http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/saint/ en-us Sun, 20 Dec 2009 08:27:23 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2411564/posts A Palestinian nun could serve as an inspiration for Christians who remain in the Holy Land, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem said during her beatification. The beatification on Sunday "breathes upon us a new spirit, renews our Church and invites us to the happy hope that we ourselves, too, can be saints like her", said Latin Patriarch Fouad Twal about Blessed Soultaneh Maria Ghattas, founder of the Dominican Sisters of the Holy Rosary of Jerusalem. "What the Church needs most is the witness of saints," he added in his homily. "Holiness is the sign of the Church's credibility." Patriarch Twal... Catholic Herald http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2411564/posts#comment Sun, 20 Dec 2009 08:27:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2401962/posts The New Testament begins its account of Mary's life with the visit of Gabriel the angel who was sent by God as His messenger. The Lord God had selected Mary to be mother of Jesus. The Bible records Mary's role in key events of the life of Jesus from his virgin birth to his crucifixion. TheCypressTimes.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2401962/posts#comment Mon, 7 Dec 2009 13:33:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2390771/posts Friday, November 13, 2009 Le Curé d'Ars Camille Dolard (1818- ?) Le Curé d'Ars sur son lit de mort (saint Jean-Marie Vianney, 1786-1859) Also entitled: Le Curé d'Ars, décédé le 4 août 1859, photographié d'après nature Taken 1859 pos. montées sur carton : papier albuminé : d'après nég. sur verre au collodion Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris Saint Jean-Baptiste-Marie Vianney died on 4 August 1859 By 1855, the number of pilgrims who came to see him had reached twenty thousand a year. Vianney yearned for the contemplative life of a monk, and four times ran away from Ars, the last... idlespeculations-terryprest.blogspot.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2390771/posts#comment Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:12:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2375481/posts Madrid, Spain, Oct 31, 2009 / 08:20 am (CNA).- Award-winning director Roland Joffé discussed his upcoming film “There Be Dragons” in a Thursday press conference. The film, set during the brutal Spanish Civil War and based on the life of St. Josemaria Escriva, can teach about love and forgiveness between families and enemies, Joffé said. The film begins with a young journalist, estranged from his military father Manolo, who conducts research on the life of Opus Dei founder and priest St. Josemaria Escriva. He discovers his father was a childhood friend of the future saint, and also uncovers family secrets.The... cna http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2375481/posts#comment Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:41:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2362100/posts Pilgrims venerate the relics of St. Therese in Aylesford, England. Credit: Catholicrelics.co.uk London, England, Oct 13, 2009 / 09:19 pm (CNA).- As many as 100,000 pilgrims are expected to visit Westminster Cathedral to view and venerate the relics of St. Therese of Lisieux during their month-long tour of England and Wales.Agence France Presse reports that the cathedral has ordered 100,000 candles and 50,000 pink roses to meet the demand. The cathedral expects 2,000 pilgrims every hour until Thursday.St. Therese became a Carmelite nun at the age of 15 and died in 1897 at the age of 24. Known as... cna http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2362100/posts#comment Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:46:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2355209/posts Saint Faustina's Diary includes a series of personal revelations she received from Jesus Christ in the 1930s. Many believe St. Faustina will eventually join the ranks of the great post-apostolic teachers Can you guess the following saint? The author, Fr. Steven Payne, OCD, wrote about this obscure and humble nun in 2002. He describes her "limited education," saying she "never wrote a treatise or published an article," and what she did write displayed an "imperfect literary style." Yet, he writes, no one would have guessed that she "would soon take the world by storm and go on to become the... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2355209/posts#comment Mon, 5 Oct 2009 15:43:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2352819/posts On October 1, 2009, the liturgy of the Church celebrates the memory of Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus and of the Holy Face, "the greatest saint of modern times," in the words of Pope Saint Pius X. The charm of her "Little Way," with all its sweetness and mercy, admirably harmonizes with the traits of a genuine warrior, "I would die in a battlefield, arms in hand," she once stated. Her soul had infinite aspirations: she wanted to be a warrior, priest, apostle, doctor of the Church and martyr; she felt the courage of a crusader, of a Papal... American TFP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2352819/posts#comment Thu, 1 Oct 2009 21:26:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2346983/posts Maronite image of Saint Thecla, taken from Our Lady of Lebanon Maronite Catholic Church (The following is excerpted from the 23 September entry in Volume XIV of the 1983 Marian House edition of the English translation of Dom Prosper Guéranger's 'The Liturgical Year' by the Benedictines of Stanbrook.) "While honouring the first successor of St. Peter [St. Linus], Rome commemorates the protomartyr of the female sex. Together with holy Church, then, let us unite in the concert of praise unanimously lavished upon [Saint] Thecla by the fathers of east and west. When the martyr pontiff Methodius [Saint Methodius of Olympus]... Dignare Me Laudare Te, Virgo Sacrata http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2346983/posts#comment Thu, 24 Sep 2009 03:48:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2300902/posts The book "Gun Saint" by John Michael Snyder takes a close look at St. Gabriel Francis Possenti. The cover features an illustration of a shooting incident connected to the 19th-century Passionist priest. Using a revolver, the priest is shown shooting and killing a lizard with one shot in his attempt to reign in a group of armed criminals. WASHINGTON (CNS) -- From lost causes to the unattractive, patron saints are associated with virtually every occupation, ailment and activity. St. Gabriel Francis Possenti, a 19th-century Passionist monk and patron saint of Italy's Abruzzi region, clerics and youths, is gaining a line... bostonpilotl.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2300902/posts#comment Sat, 25 Jul 2009 16:16:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284867/posts Pope Benedict XVI today announced the beatification of Cardinal John Henry Newman. The declaration means that the Anglican vicar, who shocked Victorian England by converting to Catholicism, will be given the title 'Blessed'. It also puts Newman just one stage away from becoming the first English saint in about 40 years. Daily Mail http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284867/posts#comment Fri, 3 Jul 2009 15:10:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2277356/posts 1. "The Lord called me from the womb, from the body of my mother he named my name" (Is 49,1). Today we celebrate the birth of St John the Baptist. The words of the Prophet Isaiah are well-suited to describe this great biblical figure who stands between the Old and the New Testaments. In the long line of Israel's prophets and just men and women, John "the Baptist" was placed by God's providence immediately before the Messiah, in order to prepare the way before him by his preaching and by the witness of his life. Of all the saints, John... Catholic Culture http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2277356/posts#comment Tue, 23 Jun 2009 06:02:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2259445/posts I learned today that the Saint Louis Science Center is and will be hosting an exhibit this summer called "Ends of the Earth: From Polar Bears to Penguins." The exhibit website, available here, has more information about it. While I'm sure the exhibit contains plenty of good information, according to the website it's purpose is to "highlight [the] climate change crisis." I don't want to preach to the choir too much, but we've all seen politics done in the guise of science, and as a scientist, I don't like it one bit. And while the fact that the earth has... Vanity http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2259445/posts#comment Thu, 28 May 2009 00:30:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2238816/posts This Sunday, Pope Benedict XVI will include in the canon of saints of the Catholic Church the great warrior, holy patriot, and humble Christian: Nuno Alvares Pereira. As we mentioned last year, in an age of so many disgraceful individuals involved in public life, the life of the Holy Constable of Portugal, Nuno Alvares Pereira (1360-1431), is perhaps the most surprising of them. One of the greatest statesmen and military leaders in the history of the Iberian Peninsula, he was always a most faithful son of the Church. After becoming a widower, and despite having all the fortune, power, and... Rorate Caeli http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2238816/posts#comment Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:16:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2237090/posts Obama’s message is not new: tax the rich, give to the poor. Sure, it sounds nice… or does it? This strain sounds pretty Marxist to me. Why? Because his “tax cuts” are not tax cuts. He promises tax cuts for 95% of Americans. Guess what? Only 62% of Americans even pay federal income tax. So those other people, the ones who don’t pay taxes, can’t get “cuts” on something they don’t pay! So they’re just getting checks from the government. You know what we actually call Obama’s tax cuts? Income redistribution. Yes, I want to help the poor. But you... Soapbox Musings http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2237090/posts#comment Fri, 24 Apr 2009 19:00:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2215639/posts Nancy Pelosi is now a Saint....CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS? On a Saturday afternoon, in Washington, D. C., House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's aide visited the Cardinal of the Catholic Cathedral. He told the Cardinal that Nancy Pelosi would be attending the next day's sermon, and he asked if the Cardinal would kindly point out Pelosi to the congregation and say a few words that would include calling Pelosi a saint. The Cardinal replied, "No. I don't really like the woman, and there are issues of conflict with the Catholic Church over certain of Pelosi's views." Pelosi's aide then said, "Look. I'll... Nachumlist.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2215639/posts#comment Thu, 26 Mar 2009 22:20:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2209859/posts "I ... encourage you to look to Saint Joseph. When Mary received the visit of the angel at the Annunciation, she was already betrothed to Joseph. In addressing Mary personally, the Lord already closely associates Joseph to the mystery of the Incarnation. Joseph agreed to be part of the great events which God was beginning to bring about in the womb of his spouse. He took Mary into his home. He welcomed the mystery that was in Mary and the mystery that was Mary herself. He loved her with great respect, which is the mark of all authentic love. Joseph... Rorate Caeli http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2209859/posts#comment Thu, 19 Mar 2009 13:43:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2158995/posts (The following is excerpted from the book "A Bishop, A Saint: The Life of Saint John Neumann," by Father James J, Galvin, CSsR, published by The Neumann Press.) "...St. Peter's [Basilica] was intensely quiet....Now, except for the sputter of candle-flames high in the arches, the only sound was one human voice reading in the singsong Latin. While Pio Nono [Blessed Pius IX] read, the basilica listened with a rapt excitement, waiting to hear expressed what all Christendom in its heart believed: that the Mother of the Redeemer has, by unique exception, entered time unbesmirched by Original Fault." "Not since... Dignare Me Laudare Te, Virgo Sacrata http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2158995/posts#comment Mon, 5 Jan 2009 16:15:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2121180/posts LONDON -- Plans to transfer the remains of 19th-century Roman Catholic Cardinal John Henry Newman from a humble country graveyard to a posh marble sarcophagus have been abandoned because gravediggers could not find his body. When church officials sought to exhume his bones from his grave in a rural English cemetery on Thursday (Oct. 2), all they found were a brass plaque and a scattering of red tassels from his cardinal's hat. The Catholic Church had wanted to shift Newman's remains to Birmingham Oratory, the Midlands edifice that he established in Victorian England, in preparation for his expected beatification as... Religion News Service (posted on Modern Reformation) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2121180/posts#comment Fri, 31 Oct 2008 22:01:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2112231/posts One of the good luck charms Senator Barack Obama carries around with him all the time is a St. Martin de Porres figure. Saint Martin de Porres is the patron saint of: interracial relations, social justice, public education, public health service, people of mixed race, and animal shelters. His feast day is November 3rd, the day before this year's election. To make your own prayer card click on the thumbnail of the image you want with either the traditional prayer to St. Martin de Porres as found on the real prayer cards, or my own tongue-in-cheek version that is a... obamaprayercards.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2112231/posts#comment Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:50:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2102710/posts ROME, OCT. 10, 2008 (Zenit.org).- As Christians in India continue to face persecution for their faith, they will have a new advocate in the figure of soon-to-be St. Alfonsa of the Immaculate Conception.Blessed Alfonsa (born Anna Muttathupadathu) is one of four people to be canonized by Benedict XVI this Sunday. The other three are Maria Bernarda Butler, from Switzerland; Narcisa de Jesús Martillo Morán from Ecuador; and Father Gaetano Errico from Italy.Blessed Alfonsa will be the first woman from India to be canonized. She was a religious of the Poor Clares.Anna Muttathupadathu was born in the Indian state of Kerala... ZNA http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2102710/posts#comment Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:46:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2098855/posts (The following is the legend of the breviary for St. Bruno, as quoted in Dom Prosper Guéranger's entry in The Liturgical Year for October 6, in Volume XIV of the 1983 Marian House edition of the English translation by the Benedictines of Stanbrook.) "Bruno, the founder of the Carthusian Order, was born at Cologne [Germany], and from his very cradle gave great promise of future sanctity. Favoured by divine grace, the gravity of his character made him shun all childishness; so that, even at that age, one might have foreseen in him the future father of monks and restorer... Dignare Me Laudare Te, Virgo Sacrata http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2098855/posts#comment Mon, 6 Oct 2008 18:52:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2081080/posts Glenn Dallaire of Bristol, Connecticut, has recently started a blog devoted to St Gemma Galgani with quotations from her writings and posts showing her heroic life. See Saint Gemma Galgani. Glenn, married with six children, hopes by this blog to inspire others to a greater love of Jesus and Mary. Please say a prayer for him and his family. The hermeneutic of continuity http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2081080/posts#comment Fri, 12 Sep 2008 20:30:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2030898/posts The statue of St. Anthony of Padua in my "icon corner," with the icon of St. Charbel Makhlouf in the left background. (The following is excerpted from Dom Prosper Guéranger's entry in The Liturgical Year for 13 June, in Volume XII of the 1983 Marian House edition of the English translation by the Benedictines of Stanbrook.) "...The days of Charlemagne were past and gone; yet the work of Leo III still lived on, despite a thousand difficulties. The enemy, now at large, had sown cockle in the field of the divine householder; heresy was springing up and there, whilst vice... Dignare Me Laudare Te, Virgo Sacrata http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2030898/posts#comment Sat, 14 Jun 2008 01:42:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2010306/posts The Vatican Congregation for the Causes of Saints has ruled that a Hawaiian woman’s cure from cancer was a miracle linked to her prayers to Blessed Father Damien De Veuster. The missionary priest, who was renowned for working with leprosy patients, is now one step closer to being declared a saint. Audrey Toguchi, a 79-year-old retired schoolteacher who lives in Aiea, became ill in 1997 with a lump on her left thigh that was discovered to be cancerous. She asked her sisters to accompany her to Kalaupapa to pray at Father Damien’s grave. “I prayed that he would ask God... Catholic News Agency http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2010306/posts#comment Fri, 2 May 2008 17:08:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2006865/posts The exhumed body of Padre Pio, a saint considered a miracle worker by his devotees, attracted thousands of pilgrims on Thursday when it went on display 40 years after his death.Padre Pio is one of the Catholic Church's most popular saints and during his lifetime the Italian monk was said to have had the stigmata, the bleeding wounds of Jesus' crucifixion on his hands and feet.The economy of this southern town revolves around the cult of Padre Pio and heaving crowds waited to see his body, displayed in a crystal, marble and silver sepulcher in the crypt of the monastery... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2006865/posts#comment Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:50:15 GMT