Candace’s
Corner-Think of Joining the Knights of Columbus
Bl. Michael McGivney
The eldest son of an immigrant Irish family in
Connecticut, young Michael left school at 13 to work in a brass factory making
spoons. At 16 he began studies for the priesthood in Quebec, but was obliged to
leave to help support the family when his father died. Michael completed his
education in Baltimore, Maryland, and was ordained for the diocese of Hartford
in 1877.
Assigned to St. Mary’s Parish in New Haven, Fr. McGivney
was very active in parish and civic affairs, serving as director of public
plays and fairs. He volunteered to become the guardian of Alfred Downes, a
minor whose father had died leaving a large family in poverty. This situation
as well as his own family's circumstances and that of other immigrants
impressed on Fr. McGivney the need for lay Catholic men to establish a mutual
aid society to provide financial assistance for their families if the primary wage
earner died. Protestant fraternal groups already provided this type of life
insurance protection for their members.
In 1882, Fr. McGivney formed the Knights of Columbus
among a small group of St. Mary's parishioners to promote charity, unity, and
fraternity, assisting widows and orphans. Because of the Knights' emphasis on
serving Church, community and family, the organization grew and did not remain
strictly parish-based. Patriotism was added as a founding principle in 1900.
Father McGivney died from pneumonia in 1890 and was
buried in Thomaston, Connecticut. Later his body was moved back to St. Mary’s
in New Haven where it remains today. He was beatified in 2020.
—Excerpted from Franciscan Media
Highlights and Things to Do:
- Read more about Fr. Michael:
- Learn more about the Knights of Columbus.
- Read about the miracle for his
beatification.
- There is a Blessed Michael McGivney Pilgrimage Center
in Connecticut.
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Elvis Week Continues till August 17
Five
Catholic Facts About Elvis[1]
I
have a grave confesion to make. I own some Elvis CDs. In fact, I used to be
quite keen on his music and one has to admit that, despite his unedifying
lifestyle and tragic final years, he was a talented musician. Many
people around the world are marking the 30th anniversary of Elvis' death. Here
are five top Catholic facts about the 'King':
- one of Elvis' early
performances (1955) was at the Catholic Club, Helena, Arkansas. However,
his unorthodox performance did not impress the parish priest, Fr Keller,
especially when the singer autographed a female fan's leg. 'You are a
disgrace to manhood', he was allegedly told, 'don't come back anymore'.
Read more about it here.
- It is well known that
the beautiful Dolores Hart,
the niece of Mario Lanza who starred alongside Elvis in Loving You
(1957) and King Creole (1958), left Hollywood in 1963 to become a
Benedictine nun at the Abbey of Regina Laudis, Bethlehem, Connecticut.
There have long been rumours that Dolores previously had romantic
attachments to Mr Presley. 'I'd done two movies with Elvis Presley', she later
said, 'I'd been around Hollywood for a while - and saw how needlessly
competitive and negative it could be. It never held my interest'. She
eventually became Prioress and Mother Hart now holds the unique
distinction of being the only nun to be a voting member of the Academy of
Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
- I've mentioned before
Elvis' last feature film, Change of Habit (1969), in which he plays
a doctor working alongside three sisters 'on placement' (see picture at
top of post). The unique finale, showing Elvis as part of a folk group at
an interim, pre-Novus Ordo Mass, can be seen
here.
- Elvis recorded a song
called 'The Miracle of the Rosary' in 1971 (issued on the 1972 album, Elvis
Now), with the lyrics: 'O Blessed Mother we pray to thee/Thanks for
the miracle of your Rosary/Only you can hold back/Your holy son's
hand/Long enough for the whole world to understand/Hail, Mary full of
grace/The Lord is with thee/Blessed are thou among women/And blessed is
the fruit of thy womb, Jesus/O Holy Mary dear mother of God/Please pray
for us sinners/Now and at the hour of our death/And give thanks once
again/For the miracle of your rosary'.
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When Elvis died in his Graceland bathroom thirty
years ago today, he is said to have been reading a book about the Holy Shroud
of Turin - normally identified as A Scientific Search For The Face Of Jesus
(1972) by Frank O. Adams, which argues that the Turin Shroud really is Our
Lord's Shroud. It has since become eagerly sought after by Elvis fans. Less
impressive is the other book he was allegedly reading - Sex and Psychic
Energy. Hmmmm, we better move quickly along.
NB
There really was a Celtic saint called St Elvis, who was a bishop of the Irish
See of Munster and may even have baptised St David, Patron of Wales - so it is
a valid baptismal name!
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Let
Freedom Ring Day 37 Freedom from Gossip
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Start Total Consecration to the Blessed Virgin Mary on August 13 to end on September 15, the
feast of Our Lady of Sorrows
[1]http://romanmiscellany.blogspot.com/2007/08/five-catholic-facts-about-elvis.html
AUGUST 13 Tuesday
ST.
HIPPOYTUS-Lefty Day-Filet Mignon Day
Judges, Chapter 9, Verse 21
Then Jotham fled and
escaped to Beer, where he remained for FEAR
of his brother Abimelech.
A
lot of people seem to escape to Beer! That’s a joke but unfortunately it is a
common response to fear. Liquid courage we used to call it in the military.
However, today I would like to change the subject to that of the family.
Jotham
was raised in a large family of 70 brothers, and we do not know how many
sisters. Families are the breeding ground of either love or hate, of either
evil or good and finally of either excellence or apathy. A great family,
whether large or small, is the seedbed of either greatness or smallness. This
is the reason there is such a focus on the family in the church now. Families
are the factories of a person’s character and character determines a person’s
destiny.
Christians at Rome in Post-Apostolic Times[1]
The Saint of today-St. Hippoytus was a priest and a person of some
importance in the Church in Rome who in his book, “The Apostolic Traditions”, displays
the liturgical life of the Christian at Rome in the first centuries. Of
interest is the tradition of the hours.
Divine Office:
- 6 a.m. Prime: "All the faithful, men and women, upon rising in the morning before beginning work, should wash their hands and pray to God."
- 9 a.m. Terce: "When you are at home, pray at the third hour and praise God. But if you are away when this hour comes, pray in your heart to God. For at this hour Christ was nailed to the Cross."
- 12 p.m. Sext: "In a similar way you should pray again at the sixth hour. For at the time when Christ was nailed to the Cross, there came a great darkness. Prayer should therefore be said in imitation of Him who prayed at that hour, viz., Christ before His death."
- 3 p.m. None: "The ninth hour too should be made perfect by prayer and praise . . . in that hour Christ was pierced by the spear."
- 6 p.m. Vespers: "Once more ought you to pray before you go to bed."
- Matins: "At midnight rise from your bed, wash yourself and pray. If you have a wife, pray together in antiphonal fashion. If she is not yet of the faith, withdraw and pray alone and return again to your place. If you are bound by the bond of marriage duties, do not cease your prayers, for you are not stained thereby. It is necessary that we pray at that hour (i.e., Matins), for at that hour all creation is resting and praising God. Stars, trees, water are as if they were standing still; all the hosts of angels are holding divine services together with the souls of the just. They are praising almighty God at that hour." What an inspiring passage!
- Sunrise-Lauds: "In like manner rise and pray at the hour at which the cock crows . . . full of hope look forward to the day of eternal light that will shine upon us eternally after the resurrection from the dead." Motivation for these "hour prayers" of the early Christians was the conviction that daily they were reliving Christ's death and resurrection. Every new day was a day of resurrection, and daily they were raised with Christ on the Cross. It is an example that should spur us on to give the Mass, the Breviary, and the Bible the place of honor in our lives.
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
Day 60
The Good News: God has sent his Son
422 'But when the time had fully come, God sent forth his
Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the
law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.' This is 'the gospel of
Jesus Christ, the Son of God': God has visited his people. He has
fulfilled the promise he made to Abraham and his descendants. He acted far
beyond all expectation - he has sent his own 'beloved Son'.
423 We believe and confess that Jesus of Nazareth, born a
Jew of a daughter of Israel at Bethlehem at the time of King Herod the Great
and the emperor Caesar Augustus, a carpenter by trade, who died crucified in
Jerusalem under the procurator Pontius Pilate during the reign of the emperor
Tiberius, is the eternal Son of God made man. He 'came from
God', 'descended from heaven', and 'came in the flesh'. For 'the
Word became flesh and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth; we have beheld his
glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father. . . and from his fullness have
we all received, grace upon grace.'
424 Moved by the grace of the Holy Spirit and drawn by
the Father, we believe in Jesus and confess: 'You are the Christ, the Son of
the living God.' On the rock of this faith confessed by St. Peter, Christ
built his Church.
"To preach. . . the unsearchable riches of Christ"
425 The transmission of the Christian faith consists
primarily in proclaiming Jesus Christ in order to lead others to faith in him.
From the beginning, the first disciples burned with the desire to proclaim
Christ: "We cannot but speak of what we have seen and heard." It
and they invite people of every era to enter into the joy of their communion
with Christ:
That which was from the beginning, which we have heard,
which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon and touched with
our hands, concerning the word of life - the life was made manifest, and we saw
it, and testify to it, and proclaim to you the eternal life which was with the
Father and was made manifest to us - that which we have seen and heard we
proclaim also to you, so that you may have fellowship with us; and our
fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ. and we are writing
this that our joy may be complete.
At the heart of catechesis: Christ
426 "At the heart of catechesis we find, in essence,
a Person, the Person of Jesus of Nazareth, the only Son from the Father. . .who
suffered and died for us and who now, after rising, is living with us
forever." To catechize is "to reveal in the Person of Christ the
whole of God's eternal design reaching fulfilment in that Person. It is to seek
to understand the meaning of Christ's actions and words and of the signs worked
by him." Catechesis aims at putting "people . . . in communion .
. . with Jesus Christ: only he can lead us to the love of the Father in the
Spirit and make us share in the life of the Holy Trinity."
427 In catechesis "Christ, the Incarnate Word and
Son of God,. . . is taught - everything else is taught with reference to him -
and it is Christ alone who teaches - anyone else teaches to the extent that he
is Christ's spokesman, enabling Christ to teach with his lips. . . Every
catechist should be able to apply to himself the mysterious words of Jesus: 'My
teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.'"
428 Whoever is called "to teach Christ" must
first seek "the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus"; he must
suffer "the loss of all things. . ." in order to "gain Christ
and be found in him", and "to know him and the power of his
resurrection, and (to) share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death,
that if possible (he) may attain the resurrection from the dead".
429 From this loving knowledge of Christ springs the
desire to proclaim him, to "evangelize", and to lead others to the
"yes" of faith in Jesus Christ. But at the same time the need to know
this faith better makes itself felt. To this end, following the order of the
Creed, Jesus' principal titles - "Christ", "Son of God",
and "Lord" (article 2) - will be presented. the Creed next confesses
the chief mysteries of his life - those of his Incarnation (article 3), Paschal
mystery (articles 4 and 5) and glorification (articles 6 and 7).
International Left-Handers Day[2]
International
Left-Handers Day is a day to bring attention to the struggles which lefties
face daily in a right-handed society. August 13th is observed as
International Left-Handers Day.
International
Left-Handers Day Facts
·
10%
of people are left-handed according to a report by Scientific American.
·
Geniuses
are more likely to be left-handed - 20% of the top scoring SAT takers are
left-handed.
·
In
2013, 31% of Major League Baseball pitchers are left-handed.
·
lefties:
Albert Einstein, Bill Gates, Oprah Winfrey, Leonardo da Vinci
Filet Mignon Day[3]
” When you’re a failure in Hollywood, that’s like starving to
death outside a banquet hall, with smells of Filet Mignon driving you crazy.”
~ Marilyn Monroe
There is a cut of meat that is the very definition of luxury and
decadence, one that falls from the lips of the common people and the rich
debutante royalty of Hollywood in equal measure. Filet Mignon is French for
“dainty fillet” and first found its way into the world in the 1906 book,” The Four Million”. Filet Minion
Day celebrates the history of this steak and the delicious role it has played
in exquisite meals. Tenderloin. The very word implies a rich and succulent meal
that absolutely melts on the tongue, but even in this most perfect cut of meat,
there is a portion that is unquestionably the best. This portion is the fabled
Filet Mignon. This delicious cut is served in 4 to 8oz portions and comes
prepared in one of three varieties, seared in a pan, grilled over coals or the
most famous, wrapped in bacon. The bacon is typically added to enrich the piece
with fat, as Filet Mignon tends to leanness. Even though it comes from the
tenderloin, there are still multiple cuts of Filet Mignon one can choose to indulge
in. The prime cut is the most popular and is available from any form of cattle,
the Angus Cut, however, comes specifically from vegetarian fed beef and is far
and away one of the best forms of beef available. If you’re truly feeling
decadent, you can purchase a 32oz whole Filet Mignon Roast. It may set you back
about $65 a pound (That’s $130) but it’ll be worth every succulent bite.
How to Celebrate
Filet Mignon Day
If you don’t have a talent with cooking, you can head out to
your local steakhouse and enjoy an expertly prepared cut of Filet Mignon. If
you’re feeling more adventurous you can head down to your local butcher and get
an excellent cut of meat that you can prepare yourself! Marinate it in a
wonderful sauce while you get the coals ready, wrap it in bacon, and set it
upon the grill to cook. Gently though! Filet Mignon is best-served medium rare
so that the soft tender nature of the meat will be preserved. This is just the
first step on enjoying Filet Mignon Day, but it doesn’t have to be the last!
Carpetbag Steak[4]
Australia’s carpetbag steak combines two of the country’s most celebrated products: fresh, sea-bright oysters and (ideally) free-range, grass-fed beef. The name of this specialty derives from the shape of the finished dish. Although many recipes call for broiling the steaks or grilling them over charcoal, those methods tend to dry out the meat and prevent its beefy juices from mingling into the oozy lushness of the salty oysters. Better to sauté the steaks for a moistly tender result with maximum flavor contrast. Carpetbag Steaks
Serves
4
Necessary
equipment: Kitchen string and a trussing needle or small satay-type skewers 4
filet mignon steaks, each about 2 inches thick or 7 to 8 ounces Salt and
freshly ground black pepper 8 medium-size oysters, as freshly shucked as
possible 6 tablespoons (¾ stick) unsalted butter 2 tablespoons finely chopped
fresh flat-leaf parsley 2 to 3 anchovy fillets (optional), finely mashed.
1. Using a very
sharp knife with a thin blade, cut a 2-inch-long horizontal slit on the edge of
each steak to make a pocket about 2 inches deep.
2. Sprinkle
salt and pepper onto both sides of each oyster. Slip 2 oysters, side by side,
into the pocket of each steak.
3. Close the
opening of each pocket, either by sewing it shut using kitchen string and a
trussing needle, or by fastening it with a small skewer. Pat the steaks dry on
both sides with paper towels.
4. Heat 3
tablespoons of the butter in a large, heavy skillet, preferably cast-iron or
copper, over moderate heat. When the bubbling subsides, arrange the
oyster-stuffed steaks in the skillet, making sure that they do not touch one
another.
5. Cook the
steaks on one side until lightly browned, 3 to 4 minutes, then turn them over
and lightly brown them on the second side, about 3 to 4 minutes time. Reduce
the heat to low and cook the steaks, turning them frequently, 7 minutes longer
for very rare steak, or 9 to 10 minutes for medium-rare. Anything more cooked
than that will hardly be worth eating. Transfer the steaks to individual
serving plates.
6. Melt the remaining 3 tablespoons of butter in the skillet and stir in the parsley. Spoon some of the parsley butter over each steak before serving. If you like the edgy sophistication that anchovies can impart, stir the mashed fillets into the parsley butter before spooning it over the steaks.
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Unite in the work of the Porters of St. Joseph by joining them
in fasting: Victims
of clergy sexual abuse
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Make
reparations to the Holy Face-Tuesday
Devotion
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Pray Day 6 of
the Novena for our Pope and Bishops
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Tuesday:
Litany of St. Michael the Archangel
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Religion
in the Home for Preschool: August
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Litany of the Most Precious
Blood of Jesus
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Offering to
the sacred heart of Jesus
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Rosary
[4] Sheraton, Mimi. 1,000 Foods To Eat
Before You Die: A Food Lover's Life List.
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