Make a Depression Meal today with hotdogs
Saints, Feast, Family
- Traditions passed down with Cooking, Crafting, & Caring -
July 17
Saint of the day:
Patron Saint of Alexians; beggars; belt makers; nurses; pilgrims; travellers; Kalavryta
Dara’s Corner-One of the most effective weapons of the devil, today, is lust.
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Let
Freedom Ring Day 11
Today
is National Hot Dog Day[1]
National Hot Dog Day seeks
to appreciate hotdogs. The National Hot Dog and Sausage Council created
the National Hot Dog Day to honor the all-American hot dog. The first
National Hot Dog Day was held in 1991, where a hot dog luncheon was served on
Capitol Hill. Since then, it has become tradition to serve hot dogs to
Capitol Hill staffers, lawmakers, agency officials and baseball legends.
Frankfurters, which are very similar to hot dogs, originated in Frankfurt,
Germany. In the 1880s, Antonoine Feuchtwanger began to sell hot dogs in
St. Louis, Missouri. Eventually by the 1890s, it is believed that Chris
von der Ahe, a German immigrant who owned the St. Louis Browns, began to sell
hotdogs at baseball games. Since then, hotdogs have been deeply rooted in
American baseball culture. To honor the association between baseball and
hotdogs, the American Meat Institute invites baseball players to attend the
annual hotdog luncheon on Capitol Hill during National Hot Dog Day on July
23rd.
National Hot Dog Day
Facts & Quotes
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In
fact, a recent study by the Harvard School of Public Health has
found that a single daily serving of processed meat can increase the risk of
colorectal cancer by 21%. These will kill you quicker than Covid 19!
Note: Los Angeles residents consume more hotdogs than any
other city. You are what you eat. Need we say more!
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According
to the National Hot Dog and Sausage Council, the proper etiquette required to
eat a hotdog is finish the hot dog in five bites. In the case of a
foot-long wiener, only seven bites are appropriate.
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Across
the United States, consumers spent more than $2.5 billion on hot dogs in 2014.
In 2014, Los Angeles consumed more than 39 million hotdogs.
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Every
year on July 4th, Nathan's Famous Hot Dogs hosts a hot dog eating contest in
which contestants must consume as many hot dogs as possible in 10 minutes. The
current male record holder ate 69 hot dogs while the female record holder
inhaled 45 hot dogs in only 10 minutes.
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A
hot dog at the ball game beats a roast beef at the Ritz. - Humphrey Bogart,
Famous 1940s actor.
Deuteronomy, Chapter 31, Verse 12-13
12 Assemble
the people—men, women and children, as well as the resident aliens who live in
your communities—that they may hear and so learn to FEAR the LORD, your God, and to observe carefully all the words of
this law. 13 Their children also, who do not
know it yet, shall hear and learn to FEAR
the LORD, your God, as long as you live on the land which you are about to
cross the Jordan to possess.
With
the coming of the secular age, we have forgotten Who made us great and have not
taught our children and immigrants fear
of the Lord and as a result our world languishes.
Fear
not, my people! Remember, Israel, you were sold to the nations not for your
destruction; It was because you angered God that you were handed over to your
foes. For you provoked your Maker with sacrifices to demons, to no-gods (Are we not doing this through
the institution of a right to abortion?).
You forsook
the Eternal God who nourished you and you grieved Jerusalem who fostered you.
She indeed saw coming upon you the anger of God; and she said: “Hear, you
neighbors of Zion! (Baruch 4: 5-9)
Fear
not, my children; call out to God! He who brought this upon you will remember
you. As your hearts have been disposed to stray from God, turn now ten times
the more to seek him; For he who has brought disaster upon you will, in saving
you, bring you back enduring joy.” (Baruch 4: 27-29)
What
Can We Do?
We
must promote faith by having devotion to the Divine Mercy and prayer in our
families. Christ started His ministry via Mary’s request at the wedding at Cana
with a new family: a couple; a new Eve and a new Adam. Christ ended his
ministry by making a new family. Woman this is your son…what is needed today to
restore, protect and sanctify our world is devotion through families to the
Divine Mercy. The Divine Mercy devotion is meant for the end times, therefore,
the consecration prayer which enriches the devotion, fits perfectly into the
“real time” of families everywhere.
Prayer
Lord
Jesus, if you want to pour your mercy out on souls, how much more must you
desire to pour it out on whole families, especially in our time when so many
families reject you. Therefore, we the ______________ Family offer ourselves to
your merciful love and ask for the graces and mercy that other families refuse.
We ask this in order to console your Heart and because we need your mercy. Fill
us with your mercy, Lord. Please forgive us our sins, and give us the grace to
be merciful to one another in our deeds, words, and prayers. May the rays of
mercy that go forth from your Heart reign in our home and in our hearts. Please
make our home a place where your mercy can rest and where we, too, can find
rest in your mercy. Bless us with your mercy when we leave our home and bless
us again when we return. Bless everyone we meet with the mercy you pour into
our hearts. Especially bless those who visit our home — may they experience
your mercy here.
Mary,
Mother of Mercy, help us to faithfully live our Offering to God's Merciful
Love. We give ourselves to you and ask you to share with us your Immaculate
Heart. Help us to accept your Son's mercy with your own openness of heart at
the Annunciation. Help us to be grateful for God's mercy with your own joyful
heart at the Visitation. Help us to trust in God's mercy, especially during
times of darkness, with your own steadfast faith at Calvary. Finally, Mary,
protect and preserve our family in love, so that one day we may rejoice
together with you and all the saints in the communion of the eternal Family of
Love, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Amen.
St.
Joseph, pray for us. St. Faustina, pray for us. St. Thérèse, pray for us.[1]
Novena
of St. Ann[2]
Although Saint Anne is not mentioned in the
Bible, she is the holy mother of Mary and grandmother of Jesus. When we pray
the St. Anne Novena, we are asking help from our Blessed Mother’s mother! Saint
Anne’s feast day is on July 26th, so the St. Anne Novena is traditionally
started on July 17th — but you can pray it anytime. Devotion to St. Anne began
early in the history of the Catholic Church. As she was favored by God to
become the mother of the holy Virgin Mary, she is often invoked as the Patron
of mothers as well as for relationships, among other things.
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.
Dear St. Ann, though I am but a prodigal child,
I appeal to you and place myself under your great motherly care. Please listen
to my prayers and grant my requests. See my contrite heart and show me your
unfailing goodness.
Deign to be my advocate and recommend me to
God’s infinite mercy. Obtain for me forgiveness of my sins and the strength to
begin a new life that will last forever.
Blessed St. Ann, I also beg of you the grace to
love, to serve, and to honor your daughter, the most holy Virgin Mary. Please
recommend me to her and pray to her for me. She refuses none of your requests
but welcomes with loving kindness all those for whom you intercede.
Good Jesus be merciful to the faithful servants of Your grandmother St. Ann.
Catechism of the
Catholic Church
Day 33
II. THE REVELATION OF GOD AS
TRINITY
The Father revealed by the Son
238 Many religions invoke God
as "Father". the deity is often considered the "father of gods
and of men". In Israel, God is called "Father" inasmuch as he is
Creator of the world Even more, God is Father because of the covenant and
the gift of the law to Israel, "his first-born son". God is also
called the Father of the king of Israel. Most especially he is "the Father
of the poor", of the orphaned and the widowed, who are under his loving
protection.
239 By calling God
"Father", the language of faith indicates two main things: that God
is the first origin of everything and transcendent authority; and that he is at
the same time goodness and loving care for all his children. God's parental tenderness
can also be expressed by the image of motherhood, which emphasizes God's
immanence, the intimacy between Creator and creature. the language of faith
thus draws on the human experience of parents, who are in a way the first
representatives of God for man. But this experience also tells us that human
parents are fallible and can disfigure the face of fatherhood and motherhood.
We ought therefore to recall that God transcends the human distinction between
the sexes. He is neither man nor woman: he is God. He also transcends human
fatherhood and motherhood, although he is their origin and standard: no
one is father as God is Father.
240 Jesus revealed that God is
Father in an unheard-of sense: he is Father not only in being Creator; he is
eternally Father by his relationship to his only Son who, reciprocally, is Son
only in relation to his Father: "No one knows the Son except the Father,
and no one knows the Father except the Son and any one to whom the Son chooses
to reveal him."
241 For this reason the
apostles confess Jesus to be the Word: "In the beginning was the Word, and
the Word was with God, and the Word was God"; as "the image of the
invisible God"; as the "radiance of the glory of God and the very
stamp of his nature".
242 Following this apostolic
tradition, the Church confessed at the first ecumenical council at Nicaea (325)
that the Son is "consubstantial" with the Father, that is, one only
God with him. The second ecumenical council, held at Constantinople in
381, kept this expression in its formulation of the Nicene Creed and confessed
"the only-begotten Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father, light
from light, true God from true God, begotten not made, consubstantial with the
Father".
Every Wednesday is
Dedicated to St. Joseph
The Italian culture has
always had a close association with St. Joseph perhaps you could make
Wednesdays centered around Jesus’s Papa. Plan an Italian dinner of pizza or
spaghetti after attending Mass as most parishes have a Wednesday evening Mass.
You could even do carry out to help restaurants. If you are adventurous, you
could do the Universal Man Plan: St. Joseph style. Make the evening a family
night perhaps it could be a game night. Whatever you do make the day special.
·
Devotion to the 7 Joys and Sorrows of St.
Joseph
·
Do the St.
Joseph Universal Man Plan.
·
Total Consecration
to St. Joseph Day 5
Daily Devotions
· Unite in the work of the Porters of St. Joseph by joining them in fasting: Individuals with Mental Illness
· Litany of the Most Precious Blood of Jesus
· Offering to the sacred heart of Jesus
· Rosary
[2]Blessed Sacrament
Fathers, ST. ANN’S SHRINE, Cleveland, Ohio
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