Author Topic: Saint of the day (Read 503354 times)

Miseremini · « **Reply #135 on:** October 03, 2024, 10:48:10 AM »

Mary Frances Martin was born at Alencon of parents most pious and endowed with a comfortable amount of the goods of this world. At the age of fifteen she entered the Carmel of Lisieux, living there in holiness and humility. Her whole ambition was to love God perfectly and to conquer souls for Jesus. She died in the odor of sanctity, promising to "spend her heaven in doing good upon earth" (1873-1897). His Holiness Pope Pius XI declared her Blessed on April 29, 1923, and canonized her on March 17, 1925.

Miseremini · « **Reply #136 on:** October 04, 2024, 02:13:43 PM »

The Seraphic Patriarch of Assisi was a man especially raised up by God in the Middle Ages with the mission to reconvert the world to Christ. Francis was born in a stable, and heralded into the world by angelic song; he commenced his work with twelve followers, whom he sent two by two to preach the Gospel. He espoused most high Poverty and received in his own body the marks of the Sacred Passion on Mount Alvernia. Francis's message of charity, peace, and justice was heard by men and women of every grace of society, and thousands in consequence desired to leave all and follow Francis in the footsteps of Jesus Christ. Therefore he found the Order of Friars Minor, the Second Order of the Poor Clares, and the Tertiaries or Third Order, which bear his name. Sta. Francis died about sunset on Saturday, October 3, 1226.

Miseremini · « **Reply #137 on:** October 07, 2024, 12:49:39 PM »

The Angelical Salutation is often repeated in the Rosary, because, as it contains a form of praise for the Incarnation, it best suits a devotion instituted to honor the principal parts of that great mystery. Though it be addressed to the Mother of God, with an invocation of her intercession, it is chiefly a praise and thanksgiving to the Son, for the divine mercy in each part of that wonderful mystery. The Holy Ghost is the principal author of this holy prayer, which the archangel Gabriel, the ambassador of the Blessed Trinity in the most wonderful of all mysteries, began; Saint Elizabeth, another organ of the Holy Ghost, continued, and the Church finished. The first and second part consist of the sacred praises which were bestowed on the Blessed Virgin by the archangel Gabriel, and by Saint Elizabeth inspired by the Holy Ghost. The last part was added by the church, and contains a petition of her intercession, styling her Mother of God, with the general council of Ephesus against the blasphemies of Nestorius.

Sermon: The Necessity of the Rosary

Throughout history, Our Lady, through apparitions, has encouraged the faithful to pray the Rosary. Why? Because she is our mother and she knows that through this prayer, we may have the strength to persevere and save our souls in Christ.

Listen to this sermon here>>

Miseremini · « **Reply #138 on:** October 08, 2024, 11:48:13 AM »

ST. BRIDGET was born of the Swedish royal family, in 1304. In obedience to her father, she was married to Prince Ulpho of Sweden, and became the mother of eight children, one of whom, Catherine, is honored as a Saint. After some years she and her husband separated by mutual consent. He entered the Cistercian Order, and Bridget founded the Order of St. Savior, in the Abbey of Wastein, in Sweden. In 1344 she became a widow, and thenceforth received a series of the most sublime revelations, all of which she scrupulously submitted to the judgment of her confessor. By the command of Our Lord, Bridget went on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, and amidst the very scenes of the Passion was further instructed in the sacred mysteries. She died in 1373.

Miseremini · « **Reply #139 on:** October 11, 2024, 12:21:54 PM »

The Grace of the Divine Maternity

“The humanity of Christ, from the fact that it is united to the Godhead; and created happiness from the fact that it is the fruition of God; and the Blessed Virgin from the fact that she is the mother of God; have all a certain infinite dignity from the infinite good, which is God. And on this account there cannot be anything better than these; just as there cannot be anything better than God.” (Summa Theologiæ, I, q.25,a.6,ad.4)
It this by these strong words that St. Thomas Aquinas gives us an appreciation of the grandeur of the grace of the divine maternity. In this article from the Summa Theologiæ, he asks the question: Can God do something better than what He does? And he answers: yes, because God’s power is infinite.
But he makes an exception for three elements of creation: the humanity of Jesus Christ, the beatific vision of the saints in heaven, and the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Read the full article here>>

CathInfo.com

Author Topic: Saint of the day (Read 503354 times)

Miseremini

Re: Saint of the day

Miseremini

Re: Saint of the day

Miseremini

Re: Saint of the day

Miseremini

Re: Saint of the day

Miseremini

Re: Saint of the day