domenica 12 febbraio 2012

Eulalia of Merida

Not that we wish this legislation to pass, but, in the dire eventuality it does...if all American women took example from that young virgin of old times who, in the face of the threatening judge, stamped over the cake offering to the false gods, contraception being today the devilish imposed offer.

Arnold

Backsainting the day I skipped.Not sure which one it is. To you the choice!

http://saints.sqpn.com/saints-a/

giovedì 9 febbraio 2012

Apollonia

 Looting. Rioting. Christians persecuted and threatened of being burned alive unless they blasphemed their beliefs. That happened in 246 too.

Can we not stand up to peers laughing mockery?

 With all our shining teeth - yes, I forgot to say that this aged woman lost hers to the attackers'blows.

mercoledì 8 febbraio 2012

Josephine Bhakita

Woman.  African. Slave. Traded between various owners, she died in 1947. Suffered torture. A time long past and yet how many girls are tortured today enslaved to family traditions?

lunedì 6 febbraio 2012

Paul Miki and companions

 First Japanese martyrs in Japan. 16th hundred. Yet today, you can mark on yor maps more than one area in the world covered with the blood of courageous priests. Like don...

 http://www.zenit.org/article-29486?l=italian

Have you got other real life contemporary stories to share in your parishes and seminaries?

 Have you thought of posting by the Adoration Chapel a map with those areas marked with the offering chalice?

domenica 5 febbraio 2012

Agatha

 Any explosive situation about to blow up in your parish? or diocesis? Invoke her. As she was to stop Etna eruptions.

sabato 4 febbraio 2012

New updates long overdue..catching up from February 1st.

Verdiana
Hermit woman, after a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela  asked to be enclosed in her cell by a wall.

Presentation of the Lord
Mary the Ark of the New Covenant hosting the Word incarnated  presents him on the altar of the old one. The first act of reparation aware of Isaiah's prophecies? (http://www.christendom-awake.org/pages/united-hearts/reparation.htm)

Blaise
Aside from invoking him to deliver priests from thorn in the side parishioners...maybe the suggestion is to offer it all up?

Gilbert of Semprinham
Bishop. 'Walled' a group of women into monastic life and started off a monastery of male Canon Regulars separate yet united by the same spirit. Then nunneries and monasteries sprouted in abundance.