Meditation
"The soul offers to the Immaculata its acts of love, not as an object delivered to any mediator, but in property, in full and exclusive property because it understands that the Immaculata offers such acts to Jesus as though they were hers; that is to say, she offers them to Jesus without stain, immaculate. Jesus then offers them to the Father. This way, the soul becomes more and more of the Immaculata, just as the Immaculata is of Jesus, and Jesus is the Father's." (KW 1310)
Introduction to Leviticus
Leviticus[1] begins, Moses has just led the
Israelites out of Egypt in one of the
most exciting adventures of all time.
Burning Bush. Amazing plagues. A march through the sea. Meeting God on a
mountain. So, after all that, there's only one thing a red-hot writer can do
when folks are begging for more. Give the people what they want—twenty-four
chapters filled with lists of laws, along with a couple blink-and-they're gone
stories where people die because they sinned. Hmmm.
At first glance, Leviticus
would seem to be The
Phantom Menace of
the Bible, just with purity rules and animal sacrifice instead of the taxation
of trade routes. And you know what? Our response to Leviticus isn't just a
modern one. Way back in the 2nd century CE, an influential Christian theologian
named Origen wrote:
Provide someone
with a reading from Leviticus and at once the listener will gag and push it
away as if were some bizarre food. He came, after all, to learn how to honor
God, to take in the teachings that concern justice and piety. But instead he is
now hearing about the ritual of burnt sacrifices!
The thing is, unlike Jar
Jar Binks, Leviticus was indeed what the people wanted. It was a way for people
to make sense of everyday life. Violence, community, money, power—even if the
Bible doesn't always match our own sense of what's right, it definitely
provided answers for the masses back in the day. Remember, this was a world
where sacrificing animals taught the importance of respecting animal life. A
ban on tattoos helped curb slavery. Being fair in business meant forcing people
to give back what they've bought. And laws on sexual intercourse—well, those
might not have actually been about sex at all. So, as you roam around
Leviticus, remember to check your preconceptions at the giant curtain that is
the Tabernacle's door. These boring laws are biblical Transformers—much more
than meets the eye.
Why Should I Care?
Gay rights. Immigrant
rights. Atheism. And yes, even vampires and child sacrifice. Leviticus might
have been written for goat herders and farmers more than 2500 years ago, but in
recent years, it has moved from the margins to the mainstream in pop culture
and political debates.
Yet for all the t-shirts,
internet memes, magazine essays, and YouTube videos using quotes from Leviticus
to make their point, how all these verses fit together can be as hard to figure
out as why God thinks it's an abomination to wear a polyester-cotton blend.
Sure, it's a steep mountain to climb, but it's worth it. Leviticus is a treasure
trove of rich ideas that are all the more valuable because only a clever few
dare to find them.
- Books
from Dracula
to The
Hunger Games have built on images from Leviticus to create compelling
(and not-so-compelling) worlds.
- A
co-founder of PayPal and early investor in Facebook used insights from
Leviticus to build a billion-dollar empire and promote social change.
- Long
before Xbox and smart phones, Leviticus used virtual space and gaming to
map out new strategies for day-to-day life.
- New
generations of readers are discovering that what Leviticus says about
ethics, community and scientific progress may not be as archaic as it
seems.
So, come on. Let's crack
open the doors of this sealed chamber and light up the place with a little
strange fire. Pretty soon everyone will marvel at your level-12 literary
intelligence when you show them that the so-called most boring book of the
Bible is actually more than just a bunch of dusty old rules about cows and pigs
and sacrifices and why sex is eeeeeeeevil.
Leviticus, Chapter 19, verse 14
You shall not insult the deaf, or
put a stumbling block in front of the blind, but you shall FEAR your God. I am the LORD.
Be
like your Heavenly Father; God is not a bully. Christ was often confronted by
the bullies of his time. When the
Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together, and
one of them [a scholar of the law] tested him by asking, “Teacher,
which commandment in the law is the greatest?” He said to him, “You
shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and
with all your mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment. The second
is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. The whole law
and the prophets depend on these two commandments.” (Mt. 22:34-40)
The
modern world attempts to bully the faithful into abandoning their relationship
with the Lord. Saint Pope Pius X was a pope, who resisted the bullying of the
modern world by establishing an oath against modernism[2].
The crux of this oath has five main points:
1.
I
profess that God is the origin and end of all things.
2.
I
accept and acknowledge the external proofs of revelation, that is, divine acts
and especially miracles and prophecies as the surest signs of the divine origin
of the Christian religion.
3.
I
believe with equally firm faith that the Church, the guardian and teacher of
the revealed word, was personally instituted by the real and historical Christ.
4.
I
sincerely hold that the doctrine of faith was handed down to us from the
apostles through the orthodox Fathers in exactly the same meaning and always in
the same purport.
5.
I
hold with certainty and sincerely confess that faith is not a blind sentiment
of religion welling up from the depths of the subconscious under the impulse of
the heart and the motion of a will trained to morality; but faith is a genuine
assent of the intellect to truth.
Another way the
world and the modernist clerics are attempting to put blinders on us is to bully
us into being okay with transgenderism. By the way today is International
Transgender Day of Visibility. This is what the catechism of
the church states on this subject.[3]
Note as of this date the USCCB has made no statement on the Transgender
shooter in Tennessee. One wonders—maybe they are into National Tater
Day or Cesar Chavez
Day.
Sexual
Identity
(No.
2333) “Everyone, man and woman, should acknowledge and accept his sexual
identity. Physical, moral, and spiritual difference and complementarity are
oriented toward the goods of marriage and the flourishing of family life. The
harmony of the couple and of society depends in part on the way in which the
complementarity, needs, and mutual support between the sexes are lived out.”
(No.
2393) “By creating the human being man and woman, God gives personal dignity
equally to the one and the other. Each of them, man and woman, should acknowledge
and accept his sexual identity.”
Body and
Soul
(No. 364)
“The human body shares in the dignity of "the image of God": it is a
human body precisely because it is animated by a spiritual soul, and it is the
whole human person that is intended to become, in the body of Christ, a temple
of the Spirit: Man, though made of body and soul, is a unity. Through his very
bodily condition he sums up in himself the elements of the material world.
Through him they are thus brought to their highest perfection and can raise
their voice in praise freely given to the Creator. For this reason man may not
despise his bodily life. Rather he is obliged to regard his body as good and to
hold it in honor since God has created it and will raise it up on the last
day.”
Modesty
(No.
2521) “Purity requires modesty, an integral part of temperance. Modesty
protects the intimate center of the person. It means refusing to unveil what
should remain hidden. It is ordered to chastity to whose sensitivity it bears
witness. It guides how one looks at others and behaves toward them in
conformity with the dignity of persons and their solidarity.”
(No.
2522) “Modesty protects the mystery of persons and their love… Modesty is
decency. It inspires one's choice of clothing. It keeps silence or reserve
where there is evident risk of unhealthy curiosity. It is discreet.”
(No.
2523) “There is a modesty of the feelings as well as of the body. It protests,
for example, against the voyeuristic explorations of the human body in certain
advertisements, or against the solicitations of certain media that go too far
in the exhibition of intimate things. Modesty inspires a way of life which
makes it possible to resist the allurements of fashion and the pressures of
prevailing ideologies.” Updated August 7, 2019 2
Privacy
(No.
1907) “First, the common good presupposes respect for the person as such. In
the name of the common good, public authorities are bound to respect the
fundamental and inalienable rights of the human person. Society should permit
each of its members to fulfill his vocation. In particular, the common good
resides in the conditions for the exercise of the natural freedoms
indispensable for the development of the human vocation, such as ‘the right to
act according to a sound norm of conscience and to safeguard . . . privacy, and
rightful freedom also in matters of religion.’”
Mutilation
(No. 2297) “Except when performed for strictly therapeutic medical reasons, directly intended amputations, mutilations, and sterilizations performed on innocent persons are against the moral law.”
Feast of
the Seven Dolor’s of the Blessed Virgin Mary
(FRIDAY
IN PASSION WEEK.)
THE part which the Blessed Virgin took in the sufferings and death
of her beloved Son has induced the Church to give her the glorious title of
Queen of Martyrs. The feast of the Seven Dolors was first instituted by the
Council of Cologne, in the year 1423, in order to make amends for what the
Hussites had done against the veneration of the Blessed Virgin, whom they, like
all heretics, had assailed with many calumnies and insults; in particular,
rejecting the image of the Mother of Dolors with the body of her dead Son
resting upon her lap.
This feast was originally called the feast of the Compassion of
the Blessed Virgin.
At the presentation of Jesus in the temple Simeon had predicted
that the suffering of the Son would be the suffering of the Mother also: Behold
this child is set for the fall and for the resurrection of many in Israel, and
for a sign which shall be contradicted; and thy own soul a sword shall pierce
(Luke ii. 34, 35). The ignominy, insults, and cruelties inflicted on Him were
to be so many swords piercing her heart. Remember, therefore, on this day the
seven dolors which the Blessed Virgin experienced:
1. At the circumcision of her Son.
2. At her flight into Egypt with Him.
3. On losing Him for three days in the temple.
4. At the sight of Him carrying the cross.
5. At His death.
6. When beholding His side pierced with a spear, and His body
taken down from the cross.
7. At His burial. Make an act of contrition for your sins, which
helped so much to cause the sufferings and death of Jesus, and resolve firmly
that you will no more grieve the hearts of Jesus and Mary by sin. Ask her to
assist you at your death by her powerful intercession, that then she may show
herself to you as a mother, and obtain from her beloved Son grace for you.
The Introit of the Mass is as follows: “There stood by the cross
of Jesus His Mother, and His Mother s sister, Mary of Cleophas, and Mary
Magdalen” (John xix.). “Woman, behold thy son,” said Jesus, and to the
disciple: “Behold thy mother.” Glory be to the Father…
Prayer. O Lord, in Whose passion, according to the prophecy of Simeon, a
sword of sorrow pierced the most sweet soul of Mary, mother and virgin, grant,
in Thy mercy, that we may call to mind with veneration her transfixion and sufferings;
and by the glorious merits and prayers of all the saints, who stood faithfully by
the cross, interceding for us, may experience the happy effects of Thy passion.
Amen.
EPISTLE. Judith xiii. 23-25.
The Lord hath blessed thee by His power, because by thee He hath
brought our enemies to naught. And Ozias, the prince of the people of Israel,
said to her, Blessed art thou, O daughter, by the Lord the most high God, above
all women upon the earth. Blessed be the Lord Who made heaven and earth, Who hath
directed thee to the cutting off the head of the prince of our enemies. Because
He hath so magnified thy name this day, that thy praise shall not depart out of
the mouth of men who shall be mindful of the power of the Lord forever, for
that thou hast not spared thy life, by reason of the distress and tribulation
of thy people, but hast prevented our ruin in the presence of our God.
GOSPEL. John xix.
25-27.
At that time: There stood by the cross of Jesus His Mother, and
His Mother s sister, Mary of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalen. When Jesus therefore
had seen His Mother and the disciple standing whom He loved, He saith to His
Mother: Woman, behold thy son. After that, He saith to the disciple: Behold thy
mother. And from that hour the disciple took her to his own.
Friday of Sorrows[1]
The Friday of Sorrows is
a solemn pious remembrance of the sorrowful Blessed Virgin Mary on the Friday
before Palm Sunday held in the fifth week of Lent (formerly called
"Passion Week"). In Divine
Worship: The Missal
it is called Saint Mary in Passiontide and sometimes it is traditionally
known as Our Lady in Passiontide.
In certain Catholic countries, especially in Mexico, Guatemala, Italy, Peru, Brazil, Spain, Malta, Nicaragua and the Philippines, it is seen as the beginning of the Holy Week celebrations and termed as Viernes de Dolores (Friday of Sorrows). It takes place exactly one week before Good Friday, and concentrates on the emotional pain that the Passion of Jesus Christ caused to his mother, the Blessed Virgin Mary, who is venerated under the title Our Lady of Sorrows. In certain Spanish-speaking countries, the day is also referred to as Council Friday, because of the choice of John 11:47-54 as the Gospel passage read in the Tridentine Mass on that day (which is now read in slightly expanded form on Saturday of the fifth week of Lent), which recounts the conciliar meeting of the Sanhedrin priests to discuss what to do with Jesus. Like all Fridays in Lent, this Friday is a day of abstinence from meat, unless the national episcopal conference has indicated alternative forms of penance. A similar commemoration in sympathy with the Virgin Mary under the title of Our Lady of Solitude is held on Black Saturday.
Prayers for the Dead[2]
Relationships never end and neither should our prayers for the dead. In addition to PRAYERS, we should also offer up Masses for them and offer indulgences for their benefit. The dead cannot pray for themselves but they can pray for us and we in turn should pray for them.
Fasting and Mortification[3]
Modern
man and the media often portray persons that fast as deranged, passé or even
ignorant. However, fasting and bodily discipline are truly the marks of a man
or woman of mature intellect which has mastery over not only the mind but also
the body and spirit. St. Paul put it in stronger terms, “put to death therefore
what is earthly in you (Col. 3:5).” Jesus has also said, “If any man would come
after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.” Christ
knew we become attached to created things and to the pleasure they bring us.
St. Augustine said that sin begins as a turning away from God and a turning
toward lesser goods. When we sin, we don’t choose evil. We choose something
less than God and His will. Our bodies want more than they need, so we must
give them less than they want. Our bodies must be subject to our reason—or our
reason will soon be subjected to our bodies. St. Paul went even further. “I
pommel my body and subdue it” (1 Cor. 9:27). Nevertheless, our goal should be
to let our reason/soul cooperate with the Holy Spirit.
Chassidic philosophy[4] demonstrates three ways in which
the body and soul can interact:
Ø
The
soul can try and mitigate the urges of the body. Things that look good, taste
good and feel good are stimulating and addictive. Most of us live life with our
body in the driver’s seat. The soul just can’t compete. And so, the soul tries
to negotiate reasonably, and encourages moderation.
Ø
Or,
the soul can choose to reject the body and abhor anything associated with materialism.
The soul-driven person would then rebel against society’s shallow and false
veneers. Simplicity and ascetism become the ultimate goals of the soul.
Ø
The
third scenario is not a compromise between the first two. It is an entirely new
approach, where the body and soul learn to work together. The soul neither
leans towards the body nor rejects it. It
does not react; it pro-acts. In a proactive position, the soul directs and
channels the body’s inclination in a constructive way. In this last approach,
instead of repressing the body’s needs, the soul views them as an opportunity
to serve God in a whole new way.
Ø
Using
the third approach we should fast with a purpose like Moses or Elijah for
example before going into God’s presence or to strengthen us or for the benefit
of others. Jesus fasted not because He needed to, but as a model for us. We
should make self-sacrifices in an effort to make others happy or out of love
for our God to share in his plan of salvation.
Lenten Calendar[5]
Read: “Wherefore, we ask, urgently and prayerfully, that we, as people of God,
make of the entire Lenten Season a period of special penitential observance.
Following the instructions of the Holy See, we declare that the obligation both
too fast and to abstain from meat, an obligation observed under a stricter
formality by our fathers in the faith, still binds on Ash Wednesday and Good
Friday. No Catholic Christian will lightly excuse himself from so hallowed an
obligation on the Wednesday which solemnly opens the Lenten season and, on that
Friday, called ‘Good’ because on that day Christ suffered in the flesh and died for our sins.
. .. Gratefully remembering this, Catholic peoples from time immemorial have set
apart Friday for special penitential observance by which they gladly suffer
with Christ that they may one day be glorified with Him. This is the heart of
the tradition of abstinence from meat on Friday where that tradition has been
observed in the holy Catholic Church.”
(1966
USCCB Pastoral Statement on Penance and Abstinence, no. 12 and no. 18)
Reflect: "If you have fasted two or three
days, do not think yourself better than others who do not fast. You fast and
are angry; another eats and wears a smiling face."
—St. Jerome, Letters, 22.37
Pray: Pray that abstinence from some of your
favorite things this Lenten season will help bring you closer to God long after
the season is over.
Act: Take note of the meatless meals you have enjoyed this Lent. Add your favorites to your family’s regular meal rotation once Lent is over.
Fasting and Mortification[8]
Modern
man and the media often portray persons that fast as deranged, passé or even
ignorant. However, fasting and bodily discipline are truly the marks of a man
or woman of mature intellect which has mastery over not only the mind but also
the body and spirit. St. Paul put it in stronger terms, “put to death therefore
what is earthly in you (Col. 3:5).” Jesus has also said, “If any man would come
after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.” Christ
knew we become attached to created things and to the pleasure they bring us.
St. Augustine said that sin begins as a turning away from God and a turning
toward lesser goods. When we sin, we don’t choose evil. We choose something
less than God and His will. Our bodies want more than they need, so we must
give them less than they want. Our bodies must be subject to our reason—or our
reason will soon be subjected to our bodies. St. Paul went even further. “I
pommel my body and subdue it” (1 Cor. 9:27). Nevertheless, our goal should be
to let our reason/soul cooperate with the Holy Spirit.
Chassidic philosophy[9] demonstrates three ways in which
the body and soul can interact:
Ø
The
soul can try and mitigate the urges of the body. Things that look good, taste
good and feel good are stimulating and addictive. Most of us live life with our
body in the driver’s seat. The soul just can’t compete. And so, the soul tries
to negotiate reasonably, and encourages moderation.
Ø
Or,
the soul can choose to reject the body and abhor anything associated with materialism.
The soul-driven person would then rebel against society’s shallow and false
veneers. Simplicity and ascetism become the ultimate goals of the soul.
Ø
The
third scenario is not a compromise between the first two. It is an entirely new
approach, where the body and soul learn to work together. The soul neither
leans towards the body nor rejects it. It
does not react; it pro-acts. In a proactive position, the soul directs and
channels the body’s inclination in a constructive way. In this last approach,
instead of repressing the body’s needs, the soul views them as an opportunity
to serve God in a whole new way.
Using the third approach we should fast with a purpose like Moses or Elijah for example before going into God’s presence or to strengthen us or for the benefit of others. Jesus fasted not because He needed to, but as a model for us. We should make self-sacrifices in an effort to make others happy or out of love for our God to share in his plan of salvation. By dying to self, daily, we prepare ourselves for our own moment of death.
Fitness Friday-Sleeping Workout
Recognizing
that God, the Father created man on Friday the 6th day I
propose in this blog to have an entry that shares on how to recreate and renew
yourself in strength, mind, soul and heart.
Having trouble
sleeping? Try some light catholic reading.
“The
reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of the past
centuries.” This quote is by the famous philosopher Descartes.
Although I am not a fan of everything Descartes has to say, I don’t think
he’s too far off here. Reading a good book by a good author is
indeed like having a conversation with them. By reading their book you’re
looking into their mind, experiencing their world, and learning their wisdom.
In my opinion there are no greater people to have “conversations” with through
their writing than Catholic saints. Catholic saints have written some of
the most beautiful literature which inspires, educates, encourages, and informs
us how to live a holy and happy life. Here is a list of ten classic Catholic books which any and every Catholic
should read at some point in their life.
*If
you’re not much of a reader, or if you don’t have much free time to pick up a
book, many of these classic Catholic books have audio book versions.
·
The Imitation of Christ by St. Thomas a Kempis
·
Diary of Saint Maria Faustina
Kowalska by St. Maria Faustina Kowalska
·
Dark Night of the Soul by St. John of the Cross
·
The Way of Perfection by St. Teresa of Avila
·
The Story of a Soul by St. Therese of Lisieux
·
An Introduction to the Devout Life by St. Francis de Sales
·
City of God by St. Augustine
·
Summa Theologica by St. Thomas Aquinas
·
The Interior Castle by St. Teresa of Avila
·
The Confessions by St. Augustine
As you
can tell, this list of great Catholic books by wonderful Catholic saints is in
no particular order. These are just 10 of the many Catholic books written
by wonderful saints who have so much timeless wisdom to share. Who
wouldn’t want to have a conversation with any of these wonderful saints?
What books would you add to this list of classic Catholic books?
What does your favorite classic Catholic books list look like?
Rene
Descartes[10]
born March 31,
1596
Rene Descartes (1596-1650), founder
of Analytical Geometry and Modern Philosophy
In the beginning of his Meditations (1641) Descartes wrote:
“I have
always been of the opinion that the two questions respecting God and the Soul
were the chief of those that ought to be determined by help of Philosophy
rather than of Theology; for although to us, the faithful, it be sufficient to
hold as matters of faith, that the human soul does not perish with the body,
and that God exists, it yet assuredly seems impossible ever to persuade infidels
of the reality of any religion, or almost even any moral virtue, unless, first
of all, those two things be proved to them by natural reason. And since in this
life there are frequently greater rewards held out to vice than to virtue, few
would prefer the right to the useful, if they were restrained neither by the
fear of God nor the expectation of another life.” (Descartes 1901).
“It is
absolutely true that we must believe in God, because it is also taught by the
Holy Scriptures. On the other hand, we must believe in the Sacred Scriptures
because they come from God.” (Descartes 1950, Letter of Dedication).
“And thus, I very clearly see that the certitude and truth of all science depends on the knowledge alone of the true God, insomuch that, before I knew him, I could have no perfect knowledge of any other thing. And now that I know him, I possess the means of acquiring a perfect knowledge respecting innumerable matters, as well relative to God himself and other intellectual objects as to corporeal nature.” (Descartes 1901, Meditation V).
Catechism
of the Catholic Church
PART FOUR: CHRISTIAN PRAYER
SECTION ONE-PRAYER IN THE CHRISTIAN LIFE
CHAPTER TWO-THE TRADITION
OF PRAYER
2650
Prayer cannot be reduced to the spontaneous outpouring of interior impulse: in
order to pray, one must have the will to pray. Nor is it enough to know what
the Scriptures reveal about prayer: one must also learn how to pray. Through a
living transmission (Sacred Tradition) within "the believing and praying
Church," The Holy Spirit teaches the children of God how to pray.
2651 The
tradition of Christian prayer is one of the ways in which the tradition of
faith takes shape and grows, especially through the contemplation and study of
believers who treasure in their hearts the events and words of the economy of
salvation, and through their profound grasp of the spiritual realities they
experience.
PRAYERS AND TEACHINGS OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
The Seven Sacraments[11]
The
English word "sacrament" comes from Latin sacramentum,
which means "mystery" or "rite" in classical Latin
(although it also came to mean an "obligation" or "oath" in
Medieval Latin).
It is related to the Latin adjective sacra ("holy") and verb sacrare
("to devote, consecrate, make holy"). The Latin Vulgate Bible
uses sacramentum 16 times (8x OT; 8x NT) to translate Greek mystērion.
On the
other hand, the Greek word μυστήριον (mystērion, something
"secret" or "hidden"; used 28 times in the NT) is
translated by several different words in the Latin Vulgate Bible:
- mysterium (19 times in the Vulgate NT:
Matt 13:11; Mark 4:11; Luke 8:10; Rom 11:25; 16:25; 1 Cor 2:7; 4:1; 13:2;
14:2; 15:51; Eph 3:4; 6:19; Col 1:26; 2:2; 4:3; 2 Thess 2:7; 1 Tim 3:9;
Rev 10:7; 17:5)
- sacramentum (8 times: Eph 1:9; 3:3, 9;
5:32; Col 1:27; 1 Tim 3:16; Rev 1:20; 17:7)
- testimonium (only once: 1 Cor 2:1)
- All three of these Latin words could be translated
"mystery," but mysterium more often connotes the
invisible or hidden dimensions, while sacramentum more often refers
to the visible or symbolic aspects of a spiritual or
In a sense, Jesus Christ himself can be called
"the mystery of salvation" or "the sacrament of God," since
he, through his incarnation, made visible to us the mystery of the invisible
God.
Similarly, the Church as a whole is sometimes called "the sacrament
of salvation," since it is "the sign and the instrument of the
communion of God and men" (CCC §780;
cf. §§774-776).
The
word "sacrament" most commonly refers to seven
particular rites or rituals performed in and by the Church.
- Many older Catholics will still remember the very
brief definition from the Baltimore Catechism (1941): "A
sacrament is an outward sign instituted by Christ to give grace."
(§304).
- The current official Catechism of the Catholic Church
(1994; 2nd edition 1997), gives a more extended definition:
- "The sacraments are efficacious signs of
grace, instituted by Christ and entrusted to the church, by which divine
life is dispensed to us. The visible rites by which the sacraments are
celebrated signify and make present the graces proper to each sacrament.
They bear fruit in those who receive them with the required
dispositions." (CCC §1131;
see also "Sacrament" in the CCC's Glossary).
- These sacraments are considered "Sacraments of
Christ," "Sacraments of the Church," "Sacraments of
Faith," "Sacraments of Salvation," and "Sacraments of
Eternal Life" (CCC §§1113-1134).
- The seven sacraments can be subdivided into three
sub-groups:
- three "Sacraments of Christian
Initiation" (Baptism, Confirmation, Eucharist);
- two "Sacraments of Healing"
(Penance/Reconciliation and Anointing of the Sick);
- two "Sacraments of Vocation"
(Holy Orders/Ordination and Matrimony/Marriage; also referred to as
"Sacraments at the Service of Communion").
Daily
Devotions
·
Unite in the work of the Porters of St. Joseph by joining them
in fasting: Today's Fast: An End to Addictions
·
Litany of the Most Precious
Blood of Jesus
·
Offering to
the sacred heart of Jesus
· Make reparations to the Holy Face
·
30
Days with St. Joseph Day 12
[2]http://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?id=5732
[3]https://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/marriage-and-family/marriage/promotion-and-defense-of-marriage/upload/Gender-Ideology-Select-Teaching-Resources.pdf
[4] Goffine’s Devout Instructions, 1896
[7] Hahn, Scott, Signs of Life; 40
Catholic Customs and their biblical roots. Chap. 40. Prayers for the Dead.
[8] Hahn, Scott, Signs of Life; 40
Catholic Customs and their biblical roots. Chap. 27. Fasting and Mortification.
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