tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52146416728560832782024-03-13T14:05:51.718-06:00Sancta FamiliaSancta Familiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09232169223661164072noreply@blogger.comBlogger204125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5214641672856083278.post-37775231917027684882010-05-15T07:30:00.001-06:002010-05-15T07:30:40.425-06:00Dressing Properly for Mass+JMJ+Sancta Familiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09232169223661164072noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5214641672856083278.post-7943503533261651932010-03-20T11:48:00.003-06:002010-03-20T11:51:53.914-06:00Fifth Dolarof Mary: Jesus Dies on the Cross+JMJ+Our Father...Prayer: I grieve for you, O Mary most sorrowful, in the martyrdom which your generous heart endured in standing near Jesus in his agony. Dear Mother, by your afflicted heart, obtain for me the virtue of temperance and the gift of counsel.Hail Mary...Luke 23:33Hail Mary...Luke 23:35Hail Mary...John 19:25Hail Mary...John 19:26,27 Hail Mary...Mark 15:34Hail Mary...Luke 23:44Hail Sancta Familiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09232169223661164072noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5214641672856083278.post-86843971810770458222010-03-13T19:16:00.002-07:002010-03-13T19:20:08.688-07:00The Fourth Dolar of Mary+JMJ+Fourth Septet: Mary Meets Jesus on the Way of the CrossOur Father...Prayer: I grieve for you, O Mary most sorrowful, in the consternation of your heart at meeting Jesus as he carried his cross. Dear Mother, by your heart so troubled, obtain for me the virtue of patience, and the gift of fortitude.Hail Mary...Luke 23:25Hail Mary...Luke 23:26Hail Mary...Luke 23:27Hail Mary...Luke 23:28 Hail Sancta Familiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09232169223661164072noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5214641672856083278.post-56762172635382789552010-03-07T09:10:00.003-07:002010-03-07T09:14:21.304-07:00The Second and Third Dolars of Mary+JMJ+Second Septet: The Flight into Egypt.Our Father...Prayer: I grieve for you, O Mary most sorrowful, in the anguish of your most affectionate heart during the flight into Egypt and your sojourn there. Dear Mother, by your heart so troubled, obtain for me the virtue of generosity, especially toward the poor, and the gift of piety.Hail Mary...Matthew 2:13 After they had left, the angel of the Sancta Familiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09232169223661164072noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5214641672856083278.post-12269601109753047692010-02-20T17:19:00.004-07:002010-02-20T17:21:51.438-07:00+JMJ+I have decided to post the Seven Dolores of Mary (one each saturday) during lent this year.THE CHAPLET OF SEVEN SORROWSBead 1: O God, come to my assistance;O Lord, make haste to help me.Bead 2: Lord Jesus Christ, only Son ofthe living God,have mercy on me, a sinner.Bead 3: Sorrowful and ImmaculateHeart of Mary, pray for me.Bead 4: Glory be to the Father...As it was in the beginning...First Sancta Familiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09232169223661164072noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5214641672856083278.post-76039327168459344432010-02-19T13:20:00.001-07:002010-02-19T13:20:43.051-07:00Benedict XVI's Ash Wednesday Homily"Lent Lengthens Our Horizon, It Orients Us to Eternal Life"ROME, FEB. 18, 2010 (Zenit.org).- Here is a translation of the homily delivered Wednesday by Benedict XVI during the celebration of the Mass of Imposition of Ashes in the Basilica of St. Sabina on the Aventine Hill. * * * "You love all creatures, Lord,And do not loath anything you have made;You forget the sins of those who convert and Sancta Familiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09232169223661164072noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5214641672856083278.post-9589425198445661412010-02-15T17:16:00.000-07:002010-02-15T17:17:27.613-07:00Lent+JMJ+Sancta Familiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09232169223661164072noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5214641672856083278.post-15974050909221123642010-02-11T08:51:00.001-07:002010-02-11T08:51:43.913-07:00St Bernadette+JMJ+Sancta Familiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09232169223661164072noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5214641672856083278.post-72607270878976637972010-01-10T11:54:00.003-07:002010-01-10T12:09:57.596-07:00Feast of the Baptism of Our Lord+JMJ+CHESAPEAKE, Va. (Catholic Online) - In the Western Church we end the Christmas season with the Feast of the Lord’s “Baptism in the Jordan”. It marks the beginning of what is called his “public” ministry. He was thirty years old. He died His redemptive death at Golgotha when He was only thirty three. However, He also spent thirty redemptive years of life in what writers have sometimes called Sancta Familiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09232169223661164072noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5214641672856083278.post-50635343760771536012009-12-12T14:57:00.000-07:002009-12-12T15:01:19.804-07:00OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE+JMJ+In 1531 a "Lady from Heaven" appeared to Saint Juan Diego, a poor Indian from Tepeyac, a hill northwest of Mexico City. She identified herself as the Mother of the True God and instructed him to have the bishop build a church on the site and left an image of herself imprinted miraculously on his tilma, a poor quality cactus-cloth. The tilma should have deteriorated within 20 years but Sancta Familiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09232169223661164072noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5214641672856083278.post-74240818320683335542009-12-08T20:12:00.002-07:002009-12-08T20:16:47.468-07:00Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception+JMJ+"The most Blessed Virgin Mary was, from the first moment of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege of almighty God and by virtue of the merits of Jesus Christ, Savior of the human race, preserved immune from all stain of original sin."(Pius IX, Ineffabilis Deus, 1854)In 1854, Pope Pius IX's solemn declaration, "Ineffabilis Deus," clarified with finality the long-held belief of theSancta Familiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09232169223661164072noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5214641672856083278.post-29527163791551116992009-11-30T16:06:00.003-07:002009-11-30T16:11:51.360-07:00Saint Andrew, Apostle+JMJ+Saint Andrew was a fisherman from Bethsaida and the brother of Simon Peter. Andrew, Peter, and John the Evangelist were the first of the disciples of Christ. While a disciple of John the Baptist, Andrew, who was still a young man at the time, showed his ardent desire to give himself to a radical search for and service of the truth.He demonstrated his willingness to leave all and follow God Sancta Familiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09232169223661164072noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5214641672856083278.post-60161269186727153302009-11-01T11:37:00.005-07:002009-11-01T12:06:34.909-07:00All Saints Day+JMJ+Lord, have mercy on us.Christ, have mercy on us.Lord, have mercy on us.Christ, hear us.Lord, have mercy on us.Christ, have mercy on us.Lord, have mercy on us.Christ, graciously hear us.God, the Father of heaven, have mercy on us.God the Son, Redeemer of the world, have mercy on us.God the Holy Spirit, have mercy on us.Holy Trinity, one God, have mercy on us.Holy Mary, pray for us.Holy MotherSancta Familiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09232169223661164072noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5214641672856083278.post-4949022727340599472009-10-13T19:18:00.003-06:002009-10-13T19:39:20.276-06:00Our Lady of Fatima+JMJ+In 1916, an Angel appeared to three Portuguese shepherd children (Lucia, Francisco, and Jacinta), gave them Holy Communion, and taught them the following prayers in order to prepare them for a future visit from the Blessed Mother. Pardon PrayerMy God, I believe, I adore, I hope and I love You! I ask pardon of You for those who do not believe, do not adore, do not hope and do not love You!Sancta Familiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09232169223661164072noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5214641672856083278.post-60235126009300211782009-09-30T19:11:00.002-06:002009-09-30T19:15:49.143-06:00St. Thérèse of Lisieux+JMJ+ St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus, or St. Thérèse of Lisieux was born January 2, 1873 in Alençon, France to pious parents, both who have been declared venerable by Pope John Paul II. Her mother died when she was four, leaving her father and elder sisters to raise her. On Christmas Day 1886 St. Thérèse had a profound experience of intimate union with God, which she described as a “complete Sancta Familiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09232169223661164072noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5214641672856083278.post-88823850892830762362009-09-25T11:39:00.001-06:002009-09-25T11:41:37.509-06:00Awesome Vocations Video+JMJ+I found this video that I wanted to share. No, there's no liturgical reason to post it today. I just liked it, that's all.Sancta Familiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09232169223661164072noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5214641672856083278.post-73404310104967986672009-09-14T14:14:00.002-06:002009-09-14T14:21:12.834-06:00THE EXALTATION OF THE HOLY CROSS+JMJ+The feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross celebrates two historical events: the discovery of the True Cross by Saint Helena, the mother of the Emperor Constantine, in 320, under the temple of Venus in Jerusalem and the dedication, in 335, of the basilica and shrine built on Calvary by Constantine which mark the site of the Crucifixion.The basilica, named the Martyrium, and the shrine, Sancta Familiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09232169223661164072noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5214641672856083278.post-91781941740140635522009-09-08T19:33:00.001-06:002009-09-08T19:33:00.252-06:00The Nativity of Our Blessed Mother+JMJ+"The hope of the entire world and the dawn of salvation." - ( Lumen Gentium, 55 )Besides Christmas, only two birthdays are celebrated in the Church’s liturgical calendar. That of John the Baptist on June 24, and the birth of our Lady, on September 8.The reason for this is that these two saints, especially, of course, Mary, are figures of singular importance in the history of salvation. Sancta Familiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09232169223661164072noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5214641672856083278.post-52368680826526550732009-09-05T19:43:00.000-06:002009-09-05T19:43:00.731-06:00Blessed Teresa of Calcutta+JMJ+Known to all as a universal symbol of God's merciful and preferential love for the poor and forgotten, Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu on August 26, 1910, in Skopje, Macedonia, the youngest of three children. She attended a youth group called Sodality, run by a Jesuit priest at her parish, and her involvement opened her to the call of service as a missionary nun. She joined the Sancta Familiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09232169223661164072noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5214641672856083278.post-52266282924444070732009-09-03T19:40:00.002-06:002009-09-03T19:40:00.384-06:00Saint Gregory the Great+JMJ+Gregory was born in Rome around 540, into the family of a wealthy Roman Senator who converted and became one of the seven deacons of Rome.Gregory, who was known for his intelligence and capacity for work, was appointed Prefect of Rome by the emperor at the very young age of 34. However, a year later, on the death of his father, Gregory became a Benedictine monk, and founded seven monasteriesSancta Familiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09232169223661164072noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5214641672856083278.post-65588525383853089512009-08-26T16:57:00.003-06:002009-08-26T17:08:52.400-06:00The Seven Joys of Mary+JMJ+ 1. The AnnunciationIn the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a town of Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man named Joseph, of the house of David, The Annunciation and the virgin’s name was Mary. And coming to her, he said, “Hail, favored one! The Lord is with you.” But she was greatly troubled at what was said and pondered what sort of greeting this might Sancta Familiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09232169223661164072noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5214641672856083278.post-89570675194851123352009-08-22T15:57:00.006-06:002009-08-22T17:08:30.234-06:00Queenship of Mary+JMJ+In this feast, particularly cherished by the Popes of modern times, we celebrate Mary as the Queen of Heaven and Earth.Pope Pius XII in the Papal Encyclical Ad Coeli Reginam proposed the traditional doctrine on the Queenship of Mary and established this feast for the Universal Church.Pope Pius IX said of Mary's queenship: "Turning her maternal Heart toward us and dealing with the affair of Sancta Familiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09232169223661164072noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5214641672856083278.post-89898751039753194242009-08-15T08:49:00.002-06:002009-08-15T08:51:38.486-06:00Feast of the Assumption+JMJ+The Assumption is the oldest feast day of Our Lady, but we don't know how it first came to be celebrated.Its origin is lost in those days when Jerusalem was restored as a sacred city, at the time of the Roman Emperor Constantine (c. 285-337). By then it had been a pagan city for two centuries, ever since Emperor Hadrian (76-138) had leveled it around the year 135 and rebuilt it as in honor Sancta Familiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09232169223661164072noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5214641672856083278.post-13462896560940979462009-08-14T15:40:00.003-06:002009-08-14T15:44:20.550-06:00St. Maximillian Kolbe+JMJ+Fr. Kolbe lived his priestly ministry spreading the Gospel message through the use of media-newspapers, magazines and radio, but he died laying down his life for another man in a Nazi concentration camp.He was born Raymond Kolbe in 1894 to poor and pious Catholic parents. At age 12, he had a vision of the Mother Mary in which she asked him to choose whether he would accept a white crown, Sancta Familiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09232169223661164072noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5214641672856083278.post-58549503791588511682009-08-07T08:24:00.001-06:002009-08-07T08:25:38.049-06:00Assumption Novena from EWTN+JMJ+ Mary, Queen Assumed into Heaven, I rejoice that after years of heroic martyrdom on earth, you have at last been taken to the throne prepared for you in heaven by the Holy Trinity.Lift my heart with you in the glory of your Assumption above the dreadful touch of sin and impurity. Teach me how small earth becomes when viewed from heaven. Make me realize that death is the triumphant gate Sancta Familiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09232169223661164072noreply@blogger.com1