Dara’s Corner
· How to celebrate Oct 16th
o Start your day with a hearty breakfast of Weet-Bix to fuel up for the adventures ahead. Consider sharing this nutritious meal with your parents to kick off a day filled with surprises and laughter.
§ Throughout the day, remember to prioritize your health and well-being. Take a brisk walk to support World Food Day and appreciate the nourishment that food provides.
· In the spirit of National Liqueur Day, mix up a signature cocktail or sample a new liqueur at home. You don’t need to break the bank to enjoy a fancy drink – get creative with what you have on hand! Cap off your day of festivities by honoring the legacy of Steve Jobs. Take a moment to reflect on his innovative spirit and how it can inspire your own creativity and ambition.
· Next, take a moment to appreciate the beauty of nature by going on a fossil hunt. You never know what treasures you might unearth!
· Show your boss some appreciation on Boss’ Day by taking on an extra task or offering to help with a project. Small gestures can go a long way in strengthening your professional relationships. While you’re at it, why not swing by a department store to treat yourself to a little something special? You deserve it!
· Consider scheduling a chiropractic appointment for World Spine Day to take care of your physical wellness.
Introduction
to 2 Kings[1]
First, we'll re-cap a few things
about the two Books of Kings, as a whole. They're part of the Deuteronomistic
history. What does that mean?"
Well,
it means that the Book of Deuteronomy, and its religious legal code, helped
inspire the viewpoint of the Books of Kings' editor (or editors). In fact, 2
Kings describes what appears to be the discovery of a version of the Book of
Deuteronomy, which inspires King Josiah to hack down sacred poles and slaughter
priests on the altars they've made to foreign gods. So, there you go—drop the word
"Deuteronomistic" at parties and win the respect and fear of your
besties. In line with the above, The Second Book of Kings takes a pretty black
and white view of the rulers it discusses. You might be a king who prevents
starvation and improves sanitation, but if you bow down to one sacred pole
dedicated to a female goddess, you get discarded into 2 Kings' "totally
wicked" pile. However, those are the rules of the game according to the
Deuteronomy-inspired outlook of the book. It's all about intense religious law
and hard monotheism. The kings and prophets who adhere to those standards end
up being the heroes of the work. A big part of the work's purpose is to explain
why the Assyrians were able to destroy Israel and why most of the inhabitants
of Judah were sent into exile in Babylon. The book hammers home this point with
insistency: it's because they turned away from God, worshipping deities like
Moloch with child sacrifice or Asherah with sacred poles. Even the good guys,
who start to get the right idea, often aren't perfect. Their efforts to turn
things around don't last long and can't prevent destruction and exile.
Essentially,
the book is a way of interpreting the past through a specific religious
perspective, picking at the various faults it sees as leading to destruction.
At the same time, it gives a picture of the ideal, right way of doing things—which could work, if only people
managed to really get it together for once. The history it tells both threatens
and promises.
Why
Should I Care?
Normally,
we would simply say, "This is a book where ferocious bears fatally maul a
crowd of forty-two children"—assuming
that that's more than enough to get anyone interested. And that really does happen—but as it is, we'll try to show you
that there's more to 2 Kings than bears attacking kids, dogs eating a wicked
queen's corpse, the angel of destruction slaughtering 180,000 Assyrian
soldiers, and blasts of fire from heaven killing scores of warriors (although,
again, all of those things totally happen here).
The
book takes a long, hard look at "What It Takes" to gain and retain power, and what
it finds isn't pretty: conspiracies, assassinations, intrigue, and ruthless
manipulation. These kings kick it Machiavelli-style.
Righteous
Rebels and Rogues
At
the same time, there are plenty of good guys in 2 Kings, and the book has a lot
to say about courage, perseverance, sticking to your convictions under
pressure, and more. Like Elijah in 1 Kings (who also appears in the first two
chapters of the sequel), the prophet Elisha is one of the major heroes of 2
Kings, and we suppose you could say he lives by the same motto as Kanye West in
his present day lyrics: "I'm a man of God / My whole life in the hand of
God… / So you better quit playing with
God!" (The more things change, the more they stay the same, we guess.) But people do
keep playing with God, and Elisha is determined to stop them. A few righteous
kings, like Hezekiah and Josiah, get in on the act, along with more prophets.
When the chips are down, the righteous people step it up—although (spoiler alert) in the
end, Israel and Judah are destroyed and almost everyone is sent into exile in
Babylon. Nevertheless, the book gives some inspiring examples of people who
stuck up for a cause greater than themselves, in addition to cataloguing the rogues' gallery of ruthless power seekers.
MARGARET
MARY ALACOQUE-Sukkot begins at sundown-World Food
Day
2 Kings, Chapter 1, Verse 15
When
God’s messenger comes you would be wise to listen. We are told that the
messenger to Elijah was an angel. We are not told more but I would imagine that
most likely it was his guardian angel. Listening to and asking your guardian
angel to assist you in accomplishing God’s will is wise.
Guardian
Angel[1]
According to Saint Jerome,
the concept of guardian angels is in the "mind of the Church". He
stated: "how great the dignity of the soul, since each one has from his
birth an angel commissioned to guard it".
The first Christian
theologian to outline a specific scheme for guardian angels was Honorius of
Autun in the 12th century. He said that every soul was assigned a guardian
angel the moment it was put into a body. Scholastic theologians augmented and
ordered the taxonomy of angelic guardians. Thomas Aquinas agreed with Honorius
and believed that it was the lowest order of angels who served as guardians,
and his view was most successful in popular thought, but Duns Scotus said that
any angel is bound by duty and obedience to the Divine Authority to accept the
mission to which that angel is assigned. In the 15th century, the Feast of the
Guardian Angels was added to the official calendar of Catholic holidays.
In his March 31, 1997, Regina Caeli address, Pope Saint John Paul II referred to the concept of guardian angel and concluded the address with the statement: "Let us invoke the Queen of angels and saints, that she may grant us, supported by our guardian angels, to be authentic witnesses to the Lord's paschal mystery".
“How is my relationship
with my guardian angel?
Do I listen to him?
Do I bid him good day in
the morning?
Do I tell him: guard me
while I sleep?’
Do I speak with him? Do I
ask his advice?
...Each one of us can do so in order to
evaluate “the relationship with this angel that the Lord has sent to guard me
and to accompany me on the path, and who always beholds the face of the Father
who is in heaven”.
There was an old Irish
custom that suggested including in bedtime prayers a request for the Blessed
Mother to tell one the name of their guardian angel, and supposedly within a
few days one would "know" the name by which they could address their
angel. An old Dominican tradition encouraged each novice to give a name to
their Guardian Angel so that they could speak to him by name and thus feel
closer and more friendly with him. The Congregation for Divine
Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments discourages assigning names to angels
beyond those revealed in scripture: Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael.
St. Margaret Mary Alacoque[2]
A self-effacing nun in the Visitation Convent at Paray-le-Monial,
France, was inspired by the Lord Jesus to establish the devotion of the Holy
Hour. Her name was St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, and from the age of seven, when
she received her first Holy Communion, she had always manifested an intense
love of the Most Blessed Sacrament. Our Lord appeared to her often, usually as
the Crucified Christ. Her simplicity caused her to feel that these apparitions
were also granted to others who had recourse to Jesus in the sacrament of His
love. Once the Master appeared to the young girl as she was returning from a
dance and reproached her for not espousing Him. When twenty-four years of age,
Margaret entered the cloister, choosing the most menial tasks. Gifted with intelligence
and common sense, she made great progress in holiness. Our Lord entrusted to
her the mission of establishing the reign of the Sacred Heart among the
children of men. Criticism did not hamper her zeal, and her charity toward her
opponents won them over to the cause of the Master. In the first revelation of
the Sacred Heart to the nun, Our Lord made known His burning desire to be loved
by all men, and His design of manifesting to them His Sacred Heart with its
treasures of mercy. Margaret Mary communicated Our Lord's wish that the
faithful receive Holy Communion on the first Friday of each month and observe
the Feast of the Sacred Heart on the Friday after the octave of Corpus Christi.
After nineteen years in the convent, St. Margaret Mary died October 17, 1690.
Many pilgrims to her tomb have sought and obtained favors. Through her
apostolate of devotion to the Sacred Heart many sinners have repented and found
grace with God.
Patron: against polio; devotees of the Sacred Heart; loss of parents;
polio patients.
Things to Do:
- Learn
more about St. Margaret Mary:
- St.
Margaret Mary's body is laid to rest at Chapelle des Apparitions (Chapel of the Apparitions)
at Paray-la-Monial, France, which is also the church where she received
the visions of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
- Find
out more about the Jansenist heresy.
- Read
the Twelve Promises of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Accept
the challenge to fulfill the obligation for the Nine First Fridays.
- Find out more about the Enthronement of the Sacred Heart, and
establish this practice in your home. A book to read on this is Enthronement
of the Sacred Heart by Francis Larkin, SS.CC. Find out more
information from Congregation
of the Sacred Hearts Online.
Married Couples
Prayer to the Sacred Heart[3]*
Description:
For the ideal union in love of
husband for wife and wife for husband, God's examples are before you—Joseph and
Mary. Your marriage is something to be appreciated ever more deeply. From time
to time meditate on its precious character, as, for example, is suggested in
the following prayer to the Sacred Heart of Jesus for husband and wife to say
in their own behalf. We can summarize the spirit of Christian married life no
better than in this prayer.
Prayer
O most Sacred Heart of Jesus, King and
center of all hearts, dwell in our hearts and be our King; grant us by Your
grace to love each other truly and chastely, even as You have loved Your
spotless Bride, the Church, and have given Yourself up for her.
Bestow upon us that mutual love and
Christian forbearance which are so highly acceptable in Your sight, and a
mutual patience in bearing each other's defects; for we are certain that no
living creature is free from them. Do not permit even the slightest defect to
mar that full and gentle harmony of spirit, the foundation of the mutual
assistance in the many and varied hardships of life, that is the end for which
woman was created and united inseparably to her husband.
** O Lord God, grant that between us
there may reign a perpetual holy rivalry toward a life perfectly Christian, by
virtue of which there may shine forth more and more clearly the divine image of
Your mystic union with Your Holy Church, as You have deigned to imprint it upon
us on the auspicious day of our being made one.
Grant, we beseech You, that our good
example of Christian living may serve as a powerful inspiration to our children
to conform their own lives to Your holy law; and finally, after this exile may
we ascend into heaven, where by the help of Your grace, for which we earnestly
pray, we may merit to be joined with our children forever and praise and bless
You through everlasting ages, Amen.
(**If
there are no children, the prayer from this point reads: O Lord God, grant that
between us there may reign a perpetual holy rivalry toward a life perfectly
Christian, by virtue of which there may shine forth more and more clearly the
divine image of Your mystic union with Your Holy Church, as You have deigned to
imprint it upon us on the auspicious day of our being made one, and so living,
may both of us ascend into heaven, and merit to praise You and bless You
forever. Amen.)
Prayer
Source: Family for Families, The by Francis L. Filas, S.J., The Bruce
Publishing Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1947
Catechism of the Catholic
Church
Day 125
897
"The term 'laity' is here understood to mean all the faithful except those
in Holy Orders and those who belong to a religious state approved by the
Church. That is, the faithful, who by Baptism are incorporated into Christ and
integrated into the People of God, are made sharers in their particular way in
the priestly, prophetic, and kingly office of Christ, and have their own part
to play in the mission of the whole Christian people in the Church and in the
World."
The vocation
of lay people
898 "By
reason of their special vocation it belongs to the laity to seek the kingdom of
God by engaging in temporal affairs and directing them according to God's
will.... It pertains to them in a special way so to illuminate and order all
temporal things with which they are closely associated that these may always be
effected and grow according to Christ and maybe to the glory of the Creator and
Redeemer."
899 The
initiative of lay Christians is necessary especially when the matter involves
discovering or inventing the means for permeating social, political, and
economic realities with the demands of Christian doctrine and life. This
initiative is a normal element of the life of the Church:
Lay
believers are in the front line of Church life; for them the Church is the
animating principle of human society. Therefore, they in particular ought to
have an ever-clearer consciousness not only of belonging to the Church, but of
being the Church, that is to say, the community of the faithful on earth under
the leadership of the Pope, the common Head, and of the bishops in communion
with him. They are the Church.
900 Since,
like all the faithful, lay Christians are entrusted by God with the apostolate
by virtue of their Baptism and Confirmation, they have the right and duty,
individually or grouped in associations, to work so that the divine message of
salvation may be known and accepted by all men throughout the earth. This duty
is the more pressing when it is only through them that men can hear the Gospel
and know Christ. Their activity in ecclesial communities is so necessary that,
for the most part, the apostolate of the pastors cannot be fully effective
without it.
The participation of lay people in Christ's priestly office
901
"Hence the laity, dedicated as they are to Christ and anointed by the Holy
Spirit, are marvellously called and prepared so that even richer fruits of the
Spirit maybe produced in them. For all their works, prayers, and apostolic
undertakings, family and married life, daily work, relaxation of mind and body,
if they are accomplished in the Spirit - indeed even the hardships of life if
patiently born - all these become spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God
through Jesus Christ. In the celebration of the Eucharist these may most
fittingly be offered to the Father along with the body of the Lord. and so,
worshipping everywhere by their holy actions, the laity consecrate the world
itself to God, everywhere offering worship by the holiness of their lives."
902 In a
very special way, parents share in the office of sanctifying "by leading a
conjugal life in the Christian spirit and by seeing to the Christian education
of their children."
903 Lay
people who possess the required qualities can be admitted permanently to the
ministries of lector and acolyte. When the necessity of the Church
warrants it and when ministers are lacking, lay persons, even if they are not
lectors or acolytes, can also supply for certain of their offices, namely, to
exercise the ministry of the word, to preside over liturgical prayers, to
confer Baptism, and to distribute Holy Communion in accord with the
prescriptions of law."
Sukkot (Camping with Christ)[4]begins at sunset
Sukkot (Hebrew: סוכות),
meaning Tabernacles, is the autumnal
'foot festival' in which the Jews are commanded to leave their permanent houses
and to dwell in booths for seven days. The idea behind this is to remember that
the Israelites lived in booths in the Wilderness for forty years. Additionally,
when the Temple stood in Jerusalem, this was a pilgrimage holiday to celebrate
the harvest. It is most likely our
Lord did this every year as He was a devout Jew.
Tabernacles are typically built out of wood, sheets and have a roof of a
natural product, such as leaves, palm branches, through which the stars can be
seen at night. The Succah must be built of certain dimensions (not too low or
too high) and should have three or four walls. On Succot, it is customary
for Jewish men buy a set of the four kinds/species comprising a lulav (a palm
branch), an etrog (a citron), hadassim (myrtle) and aravot (willows).
Sukkot Facts & Quotes
· Sukkot is also a harvest festival and is sometimes referred to as Chag Ha-Asif, the Festival of Ingathering. No work is permitted on the first day, but some work is allowed on the intermediate days which are known as Chol Hamoed.
·
Each day of Succot is associated with Ushpezin
(visitors), one of seven Succah visitors. Each day has its visitor,
starting with Abraham. The other visitors are Isaac, Jacob, Joseph,
Moses, Aaron, David and Solomon.
Hebrews
11:8 “By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out
to a place that he was to receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not
knowing where he was going.”
·
The book of Ecclesiastes is typically read in
Synagogues. This book relates to the futility of man under the sun but
concludes optimistically with the notion that we should just do our thing and
serve God.
·
There is a special Priest's (Cohen's) blessing
performed at the Western Wall during Succot. The Western Wall is the last
surviving wall of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem at the side of the Temple Mount.
Thousands of Priests, who are believed to be descendants of the original
priests, assemble at the Western Wall and perform blessings.
·
In the days of Nehemiah, an original Bible was
found with the passages relating to the building of a Succah.
a. All
the people came together as one in the square before the Water Gate. They told
Ezra the teacher of the Law to bring out the Book of the Law of Moses, which
the Lord had commanded for Israel (Nehemiah 8:1).
b. They found written in the Law, which the Lord had commanded through Moses, that the Israelites were to live in temporary shelters during the festival of the seventh month (Nehemiah 8:14).
Sukkot Top Events and Things to Do
·
Purchase or make your own Sukkah. They are
typically designed to be assembled and disassembled quickly - in less than two
hours by two people.
·
One can buy the four kinds (of material used to
build Sukkot as per the Torah) or order them from Israel. The four kinds
include palm branches, an Etrog (citron), three willow branches and two myrtle
branches. The palm, myrtle and willow are bound together in a palm holder.
·
See the movie Ushpezim with English
subtitles. It which relates to the four kinds and a couple's efforts to
buy a most beautiful four species set, despite their poor economic situation.
Ushpizin can
be viewed on YouTube.
·
Read the book of Ecclesiastes or watch a lecture
about it. It was written by King Solomon. It relates to the
futility of life, apart from basic belief and being righteous.
·
Attend a local Succot fair.
A visit from Abraham[5]
Genesis 22:9-10 “When they came to the place of
which God had told him, Abraham built the altar there and laid the wood in
order and bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood.
Then Abraham reached out his hand and took the knife to slaughter his son.”
Just as the knife was
being hurled downward, the angel of the Lord said “Do not lay your hand on the
boy or do anything to him, for now I know that you fear God, seeing you have
not withheld your son, your only son, from me” (Gen 22:12), and “because you
have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son, I will surely
bless you, and I will surely multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and
as the sand that is on the seashore. And your offspring shall possess the gate
of his enemies, and in your offspring shall all the nations of the earth be
blessed, because you have obeyed my voice” (Gen 22:16-18).
Catechism of the Catholic Church
·
60 The people descended from Abraham
would be the trustee of the promise made to the patriarchs, the chosen people,
called to prepare for that day when God would gather all his children into the
unity of the Church. They would be the root on to which the Gentiles would be
grafted, once they came to believe.
·
72 God chose Abraham and made a covenant
with him and his descendants. By the covenant God formed his people and
revealed his law to them through Moses. Through the prophets, he prepared them
to accept the salvation destined for all humanity.
·
146 Abraham thus fulfils the definition
of faith in Hebrews 11:1: "Faith is the assurance of things hoped
for, the conviction of things not seen": "Abraham believed God, and
it was reckoned to him as righteousness." Because he was "strong in his
faith", Abraham became the "father of all who believe".
·
165 It is then we must turn to the
witnesses of faith: to Abraham, who "in hope... believed against
hope"; to the Virgin
Mary, who, in "her pilgrimage of faith", walked into the "night
of faith" in sharing the darkness of her son's suffering and death; and to
so many others: "Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of
witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely,
and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us, looking to
Jesus the pioneer and perfecter of our faith."
·
706 Against all human hope, God promises
descendants to Abraham, as the fruit of faith and of the power of the Holy
Spirit. In Abraham's progeny all the nations of the earth will be blessed. This
progeny will be Christ himself, in whom the outpouring of the Holy Spirit will
"gather into one the children of God who are scattered abroad." God
commits himself by his own solemn oath to giving his beloved Son and "the
promised Holy Spirit . . . [who is] the guarantee of our inheritance until we
acquire possession of it."
World Food Day[6]
World Food Day is recognized in order to raise awareness about hunger and encourage the public to support efforts to eradicate world hunger. Food plays an essential role in life; many people go without it and cannot guarantee when they will eat their next meal, while others waste large amounts of food every day. World Food Day is organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. The FAO was founded on October 16, 1945 in an effort to help the world with its constant battle against hunger and malnutrition. World Food Day was officially established in 1979 and today, it is observed in over 150 countries. It is celebrated annually on the same day as the FAO's founding, October 16th. Since 1981, a different theme has been adopted each year based on current issues. The day is also heavily promoted by organizations that are concerned with food security and insecurity.
World Food Day Facts
& Quotes
·
Approximately
1/3 of all food produced worldwide, about $1 trillion dollars’ worth, is
wasted. The biggest culprits are industrialized countries; they waste
almost as much food as the entire production weight of sub-Saharan Africa- 222
million vs 230 million tons.
·
The
quest for food security can be the common thread that links the different
challenges we face and helps build a sustainable future. – José Graziano da
Silva, United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Director-General
·
In
a world of plenty, no one, not a single person, should go hungry. But almost 1
billion still do not have enough to eat. I want to see an end to hunger
everywhere within my lifetime. – Ban Ki-Moon, United Nations Secretary-General
World Food Day Top
Events and Things to Do
·
Do not waste food. World Food Day promotes
Think. Eat. Save. as a way to reduce waste so, t=Think about what you’re
buying, plan meals and shop smart. Eat mindfully. Are your eyes too big for
your stomach? Save food, save money, save the environment.
·
Lobby your government to change its laws on
waste. France passed a law banning
supermarkets from throwing away destroying unsold food, instead making them
donate it to charities
and food banks.
·
Watch a documentary about the food production
process. Food Inc. (2008), Super-Size Me (2004) or Fresh (2009) are all documentaries about
food production and waste.
·
Read a book about food activism, eco- and ethical farming why not try one
of these books that may help us find sustainable solutions to feed the 9.6
billion people that will to be fed by 2050. Our picks:
1) The Big Pivot: Radically Practical
Strategies for a Hotter, Scarcer, and More Open World by Andrew S Winston
2) Feeding Frenzy: Land Grabs, Price
Spikes, and the World Food Crisis by Paul McMahon
3) The Political Economy of Arab Food
Sovereignt by Jane Harrigan
Every Wednesday is
Dedicated to St. Joseph
Reflect both Joseph and Jesus camped out
at Sukkot
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?
Why is St. Joseph the “Terror of Demons”?[7]
Though we know little about St. Joseph from the Gospels, what we read there demonstrates that his righteous character and behavior served as a defense for his beloved wife and foster Son. The Holy Family was a little city under perpetual siege by the Devil. But Joseph was chosen by God to guard the city walls.
When he first learned that Mary was carrying a Child who was not his own, he naturally concluded that she had committed adultery. But so great was his love for Mary and even for her unborn Child that his primary intention was to protect them. Rather than publicly exposing the situation—which would have led to terrible consequences for both mother and Child—he “resolved to send her away quietly” (see Mt 1:18—19).
When the angel revealed to him the truth of the situation and told him not to fear to take her as his wife, his great faith in God prompted him to do that immediately (Mt 1:20—5). Though he knew that such obedience would come at a great cost, his impulse, again, was to protect Mary and the Babe.
Yet once more, when the angel warned him to take his little Family and flee to Egypt because Herod planned to kill the Child, he obeyed right away, in the middle of the night. With extraordinary courage he left for a foreign land without preparations, without telling their extended family, without a job or home waiting for them, and despite numerous dangers on the highways because of robbers and worse (see Mt 1:13—15). His compelling desire was to defend them, and that desire led him to choose Nazareth as their home when they returned, to avoid the possible wrath of Herod’s son in Judea (Mt 1:19—22).
Our last glimpse of Joseph comes when Jesus was twelve years old, and he and Mary couldn’t find Him in Jerusalem. When they did, after three days of separation, Mary’s words reveal Joseph’s heart as well as her own when she said to the Boy, “Behold, your father and I have been looking for you anxiously” (Lk 2:48).
I think we can conclude that whatever attacks the Devil may have attempted in the “hidden years” of the Holy Family at Nazareth, those attacks were unsuccessful in large part because of Joseph’s protection, who served as their divinely appointed defender.
After Joseph left this world for the next, he went on to take on the mantle of a defender, not just of the Holy Family, but of the extended family of Jesus and Mary—that is, the whole Church. He has in fact been declared “Patron of the Universal Church.” Many titles ascribed to him in the litany that bears his name remind us of this role: Guardian of Virgins, Pillar of Families, Patron of the Dying, Protector of Holy Church. But none among them is more fitting than the title that reveals his might as a spiritual warrior: Terror of Demons.
Joseph may well have been a man of few words; Sacred Scripture has recorded nothing from his lips. But this title suggests that when we call on him for rescue from our diabolical adversaries, he need not even speak to them: His very presence terrifies them and sends them fleeing. (More about Joseph’s role in the apostolic exhortation of Pope St. John Paul II Redemptoris Custos: On the Person and Mission of St. Joseph in the Life of Christ and of the Church.
With the war in the Gaza Strip let us ask Joseph who
traveled with Mary and Jesus through this land in his flight to Egypt to have
all the idols fall down and all
be converted to the peace only Christ can give.
Daily Devotions
·
Unite in the work of the Porters of St. Joseph by joining them
in fasting: Today's Fast: For
the Poor and Suffering
·
Religion
in the Home for Preschool: October
·
Litany of the Most Precious
Blood of Jesus
·
Offering to
the sacred heart of Jesus
·
Rosary
[2]https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/liturgicalyear/calendar/day.cfm?date=2017-10-16
[3]https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/liturgicalyear/prayers/view.cfm?id=225
* Note: My youngest daughter Nicole
married her loving husband Matthew on this past Sunday 10/11/20; this is for
them.
[5]http://www.patheos.com/blogs/christiancrier/2016/05/18/top-7-bible-verses-about-isaac/
[7]https://angelusnews.com/voices/spiritual-warfare-and-the-saints-who-help/
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