Thursday, June 13, 2024
Saints, Feast, Family
- Traditions passed down with Cooking, Crafting, & Caring -
June 13
Saint of the day:
Patron Saint of Lost Things, Poor, Travelers, Treehouse living....
lost
people, lost souls, finding one's spouse, American Indians; amputees;
animals; barrenness; Brazil; elderly people; faith in the Blessed
Sacrament; fishermen; Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land; harvests;
horses; lower animals; mail; mariners; oppressed people; poor people;
Portugal; pregnant women; shipwrecks; starvation; sterility; swineherds;
Tigua Indians; travel hostesses; Watermen; runts of litters;
counter-revolutionaries; Pila, Laguna; Taytay, Rizal; Iriga, Camarines
Sur; Camaligan, Camarines Sur; Tuburan, Cebu; Cusco, Peru
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Thursday-Saint Anthony of Padua
Deuteronomy, Chapter 3, Verse 22
Do not FEAR them, for it is the LORD, your God,
who will fight for you.
What are the demons in
your life?
Do not fear them, for
it is the Lord who fights for you! The Lord will send His angels around those
who fear Him. These heavenly spirits
shield us from danger and assist us in both our spiritual and temporal needs.
Angels instruct us and mentor us in the virtues. Ask your guardian angel to be
your spiritual director and be open to change.
St.
Anthony[1]
Anthony is one of the most popular saints in the Church. He is the patron of lost things and numerous other causes. In Brazil, he is considered a general of the army; he is the patron of the poor and has been recognized as a wonderworker from the moment of his death. He was born in Portugal and entered the Augustinian monastery of Sao Vicente in Lisbon when he was fifteen. When news of the Franciscan martyrs in Morocco reached him, he joined the Franciscans at Coimbra. At his own request, he was sent as a missionary to Morocco, but he became ill, and on his return journey his boat was driven off course and he landed in Sicily. He took part in St. Francis' famous Chapter of Mats in 1221 and was assigned to the Franciscan province of Romagna. He became a preacher by accident. When a scheduled preacher did not show up for an ordination ceremony at Forli, the Franciscan superior told Anthony to go into the pulpit. His eloquence stirred everyone, and he was assigned to preach throughout northern Italy. Because of his success in converting heretics, he was called the "Hammer of Heretics" and because of his learning, St. Francis himself appointed him a teacher of theology. St. Anthony of Padua was such a forceful preacher that shops closed when he came to town, and people stayed all night in church to be present for his sermons. He became associated with Padua because he made this city his residence and the center of his great preaching mission. After a series of Lenten sermons in 1231, Anthony's strength gave out and he went into seclusion at Camposanpiero but soon had to be carried back to Padua. He did not reach the city but was taken to the Poor Clare convent at Arcella, where he died. He was thirty-six years old, and the whole city of Padua turned out in mourning for his passing. He was canonized within a year of his death and was declared a Doctor of the Church by Pope Pius XII in 1946.
Please ask for the intersession of St. Anthony for our esteemed Politian's because after all he is the patron Saint of Asses.
Patron: Against
shipwrecks; against starvation; against starving; American Indians; amputees;
animals; asses; barrenness; boatmen; Brazil; diocese of Beaumont, Texas;
domestic animals; elderly people; expectant mothers; faith in the Blessed
Sacrament; Ferrazzano, Italy; fishermen; harvests; horses; Lisbon, Portugal;
lost articles; lower animals; mail; mariners; oppressed people; Padua, Italy;
paupers; poor people; Portugal; pregnant women; sailors; seekers of lost
articles; shipwrecks; starvation; starving people; sterility; swineherds; Tigua
Indians; travel hostesses; travellers; watermen.
Things to
Do
·
St. Anthony was a great lover of the poor.
Deprive yourself of some treat and put the money saved in the poor box.
·
St. Anthony's Bread refers to an episode told in
the Rigaldina, the oldest life of St. Anthony. A Paduan mother, who
lived near the Basilica during its construction, had left little Thomas, her 20-month-old
son, alone in the kitchen. The little boy, while playing, ended up headfirst in
a tub of water. His mother found him lifeless. She screamed desperately but she
didn't give up. She called on the Saint. She made a vow: if she obtained the
blessing of her child back to life, she would donate to the poor bread equal to
the weight of her son to the poor. Her prayer was answered. Read
more about St. Anthony's Bread and consider donating to St. Anthony's
charities.
·
St. Anthony is invoked by women in search of
good husbands, so if you're single and in search of a spouse, today is a good
day to make a visit to a church or shrine dedicated to St. Anthony to make your
petition to this generous saint!
·
Because St. Anthony was buried on a Tuesday and
many miracles accompanied his funeral, Tuesdays are special days of honoring
him throughout the year. It is customary to pray a Novena
to him on thirteen consecutive Tuesdays.
Yukon Territory
created, 1898[2]
The Yukon, a territory in
northwest Canada, is wild, mountainous and sparsely populated. Kluane National
Park and Reserve includes Mount Logan, Canada’s highest peak, as well as
glaciers, trails and the Alsek River. In the far north is Ivvavik National Park,
with protected calving grounds for Porcupine caribou. In the south are numerous
glacier-fed alpine lakes, including boldly coloured Emerald Lake.
The '20-5-3' Rule-How
Much Time to Spend Outside[3]
Americans today spend 92 percent of their time indoors, and their physical and mental health are suffering. Use this three-number formula to make yourself stronger and happier.
The herd of
400-pound caribou was running 50 miles an hour and directly at me. The
30 animals had been eating lichen in the Arctic tundra in Alaska when something
spooked them. I was sitting in their escape route. The ground began to vibrate
once they cracked 100 yards. At 50 yards, I could see their hooves smashing the
ground and kicking up moss and moisture. Then they were at 40 yards, then 35.
I could hear their breathing, smell their coats, and see all
the details of their ornate antlers. Just as I was wondering if the rescue
plane would be able to spot my hoof-pocked corpse, one of the caribou noticed
me and swerved. The herd followed, shaking the earth as they swept left and
summited a hillcrest, their antlers black against a gold sky.
That moment when those caribou shook the earth also shook my
soul. It was transcendent, wild as a religious experience. And it’s not even
the most intense thing I did in Alaska. I experienced savage weather, crossed
raging rivers, and faced a half-ton grizzly. My brain was feeling less hunkered
down in its typical foxhole—a state I’d compare to that of a roadrunner on
meth, dementedly zooming from one thing to the next. My mind felt more like it
belonged to a monk after a month at a meditation retreat. I just
felt . . . better. The biologist E. O. Wilson put what I was feeling this way:
“Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive, and even
spiritual satisfaction.”
When I returned from the wild, my Zen-like buzz hung around
for months. To understand what was happening, I met with Rachel Hopman, Ph.D.,
a neuroscientist at Northeastern University. She told me about the nature
pyramid. Think of it like the food pyramid, except that instead of recommending
you eat this many servings of vegetables and this many of meat, it recommends
the amount of time you should spend in nature to reduce stress and be
healthier. Learn and live by the 20-5-3 rule.
20 Minutes
That’s the amount of
time you should spend outside in nature, like a neighborhood park, three times
a week. Hopman led a new study that concluded that something as painless as a
20-minute stroll through a city botanical garden can boost cognition and memory
as well as improve feelings of well-being. “But,” she said, “we found that
people who used their cell phone on the walk saw none of those benefits.”
Other research
discovered that 20 minutes outside three times a week is the dose of nature
that had the greatest effect on reducing an urban dweller’s levels of the
stress hormone cortisol.
In nature, our
brains enter a mode called “soft fascination.” Hopman described it as a
mindfulness-like state that restores and builds the resources you need to
think, create, process information, and execute tasks. It’s mindfulness without
the meditation. A short daily nature walk—or even a walk down a tree-lined
street—is a great option for people who aren’t keen on sitting and focusing on
their breath. But turn off your phone—alerts from it can kick you out of
soft-fascination mode.
5 Hours
The minimum
length of time each month you should spend in semi-wild nature,
like a forested state park. “Spending more time in wilder spaces does seem to
give you more benefits,” said Hopman.
A 2005 survey conducted in Finland found that city dwellers
felt better with at least five hours of nature a month, with benefits
increasing at higher exposures. They were also more likely to be happier and
less stressed in their everyday lives.
The Finnish government then funded another study in 2014 in
which the scientists dumped people in a city center, a city park, and a
forested state park. The two parks felt more Zen than the city center. No
shocker. Except that those walking in a state park had an edge over the
city-park people. They felt even more relaxed and restored. The takeaway: The
wilder the nature, the better.
Nature has these effects on the mind and body because it
stimulates and soothes us in unusual and unique ways. For instance, in nature
you are engulfed in fractals, suggested Hopman. Fractals are complex patterns
that repeat over and over in different sizes and scales and make up the design
of the universe. Think: trees (big branch to smaller branch to smaller branch
and so on), river systems (big river to smaller river to stream and so on),
mountain ranges, clouds, seashells. “Cities don’t have fractals,” said Hopman.
“Imagine a typical building. It’s usually flat, with right angles. It’s painted
some dull color.” Fractals are organized chaos, which our brains apparently
dig. In fact, scientists at the University of Oregon discovered that Jackson
Pollock’s booze-and-jazz-fueled paintings are made up of fractals. This may
explain why they speak to humans at such a core level.
Nature lifts us in other ways, too: Think smells and sounds.
The feeling of the sun’s warm rays. Or just the fact that you’re getting out of
the stress of your home or office. “It’s probably a mix of a lot of things,”
said Hopman. Environments like cities, with their frenetic pace, right angles,
loud noises, rotten smells, pinging phones, and to-do lists, don’t offer this.
3 Days
This is
the top of the pyramid. Three is the number of days you
should spend each year off the grid in nature, camping or renting a cabin (with
friends or solo). Think: places characterized by spotty cell reception and wild
animals, away from the hustle and bustle.
This dose of the wildest nature is sort of like an extended
meditation retreat. Except talking is allowed and there are no gurus. It causes
your brain to ride alpha waves, the same waves that increase during meditation
or when you lapse into a flow state. They can reset your thinking, boost
creativity, tame burnout, and just make you feel better.
This is likely why one study found that three days in the
wild boost’s creativity and problem-solving abilities and another found that
U. S. military vets who spent four days white-water rafting were still buzzing
off the wild a week later. Their PTSD symptoms and stress levels were down 29
and 21 percent, respectively. Their relationships, happiness, and general
satisfaction with their lives all improved as well.
When I returned from Alaska, my wife and I moved to the edge
of the desert in Las Vegas. She wanted a shorter commute, and I wanted more
access to nature. I now walk my dogs through red-rock trails for at least 20
minutes daily and on Sunday do a long trail run deep into the canyons to rack
up my five-hour quota for the month. This summer, I’m planning a weeklong
backcountry fly-fishing trip in Idaho’s Frank Church–River of No Return
Wilderness Area. Hoping I’ll return less frazzled, fitter, and feeling more
alive.
Adapted from the book The Comfort Crisis: Embrace
Discomfort to Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self, by Michael Easter,
out now from Rodale Books. Copyright © 2021 by Michael Easter.
Catechism
of the Catholic Church
PART ONE:
THE PROFESSION OF FAITH
SECTION ONE
"I BELIEVE" - "WE
BELIEVE"
CHAPTER TWO GOD COMES TO MEET MAN
50 By natural reason man can know God with certainty, on
the basis of his works. But there is another order of knowledge, which man
cannot possibly arrive at by his own powers: the order of divine
Revelation. Through an utterly free decision, God has revealed himself and
given himself to man. This he does by revealing the mystery, his plan of loving
goodness, formed from all eternity in Christ, for the benefit of all men. God
has fully revealed this plan by sending us his beloved Son, our Lord Jesus
Christ, and the Holy Spirit.
Apostolic Exhortation[4]
Veneremur
Cernui – Down in Adoration Falling
of The Most
Reverend Thomas J. Olmsted, Bishop of Phoenix,
to Priests, Deacons, Religious and the Lay Faithful of the Diocese of Phoenix
on the Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist
My beloved Brothers and
Sisters in Christ,
Part III
Loving and Adoring the
Eucharistic Lord
VI. Pastors, have one Eucharistic
procession each year in your parish.
101. Of course, any Eucharistic
procession should be reverent, beautiful, peaceful, festive, and well-planned.
But there will be much variation from parish to parish. For a particular parish
the procession could be several miles and in highly public places; it could be
shorter and simply around the parish campus. Perhaps it involves a few dozen or
several hundred people, or even much larger crowds. For some parishes (like
those in the cooler climates) the feast of Corpus Christi may be the best time
for a procession. For others (like those in warmer places), parishes may want
to choose another day each year. Possibilities include the celebration of Our
Lady of Guadalupe (our diocesan patroness), Christ the King, Epiphany,
Pentecost, the parish’s patronal feast day, and the celebration of the
anniversary of the dedication of the church.
VII. Pastors, consider how you
can make Eucharistic adoration a more available evangelical opportunity.
102. As we discussed above,
Eucharistic adoration can be a significant opportunity for evangelization
because there we truly are able to bring a friend into the sacramental, living,
bodily presence of Christ. The Eucharist is the greatest treasure of the Church
for it is Christ Himself – and it is the treasure to which the church
invites each man and woman in every place and time. But all priests know the
confused and overwhelmed look that can often appear on the face of a
non-Catholic after attending Mass for the first time. We can forget how rich,
complex, and biblical are the symbolic words, images, and gestures in the Mass.
It is like another world with a foreign language. For those unfamiliar with
Catholic liturgy, this complexity can frequently be so alien as to be almost
entirely impenetrable. Eucharistic adoration, on the other hand, is much
simpler and less demanding for an un-evangelized person. It can be a kind of
door or bridge to the full sacramental life of the church.
103. What would it look like
if your parish made Eucharistic adoration more beautiful, available, and
accessible to Catholics who could invite friends?
Are times for adoration widely
publicized?
Is the place where adoration is
held reverent, dignified, safe, and inviting?
How often do Mass-going Catholics
receive encouragement to invite friends and family members to adoration?
Are there resources which can
easily assist non-Catholics and fallen-away Catholics in beginning to learn to
pray in the presence of the Eucharistic Lord?
To be continued…
Thursday Feast
Thursday
is the day of the week that our Lord gave himself up for consumption. Thursday
commemorates the last supper. Some theologians believe after Sunday Thursday is
the holiest day of the week. We should then try to make this day special by
making a visit to the blessed sacrament chapel, Mass or even stopping by the
grave of a loved one. Why not plan to count the blessing of the week and thank
our Lord. Plan a special meal. Be at Peace.
·
According to Mary Agreda[5]
in her visions it was on a Thursday at six o'clock in the evening and at the
approach of night that the Angel Gabriel approached and announced her as Mother
of God and she gave her fiat.
Thursday Feast Menu[6]Dinner in honor of St. Anthony of
Padua
Best Places to Visit in June
Temperature: 82.4
high; 50°C low
Season: summer
The USA is all about scale: big dreams, big burgers and even bigger landscapes.
And scenery doesn’t come much bigger than California’s Yosemite, that mighty meeting
of granite cliffs, giant redwoods and towering falls, high in the Sierra
Nevada. May might be a top time to make a beeline for California, but
June is the sweet spot for Yosemite: the snow has
melted enough to clear the scenic Tioga Pass driving route (inaccessible
from November to late May), but the heat hasn’t dried up
dramatic Yosemite Falls yet. Not to mention the June bloom, when wildflowers
are at their brightest. Sometimes feeling small can feel pretty good.
Where to stay: The Ahwahnee, with its grand wooden rooms and stone fireplaces, is
the perfect escape, hidden between towering cliffs, twinkling waterfalls and
vast expanses of land.
Rachel’s
Corner-Get your three-day outdoor experience via glamping or hardcore on your
own and remember; lose the cell phone.
Under Canvas Yosemite is located on 85 acres of forested land featuring
unique glamping accommodations, a main lobby tent complete with café-style
dining, upscale lounge areas luxuriously furnished by West Elm, and other
elevated offerings. Located just 10 minutes from the main entrance to Yosemite
National Park at Big Oak Flat, our very first California location is easily
accessible from the San Francisco Bay Area, Sacramento, and Northern
California. Sleep amongst towering California Black Oak and Ponderosa Pine forests
in king-size beds with plush linens and private, ensuite bathrooms. Immerse
yourself in the stillness of nature and explore one of the nation’s most
historic national parks from Under Canvas Yosemite, where a stay is part of the
upscale, outdoor adventure!
Daily
Devotions
·
Unite in the work of the Porters of St. Joseph by joining them
in fasting: Victims
of clergy sexual abuse
·
do
a personal eucharistic stations of the cross.
·
Litany of the Most Precious
Blood of Jesus
·
Offering to
the sacred heart of Jesus
·
Rosary
[2]https://www.google.com/maps/place/Yukon,+Canada/@65.0731698,-132.4013939,5z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m6!3m5!1s0x51178198b4528b89:0x2e149cd561cc96ea!8m2!3d64.2823274!4d-135!16zL20vMDg3cjQ?entry=ttu
[5] Venerable Mary of Agreda. The
Mystical City of God: Complete Edition Containing all Four Volumes with
Illustrations (p. 770). Veritatis Splendor Publications. Kindle Edition
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