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August
21-Happy Birthday,
Hawaii!
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Do
your patriotic duty and honor the Aloha State with a visit this month -- August
21 marks Hawaii’s admittance as the 50th state. Lap up the waves on Oahu's
North Shore; and for culinary fare, we've got the inside scoop on 4 ways to
eat
like a local on Oahu.
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If
you’re looking to celebrate a day that’s all about honoring different aspects
of life, why not start by spending some quality time with a senior citizen in
your life? Listen to their stories and wisdom, and perhaps even treat them to a
meal at a local restaurant. To pay tribute to the victims of terrorism, take a
moment to reflect and remember those who have been affected by such tragedies.
Consider lighting a candle in their memory or making a donation to a relevant
cause.
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For
a sweet and comforting touch, indulge in some delicious spumoni ice cream.
Whether you make it yourself or buy it from a store, this treat is sure to
bring a smile to your face. National
Finance Brokers Day could be a great opportunity to review your
finances and set some goals for the future. Perhaps educate yourself on
investment options or seek advice from a financial expert.
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Lastly,
don’t forget to celebrate Poet’s Day by immersing yourself in the beauty of
poetry. Write your own poem, read a favorite one out loud, or attend a poetry
reading in your community. By embracing these themes, you can create a day full
of connection, reflection, indulgence, planning, and creativity.
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30 DAY TRIBUTE TO MARY 7th ROSE: The
Extraordinary Preacher, St Louis de Montfort, on the Rosary
o 30
Days of Women and Herbs – Frauendreissiger
§ Watercress
(Nasturtium officinalis)
MEDICINAL PLANTS Day 7 SKIN
DISEASES-Revealed by
Heaven to Luz De María
My
people, the suffering of humanity will be fiercer for all; disease continues
and then the skin will be the nesting-place for another disease. Our Lord Jesus
Christ, 07.22.2021
Pray,
People of God, pray tirelessly so that the human skin disease would be promptly
overcome when treated with Heaven’s medicines. Saint Michael the Archangel,
12.15.2020
ST. MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL OIL
Instructions:
To half a liter of coconut oil, add 5 ml of geranium essential oil and 5 ml of lavender essential oil. Stir and keep in small, preferably amber-colored bottles. If amber-colored bottles are not available, it can be stored in transparent bottles in a cool place, away from direct light. For topical use only: Put on the skin lesion moderately 1 to 2 drops 3 to 4 times a day depending on the severity of the skin lesion. Coconut oil is used as the base oil, adding geranium essential oil and lavender essential oil.
AUGUST 21 Wednesday-Saint Pius X, Pope
OUR LADY OF KNOCK
Proverbs, Chapter 3, Verse 24-26
24
When you lie down, you will not be AFRAID, when you rest, your sleep will
be sweet.
25 Do
not be afraid of sudden terror, of
the ruin of the wicked when it comes; 26 For the LORD will be your
confidence, and will keep your foot from the snare.
Where does your confidence come
from? In whom do you trust?
This word, confidence, summarizes
the three theological virtues: faith, hope, and charity sovereign virtues which
bring all the others in their train. But if these are the highest virtues, then
the greatest heroism is demanded of us in order to realize them in the face of
the mystery of a "hidden God." A man must be heroic to live always in faith, hope, and love.
Why?
Because, as a result of Original Sin, no
one can be certain with the certainty of faith that he is saved, but only with
a moral certainty based upon fidelity to grace; and because as sinners we are
constantly tempted by doubt and anxiety. It was in order to resolve this
conflict between our desires and our powerlessness that Jesus came to earth and
took our infirmities upon Himself. Little Thérèse understood that it is our
state of misery which attracts His mercy. It is confidence, and nothing but
confidence, which will open the arms of Jesus to you so that He will bear you
up. Confidence will be for you the golden key to His Heart. We have been
trained in the habit of looking at our dark side, our ugliness, and not at the
purifying Sun, Light of Light, which He is, who changes the dust that we are
into pure gold. We think about examining ourselves, yet we do not think, before
the examination, during the examination, and after the examination, to plunge
ourselves, with all our miseries, into the consuming and transforming furnace
of His Heart, which is open to us through a single humble act of confidence. We
must have confidence, not in spite of
our miseries, but because of them, since it is misery which attracts mercy.[1]
The enemy wants
to steal our peace and keep us stirred up, anxious, fearful, upset, and always
in a stance of waiting for something terrible to happen at any minute. The
enemy wants us unable to forget the terrible things that occurred in the past
and instead remember them as though they happened yesterday. God has healing
for upsetting memories. It’s not that He gives us amnesia. We still remember
that it happened, but not incessantly and not with the same pain and torture.
Peace is more than just having a good night’s sleep— although many people would
think even that to be a miracle— but it is peace in every part of your being
all the time. It is a place you live because of the One who lives in you. Jesus
made it possible for us to have the peace that passes all understanding— the
kind that carries us, stabilizes us, grounds us, and keeps us from slipping.[2]
Be aware of the small
things and people who enter your life: It may be from the Lord.
A LION was
awakened from sleep by a Mouse running over his face. Rising up angrily, he
caught him and was about to kill him, when the Mouse piteously entreated,
saying: “If you would only spare my life, I would be sure to repay your
kindness.” The Lion laughed and let him go. It happened shortly after this that
the Lion was caught by some hunters, who bound him by strong ropes to the
ground. The Mouse, recognizing his roar, came and gnawed the rope with his
teeth, and set him free, exclaiming: “You ridiculed the idea of my ever being
able to help you, not expecting to receive from me any repayment of your favor;
now you know that it is possible for even a Mouse to confer benefits on a
Lion.”[3]
A BRAZIER had
a little Dog, which was a great favorite with his master, and his constant
companion. While he hammered away at his metals the Dog slept; but when, on the
other hand, he went to dinner and began to eat, the Dog woke up and wagged his
tail, as if he would ask for a share of his meal. His master one day,
pretending to be angry and shaking his stick at him, said, “You wretched little
sluggard!
What shall
I do to you?
While I am hammering on the anvil, you sleep on the mat; and when
I begin to eat after my toil, you wake up and wag your tail for food. Do you
not know that labor is the source of every blessing, and that none but those
who work are entitled to eat?”[4]
St. Pius X, Pope (1835-1914)[5]. Joseph Sarto was born in humble
circumstances at Riese, a small village in Venetia, on June 2, 1835. He was
successively curate, parish priest, bishop of Mantua, Patriarch of Venice —
offices to which his keen intelligence, hard work, and great piety caused him
to be quickly promoted. He was elected Pope on August 4, 1903, and took the
name of Pius X. As chief pastor of the Church he displayed untiring
self-sacrifice and great energy; he was an intrepid defender of the purity of
Christian doctrine. He realized to the full the value of the liturgy as the
prayer of the Church and the solid basis that it furnishes for the devotion of
Christian people; he worked for the restoration of the worship of the Church,
especially plainchant, so that Christian people, as he put it, might find
beauty in their public prayer. He spared no effort to propagate the practice,
so great an aid to holiness, of early, frequent and daily communion. He died on
August 20, 1914, and was canonized on May 29, 1954.
Our Lady of Knock[6]
On August 21, 1879, Margaret Beirne, a resident of Cnoc Mhuire, was sent by her
brother to lock up the church for the evening. When she was ready to leave, she
noticed a strange brightness hovering over the church. Margaret had other
things on her mind and didn't tell anyone what she saw. Around the same time,
another member of the Beirne family, Mary, was leaving from a visit to the
church's housekeeper, and stopped with the housekeeper at the gables, where
they could see the church. Mary replied:
"Oh, look at
the statues! Why didn't you tell me the priest got new statues for the
chapel?"
The
housekeeper responded that she knew nothing of the priest getting new statues.
So, they both went for a closer look, and Mary Beirne said:
"But they
are not statues, they're moving. It's the Blessed Virgin!"
Thirteen
others also came and saw the beautiful woman, clothed in white garments,
wearing a brilliant crown. Her hands were raised as if in prayer. All knew that
it was Mary, the Mother of Jesus, Queen of Angels. On the right of Our Lady
stood St. Joseph, his head inclined toward her. On her left stood St. John, the
Evangelist, dressed as a bishop. To the left of St. John stood an altar which
had a lamb and a cross surrounded by angels on it. The vision lasted about two
hours. People who were not at the apparition site reported that they saw a
bright light illuminating the area where the church was. Many of the sick were
healed upon visiting the church at Knock.
Things to Do:
·
See
the website of the Shrine of the Our Lady of Knock.
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For
further information see Catholic Saints Info on Our Lady of Knock.
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In
the vision, Mary stood in the middle, wearing a long gown and a crown of
pulsating brilliance, with a golden rose over her forehead. A golden rose is
often the symbol of this Marian apparition.
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Pope
St. John Paul II presented a golden rose to the Shrine on his visit on September 30,
1979. Read his Mass homily.
· Because the 4th Sunday of Lent or Laetare Sunday is often referred as the Golden Rose Sunday, the Simnel Cake could incorporate the Rose tradition. See Laetare, Jerusalem! Rejoice! by Jennifer Gregory Miller for more information.
South Pole Discovery of the Eternal[7]
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The work of researchers who reported detecting the signal left behind by the rapid expansion of space billions of years ago is rooted in the efforts of a Belgian priest whose mathematical computations in the 1920s laid the groundwork for the Big Bang theory. Msgr. George Lemaitre, a mathematician who studied alongside leading scientists of the first half of the 20th century exploring the origins of the universe, suggested that the cosmos began as a super-dense "primeval atom" that underwent some type of reaction that initiated the expansion of the universe which continues today. The priest's conclusions challenged the conventional hypothesis proposed by luminaries such as Albert Einstein and Fred Hoyle that the universe was in a steady state. Researchers in cosmology over the decades refined Msgr. Lemaitre's idea, leading to what became widely known as the Big Bang theory and later ideas that signs of the Big Bang can be detected. The most recent evidence supporting the Big Bang emerged March 17 when a team of scientists announced they detected polarization in light caused by primordial gravitational waves originating from the Big Bang. The measurements were made with the Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization experiment, or Biceps2, located near the South Pole.
Catechism of the
Catholic Church
Day 68
Christ's human will
475 Similarly, at the sixth
ecumenical council, Constantinople III in 681, the Church confessed that Christ
possesses two wills and two natural operations, divine and human. They are not
opposed to each other, but co-operate in such a way that the Word made flesh
willed humanly in obedience to his Father all that he had decided divinely with
the Father and the Holy Spirit for our salvation. Christ's human will
"does not resist or oppose but rather submits to his divine and almighty
will."
Christ's true body
476 Since the Word became flesh
in assuming a true humanity, Christ's body was finite. Therefore, the
human face of Jesus can be portrayed; at the seventh ecumenical council (Nicaea
II in 787) the Church recognized its representation in holy images to be
legitimate.
477 At the same time the Church
has always acknowledged that in the body of Jesus "we see our God made
visible and so are caught up in love of the God we cannot see." The
individual characteristics of Christ's body express the divine person of God's
Son. He has made the features of his human body his own, to the point that they
can be venerated when portrayed in a holy image, for the believer "who
venerates the icon is venerating in it the person of the one depicted".
The heart of the Incarnate Word
478 Jesus knew and loved us
each and all during his life, his agony and his Passion, and gave himself up
for each one of us: "The Son of God. . . loved me and gave himself for
me." He has loved us all with a human heart. For this reason, the
Sacred Heart of Jesus, pierced by our sins and for our salvation, "is
quite rightly considered the chief sign and symbol of that. . . love with which
the divine Redeemer continually loves the eternal Father and all human
beings" without exception.
IN BRIEF
479 At the time appointed by
God, the only Son of the Father, the eternal Word, that is, the Word and
substantial Image of the Father, became incarnate; without losing his divine
nature he has assumed human nature.
480 Jesus Christ is true God
and true man, in the unity of his divine person; for this reason he is the one
and only mediator between God and men.
481 Jesus Christ possesses
two natures, one divine and the other human, not confused, but united in the
one person of God's Son.
482 Christ, being true God
and true man, has a human intellect and will, perfectly attuned and subject to
his divine intellect and divine will, which he has in common with the Father
and the Holy Spirit.
483 The Incarnation is
therefore the mystery of the wonderful union of the divine and human natures in
the one person of the Word.
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
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Do the St.
Joseph Universal Man Plan.
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Total Consecration
to St. Joseph Day 9
Daily Devotions
·
Unite in the work of the Porters of St. Joseph by joining them
in fasting: For
the intercession of the angels and saints
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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
[2]Omartian, Stormie. The 7-Day Prayer
Warrior Experience
[3]George Fyler Townsend. Aesop's Fables
[4]George Fyler Townsend. Aesop's Fables
[6]https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/liturgicalyear/calendar/day.cfm?date=2020-08-21
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