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Carlosein:
oby, who you want make e read all this long post?

abeg try edit small before seun go run out of space

yes i wan find una mouth

Today's Saint

St. Charles Borromeo

ARCHBISHOP OF MILAN

Patron of: against ulcers; apple orchards; bishops; catechists; catechumens; colic; intestinal disorders; seminarians; spiritual directors; spiritual leaders; starch makers; stomach diseases

He was born in the Castle of Arona, a town on the southern shore of the Lago Maggiore in Northern Italy, 2 October, 1538; died at Milan, 3 November, 1584. His emblem is the word <humilitas> crowned, which is a portion of the Borromeo shield. He is usually represented in art in his cardinal's robes, barefoot, carrying the cross as archbishop; a rope round his neck, one hand raised in blessing, thus recalling his work during the plague. His feast is kept on 4 November. His father was Count Giberto Borromeo, who, about 1530, married Margherita de Medici. Her younger brother was Giovanni Angelo, Cardinal de' Medici, who became pope in 1559 under the title of Pius IV. Charles was the second son, and the third of six children, of Giberto and Margherita. Charles' mother died about the year 1547, and his father married again.

The name of St. Charles Borromeo is associated with reform. He lived during the time of the Protestant Reformation, and had a hand in the reform of the whole Church during the final years of the Council of Trent.
Although he belonged to a noble Milanese family and was related to the powerful Medici family, he desired to devote himself to the Church. When his uncle, Cardinal de Medici, was elected pope in 1559 as Pius IV, he made Charles cardinal-deacon and administrator of the Archdiocese of Milan while he was still a layman and a young student. Because of his intellectual qualities he was entrusted with several important offices connected with the Vatican and later appointed secretary of state with full charge of the administration of the papal states. The untimely death of his elder brother brought Charles to a definite decision to be ordained a priest, despite relatives’ insistence that he marry. He was ordained a priest at the age of 25, and soon afterward he was consecrated bishop of Milan.

Because of his work at the Council of Trent he was not allowed to take up residence in Milan until the Council was over. Charles had encouraged the pope to renew the Council in 1562 after it had been suspended 10 years before. Working behind the scenes, St. Charles deserves the credit for keeping the Council in session when at several points it was on the verge of breaking up. He took upon himself the task of the entire correspondence during the final phase.

Eventually Charles was allowed to devote his time to the Archdiocese of Milan, where the religious and moral picture was far from bright. The reform needed in every phase of Catholic life among both clergy and laity was initiated at the provincial council of all his suffragan bishops. Specific regulations were drawn up for bishops and other clergy: If the people were to be converted to a better life, these had to be the first to give a good example and renew their apostolic spirit.

Charles took the initiative in giving good example. He allotted most of his income to charity, forbade himself all luxury and imposed severe penances upon himself. He sacrificed wealth, high honors, esteem and influence to become poor. During the plague and famine of 1576 he tried to feed 60,000 to 70,000 people daily. To do this he borrowed large sums of money that required years to repay. When the civil authorities fled at the height of the plague, he stayed in the city, where he ministered to the sick and the dying, helping those in want.

Work and the heavy burdens of his high office began to affect his health. He died at the age of 46.

Lindiwe:
guys,
how are y'all all doing?
hope you had a wonderful weekend, given the great feasts we had over the weekend! it was GREAT for me!!!!

biko permit me to tender my humble apology for not showing up with my gist on Friday . . .
it's a clear case of man proposes and God disposes . . .
I was knocked down by malaria thursday evening, i couldn't even go to the office anymore as planned . . .
i had to struggle to attend mass Saturday and sunday . . .
i'm a lot berra though . . . probably because i was immediately bundled to bayelsa yesterday!
I'm back to my hectic work again . . .

ah! i can see that a lot of people want to hear my gist! wow! let me warn that it's not interesting oh! i couldn't see His Holiness! things didn't go as planned . . .
i'll still give you the gist shaa! i dey come! lol!

kpele o my sister, so how are you feeling now, hope better.

Carlosein:
hi oby, don't you just love masses said in any other language but english?
i find them very touching and uplifting.

"ki Oluwa wa pelu yin, ki o si wa pelu re"

of course i do, this is not the first time, is only that i don't understand yoruba fully, so what i do was to meditatively respond in English

Today's Saint
St. Martin de Porres (1579-1639)

Like many others, Martin might have grown to be a bitter man, but he did not. It was said that even as a child he gave his heart and his goods to the poor and despised.
He was the illegitimate son of a freed woman of Panama, probably black but also possibly of Native American stock, and a Spanish grandee of Lima, Peru. He inherited the features and dark complexion of his mother. That irked his father, who finally acknowledged his son after eight years. After the birth of a sister, the father abandoned the family. Martin was reared in poverty, locked into a low level of Lima’s society.

At 12 his mother apprenticed him to a barber-surgeon. He learned how to cut hair and also how to draw blood (a standard medical treatment then), care for wounds and prepare and administer medicines.

After a few years in this medical apostolate, Martin applied to the Dominicans to be a "lay helper," not feeling himself worthy to be a religious brother. After nine years, the example of his prayer and penance, charity and humility led the community to request him to make full religious profession. Many of his nights were spent in prayer and penitential practices; his days were filled with nursing the sick and caring for the poor. It was particularly impressive that he treated all people regardless of their color, race or status. He was instrumental in founding an orphanage, took care of slaves brought from Africa and managed the daily alms of the priory with practicality as well as generosity. He became the procurator for both priory and city, whether it was a matter of "blankets, shirts, candles, candy, miracles or prayers!" When his priory was in debt, he said, "I am only a poor mulatto. Sell me. I am the property of the order. Sell me."

Side by side with his daily work in the kitchen, laundry and infirmary, Martin’s life reflected God’s extraordinary gifts: ecstasies that lifted him into the air, light filling the room where he prayed, bilocation, miraculous knowledge, instantaneous cures and a remarkable rapport with animals. His charity extended to beasts of the field and even to the vermin of the kitchen. He would excuse the raids of mice and rats on the grounds that they were underfed; he kept stray cats and dogs at his sister’s house.

He became a formidable fundraiser, obtaining thousands of dollars for dowries for poor girls so that they could marry or enter a convent.

Many of his fellow religious took him as their spiritual director, but he continued to call himself a "poor slave." He was a good friend of another Dominican saint of Peru, Rose of Lima.

Lindiwe everyone is eager to hear from you, can u come up with some.

viee:
hey peeps!

nice to have our title bakkkkk
GLORY TO JESUS, HONOUR TO MARY AND JOSEPH!!!!

Carl, sup with ya, lin welcome come bak!
u no come online again with the gist. . .
we go vex ooo
hope u had a good trip

lady, where r u off to?
DC?
say hi to Obama

Oby, ke nke ne emenu?
glad i came online
had forgotn, moro is all saints
tnx for the info!

u all have a swell weekend

Hello Viee, whats up? nice you came up to say hi, very nice. we don't get to hear from pamperme now adays. pamperme hope all is well with you.

Ebos how are u feeling now, please just know that we care and we are dying to hear from you please.

LARRYMcCOY:
Hi Everybody,

For God and For Youth, Through Christ

This thread is amazing, i wish you guy will welcome me too,

Hi Larry!
You know you are more than welcome.

For God and for Youth, through Christ!

Hope your parish is doing well and may we know your Parish and how you are keeping the faith.

karlie4nia:
Hey,

Y'all ardent catholics who would like to enrich your catholic faith, check out these websites i discovered
www.ewtn.net (Global catholic network)and holyspiritinteractive.net Hope you find the contents inspirational.

Hello Karlie! you are highly welcome too. How are you doing? i will check out the website right away.

Hello everyone, what a wonderful week again and hope we all had a nice weekend, as for me it was more than beautiful.

I attended the all saints and all souls mass at Badagry and it was in Yoruba, but the priest was kind enough to chip in some English

Today's Saint
St. Wolfgang of Regensburg (c. 924-994)

Wolfgang was born in Swabia, Germany, and was educated at a school located at the abbey of Reichenau. There he encountered Henry, a young noble who went on to become Archbishop of Trier. Meanwhile, Wolfgang remained in close contact with the archbishop, teaching in his cathedral school and supporting his efforts to reform the clergy.
At the death of the archbishop, Wolfgang chose to become a Benedictine monk and moved to an abbey in Einsiedeln, now part of Switzerland. Ordained a priest, he was appointed director of the monastery school there. Later he was sent to Hungary as a missionary, though his zeal and good will yielded limited results.

Emperor Otto II appointed him Bishop of Regensburg (near Munich). He immediately initiated reform of the clergy and of religious life, preaching with vigor and effectiveness and always demonstrating special concern for the poor. He wore the habit of a monk and lived an austere life.

The draw to monastic life never left him, including the desire for a life of solitude. At one point he left his diocese so that he could devote himself to prayer, but his responsibilities as bishop called him back.

In 994 he became ill while on a journey; he died in Puppingen near Linz, Austria. His feast day is celebrated widely in much of central Europe. He was canonized in 1052.

~Lady~:
Congratulations. It makes me happy to see people who take the faith seriously and devote themselves to Love God and serve Him.

I am not a member, I am invested in the confraternity of Our Lady of Carmel Brown Scapular. It is a powerful testimony I tell ya.

When did Seun become Catholic.
But anyway AMEN @ Jesus Is Lord FOREVER. Saviour of Mankind.

Welcome back Lin, I might be gone for the weekend, but I will definitely find the gist, lol.

Lol, absolutely not. Me sef that is travelling I made plans to attend mass. Funny enough in the US. it isn't observed generally, it is still a holy day, but it isn't a day of obligation, they decided that if a holy day falls on a saturday then it isn't observed. I don't like that idea, so I'm still going anyway. I mean it's saturday people should be able to go to mass.

I really want to be invested in the confraternity of our lady of Carmel Brown Scapular, but i don't know how to go about it.
I want to know everything about it, the prayers, the rule.

So lady and Carlos do you normally wear the brown scapular.

I just did my consecration to Jesus and Mary. The class was enriching. The confraternity of Mary Queen of All Hearts is really good for every catholic to belong to, If you go through the class with full devotion to the Holy slavery.

how is a member here?

Congrat webpro. My parents are member, so definitely i'm also a member i think it is mostly for married couple, it's rare for single to be consecrated.

Tomorrow marks the end of the October devotion and we are closing it with Adoration mass, then praise and worship, but i won't be able to attend it and it's going to be wonderful. I have a great testimony this month of October.

Saturday i think is the feast of All Saints, a holiday of obligation. No one should miss mass o!

Infact i don't know what to say to Seun or A.K.O.
Una well done!!!

Lindiwe:
wow!
A lot of water has passed under the bridge here . . . lol

hi guys, it feels good to breeze in here again,
Wow! i came in today and i said i must log on to our GREAT thread to salute my peeps!
gosh! there's gist, but i'll save it for 'moro . . i'll be in the office then, and i'll have enof time to post!

it was quite a relaxing break for me . . . but i did not have the pleasure of having my dream fulfilled . . . anyway, i'll gist you more 2moro
hope you guys are doing great!
i'm hailing y'all and i've really missed you guys!

Ebos,
hope you're strong now . . . it was quite a sad story you've got there!
the Lord is your strenght, and our mother, the mediatrix of all graces has got your back!
so smile on!!!!

@webpro,
all to Jesus . . .
i'm a slave of love too . . . i got consecrated in 2001, it's one of the GREATEST things that has ever happened to me!!!!
I belong totally to Jesus, through Mary!!!
talk more moro

so peeps,
viee, oby carl, lady et al . . . guess y'all are having a good time!
moro . . .

cheers

Welcome dearie, i can't wait to hear the gist, i like gist well well.

Carlosein:
hey lin is back!!!
_{starts singing: lin is back, lin is back, back, back from rome to see the Holy Father.
lin is baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaccccccccccccccckkkkkkkkkkkkk!!!}
break dances, yahoozee and finishes with a somersault!

yaaa!!! think i should be in the project fame academy

I no fit laugh, can you make yourself visible let me see who is dancing

This thread is not moving me again.

Wonderful weekend to you all, enjoy yourself.

~Lady~:
YAY!!!

You know I am learning right. I might marry and igbo man sef, who knows.

hahaha na who dash u pikin?

I would like to know the reason for it.

Congrat Lady, u for don take style tell us since sey na my brother he should teach d language very well o

whats going on here?

Hey Carlos thanks for the reading.

~Lady~:
Nne my guess is here you're saying I am too much. Is that right?

Hi all I hope everyone's week is very blessed. I see we had the devil working through someone in our midst. He shall never prevail.

I love you all, and I am keeping you all inmy prayers.
Viee I will remember your sister as well in my prayers.

Carl u no know sey u be papa?

Everyone take care.

You are very correct, seems you understand the language

Today's Saint

St. Peter of Alcantara (1499-1562)

Peter was a contemporary of well-known 16th-century Spanish saints, including Ignatius of Loyola and John of the Cross. He served as confessor to St. Teresa of Avila. Church reform was a major issue in Peter’s day, and he directed most of his energies toward that end. His death came one year before the Council of Trent ended.
Born into a noble family (his father was the governor of Alcantara in Spain), Peter studied law at Salamanca University and, at 16, joined the so-called Observant Franciscans (also known as the discalced, or barefoot, friars). While he practiced many penances, he also demonstrated abilities which were soon recognized. He was named the superior of a new house even before his ordination as a priest; at the age of 39, he was elected provincial; he was a very successful preacher. Still, he was not above washing dishes and cutting wood for the friars. He did not seek attention; indeed, he preferred solitude.

Peter’s penitential side was evident when it came to food and clothing. It is said that he slept only 90 minutes each night. While others talked about Church reform, Peter’s reform began with himself. His patience was so great that a proverb arose: "To bear such an insult one must have the patience of Peter of Alcantara."

In 1554, Peter, having received permission, formed a group of Franciscans who followed the Rule of St. Francis with even greater rigor. These friars were known as Alcantarines. Some of the Spanish friars who came to North and South America in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries were members of this group. At the end of the 19th century, the Alcantarines were joined with other Observant friars to form the Order of Friars Minor.

As spiritual director to St. Teresa, Peter encouraged her in promoting the Carmelite reform. His preaching brought many people to religious life, especially to the Secular Franciscan Order, the friars and the Poor Clares.

He was canonized in 1669.

Carlosein:
oby, na who you say be your daddy? ha may God forgive you for calling young man like me daddy

how work today?

Thank God is another bright beautiful day and full of promises.
Wishing you all a fulfilled day.

Please do anyone have Ebos phone no.

St. Hilarion (c. 291-371)

Despite his best efforts to live in prayer and solitude, today’s saint found it difficult to achieve his deepest desire. People were naturally drawn to Hilarion as a source of spiritual wisdom and peace. He had reached such fame by the time of his death that his body had to be secretly removed so that a shrine would not be built in his honor. Instead, he was buried in his home village.
St. Hilarion the Great, as he is sometimes called, was born in Palestine. After his conversion to Christianity he spent some time with St. Anthony of Egypt, another holy man drawn to solitude. Hilarion lived a life of hardship and simplicity in the desert, where he also experienced spiritual dryness that included temptations to despair. At the same time, miracles were attributed to him.

As his fame grew, a small group of disciples wanted to follow Hilarion. He began a series of journeys to find a place where he could live away from the world. He finally settled on Cyprus, where he died in 371 at about age 80.

Hilarion is celebrated as the founder of monasticism in Palestine. Much of his fame flows from the biography of him written by St. Jerome.

Viee how bodi? you sey make you pop in? how work jare my sister?
You don forget sey lawyer dey invisible and he dey watch like watch dog

Carlos dey try no bi small, na him b our daddy for here

Lady nko, she too dey try well well, infact i give her kudos. Lady edi kwa too much

Ebos! please we all want to hear from you.

St. Maria Bertilla Boscardin (1888-1922)

If anyone knew rejection, ridicule and disappointment, it was today’s saint. But such trials only brought Maria Bertilla Boscardin closer to God and more determined to serve him.
Born in Italy in 1888, the young girl lived in fear of her father, a violent man prone to jealousy and drunkenness. Her schooling was limited so that she could spend more time helping at home and working in the fields. She showed few talents and was often the butt of jokes.

In 1904 she joined the Sisters of St. Dorothy and was assigned to work in the kitchen, bakery and laundry. After some time Maria received nurses’ training and began working in a hospital with children suffering from diphtheria. There the young nun seemed to find her true vocation: nursing very ill and disturbed children. Later, when the hospital was taken over by the military in World War I, Sister Maria Bertilla fearlessly cared for patients amidst the threat of constant air raids and bombings.

She died in 1922 after suffering for many years from a painful tumor. Some of the patients she had nursed many years before were present at her canonization in 1961.

wishing you all a great weekend. love you all

Saint of the Day
St. Ignatius of Antioch (d. 107?)

Born in Syria, Ignatius converted to Christianity and eventually became bishop of Antioch. In the year 107, Emperor Trajan visited Antioch and forced the Christians there to choose between death and apostasy. Ignatius would not deny Christ and thus was condemned to be put to death in Rome.
Ignatius is well known for the seven letters he wrote on the long journey from Antioch to Rome. Five of these letters are to Churches in Asia Minor; they urge the Christians there to remain faithful to God and to obey their superiors. He warns them against heretical doctrines, providing them with the solid truths of the Christian faith.

The sixth letter was to Polycarp, bishop of Smyrna, who was later martyred for the faith. The final letter begs the Christians in Rome not to try to stop his martyrdom. "The only thing I ask of you is to allow me to offer the libation of my blood to God. I am the wheat of the Lord; may I be ground by the teeth of the beasts to become the immaculate bread of Christ."

Ignatius bravely met the lions in the Circus Maximus.

Ebos we are all dying to hear from you, please can you drop some words for us

Lady i'm so happy for you, testimonies have started coming in this month of our Blessed Mother, that is to show that we don't call on our Mother in vain, it has never been heard of that anyone who calls on her go empty handed.

Carlos hope the work load is coming down gradually.

Today's Saint
St. Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)

Teresa lived in an age of exploration as well as political, social and religious upheaval. It was the 16th century, a time of turmoil and reform. Her life began with the culmination of the Protestant Reformation, and ended shortly after the Council of Trent.
The gift of God to Teresa in and through which she became holy and left her mark on the Church and the world is threefold: She was a woman; she was a contemplative; she was an active reformer.

As a woman, Teresa stood on her own two feet, even in the man's world of her time. She was "her own woman," entering the Carmelites despite strong opposition from her father. She is a person wrapped not so much in silence as in mystery. Beautiful, talented, outgoing, adaptable, affectionate, courageous, enthusiastic, she was totally human. Like Jesus, she was a mystery of paradoxes: wise, yet practical; intelligent, yet much in tune with her experience; a mystic, yet an energetic reformer. A holy woman, a womanly woman.

Teresa was a woman "for God," a woman of prayer, discipline and compassion. Her heart belonged to God. Her own conversion was no overnight affair; it was an arduous lifelong struggle, involving ongoing purification and suffering. She was misunderstood, misjudged, opposed in her efforts at reform. Yet she struggled on, courageous and faithful; she struggled with her own mediocrity, her illness, her opposition. And in the midst of all this she clung to God in life and in prayer. Her writings on prayer and contemplation are drawn from her experience: powerful, practical and graceful. A woman of prayer; a woman for God.

Teresa was a woman "for others." Though a contemplative, she spent much of her time and energy seeking to reform herself and the Carmelites, to lead them back to the full observance of the primitive Rule. She founded over a half-dozen new monasteries. She traveled, wrote, fought—always to renew, to reform. In her self, in her prayer, in her life, in her efforts to reform, in all the people she touched, she was a woman for others, a woman who inspired and gave life.

In 1970 the Church gave her the title she had long held in the popular mind: Doctor of the Church. She and St. Catherine of Siena were the first women so honored.

~Lady~:
Still going. Right now that's not even my biggest problem. I have to graduate first, and right now I have a problem with that.
A professor says he doesn't remember an agreement to give me an Incomplete grade so that I can finish my coursework so to him, I have to wait till next semester to take the course with another professor. So if no graduation, no job.

God is able, the work he started he will surely complete it.

Today's Saint
St. Callistus I (d. 223?)

The most reliable information about this saint comes from his enemy St. Hippolytus, an early antipope, later a martyr for the Church. A negative principle is used: If some worse things had happened, Hippolytus would surely have mentioned them.
Callistus was a slave in the imperial Roman household. Put in charge of the bank by his master, he lost the money deposited, fled and was caught. After serving time for a while, he was released to make some attempt to recover the money. Apparently he carried his zeal too far, being arrested for brawling in a Jewish synagogue. This time he was condemned to work in the mines of Sardinia. He was released through the influence of the emperor's mistress and lived at Anzio (site of a famous World War II beachhead).

He won his freedom and was made superintendent of the public Christian burial ground in Rome (still called the cemetery of St. Callistus), probably the first land owned by the Church. The pope ordained him a deacon and made him his friend and adviser.

He was himself elected pope by a majority vote of the clergy and laity of Rome, and thereafter was bitterly attacked by the losing candidate, St. Hippolytus, who let himself be set up as the first antipope in the history of the Church. The schism lasted about 18 years.

Hippolytus is venerated as a saint. He was banished during the persecution of 235 and was reconciled to the Church. He died from his sufferings in Sardinia. He attacked Callistus on two fronts—doctrine and discipline. Hippolytus seems to have exaggerated the distinction between Father and Son (almost making two gods) possibly because theological language had not yet been refined. He also accused Callistus of being too lenient, for reasons we may find surprising: (1) Callistus admitted to Communion those who had already done public penance for murder, adultery, fornication; (2) he held marriages between free women and slaves to be valid—contrary to Roman law; (3) he authorized the ordination of men who had been married two or three times; (4) he held that mortal sin was not a sufficient reason to depose a bishop; (5) he held to a policy of leniency toward those who had temporarily apostatized during persecution.

Callistus was martyred during a local disturbance in Trastevere, Rome, and is the first pope (except for Peter) to be commemorated as a martyr in the earliest martyrology of the Church.

Some are of the opinion that, even from the little we know about him, Callistus may rank among the greatest popes.