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Joy! Joy!! Joy!!! Joy!!!!
Heaven is full of Joy

Heavenly race i no go tire (thrice)
I no go tire

Glory be to Jesus, Honour to Mary (twice)

“Whoever welcomes you welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me. Whoever welcomes a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet's reward; and whoever welcomes a righteous person in the name of a righteous person will receive the reward of the righteous; and whoever gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones in the name of a disciple—truly I tell you, none of these will lose their reward.”

Let us ask the Holy Spirit to give the same clear thinking which characterized Luke as he regarded the perishable nature of worldly fame to imperishable crown that awaits those who desire to serve God and build his kingdom.

"Blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfillment of what was spoken to her from the Lord". LUKE 1:45

Today's Saint 18/10/07

St. Luke 

Luke wrote one of the major portions of the New Testament, a two-volume work comprising the third Gospel and the Acts of the Apostles. In the two books he shows the parallel between the life of Christ and that of the Church. He is the only Gentile Christian among the Gospel writers. Tradition holds him to be a native of Antioch, and Paul calls him "our beloved physician" (Colossians 4:14). His Gospel was probably written between A.D. 70 and 85.

Luke appears in Acts during Paul’s second journey, remains at Philippi for several years until Paul returns from his third journey, accompanies Paul to Jerusalem and remains near him when he is imprisoned in Caesarea. During these two years, Luke had time to seek information and interview persons who had known Jesus. He accompanied Paul on the dangerous journey to Rome where he was a faithful companion. "Only Luke is with me," Paul writes (2 Timothy 4:11).

When Jesus sent his disciples out to proclaim the gospel, he told them to announce to the people that "The kingdom of God has come near to you".(Luke 10:9). This was the watchword of Luke's life. He came to understand the meaning of this exhortation and responded to it.

Unlike most of the early disciples, Luke was a Gentile. Well educated, a painter and a physician. He had carved out a comfortable niche for himself in the world and would, by its standards, have been considered successful. Luke came to understand how perishable all this was in relation to the kingdom of God. He gave up his worldly pursuits adn dedicated his whole life to the work God has planned for him.

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"Then [Jesus] led them [out] as far as Bethany, raised his hands, and blessed them. As he blessed them he parted from them and was taken up to heaven. They did him homage and then returned to Jerusalem with great joy, and they were continually in the temple praising God" (Luke 24:50-53).

"Lord Jesus, touch everyone with your gospel! Surpass our expectations of how you can work. Turn even the most desperate situations upside down with your grace and mercy!" AMEN

He who is devout to the Virgin Mother will certainly never be lost. ST. IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH.

Today's Saint 17/10/07

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.

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"I greet you from Smyrna together with the Churches of God present here with me. They comfort me in every way, both in body and in soul. My chains, which I carry about on me for Jesus Christ, begging that I may happily make my way to God, exhort you: persevere in your concord and in your community prayers" (Ignatius of Antioch, Letter to the Church at Tralles).

Infourmer thanks i think i'm off from this thread before they cut me to pieces because i'm a catholic. Bye

Today's Saint 16/10/07

St. Marguerite d’Youville (1701-1771)


We learn compassion from allowing our lives to be influenced by compassionate people, by seeing life from their perspective and reconsidering our own values.

Born in Varennes, Canada, Marie Marguerite Dufrost de Lajemmerais had to interrupt her schooling at the age of 12 to help her widowed mother. Eight years later she married Francois d'Youville; they had six children, four of whom died young. Despite the fact that her husband gambled, sold liquor illegally to Native Americans and treated her indifferently, she cared for him compassionately in the two years before his death in 1730.

Even though she was caring for two small children and running a store to help pay off her husband's debts, Marguerite still helped the poor. Once her children were grown, she and several companions rescued a Quebec hospital which was in danger of failing. She called her community the Institute of the Sisters of Charity of Montreal; the people called them the "Grey Nuns" because of the color of their habit. In time, a proverb arose among the poor people of Montreal, "Go to the Grey Nuns; they never refuse to serve." In time, five other religious communities traced their roots to the Grey Nuns.

The General Hospital in Montreal became known as the Hotel Dieu (House of God) and set a standard for medical care and Christian compassion. When the hospital was destroyed by fire in 1766, she knelt in the ashes, led the Te Deum (a hymn to God's providence in all circumstances) and began the rebuilding process. She fought the attempts of government officials to restrain her charity and established the first foundling home in North America.

Pope John XXIII, who beatified her in 1959, called her the "Mother of Universal Charity." She was canonized in 1990.

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"More than once the work which Marguerite undertook was hindered by nature or people. In order to work to bring that new world of justice and love closer, she had to fight some hard and difficult battles" (John Paul II, canonization homily).

Holy Spirit enlighten the darkness of our intellects by your power so that we may recognize the gospel for what it truly is. We pray that our faith in Christ may grow ever stronger and more perfect. AMEN

Fear nothing; you shall be my true daughter and i will always be your good mother. OUR LADY TO ST. MARGARET MARY ALACOQUE.

I quote Infourmer

"If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone” (Romans 12:18 NIV)

Did you know there is strength in living at peace? That’s why the Lord commands that we live at peace with those around us. When there’s strife and contention, then the enemy has an open door to move in your life. But when we are at peace with those around us, we are in a position of strength. Being at peace with those around you doesn’t mean you have to agree with everyone. It simply means you are walking in love. It means you are patient and kind, not envious, not boastful. It means you are considerate, kind, and gracious because of what the Lord has done in your heart. If you need peace today, ask the Lord to fill your heart so that you can extend peace to those around you. As you do, you’ll live in a position of strength and walk in the daily blessing the Lord has in store for you!

Do you have time for God at all, it seems d only time you have u use it to source out materials that you will use against the Catholic, but you have gone too far my dear.

Don't invite the wrath of God.

Of course, you go like to read lines that keep you warmed up in the magical fallacies of the Vatican

Anyhow, how body?

My dear that is what true Christain is all about (Love the greatest)

@Infourmer
I like you my dear, keep it up and May God grant you more wisdom and knowledge and also may the peace and love of God reign in whatever you do.

And thank you so much for that Prayer, you don't know what that prayer has just done in my life now. (A very big AMEN!!!)

Pilgrim.1, cgift and others be very careful so that the wrath of God won't come down upon you, God is a merciful God and also a consuming fire.
I pray you retreat your step before it gets too late for you (You are going too far).

Pilgrim.1, cgift and others be very careful so that the wrath of God won't come down upon you, God is a merciful God and also a consuming fire.
I pray you retreat your step before it gets too late for you (You are goint too far).

I know you work hand in hand with Pilgrim.1

I ask forgiveness for all who offend our blessed Mother and our Lord on this thread and other places.

"Forgive them Lord, for they know not what they do, "

I pray the Lord's mercy will save before his justice chastises, amen.

@Gozizi
I say a very big AMEN!!!!

Mary, mother of Christ, teach us to pray your rosary as it should be prayed. For these ordinary beads strung on threads, hold within themselves all the mysteries of our holy faith and all the main ways of prayer. Mary, Queen of the Rosary, open to us its holy secrets. Let it be our door to the heart of your Son, his Father, and the Holy Spirit. AMEN (Catherine Doherty)

It is Mary's practice to favor those who long to be protected by her. (St. Teresa of Avila)

Jesus, you are the risen Lord, exalted in glory! In you, we too are raised up! In you, we too share in eternal life!
Holy Spirit, open our mind to the mystery of the Father's plan; help us to understand that we have been called to belong to Jesus Christ. Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, who has saved us and given us new life." Amen

Carlosein I'm very grateful to God that your request has been granted thru d intercession of our mother Mary.
(We go celebrate am o)

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.

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Teresa knew well the continued presence and value of suffering (physical illness, opposition to reform, difficulties in prayer), but she grew to be able to embrace suffering, even desire it: "Lord, either to suffer or to die." Toward the end of her life she exclaimed: "Oh, my Lord! How true it is that whoever works for you is paid in troubles! And what a precious price to those who love you if we understand its value."

Hello my fellow Catholic brethren,

I want to tell you to be very careful.
My instinct tells me that B.rent and Lawyer and many more others who may claim that Pilgrim.1 and Cgift post in this thread have made them to change their view about catholics should be watched. (It's very hard to convert Catholics to any protestant church)

I think they are all fakes, they are working hand in hand with pilgrim.1 and cgift.

amen!!!

I'm glad you like it.
No she did not die in 1947, may be there is a mistake somewhere.

@cgift
Anybody can open a website and place whatever you like there, urs is not different is only a novice that can accept that.

His write ups are in the Catholic bookshops

@cgift and pilgrim.1

You have so many anti-catholic books and website you have designed to persecute the Church of God. Is only the one that has your time will go thru all the lies.

Any website you post i don't read.

You in particular i pray that God will have mercy on you because you don't know what you are doing.

Catholics don't ever read any of their post, ignore it they are all full of lies you can go thru the stories of this man of God who later saw the truth in Catholic church and revealed the lies of the protestant.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1096019/posts