - Dec. 16, 2nd Week of Advent 🎄
Daily Reading
Reading 1, Sirach 48:1-4, 9-11
Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 80:2-3, 15-16, 18-19
Gospel, Matthew 17:10-13 📖
For families, relatives and friends 😍 Peace be with you everyone 🥰 #PraxiFides 🙏🏼 #EcumenismWeekend ⛪️
Novena 2023 - Advent 🎄 Day 1
Key points from the homily of Fr. Dave C/Dec. 16
📌 To whom much is given, much is required.
📌 To whom much is required, much is also given.
⚠️ We ask for the grace that hopefully, you must be able to make the right choice, that you may be the right person you ought to be.
📌 God never presume that the blind man will always want to see. God will take delight in your prayer.
📌 John is not the message, he is the light that helps us and guides us where we should be going.
⚠️Who you are today is a product of your choices. Do not blame the world/people around you.
⚠️ Believe what you’re asking for.
⚠️ Today is the start of tomorrow.
December 16, 2023 🥰 Catechism Reference 📜Ecumenism
My CCC references for today 📜
The promotion of cooperation and unity among Christians 🌐 USCCB
https://www.usccb.org/committees/ecumenical-interreligious-affairs/ecumenical
December 15, 2023 😇 Quote from a Saint
Quote from a Saint for today 😇
"If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it." - Mother Teresa
December 15, 2023 🥰 Matthew 📕 My holy bible reference for today
December 15, 2023 🥰 The Advent Mission 📽️My vlog reference for today
My vlog reference for today 📽️
"Communion is our spirituality, Participation is our life, and Mission is our character."
We are called not just by attending mass and prayer meetings. 😇
A church without a mission is not a real church. We as a church, we are being defined by our missionary character.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GioxwZ4jW_M
December 14, 2023 🥰 Galatians 📕 My holy bible reference for today
My holy bible reference for today 📕
Galatians 1:6-10 📖
Loyalty to the Gospel
6 I am amazed that you are so quickly forsaking the one who called you by [the] grace [of Christ] for a different gospel
7 (not that there is another). But there are some who are disturbing you and wish to pervert the gospel of Christ.
8 But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach [to you] a gospel other than the one that we preached to you, let that one be accursed!
9 As we have said before, and now I say again, if anyone preaches to you a gospel other than the one that you received, let that one be accursed!
10 Am I now currying favor with human beings or God? Or am I seeking to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a slave of Christ. 🙏🏻
December 14, 2023 😇 Quote from a Saint
Quote from a Saint for today 😇
“To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.” - Thomas Aquinas
December 14, 2023 ⛪ Gospel according to Matthew 📖
Matthew 11:11-15 📖
Jesus’ Testimony to John
11 Amen, I say to you, among those born of women there has been none greater than John the Baptist; yet the least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.*
12 From the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven suffers violence,* and the violent are taking it by force.e
13 All the prophets and the law* prophesied up to the time of John.
14 And if you are willing to accept it, he is Elijah, the one who is to come.f
15 Whoever has ears ought to hear.
December 13, 2023 🥰 Matthew 📕 My holy bible reference for today
My holy bible reference for today 📕
Daily Reading for Thursday, December 14, 2023
Reading 1, Isaiah 41:13-20
Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 145:1, 9, 10-11, 12-13
Gospel from Matthew 11:11-15 📖
11 'In truth I tell you, of all the children born to women, there has never been anyone greater than John the Baptist; yet the least in the kingdom of Heaven is greater than he. 🙏🏻
December 13, 2023 😇 Quote from a Saint
Quote from a Saint for today 😇
Pray, hope and don’t worry. Worry is useless. God is merciful and will hear your prayer. Prayer is the best weapon we have; it is the key to God’s heart.” – St. Pio da Pietrelcina
December 13, 2023 🤓 Catechism Reference 📜We are all called for Priesthood
Catechism of the Catholic Church reference for today 📜
"We are all called for priesthood through the sacraments of Baptism and Confirmation"
CCC 1546 🌐 St. Charles Borromeo
1546 Christ, high priest and unique mediator, has made of the Church "a kingdom, priests for his God and Father." The whole community of believers is, as such, priestly. The faithful exercise their baptismal priesthood through their participation, each according to his own vocation, in Christ's mission as priest, prophet, and king. Through the sacraments of Baptism and Confirmation the faithful are "consecrated to be . . . a holy priesthood."
CCC 1547 🌐 St. Charles Borromeo
1547 The ministerial or hierarchical priesthood of bishops and priests, and the common priesthood of all the faithful participate, "each in its own proper way, in the one priesthood of Christ." While being "ordered one to another," they differ essentially. In what sense? While the common priesthood of the faithful is exercised by the unfolding of baptismal grace --a life of faith, hope, and charity, a life according to the Spirit--, the ministerial priesthood is at the service of the common priesthood. It is directed at the unfolding of the baptismal grace of all Christians. The ministerial priesthood is a means by which Christ unceasingly builds up and leads his Church. For this reason it is transmitted by its own sacrament, the sacrament of Holy Orders.
December 12, 2023 🥰 Luke 📕 My holy bible reference for today
My holy bible reference for today 📕
Luke 1:39:47 📖
39 Mary set out at that time and went as quickly as she could into the hill country to a town in Judah.
40 She went into Zechariah's house and greeted Elizabeth.
41 Now it happened that as soon as Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, the child leapt in her womb and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.
42 She gave a loud cry and said, 'Of all women you are the most blessed, and blessed is the fruit of your womb.
43 Why should I be honoured with a visit from the mother of my Lord?
44 Look, the moment your greeting reached my ears, the child in my womb leapt for joy.
45 Yes, blessed is she who believed that the promise made her by the Lord would be fulfilled.'
46 And Mary said: My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord
December 12, 2023 🤓 Catechism Reference 📜 12 Days of Christmas 🎄
My article references for today 📜
The songs gifts are hidden meanings to the teachings of the faith. The "true love" mentioned in the song doesn't refer to an earthly suitor, it refers to God Himself. The "me" who receives the presents refers to every baptized person. The partridge in a pear tree is Jesus Christ, the Son of God. In the song, Christ is symbolically presented as a mother partridge which feigns injury to decoy predators from her helpless nestlings, much in memory of the expression of Christ's sadness over the fate of Jerusalem: "Jerusalem! Jerusalem! How often would I have sheltered thee under my wings, as a hen does her chicks, but thou wouldst not have it so..."
The other symbols mean the following:
1 Partridge in a Pear Tree = Jesus Christ, Son of God
2 Turtle Doves = The Old and New Testaments
3 French Hens = Faith, Hope and Charity, the Theological Virtues
4 Calling Birds = the Four Gospels and/or the Four Evangelists (Mark, John, Luke and Matthew)
5 Golden Rings = The first Five Books of the Old Testament, the "Pentateuch", which gives the history of man's fall from grace.
"Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy "
6 Geese A-laying = the six days of creation
7 Swans A-swimming = the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit 📕 Isaiah 11:2 and the seven sacraments ⛪
a. Wisdom
b. Understanding
c. Fortitude
d. Counsel
e. Knowledge
f. Piety
g. Fear of the Lord
and
1. Baptism (Matthew 28:16-20)
2. Confirmation (Acts 8:14–17, 9:17, 19:6 and Hebrews 6:2)
3. Holy Communion (Luke 22:19 -20)
4. Confession (John 20:21-23)
5. Marriage (Genesis 2:24)
6. Holy Orders (1 Peter 2:9)
7. Anointing of the Sick (James 5:14)
8 Maids A-milking = the eight beatitudes 📖 Matthew 5:1-12
9 Ladies Dancing = the nine Fruits of the Holy Spirit 📖 Galatians 5:22-23
22 In contrast, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness,q 23 gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.r
10 Lords A-leaping = the ten commandments
11 Pipers Piping = the eleven faithful apostles
12 Drummers Drumming = the twelve points of doctrine in the Apostle's Creed 🧾
December 12 , 2023 😇 Quote from a Saint
Quote from a Saint for today 😇
“He who trusts in himself is lost. He who trusts in God can do all things.” - St. Alphonsus Liguori
December 11, 2023 🥰 Matthew 📕 My holy bible reference for today
My holy bible reference for today 📕
Matthew 18:14 📖
So it is not the will of my Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.🙏🏻
December 11, 2023 🤓 Catechism Reference 📜 Purgatory
My CCC reference for today 📜
THE FINAL PURIFICATION, OR PURGATORY 🌐 USCCB
Purgatory
1030 All who die in God's grace and friendship, but still imperfectly purified, are indeed assured of their eternal salvation; but after death they undergo purification, so as to achieve the holiness necessary to enter the joy of heaven.
See also 1031-1032
December 11 , 2023 😇 Quote from a Saint
Quote from a Saint for today 😇
“The only thing we have to ask God for, in prayer, is the desire to be holy.” - Blessed Carlo Acutis
December 10, 2023 ⛪ Gospel according to Mark 📖 #EcumenismWeekend
🎅🏻Dec. 10 2nd Week of Advent 🎄
For families, relatives and friends 😍 Peace be with you everyone 🥰 #PraxiFides 🙏🏼 #EcumenismWeekend ⛪️
Let’s all make this day meaningful with our loved ones especially, with gatherings that should include Praying and Gospel Sharing” to become closer to God. 🙏🏼
Reading 1: IS 40:1-5, 9-11 📖
Reading 2: 2 PT 3:8-14 📖
Responsorial Psalm 🎶 PS 85:9-10-11-12, 13-14
Alleluia LK 3:4, 6 📖
Prepare the way of the Lord, make straight his paths:
All flesh shall see the salvation of God.
Gospel MK 1:1-8 📖
“I have baptized you with water;
he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.”
1. The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ the Son of God.
2. As it is written in Isaiah the prophet:
Behold, I am sending my messenger ahead of you;
he will prepare your way.
3. A voice of one crying out in the desert:
“Prepare the way of the Lord,
make straight his paths.”
4. John the Baptist appeared in the desert
proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.
5. People of the whole Judean countryside
and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem
were going out to him
and were being baptized by him in the Jordan River
as they acknowledged their sins.
6. John was clothed in camel’s hair,
with a leather belt around his waist.
He fed on locusts and wild honey.
7. And this is what he proclaimed:
“One mightier than I is coming after me.
8. I am not worthy to stoop and loosen the thongs of his sandals.
I have baptized you with water;
he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.”
December 10 , 2023 😇 Quote from a Saint
Quote from a Saint for today 😇
“Nothing helps a man more than prayer.” - St. Philip Neri
December 10, 2023 🤓 Catechism Reference 📜 Blessed Virgin Mary
My article reference for today 📜
Blessed Virgin Mary
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1090766761922080&set=gm.1527663408085936&idorvanity=425055381680083
December 9, 2023 ⛪ Gospel according to Matthew 📖
🎅🏻 Dec. 9, 2nd Week of Advent 🎄
For families, relatives and friends 😍 Peace be with you everyone 🥰 #PraxiFides 🙏🏼 #EcumenismWeekend ⛪️
Let’s all make this day meaningful with our loved ones especially, with gatherings that should include Praying and Gospel Sharing” to become closer to God. 🙏🏼
Luke 1:26-38 📖
The Lord will judge us by His law, He is our King and our Saviour.
1st Reading Isaiah 30:19-21, 23-26
Responsorial Psalm Psalms 147:1-2, 3-4, 5-6 🎶
Alleluia Isaiah 33:22
Gospel Matthew 9:35-10:1, 5A, 6-8
37 Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is abundant but the laborers are few;
38 so ask the master of the harvest to send out laborers for his harvest.”
1 Then he summoned his Twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits to drive them out and to cure every disease and every illness.
5A Jesus sent out these Twelve after instructing them thus,
6 “Go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
7 As you go, make this proclamation: ‘The Kingdom of heaven is at hand.’
8 Cure the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, drive out demons. Without cost you have received; without cost, you are to give.”
December 9 , 2023 😇 Quote from a Saint
Quote from a Saint for today 😇
“Value your crosses as the most precious presents from a good and loving God.” - St. Mary MacKillop
December 9, 2023 🤓 Catechism Reference 📜Spiritual Works of Mercy
My article references for today 📜CCC reference of the day
1 - To admonish the sinner: "...there will be more joy in Heaven at the repentance of one sinner than at ninety-nine of the righteous who had no need of repentance." Lk. 15:7
2 - To instruct the ignorant: "Go into the whole world and proclaim the good news to all creation." Mk. 16:1
3 - To counsel the doubtful: "Peace I leave with you, my peace I give to you...Let not your hearts be troubled..." Jn. 14:27
4 - To comfort the sorrowful: "Come to me, all you grown weary and burdened, and I will refresh you." Mt. 11:28
5 - To bear wrongs patiently: "...Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you." Lk. 6:27-28
6 - To forgive all injuries: "And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors." Mt. 6:12
7 - To pray for the living and the dead: "Father, I desire that they, too, may be with me where I am..." Jn. 17:24 📖
December 8, 2023 😇 Prayer from a Saint
The Memorare 🙏 St. Bernard
Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary, that never was it known that anyone who fled to thy protection, implored thy help, or sought thine intercession was left unaided. Inspired by this confidence, I fly unto thee, O Virgin of virgins, my mother; to thee do I come, before thee I stand, sinful and sorrowful. O Mother of the Word Incarnate, despise not my petitions, but in thy mercy hear and answer me. Amen. 🙏
December 8, 2023 ⛪ Gospel according to Luke 📖 1:26-38 #EcumenismWeekend
Alleluia
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Hail, Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with you;
blessed are you among women.
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Luke 1:26-38 📖
The angel Gabriel was sent from God
to a town of Galilee called Nazareth,
to a virgin betrothed to a man named Joseph,
of the house of David,
and the virgin's name was Mary.
And coming to her, he said,
"Hail, full of grace! The Lord is with you."
But she was greatly troubled at what was said
and pondered what sort of greeting this might be.
Then the angel said to her,
"Do not be afraid, Mary,
for you have found favor with God.
Behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son,
and you shall name him Jesus.
He will be great and will be called Son of the Most High,
and the Lord God will give him the throne of David his father,
and he will rule over the house of Jacob forever,
and of his Kingdom there will be no end."
But Mary said to the angel,
"How can this be,
since I have no relations with a man?"
And the angel said to her in reply,
"The Holy Spirit will come upon you,
and the power of the Most High will overshadow you.
Therefore the child to be born
will be called holy, the Son of God.
And behold, Elizabeth, your relative,
has also conceived a son in her old age,
and this is the sixth month for her who was called barren;
for nothing will be impossible for God."
Mary said, "Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord.
May it be done to me according to your word."
Then the angel departed from her.
December 7, 2023 😇 Quote from a Saint
Quote from a Saint for today 😇
Hell does not appear to the faithless: it’s clear and obvious to the faithful. - St. John Chrysostom
December 7, 2023 🥰 Our Immaculate Lady of Miraculous Medal 🙏🏻My Prayer reference for today
My article reference for today 📜
Short Story of the Our Immaculate Lady of the Miraculous Medal
In 1830 in France, St. Catherine Laboure was visited by the Blessed Virgin Mary three times. During the second apparition, St. Catherine saw our Lady standing on a globe with rays of light streaming from her hands and the words, “O Mary conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to Thee.” Our Lady told St. Catherine to have a medal made. The medals were called the Medal of the Immaculate Conception and, because many favors were given to the people wearing the medal, it became the Miraculous Medal.
PRAYER TO OUR IMMACULATE LADY
OF THE MIRACULOUS MEDAL.
Virgin Mother of God, Mary Immaculate, We dedicate and consecrate ourselves to you under the title of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal.
May this Medal be for each one of us a sure sign of your affection for us and a constant reminder of our duties toward you. Ever while wearing it, may we be blessed by your loving protection and preserved in the grace of your Son.
O Most Powerful Virgin, Mother of Our Savior, keep us close to you every moment of our lives. Obtain for us, your children, the grace of a happy death; so that in union with you, we may enjoy the bliss of Heaven forever. Amen. 🙏🏻
https://catholicsstrivingforholiness.org/nov-27-our-lady-of-the-miraculous-medal-short-history-and-prayer/#:~:text=The%20medals%20were%20called%20the%20Medal
December 6, 2023 😇 Quote from a Saint
December 6, 2023 🥰 Matthew📕 My holy bible references for today
My holy bible references for today 📕
Daily Reading for Wednesday December 6, 2023
Reading 1, Isaiah 25:6-10
Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 23:1-3, 3-4, 5, 6
Gospel from Matthew 15:29-37 📖
31 The crowds were astonished to see the dumb speaking, the cripples whole again, the lame walking and the blind with their sight, and they praised the God of Israel. 🙏🏻
December 6, 2023 🤓 Catechism Reference 📜Sanctifying Grace
My article references for today 📜CCC reference of the day
2000 Sanctifying grace is an habitual gift, a stable and supernatural disposition that perfects the soul itself to enable it to live with God, to act by his love.
Habitual grace, the permanent disposition to live and act in keeping with God's call, is distinguished from actual graces which refer to God's interventions, whether at the beginning of conversion or in the course of the work of sanctification.
John 14:23 📖
Romans 5:5 📖
2 Corinthians 6:16 📖
December 5, 2023 🥰 Corinthians📕 My holy bible references for today
My holy bible references for today 📕
1 Corinthians 6:33-34 📖
Bad Company Corrupts Good Morals
33 Do not be led astray:
“Bad company corrupts good morals.”
34 Become sober as you ought and stop sinning. For some have no knowledge of God; I say this to your shame. 🙏🏻
December 5, 2023 ⛪ Holy Eucharist Celebration 🙏🏻 First Week of Advent
Tuesday of the First Week of Advent
Excerpts from Isaiah 11:1-10 📖
The Ideal Davidic King 👑
1 But a shoot shall sprout from the stump* of Jesse, and from his roots a bud shall blossom.a
2 The spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him:b
a spirit of wisdom and of understanding,
A spirit of counsel and of strength,
a spirit of knowledge and of fear of the LORD,
3 and his delight shall be the fear of the LORD.
Not by appearance shall he judge,
nor by hearsay shall he decide,
4 But he shall judge the poor with justice,
and decide fairly for the land’s afflicted.
He shall strike the ruthless with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall slay the wicked.
5 Justice shall be the band around his waist,
and faithfulness a belt upon his hips.
6 Then the wolf shall be a guest of the lamb,
and the leopard shall lie down with the young goat;
The calf and the young lion shall browse together,
with a little child to guide them.
7 The cow and the bear shall graze,
together their young shall lie down;
the lion shall eat hay like the ox.g
8 The baby shall play by the viper’s den,
and the child lay his hand on the adder’s lair.
9 They shall not harm or destroy on all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be filled with knowledge of the LORD, as water covers the sea.
Restoration*
10 On that day,
The root of Jesse,
set up as a signal for the peoples—
Him the nations will seek out;
his dwelling shall be glorious.
Responsorial Psalm
72:1-2, 7-8, 12-13, 17
Justice shall flourish in his time, and fullness of peace for ever.🙏🏻
December 5, 2023 🤓 Immaculate Heart of Mary 📜My article reference for today
My article reference for today 📜
IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY
What does the Immaculate Heart of Mary mean?
The Immaculate Heart of Mary signifies, first of all, the great purity and love of the heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary for God. This purity is manifested in her “Yes” to the Father at the Incarnation, Her love for, and cooperation with, the Incarnate Son in His redemptive mission, and her docility to the Holy Spirit, enabling her to remain free of the stain of personal sin throughout her life. Mary’s Immaculate Heart, therefore, points us to her profound interior life, where she experienced both joys and sorrows, yet remained faithful, as we, too, are called to do. In 2023, we celebrate the Memorial of the Immaculate Heart of Mary on June 17.
https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/seasons-and-feast-days/immaculate-heart-of-mary-14358
December 4, 2023 🥰 Sacred Heart of Jesus 📜My article reference for today
My article reference for today 📜
Story of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Originating in the 1670s, the devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus arose when a Visitation nun in France, Margaret Mary Alacoque, reported visions of Jesus. In these visions, Sr Margaret Mary experienced the intense love Jesus possesses for humanity and was asked to spread devotion to his heart, enflamed with love and crowned with thorns.
In one of the visions, Jesus said, ‘My Sacred Heart is so intense in its love for men, and for you in particular, that not being able to contain within it the flames of its ardent charity, they must be transmitted through all means.’
The devotion spread quickly, and in 1765 the Church in France was granted its own feast.
According to the visions, there are also 12 promises of Jesus for those who venerate and promote the Sacred Heart:
Jesus will give them all the graces necessary for their state of life.
He will give peace in their families.
He will console them in all their troubles.
He will be their refuge in life and especially in death.
He will abundantly bless all their undertakings.
Sinners shall find in his Heart the source and infinite ocean of mercy.
Tepid souls shall become fervent.
Fervent souls shall rise speedily to great perfection.
He will bless those places wherein the image of his Sacred Heart shall be exposed and venerated.
He will give to priests the power to touch the most hardened hearts.
Persons who propagate this devotion shall have their names eternally written in his Heart.
In the excess of the mercy of his Heart, he promises that his all-powerful love will grant to all those who will receive Communion on the first Fridays, for nine consecutive months, the grace of final repentance.
December 4, 2023 😇 Quote from a Saint
Quote from a Saint for today 😇
Here is a rule for everyday life: Do not do anything which you cannot offer to God. - St. John Vianney
December 3, 2023 😇 Story of a Saint
Story of a Saint for today 😇
St. Juan Diego
Facts:
Feastday: December 9
Patron: of Indigenous people
Birth: 1474
Death: 1548
Beatified: May 6, 1990 by Pope John Paul II
Canonized: July 31, 2002 by Pope John Paul II
Author and Publisher - Catholic Online
December 3, 2023 🥰 Our Lady of Guadalupe 📜My article reference for today
My article reference for today 📜
Our Lady of Guadalupe
Why do we celebrate Our Lady of Guadalupe?
In 1531, the Blessed Mother appeared four times to St. Juan Diego asking for a church to be built in her honor. The last time she appeared to St. Juan, on December 12th, 1531, she arranged roses in his tilma, which he then took to the bishop. When he opened his cloak, the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe was miraculously present on the tilma.
We therefore celebrate the feast day of Our Lady under the title of Guadalupe on December 12th. It is preceded on December 9th by the feast of St. Juan Diego, who was canonized in 2002 by Pope St. John Paul II.
https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/seasons-and-feast-days/our-lady-of-guadalupe-21357
December 3, 2023 ⛪ Gospel according to Mark 📖 #EcumenismWeekend
🎅🏻 Dec. 3, 1st Week of Advent 🎄
For families, relatives and friends 😍 Peace be with you everyone 🥰 #PraxiFides 🙏🏼 #EcumenismWeekend ⛪️
Let’s all make this day meaningful with our loved ones especially, with gatherings that should include Praying and Gospel Sharing” to become closer to God. 🙏🏼
Reading 1, Isaiah 63:16-17, 19
Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 80:2-3, 15-16, 18-19
Reading 2, First Corinthians 1:3-9
Gospel: Mark 13: 33-37 📖
📝 The "Kingdom of God is near". We do not know when we will die. Do not be too complacent.
December 2, 2023 🥰 Proverbs on Woman's Worth📕My holy bible reference for today
My holy bible references for today 📕
Proverbs 31:10-13, 19-20, 30-31 📖
POEM ON THE WOMAN OF WORTH
10 Who can find* a woman of worth?
Far beyond jewels is her value.
11 Her husband trusts her judgment;
he does not lack income.
12 She brings him profit, not loss,*
all the days of her life.
13 She seeks out wool and flax
and weaves with skillful hands.🙏
19 She puts her hands to the distaff,
and her fingers ply the spindle.*
20 She reaches out her hands to the poor,
and extends her arms to the needy. 🙏
30 Charm is deceptive and beauty fleeting;
the woman who fears the LORD is to be praised.*
31 Acclaim her for the work of her hands,
and let her deeds praise her at the city gates. 🙏
December 2, 2023 🥰 Message of Fatima 📜My article reference for today
My article reference for today 📜
MESSAGE OF FATIMA
By following this message their spiritual lives were elevated to the heights of sanctity...
The most important dimension of the Fátima event was not the supernatural and preternatural phenomena but the content and the meaning of the message communicated to the children. By following this message their spiritual lives were elevated to the heights of sanctity, to which the beatification of Jacinta and Francisco testifies, and the hope and possibility of the conversion of the world from its ruinous course was offered to mankind.
This message can be seen as comprising two essential elements, to which all others can be related in some way. The first of these elements is the singular role of the Immaculate One in the economy of salvation, a dogmatic fact. God does not have whims, and so the request of the Almighty that devotion to the Immaculate Heart be established in the world must be founded on reality and presumes that such devotion is justly given to the Mother of God.
The second of these elements involves the practical order, the value of devotion to the Immaculate Heart for the individual life and for the future of the human race. To this element are connected the various spiritual practices encouraged by the Angel and by the Lady, as well as the prophetic content of the message, upon which the fate of the world depends. Without the first element, the dogmatic, the practical dimension of the message of Fátima would be entirely arbitrary.
https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/devotions/message-of-fatima-23373
December 2, 2023 🥰 Timothy📕My holy bible reference for today
My holy bible references for today 📕
1 Timothy 4:3-4 📖
3 The time is sure to come when people will not accept sound teaching, but their ears will be itching for anything new and they will collect themselves a whole series of teachers according to their own tastes;
4 and then they will shut their ears to the truth and will turn to myths. 🙏
December 1, 2023 🥰 The Kingdom of God is Near 📽️My vlog reference for today
My vlog reference for today 📕
Last night, there were people who planned what they will do for the next day but did not had a chance to wake up in the morning. We have the power to choose what time are we going to sleep, but not the power to wake up. Pray that God will always be merciful and that you will live a life pleasing to God. - Dave C.
December 1, 2023 😇 Prayer from a Saint
Prayer from a Saint for today 😇
A prayer to St. Rita when in special need
O powerful St. Rita, rightly called Saint of the Impossible, I come to you with confidence in my great need. You know well my trials, for you yourself were many times burdened in this life. Come to my help, speak for me, pray with me, intercede on my behalf before the Father. I know that God has a most generous heart and that he is a most loving Father. Join your prayers to mine and obtain for me the grace I desire (here mention your request). You who were so very pleasing to God on earth and are so much so now in heaven, I promise to use this favor, when granted, to better my life, to proclaim God's mercy, and to make you more widely known and loved. Amen.
December 1, 2023 😇 Quote from a Saint
Quote from a Saint for today 😇
"Suffering is a great grace; through suffering the soul becomes like the Savior; in suffering love becomes crystallized; the greater the suffering, the purer the love." - St. Faustina
November 30, 2023 🥰 Thy Will be Done 📽️ My vlog reference for today
My vlog reference for today 📽️
Thy Will Be Done 🌐 Bro. Dino's Page
Excerpts from the prayer “Our Father”
We pray in order for God to change our will.
By conforming it to His.
He knows us more than we know ourselves.
He loves us more than we love ourselves.
Whatever happens like sickness, problems, and failures, we need to trust God’s plan… 🙏
November 30, 2023 🥰 Our Lady of Lourdes 📜My article reference for today
My article reference for today 📜
Pope John Paul II's Prayer to Our Lady of Lourdes
Author: Pope John Paul II
Hail Mary, poor and humble Woman, Blessed by the Most High! Virgin of hope, dawn of a new era, We join in your song of praise, to celebrate the Lord’ s mercy, to proclaim the coming of the Kingdom and the full liberation of humanity.
Hail Mary, lowly handmaid of the Lord, Glorious Mother of Christ! Faithful Virgin, holy dwelling-place of the Word, Teach us to persevere in listening to the Word, and to be docile to the voice of the Spirit, attentive to his promptings in the depths of our conscience and to his manifestations in the events of history.
Hail Mary, Woman of sorrows, Mother of the living! Virgin spouse beneath the Cross, the new Eve, Be our guide along the paths of the world. Teach us to experience and to spread the love of Christ, to stand with you before the innumerable crosses on which your Son is still crucified.
Hail Mary, woman of faith, First of the disciples! Virgin Mother of the Church, help us always to account for the hope that is in us, with trust in human goodness and the Father’ s love. Teach us to build up the world beginning from within: in the depths of silence and prayer, in the joy of fraternal love, in the unique fruitfulness of the Cross.
Holy Mary, Mother of believers, Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for us.
Amen.
This prayer was said during the Holy Father's August 15, 2004 visit to Lourdes, France. The Pope asked her among other things to 'be our guide along the paths of the world. '
https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/devotions/pope-john-paul-iis-prayer-to-our-lady-of-lourdes-356
November 30, 2023 😇 Quote from a Saint
Quote from a Saint for today 😇
"If we wish to make any progress in the service of God we must begin every day of our life with new eagerness." - St. Charles Borromeo
November 29, 2023 🥰 Our Lady of Akita 📜My article reference for today
My article reference for today 📜
MESSAGE
As at Fatima, our Blessed Mother’s warning at Akita was most dire. But she also gave hope by giving the solution for people to follow.
Our Lady said:
As I told you, if men do not repent and better themselves, the Father will inflict a terrible punishment on all humanity. It will be a punishment greater than the deluge, such as one will never have seen before. Fire will fall from the sky and will wipe out a great part of humanity, the good as well as the bad, sparing neither priests nor faithful. The survivors will find themselves so desolate that they will envy the dead. The only arms which will remain for you will be the Rosary and the Sign left by My Son.
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https://www.ncregister.com/blog/message-of-akita-50th-anniversary-more-timely-than-ever
November 29, 2023 🥰 John📕My holy bible reference for today
My holy bible references for today 📕
Separation of Church and Government
John 18:36 📖
36 Jesus answered, “My kingdom does not belong to this world. If my kingdom did belong to this world, my attendants [would] be fighting to keep me from being handed over to the Jews. But as it is, my kingdom is not here.” 🙏🏻
November 29, 2023 😇 Quote from a Saint
Quote from a Saint for today 😇
So what will I be doing today if I speak clearly? I will be displeasing to you. But if I do not speak, I will be displeasing to God. - St Leonard of Port Maurice
November 28, 2023 🥰 Queen of Heaven 📜My article reference for today
My article reference for today 📜
Marian Prayer
Regina Caeli (O Queen of Heaven)
Regina Caeli: English and Latin
This is one of four Marian antiphons, with following versicles and prayers, traditionally said or sung after night prayer, immediately before going to sleep. It is said throughout Eastertide. (That is, from Easter Day through Pentecost, the seventh Sunday after Easter.
The Regina caeli is also said in place of the Angelus during Eastertide.
Queen of Heaven
V. Queen of Heaven, rejoice, alleluia.
R. For He whom you did merit to bear, alleluia.
V. Has risen, as he said, alleluia.
R. Pray for us to God, alleluia.
V. Rejoice and be glad, O Virgin Mary, alleluia.
R. For the Lord has truly risen, alleluia.
Let us pray. O God, who gave joy to the world through the resurrection of Thy Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, grant we beseech Thee, that through the intercession of the Virgin Mary, His Mother, we may obtain the joys of everlasting life. Through the same Christ our Lord. Amen.
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https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/devotions/regina-caeli-o-queen-of-heaven-375
November 28, 2023 🥰 Colossians and Galatians📕My holy bible reference for today
My holy bible references for today 📕
Circumcision
Colossians 2:11-12 📖
11 In him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not administered by hand, by stripping off the carnal body, with the circumcision of Christ. 12 You were buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the power of God, who raised him from the dead.
Galatians 5:12 📖
2 It is I, Paul, who am telling you that if you have yourselves circumcised, Christ will be of no benefit to you. (Needs to be analyzed based on Context)
November 28, 2023 🥰 Canon Law Reference 📜My article reference for today
My article reference for today 📜
TITLE II.
OFFENCES AGAINST CHURCH AUTHORITIES AND THE EXERCISE OF DUTIES (Cann. 1370 - 1378)
Can. 1373— A person who publicly incites hatred or animosity against the Apostolic See or the Ordinary because of some act of ecclesiastical office or duty, or who provokes disobedience against them, is to be punished by interdict or other just penalties.
Can. 1374— A person who joins an association which plots against the Church is to be punished with a just penalty; one who promotes or takes office in such an association is to be punished with an interdict.
TITLE III.
OFFENCES AGAINST THE SACRAMENTS (Cann. 1379 - 1389)
Can. 1381— One who is guilty of prohibited participation in religious rites is to be punished with a just penalty.
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https://www.vatican.va/archive/cod-iuris-canonici/eng/documents/cic_lib6-cann1364-1399_en.html
November 27, 2023 🥰 Luke📕My holy bible reference for today
My holy bible references for today 📕
Daily Reading for Monday, November 27, 2023
Reading 1, Daniel 1:1-6, 8-20
Responsorial Psalm, Daniel 3:52, 53, 54, 55, 56
Gospel Luke 21:1-4 📖
1 Looking up, he saw rich people putting their offerings into the treasury;
2 and he noticed a poverty-stricken widow putting in two small coins,
3 and he said, 'I tell you truly, this poor widow has put in more than any of them;
4 for these have all put in money they could spare, but she in her poverty has put in all she had to live on.' 🙏🏻
December 27, 2023 🥰 Chaplet of Divine Mercy 📜My article reference for today
My article reference for today 📜
Chaplet of Divine Mercy
Praying the Chaplet of Divine Mercy
The Chaplet of Divine Mercy is a powerful instrument of prayer for ourselves and for others.
1. Begin with the Sign of the Cross on the Crucifix, then on the three small beads, an Our Father, a Hail Mary, and the Apostles’ Creed.
2. Then on the Our Father Bead of each decade, pray:
Eternal Father, I offer You the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of Your dearly beloved Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ, in atonement for our sins and those of the whole world.
3. On the ten Hail Mary Beads of each decade, pray:
For the sake of His sorrowful Passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world. (Repeat steps two and three for all five decades).
Repeat for all five decades.
4. Conclude the Chaplet by praying three times:
Holy God, Holy Mighty One, Holy Immortal One, have mercy on us and on the whole world.
November 26, 2023 🥰 Hebrews📕My holy bible reference for today
My holy bible references for today 📕
Hebrews 13:8-9 📖
8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
9 Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teaching.* It is good to have our hearts strengthened by grace and not by foods, which do not benefit those who live by them.
November 26, 2023 🥰 Christ The King 👑#EcumenismWeekend
November 26, 2023 😇 Quote from a Saint
Quote from a Saint for today 😇
So what will I be doing today if I speak clearly? I will be displeasing to you. But if I do not speak, I will be displeasing to God. - St Leonard of Port Maurice
November 25, 2023 🥰 Gospel according to Matthew📕#EcumenismWeekend
My holy bible references for today 📕
Daily Reading for Saturday, November 25, 2023
Reading 1, First Maccabees 6:1-13
Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 9:2-3, 4, 6, 16, 19
Gospel from Luke 20:27-40 📖
34 Jesus replied, 'The children of this world take wives and husbands,
35 but those who are judged worthy of a place in the other world and in the resurrection from the dead do not marry
36 because they can no longer die, for they are the same as the angels, and being children of the resurrection they are children of God.🙏🏻
November 25, 2023 ⛪ Our Lady of Perpetual Help 🌐 My article reference for today
My article reference for today 🌐
Marian Prayers
Our Lady of Perpetual Help
O Mother of Perpetual Help, grant that I may ever invoke thy most powerful name, which is the safeguard of the living and the salvation of the dying. O Purest Mary, O Sweetest Mary, let thy name henceforth be ever on my lips. Delay not, O Blessed Lady, to help me whenever I call on thee, for, in all my needs, in all my temptations I shall never cease to call on thee, ever repeating thy sacred name, Mary, Mary.
O what consolation, what sweetness, what confidence, what emotion fill my soul when I pronounce thy sacred name, or even only think of thee. I thank God for having given thee, for my good, so sweet, so powerful, so lovely a name. But I will not be content with merely pronouncing thy name: let my love for thee prompt me ever to hail thee, Mother of Perpetual Help.
https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/devotions/our-lady-of-perpetual-help-354
November 24, 2023 🥰 Gospel according to Matthew📕#EcumenismWeekend
My holy bible references for today 📕
Daily Reading for Friday, November 24, 2023
Reading 1, Wisdom 3:1-9
Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 125:1-5
Gospel from Matthew 10:17-22 📖
19 But when you are handed over, do not worry about how to speak or what to say; what you are to say will be given to you when the time comes,
20 because it is not you who will be speaking; the Spirit of your Father will be speaking in you.🙏
November 26, 2023 😇 Story of a Saint
Story of a Saint for today 😇
St. Rita of Cascia: the Patroness of impossible causes
In our lives, we face troubles, difficulties, and situations that seem impossible. In these moments, our faith in God must be stronger than ever. This is the real meaning of Rita da Cascia’s life and miracles, the Patroness of Impossible Causes. A saint that we celebrate on May 22nd.
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https://savellireligious.com/blogs/blog/st-rita-da-cascia-the-patroness-of-impossible-causes
November 24, 2023 ⛪ Our Lady of Guadalupe 🌐 My article references for today
My article references for today 🌐
A Prayer to Our Lady of Guadalupe
Our Lady of Guadalupe,
Mystical Rose,
make intercession for holy Church,
protect the sovereign Pontiff,
help all those who invoke you in their necessities,
and since you are the ever Virgin Mary
and Mother of the true God,
obtain for us from your most holy Son
the grace of keeping our faith,
of sweet hope in the midst of the bitterness of life
of burning charity, and the precious gift
of final perseverance.
Amen.
November 23, 2023 🥰 Luke📕My holy bible reference for today
My holy bible references for today 📕
Daily Reading for Thursday November 23, 2023
Reading 1, First Maccabees 2:15-29
Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 50:1-2, 5-6, 14-15
Gospel from Luke 9:41-44 📖
44 'For your part, you must have these words constantly in mind: The Son of man is going to be delivered into the power of men. 🙏
November 23, 2023 🥰 The Magnificat 🌐 My article references for today
My article references for today 📕
The Magnificat
The Prayer Of Mary
My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord,
my spirit rejoices in God my Savior
for he has looked with favor on his lowly servant.
From this day all generations will call me blessed:
the Almighty has done great things for me,
and holy is his Name.
He has mercy on those who fear him
in every generation.
He has shown the strength of his arm,
he has scattered the proud in their conceit.
He has cast down the mighty from their thrones,
and has lifted up the lowly.
He has filled the hungry with good things,
and the rich he has sent away empty.
He has come to the help of his servant Israel
for he remembered his promise of mercy,
the promise he made to our fathers,
to Abraham and his children forever.
(Lk 1: 46-55)
November 22, 2023 🥰 Genesis📕My holy bible reference for today
My holy bible references for today 📕
Genesis 7:1-5 📖
1 Then the LORD said to Noah: Go into the ark, you and all your household, for you alone in this generation have I found to be righteous before me.a
2 Of every clean animal, take with you seven pairs, a male and its mate; and of the unclean animals, one pair, a male and its mate;
3 likewise, of every bird of the air, seven pairs, a male and a female, to keep their progeny alive over all the earth.
4 For seven days from now I will bring rain down on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and so I will wipe out from the face of the earth every being that I have made.b
5 Noah complied, just as the LORD had commanded.
November 22, 2023 😇 Quote from a Saint
Quote from a Saint for today 😇
“Actions speak louder than words; let your words teach and your actions speak.”. - St. Saint Anthony of Padua
November 21, 2023 🥰 Numbers📕My holy bible reference for today
My holy bible references for today 📕
Numbers 1:1-3 📖 Numbers 1:4-19 📖
The Census.
1 In the second year after the Israelites’ departure from the land of Egypt, on the first day of the second month, the LORD said to Moses at the tent of meeting in the wilderness of Sinai:
2 * Take a census of the whole community of the Israelites,a by clans and ancestral houses, registering by name each male individually.
3 You and Aaron shall enroll in companies all the men in Israel of twenty years or more who are fit for military service.
Moses’ Assistants.
4 With you there shall be a man from each tribe, each the head of his ancestral house.
5 b These are the names of those who are to assist you: from Reuben: Elizur, son of Shedeur;
6 from Simeon: Shelumiel, son of Zurishaddai;
7 from Judah:c Nahshon, son of Amminadab;
8 from Issachar: Nethanel, son of Zuar;
9 from Zebulun: Eliab, son of Helon;
10 for the descendants of Joseph: from Ephraim: Elishama, son of Ammihud; and from Manasseh: Gamaliel, son of Pedahzur;
11 from Benjamin: Abidan, son of Gideoni;
12 from Dan: Ahiezer, son of Ammishaddai;
13 from Asher: Pagiel, son of Ochran;
14 from Gad: Eliasaph, son of Reuel;
15 from Naphtali: Ahira, son of Enan.
16 d These were the elect of the community, leaders of their ancestral tribes, heads of the clans of Israel.
17 So Moses and Aaron took these men who had been designated by name,
18 and assembled the whole community on the first day of the second month. Every man of twenty years or more then registered individually his name and lineage according to clan and ancestral house,
19 as the LORD had commanded Moses. So he enrolled them in the wilderness of Sinai.
November 21, 2023 😇 Quote from a Saint
Quote from a Saint for today 📕
Let nothing disturb you, nothing frighten you, all things are passing, God is unchanging. Patience gains all; nothing is lacking to those who have God: God alone is sufficient. - St. Teresa of Avila
November 21, 2023 🥰 Leviticus📕My holy bible reference for today
My holy bible references for today 📕
Leviticus 6:1-6 📖
The Daily Burnt Offering.
1 The LORD said to Moses:
2 * a Give Aaron and his sons the following command: This is the ritual* for the burnt offering—the burnt offering that is to remain on the hearth of the altar all night until the next morning, while the fire is kept burning on the altar.
3 The priest, clothed in his linen robe and wearing linen pants underneath, shall take away the ashes to which the fire has reduced the burnt offering on the altar, and lay them at the side of the altar.
4 Then, having taken off these garments and put on other garments, he shall carry the ashes to a clean place outside the camp.
5 The fire on the altar is to be kept burning; it must not go out. Every morning the priest shall put firewood on it. On this he shall lay out the burnt offeringb and burn the fat of the communion offering.
6 The fire is to be kept burning continuously on the altar; it must not go out.
November 20, 2023 🤓 Catechism Reference 📜Holy Mary Mother of God
My article references for today 📜CCC reference of the day
Holy Mary Mother of God
2677 Holy Mary, Mother of God: With Elizabeth we marvel, "And why is this granted me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?" Because she gives us Jesus, her son, Mary is Mother of God and our mother; we can entrust all our cares and petitions to her: she prays for us as she prayed for herself: "Let it be to me according to your word." By entrusting ourselves to her prayer, we abandon ourselves to the will of God together with her: "Thy will be done."
Pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death: By asking Mary to pray for us, we acknowledge ourselves to be poor sinners and we address ourselves to the "Mother of Mercy," the All-Holy One. We give ourselves over to her now, in the Today of our lives. And our trust broadens further, already at the present moment, to surrender "the hour of our death" wholly to her care. May she be there as she was at her son's death on the cross. May she welcome us as our mother at the hour of our passing to lead us to her son, Jesus, in paradise.
November 20, 2023 😇 Quote from a Saint
Quote from a Saint for today 😇
"If I have any worth, it is to live my life for God. - Saint Patrick
November 20, 2023 🥰 Exodus📕My holy bible reference for today
My holy bible references for today 📕
Exodus 34:7 📖
continuing his love for a thousand generations, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion, and sin; yet not declaring the guilty guiltless, but bringing punishment for their parents’ wickedness on children and children’s children to the third and fourth generation!
November 19, 2023 😇 Quote from a Saint
Quote from a Saint for today 😇
Had I a thousand lives, all these to Him shall I offer.” - Saint Lorenzo Ruiz
November 19, 2023 🥰 No Right time to do evil 📽️ My vlog reference for today
My vlog reference for today 📽️
No Right Time To Do Evil 🌐 Fr. Dave Concepcion
November 19, 2023 🥰 Deuteronomy📕My holy bible reference for today
My holy bible references for today 📕
Deuteronomy 28:22 📖
Sickness and Defeat.
20 The LORD will send on you a curse, panic, and frustration in everything you set your hand to, until you are speedily destroyed and perish for the evil you have done in forsaking me.
21 The LORD will make disease cling to you until he has made an end of you from the land you are entering to possess.
22 The LORD will strike you with consumption, fever, and inflammation, with fiery heat and drought, with blight and mildew, that will pursue you until you perish.
November 18, 2023 🥰 Exorcism🌐 My article references for today
My article references for today 📕
Exorcism
1673 When the Church asks publicly and authoritatively in the name of Jesus Christ that a person or object be protected against the power of the Evil One and withdrawn from his dominion, it is called exorcism. Jesus performed exorcisms and from him the Church has received the power and office of exorcizing. In a simple form, exorcism is performed at the celebration of Baptism. The solemn exorcism, called "a major exorcism," can be performed only by a priest and with the permission of the bishop. The priest must proceed with prudence, strictly observing the rules established by the Church. Exorcism is directed at the expulsion of demons or to the liberation from demonic possession through the spiritual authority which Jesus entrusted to his Church. Illness, especially psychological illness, is a very different matter; treating this is the concern of medical science. Therefore, before an exorcism is performed, it is important to ascertain that one is dealing with the presence of the Evil One, and not an illness.
November 18, 2023 🥰 Prayer and Fasting 📕 My holy bible references for today
Excerpts from Mark 9:26-32 📖
26And the spirit cried, and rent him sore, and came out of him: and he was as one dead; insomuch that many said, He is dead. 27But Jesus took him by the hand, and lifted him up; and he arose. 28And when he was come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, Why could not we cast him out? 29And he said unto them, This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting. 30And they departed thence, and passed through Galilee; and he would not that any man should know it. 31For he taught his disciples, and said unto them, The Son of man is delivered into the hands of men, and they shall kill him; and after that he is killed, he shall rise the third day. 32But they understood not that saying, and were afraid to ask him.
Romans 8:13 📖
If you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live
A Message from Pope Francis 🧾
Fasting helps overcome our indifference for those who do not have - Pope Francis
November 17, 2023 ⛪ Luke 📖 #EcumenismWeekend
My holy bible references for today 📕
Daily Reading for Friday November 17, 2023
Reading 1, Luke 17:26-37 📖
Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 19:2-3, 4-5
26 As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be in the days of the Son of Man;
27 they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage up to the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.
28 Similarly, as it was in the days of Lot: they were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building;
29 on the day when Lot left Sodom, fire and brimstone rained from the sky to destroy them all.
30 So it will be on the day the Son of Man is revealed.
31 On that day, a person who is on the housetop and whose belongings are in the house must not go down to get them, and likewise, a person in the field must not return to what was left behind.
32 Remember the wife of Lot.
33 Whoever seeks to preserve his life will lose it, but whoever loses it will save it.
34 I tell you, on that night there will be two people in one bed; one will be taken, the other left.
35 And there will be two women grinding meal together; one will be taken, the other left.”
36-37 They said to him in reply, “Where, Lord?” He said to them, “Where the body is, there also the vultures will gather."
November 17, 2023 😇 Quote from a Saint
November 17, 2023 🥰 Wisdom📕My holy bible references for today
My holy bible references for today 📕
Wisdom 1-15 📖
Exhortation to Righteousness, the Key to Life
4 Because into a soul that plots evil wisdom does not enter, nor does she dwell in a body under debt of sin
November 16, 2023 😇 Quote from a Saint
Quote from a Saint for today 😇
Everything, even sweeping, scraping vegetables, weeding a garden and waiting on the sick could be a prayer, if it were offered to God. - St Martin De Porres
November 16, 2023 🥰 Only few love the cross of Jesus 🌐 My holy bible and article references for today
My holy bible 📕 and article references for today 📽
Swear to God 🌐 Scott Hahn
1 Corinthians 10:13 📖
No trial has come to you but what is human. God is faithful and will not let you be tried beyond your strength; but with the trial he will also provide a way out, so that you may be able to bear it
November 16, 2023 🥰 #PraxiFides 🧾 My vlog reference for today
My article reference for today 📽🧾
Jesus had Brothers?
1. The Meaning of Brother
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https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/the-curious-case-of-the-protestant-bible
November 15, 2023 🥰 John and Letter of Paul 📕 My holy bible references for today
My holy bible references for today 📕
Romans 5:5 📖
and hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out into our hearts through the holy Spirit that has been given to us. 🙏🏻
John 14:23 📖
Jesus answered and said to him, “Whoever loves me will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our dwelling with him. 🙏🏻
2 Corinthians 6:16 📖
Call to Holiness
What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said:
“I will live with them and move among them,*
and I will be their God
and they shall be my people. 🙏🏻
November 15, 2023 🥰 Only few love the cross of Jesus 📽️ My vlog reference for today
My vlog reference for today 📽️
Only Few Love the Cross of Jesus 🌐 Bro. Dino
November 15, 2023 🥰 #PraxiFides 🧾 My vlog reference for today
My article reference for today 📽🧾
The Curious Case of the Protestant Bible
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https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/the-curious-case-of-the-protestant-bible
November 14, 2023 😇 Quote from a Saint
Quote from a Saint for today 😇
“The sleepy like to make excuses.” - St. Benedict of Norcia
November 14, 2023 🥰 Catechism Reference 🌐 Sacrament of Confirmation
My CCC reference for today 🌐
The Sacrament of Confirmation
I. CONFIRMATION IN THE ECONOMY OF SALVATION
1286 In the Old Testament the prophets announced that the Spirit of the Lord would rest on the hoped-for Messiah for his saving mission.91 The descent of the Holy Spirit on Jesus at his baptism by John was the sign that this was he who was to come, the Messiah, the Son of God.92 He was conceived of the Holy Spirit; his whole life and his whole mission are carried out in total communion with the Holy Spirit whom the Father gives him "without measure."93
1287 This fullness of the Spirit was not to remain uniquely the Messiah's, but was to be communicated to the whole messianic people.94 On several occasions Christ promised this outpouring of the Spirit,95 a promise which he fulfilled first on Easter Sunday and then more strikingly at Pentecost.96 Filled with the Holy Spirit the apostles began to proclaim "the mighty works of God," and Peter declared this outpouring of the Spirit to be the sign of the messianic age.97 Those who believed in the apostolic preaching and were baptized received the gift of the Holy Spirit in their turn.98
1288 "From that time on the apostles, in fulfillment of Christ's will, imparted to the newly baptized by the laying on of hands the gift of the Spirit that completes the grace of Baptism. For this reason in the Letter to the Hebrews the doctrine concerning Baptism and the laying on of hands is listed among the first elements of Christian instruction. The imposition of hands is rightly recognized by the Catholic tradition as the origin of the sacrament of Confirmation, which in a certain way perpetuates the grace of Pentecost in the Church."99
1289 Very early, the better to signify the gift of the Holy Spirit, an anointing with perfumed oil (chrism) was added to the laying on of hands. This anointing highlights the name "Christian," which means "anointed" and derives from that of Christ himself whom God "anointed with the Holy Spirit."100 This rite of anointing has continued ever since, in both East and West. For this reason the Eastern Churches call this sacrament Chrismation, anointing with chrism, or myron which means "chrism." In the West, the term Confirmation suggests that this sacrament both confirms and strengthens baptismal grace.
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November 14, 2023 🥰 Timothy📕 My holy bible reference for today
My holy bible reference for today 📕
Timothy 4:6-12 📖
November 13, 2023 🥰 Catechism Reference 🌐 Sacrament of Baptism
My CCC reference for today 🌐
The Sacrament of Baptism
1213 Holy Baptism is the basis of the whole Christian life, the gateway to life in the Spirit (vitae spiritualis ianua),4 and the door which gives access to the other sacraments. Through Baptism we are freed from sin and reborn as sons of God; we become members of Christ, are incorporated into the Church and made sharers in her mission: "Baptism is the sacrament of regeneration through water in the word."5
I. WHAT IS THIS SACRAMENT CALLED?
1214 This sacrament is called Baptism, after the central rite by which it is carried out: to baptize (Greek baptizein) means to "plunge" or "immerse"; the "plunge" into the water symbolizes the catechumen's burial into Christ's death, from which he rises up by resurrection with him, as "a new creature."6
1215 This sacrament is also called "the washing of regeneration and renewal by the Holy Spirit," for it signifies and actually brings about the birth of water and the Spirit without which no one "can enter the kingdom of God."7
1216 "This bath is called enlightenment, because those who receive this [catechetical] instruction are enlightened in their understanding . . . ."8 Having received in Baptism the Word, "the true light that enlightens every man," the person baptized has been "enlightened," he becomes a "son of light," indeed, he becomes "light" himself:9
Baptism is God's most beautiful and magnificent gift. . . .We call it gift, grace, anointing, enlightenment, garment of immortality, bath of rebirth, seal, and most precious gift. It is called gift because it is conferred on those who bring nothing of their own; grace since it is given even to the guilty; Baptism because sin is buried in the water; anointing for it is priestly and royal as are those who are anointed; enlightenment because it radiates light; clothing since it veils our shame; bath because it washes; and seal as it is our guard and the sign of God's Lordship.1
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November 13, 2023 😇 Quote from a Saint
Quote from a Saint for today 😇
“Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear” - St. Catherine of Siena
November 13, 2023 🥰#PraxiFides 📕 My holy bible reference for today
My holy bible reference for today 📕
James 2:14-17 📖
Faith and Works
14 What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him?i
15 If a brother or sister has nothing to wear and has no food for the day,
16 and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, keep warm, and eat well,” but you do not give them the necessities of the body, what good is it?j
17 So also faith of itself, if it does not have works, is dead.🙏🏻
November 12, 2023 🥰 Everything is Grace 🌐 My blog reference for today
My blog reference for today 🌐
https://www.facebook.com/groups/425055381680083/permalink/1511726963012914/
November 12, 2023 😇 Quote from a Saint
Quote from a Saint for today 😇
If I do not become a Saint, I am doing nothing. - Saint Dominic
November 12, 2023 🥰 Wisdom📕 My holy bible reference for today
My holy bible reference for today 📕
Wisdom 6:12-16 📖
November 11, 2023 🥰 Catechism Reference 🌐 Morality
Morality
Made in the Image of God
The most basic principle of the Christian moral life is the awareness that every person bears the dignity of being made in the image of God. He has given us an immortal soul and through the gifts of intelligence and reason enables us to understand the order of things established in his creation. God has also given us a free will to seek and love what is true, good, and beautiful. Sadly, because of the Fall, we also suffer the impact of Original Sin, which darkens our minds, weakens our wills, and inclines us to sin. Baptism delivers us from Original Sin but not from its effects—especially the inclination to sin, concupiscence. Within us, then, is both the powerful surge toward the good because we are made in the image of God, and the darker impulses toward evil because of the effects of Original Sin.
But we should always remember that Christ's dying and rising offers us new life in the Spirit, whose saving grace delivers us from sin and heals sin's damage within us. Thus we speak of the value, dignity, and goal of human life, even with its imperfections and struggles. Human life, as a profound unity of physical and spiritual dimensions, is sacred. It is distinct from all other forms of life, since it alone is imprinted with the very image of its Creator.
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https://www.usccb.org/beliefs-and-teachings/what-we-believe/morality
November 11, 2023 🥰 Only Few Will be Saved 📽️ My vlog reference for today
My vlog reference for today 📽️
Only Few Will be Saved🌐Bro. Dino YT channel
November 11, 2023 😇 Quote from a Saint
Quote from a Saint for today 😇
We should throw ourselves into God as a little drop of water into the sea, and lose ourselves indeed, in the ocean of the divine goodness. - St. Jane Frances de Chantel
November 10, 2023 🥰 God is merciful and just 📽️ My vlog reference for today
My vlog reference for today 📽️
Don't abuse God's mercy 🌐Fr Isaac Relyea
November 10, 2023 🥰 Isaiah, Ephesians, and 1 John 📕My Bible reference for today
My holy bible and article reference for today 📕
See also https://www.catholic.com/tract/purgatory and https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/how-do-i-know-if-its-a-mortal-sin
Generosity of God’s Plan 🌐 USCCB
8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not from you; it is the gift of God; 🙏🏻
Prayer for Sinners - Mortal Sin and Venial Sin 🌐 USCCB
13 I write these things to you so that you may know that you have eternal life, you who believe in the name of the Son of God.
14 And we have this confidence in him, that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.k
15 And if we know that he hears us in regard to whatever we ask, we know that what we have asked him for is ours.
16 If anyone sees his brother sinning, if the sin is not deadly, he should pray to God and he will give him life. This is only for those whose sin is not deadly. There is such a thing as deadly sin, about which I do not say that you should pray.l
17 All wrongdoing is sin, but there is sin that is not deadly.
18 We know that no one begotten by God sins; but the one begotten by God he protects, and the evil one cannot touch him.
19 We know that we belong to God, and the whole world is under the power of the evil one.
20 We also know that the Son of God has come and has given us discernment to know the one who is true. And we are in the one who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.m
21 Children, be on your guard against idols. 🙏🏻
November 10, 2023 😇 Story of a Saint
Quote from a Saint for today 😇
Saint Scholastica, Virgin Short life History
Little is known about Saint Scholastica on earth, save that she was the sister of the great patriarch St. Benedict, and that, under his direction, she founded and governed a numerous community near Monte Casino.
St. Gregory sums up her life by saying that she devoted herself to God from her childhood, and that her pure soul went to God in the likeness of a dove, as if to show that her life had been enriched with the fullest gifts of the Holy Spirit.
Her brother was accustomed to visit her every year, for “she could not be sated or wearied with the words of grace which flowed from his lips.” On his last visit, after a day passed in spiritual converse, the Saint, knowing that her end was near, said, “My brother, leave me not, I pray you, this night, but discourse with me till dawn on the bliss of those who see God in heaven.”
St. Benedict would not, break his rule at the bidding of natural affection; and then the Saint bowed her head on her hands and prayed; and there arose a storm so violent that St. Benedict could not return to his monastery, and they passed the night in heavenly conversation. Three days later St. Benedict saw in a vision the soul of his sister going up in the likeness of a dove into heaven. Then he gave thanks to God for the graces He had given her, and for the glory which had crowned them. When she died, St. Benedict, her spiritual daughters, and the monks sent by St. Benedict mingled their tears and prayed, “Alas! alas! dearest mother, to whom dost thou leave us now? Pray for us to Jesus, to Whom thou art gone.”
They then devoutly celebrated holy Mass, “commending her soul to God;” and her body was borne to Monte Casino, and laid by her brother in the tomb he had prepared for himself.” And they bewailed her many days;” and St. Benedict said, “Weep not, sisters and brothers; for assuredly Jesus has taken her before us to be our aid and defence against all our enemies, that we may stand in the evil day and be in all things perfect.” She died about the year 543.
November 9, 2023 🥰 Day 9 🌐 Novena for the Holy Souls in Purgatory
Day 9 – Novena for the Holy Souls in Purgatory
Let us begin, In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
O most sweet Jesus, through the bloody sweat which Thou didst suffer in the Garden of Gethsemane, have mercy on these Blessed Souls. Have mercy on them.R. Have mercy on them, O Lord. O most sweet Jesus, through the pains which Thou didst suffer during Thy most cruel scourging, have mercy on them.
R. Have mercy on them, O Lord. O most sweet Jesus, through the pains which Thou didst suffer in Thy most painful crowning with thorns, have mercy on them.
R. Have mercy on them, O Lord. O most sweet Jesus, through the pains which Thou didst suffer in carrying Thy cross to Calvary, have mercy on them.
R. Have mercy on them, O Lord. O most sweet Jesus, through the pains which Thou didst suffer during Thy most cruel Crucifixion, have mercy on them.
R. Have mercy on them, O Lord. O most sweet Jesus, through the pains which Thou didst suffer in Thy most bitter agony on the Cross, have mercy on them.
R. Have mercy on them, O Lord. O most sweet Jesus, through the immense pain which Thou didst suffer in breathing forth Thy Blessed Soul, have mercy on them.R. Have mercy on them, O Lord.
(Recommend yourself to the Souls in Purgatory and mention your intentions here)
Blessed Souls, I have prayed for thee, I entreat thee, who are so dear to God, and who are secure of never losing Him, to pray for me a miserable sinner, who is in danger of being damned, and of losing God forever.
Amen
Say 1: Our Father… Say 1: Hail Mary… Say 1: Glory Be…
https://novenaprayer.com/novena-to-the-holy-souls-in-purgatory/
November 9, 2023 🥰 St. Helena Discoveries 🌐 article reference for today
SEVEN THINGS ST. HELENA DISCOVERED (OR NOT)
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https://thecompletepilgrim.com/seven-things-st-helena-discovered-not/
November 9, 2023 🥰 Corinthians 📕 My holy bible reference for today
My holy bible reference for today 📕
Let's all try our best to become closer to only one God through devotion, Examination of conscience/sacraments and by Praying, fasting/abstinence, alms giving 🙏
No to other beliefs like horoscope, divination, spirit healers, astrology, and etc. ❌️
No to bad company and wasting time ❌️
No to prosperity gospel ❌️
1 Corinthians 9:25-27 📖
25 Every athlete exercises discipline in every way. They do it to win a perishable crown, but we an imperishable one.
26 Thus I do not run aimlessly; I do not fight as if I were shadowboxing.
27 No, I drive my body and train it, for fear that, after having preached to others, I myself should be disqualified.🙏🏻
November 8, 2023 😇 Quote from a Saint
Quote from a Saint for today 😇
How can you promise yourself another day, when you know not whether you shall live another hour? - Aurelius Augustinus
November 8, 2023 🥰 Day 8 🌐 Novena for the Holy Souls in Purgatory
Day 8 – Novena for the Holy Souls in Purgatory
Let us begin, In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
O most sweet Jesus, through the bloody sweat which Thou didst suffer in the Garden of Gethsemane, have mercy on these Blessed Souls. Have mercy on them.R. Have mercy on them, O Lord. O most sweet Jesus, through the pains which Thou didst suffer during Thy most cruel scourging, have mercy on them.
R. Have mercy on them, O Lord. O most sweet Jesus, through the pains which Thou didst suffer in Thy most painful crowning with thorns, have mercy on them.
R. Have mercy on them, O Lord. O most sweet Jesus, through the pains which Thou didst suffer in carrying Thy cross to Calvary, have mercy on them.
R. Have mercy on them, O Lord. O most sweet Jesus, through the pains which Thou didst suffer during Thy most cruel Crucifixion, have mercy on them.
R. Have mercy on them, O Lord. O most sweet Jesus, through the pains which Thou didst suffer in Thy most bitter agony on the Cross, have mercy on them.
R. Have mercy on them, O Lord. O most sweet Jesus, through the immense pain which Thou didst suffer in breathing forth Thy Blessed Soul, have mercy on them.R. Have mercy on them, O Lord.
(Recommend yourself to the Souls in Purgatory and mention your intentions here)
Blessed Souls, I have prayed for thee, I entreat thee, who are so dear to God, and who are secure of never losing Him, to pray for me a miserable sinner, who is in danger of being damned, and of losing God forever.
Amen
Say 1: Our Father… Say 1: Hail Mary… Say 1: Glory Be…
https://novenaprayer.com/novena-to-the-holy-souls-in-purgatory/
November 8, 2023 🥰 Luke 📕 My holy bible reference for today
My holy bible reference for today 📕
Daily Reading for Wednesday November 8, 2023
Reading 1, Romans 13:8-10
Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 112:1-2, 4-5, 9
Gospel from Luke 14:25-33 📖
27 No one who does not carry his cross and come after me can be my disciple. 🙏🏻
November 7, 2023 🥰 St. Augustine 🌐 article reference for today
"The Explanation of “Not Peace but a Sword”
St. Augustine:
(Quæst. in Matt. q. 3.) Otherwise; I am come to set a man against his father; for he renounces the devil, who was his son; the daughter against her mother, that is, the people of God against the city of the world, that is, the wicked society of mankind, which is spoken of in Scripture under the names of Babylon, Egypt, Sodom, and other names. The daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law, that is, the Church against the Synagogue, which according to the flesh, brought forth Christ the spouse of the Church. They are severed by the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. And a man’s foes are they of his household, those, that is, with whom he before lived as intimates.
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https://www.catholic.com/qa/the-explanation-of-not-peace-but-a-sword
November 7, 2023 🥰 Matthew 📕 My holy bible reference for today
My holy bible reference for today 📕
Matthew 10:34-36 📖
Jesus: A Cause of Division 🌐 USCCB
34 “Do not think that I have come to bring peace upon the earth. I have come to bring not peace but the sword.
35 For I have come to set
a man ‘against his father,
a daughter against her mother,
and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law;
36 and one’s enemies will be those of his household.’🙏🏻
November 7, 2023 🥰 Day 7 🌐 Novena for the Holy Souls in Purgatory
Day 7 – Novena for the Holy Souls in Purgatory
Let us begin, In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
O most sweet Jesus, through the bloody sweat which Thou didst suffer in the Garden of Gethsemane, have mercy on these Blessed Souls. Have mercy on them.R. Have mercy on them, O Lord. O most sweet Jesus, through the pains which Thou didst suffer during Thy most cruel scourging, have mercy on them.
R. Have mercy on them, O Lord. O most sweet Jesus, through the pains which Thou didst suffer in Thy most painful crowning with thorns, have mercy on them.
R. Have mercy on them, O Lord. O most sweet Jesus, through the pains which Thou didst suffer in carrying Thy cross to Calvary, have mercy on them.
R. Have mercy on them, O Lord. O most sweet Jesus, through the pains which Thou didst suffer during Thy most cruel Crucifixion, have mercy on them.
R. Have mercy on them, O Lord. O most sweet Jesus, through the pains which Thou didst suffer in Thy most bitter agony on the Cross, have mercy on them.
R. Have mercy on them, O Lord. O most sweet Jesus, through the immense pain which Thou didst suffer in breathing forth Thy Blessed Soul, have mercy on them.R. Have mercy on them, O Lord.
(Recommend yourself to the Souls in Purgatory and mention your intentions here)
Blessed Souls, I have prayed for thee, I entreat thee, who are so dear to God, and who are secure of never losing Him, to pray for me a miserable sinner, who is in danger of being damned, and of losing God forever.
Amen
Say 1: Our Father… Say 1: Hail Mary… Say 1: Glory Be…
https://novenaprayer.com/novena-to-the-holy-souls-in-purgatory/
November 6, 2023 🥰 Timothy 📕My holy bible reference for today
My holy bible reference for today 📕
2 Timothy 3:13 📖
while evildoers and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived. 🙏🏻
November 6, 2023 🥰 Day 6 🌐 Novena for the Holy Souls in Purgatory
Day 6 – Novena for the Holy Souls in Purgatory
Let us begin, In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
O most sweet Jesus, through the bloody sweat which Thou didst suffer in the Garden of Gethsemane, have mercy on these Blessed Souls. Have mercy on them.R. Have mercy on them, O Lord. O most sweet Jesus, through the pains which Thou didst suffer during Thy most cruel scourging, have mercy on them.
R. Have mercy on them, O Lord. O most sweet Jesus, through the pains which Thou didst suffer in Thy most painful crowning with thorns, have mercy on them.
R. Have mercy on them, O Lord. O most sweet Jesus, through the pains which Thou didst suffer in carrying Thy cross to Calvary, have mercy on them.
R. Have mercy on them, O Lord. O most sweet Jesus, through the pains which Thou didst suffer during Thy most cruel Crucifixion, have mercy on them.
R. Have mercy on them, O Lord. O most sweet Jesus, through the pains which Thou didst suffer in Thy most bitter agony on the Cross, have mercy on them.
R. Have mercy on them, O Lord. O most sweet Jesus, through the immense pain which Thou didst suffer in breathing forth Thy Blessed Soul, have mercy on them.R. Have mercy on them, O Lord.
(Recommend yourself to the Souls in Purgatory and mention your intentions here)
Blessed Souls, I have prayed for thee, I entreat thee, who are so dear to God, and who are secure of never losing Him, to pray for me a miserable sinner, who is in danger of being damned, and of losing God forever.
Amen
Say 1: Our Father… Say 1: Hail Mary… Say 1: Glory Be…
https://novenaprayer.com/novena-to-the-holy-souls-in-purgatory/
November 6, 2023 😇 Quote from a Saint
Quote from a Saint for today 😇
Keep your heart in peace and let nothing trouble you, not even your faults. You must humble yourself and amend them peacefully, without being discouraged or cast down, for God's dwelling is in peace. - St. Margaret Mary Alacoque
November 5, 2023 🥰 Day 5 🌐 Novena for the Holy Souls in Purgatory
Day 5 – Novena for the Holy Souls in Purgatory
Let us begin, In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
O most sweet Jesus, through the bloody sweat which Thou didst suffer in the Garden of Gethsemane, have mercy on these Blessed Souls. Have mercy on them.R. Have mercy on them, O Lord. O most sweet Jesus, through the pains which Thou didst suffer during Thy most cruel scourging, have mercy on them.
R. Have mercy on them, O Lord. O most sweet Jesus, through the pains which Thou didst suffer in Thy most painful crowning with thorns, have mercy on them.
R. Have mercy on them, O Lord. O most sweet Jesus, through the pains which Thou didst suffer in carrying Thy cross to Calvary, have mercy on them.
R. Have mercy on them, O Lord. O most sweet Jesus, through the pains which Thou didst suffer during Thy most cruel Crucifixion, have mercy on them.
R. Have mercy on them, O Lord. O most sweet Jesus, through the pains which Thou didst suffer in Thy most bitter agony on the Cross, have mercy on them.
R. Have mercy on them, O Lord. O most sweet Jesus, through the immense pain which Thou didst suffer in breathing forth Thy Blessed Soul, have mercy on them.R. Have mercy on them, O Lord.
(Recommend yourself to the Souls in Purgatory and mention your intentions here)
Blessed Souls, I have prayed for thee, I entreat thee, who are so dear to God, and who are secure of never losing Him, to pray for me a miserable sinner, who is in danger of being damned, and of losing God forever.
Amen
Say 1: Our Father… Say 1: Hail Mary… Say 1: Glory Be…
https://novenaprayer.com/novena-to-the-holy-souls-in-purgatory/
November 5, 2023 😇 Quote from a Saint
Quote from a Saint for today 😇
Our relatives must be loved in and for God; otherwise the purest affection becomes inordinate and is so much taken from Him. - Saint Scholastica
November 5, 2023 🥰 Luke 📕 My holy bible reference for today
My holy bible reference for today 📕
Luke 21:34-36 📖
34 'Watch yourselves, or your hearts will be coarsened by debauchery and drunkenness and the cares of life, and that day will come upon you unexpectedly,
35 like a trap. For it will come down on all those living on the face of the earth.
36 Stay awake, praying at all times for the strength to survive all that is going to happen, and to hold your ground before the Son of man. 🙏🏻
November 4, 2023 😇 Quote from a Saint
November 4, 2023 🥰 Day 4 🌐 Novena for the Holy Souls in Purgatory
Day 4 – Novena for the Holy Souls in Purgatory
Let us begin, In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
O most sweet Jesus, through the bloody sweat which Thou didst suffer in the Garden of Gethsemane, have mercy on these Blessed Souls. Have mercy on them.R. Have mercy on them, O Lord. O most sweet Jesus, through the pains which Thou didst suffer during Thy most cruel scourging, have mercy on them.
R. Have mercy on them, O Lord. O most sweet Jesus, through the pains which Thou didst suffer in Thy most painful crowning with thorns, have mercy on them.
R. Have mercy on them, O Lord. O most sweet Jesus, through the pains which Thou didst suffer in carrying Thy cross to Calvary, have mercy on them.
R. Have mercy on them, O Lord. O most sweet Jesus, through the pains which Thou didst suffer during Thy most cruel Crucifixion, have mercy on them.
R. Have mercy on them, O Lord. O most sweet Jesus, through the pains which Thou didst suffer in Thy most bitter agony on the Cross, have mercy on them.
R. Have mercy on them, O Lord. O most sweet Jesus, through the immense pain which Thou didst suffer in breathing forth Thy Blessed Soul, have mercy on them.R. Have mercy on them, O Lord.
(Recommend yourself to the Souls in Purgatory and mention your intentions here)
Blessed Souls, I have prayed for thee, I entreat thee, who are so dear to God, and who are secure of never losing Him, to pray for me a miserable sinner, who is in danger of being damned, and of losing God forever.
Amen
Say 1: Our Father… Say 1: Hail Mary… Say 1: Glory Be…
https://novenaprayer.com/novena-to-the-holy-souls-in-purgatory/
November 4, 2023 ⛪ Gospel according to Luke 📕#EcumenismWeekend
My holy bible reference for today 📕
Daily Reading for Saturday, November 4, 2023
Reading 1, Romans 11:1-2, 11-12, 25-29
Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 94:12-13, 14-15, 17-18
Gospel from Luke 14:1, 7-11 📖
10 No; when you are a guest, make your way to the lowest place and sit there, so that, when your host comes, he may say, "My friend, move up higher." Then, everyone with you at the table will see you honoured.
11 For everyone who raises himself up will be humbled, and the one who humbles himself will be raised up.' 🙏🏻
November 3, 2023 🥰 Day 3 🌐 Novena for the Holy Souls in Purgatory
Day 3 – Novena for the Holy Souls in Purgatory
Let us begin, In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
O most sweet Jesus, through the bloody sweat which Thou didst suffer in the Garden of Gethsemane, have mercy on these Blessed Souls. Have mercy on them.R. Have mercy on them, O Lord. O most sweet Jesus, through the pains which Thou didst suffer during Thy most cruel scourging, have mercy on them.
R. Have mercy on them, O Lord. O most sweet Jesus, through the pains which Thou didst suffer in Thy most painful crowning with thorns, have mercy on them.
R. Have mercy on them, O Lord. O most sweet Jesus, through the pains which Thou didst suffer in carrying Thy cross to Calvary, have mercy on them.
R. Have mercy on them, O Lord. O most sweet Jesus, through the pains which Thou didst suffer during Thy most cruel Crucifixion, have mercy on them.
R. Have mercy on them, O Lord. O most sweet Jesus, through the pains which Thou didst suffer in Thy most bitter agony on the Cross, have mercy on them.
R. Have mercy on them, O Lord. O most sweet Jesus, through the immense pain which Thou didst suffer in breathing forth Thy Blessed Soul, have mercy on them.R. Have mercy on them, O Lord.
(Recommend yourself to the Souls in Purgatory and mention your intentions here)
Blessed Souls, I have prayed for thee, I entreat thee, who are so dear to God, and who are secure of never losing Him, to pray for me a miserable sinner, who is in danger of being damned, and of losing God forever.
Amen
Say 1: Our Father… Say 1: Hail Mary… Say 1: Glory Be…
https://novenaprayer.com/novena-to-the-holy-souls-in-purgatory/
November 3, 2023 ⛪ Gospel according to Luke 📕 #EcumenismWeekend
My holy bible reference for today 📕
Daily Reading for Friday, November 3, 2023
Reading 1, Romans 9:1-5
Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 147:12-13, 14-15, 19-20
Gospel from Luke 14:1-6 📖
5 Then he said to them, 'Which of you here, if his son falls into a well, or his ox, will not pull him out on a Sabbath day without any hesitation?'
6 And to this they could find no answer. 🙏🏻
November 3, 2023 🥰 #PraxiFides 🌐 My Article Reference for Today
The Protestant’s Biggest Bible Problem
It's not sola scriptura. It's not sola fide. It's a doctrine most people don't even know by name.
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https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/the-protestants-biggest-bible-problem
November 2, 2023 🥰 Day 2 🌐 Novena for the Holy Souls in Purgatory
Day 2 – Novena for the Holy Souls in Purgatory
Let us begin, In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
O most sweet Jesus, through the bloody sweat which Thou didst suffer in the Garden of Gethsemane, have mercy on these Blessed Souls. Have mercy on them.R. Have mercy on them, O Lord. O most sweet Jesus, through the pains which Thou didst suffer during Thy most cruel scourging, have mercy on them.
R. Have mercy on them, O Lord. O most sweet Jesus, through the pains which Thou didst suffer in Thy most painful crowning with thorns, have mercy on them.
R. Have mercy on them, O Lord. O most sweet Jesus, through the pains which Thou didst suffer in carrying Thy cross to Calvary, have mercy on them.
R. Have mercy on them, O Lord. O most sweet Jesus, through the pains which Thou didst suffer during Thy most cruel Crucifixion, have mercy on them.
R. Have mercy on them, O Lord. O most sweet Jesus, through the pains which Thou didst suffer in Thy most bitter agony on the Cross, have mercy on them.
R. Have mercy on them, O Lord. O most sweet Jesus, through the immense pain which Thou didst suffer in breathing forth Thy Blessed Soul, have mercy on them.R. Have mercy on them, O Lord.
(Recommend yourself to the Souls in Purgatory and mention your intentions here)
Blessed Souls, I have prayed for thee, I entreat thee, who are so dear to God, and who are secure of never losing Him, to pray for me a miserable sinner, who is in danger of being damned, and of losing God forever.
Amen
Say 1: Our Father… Say 1: Hail Mary… Say 1: Glory Be…
https://novenaprayer.com/novena-to-the-holy-souls-in-purgatory/
November 2, 2023 🥰 Divine Mercy 🌐 My Article reference for today
My article reference for today 🌐
How to Recite the Chaplet
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https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/a-new-response-to-where-is-that-in-the-bible
November 2, 2023 🥰 All Souls Day - 2 Corinthians 📕 My holy bible reference for today
My holy bible reference for today 📕
2 Corinthians 7:1 📖
Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of flesh and spirit, making holiness perfect in the fear of God. 🙏🏻
November 1, 2023 ⛪ Gospel according to Matthew 📖
Daily Reading for Wednesday, November 1, 2023
Reading 1, Revelation 7:2-4, 9-14
Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 24:1-2, 3-4, 5-6
Gospel, Matthew 5:1-12
Reading 2, First John 3:1-3 📖
The Sermon on the Mount 🌐 USCCB
1 Seeing the crowds, he went onto the mountain. And when he was seated his disciples came to him.
2 Then he began to speak. This is what he taught them:
The Beatitudes 🌐 USCCB
3 How blessed are the poor in spirit: the kingdom of Heaven is theirs.
4 Blessed are the gentle: they shall have the earth as inheritance.
5 Blessed are those who mourn: they shall be comforted.
6 Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for uprightness: they shall have their fill.
7 Blessed are the merciful: they shall have mercy shown them.
8 Blessed are the pure in heart: they shall see God.
9 Blessed are the peacemakers: they shall be recognized as children of God.
10 Blessed are those who are persecuted in the cause of uprightness: the kingdom of Heaven is theirs.
11 'Blessed are you when people abuse you and persecute you and speak all kinds of calumny against you falsely on my account.
12 Rejoice and be glad, for your reward will be great in heaven; this is how they persecuted the prophets before you.
November 1, 2023 🥰 Day 1 🌐 Novena for the Holy Souls in Purgatory
Day 1 – Novena for the Holy Souls in Purgatory
Let us begin, In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
O most sweet Jesus, through the bloody sweat which Thou didst suffer in the Garden of Gethsemane, have mercy on these Blessed Souls. Have mercy on them.R. Have mercy on them, O Lord. O most sweet Jesus, through the pains which Thou didst suffer during Thy most cruel scourging, have mercy on them.
R. Have mercy on them, O Lord. O most sweet Jesus, through the pains which Thou didst suffer in Thy most painful crowning with thorns, have mercy on them.
R. Have mercy on them, O Lord. O most sweet Jesus, through the pains which Thou didst suffer in carrying Thy cross to Calvary, have mercy on them.
R. Have mercy on them, O Lord. O most sweet Jesus, through the pains which Thou didst suffer during Thy most cruel Crucifixion, have mercy on them.
R. Have mercy on them, O Lord. O most sweet Jesus, through the pains which Thou didst suffer in Thy most bitter agony on the Cross, have mercy on them.
R. Have mercy on them, O Lord. O most sweet Jesus, through the immense pain which Thou didst suffer in breathing forth Thy Blessed Soul, have mercy on them.R. Have mercy on them, O Lord.
(Recommend yourself to the Souls in Purgatory and mention your intentions here)
Blessed Souls, I have prayed for thee, I entreat thee, who are so dear to God, and who are secure of never losing Him, to pray for me a miserable sinner, who is in danger of being damned, and of losing God forever.
Amen
Say 1: Our Father… Say 1: Hail Mary… Say 1: Glory Be…
https://novenaprayer.com/novena-to-the-holy-souls-in-purgatory/
November 1, 2023 🥰 All Saints Day - Hebrews 📕 My holy bible reference for today
My holy bible reference for today 📕
Hebrews 13:7 📖
Remember your leaders who spoke the word of God to you. Consider the outcome of their way of life and imitate their faith. 🙏🏻
October 31, 2023 🥰 Luke 📕 My holy bible reference for today
My holy bible reference for today 📕
Isaiah 48:22 📖
Peace
8 There is no peace for the wicked, says the LORD. 🙏🏻
October 31, 2023 🥰 #PraxiFides 📽️ My vlog reference for today
My vlog reference and article for today 📽️
Seeking Understanding and Deliverance Topics 🌐Bro. Wendell YT channel
https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/jesus-had-brothers
October 31, 2023 🥰 #PraxiFides 📜 My Article references for today
My article reference for today 📕
What does the Catholic Church teach about contraception?
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https://www.catholic.au/s/article/contraception
October 30, 2023 😇 Quote from a Saint
Quote from a Saint for today 📕
“The Holy Eucharist is the perfect expression of the love of Jesus Christ for man.” – Saint Maria Goretti
October 30, 2023 🥰 #PraxiFides📜 My Article reference for today
My article reference for today 📕
Catholic Answers - Graven Images
In Exodus 20:3-6 God forbids making graven images for the purpose of idolatry but does not forbid the making of graven images per se. Elsewhere he commands that statues and other graven images be carved for religious purposes.
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https://www.catholic.com/magazine/print-edition/graven-images
October 30, 2023 🥰 John 📕My holy bible reference for today
My holy bible reference for today 📕
John 8:11 📖
She said, “No one, sir.” And Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you. Go your way, and from now on do not sin again. 🙏🏻
October 29, 2023 😇 Quote from a Saint
Quote from a Saint for today 📕
"To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible." - St. Thomas Aquinas
October 29, 2023 🥰 #PraxiFides 📜 My Article reference for today
My article reference for today 📕
Catholic Answers - Bible as reference
‘But That’s Not in the Bible’
Avoid the scriptural ping-pong match by focusing on the underlying issue.
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https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/a-new-response-to-where-is-that-in-the-bible
October 29, 2023 🥰 Proverbs 📕My holy bible reference for today
My holy bible reference for today 📕
Proverbs 22:28 📖
Do not remove the ancient landmark that your ancestors set up.k
October 28, 2023 😇 Quote from a Saint
Quote from a Saint for today 📕
"To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible." - St. Thomas Aquinas
October 28, 2023 🥰 Matthew📕My holy bible reference for today
My holy bible reference for today 📕
Matthew 6:33-34 📖
33 But seek first the kingdom [of God] and his righteousness,* and all these things will be given you besides.
34 Do not worry about tomorrow; tomorrow will take care of itself. Sufficient for a day is its own evil. 🙏🏻
October 28, 2023 🥰 #PraxiFides 📜 My Article reference for today
My article reference for today 📕
Five Objective Ways to Encounter Christ
COMMENTARY: With hearts full of devotion, humility, and love, these encounters, which are found in the Catechism and are supported by sacred Scripture, connect intellectually as well as emotionally.
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https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/five-objective-ways-to-encounter-christ
October 27, 2023 🥰 James📕My holy bible reference for today
My holy bible reference for today 📕
James 2:15-17 📖
15 If a brother or sister has nothing to wear and has no food for the day,
16 and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, keep warm, and eat well,” but you do not give them the necessities of the body, what good is it?j
17 So also faith of itself, if it does not have works, is dead.
October 27, 2023 😇 Story of a Saint
Quote from a Saint for today 📕
St. Joan of Arc is the patroness of soldiers and of France.
On January 6, 1412, Joan of Arc was born to pious parents of the French peasant class in the obscure village of Domremy, near the province of Lorraine. At a very early age, she was said to have heard the voices of St. Michael, St. Catherine, and St. Margaret.
At first the messages were personal and general, but when she was 13-years-old, she was in her father's garden and had visions of Saint Michael, Saint Catherine, and Saint Margaret, each of whom told her to drive the English from French territory. They also asked that she bring the Dauphin to Reims for his coronation.
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October 27, 2023 🥰 #PraxiFides📜 My Article reference for today
My article reference for today 📕
Why is Christmas on December 25?
Did the early Christians 'borrow' December 25 from pagans for the birth of Jesus? You can make that claim, but good luck proving it.
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https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/why-december-25
October 26, 2023 😇 Story of a Saint
Quote from a Saint for today 📕
Saint Francis of Assisi
Founder of the Franciscan Order, born at Assisi in Umbria, in 1181.
In 1182, Pietro Bernardone returned from a trip to France to find out his wife had given birth to a son. Far from being excited or apologetic because he'd been gone, Pietro was furious because she'd had his new son baptized Giovanni after John the Baptist. The last thing Pietro wanted in his son was a man of God -- he wanted a man of business, a cloth merchant like he was, and he especially wanted a son who would reflect his infatuation with France. So he renamed his son Francesco -- which is the equivalent of calling him Frenchman.
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October 26, 2023 🥰 Titus📕My holy bible reference for today
My holy bible reference for today 📕
Titus 2:15-17 📖
9 But avoid foolish controversies and genealogies and arguments and quarrels about the law, because these are unprofitable and useless. 10 Warn a divisive person once, and then warn them a second time. After that, have nothing to do with them. 11 You may be sure that such people are warped and sinful; they are self-condemned.
October 26, 2023 🥰 #PraxiFides 📜 My Article reference for today
My article reference for today 📕
The First Step to Being Saved
The first step of repentance is recognizing that we are lost without God, and we are doomed to an eternal death apart from him.
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https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/the-what-how-and-why-of-repentance
October 25, 2023 🥰 Wisdom📕My holy bible reference for today
My holy bible reference for today 📕
Wisdom 2:122-25 📖
22 for wisdom, the fashioner of all things, taught me.
The Nature of Wisdom
There is in her a spirit that is intelligent, holy,
unique, manifold, subtle,
agile, clear, unpolluted,
distinct, invulnerable, loving the good, keen,
23 irresistible, beneficent, humane,
steadfast, sure, free from anxiety,
all-powerful, overseeing all,
and penetrating through all spirits
that are intelligent, pure, and altogether subtle.
24 For wisdom is more mobile than any motion;
because of her pureness she pervades and penetrates all things.
25 For she is a breath of the power of God
and a pure emanation of the glory of the Almighty;
therefore nothing defiled gains entrance into her.
October 25, 2023 😇 Story of a Saint
Quote from a Saint for today 📕
Saint Vincent Ferrer
St. Vincent Ferrer is the patron saint of builders because of his fame for "building up" and strengthening the Church: through his preaching, missionary work, in his teachings, as confessor and adviser. At Valencia in Spain, this illustrious son of St. Dominic came into the world on January 23, 1357.
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October 24, 2023 🥰 Corinthians📕My holy bible reference for today
My holy bible reference for today 📕
1 Corinthians 3:6 📖
I planted, Apollos watered, but God caused the growth
October 24, 2023 🥰 #PraxiFides 📜 My Article reference for today
My bible and article reference for today 📕
Matthew 7:21-23 📖 Romans 6:23 📖 Romans 10:13 📖 Romans 11:22 📖 James 2:15-17 📖
The True Disciple.
21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven,* but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven.
22 Many will say to me on that day,o ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name? Did we not drive out demons in your name? Did we not do mighty deeds in your name?’
23 Then I will declare to them solemnly, ‘I never knew you.* Depart from me, you evildoers.’
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https://www.catholic.com/bible-navigator/faith-and-works/matthew721%E2%80%9323
October 23, 2023 🥰 1 John 📕My holy bible reference for today
My holy bible reference for today 📕
1 John 2:4-5 📖
4 Whoever says, “I know him,” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
5 But whoever keeps his word, the love of God is truly perfected in him. This is the way we may know that we are in union with him.
October 23, 2023 🥰 #PraxiFides 📜 My Article reference for today
My bible and article reference for today 📕
Do Protestants Really Worship God?
There’s no such thing as “Protestant worship,” since there are huge variations in how Protestants approach Sunday services. But one area upon which Protestants are nearly unanimous is in their denial of the sacrificial nature of the Mass. But what does omitting sacrifice from Sunday do to our ability to call Protestant services “worship”?
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https://www.catholic.com/audio/sp/do-protestant-really-worship-god
October 22, 2023 🥰 Jeremiah📕My holy bible reference for today
My holy bible reference for today 📕
Jeremiah 29:11-13 📖
Trust God
11 For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
12 Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you.
13 You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.
October 22, 2023 🥰 Jeremiah📕My holy bible reference for today
My holy bible reference for today 📕
Jeremiah 29:11-13 📖
Trust God
11 For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
12 Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you.
13 You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.
October 22, 2023 🥰 #PraxiFides📜 My Article reference for today
My bible and article reference for today 📕
Does the Mass Contradict or Fulfill Worshiping God ‘in Spirit and Truth’?
Most Protestants view the Mass as unnecessary; some view it as evil. Does it contradict John 8:24?
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