NIC’s
Corner-Use Mary’s Herb’s
·
30
Days of Women and Herbs – Frauendreissiger – Nr. 2 Horehound (Marrubium vulgaris or rafanum)
MEDICINAL PLANTS Day
2-Revealed by Heaven to Luz De María
RAW GARLIC Bactericide effect. Useful in disease
prevention. High Vitamin C content. Contributes to the correct functioning of
the thyroid gland, favoring the basic metabolism. Garlic has the following
properties: Strengthens immune system. Preventive effect on diseases.
Antihistaminic properties. Increases hemoglobin production. Contributes to
growth and repair of body tissue. Vitamin C has the following properties: Known
as: Ascorbic Acid
GINGER Scientific name: Echinacea purpurea
Family: Asteraceae Reinforces immune system. Maintains the defenses of the organism.
Fights intestinal bactericide infections. Expectorant and antibiotic.
As mother, I ask you observe, as part
of your diet for life, the daily need to ingest VITAMIN C, to ingest raw garlic
or ginger daily. Blessed Virgin Mary, 03.12.2017
AUGUST 16 Friday in the Octave of
the Assumption
FEAST
OF ST. JOACHIM-St. Stephen Of Hungary-Rum Day
Proverbs, Chapter 1, Verse 28-29
28 Then they will call me, but I will not answer; they will
seek me, but will not find me, 29 because they hated knowledge, and
the FEAR of the LORD they did not choose.
Wisdom is personified in this proverb; and she proclaims moral
order, threatening to leave to their own devices those who disregard her
invitation. Wisdom comes to those who make their hearts ready.
The Beginning of Knowledge[1]
·
The Book of Proverbs begins with a short mission statement. It
says that it's here to instruct people in—wisdom.
·
But it'll also take time to drop some knowledge about justice,
equity, shrewdness, and stuff like that. It's targeting this wisdom at an
audience including the young and the simple—people who really need it—as well
as the wise, so they can kick their wisdom up to Dragon Ball Z levels of
firepower.
·
It states that wisdom begins by fearing (and revering) God.
Shun Evil Counsel (Media?!)
· As the
actual dispensing of wisdom begins, the author speaks like a parent urging a
son to obey his mother and father, since they've got good advice to give.
· If sinners
try to get you to go and ambush innocent people and kill them and steal all
their stuff, the author says you should walk away and avoid them.
· These evil
robber-murderers are actually going to kill themselves (because their sins will
come back to get them). They are like hunters setting a net while the bird
they're trying to catch is watching them (kind of like Wile E. Coyote stalking
the Roadrunner).
· This is
what happens to people who are greedy—they lose their lives.
The Call of Wisdom
· The author
imagines Wisdom as being a person—specifically, a woman—who walks through the
streets calling out to the ignorant and simple people, asking them how long
they'll remain without wisdom.
· She says
that she'll pour out her insights to anyone who pays attention to her. But
she'll mock the people who refuse to listen, and who bring disasters and panic
on themselves by their willful stupidity.
· They'll try
to find her once they've fallen into calamity, but they won't be able to,
because they failed to fear God and heed wisdom's advice earlier. It'll be too
late.
· So, Wisdom
says, if you pay heed now, you'll be fine.
Decision Making[2]
Wisdom is the true goal of good leadership, rather self or leading
a group. Without leadership and wisdom everything stops; kinda like congress.
Wisdom eludes the selfish and Godless. True wisdom is an act of faith. John
Maxwell gives us the following guidelines as outlined in this proverb.
1.
The foundation of every decision is to honor and revere God (v.7).
2.
We must build on our heritage and conscience: what values are we
to embrace? (v. 8-9) (Life, Liberty, Legacy)
3.
We must avoid the counsel of the ungodly (v. 10-19) (cnn?)
4.
We must pursue wisdom. What are the facts? What are the options?
(v.20-13)
5.
We must move toward inward peace (v. 32-33).
Feast of
St. Joachim
Today is the
Feast of St. Joachim using the traditional Latin Mass calendar. Upon reflection
with yesterday being the feast of the assumption of Mary that the church would
honor Her earthly father.
(LifeSiteNews) –– From time
immemorial the Greeks have celebrated the feast of St. Joachim on the day
following our Lady’s birthday. The Maronites kept it on the
day after the Presentation in November, and the Armenians on the Tuesday after
the Octave of the Assumption of the Mother of God. The Latins at first did not
keep his feast. Later on it was admitted and celebrated sometimes on the day
after the Octave of the Nativity, September 16th, sometimes on the day
following the conception of the Blessed Virgin, December 9th. Thus both East
and West agreed in associating St. Joachim with his illustrious daughter when
they wished to do him honor.
About the year 1510, Julius II placed the feast
of the grandfather of the Messias upon the Roman Calendar with the rank of
double major; and remembering that family, in which the ties of nature and of
grace were in such perfect harmony, he fixed the solemnity on March 20, the day
after that of his son-in-law, St. Joseph. The life of the glorious patriarch
resembled those of the first fathers of the Hebrew people; and it seemed as
though he were destined to imitate their wanderings also, by continually
changing his place upon the sacred cycle.
Hardly fifty years after the Pontificate of Julius II the critical
spirit of the day cast doubts upon the history of St. Joachim, and his name was
erased from the Roman breviary. Gregory XV, however,
re-established his feast in 1622 as a double, and the Church has since
continued to celebrate it. Devotion to our Lady’s father continuing to increase
very much, the Holy See was petitioned to make his feast a holy day of
obligation, as it had already made that of his spouse, St. Anne. In order to
satisfy the devotion of the people without increasing the number of days of
obligation, Clement XII in 1738
transferred the feast of St. Joachim to the Sunday after the Assumption of his
daughter, the Blessed Virgin, and restored it to the rank of double major.
On the 1st August 1879, the sovereign pontiff, Leo XIII, who received the name
of Joachim in baptism, raised both the feast of his glorious patron and that of
St. Anne to the rank of doubles of the second class.
The following is an extract from the decree Urbi et Orbi,
announcing this final decision with regard to the said feasts: “Ecclesiasticus
teaches us that we ought to praise our fathers in their generation; what great
honor and veneration ought we then to render to St. Joachim and St. Anne, who
begot the Immaculate Virgin Mother of God, and are on that account more
glorious than all others.”
“By your fruits you are known,” says St. John Damascene, “you have given birth
to a daughter who is greater than the Angels and has become their Queen.” (J. Damasc. Oratio I
de V.M. Nativity) Now since, through the divine mercy, in our unhappy times the
honor and worship paid to the Blessed Virgin is increasing in proportion to the
increasing needs of the Christian people, it is only right that the new glory
which surrounds their blessed daughter should redound upon her happy parents.
May this increase of devotion towards them cause the Church to experience still
more their powerful protection.
MASS
Prayer is good with fasting and alms more than to lay up
treasures of gold. (Tobit 12:8) Far better than Tobias, did
Joachim experience the truth of the Archangel’s word. Tradition says that he
divided his income into three parts: one for the Temple, the second for the
poor, and the third for his family. The Church, wishing to honor Mary’s father,
begins by praising this liberality, and also his justice which earned him such
great glory.
He hath distributed, he hath given to the poor: his justice
remaineth for ever and ever: his horn shall be exalted in glory.
Ps. Blessed is the man that feareth the
Lord: he delighteth exceedingly in his commandments. Glory, etc. He
hath.
Mother of God: such is the title
which exalts Mary above all creatures; but Joachim, too, is ennobled by it; he
alone can be called, for all eternity, Grandfather of Jesus. In
heaven, even more than on earth, nobility and power go hand in hand. Let us
then, with the Church, become humble clients of one so great.
EPISTLE
Lesson from the Book of Ecclesiasticus
31:8-11
Blessed is the rich man that is found without blemish: and that hath not gone after gold, nor put his trust in money nor in treasures. Who is he, and we will praise him? for he hath done wonderful things in his life. Who hath been tried thereby, and made perfect, he shall have glory everlasting. He that could have transgressed, and hath not transgressed: and could do evil things, and hath not done them: Therefore are his goods established in the Lord, and all the church of the saints shall declare his alms.
Joachim’s wealth, like that of the first patriarchs, consisted
chiefly in flocks and herds. The holy use he made of it drew down God’s
blessing upon it. But the greatest of all his desires heaven seemed to refuse
him. His holy spouse Anne was barren. Amongst all the daughters of Israel
expecting the Messias, there was no hope for her. One day the victims Joachim
presented in the temple were contemptuously rejected. Those were not the gifts
the Lord of the temple desired of him; later on, instead of lambs from his
pastures, he was to present the Mother of the Lamb of God, and his offering
would not be rejected.
This day, however, he was filled with sorrow and fled away without
returning to his wife. He hastened to the mountains where his flocks were at
pasture; and living in a tent, he fasted continually, for he said: “I will take
no food till the Lord my God look mercifully upon me; prayer shall be my
nourishment.”
Meanwhile Anne was mourning her widowhood and her barrenness. She
prayed in her garden as Joachim was praying on the mountain. (Epiphanius,
Oratio de laudibus Virgin) Their prayers ascended at the same time to the Most
High, and he granted them their request. An Angel of the Lord appeared to each
of them and bade them meet at the Golden Gate, and soon Anne could say:
“Now I know that the Lord hath greatly blessed me. For I was a widow and I am
one no longer, and I was barren, and lo! I have conceived!” (Protoevang. Jacobi)
The Gradual again proclaims the merit of alms-giving and the value
God sets upon holiness of life. The descendants of Joachim shall be mighty and
blessed in heaven and upon earth. May he deign to exert his influence with his
all holy daughter, and with his grandson Jesus, for our salvation.
He hath distributed, he hath given to the poor: his justice
remaineth for ever and ever.
℣. His seed shall be mighty upon the earth: the generation of the
mighty shall be blessed. Alleluia, alleluia.
℣. O Joachim, holy spouse of Anne, father of the glorious Virgin,
assist now thy servants unto salvation. Alleluia.
GOSPEL
Sequel of the holy Gospel according to Matthew 1:1-16
The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the
son of Abraham: Abraham begot Isaac. And Isaac begot Jacob. And Jacob begot
Judas and his brethren. And Judas begot Phares and Zara of Thamar. And Phares
begot Esron. And Esron begot Aram. And Aram begot Aminadab. And Aminadab begot
Naasson. And Naasson begot Salmon. And Salmon begot Booz of Rahab.
And Booz begot Obed of Ruth. And Obed begot Jesse. And Jesse begot
David the king. And David the king begot Solomon, of her that had been the wife
of Urias. And Solomon begot Roboam. And Roboam begot Abia. And Abia begot Asa.
And Asa begot Josaphat. And Josaphat begot Joram. And Joram begot Ozias. And
Ozias begot Joatham.
And Joatham begot Achaz. And Achaz begot Ezechias. And Ezechias
begot Manasses. And Manasses begot Amon. And Amon begot Josias. And Josias
begot Jechonias and his brethren in the transmigration of Babylon. And after
the transmigration of Babylon, Jechonias begot Salathiel. And Salathiel begot
Zorobabel. And Zorobabel begot Abiud. And Abiud begot Eliacim. And Eliacim
begot Azor. And Azor begot Sadoc. And Sadoc begot Achim. And Achim begot Eliud.
And Eliud begot Eleazar. And Eleazar begot Mathan. And Mathan begot Jacob. And
Jacob begot Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called
Christ.
“Rejoice, O Joachim, for of thy daughter a Son is born to
us,” (J. Damasc. Oratio I
de V.M. Nativity ex Isaiah 9:6) exclaims St. John
Damascene. It is in this spirit the Church reads today the list of the royal
ancestors of our Savior. Joseph, the descendant of these illustrious princes,
inherited their rights and passed them on to Jesus, who was his Son according to
the Jewish law, though according to nature He was of the line of His virgin
Mother alone.
St. Luke, Mary’s Evangelist, has preserved the names of the direct
ancestors of the Mother of the Man-God, springing from David in the person of
Nathan, Solomon’s brother. Joseph, the son of Jacob according to St. Matthew,
appears in St. Luke as son of Heli. The reason is that by espousing Mary, the
only daughter of Hili or Heliachim, that is Joachim, he became legally his son
and heir.
This is the now generally received explanation of the two
genealogies of Christ the Son of David. It is not surprising that Rome, the
queen city who has become the Bride of the Son of man in the place of the
repudiated Sion, prefers to use in her Liturgy the genealogy which by its long
line of royal ancestors emphasizes the kingship of the spouse over Jerusalem.
The name of Joachim, which signifies “the preparation of the Lord,” is thus
rendered more majestic, without losing aught of its mystical meaning.
He is himself crowned with wonderful glory. Jesus, his Grandson,
gives him to share in his own authority over every creature. In the Offertory
we celebrate St. Joachim’s dignity and power
St. Stephen of Hungary (969-1038). Vaik, son of Geza, Duke of
Hungary, was baptized about 985 by St. Adalbert of Prague who gave him the name
of Stephen. He was chosen by God to bring his people to the Christian faith.
With the assistance of monks from Burgundy, he established bishoprics, founded
several monasteries and re-organized the whole life of the country. Pope
Silvester II offered him the privilege of being crowned king and the ceremony
took place on December 25, 1000. His great zeal for the spread of the Catholic
faith earned him the title of apostolic king and apostle of Hungary. He died on
August 15, 1038, the feast of the Assumption of our Lady, to whom he had
consecrated his kingdom.
Rum
Day[3]
“The only way that I could figure they could improve upon Coca-Cola, one of life’s most delightful elixirs, which studies prove will heal the sick and occasionally raise the dead, is to put rum or bourbon in it.” ~ Lewis Grizzard
Rum is a fantastic drink, one that has
served as the stuff of legends for pirates of every walk of life. Rum also
appears in everything from dinners to desserts, with rum balls being one of our
particular favorites. Of course, as the great Lewis Grizzard said, it also is
an amazing mixer, and one of the only ones capable of improving Coca-Cola. So,
we all know that pirates like rum and that rum is an alcoholic beverage but
many of us are less than clear on what, exactly, makes rum RUM. Let’s start
with the basics, shall we? Rum is a distilled alcohol, specifically distilled
from byproducts of sugarcane. Some varieties are made from molasses, others
from sugarcane juice but all rum, when its finished being distilled, is clear.
The color you see in rum is from additives or seasonings and are not in any way
a bad thing. Rum first was created in the Caribbean after it was discovered
that molasses could be fermented into alcohol. Ironically, it was the slaves
who made this discovery, but it was the Colonials who discovered how to distil
it into true rum. So important did rum become in the years to follow that it
played a major role in the political system of the colonies. How? By being
offered as a bribe to those the candidates wished to curry favor with. The
people thus coerced were no fools, however. They would attend multiple hustings
to determine which of their patrons might provide them with the largest
quantity of rum. Thus, it can be fairly said that rum was of such note that it
literally decided elections.
How to Celebrate Rum Day
Yo ho ho matey! The best way to
celebrate Rum Day is to indulge in this most ignoble and distinguished of
drinks. A contradiction? Not at all! Rum has long had a reputation for being
the devil’s drink by dint of the ease of production, the delicious flavor, and
the powerful kick it carried. Rum Day is your opportunity to sample as many
varieties as you like and decide which one will be coming aboard your vessel
for the next pillage.
Catechism of the Catholic Church
PART
ONE: THE PROFESSION OF FAITH
SECTION TWO-I. THE CREEDS
CHAPTER TWO
I BELIEVE IN JESUS CHRIST, THE ONLY SON OF GOD
ARTICLE 2-"AND IN JESUS CHRIST, HIS ONLY SON, OUR LORD"
III. The Only Son of God
Day
63
441 In the Old Testament,
"son of God" is a title given to the angels, the Chosen People, the
children of Israel, and their kings. It signifies an adoptive sonship that
establishes a relationship of particular intimacy between God and his creature.
When the promised Messiah-King is called "son of God", it does not
necessarily imply that he was more than human, according to the literal meaning
of these texts. Those who called Jesus "son of God", as the Messiah
of Israel, perhaps meant nothing more than this.
442 Such is not the case for
Simon Peter when he confesses Jesus as "the Christ, the Son of the living
God", for Jesus responds solemnly: "Flesh and blood has not revealed
this to you, but my Father who is in heaven." Similarly Paul will
write, regarding his conversion on the road to Damascus, "When he who had
set me apart before I was born, and had called me through his grace, was
pleased to reveal his Son to me, in order that I might preach him among the
Gentiles..." "and in the synagogues immediately [Paul]
proclaimed Jesus, saying, 'He is the Son of God.'" From the beginning
this acknowledgment of Christ's divine sonship will be the centre of the
apostolic faith, first professed by Peter as the Church's foundation.
443 Peter could recognize the
transcendent character of the Messiah's divine sonship because Jesus had
clearly allowed it to be so understood. To his accusers' question before the
Sanhedrin, "Are you the Son of God, then?" Jesus answered, "You
say that I am." Well before this, Jesus referred to himself as
"the Son" who knows the Father, as distinct from the
"servants" God had earlier sent to his people; he is superior even to
the angels. He distinguished his sonship from that of his disciples by
never saying "our Father", except to command them: "You, then,
pray like this: 'Our Father'", and he emphasized this distinction, saying
"my Father and your Father".
444 The Gospels report that at
two solemn moments, the Baptism and the Transfiguration of Christ, the voice of
the Father designates Jesus his "beloved Son". Jesus calls
himself the "only Son of God", and by this title affirms his eternal
pre-existence. He asks for faith in "the name of the only Son of
God". In the centurion's exclamation before the crucified Christ,
"Truly this man was the Son of God", that Christian confession
is already heard. Only in the Paschal mystery can the believer give the title
"Son of God" its full meaning.
445 After his Resurrection,
Jesus' divine sonship becomes manifest in the power of his glorified humanity.
He was "designated Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness
by his Resurrection from the dead". The apostles can confess:
"We have beheld his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full
of grace and truth."
Fitness
Friday
12 Best Types of Fish to Eat[4]
Fish is a healthy,
high-protein food, especially important for its omega-3 fatty acids, which are essential fats that our
bodies don’t produce on their own. Omega-3 fatty acids play an essential role
in brain and heart health. Omega-3s have been shown to decrease inflammation and reduce the risk of heart disease. They’re important for prenatal
development in babies, too. The American
Heart Association (AHA)Trusted Source recommends
eating fish at least 2 times a week, particularly fatty fish like salmon, lake
trout, sardines, and albacore tuna, which are high in omega-3s. Yet, there are
some risks associated with eating fish on a regular basis. Contaminants such
as mercury and polychlorinated biphenyls
(PCBs) find their way into ground, lake, and ocean water from our household and
industrial waste, and then into the fish who live there.
The Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) and FDA have issued combined guidelines for women
of childbearing age, pregnant and breastfeeding women, and children. They
advise these groups avoid fish with higher levels of mercury contamination,
which usually include:
·
shark
·
swordfish
·
king
mackerel
·
tilefish
The following 12 superstar
fish have made it onto our “best fish” list not only for having great nutrition
and safety profiles but because they’re eco-friendly — being responsibly caught
or farmed, and not overfished.
2.
Cod
3. Herring
4.
Mahi-mahi
5.
Mackerel
6.
Perch
8.
Sardines
9.
Striped bass
10. Tuna
11. Alaskan pollock
12. Char
Daily Devotions
·
Unite in the work of the Porters of St. Joseph by joining them
in fasting: For
the Poor and Suffering
·
Religion
in the Home for Preschool: August
·
Litany of the Most Precious
Blood of Jesus
·
Offering to
the sacred heart of Jesus
·
Go to MASS
·
Rosary
[2] John Maxwell, The Maxwell Leadership
Bible.
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