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  • Habits of Holiness [On the Life of St. Alphonsus Maria de' Liguori]

    08/01/2009 1:19:46 PM PDT · by bdeaner · 3 replies · 333+ views
    Catholic Culture ^ | 27 July 2005 | Vito Lombardi
    With the Apostolic Letter Mane Nobiscum Domine of October 2004, John Paul II dedicated this pastoral year to the mystery of the Eucharist. The Pope wrote: "The Year of the Eucharist has its source in the amazement with which the Church contemplates this great Mystery . . . May the Year of the Eucharist be for everyone a precious opportunity to grow in awareness of the incomparable treasure which Christ has entrusted to his Church . . . " (n. 29). "In this Year of the Eucharist Christians ought to be committed to bearing more forceful witness to God's...
  • Natural Calamities, Divine Threats & The Four Gates of Hell 3rd Discourse

    02/19/2009 9:31:00 AM PST · by GonzoII · 1 replies · 225+ views
    catholictradition.org ^ | 18th cent. | ST. ALPHONSUS LIGUORI
    THIRD DISCOURSE: God Is Merciful for a Season, and Then Chastises, Part 1 Thou hast been favorable to the nation, O Lord, thou hast been favorable to the nation; hast thou been glorified? -----Isa. 26:15. Lord, Thou hast often pardoned this people; Thou hast threatened it with destruction by earthquake, by pestilence, in neighboring countries; by the infirmities and death of its own citizens; but Thou hast afterwards taken pity on them: Thou hast been favorable to the nation, O Lord, Thou hast been favorable to the nation, hast Thou been glorified? Thou hast pardoned us, Thou hast dealt...
  • Catholic Caucus, Daily Mass Readings, 08-01-05, Mem. St. Alphonsus Liguori, Bishop & Doctor-Church

    08/01/2005 8:16:51 AM PDT · by Salvation · 20 replies · 367+ views
    USCCB.org/New American Bible ^ | 08-01-05 | New American Bible
    August 1, 2005Memorial of Saint Alphonsus Liguori, bishop and doctor of the Church Psalm: Monday 34 Reading INm 11:4b-15 The children of Israel lamented,"Would that we had meat for food!We remember the fish we used to eat without cost in Egypt,and the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks,the onions, and the garlic.But now we are famished;we see nothing before us but this manna." Manna was like coriander seed and had the color of resin.When they had gone about and gathered it up,the people would grind it between millstones or pound it in a mortar,then cook it in a pot and...
  • Catholic Caucus: Daily Mass Readings, 8-01-02, Memorial of St. Alphonsus Liguori

    08/01/2002 8:51:22 AM PDT · by Salvation · 10 replies · 122+ views
    Catholic-Pages.com/ New American Bible ^ | 8-01-02 | New American Bible
    August 1, 2002Memorial of Saint Alphonsus Liguori, bishop of the Church Psalm: Thursday Week 34 Reading I Responsorial Psalm Gospel Reading IJer 18:1-6 This word came to Jeremiah from the Lord:Rise up, be off to the potter's house;there I will give you my message.I went down to the potter's house and there he was, working at the wheel.Whenever the object of clay which he was makingturned out badly in his hand, he tried again,making of the clay another object of whatever sort he pleased.Then the word of the Lord came to me:Can I not do to you, house of Israel,as...
  • Catholic Caucus - The Second Sorrow of Mary

    04/26/2002 11:33:35 PM PDT · by history_matters · 17 replies · 80+ views
    The Sorrows of Mary | J+M+J Anno Domini | St. Alphonsus Liguori
    from THE SECOND SORROW OF MARY: THE FLIGHT INTO EGYPT ... The most holy Virgin one day appeared to Blessed Collette, a Franciscan nun, and showed her the Infant Jesus in a basin, torn to pieces, and then said: ' Thus it is that sinners continually treat my Son, renewing His death and my sorrows. My daughter, pray for them, that they may be converted.' To this we may add another vision, which the venerable sister Joanna of Jesus and Mary, also a Franciscan nun, had. She was one day meditating on the Infant Jesus persecuted by Herod, when she...