Obama’s Latest Brainstorm to Defeat ISIS
Flashback: Remember when Hillary Clinton said that America must ‘Empathize’ with Our Enemies.
Children Are a Sacred Blessing & Gift from God
Image: Respect Life Los Angeles
- IPrayToEndAbortion “A great prayer of life is urgently needed, a payer that will rise up throughout the world.” Pope Saint John Paul II
Saint Nicholas –Image Courtesy: St. Paul Street Evangelization
(Franciscan Media) The absence of ‘hard facts’ of history is not necessarily an obstacle to the popularity of Saint’s as the devotion of Saint Nicholas shows.
Both the Eastern and Western Churches honor him and it is claimed after the Blessed Virgin Mary, he is the Saint most pictured by Christian artists and yet historically, we can pinpoint only the fact that Nicholas was the 4th Century Bishop of Myra (modern day Turkey) that he was generous to the poor writes SQPN and special protector of the innocent and wronged.
Stories have grown up around him, prior to him becoming associated with ‘Santa Claus’ perhaps the best known story of Nicholas concerns his charity towards a poor man who was unable to provide dowries for his three daughters of marriageable age.
Rather than see the three young Women forced into a life of prostitution, Nicholas secretly tossed a bag of gold through the poor man’s window on three separate occasions, thus enabling the daughters to be married.
More here from Cristy Li -2014 and here from Catholic News Agency
May You Have Peace in Your Heart and Know Many Blessings
in Your Lives -Image Courtesy: Sister Vernonica Paul
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
I thank my God in all my remembrance of you, always in every prayer of mine for you all making my prayer with joy, thankful for your partnership in the Gospel from the first day until now and I am sure that He who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.
It is right for me to feel thus about you all because I hold you in my heart, for you are all partakers with me of grace both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the Gospel. For God is my witness, how I yearn for you all with the affection of Christ Jesus and it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more with knowledge and discernment, so that you may approve what is excellent and may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, filled with the fruits of righteousness which come through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God. –Philippians 1:2-11
Preach as you go saying, “The kingdom of heaven is at hand.”
Matthew 10:7 -Image Courtesy: Steubenville Conferences
If anyone will not receive you or listen to your words, shake off the dust from your feet as you leave that house or town. Truly I say to you, it shall be more tolerable on the day of judgment for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah than for that town. –Matthew 10:14-15
May This Season Be Full of Hope -Image: Fr. Ed Benioff – Radiate Los Angeles
O give thanks to the Lord for He is good, His steadfast loves endures forever. –Psalm 118:1
It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to put confidence in mortals. It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to put confidence in princes. –Psalm 118:8-9
Open to me the gates of righteousness that I may enter through them and to give thanks to the Lord — This is the gate of the Lord, the righteous shall enter through it. I thank You that You have answered me and have become my salvation. –Psalm 118:19-21
Save us, we beseech You, O Lord. — O Lord, we beseech You, give us success. Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord. We bless You from the house of the Lord. The Lord is God and He has given us light. Bind the festal procession with branches, up to the horns of the altar.”
Psalm 118:25-27
The Peaceful Kingdom –Image Courtesy: Franciscan Friars
A shoot shall come out from the stump of Jesse and a branch shall grow out of his roots. The spirit of the Lord shall rest on him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord. His delight shall be in the fear of the Lord.
He shall not judge by what his eyes see or decide what his ears hear but with righteousness, he shall judge the poor and decide with equity for the meek of the earth; he shall strike the with the rod of his mouth and with the breath of his lips he shall kill the wicked. Righteousness shall be the belt around his waist and faithfulness the belt around his loins.
The wolf shall live with the lamb, the leopard shall lie down with the kid, the calf and the lion and the fatling together and a little child shall lead them. The cow and the bear shall graze, their young shall lie down together and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. The nursing child shall play over the hole of the asp and the weaned child shall put its hand in the adder’s den. They will not hurt or destroy on all my holy mountain, for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.
On that day the root of Jesse shall stand as a signal to the peoples, the nations shall inquire of him and his dwelling shall be glorious. –Isaiah 11:1-10