Saturday, April 29, 2023
Saturday of the Third Week of Easter
ST. CATHERINE OF SIENA
Acts,
Chapter 9, Verse 31
The church throughout all Judea, Galilee, and Samaria was at peace. It was being built up and walked in the FEAR of the Lord, and with the consolation of the Holy Spirit it grew in numbers.
The church was at peace because the apostles trusted in the power of God and accepted Saul as Paul. Saul was the major threat to the fledgling church until Christ stopped Saul in his tracks.
For those who do not fear God let us pray that Christ stops us knocks us to the ground and delivers us as He did Saul.
Christ chose Saul because he was an earnest man first.
The great need at this hour is manly men. We want not goody-goody piety; we have too much of it. We want men who will do right, though the heavens fall, who believe in God, and who will confess Him. Rev. W. J. Dawson.
Great men of the bible realize that we are both body and spirit. They took great care of the body and honored God with the use of it. Our examples are Moses, Sampson, David, Saint Joseph and even Jesus Himself.
The body
of an athlete and the soul of a sage; these are what we require to be happy.
Voltaire.
St. Catherine of Siena[1]
Catherine,
the youngest of twenty-five children, was born in Siena on March 25, 1347.
During her youth she had to contend with great difficulties on the part of her
parents. They were planning marriage for their favorite daughter; but
Catherine, who at the age of seven had already taken a vow of virginity,
refused. To break her resistance, her beautiful golden-brown tresses were shorn
to the very skin and she was forced to do the most menial tasks. Undone by her
patience, mother and father finally relented and their child entered the Third
Order of St. Dominic.
Unbelievable
were her austerities, her miracles, her ecstasies. The reputation of her
sanctity soon spread abroad; thousands came to see her, to be converted by her.
The priests associated with her, having received extraordinary faculties of
absolution, were unable to accommodate the crowds of penitents. She was a
helper and a consoler in every need. As time went on, her influence reached out
to secular and ecclesiastical matters. She made peace between worldly princes.
The heads of Church and State bowed to her words. She weaned Italy away from an
anti-pope, and made cardinals and princes promise allegiance to the rightful
pontiff. She journeyed to Avignon and persuaded Pope Gregory XI to return to Rome.
Even though she barely reached the age of thirty-three her accomplishments
place her among the great women of the Middle Ages. The virgin Catherine was
espoused to Christ by a precious nuptial ring which, although visible only to
her, always remained on her finger.
Excerpted from The Church's Year of Grace, Pius
Parsch
Patron: Against fire; bodily ills; Europe;
fire prevention; firefighters; illness; Italy; miscarriages; nurses; nursing
services; people ridiculed for their piety; sexual temptation; sick people;
sickness; Siena, Italy; temptations.
Symbols: Cross; heart; lily; ring;
stigmata.
Things to
Do:
- If
you have never done so today would be a good time to read some of St.
Catherine's Dialogue.
- Learn
more about the Order of Preachers founded by St. Dominic.
Remembrance for All Victims of Chemical Warfare[2]
Day of Remembrance for all the Victims of Chemical Warfare commemorates the victims of chemical warfare and serves to reaffirm the world's commitment to eliminate chemical weapons. Thus, the day also serves to promote peace, security and multilateralism. Although chemical weapons have been banned for some time by the Geneva Convention, they are still infrequently used. The United Nations proclaimed the Day of Remembrance for all the Victims of Chemical Warfare in November of 2005. It has since been celebrated on April 29th, the same date on which the Chemical Weapons Convention entered into force in 1997. The day aims to destroy chemical weapons and further gain adherence to the Convention's articles in order to achieve a safer and more peaceful world.
Remembrance for Victims of Chemical Warfare Facts &
Quotes
·
Chemical
weapons were used for the first time on a large scale in battle during World
War I at the battle of Ypres in 1915. The chemical that was used as a weapon
was chlorine gas.
·
90%
of the world’s declared chemical weapons stockpile of 72,525 metric tons has
been verifiably destroyed.
·
There
are three different schedules of chemicals:
1) Schedule One: these are typically used in weapons such as sarin and mustard
gas
2) Schedule Two: these are used in weapons such as amiton and BZ
3) Schedule Three: these are typically the least toxic chemicals and are used
for research and the production of medicines.
· For the risks that the leaders of a rogue state will use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons against us, or our allies is the greatest security threat we face. – Madeleine Albright, American politician and diplomat, first woman to be secretary of state.
Remembrance Victims Top Events and Things to Do
·
Watch
a documentary or movie on the perils of chemical warfare. Some popular options
are: Science at War: Laboratory of War, Chemical Warfare Watch, Avoiding
Armageddon: Chemical Weapons, and Total Recall.
·
Read
a book on the widespread dangers of chemical warfare. Some good suggestions are
War of Nerves, Chemical and Biological Warfare: America’s Hidden Arsenal, and a
Higher Form of Killing.
·
Spread
awareness on social media by using the hashtags #peacenotwar and
#remembranceforallchemicalwarfarevictims
·
Visit
the site of some of the chemical weapon use. Some ideas, the Battlefields of
Ypres, the Battlefields of Passchendaele and the Tokyo Subway.
Catechism
of the Catholic Church
PART
FOUR: CHRISTIAN PRAYER
SECTION TWO-THE LORD'S PRAYER
Article 2 "OUR FATHER WHO ART IN HEAVEN"
IV. "Who Art in Heaven"
2794 This biblical expression does not mean a place
(“space"), but a way of being; it does not mean that God is distant, but
majestic. Our Father is not "elsewhere": he transcends everything we
can conceive of his holiness. It is precisely because he is thrice holy that he
is so close to the humble and contrite heart.
"Our
Father who art in heaven" is rightly understood to mean that God is in the
hearts of the just, as in his holy temple. At the same time, it means that
those who pray should desire the one they invoke to dwell in them.
"Heaven" could also be those who bear the image of the heavenly
world, and in whom God dwells and tarries.
2795 The symbol of the heavens refers us back to the mystery of
the covenant we are living when we pray to our Father. He is in heaven, his
dwelling place; the Father's house is our homeland. Sin has exiled us from the
land of the covenant, but conversion of heart enables us to return to the
Father, to heaven. Jn Christ, then, heaven and earth are reconciled, for
the Son alone "descended from heaven" and causes us to ascend there
with him, by his Cross, Resurrection, and Ascension.
2796 When the Church prays "our Father who art in
heaven," she is professing that we are the People of God, already seated
"with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus" and "hidden
with Christ in God;" yet at the same time, "here indeed we
groan, and long to put on our heavenly dwelling."
[Christians]
are in the flesh, but do not live according to the flesh. They spend their
lives on earth, but are citizens of heaven.
PRAYERS AND TEACHINGS OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
O my God, relying
on Your infinite goodness and promises, I hope to obtain pardon for my sins,
the help of Your grace and life everlasting, through the merits of Jesus
Christ, my Lord and Redeemer. Amen.
Calendar
·
April 29th New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
·
Saturday Mass
o Saturday
Litany of the Hours Invoking the Aid of Mother Mary
Summer
magic is the third satanic “solemnity” and occurs on the night between April 30
and May 1. During the year [Satanists] often choose nights when the new moon is
inaugurated, because it is particularly dark.
Hell Week[3] (OSV News) — The Satanic Temple, based in Salem, Massachusetts, will host SatanCon 2023 April 28-30 at the Marriott Copley Place in downtown Boston. With a theme of “Hexennacht (Witches’ Night) in Boston,” the TST-organized conference includes lectures, panel discussions and entertainment.grace and the cultivation of virtue are Catholics’ most effective responses to an upcoming satanist convention in Boston — and the event itself is an opportune moment for Catholics to give witness to the Good News of Jesus Christ, pastoral experts told OSV News.
Regular Mass attendance, frequent
reception of the sacraments of Eucharist and reconciliation, prayer and the use
of sacramentals — such as holy water and religious medals — all form an
effective strategy in “keeping the Evil One at bay,” Dominican Father Basil
Cole, professor of moral, spiritual and dogmatic theology at the Dominican
House of Studies in Washington, told OSV News.
“This isn’t rocket science. We’ve
known how to handle this for 2,000 years,” said Father Cole, who also stressed
the need for Catholics “to grow in grace and in virtue” in order to defeat
evil.
Daily
Devotions
·
Unite in the work of the Porters of St. Joseph by joining them
in fasting: Today's Fast: The
Sick, afflicted, and infirmed.
·
Litany of the Most Precious
Blood of Jesus
·
Offering to
the sacred heart of Jesus
· Make reparations to the Holy Face
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