Pray for the Holy Father!
Posted on 03/28/2002 6:15:38 PM PST by father_elijah
Out of every evil, God draws a greater good.
Woke up to a new format... see what happens when you turn your back? LOL!
I agree change for the sake of hange is wasteful and confusing. But overall, I like the inlusion of some "old-time-religion" songs.
Have a Great Easter!
P.S.: In the future please be careful of using the term "grumpy" when desribing yourself... It's a little too personal to me! :o)
Come , Holy Spirit, Blest Sanctifier, mercifully assist your Catholic Church.
By your heavenly power strengthen and establish her against the assaults of her enemies.
By your love and grace renew the spirit of your servants whom you have anointed.
Grant that they may in you glorify the Father and his only Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
Pray for the Holy Father!
LOL. OK, I promise to not be "grumpy", I'll just be "wretched".
As a "newbie" to the Church (2 hours old) Can you recommend a source for the above (on line or book)
Thank You,
And Happy Easter.
v.
A PRAYER FOR PRIESTS
O, ALMIGHTY, ETERNAL GOD, look upon the face of Thy Christ and for love of Him, who is the Eternal High Priest, have pity on thy priests. Remember, O most compassionate God, that they are but weak and and frail human beings. Stir up in them the grace of their vocation which is in them by the imposition of the Bishop's hands. Keep them close to Thee, lest the enemy prevail against them, so that they may never do anything in the slightest degree unworthy of their sublime vocation.
O, JESUS, I PRAY THEE for Thy faithful and fervent priests, for Thy unfaithful and tepid priests; for Thy priests laboring at home or abroad in distant mission fields; for Thy tempted priests; for Thy lonely and desolate priests; for Thy young priests; for Thy aged priests; for Thy sick priests; for Thy dying priests; for the souls of Thy priests in purgatory.
BUT ABOVE ALL, I COMMEND TO THEE the priests dearest to me. The priest who baptized me, the priests who absolved me from my sins; the priests at whose Masses I assisted and who gave me Thy Body and Blood in Holy Communion; the priests who taught and instructed me or helped me and encouraged me, all the priests to whom I am indebted in any other way, particularly . . . . . . (name priests here)
O, JESUS, KEEP THEM ALL CLOSE TO THY HEART, and bless them abundantly in time and in eternity. Amen.
V's wife.
I went to the Vatican website but couldn't find an address. Do you have one you can post?
Thank you for this enlightening and powerful post.
God bless you and your work.
EWTN.COM has a huge library and resources on devotions:
I imagine we have now heard our bishops apologising for this scandal and assuring us that we have a policy set up that will ensure this will not happen again. Well,unfortunately,they have betrayed our trust in so many dioceses,in so many instances, that I believe most of us think they are empty words,more of the same. You know,they have set up a kind of sensitity training for all Catholic teachers and youth ministries and priests in our diocese which I am sure is just more of the same blah-blah,yakitty-yak.
I'm thinking that we should develop a list of speakers that we know are apprised of the homosexual subculture. Ones that have the data on the entire admixture of the components of the Culture of Death. How it seduces practicers into the porn industry,drugs,sado-masochism. Speakers who know the per centages for the different and common deviancies,one who can speak to the murder of the little paper boy in Mass. by the man in possession of Nambla materials and his lover and other murders that they have committed. Persons with the facts about the number and costs of the venereal diseases they spread as well as the consequences of the Hepatitis that so many of them have. And AIDS,how it is bankrupting the Heasth Care system as we get bombarded with disinformation about all kinds reasons for escalating costs.
Anyway when we compile a list of speakers we should demand that each bishop offer to all Catholics the oppurtunity to get the facts on homosexuality. The lectures should be held in a large arena or auditorium for several days over several weeks. All Catholics should be invited to attend without having to register in the parish or anything else that could result in one of their sly machinations.This idea is just taking formation but I think it would force them to finally present Catholics with a little Catholic Truth from people who have the facts.
What do you all think? Oh,they could open up to all members of the community I think it would be a great service to everyone in town,Catholic or not. It would also be a good evangelizing tool.
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