Spirit Is Holy

             What is Holy Spirit? Many wonder that how Holy Spirit may be, and what would it be like or how does it work and so and so forth. We may not be able to describe its physical appearance. But it is sure that we would know when we are in the land of our heavenly father. We cannot measure the work of the Holy Spirit since it has done...

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Lovers and Lawyersn 2nd part

The result of all this has been ore of the great tragedies of the Church in our times: the signifi­cant number of Catholics who have left her be­cause they couldn't accept or cope with such a fearful concept of God. There is often a sadness or even bitterness against the Church among many of those who have left her — the result of a tragic mis­understanding of the very heart of our faith: who God is for us. One of the most popular saints of this...

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Lovers and Lawyers

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we .....

“I am the real vine, and my father is the gardener. He breaks off every branch in me that does not bear fruit, and prunes every branch that does not bear fruit, so that it will be clean and bear more fruit.”(Jn 15:1-2)                   Christ said these words from the mouth of John and let it be written by his holy inspiration. What for? We may ask. Yes it’s...

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2nd Part of Therese Neumann

All these occurrences around Therese could not be kept in a private sphere. The interest of the public was aroused. Especially on Fridays, large crowds of visitors would come. The Bishop of Regensburg, Antonius von Henle, had been very cautious concerning the occurrences in Konnersreuth. Public discussions got stormier all the time, so the Bavarian Conference...

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Therese Neumann

Therese Neumann von Konnersreuth Mystic and StigmatistApril 8, 1898 - September 18, 1962 Therese Neumann was born on April 8, 1898, during the night of Good Friday/Holy Saturday in Konnersreuth in Bavaria (Oberpfalz) Germany. She was the first child of 11 of Ferdinand Neumann, a tailor, and his wife Anna Grillmeier. As it was the custom, soon after birth,...

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Pope: the Future Needs Stout-Hearted Priests Addresses Students of Pontifical Filipino College

VATICAN CITY, FEB. 20, 2011 (Zenit.org).- Benedict XVI is encouraging priests to seize the opportunities to grow in "spiritual and theological maturity" so that they can be "stout-hearted" enough for whatever the future holds. The Pope said this on Saturday when he received in audience a group of students and faculty from the Pontifical Filipino College. Blessed Pope John XXIII founded the college 50 years ago and the papal audience was commemorating...

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A DIRTY TRICK

A naughty boy entered a crowded train. He played a trick to get a seat. He cried aloud, "Snake, snake!" The frightened passengers left the coach in a hurry and boarded other coaches on the train. The boy was very happy and easily occupied a wide vacant seat. The liar stretched himself out on the seat comfortably and soon fell asleep. After an hour, he opened his eyes and checked if he has reached his destination. He was surprised to...

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A DREADFUL DREAM

There was a wealthy man who lived without principles. He was reluctant to offer any help to poor people. He owned a palatial house and a large estate. A cruel gate-keeper was posted to prevent the entry of beggars and other poor people into the premises. He was haughty and controlled every action of his wife and children. He did not permit them...

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A SINKING SHIP

A ship was sailing towards a port carrying a large number of passengers. The shore could be seen in the distant horizon and all on board were gladly getting ready for the end of the journey. Suddenly the ship struck against a rock and broke its hull. Water rushed into the ship and it was sinking fast. Everyone tried to escape, abandoning their...

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Not Fair 2

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Not Fair

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SPIRITUAL LEPROSY

SPIRITUAL LEPROSY I am for sure, many of us will not even the see the picture below.  The moment we see this picture, a type of aversion engulfs us, a feeling of uneasiness crushes our mind.  Yes, this is a sample for leprosy.  Though there are medicines in these modern times to treat the leprosy, in the Old Testament it considered as the curse from God,...

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A Story....

က်ြန္ေတာ္ၾကားခဲ့တဲ့ဇာတ္လမ္း ေလးတစ္ပုဒ္ လူ႕ဘဝတဲ့ ဆန္းၾကယ္မွူေတြၾကားထဲမွာ ရွင္သန္ရင္း ေနာက္ဆုံးတစ္ေန့မွာ ဒီ ရုပ္ဝတၲဳ ကမာၻေလာကၾကီးက ေနတစ္ဖန္ ခြဲခြာရအုန္း မွာမဟုတ္လား အေတြ႕အၾကဳံေတြ သင္ခန္းစာေတြ ကို သင္ယူေလ့လာရင္းနဲ့ မေရမရာ မေသမခ်ာ အေနမၾကာပဲ ငိုသံေတြနဲ့ အတူ ဒီပုတ္သိုးလြယ္တဲ့ ခနၲာၾကီးကို စြန္႕ခြာရ ေတာ့မယ္ အရင္တစ္ေလာက လူတစ္ေယာက္ မေမွ်ာ္လင့္ေသးတဲ့အခ်ိန္ မွာေသျခင္းက သူ႕ကို ရစ္ပတ္ ေႏွာင္တုပ္သြား ေလတယ္ အသက္က ငယ္ငယ္ လ်င္ျမန္ ျဖတ္လတ္တုံး လူ႕ေလာက မွာရွိတဲ့ ေပ်ာ္စရာေတြ...

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You Know? second part

2nd …… is about the prayers which we use to communicate with God they called it conversation with God. There are three types of prayer 1. vocal prayer 2. meditative prayer 3. contemplative prayer Vocal prayer: This is the prayer of the lips, with stress on words, recited or sung. The text is often prefabricated or ready-made and is often beautiful and inspiring. Vocal prayer may also be spontaneous. Meditative prayer: or meditation, a prayer centered...

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Pope Urges Entire Church to Promote Vocations

Pope Urges Entire Church to Promote Vocations Says This Marks Vitality of Local Community VATICAN CITY, FEB. 10, 2011 (Zenit.org).- Benedict XVI is underlining the necessity for every member of the Church to promote religious vocations. This was one of the points emphasized by the Pope in a message for the 48th World Day of Prayer for Vocations, which will be celebrated May 15 on the theme of "Proposing Vocations in the Local Church." The message...

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You Know?

What I don’t know before, and I want to share…… 1st ……These things are the facts that the Holy Catholic Church’s teaching. The first one is the existence of the pure spirits they so called angels. The angels have their functions that have given to them particular tasks. There are three ranks among the celestial spirits. They are….. I. The Supreme Hierarchy In this rank the angels are Seraphim, Cherubim and Thrones II. Middle Hierarchy In...

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လူမ်ိဳး

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Prayer For Help Against Spiritual Enemies

Glorious Saint Michael, Prince of the heavenly hosts, who stands always ready to give assistance to the people of God; who fought with the dragon, the old serpent, and cast him out of heaven, and now valiantly defends the Church of God that the gates of hell may never prevail against her, I earnestly entreat you to assist me also, in the painful and dangerous conflict which I sustain against the same formidable foe. Be with me, O mighty...

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Thanks giving prayer after Mass by angelic doctor St. Thomas Aquinas

I thank you, holy Lord, almighty Father, eternal God, who deigned to feast me, sinful and unworthy servant, with the precious body and blood of your Son, Jesus Christ our Lord, not for any merit of mine, but only because of your merciful goodness. And I pray that this Holy Communion, far from condemning me to punishment, may bring about my pardon and salvation, encompassing me with the...

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My Enthusiasm : a Lip-service

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IMMACULATE CONCEPTION

On 8th December 1854, Pope Pius IX officially declared the Doctrine of Immaculate Conception of St. Mary in the Constitution, Ineffabilis Deus. The Church celebrates this truth on the 8th of December every year. Immaculate Conception of St. Mary means that she was conceived in the womb of her mother, St. Anne, without ‘original sin’ or its stain. Original sin refers to the deprivation of sanctifying grace and the inclination to...

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