Saturday, April 24, 2010

In sight of the angels...

"Even when alone be cheerful, remembering always that you are in the sight of the angels."
--St. Therese of Lisieux

Friday, April 23, 2010

Down in adoration falling....

"The Church and the world have a great need for Eucharistic worship. Jesus awaits us in this sacrament of love. Let us not refuse the time to go to meet him in adoration, in contemplation full of faith , and open to making amends for the serious offenses and crimes of the world. Let our adoration never cease."--Pope John Paul II, Dominicae cenae, 3.

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Fatima message...

August 4, 1979

"Today, reparation on the part of my children must also increase, because there is an ever increasing number of offenses committed against my Immaculate Heart, by insults against my Immaculate Conception, against my perpetual virginity, against my divine and universal motherhood and against my images and because, above all, the souls of the little ones are being alienated from me. Let the first Saturday of every month be for you real encounters of reparative prayer and a generous response to the request I have made of you...now as the battle grows more violent, I must provide moments of spiritual peace and repose for all...by praying and making reparation with your heavenly Mother, you will be consoled and strengthened by me.
Thus, I will receive greater reparation from you, and you will receive new strength and light from your Mother, to walk along the difficult road of these times of yours."--
Interior Locution to Fr. Stefano Gobbi.
-Our Lady Speaks to Her Beloved Priests, (1987). p.254

Our Lady of Fatima asked that her children pray daily the rosary, and make the first Saturday of each month for five months a time of reparative prayer...To go to confession, Mass and receive Holy Communion, and pray the rosary. She states, "To my daughter Sister Lucy--one of the children of Fatima--I promised a special protection at the moment of death and to obtain the graces necessary for salvation for all my children who, harking to my request, will have devoutly carried out the practice of the five first Saturdays." August 4, 1979
How little Our Holy Mother asks of us--for our own salvation!

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Homily March 18, 2010: Fr. John Corapi

Fidelity amid the darkness...

March 10, 1977

"The confusion grows greater even within the Church and now spreads to every part of the world. The first to be stricken are the priests. Each day, the number of those who allow themselves to be misled by the error which leads to infidelity grows greater and greater...those who remain faithful are generally the most persecuted, the most ignored, and sometimes intentionally ostracized."
"Thus the darkness spreads and the smoke of Satan seeks to cover everything; each day the apostasy grows greater...your suffering will of necessity grow greater as the great apostasy spreads more and more."
"Accept, to the very dregs, this hour of darkness. Live this martyrdom of the entire Church, invaded by the night. Remain faithful and confident, now that infidelity becomes more widespread and extolled. Say yes to the Father and to your heavenly Mother, who is gently preparing you to live without fear."

--Inner locution to Fr. Stefano Gobbi.
-Our Lady Speaks to Her Beloved Priests, (1987).

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

The bread of eternal life...

"Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to eternal life, which the Son of man will give to you; for on him has God the Father set his seal."
--John, 6:27.

"Let us, then, with full confidence, partake of the Body and Blood of Christ. For in the figure of bread His Body is given to you, and in the figure of wine His Blood is given to you, so that by partaking of the Body and Blood of Christ, you might become united in body and blood with Him."
--St. Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures (ca. A. D. 350).
*The Faith of the Early Fathers, V. 1, William A. Jurgens (1970).

August 8, 1986

"But I am also true mother of the Eucharist, because Jesus becomes truly present, at the moment of the consecration, through your priestly action...which transforms the matter of the bread and the wine into the body and the blood of Christ [making] possible for Him this new and real presence of his among you."--After recitation of the holy rosary, message given verbally by Mary
to Fr. Stefano Gobbi.
*Our Lady Speaks to Her Beloved Priests, (1987).