As your Uncle Captain Joseph said; "A powerful name:Thomas. May he always listen to the words of his Apostolic predecessor: "Doubt no longer, but believe."
She wears a black tie around her indicating that she is with child - Jesus dwells in her womb! There is no wonder that not only is she the patroness of The Americas, but also the Patroness of LIFE!
Why veil the Tabernacle? The immediate and short answer is because the tabernacle in desert had veils and because there was a veil shielding the Holy of Holies in the Jerusalem Temple. The fact that this Temple veil was torn in two does not mean that we should abandon the use of veils and curtains. That would be simplistic, not to say childish, interpretation of that tremendous event.
In Catholic understanding, the purpose of the veil is not to hide something, but to disclose something. When we veil the tabernacle we are saying something about its contents. Usually, the veils we use are actually curtains. This can be taken to express the fact that the Temple curtain was torn in two; access to God is granted through the death of Jesus Christ. However, we cannot see the face of God and we cannot see the Risen glory of Christ. We “see” Christ and receive the Christian mysteries in faith, and the veil represents our faith as well as speaking of the mysteries that we cannot see clearly in this life. These Mysteries are so great, so wonderful, so beyond our comprehension and our ability to focus, that we veil them to remind us of their magnificence and holiness.
I looked it up under St Magdalen de Pazzi Catholic Church and now have a better understanding...The Tabernacle Veil - St. Magdalen de Pazzi Roman Catholic Church (stmagdalen.org)
Fr Denny reminded me that he has 5 of my empty canning jars, making me smile. We can for 7 families and a priest!
From Sirach 48:1 in the first reading today read all around the world in every Catholic Church - so powerful!
In those days,
like a fire there appeared the prophet Elijah
whose words were as a flaming furnace... Sirach 48:1
like a fire there appeared the prophet Elijah
whose words were as a flaming furnace... Sirach 48:1
Jesus today speaking about St John the Baptist...
“Elijah will indeed come and restore all things;
but I tell you that Elijah has already come,
and they did not recognize him but did to him whatever they pleased.
So also will the Son of Man suffer at their hands.”
Then the disciples understood
that he was speaking to them of John the Baptist. Matthew 17 - the Gospel preached upon all over the world today - that's power and glory to our LORD!
Light the pink candle and rejoice!
Brother Victor and Deacon dad takes us deep today! "He wishes to speak with us in the intimacy of our hearts."
St Mother Teresa of Calcutta today ... Only Jesus!!!
Dad and The Name!
St Paul brings us The Word of Truth!
Pat and John at the Vikings game with Bill and the boys. Bill is from around Pittsburg so I guess you get the picture of a family divided.
Snow day yesterday and bright sun today! My ornament for my 20 week loss, Robert on the tree.
Before him when John was still a baby - I lost 20 week in the womb, William. He and John would have been just 13 months apart. Both William and Robert are buried at the cemetery just a short distance from Nancy's 20 week loss, Maximilian. How I prayed that my girls would not have to suffer loss as I did...
but I tell you that Elijah has already come,
and they did not recognize him but did to him whatever they pleased.
So also will the Son of Man suffer at their hands.”
Then the disciples understood
that he was speaking to them of John the Baptist. Matthew 17 - the Gospel preached upon all over the world today - that's power and glory to our LORD!
Family Soul Story - Choose Life!: Our marriage stories - "The world needs LIGHTS!"
Beautiful sight to behold today. More work for the farmers getting all the animals dry and fed.
The reason for the season. In a week we will be at my family Christmas - CCC - Cross Christmas Camp 2021 here we come! The day before Nancy is due to have her new daughter. We will be bringing her other 5 to camp! It has been 13 years since I brought kids to camp, and 20 years since I brought my 5 little ones to camp.
Cold and beautiful! The kitten knocked over the Christmas tree for the second time this morning, so he is out cooling his toes and learning a lesson - I really doubt it to be honest!
Bobbi making cookies with her 2 littles! I bet some ended up in their mouths - nothing quite as good as sugar cookie dough!
Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe
Patroness of the Americas
Remembering... December 12
“Am I not here, I, who am your Mother? Are you not under my shadow and protection? Am I not the source of your joy? Are you not in the hollow of my mantle, in the crossing of my arms? Do you need anything more? Let nothing else worry you, disturb you.”
These were the words of Our Lady of Guadalupe to St Juan Diego when she appeared to him in 1531. They are still relevant today as Archbishop (now Cardinal) Burke reminds us in a homily he gave at the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe that he helped establish in La Crosse, Wisconsin. Some insights...
“…our late and most beloved Pope (Saint) John Paul II placed the mission of the Church in America, at the beginning of the Third Christian Millennium, under the protection of the Virgin of Guadalupe and commended her to us as the Star to lead us to Christ and, in Christ, to the conversion of our personal lives and the transformation of our world.” ...
(Cardinal) Burke calls this apparition “the mystery of the Visitation as it was experienced on our continent in 1531. The woman clothed with the sun, bearing the Infant Savior, the Anointed, in her womb, appeared to Saint Juan Diego, from December 9 to 12, 1531, in order that a chapel be built in which she might manifest the all-generous and never-failing merciful love of God for us, incarnate in her womb and alive for us in the Church, above all, in the Sacrament of the Real Presence, the Holy Eucharist.”
“…she has desired to remain with us always, in order that the mystery of the Visitation might be always new for us. She has miraculously left her living image on the tilma or mantle of St Juan Diego. In the magnificent basilica built to her honor, in which the tilma of St Juan Diego is enthroned, the Mother of God continues to visit pilgrims and to announce to them the great mystery of God’s all-loving and never-failing mercy.”
“… in 1531, she inspired her sons and daughters to abandon the horror of human sacrifice and to respect the inviolable dignity of every man, both the Native American and the European, so now she inspires us to be tireless disciples of the Gospel of Life, working to end the horror of procured abortion and so-called “mercy-killing,” and to promote the respect for the dignity of every human life from the moment of inception to the moment of natural death.”
Our Lady of Guadalupe, patroness of the Americas,
Star of the New Evangelization
and Tireless Champion for life, pray for us!
and Tireless Champion for life, pray for us!
MUST READ: Our Lady of Guadalupe and the Conquest of Darkness Warren H Carroll
featuring Our Lady of Guadalupe as patroness of the Americas
and asking for her intercession for the cause of religious liberty.
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"O Mary, bright dawn of the new world, Mother of the living, to you do we entrust the cause of life: Look down, O Mother, upon the vast numbers of babies not allowed to be born, of the poor whose lives are made difficult, of men and women who are victims of brutal violence, of the elderly and the sick killed by indifference or out of misguided mercy. Grant that all who believe in your Son may proclaim the Gospel of life with honesty and love to the people of our time." - St John Paul II
Danielle Rose - writes all her music in front of Our Lord in Adoration!
Salve Regina - Hail Holy Queen in Gregorian chant
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