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Lindiwe:
guys did you know that May 1st 2008 is a very unique day? consider the following:


it's the Solemnity of Ascension of Jesus into heaven. It is thus a day of obligation, meaning we are obliged to attend Mass!


it's the beginning of the annual devotion to Mother Mary


it's also the feast of St. Joseph the Worker. the Holy Mother Church honours St. Joseph as the Patron of Workers, guess we know that!


it's also observed as workers’ day, and therefore a public holiday.


You could see that, by divine providence, we have a VERY RARE opportunity this year to commence the May devotion to Mary in union with the Patron Saint of Workers (St. Joseph) and on the occasion of the Ascension of Jesus into heaven and on a Workers’ Day! Isn't it so wonderful!

Praying the Holy Rosary during the month of May will be a very spiritually rewarding exercise. Mother Mary grants tremendous graces to all who salute her with the recitation of the Holy Rosary. Be assured that Jesus, Mary and St. Joseph will richly reward your efforts and prayers on this special day of 1 May 2008.
May your petitions ascend to heaven as Jesus ascended into heaven. AMEN.
and may the Queen of the month of May and St. Joseph continue to pray for you and with you.
Amen!

A unique month indeed.

Carlosein:
viee, how now?

shey na me u dey call Fr uncle?
abeg your uncle dey ya villa o

you said 30 decades this morning!! man u be prayer warrior now o!

she don pass prayer warrior o 
i say wow to that, viee thats great, please remember me always as you say the Rosary especially on the 5th Glorious mystery (Coronation of our blessed Mother).
Keep it up and may that zeal continue to burn.

lest i forget, carl you've done a good job on viee! i'm flabergasted! biko help your poor sis as well!

Don't worry, who knows you might even get to 50 decades when you start     

kamsi:
I just stumbled on this trend, well this is nice. But I need a praying Partner especially the rosary, why I need such a partner is so I would be motivated to pray more.

So if any one is availiable holla at me and we will device how to say our rosary everyday.

hey Kamsi you are welcome to this thread.  So how do the praying partner comes in, i mean how do you want the praying partner to help.

viee i'm cool and i know you are too.
Lindiwe i appreciate your call, i must say that you have a nice voice on phone, phone o    don't mind me, i know also in physical it will be sweeter than on phone 

Carlosein congrat, may God be praised.  So we go wash am o 

Lawyer knock for door naw and say hello to your people naw

Has anybody heard about Ebos?

Carlosein:
hey ~lady~, what can i say to you? the glory of God surely will be revealed in all of these. sure i can take time out to
tell you my personal travails within the last two years: i've had to battle homelessness in lagos since last year not just for me but also for my mum and siblings. landlords forcing rent up to the skies made us resolve to get a place of our own and meanwhile where do we live? i moved out of my abode and in with my mum in march and concentrated all efforts on the building. at every point in time we kept praying (especially to the sacred heart of Jesus and immaculate heart of Mary).

Now the turning point:
1. i miraculously got a new and better job this month (thanks to some angels on this thread ) ,
2. we are moving into the new house tomorrow, and
3. the greatest of all is that everybody is hale and hearty, what with all the work (manual and otherwise) that we all did through the construction (you need to see and feel my palms and pray i don't ever slap you )

so, sis all's well. it is all "ad majorem gloriam Dei" -- "to the greater glory of God " as St ignatius of loyola used to say.

and finally, it is okay to cry

Dominus Vobiscum.

Lady you can see that Carlos has explained all to you. All i will add is that after rain comes sunshine, if there is no hurdles in life there can never be victory.

He who began a good work in you, will be faithful to complete it in you.
He is able, more than able to accomplish what concerns you always.

Today's Saint

St. Pius V (1504-1572)


This is the pope whose job was to implement the historic Council of Trent. If we think recent popes have had difficulties in implementing Vatican Council II, Pius V had even greater problems after that historic council more than four centuries ago.

During his papacy (1566-1572), Pius V was faced with the almost overwhelming responsibility of getting a shattered and scattered Church back on its feet. The family of God had been shaken by corruption, by the Reformation, by the constant threat of Turkish invasion and by the bloody bickering of the young nation-states. In 1545 a previous pope convened the Council of Trent in an attempt to deal with all these pressing problems. Off and on over 18 years, the Church Fathers discussed, condemned, affirmed and decided upon a course of action. The Council closed in 1563.

Pius V was elected in 1566 and was charged with the task of implementing the sweeping reforms called for by the Council. He ordered the founding of seminaries for the proper training of priests. He published a new missal, a new breviary, a new catechism and established the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine (CCD) classes for the young. Pius zealously enforced legislation against abuses in the Church. He patiently served the sick and the poor by building hospitals, providing food for the hungry and giving money customarily used for the papal banquets to poor Roman converts. His decision to keep wearing his Dominican habit led to the custom of the pope wearing a white cassock.

In striving to reform both Church and state, Pius encountered vehement opposition from England's Queen Elizabeth and the Roman Emperor Maximilian II. Problems in France and in the Netherlands also hindered Pius's hopes for a Europe united against the Turks. Only at the last minute was he able to organize a fleet which won a decisive victory in the Gulf of Lepanto, off Greece, on October 7, 1571.

Pius's ceaseless papal quest for a renewal of the Church was grounded in his personal life as a Dominican friar. He spent long hours with his God in prayer, fasted rigorously, deprived himself of many customary papal luxuries and faithfully observed the Dominican Rule and its spirit.

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"In this universal assembly, in this privileged point of time and space, there converge together the past, the present, and the future. The past: for here, gathered in this spot, we have the Church of Christ with her tradition, her history, her Councils, her doctors, her saints; the present: we are taking leave of one another to go out toward the world of today with its miseries, its sufferings, its sins, but also with its prodigious accomplishments, values, and virtues; and the future is here in the urgent appeal of the peoples of the world for more justice, in their will for peace, in their conscious or unconscious thirst for a higher life, that life precisely which the Church of Christ can give and wishes to give to them" (from Pope Paul's closing message at Vatican II).

Today's Saint

St. Catherine of Siena (1347-1380)

The value Catherine makes central in her short life and which sounds clearly and consistently through her experience is complete surrender to Christ. What is most impressive about her is that she learns to view her surrender to her Lord as a goal to be reached through time.

She was the 23rd child of Jacopo and Lapa Benincasa and grew up as an intelligent, cheerful and intensely religious person. Catherine disappointed her mother by cutting off her hair as a protest against being overly encouraged to improve her appearance in order to attract a husband. Her father ordered her to be left in peace and she was given a room of her own for prayer and meditation.

She entered the Dominican Third Order at 18 and spent the next three years in seclusion, prayer and austerity. Gradually a group of followers gathered around her—men and women, priests and religious. An active public apostolate grew out of her contemplative life. Her letters, mostly for spiritual instruction and encouragement of her followers, began to take more and more note of public affairs. Opposition and slander resulted from her mixing fearlessly with the world and speaking with the candor and authority of one completely committed to Christ. She was cleared of all charges at the Dominican General Chapter of 1374.

Her public influence reached great heights because of her evident holiness, her membership in the Dominican Third Order, and the deep impression she made on the pope. She worked tirelessly for the crusade against the Turks and for peace between Florence and the pope

In 1378, the Great Schism began, splitting the allegiance of Christendom between two, then three, popes and putting even saints on opposing sides. Catherine spent the last two years of her life in Rome, in prayer and pleading on behalf of the cause of Urban VI and the unity of the Church. She offered herself as a victim for the Church in its agony. She died surrounded by her "children."

Catherine ranks high among the mystics and spiritual writers of the Church. In 1970 Paul VI named her and Teresa of Avila as doctors of the Church. In recent years, it has been suggested that she (among other possibilities) should be named patron of the Internet. Her spiritual testament is found in The Dialogue.

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Catherine's book Dialogue contains four treatises—her testament of faith to the spiritual world. She wrote, "No one should judge that he has greater perfection because he performs great penances and gives himself in excess to the staying of the body than he who does less, inasmuch as neither virtue nor merit consists therein; for otherwise he would be an evil case, who for some legitimate reason was unable to do actual penance. Merit consists in the virtue of love alone, flavored with the light of true discretion without which the soul is worth nothing."

The message from God says "IF ONLY THEY WILL HONOUR MY MOTHER" please each day even if we are weak to say the full Rosary, just an hail Mary at least.

viee:
Oby how bodi _{sent u a tx on sat, did u get it?}
hp u had a good wkend?
Lady, sori about your graduation stuff. . .
Carl & Pam wher una dey naw?
Imhotep, too?

Linidiwe, sup!
found out my parish does nt book Mass _{funny innit?}
so i called up my Mom to book d Mass for u,
She will book it 2moro _{datz d day itz done in her parish}
got your no, i will hola u later!

eagle, welcome o
hope you to c ard more often
Glory to Jesus, Honour to our Dear Mother Mary

night all!

Hello Viee i got your txt thanks and i tried to reply back but network was something else, but i sent you an offline message thru messenger, hope u got it too.
How work? seems u closed late yesterday. Have a great day.

eagleroland:
Glory to Jesus! Very interesting posts on this thread. I want to clarify some things. If Catholics are a cult, that means all churches are cultists because all churches broke away from the Catholic Church. I am a Catholic, a very proud one, a Charismatic, a sanctuary of the Living God and a prophetic intercessor. I have no regrets and no complaints. I also have nothing to say about all the people insulting Catholics. May the Lord open our eyes to see, our ears to hear and our hearts to understand the things that are important.

Hello Eagle! welcome in the midst of your brethrens, just like Viee said hope we will be seeing more of you. Glory to Jesus and Honour to the great intercessor our Mother Mary. Praise God!!!

Lindiwe:
ah oby1 you should know na! nigerian states are not just 36 in number, there are lastest additions! maybe you should update your knowledge of current affairs oh!

on a more serious note, that's my real name! it was given to me by a south african lady when i was born, it means a long awaited child (in Zulu)

Thanx for the mass once again! May God bless you as you go about doing good to the least of His brothers,

got your text! i promise to holla!

Long awaited child (in igbo i think is Ogechi)
Thx for your call Oge

Carlosein:
well, see you all on monday and don't forget to pray for everyone else.

Dominus Vobiscum!

Carlos how r u doin, i can see u r missing pam

Today's Saint

St. Peter Chanel (1803-1841)

Anyone who has worked in loneliness, with great adaptation required and with little apparent success, will find a kindred spirit in Peter Chanel.

As a young priest he revived a parish in a "bad" district by the simple method of showing great devotion to the sick. Wanting to be a missionary, he joined the Society of Mary (Marists) at 28. Obediently, he taught in the seminary for five years. Then, as superior of seven Marists, he traveled to Western Oceania where he was entrusted with a vicariate. The bishop accompanying the missionaries left Peter and a brother on Futuna Island in the New Hebrides, promising to return in six months. The interval lasted five years.

Meanwhile he struggled with this new language and mastered it, making the difficult adjustment to life with whalers, traders and warring natives. Despite little apparent success and severe want, he maintained a serene and gentle spirit and endless patience and courage. A few natives had been baptized, a few more were being instructed. When the chieftain's son asked to be baptized, persecution by the chieftain reached a climax. Father Chanel was clubbed to death, his body cut to pieces.

Within two years after his death, the whole island became Catholic and has remained so. Peter Chanel is the first martyr of Oceania and its patron.

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"No one is a martyr for a conclusion, no one is a martyr for an opinion; it is faith that makes martyrs" (Cardinal Newman, Discourses to Mixed Congregations).

~Lady~:
Thanks!!!!


Guys I was a bit sad today. I woke up almost with tears in my eyes.
Today was supposed to be my graduation, but God had other plans for me.
But let his will be done.


But on a lighter note. My birthday is two weeks from today (sunday). I'm so excited, counting down and looking forward to my surprise.

14 days to go.

What ever that might have almost brought tears to your eyes, remember that joy comes in the morning.  Tears at times is a disguise to happiness that is to come and dissappointment as they say is a blessing, so cheer up

Wow! happy birthday in advance and many many happy returns    This is going to be a double celebration, after Lindiwe's then yours, birthday batch celebration 

know what oby, lindiwe is one of my real names, so it's fine if you use it,
i don't want to post my regular name hereeeeeeeeee, butttttttttt i could post my number,
0803 -------------
so guys, text me your numbers, because your IV (to my little party) would come via phone call/ text 

Good morning all and hope you all had a nice weekend as for me it was great 
Cool dear, i will text my number 2u.
Lindiwe? which state in Nigeria bears it? Whats the meaning? Have not heard of this name before.

I will book the mass today.

Wishing you all a wonderful weekend.

Lindiwe i wld hv booked d mass today, but i remembered that i don't have your real name (so can i hv your real name?) But all the same, may be i will just use Lindiwe (hope is ok?)

cgift:
Oby1.

Good morning to you too. I don miss you o! How you dey girlie? We lawyer, ebos, orobo5ocl, viee, and co ? I don miss una tey tey! Have a lovely day ahead.

I catch the greetings, infact i miss u self pass my lunch How r u and also pilgrim?

hello house, fine morning to you all.

Today's Saint

St. Mark

Mark the Evangelist, whose feast we celebrate today, is sometimes thought of as the mouthpiece of St. Peter, with whom he was closely associated, and who, unlike Mark, was an eye-witness to the public ministry of Jesus. Mark's Gospel is economical, but encompasses the whole life of Jesus from from Bethlehem to Calvary. It's prime purpose is to proclaim to the Gentile world that Jesus is the Son of God. Today's Gospel takes the last few verses of Mark, where Jesus commissions his disciplines before ascending into heaven, forty days after his glorious resurrection.
Most of what we know about Mark comes directly from the New Testament. He is usually identified with the Mark of Acts 12:12. (When Peter escaped from prison, he went to the home of Mark's mother.)

Paul and Barnabas took him along on the first missionary journey, but for some reason Mark returned alone to Jerusalem. It is evident, from Paul's refusal to let Mark accompany him on the second journey despite Barnabas's insistence, that Mark had displeased Paul. Later, Paul asks Mark to visit him in prison so we may assume the trouble did not last long.

The oldest and the shortest of the four Gospels, the Gospel of Mark emphasizes Jesus' rejection by humanity while being God's triumphant envoy. Probably written for Gentile converts in Rome—after the death of Peter and Paul sometime between A.D. 60 and 70—Mark's Gospel is the gradual manifestation of a "scandal": a crucified Messiah.

Evidently a friend of Mark (Peter called him "my son", Peter is only one of the Gospel sources, others being the Church in Jerusalem (Jewish roots) and the Church at Antioch (largely Gentile).

Like one other Gospel writer, Luke, Mark was not one of the 12 apostles. We cannot be certain whether he knew Jesus personally. Some scholars feel that the evangelist is speaking of himself when describing the arrest of Jesus in Gethsemane: "Now a young man followed him wearing nothing but a linen cloth about his body. They seized him, but he left the cloth behind and ran off naked" (Mark 14:51-52).

Others hold Mark to be the first bishop of Alexandria, Egypt. Venice, famous for the Piazza San Marco, claims Mark as its patron saint; the large basilica there is believed to contain his remains.

A winged lion is Mark's symbol. The lion derives from Mark's description of John the Baptist as a "voice of one crying out in the desert" (Mark 1:3), which artists compared to a roaring lion. The wings come from the application of Ezekiel's vision of four winged creatures (Ezekiel, chapter one) to the evangelists.

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There is very little in Mark that is not in the other Gospels—only four passages. One is: “, This is how it is with the kingdom of God; it is as if a man were to scatter seed on the land and would sleep and rise night and day and the seed would sprout and grow, he knows not how. Of its own accord the land yields fruit, first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear. And when the grain is ripe, he wields the sickle at once, for the harvest has come” (Mark 4:26-29).

1000? wow that will b a long journey thru, but i hope we can make it.
viee i just dey my dear.

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.

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"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).

Wish one do i begin with first is it the moet or the cake, hum mouth watering already.

I will book the mass tomorrow against next week.

Viee love u are back, welcome.

Tanx Oby, Tanx so much! but your question should have been 'how young are you?' because 'old' is not any where near my dictionary

Abi o

Does he/she needs to prove him wrong?

Whip

Today's Saint

St. George

If Mary Magdalene was the victim of misunderstanding, George is the object of a vast amount of imagination. There is every reason to believe that he was a real martyr who suffered at Lydda in Palestine, probably before the time of Constantine. The Church adheres to his memory, but not to the legends surrounding his life.

That he was willing to pay the supreme price to follow Christ is what the Church believes. And it is enough.
The story of George's slaying the dragon, rescuing the king's daughter and converting Libya is a twelfth-century Italian fable. George was a favorite patron saint of crusaders, as well as of Eastern soldiers in earlier times. He is a patron saint of England, Portugal, Germany, Aragon, Genoa and Venice.


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"When we look at the lives of those who have faithfully followed Christ, we are inspired with a new reason for seeking the city which is to come" (Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, 50).

~Lady~:
Oby1

Mum's doing much better. She even resumed work (againt my wish and I know she coerced the doc to release her)

I really am appreciative of the prayers.

Thank you all

God be praised

Lindiwe:
sup Oby,
i know say you be correct girl, tanks for holdin up for Pam on the daily saint and readings,
my trip back here was more than smooth even though i wasn't looking forward to it, but i've got no choice sha,

hope you're cool shaa,

As you can read my post, so also u can see through that i'm cool, cheers dear

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, 

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 

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!

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

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

Hum cake, my mouth is watering already 

Groom

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

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

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

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

Oby, good of you to show up at least,

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

Today's Saint

St. Adalbert of Prague (956-97)

Opposition to the Good News of Jesus did not discourage Adalbert, who is now remembered with great honor in the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary and Germany.

Born to a noble family in Bohemia, he received part of his education from St. Adalbert of Magdeburg. At the age of 27 he was chosen as bishop of Prague. Those who resisted his program of clerical reform forced him into exile eight years later.

In time the people of Prague requested his return as their bishop. Within a short time, however, he was exiled again after excommunicating those who violated the right of sanctuary by dragging a woman accused of adultery from a church and murdering her.

After a short ministry in Hungary, he went to preach the Good News to people living near the Baltic Sea. He and two companions were martyred by pagan priests in that region. Adalbert's body was immediately ransomed and buried in Gniezno cathedral (Poland). In the mid-11th century his body was moved to St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague.

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“God our Father, you have honored the Church with the victorious witness of St. Adalbert, who died for his faith. As he imitated the suffering and death of the Lord, may we follow in his footsteps and come to eternal joy” (adapted from the Common of a Martyr in the Easter season).

Where is everyone? hope you all had a nice weekend

Viee,
I'm good and i've booked several appointments to catch a glimpse of Alams to no avail, your sis tire come kukuma give up
How your exam na, sure say you dey give those lecturers assignment for each paper

I trust my sis

@Oby
Sis you've got humour no bi small, abeg help me tell Ebos say make im no run again, i no go do am anything
I also suggest you follow PamCarl go do their intro, Dose Ichies go laugh their head off when you start to talk,
You be correct girl!

You think so, i know no sey i get humour o, na u talk am o

Pam,
Kudos, hope we go still get our daily readings live from the villa,
Safe trip sis,

yes o safe trip

Abeg, them still dey doubt your gender? Me i just conclude say you be female oh!
Carl, abeg confirm!

She b real female no more controversy because i no think sey man fit marry man for this our obodo Nigeria