Author Topic: "Other" devotions (Read 1588 times)

jen51 · « **Reply #5 on:** September 23, 2013, 09:20:31 AM »

Just recently I started wearing St. Philomena's cord. Here is some information on it.

http://www.saintphilomena.com/thesaint.htm

I wear it for protection of body and soul, and especially to gain her intercession to attain for me perfect chastity for my state in life.

Come to think of it, you have some young daughters, right? This would be a wonderful devotion for them. If I am blessed with children, I will encourage them in this devotion.

I also wear the brown scapular.

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #6 on:** September 23, 2013, 09:25:18 AM »

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It surprises me how shallow some people's notions of these holy men and women really are.

That's why I want to know about these less-common devotions to saints and the sacramentals associated with them; these are probably saints who are venerated for their holiness and heroic charity, not just because they are treated like fairy-godparents.

This is what I alluded to when I wrote about how "I understand what you are saying here, because your further remarks illustrate the point."

The notion of the interior has been derogated so much in our days, so it is not surprising that when modern people do search for devotions they forget what devotion really is: that is, a giving over of one's self over to God, having already done so through the vows of Baptism. Therefore, their spirituality is superficial and frivolous.

I encourage everyone to study the spiritual masters such as St. Alphonsus, St. Louis-Marie, St. Fracis de Sales, Rev. Fr. Garrigou-Lagrange, Rev. Fr. Nicholas Grou, Rev. Fr. Tanquerey, &c.

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #7 on:** September 23, 2013, 10:16:37 AM »

Quote from: Stephen Francis

Similarly, of course, there's the "St. Anthony helps me find my car keys" thing. I know he is invoked when important things are missing, etc, but I'm reading an 80-year-old book about St. Anthony, and believe me, this is no "Dear St. Anthony, please come down" jingle.

Actually, I found a footnote to a Litany of St. Anthony in Kyrie Eleison: Two Hundred Litanies with Historico-Liturgical Introduction and Notes by Rev. Fr. Benjamin Francis Musser, O.F.M. (Westminster, MD: The Newman Bookshop, 1944) that echoes what you are saying here but he does so with prudence, though one may see he obviously frustrated at the sentimentalization and frivolity that lamentably accompanies devotion to St. Anthony in many cases:

poche · « **Reply #8 on:** September 25, 2013, 02:08:14 AM »

How about the Holy Childhood Society, They are celebrating 25 years in Sri Lanka;
A group which aims to foster a missionary spirit among children celebrated the 25th anniversary of its establishment in the Archdiocese of Colombo, Sri Lanka, with a Mass said Sept. 7.

The Mass was held at St. Joseph's College, a primary and secondary school located in the Sri Lankan capital.

“It’s an important event that coincides with the Year of Faith, which impresses upon us the importance of rediscovering our faith mission, in our life and our diocese,” Father Sunil De Silva, parish priest of St. Mary’s in Colombo's Bambalapitiya neighborhood, told CNA Sept. 18.

While the Holy Childhood Society had been in Sri Lanka for over 60 years, it was Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, presently the Archbishop of Colombo, who first introduced it to the diocese when he was a priest there, in 1988.

In his speech, Cardinal Ranjith invited the children to be the “torchbearers of faith… to be the little lamps of faith in the world.”

Thousands of children participated in the Mass, which was concelebrated by two of Colombo's auxiliary bishops, Maxwell Silva and Lionel Fernando, as well as the archdiocese's Holy Childhood Society director, Fr. Kithsiri Thirimanne, and the organization's national director, Fr. Reginald Saparamadu.

Bishop Silva, addressing the children in his homily, said that “as the children of the Holy Childhood Society, you have been commissioned with a special mission of learning the Word of God deeply, living what you learn, and sharing it and bearing witness to the Word in all of life's circuмstances.”

“It is for this purpose that God has called you and commissioned you. If you continue to bear witness to your Christian life and God's love in your own way and capacity, surely you will make a difference in the world."

The Holy Childhood Society was founded in 1843 by Bishop Charles Forbin-Janson of Nancy, in France, to awaken in every Catholic child a strong sense of commitment to Christ and a zeal for the spread of the Good News everywhere by deepening one’s faith, living it faithfully, and sharing it joyfully.

Today it functions in many dioceses, under the Pontifical Mission Societies office of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.

The group helps educators to rouse in children a universal missionary conscience; to move them to share their faith and material means, especially with the children of the neediest dioceses; and promotes missionary vocations.

“It assists the Catholic children in Sri Lanka towards a deeper and stronger experience of their faith, through a spiritual communion with Christ, and awakens a stronger sense of mission in them, enabling them to proclaim their faith boldly and authentically,” Fr. Sunil said.

Sri Lanka is a primarily Buddhist country; six percent of the population is Catholic. Most Sri Lankan Christians are found on the western coast of the island, where Colombo is located. In the Colombo archdiocese, roughly 12 percent of the population is Catholic.

http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/holy-childhood-society-celebrates-25-years-in-sri-lanka/