Glory To Jesus, Honour To Mary! All The Real Catholics Please Stand Up!

I bow oh! 

A friend wrote this,

Pope Paul speaking from the window facing St. Peter Square said: “above all, what we need are saints. Looking at the state the world finds itself in today, may I remind you that what nations need most today is sainthood. We need saints. We need saints above everything else. This is the greatest need of the present world”.

The words greatly remind one of those other words from The Way: “I’ll tell you a secret, an open secret: these world crises are crises of saints. God wants a handful of men ‘of his own’ in (every field) of human activity. Then … pax Christi in regno Christi – “ the peace of Christ in the kingdom of Christ”.

Men are very weak and we must be made to see with our own eyes how we should proceed, which direction we should go in, how we should march through life. We need saints who will go on ahead, showing us the way. They cannot stop, but press on for our sake, waking us up, exhorting and encouraging us to persevere, constantly offering us their help, lighting our path, and showing us what loving God really means. Otherwise all we will know will be our own selfish love.

We need living saints, rather than the great ones of past ages, enshrined now in their vaulted riches. We need saints who will go with us to work in the fields or on the highways, in buses or on the okada; men who are not phantoms capable of going miraculously on when the traffic light is at red, but who have to wait with us until the signal light turns green. We need men who follow the same skills and professions as we do, so we can see how they solve the problems with their children, domestic problems, professional problems … who have to wrestle with the same economic problems with the bills we have to face at the same time each month; men who can register their just grievances, claiming their rights, and who do so because their pay is too meager; men who have to wait their turn at the Confessional because they also need to repent of their bad temper, of their anger, their pride, their indolence, the strong temptations they don’t always succeed in overcoming, because they too are made of flesh and blood.

Yes, we need saints who live as they preach, who lead us by their example, who imitate the gospel’s way, doing first and then teaching. We need saints who are human and understanding, with the humanity and understanding acquired in the course of battling against their own weaknesses.

You are that saint. You can be that saint. We are called to be that saint.

wow! it's been quiet and dry all day,
where are all the peeps at,

Pam please come back soon, we're missing our daily readings and the day's saint,

Oby, good of you to show up at least,

Cheers all 

May be they are have joined Ebos in Lebanon, or what do you think?



I have helped pam to post today's saint.  Pam this wedding arrangement na long one o, abi you wan invite the whole world 


Thanks lindi, so how was your trip back, hope smooth

Lawyer na wetin na, not even to pop in as you usually do

Viee my dear how you dey, i know by now you must have been through with your exams 

Carlosein, hope sey no bi because Pam travel and you dey miss her, na him make u no wan pop in, abi you too don enter forex like Ebos.  Tell us o because we know dey know finish

Imhotep greetings to you, how is d vocation going?

Lady i know mum is kicking now.

Ebos how is mumsie health and know she is okay now.

Uzzy my sister wir u dey naw

~lady~ after what i saw (now deleted), i thought u'd never come back here again. thank God it's not so.

take care of you and remember God is always faithful.

Glory to Jesus, honour to Mary!!!

 

i'm keeping vigil, waiting for the clock to strike a minute after 12 midnight so i can sing myself a birthday song before sleeping, i always do that and today won't be an exception even though i'm so exhausted,
I'm always the first to wish myself a 'happy birthday' 

So house, tomorrow the 23rd of April is my birthday and i'll like my bros and sis in da house to celebrate with me, 

Please if any of you can, biko help book mass for me, i really can't do it here in Bayelsa, church is a bit far from where i stay!
I know it would be difficult to book a mass against tomorrow,  even if it's against Thursday, i won't mind

I would so appreciate it 

Cheers all! I promise to make the cake go round  please be expecting yours, yes you!

Happy birthday to a beloved daughter of Jesus and Mary!!! 

Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday to you Lindiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii, happy birthday to youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu 

How old are you now,   

I thank God for your life.
Darling i wish you above every other things God's continous grace for spiritual and physical upliftment 



If d mass will be booked it will be against next week not this week again, is it okay?


Hum cake, my mouth is watering already 

God be praised

Litany of Humility =>


Source => http://www.ewtn.com/Devotionals/prayers/humility.htm

@Lindiwe
Happy birthday!! Many happy returns. May the Lord bless you with both His Hands.

If only this cake could be downloaded ==>

oh my gosh! what a sumptuous cake! 
oby i told you the cake is coming, oya, abeg download your own,

tanx imhotep, whether the cake is downlaodable or not, i'll have it still!

cheers

Oh dear, Viee you're such a darling!

I love the MOET girl, wish i could have it for real! and the chinese, Ulalala!!!

Gracias!!!

Today's Saint

St. Fidelis of Sigmaringen (1577-1622) 
 
If a poor man needed some clothing, Fidelis would often give the man the clothes right off his back. Complete generosity to others characterized this saint's life.

Born in 1577, Mark Rey (Fidelis was his religious name) became a lawyer who constantly upheld the causes of the poor and oppressed people. Nicknamed "the poor man's lawyer," Fidelis soon grew disgusted with the corruption and injustice he saw among his colleagues. He left his law career to become a priest, joining his brother George as a Franciscan friar of the Capuchin Order. His wealth was divided between needy seminarians and the poor.

As a follower of Francis, Fidelis continued his devotion to the weak and needy. Once, during a severe epidemic in a city where he was guardian of a friary, Fidelis cared for and cured many sick soldiers.

He was appointed head of a group of Capuchins sent to preach against the Calvinists and Zwinglians in Switzerland. Almost certain violence threatened. Those who observed the mission felt that success was more attributable to the prayer of Fidelis during the night than to his sermons and instructions.

He was accused of opposing the peasants' national aspirations for independence from Austria. While he was preaching at Seewis, to which he had gone against the advice of his friends, a gun was fired at him, but he escaped unharmed. A Protestant offered to shelter Fidelis, but he declined, saying his life was in God's hands. On the road back, he was set upon by a group of armed men and killed.

Quote

"Action on behalf of justice and participation in the transformation of the world fully appear to us as a constitutive dimension of the preaching of the Gospel, or, in other words, of the Church's mission for the redemption of the human race and its liberation from every oppressive situation" ("Justice in the World," Synod of Bishops, 1971).
 

so hello viee, oby, lindiwe and ~lady~, the hipocrisy of our estranged brethren is simply bothersome!
but how for do now?

we keep keeping on fighting the good fight of faith.

where ebos, lawyer and uzzyan come run go since now? please report here immediately!!!

tot i cld help with todays readn:


Thursday of the Fifth Week of Easter


Reading 1
Acts 15:7-21

After much debate had taken place,
Peter got up and said to the Apostles and the presbyters,
“My brothers, you are well aware that from early days
God made his choice among you that through my mouth
the Gentiles would hear the word of the Gospel and believe.
And God, who knows the heart,
bore witness by granting them the Holy Spirit
just as he did us.
He made no distinction between us and them,
for by faith he purified their hearts.
Why, then, are you now putting God to the test
by placing on the shoulders of the disciples
a yoke that neither our ancestors nor we have been able to bear?
On the contrary, we believe that we are saved
through the grace of the Lord Jesus, in the same way as they.”
The whole assembly fell silent,
and they listened
while Paul and Barnabas described the signs and wonders
God had worked among the Gentiles through them.

After they had fallen silent, James responded,
“My brothers, listen to me.
Symeon has described how God first concerned himself
with acquiring from among the Gentiles a people for his name.
The words of the prophets agree with this, as is written:

After this I shall return
and rebuild the fallen hut of David;
from its ruins I shall rebuild it
and raise it up again,
so that the rest of humanity may seek out the Lord,
even all the Gentiles on whom my name is invoked.
Thus says the Lord who accomplishes these things,
known from of old.

It is my judgment, therefore,
that we ought to stop troubling the Gentiles who turn to God,
but tell them by letter to avoid pollution from idols,
unlawful marriage, the meat of strangled animals, and blood.
For Moses, for generations now,
has had those who proclaim him in every town,
as he has been read in the synagogues every sabbath.”

The Apostles and the presbyters met together to see about this matter.

Responsorial Psalm
96:1-2a, 2b-3, 10
R. (3) Proclaim God’s marvelous deeds to all the nations.
or:
R. Alleluia.
Sing to the LORD a new song;
sing to the LORD, all you lands.
Sing to the LORD; bless his name.
R. Proclaim God’s marvelous deeds to all the nations.
or:
R. Alleluia.
Announce his salvation, day after day.
Tell his glory among the nations;
among all peoples, his wondrous deeds.
R. Proclaim God’s marvelous deeds to all the nations.
or:
R. Alleluia.
Say among the nations: The LORD is king.
He has made the world firm, not to be moved;
he governs the peoples with equity.
R. Proclaim God’s marvelous deeds to all the nations.
or:
R. Alleluia.

Gospel
Jn 15:9-11

Jesus said to his disciples:
“As the Father loves me, so I also love you.
Remain in my love.
If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love,
just as I have kept my Father’s commandments
and remain in his love.

“I have told you this so that
my joy might be in you and
your joy might be complete.”