Tonight Look at the Moon (Apollo 11) Use a telescope or binoculars.
Saints, Feast, Family
- Traditions passed down with Cooking, Crafting, & Caring -
July 20
Saint of the day:
Saint Margaret of Antioch (Martha)
Patron Saint of childbirth, pregnant women, dying people, kidney disease, peasants, exiles,
falsely accused people; Lowestoft, England; Queens' College, Cambridge; nurses; Sannat and Bormla, Malta
Vinny’s
Corner
·
Let
Freedom Ring Day 14 Freedom from Rebellion
"The world is built on order. There's a plan. So,
scientists are able to discover the laws of the universe. And in discovering
the laws of the universe, men find harmony. This harmony, and order, had to
come from somewhere. It came from God.
What is the essence of Satanism?
The essence of Satanism is the destruction of
that order - the order of law, the order of morality, the order of religion,
the order of ethics, anything you please." Fulton Sheen
o Visit
your local planetarium. Using the telescopes there, you can view the cosmos and
the world beyond Earth.
o Learn
more about NASA's Artemis
program. NASA's return to the moon will use innovative technologies to help
explore more of the lunar surface than ever before.
o Watch
a movie about the mission to the moon. Here are our suggestions:
Apollo 11 (2019)
First Man (2018)
Hidden Figures (2016)
APOLLO 11
Leviticus, Chapter 19, verse 32
Stand up in the presence of the
aged, show respect for the old, and FEAR
your God. I am the LORD.
A
people or Nation is known by how it treats its most vulnerable persons. Are the
most vulnerable; the young, including the unborn and aged treated with dignity
and honor. Are these people who are created of and by God treated by us as an
object; as a vehicle to obtain something, or as a wall that blocks us from what
we want or are they seen as useless and unimportant?
We must avoid identifying with the culture of death.
An
encouragement to live life to the full[1]
I encourage each of you to live with serenity the years that the Lord has
granted you, I feel a spontaneous desire to share fully with you my own
feelings at this point of my life, after more than twenty years of ministry on
the throne of Peter and as we await the arrival, now imminent, of the Third
Millennium. Despite the limitations brought on by age, I continue to enjoy
life. For this I thank the Lord. It is wonderful to be able to give oneself to
the very end for the sake of the Kingdom of God! At the same time, I find great
peace in thinking of the time when the Lord will call me: from life to life!
And so I often find myself saying, with no trace of melancholy, a prayer
recited by priests after the celebration of the Eucharist: In hora mortis meae
voca me, et iube me venire ad te – at the hour of my death, call me and bid me
come to you. This is the prayer of Christian hope, which in no way detracts
from the joy of the present, while entrusting the future to God's gracious and
loving care. “Iube me venire ad te!” This is the deepest yearning of the human
heart, even in those who are not conscious of it. Grant, O Lord of life, that
we may be ever vividly aware of this and that we may savor every season of our
lives as a gift filled with promise for the future. Grant that we may lovingly
accept your will, and place ourselves each day in your merciful hands. And when
the moment of our definitive “passage” comes, grant that we may face it with
serenity, without regret for what we shall leave behind. For in meeting you,
after having sought you for so long, we shall find once more every authentic
good which we have known here on earth, in the company of all who have gone
before us marked with the sign of faith and hope. Mary, Mother of pilgrim
humanity, pray for us “now and at the hour of our death”. Keep us ever close to
Jesus, your beloved Son and our brother, the Lord of life and glory.
Apollo
11[2] (July 16–24, 1969) was the
American spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon.
Commander Neil
Armstrong and
Lunar Module Pilot Buzz
Aldrin landed the Apollo
Lunar Module Eagle on July 20, 1969, at 20:17 UTC, and Armstrong became the first
person to step onto the Moon's surface six hours and 39 minutes later, on July
21 at 02:56 UTC. Aldrin joined him 19 minutes later, and they spent about two
and a quarter hours together exploring the site they had named Tranquility Base upon landing. Armstrong and Aldrin
collected 47.5 pounds (21.5 kg) of lunar material to bring back to Earth
as pilot Michael
Collins flew the Command
Module Columbia
in lunar
orbit, and were on
the Moon's surface for 21 hours, 36 minutes before lifting off to rejoin Columbia.
Novena
of St. Ann[3]
Daily Prayer to Saint Ann
O
glorious St. Ann, you are filled with compassion for those who invoke you and
with love for those who suffer! Heavily burdened with the weight of my
troubles, I cast myself at your feet and humbly beg of you to take the present
intention which I recommend to you in your special care.
Please recommend it to your daughter, the Blessed Virgin Mary, and place it
before the throne of Jesus, so that He may bring it to a happy issue. Continue
to intercede for me until my request is granted. But, above all, obtain for me
the grace one day to see my God face to face, and with you and Mary and all the
saints to praise and bless Him for all eternity. Amen.
Our Father, . . . Hail Mary . . .
O Jesus, Holy Mary, St. Ann, help me now and at
the hour of my death. Good St. Ann, intercede for me.
FOURTH DAY
Good Saint Ann, you offered your
daughter in the temple with faith, piety, and love. With the happiness
which then filled your heart, help me to present myself to God and to the world
as a committed disciple of Jesus.
Take me under your protection.
Strengthen me in my temptations. Show yourself to be a mother and help me
to live a life of holiness and love.
Catechism of the Catholic Church
Day 36
The dogma of the Holy Trinity
253 The Trinity is One. We do
not confess three Gods, but one God in three persons, the "consubstantial
Trinity". The divine persons do not share the one divinity among
themselves but each of them is God whole and entire: "The Father is that
which the Son is, the Son that which the Father is, the Father and the Son that
which the Holy Spirit is, i.e. by nature one God." In the words of
the Fourth Lateran Council (1215), "Each of the persons is that supreme
reality, viz., the divine substance, essence or nature."
254 The divine persons are
really distinct from one another. "God is one but not
solitary." "Father", "Son", "Holy
Spirit" are not simply names designating modalities of the divine being,
for they are really distinct from one another: "He is not the Father who
is the Son, nor is the Son he who is the Father, nor is the Holy Spirit he who
is the Father or the Son." They are distinct from one another in
their relations of origin: "It is the Father who generates, the Son who is
begotten, and the Holy Spirit who proceeds." The divine Unity is
Triune.
255 The divine persons are
relative to one another. Because it does not divide the divine unity, the real
distinction of the persons from one another resides solely in the relationships
which relate them to one another: "In the relational names of the persons
the Father is related to the Son, the Son to the Father, and the Holy Spirit to
both. While they are called three persons in view of their relations, we
believe in one nature or substance." Indeed "everything (in
them) is one where there is no opposition of
relationship." "Because of that unity the Father is wholly in
the Son and wholly in the Holy Spirit; the Son is wholly in the Father and
wholly in the Holy Spirit; the Holy Spirit is wholly in the Father and wholly
in the Son."
256 St. Gregory of Nazianzus,
also called "the Theologian", entrusts this summary of Trinitarian
faith to the catechumens of Constantinople:
Above all guard for me this great deposit of faith for which I live and fight,
which I want to take with me as a companion, and which makes me bear all evils
and despise all pleasures: I mean the profession of faith in the Father and the
Son and the Holy Spirit. I entrust it to you today. By it I am soon going to
plunge you into water and raise you up from it. I give it to you as the
companion and patron of your whole life. I give you but one divinity and power,
existing one in three, and containing the three in a distinct way. Divinity
without disparity of substance or nature, without superior degree that raises
up or inferior degree that casts down. . . the infinite co-naturality of three
infinites. Each person considered in himself is entirely God. . . the three
considered together. . . I have not even begun to think of unity when the
Trinity bathes me in its splendour. I have not even begun to think of the
Trinity when unity grasps me. .
Daily Devotions
·
Unite in the work of the Porters of St. Joseph by joining them
in fasting: Reparations
for offenses and blasphemies against God and the Blessed Virgin Mary
·
St. Margaret of Antioch (July 20th), virgin and
martyr. Invoked against backache. Patron for women in childbirth.
·
Start Total concentration to Mary on July 20 to
end on August 22, the feast of the Queenship of Mary
·
Litany of the Most Precious
Blood of Jesus
·
Offering to
the sacred heart of Jesus
·
Rosary
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