Monday Night at the Movies
Fred Zinnemann, The Nun's Story, 1959.
Christopher’s Corner
o Wake up and start your day by channeling your inner wildlife photographer. Grab your camera (or phone) and head to the nearest park or nature reserve to capture the beauty of the natural world around you. Embrace the spirit of World Photography Day by snapping photos of birds in flight, playful squirrels, or colorful flowers; the possibilities are endless.
o After your photography adventure, swing by the local ice cream shop to treat yourself to a cone of soft serve. Celebrate National Soft Ice Cream Day by indulging in this classic frozen treat. Whether you prefer yours dipped in sprinkles or coated in chocolate, take a moment to savor the cool sweetness on a hot summer day.
o Feeling inspired by the orangutans and their playful nature? Head to the zoo or wildlife sanctuary to observe these fascinating creatures up close. Channel the essence of International Orangutan Day by learning more about these intelligent animals and supporting conservation efforts to protect their habitats.
o In the afternoon, take to the skies in honor of National Aviation Day. Visit a nearby aviation museum to explore the history of flight, or simply spend some time watching airplanes take off and land at a local airport. Feel the thrill of adventure and discovery as you immerse yourself in the world of aviation.
o As the day winds down, gather your friends for a potato-themed dinner party. Whether you opt for classic mashed potatoes, crispy french fries, or loaded baked potatoes, pay tribute to National Potato Day by enjoying this versatile and delicious vegetable in all its forms.
o End your day by practicing your best Jar Jar Binks impression with your loved ones. Embrace the whimsy of Talk Like Jar Jar Binks Day by engaging in some lighthearted fun and laughter. Let loose and allow your inner goofball to shine as you mimic this iconic Star Wars character.
o Through a blend of photography, nature exploration, indulgence, education, and playful shenanigans, you can create a day filled with memorable experiences and joyful moments. So go forth and celebrate these unique holidays with gusto and enthusiasm!
· 30 DAY TRIBUTE TO MARY 5th ROSE: Two Powerful Armors from Mother Mary, the Rosary and the Scapular
o 30 Days of Women and Herbs – Frauendreissiger
§ Comfrey (Symphytum officinalis L.)
· MEDICINAL PLANTS Day 5 Nervous System-Revealed by Heaven to Luz De María
o Protects the brain from senile dementia, stroke, and neurodegenerative diseases. Cognitive benefits, improved thinking, and memory. Regulates hypertension, asthma, depression, vertigo, and atherosclerosis. Ginko has the following properties related to the nervous system: GINKO BILOBA Scientific name: Ginkgo biloba L Family: Ginkgoaceae Known as: ginkgo o gingo
o The Blessed Mother announced to me a disease that will attack the nervous and immune system causing serious problems on the skin, for which she told me to use the leaf of the nettle and ginkgo plants. Luz de María Reflection, 11.10.2014
· Cultivate intelligent foresight in yourself
· "Faith cannot save without virtue"
· Matthew Perry’s Birth 1969 recently OD’d RIP
· Full Sturgeon Moon tonight
o According to the almanac today we are having a Full Sturgeon Moon; plan to spend some time fishing or visit an aquarium with your children or grandchildren.
AUGUST 19 Monday in the Octave of
the Assumption
WORLD
HUMANITARIAN DAY
Proverbs, Chapter 3, Verse 7-8
7
Do not be wise in your own eyes, FEAR
the LORD and turn away from evil; 8 this will mean health for your
flesh and vigor for your bones.
This
chapter focuses on guidance for the young.
1.
Don’t
forget the law: Love the Lord your God and your neighbor as yourself.
2.
Be
merciful as is God.
3.
Seek
the ultimate truth.
4.
Seek
humility.
5.
Tithe
and honor God with your possessions.
6.
Take
correction (testing) with a spirit of love and obedience.
7.
Wisdom
is greater than possessions-be happy.
8.
Be
discrete and graceful-don’t gossip.
9.
Hold
no grudges and you will sleep soundly.
10. Do not fear the wicked when they
come, remember the Lord is your confidence.
11. Do not delay giving assistance to those
for whom it is due when it is within the power of your hand to do so.
12. Do not scheme against your
neighbor.
13. Do not strive against someone
without just cause.
14. Do not be an oppressor, bully, or
teaser.
15. Do not be perverse, willful and
stubborn.
16. Be upright, decent and honest.
Wisdom
promises a reward: long life, a good name, divine protection, health, abundant
crops. Yet, being a disciple of the Lord does not guarantee unalloyed bliss:
one must allow God freedom to
“reprove” or educate. The process of education is like when a father first
invites his son (or disciple) to memorize his teaching (v. 1),
then to enter upon a relationship of trust with him (v. 3),
and finally to place his trust in God, who takes up the parental task of
education (v. 5). Education begun by the parent is brought to full
completion by God. One might be tempted to judge the quality of one’s
relationship to God by one’s prosperity. It is an inadequate criterion, for God
as a teacher might go counter to student expectations. The discipline of God
can involve suffering. Serving God requires serving one’s neighbor through
kindness (vv. 27–28),
maintaining peace with the good (vv. 29–31), having
no envy of the wicked (v. 31), because
the Lord’s friendship and kindness are with the just, not with the wicked.[1]
World Humanitarian Day[2]
World
Humanitarian Day seeks to recognize the compassion and bravery of humanitarian
workers. The day also serves to gain international cooperation to meet the
needs of humanitarian work around the world. Humanitarian workers provide
life-saving assistance consisting of first aid, nutrition, shelter and help
rebuild after disaster has struck. These workers often battle violence, local
diseases and hunger while attempting to save lives and provide relief to those
most in need. World Humanitarian Day was designated by the United Nations in
December of 2008 in an effort to honor the sacrifices of humanitarian workers.
It is celebrated annually on August 19, a day that commemorates the 2003
bombing of the UN Headquarters in Iraq.
Today is Afghan Independence Day is
celebrated as a national holiday in Afghanistan on 19 August to commemorate the
Anglo-Afghan Treaty of 1919 and relinquishment from British protectorate
status. The treaty granted a complete neutral relation between Afghanistan and
Britain. Wikipedia
Catholics in Afghanistan in 2015[3]
What Americans have, which very few
people in the world do not, is a decision to make their country what they would
like it to be and very real choice for their own future. I think many are
losing sight of this. They can’t. We cannot lose any sign of this. Just as with
America, we cannot ever lose sight of the foundational principles of our Creed,
and what they mean.
·
A Father who is in control.
·
A Mother who can help us become Saints.
·
A Son who gives us an inheritance.
·
A faith that is solitary and unchangeable.
·
Faith is universal to all the souls who embrace
it.
·
A faith that is unblemished from the lips of
Christ.
·
A faith that offers forgiveness, a true novelty
among religions.
·
A faith with a family.
·
A faith with hope in the resurrection, and the
future of this world and the next.
Our faith and our country are sacred,
and we should remember that as much as they have in common, they complement
each other. Today, I’m still proud to be an American and a Catholic. Today, and
every day, I’ll live my life in service to defend the beliefs of both.
Catholics in Afghanistan in today[4]
The Christian community is very small
in the Islamic country of Afghanistan, where Afghan people can be ostracized or
can even face violence and death for professing the Christian faith.
There is a single Catholic Church,
located in the Italian embassy in Kabul, which is operated under the Catholic
mission sui juris of Afghanistan. In 2018, there were an estimated 200
Catholics in the country, many of them foreigners working in embassies.
Catechism of the Catholic
Church
Day 66
III. TRUE GOD AND TRUE MAN
464 The unique and altogether
singular event of the Incarnation of the Son of God does not mean that Jesus
Christ is part God and part man, nor does it imply that he is the result of a
confused mixture of the divine and the human. He became truly man while
remaining truly God. Jesus Christ is true God and true man.
During the first centuries, the Church had to defend and clarify this truth of
faith against the heresies that falsified it.
465 The first heresies denied
not so much Christ's divinity as his true humanity (Gnostic Docetism). From
apostolic times the Christian faith has insisted on the true incarnation of
God's Son "come in the flesh". But already in the third century,
the Church in a council at Antioch had to affirm against Paul of Samosata that
Jesus Christ is Son of God by nature and not by adoption. the first ecumenical
council of Nicaea in 325 confessed in its Creed that the Son of God is
"begotten, not made, of the same substance (homoousios) as the
Father", and condemned Arius, who had affirmed that the Son of God
"came to be from things that were not" and that he was "from
another substance" than that of the Father.
466 The Nestorian heresy
regarded Christ as a human person joined to the divine person of God's Son.
Opposing this heresy, St. Cyril of Alexandria and the third ecumenical council,
at Ephesus in 431, confessed "that the Word, uniting to himself in his
person the flesh animated by a rational soul, became man." Christ's
humanity has no other subject than the divine person of the Son of God, who
assumed it and made it his own, from his conception. For this reason the
Council of Ephesus proclaimed in 431 that Mary truly became the Mother of God
by the human conception of the Son of God in her womb: "Mother of God, not
that the nature of the Word or his divinity received the beginning of its
existence from the holy Virgin, but that, since the holy body, animated by a
rational soul, which the Word of God united to himself according to the
hypostasis, was born from her, the Word is said to be born according to the
flesh."
467 The Monophysites affirmed that the human nature had ceased to exist as such in Christ when the divine person of God's Son assumed it. Faced with this heresy, the fourth ecumenical council, at Chalcedon in 451, confessed:
Following the holy Fathers, we unanimously teach and confess one and the same
Son, our Lord Jesus Christ: the same perfect in divinity and perfect in
humanity, the same truly God and truly man, composed of rational soul and body;
consubstantial with the Father as to his divinity and consubstantial with us as
to his humanity; "like us in all things but sin". He was begotten
from the Father before all ages as to his divinity and in these last days, for
us and for our salvation, was born as to his humanity of the virgin Mary, the
Mother of God.
We confess that one and
the same Christ, Lord, and only-begotten Son, is to be acknowledged in two
natures without confusion, change, division or separation. The distinction
between the natures was never abolished by their union, but rather the
character proper to each of the two natures was preserved as they came together
in one person (prosopon) and one hypostasis.
468 After the Council of
Chalcedon, some made of Christ's human nature a kind of personal subject.
Against them, the fifth ecumenical council, at Constantinople in 553, confessed
that "there is but one hypostasis [or person], which is our Lord Jesus
Christ, one of the Trinity." Thus everything in Christ's human nature
is to be attributed to his divine person as its proper subject, not only his
miracles but also his sufferings and even his death: "He who was crucified
in the flesh, our Lord Jesus Christ, is true God, Lord of glory, and one of the
Holy Trinity."
469 The Church thus confesses
that Jesus is inseparably true God and true man. He is truly the Son of God
who, without ceasing to be God and Lord, became a man and our brother:
"What he was, he remained and what he was not, he assumed", sings the
Roman Liturgy. and the liturgy of St. John Chrysostom proclaims and sings:
"O only-begotten Son and Word of God, immortal being, you who deigned for
our salvation to become incarnate of the holy Mother of God and ever-virgin
Mary, you who without change became man and were crucified, O Christ our God,
you who by your death have crushed death, you who are one of the Holy Trinity,
glorified with the Father and the Holy Spirit, save us!"
Daily Devotions
·
Unite in the work of the Porters of St. Joseph by joining them
in fasting: Absent
Fathers (physically & spiritually)
·
Eat waffles and Pray for the assistance of the Angels
·
Religion
in the Home for Preschool: August
·
Litany of the Most Precious
Blood of Jesus
·
Offering to
the sacred heart of Jesus
·
Monday: Litany of
Humility
·
Rosary
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