A veil in Manoppello, Italy, illustrates Christ's resurrection in a way that will change the world, a historian says. Italy
March 29, 2011
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30 March, 2011
Think Of it 2
The Pope goes to New York. He is picked up at the airport by a limousine. He looks at the beautiful car and says to the driver, "You know, I hardly ever get to drive. Would you please let me?"
The driver is understandably hesistant and says, "I'm sorry, but I don't think I'm supposed to do that."
But the Pope persists, "Please?" The driver finally lets up. "Oh, all right, I can't really say no to the Pope."
So the Pope takes the wheel,...
29 March, 2011
Think Of it 1
Scene: New York City, man is going to jump off the building. Up rushes good Irish cop. Cop yells up to the man "Don't jump! Think of your father"
Man replies "Haven't got a father; I'm going to jump."
The copy goes through a list of relatives, mother, brothers, sister, etc. Each time man says "haven't got one; going to jump."
Desperate the cop yells up "Don't jump! Think of the Blessed Virgin"
Man replies "Who is that?"
Cop yells...
Think Of it.
A Jewish couple has a son who is a holy terror. When he gets to be of age, he's kicked out of every school they put him in. Finally desperate, the father goes to the Rabbi for advice and the Rabbi says put him in the Catholic school. Shocked, the father asks if the Rabbi sure. "Yes" is the reply, so the father takes him to the nuns and leaves....
How Do We Live Lent?
Most of what is done and learned in Lent is true for the rest of the year, too, but with a different feel. Most people couldn't even dream of keeping their intense focus all year on what Jesus did and what we're to do with that. Forty days is long enough not to be short-term, but too short to be thought of as a substitute for year-round Christian living. A short burst, such...
သင္ ဘာလုပ္မလဲ
မေန႕က ျဖစ္ပ်က္ခဲ့ တဲ့ အရာေတြ ဒီလိုေန႕ေတြေနာက္ထပ္မျဖစ္ဖို႕ ဘာေတြလုပ္ရမလဲ လုပ္သင့္သလဲ။ အေမးေပါင္းမ်ားစြာရင္ထဲမွာ ျပည့္လာတယ္။ သဘာဝ ေဘးရန္ေတြက ဘာလိုလို႕အျပစ္မဲ႔တဲ့ လူေတြကို ဒုကၡ ေပးရတာလဲ။ ကြၽန္ေတာ္ စဥ္းစားတာ လုံးခ်ာလည္လိုက္သြားတာပဲ။ တစ္ခ်ိဳ႕လူေတြက ဒါေတြဒီလို ျဖစ္လာတာ ဘုရားသခင္ဒဏ္ခပ္တာတဲ့။တစ္ခ်ိဳ႕လူေတြက ဘာမွမ ေျပာပဲ ခပ္မဆိတ္ပဲေန လိုက္ၾကတယ္။
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26 March, 2011
III. We pray for whom and what?
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25 March, 2011
II. What do we hope?
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24 March, 2011
“Violations of fundamental human rights”
Vatican envoy to UN decries attacks on Catholic beliefs regarding human sexuality
By Benjamin Mann
Geneva, Switzerland (CNA/EWTN News) -- A Vatican representative to the United Nations spoke out Tuesday against “attacks” on freedom of conscience and religion directed against Catholics and others who hold traditional beliefs about sexual morality and human nature.
Archbishop...
Why do we pray?
We pray, everyone here on earth prays now and always. Why? Many think unceasingly. They find it difficult to explain though they feel satisfied to pray to something greater than us. It’s a thirst of human race, the thirst of rationality. An Indian yogi said “Man Knows God and pray to him” after the discovery of him for God.
The hope that urges us to pray, faith that pushes us to pray and fear that of unknown forces us to implore that we may be guided...
23 March, 2011
GREATER THAN THE TSUNAMI CATASTROPHE
A worried woman went to her gynecologist and said: "Doctor, I have a serious problem and desperately need your help! My baby is not even one year old and I'm pregnant again. I don't want kids so close together."
So the doctor said: "Okay, what do you want me to do?"
She said: "I need you to terminate my pregnancy, and I'm counting on your help with this."
The doctor thought...
22 March, 2011
“May your kingdom come”
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19 March, 2011
Refusing State Sex Education Lands Parents in Jail
Global Groups Defend German Families MADRID, Spain, MARCH 18, 2011 (Zenit.org).- A growing number of organizations are defending the rights of German families to remove their children from state-sponsored sex education, as more parents have been imprisoned for refusing to send their children to the classes.
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17 March, 2011
“Holy is your name”
For the Hebrews of Jesus’ times, a person’s name contained in some way the sense of who the person was. It summed up and, in a sense, ‘was’ the person. To know a person’s name gave you power over him or her and so, after Jacob had wrestled” with God all night, he asked God for his name but was not given it (Gn 32:26-31).
As creatures, we can neither understand nor ever ‘know’ the infinite God, nor could we ever have the least power over the Lord....
16 March, 2011
“Our Father”
“Our father in heaven, holy is your name; may your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us. Do not bring us to the test, but deliver us from evil.”
“Our father in heaven”
When Jesus prayed to his father in the garden of Gethsemane, he called him ‘abba’ (Mk 14:36), and St. Paul reveals that we are to call our father ‘abba’ as well...
15 March, 2011
Prayer to St. Michael the Archangel
On Sunday April 24th 1994, Pope John Paul II recommended this prayer be used by all Catholics as a prayer for the Church when he said:
'"May prayer strengthen us for the spiritual battle we are told about in the Letter to the Ephesians: 'Draw strength from the Lord and from His mighty power' (Ephesians 6:10). The Book of Revelation refers to this same battle, recalling before...
Almsgiving Brings Us Closer to God, Says Pope
Notes Joy of Sharing Goods With OthersVATICAN CITY, MARCH 11, 2011 (Zenit.org).- Benedict XVI is encouraging charitable giving, noting that this brings us closer to God and facilitates our own conversion.
The Pope stated this today in an audience with members of the Belgian charitable association Pro Petri Sede.
He acknowledged in particular a donation brought by the association that will allow the Pontiff "to help populations harshly...
Benedict XVI Encourages Study of Latin
VATICAN CITY, MARCH 13, 2011 (Zenit.org).- Benedict XVI is encouraging the study of Latin, noting that the ancient language has much to offer in the study of ancient and modern history.
The Pope said this today, in Latin, after praying the midday Angelus together with those gathered in St. Peter's Square.
His words were directed to the students and teachers of the Christelijk Lyceum of Veenendaal, Netherlands. The Pontiff stated that he...
10 March, 2011
08 March, 2011
Chairman
A four-year-old had been elected chairman of a neighborhood group of older boys. The father of a member asked his son why they had elected such a little fellow.“Well, you see, Dad,” the boy explained, “he couldn’t be secretary ‘cause he can’t read. We couldn’t elect him treasurer ‘cause he can’t count. He’s too little to throw anyone out, so we couldn’t make him sergeant-at-arms and we knew he’d feel bad unless we elected him to something, so we...
07 March, 2011
Pope: Don't Build on the Sand of Ideology, Power, Money
Says Christ Is the Foundation of Rock for One's Life VATICAN CITY, MARCH 6, 2011 (Zenit.org).- Jesus Christ is the foundation of rock upon which to build one’s life, yet too many prefer to build their lives on the "sand of ideologies, power, success and money," says Benedict XVI. The Pope said this today in his weekly Angelus address, which he delivered today before praying the midday Angelus together with those gathered in St. Peter's Square....
06 March, 2011
Love Unreturned
There is a German poem about a China man who had a beautiful garden. He fell in love with the big water lilies on his fish pond, with one in particular, whom he named Catherine…
But Catherine had eyes only for the gold fish named Wu… she loved to have him swim by and touch her leaves. But otherwise, the gold fish never returned Catherine’s love... because he...
05 March, 2011
Blind conceit
A lion approached a rhinoceros and asked, “Who is the king of the jungle?”
“You are, O lion,” came the answer.
The lion went up to the hippopotamus and asked, “Who is the king of the jungle?” the hippo said, “You are, O lion.”
Where upon the lion went up to the elephant and asked the same question. The elephant seized the lion with his trunk, whiled him around, tossed him in the air, caught him on the way down, and slammed him into a tree.
Half-dazed,...
04 March, 2011
Drink
Drink
When Noah planted the vine, Satan notices it and with his usual curiosity approached him. “What are you planting “asked the prince of demons.
“A vine” answered Noah.
“What good will it be?” asked the tempter.
“The fruit of it,” said Noah, “it agreeable to the eye and delicious to the taste; and one gets from it a liquor that makes happy the heart of man.”
“In that case,” murmured Satan, “I will help you.”
So the devil procured a lamb, killed...
Praying with whole body
While liturgy is a community honoring of God, he can also be honored all day long. A person who is in constant contact with God can make prayer out of anything. A cigarette enjoyed can be a prayer.
Lovers speak and communicate to one another without words. True love is wordless; it speaks...
03 March, 2011
Lent….
As the time of Lenten season is approaching, I would like to share this short story. In this we can learn many things by putting it in our hearts what is the moral. We claim we are Catholics but sometimes our actions, behaviors becomes as pagan or atheists. We should let our hearts touch by the power of Holy Spirit. Let’s challenge ourselves in this season by living according...
