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Animated to inspire Faith in God and His Son Jesus! Child singing voice is unknown and is from the Black Pond Baptist Church fellowship. Inspirational message given by an animated red-shoulder hawk in flight.

God has already blessed you, he has already spoken blessings concerning your life. But, you don't see them until you line your words up with them. Blessings and curses come out of your mouth (James 3:10). So whatever blessings of God you are not seeing is because you are not saying. Old Testament people knew the power of speaking blessings. Blessings are words that speak good of something. Everytime God blessed He did so saying (Gen. 1). Jacob deceived his own father to have him speak blessings over him. And God blessed him just as his father said. God has...

I first want to thank everyone who has been praying for Cleo, my mom's pet house rabbit, in the past couple weeks, up to now. She is still having a hard time getting back to normal. She has not been much of a drinker, to her detriment. Now that hot weather has hit it's more important than ever she needs to drink. She had surgery to remove a blockage from the junction where her small intestine, large intestine, and cecum meet. (The cecum is an organ like a cow's second stomach, a fermentation vat where bacteria work to extract vitamins...

My Mom, who is 78 years young, fell the other day. Her lip and nose were banged up. She was talking to someone and said "thank God"..the person looked at her and wondered why she would thank God since she did get banged up.

Blessed Are the Pure in Heart May 19th, 2010 by Mark SheaA certain mindset which postmodernity finds very appealing identifies “purity” with sterility. To be “pure” is, in this view, to be uncontaminated, germ-free, barren, scrubbed, metallic. This mindset (which is actually very ancient) tends to think of “pure” spirituality as a spirituality unsoiled by contact with grosser elements such as matter and, most especially, with biological matter such as the human body with its wide variety of fluids, sticky viscous substances, mucus, feces, urine, blood, sperm, spit and sweat. Such a mindset found the Incarnation incredible and denied that...

Wracked with Catholic guilt every time you access Facebook? Worry no longer — the Pope approves. In a message entitled “Truth, Proclamation and Authenticity of Life in the Digital Age,” Pope Benedict XVI gave social networking his blessing, but warned that it cannot replace real human contact. The proclamation, created for the Catholic Church’s World Day of Communications, noted, “I would like then to invite Christians, confidently and with an informed and responsible creativity, to join the network of relationships which the digital era has made possible.” The pontiff encouraged social networkers to be open and honest in their communications,...

Beneficiaries of your love are beginning to come back around , For I am giving you the words that astound , And although some are resistant as you see , Their rebellion as strange fire has come before me , So vanquish all your foes as Korah for to you my glory has come , They will see my glory surrounding you as priest of my kingdom, And as you raise my sceptor and staff of authority , I shall vanquish your foes as the parting of the Red sea , For as they advance towards you it is me...

Our Father in Heaven, We give thanks for this day and for all your blessings bestowed upon us. We ask for your continued blessings and to watch over and protect our great nation, our troops and our people. We ask that your divine guidance, strength and wisdom be endowed upon our elected representatives and that we may all continue to enjoy your wondrous gifts of Life and Liberty. We give praise to thee and pray our endeavors are righteous. All glory be to thee. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen

CATHOLIC HORSES One day while he was at the track playing the ponies and all but losing his shirt, Mitch noticed a priest who stepped out onto the track and blessed the forehead of one of the horses lining up for the 4th race. Lo and behold, that horse - a very long shot - won the race.. Before the next race, as the horses began lining up, Mitch watched with interest the old priest step onto the track. Sure enough, as the 5th race horses came to the starting gate the priest made a blessing on the forehead of...

Blessings of God, from the Fourth of July eCard Collection http://www.dayspring.com/ecards/subcat.asp?CategoryID=1&SubCategoryID=32&CardID=401548&Widescreen=False&CurPage=1

You speak as the 7 Thunders , You roar as the Lion of Judah , you walk on the water with Me , You are a remnant of my loin cloth "The Tassles" of My Word , And you carry in your mouth the Jot ( Pieces ) and Tittles ( Transfiguration ) of Forgiveness and Revelation Knowledge ! Now Go ! Surrender to none ! Yet walk in humbleness and Speak my Words ! For I AM ( The realization ) you in you , I AM THAT I AM ! ! ! Jude 1:1-3 Greeting to the Called...

11/25/2009 - FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas (AFNS) -- Susan and Joseph Kosek are thankful for many things. This Thanksgiving they're especially thankful for tourniquets, helicopters, "battle buddies" and scores of doctors and medics across the globe. They're also thankful for the mine resistant ambush protected vehicle that absorbed most of the blast from a 35-pound improvised explosive device meant to kill their daughter. "Wendy called me a few hours after she was brought to the Green Zone and said, 'I want to talk to Dad,'" Mrs. Kosek said. "We didn't' know the extent of the injuries and neither did she."...

Anita Mellott's column, Homeschool Encouragment looks at "Blessings" as we approach Thanksgiving.

The blessings of the grapesBy Kate Gonzales Posted: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 10:35 AM CDT Father John Finley sings hymns Sunday with children after he has blessed Lavender Ridge Vineyard grapes. Enterprise photos by Kate GonzalesFinley blesses thousands of grapes with holy water. Enterprise photo by Kate GonzalesLavender Ridge Vineyard owners Rich and Siri Gilpin added an extra ingredient to their winegrapes this weekend: holy water. Friends, family and employees of the Gilpins traveled out to their vineyard along the rolling golden hills of Milton to enjoy the second annual ceremony of the blessing of the grapes. “It's just new...

U.S. bishops approve new blessing for unborn children      The U.S. Catholic bishops meeting in their General Assembly Baltimore, Md., Nov 11, 2008 / 06:32 pm (CNA).- Children in the womb will now be able to receive a special blessing from their parish priests following an overwhelming vote by the U.S. bishops in favor of the new blessing.  "The Blessing of a Child in the Womb" has been in the works for two years, but Bishop Michael Saltarelli noted at a press conference on Tuesday afternoon that, “happily it’s come to fruition at this time when I think it’s...

This kitty is reminding all to love one another and not be cold hearted! Song of this video is Deep & Wide, song by children. Thanks for viewing!

This is footage of a white dove perched on a branch and children singing the song, Kum Ba Yah, Come By Here.

"Abortion is a blessing and our work is not done. Let me hear you say it: abortion is a blessing and our work is not done. Abortion is a blessing and our work is not done. Abortion is a blessing and our work is not done." That was the Rev. Katherine Hancock Ragsdale in 2007, repetitiously inciting her disciples to be not just pro-choice but fanatically pro-abortion. This is significant because, according to standard journalistic stylebooks, Ragsdale does not exist. We're told that pro-choice folks don't like abortion; they're just trying to help a woman facing tragedy. Ragsdale, though, says...

The red tabby cat in this video is a good listener!

Wishing everyone a very Happy Easter. May God Bless each and every one of you And God Bless America.

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Wonderful Medley for the Christmas Season! Thanks for viewing.

STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE. IN COMMITTEE of SAFETY, EXETER, November 1, 1782. ORDERED, THAT the following Proclamation for a general THANKSGIVING on the twenty-eighth day of November, received from the honorable Continental Congress, be forthwith printed, and sent to the several worshipping Assemblies in this State, to whom it is recommended religiously to observe said day, and to abstain from all servile labour thereon. M. WEARE, President. By the United States in Congress assembled. PROCLAMATION. IT being the indispensable duty of all Nations, not only to offer up their supplications to ALMIGHTY GOD, the giver of all good, for his gracious...

God Bless America

CAMP LIBERTY, Iraq, Oct. 7, 2008 – Unless they’ve been through it themselves, few people understand the hardships that U.S. soldiers endure in a combat zone, away from everything familiar in a foreign land, far away from the support systems of family, home and friends. Army Chaplain (Capt.) Tim Reynolds runs the Soldiers’ Blessing Store on Forward Operating Base Prosperity in Baghdad. The store is stocked with donated items for soldiers to take as needed. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Whitney Houston, Multinational Division Baghdad  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. To help troops counteract the effects of being...

This video is short and has singing frogs looking at a Church. The instrumental is, Praise God, from Whom All Blessing Flow. With humor it was created to lead someone to church and think about worshiping his or her creator. Thanks for viewing. Revski

Tony Snow, a conservative writer and commentator who cheerfully sparred with reporters in the White House briefing room during a stint as President Bush's press secretary, died July 12 of colon cancer. He was 53. The following was apparently written by Tony a couple of years ago. What a strong testimony to the faith of one person. Oh, that we all could be this strong. Blessings arrive in unexpected packages — in my case, cancer. Those of us with potentially fatal diseases — and there are millions in America today — find ourselves in the odd position of coping with...

At Camp Victory, Counting Blessings — and Days by John McChesney Morning Edition, April 30, 2008 · On their last tour in Iraq, the soldiers of the Arkansas National Guard's 39th Combat Brigade Team saw heavy combat on a street in Baghdad known as "Purple Heart Boulevard." Now, in a short turnaround from that 2004-05 deployment, the Guardsmen are back. "You probably won't find anybody out there that was, you know, thrilled about the prospect of coming back. But there was very little in the way of soldiers ... being overly concerned about coming back," says Col. Kendall Penn, commander...

While some may wonder why one would take the opportunity on this Holiest of Holy Days for Christians, to want to call upon the Almighty to Bless our Great Republic and at the same time, all of you, far from being a dichotomy whatsoever, the two invocations, are inextricably entwined Understandably, this devoted observance drives the secular progressives and the illogical fanatics to, and proponents of, The Establishment Clause, bonkers. So be it.

The message flickered into Cindy Fleenor's living room each night: Be faithful in how you live and how you give, the television preachers said, and God will shower you with material riches.And so the 53-year-old accountant from the Tampa, Fla., area pledged $500 a year to Joyce Meyer, the evangelist whose frank talk about recovering from childhood sexual abuse was so inspirational. She wrote checks to flamboyant faith healer Benny Hinn and a local preacher-made-good, Paula White.Only the blessings didn't come. Fleenor ended up borrowing money from friends and payday loan companies just to buy groceries. At first she believed...

WASHINGTON, Nov. 19, 2007 – President Bush issued his Thanksgiving greeting today, counting members of the U.S. military among the many blessings Americans have to be thankful for. “Today, the men and women of the United States armed forces are taking risks for our freedom,” the president said at historic Berkeley Plantation in Charles City, Va. “They're fighting on the front lines of the war on terror, the war against extremists and radicals who would do us more harm.” Bush noted that many U.S. troops will spend Thanksgiving far away from the comforts of home and expressed thanks for...

Speaking as a misfit unassimilated foreigner, I think of Thanksgiving as the most American of holidays. Christmas is celebrated elsewhere, even if there are significant local variations: in continental Europe, naughty children get left rods to be flayed with and lumps of coal; in Britain, Christmas lasts from December 22nd to mid-January and celebrates the ancient cultural traditions of massive alcohol intake and watching the telly till you pass out in a pool of your own vomit. All part of the rich diversity of our world. But Thanksgiving (excepting the premature and somewhat undernourished Canadian version) is unique to America....

Psalm 28:3 ``The voice of the Lord is upon the waters; the God of majesty hath thundered, The Lord is upon many waters." Water Numbers 5:17 "And he shall take holy water in an earthen vessel, and he shall cast a little earth of the pavement of the tabernacle into it."   For the Christian, water, as the matter of Baptism, is life. Tertullian (b. 160), making a play on words based on the Greek acrostic ICQUS , or Ichthys, meaning "fish" and indicating "Jesus Christ, Son of God, Saviour", wrote in "De Baptismo," "But we, little fishes, after...

What is the date and the Saint that we as Catholics take our pet to Church and ask the Priest to bless our pets? I had all my Labs blessed 14 yrs ago but now I have a whole new crew 3,2 and 1 yr olds and my Catechism class time is so intense that I don't have the option to ask this ????. My Labs all travel in the van with us and since we go to Catechism the one Lab for the last two school years whines and wants to get out at the Church (for real he...

I received this message from fatima. Please pray for her and her family as well as Ed. **Could you please ping your prayer list for the death of my son Ed -44 years old.accidential death.Official.Pray for our family.Ed saw Father on saturday and went to confession and went to Mass on Sunday and was was found dead wends morning at 1 AM.**

The Pope took a couple of days off to visit the mountains of Alaska for some sight-seeing. He was cruising along the campground in the Pope mobile when there was a frantic commotion just at the edge of the woods. A helpless Democrat, wearing sandals, shorts, a "Save the Whales" hat, and a "Bush Lied - People Died" T-shirt, was screaming while struggling frantically, thrashing around trying to free himself from the grasp of a 10 foot grizzly. As the Pope watched, horrified, a group of Republican loggers came racing up. One quickly fired a .44 magnum into the bear's...

Blessed are YouIf you have food in the refrigerator, cloths on your back, a roof over you head and a bed to sleep in, You are richer than 75% of the world’s population. If you woke up this morning with more health than illness You are blessed more than the million who will not survive the week. If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish, you are among the top 8% of the worlds wealthy. If you attend a Christian church service without fear of harassment, arrest, torture or death you are...

Today, 52 years ago, my husband was born in a small hospital in rural South Carolina. As a mother myself, I can imagine how thrilled my mother in law was! However, her happiness was not going to last long. Her baby suffered from projectile vomiting and, during the next few weeks, he lost weight until, to use her words, “his arms and legs were as thin as sticks”. The doctor, young and fresh from medical school, did not know what was causing the problem. One of the hospital nurses told my father in law that “he would not be watching...

This is a beautiful idea that someone had. This short movie is part of her effort to bless a million people in a hundred days. The movie is wonderful in its own right and here is a link to it: may you be blessed

I am a BIG fan of Tom's. My heart breaks for him and his family right now. Feel Free to email Tom and wish him peace, I am sure he would love to hear from us. It's an old saying that's right on the money: count your blessings. I've been realizing my blessings with renewed intensity this week. Everyone in my family has. My cousin Sean, only 33, was in a terrible accident that he did not survive. We were stunned when we got the news, and we have been reeling at the loss. We can't imagine the pain my...

Before you can really know how good things are this Christmas, you have to know first of all how bad things are. And things are bad—for at least three distinct groups of people. Things are bad for people who deliberately and self-consciously keep shoving the God of the universe to the margins of their lives. Such people, of course, don't know yet how bad things really are. But that ignorance, willing as it is, simply makes their situation worse. They revel in what they think is the freedom to make up their own rules and standards along the way, never...

Catholic Church Provides Food, Facilities, Medical Services For Gulf Coast People Displaced By Katrina WASHINGTON (September 1, 2005)--Catholic Church facilities nationwide, and especially in Louisiana, Mississippi and East Texas, are responding to emergency and long-term needs by providing shelters, food, medicine and schooling for Hurricane Katrina refugees. Virtually all dioceses nationwide planned parish collections the first weekends of September. In addition, further immediate assistance is coming through everything from Catholic Charities agencies, St. Vincent DePaul Societies, Catholic schools, Catholic hospitals, parishes, retreat centers and families. Examples abound. The Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston, Texas, where well over 30,000 storm refugees relocated from...

by Leon J. Suprenant, Jr Other Articles by Leon J. Suprenant, Jr The Life-giving Love of True Fathers 06/18/05 I have an unusual family background. My late father and his wife had eleven children. In the 1950s, his wife died of cancer, and so my dad left his sporting goods store in Kankakee, Illinois and moved most of the family to Southern California. Not too long after that, he met and married my mother. In This Article...Family RealitiesSomething to CelebrateComing to Grips with Fatherhood Family Realities A decade earlier, my mom's husband had been killed in World War II, leaving her...

A young man was getting ready to graduate from college. For many months he had admired a beautiful sports car in a dealer's showroom, and knowing his father could well afford it, he told him that was all he wanted. As Graduation Day approached, the young man awaited signs that his father had purchased the car. Finally, on the morning of his graduation, his father called him into his private study. His father told him how proud he was to have such a fine son, and told him how much he loved him. He handed his son a beautiful wrapped...

Terri's struggle for life has ended this morning. December 3, 1963 - March 31, 2005 Attorney David Gibbs "The Schindlers said that God loves Terri more than they do." Father Frank Pavone, Natl. Director of Priests for Life "We will pray that it will never happen again."

This is a prayer thread for Terri Schiavo. Please let it remain a peaceful place and not an arena for arguments. God has released her from her earthly bonds. She is at His side. Please express blessings and sentiments of sympathy for her family, and wishes for Terri's peace in heaven.

Patron Saints of Desperate, Forgotten, Impossible or Lost Causes Saint Philomena Martyred at about age 14 in the early days of the Church. In 1802 the remains of a young woman were found in the catacomb of Saint Priscilla on the Via Salaria. It was covered by stones, the symbols on which indicated that the body was a martyr named Saint Philomena. The bones were exhumed, cataloged, and effectively forgotten since there was so little known about the person. In 1805 Canon Francis de Lucia of Mugnano, Italy was in the Treasury of the Rare Collection of Christian Antiquity (Treasury...

[India News]: Bangalore, Jan 21 : American evangelist Benny Hinn Friday evening began his much-awaited "Festival of Blessings" prayer meeting here, which saw a shutdown call and incidents of stone throwing by protesting Hindu activists earlier in the day. About 8,000-10,000 policemen have been deployed in and around the sprawling venue to regulate crowds. Organisers of the show, being held at the Jakkur airstrip on the outskirts of the city, said earlier that about 400,000 people had already gathered for the event from all parts of the country, especially south India. A few hundred also came from abroad. Speaking to...

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A group of American Catholic bishops meeting with Jewish rabbis have slammed Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ," saying the film was anti-Jewish. In their joint report on the meeting, which brought together representatives from the National Council of Synagogues and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Gibson's fellow Catholics claimed the movie "was in reality a modern version of the notorious medieval Passion Plays which so often over the centuries have triggered riots against the Jews of Europe." The report noted the film caused "deep and understandable concern within Jewish community world-wide." Admitting the movie prompted none of...