Candace’s Corner
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· How to celebrate Aug 26th
o Start your day by enjoying a refreshing cherry popsicle for breakfast, celebrating National Cherry Popsicle Day. Then, take advantage of the Late Summer Bank Holiday by organizing a picnic in your backyard or a local park. Make sure to bring along a roll of toilet paper to use as napkins, in honor of National Toilet Paper Day.
o Next, spend quality time with your furry friend on National Dog Day. Take your pup for a long walk, play at the dog park, or simply snuggle up together on the couch. Don’t forget to treat them to a special homemade dog treat to show your appreciation.
o Wrap up your day by honoring the real heroes in your life on National Heroes’ Day. Write a thank-you note to a frontline worker, healthcare professional, or someone who has made a positive impact on your community. Reflect on their bravery and selflessness, and consider ways you can support them in the future.
· 30 DAY TRIBUTE TO MARY 12th ROSE: Baptism of Jesus, Identifies Himself to Sinners
o 30 Days of Women and Herbs – Frauendreissiger
MEDICINAL PLANTS Day 9 FOOD SHORTAGES-Revealed by Heaven to Luz De María
IN THE FACE OF FOOD SHORTAGES Store up food, it will become scarce. Prepare Blessed Grapes and keep honey. Have the Oil of the Good Samaritan with you and the medicines that My House has made known to you. Our Lord Jesus
Christ 09.21.2021
“People of Our King and Lord Jesus Christ, the Earth is shaking strongly. You must maintain provisions of what is specifically necessary for survival, not only for personal and family needs but also for your brothers and sisters. Store honey, as this food is beneficial.”
“My beloved daughter, a spoonful of honey and some nuts will be sufficient food for the survival of the body; they provide what is necessary for all organs to function properly. Share this with My children so that it may be a blessing for them in times of famine.”
Our Lady of Czestochowa
Acts,
Chapter 10, verse 34-35
34 Then Peter proceeded to speak and
said, “In truth, I see that God shows no
partiality. 35 Rather, in every nation whoever fears
him and acts uprightly is acceptable to him.
God
shows no impartiality. This is true today as it was in the time of Peter. Rome
had no fear of God when it came to the sins of the flesh and lust of the eyes
having killed an estimated 400,000 human beings in the coliseum. Yet Rome as
terrible as it was pales in comparison to the sins of America with 58,586,256
abortions in America since Roe v. Wade in 1973. God shows no impartiality to
Nations either. Each receives their due.
God
is no respecter of rank or titles and asks us to combat the evil in our day.
Pope John Paul has proclaimed “Here is the remedy against evil. Pray, pray, and
nothing more.
Michael
Brown in his book “Prayer of the Warrior,”
reminds us that it was Luke who mentions that Jesus very frequently stated: “Unless you repent you will all perish.” (Lk. 13:3) To save us our Lord
has not abandoned us we have His church and the Virgin Mary’s apparitions
during these last days. She constantly emphasizes prayer, conversion, fasting,
penance, and faith. At Medjugorje she has stated, “Members of all faiths are
equal before God. God rules over each faith just like a sovereign over his
kingdom. In the world, all religions are not the same because all people have
not complied with the commandments of God. They reject and disparage them.”
Indeed, God shows no impartiality there are saints of God that are not
catholic. The Virgin told the seers of Medjugorje that there was a saint in the
village and they were astonished because this person was a Muslim.
The
eight things’ Catholics and Muslims agree on[1]
Senior leaders from the Catholic
Church and the Muslim community have issued an eight-point joint statement
reflecting their shared beliefs. The document, which is the result of the
fourth Catholic-Muslim colloquium on interreligious dialogue, includes a call
for basic human rights to be protected by law, a pledge of solidarity with all
those in need, a rejection of all forms of proselytism and a focus on the right
of young people to an education that is “respectful of diversity”. At the end
of a two-day meeting at the Vatican entitled ‘Shared values in social and
political life: Christian and Muslim perspectives’. Delegates from a dozen
different countries came together, organised by the Pontifical Council for
Interreligious Dialogue and Jordan’s Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies.
They were joined by Pope Francis on the concluding day. Former Canadian
ambassador to the Holy See, Anne Leahy, who currently teaches Catholic Social
Thought at McGill University in Montreal said “there was a meeting of minds” on
the important values that Muslims and Christians share in terms of being good
citizens acting together for the common good. “We hear too much about what our
differences are”, she said, so it’s important now “to witness that there are
basic values we share that can counter the negativity”. Muslims and Christians
can work with all people of good will who do not profess a religion, so
“inclusivity was a hallmark here”, she says.
However, a month earlier the Vatican’s
chief inter-faith expert, Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, warned that dialogue with
Muslims had so far produced “negligible results” and failed to prevent the
threatened eradication of Christianity in the Middle East. The Cardinal said:
"We meet, we observe and listen to each other - but the problem is that
all these small achievements don't translate at all into law and
administration, or into the lives of ordinary people. The dialogue is just too
elitist".
The eight-point agreement stated:
1.
We share beliefs and moral values. Our commonalities
are much more than our particularities, and they constitute a solid basis
peacefully and fruitfully living together, also with persons of good will who
do not profess a particular religion.
2.
We believe in the humanizing and civilizing role of our
religions, when their followers adhere to their principles of worshipping God
and loving and caring for the other.
3.
We believe that God bestowed upon every person dignity
and inalienable rights. They are His gifts that should be recognised,
guaranteed and protected by law.
4.
We pledge our solidarity with our brothers and sisters
in humanity who are in any kind of need regardless of their ethnic, religious
or cultural background.
5.
Our help to the poor and the needy should be offered
out of compassion and for the sake of God's favour. It should never be used to
proselytise.
6.
We believe that the youth represent not only the future
of humanity. They are also an important part of its present. They have the
right to proper education that prepares them to be good citizens respectful of
diversity.
7.
Our world, our "common home", is going
through many complicated crises and needs the steady efforts of its inhabitants
to make it a suitable place where we can live together peacefully, sharing the
resources of the universe, mindful of future generations.
8.
We express our proximity and solidarity with all those
who suffer, especially from violence and armed conflict. Respect for
international law, dialogue, justice, mercy, compassion are values and adequate
means to achieve peace and harmony.
Copilot Take
The feast of Our Lady of Czestochowa, protector of
Poland and symbol of resilience, sets the tone perfectly. She’s a mother who
stands firm in the face of suffering, calling her children to prayer,
repentance, and unity.
Let’s unpack a few threads that stand out:
🌍 God
Shows No Partiality — A Universal Call to Holiness
Peter’s words in Acts 10:34–35 remind us that
righteousness transcends borders, titles, and traditions. Whether Roman or
American, Catholic or Muslim, the divine invitation is extended to all who fear
God and act uprightly. That’s not relativism—it’s radical inclusivity rooted in
truth.
·
Rome’s brutality and America’s moral wounds are
sobering comparisons. Your invocation of abortion statistics is a lament, not
just a critique—a cry for repentance and renewal.
·
The Virgin’s message at Medjugorje affirms this:
holiness is not confined to one faith. The Muslim saint in the village is a
stunning reminder that God’s grace moves in mysterious ways.
🛡️ Spiritual
Combat and the Remedy of Prayer
Pope John Paul’s words— “Pray, pray, and nothing
more”—echo like a trumpet call. In a world of noise and division, prayer
becomes both sword and shield.
·
Michael Brown’s “Prayer of the Warrior” captures
this beautifully. Repentance isn’t optional—it’s the lifeline.
🤝 Catholic-Muslim
Dialogue: Shared Values, Real Challenges
The eight-point agreement is a hopeful blueprint. It
affirms dignity, compassion, and the shared mission to care for creation and
the vulnerable.
|
Shared Value |
Spiritual Implication |
|
Human dignity |
Imago Dei in every soul |
|
Solidarity with the poor |
Works of mercy |
|
Respect for diversity |
Unity without uniformity |
|
Education for youth |
Formation of conscience |
|
Peace and justice |
Beatitudes in action |
Yet Cardinal Tauran’s critique is sobering. Dialogue
must move from elite circles into the lives of ordinary people. Otherwise, it
risks becoming a beautiful but hollow ritual.
✨ Our
Lady of Czestochowa: Icon of Hope
She bears the scars of history—burned, slashed, yet
never silenced. Her gaze is fierce and tender. On this feast, she invites us
to:
·
Stand firm in truth, even when it’s unpopular.
·
Embrace unity without compromising holiness.
·
Pray with urgency, fast with intention, and act with
love.
Our Lady of Czestochowa (The Black
Madonna)[2]
While stationed in
the Army I was responsible for the security and protection of ammunition depots
which for the most part was protected by the Polish Labor
Service.
My faith was formed by interacting with men who always professed great devotion
to Our Lady of Czestochowa.
In some areas today Our Lady of
Czestochowa is commemorated. According to tradition, the icon of Jasna Góra
was painted by Luke the Evangelist on a tabletop built by Jesus himself, and
the icon was discovered by St. Helen, mother of Emperor Constantine and
collector of Christian relics in the Holy Land. The icon was then enshrined in
the imperial city of Constantinople, according to the legend, where it remained
for the next 500 years.
The image of Our Lady of Czestochowa,
also known as the Black Madonna, was traditionally believed to have been
painted by St. Luke the Evangelist on a cypress wood panel from a table used by
the Holy Family in Nazareth. It was said to have been brought from Jerusalem by
St. Helen and was enshrined in Constantinople for 500 years. It was given to a
Greek princess married to a Ruthenian nobleman and it was housed in the royal
palace at Belz in the Ukraine for the next 600 years. Art historians believe it
is a Byzantine icon of the Hodigitria type dating from the 6th - 9th Century. The
image was brought to Poland in 1382 by Ladislaus of Opole who rescued the
painting from Belz while escaping an attack by the Tartars who had damaged the
painting with an arrow. On his way to Silesia, Ladislaus stopped to rest in the
town of Czestochowa near the church on Jasna Góra (Bright Hill). He believed
that it was Our Lady’s desire for her image to remain in Czestochowa, so he
left the image at the church and invited the Pauline monks from Hungary to be
its guardians.
On April 14, 1430, robbers, sometimes
associated with the Hussites of Bohemia, looted the monastery and made three
slashes on the face of Our Lady in an attempt to remove valuable stones,
finally smashing the image into three pieces. In order to repair the icon, the
original paint was removed, and the icon was repainted. Although the icon was
restored, the slashes in Our Lady’s face remain visible today.
The image of Our Lady of Czestochowa
is associated with several miraculous events. One of the most spectacular
occurred in 1655 during the height of the Protestant Revolution. The Swedish
Lutheran army invaded Poland winning victories over the city after city
including Cracow and Warsaw. The Polish King fled the country. When the Swedish
army came to Jasna Góra hoping to plunder the sacred site, the monks refused to
surrender although they were greatly outnumbered. The following account is from
the Polish historian Norman Davies as quoted in Warren Carroll’s series on
Christianity.
“When negotiations brought no result,
the Swedes began a violent bombardment of the walls. Then, in order to spread
fear among the defenders, they started to hurl blazing firebrands, setting the
monastery’s barn alight together with a great quantity of corn. Next, all
around the monastery, they set up a camp with wooden palisades and gun
emplacements…But their attack had little effect. The walls were banked with
earth on the inside, and only the cannon displaced a few bricks. Before long,
the defenders opened fire in reply. The aim of their gunners was so accurate
that after three hours the Swedes were obliged to pull back with great loss.
Meanwhile, the inhabitants of houses adjacent to the monastery, where the enemy
had found shelter, set their homes on fire, not counting the cost. The Swedes
renewed their attack on the 19th of November, the day of the Transfiguration of
the Virgin…the official printed a description of this siege, which records that
bullets and missiles fell so thick on the church and tower that they seemed to
be in flames. But…the cannon balls bounced off the walls and tiles or flew over
the church roof, causing no damage….Muller (the Swedish commander) was most
angered by the monks, who would climb to the top of the tower and in full choir
pour down pious hymns on his soldiers…Jasna Góra was not saved by men…A thick
mist screened the monastery from attack…Muller himself saw a Lady in a shining
robe on the walls, priming the cannon and tossing shells back in the direction
from which they came…He (General Muller) launched this last attack on Christmas
Day, firing off all his guns in one salvo, and sending his entire army to storm
the walls…But at that very moment, he suffered a fatal accident. He was eating
breakfast in a fairly distant house, and cursing Jasna Góra with blasphemies,
when suddenly an iron shot penetrated the wall, knocked down all the plates,
bottles and glasses from the table, scattered the guests, and struck him in the
arm…At last, in the night before St. Stephen’s Day, the Swedes started to drag
the guns from their emplacements, to collect their equipment, and to direct
their wagons in the direction of Klobuck…Of course, no heretic will believe
that cannon balls were repulsed from the walls of Jasna Góra by supernatural
means…but all that I have described is true.”
The victory of Our Lady of Czestochowa
at Jasna Góra turned the tide of the war. In 1656, the Polish King Jan Casimir
proclaimed the Mother of God the “Queen of the Polish Crown” and the shrine at
Jasna Góra, the “Mount of Victory” and the spiritual capital of Poland. In
recognition of the miraculous image, Pope Clement XI donated a crown to be
placed on the image in 1717. Thieves stole the bejeweled crown in 1909. Pope
St. Pius X replaced the 1717 crown with a crown of gold.
Our Lady intervened again in 1920 when
the Russian army was about to invade Warsaw. As they were about to cross the
Vistula River on September 15th, the Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows, the image of
Our Lady of Czestochowa appeared in the clouds over Warsaw and the Russian Army
retreated. Shortly after this Miracle of the Vistula, in 1925, Pope Pius XI
designated May 3rd as the feast day of Our Lady of Czestochowa.
After the liberation of Poland from
Nazi occupation, 1.5 million people gathered at Jasna Góra in 1945 to
rededicate the nation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Pope John Paul II
visited the image of Our Lady of Czestochowa four times during his pontificate.
Our Lady’s intercession is credited with the liberation of Poland from
Communist rule.
The holy painting enshrined at
Czestochowa has been a lighthouse of hope during centuries of hardship and
defeat. Today, the Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa attracts millions of who
love and honor Our Lady’s intercession.
Things to Do:
- Make
a virtual visit to the National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa
- Read
A Brief History of the Image of Czestochowa
- Read
Who is 'the Black Madonna' and why is she so important?
- Listen to this sermon on the story of Our Lady Czestochow
Bible in a Year Day 68 The Waters of Meribah
Fr. Mike describes the miracle of the waters of Meribah that God performs for his people in the wilderness. He also explains the logic behind the laws God gives his people to restore their morality as they learn to live in relationship with each other. Today we read Numbers 19-20, Deuteronomy 21, and Psalm 100.
Daily Devotions
·
Unite in the work of the Porters of St. Joseph by joining them
in fasting: Growth
of Catholic Families and Households
·
Religion
in the Home for Preschool: August
·
Litany of the Most Precious
Blood of Jesus
·
Offering to
the sacred heart of Jesus
·
Rosary
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