Friday, August 20, 2010

Pro-Life Song & Video (Anti-Abortion)



How can anyone deny the sanctity of life? Evil abounds in this world. Satan is alive among us...pray to end the abomination as our leaders, most importantly--the current President--promote and fund this culture of death across the globe using our tax dollars.
We are all culpable and will have to answer for this abomination.
May Jesus have mercy on us...Amen.

There is one Church....

"Remain in me, as I am in you. As a branch cannot bear fruit all by itself, unless it remains part of the vine, neither can you unless you remain in me."--John,15

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

The Signs of Your Time....

December 31, 1984

"How many of my children spend these moments in amusements and clamor and are inebriated with emptiness amidst so many frivolities and diversions which are often licentious and against the law of the Lord!
I invite you on the contrary to spend these hours in prayer, in recollection, and in interior silence, so that you may enter into a conversation with me, your heavenly Mother. Then, with the same familiarity that a mother has for her children, I will reveal to you the cares, the anxieties and the deep wounds of my Immaculate Heart and, at the same time, I will help you to understand and interpret the signs of your times."
--Our Lady Speaks to Her Beloved Priests, #301, p.449 (1987).

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Only in my Immaculate Heart...

"Only in my Immaculate Heart is the source of your security."

"Here you are prepared by me for the great struggle which awaits you. Here you are trained by me in prayer, because this is the weapon with which you must fight. Pray always. Every action of yours must truly be a prayer. Live your Mass, which immolates you each day with Jesus. Pray well the Liturgy of the Hours, which consecrates to God the rhythm of your day."
"Recite the Holy Rosary with love and joy. Meditate on my words, which I have communicated to you these past years. They will bring you to understand the Gospel, which must today be lived by you and announced to all."
"This is the hour of the final battle; it is therefore also the hour of my victory."
--Our Lady Speaks to Her Beloved Priests;interior locutions to Fr.Stefano Gobbi, #227; July 1, 1981, pp. 322-24, (1987).

Reflection: Although Our Lady specifically addresses priests and the priesthood in these messages, she also calls the lay faithful to increase prayer--particularly the daily recitation of the Holy Rosary, devotion to Jesus in the most Holy Eucharist, and active penance and fasting for the sins of the world.
We are living in a time that daily challenges the Faith in ways never so blatant and manifest. We are at the crucible. The Holy Rosary is our most powerful weapon against moral relativism, atheism, and secular humanism. We are strengthened for this battle by receiving Christ in the most Holy Eucharist as often as we can in the state of sanctifying grace. The 'Culture of Death' is permeating the world. Let our response be fervent prayer, witness, and a call for radical holiness.

Prayer: Holy Mother of God, strengthen our faith, and protect us beneath the mantle of your Immaculate Heart. Amen.

Monday, August 16, 2010

From the Pastor...

"Among the many causes of contemporary unbelief, which has become a cultural phenomenon, is the absolutization of man as the center of the universe. The attempt to create a society without God is a manifestation of this unfortunate trend. Although we do not live under an officially atheistic regime, we are all adversely affected by the cultural assumptions that God has been displaced as the absolute center of reality. Instead, according to this thinking, it is man or the individual that takes His place. Without God, society becomes a collection of individuals who are adrift and disoriented. Without God, there is no objective basis for truth. Opinion, personal preferences, and feelings become the criteria. This opens the door to relativism in moral matters: "what's true for you is not true for me" and its many concomitant aberrations (e.g., abortion on demand). A culture without God is a culture that is debased. As Catholics we are supposed to be the spiritual leaders of our society and resist the implicit atheism of these cultural trends. We should see why it is so important to observe Sunday as the day of rest and worship owed to God, lest we forget who God is and who we are in relation to him."
--Fr. Sean Donnelly, MA, D. Min, Pastor of Immaculate Conception Church, Madison, OH., August 15, 2010.

"Behold, he is coming amid the clouds,
and every eye will see him,
even those who pierced him.
All the peoples of the earth will lament him.

Yes. Amen." Revelation, 1:8 (John).

Sunday, August 15, 2010

Feast of the Assumption...August 15.

Prayer: Blessed Virgin Mary, God bestowed special graces upon you that you might be the mother of his Son. The privilege of your Assumption gives hope to us who daily strive to live the gospel. Pray with us that we may reflect your example of holiness. May we one day come to share in the Resurrection of Jesus, the Lord. Amen

"Finally the Immaculate Virgin, preserved free from all stain of original sin, when the course of her earthly life was finished, was taken up body and soul into heavenly glory, and exalted by the Lord as Queen over all things, so that she might be the more fully conformed to her Son, the Lord of lords and conqueror of sin and death" (Pius XII, Munificentissimus Deus, 1950).
The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin is a singular participation in her Son's Resurrection and an anticipation of the resurrection of Christians:
In giving birth you kept your virginity; in your Dormition you did not leave the world, O Mother of God, but were joined to the source of Life. You conceived the living God and, by your prayers, will deliver our souls from death.
--Byzantine Liturgy, Troparion, Feast of the Dormition, August 15.
[Cathechism of the Catholic Church, #966, p.252;1994]