tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86042328048527575602024-03-18T20:16:50.219-07:00ICEMANforChristThis blog is based on references in the Bible to fear. God wills that we “BE NOT AFRAID”. Many theologians state that the eighth deadly sin is fear. It is fear and its natural animal reaction to fight or flight that is the root cause of our failings to create a Kingdom of God on earth. By “the power of the Holy Spirit” we can be witnesses and “communicators” of a new and redeemed humanity “even to the ends of the earth” (Acts 1:7 8). This blog is dedicated to Mary the Mother of God.
IcemanforChristhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10737122933196184713noreply@blogger.comBlogger3657125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8604232804852757560.post-80330042307958957342024-03-18T07:36:00.000-07:002024-03-18T07:40:24.905-07:00Sunday, March 24, 2024<p> From Last Year</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/lTmbTuutBgg" width="320" youtube-src-id="lTmbTuutBgg"></iframe></div><p align="left" class="CSP-ChapterTitle"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-style: normal; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU;">Palm Sunday<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p align="left" class="CSP-ChapterTitle"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Autism</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="CSP-ChapterBodyText" style="text-indent: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Psalm 22, verse 24:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="CSP-ChapterBodyText" style="text-indent: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">You who <i>FEAR</i> the LORD, give praise! All descendants of Jacob, give honor; show reverence, all descendants of Israel!</span></b><b style="text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></b></p><p align="left" class="CSP-ChapterBodyText" style="text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">This verse was fulfilled on Palm Sunday, which we reflect on Christ’s triumphant entrance into Jerusalem. Let us honor and praise our Lord Jesus Christ everyday as we rise by saying <i>Shema Yisrael</i> which is the same prayer the Christ most likely prayed every morning Himself and is still prayed by pious Jews today.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0in;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="CSP-ChapterBodyText" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .1in; margin-right: .1in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.1in; text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one; and you shall love the Lord your God with all your Heart, and with all your soul, and with your entire mind, and with all your strength.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in;"> </span></p><p align="left" class="CSP-ChapterBodyText" style="margin-right: 0.3in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">My question is how does one Love the Lord with all their heart, soul, mind, and strength.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0in;"> </span></p><p align="left" class="CSP-ChapterBodyText" style="margin-right: 0.3in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Perhaps to understand this better we should ask ourselves:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0in;"> </span></p><p align="left" class="CSP-ChapterBodyText" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 63.0pt; margin-right: .3in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.3in 0in 63pt; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo7; mso-pagination: none; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">What are the desires of our heart?<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p align="left" class="CSP-ChapterBodyText" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 63.0pt; margin-right: .3in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.3in 0in 63pt; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo7; mso-pagination: none; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Whose flag are we following?<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p align="left" class="CSP-ChapterBodyText" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 63.0pt; margin-right: .3in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.3in 0in 63pt; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo7; mso-pagination: none; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">What consumes our mind?<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p align="left" class="CSP-ChapterBodyText" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 63.0pt; margin-right: .3in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.3in 0in 63pt; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo7; mso-pagination: none; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">How do we use our gifts?</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0in;"> </span></p><p align="left" class="CSP-ChapterBodyText" style="margin-right: 0.3in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">God created us to be a priestly people and the world was designed to be our temple. We will never find true happiness except through God because He hardwired us for the priesthood. We are called to make an offering of our life; our dreams & desires, our total loyalty to Him and His church, our thoughts and the gifts of mind and body He has given us.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0in;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="CSP-ChapterBodyText" style="margin-right: 0.3in; text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Luminous Rosary</span></i><i style="text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></i></p><p align="left" class="CSP-ChapterBodyText" style="margin-right: 0.3in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">St. John Paul gave us the luminous Rosary and we can use it to reflect on how to love God with <b>all our heart</b>.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0in;"> </span></p><p align="left" class="CSP-ChapterBodyText" style="margin-right: 0.3in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">The points of reflection for the luminous rosary are:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0in;"> </span></p><p align="left" class="CSP-ChapterBodyText" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .3in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.3in 0in 0.5in; mso-list: l7 level1 lfo8; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Baptism in the Jordan: Gratitude for the Gift of Faith.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p align="left" class="CSP-ChapterBodyText" style="margin-right: 0.3in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">565</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">. None of these virtues, nor any others which might be related to justice, were wanting to the Queen of heaven; of all these She had the habit and practiced them as occasion offered. Moreover, as the Teacher and Mistress of all sanctity She instructed and enlightened many souls how they were to exercise and practice them with the greatest perfection.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p align="left" class="CSP-ChapterBodyText" style="margin-right: 0.3in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">The virtue of gratitude toward God She exercised by acts of religion and worship, as we have already described: for this is the best way to show our gratitude toward Him: and as the dignity of the most pure Mary and her concomitant sanctity was exalted above all created understanding, this eminent Mistress gave a return of gratitude proportionate to his benefits within the measure possible to a creature.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p align="left" class="CSP-ChapterBodyText" style="margin-right: 0.3in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">The same holds true in regard to her piety toward her parents and her country, as mentioned above. To her fellowmen this most humble Princess returned thanks for each favor as if She deserved no consideration from anyone; and, although all favors were due to Her in justice, She nevertheless gave thanks for them with gracious affability. She alone knew and practiced this virtue to such an extent, as to return thanks for injuries and offenses as if they were great benefits; for in her incomparable humility, She never recognized anything as an injury and considered Herself under obligation for what really were such. Moreover, as She never forgot any benefit, She also never ceased in her gratitude.<a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 11.5px;">[1]</span></span></span></span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span></span></p><p align="left" class="CSP-ChapterBodyText" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .3in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.3in 0in 0.5in; mso-list: l7 level1 lfo8; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">The Wedding in Cana reflection: Fidelity.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p align="left" class="CSP-ChapterBodyText" style="margin-right: 0.3in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">133</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">. For this end thou must avail thyself of the remembrance of what I did, and by it regulate thy aspirations, thy fervor, thy love, and all that is necessary to prepare thy heart as a temple and habitation of thy Spouse and highest King. Labor then to collect all thy powers within thyself; before and after receiving observe all that pertains to the fidelity of a Spouse, and especially must thou place a guard over thy eyes and a watch over all thy senses, in order that no profane or foreign image may enter into the temple of the Lord.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="CSP-ChapterBodyText" style="margin-right: 0.3in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Keep thy heart entirely pure and unspotted; for when it is impure or preoccupied, the plenitude of divine light and wisdom cannot enter (Wis. 1, 4). All this thou wilt know from what God has shown thee, if thou hast attended to it with an upright purpose. Even supposing that thou canst not exempt thyself from all intercourse with creatures, it is befitting that thou hold thy senses in great subjection, and that thou do not permit them to introduce the image of any sensible thing, by which thou wouldst not be assisted in striving after the most holy and pure of virtue.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p align="left" class="CSP-ChapterBodyText" style="margin-right: 0.3in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Separate the precious from the worthless, the truth from deceit. In order that thou mayest imitate me perfectly, I wish that from now on thou attend to the choice thou art to make in all things great or small, so that thou err in none, perverting the order of divine light.<a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 11.5px;">[2]</span></span></span></span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span></span></p><p align="left" class="CSP-ChapterBodyText" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .3in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.3in 0in 0.5in; mso-list: l7 level1 lfo8; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Proclamation of the Kingdom reflection: Desire for Holiness.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p align="left" class="CSP-ChapterBodyText" style="margin-right: 0.3in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">711</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">. Human life is interwoven thus variously with both kinds of events; some of them according, others contrary to the likings of mortals; some which they abhor, others which they desire. As the human heart is limited and narrow it immoderately inclines to extremes, boundlessly desiring what it loves and likes, and, on the other hand, grieving and sorrowing at what it abhors and dislikes. These changeful moods and fluctuations create danger for all or many virtues. The disorderly love for one creature which it cannot attain, moves the soul presently to desire another, expecting a balm for its disappointment in the former. And if it is successful, the soul becomes involved and flurried in the desire of retaining what it possesses, thus casting itself by these velleities into still greater disorders and passions.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p align="left" class="CSP-ChapterBodyText" style="margin-right: 0.3in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Attend, therefore, dearest, to this danger and attack it at the root by preserving thy heart independent and riveted only on the divine Providence, without ever allowing it to incline toward what it desires or longs for, or to abhor what is painful to it. Let the will of the Lord be thy only delight and joy. Let neither thy desires draw thee on, nor thy fears dishearten thee. Let not thy exterior occupations, and much Jess thy regard or attention to creatures, ever impede thee or divert thee from thy holy exercises, attending always to my example. Seek thou lovingly and diligently to follow in my footsteps.<a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 11.5px;">[3]</span></span></span></span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span></span></p><p align="left" class="CSP-ChapterBodyText" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .3in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.3in 0in 0.5in; mso-list: l7 level1 lfo8; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">The Transfiguration reflection: Spiritual Courage.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p align="left" class="CSP-ChapterBodyText" style="margin-right: 0.3in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">INSTRUCTION GIVEN TO ME BY THE MOST HOLY QUEEN MARY.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p align="left" class="CSP-ChapterBodyText" style="margin-right: 0.3in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">354</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">. My daughter, although thou hast only very briefly summed up my lengthy battle against temptations, I wish that from what thou hast written and from what thou knowest otherwise concerning these things, thou learn the manner of resisting and overcoming the powers of hell.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p align="left" class="CSP-ChapterBodyText" style="margin-right: 0.3in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">The surest way of fighting the demon is to despise him, looking upon him as the enemy of the Most High, who has lost all fear of God and all hope of good; who in his stubbornness has deprived himself of all means of recovery and is without sorrow for his wickedness, Relying on this indubitable truth thou shouldst show thyself far superior to him, exalted and unflinching in thy thoughts, and treat him as a contemner of the honor and worship of his God. Knowing that thou art defending so just a cause, do not let thy courage sink; but resist and counteract him with great strength and valor in all his attempts, as if thou wert fighting at the side of the Lord himself; for there is no doubt that his Majesty assists all those that enter loyally into his battles. Thou art truly in good hope and in the way of eternal life glory, as long as thou laborest faithfully for thy Lord and God.<a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 11.5px;">[4]</span></span></span></span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span></span></p><p align="left" class="CSP-ChapterBodyText" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .3in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.3in 0in 0.5in; mso-list: l7 level1 lfo8; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">The Institution of the Eucharist (Holy Thursday) reflection: Love of our Eucharistic Lord.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p align="left" class="CSP-ChapterBodyText" style="margin-right: 0.3in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">487</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">. But if the condescension of my most holy Son was so great as to bestow so liberally upon thee his light and knowledge concerning these vast blessings, ponder well how much thou art bound to co-operate with this light In order that thou mayest correspond to this obligation, I remind and exhort thee to forget all that is of earth and lose it out of thy sight; that thou seek nothing, or engage thyself with nothing except what can help thee to withdraw and detach thee from the world and its inhabitants; so that, with a heart freed from all terrestrial affection, thou dispose thyself to celebrate in it the mysteries of the poverty, humility and divine love of the incarnate God.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p align="left" class="CSP-ChapterBodyText" style="margin-right: 0.3in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Learn from my example the reverence, fear and respect, with which thou must treat Him, remembering how I acted, when I held Him in my arms; follow my example, whenever thou receivest Him in thy heart in the venerable sacrament of the holy Eucharist, wherein is contained the same God-Man, who was born of my womb. In this holy Sacrament thou receivest Him and possessest Him just as really, and He remains in thee just as actually, as I possessed Him and conversed with Him, although in another manner.<a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn5;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 11.5px;">[5]</span></span></span></span></span></a></span><b style="text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>ON KEEPING THE LORD'S DAY HOLY</b><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn6;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">[6]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;">CHAPTER II<o:p></o:p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><b><i>DIES CHRISTI</i></b><o:p></o:p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><b>The Day of the Risen Lord<br />and of the Gift<br />of the Holy Spirit</b><o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><i>An indispensable day!</i></b><o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">30. It is clear then why, even in our own difficult times, the identity of this day must be protected and above all must be lived in all its depth. An Eastern writer of the beginning of the third century recounts that as early as then the faithful in every region were keeping Sunday holy on a regular basis. What began as a spontaneous practice later became a juridically sanctioned norm. The Lord's Day has structured the history of the Church through two thousand years: how could we think that it will not continue to shape her future? The pressures of today can make it harder to fulfil the Sunday obligation; and, with a mother's sensitivity, the Church looks to the circumstances of each of her children. In particular, she feels herself called to a new catechetical and pastoral commitment, in order to ensure that, in the normal course of life, none of her children are deprived of the rich outpouring of grace which the celebration of the Lord's Day brings. It was in this spirit that the Second Vatican Council, making a pronouncement on the possibility of reforming the Church calendar to match different civil calendars, declared that the Church "is prepared to accept only those arrangements which preserve a week of seven days with a Sunday". Given its many meanings and aspects, and its link to the very foundations of the faith, the celebration of the Christian Sunday remains, on the threshold of the Third Millennium, an indispensable element of our Christian identity.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="pf" style="margin: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Palm Sunday</span></b><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn7" name="_ftnref7" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn7;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 11.5px;">[7]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></span></p><p align="left" class="CSP-ChapterBodyText" style="margin-right: 0.3in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Christ's triumphant entrance into Jerusalem and the account of His Passion according to St. Matthew.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0in;"> </span></p><p align="left" class="CSP-ChapterBodyText" style="margin-right: 0.3in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Why is this day called Palm Sunday?</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0in;"> </span></p><p align="left" class="CSP-ChapterBodyText" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .3in; margin-right: .3in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.3in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">1. In memory of the triumphant entry of Jesus into Jerusalem, when He was received by the devout people with palms.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="CSP-ChapterBodyText" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .3in; margin-right: .3in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.3in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">2. Because the Church to-day blesses palms, with which a solemn procession is held.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0in;"> </span></p><p align="left" class="CSP-ChapterBodyText" style="margin-right: 0.3in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Why are the palms blessed?</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0in;"> </span></p><p align="left" class="CSP-ChapterBodyText" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .3in; margin-right: .3in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.3in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">1. To protect in body and soul those who carry them with devotion.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="CSP-ChapterBodyText" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .3in; margin-right: .3in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.3in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></p><p align="left" class="CSP-ChapterBodyText" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .3in; margin-right: .3in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.3in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">2. To bless the dwellings into which the palms are brought.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="CSP-ChapterBodyText" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .3in; margin-right: .3in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.3in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></p><p align="left" class="CSP-ChapterBodyText" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .3in; margin-right: .3in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.3in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">3. To bring before us how God, by the entrance into Jerusalem with palms, has represented the victory of Jesus over the prince of darkness.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0in;"> </span></p><p align="left" class="CSP-ChapterBodyText" style="text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">In the Introit of to-day s Mass the Church reminds us of the sufferings of Our Savior, and says: O Lord, remove not Thy help to a distance from me, look towards my defense, save me from the lion’s mouth, and my lowness from the horn of the unicorn. O God, rny God, look upon me; why hast Thou forsaken me? far from my salvation are the words of my sin. (Ps. xxi.)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="pf" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Prayer</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">. O almighty and eternal God, Who wouldst have Our Savior take flesh and undergo the cross, for man to imitate the example of His humility, grant, we beseech Thee, that we may both deserve the instruction of His patience and the fellowship of His resurrection.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="pf" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">EPISTLE. Phil. ii. 5-11.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p align="left" class="pf"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Brethren: Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: but emptied Himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men, and in habit found as a man. He humbled Himself, becoming obedient unto death, even to the death of the cross. For which cause God also hath exalted Him, and hath given Him a name which is above all names: that in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those that are in heaven, on earth, and under the earth. And that every tongue should confess that the Lord Jesus Christ is in the glory of God the Father.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="pf"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Instead of the gospel the passion of Our Lord, taken from the Gospel of St. Matthew (xxvi., xxvii.), is read during the Mass. At the words, Bowing His head, He gave up the ghost, the priest and congregation kneel and meditate for a short time on the mysterious event of the accomplishment of our redemption. At the blessing of the palms the following gospel is said:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="pf" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">GOSPEL. Matt. xxi. 1-9.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="pf"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">At that time: When Jesus drew nigh to Jerusalem, and was come to Bethphage, unto Mount Olivet: then He sent two disciples, saying to them: Go ye into the village that is over against you, and immediately ye shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her: loose them, and bring them to Me: and if any man shall say anything to you, say ye that the Lord hath need of them, and forthwith he will let them go. Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying: Tell ye the daughter of Sion, behold thy King cometh to thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt, the foal of her that is used to the yoke. And the disciples going, did as Jesus commanded them. And they brought the ass and the colt, and laid their garments upon them, and made Him sit thereon. And a very great multitude spread their garments in the way: and others cut boughs from the trees, and strewed them in the way: and the multitudes that went before, and that followed, cried, saying: Hosanna to the Son of David! blessed is He that cometh in the name of the Lord.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="pf"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Why did Jesus enter with so much solemnity into Jerusalem?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="pf" style="text-indent: 0.3in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">To present Himself as the promised Messiah and King of the Jews, whose triumphant entry into Jerusalem the prophet Zachary had predicted.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="pf"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Why did the people go to meet Jesus with palms in their hands?</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="pf" style="text-indent: 0.3in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">It was done by a divine inspiration, to show that Jesus, as the victor over death, Satan, and hell, would gain for us the palm of peace with God, our neighbor, and ourselves, and that He would open to us the heavenly Jerusalem. And yet these same people, five days later, desired His death, crying out, Crucify Him! Learn, therefore, to confide in God alone, and not in man; for he who is with you to-day may be against you tomorrow. Be cautious, therefore, and watchful, lest, imitating the changeableness of the people, you at Easter receive your Savior with joy, and then after a little by new sins crucify Him again (Heb. vi. 6).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="pf" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">THE PASSION OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="pf" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></p><p align="center" class="pf" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/W9UcImEiF9o" width="320" youtube-src-id="W9UcImEiF9o"></iframe></div><p></p><p align="center" class="pf" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></p><p align="center" class="pf" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">According to Matt. xxvi. and xxvii.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="pf"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">At that time Jesus said to His disciples: You know that after two days shall be the Pasch, and the Son of man shall be delivered up to be crucified. Then were gathered together the chief priests and ancients of the people into the court of the high priest, who was called Caiphas: and they consulted together, that by subtilty they might apprehend Jesus and put Him to death. But they said: Not on the festival-day, lest perhaps there should be a tumult among the people. And when Jesus was in Bethania, in the house of Simon the leper, there came to Him a woman having an alabaster box of precious ointment, and poured it on His head as He was at table. And the disciples seeing it, had indignation, saying: To what purpose is this waste? for this might have been sold for much, and given to the poor. And Jesus, knowing it, said to them: Why do you trouble this woman?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="pf"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">For she hath wrought a good work upon Me. For the poor you have always with you: but Me you have not always. For she, in pouring this ointment upon My body, hath done it for My burial. Amen I say to you, wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, that also which she hath done shall be told for a memory of her. Then went one of the twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, to the chief priests. And said to them: What will you give me, and I will deliver Him unto you?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="pf"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">But they appointed him thirty pieces of silver. And from thenceforth he sought opportunity to betray Him. And on the first day of the Azymes the disciples came to Jesus, saying: Where wilt Thou that we prepare for Thee to eat the Pasch?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="pf"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">But Jesus said: Go ye into the city to a certain man, and say to him: The Master saith: My time is near at hand, with thee I make the Pasch with My disciples. And the disciples did as Jesus appointed to them, and they prepared the Pasch. But when it was evening, He sat down with His twelve disciples. And whilst they were eating, He said: Amen I say to you, that one of you is about to betray Me. And they being very much troubled, began everyone to say: Is it I, Lord?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="pf"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">But He is answering, said: He that dippeth his hand with Me in the dish, he shall betray Me. The Son of man indeed goeth, as it is written of Him: but wo to that man by whom the Son of man shall be betrayed: it were better for him if that man had not been born. And Judas that betrayed Him, answering, said: Is it I, Rabbi?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="pf"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">He saith to him: Thou hast said it. And whilst they were at supper, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and broke: and gave to His disciples, and said: Take ye and eat this is My body. And taking the chalice He gave thanks: and gave to them, saying: Drink ye all of this. For this is My blood of the New Testament, which shall be shed for many unto remission of sins. And I say to you I will not drink from henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I shall drink it with you in the kingdom of My Father. And a hymn being said, they went out unto Mount Olivet. Then Jesus saith to them: All you shall be scandalized in Me this night. For it is written I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be dispersed. But after I shall be risen again, I will go before you into Galilee. And Peter answering, said to Him: Although all shall be scandalized in Thee, I will never be scandalized. Jesus said to him: Amen I say to thee, that in this night before the cock crow, thou wilt deny Me thrice. Peter saith to Him: Yea, though I should die with Thee, I will not deny Thee. And in like manner said all the disciples. Then Jesus came with them into a country place which is called Gethsemane, and He said to His disciples: Sit you here, till I go yonder and pray. And taking with Him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, He began to grow sorrowful and to be sad. Then He saith to them: My soul is sorrowful even unto death: stay you here and watch with Me. And going a little further, He fell upon His face, praying and saying: My Father, if it be possible, let this chalice pass from Me. Nevertheless, not as I will, but as Thou wilt. And He cometh to His disciples, and findeth them asleep, and He saith to Peter: What! could you not watch one hour with Me?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="pf"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Watch ye, and pray that ye enter not into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh weak. Again, the second time He went and prayed, saying: My Father, if this chalice may not pass away, but I must drink it. Thy will be done. And He cometh again, and findeth them sleeping for their eyes were heavy. And leaving them, He went again: and He prayed the third time, saying the self-same word. Then He cometh to His disciples and saith to them: Sleep ye now and take your rest: behold the hour is at hand, and the Son of man shall be betrayed into the hands of sinners. Rise, let us go behold he is at hand that will betray Me. As He yet spoke, behold Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and clubs, sent from the chief priests and the ancients of the people. And he that betrayed Him gave them a sign, saying: Whomsoever I shall kiss, that is He, hold Him fast. And forthwith coming to Jesus, he said: Hail, Rabbi. And he kissed Him. And Jesus said to him: Friend, whereto art thou come?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="pf"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Then they came up and laid hands on Jesus, and held Him. And behold one of them that were with Jesus, stretching forth his hand, drew out his sword, and striking the servant of the high priest, cut off his ear. Then Jesus saith to him: Put up again thy sword into its place: for all that take the sword shall perish with the sword. Thinkest thou that I cannot ask My Father, and He will give Me presently more than twelve legions of angels? How then shall the Scriptures be fulfilled, that so it must be done?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="pf"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">In that same hour Jesus said to the multitude: You are come out as it were to a robber with swords and clubs to apprehend Me. I sat daily with you teaching in the Temple, and you laid not hands on Me. Now all this was done, that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then the disciples all leaving Him, fled. But they holding Jesus led Him to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the ancients were assembled. And Peter followed Him afar off, even to the court of the high priest. And going in he sat with the servants, that he might see the end. And the chief priests and the whole council sought false witness against Jesus that they might put Him to death: and they found not, whereas many false witnesses had come in. And last of all there came two false witnesses, and they said: This man saith, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and after three days to rebuild it. And the high priest rising up, said to Him: Answereth Thou nothing to the things which these witness against Thee?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="pf"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">But Jesus held His peace. And the high priest said to Him: I adjure Thee by the living God, that Thou tell us if Thou be the Christ the Son of God. Jesus saith to him: Thou hast said it; nevertheless, I say to you, hereafter you shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of the power of God, and coming in the clouds of heaven. Then the high priest rent his garments, saying: He hath blasphemed: what further need have we of witnesses? Behold, now you have heard the blasphemy: what think you?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="pf"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">But they answering, said: He is guilty of death. Then did they spit in His face, and buffeted Him, and others struck His face with the palms of their hands, saying: Prophesy unto us, O Christ, who is he that struck Thee?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="pf"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">But Peter sat without in the court: and there came to him a servant maid, saying: Thou also wast with Jesus the Galilean. But he denied before them all, saying I know not what thou sayest. And as he went out of the gate another maid saw him, and she sayeth to them that were there: This man also was with Jesus of Nazareth. And again, he denied with an oath: That I know not the man. And after a little while they came that stood by, and said to Peter: Surely, thou also art one of them: for even thy speech doth discover thee. Then he began to curse and to swear that he knew not the man. And immediately the cock crew. And Peter remembered the word of Jesus which He had said: Before the cock crow, thou wilt deny Me thrice. And going forth he wept bitterly. And when morning was come, all the chief priests and ancients of the people took counsel against Jesus, that they might put Him to death. And they brought Him bound and delivered Him to Pontius Pilate the governor. Then Judas who betrayed Him, seeing that He was condemned, repenting himself, brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and ancients, saying: I have sinned in betraying innocent blood. But they said: What is that to us? look thou to it. And casting down the pieces of silver in the temple he departed: and went and hanged himself with a halter. But the chief priests having taken the pieces of silver, said: It is not lawful to put them into the corbona, because it is the price of blood. And after they had consulted together, they bought with them the potter s field to be a burying- place for strangers. For this cause that field was called Haceldama, that is, the field of blood, even to this day. Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremias the prophet, saying: And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of Him that was prized, Whom they prized of the children of Israel: and they gave them unto the potter’s field, as the Lord appointed to me. And Jesus stood before the governor, and the governor asked Him, saying: Art Thou the King of the Jews?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="pf"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Jesus saith to him: Thou sayest it. And when He was accused by the chief priests and ancients, He answered nothing. Then Pilate saith to Him: Dost not Thou hear how great testimonies they allege against Thee?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="pf"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">And He answered him to never a word: so that the governor wondered exceedingly. Now upon the solemn day the governor was accustomed to release to the people one prisoner, whom they would; and he had then a notorious prisoner that was called Barabbas. They therefore being gathered together, Pilate said: Whom will you that I release to you, Barabbas or Jesus that is called Christ?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="pf"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">For he knew that for envy they had delivered Him. And as he was sitting in the place of judgment his wife sent to him, saying: Have thou nothing to do with that just man; for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of Him. But the chief priests and ancients persuaded the people that they should ask Barabbas, and make Jesus away. And the governor answering said to them: Whether will you of the two to be released unto you? But they said, Barabbas. Pilate saith to them: What shall I do then with Jesus that is called Christ? They say all: Let Him be crucified. The governor said to them: Why, what evil hath He done?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="pf"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">But they cried out the more, saying: Let Him be crucified. And Pilate seeing that he prevailed nothing, but that rather a tumult was made taking water, washed his hands before the people, saying I am innocent of the blood of this just man; look you to it. And the whole people answering, said: His blood be upon us and upon our children. Then he released to them Barabbas: and having scourged Jesus, delivered Him unto them to be crucified. Then the soldiers of the governor taking Jesus into the hall, gathered together unto Him the whole band: and stripping Him, they put a scarlet cloak about Him. And platting a crown of thorns, they put it upon His head, and a reed in His right hand. And bowing the knee before Him, they mocked Him, saying: Hail King of the Jews. And spitting upon Him, they took the reed and struck His head. And after they had mocked Him, they took off the cloak from Him, and put on Him His own garments, and led Him away to crucify Him. And going out they found a man of Gyrene, named Simon: him they forced to take up His cross. And they came to the place that is called Golgotha, which is the place of Calvary. And they gave Him wine to drink mingled with gall. And when He had tasted, He would not drink. And after they had crucified Him, they divided His garments, casting lots: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying: They divided My garments among them, and upon My vesture they cast lots. And they sat and watched Him. And they put over His head His cause, written: THIS is JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS. Then were crucified with Him two thieves: one on the right hand, and one on the left. And they that passed by blasphemed Him, wagging their heads, and saying: Yah, Thou that destroyest the temple of God, and in three days dost rebuild it: save Thy own self: if Thou be the Son of God, come down from the cross. In like manner also the chief priests with the scribes and ancients mocking, said: He saved others, Himself He cannot save: if He be the King of Israel, let Him now come down from the cross, and we will believe Him. He trusted in God: let Him now deliver Him if He will have Him: for He said I am the Son of God. And the self-same thing the thieves also, that were crucified with Him, reproached Him with. Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over the whole earth, until the ninth hour. And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying: Eli, Eli, lamina sabacthaiii? that is, My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="pf"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">And some that stood there and heard, said: This man calleth Elias. And immediately one of them running took a sponge, and filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave Him to drink. And the others said: Let be, let us see whether Elias will come to deliver Him. And Jesus again crying with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. And behold the veil of the temple was rent in two from the top even to the bottom; and the earth quaked, and the rocks were rent. And the graves were opened: and many bodies of the saints that had slept, arose, and coming out of the tombs after His resurrection, came into the holy city, and appeared unto many. Now the centurion, and they that were with him watching Jesus, having seen the earthquake and the things that were done, were sore afraid, saying: Indeed, this was the Son of God. And there were many women afar off, who had followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering unto Him: among whom was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joseph, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee. And when it was evening, there came a certain rich man of Arimathea, named Joseph; who also himself was a disciple of Jesus; he went to Pilate and asked the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded that the body should be delivered. And Joseph taking the body, wrapped it up in a clean linen cloth; and laid it in his own new monument, which he had hewed out in a rock. And he rolled a great stone to the door of the monument and went his way. And there was there Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary sitting over against the sepulcher. And the next day, which followed the day of preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees came together to Pilate, saying: Sir, we have remembered that that seducer said, while He was yet alive: After three days I will rise again. Command therefore the sepulcher to be guarded until the third day: lest perhaps His disciples come and steal Him away, and say to the people: He is risen from the dead: and the last error shall be worse than the first. Pilate said to them: You have a guard: go guard it as you know. And they departing, made the sepulcher sure, sealing the stone, and setting guards.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Things to Do:<a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn8" name="_ftnref8" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn8;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">[8]</span></span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a></span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo6; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: left;">The palms distributed at Mass are blessed, so are sacramentals. Read <a href="http://catholicculture.org/culture/liturgicalyear/activities/view.cfm?id=1035">Blessed Palms in the Home</a>.<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo6; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: left;">This is also known as "Carling Sunday" after carling peas. Pea’s porridge would be an appropriate dish for today. See recipes for suggestions and history behind this tradition.<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo6; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: left;">This is also known as "Fig Sunday" due to the tradition that Christ ate figs after his entry into Jerusalem. Adding some type of figs to your meal would be a nice touch.<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo6; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: left;">Read the short passages from <a href="https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?recnum=4620#66"><i>Directory on Popular Piety</i> concerning Holy Week and Palm Sunday.</a><o:p></o:p></li></ul><p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Holy Week</span></i><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn9" name="_ftnref9" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn9;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">[9]</span></span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></i></span></a><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">WHY is this week called holy week? </i>It is because during this week we celebrate the most important mysteries of our religion with touching and holy ceremonies.<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">How </i>should<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> we spend this week? </i>According to the intention of the Church, by meditating on the sufferings and death of Our Savior, by fasting more strictly, by praying often and devoutly, and leading a holy life.<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="CSP-ChapterTitle"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Timeline of Holy Week</span></b><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn10" name="_ftnref10" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn10;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 11.5px;">[10]</span></span></span></span></a><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo5; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Sunday: Palm/Passion Sunday Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem (Mt 21:1-9; Mk 11:1-10; Lk 19:28-38; Jn12:12-18)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo5; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Fulfills the prophecies of Isaiah 62:11 and Zechariah 9:9<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo5; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Jesus weeps over seeing Jerusalem and predicts its destruction. (Lk 19:39-44)</span></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo5; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></b></p><p class="pf" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">On the Sunday<a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn11" name="_ftnref11" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn11;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">[11]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> before his </span><a href="https://www.thoughtco.com/facts-about-jesus-crucifixion-700752"><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; text-decoration-line: none; text-underline: none;">death</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">, Jesus began his trip to Jerusalem, knowing that soon he would lay down his life for our sins. Nearing the village of Bethphage, he sent two of his </span><a href="https://www.thoughtco.com/the-apostles-701217"><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; text-decoration-line: none; text-underline: none;">disciples</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> ahead, telling them to look for a donkey and its unbroken colt. The disciples were instructed to untie the animals and bring them to him. Then Jesus sat on the young donkey and slowly, humbly, made his </span><a href="https://www.thoughtco.com/palm-sunday-story-700203"><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; text-decoration-line: none; text-underline: none;">triumphal entry</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> into Jerusalem, fulfilling the ancient prophecy in Zechariah 9:9:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="pf" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .1in; margin-right: .1in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.1in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><br /><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">"Rejoice greatly, O Daughter of Zion! Shout, Daughter of Jerusalem! See, your king comes to you, righteous and having salvation, gentle and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey."<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="pf" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></p><p class="pf" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">The crowds welcomed him by </span><a href="https://www.thoughtco.com/palm-branches-bible-story-summary-701202"><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; text-decoration-line: none; text-underline: none;">waving palm branches</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> in the air and shouting, "Hosanna to the Son of </span><a href="https://www.thoughtco.com/king-david-man-after-gods-heart-701169"><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; text-decoration-line: none; text-underline: none;">David</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!" On Palm Sunday, Jesus and his disciples spent the night in Bethany, a town about two miles east of Jerusalem. This is where </span><a href="https://www.thoughtco.com/what-did-lazarus-see-701503"><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; text-decoration-line: none; text-underline: none;">Lazarus</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">, whom Jesus had raised from the dead, and his two sisters, </span><a href="https://www.thoughtco.com/martha-and-mary-bible-story-summary-700065"><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; text-decoration-line: none; text-underline: none;">Mary and Martha</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> lived. They were close friends of Jesus, and probably hosted Him and His disciples during their final days in Jerusalem.</span><b> </b></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Aids in Battle</b><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn12" name="_ftnref12" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn12;" title=""><sup><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[12]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a><i> Know that God has punked the Devil<o:p></o:p></i></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";">Hell, and the Devil have been pillaged, stripped of their ancient armor, robbed of their special power. And just as the giant Goliath had his head cut off with his own sword, so also has the Devil, the father of death, been put to rout through the death of Christ. He finds that the very same weapon he used to wield as the ready tool of his deceit has now become the mighty instrument of his own destruction. We might put it this way: The Devil went fishing and cast his line and hook to catch yet another man in death. But the Man he caught this time was Christ, whose divine nature was hidden within His human nature. For this reason, the martyrs leap upon the head of that dragon the Devil and look with disdain on every kind of torment. ST. GREGORY THAUMATURGUS<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">World Autism Awareness Day</span></b><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn13" name="_ftnref13" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn13;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">[13]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kkr0vLD72kw" width="320" youtube-src-id="kkr0vLD72kw"></iframe></div><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">World Autism Awareness Day seeks to raise awareness of the autism spectrum disorders and improve the lives of those currently living with autism. Autism refers to a lifelong brain development disorder that affects social interactions, learning, routines and communication. It is estimated that approximately 1% of the global </span><a href="https://www.wincalendar.com/World-Population-Day"><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none;">population</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> is autistic. World Autism Awareness Day was designated by the </span><a href="https://www.wincalendar.com/United-Nations-Day"><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none;">United Nations</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> in 2007 in an effort to end stigmatization and </span><a href="https://www.wincalendar.com/Zero-Discrimination-Day"><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none;">discrimination</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> against those with autism. World Autism Day is celebrated annually on April 2nd and fits in with the UN's Agenda for Sustainable Development, which promises to leave no one behind.</span></p><p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">World Autism Awareness Day Facts & Quotes<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p style="margin-left: 0.25in; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo4; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Autism now affects 1 in 68 </span><a href="https://www.wincalendar.com/Universal-Childrens-Day"><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; text-decoration-line: none; text-underline: none;">children</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> and 1 in 42 boys. Boys are 5 times more likely to have autism than </span><a href="https://www.wincalendar.com/International-Day-of-the-Girl"><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; text-decoration-line: none; text-underline: none;">girls</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-left: 0.25in; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo4; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Autism costs a family $60,000 a year on average.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-left: 0.25in; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo4; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">35 % of young adults (aged 19-23) with autism have not had a job or received postgraduate education after leaving high school.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-left: 0.25in; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo4; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Who do you think made the first stone spears? The Asperger guy. If you were to get rid of all the autism genetics, there would be no more Silicon. – Temple Grandin, world-renowned Autism spokesperson and university professor.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">World Autism Awareness Day Top Events and Things to Do<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p style="margin-left: 0.25in; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo4; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Wear blue in order to support World Autism Day. The color blue is internationally recognized as a symbol of support for World Autism Day and it is accompanied by the catchphrase wear blue, April 2.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-left: 0.25in; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo4; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Watch a movie about autism such as <i>Fly Away</i>, <i>Sounding the Alarm</i> and <i>The Story of Luke</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-left: 0.25in; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo4; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Light up your home or your business in blue like many famous buildings or monuments worldwide. There are many ways you can do this. It can be as simple as putting blue plastic over floodlights to project the color blue on your home. You can also use a blue Phillips light bulb, which can be bought at Home Depot.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" style="margin-left: 0.25in; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo4; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Take part in an Autism Speaks Walk that raises money for the cause. You can gather a team and walk in support of someone you know with autism or simply donate, walk and enjoy the day with thousands of others.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b></p><p align="left" style="margin: 0in; tab-stops: 3.0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Catechism of the Catholic Church<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-indent: 0.3in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">PART FOUR: CHRISTIAN PRAYER</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.3in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-indent: 0.3in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">SECTION ONE-PRAYER IN THE CHRISTIAN LIFE</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.6in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-indent: 0.3in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;">CHAPTER TWO-THE TRADITION OF PRAYER</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.9in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-indent: 0.3in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;">Article 1-AT THE WELLSPRINGS OF PRAYER</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.9in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-indent: 0.3in;"><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/emd09C-0v6Q" width="320" youtube-src-id="emd09C-0v6Q"></iframe></b></div><p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b>IN BRIEF</b><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><i>2661</i></b><i> By a living transmission -Tradition - the Holy Spirit in the Church teaches the children of God to pray.</i><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><i>2662</i></b><i> The Word of God, the liturgy of the Church, and the virtues of faith, hope, and charity are sources of prayer.</i><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><v:shapetype coordsize="21600,21600" filled="f" id="_x0000_t75" o:preferrelative="t" o:spt="75" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" stroked="f"><v:stroke joinstyle="miter"><v:formulas><v:f eqn="if lineDrawn pixelLineWidth 0"><v:f eqn="sum @0 1 0"><v:f eqn="sum 0 0 @1"><v:f eqn="prod @2 1 2"><v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelWidth"><v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelHeight"><v:f eqn="sum @0 0 1"><v:f eqn="prod @6 1 2"><v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelWidth"><v:f eqn="sum @8 21600 0"><v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelHeight"><v:f eqn="sum @10 21600 0"></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:f></v:formulas><v:path gradientshapeok="t" o:connecttype="rect" o:extrusionok="f"><o:lock aspectratio="t" v:ext="edit"></o:lock></v:path></v:stroke></v:shapetype><v:shape alt="Image result for seal of the catholic church" id="Picture_x0020_51" o:spid="_x0000_s1026" style="height: 61pt; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.8pt; mso-height-percent: 0; mso-height-relative: page; mso-position-horizontal-relative: margin; mso-position-horizontal: left; mso-position-vertical-relative: text; mso-position-vertical: absolute; mso-width-percent: 0; mso-width-relative: page; mso-wrap-distance-bottom: 0; mso-wrap-distance-left: 9pt; mso-wrap-distance-right: 9pt; mso-wrap-distance-top: 0; mso-wrap-style: square; position: absolute; visibility: visible; width: 54.45pt; z-index: -251544534;" type="#_x0000_t75"><v:imagedata o:title="Image result for seal of the catholic church" src="file:///C:/Users/rhave/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image001.jpg"><w:wrap anchorx="margin" type="tight"></w:wrap></v:imagedata></v:shape><span style="color: black;">THIS WE BELIEVE<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.3333px;">PRAYERS AND TEACHINGS OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b>Seven Capital Sins</b><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn14" name="_ftnref14" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn14;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">[14]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><o:p></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/tMjF_100onI" width="320" youtube-src-id="tMjF_100onI"></iframe></div><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">The Catechism of the Catholic Church also refers to these sins as “capital sins” and explains why they are the most dangerous. “Vices can be classified according to the virtues they oppose, or also be linked to capital sins which Christian experience has distinguished, following St. John Cassian and St. Gregory the Great. They are called “capital” because they engender other sins, other vices. They are pride, avarice [greed], envy, wrath, lust, gluttony and sloth” (No. <a href="http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/para/1866.htm">1866</a>).</p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b>1.</b> <b>Pride:</b> an excessive love of self or the desire to be better or more important than others. “Respect for the human person proceeds by way of respect for the principle that ‘everyone should look upon his neighbor (without exception) as “another self,” above all bearing in mind his life and the means necessary for living it with dignity’” (No. <a href="http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/para/1931.htm">1931</a>).<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b>2. Lust:</b> an intense desire, usually for sexual pleasure, but also for money, power or fame. “The God of promises always warned man against seduction by what from the beginning has seemed ‘good for food … a delight to the eyes … to be desired to make one wise’” (No. <a href="http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/para/2541.htm">2541</a>).<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b>3. Gluttony:</b> overconsumption, usually of food or drink. “The virtue of temperance disposes us to avoid every kind of excess: the abuse of food, alcohol, tobacco or medicine” (No. <a href="http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/para/2290.htm">2290</a>).<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b>4.</b> <b>Greed:</b> the desire for and love of possessions. “Sin … is a failure in genuine love for God and neighbor caused by a perverse attachment to certain goods” (No. <a href="http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/para/1849.htm">1849</a>).<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b>5.</b> <b>Sloth (or Acedia):</b> physical laziness, also disinterest in spiritual matters or neglecting spiritual growth. “Acedia or spiritual sloth goes so far as to refuse the joy that comes from God and to be repelled by divine goodness” (No. <a href="http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/para/2094.htm">2094</a>).<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b>6. Anger or wrath:</b> uncontrolled feelings of hatred or rage. “Anger is a desire for revenge … The Lord says, ‘Everyone who is angry with his brother shall be liable to judgment’” (No. <a href="http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/para/2302.htm">2302</a>).<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b>7.</b> <b>Envy:</b> sadness or desire for the possessions, happiness, talents or abilities of another “Envy can lead to the worst crimes. ‘Through the devil’s envy death entered the world’” (No. <a href="http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/para/2553.htm">2553</a>).<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Daily Devotions<o:p></o:p></b></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo3; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: black;">Today in honor of the Holy Trinity do the </span><a href="http://www.icemanforchrist.org/p/liturgy-of-hours.html">Divine Office</a><span style="color: black;"> giving your day to God. To honor God REST: no shopping after 6 pm Saturday till Monday</span><o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in 0in 0.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo3; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Unite in the work of the <a href="https://portersofstjoseph.org/">Porters of St. Joseph</a> by joining them in fasting: Today's Fast: <a href="http://www.icemanforchrist.org/2018/05/saturday-may-12-2018.html">Restoring the Church</a><o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; 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margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo3; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="https://stjosephnovena.com/day-14/">30 Days with St. Joseph Day 14</a><o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo2; 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mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="http://www.icemanforchrist.org/p/universal-man-plan-phase-4-st-joseph.html"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU;">Universal Man Plan</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><div style="mso-element: footnote-list;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><br clear="all" /><hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /><!--[endif]--><div id="ftn1" style="mso-element: footnote;"><p class="MsoFootnoteText"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 11.5px;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> <span style="line-height: 11.5px;">Venerable Mary of Agreda. The Mystical City of God:</span><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="ftn2" style="mso-element: footnote;"><p class="MsoFootnoteText"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 11.5px;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> <span style="line-height: 11.5px;">Venerable Mary of Agreda. The Mystical City of God:</span><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="ftn3" style="mso-element: footnote;"><p class="MsoFootnoteText"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftnref3" name="_ftn3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 11.5px;">[3]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> <span style="line-height: 11.5px;">Venerable Mary of Agreda. The Mystical City of God:</span><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="ftn4" style="mso-element: footnote;"><p class="MsoFootnoteText"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftnref4" name="_ftn4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 11.5px;">[4]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> <span style="line-height: 11.5px;">Venerable Mary of Agreda. The Mystical City of God:</span><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="ftn5" style="mso-element: footnote;"><p class="MsoFootnoteText"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftnref5" name="_ftn5" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn5;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 11.5px;">[5]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> <span style="line-height: 11.5px;">Venerable Mary of Agreda. The Mystical City of God:</span><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="ftn6" style="mso-element: footnote;"><p class="MsoFootnoteText"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftnref6" name="_ftn6" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn6;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 11.5px;">[6]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><a href="https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?id=419"><span style="line-height: 11.5px;">https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?id=419</span></a><span style="line-height: 11.5px;"></span><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="ftn7" style="mso-element: footnote;"><p class="MsoFootnoteText"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftnref7" name="_ftn7" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn7;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 11.5px;">[7]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> <span style="line-height: 11.5px;">Goffine’s Divine Instructions, 1896.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="ftn8" style="mso-element: footnote;"><p class="MsoFootnoteText"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftnref8" name="_ftn8" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn8;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 11.5px;">[8]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><a href="https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/liturgicalyear/calendar/day.cfm?date=2018-03-25"><span style="line-height: 11.5px;">https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/liturgicalyear/calendar/day.cfm?date=2018-03-25</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="ftn9" style="mso-element: footnote;"><p class="MsoFootnoteText"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftnref9" name="_ftn9" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn9;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 11.5px;">[9]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="line-height: 11.5px;">Goffine’s Devout instructions, 1896.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="ftn10" style="mso-element: footnote;"><p class="MsoFootnoteText"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftnref10" name="_ftn10" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn10;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 11.5px;">[10]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="line-height: 11.5px;">https://www.catholicconvert.com/wp-content/uploads/Timeline-of-Holy-Week.pdf</span><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="ftn11" style="mso-element: footnote;"><p class="MsoFootnoteText"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftnref11" name="_ftn11" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn11;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 11.5px;">[11]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="line-height: 11.5px;">https://www.thoughtco.com/holy-week-timeline-700618</span><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="ftn12" style="mso-element: footnote;"><p class="MsoFootnoteText"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftnref12" name="_ftn12" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn12;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 11.5px;">[12]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> <span style="line-height: 11.5px;">Thigpen, Paul. Manual for Spiritual Warfare. TAN Books.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="ftn13" style="mso-element: footnote;"><p class="MsoFootnoteText"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftnref13" name="_ftn13" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn13;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 11.5px;">[13]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="line-height: 11.5px;">https://www.wincalendar.com/World-Autism-Awareness-Day</span><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="ftn14" style="mso-element: footnote;"><p class="MsoFootnoteText"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftnref14" name="_ftn14" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn14;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 11.5px;">[14]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="line-height: 11.5px;"><a href="https://www.simplycatholic.com/understanding-the-7-deadly-sins/">https://www.simplycatholic.com/understanding-the-7-deadly-sins/</a></span></span><o:p></o:p></p><div><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></div></div></div>IcemanforChristhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10737122933196184713noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8604232804852757560.post-20085696430519336942024-03-17T06:59:00.000-07:002024-03-17T11:44:00.161-07:00Saturday, March 23, 2024<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/EpDXnfEBzKA" width="320" youtube-src-id="EpDXnfEBzKA"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Pz0R8jfg57A" width="320" youtube-src-id="Pz0R8jfg57A"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; color: var(--ast-global-color-2); display: var(--page-title-display); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 2rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.manandwar.com/2023/01/31/full-list-of-virtues-from-father-ripperger/">Full List of Virtues – From Father Ripperger</a></h1></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZPcBJ51jNSc" width="320" youtube-src-id="ZPcBJ51jNSc"></iframe></div><br /><div><br /></div>IcemanforChristhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10737122933196184713noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8604232804852757560.post-7890424144123700322024-03-13T16:28:00.000-07:002024-03-13T16:28:07.926-07:00Eclipse, Prophecies & A Cardinal's Call: Is This Our last Chance?<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/KlN1P1u5lws?si=23Y4bA72zm1OKnw5" frameborder="0"></iframe>IcemanforChristhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10737122933196184713noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8604232804852757560.post-4335844503871335382024-03-13T07:08:00.000-07:002024-03-18T20:06:47.948-07:00Tuesday, March 19, 2024<p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/lmPrUFguQ0Y" width="320" youtube-src-id="lmPrUFguQ0Y"></iframe></b></div><p></p><p><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">MARCH 19 Tuesday-Solemnity </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">of St.
Joseph</span></b></p><p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">SPRING BEGINS</span> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>John,
Chapter 9, Verse 22<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>His
parents said this because they were <i>AFRAID</i> of the Jews, for the Jews had
already agreed that if anyone acknowledged him as the Messiah, he would be
expelled from the synagogue.</b><b> </b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Christ had healed a man born blind to
these parents on the Sabbath and in this verse the Jews questioned them about
it and they were frightened as to the outcome. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">The synagogue and the academy were the
two institutions which preserved the essence of the Judaism of the Diaspora and
saved it from annihilation. As the place of public worship, the synagogue
became the pivot of each community, just as the Sanctuary at Jerusalem had been
the center for the entire people. The synagogue, consequently, is the most
important feature of the Jewish community, which is inconceivable without it.<a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">[1]</span></span></sup></sup></a> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">This was the equivalent to a social
and spiritual death. To be expelled was alike to being made a leper and having
a life of living death. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">It was worse than being defriended on
Facebook! </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a name="51009035">“When Jesus heard
that they had thrown him out, he found him and said, “Do you believe in the Son
of Man?” </a><a name="51009036"></a>He answered and said, “Who is he, sir,
that I may believe in him?” <a name="51009037"></a>Jesus
said to him, “You have seen him and the one speaking with you is he.”<a name="51009038"></a> He said, “I do believe, Lord,” and he worshiped him. (John 9: 35-38). </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Do you
belong to any human organizations that have blinded you to the truth? Are you
afraid of being expelled by others if you truly believed? Walk into the light of Christ and “Be
not afraid<b>”</b>. </p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><i>Opus Dei</i><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">[2]</span></span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup></a><b><o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">Work, family
life, and the ordinary events of each day are opportunities for drawing close
to Christ and making Him known to others. As the Second Vatican Council taught,
every baptized person is called to follow Christ closely, by living according
to the Gospel and making its teachings known to others. The aim of Opus Dei is
to contribute to that evangelizing mission of the Church, by fostering among
Christians of all social classes a life fully consistent with their faith, in
the middle of the ordinary circumstances of their lives and especially through
the sanctification of their work. The following are some of the main features
of the spirit of Opus Dei:<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->“<i>Divine filiation</i> is the foundation of
the spirit of Opus Dei,” said its founder, Saint Josemaría Escrivá. A Christian
is a child of God by virtue of baptism. Thus, the formation provided by the
Prelature seeks to foster among the Christian faithful a deep awareness of their
being children of God, and helps them act accordingly. It fosters confidence in
divine providence, simplicity in their dialogue with God, a deep awareness of
the dignity of each human being and of the need for fraternity among all people,
a truly Christian love for the world and for all human realities created by
God, and a sense of calm and optimism.<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><i>Ordinary<span style="color: #c0504d;"> </span>life<span style="color: #c0504d;">.</span></i> “It is in the midst of the most material things of the earth that we
<i>must</i> sanctify ourselves, serving God
and all mankind,” said Saint Josemaría. The family, marriage, work – all of our
activities – are opportunities for drawing close to and imitating Jesus, trying
to practice charity, patience, humility, diligence, integrity, cheerfulness,
and all the other human and Christian virtues.<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><i>Sanctifying work</i> means to work with the spirit of
Christ, to work competently and ethically, with the aim of loving God and
serving others, and thus to sanctify the world from within, making the Gospel
present in all activities whether they be outstanding or humble and hidden. In
the eyes of God what matters is the love that is put into work, not its human
success.<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><i>Prayer<span style="color: #c0504d;"> </span>and<span style="color: #c0504d;"> </span>sacrifice<span style="color: #c0504d;">.</span></i> The formation given by Opus Dei
encourages prayer and sacrifice in order to sustain the effort to sanctify
one’s ordinary occupations. Thus, members strive to incorporate into their
lives certain practices of Christian piety, such as prayer, daily Mass,
sacramental confession, and reading and meditating on the Gospel. Devotion to
our Lady occupies an <i>important</i> place
in their hearts. Also, in striving to imitate Christ, they try to acquire a
spirit of penance by offering up small sacrifices, particularly those that help
them fulfill their duties faithfully and make life more pleasant for others,
such as renouncing small pleasures, fasting, almsgiving, etc.<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><i>Unity<span style="color: #c0504d;"> </span>of
life<span style="color: #c0504d;">.</span></i> Saint Josemaría explained that Christians working in the world
should not live “a kind of double life. On the one hand, an interior life, a
life of union with God; and on the other, a separate and distinct professional,
social and family life.” On the contrary: “There is just one life, made of
flesh and spirit. And it is this life which has to become, in both soul and
body, holy and filled with God.”<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><i>Freedom.</i> The members of Opus Dei are ordinary
citizens who enjoy the same rights and are subject to the same obligations as
any other citizen. In their professional, family, political, financial or
cultural activities, they act with freedom and personal responsibility, not
involving the Church or Opus Dei in their decisions, nor presenting those
decisions as the only Catholic solutions. This implies respecting the freedom
and the opinions of others.<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><i>Charity<span style="color: #c0504d;">.</span></i> To meet Christ is to find a treasure
that one cannot stop sharing. Christians are witnesses to Jesus and spread his
message of hope among their companions, with their example and their words.
“Side by side with our colleagues, friends and relatives and sharing their
interests, we can help them come closer to Christ,” wrote Saint Josemaría. The
wish to make others know Christ, which is a direct consequence of charity (that
is, love of God above all things and of one’s neighbor as oneself), cannot be
separated from the desire to contribute to finding solutions to the material
needs and social problems of one’s surroundings.<b> </b></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Solemnity </b><b>of St. Joseph</b><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">[3]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><b><o:p></o:p></b></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7bUxq0JDqbw" width="320" youtube-src-id="7bUxq0JDqbw"></iframe></p><p class="po" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></p><p class="po" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">ST.
JOSEPH was descended from the kingly line of David and was a kinsman of the
Blessed Virgin Mary (Matt. i. 1-16). The Gospel gives him the praise of being
just (Matt. i. 19), that is, a man distinguished for all virtues. And surely,
as he was chosen from all other men by God to be the foster-father of His Son,
he undoubtedly excelled, in virtues and sanctity, all saints then living. Of
his youth nothing certain is known to us, and of his later life we know only
what the Gospel relates. He was a carpenter (Matt. xiii. 55), and lived at
Nazareth, in Galilee (Luke ii. 4). Being espoused to Mary, he was inclined,
upon learning that she was with child, to put her away privately, not wishing
to expose her to public reproach but being instructed by an angel, he took her
to himself, in obedience to the command of God, went with her to Bethlehem, and
afterwards, with Mary and the new-born child, fled, without timidity, to Egypt
(Matt. ii. 13). At the command of the angel, he returned thence, and again
dwelt in Nazareth (Matt. ii. 23). From this place they went every year to the
feast at Jerusalem, where it happened that Jesus, then twelve years old,
remained behind them in the temple, and was anxiously sought for by them. More
than this is not told us. At the time of the marriage at Cana it would seem
that he was no longer living, since there is no mention made of him. Though
little is said of him, that little is rich in profitable instruction. How
worthy to be admired and imitated is his example his chastity, his tenderness
towards Mary, his forbearing to pronounce a judgment in regard to her condition
when he could not explain it, his quick and unreserved obedience towards God
and the commands of authority, his love for Jesus, and his care for both the
mother and the child. On account of his sanctity God has specially
distinguished him by miracles, and the Church honors him in a particular
manner. In the Litany of the Saints, he is named among the patriarchs, and the
feast of his patronage is celebrated on the third Sunday after Easter.
Venerate, therefore, St. Joseph choose him for your protector in life and in
death and make yourself worthy of his protection by following his example.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="po" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></p><p align="left" class="po" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">The Introit of the Mass is as
follows: " The just shall flourish like the palm-tree; he shall grow up
like the cedar of Libanus, planted in the house of the Lord, in the courts of
the house of our God. It is good to give praise to the Lord, and to sing to Thy
name, O Most High." Amen. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="po" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="po" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Prayer.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="po" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></p><p align="left" class="po" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">We beseech Thee, O Lord, that we
may be assisted by the merits of the spouse of Thy most holy Mother, that what
of our selves we are unable to obtain may be given to us by his intercession. Amen.
<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="po" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="po" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">EPISTLE. Ecclus. xlv. 1-6.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p align="left" class="po" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></p><p align="left" class="po" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">He was beloved of God and men:
whose memory is in benediction. He made him like the saints in glory, and
magnified him in the fear of his enemies, and with his words he made prodigies
to cease. He glorified him in the sight of kings, and gave him commandments in
the sight of his people, and showed him His glory. He sanctified him in his
faith and meekness, and chose him out of all flesh. For He heard him, and his
voice, and brought him into a cloud. And He gave him commandments before his
face, and a law of life and instruction. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="po" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="po" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">GOSPEL. Matt. i. 18-21.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p align="center" class="po" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></i></p><p align="center" class="po" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/uqEtHB80r5w" width="320" youtube-src-id="uqEtHB80r5w"></iframe></i></div><p></p><p align="left" class="po" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></p><p class="po" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">When
Mary, the Mother of Jesus, was espoused to Joseph, before they came together,
she was found with child, of the Holy Ghost. Whereupon Joseph her husband,
being a just man, and not willing publicly to expose her was minded to put her
away privately. But while he thought on these things, be hold the angel of the
Lord appeared to him in his sleep, saying: Joseph, son of David, fear not to
take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy
Ghost; and she shall bring forth a Son: and thou shalt call His name JESUS: for
He shall save His people from their sins.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="po" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="po" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Instruction<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p align="center" class="po" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></i></p><p class="po" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">To
encourage us to veneration for St. Joseph St. Teresa wrote “I do not remember
to have asked St. Joseph for anything which he did not grant me. The great
favors which God has granted me through him, and the many dangers of soul and
body from which he has freed me, truly deserve admiration. It seems that God
has granted to other saints the grace of assisting, in particular needs, those
who invoke their intercession; but this glorious saint assists in all needs.
The Lord seems thereby to indicate that, as He was subject to Joseph on earth,
so now He grants him whatever he asks for. The same thing has been experienced
by persons whom I have advised to recommend themselves to him.” “I would gladly
advise everyone,” says St. Alphonsus, to have a great devotion towards this
saint, since I have experienced what graces he can obtain from God. For several
years I have asked him, on his feast, for some particular grace, and every time
my petition has been granted. As we all have to die, we should have a particular
devotion towards St. Joseph, that he may obtain for us a happy death for all
Catholic Christians consider him to be an intercessor for the dying, and that
he assists, at the hour of death, those who venerate him; and this for three
reasons <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="po" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></p><p class="po" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .1in; margin-right: .1in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.1in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">1. Because
Jesus loves him, not only as a friend, but as a father, on which account his
intercession is more powerful than that of any other saint. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="po" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .1in; margin-right: .1in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.1in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></p><p class="po" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .1in; margin-right: .1in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.1in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">2. Because
St. Joseph obtained special power against the evil spirits who tempt us at the
hour of death. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="po" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .1in; margin-right: .1in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.1in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></p><p class="po" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .1in; margin-right: .1in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.1in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">3. The
assistance which Jesus and Mary gave to Joseph at the hour of his own death
procured for him the right to obtain a holy and easy death for his dependents.
If in their dying hour they invoke his aid, not only will he assist them, but
he will obtain for them the assistance of Jesus and Mary. “Ought not these
words of a great saint encourage you to venerate St. Joseph every day? Should
not the hope of dying one day under the protection of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph,
move you to devotion to the foster-father of Jesus?”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="po" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="po" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Prayer
to St. Joseph<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p align="center" class="po" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="po" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">O
most chaste Joseph, who, by thy purity and other exalted virtues, wast worthy
to be chosen for the spouse of Mary and the foster-father of Jesus, I beseech
thee, by the great graces of which thou wast made partaker, that thou wouldst,
by thy intercession, obtain for all parents grace to rear their children
piously; for all married persons who are distressed and afflicted through
poverty and tribulations consolation and encouragement; for all unmarried
persons who have devoted their chastity to God the grace of perseverance; and,
finally, for all the dying the grace to come, after a happy death, to thy
fosterchild, Jesus Christ, Who, with the Father and the Holy Ghost, liveth and
reigneth one God, world without end. Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="po" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></p><p class="po" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Meditate
on the humility of Saint Joseph this day; ask his assistance and special
protection.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Things to
Do:</span></i><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">[4]</span></span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></i></span></a><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->A table overflowing with good Italian food
honoring St. Joseph is a traditional Sicilian custom. The feast of San Giuseppe
began in the Middle Ages when Sicily was suffering from a severe drought and
the desperate people begged St. Joseph for rain. When they received rainy
weather in response, they held a huge "feste" in Saint Joseph's
honor. Even today, Sicilians go to Mass before their St. Joseph's day dinner
and then process to their festive tables, decked out in flowers, breads, and
all sorts of Italian foods. The priest blesses the food, and everyone shouts, <i>"Viva
la tavola di San Giuse!"</i> (which your children will readily do with
great gusto). After the meal is done, everyone present is given something to
take home, in the generous spirit of this day. Try some of our delicious
recipes linked here. We especially recommend the traditional <a href="https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/liturgicalyear/recipes/view.cfm?id=34">Minestrone</a>.
Italian sausage is always a favorite, as well. And you should have bread of all
kinds — this recipe for <a href="https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/liturgicalyear/recipes/view.cfm?id=1201">Italian
Decorative Breads</a> can provide the traditional shape of your choice (St.
Joseph's staff, his beard, etc). Also a traditional must with children is <a href="https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/liturgicalyear/recipes/view.cfm?id=218">St.
Joseph's Sfinge</a>, (Cream Puffs). Plan a St. Joseph's potluck for this day
with other Catholic families — invite a parish priest and ask his blessing over
the food before you begin the meal. If you do not have the time or resources to
do this, plan a smaller affair with your own family, complete with prayers to
St. Joseph, a little procession with candles for the older children and your
favorite hymns, and then the father of the family ought to say a special
blessing over the food before you begin.<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->Check out this wonderful site that explains the <a href="http://politickles.com/thankevann/stjoseph/" target="_blank">St. Joseph
Altar</a> more in detail, includes recipes, history, and allows virtual
offerings. <o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->For further reading: <o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]-->1.<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span><!--[endif]--><a href="https://www.amazon.com/St-Joseph-Altars-Kerri-McCaffety/dp/1589801407/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1394761421&sr=8-1">Saint
Joseph Altars</a> by Kerri McCaffety (Photographer).<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]-->2.<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span><!--[endif]--><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Table-Saint-Joseph-Celebrating-Traditions/dp/149081647X/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1394761421&sr=8-2">A
Table for Saint Joseph: Celebrating March 19th with Devotions, Authentic
Italian Recipes, and Timeless Traditions</a> by Mary Anne Scanlan Grasso.<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]-->3.<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span><!--[endif]--><a href="https://www.amazon.com/The-Saint-Josephs-Table-Cookbook/dp/0982574592/ref=pd_sim_b_1?ie=UTF8&refRID=09F80X2RQFNWEVT6J9HC">The
Saint Joseph's Day Table Cookbook</a> by Mary Ann Giordano.<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]-->4.<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span><!--[endif]-->Read the section of <a href="https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?recnum=4620#115"><i>Directory
on Popular Piety and Liturgy</i></a> on St. Joseph.<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]-->5.<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span><!--[endif]-->Read Pope Leo XIII's encyclical on <a href="https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?recnum=4882">Devotion
to St. Joseph</a>.<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]-->6.<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span><!--[endif]-->Interested in history? Read this article on the history
of devotions to St. Joseph, <a href="https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?recnum=4464" target="_blank">Finding St. Joseph</a>, by Sandra Miesel.<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->Pray this <a href="https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/liturgicalyear/prayers/view.cfm?id=226" target="_blank">prayer</a> and <a href="https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/liturgicalyear/prayers/view.cfm?id=1006">litany</a>
in honor of St. Joseph with your family rosary tonight.<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->Here is a link to several <a href="https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?recnum=3333">meditations
on St. Joseph</a> — choose the one that is perfect for you and your family!<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->Here are some <a href="https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/liturgicalyear/activities/view.cfm?id=359">ideas</a>
for teaching children about St. Joseph. <o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->Young girls ought to pray to St. Joseph for
their future spouse.<o:p></o:p></p><p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">St Joseph Facts & Quotes</span></i><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">[5]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p align="left" style="margin: 5pt 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Joseph
is noted in the Bible for being a direct descendant of King David in the Old
Testament, which gives him a royal lineage (Matthew 1:1-16, Luke 3:23-38).
<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" style="margin: 5pt 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">St.
Joseph actually has two feast days in the Roman Catholic Church. The
March 19 date celebrates him as husband of Mary. He is revered again on
May 1 as a worker. In the Orthodox tradition, Joseph is revered during
the Great Feast of the Nativity of Our Lord in September.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" style="margin: 5pt 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">St
Joseph is the patron saint of the dying and of carpenters.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">St Joseph Top Events and Things to
Do<a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">[6]</span></span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p align="left" style="margin: 5pt 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Practice
carpentry skills to build something. Jesus is known as the son of a
carpenter, or builder. Saint Joseph is the patron saint of carpenters.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" style="margin: 5pt 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Investigate
your lineage. Genealogy can sometimes yield interesting information about
where we came from. Maybe you come from royal lineage, too!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" style="margin: 5pt 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Joseph
raised a child that was not his own. Thank a man who has served as a
father for someone else's </span><a href="http://www.wincalendar.com/Universal-Childrens-Day"><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none;">children</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" style="margin: 5pt 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Enjoy
Italian food in St. Joseph's honor. He is one of the most beloved saints
in Italian American communities. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" style="margin: 5pt 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Visit
an Italian Bakery and pick up some delicious St Joseph's bread (Pane di San
Giuseppe). St. Joseph's Bread is typically made with egg and has a
thicker crust. It is often marked or shaped in a cross.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->3<a href="https://stjosephnovena.com/day-1/">0 Days with St. Joseph (Start on Feast
of St. Joseph)</a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/cUuqqmNNW5o" width="320" youtube-src-id="cUuqqmNNW5o"></iframe></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><strong><i>Joseph
the Warrior</i></strong><i><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://stjosephnovena.com/day-22/"><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">https://stjosephnovena.com/day-22/</span></i></a><o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">All of us have heard the phrase,
“Nice guys finish last.” There is this idea in the world today that
“Meekness equals weakness,” and humility so often implied that you will get
walked on. Unfortunately, in many cases the meek and the humble do very well go
unnoticed in their accomplishments and may not get the same attention, job
opportunities or as many “likes” on their latest social media
sites. Instead of encouraging men to be meek and humble, the world teaches
men to go out into the world and dominate. We are encouraged to
out-perform others so as to prove ourselves through our bank accounts, our
possessions and our record of achievements. As someone once said, “Money
is just a way of keeping score.” Many men are totally dedicated to winning
the game, as if life were a game to begin with.</span></p><p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/0Ngb32wNvQo" width="320" youtube-src-id="0Ngb32wNvQo"></iframe></div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
Nevertheless, Christian men are called to be meek and humble. “Far from being
weak, however, the meek possess an inner strength to restrain anger and
discouragement in the midst of adversity” (<em>Ignatius Catholic Study Bible</em>).
We can practice these ideals in the simple ways in which we respond to the
challenges of everyday life. Whether our wives snap at us at the end of a long
and frustrating day, or a guy rudely cuts us off on the freeway, our responses
define us. It is inevitable that life will provide us with major adversities in
which to practice these difficult virtues! How you respond to God’s grace can
truly make or break these experiences. We are called to be charitable, to love
others and even pray for our enemies. It takes heroic strength and defining
virtue!<br />
<br />
Courage is also needed in order to withstand the storms of life that come our
way. I can’t help but call to mind one of my favorite speeches from the classic
movie, <em>The Count of Monte Cristo</em>:</span><p></p><p style="margin-bottom: 6pt; text-align: left;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/QxdY1CwBzSM" width="320" youtube-src-id="QxdY1CwBzSM"></iframe></p><p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Life is a storm my young friend,
you will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next.
What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes. You must look into
the storm as you shout as you did in Rome. Do your worst for I will do mine.
Then the Fates will know you as we know you as Albert Mondego, the man.<br />
<br />
There is something compelling in a man that seems to be calling us to fight and
compete; but where is our ultimate battle? With whom are we fighting?<br />
<br />
Joseph is our ultimate example of what it means to live authentic masculine
Christianity. He was quite possibly the meekest and most humble of all. Yet at
the same time, he was without question a warrior and a fighter. He participated
in the greatest battle of all time. However, it was precisely his humility and
meekness that allowed him to trample over the Evil One rather than faltering
before him.<br />
<br />
St. John Paul II proclaimed, “The family is placed at the heart of the great
struggle between good and evil, between life and death, between love and all
that is opposed to love” (Letter to Families, #23). Pope John Paul II insists
that at the core and heart of Satan’s attack is the family. We see this vividly
played out in the book of Revelation. “And the dragon stood before the woman
who was about to bear a child, that he might devour her child when she brought
it forth; she brought forth a male child, one who is to rule all the nations
with a rod of iron, but her child was caught up to God and to his throne” (Rev
12:4-5).<br />
<br />
The Church understands this passage to have multiple meanings, but it is
particularly clear that evil is attacking Our Lady and the Christ-child. This
verse strikingly illustrates the attack of Satan at the very heart of the
family. This is both a <strong>spiritual</strong> and a <strong>practical</strong> truth.<br />
<br />
God chose Joseph for this battle because Joseph was a warrior for God. When
Joseph said “Yes” to take Mary as his bride and Jesus as his Son, he was
avowing “Yes” to engage in the most epic battle in human history. He was
prepared to fight to the end to keep his family safe. From the beginning of
Christ’s life, the powers of darkness wanted Joseph’s child dead and were
willing to go to extreme lengths to accomplish their ambition. It’s
incredibly ironic that Herod needed to take the life of an infant, the weakest
and most helpless of mankind, in order for him to remain in a position of
absolute power and strength. Herod represents an icon of what men who desire
power over humility are willing to do and what men of humility are up against.<br />
<br />
On the other hand, Joseph was willing to do whatever the Lord asked of him no
matter what the personal cost. What strength! Most men lack the strength
because most men lack the meekness.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Spring Begins</span></b><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn7" name="_ftnref7" title=""><sup><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">[7]</span></span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/1zY1orxW8Aw" width="320" youtube-src-id="1zY1orxW8Aw"></iframe></div><p></p><p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Spring
traditionally marks the end of </span><a href="https://www.wincalendar.com/Winter-Solstice"><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none;">winter</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> and
the beginning of a season that signifies longer days and warmer temperatures.
The first day of Spring is also known as the Vernal Equinox. This
marks the day that the Sun's path is directly over the equator. This day
also contains equal amount of daytime and nighttime. This day typically
occurs each year on March 20, and on March 21 on some years.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></p><p align="center" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">The First Day of
Spring is also called the Vernal Equinox.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.25in; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo7; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">The
Vernal Equinox is the day of the year where there are exactly 12 hours of
daylight and 12 hours of dark in the Northern Hemisphere.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.25in; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo7; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">On
the vernal equinox, the Sun crosses the equator into the Northern Hemisphere.
This has the effect of making the days longer in the Northern Hemisphere
until the </span><a href="https://www.wincalendar.com/Summer-Solstice"><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none;">Summer Solstice</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> occurs.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.25in; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo7; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">The
Egyptian Great Sphinx points directly at the Sun on this day.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 6pt; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Vernal Equinox-Spring Begins Top
Events and Things to Do<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.25in; mso-list: l7 level1 lfo8; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Visit
a nursery and purchase seeds or plants.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.25in; mso-list: l7 level1 lfo8; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Start
your spring cleaning.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.25in; mso-list: l7 level1 lfo8; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Plan
your flower beds and garden.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" style="margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Put
away winter clothes and prepare summer clothes.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p align="left" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Catechism
of the Catholic Church<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: 0.3in;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">PART THREE: LIFE IN CHRIST</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.3in; text-indent: 0.3in;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">SECTION TWO-THE TEN COMMANDMENTS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.9in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">CHAPTER
TWO-YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.9in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-indent: 0.3in;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Article 7-THE SEVENTH COMMANDMENT<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.2in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-indent: 0.3in;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">III. The Social Doctrine of the Church</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.2in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-indent: 0.3in;"><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/n0K4dCyoivg" width="320" youtube-src-id="n0K4dCyoivg"></iframe></b></div><p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2419 "Christian revelation
. . . promotes deeper understanding of the laws of social
living." The Church receives from the Gospel the full revelation of
the truth about man. When she fulfills her mission of proclaiming the Gospel,
she bears witness to man, in the name of Christ, to his dignity and his
vocation to the communion of persons. She teaches him the demands of justice
and peace in conformity with divine wisdom.<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2420 The Church makes a moral
judgment about economic and social matters, "when the fundamental rights
of the person or the salvation of souls requires it." In the moral
order she bears a mission distinct from that of political authorities: the
Church is concerned with the temporal aspects of the common good because they
are ordered to the sovereign Good, our ultimate end. She strives to inspire
right attitudes with respect to earthly goods and in socio-economic
relationships.<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2421 The social doctrine of the
Church developed in the nineteenth century when the Gospel encountered modern
industrial society with its new structures for the production of consumer
goods, its new concept of society, the state and authority, and its new forms
of labor and ownership. The development of the doctrine of the Church on
economic and social matters attests the permanent value of the Church's
teaching at the same time as it attests the true meaning of her Tradition,
always living and active. <o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2422 The Church's social
teaching comprises a body of doctrine, which is articulated as the Church
interprets events in the course of history, with the assistance of the Holy
Spirit, in the light of the whole of what has been revealed by Jesus Christ. This
teaching can be more easily accepted by men of good will, the more the faithful
let themselves be guided by it.<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2423 The Church's social
teaching proposes principles for reflection; it provides criteria for judgment;
it gives guidelines for action:<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">Any system in which social
relationships are determined entirely by economic factors is contrary to the
nature of the human person and his acts. <o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2424 A theory that makes profit
the exclusive norm and ultimate end of economic activity is morally
unacceptable. The disordered desire for money cannot but produce perverse
effects. It is one of the causes of the many conflicts which disturb the social
order. <br />
A system that "subordinates the basic rights of individuals and of groups
to the collective organization of production" is contrary to human
dignity. Every practice that reduces persons to nothing more than a means
of profit enslaves man, leads to idolizing money, and contributes to the spread
of atheism. "You cannot serve God and mammon." <o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2425 The Church has rejected
the totalitarian and atheistic ideologies associated in modem times with
"communism" or "socialism." She has likewise refused to
accept, in the practice of "capitalism," individualism and the absolute
primacy of the law of the marketplace over human labor. Regulating the
economy solely by centralized planning perverts the basis of social bonds;
regulating it solely by the law of the marketplace fails social justice, for
"there are many human needs which cannot be satisfied by the
market." Reasonable regulation of the marketplace and economic
initiatives, in keeping with a just hierarchy of values and a view to the
common good, is to be commended.<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Candace’s Corner<o:p></o:p></b></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b> </b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/XEEZ6jt1FAE" width="320" youtube-src-id="XEEZ6jt1FAE"></iframe><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/zboqM2o5wVs" width="320" youtube-src-id="zboqM2o5wVs"></iframe></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Coffee with Christ</b></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/g6LutUyWSMM" width="320" youtube-src-id="g6LutUyWSMM"></iframe></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Daily</b><b> Devotions</b></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->Unite in the work of the <a href="https://portersofstjoseph.org/">Porters of St. Joseph</a> by joining them
in fasting: Today's Fast: <a href="http://www.icemanforchrist.org/2019/06/sunday-june-29-2019.html">Conversion
of Sinners</a><i><o:p></o:p></i></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="https://theholyface.com/">Make
reparations to the Holy Face</a><span class="MsoHyperlink">-</span><a href="https://theholyface.com/tuesday-devotion/tuesdays-and-eucharistic-devotion-to-holy-face/">Tuesday
Devotion</a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Tuesday: <a href="https://www.ourcatholicprayers.com/the-litany-of-saint-michael.html">Litany
of St. Michael the Archangel</a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->Litany of the <a href="https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/devotions/litany-of-the-most-precious-blood-of-jesus-248"><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Most Precious
Blood of Jesus</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="http://www.icemanforchrist.org/p/an-offering-to-most-sacred-heart-of.html"><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Offering to
the sacred heart of Jesus</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="https://theholyface.com/">Make
reparations to the Holy Face</a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="http://www.catholictradition.org/Christ/holy-wounds2.htm"><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Drops of
Christ’s Blood</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="http://www.icemanforchrist.org/p/universal-man-plan-phase-4-st-joseph.html">Universal
Man Plan</a><b><o:p></o:p></b></p><p><span style="text-align: center;">
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lived a man named Joakim, </b><a name="34013002"><sup>2 </sup><b>who married a very beautiful and <i>GOD</i>-<i>FEARING</i> woman,
Susanna, the daughter of Hilkiah; </b></a><a name="34013003"><sup>3</sup><b> her parents were righteous and had trained their daughter
according to the law of Moses.</b></a><b><o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b> </b></p><p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Susanna
is included in the Book of Daniel (as chapter 13) by the Roman Catholic and
Eastern Orthodox churches. It is one of the additions to Daniel, considered
apocryphal by Protestants. She refuses to be blackmailed and is arrested and
about to be put to death for promiscuity when a young man named Daniel
interrupts the proceedings, shouting that the elders should be questioned to
prevent the death of an innocent. After being separated, the two men are
questioned about details (cross-examination) of what they saw but disagree
about the tree under which Susanna supposedly met her lover. The first says
they were under a mastic, and Daniel says that an angel stands ready to cut him
in two. The second says they were under an evergreen oak tree, and Daniel says
that an angel stands ready to saw him in two. The great difference in size
between a mastic and an oak makes the elders' lie plain to all the observers.
The false accusers are put to death, and virtue triumphs<span style="font-size: xx-small;">.</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="line-height: 115%;">[1]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Q9hcXjNr9nk" width="320" youtube-src-id="Q9hcXjNr9nk"></iframe></div><p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">In
the Old Testament we already find admirable witnesses of fidelity to the holy
law of God even to the point of a voluntary acceptance of death. A prime
example is the story of Susanna: in reply to the two unjust judges who
threatened to have her condemned to death if she refused to yield to their
sinful passion, she says: " I am hemmed in on every side. For if I do this
thing, it is death for me; and if I do not, I shall not escape your hands. I
choose not to do it and to fall into your hands, rather than to sin in the
sight of the Lord!" (<i>Dan</i> 13:22-23). Susanna, preferring to
"fall innocent" into the hands of the judges, bears witness not only
to her faith and trust in God but also to her obedience to the truth and to the
absoluteness of the moral order. By her readiness to die a martyr, she
proclaims that it is not right to do what God's law qualifies as evil in order
to draw some good from it. Susanna chose for herself the "better
part": hers was a perfectly clear witness, without any compromise, to the
truth about the good and to the God of Israel. By her acts, she revealed the
holiness of God.<a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="line-height: 115%;">[2]</span></span></span></span></a></span></p><p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in;"><b> </b></p><p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">In
our modern secular world, it is often difficult to find a God-fearing woman and
even recognize her. One wonders what the characteristics of a God-fearing woman
are. An important thing to remember for all women of real beauty is that love
is the inner sense of peacefulness and joy that casts out the outer reflection
of beauty.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><i>God Fearing Woman</i><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[3]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><b><o:p></o:p></b></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">These things aren’t things
to add to your to-do list. They’re an opportunity to test your heart. If
we have a right ‘fear<b>’</b> or understanding of God, then these
four characteristics will overflow in our hearts:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="text-indent: 0.3in;"><em><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">1. A woman who fears the Lord isn’t anxious about
what’s going to happen in her life.</span></em><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">First<strong>, </strong>a
woman who fears the Lord is not
anxious about the future<strong>…</strong> “Strength and dignity are her
clothing, and she laughs at the time to come.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Our anxiety reveals what
we think about God.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Do we honestly think He’s
a sovereign and good Father? Do we honestly believe He cares about the
mundane details of our lives and is working everything out for our good?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">If so, it will affect our
anxiety about how our kids are going to do in school this Fall or our
fears about being single this time next year, or our obsession with how
we’re going to pay our bills next month or worry about how we’re going to do in
that meeting at work tomorrow.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="text-indent: 0.3in;"><em><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">2. A woman who fears the Lord speaks wisdom and
kindness.</span></em><em><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></em></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Second, the woman who
fears the Lord has practical wisdom. Proverbs 31, Verse 26, “She opens her
mouth with wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">I love this because I’m a
big fan of women</span><a href="http://dt1021.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/redeeming-affirmation1.wav" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> redeeming
passive communication</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">.
This verse tells us that if we’re going to be good stewards of our words we
have to know and love God. A right view of Him will affect the way we
choose to spend the gift of language He has given us.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="text-indent: 0.3in;"><em><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">3. A woman who fears the Lord is strong.<o:p></o:p></span></em></p><p><strong><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Proverbs, </span></strong><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Verse 25, “Strength and dignity are
her clothing.” Verse 17, “She girds her loins with strength and makes her arms
strong.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Think for a second about
how you define ‘strength’ Proverbs 23:17 says, “Let not your heart envy
sinners, but continue in the fear
of the Lord all the day.” The woman who continues in the fear of the Lord will have power to
resist all the allurements to envy, to desire what she shouldn’t have.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">True strength looks like
contentment.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Do you want to know if
your fear of the Lord overflows
into strength? Do you envy others?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Threads of discontentment
reveal a heart that does not fully grasp the greatness and goodness of our
maker.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="text-indent: 0.3in;"><em><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">4. A woman who fears the Lord is for other people,
not against them.</span></em><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">A woman who fears the Lord will live not for
herself alone but for others…Proverbs 31, Verses 11, 12, “The heart of her
husband trusts in her, and he will have no lack of gain. She does him good and
not harm all the days of her life.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Our view of God will play
out in our interaction with others. If we trust that God is for us, it
frees us up to be for other people. We can look out for their interests
because we know God is looking out for ours.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><em><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">All four of these characteristics overflow from a right understanding and
relationship with God.</span></em><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">You can’t just get out of
your chair and go do these four things to earn the ‘proverbs 31’ merit badge.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">If you want to be free
of anxiety, if you want to speak kindness and wisdom, if you
want to be strong and be for other people, the solution is gloriously complex: fear the Lord.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">My hope is that, like me
you’ll see this list as a reminder of just how far you have to go in your
sanctification.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Let this list remind you
of the opportunity you have to grow in your ‘fear’ of the Lord. Let that opportunity excite you.
There’s more of Him to know. There’s more of Him to trust.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">As we grow in fearing Him we will be transformed –
not to the image of some cool Proverbs woman. We will
be transformed into the very image of His Son. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="CSP-ChapterBodyText" style="text-indent: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Monday in Passiontide</span></b><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="line-height: 115%;">[4]</span></span></span></span></a><b style="text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></b></span></p><p align="center" class="CSP-ChapterBodyText" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Prayer. </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">SANCTIFY our fasts, we beseech
Thee, O Lord, and mercifully grant us the pardon of all our faults.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: left;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="CSP-ChapterBodyText" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">EPISTLE. Jonas iii.
1-10.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in;"> </span></p><p align="left" class="CSP-ChapterBodyText" style="text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">In those days: The word
of the Lord came to Jonas the prophet the second time, saying: Arise, and go to
Nineveh the great city: and preach in it the preaching that I bid thee. And
Jonas arose, and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord: now
Nineveh was a great city of three days journey. And Jonas began to enter into
the city one day s journey: and he cried, and said: Yet forty days, and Nineveh
shall be destroyed. And the men of Nineveh believed in God: and they proclaimed
a fast, and put on sackcloth from the greatest to the least. And the word came
to the king of Nineveh: and he rose up out of his throne, and cast away his
robe from him, and was clothed in sackcloth, and sat in ashes. And he caused it
to be proclaimed and published in Nineveh from the mouth of the king and of his
princes, saying: Let neither men nor beasts, oxen nor sheep, taste anything:
let them not feed, nor drink water. And let men and beasts be covered with
sackcloth, and cry to the Lord with all their strength, and let them turn
everyone from his evil way, and from the iniquity that is in their hands. Who
can tell if God will turn, and forgive: and will turn away from His fierce
anger, and we shall not perish?</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0in;"> </span></p><p align="left" class="CSP-ChapterBodyText" style="text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">And God saw their works,
that they were turned from their evil way: and our Lord God had mercy on His
people.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0in;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="CSP-ChapterBodyText" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;"><a href="http://www.icemanforchrist.org/p/nineveh-90-5-nineveh-90-for-life.html"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Repent
and believe: Do the Nineveh 90</span></i></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="CSP-ChapterBodyText" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">GOSPEL. John vii.
32-39.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="CSP-ChapterBodyText" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3j07FfitBtk" width="320" youtube-src-id="3j07FfitBtk"></iframe></div><p></p><p class="CSP-ChapterBodyText" style="text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">At that time: The rulers and Pharisees sent ministers
to apprehend Jesus. Jesus therefore said to them: Yet a little while I am with
you: and then I go to Him that sent Me. You shall seek Me, and shall not find
Me: and where I am, thither you cannot come. The Jews therefore said among
themselves: Whither will He go, that we shall not find Him? will He go unto the
dispersed among the gentiles, and teach the gentiles? What is this saying that
He hath said: You shall seek Me, and shall not find Me: and where I am, you
cannot come?</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0in;"> </span></p><p class="CSP-ChapterBodyText" style="text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">And on the last and great day of the festivity, Jesus
stood and cried, saying: If any man thirst, let him come to Me, and drink. He
that believeth in Me, as the Scripture saith, out of his belly shall flow
rivers of living water. Now this He said of the Spirit which they should
receive who believed in Him.</span><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></b></p><p align="center" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; text-align: center; text-indent: -0.25in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Lenten Calendar<a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference" style="font-size: xx-small;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span style="color: black; line-height: 115%;">[5]</span></b></span></span></a></span></i><i style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: xx-small;"> </span></i></p><p class="CSP-ChapterBodyText" style="text-indent: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Read: </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">The
Servant Songs, Day One: Within the Book of the Prophet Isaiah, we encounter
four poetic sections known as the Songs of the Suffering Servant. The specific
identity of this Servant of the Lord remains the topic of scholarly debate.
Perhaps it refers to the prophet Isaiah himself, perhaps the entire nation of
Israel, or possibly the promised Messiah. Christian faith sees these prophetic
utterances fulfilled in the life, ministry, death, and resurrection of Jesus
the Lord. Because of the Christian identification of the Suffering Servant with
Jesus, the four Servant Songs become a way of encountering the Lord during this
Lenten Season. Not only do they give us a sense of the commitment and endurance
that characterized his messianic ministry, but they become a way of touching
the bruised face of the Messiah, of hearing the resolute determination that
sustained him in the midst of trial, and of rejoicing with him in God’s
ultimate vindication of his calling and service. The first song introduces God’s
Servant who will establish justice upon the earth.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0in;"> </span></p><p class="CSP-ChapterBodyText" style="text-indent: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Reflect: </span></i><a href="http://www.usccb.org/prayer-and-worship/liturgical-year/lent/reflection-song-suffering-servant-1.cfm"><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none;">Today we reflect on the first of the four Servant
Songs.</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0in;"> </span></p><p class="CSP-ChapterBodyText" style="text-indent: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Pray: </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Take
time with the first Servant Song. Read Isaiah 42:1-4. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0in;"> </span></p><p class="CSP-ChapterBodyText" style="text-indent: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xT66EnL3nxA" width="320" youtube-src-id="xT66EnL3nxA"></iframe></div><p></p><p class="CSP-ChapterBodyText" style="text-indent: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Act: </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">In
this passage, the prophet Isaiah portrays a servant who pleases God. This
servant shows meekness and is one who will never extinguish even the smallest,
faintest light of faith. Likewise, the faith of this servant will never grow
dim; distant nations will await his teaching and look for the justice that he
brings. <b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p align="center" class="CSP-ChapterBodyText" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Lenten Calendar<a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference" style="font-size: xx-small;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;">[6]</span></b></span></span></a></span></i><b style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: xx-small;"> </span></b></p><p align="left" class="CSP-ChapterBodyText" style="text-indent: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Read: </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Yesterday, we read about the
corporal works of mercy, and today we will focus on the </span><a href="http://www.usccb.org/beliefs-and-teachings/how-we-teach/new-evangelization/jubilee-of-mercy/the-spiritual-works-of-mercy.cfm"><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none;">spiritual works of mercy,</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> which have long been a part of the
Christian tradition, appearing in the works of theologians and spiritual
writers throughout history.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0in;"> </span></p><p align="left" class="CSP-ChapterBodyText" style="text-indent: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Reflect: </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Forgiving others is difficult at
times because we do not have God's limitless mercy and compassion. But
Jesus teaches us that we should forgive as God forgives, relying on him to help
us show others the mercy of God. Are there grudges you are holding on to that
you should let go of? </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0in;"> </span></p><p align="left" class="CSP-ChapterBodyText" style="text-indent: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Pray: </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">the </span><a href="http://www.usccb.org/beliefs-and-teachings/how-we-teach/new-evangelization/year-of-faith/how-to-pray-the-chaplet-of-divine-mercy.cfm"><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none;">Chaplet of Divine Mercy</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> today.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0in;"> </span></p><p align="left" class="CSP-ChapterBodyText" style="text-indent: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5pdnzUjmkzA" width="320" youtube-src-id="5pdnzUjmkzA"></iframe></div><p></p><p align="left" class="CSP-ChapterBodyText" style="text-indent: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Act: </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">In practicing one of the spiritual
works of mercy, forgiving others, make an effort to go to Confession before
Easter.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Aids in Battle<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn7" name="_ftnref7" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;">[7]</span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
</span>When the enemy seeks to discourage.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">When dismayed or grieved
let these scriptural promises lift up your soul in trust and hope. Listen to
our Lords words of encouragement, and consolation.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" style="margin: 5pt 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Because
children have blood and flesh in common, so He in the same way has shared in
these, so that through death He might destroy him who had the empire of death,
that is, the Devil; and might deliver them who, throughout their life, were
kept in servitude by fear of death. Heb 2: 14– 15<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" style="margin: 5pt 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Christ
has risen from the dead, the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep. For
since by a man came death, by a man also comes resurrection of the dead. For as
in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made to live. But each in his own
turn, Christ as first-fruits, then those who are Christ’s, who have believed,
at His coming. Then comes the end, when He delivers the kingdom to God the
Father, when He does away with all sovereignty, authority, and power. For He
must reign until “He has put all things under His feet.” 1 Cor 15: 20– 25<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" style="margin: 5pt 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">You
shall not fear them; for it is the LORD your God who fights for you. Dt 3: 22<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" style="margin: 5pt 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">You
draw near this day to battle against your enemies: Let not your heart faint; do
not fear, or tremble, or be in dread of them; for the LORD your God is He that
goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to give you the victory.
Dt 20: 3– 4<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" style="margin: 5pt 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">No
evil will befall the man who fears the LORD, but in trial He will deliver him
again and again. Sir 33: 1<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" style="margin: 5pt 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">I
give them everlasting life, and they shall never perish, neither shall anyone
snatch them out of my hand. Jn 10: 28<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Clean
Monday</span></b><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn8" name="_ftnref8" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: xx-small;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="line-height: 115%;">[8]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">-</span><i>Traditional time for going to confession.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/tbTmM7bh6aI" width="320" youtube-src-id="tbTmM7bh6aI"></iframe></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Clean Monday, also known
as Pure Monday, Ash Monday, Monday of Lent or Green Monday, is the first day of
</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Lent" title="Great Lent"><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none;">Great Lent</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">
in the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox_Christianity" title="Eastern Orthodox Christianity"><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none;">Eastern Orthodox
Christian</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Thomas_Christians" title="Saint Thomas Christians"><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none;">Saint Thomas
Christians</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> of
India and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Catholic" title="Eastern Catholic"><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none;">Eastern Catholic</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> churches. It is a </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moveable_feast" title="Moveable feast"><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none;">moveable feast</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> that occurs at the beginning of the 7th week before
Orthodox </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_Sunday" title="Easter Sunday"><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none;">Easter Sunday</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">. The common term for this day,
"Clean Monday", refers to the leaving behind of sinful attitudes and
non-fasting foods. It is sometimes called "Ash Monday", by analogy
with </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ash_Wednesday" title="Ash Wednesday"><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none;">Ash Wednesday</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> (the day when the Western Churches
begin Lent). The term is often a misnomer, as only a small subset of Eastern
Catholic Churches practices the Imposition of Ashes. The </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maronite_Catholic_Church" title="Maronite Catholic Church"><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none;">Maronite Catholic
Church</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> and The Mar
Thoma Nasranis of India-</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syro-Malabar_Catholic_Church" title="Syro-Malabar Catholic Church"><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none;">Syro-Malabar
Catholic Church</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">
are notable amongst the Eastern rite that employs the use of ashes on this day.
Liturgically, Clean Monday—and thus Lent itself—begins on the preceding
(Sunday) night, at a special service called Forgiveness </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vespers#Eastern.2FOriental_Catholic_.26_Orthodox" title="Vespers"><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none;">Vespers</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">, which culminates with the
Ceremony of Mutual Forgiveness, at which all present will bow down before one
another and ask forgiveness. In this way, the faithful begin Lent with a clean
conscience, with forgiveness, and with renewed Christian love. The entire first
week of Great Lent is often referred to as "Clean Week", and it is
customary to go to </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confession_%28religion%29#Eastern_Orthodoxy_and_Eastern_Catholicism" title="Confession (religion)"><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none;">Confession</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> during this week, and to </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_cleaning" title="Spring cleaning"><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none;">clean the house</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> thoroughly. The theme of Clean Monday is set by the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Testament" title="Old Testament"><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none;">Old Testament</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> reading appointed to be read at the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonical_Hours#Orthodox_and_Greek-Catholic_usage" title="Canonical Hours"><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none;">Sixth Hour</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> (noon) on this day (</span><a href="http://bible.oremus.org/?passage=Isaiah+1:1%E2%80%9320:1&version=nrsv"><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none;">Isaiah 1:1–20</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">), which says, in part:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" style="margin-right: 0.3in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Wash
yourselves and ye shall be clean; put away the wicked ways from your souls
before Mine eyes; cease to do evil; learn to do well. Seek judgment, relieve
the oppressed, consider the fatherless, and plead for the widow. Come then, and
let us reason together, saith the Lord: Though your sins be as scarlet, I will
make them white as snow; and though they be red like crimson, I will make them
white as wool (vv. 16–18).<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Clean Monday is a public
holiday in </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greece" title="Greece"><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none;">Greece</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">
and Cyprus, where it is celebrated with outdoor excursions, the consumption of </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shellfish" title="Shellfish"><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none;">shellfish</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">
and other </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Orthodoxy#Fasting" title="Eastern Orthodoxy"><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none;">fasting</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> food, a special kind of </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azyme" title="Azyme"><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none;">azyme</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> bread,
baked only on that day, named "lagana" (</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_language" title="Greek language"><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none;">Greek</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">:
λαγ</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">ά</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">να) and
the widespread custom of </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kite_flying" title="Kite flying"><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none;">flying kites</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">.
Eating meat, eggs and dairy products is traditionally forbidden to Orthodox
Christians throughout Lent, with fish being eaten only on major </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feast_days" title="Feast days"><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none;">feast days</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">,
but shellfish is permitted in European denominations. This has created the
tradition of eating elaborate dishes based on seafood (shellfish, molluscs,
fish roe etc.). Traditionally, it is considered to mark the beginning of </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_%28season%29" title="Spring (season)"><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none;">the spring season</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">, a notion which was used symbolically in </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Bunin" title="Ivan Bunin"><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none;">Ivan Bunin</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">'s
critically acclaimed story, Pure Monday. The happy, springtime atmosphere of
Clean Monday may seem at odds with the Lenten spirit of repentance and
self-control, but this seeming contradiction is a marked aspect of the Orthodox
approach to </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasting" title="Fasting"><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none;">fasting</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">, in accordance with the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel" title="Gospel"><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none;">Gospel</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">
lesson (</span><a href="http://bible.oremus.org/?passage=Matthew+6:14%E2%80%9321:14&version=nrsv"><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none;">Matthew 6:14–21</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">) read on the morning before, which admonishes:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0.3in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">When ye fast, be not, as the
hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may
appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. But
thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face, that thou appear
not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret... (v. 16–18).<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">In
this manner, the Orthodox celebrate the fact that "The springtime of the
Fast has dawned, the flower of repentance has begun to open..."</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></p><div align="center" class="pcon" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">
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</span></div><p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></b></p><p align="left" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Catechism
of the Catholic Church<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: 0.3in;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">PART THREE: LIFE IN CHRIST</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.3in; text-indent: 0.3in;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">SECTION TWO-THE TEN COMMANDMENTS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.9in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">CHAPTER
TWO-YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.9in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-indent: 0.3in;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Article 7-THE SEVENTH COMMANDMENT<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 1.2in; text-indent: 0.3in;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">II. Respect for Persons and Their
Goods</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">2407 In
economic matters, respect for human dignity requires the practice of the virtue
of temperance, so as to moderate attachment to this world's goods; the practice
of the virtue of justice, to preserve our neighbor's rights and render him what
is his due; and the practice of solidarity, in accordance with the golden rule
and in keeping with the generosity of the Lord, who "though he was rich,
yet for your sake . . . became poor so that by his poverty, you might become
rich." <o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">Respect for
the goods of others<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">2408 The
seventh commandment forbids theft, that is, usurping another's property against
the reasonable will of the owner. There is no theft if consent can be presumed
or if refusal is contrary to reason and the universal destination of goods.
This is the case in obvious and urgent necessity when the only way to provide
for immediate, essential needs (food, shelter, clothing . . .) is to put at
one's disposal and use the property of others. <o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">2409 Even if
it does not contradict the provisions of civil law, any form of unjustly taking
and keeping the property of others is against the seventh commandment: thus,
deliberate retention of goods lent or of objects lost; business fraud; paying
unjust wages; forcing up prices by taking advantage of the ignorance or
hardship of another. <o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">The
following are also morally illicit: speculation in which one contrives to
manipulate the price of goods artificially in order to gain an advantage to the
detriment of others; corruption in which one influences the judgment of those
who must make decisions according to law; appropriation and use for private
purposes of the common goods of an enterprise; work poorly done; tax evasion;
forgery of checks and invoices; excessive expenses and waste. Willfully
damaging private or public property is contrary to the moral law and requires
reparation.<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">2410
Promises must be kept, and contracts strictly observed to the extent that the
commitments made in them are morally just. A significant part of economic and
social life depends on the honoring of contracts between physical or moral
persons - commercial contracts of purchase or sale, rental or labor contracts.
All contracts must be agreed to and executed in good faith.<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">2411
Contracts are subject to commutative justice which regulates exchanges between
persons in accordance with a strict respect for their rights. Commutative
justice obliges strictly; it requires safeguarding property rights, paying
debts, and fulfilling obligations freely contracted. Without commutative
justice, no other form of justice is possible.<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">One
distinguishes commutative justice from legal justice which concerns what the
citizen owes in fairness to the community, and from distributive justice which
regulates what the community owes its citizens in proportion to their
contributions and needs.<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">2412 In
virtue of commutative justice, reparation for injustice committed requires the
restitution of stolen goods to their owner:<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">Jesus
blesses Zacchaeus for his pledge: "If I have defrauded anyone of anything,
I restore it fourfold." Those who, directly or indirectly, have taken
possession of the goods of another, are obliged to make restitution of them, or
to return the equivalent in kind or in money, if the goods have disappeared, as
well as the profit or advantages their owner would have legitimately obtained
from them. Likewise, all who in some manner have taken part in a theft or who
have knowingly benefited from it - for example, those who ordered it, assisted
in it, or received the stolen goods - are obliged to make restitution in
proportion to their responsibility and to their share of what was stolen.<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">2413 Games
of chance (card games, etc.) or wagers are not in themselves contrary to
justice. They become morally unacceptable when they deprive someone of what is
necessary to provide for his needs and those of others. The passion for
gambling risks becoming an enslavement. Unfair wagers and cheating at games
constitute grave matter, unless the damage inflicted is so slight that the one
who suffers it cannot reasonably consider it significant.<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">2414 The
seventh commandment forbids acts or enterprises that for any reason - selfish
or ideological, commercial, or totalitarian - lead to the enslavement of human
beings, to their being bought, sold and exchanged like merchandise, in
disregard for their personal dignity. It is a sin against the dignity of
persons and their fundamental rights to reduce them by violence to their
productive value or to a source of profit. St. Paul directed a Christian master
to treat his Christian slave "no longer as a slave but more than a slave,
as a beloved brother, . . . both in the flesh and in the Lord." <o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">Respect for
the integrity of creation<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">2415 The
seventh commandment enjoins respect for the integrity of creation. Animals,
like plants and inanimate beings, are by nature destined for the common good of
past, present, and future humanity. Use of the mineral, vegetable, and
animal resources of the universe cannot be divorced from respect for moral
imperatives. Man's dominion over inanimate and other living beings granted by
the Creator is not absolute; it is limited by concern for the quality of life
of his neighbor, including generations to come; it requires a religious respect
for the integrity of creation. <o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">2416 Animals
are God's creatures. He surrounds them with his providential care. By their
mere existence they bless him and give him glory. Thus men owe them
kindness. We should recall the gentleness with which saints like St. Francis of
Assisi or St. Philip Neri treated animals.<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">2417 God
entrusted animals to the stewardship of those whom he created in his own
image. Hence it is legitimate to use animals for food and clothing. They
may be domesticated to help man in his work and leisure. Medical and scientific
experimentation on animals is a morally acceptable practice, if it remains
within reasonable limits and contributes to caring for or saving human lives.<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">2418 It is
contrary to human dignity to cause animals to suffer or die needlessly. It is
likewise unworthy to spend money on them that should as a priority go to the
relief of human misery. One can love animals; one should not direct to them the
affection due only to persons.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>St. Joseph-</b><i>Tomorrow is the Feast of St. Joseph</i><b><o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/us2cT9D-p4c" width="320" youtube-src-id="us2cT9D-p4c"></iframe></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal">These words were spoken to Sister on the eve of St. Joseph’s
feast day, March 18, 1958:<b><o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo4; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->My
child, I desire a day to be set aside to honor my fatherhood.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo4; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->The
privilege of being chosen by God to be the Virgin-Father of His Son was mine
alone, and no honor, excluding that bestowed upon my Holy Spouse, was ever, or
will ever, be as sublime or as high as this.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo4; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->The Holy
Trinity desires thus to honor me that in my unique fatherhood all fatherhood
might be blessed.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo4; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->Dear
child, I was king in the little home of Nazareth, for I sheltered within it the
Prince of Peace and the Queen of Heaven. To me they looked for protection and
sustenance, and I did not fail them.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo4; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->I
received from them the deepest love and reverence, for in me they saw Him Whose
place I took over them. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo4; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->So, the
head of the family must be loved, obeyed, and respected, and in return be a
true father and protector to those under his care.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo4; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->In
honoring in a special way my fatherhood, you also honor Jesus and Mary. The
Divine Trinity has placed into our keeping the peace of the world.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo4; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->The
imitation of the Holy Family, my child, of the virtues we practiced in our
little home at Nazareth is the way for all souls to that peace which comes from
God alone and which none other can give.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">St. Joseph appeared to Sister again to explain the First
Wednesday devotion God wishes to establish in his honor. Sister states:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">His requests were similar to those of Our Lady and the First
Saturday. The Sacred Hearts of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph have been chosen by the
Most Holy Trinity to bring peace to the world; hence, their request for special
love and honor, also, in particular, reparation and imitation. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">These are the words of St. Joseph as recorded on <i>March
30, 1958</i>:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">“I am the protector of the Church and the home, as I was the
protector of Christ and His Mother while I lived upon earth. Jesus and Mary
desire that my pure heart, so long hidden and unknown, be now honored in a
special way. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo5; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]-->1.<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span><!--[endif]-->Let my children honor my most pure heart in a special
manner on the First Wednesday of the month by reciting the <i>Joyful Mysteries</i>
of the rosary in memory of my life with Jesus and Mary and the love I bore
them, the sorrow I suffered with them. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo5; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]-->2.<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span><!--[endif]-->Let them receive Holy Communion in union with the love
with which I received the Savior for the first time and each time I held Him in
my arms.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Those who honor me in this way will be consoled by my
presence at their death, and I myself will conduct them safely into the
presence of Jesus and Mary.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">I will come again, little child of my most pure heart. Until
then, continue in patience and humility, which is so pleasing to God.”<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Christopher’s Corner</b><b> </b></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">2415 The seventh commandment enjoins respect for the
integrity of creation. </p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: 0.3in;"><a href="https://libertywildlife.org/about-us/missionleadership/#top"><b>Liberty
Wildlife</b></a><b> </b></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: 0.3in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ABzooWUgMiM" width="320" youtube-src-id="ABzooWUgMiM"></iframe></div><p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Liberty Wildlife envisions a time when wildlife is
recognized as an integral part of our natural world, and a precious natural
resource, to be protected and preserved. </p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Liberty Wildlife envisions being a permanent community
resource, a place to instill compassion and stewardship in young minds and a
place to reconnect the public with the beauty and benefits of native wildlife
and habitat. </p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Liberty Wildlife envisions a time when the community as a
whole participates in the safekeeping of the natural world. </p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/national-sloppy-joe-day/">National Sloppy Joe Day</a><b> </b></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/fPYV0K2u5mY" width="320" youtube-src-id="fPYV0K2u5mY"></iframe></div><p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Coffee with Christ</b></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"></p><p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Christ
sips his coffee and looks at me and says, “your victory is in obedience to the
will of the Father who is all good and desires for you to thrive. Therefore, do
not give in to foolish pleasures that appease the flesh but hinder your growth.
Control the desires of the heart. Be
patient in your trials and don’t worry nor be afraid for as you carry your cross,
I will be there to help you. Be joyful and do not tolerate cruelty and
indifference these you must fight. Obey the Holy Spirit which I sent you and
receive my body in the eucharist for spiritual nourishment. <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman", "serif"; font-size: 16px;">Don’t seek to be excused if God calls you to some service.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman", "serif"; font-size: 16px;"> </span>”</p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/j7rpQ4Z9Yzw" width="320" youtube-src-id="j7rpQ4Z9Yzw"></iframe></div><p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Daily Devotions<o:p></o:p></b></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->Unite in the work of the <a href="https://portersofstjoseph.org/">Porters of St. Joseph</a> by joining them
in fasting: Today's Fast: <a href="http://www.icemanforchrist.org/2019/06/sunday-june-29-2019.html">Conversion
of Sinners</a><i><o:p></o:p></i></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 6pt 0in 0in 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->Eat waffles and Pray for the assistance of the <a href="http://www.icemanforchrist.org/p/upon-rising-7-am-address-first-choir-of.html"><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Angels</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->Litany of the <a href="https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/devotions/litany-of-the-most-precious-blood-of-jesus-248"><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Most Precious
Blood of Jesus</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->Total <a href="http://www.icemanforchrist.org/p/icemans-total.html"><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Consecration
to St. Joseph</span></a> Day 32<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="http://www.icemanforchrist.org/p/an-offering-to-most-sacred-heart-of.html"><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Offering to
the sacred heart of Jesus</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="https://theholyface.com/">Make
reparations to the Holy Face</a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Monday: <a href="https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/devotions/litany-of-humility-245">Litany of
Humility</a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="http://www.catholictradition.org/Christ/holy-wounds2.htm"><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Drops of
Christ’s Blood</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="http://www.icemanforchrist.org/p/icemans-40-hour-devotion.html"><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Iceman’s 40
devotion</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="http://www.icemanforchrist.org/p/universal-man-plan-phase-4-st-joseph.html">Universal
Man Plan</a><b><o:p></o:p></b></p><p style="margin: 0in;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Ju-IYZ4T7xs" width="320" youtube-src-id="Ju-IYZ4T7xs"></iframe></span></div><span class="MsoHyperlink"><br /></span><p></p><div>
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</div><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/zm5gZP84lJA" width="320" youtube-src-id="zm5gZP84lJA"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/AnbtPyohQbE" width="320" youtube-src-id="AnbtPyohQbE"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><p></p>IcemanforChristhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10737122933196184713noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8604232804852757560.post-19282630757322857692024-03-11T09:59:00.000-07:002024-03-16T19:16:21.471-07:00Sunday, March 17, 2024<p> <b style="text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Fifth Sunday of Lent-Passiontide</span></b></p><p><b style="text-indent: 0in;"></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="text-indent: 0in;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5j1vm5zW4CA" width="320" youtube-src-id="5j1vm5zW4CA"></iframe></b></div><p></p><p align="left" class="CSP-ChapterBodyText" style="margin-right: 0.3in; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">FEAST
OF ST. PATRICK</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0in;"> </span></p>
<p class="po" style="margin: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">1 Maccabees, Chapter 10, Verse
75-76</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in;"><span class="textezek-34-28"><sup><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">75 </span></sup></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">He encamped near
Joppa, but the people of the city shut him out because Apollonius had a
garrison in Joppa. When they attacked it, </span></b><span class="textezek-34-28"><sup><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">76</span></sup></span><span class="bcv"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></b></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">the people of the city became <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">AFRAID</i> and opened the gates, and so
Jonathan took possession of Joppa.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">After Jonathan becomes the
high priest, Demetrius (Greek) attempts to win back the Jews with offering them
stuff. Jonathan and his supporters do not take the bait and the Hellenizing
Jews are ignored. Jonathan takes to the offer and forms and alliance with Egypt
(Rome) and Jonathan is honored by Alexander. Demetrius appoints Apollonius as
governor to hold Joppa which is crucial to his campaign. Joppa switches sides
and opens the gates to Jonathan. Checkmate. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Victory over
Apollonius<a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">[1]</span></span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">Demetrius tried to win back his father's throne (147), and
Apollonius Taos, governor of Cœle-Syria, who probably had joined Demetrius,
challenged Jonathan to battle, saying that the Jews might for once leave the
mountains and venture out into the plain. Thereupon Jonathan and Simeon
appeared, with 10,000 men, before Joppa, where the forces of Apollonius lay and
the gates of which were opened to them out of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">fear</i>. Reinforced from Azotus, Apollonius appeared with 3,000 men in
the plain, relying on his cavalry, and forced Jonathan to engage in battle. The
missiles of the horsemen rebounded from the shields of Simeon's men, who
successfully resisted the enemy's onslaughts. Jonathan in the meantime
vanquished the infantry, scattered it in wild flight, and pursued it to Azotus,
which city he took by assault, burning it and its villages, including the
Temple of Dagon. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" class="pcon" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/resources/prayers/devotions/to-st-joseph/seven-sundays-devotion/first-sunday"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Devotion of the Seven Sundays: St
Joseph-7<sup>th</sup><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sunday</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p align="center" class="pcon" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/MTscjEXxfOA" width="320" youtube-src-id="MTscjEXxfOA"></iframe></div><p align="center" class="pcon" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b style="text-align: left;"><br /></b></p><p align="center" class="pcon" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b style="text-align: left;">ON KEEPING
THE LORD'S DAY HOLY</b><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2; text-align: left;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: xx-small; mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[2]</span></span></span></span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;">CHAPTER II <o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><b><i>DIES CHRISTI</i></b> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><b>The Day of the Risen Lord <br />
and of the Gift <br />
of the Holy Spirit</b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><b><i>The day of the gift of the
Spirit</i></b> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;">28. Sunday, the day of light, could
also be called the day of "fire", in reference to the Holy Spirit.
The light of Christ is intimately linked to the "fire" of the Spirit,
and the two images together reveal the meaning of the Christian Sunday. When he
appeared to the Apostles on the evening of Easter, Jesus breathed upon them and
said: "Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are
forgiven; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained" (<i>Jn</i>
20:22-23). The outpouring of the Spirit was the great gift of the Risen Lord to
his disciples on Easter Sunday. It was again Sunday when, fifty days after the
Resurrection, the Spirit descended in power, as "a mighty wind" and
"fire" (<i>Acts</i> 2:2-3), upon the Apostles gathered with Mary.
Pentecost is not only the founding event of the Church but is also the mystery
which forever gives life to the Church. Such an event has its own powerful
liturgical moment in the annual celebration which concludes "the great
Sunday", but it also remains a part of the deep meaning of every Sunday,
because of its intimate bond with the Paschal Mystery. The "weekly
Easter" thus becomes, in a sense, the "weekly Pentecost", when
Christians relive the Apostles' joyful encounter with the Risen Lord and receive
the life-giving breath of his Spirit. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Fifth Sunday of Lent-</span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">First</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Passion
Sunday</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="pcon" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">The Jews' growing hatred of Christ
recorded in today's Gospel makes plain His imminent death.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="pcon" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Passion
Week<a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[3]</span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">FROM
this day, called Passion Sunday, until Easter the Church--gives herself up
entirely to meditation on the passion of Jesus. Today the crucifixes are
covered, in remembrance that from this time until His entrance into Jerusalem
Jesus walked no more openly among the Jews. From to-day the Glory Be to the
Father is omitted in the Mass, because in the person of Jesus Christ the Most
Holy Trinity was dishonored. As on this day the high priests held council about
Our Lord, the Church says, at the Introit of the Mass, in the name of the
suffering Jesus, the words of the psalmist: Judge me, O God, and distinguish my
cause from the nation that is not holy; deliver me from the unjust and
deceitful man, for Thou art God, my strength. Send forth Thy light and Thy truth,
they have conducted me and brought me unto Thy holy hill, and into Thy
tabernacles (Ps. xlii. 1-3). <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Prayer. </i>We
beseech Thee, Almighty God, mercifully look upon Thy family, that by Thy bounty
it may be governed in body, and by Thy preservation be kept in mind.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="pcon" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">EPISTLE.
Heb. ix. 11-15.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p align="left" class="pf" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Brethren:
Christ, being come a high priest of the good things to come, by a greater and
more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is, not of this creation:
neither by the blood of goats, nor of calves, but by His own blood, entered
once into the holies, having obtained eternal redemption. For if the blood of
goats and of oxen, and the ashes of a heifer being sprinkled, sanctify such as
are defiled, to the cleansing of the flesh: how much more shall the blood of
Christ, Who by the Holy Ghost offered Himself unspotted unto God, cleanse our
conscience from dead works, to serve the living God? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="pf" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">And
therefore, He is the mediator of the New Testament: that by means of His death,
for the redemption of those transgressions, which were under the former testament,
they that are called may receive the promise of eternal inheritance, in Christ
Jesus our Lord.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="pf" style="text-indent: 0.3in;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Explanation. </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">St. Paul here teaches that Jesus
Christ has given full satisfaction for the sins of men and opened to all the
entrance into the sanctuary. The Church proposes this epistle to us in order
that we may thank God for the great mercy of the redemption, love and praise
Him, and be encouraged to share in His sufferings by fasting, prayer, and
penitential works.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="pf" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Aspiration.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> Give us Thy grace, O meekest
Jesus, that by true sorrow for our sins, and by the practice of good works, we
may become partakers of Thy bitter sufferings, and obtain the promised in
heritance of eternal life. Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="pf" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">GOSPEL. John viii.
46-59.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p align="center" class="pf" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/GOH0qwux0Vg" width="320" youtube-src-id="GOH0qwux0Vg"></iframe></i></div><p></p><p class="pf"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">At that time
Jesus said to the multitudes of the Jews: Which of you shall convince Me of
sin? If I say the truth to you, why do you not believe Me? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="pf"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">He that is of God
heareth the words of God. Therefore, you hear them not because you are not of
God. The Jews therefore answered, and said to Him: Do not we say well that Thou
art a Samaritan, and hast a devil? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="pf"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Jesus answered: I
have not a devil: but I honor My Father, and you have dishonored Me. But I seek
not My own glory: there is One that seeketh and judgeth. Amen, amen, I say to
you: if any man keep My word, he shall not see death forever. The Jews therefore
said: Now we know that Thou hast a devil. Abraham is dead, and the prophets;
and Thou sayest: If any man keep My word, he shall not taste death forever. Art
Thou greater than our father Abraham, who is dead? and the prophets are dead.
Whom dost Thou make Thyself? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="pf"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Jesus answered:
If I glorify Myself, My glory is nothing. It is My Father that glorifieth Me,
of Whom you say that He is your God. And you have not known Him, but I know
Him. And if I shall say that I know Him not, I shall be like to you, a liar.
But I do know Him, and do keep His word. Abraham your father rejoiced that he
might see My day. He saw it, and was glad. The Jews therefore said to Him: Thou
art not yet fifty years old, and hast Thou seen Abraham? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="pf"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Jesus said to
them: Amen, amen, I say to you, before Abraham was made, I am. They took up
stones therefore to cast at Him. But Jesus hid Himself and went out of the
temple.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="pf" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Explanation</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="pf"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">When Our Savior
said: He that is of God heareth God’s words, He meant to point out to the Jews
the cause of their stubborn unbelief. He that is of God hears and loves that
which is Godlike. When, therefore, we gladly hear the word of God and strive to
do what we have heard, we testify that we are the children of God. Instead of
reflecting on Our Savior’s words the Jews poured out their offended pride and
abuse, and called Him a Samaritan, and one having a devil. The same thing
happens to-day. Instead of listening to the truth; the proud man answers with
calumny and contempt. Our Savior hid Himself from the Jews to teach us to
forgive and avoid our enemies rather than to oppose them and take revenge on
them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="pf" style="text-indent: 0.3in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10pt;">Ponder: Have we advanced any since
Christ’s time? Reflect on our news, social media, and politics. Do they speak
the truth-or say Truth! What is truth. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="pf" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Consolation
under Insults<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p align="center" class="pf" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></i></p><p align="center" class="pf" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xkiNVg42KC4" width="320" youtube-src-id="xkiNVg42KC4"></iframe></i></div><p></p><p align="center" class="pf" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="pf" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">O
friend, what insult can be given to you which your Savior has not suffered? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="pf" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="pf" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">He
was called a glutton and a drunkard, a heretic and a rebel, a friend and
associate of sinners, and one who had a devil; He was even told that He cast
out devils by the prince of devils (Matt. ix. 34). He, therefore, comforts His
disciples with the words, “If they have called the good man of the house
Beelzebub, how much more them of his household? (Matt. x. 25) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="pf" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="pf" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">There
is no sorrow so bitter that He has not borne it, for what was more painful and
grievous than the death of the cross? Christians, “think diligently upon Him
that endured such opposition from sinners against Himself, that you be not
wearied, fainting in your minds, at contempt and insult.” (Heb. xii. 3)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Passiontide Customs</span></i><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[4]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">The main custom for
Passiontide is the veiling of all sacred images in home and church with purple
cloth. This custom originated in ancient times, when the images in the papal
chapel of the Vatican were covered after the words of the Passion Sunday Gospel,
"Jesus hid himself and went out of the temple" (Jn 8.59), were
pronounced.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Passiontide:</span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo7; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: left;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">(First)
Passion Sunday.</span></i> The Jews' growing hatred of Christ recorded in
today's Gospel makes plain His imminent death. <o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo7; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: left;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Friday
after Passion Sunday: Feast of the Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin
Mary</span></i><b>.</b> A special commemoration, one week before Good
Friday, of Mary's compassion for (literally, "suffering with")
Her innocent son. <o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo7; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: left;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">(Second
Passion or) Palm Sunday.</span></i><b> </b>Christ's triumphant entrance
into Jerusalem and the account of His Passion according to St. Matthew.<o:p></o:p></li>
</ul>
<p align="center" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Mourning& Veiling</span></i><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn5;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[5]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Akin to
the asceticism of Lent is its <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">mournful</span></i><b> </b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">tone</span></i>.
The Church is traditionally draped in purple or black, its organ silenced, and
its altar bereft of any flowers. At home medieval Catholics would avoid
frivolity or hilarity and would wear black during either Holy Week or Good
Friday.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">There
is a special mourning custom that also begins on Passion Sunday (</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fifth
Sunday of Lent (<i>Passion Sunday</i>) </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">and
ends when the <i>Gloria </i>is sung during the Easter Vigil Mass: <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">covering all sacred images</span>
(crucifixes, statues, etc) with purple cloth in both church and home. This
might seem counterintuitive, since one would expect to gaze at a crucifix more
during the season when the Passion is being considered. Yet the Roman rite
teaches by absence as well as by presence. In an odd way, being denied access
to the sacred images alerts you to their presence all the more, in the same way
that not having the sacrifice of the Mass on the one day you would expect it
the most, i.e., Good Friday, makes one all the more aware of the Sacrifice that
took place on that day. Covering sacred images also adds immensely to the sense
of sorrow and compunction that should naturally accompany this somber period.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Passion
Fruit Cheesecake for Passion Sunday<a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn6;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[6]</span></b></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Since the 3rd Century,
today (5th Sunday in Lent) has been known as Passion Sunday.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Passion Fruit Cheesecake<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Ingredients:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Crust<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">1 1/2 cups all purpose
flour<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">1/4 cup granulated sugar<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">2 tablespoons nuts, finely
chopped<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">6 ounces butter, melted<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Cheesecake Filling<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">1 1/2 pound cream cheese<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">1 1/2 cup granulated sugar<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">2 tablespoons corn starch<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">1/2 vanilla bean, scraped<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">3 eggs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">3/4 cup sour cream<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">3/4 cup passion fruit
puree.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Directions:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Make
crust by combining dry ingredients in a large bowl. Melt butter and add to dry
ingredients. Mix thoroughly. When incorporated, press evenly into nine-inch
springform pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 15-20 minutes or until golden brown. Combine
cream cheese and sugar until smooth. Add corn starch and blend. Add eggs and
mix thoroughly, scraping the sides of the bowl. Add vanilla and sour cream. Mix
until smooth and fold in passion fruit puree. Pour batter into a springform pan
and bake at 300 degrees for approximately one hour and thirty minutes, or until
set. Cool slowly and completely refrigerate for several hours.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="pf" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Aids in Battle<a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn7" name="_ftnref7" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn7;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[7]</span></b></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Help from Saints<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Saints
are veterans of the spiritual war that continues to rage in this world. Their
insights, born of long experience in combat with the Enemy, can make us wise
and strong in battle.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.25in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo4; tab-stops: list .25in; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">God has fashioned and shaped only one enmity, and that an
irreconcilable one, which will endure and even increase, until the end: It is
that between the Virgin Mary and the Devil, between the children and servants
of the Blessed Virgin and the children and accomplices of Satan; so that the
most terrible of the enemies of Satan created by God is Mary, his Blessed
Mother. ST. LOUIS DE MONTFORT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.25in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo4; tab-stops: list .25in; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Men do not<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>fear</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>a powerful, hostile army as much as
the powers of hell fear the name and protection of Mary. ST. BONAVENTURE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.25in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo4; tab-stops: list .25in; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">You, O Lady, by the simple invocation of your most powerful name,
give security to your servants against all the assaults of the Enemy. ST.
GERMANUS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.25in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo4; tab-stops: list .25in; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">By invoking the name of Jesus Christ, who was crucified under
Pontius Pilate, Satan is driven out of men. ST. IRENAEUS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0in 6pt 0.25in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo4; tab-stops: list .25in; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">We are all inclined to sin, my children; we are idle, greedy,
sensual, given to the pleasures of the flesh. We want to know everything, to
learn everything, to see everything. We must watch over our mind, over our
heart, and over our senses, for these are the gates by which the Devil
penetrates. See, he prowls round us incessantly; his only occupation in</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> <span style="color: black;">this
world is to seek companions for himself. All our life he will lay snares for
us; he will try to make us yield to temptations. We must, on our side, do all
we can to defeat and resist him. We can do nothing by ourselves, children. But
we can do everything with the help of the good God. Let us pray Him to deliver
us from this enemy of our salvation, or to give strength to fight against him.
With the Name of Jesus, we shall overcome the demons; we shall put them to
flight. With this name, though they may sometimes dare to attack us, our
battles will be victories, and our victories will be crowns for heaven, all
brilliant with precious stones. ST. JOHN VIANNEY<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="pf" style="margin: 0in;"><a href="https://www.ireland.com/en-us/things-to-do/whats-on/"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Saint Patrick</span></b></a><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="pf" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="pf" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ndUfgHopiPI" width="320" youtube-src-id="ndUfgHopiPI"></iframe></span></div><p></p><p class="pf" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="pf" style="margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">ST. PATRICK</span></b><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn8" name="_ftnref8" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn8;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[8]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> was born towards the close of the
fourth century, but the place of his birth is not positively known. Britain and
Scotland both claim the honor, but the best authorities seem to agree upon
Brittany, in France. In his sixteenth year he was carried into captivity by
certain barbarians, who took him into Ireland, where he was obliged to keep
cattle on the mountains and in the forests, in hunger and nakedness, amidst
snows, rain, and ice. The young man had recourse to God with his whole heart in
fervent prayer and fasting and from that time faith and the love of God
acquired continually new strength in his tender soul. After six months spent in
slavery under the same master St. Patrick was admonished by God in a dream to
return to his own country, and informed that a ship was then ready to sail
thither. He went at once to the seacoast, though at a great distance, and found
the vessel. After three days sail, they made land, but wandered twenty-seven
days through deserts, and were a long while distressed for want of provisions.
Patrick assured the company that if they would address themselves with their
whole hearts to the true God He would hear and succor them. They did so, and on
the same day met with a herd of swine. From that time provisions never failed
them, till on the twenty-seventh day they came into a country that was
cultivated and inhabited. Some years afterwards he was again led captive but
recovered his liberty after two months. When he was at home with his parents,
God manifested to him, by divers’ visions, that He destined him to the great
work of the conversion of Ireland. The writers of his life say that after his
second captivity he travelled into Gaul and Italy, and saw St. Martin, St.
Germanus of Auxerre, and Pope Celestine, and that he received his mission and
the apostolical benediction from this Pope, who died in 432. Great opposition
was made to his episcopal consecration and mission, both by his own relations
and by the clergy; but the Lord, whose will he consulted by earnest prayer,
supported him, and he persevered in his resolution. He forsook his family, sold
his birthright and dignity to serve strangers, and consecrated his soul to God,
to carry His name to the ends of the earth. In this disposition he passed into
Ireland to preach the Gospel, penetrating into the remotest corners; and such
was the fruit of his preaching’s and sufferings that he baptized an infinite
number of people. He ordained everywhere clergymen, induced women to live in
holy widowhood and continence, consecrated virgins to Christ, and instituted
monks. He took nothing from the many thousands whom he baptized, but gave
freely of his own, both to pagans and Christians, distributed large alms to the
poor in the provinces where he passed, and maintained and educated many children,
whom he trained to serve at the altar. The happy success of his labors cost him
many persecutions. He died and was buried at Down, in Ulster. His body was
found there in a church of his name in 1185 and translated to another part of
the same church.</span></p>
<p align="center" class="CSP-ChapterBodyText-FirstParagraph" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: center; text-indent: 0.2in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">A
WARRIOR’S BREASTPLATE<a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn9" name="_ftnref9" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn9;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[9]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/m1OCffhjHYw" width="320" youtube-src-id="m1OCffhjHYw"></iframe></div><p align="center" class="CSP-ChapterBodyText-FirstParagraph" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: center; text-indent: 0.2in;"><i style="text-indent: 0.2in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">I
bind unto myself today the power of God to hold and lead, His eye to watch, his
might to stay, His ear to hearken to my need; the wisdom of my God to teach,
his hand to guide, his shield to ward; the word of God to give me speech, his
heavenly host to be my guard. Christ be with me, Christ within me, Christ
behind me, Christ before me, Christ beside me, Christ to win me, Christ to
comfort and restore me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me, Christ in quiet,
Christ in danger, Christ in the hearts of all that love me, Christ in the mouth
of friend and stranger.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Amen</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="pf" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Things
to Do<a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn10" name="_ftnref10" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn10;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[10]</span></b></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="pf" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="pf" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.25in; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">This
is a good day to honor St. Patrick by trying typical Irish fare: corned beef
and cabbage, soda bread, scones, stew, Shepherd's pie, potatoes in various
forms and the famous beer and spirits of Ireland. For dessert, try making the
Irish Porter Cake. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="pf" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.25in; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Read
the Lorica (Breastplate) of St. Patrick. Here is an </span><a href="https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?recnum=139"><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">older translation</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> — pray it with your family after your rosary tonight.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="pf" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.25in; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">From
the Catholic Culture library: </span><a href="https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?recnum=101"><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">The Conversion of Ireland</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> by Warren Carroll, </span><a href="https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?recnum=6030%20"><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">The Irish Soldiers of Mexico</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> by Michael Hogan, </span><a href="https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?recnum=3052%20"><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">The Irish Madonna of Hungary</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> by Zsolt Aradi and </span><a href="https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?recnum=3137%20"><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Our Lady in Old Irish Folklore and Hymns</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> by James F. Cassidy. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="pf" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.25in; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Don
your friendliest green for </span><a href="http://www.travelchannel.com/interests/arts-and-culture/photos/st-patricks-day-celebrations-around-the-world"><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">St. Patrick’s Day</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">. Boston is the place to be, with the city’s official
St. Patrick’s Day Parade drawing anywhere from 600,000 to 1 million people
every year.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="pf" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="pf" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Saint
Patrick's Day Facts & Quotes</span></i><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn11" name="_ftnref11" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn11;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[11]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p align="center" class="pf" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Mwxga8udIio" width="320" youtube-src-id="Mwxga8udIio"></iframe></div><p align="center" class="pf" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="pf" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">St.
Patrick used the three-leaf shamrock to explain the Trinity to non-Christians.
The leaves stood for the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="pf" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Approximately
5.5 million pints of Irish Guinness stout are consumed on an average day. On
St. Patrick's Day, nearly 13 million are consumed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="pf" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Wearing
the shamrock, a three-leaf clover is a St. Patrick's Day tradition. The
official three-leaf clover is known scientifically as Trifolium dubium however
clovers can also have more leaves. Four-leaf clovers are said to be lucky,
however the odds of finding one are about 1 to 10,000.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="pf" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">The
love of God and his fear grew in me more and more, as did the faith, and my
soul was roused, so that, in a single day, I have said as many as a hundred
prayers and in the night, nearly the same. - St. Patrick<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="pf" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Sláinte!
- used when clinking glasses with friends at a bar (equivalent of Cheers or
Health!)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="pf" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="pf" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Saint
Patrick's Day Top Events and Things to Do<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="pf" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="pf" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.25in; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo3; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Wear
green! In some parts of the world, the custom is to pinch people who aren't
wearing the color of shamrocks.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="pf" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.25in; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo3; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Attend
a St. Patrick's Day parade. Major cities like Chicago, New York, San
Francisco, Dallas, and Boston host marching bands and floats.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="pf" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.25in; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo3; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">The
heart of any Irish neighborhood is its local pub. Share a couple of green
Guinness </span><a href="https://www.wincalendar.com/International-Beer-Day"><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">beers</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">
with friends at a local Irish pub or try Magner's (Bulmer's) apple cider as an
alternative.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="pf" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.25in; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo3; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">St.
Patrick was a brave and humble man. Have you been putting off something
because you are afraid to do it? Do it today in honor of St. Patrick's
Day.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://westporttourism.com/croagh-patrick/"><i>Croagh Patrick</i></a><i><o:p></o:p></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Ezj7R-IZISA" width="320" youtube-src-id="Ezj7R-IZISA"></iframe></div><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">Ireland has a long tradition of holy pilgrimages, dating
back to St. Patrick</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Gothic"; text-align: left;">’</span><span style="text-align: left;">s
fast on what is now known as Croagh Patrick in 441. In the pasts few years, the
Pilgrim Paths foundation has been restoring the ancient penitential paths and
has so far created five guided walks. After pilgrims get their </span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Gothic"; text-align: left;">“</span><span style="text-align: left;">passports</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Gothic"; text-align: left;">”</span><span style="text-align: left;"> stamped after completing
each of the five routes, they receive an Irish Pilgrim Paths completion
certificate from Ballintubber Abbey in County Mayo.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<h2 align="center" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/liturgicalyear/activities/view.cfm?id=293"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Gaelic Prayers</span></i></a><i><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></h2>
<p align="left" class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.25in; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo6; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Patrick’s<b><i> Day </i></b><i>March 17<sup>th</sup><b> </b></i>Don your friendliest green for <a href="http://www.travelchannel.com/interests/arts-and-culture/photos/st-patricks-day-celebrations-around-the-world">St. Patrick’s Day</a>. Boston is the place to be, with the city’s official St. Patrick’s Day Parade drawing anywhere from 600,000 to 1 million people every year.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"></span></b></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: .75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.75in; mso-list: l4 level2 lfo6; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="https://www.12news.com/article/entertainment/celebrate-st-patricks-day-valley-across-arizona/75-75769479-afda-4960-8a02-27fb4a2eec75">Arizona Green</a></p><p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Almsgiving</span></b><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn12" name="_ftnref12" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn12;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[12]</span></span></span></span></span></span></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13.65pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">When we consider God
valued the human person as so precious enough to die for, we should make a
concerted effort to aid others.</span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13.65pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">The giving of Alms
has everything to do with devotions and piety. Almsgiving is a powerful form of
prayer. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Prayer and fasting are good, but
better than either is almsgiving accompanied by righteousness…It is better to
give alms than to store up gold; for almsgiving saves one from death and
expiates every sin. Those who regularly give alms shall enjoy a full life”</i>
(Tob 12:8-9) To give alms is to give to God. If we are giving alms righteously
then most likely we are doing it though some form of fasting giving from our
substance. The giving of Alms should not philanthropy with a smiling photo op
and boost to our pride. The earliest Christians knew they could not make a good
Communion if they neglected the poor. St. Ignatius noted that the twin marks of
heresy are the neglect of the poor and neglect of the Eucharist. “The mystery
of the poor is this: that they are Jesus and what you do for them you do to
him.” (Dorothy Day) The Eucharist is the key to a civilization of love. It
saves us from misguided tenderness and feel-good philanthropy, because it gives
us the grace to sacrifice as Jesus did. Our main focus must be widows and
orphans. (Single parents and children) “Widows and orphan are to be revered
like the altar of sacrifice.” (Pope Paul VI) We should give as much as we can
and we should give it responsibly making sure the alms are not wasted.</span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13.65pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Mormons in their
almsgiving, for example, do fast offerings in addition to tithing. This
offering accompanies a monthly 24-hour fast. All the money that would have been
spent to buy food during those 24 hours is donated to the Church for the
purpose of feeding the hungry and caring for the needy.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU; text-transform: uppercase;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: black;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0in; tab-stops: 3.0in; text-align: left;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Catechism
of the Catholic Church<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0.3in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;">PART THREE: LIFE IN CHRIST</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.3in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0.3in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;">SECTION TWO-THE TEN COMMANDMENTS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.9in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">CHAPTER
TWO-YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.9in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-indent: 0.3in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Article 7-THE SEVENTH COMMANDMENT<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">I. The Universal Destination and the Private Ownership of
Goods</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7nBjH-G2OcQ" width="320" youtube-src-id="7nBjH-G2OcQ"></iframe></b></div><p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="color: black;">2402 In the beginning God
entrusted the earth and its resources to the common stewardship of mankind to
take care of them, master them by labor, and enjoy their fruits. The goods
of creation are destined for the whole human race. However, the earth is
divided up among men to assure the security of their lives, endangered by
poverty and threatened by violence. The appropriation of property is legitimate
for guaranteeing the freedom and dignity of persons and for helping each of
them to meet his basic needs and the needs of those in his charge. It should
allow for a natural solidarity to develop between men.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="color: black;">2403 The right to private
property, acquired by work or received from others by inheritance or gift, does
not do away with the original gift of the earth to the whole of mankind. The
universal destination of goods remains primordial, even if the promotion of the
common good requires respect for the right to private property and its
exercise.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="color: black;">2404 "In his use of things
man should regard the external goods he legitimately owns not merely as
exclusive to himself but common to others also, in the sense that they can
benefit others as well as himself." The ownership of any property
makes its holder a steward of Providence, with the task of making it fruitful
and communicating its benefits to others, first of all his family.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="color: black;">2405 Goods of production -
material or immaterial - such as land, factories, practical or artistic skills,
oblige their possessors to employ them in ways that will benefit the greatest
number. Those who hold goods for use and consumption should use them with
moderation, reserving the better part for guests, for the sick and the poor.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="color: black;">2406 Political authority has
the right and duty to regulate the legitimate exercise of the right to
ownership for the sake of the common good.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.25in; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo6; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Claire’s Corner</b><b><o:p> </o:p></b><!--[if !supportLists]--></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/byi7uDOwS_s" width="320" youtube-src-id="byi7uDOwS_s"></iframe></b></div><p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Daily Devotions<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo6; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Unite in the work of the <a href="https://portersofstjoseph.org/">Porters of St. Joseph</a> by joining them
in fasting: Today's Fast: <a href="http://www.icemanforchrist.org/2017/10/tuesday-october-10-2017.html">Individuals
with Mental Illness</a><span class="MsoHyperlink"> </span><i>note: We pray for
Politian’s separately<o:p></o:p></i></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Litany of the <a href="https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/devotions/litany-of-the-most-precious-blood-of-jesus-248"><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Most Precious
Blood of Jesus</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo6; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Total <a href="http://www.icemanforchrist.org/p/icemans-total.html"><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Consecration
to St. Joseph</span></a> Day 30</p>
<p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo6; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/national-corned-beef-and-cabbage-day/">National
Corned Beef and Cabbage Day</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo6; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="http://www.icemanforchrist.org/p/an-offering-to-most-sacred-heart-of.html"><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Offering to
the sacred heart of Jesus</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo5; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="https://theholyface.com/">Make
reparations to the Holy Face</a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="http://www.catholictradition.org/Christ/holy-wounds2.htm"><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Drops of
Christ’s Blood</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo5; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="http://www.icemanforchrist.org/p/universal-man-plan-phase-4-st-joseph.html"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU;">Universal
Man Plan</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><a href="https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?id=419"><span style="line-height: 115%;">https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?id=419</span></a><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftnref3" name="_ftn3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[3]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> <span style="line-height: 115%;">Goffine’s Divine Instructions, 1896.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftnref4" name="_ftn4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[4]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><a href="http://www.holytrinitygerman.org/septlentcustoms.html#Passiontide_Customs"><span style="line-height: 115%;">http://www.holytrinitygerman.org/septlentcustoms.html#Passiontide_Customs</span></a>
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<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftnref6" name="_ftn6" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn6;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[6]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><a href="https://catholiccuisine.blogspot.com/2009/03/passion-fruit-cheesecake-for-passion.html"><span style="line-height: 115%;">https://catholiccuisine.blogspot.com/2009/03/passion-fruit-cheesecake-for-passion.html</span></a><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Warfare. TAN Books.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftnref8" name="_ftn8" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn8;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[8]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> <span style="line-height: 115%;">Goffine’s Divine Instructions, 1896.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Catholic Customs and their biblical roots. Chap. 33. Almsgiving.</span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoFootnoteText"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/zm5gZP84lJA" width="320" youtube-src-id="zm5gZP84lJA"></iframe></div><br /><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><br /></span><p></p>
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</div>IcemanforChristhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10737122933196184713noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8604232804852757560.post-36560941567576134172024-03-10T06:45:00.000-07:002024-03-15T21:05:49.842-07:00Saturday, March 16, 2024<iframe width="640" height="480" style="max-width: 100%;max-height: 100%;" src="https://remnant-tv.com/videoEmbeded/ireland-fights-back-canada-outlaws-free-speech-orthodox-church-terminates-dialogue-with-pope" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" ></iframe><p align="left" class="CSP-ChapterTitle"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></b></p><p align="left" class="CSP-ChapterTitle"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Saturday of the Fourth Week of Lent</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></b></p><p align="left" class="CSP-ChapterTitle"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">1 Maccabees, Chapter 10, Verse 8<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p align="left" class="CSP-ChapterTitle"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">They were struck with </span></b><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">FEAR</span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> when they heard that the king had given him authority to gather an army.</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></b></p><p align="left" class="CSP-ChapterTitle"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">The, they, in this verse were the Hellenized
Jews who were losing their power which came from supporting Greece (King
Demetrius). At once they were afraid for their lives, realizing that their
power over Jonathan was gone, they decided to leave Jerusalem. Along comes
Alexander Balas who claims to be the son of Antiochus and the rightful king, he
has the backing of Rome. Jonathan plays these two opponents against each other
to make Jerusalem great again. Jonathan then accepts from Alexander permission
to become high priest which he accepts. There is just one problem; he is not a
Levi, only Levis can be priests. Here is high stakes politicking.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Saturday
of the Fourth Week of Lent</span></b><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">[1]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/cYiRRi43uA0" width="320" youtube-src-id="cYiRRi43uA0"></iframe></p><p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Prayer.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> MAY our devotion be made fruitful
by Thy grace, we beseech Thee, O Lord, for the fasts we have undertaken will
become profitable to us only if they are pleasing to Thy mercy.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">EPISTLE. Isaias xlix. 8-15.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p align="left"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Thus
saith the Lord: In an acceptable time I have heard thee, and in the day of
salvation I have helped thee: and I have preserved thee, and given thee to be a
covenant of the people, that thou mightest raise up the earth, and possess the
inheritances that were destroyed : that thou mightest say to them that are
bound : Come forth : and to them that are in darkness : Show yourselves. They
shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall be in every plain. They shall
not hunger, nor thirst, neither shall the heat nor the sun strike them: for He
that is merciful to them, shall be their shepherd, and at the fountains of
waters He shall give them drink. And I will make all My mountains a way, and My
paths shall be exalted. Behold these shall come from afar, and behold these
from the north and from the sea, and these from the south country. Give praise,
O ye heavens, and rejoice, O earth; ye mountains, give praise with jubilation:
because the Lord hath comforted His people, and will have mercy on His poor
ones. And Sion said: The Lord hath forsaken me, and the Lord hath forgotten me.
Can a woman forget her infant, so as not to have pity on the son of her womb?
and if she should forget, yet will not I forget thee, saith the Lord Almighty.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">GOSPEL. John viii. 12-20.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">At that time: Jesus spoke
to the multitudes of the Jews, saying I am the light of the world: he that
followeth Me, walketh not in darkness, but shall have the light of life. The
Pharisees therefore said to Him: Thou givest testimony of Thy self: Thy testimony
is not true. Jesus answered and said to them: Although I give testimony of
Myself, My testimony is true: for I know whence I came, and whither I go: but
you know not whence I come, or whither I go. You judge according to the flesh:
I judge not any man. And if I do judge, My judgment is true; because I am not
alone, but I and the Father that sent Me. And in your law, it is written, that
the testimony of two men is true. I am one that gives testimony of Myself: and
the Father that sent Me, giveth testimony of Me. They said therefore to Him:
Where is Thy Father? Jesus answered: Neither Me do you know, nor My Father: if
you did know Me, perhaps you would know My Father also. These words Jesus spoke
in the treasury, teaching in the temple: and no man laid hands on Him, because
His hour was not yet come. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Preparing for Battle<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;">[2]</span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
</span>Keeping the Enemy Out of Your Camp<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Because the LORD your God
walks in the midst of your camp, to save you and to give up your enemies before
you, therefore your camp <i>must</i> be
holy. DEUTERONOMY 23: 14. This principle
of spiritual warfare <i>must</i> be
emphasized: Don’t invite the Enemy into your camp. Look out for Trojan Horses,
poisonous reptiles and be prepared to fight.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" style="margin: 5pt 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Trojan
Horses. Sin is always wrapped in attractive packages. The simple pleasure of
satisfying curiosity could be a Pandora’s Box. Stay away from all things of the
occult, such as Ouija boards and fortunetelling; séances, channeling, and other
forms of necromancy (attempts to contact the dead); substance abuse; sexual
sin; and abortion. Seeking the attractive “gift” of pleasure, power, secret
knowledge, or (in the case of abortion) even escape from responsibility. In
addition, forgiveness is crucial to deliverance from the Evil One, because a
bitter heart gives him a foothold in our lives. “Take heed lest anyone be
lacking in the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up cause
trouble, and by it, many be defiled” (Heb 12: 15). Those especially who have
suffered a grave injustice <i>must</i> seek
the grace to let go of the offense and pray for the offender, so that
resentment doesn’t ferment into malicious bitterness. If we’re ever tempted to
invite the Enemy into our “camp” in any of these ways, we <i>must</i> recognize the Adversary’s deception and reject his offer
firmly and <i>immediately</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" style="margin: 5pt 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">“Poisonous
Reptiles” are the “little” sins that find their way into our hearts. We may
ignore them or think them of no consequence as we try to stand guard over the
carefully constructed fortifications of our spiritual life. To resist the
temptations of ordinary demonic activity, we <i>must</i> guard our thoughts closely and reject <i>immediately</i> any thought that leads to sin. We <i>must</i> also carefully examine our thoughts to seek out assumptions or
conclusions that may be false and contrary to faith, so that they lead us
astray. Above all, we <i>must</i> engage in
a frequent examination of conscience and then go regularly to Confession.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Here
are three ways to beat the devil and continue to stay true to the season of
Lent during these difficult times:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="text-indent: 0.3in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Faith</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">: Through the virtue of faith, we
believe in God and all that he has said to us. The saints stand as giants of
faith that we can strive to imitate during this time. If you’re stuck at home
these days, read the life of any saint (online or through a book) and you will
see what I mean. It is abundantly clear how their faith kept them strong in the
most challenging of situations. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">If we are living in undue
fear right now, then we are not living in faith. Our faith starts with us
trusting God in prayer and surrendering ourselves completely to him. If we
trust that we have a father in heaven who knows our needs, before we even ask for
them (Matthew 6:8), then we can trust that God will be with us during this
tumultuous time and see us through it – even if the particular trials in our
lives become especially burdensome. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="text-indent: 0.3in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Hope</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">: Hope keeps us from discouragement
and is the quality by which we anchor our souls in Christ. We should certainly
be prudent and careful during this time. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Throughout history, there
have been countless natural and man-made disasters, but God has never forsaken
his people. As the psalmist tells us:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">“God
is our refuge and our strength,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">an
ever-present help in distress.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Therefore,
we fear not, though the earth be shaken<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">and
mountains plunge into the depths of the sea.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">(Psalm
46:2-3)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">In addition, never forget
that we are not made for this world – we are made for heaven. And while we
should certainly live in the hope of a better tomorrow in this world, we should
also pray for a greater outpouring of the virtue of hope in our lives, so that
we may even more ardently desire to one day enjoy the kingdom of heaven and
eternal life.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="text-indent: 0.3in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Love</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">: Among countless lessons that
Jesus taught us through his Cross, two are particularly of value during this bank
run. The first is that Jesus showed us that love is expressed in action. There
are people all around us right now who are alone or who may need help in
various ways. Love them in action. This may involve helping your elderly
neighbor get groceries. Or it may require you to give your spouse a night off
as he/she deals with the new reality of working from home (including possibly a
home filled with screaming kids). It may also be a good idea to reflect on the </span><a href="https://catholic-link.org/images/infographic-the-works-of-mercy/"><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none;">spiritual and corporal works of mercy</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> to see how else you can love
others in action.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">The second lesson I wish
to highlight from the Cross is its sacrificial dimension. Jesus showed us his
love through sacrifice – dying to himself – by dying on the Cross. Everyone’s
nerves are a bit frayed as we continue to grapple with the unknowns and ever-changing
situations related to this current bank run. Seize every opportunity you get to
make sacrifices – big or small – for someone else in these days. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Love is at the heart of
the Christian faith and in these difficult times, we can witness to our faith
in the way we love God and those around us. The greatest benefit of acting
through the virtue of love is that the fruits of love are joy, peace and mercy
(CCC 1829) – all of which are much-needed right now.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Living our lives rooted in
faith, hope and love, especially during this recession, will root us more
deeply in God, not just for the Lenten season, but for beyond it too. We don’t
know how this monetary crisis will unfold and how it will continue to affect
us. But we know God. We can trust and hope in God.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">“The
Lord is my light and my salvation. whom shall, I fear?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">The
Lord is the stronghold of my life.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">of
whom shall I be afraid?”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">(Psalm
27:1)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Catechism
of the Catholic Church<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: 0.3in;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">PART THREE: LIFE IN CHRIST</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.3in; text-indent: 0.3in;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">SECTION TWO-THE TEN COMMANDMENTS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.9in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">CHAPTER
TWO-YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.9in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-indent: 0.3in;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Article 7-THE SEVENTH COMMANDMENT</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">You shall not steal. <o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2401 The seventh commandment
forbids unjustly taking or keeping the goods of one's neighbor and wronging him
in any way with respect to his goods. It commands justice and charity in the
care of earthly goods and the fruits of men's labor. For the sake of the common
good, it requires respect for the universal destination of goods and respect
for the right to private property. Christian life strives to order this world's
goods to God and to fraternal charity.<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Vinny’s Corner</b><b> </b></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Ayc9STKjUX4?si=wmY1B2lIPH8-F3Tt" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><i>36th Annual Parade & Festival</i> </p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">The 36th Annual St. Patrick's Day Festival
brings the Irish spirit to Tucson in 2024! </p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">The St. Patrick’s Day Festival begins at
10:00 a.m. in Armory Park in downtown Tucson, with live Irish music, dancers,
entertainment, a children's area, and food and merchandise vendors. The parade begins at 10:30 a.m. at 17th
Street and Stone Avenue, wending its way to Armory Park at 6th Avenue and 13th
Street. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xOyNG3V0Nmc" width="320" youtube-src-id="xOyNG3V0Nmc"></iframe></div><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; text-indent: -0.25in;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><a href="https://www.visittucson.org/event/silver-spike-railroad-jubilee/11126/" style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Visit
the Railroad Station</a><b style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> </b></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/796d-TMid9U" width="320" youtube-src-id="796d-TMid9U"></iframe></div><p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Coffee with Christ<o:p></o:p></b></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/LPhjpue3SfQ" width="320" youtube-src-id="LPhjpue3SfQ"></iframe></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Daily Devotions</b></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Unite in the work of the <a href="https://portersofstjoseph.org/">Porters of St. Joseph</a> by joining them
in fasting: Today's Fast: <a href="http://www.icemanforchrist.org/2021/07/wednesday-july-14-2021.html">For
the Poor and Suffering</a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in;">Total <a href="http://www.icemanforchrist.org/p/icemans-total.html"><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Consecration
to St. Joseph</span></a> Day 30<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="http://www.icemanforchrist.org/p/through-consent-of-our-lady-new-eve-son.html">Saturday
Litany of the Hours Invoking the Aid of Mother Mary</a><o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="http://www.icemanforchrist.org/p/an-offering-to-most-sacred-heart-of.html"><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Offering to
the sacred heart of Jesus</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="https://theholyface.com/">Make
reparations to the Holy Face</a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="http://www.catholictradition.org/Christ/holy-wounds2.htm"><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Drops of
Christ’s Blood</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="http://www.icemanforchrist.org/p/universal-man-plan-phase-4-st-joseph.html">Universal
Man Plan</a><o:p></o:p></p><p>
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/j25FdL4Zs90" width="320" youtube-src-id="j25FdL4Zs90"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>IcemanforChristhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10737122933196184713noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8604232804852757560.post-66472501621150606332024-03-09T03:11:00.000-08:002024-03-15T10:49:40.707-07:00Friday, March 15, 2024<p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><p align="left" class="CSP-ChapterTitle"><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Friday of the Fourth Week of Lent</span></b></div><p align="left" class="CSP-ChapterTitle"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">St. Longinus-</span><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ides of March</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></i></p><p class="po" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">1 Maccabees, Chapter 9, Verse 6</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in;"><a name="20009006"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">When they saw the
great number of the troops, they were very much <i>AFRAID</i>, and many slipped away from the camp, until only eight
hundred of them remained.</span></b></a><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">The rats are the first to
leave a sinking ship. <span class="hvr">You</span> <span class="hvr">can</span> <span class="hvr">tell</span> <span class="hvr">when</span> <span class="hvr">something</span>
is <span class="hvr">about</span> to <span class="hvr">fail</span> <span class="hvr">because</span>
<span class="hvr">large</span> <span class="hvr">numbers</span> of <span class="hvr">people</span>
<span class="hvr">begin</span> to <span class="hvr">leave</span> <span class="hvr">it.
<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Death of Judas Maccabee<a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">[1]</span></span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p align="center" style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/eelsP-CJH8E" width="320" youtube-src-id="eelsP-CJH8E"></iframe></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Judas cleverly negotiated
a treaty of alliance with Rome that recognized Judea as an independent state.
For the first time since before the Babylonian exile, the Jews had their own
sovereign nation. Demetrius feared a Rome-supported Judea might induce another
of his inherited enemies, Egypt, to join the alliance and invade his empire
through Judea. Basing his actions on reports that the Maccabean army was
disbanding, Demetrius dispatched a 24,000-man expedition in the spring of 160
bc. Sure enough, Judas was unable to mobilize more than 3,000 troops. Joining
battle at Elasa, about six miles east of Beth Horon, the armies clashed briefly
before the Jewish warriors, demoralized by the eight-to-one odds, broke and
fled, leaving their peerless commander with just 800 valiant veterans. Leading
his small band in a desperate charge on the enemy’s right flank, Judas killed a
great number of Seleucids but failed in the crucial objective of killing their
commander, General Bacchides. Instead, Judas and his little group of loyalists
were wiped out. It had taken the Syrians far too long, but in Bacchides they
finally found a leader capable of concocting viable strategy and instilling
needed flexibility into Syrian formations. Considering the overpowering
numerical advantage the Syrians enjoyed in that April clash, it could be said
the Maccabees were drawn into a trap even if they realized it from the
beginning, for they could not afford to allow this pagan multitude to rampage
unchecked throughout Judea. Confronting it when they did, before they had time
to assemble sufficient soldiers, was unavoidable—and fatal.<o:p></o:p></span></p><h3 align="center" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Legacy
of Judas Maccabeus<o:p></o:p></span></i></h3><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">For no small reason, Judas
was called “the Hammer.” His unparalleled battlefield adaptability, proficiency
in exploiting an enemy’s mistakes, ability to fight at night, and effective use
of terrain, surprise, and espionage made him the bane of succeeding Seleucid
commanders. After Judas’s death, his brothers Jonathan and Simon eventually
achieved the Judean dream of religious and political independence. It was the
first time in recorded history that a subject people had won a revolutionary
war for religious freedom. Because he fought in just one poorly chronicled war,
Judas Maccabeus has largely been lost among the giant shadows cast by Alexander
the Great, Julius Caesar, Genghis Khan, Napoleon Bonaparte, Shaka Zulu, and
other great conquerors. Unlike them, Judas was a man of noble motives who
fought because he had no other choice. Unfettered by outmoded convention, he
taught himself and his followers to fight via methods too subtle to be
perceived by their powerful but outmoded adversaries. Today’s high-tech
military strategists would be well served to study the humble partisan leader
of long ago, who wanted nothing more for himself and his people than to be
allowed to live and worship in peace.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Martyrdom</span></i><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">[2]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/OzNW9HnLLxs" width="320" youtube-src-id="OzNW9HnLLxs"></iframe></div><p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: left;">If we look at
the modern world, we see nothing but hostility toward the Faith. In the
Middle East, Christians are being martyred in the most brutal way. Every day
brings a new threat. Persecution is open and the choice is clear: Serve Christ
or die. To live and embrace the Faith in such circumstances requires a
great deal of </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: left;">holy fearlessness</i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: left;">.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Even in the “civilized”
West, persecution is no less present, albeit in a different and more subtle
form. We are asked by the powers that be to acquiesce, to compromise on the
most fundamental moral issues that exist.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" style="margin: 5pt 0in 6pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Things
like the nature of marriage<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" style="margin: 5pt 0in 6pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">The
protection of innocent human life in the womb<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" style="margin: 5pt 0in 6pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">The
nature and purpose of human sexuality<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Our suffering may be in
the form of an angry boss, the loss of a business, or simply persecution with
words. While no one is holding a knife to our throat, the choice is just as
clear: Serve Christ or suffer. Tragically, there are many bishops and prelates
who like the Pharisees—<i>fear</i> the
opinion of men more than they fear God. There are many in the hierarchy who
would rather make peace with the world and its evil ideologies than suffer
with Jesus in obedience to the will of God. As St. Paul said, “I have often
told you and now tell you even with tears, [they] live as enemies of the cross
of Christ” (Phil. 3:18). These men will have their reward, but as for us, let
us serve Christ. Let us choose always to obey God rather than men, no matter
what the cost. Let us pray to the Holy Spirit for the holy boldness that he
gave on the day of Pentecost to the once cowardly St. Peter. Let us strive
after the courage of men like St. Thomas More, St. John Fisher, who joyfully
chose martyrdom rather than deny the truths of the Faith. Most of all, let us
take up our crosses and follow Christ, who said, “not everyone who says to me,
‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the
will of my Father who is in heaven.” May the will of God be done. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="CSP-ChapterBodyText" style="text-indent: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Friday
of the Fourth Week of Lent</span></b><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Cambria Math", serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">[3]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><b><o:p></o:p></b></p><p align="left" class="CSP-ChapterBodyText" style="text-indent: 0in;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/YBTmrSEstB4" width="320" youtube-src-id="YBTmrSEstB4"></iframe></p><p align="left" class="CSP-ChapterBodyText" style="text-indent: 0in;"><b> </b><i style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Prayer.</span></i><i style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></i></p><p align="center" class="pcon" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">O God, Who renewest the world by
unspeakable mysteries, grant, we beseech Thee, that Thy Church may profit by
Thy eternal institutions, and not be deprived of Thy temporal assistance. Amen<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="pcon" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="pcon" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">EPISTLE, Kings xvii. 17-24.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p align="left" class="pcon" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></p><p align="left" class="pcon" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">In those days the son of the woman,
the mistress of the house, fell sick, and the sickness was very grievous, so
that there was no breath left in him. And she said to Elias: What have I to do
with thee, thou man of God? art thou come to me that my iniquities should be
remembered, and that thou shouldst kill my son? And Elias said to her: Give me
thy son. And he took him out of her bosom and carried him into the upper
chamber where he abode and laid him upon his own bed. And he cried to the Lord,
and said: O Lord my God, hast Thou afflicted also the widow, with whom I am
after a sort maintained, so as to kill her son? And he stretched, and measured
himself upon the child three times, and cried to the Lord, and said: O Lord my
God, let the soul of this child, I beseech Thee, return into his body. And the
Lord heard the voice of Elias: and the soul of the child returned into him, and
he revived. And Elias took the child and brought him down from the upper
chamber to the house below, and delivered him to his mother, and said to her:
Behold thy son liveth. And the woman said to Elias: Now, by this I know that
thou art a man of God, and the word of the Lord in thy mouth is true. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="pcon" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="pcon" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">GOSPEL. John xi. 1-45.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p align="center" class="pcon" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></i></p><p align="center" class="pcon" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/OC0UBFMscRQ" width="320" youtube-src-id="OC0UBFMscRQ"></iframe></i></div><p></p><p align="left" class="pcon" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></p><p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">At
that time: There was a certain man sick named Lazarus, of Bethania, of the town
of Mary and of Martha her sister. (And Mary was she that anointed the Lord with
ointment and wiped His feet with her hair: whose brother Lazarus was sick.) His
sisters therefore sent to Him, saying: Lord, behold, he whom Thou lovest is
sick. And Jesus hearing it, said to them: This sickness is not unto death, but
for the glory of God: that the Son of God may be glorified by it. Now Jesus
loved Martha, and her sister Mary, and Lazarus. "When He had heard
therefore that he was sick, He still remained in the same place two days: then
after that He said to His disciples: Let us go into Judea again. The disciples
say to Him: Rabbi, the Jews but now sought to stone Thee: and goest Thou
thither again? Jesus answered: Are there not twelve hours of the day? If a man
walks in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world:
but if he walks in the night, he stumbleth, because the light is not in him.
These things He said, and after that He said to them: Lazarus our friend
sleepeth: but I go that I may awake him out of sleep. His disciples therefore
said: Lord, if he sleeps, he shall do well. But Jesus spoke of his death; and
they thought that He spoke of the repose of sleep. Then therefore Jesus said to
them plainly: Lazarus is dead; and I am glad for your sakes, that I was not
there, that you may believe but let us go to him. Thomas, therefore, who is
called Didymus, said to his fellow disciples: Let us also go, that we may die
with Him. Jesus therefore came and found that he had been four days already in
the grave. (Now Bethania was near Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off.) And
many of the Jews were come to Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning their
brother. Martha, therefore, as soon as she heard that Jesus was come, went to
meet Him; but Mary sat at home. Martha therefore said to Jesus: Lord, if Thou
hadst been here, my brother had not died. But now also I know that whatsoever
Thou wilt ask of God, God will give it Thee. Jesus saith to her: Thy brother
shall rise again. Martha saith to Him: I know that he shall rise again in the
resurrection at the last day. Jesus said to her: I am the resurrection and the
life: he that believeth in Me although he be dead, shall live and everyone that
liveth and believeth in Me, shall not die forever. Believest thou this? She
saith to Him: Yea, Lord, I have believed that Thou art Christ the Son of the
living God, Who art come into this world. And when she had said these things,
she went, and called her sister Mary secretly, saying: The Master is come and
calleth for thee. She, as soon as she heard this, riseth quickly and cometh to
Him. For Jesus was not yet come into the town: but He was still in that place
where Martha had met Him. The Jews, therefore, who were with her in the house
and comforted her, when they saw Mary that she rose up speedily and went out,
followed her, saying: She goeth to the grave, to weep there. When Mary
therefore was come where Jesus was, seeing Him, she fell down at His feet, and
saith to Him: Lord, if Thou hadst been here, my brother had not died. Jesus,
therefore, when He saw her weeping, and the Jews that were come with her,
weeping, groaned in the spirit, and troubled Himself, and said: Where have you
laid him? They said to Him: Lord, come and see. And Jesus wept. The Jews
therefore said: Behold how He loved him. Biit some of them said: Could not He
that opened the eyes of the man born blind, have caused that this man should
not die? Jesus therefore again groaning in Himself cometh to the sepulcher: now
it was a cave; and a stone was laid over it. Jesus saith: Take away the stone.
Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith to Him: Lord, by this time he
stinketh. for he is now of four days. Jesus saith to her: Did not I say to
thee, that if thou believe, thou shalt see the glory of God? They took
therefore the stone away. And Jesus lifting up His eyes said: Father, I give
Thee thanks that Thou hast heard Me. And I knew that Thou hearest Me always, but
because of the people who stand about have I said it: that they may believe
that Thou hast sent Me. When He had said these things, He cried with a loud
voice: Lazarus, come forth. And presently he that had been dead came forth,
bound feet and hands with winding-bands, and his face was bound about with a
napkin. Jesus said to them: Loose him and let him go. Many therefore of the
Jews who were come to Mary and Martha, and had seen the things that Jesus did,
believed in Him.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="pf" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Preparing
for Battle<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;">[4]</span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
</span>Know Your Weapons-fasting.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p align="center" class="pf" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></i></p><p align="center" class="pf" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/cUhiANCuCL0" width="320" youtube-src-id="cUhiANCuCL0"></iframe></i></div><p></p><p class="pcon"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">When God’s
people fast, the power of their prayers is increased, especially when they are
engaged in spiritual warfare.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="pcon"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">In response to
Daniel’s fasting and prayer, God had sent the Archangel Michael to battle a
demonic power (called “the prince of the kingdom of Persia”)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="pcon"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">If prayer is a
spiritual weapon, fasting is the spiritual whetstone on which it is sharpened.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p align="left" class="CSP-ChapterBodyText" style="text-indent: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">St.
Longinus</span></b><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="line-height: 115%;">[5]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background: rgb(248, 249, 250);"> </span></span><span style="background: rgb(248, 249, 250); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt;">Roman Catholic Church (pre-1969)</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">St.
Longinus was the Roman centurion who pierced the side of Christ with a lance.
He is said to have converted to Christianity after experiencing the darkness
after Christ's death.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">St.
Luke tells us that the centurion "gave praise to God", and exclaimed,
"Truly this was an upright man." (Luke 23:47)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">What
was believed to be the Holy Lance of Longinus, was given to Innocent VIII in
1492.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Things to Do:<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0in 6pt 0.5in; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo4; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Read more about the </span><a href="http://stpetersbasilica.info/Statues/StLonginus/StLonginus.htm"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">statue of
St. Longinus</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> at St. Peter's Basilica.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0in 6pt 0.5in; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo4; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Read the Life of </span><a href="http://catholicsaints.info/the-golden-legend-the-life-of-saint-longinus/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Saint
Longinus</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> from the Golden Legend.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Ides
of March<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p><b style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/rYy-BAoCoAY" width="320" youtube-src-id="rYy-BAoCoAY"></iframe></b></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">In modern times, the Ides
of March is best known as the date on which </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Caesar" title="Julius Caesar"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Julius Caesar</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> was assassinated in 44 BC. Caesar
was stabbed to death at a meeting of the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_senate" title="Roman senate"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Senate</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">. As many as 60 conspirators, led
by </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Junius_Brutus" title="Marcus Junius Brutus"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Brutus</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaius_Cassius_Longinus" title="Gaius Cassius Longinus"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Cassius</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">, were involved.<a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">[6]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Caesar
could garner so much power, but in the end, he was assassinated. No matter how
powerful a person or corporation may be, there will be an end to their reign
and their influence. By way of contrast, the Lord is the everlasting God. Jesus
is the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, who has the power of an endless life.
Remembering the frailty and fallenness of all men is a crucial part of gaining
wisdom. Solomon captured this so well when he wrote “The fear of the Lord is
the beginning of wisdom” (Prov. 9:10) but “the fear of man is a snare” (29:25).
Remembering the fact that no matter how powerful a position a man or woman may
hold, God “holds their breath in His hands and owns all their ways” (Dan. 5:23)
and that “death is the destiny of everyone; the living should take this to
heart” (Eccl. 7:2).<a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn7" name="_ftnref7" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">[7]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Catechism
of the Catholic Church<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: 0.3in;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">PART THREE: LIFE IN CHRIST</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.3in; text-indent: 0.3in;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">SECTION TWO-THE TEN COMMANDMENTS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.9in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">CHAPTER
TWO-YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.9in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-indent: 0.3in;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Article 6-THE SIXTH COMMANDMENT<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 1.2in; text-indent: 0.3in;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">IN BRIEF</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i>2392 "Love is the
fundamental and innate vocation of every human being" (FC 11).</i><o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><i>2393 By
creating the human being man and woman, God gives personal dignity equally to
the one and the other. Each of them, man and woman, should acknowledge and
accept his sexual identity.</i><o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><i>2394
Christ is the model of chastity. Every baptized person is called to lead a
chaste life, each according to his particular state of life.</i><o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><i>2395
Chastity means the integration of sexuality within the person. It includes an
apprenticeship in self-mastery.</i><o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><i>2396
Among the sins gravely contrary to chastity are masturbation, fornication,
pornography, and homosexual practices.</i><o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><i>2397 The
covenant which spouses have freely entered into entails faithful love. It
imposes on them the obligation to keep their marriage indissoluble.</i><o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><i>2398
Fecundity is a good, a gift and an end of marriage. By giving life, spouses
participate in God's fatherhood.</i><o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><i>2399 The
regulation of births represents one of the aspects of responsible fatherhood
and motherhood. Legitimate intentions on the part of the spouses do not justify
recourse to morally unacceptable means (for example, direct sterilization or
contraception).</i><o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><i>2400
Adultery, divorce, polygamy, and free union are grave offenses against the
dignity of marriage.</i><o:p></o:p></p><p style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Fitness Friday-Cardio</span></b><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn8" name="_ftnref8" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">[8]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0in;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/M0uO8X3_tEA" width="320" youtube-src-id="M0uO8X3_tEA"></iframe></div><p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Recognizing that God, the Father created man on Friday the 6<sup>th</sup> day
I propose in this blog to have an entry that shares on how to recreate and
renew yourself in strength, mind, soul and heart.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Is interval training more effective than steady-state cardio
training for fat loss?</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p align="left" style="margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Exercise combined with diet modifications has been shown to
be more effective than either alone for promoting weight loss.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" style="margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Establishing exercise habits during the weight loss phase can help
prevent weight regain and yo-yo dieting down the road. One of the most
common excuses for lack of exercise is a lack of time.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" style="margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">These results show that the type of cardio performed for fat loss
(intervals vs. steady state) probably doesn’t matter as much as the number of
calories burned in the exercise session. Moreover, the overall amount of fat
loss is small.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" style="margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Focus should be placed on how the exercise session impacts other
areas of life, such as appetite, food intake, and leisure-time physical
activity.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" style="margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Focus should also be placed on whether you can see yourself
sticking with your chosen exercise modality for the long-term.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" style="margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Exercise may not be all that for fat loss, but it certainly
impacts fitness and health improvement. As such, all forms of exercise should
be encouraged despite their relatively minimal contribution to fat loss.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" style="margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Strength training is especially important for developing lean body
mass.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" style="margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">High-intensity training such as interval endurance training
appears to be more effective at reducing inflammation and increasing insulin
sensitivity than lower-intensity training such as steady-state cardio.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Evidence has shown that exercise has additional benefits on
health that warrant its inclusion in daily life, such as reducing inflammation
and increasing insulin sensitivity. Moreover, high-intensity exercise appears
to be more effective than lower intensity exercise at inducing these beneficial
changes, which might be one reason to prefer interval training over
steady-state even if fat loss would be similar. <i>Ultimately, though,
adherence is key. Thus, enjoyment and personal preferences when it comes to exercise
are what’s most important</i><b> </b></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><b><i>Spring Break in Panama City Beach </i></b><i>March
15-31<sup>st.</sup><b> </b><o:p></o:p></i></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Slap on your sunscreen and grab your shades for a laid-back
spring break on Panama City Beach. This sunny haven on the coast of the Gulf of
Mexico beckons with its tagline, “World’s Most Beautiful Beaches.” You’ll see
why once you sink your toes into its unique sugar-white sand. </p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>NIC’s Corner<o:p></o:p></b></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/JZRcYaAYWg4" width="320" youtube-src-id="JZRcYaAYWg4"></iframe></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";">o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="https://homeroomtravel.com/the-best-spring-break-destinations-in-arizona/">Spring
break Arizona.</a><b><o:p></o:p></b></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b> </b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Wt4XODPm4hA" width="320" youtube-src-id="Wt4XODPm4hA"></iframe></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_15)); font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;">The Arizona Colleen Program began as the Arizona Colleen Pageant, a heritage pageant, in 1983. It is open to single women of Irish ancestry ages of 18 through 28 years old. The winner serves as "Queen" of the Phoenix St. Patrick's Day Parade and Faire.</p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_15)); font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"> </p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_15)); font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;">In 2008, programs were added for younger ladies of Irish descent. The Little Miss Shamrock program selects two 6-12 year olds, and the Arizona Outstanding Irish Teen program, retitled the Arizona Irish Lass program in 2010 selects one-two 13-17 year olds.</p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_15)); font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"> </p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_15)); font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;">The Colleen and Rose programs are organized by the <span class="wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="wixui-rich-text__text" href="https://stpatricksdayphoenix.org/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Phoenix St. Patrick's Day Parade and Faire</a></span> committee. The Arizona Colleen program seeks to connect not only the Arizona Irish community, but the global Irish diaspora through events and awareness.</p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_15)); font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3_STHEs2sYE" width="320" youtube-src-id="3_STHEs2sYE"></iframe></div><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_15)); font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><br /></b></p><p class="font_8 wixui-rich-text__text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_15)); font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; margin-block: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Coffee with Christ</b><b> </b></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Christ
sips his coffee and looks at me and says, “Your salvation is in eating my body
and drinking my blood. In receiving you become a tabernacle of the Holy Spirit.
So, keep your mind and body pure. Strive to not yield to impurities of the mind
and body. Make use of the sacrament of confession if you falter. For in
repentance and resting on my heart by the reception of my body you will find
salvation, a spirit of quietness and strength; trust in me. </p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><i>I
ask the Lord, what are impurities of the mind and body?</i> </p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: 0.3in;">He answers a pure mind seeks to focus on protecting and preserving
Life, Liberty, and Property. The same is with the body in that any action that
takes the life, liberty, or the property of another is unjust.”<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: 0.3in;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/6Y2S58hTLqA" width="320" youtube-src-id="6Y2S58hTLqA"></iframe></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b> </b><b>Daily Devotions</b></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Unite in the work of the <a href="https://portersofstjoseph.org/">Porters of St. Joseph</a> by joining them
in fasting: Today's Fast: <span class="MsoHyperlink">The Families of St. Joseph
Porters<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->Total <a href="http://www.icemanforchrist.org/p/icemans-total.html"><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Consecration
to St. Joseph</span></a> Day 29<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="http://www.icemanforchrist.org/p/an-offering-to-most-sacred-heart-of.html"><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Offering to
the sacred heart of Jesus</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="https://theholyface.com/">Make
reparations to the Holy Face</a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="http://www.catholictradition.org/Christ/holy-wounds2.htm"><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Drops of
Christ’s Blood</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="http://www.icemanforchrist.org/p/icemans-40-hour-devotion.html"><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Iceman’s 40
devotion</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="http://www.icemanforchrist.org/p/universal-man-plan-phase-4-st-joseph.html">Universal
Man Plan</a><o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="http://www.icemanforchrist.org/p/the-way-of-purity.html">Operation Purity</a><o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="CSP-ChapterTitle">
</p><div><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><a href="https://examine.com/nutrition/be-the-tortoise-or-the-hare-it-doesnt-matter-for-fat-loss/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=blog-101717" style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 11.5px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/VbYf4My9b3g" width="320" youtube-src-id="VbYf4My9b3g"></iframe></div></span></a>
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<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftnref8" name="_ftn8" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%;">[8]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><span style="line-height: 115%;"><a href="https://examine.com/nutrition/be-the-tortoise-or-the-hare-it-doesnt-matter-for-fat-loss/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=blog-101717">https://examine.com/nutrition/be-the-tortoise-or-the-hare-it-doesnt-matter-for-fat-loss/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=blog-101717</a></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/lihCRaOj0Lg" width="320" youtube-src-id="lihCRaOj0Lg"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-Qnuw_miDqw" width="320" youtube-src-id="-Qnuw_miDqw"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p>IcemanforChristhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10737122933196184713noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8604232804852757560.post-80280594279859980422024-03-08T03:03:00.000-08:002024-03-14T08:39:43.525-07:00Thursday, March 14, 2024<p> <b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Thursday
of the Fourth Week of Lent</span></b></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">PI DAY-<i>World Kidney Day<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="po" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">1 Maccabees, Chapter 8, Verse 12</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in;"><a name="20008012"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">They subjugated kings
both near and far, and all who heard of their fame were <i>AFRAID</i> of them.</span></b></a><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="fn"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">This verse is
referring to the Romans (150 B.C.) and Judas Maccabee was impressed with the
romans for, “Judas had heard of the reputation of the Romans. They were valiant
fighters and acted amiably to all who took their side. They established a
friendly alliance with all who applied to them. <a name="20008002">He was also
told of their battles and the brave deeds that they performed against the </a>Gaul’s.”
(1 Maccabees 8:1-2) Judas sent envoys to Rome, probably before the death of
Nicanor, to conclude a treaty of alliance between Rome and the Jewish nation.
Without precise chronology, the pertinent data are gathered into a unified
theme. The image of the Roman Republic greatly impressed the smaller Eastern
peoples seeking support against their overlords, because of Roman success in
war and effective aid to their allies. Numerous interventions by Rome in the
politics of the Near East bear witness to its power and prestige in the second
century B.C. With the increased Roman control of Palestine after 63 B.C., the
Republic and later the Empire became heartily detested. The eulogy of Rome in
this chapter is one of the reasons why 1 Maccabees was not preserved by
the Palestinian Jews of the century that followed.<a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="line-height: 115%;">[1]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Fall of the Roman Republic<a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;">[2]</span></b></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Tomorrow is the
Ides of March<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Considering the
current politics in America could we have the fall of the American Republic?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">In 133 BC, Rome was a
democracy. Little more than a hundred years later it was governed by an
emperor. This imperial system has become, for us, a by-word for autocracy and
the arbitrary exercise of power. At the end of the second century BC the Roman
people was sovereign. True, rich aristocrats dominated politics. In order to
become one of the annually elected 'magistrates' (who in Rome were concerned
with all aspects of government, not merely the law) a man had to be very rich.
Even the system of voting was weighted to give more influence to the votes of
the wealthy. Yet ultimate power lay with the Roman people. Mass assemblies
elected the magistrates, made the laws and took major state decisions. Rome
prided itself on being a 'free republic' and centuries later was the political
model for the founding fathers of the United States. The system was weighted to
give more influence to the votes of the wealthy. By 14 AD, when the first
emperor Augustus died, popular elections had all but disappeared. Power was located
not in the old republican assembly place of the forum, but in the imperial
palace. The assumption was that Augustus's heirs would inherit his rule over
the Roman world - and so they did. This was nothing short of a revolution,
brought about through a century of constant civil strife, and sometimes open
warfare. This ended when Augustus - 'Octavian' as he was then called - finally
defeated his last remaining rivals Mark Antony and Cleopatra in 31 BC and
established himself on the throne.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b>Thursday of the
Fourth Week of Lent</b><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[3]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><b><o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/X4AOhXVJ8-4" width="320" youtube-src-id="X4AOhXVJ8-4"></iframe></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><i>Prayer.
<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;">GRANT, we beseech Thee, Almighty
God, that we, who are chastised by the fasts we have undertaken, may rejoice with
holy devotion; that, our affections being weakened, we may more easily
apprehend heavenly things. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><i>EPISTLE,
iv. Kings iv. 25-38.<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">In those days a Sunamite woman came to
the man of God to Mount Carmel: and when the man of God saw her coming towards,
he said to Giezi his servant: Behold that Sunamitess. Go therefore to meet her,
and say to her: Is all well with thee, and with thy husband, and with thy son? <o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">And she answered: Well. And when she
came to the man of God to the mount, she caught hold on his feet: and Giezi
came to remove her. And the man of God said: Let her alone, for her soul is in
anguish, and the Lord hath hid it from me, and hath not told me. And she said
to him: Did I ask a son of my lord? did I not say to thee: Do not deceive me? <o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">Then he said to Giezi: Gird up thy
loins, and take my staff in thy hand, and go. If any man meets thee, salute him
not: and if any man salutes thee, answer him not: and lay my staff upon the
face of the child. But the mother of the child said: As the Lord liveth, and as
thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. He arose, therefore, and followed her.
But Giezi was gone before them and laid the staff upon the face of the child,
and there was no voice nor sense: and he returned to meet him, and told him,
saying: The child is not risen. Eliseus therefore went into the house, and
behold the child lay dead on his bed; and going in he shut the door upon him,
and upon the child, and prayed to the Lord. And he went up and lay upon the
child: and he put his mouth upon his mouth, and his eyes upon his eyes, and his
hands upon his hands: and he bowed himself upon him, and the child’s flesh grew
warm. Then he returned and walked in the house, once to and fro: and he went
up, and lay upon him: and the child gaped seven times and opened his eyes. And
he called Giezi and said to him: Call this Sunamitess. And she being called
went in to him: and he said: Take up thy son. She came and fell at his feet and
worshipped upon the ground: and took up her son, and went out. And Eliseus
returned to Galgal.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><i>GOSPEL.
Luke vii. 11-16.<o:p></o:p></i></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/HiGPTorSiGo" width="320" youtube-src-id="HiGPTorSiGo"></iframe></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">At that time Jesus went into a city that is called Nairn;
and there went with Him His disciples, and a great multitude. And when He came
nigh to the gate of the city, behold a dead man was carried out, the only son
of his mother; and she was a widow: and a great multitude of the city was with
her. Whom when the Lord had seen, being moved with mercy towards her, He said
to her: Weep not. And He came near and touched the brier. And they that carried
it, stood still. And He said: Young man, I say to thee, arise. And he that was
dead, sat up, and began to speak. And He gave him to his mother. And there came
a fear on them all: and they glorified God, saying, A great prophet is risen up
among us: and God hath visited His people.<b>
<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p align="center" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; text-align: center; text-indent: -0.25in;"><a name="_Hlk526351068"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Aids in Battle<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i></a><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">[4]</span></span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></i></span></a><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> The Devil and his cohorts as a siege force<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="pcon"><span class="bcv"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Beloved brothers and sisters, we <i>must</i> strive with all our strength to
repel the enemy of our souls, with full attention and vigilance, as he rages
and aims his darts against every part of us that can be assaulted and wounded.
This is what the Apostle Peter, in his epistle, warns.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="left" class="pcon" style="margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span class="bcv"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span class="bcv"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">He and his forces circle around each of us and
watches. When weaknesses are found, the siege forces break through them and
then penetrate to the inside.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="left" class="pcon" style="margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span class="bcv"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span class="bcv"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">The enemy presents to the eye’s seductive images and
easy pleasures, so he can destroy chastity through the sense of sight.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="left" class="pcon" style="margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span class="bcv"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span class="bcv"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">He tempts the ears with seductive music, so that by
hearing these sweet sounds, the soul relaxes its guard and loses strength.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="left" class="pcon" style="margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span class="bcv"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span class="bcv"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">He provokes the tongue by rebukes.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="left" class="pcon" style="margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span class="bcv"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span class="bcv"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">He instigates the hand to do evil through exasperating
wrong.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p>
<p align="left" class="pcon" style="margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span class="bcv"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span class="bcv"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">He presents the lure of dishonest gains. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="left" class="pcon" style="margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span class="bcv"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span class="bcv"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">He promises earthly honors so that he can deprive us
of heavenly ones.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="left" class="pcon" style="margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span class="bcv"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span class="bcv"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">He makes a show of false things, so that he can steal
away the true ones. And when he can’t deceive through stealth, he threatens
explicitly and openly, holding out the <i>fear</i>
of violent persecution to vanquish God’s servants.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="left" class="pcon" style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span class="bcv"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">For
these reasons, beloved brothers and sisters, the mind ought to stand arrayed
and armed against all the Devil’s deceiving snares and open threats, as ever
ready to repel as the foe is ever ready to attack.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Good Works<a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">[5]</span></span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></i></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></i></b></p>
<p align="left" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Lent
is traditionally considered a particularly good time for performing corporal
works of mercy (e.g., almsgiving, peacemaking, etc.). The importance of
supplementing ascetical denial with active virtues is underscored in the Gospel
(Luke 11.14-28), in which a man who has had a demon exorcized from him later
becomes repossessed by the demon and seven other unclean spirits. Christ's
point seems to be that holy practices such as fasting do indeed remove bad
things from one's soul, but this is ultimately to no avail if the soul is not
then filled with good things. This understanding is also operative in the
Collect for the First Sunday of Lent:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></p>
<p align="center" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">O God, who by the yearly Lenten observance dost purify
Thy Church, grant to Thy household that what they strive to obtain from Thee by
abstinence, they may achieve by good works.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p>
<div style="text-align: center;"><i>Baptism</i><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; letter-spacing: 0.25pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">[6]</span></span></b></span></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></div>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Supernatural Life begins at baptism. Jesus himself
spoke of</span><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">baptism
in terms of a strict obligation: “unless one is born of water and the spirit,
he cannot enter the kingdom of God.” When new believers asked St. Peter, the
first pope, what they should do, he declared: “Repent, and be baptized”. It is
easy for us to take God’s fatherhood for granted. We say easily, “God is our
Father” yet we forget that that during Christ’s time to say that could get you
killed. This was why the Jews sought to kill Jesus because he called God his
Father. When we are born anew in baptism, we are born not of human parentage
but heavenly by what theologians call the “marvelous exchange.” In Jesus, God
became what we are so that we might become what HE is. This is why God became
man and this is why he gave us baptism. “So you also must consider yourselves
dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus. Let not sin therefore reign in
you mortal bodies, to make you obey their passions. Do not yield your members
to sin as instruments of wickedness but yield yourselves to God as men who have
been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments of
righteousness. For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under
law but under grace” (Rom. 6:11-14).</span><b> </b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Pi Day</b><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn7" name="_ftnref7" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">[7]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><o:p></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3HRkKznJoZA" width="320" youtube-src-id="3HRkKznJoZA"></iframe></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></p>
<p align="left" class="pf" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Pi Day celebrates the mathematical
constant π (pi) or 3.141592653.... Pi is the ratio between the
circumference (the distance around the circle) and diameter (the distance
through the center of the circle). Pi is a constant; therefore it will be the
same for circles of all sizes. Pi is a special number due to its infinite and
patternless nature, meaning that the digits after the decimal point never
repeat themselves in a specific order. Pi Day celebrations originated in 1988
at the San Francisco Exploratorium when Larry Shaw, a physicist at the
Exploratorium, organized the first Pi Day. It was held on March 14th
(3/14), given that the first digits of Pi are 3.14. Celebrations at the
Exploratorium included taking young museum visitors on a parade to the Pi
Shrine, which is a round brass plaque fixed on the floor of the museum and
serving fruit pies to visitors. Since then, Pi Day celebrations have spread
both nationally and globally. On March 12, 2009, the U.S. House of
Representatives recognized March 14, 2009 as National Pi Day. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="pf" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></p>
<p align="center" class="pf" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Pi
Day Facts & Quotes<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="pf" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></i></p>
<p align="left" class="pf" style="margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">In
2015 at 9:26:53 (AM and PM), all of the first ten digits of Pi (3.141592653)
were present in the date and time.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Pi
is an irrational number, meaning it cannot be expressed properly as a fraction.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Albert
Einstein, widely referred to as the father of modern physics, was born on March
14, 1879. Therefore, Pi Day also recognizes Einstein's birthday.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="pf" style="margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">According
to the Guinness World Records, Rajveer Meena from India holds the record for
memorizing the most decimal places of Pi. On March 21, 2015, Meena wore a
blindfold and recalled 70,000 decimal places of Pi over a period of 10 hours.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Pi
is not just a collection of random digits, pi is a journey; an experience;
unless you try to see the natural poetry that exists in pi, you will find it
very difficult to learn. – Dr. Antranig Basman, Mathematician and Software
Developer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p align="center" class="pf" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Pi
Day Top Events and Things to Do<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="pf" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></i></p>
<p align="left" class="pf" style="margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Memorize
as many digits of Pi as you can (remember, the World Record Holder was able to
memorize 70,000 decimal places of pi).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Eat
a pie to celebrate Pi day and earn bonus points if you can calculate Pi for
your pie's circumference! Here are some twists on traditional pies that
you can try:<br />
1) Avocado and cream cheese pie<br />
2) Cheeseburger and pickle pie made from ground beef, cheese, and chopped dill
pickles<br />
3) Mac and Cheese Pie topped with bacon<br />
4) Hot dog pie covered with a layer of cheese<br />
5) Twinkie pie topped with whipped cream<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Practice
your geometry and algebra equations that contain the constant Pi. Here are some
useful formulas to help you:<br />
Circumference of a circle = 2 πr<br />
Area of a Circle = π r^2<br />
Volume of a Cylinder = π r^2h<br />
where r=radius and h=height<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Go
for a 3.14km walk to celebrate Pi Day.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Watch
movies about mathematics:<br />
1) <i>Good Will Hunting</i> (1997) <br />
2) <i>A Beautiful Mind</i> (2001)<br />
3) <i>The Number 23 </i>(2007)<br />
4) <i>Rain Man</i> (1988)</span></p><p align="left" class="pf" style="margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vlqoJ3zTUN0" width="320" youtube-src-id="vlqoJ3zTUN0"></iframe></div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
5) <i>The Theory of Everything</i> (2014)<o:p></o:p></span><p></p>
<p><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Kidney Day</span></b><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn8" name="_ftnref8" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">[8]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Kidney Day was first
celebrated in 2006 asking – Are Your Kidneys, Ok? <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p style="text-indent: 0.3in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">The
idea that there is great need to educate the world about the importance of
kidney health and reduce the impact of kidney disease and other health
conditions associated with them, is what pushed the ISN and IFKF to team up and
make a difference.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">The goal that was
established was to raise awareness of what our kidneys do and what can happen
when they are not working properly. They strive to teach the risk factors and
bring screening to those at risk for chronic kidney disease (CKD). Prevention
is the main overall goal by teaching communities how to keep their risk factors
as low as possible.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Respectfully, Kidney Day
is also about donation. Transplant professionals use the day to educate people
on the need for organ donation. This is a decision that if left until the last
moment can be difficult and painful for families. But individuals can easily
make their wishes known and in the United States can identify this on their
identification. These donations can bring the joy of life back to someone who
is suffering from kidney disease.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h2 align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">How to celebrate Kidney Day<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
<p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Across the world,
celebrations take different forms, from free screenings to Zumba marathons! Is
your community planning an event? Celebrate by attending and learning more! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Do
you know what your personal risk for chronic kidney disease is?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p style="text-indent: 0.3in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">If
not, use this reminder to make an appointment to see your physician and find
out.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">According to <i>worldkidneyday.org</i>,
there are 8 golden rules for kidney health.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ol start="1" type="1">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo6; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: left;"><strong><i>Keep regular control of your blood sugar</i>.</strong>
About 50% of people with Diabetes will develop kidney damage. Make sure
you are doing all you can to stay in control!<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo6; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: left;"><strong><i>Keep fit and active.</i></strong>
Staying active helps in many areas to keep your kidneys healthy as well as
promotes positive mood and weight loss.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo6; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: left;"><strong><i>Eat healthy and keep your weight in
check.</i></strong> Making good food choices will go hand in hand
with staying active to reduce weight and encourage good health.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo6; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: left;"><strong><i>Water, water, water!</i></strong>
Keeping hydrated is good for your skin as well as your kidneys. Staying
hydrated flushes, the toxins out of the kidneys and reduces the chance of
kidney stones.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo6; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: left;"><strong><i>No Smoking!</i> </strong>Smoking
is bad in many ways, but for the kidneys, the chance of developing cancer
in them increases by 50% for smokers.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo6; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: left;"><strong><i>Stay away from over-the-counter medicine
for chronic issues.</i></strong> Many over-the-counter medicines
such as ibuprofen can harm your kidneys if taken regularly. It is ok to
take for emergencies, but see a physician if you are having chronic pain
for options that will not cause harm.<o:p></o:p></li>
</ol>
<p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Celebrate Kidney Day by
learning more about your kidneys and how to keep them healthy and happy for
years to come!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">chronic kidney disease</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin: 0in;">I Just found out
from my doctor that I have chronic kidney disease. So here is my plan. </p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><b>Exercise</b>. Focus on daily exercise which includes 20
minutes of cardio followed by 20 minutes resistance training using a modified
Universal Man Plan.<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->The morbidity and mortality associated with
chronic kidney disease (CKD) are primarily caused by atherosclerosis and
cardiovascular disease, which may be in part caused by inflammation and
oxidative stress. Aerobic exercise and resistance training have been proposed
as measures to combat obesity, inflammation, endothelial dysfunction, oxidative
stress, insulin resistance, and progression of CKD.<a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn9" name="_ftnref9" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">[9]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><b>Cold Therapy</b>. <i>Inflammatory cytokines
play a pivotal role in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and innovative
non-pharmacological therapies aimed at limiting cytokine production are highly
warranted. Recently, our group showed that healthy volunteers trained in an
intervention developed by 'Iceman' Wim Hof were able to voluntarily attenuate
the pro-inflammatory response during experimental human endotoxemia (a model of
systemic inflammation elicited by administration of lipopolysaccharide [LPS] in
healthy volunteers). Subjects trained in the intervention exhibited profound
increases in plasma adrenaline levels, a rapid increase of an anti-inflammatory
cytokine and subsequent attenuation of the pro-inflammatory response.<a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn10" name="_ftnref10" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">[10]</span></span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><o:p></o:p></i></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="https://www.wimhofmethod.com/free-mini-class">Wim Hof Method-Free Mini
Course</a><i><o:p></o:p></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xWN3IoznGQY" width="320" youtube-src-id="xWN3IoznGQY"></iframe></div><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt 1in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; text-indent: -0.25in;"><br /></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt 1in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; text-indent: -0.25in;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><b style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Eat less
Meat. </b><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Plan to eat 60/20/20. 60%
fruits and vegetables. 20% fats. 20% protein. (Note: protein is hard on
kidneys)</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn11" name="_ftnref11" style="text-indent: -0.25in;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">[11]</span></span></span></span></a></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><b>Eat Fish</b><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn12" name="_ftnref12" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">[12]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><b> <i><o:p></o:p></i></b></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><b>Make Soup</b><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn13" name="_ftnref13" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">[13]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><a href="https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/liturgicalyear/recipes/view.cfm?id=1628"><b>Catholic Recipe: Monastery Soup</b></a><b><i><o:p></o:p></i></b></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><b>Have a
drink. </b>The link between the
quantity consumed per drinking day and getting CKD was U-shaped. Those who had
about five or more drinks per drinking day had risk levels about as high
non-drinkers. Similar categories of quantity per drinking day were examined.
The risks of CKD were lower in the four to seven drinking days per week group
than in the one to three drinking days per week group.<a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn14" name="_ftnref14" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">[14]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><b><o:p></o:p></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/0eFQccYgQPs" width="320" youtube-src-id="0eFQccYgQPs"></iframe></div><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; text-indent: -0.25in;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><b style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Daily
Rosary. </b><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Prayer can provide multiple
beneficial effects, such as reduction of mortality in patients with bloodstream
infections, reduction of anxiety, and depression and better physical
functioning</span><b style="text-indent: -0.25in;">.</b><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn15" name="_ftnref15" style="text-indent: -0.25in;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[15]</span></span></span></a></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><b>Sleep 7-8
hours. </b>"Short sleep and
fragmented sleep are significant yet unappreciated risk factors for chronic
kidney disease progression," said study author Dr. Ana Ricardo, of the
University of Illinois at Chicago.<a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn16" name="_ftnref16" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[16]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><b><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Catechism
of the Catholic Church<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: 0.3in;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">PART THREE: LIFE IN CHRIST</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.3in; text-indent: 0.3in;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">SECTION TWO-THE TEN COMMANDMENTS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.9in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">CHAPTER
TWO-YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.9in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-indent: 0.3in;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Article 6-THE SIXTH COMMANDMENT<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.2in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-indent: 0.3in;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">IV. Offenses Against the Dignity of Marriage</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ULJB_vQCRoo" width="320" youtube-src-id="ULJB_vQCRoo"></iframe></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.2in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-indent: 0.3in;">Adultery</p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2380 Adultery refers to marital
infidelity. When two partners, of whom at least one is married to another
party, have sexual relations - even transient ones - they commit adultery.
Christ condemns even adultery of mere desire. The sixth commandment and
the New Testament forbid adultery absolutely. The prophets denounce the
gravity of adultery; they see it as an image of the sin of idolatry. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2381 Adultery is an injustice.
He who commits adultery fails in his commitment. He does injury to the sign of
the covenant which the marriage bond is, transgresses the rights of the other
spouse, and undermines the institution of marriage by breaking the contract on
which it is based. He compromises the good of human generation and the welfare
of children who need their parents' stable union.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal">Divorce<o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2382 The Lord Jesus insisted on
the original intention of the Creator who willed that marriage be
indissoluble. He abrogates the accommodations that had slipped into the
old Law. <br />
Between the baptized, "a ratified and consummated marriage cannot be
dissolved by any human power or for any reason other than death." <o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2383 The separation of spouses
while maintaining the marriage bond can be legitimate in certain cases provided
for by canon law. <br />
If civil divorce remains the only possible way of ensuring certain legal
rights, the care of the children, or the protection of inheritance, it can be
tolerated and does not constitute a moral offense.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2384 Divorce is a grave offense
against the natural law. It claims to break the contract, to which the spouses
freely consented, to live with each other till death. Divorce does injury to
the covenant of salvation, of which sacramental marriage is the sign.
Contracting a new union, even if it is recognized by civil law, adds to the
gravity of the rupture: the remarried spouse is then in a situation of public
and permanent adultery:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.4pt;">If a
husband, separated from his wife, approaches another woman, he is an adulterer
because he makes that woman commit adultery, and the woman who lives with him
is an adulteress, because she has drawn another's husband to herself. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2385 Divorce is immoral also
because it introduces disorder into the family and into society. This disorder
brings grave harm to the deserted spouse, to children traumatized by the
separation of their parents and often torn between them, and because of its
contagious effect which makes it truly a plague on society.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2386 It can happen that one of
the spouses is the innocent victim of a divorce decreed by civil law; this
spouse therefore has not contravened the moral law. There is a considerable
difference between a spouse who has sincerely tried to be faithful to the
sacrament of marriage and is unjustly abandoned, and one who through his own
grave fault destroys a canonically valid marriage. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal">Other offenses against the
dignity of marriage<o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2387 The predicament of a man
who, desiring to convert to the Gospel, is obliged to repudiate one or more
wives with whom he has shared years of conjugal life, is understandable.
However, polygamy is not in accord with the moral law." [Conjugal] communion
is radically contradicted by polygamy; this, in fact, directly negates the plan
of God which was revealed from the beginning, because it is contrary to the
equal personal dignity of men and women who in matrimony give themselves with a
love that is total and therefore unique and exclusive." The Christian
who has previously lived in polygamy has a grave duty in justice to honor the
obligations contracted in regard to his former wives and his children.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2388 Incest designates intimate
relations between relatives or in-laws within a degree that prohibits marriage
between them. St. Paul stigmatizes this especially grave offense: "It
is actually reported that there is immorality among you . . . for a man is
living with his father's wife.... In the name of the Lord Jesus ... you are to
deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the
flesh...." Incest corrupts family relationships and marks a
regression toward animality.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2389 Connected to incest is any
sexual abuse perpetrated by adults on children or adolescents entrusted to
their care. the offense is compounded by the scandalous harm done to the
physical and moral integrity of the young, who will remain scarred by it all
their lives, and the violation of responsibility for their upbringing.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2390 In a so-called free union,
a man and a woman refuse to give juridical and public form to a liaison
involving sexual intimacy.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal">The expression "free
union" is fallacious: what can "union" mean when the partners
make no commitment to one another, each exhibiting a lack of trust in the
other, in himself, or in the future?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal">The expression covers a number
of different situations: concubinage, rejection of marriage as such, or
inability to make long-term commitments. All these situations offend
against the dignity of marriage; they destroy the very idea of the family; they
weaken the sense of fidelity. They are contrary to the moral law. The sexual
act must take place exclusively within marriage. Outside of marriage it always
constitutes a grave sin and excludes one from sacramental communion.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2391 Some today claim a
"right to a trial marriage" where there is an intention of getting
married later. However, firm the purpose of those who engage in premature
sexual relations may be, "the fact is that such liaisons can scarcely
ensure mutual sincerity and fidelity in a relationship between a man and a
woman, nor, especially, can they protect it from inconstancy of desires or
whim." Carnal union is morally legitimate only when a definitive
community of life between a man and woman has been established. Human love does
not tolerate "trial marriages." It demands a total and definitive
gift of persons to one another. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b>Thursday
Feast</b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">Thursday
is the day of the week that our Lord gave himself up for consumption. Thursday
commemorates the last supper. Some theologians believe after Sunday Thursday is
the holiest day of the week. We should then try to make this day special by
making a visit to the blessed sacrament chapel, Mass or even stopping by the
grave of a loved one. Why not plan to count the blessing of the week and thank
our Lord. Plan a special meal. Be at Peace.<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->According to Mary Agreda<a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn17" name="_ftnref17" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">[17]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
in her visions it was on a Thursday at six o'clock in the evening and at the
approach of night that the Angel Gabriel approached and announced her as Mother
of God and she gave her fiat.<b><i> </i></b></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><i>Today’s Menu is from </i></b>KANSAS<o:p></o:p></p>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt; mso-list: l8 level1 lfo8; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.liquor.com/kansas-city-ice-water-cocktail-recipe-8558889">Kansas
City Ice Water</a><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt; mso-list: l8 level1 lfo8; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.walkkansas.org/eating/recipes/lentil.html">Red Lentil Soup</a><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt; mso-list: l8 level1 lfo8; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.cooks.com/recipe/5d94w848/kansas-fried-chicken.html">Kansas
Fried Chicken</a><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt; mso-list: l8 level1 lfo8; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.bigoven.com/recipe/stephensons-green-rice/37854">Stephenson’s
Green Rice</a><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt; mso-list: l8 level1 lfo8; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/kansas-cucumber-salad/">Kansas
Cucumber Salad</a><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt; mso-list: l8 level1 lfo8; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/blog/2017/03/13/pi-day-pie">Pi Day
pie</a><o:p></o:p></li>
</ul>
<p align="left" class="CSP-ChapterTitle" style="margin-left: 0.6in; text-indent: 0.3in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 11pt;">After
Dinner Cigars</span><b> </b></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Rachel’s Corner<a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn18" name="_ftnref18" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">[18]</span></span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">The Rosary is a treasure
to be discovered by everyone, at any age, at any time in history. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h2>Just START!<o:p></o:p></h2>
<p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">When families pray the
Rosary together regularly, children learn about Jesus’s life and how much he
loves them. It also models for our children how to lean on and trust in God
during difficult times. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Your family
doesn’t have to do it perfectly or resemble a gathering of
monks. Just grab a rosary and gather your children. If you imagine
your children sitting like angels with hands folded together reverently with
their rosaries dangling between their palms, you have probably seen one
too many Catholic stock photos!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">It’s okay if your kids are
wiggly, ask questions in the middle of the prayers, or suddenly remember a
story about your dog in between decades. This is life with children. You
have to live in the moment, not in a fantasy. If you expect too much of your
kids in the beginning, you may never start – and that would be a shame.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">So, my big message to you
is JUST START. Start where you are and where your kids are</span>.<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/liturgicalyear/activities/view.cfm?id=1274">Religion
in the Home for Elementary School: March</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/50OkU4_J3Gs" width="320" youtube-src-id="50OkU4_J3Gs"></iframe></div>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Coffee with Christ</b><b> </b></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Christ
sips his coffee and looks at me and says, “To find the spirit of poverty try to
think of others as much as you think of yourself or try to think less of
yourself and others more. Let humility be your way of being. Treasure each day
being open to the gifts the Father gives, be grateful for the unfailing love He
gives you. The humble spirit finds treasure in chastity and is not disturbed by
rebukes or the of the envies of others, nor do they seek revenge, nor the lure
of dishonest gains. No, they find joy in the most trying of circumstances,
their ears are attuned to the music of the soul.” <b> </b></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Daily Devotions<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Unite in the work of the <a href="https://portersofstjoseph.org/">Porters of St. Joseph</a> by joining them
in fasting: Today's Fast: <a href="http://www.icemanforchrist.org/2021/06/thursday-june-3-2021.html">Catholic
Politian’s and Leaders.</a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="http://www.icemanforchrist.org/p/eucharisticstations-of-cross.html"><i>do
a personal eucharistic stations of the cross.</i></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->Total <a href="http://www.icemanforchrist.org/p/icemans-total.html"><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Consecration
to St. Joseph</span></a> Day 28<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="http://www.icemanforchrist.org/p/an-offering-to-most-sacred-heart-of.html"><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Offering to
the sacred heart of Jesus</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="https://theholyface.com/">Make
reparations to the Holy Face</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="http://www.icemanforchrist.org/p/universal-man-plan-phase-4-st-joseph.html">Universal
Man Plan</a></p>
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<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftnref18" name="_ftn18" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%;">[18]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> </span><span style="line-height: 115%;"><a href="https://intentionalcatholicparenting.com/how-to-start-the-family-rosary/"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">https://intentionalcatholicparenting.com/how-to-start-the-family-rosary/</span></a></span></p></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/fQA0xvajrJc" width="320" youtube-src-id="fQA0xvajrJc"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/62t7UY8vfcM" width="320" youtube-src-id="62t7UY8vfcM"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p>IcemanforChristhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10737122933196184713noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8604232804852757560.post-58445531448561979132024-03-07T08:03:00.000-08:002024-03-13T07:22:34.152-07:00Wednesday, March 13, 2024<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/EJe_6ENwrRs" width="320" youtube-src-id="EJe_6ENwrRs"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Wednesday
of the Fourth Week of Lent</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">LA FALLA<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="po" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">1 Maccabees, Chapter 7, Verse 30<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in;"><a name="20007030"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">When he became aware
that Nicanor had come to him with deceit in mind, Judas was <i>AFRAID</i> of him and would not meet him
again.</span></b></a><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></b></p><p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Have
you ever had someone you trusted betray you? <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></i></p><p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.3in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">We all have. In Maccabees 2 it is explained that
Nicanor and Judas become friends for a time. It seems Nicanor might have come
to Judea to work out a peace plan and it is rumored he even persuaded Judas to
settle down and marry. Later the Hellenizing (progressive) party forces Nicanor
to betray Judas. Having been warned Judas avoids further contact with Nicanor.<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"> <a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">[1]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></a></span>
<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></p><p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Why
was Judas afraid?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></i></p><p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.3in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">He was a man of courage perhaps he now saw that he may
have to take the life of a friend. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></p><p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Is
there any greater fear? <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></i></p><p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.3in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Nicanor eventually attacks Judas and indeed dies in
the ensuing battle.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="pl" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: .3in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.3in 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></p><p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Aids in Battle<a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[2]</span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
Words of Warning in Battle<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">The Enemy is crafty and
powerful. Heed these warnings to avoid his ambush.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" style="margin: 5pt 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Be
sober, be watchful! For your adversary the Devil, like a roaring lion, goes
about seeking someone to devour. Resist him, steadfast in the faith. 1 Peter 5:
8– 9<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" style="margin: 5pt 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Satan
himself disguises himself as an angel of light. 2 Cor 11: 14<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" style="margin: 5pt 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">But
I <i>fear</i> lest, as the serpent seduced
Eve by his guile, so your minds may be corrupted and fall from a pure devotion
to Christ. 2 Cor 11: 3<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" style="margin: 5pt 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Wisdom
that is from above is first of all chaste, then peaceable, moderate, docile, in
harmony with good things, full of mercy and good fruits, without judging,
without dissimulation. The fruit of justice is sown in peace by those who make
peace. Jas 3: 13– 18<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" style="margin: 0in 0.3in 0in 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Be
angry and do not sin do not let the sun go down upon your anger; do not give
place to the Devil. Eph 4: 26– 27.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="pf" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></b></p><p class="pf" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Wednesday
Of the Fourth Week of Lent</span></b><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">[3]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="pf" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="pf" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Prayer.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p align="center" class="pf" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></i></p><p align="left" class="pf" style="margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.3in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">O God, Who grantest to the just the
reward of their merits, and to sinners pardon, by means of fasting, have mercy
on Thy supplicants, that the confession of our guilt may enable us to receive
the forgiveness of our sins. Amen. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="pf" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="pf" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">EPISTLE. Isaias i. 16-19.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p align="left" class="pf" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></p><p align="left" class="pf" style="margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.3in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Thus, saith the Lord God: Wash
yourselves, be clean, take away the evil of your devices from My eyes: cease to
do perversely, learn to do well: seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge
for the fatherless, defend the widow. And then come, and accuse Me, saith the
Lord: if your sins be as scarlet, they shall be made as white as snow: and if
they be red as crimson, they shall be white as wool. If you be willing, and
will hearken to Me, you shall eat the good things of the land, saith the Lord
Almighty. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="pf" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="pf" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">GOSPEL. John ix. 1-38.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="pf" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></p><p align="center" class="pf" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/TicyC-r1GuE" width="320" youtube-src-id="TicyC-r1GuE"></iframe></div><p></p><p align="left" class="pf" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></p><p class="pf" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">At
that time: Jesus passing by, saw a man who was blind from his birth: and His
disciples asked Him: Rabbi, who hath sinned, this man or his parents, that he
should be born blind? Jesus answered: Neither hath this man sinned, nor his
parents; but that the works of God should be made manifest in him. I must work
the works of Him that sent Me, whilst it is day: the night cometh when no man
can work. As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world. When He
had said these things, He spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and
spread the clay upon his eyes, and said to him: Go, wash in the pool of Siloe,
which is interpreted, Sent. He went therefore, and washed, and he came seeing.
The neighbors, therefore, and they who had seen him before that he was a
beggar, said: Is not this he that sat, and begged? Some said: This is he. But
others said: No, but he is like him. But he said: I am he. They said therefore
to him: How were thy eyes opened? He answered: That man that is called Jesus,
made clay, and anointed my eyes, and said to me: Go to the pool of Siloe, and
wash. And I went, I washed, and I see. And they said to him: Where is He? He
saith, I know not. They bring him that had been blind to the Pharisees. Now it
was the Sabbath when Jesus made the clay and opened his eyes. Again, therefore
the Pharisees asked him how he had received his sight. But he said to them: He
put clay upon my eyes, and I washed, and I see. Some therefore of the Pharisees
said: This man is not of God, Who keepeth not the Sabbath. But others said: How
can a man that is a sinner do such miracles? And there was a division among
them. They say therefore to the blind man again: What sayest thou of Him that
hath opened thy eyes? And he said: He is a prophet. The Jews then did not
believe concerning him, that he had been blind and had received his sight,
until they called the parents of him that had received his sight, and asked
them, saying: Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How then doth he
now see? His parents answered them and said: We know that this is our son, and
that he was born blind; but how he now seeth, we know not: or who hath opened
his eyes, we know not: ask himself; he is of age, let him speak for himself.
These things his parents said, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had
already agreed among themselves, that if any man should confess Him to be
Christ he should be put out of the synagogue. Therefore, did his parents say:
He is of age, ask him. They therefore called the man again that had been blind
and said to him: Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner. He said
therefore to them: If He be a sinner, I know not: one thing I know, that
whereas I was blind, now I see. They said then to him: What did He to thee? How
did He open thy eyes? He answered them: I have told you already, and you have
heard: why would you hear it again? will you also become His disciples? They
reviled him therefore and said: Be thou His disciple; but we are the disciples
of Moses. We know that God spoke to Moses: but as to this man, we know not from
whence He is. The man answered, and said to them: Why, herein is a wonderful
thing that you know not from whence He is, and He hath opened my eyes. Now we
know that God doth not hear sinners: but if a man be a server of God, and doth
His will, him He heareth. From the beginning of the world, it hath not been
heard, that any man hath opened the eyes of one born blind. Unless this man
were of God, He could not do anything. They answered and said to him: Thou wast
wholly born in sins, and dost thou teach us? And they cast him out. Jesus heard
that they had cast him out: and when He had found him, He said to him: Dost
thou believe in the Son of God? He answered, and said: Who is He, Lord, that I
may believe in Him? And Jesus said to him: Thou hast both seen Him, and it is
He that talketh with thee. And he said: I believe, Lord. And falling down he
adored.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="pf" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="pf" style="margin: 0in;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/YYw46D7TJgg" width="320" youtube-src-id="YYw46D7TJgg"></iframe></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Dara’s Corner<o:p></o:p></b></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/world-glaucoma-week/"><b>World
Glaucoma Week</b></a></p><p class="MsoNormal">Glaucoma is a group of fairly common medical
conditions affecting the optic nerve. When this nerve that runs from the eye to
the brain gets damaged, this can result in vision loss or even complete
blindness. In fact, glaucoma is the leading cause of preventable, irreversible
blindness on the planet. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">World Glaucoma Week is here to create
conversations and increase awareness so that more people can know about,
understand, and work toward prevention of this disease of the eyes.<b><o:p></o:p></b></p><p><a href="https://www.visitvalencia.com/en/events-valencia/festivities/the-fallas"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">La Falla de San Chusep</span></b></a><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">[4]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/4WVat9n3_ws" width="320" youtube-src-id="4WVat9n3_ws"></iframe></div><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Italy is not the only
country that claims great love for Saint Joseph. Here's an explanation of the
festivities in Valencia, Spain.</span></p><p class="CSP-ChapterBodyText-FirstParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 0.25in; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo3; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Among
the many folk festivals of Spain which each year attract large numbers of
tourists, Saint Joseph's Day in Valencia takes a unique position. <i>La Falla
de San Chusep</i>, as it is called in the local dialect, has been celebrated
for centuries, and it is perhaps the most spectacular, the most colorful of all
Spanish holidays. It starts on March 13 and attains its gala climax six days
later, after a solid week of fun and festivities. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="CSP-ChapterBodyText-FirstParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 0.25in; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo3; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">San
Chusep (St. Joseph) is the patron saint of Valencia, and since the sixteenth
century his day has been celebrated by the city's artisans and craftsmen with a
great deal of zest, humor, and originality. In the Valencian dialect, <i>falla</i>
means "pyre." It seems that the term originated in the annual custom
of the carpenters who cleaned their shops of shavings and discarded wood at
this time of the year and burned the debris with a short ceremony. With the
scraps, a comical wooden figure depicting the most inept and backward of the
carpenter's apprentices was thrown into the flames. Eventually this developed
into a local tradition with all the guilds participating in the burning of
humorous and satirical effigies of animals, people, or subjects of local or
national ridicule and scorn. Apparently the <i>falla</i> figures are also a
product of Baroque art, with its emphasis on painting on wood, for which
Valencia's craftsmen became justly famous. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="CSP-ChapterBodyText-FirstParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 0.25in; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo3; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Today,
each guild, club, or association builds a <i>falla</i> of wood or <i>papier-mâché</i>.
A queen, <i>la reine del Falla,</i> is chosen, and a band accompanies the
queen, her court, and the <i>falla</i> to the contest on the main plaza of
Valencia. The lavish preparations for the festival attract artists and
musicians from the provinces who help the various groups build and exhibit
their entries to the contest of <i>falla</i>. During the week, bullfights are
held every day. The streets are jammed with visitors admiring the <i>fallas</i>.
In decorated booths and pavilions food and drinks are being served. And in the
streets and on the city squares people dance to the music of the innumerable
bands which accompany the <i>fallas</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="CSP-ChapterBodyText-FirstParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 0.25in; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo3; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">The
best productions in art and music are judged for subject matter and
presentation and awarded prizes. The most outstanding <i>falla</i> is
transferred to a special museum which harbors the prize winners of previous
years. On March 19, at midnight, all the other <i>fallas</i>, some towering
three stories in height, are burned in huge bonfires. Strings of firecrackers
explode around the plaza, and elaborate fireworks illuminate the scene with
brilliant flashes of color. As each <i>falla</i> crumbles into ashes, the
crowds shout with glee amidst the furiously burning pyres. As the fires slowly
burn down to the last embers, the merrymakers leave the scene, exhausted and
jubilant, already dreaming of next year, of the next <i>falla</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ORK6nH9SISo" width="320" youtube-src-id="ORK6nH9SISo"></iframe></div><p class="CSP-ChapterBodyText-FirstParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 0.25in; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo3; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="CSP-ChapterBodyText-FirstParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 0.25in; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo3; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Catechism
of the Catholic Church</span></b></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: 0.3in;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">PART THREE: LIFE IN CHRIST</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.3in; text-indent: 0.3in;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">SECTION TWO-THE TEN COMMANDMENTS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.9in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">CHAPTER
TWO-YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.9in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-indent: 0.3in;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Article 6-THE SIXTH COMMANDMENT<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.2in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-indent: 0.3in;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">III. The Love of Husband and Wife</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/A39qJQMXWas" width="320" youtube-src-id="A39qJQMXWas"></iframe></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.2in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-indent: 0.3in;">2360 Sexuality is ordered to
the conjugal love of man and woman. In marriage the physical intimacy of the
spouses becomes a sign and pledge of spiritual communion. Marriage bonds
between baptized persons are sanctified by the sacrament.</p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2361 "Sexuality, by means
of which man and woman give themselves to one another through the acts which
are proper and exclusive to spouses, is not something simply biological, but
concerns the innermost being of the human person as such. It is realized in a
truly human way only if it is an integral part of the love by which a man and
woman commit themselves totally to one another until death." <o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.4pt;">Tobias got
out of bed and said to Sarah, "Sister, get up, and let us pray and implore
our Lord that he grant us mercy and safety." So she got up, and they began
to pray and implore that they might be kept safe. Tobias began by saying,
"Blessed are you, O God of our fathers.... You made Adam, and for him you
made his wife Eve as a helper and support. From the two of them the race of
mankind has sprung. You said, 'It is not good that the man should be alone; let
us make a helper for him like himself.' I now am taking this kinswoman of mine,
not because of lust, but with sincerity. Grant that she and I may find mercy
and that we may grow old together." and they both said, "Amen,
Amen." Then they went to sleep for the night. <o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2362 "The acts in marriage
by which the intimate and chaste union of the spouses takes place are noble and
honorable; the truly human performance of these acts fosters the self-giving
they signify and enriches the spouses in joy and gratitude." Sexuality
is a source of joy and pleasure:<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.4pt;">The Creator
himself . . . established that in the [generative] function, spouses should
experience pleasure and enjoyment of body and spirit. Therefore, the spouses do
nothing evil in seeking this pleasure and enjoyment. They accept what the
Creator has intended for them. At the same time, spouses should know how to
keep themselves within the limits of just moderation. <o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2363 The spouses' union
achieves the twofold end of marriage: the good of the spouses themselves and
the transmission of life. These two meanings or values of marriage cannot be
separated without altering the couple's spiritual life and compromising the goods
of marriage and the future of the family.<br />
The conjugal love of man and woman thus stands under the twofold obligation of
fidelity and fecundity.<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">Conjugal fidelity<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2364 The married couple forms
"the intimate partnership of life and love established by the Creator and
governed by his laws; it is rooted in the conjugal covenant, that is, in their
irrevocable personal consent." Both give themselves definitively and
totally to one another. They are no longer two; from now on they form one
flesh. the covenant they freely contracted imposes on the spouses the
obligation to preserve it as unique and indissoluble. "What therefore
God has joined together, let not man put asunder." <o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2365 Fidelity expresses
constancy in keeping one's given word. God is faithful. the Sacrament of
Matrimony enables man and woman to enter into Christ's fidelity for his Church.
Through conjugal chastity, they bear witness to this mystery before the world.<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">St. John Chrysostom suggests
that young husbands should say to their wives: I have taken you in my arms, and
I love you, and I prefer you to my life itself. For the present life is
nothing, and my most ardent dream is to spend it with you in such a way that we
may be assured of not being separated in the life reserved for us.... I place
your love above all things, and nothing would be more bitter or painful to me
than to be of a different mind than you. <o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">The fecundity of marriage<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2366 Fecundity is a gift, an
end of marriage, for conjugal love naturally tends to be fruitful. A child does
not come from outside as something added on to the mutual love of the spouses,
but springs from the very heart of that mutual giving, as its fruit and
fulfillment. So, the Church, which "is on the side of
life" teaches that "each and every marriage act must remain open
'per se' to the transmission of life." "This particular
doctrine, expounded on numerous occasions by the Magisterium, is based on the
inseparable connection, established by God, which man on his own initiative may
not break, between the unitive significance and the procreative significance
which are both inherent to the marriage act." <o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2367 Called to give life,
spouses share in the creative power and fatherhood of God. "Married
couples should regard it as their proper mission to transmit human life and to
educate their children; they should realize that they are thereby cooperating
with the love of God the Creator and are, in a certain sense, its interpreters.
They will fulfill this duty with a sense of human and Christian
responsibility." <o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2368 A particular aspect of
this responsibility concerns the regulation of procreation. For just reasons,
spouses may wish to space the births of their children. It is their duty to
make certain that their desire is not motivated by selfishness but is in
conformity with the generosity appropriate to responsible parenthood. Moreover,
they should conform their behavior to the objective criteria of morality:<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.4pt;">When it is a
question of harmonizing married love with the responsible transmission of life,
the morality of the behavior does not depend on sincere intention and
evaluation of motives alone; but it must be determined by objective criteria,
criteria drawn from the nature of the person and his acts criteria that respect
the total meaning of mutual self-giving and human procreation in the context of
true love; this is possible only if the virtue of married chastity is practiced
with sincerity of heart. <o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2369 "By safeguarding both
these essential aspects, the unitive and the procreative, the conjugal act
preserves in its fullness the sense of true mutual love and its orientation
toward man's exalted vocation to parenthood." <o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2370 Periodic continence, that
is, the methods of birth regulation based on self-observation and the use of
infertile periods, is in conformity with the objective criteria of
morality. These methods respect the bodies of the spouses, encourage tenderness
between them, and favor the education of an authentic freedom. In contrast,
"every action which, whether in anticipation of the conjugal act, or in
its accomplishment, or in the development of its natural consequences,
proposes, whether as an end or as a means, to render procreation
impossible" is intrinsically evil: <o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.4pt;">Thus, the
innate language that expresses the total reciprocal self-giving of husband and
wife is overlaid, through contraception, by an objectively contradictory
language, namely, that of not giving oneself totally to the other. This leads
not only to a positive refusal to be open to life but also to a falsification
of the inner truth of conjugal love, which is called upon to give itself in
personal totality.... The difference, both anthropological and moral, between
contraception and recourse to the rhythm of the cycle . . . involves in the
final analysis two irreconcilable concepts of the human person and of human
sexuality. <o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2371 "Let all be convinced
that human life and the duty of transmitting it are not limited by the horizons
of this life only: their true evaluation and full significance can be
understood only in reference to man's eternal destiny." <o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2372 The state has a
responsibility for its citizens' well-being. In this capacity it is legitimate
for it to intervene to orient the demography of the population. This can be
done by means of objective and respectful information, but certainly not by authoritarian,
coercive measures. The state may not legitimately usurp the initiative of
spouses, who have the primary responsibility for the procreation and education
of their children. It is not authorized to intervene in this area with
means contrary to the moral law.<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">The gift of a child<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2373 Sacred Scripture and the
Church's traditional practice see in large families a sign of God's blessing
and the parents' generosity. <o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2374 Couples who discover that
they are sterile suffer greatly. "What will you give me," asks
Abraham of God, "for I continue childless?" and Rachel cries to
her husband Jacob, "Give me children, or I shall die!" <o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2375 Research aimed at reducing
human sterility is to be encouraged, on condition that it is placed "at
the service of the human person, of his inalienable rights, and his true and
integral good according to the design and will of God." <o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2376 Techniques that entail the
dissociation of husband and wife, by the intrusion of a person other than the
couple (donation of sperm or ovum, surrogate uterus), are gravely immoral.
These techniques (heterologous artificial insemination and fertilization)
infringe the child's right to be born of a father and mother known to him and
bound to each other by marriage. They betray the spouses' "right to become
a father and a mother only through each other." <o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2377 Techniques involving only
the married couple (homologous artificial insemination and fertilization) are
perhaps less reprehensible yet remain morally unacceptable. They dissociate the
sexual act from the procreative act. the act which brings the child into
existence is no longer an act by which two persons give themselves to one
another, but one that "entrusts the life and identity of the embryo into
the power of doctors and biologists and establishes the domination of
technology over the origin and destiny of the human person. Such a relationship
of domination is in itself contrary to the dignity and equality that must be
common to parents and children." "Under the moral aspect
procreation is deprived of its proper perfection when it is not willed as the
fruit of the conjugal act, that is to say, of the specific act of the spouses'
union .... “Only respect for the link between the meanings of the conjugal act
and respect for the unity of the human being make possible procreation in conformity
with the dignity of the person." <o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2378 A child is not something
owed to one but is a gift. The "supreme gift of marriage" is a human
person. A child may not be considered a piece of property, an idea to which an
alleged "right to a child" would lead. In this area, only the child
possesses genuine rights: the right "to be the fruit of the specific act
of the conjugal love of his parents," and "the right to be respected
as a person from the moment of his conception." <o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2379 The Gospel shows that
physical sterility is not an absolute evil. Spouses who still suffer from
infertility after exhausting legitimate medical procedures should unite
themselves with the Lord's Cross, the source of all spiritual fecundity. They
can give expression to their generosity by adopting abandoned children or
performing demanding services for others.<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Plan ahead for:<o:p></o:p></b></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/hoi8qmCUPws" width="320" youtube-src-id="hoi8qmCUPws"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="text-align: left;"> </b></div><p></p><p align="left" style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Bird Watching-</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> With about 10,000 species of birds
and only a handful of people who can claim having seen over 7000 of them, bird
watching is become a popular recreation activity. It’s believed that bird
watching is an expression of the male hunting instinct while others links it
with the male tendency for “systemizing”. Either way, bird watching is a great,
safe way to enjoy nature.</span><b> </b></p><p><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Every Wednesday is
Dedicated to St. Joseph<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">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. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Do the <a href="http://www.icemanforchrist.org/p/universal-man-plan-phase-4-st-joseph.html">St.
Joseph Universal Man Plan.</a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/page/edit/8604232804852757560/8968028950458792505">Devotion to the 7 Joys and Sorrows of St.
Joseph</a><b> </b></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Coffee with Christ</b><b> </b></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Christ
sips his coffee and looks at me and says, “Seek the good of your neighbors in
ways that will help to make them live to their fullest; build up the Kingdom in
them and then help them to build the Kingdom in others. Start with family. Be there during their hours
of need. If all families did this the Kingdom would begin to shape even in this
world. Time for others is greater than token gifts. It took my mother five days
of travel just to get to her aunt Elizabeth to aid her in the birth of my
cousin John. Be willing to suffer for others in all humility. This is what it
means to give and not count the cost.” <b> </b></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Daily Devotions<o:p></o:p></b></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Unite in the work of the <a href="https://portersofstjoseph.org/">Porters of St. Joseph</a> by joining them
in fasting: Today's Fast: <a href="http://www.icemanforchrist.org/2019/02/thursday-february-21-2019.html">Victims
of clergy sexual abuse</a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->Litany of the <a href="https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/devotions/litany-of-the-most-precious-blood-of-jesus-248"><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Most Precious
Blood of Jesus</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->Total <a href="http://www.icemanforchrist.org/p/icemans-total.html"><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Consecration
to St. Joseph</span></a> Day 27<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="http://www.icemanforchrist.org/p/an-offering-to-most-sacred-heart-of.html"><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Offering to
the sacred heart of Jesus</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="https://theholyface.com/">Make
reparations to the Holy Face</a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="http://www.catholictradition.org/Christ/holy-wounds2.htm"><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Drops of
Christ’s Blood</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="http://www.icemanforchrist.org/p/universal-man-plan-phase-4-st-joseph.html">Universal
Man Plan</a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in;">
</p><div><br /></div><div><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/YTOm85pQr5c" width="320" youtube-src-id="YTOm85pQr5c"></iframe></div><div><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><br clear="all" />
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1986.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Warfare. TAN Books.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftnref4" name="_ftn4" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%;">[4]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><a href="https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/liturgicalyear/activities/view.cfm?id=1048"><i><span style="line-height: 115%;">https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/liturgicalyear/activities/view.cfm?id=1048</span></i></a></span></p></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/YdOojf90YqY" width="320" youtube-src-id="YdOojf90YqY"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/DG5i3Fytbh0" width="320" youtube-src-id="DG5i3Fytbh0"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /> <p></p>IcemanforChristhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10737122933196184713noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8604232804852757560.post-46858489336124554872024-03-06T19:44:00.000-08:002024-03-06T19:44:17.592-08:00Cardinal Burke is Calling on EVERY CATHOLIC in America!<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/FUT150Ce3-8?si=U9mTTaMq204Gnbcc" frameborder="0"></iframe>IcemanforChristhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10737122933196184713noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8604232804852757560.post-26100886187850948892024-03-06T07:33:00.000-08:002024-03-11T17:01:52.259-07:00Tuesday, March 12, 2024<p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Q0SWkLnqwbE" width="320" youtube-src-id="Q0SWkLnqwbE"></iframe></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Tuesday
of the Fourth Week of Lent</b><b> </b></p><p class="po" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="po" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">1 Maccabees, Chapter 7, Verse 18<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in;"><a name="20007018"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Then <i>FEAR</i> and dread of them came upon all the
people, who said: “There is no truth or justice among them; they violated the
agreement and the oath that they swore.”</span></b></a><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">This verse is referring to
Alcimus who was a descendant of the Biblical Aaron, brother of Moses, but not
in the high-priestly line;<sup> </sup>and being ambitious for the office of
high priest, he traveled to Antioch to secure the assistance of the Seleucid
king </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demetrius_I_Soter" title="Demetrius I Soter"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Demetrius
I Soter</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">, who had
just overthrown Antiochus. Alcimus was of the Hellenizing party, and therefore
bitterly opposed by the Maccabees. Demetrius sent an army under Bacchides to
establish Alcimus in the high priesthood at Jerusalem. The favor with which
Alcimus was received by the Jews at Jerusalem on account of his Aaronic descent
was soon turned to hate by his cruelties. When Bacchides and his army returned
to Antioch, the Hasmonean Judah Maccabee attacked and overcame Alcimus, and
drove him also to Syria. There he secured from Demetrius another army, led by </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicanor_%28Syrian_general%29" title="Nicanor (Syrian general)"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Nicanor</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">, who, failing to overcome Judah by
treachery, attacked him directly, but was defeated and killed. A third and
greater army, under Bacchides again, was dispatched to reinstall Alcimus. Judah
was defeated and killed, Alcimus established as high priest and a strong
garrison left in Jerusalem to maintain him. But he did not long enjoy his
triumph, since he died soon after, while he was pulling down the wall of the
temple that divided the court of the Gentiles from that of the Israelites.<a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">[1]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p align="center" class="pcon" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Strife
breeds Strife-Love breed’s love</span></i><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">therefore; be always
open to forgiving injuries.</span></i><b style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></b></p><p align="center" class="pcon" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></b></p><p align="center" class="pcon" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><b style="text-align: left;"></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="text-align: left;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/a2EO2_KiSj0" width="320" youtube-src-id="a2EO2_KiSj0"></iframe></b></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Christ tells us
to love our enemy which is much easier to say than to do. Yet as much as
possible we are to not fear them but strive to love them. Often, we find it
difficult to love even our family and neighbors let alone our enemies. In fact,
the opposite of <i>fear</i> is not courage
but love. Paul illustrates for us the
following ways of living to demonstrate true love or charity. (Hebrews, Chapter 13, Verse’ 1-6) <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->In all that you do <i>be an agent of
hospitality</i>. That is to be generous. Even the poor can be rich in their
praise and love of others. Share not only your time, talent and treasure but
truly give of yourself to others of your intellect, emotional support, and
physical presence. A good guide is the spiritual works of mercy: instruct
the ignorant; counsel the doubtful; admonish sinners; bear wrongs
patiently; forgive offences willingly; comfort the
afflicted; pray for the living and the dead.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->Do what you can to <i>free others of their
prisons</i> whether these are self-imposed i.e. addictions or through
ignorance. A good guide is the corporal works of mercy: feed the hungry; give
drink to the thirsty; clothe the naked; harbor the harbor-less; visit the sick;
ransom the captive; bury the dead.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><i>Marriage is the physical reality of our
soul’s marriage to God</i> through the Holy Spirit; therefore. If married
love and honor your wife; be chase in spirit whether married or single knowing
that marriage is the physical sign of your union with God. Disdain any kind of
sexual defilement.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><i>Avoid the love of money</i>. Seek simplicity
and contentment. Treat all the wealth you have as if it were Gods; on loan to
you to build the Kingdom; which it is. You can do this if you know, and trust
God will never forsake you or abandon you. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">The proper
meaning of love is to seek the good of the other as other. </p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><i>Not Holding a
Grudge<a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">[2]</span></span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><o:p></o:p></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/1PSy_eJ_aUg" width="320" youtube-src-id="1PSy_eJ_aUg"></iframe></div><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: left;">St. John Gualbert was the
son of a noble Florentine, who had only one other and older son, Hugh. When
Hugh was murdered by a man supposed to be his friend, John swore vengeance and,
in spite of the warnings and sorrow of his father, he set out to destroy him.
Well might his father sorrow more over John than over his murdered son, for the
motive of revenge is not excusable even in the punishment of a murderer. Still
less is it acceptable before God to try to right one injury with another or one
murder with another. By chance one day John met his enemy in a very narrow
passage and, having the advantage, drew his sword to run him through. The
enemy, knowing he had no chance to save himself, fell to his knees, crossed his
hands over his breast (let us hope he made a good act of contrition) and
awaited the death blow. John advanced in a fury — halted and remembered Christ
had </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: left;">prayed</i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: left;"> for </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: left;">His</i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: left;"> murderers as He hung on the cross. He put up
his sword, gave his enemy his hand and, drawing him to his feet, embraced him.
They parted in peace.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">As he went down the road,
filled with contrition for the terrible deed he had intended to do, he came to
the monastery of San Miniato, entered it, and kneeling before the Crucifix he
poured out his heart in contrition. As he prayed, the Crucifix miraculously
bowed its head as though to bless John's victory over revenge and John was
filled with the desire to serve only Christ. He went to the abbot to ask
permission to wear the habit, and, when the abbot hesitated for several days
for <i>fear</i> of the displeasure of John's
father, John hacked off his hair and put on a borrowed habit. This convinced
Father Abbot that the young penitent was a serious prospect and he received him
into the community.</span><b><o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a name="07006027"><b>Tuesday Of the Fourth Week of Lent</b></a><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="color: black;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">[3]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><b><o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3s9WYOiwCBE" width="320" youtube-src-id="3s9WYOiwCBE"></iframe></p><p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Prayer.
WE beseech Thee, O Lord, that the fasts of this holy observance may procure us
an increase of piety in our lives, and the continual help of Thy mercy.</span></i><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">EPISTLE.
Exodus xxxii. 7-14.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p align="left"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">In those days the Lord spoke to
Moses, saying: Go, get thee down: thy people, which thou hast brought out of
the land of Egypt, hath sinned. They have quickly strayed from the way which
thou didst show them: and they have made to themselves a molten calf, and have
adored it, and sacrificing victims to it, have said: These are thy gods, O
Israel, that have brought thee out of the land of Egypt. And again, the Lord
said to Moses: I see that this people are stiff-necked: let Me alone, that My
wrath may be kindled against them, and that I may destroy them, and I will make
of thee a great nation. But Moses besought the Lord his God, saying: Why, O
Lord, is Thy indignation enkindled against Thy people, whom Thou hast brought
out of the land of Egypt, with great power, and with a mighty hand? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Let not the Egyptians say, I
beseech Thee: He craftily brought them out, that He might kill them in the
mountains, and destroy them from the earth: let Thy anger cease and be appeased
upon the wickedness of Thy people. Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy
servants, to whom Thou sworest by Thy own self, saying: I will multiply your
seed as the stars of heaven: and this whole land that I have spoken of, I will
give to your seed, and you shall possess it forever. And the Lord was appeased
from doing the evil which He had spoken against His people.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">GOSPEL.
John vii. 14-31.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><i></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/W_vKa542vUk" width="320" youtube-src-id="W_vKa542vUk"></iframe></i></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">At
that time: About the midst of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple, and
taught. And the Jews wondered, saying: How doth this man know letters, having
never learned? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Jesus
answered them and said: My doctrine is not Mine, but His that sent Me. If any
man will do the will of Him: he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of
God, or whether I speak of Myself. He that speaketh of himself, seeketh his own
glory: but he that seeketh the glory of him that sent him, he is true, and
there is no injustice in him. Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of
you keepeth the law? Why seek you to kill Me? The multitude answered, and said:
Thou hast a devil; who seeketh to kill Thee? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Jesus
answered and said to them: One work I have done; and you all wonder: therefore,
Moses gave you circumcision (not because it is of Moses, but of the fathers);
and on the Sabbath-day you circumcise a man. If a man receive circumcision on
the Sabbath-day, that the law of Moses may not be broken; are you angry at Me
because I have healed the whole man on the Sabbath-day? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Judge
not according to the appearance but judge just judgment. Some therefore of
Jerusalem said: Is not this He Whom they seek to kill? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">And
behold He speaketh openly, and they say nothing to Him. Have the rulers known
for a truth that this is the Christ? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">But
we know this man whence He is but when the Christ cometh, no man knoweth whence
He is. Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and saying: You both
know Me, and you know whence I am, and I am not come of Myself; but He that
sent Me is true, Whom you know not. I know Him, because I am from Him, and He
hath sent Me. They sought therefore to apprehend Him: and no man laid hands on
Him, because His hour was not yet come. But of the people many believed in Him.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Lenten
Calendar</span></i><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">[4]</span></span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></i></span></a><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Px0qhoNUKGg" width="320" youtube-src-id="Px0qhoNUKGg"></iframe></div><p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><i style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Read:
</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: left;">The Seven Penitential Psalms, Day Seven:</span></p><p align="center" style="margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: .1in; margin-right: .1in; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0.1in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">(<i>During times when we wish to express repentance and especially during
Lent, it is customary to pray the seven penitential psalms. The penitential
designation of these psalms dates from the seventh century. Prayerfully
reciting these psalms will help us to recognize our sinfulness, express our
sorrow and ask for God’s forgiveness</i>.)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" style="margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.1in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Today
we will focus on Psalm 143.<br />
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<!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" style="margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Reflect:
</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Read a reflection of </span><a href="http://www.usccb.org/prayer-and-worship/liturgical-year/lent/reflection-penitential-psalm-143.cfm"><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none;">Psalm 143—A Prayer
in Distress</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" style="margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></i></p><p align="left" style="margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Pray:</span></i><span style="font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Mincho";"> “</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Hasten to answer me, LORD; for my
spirit fails me. Do not hide your face from me, lest I become like those
descending to the pit. In the morning let me hear of your mercy, for in
you I trust. Show me the path I should walk, for I entrust my life to you.</span><span style="font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Mincho";">”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> (Ps 143:7-8) <br />
<!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--><br />
<!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" style="margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Act:
</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">The psalmist pleads his case before the Lord: he is
surrounded by enemies, his spirit is faint, and he has nothing left to
withstand them. And so, he begs for mercy, that the Lord would show his face
and be his refuge in his time of great need.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></p><p align="center" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">The Church’s Calendar<a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">[5]</span></span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></i></p><p style="margin: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .1in; margin-right: .1in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.1in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;">We often learn our doctrine much more deeply and effectively simply by
celebrating the feasts and fasts of the Church. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .3in; margin-right: .3in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.3in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .1in; margin-right: .1in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.1in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;">In fact in Orthodox Judaism the calendar is the catechism of Israel.
According to Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch, “<i>On
the pinions of time which bear us through life, God has inscribed the eternal
words of His soul-inspiring doctrine, making days and weeks, months and years
the heralds to proclaim His truths. Nothing would seem more fleeting than these
elements of time, but to them God has entrusted the care of His holy things,
thereby rendering them more imperishable and more accessible.”<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .1in; margin-right: .1in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.1in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i> </i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .1in; margin-right: .1in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.1in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;">CCC<a><span color="windowtext">2698</span></a>.
The Tradition of the Church proposes to the faithful certain rhythms of praying
intended to nourish continual prayer. Some are daily, such as morning and
evening prayer, grace before and after meals, the Liturgy of the Hours.
Sundays, centered on the Eucharist, are kept holy primarily by prayer. The
cycle of the liturgical year and its great feasts are also basic rhythms of the
Christian's life of prayer.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .1in; margin-right: .1in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.1in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .1in; margin-right: .1in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.1in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;">No one knows human nature better than the God who created it. The book of
Genesis tells us that the Lord God made the world in six days and rested on the
seventh. He rested not because he was weary-God does not tire-but because He
wanted to provide a model for human labor and rest. The Church calendar
coincides with the cosmic rhythms of God. The Church calendar reflects this
fact: That Christ rose from the dead in
payment for our sins and is the Jewish Messiah that was hoped for.<i> </i></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="st"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="st">Stations of the Cross</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; letter-spacing: 0.25pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">[6]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></div><p class="CSP-ChapterBodyText" style="margin-right: 0.3in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Though technically only the last
fourteen days of Lent explicitly consider the sufferings of our Lord, the
Stations of the Cross (a.k.a. the Way of the Cross) have long been a popular
Lenten devotion for any or all of the forty days (though they tend to be done
on Fridays). These fourteen scenes from the via dolorosa, the sorrowful path
that Christ took while carrying His cross to Golgotha, help direct one's heart to
the mysterium fidei of our Lord's selfless sacrifice.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b> </b></p><p align="left" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Catechism
of the Catholic Church<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: 0.3in;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">PART THREE: LIFE IN CHRIST</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.3in; text-indent: 0.3in;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">SECTION TWO-THE TEN COMMANDMENTS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.9in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">CHAPTER
TWO-YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.9in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-indent: 0.3in;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Article 6-THE SIXTH COMMANDMENT<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.2in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-indent: 0.3in;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">II. The Vocation to Chastity</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.2in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-indent: 0.3in;"><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7RVTwgva5A0" width="320" youtube-src-id="7RVTwgva5A0"></iframe></b></div><p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2337 Chastity means the
successful integration of sexuality within the person and thus the inner unity
of man in his bodily and spiritual being. Sexuality, in which man's belonging
to the bodily and biological world is expressed, becomes personal and truly
human when it is integrated into the relationship of one person to another, in
the complete and lifelong mutual gift of a man and a woman.<br />
The virtue of chastity therefore involves the integrity of the person and the
integrality of the gift.<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">The integrity of the person<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2338 The chaste person
maintains the integrity of the powers of life and love placed in him. This
integrity ensures the unity of the person; it is opposed to any behavior that
would impair it. It tolerates neither a double life nor duplicity in speech. <o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2339 Chastity includes an
apprenticeship in self-mastery which is a training in human freedom. the
alternative is clear: either man governs his passions and finds peace, or he
lets himself be dominated by them and becomes unhappy. "Man's dignity
therefore requires him to act out of conscious and free choice, as moved and
drawn in a personal way from within, and not by blind impulses in himself or by
mere external constraint. Man gains such dignity when, ridding himself of all
slavery to the passions, he presses forward to his goal by freely choosing what
is good and, by his diligence and skill, effectively secures for himself the
means suited to this end." <o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2340 Whoever wants to remain
faithful to his baptismal promises and resist temptations will want to adopt
the means for doing so: self-knowledge, practice of an ascesis adapted to the
situations that confront him, obedience to God's commandments, exercise of the
moral virtues, and fidelity to prayer. "Indeed it is through chastity that
we are gathered together and led back to the unity from which we were
fragmented into multiplicity." <o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2341 The virtue of chastity
comes under the cardinal virtue of temperance, which seeks to permeate the
passions and appetites of the senses with reason.<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2342 Self-mastery is a long and
exacting work. One can never consider it acquired once and for all. It
presupposes renewed effort at all stages of life. The effort required can
be more intense in certain periods, such as when the personality is being
formed during childhood and adolescence.<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2343 Chastity has laws of
growth which progress through stages marked by imperfection and too often by
sin. "Man . . . day by day builds himself up through his many free
decisions; and so he knows, loves, and accomplishes moral good by stages of growth."
<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2344 Chastity represents an
eminently personal task; it also involves a cultural effort, for there is
"an interdependence between personal betterment and the improvement of
society." Chastity presupposes respect for the rights of the person,
in particular the right to receive information and an education that respect
the moral and spiritual dimensions of human life.<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2345 Chastity is a moral
virtue. It is also a gift from God, a grace, a fruit of spiritual
effort. The Holy Spirit enables one whom the water of Baptism has
regenerated to imitate the purity of Christ. <o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">The integrality of the gift of
self<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2346 Charity is the form of all
the virtues. Under its influence, chastity appears as a school of the gift of
the person. Self-mastery is ordered to the gift of self. Chastity leads him who
practices it to become a witness to his neighbor of God's fidelity and loving
kindness.<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2347 The virtue of chastity
blossoms in friendship. It shows the disciple how to follow and imitate him who
has chosen us as his friends, who has given himself totally to us and
allows us to participate in his divine estate. Chastity is a promise of
immortality.<br />
Chastity is expressed notably in friendship with one's neighbor. Whether it
develops between persons of the same or opposite sex, friendship represents a
great good for all. It leads to spiritual communion.<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">The various forms of chastity<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2348 All the baptized are
called to chastity. the Christian has "put on Christ," The model
for all chastity. All Christ's faithful are called to lead a chaste life in
keeping with their particular states of life. At the moment of his Baptism, the
Christian is pledged to lead his affective life in chastity.<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2349 "People should
cultivate [chastity] in the way that is suited to their state of life. Some
profess virginity or consecrated celibacy which enables them to give themselves
to God alone with an undivided heart in a remarkable manner. Others live in the
way prescribed for all by the moral law, whether they are married or
single." Married people are called to live conjugal chastity; others
practice chastity in continence:<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">There are three forms of the
virtue of chastity: the first is that of spouses, the second that of widows,
and the third that of virgins. We do not praise any one of them to the
exclusion of the others.... This is what makes for the richness of the discipline
of the Church. <o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2350 Those who are engaged to
marry are called to live chastity in continence. They should see in this time
of testing a discovery of mutual respect, an apprenticeship in fidelity, and
the hope of receiving one another from God. They should reserve for marriage
the expressions of affection that belong to married love. They will help each
other grow in chastity.<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">Offenses against chastity<o:p></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/JBzjylQCNOI" width="320" youtube-src-id="JBzjylQCNOI"></iframe></div><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2351 Lust is disordered desire
for or inordinate enjoyment of sexual pleasure. Sexual pleasure is morally
disordered when sought for itself, isolated from its procreative and unitive
purposes.</p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2352 By masturbation is to be
understood the deliberate stimulation of the genital organs in order to derive
sexual pleasure. "Both the Magisterium of the Church, in the course of a
constant tradition, and the moral sense of the faithful have been in no doubt
and have firmly maintained that masturbation is an intrinsically and gravely
disordered action." "The deliberate use of the sexual faculty,
for whatever reason, outside of marriage is essentially contrary to its
purpose." For here sexual pleasure is sought outside of "the sexual
relationship which is demanded by the moral order and in which the total
meaning of mutual self-giving and human procreation in the context of true love
is achieved." <br />
To form an equitable judgment about the subjects' moral responsibility and to
guide pastoral action, one must take into account the affective immaturity,
force of acquired habit, conditions of anxiety, or other psychological or
social factors that lessen or even extenuate moral culpability.<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2353 Fornication is carnal
union between an unmarried man and an unmarried woman. It is gravely contrary
to the dignity of persons and of human sexuality which is naturally ordered to
the good of spouses and the generation and education of children. Moreover, it
is a grave scandal when there is corruption of the young.<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2354 Pornography consists in
removing real or simulated sexual acts from the intimacy of the partners, in
order to display them deliberately to third parties. It offends against
chastity because it perverts the conjugal act, the intimate giving of spouses
to each other. It does grave injury to the dignity of its participants (actors,
vendors, the public), since each one becomes an object of base pleasure and
illicit profit for others. It immerses all who are involved in the illusion of
a fantasy world. It is a grave offense. Civil authorities should prevent the
production and distribution of pornographic materials.<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2355 Prostitution does injury
to the dignity of the person who engages in it, reducing the person to an
instrument of sexual pleasure. the one who pays sins gravely against himself:
he violates the chastity to which his Baptism pledged him and defiles his body,
the temple of the Holy Spirit. Prostitution is a social scourge. It
usually involves women, but also men, children, and adolescents (The latter two
cases involve the added sin of scandal.). While it is always gravely sinful to
engage in prostitution, the imputability of the offense can be attenuated by
destitution, blackmail, or social pressure.<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2356 Rape is the forcible
violation of the sexual intimacy of another person. It does injury to justice
and charity. Rape deeply wounds the respect, freedom, and physical and moral
integrity to which every person has a right. It causes grave damage that can
mark the victim for life. It is always an intrinsically evil act. Graver still
is the rape of children committed by parents (incest) or those responsible for
the education of the children entrusted to them.<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">Chastity and homosexuality<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2357 Homosexuality refers to
relations between men or between women who experience an exclusive or
predominant sexual attraction toward persons of the same sex. It has taken a
great variety of forms through the centuries and in different cultures. Its psychological
genesis remains largely unexplained. Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which
presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity, tradition has always
declared that "homosexual acts are intrinsically
disordered." They are contrary to the natural law. They close the
sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective
and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved.<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2358 The number of men and
women who have deep-seated homosexual tendencies is not negligible. This
inclination, which is objectively disordered, constitutes for most of them a
trial. They must be accepted with respect, compassion, and sensitivity. Every
sign of unjust discrimination in their regard should be avoided. These persons
are called to fulfill God's will in their lives and, if they are Christians, to
unite to the sacrifice of the Lord's Cross the difficulties they may encounter
from their condition.<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2359 Homosexual persons are
called to chastity. By the virtues of self-mastery that teach them inner
freedom, at times by the support of disinterested friendship, by prayer and
sacramental grace, they can and should gradually and resolutely approach
Christian perfection.<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Candace’s Corner<o:p></o:p></b></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b> </b><b> </b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/fbQvVS_8ZNI" width="320" youtube-src-id="fbQvVS_8ZNI"></iframe></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></p><div data-breakout="normal" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding-inline-end: var(--ricos-breakout-normal-padding-end,0); padding-inline-start: var(--ricos-breakout-normal-padding-start,0); padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="_9-O5y h4vUg KNByY iPC6I k2m-h" id="viewer-ykt7n38274" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); 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background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;" type="paragraph"></div><div data-breakout="normal" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding-inline-end: var(--ricos-breakout-normal-padding-end,0); padding-inline-start: var(--ricos-breakout-normal-padding-start,0); padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="_9-O5y h4vUg KNByY iPC6I k2m-h" id="viewer-v7me138327" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--ricos-custom-p-color,unset); direction: ltr; font-family: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-family,unset); font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-size,unset); font-stretch: inherit; font-style: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-style,unset); font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: var(--ricos-custom-p-font-weight,unset); line-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-line-height,unset); margin: 0px; min-height: var(--ricos-custom-p-min-height,unset); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: initial; text-decoration: var(--ricos-custom-p-text-decoration,unset); vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="_1N6tE" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: initial; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Castle Hot Springs is an all-inclusive resort set against the Bradshaw Mountains, a mere 50 miles from Phoenix. The 19th-century-era, 1,110-acre wellness-centric desert oasis is—you guessed it—renowned for the namesake hot springs. Surrounded by stunning saguaro, towering palms, more lush flora, and gorgeous red-hued rocks, the springs have attracted countless individuals over the years (from Native American tribes, explorers, and more). Today, these magnificent thermal waters are only accessible to resort guests; however, they’re still laden with the same minerals (think: lithium, copper, and magnesium, to name a few) that first put them on the map.</span></span><span class="_1N6tE" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: initial; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span><span class="_1N6tE" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: initial; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kEzyRWSfx7Q" width="320" youtube-src-id="kEzyRWSfx7Q"></iframe></div></div><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/l7uzj_P5Icg" width="320" youtube-src-id="l7uzj_P5Icg"></iframe></div><p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Coffee with Christ</b><b> </b></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Christ
sips his coffee and looks at me and says, “Strive to live in the joy of the
Father’s presence. There is a time for everything, sleep and rest in His presence,
trust with all humility. Seek to be good to all; even those who use and despise
you.” <b> </b></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/1eTkvEVpv9s" width="320" youtube-src-id="1eTkvEVpv9s"></iframe></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Daily Devotions<o:p></o:p></b></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Unite in the work of the <a href="https://portersofstjoseph.org/">Porters of St. Joseph</a> by joining them
in fasting: Today's Fast: Holy Priests, Consecrated, & Religious<span class="MsoHyperlink"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="https://theholyface.com/">Make
reparations to the Holy Face</a><span class="MsoHyperlink">-</span><a href="https://theholyface.com/tuesday-devotion/tuesdays-and-eucharistic-devotion-to-holy-face/">Tuesday
Devotion</a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Tuesday: <a href="https://www.ourcatholicprayers.com/the-litany-of-saint-michael.html">Litany
of St. Michael the Archangel</a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->Litany of the <a href="https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/devotions/litany-of-the-most-precious-blood-of-jesus-248"><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Most Precious
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="http://www.icemanforchrist.org/p/an-offering-to-most-sacred-heart-of.html"><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Offering to
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="http://www.catholictradition.org/Christ/holy-wounds2.htm"><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Drops of
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="http://www.icemanforchrist.org/p/universal-man-plan-phase-4-st-joseph.html">Universal
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Catholic Customs and their biblical roots. Chap. 6. The Church Calendar.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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of the Fourth Week of Lent</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p><p class="po" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">1 Maccabees, Chapter 4, Verse 8<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="po" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Judas said to the men with him: Do
not <i>FEAR</i> their numbers or dread their
attack.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Why fear you? <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p><i></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/RF0DIpFOoBg" width="320" youtube-src-id="RF0DIpFOoBg"></iframe></i></div><p></p><p align="left" style="text-indent: 0.3in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">As God saved you from Egypt at the red sea surely, he
will defend us was Judas’ cry. Thus, Israel experienced a great deliverance
that day. Then again being attacked by a force ten times as large, Judas cried
out, “Blessed are you, Savior of Israel, who crushed the attack of the mighty
one by the hand of your servant David and delivered the foreign camp into the
hand of Jonathan, the son of Saul, and his armor-bearer. When Lysias saw the
tide of the battle turning, and the increased boldness of Judas, whose men were
ready either to live or to die nobly, he withdrew. Then Judas and his brothers
said, “Now that our enemies have been crushed, let us go up to purify the
sanctuary and rededicate it.” So, the whole army assembled and went up to Mount
Zion. They found the sanctuary desolate, the altar desecrated, the gates burnt,
weeds growing in the courts as in a thicket or on some mountain, and the
priests’ chambers demolished.<sup> </sup>Then they tore their garments and made
great lamentation; they sprinkled their heads with ashes and prostrated
themselves. And when the signal was given with trumpets, they cried out to
Heaven. They repaired the sanctuary. On the anniversary of the day on which the
Gentiles had desecrated it, on that very day it was rededicated with songs,
harps, lyres, and cymbals. All the people prostrated themselves and adored and
praised Heaven, who had given them success. For eight days they celebrated the
dedication of the altar and joyfully offered burnt offerings and sacrifices of
deliverance and praise. Then Judas and his brothers and the entire assembly of
Israel decreed that every year for eight days, from the twenty-fifth day of the
month Kislev, the days of the dedication<sup> </sup>of the altar should be
observed with joy and gladness on the anniversary. This was the institution of
the feast of Hanukkah, also called the Feast of Dedication. Josephus calls it
the Feast of Lights (<i>Ant.</i> 12:325).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="po" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><strong><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Let There
Be Light!</span></i></strong><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;">[1]</span></b></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></i></span></a><strong><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></strong></p><p class="po" style="margin: 0in;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></strong></p><p class="po" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">According
to Jewish Talmudic tradition, when the Maccabees recaptured the Temple, they
found only a day’s supply of consecrated oil with which to light the golden
lamp stand, the menorah. Miraculously, this oil burned for eight full days,
until a new supply could be consecrated. Therefore, Hanukkah is also known and
celebrated as the Feast of Lights. This Hanukkah, ask the Holy Spirit to pour
fresh oil into your lamp. <em>When enduring a dark season, be encouraged, for God
says, “Let there be light.” At the appointed hour you will see His deliverance.
When you faithfully worship the one true God, do not be dismayed if anti-Christ
powers are enraged. These powers operate only within divinely set limits. God
is teaching us how to receive by faith, day-by-day, the anointing to not love
our own lives so as to shrink from death (Revelation 12:11).</em>
Israel’s dark tribulation culminating with the Hanukkah victory in many ways
parallels the future Great Tribulation leading to Yeshua’s return. The holiday
commemorating the rededication of God’s Temple calls upon us to rededicate
ourselves to Him as the bodily temples in which His Spirit now dwells. (See
1Corinthians 6:19)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="po" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></b></p><p align="center" class="po" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Remedies
for Anger<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;">[2]</span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p><p align="center" class="po" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></i></p><p align="center" class="po" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/dmJx6OQOUSA" width="320" youtube-src-id="dmJx6OQOUSA"></iframe></i></div><p></p><p class="po" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></b></p><p align="left" class="po" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">The first and best means to
overcome anger is humility; to become thus humble, gentle, and patient, one <i>must</i> often consider the example of
Christ, Who endured so many contradictions, persecutions, and insults, without
reviling again when reviled Himself, and without threatening vengeance to any
one for all He suffered. An excellent preventive to anger is, to think over in
the morning what causes will be likely to draw us into anger at any time during
the day, and to guard ourselves against them beforehand, by a firm resolution
to bear everything patiently for the love of God; and then, when anything
vexatious occurs and excites our anger, to say and do nothing so long as the
anger lasts.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="po" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></p><p class="po" style="margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">How shall we be reconciled with our
enemies? <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="po" style="margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></i></p><p class="po" style="margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.3in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Not
only with the lips but from the heart, and with sincerity and promptness. “Is
he absent whom you have wronged,” says St. Augustine, “so that you cannot
easily reach him? Humble yourself then before God, and ask His pardon before
you offer your gift, with a firm resolution to be reconciled with your enemy as
soon as possible.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Human experience confirms
the need of this Divine teaching. Only when the <i>Fatherhood of God</i> is
recognized, will the <i>Brotherhood of Man</i> be realized. Returning good for
evil is possible only to those who love God. Oh, how much our hate-torn world
needs this prayer: "Pour into our hearts an experience of Thy Love".
In the practice of the Golden Rule, we plead with the Divine "Helper"
against <i>worldly persecution</i> and <i>diabolical "enemies"</i>.
How can one who harbors anger, envy, bitterness, indifference, aversion of any
kind against his neighbor, have part in the Sacrifice of Him Who offers Himself
for His enemies? The sacrifice of our selfish or even wounded feelings for
Christ's sake is a most acceptable "gift" to "leave before the
altar".<a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="line-height: 115%;">[3]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Pray that there may be such
brotherhood in our country.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Monday of the Fourth Week of Lent</span></b></p><p align="center" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Prayer.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></p><p align="center" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">We beseech Thee, Almighty God, that, keeping with
yearly devotion these sacred observances, we may please Thee both in body and
mind. Amen <o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></p><p align="center" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">EPISTLE, III Kings iii 16-28. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p align="center" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></p><p align="left" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">In
those days: There came two women that were harlots to King Solomon and stood
before him: and one of them said: I beseech thee, my lord, I and this woman
dwelt in one house, and I was delivered of a child with her in the chamber. And
the third day after that I was delivered, she also was delivered, and we were
together, and no other person with us in the house, only we two. And this woman
s child died in the night: for in her sleep, she overlaid him. And rising in
the dead time of the night, she took my child from my side, while I thy hand
maid was asleep, and laid it in her bosom: and laid her dead child in my bosom.
And when I rose in the morning to give my child suck, behold it was dead: but
considering him more diligently when it was clear day, I found that it was not
mine which I bore. And the other woman answered: It is not so as thou sayest,
but thy child is dead, and mine is alive. On the contrary, she said: Thou
liest: for my child liveth, and thy child is dead. And in this manner, they
strove before the king. Then said the king: This one saith: My child is alive,
and thy child is dead. And the other answereth: Nay, but thy child is dead, and
mine liveth. The king therefore said: Bring me a sword. And when they had
brought a sword before the king, it. divide, said he, the living child in two,
and give half to the one, and half to the other. But the woman whose child was
alive, said to the king (for her bowels were moved upon her child): I beseech
thee, my lord, give her the child alive, and do not kill but the other said:
Let it be neither mine nor thine, but divide it. The king answered and said:
Give the living child to this woman, and let it not be killed, for she is the
mother thereof. And all Israel heard the judgment which the king had judged,
and they feared the king, seeing that the wisdom of God was in him to judgment.
<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></p><p align="center" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">GOSPEL. John ii. 13-25<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p align="center" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></i></p><p align="center" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-whz_UskQXM" width="320" youtube-src-id="-whz_UskQXM"></iframe></i></div><p></p><p align="left" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">At that
time: the Pasch of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. And He
found in the temple them that sold oxen and sheep, and doves, and the changers
of money sit and when He had made, as it were, a scourge of little cords, He
drove them all out of the temple, the sheep also and the oxen, and the money of
the changers He poured out, and the written: tables He overthrew. And to them
that sold doves He said: Take these things hence and make not the house of My
Father a house of traffic. And His disciples remembered that it was the zeal of
thy house hath eaten me up. The Jews therefore answered, and said to Him: What
sign dost Thou show unto us, seeing Thou dost these things? Jesus answered, and
said to them: Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. The
Jews then said: Six and forty years was this temple in building, and wilt Thou
raise it up in three days? But He spoke of the temple of His body. When
therefore He was risen again from the dead, His disciples remembered that He had
said this, and they believed the Scripture, and the word that Jesus had said. Now
when He was at Jerusalem at the Pasch, upon the festival-day, many believed in
His name, seeing His signs which He did. But Jesus did not trust Himself unto
them, for that He knew all men, and because He needed not that any should give
testimony of man: for He knew what was in man.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><i>Preparing for Battle<a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[4]</span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
Know Your Weapons<o:p></o:p></i></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/hEvG1pkU0mI" width="320" youtube-src-id="hEvG1pkU0mI"></iframe></p><p align="center" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">The weapon of prayer<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></u></p><p align="left"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">The
Scripture tells us that the fervent prayer of righteous believers has great
power in its effects (see Jas 5: 16). Prayer is the indispensable weapon in our
battle with Satan. Prayer in the name of Jesus is especially powerful against
the Devil. “In my name,” Jesus said of His followers, “they shall cast out
devils” (Mk 16: 17). At “the name that is above every name,” St. Paul
thundered, “at the name of Jesus, every knee” must bow, “in heaven and on earth
and under the earth” (see Phil 2: 9– 10).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">We
can see how much the Devil <i>fears</i>
those who pray, since there’s not a moment of the day when he tempts us more
than when we’re at prayer. He does everything he possibly can to prevent us
from praying. When the Devil wants to make someone lose his soul, he starts out
by inspiring in him a profound distaste for prayer. However good a Christian he
may be, if the Devil succeeds in making him either say his prayers badly or
neglect them altogether, he’s certain to have that person for himself. (St.
John Vianney)</span><b> </b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><i>The Angelus</i><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[5]</span></span></span></span></a><b style="text-align: left;"> </b></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">The
traditional Catholic midday prayer is called the Angelus. Christians have
always paused for prayer at the noon. In apostolic times, it was called the
prayer of the “sixth hour”, counting from sunrise. It was also at the sixth
hour that Jesus was crucified. Though Catholics most commonly recite the
Angelus at noon, some pray it at six in the morning and six in the evening. For
those who wish to make personal change this is a good time to examine our day
so far and offer ourselves us to our God. It is at the turning point of our day
that we recall the turning point of history: the moment when the angel appeared
to a young woman named Mary.<o:p></o:p></p><p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Angelus</span></i><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="line-height: 115%;">[6]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p align="left" style="margin: 0in 0.1in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">The
Angel of the Lord declared to Mary: <br />
And she conceived of the Holy Spirit. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .1in; margin-right: .1in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.1in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></p><p align="center" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .1in; margin-right: .1in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.1in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord
is with thee; blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy
womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour
of our death. Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .1in; margin-right: .1in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.1in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></p><p align="left" style="margin: 0in 0.1in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Behold
the handmaid of the Lord: Be it done unto me according to Thy word. <i>Hail Mary</i>…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .1in; margin-right: .1in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.1in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></p><p align="left" style="margin: 0in 0.1in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">And
the Word was made Flesh: And dwelt among us. <i>Hail Mary…</i><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .1in; margin-right: .1in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.1in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></p><p align="left" style="margin: 0in 0.1in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Pray
for us, O Holy Mother of God, that we may be made worthy of the promises of
Christ. <br />
<br />
Let us pray: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .1in; margin-right: .1in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.1in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></p><p align="left" style="margin: 0in 0.1in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Pour
forth, we beseech Thee, O Lord, Thy grace into our hearts; that we, to whom the
incarnation of Christ, Thy Son, was made known by the message of an angel, may
by His Passion and Cross be brought to the glory of His Resurrection, through
the same Christ Our Lord. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .1in; margin-right: .1in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.1in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Amen. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><a name="05007017"></a><a name="04012005"></a><a name="05028010"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Napping
Day</span></b></a><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn7" name="_ftnref7" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="line-height: 115%;">[7]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CaI5LWj6ams" width="320" youtube-src-id="CaI5LWj6ams"></iframe></div><p><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Think what a better world it would
be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o’clock every
afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">.
<i>Barbara Jordan`</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">You
got up early and got a great start to the day, you’ve been trucking along being
a productive adult, getting your work completed and attending the meetings you
have to attend. Throughout it all you’ve been a trooper, you even made it
through lunch without much trouble. But now it’s creeping into the late
afternoon, and you’re just out of go. What do you do? You take a nap! Napping
Day encourages you to remember these benefits of youth and take a little time
out of the day for you! Napping Day’s history is simply the history of napping,
and it used to be something we all did in the middle of the afternoon. In fact,
the siesta is still a time-honored tradition in Spain that happens right after
the afternoon meal and has been a practice since time out of mind. In fact, if
you’re in the Mediterranean, it’s pretty much standard everywhere you go. In
Italy they call it the <i>riposo, pisolini</i>, and even old
Charlamagne (yes <i>that</i> Charlamagne) has been recorded as having taken 2-3-hour
naps in the middle of the afternoon. So, is it just laziness? Well, no. You see
in part it’s because the hottest hours of the day occur in the middle of the
afternoon, and it makes sense to take a brief break at that point. It also has
to do with the circadian rhythms and the change-over point between the wake
cycle and sleep cycle, there’s a time that’s essentially perfect for a nap.
There are even notable benefits to taking a nap in the afternoon, including
evidence pointing to a 37% reduction in occurrences of coronary mortality in
those who take an afternoon nap regularly.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">How
to Celebrate Napping Day </span></i><i><span face=""Tahoma",sans-serif">zzzzzzzzzzzz</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p style="margin-left: 0.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Well,
the way to celebrate Napping Day is pretty simple isn’t it? You just take a
little time in the afternoon (whenever your afternoon is, some of us are day
sleepers) to rest. After the afternoon meal is perfect, and in the long run it
can help you actually feel better and more energized for the day ahead. It may
be tricky if you have a regular work schedule, but whenever you can… Take a
nap!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></b></p><p align="left" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Catechism
of the Catholic Church<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: 0.3in;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">PART THREE: LIFE IN CHRIST</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.3in; text-indent: 0.3in;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">SECTION TWO-THE TEN COMMANDMENTS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.9in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">CHAPTER
TWO-YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.9in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-indent: 0.3in;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Article 6-THE SIXTH COMMANDMENT<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.2in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-indent: 0.3in;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">I. "Male and Female He Created Them . .
."<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.2in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-indent: 0.3in;"><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/79g3eY0m9Qo" width="320" youtube-src-id="79g3eY0m9Qo"></iframe></b></div><p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2331 "God is love and in
himself he lives a mystery of personal loving communion. Creating the human
race in his own image . . .. God inscribed in the humanity of man and woman the
vocation, and thus the capacity and responsibility, of love and communion."
<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">"God created man in his
own image . . . male and female he created them"; He blessed them and
said, "Be fruitful and multiply"; "When God created man, he
made him in the likeness of God. Male and female, he created them, and he
blessed them and named them Man when they were created." <o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2332 Sexuality affects all
aspects of the human person in the unity of his body and soul. It especially
concerns affectivity, the capacity to love and to procreate, and in a more
general way the aptitude for forming bonds of communion with others.<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2333 Everyone, man and woman,
should acknowledge and accept his sexual identity. Physical, moral, and
spiritual difference and complementarity are oriented toward the goods of
marriage and the flourishing of family life. The harmony of the couple and of society
depends in part on the way in which the complementarity, needs, and mutual
support between the sexes are lived out.<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2334 "In creating men
'male and female,' God gives man and woman an equal personal
dignity." "Man is a person, man and woman equally so, since both
were created in the image and likeness of the personal God." <o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2335 Each of the two sexes is
an image of the power and tenderness of God, with equal dignity though in a
different way. the union of man and woman in marriage is a way of imitating in
the flesh the Creator's generosity and fecundity: "Therefore a man leaves
his father and his mother and cleaves to his wife, and they become one
flesh." All human generations proceed from this union. <o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2336 Jesus came to restore
creation to the purity of its origins. In the Sermon on the Mount, he
interprets God's plan strictly: "You have heard that it was said, 'You
shall not commit adultery.' But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman
lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart." What
God has joined together, let not man put asunder. <br />
The tradition of the Church has understood the sixth commandment as
encompassing the whole of human sexuality.<span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Christopher’s Corner<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-NePnH1pibc" width="320" youtube-src-id="-NePnH1pibc"></iframe></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Coffee with Christ<o:p></o:p></b></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Christ
sips his coffee and looks at me and says, “Coffee is a miracle created by the
Father and it will help to strengthen you for your day’s journey. But if you
wish to have the strength for eternity you must take the Eucharist. Surrender
your will, indifference and selfishness to the Father as I offer my suffering
in place of you in the Mass.”<b><o:p></o:p></b></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/i90iHdz1jx0" width="320" youtube-src-id="i90iHdz1jx0"></iframe></div><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Daily Devotions<o:p></o:p></b></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Unite in the work of the <a href="https://portersofstjoseph.org/">Porters of St. Joseph</a> by joining them
in fasting: Today's Fast: <a href="http://www.icemanforchrist.org/2018/01/thursday-january-112018.html">End
Sex Trafficking, Slavery</a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><br /></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/tcWTDtHB76A?si=5wXbhIUyWmVWBcgp" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; text-indent: 0px;"><br /></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 6pt 0in 0in 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->Eat waffles and Pray for the assistance of the <a href="http://www.icemanforchrist.org/p/upon-rising-7-am-address-first-choir-of.html"><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Angels</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->Litany of the <a href="https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/devotions/litany-of-the-most-precious-blood-of-jesus-248"><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Most Precious
Blood of Jesus</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/liturgicalyear/activities/view.cfm?id=1243" title="Religion in the Home for Preschool: March">Religion in the Home for
Preschool: March</a><o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->Total <a href="http://www.icemanforchrist.org/p/icemans-total.html"><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Consecration
to St. Joseph</span></a> Day 25<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="http://www.icemanforchrist.org/p/an-offering-to-most-sacred-heart-of.html"><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Offering to
the sacred heart of Jesus</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="https://theholyface.com/">Make
reparations to the Holy Face</a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Monday: <a href="https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/devotions/litany-of-humility-245">Litany of
Humility</a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="http://www.catholictradition.org/Christ/holy-wounds2.htm"><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Drops of
Christ’s Blood</span></a> <o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="CSP-ChapterTitle">
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Warfare. TAN Books.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Catholic Customs and their biblical roots. Chap. 13. The Angelus</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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IcemanforChristhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10737122933196184713noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8604232804852757560.post-46341363438322995682024-03-04T07:04:00.000-08:002024-03-10T06:58:18.044-07:00Sunday, March10, 2024<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/9wxRuUicMq0?si=vdjm_WVpSlhbsqPI" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Fourth Sunday of Lent</b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="CSP-ChapterBodyText" style="text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">NOVENA ST. JOSEPH-</span><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Bagpipe
Day-Ramadan begins</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0in;"> </span></p>
<p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">1 Maccabees, Chapter 3, Verse 55-56<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="po" style="margin: 0in;"><a name="20003055"><span class="textezek-34-28"><sup><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">55</span></sup></span></a><span class="bcv"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">After this Judas appointed officers
for the people, over thousands, over hundreds, over fifties, and over tens. </span></b><a name="20003056"></a><span class="textezek-34-28"><sup><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">56</span></sup></span><span class="bcv"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">He proclaimed that those who were
building houses, or were just married, or were planting vineyards, and those
who were <i>AFRAID</i>, could each return
home, according to the law.</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="po" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Judas
is confronted by a large Army so what does he do. He prays, fasts and calls on
God’s mercy. Then he organizes all of the people into squads, platoons,
companies, battalions, and regiments. Then he basically lets anyone who wants
to go home go. To those that remain he says, <a name="20003058"><o:p></o:p></a></span></p>
<p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></p>
<p align="center" class="pcon" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">“Arm yourselves and be brave; in
the morning, be ready to fight these Gentiles who have assembled against us to
destroy us and our sanctuary. </span></i><a name="20003059"></a><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">It is better for us to die in
battle than to witness the evils befalling our nation and our sanctuary.</span></i><a name="20003060"></a><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> Whatever is willed
in heaven will be done.”</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Judas
only wanted real fighters. <i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p align="center" class="pcon" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt;">Catholic Fighting Men <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="pcon" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 11pt;">Call to Lenten Boot Camp<a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[1]</span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="pcon" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10pt;">Matthew Reid<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="pcon"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">As we, the
heirs of the great jewel that is our traditional Catholic faith, handed down to
us through the martyrdom and struggle of untold numbers of faithful, navigate
the vast spiritual wasteland of these United States, we must again realize the
absolute necessity of arming ourselves in the timeless ascetical practices of
our forefathers. These rigorous and sacrificial practices helped prepare prior
generations of heroic Catholics for both physical and spiritual battle; a
battle they won, earning their heavenly reward.<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="pcon"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Mindful of the
ever-present distractions and temptations to live a life of ease that sucks the
vibrancy and urgency out of our Christian lives, there must be a realization,
and therefore determination to be set apart to a healthy degree from a culture
that celebrates debauchery, profanity, immodestly, idleness and effeminacy.
These are not the way that a Catholic man must exist. As our late Holy Father,
Pope Benedict XVI once opined, “the world offers you comfort, but you were not
made for comfort, you were made for greatness.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="pcon" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">I ask you, dear faithful Catholics, is there anything
more de-motivating and less inspiring than the contemporary Church’s Lenten
regulations, not to mention the virtually non-existent Eucharistic fast?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="pcon" style="text-indent: 0.3in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">As
a retired NYC Police Sergeant who worked in Intelligence and supervised a good
number of practicing Muslim investigators along the way, I can tell you without
hesitation that my least favorite time of year in this capacity was Lent. It
was at times, to be blunt, a wholly embarrassing situation; please let me
explain. Whereas during the Muslim cops’ observation of their holy month of
Ramadan, they would go, many times in the long summer months, from sunup to
sundown without a drop of water, never mind food each day for a month. This
contrasted with the rest of the personnel in my workplace, made up very likely
of a majority of K-12 Catholic school products, who would often be heard
complaining about not being able to have a cheeseburger six Fridays out of the
year. This lamentation would usually be followed by a gluttonous feast on pizza
from one of the premier pizzerias in the city; so much for denying oneself and
sacrificing.<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="pcon"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">This was also
contrasted throughout the year by the prayer lives of the Muslim cops, most of
whom faithfully observed their prayer times in a secluded place, while the
majority of Catholics observed exactly what the culture observes; absolutely
nothing. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="pcon"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Is it any wonder that we see happening in western
civilization what we do? <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="pcon" style="text-indent: 0.3in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">It
shouldn’t be a mystery to anyone. While the Mohammedans have kept their
discipline and ascetism, we have been given the green light to live lives of
ease and indulgence, often resulting in outright rebellion even at the thought
of no meat six Fridays out of the year.<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="pcon"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">I point this
out to say that, while I find Islam to be, as St. John Bosco observed, a
“monstrous mixture of Judaism, Paganism and Christianity” etc, therefore
leading innumerable souls to perdition, I also have respect for these men, as
at least they were sincere and faithful to what they believed in and would
sacrifice for it. They also understood the reverence and obedience due to God,
however different their concept of God is, which is another discussion.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="pcon"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">How, I ask, does this compare to the average
contemporary Catholic? <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="pcon" style="text-indent: 0.3in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">The
sad fact of the matter is that we have been allowed to grow soft, weak, and
effeminate, like a fighter who goes into a match in which he is completely
physically and mentally unprepared, where he is summarily quite easily disposed
of by a better trained and more serious adversary. While there is no doubt that
we have been let down by a Church hierarchy – who many themselves are also
soft, weak, and effeminate – we cannot allow this to deter us. It has always
been the laity that resists corrupt, sycophantic, and worldly prelates; now
should not be any different.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="pcon"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">We must prepare
ourselves for battle.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="pcon"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">For sake of our
souls and those of our friends and family, enough already with this
emasculating, insultingly weak and failed version of Catholicism, which sends
any red-blooded man running for the border. It’s time to take off the damned
training wheels and let’s get serious. I’m not sure about you, but I’ve had
enough.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="pcon"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">I do not mince
words on purpose. There is a great upheaval all around us. Our families and
children’s innocence are under assault. As it is said, “where sin abounds,
grace abounds all the more.” We will be given strength if we just cooperate and
avail ourselves to the grace of the good Lord, observing the ascetical
practices that shaped our forefathers into vessels that could truly be called
“Soldiers of Christ.” Furthermore, as I write this, a recently leaked memo from
the FBI, Richmond Field Office revealed that traditional Catholics are being
labeled as holding “anti-Semitic, anti-immigrant, anti-LGBT and white
supremac(ists)” ideology, while also preferring the “traditional Latin mass.”
Having worked in Intelligence for the last decade of my police career, I can
say without hesitation that based upon many things that I observed along the
way, this does not surprise me in the least. I will most likely further
elaborate in a future article.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="pcon"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">The point I am driving home here is, the long knives
are out, and we are encircled by the enemy; so, what are we to do? <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="pcon" style="text-indent: 0.3in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">What
follows is a Lenten prayer and ascetical regimen that I have done with several
cops and others over the last few years. We kicked it up a few notches last
year and to a man, it resulted in a much deeper, more sacrificial, and
charitable faith. I pray that many of you join us, the </span><a href="https://www.patrolmansfraternity.com/the-mission"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Patrolman’s Fraternity of St. Michael</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">, and be the men that our Lord
created us to be.</span></p>
<p class="pcon"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">I would also
like to humbly ask that if any readers know of any Catholics in law enforcement
that would be interested in our apostolate, to please alert them to our Lenten
Regimen and website, where they can inquire further about our mission, or email
us at patrolmansfraternitySM@gmail.com. In short, we are a Catholic lay
apostolate for active and retired law enforcements professionals, formed for
the sanctification of our members, and therefore our families and society at
large.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="pcon"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Here is the
routine, which will commence on Ash Wednesday and conclude on Holy Saturday at
dusk.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="pcon" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0in 6pt 0.5in; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo7; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.icemanforchrist.org/2016/02/tuesday-february-16-2016.html">Morning
Offering</a>,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="pcon" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0in 6pt 0.5in; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo7; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.icemanforchrist.org/search?q=Angelus">Angelus</a> (Morning,
Noon and Evening)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="pcon" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0in 6pt 0.5in; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo7; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.icemanforchrist.org/2023/05/monday-june-5-2023.html">Daily
Mass</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="pcon" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0in 6pt 0.5in; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo7; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.icemanforchrist.org/p/54-day-rosary.html">Daily Rosary</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="pcon" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0in 6pt 0.5in; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo7; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.icemanforchrist.org/2016/03/monday-march-7-2016.html">15
minutes daily mental prayer</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="pcon" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0in 6pt 0.5in; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo7; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.icemanforchrist.org/2022/03/wednesday-march-2-2022.html">Daily
Fast</a> (except Sunday) (1) full meal along with (2) small snacks in morning
and evening to maintain strength. Meat only at the principal meal. No meat on
Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Ember Days.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="pcon" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0in 6pt 0.5in; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo7; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.icemanforchrist.org/2022/07/friday-july-29-2022.html">Daily
Cold Shower</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.icemanforchrist.org/2017/09/thursday-september-14-2017.html">Stations
of the Cross on Wednesday and Fridays</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="pcon" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0in 6pt 0.5in; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo7; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Fast
from alcohol and dessert<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">15
minutes of daily spiritual reading<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Complete
social media fast<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="pcon" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0in 6pt 0.5in; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo7; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.icemanforchrist.org/2018/07/sunday-july-8-2019.html">Corporal
and Spiritual Works</a> of Mercy-Choose one (1) to focus on each week.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="pcon"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">We at the
Patrolman’s Fraternity of St. Michael look forward to uniting with many of you
in prayer on the great triumph of Our Blessed Lord’s Resurrection on Easter.
Please join us and get holy!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="pcon"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">In the immortal
words of the hymn written to commemorate the English Martyrs who refused to
give up their faith in the face of the Protestant revolt, “Faith of our
Fathers! Holy Faith! We will be true to thee till death.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3; text-align: center;"><i>Aids in Battle<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[2]</span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
</span>Demons are not a figment of your imagination.<o:p></o:p></i></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 3; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ME6spZX1vQE" width="320" youtube-src-id="ME6spZX1vQE"></iframe></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">The Devil and other demons
would like us to believe that they are outdated, unenlightened superstitions,
but the Catholic Church remains firm, clear, and consistent in her teaching
about this reality. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" style="margin: 5pt 0in 12pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Our
heavenly Father has placed over each of us an angel under whose protection and
vigilance we may be enabled to escape the snares secretly prepared by our
enemy, repel the dreadful attacks he makes on us. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" style="margin: 5pt 0in 12pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Never
was anyone, conceived been liberated from the Devil’s dominion except by faith
in our Lord Jesus Christ, the mediator between God and humanity, who was
conceived without sin, was born and died. He alone by His death overthrew the
enemy of the human race, cancelling our sins, and unlocked the entrance to the
heavenly kingdom, which the first man by his sin had locked against himself and
all his posterity. COUNCIL OF FLORENCE (ECUMENICAL, 1431– 1445), SESSION 2<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" style="margin: 5pt 0in 12pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Men
are separated into two diverse and opposite parts, of which the one steadfastly
contends for truth and virtue, the other of those things which are contrary to
virtue and to truth. The one is the kingdom of God on earth, namely, the true
Church of Jesus Christ; and those who desire from their heart to be united with
it, so as to gain salvation, <i>must</i> of
necessity serve God and His only begotten Son with their whole mind and with an
entire will. The other is the kingdom of Satan, in whose possession and control
are all who follow the fatal example of their leader and of our first parents,
those who refuse to obey the divine and eternal law, and who have many aims of
their own in contempt of God, and many aims also against God. POPE LEO XIII,
HUMANUM GENUS (PAPAL ENCYCLICAL, 1884), 1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" style="margin: 5pt 0in 12pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Satan
manages to sow in man’s soul the seed of opposition to the one who “from the
beginning” would be considered as man’s enemy— and not as Father. Man is
challenged to become the adversary of God! The analysis of sin in its original
dimension indicates that, through the influence of the “father of lies,”
throughout the history of humanity there will be a constant pressure on man to
reject God, even to the point of hating Him: “Love of self to the point of
contempt for God,” as St. Augustine puts it. POPE JOHN PAUL II, DOMINUM ET
VIVIFICANTEM (PAPAL ENCYCLICAL, 1986), 38<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><i>Thanks to Fear of the Lord, there is no Fear
of Evil<a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[3]</span></b></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a></i><o:p></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/wMmmbJlWhtk" width="320" youtube-src-id="wMmmbJlWhtk"></iframe></div><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">History, in fact, is not alone in the hands of dark powers,
chance or human choices. Over the unleashing of evil energies, the vehement
irruption of Satan, and the emergence of so many scourges and evils, the Lord
rises, supreme arbiter of historical events. He leads history wisely towards
the dawn of the new heavens and the new earth, sung in the final part of the
book under the image of the new Jerusalem (cf. Revelation 21-22).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->It must be reaffirmed, therefore, that God is
not indifferent to human events, but penetrates them realizing his
"ways," namely his plans and his efficacious "deeds."<o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->According to our hymn, this divine intervention
has a very specific purpose: to be a sign that invites all the peoples of the
earth to conversion. Nations must learn to "read" in history a
message of God. Humanity's history is not confused and without meaning, nor is
it given over, without appeal, to the malfeasance of the arrogant and perverse.
There is the possibility to recognize divine action hidden in it. In the
pastoral constitution "Gaudium et Spes," Vatican Council II also invites
the believer to scrutinize, in the light of the Gospel, the signs of the times
to see in them the manifestation of the very action of God (cf. n. 4 and 11).
This attitude of faith leads man to recognize the power of God operating in
history, and thus to open himself to fear of the name of the Lord. In biblical
language, in fact, this "fear" does not coincide with dread, but is
the recognition of the mystery of the divine transcendence. Because of this, it
is the basis of faith and is joined with love: "the Lord your God requires
of you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to
serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul" (cf.
Deuteronomy 10:12). <o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Following this line, in our brief hymn, taken
from Revelation, fear and glorification of God are united: "Who will not
fear you, Lord, or glorify your name" (15:4)? Thanks to fear of the Lord
there is no fear of the evil that rages in history and one takes up again with
vigor the journey of life, as the prophet Isaiah declared: "Strengthen the
hands that are feeble, make firm the knees that are weak, say to those whose
hearts are frightened: ‘Be strong, fear not!’" (Isaiah 35: 3-4).<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0in;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>ON KEEPING
THE LORD'S DAY HOLY</b><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[4]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;">CHAPTER II <o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><b><i>DIES CHRISTI</i></b> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><b>The Day of the Risen Lord <br />
and of the Gift <br />
of the Holy Spirit</b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><i>The day of Christ-Light</i></b> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">27. This Christocentric vision sheds
light upon another symbolism which Christian reflection and pastoral practice
ascribed to the Lord's Day. Wise pastoral intuition suggested to the Church the
Christianization of the notion of Sunday as "the day of the sun",
which was the Roman name for the day and which is retained in some modern
languages. This was in order to draw the faithful away from the seduction of
cults which worshipped the sun, and to direct the celebration of the day to
Christ, humanity's true "sun". Writing to the pagans, Saint Justin
uses the language of the time to note that Christians gather together "on
the day named after the sun", but for believers the expression had already
assumed a new meaning which was unmistakably rooted in the Gospel. Christ is
the light of the world (cf. <i>Jn</i> 9:5; also 1:4-5, 9), and, in the weekly
reckoning of time, the day commemorating his Resurrection is the enduring
reflection of the epiphany of his glory. The theme of Sunday as the day
illuminated by the triumph of the Risen Christ is also found in the Liturgy of
the Hours and is given special emphasis in the <i>Pannichida</i>, the vigil
which in the Eastern liturgies prepares for Sunday. From generation to
generation as she gathers on this day, the Church makes her own the wonderment
of Zechariah as he looked upon Christ, seeing in him the dawn which gives
"light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death" (<i>Lk</i>
1:78-79), and she echoes the joy of Simeon when he takes in his arms the divine
Child who has come as the "light to enlighten the Gentiles" (<i>Lk</i>
2:32). <o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span class="MsoHyperlink">Pretzel Sunday<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/resources/prayers/devotions/to-st-joseph/seven-sundays-devotion/first-sunday">Devotion
of the Seven Sundays: St Joseph-6<sup>th</sup> Sunday</a></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Fourth Sunday of Lent<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b> <o:p></o:p></b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/8bwcQ3CaDns" width="320" youtube-src-id="8bwcQ3CaDns"></iframe></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->Fourth<b> </b>Sunday of Lent (a.k.a. <i>Laetare</i>,
or Mid-Lent Sunday). A note of joy is struck, for having died to sin with
Christ during Lent, we will rise again with Him and be part of His mystical
Body, the Church which is the new Jerusalem. Thus, the Introit: "Rejoice,
Jerusalem." <o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->Wednesday after <i>Laetare</i> Sunday: end of
Mid-Lent.<b><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="pf" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="pf" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">A note of joy is struck, for having
died to sin with Christ during Lent, we will rise again with Him and be part of
His mystical Body, the Church which is the new Jerusalem. Thus, the Introit:
"Rejoice, Jerusalem."</span></i><b style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></b></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">BY the Introit of the Mass the Church reminds us of the joys of
heaven, to encourage us to persevering zeal in penance and fasting, and to
patience under persecution, crosses, and sorrows. </p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">The Introit of the Mass begins with the word Laetare (rejoice),<o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">from which the Sunday derives its name: Rejoice, O Jerusalem, and
come together, all you that love her. Rejoice with joy, you that have been in
sorrow, that you may exult and be filled from the breasts of your consolation.
I was glad at the things that were said unto me: we shall go into the house of
the Lord. </p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><i>Prayer.</i> </p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">Grant, we beseech Thee, O Almighty God, that we, who are afflicted
for our deeds as we deserve, may be relieved by the comfort of Thy grace.<span style="text-align: left;"> </span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><i>EPISTLE. Gal. iv.
23-31.</i><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Brethren: It is written that Abraham had two sons: the one by a
bondwoman, and the other by a free-woman: but he who was of the bondwoman was
born according to the flesh: but he of the free-woman was by promise: which
things are said by an allegory: for these are the two testaments. The one from
Mount Sina engendering unto bondage: which is Agar: for Sina is a mountain in
Arabia, which hath affinity to that Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage
with her children. But that Jerusalem which is above is free, which is our
mother. For it is written: Rejoice thou barren, that bearest not: break forth
and cry, thou that travailest not; for many are the children of the desolate,
more than of her that hath a husband. Now, we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the
children of promise. But as then he, that was born according to the flesh,
persecuted him that was after the spirit: so also, it is now. But what saith
the Scripture? </p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Cast out the bondwoman and her son; for the son of the bondwoman
shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman. So then, brethren, we are not
the children of the bondwoman, but of the free: by the freedom wherewith Christ
hath made us free. </p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><i>Explanation.</i><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">The Jews, typified by Agar, served God like servants, from fear of
punishment and in the hope of rewards. Christians, typified by Sara, lift up
their hands to Him as their Father, and if they fulfil His will faithfully will
become partakers of His glory in heaven. </p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><i>Prayer.</i> </p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">O Jesus, grant that by fasting, prayer, and patience under
persecution I may partake in Thy sufferings and be found worthy of Thy divine
promises and Thy eternal consolations in the heavenly Jerusalem. Amen.<span style="text-align: left;"> </span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><i>GOSPEL. John vi.
1-15.</i><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/65dY2nl33Fw" width="320" youtube-src-id="65dY2nl33Fw"></iframe></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">At that time: Jesus
went over the sea of Galilee, which is that of Tiberias: and a great multitude
followed Him, because they saw the miracles which He did on them that were
diseased. Jesus therefore went up into a mountain: and there He sat with His
disciples. Now the Pasch, the festival-day of the Jews, was near at hand. When
Jesus therefore had lifted up His eyes, and seen that a very great multitude
cometh to Him, He said to Philip: Whence shall we buy bread, that these may
eat? </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">And this He said to
try him, for He Himself knew what He would do. Philip answered Him: Two hundred
pennyworth of bread is not sufficient for them, that everyone may take a
little. One of His disciples, Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, saith to Him:
There is a boy here that hath five barley loaves, and two fishes: but what are
these among so many? </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Then Jesus said: Make
the men sit down. Now there was much grass in the place. The men therefore sat
down, in number about five thousand. And Jesus took the loaves; and when He had
given thanks, He distributed to them that were sat down: in like manner also of
the fishes as much as they would. And when they were filled, He said to His
disciples: Gather up the fragments that remain, lest they be lost. They
gathered up therefore and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five
barley loaves, which remained over and above to them that had eaten. Now those
men, when they had seen what a miracle Jesus had done, said: This is of a truth
the prophet that is to come into the world. Jesus, therefore, when He knew that
they would come to take Him by force and make Him king, fled again into the
mountain Himself alone. </p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i>Why did Christ thus
try St. Philip?</i> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.3in;">1. To try his faith
and confidence. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.3in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.3in;">2. To teach us to
make use of natural and ordinary means before we have recourse to the
supernatural. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.3in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.3in;">3. So that the
miracle would be the more striking to the people, when they were satisfied that
the provisions, they had been quite small and insufficient. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.3in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.3in;">4. That we might have
confidence in God, Who is a helper in time of tribulation (Ps. ix. 10). </p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i>What ceremonies did
Our Savior use at this miracle, and why?</i> </p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: 0.3in;">He first looked up to heaven, to remind us that every good gift
comes from above, and that it is God only Who opens His hand and fills all with
benediction.<span style="text-indent: 0.3in;"> </span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: 0.3in;">Second. He thanked His heavenly Father, to show us that we also
should be careful to thank God for all His benefits. The table, says St.
Chrysostom, which begins and ends with prayer shall never know want.<span style="text-indent: 0.3in;"> </span></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: 0.3in;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: 0.3in;">Thirdly He blessed the bread that we might learn that it is the
Blessing of God which gives success. </p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i>Why did Jesus flee
after this miracle?</i> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.3in;">1. To teach us to
seek not the admiration and applause of men, but only the glory of God and the
good of our neighbor. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.3in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.3in;">2. To love solitude,
that far from the noise of the world, we may with more freedom converse with God. </p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><i>Consolation in
Poverty.</i><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">To those poor who follow Christ this gospel is full of
consolation, as it shows that from the very beginning of the world God has
cared for His children. For the comfort and preservation of His chosen people
He sent Joseph before them into Egypt (Gen. xlv. 5; Ps. civ. 4). He sustained
the children of [Israel during forty years in the wilderness with bread from
heaven He fed the prophet Elias, sending him bread and flesh by a raven (in.
Kings xvii. 6). He remembered Daniel lying in the lion’s den (Dan. xiv. 37). In
the New Testament also God has shown His care for His own by nourishing and
feeding them in their greatest need, at times through the instrumentality of animals
and at other times by that of angels and of men as we read in the lives of the
saints. </p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><i>Aspiration.</i><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">In Thy power and goodness, O my God, I put my trust.
I firmly believe if I fear Thee, and do what is right, I shall, though poor
here, after this life have abundance of good things from Thee.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Aids in Battle<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;">[5]</span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
</span>Psalms and Supplications in Combat with Evil<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p align="left"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">A number of the Psalms and other scriptural
canticles praise God for giving His people victory in battle and ask for God’s
assistance.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" style="margin: 5pt 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Blessed be the LORD, my rock, who trains my hands
for war, and my fingers for battle; my mercy and my fortress, my stronghold and
my deliverer, my shield, and He in whom I take refuge. Ps 144: 1– 2<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">And Mary said, “My soul magnifies the Lord, and my
spirit rejoices in God my Savior because He who is mighty has done great things
for me, and holy is His name. He has shown might with His arm, He has scattered
the proud in the conceit of their heart, He has put down the mighty from their
thrones, and exalted the lowly.” Lk 1: 46– 47, 49, 51– 52<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="pf" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; padding: 0in;">Novena of St. Joseph</span></b><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" title=""><sup><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-color-alt: windowtext; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1pt none windowtext; line-height: 115%; padding: 0in;">[6]</span></sup></span><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a><b><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; padding: 0in;">This novena prayer, although
short is sufficient. It would be better of course to add, if time permits,
three Hail Mary’s or say five times the Our Father, Hail Mary and Glory be to
the Father, or to use some of the many well-loved novena prayers from other
sources. Remember that prayers must be said with the lips in order to gain the
indulgences. This novena begins on March 10 and ends on March 19. </span><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="pcon" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; padding: 0in;">Prayer</span></i><i><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="pcon" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .1in; margin-right: .1in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.1in; text-align: center;"><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; padding: 0in;">O dear and good St. Joseph
who so lovingly cared for your little family at Nazareth, pray for all
workingmen and their families. Help us all to enjoy a happy Christian family
life. Be a father to us all and watch over us even as you cherished the Blessed
Virgin Mary and her Holy Child. Patron of the Universal Church pray for us.</span><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="pcon" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .1in; margin-right: .1in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.1in; text-align: center;"><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="pcon" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .1in; margin-right: .1in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.1in; text-align: center;"><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; padding: 0in;">Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, I
give you my heart and soul.</span><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="pcon" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .1in; margin-right: .1in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.1in; text-align: center;"><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="pcon" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .1in; margin-right: .1in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.1in; text-align: center;"><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; padding: 0in;">Jesus, Mary, and Joseph,
assist me in my last agony.</span><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="pcon" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .1in; margin-right: .1in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.1in; text-align: center;"><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="pcon" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .1in; margin-right: .1in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.1in; text-align: center;"><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; padding: 0in;">Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, may
I breathe forth my soul in peace with you.</span><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="pcon" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .1in; margin-right: .1in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.1in;"><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="pcon" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .1in; margin-right: .1in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.1in;"><i><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 9pt; padding: 0in;">7 years for each invocation. Plenary, under usual conditions,
if any one of three is said daily for a month. S. Pen., Oct. 12, 1936. </span></i><i><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 9pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Academy
Awards</b><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn7" name="_ftnref7" title=""><sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[7]</span></sup></sup></a><b> </b></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/myjEoDypUD8" width="320" youtube-src-id="myjEoDypUD8"></iframe></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Sadly,
the annual live Oscar is a husk of its former glamorous self. The tired,
soap-opera essence of the Academy’ s annual celebration of mediocrity lies in
the predictable moral preening of its amoral participants. What used to be a
shimmering celebration of widely accepted great films and great stars has
degenerated into a cesspool of dirt, sleaze and depravity, made worse by its
obvious contempt for the average American. The only mystery and excitement that
remains is guessing which Hollywood one-percenters will seize the microphone to
dish out some PC political rant, complete with a righteous torrent four-letter
words. Worse, this alleged celebration of film entertainment has become all
about politics all the time. Each year it reminds those of us still aware of
world history that the Long March of Marxism continues to infect every American
institution it invades. Hollywood fell to the leftists’ long march a long time
ago. More recently, NFL football and the just-concluded Winter Olympics joined
the lefty crowd by marching in lockstep to the same seductive tune. Every time
this happens in the entertainment industry (which now includes sports), it’s
box office death. (Just look at the annually declining numbers.) But the
one-percenters who run these entertainment entities apparently don’t care, even
as the flow of red ink increases. </p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><i>Cultural
leftism is inevitably cultural suicide</i>.<span style="text-align: left;"> </span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Most viewers who actually watched the phony
Hollywood posturing and insincere moralistic bloviating switched off the TV
before the major awards were announced and headed for bed. After all the
morning after the gala was a workday for actual Americans, so why watch the
tired, predictable crap put on by filthy rich movie stars who hate at least
half their fans? After Hollywood insults most of the night’s dwindling
viewership – again – even more of them will solemnly vow never to watch the
Academy Awards show ever again.</p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><i>Best Catholic
Films</i><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn8" name="_ftnref8" title=""><sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[8]</span></sup></sup></a><b style="text-align: left;"> </b></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #333333; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";">1. Carl Theodore von Dreyer, The Passion of Joan of Arc, 1928.<br />
2. Cecil B. DeMille, King of Kings, 1927.<br />
3. Frank Capra, Lady for a Day, 1933.<br />
4. John Ford, The Informer, 1935.<br />
5. Frank Borzage, Strange Cargo, 1940<br />
6. Henry King, The Song of Bernadette, 1943.<br />
7. John M. Stahl, The Keys of the Kingdom, 1944.<br />
8. Leo McCarey, Going My Way, 1944.<br />
9. Leo McCarey, The Bells of St. Mary's, 1945. <br />
10. Frank Capra, It's a Wonderful Life, 1946. <br />
11. Robert Bresson, Au Hasard Balthasar, 1966.<br />
12. Michael Powell, Black Narcissus, 1947. <br />
13. John Ford, The Fugitive, 1947.<br />
14. John Ford, Three Godfathers, 1948.<br />
15. Leo McCarey, Make Way for Tomorrow, 1947. <br />
16. Vittorio De Sica, The Bicycle Thieves, 1948.<br />
17. Roberto Rossellini, Stromboli, 1950. <br />
18. Roberto Rossellini, The Flowers of St. Francis, 1950.<br />
19. Gordon Douglas, Come Fill the Cup, 1951. <br />
20. Robert Bresson, The Dairy of a Country Priest, 1951.<br />
21. Akira Kurosawa, Ikiru, 1952. <br />
22. Vittorio De Sica, Umberto D, 1952. <br />
23. Alfred Hitchcock, I Confess, 1953.<br />
24. Elia Kazan, On the Waterfront, 1954.<br />
25. Raffaello Matarazzo, The White Angel, 1955. <br />
26. Carl Theodore von Dreyer, Ordet, 1955. <br />
27. Alfred Hitchcock, The Wrong Man, 1956.<br />
28. Luis Bunuel, Nazarin, 1959. <br />
29. Fred Zinnemann, The Nun's Story, 1959.<br />
30. William Wyler, Ben Hur, 1959. <br />
31. Robert Bresson, Pickpocket, 1959.<br />
32. Mervyn LeRoy, The Devil of 4 O'Clock, 1961. <br />
33. Richard Fleischer, Barabbas, 1961.<br />
34. Nicholas Ray, King of Kings, 1961.</span></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/b66NQbxGYV4" width="320" youtube-src-id="b66NQbxGYV4"></iframe></div><span style="color: #333333; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><br />
35. Otto Preminger, The Cardinal, 1963. <br />
36. Peter Glenville, Becket, 1964. <br />
37. Pier Paolo Pasolini, The Gospel According to St. Matthew, 1964.<br />
38. Carol Reed, The Agony and the Ecstasy, 1965.<br />
39. Luis Bunuel, Simon of the Desert, 1965. <br />
40. Fred Zinnemann, A Man for All Seasons, 1966. <br />
41. Robert Bresson, Mouchette, 1967.<br />
42. Michael Anderson, The Shoes of the Fisherman, 1968.<br />
43. Franco Zefferelli, Brother Sun, Sister Moon, 1972. <br />
44. William Friedkin, The Exorcist, 1973.<br />
45. Anthony Harvey, The Abdication, 1974.<br />
46. Joseph Hardy, The Lady's Not for Burning, 1974. <br />
47. Franco Zefferelli, Jesus of Nazareth, 1977. <br />
48. Robert Bresson, The Devil Probably, 1977.<br />
49. Ermanno Olmi, Tree of the Wooden Clogs, 1978.<br />
50. John Huston, Wise Blood, 1979. <br />
51. Francesco Rosi, Christ Stopped at Eboli, 1979.<br />
52. Hugh Hudson, Chariots of Fire, 1981. <br />
53. Charles Sturridge & Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Brideshead Revisited, 1981.<br />
54. Ulu Grosbard, True Confessions, 1981.<br />
55. Martin Scorcese, The Age of Innocence, 1982.<br />
56. Paolo & Vittorio Taviani, Night of the Shooting Stars, 1982. <br />
57. Jerry London, The Scarlet and the Black, 1983. <br />
58. Robert Bresson, L'argent, 1983.<br />
59. Norman Stone, Shadowlands, 1885.<br />
60. Alain Cavalier, Therese, 1986. <br />
61. Roland Jaffe, The Mission, 1986.<br />
62. Wim Wenders, Wings of Desire, 1987. <br />
63. Gabriel Axel, Babette's Feast, 1987.<br />
64. Rodney Bennett, Monsignor Quixote, 1987.</span><p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/S3FZn2A33As" width="320" youtube-src-id="S3FZn2A33As"></iframe></div><span style="color: #333333; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><br />65. Maurice Pialat, Under the Star of Satan, 1987.<br />
66. John Huston, The Dead, 1987. <br />
67. Krzysztof Kieslowski, The Decalogue, 1988.<br />
68. Krzysztof Kieslowski, A Short Film About Love, 1988.<br />
69. Ermanno Olmi, Legend of the Holy Drinker, 1988.<br />
70. John Duigan, Romero, 1989. <br />
71. Denys Arcand, Jesus of Montreal, 1989.<br />
72. Bruce Beresford, Black Robe, 1991.<br />
73. Stijn Coninx, Daens, 1992.<br />
74. Nancy Savoca, Household Saints, 1993. <br />
75. Mel Gibson, Braveheart, 1995.<br />
76. Liv Ullmann, Kristin Lavransdatter, 1995.<br />
77. Lee David Slotoff, Spitfire Grill, 1996. <br />
78. Marta Meszaros, The Seventh Room, 1996.<br />
79. M. Knight Shyamalan, Wide Awake, 1998.<br />
80. Joe Johnston, October Sky, 1999. <br />
81. David Lynch, The Straight Story, 1999. <br />
82. Agnieszka Holland, The Third Miracle, 1999.<br />
83. Patrice Leconte, The Widow of Saint-Pierre, 2000. <br />
84. Jim Sheridan, In America, 2002. <br />
85. Alexander Payne, About Schmidt, 2002. <br />
86. Bruce Beresford, Evelyn, 2002.<br />
87. Denys Arcand, Barbarian Invasions, 2003. <br />
88. Mel Gibson, The Passion of the Christ, 2004.<br />
89. Tommy Lee Jones, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, 2005. <br />
90. Christian Carion, Joyeux Noel, 2005.<br />
91. Pavel Lungin, The Island, 2006 <br />
92. Alejandro Monteverde, Bella, 2006.</span><p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/mJ9AkTrbxgk" width="320" youtube-src-id="mJ9AkTrbxgk"></iframe></div><span style="color: #333333; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><br />93. Jean-Pierre Dardenne, L'enfant, 2006.<br />
94. Martin Provost, Seraphine, 2008.<br />
95. Mark Pellington, Henry Poole is Here, 2008.<br />
96. John Patrick Shanley, Doubt, 2008.<br />
97. Klaus Haro, Letters to Father Jaakob, 2009.<br />
98. Xavier Beauvois, Of Gods and Men, 2010.<br />
99. Philip Groning, Into the Great Silence, 2007.<br />
100. Terrence Malick, The Tree of Life, 2011.</span><p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b> </b></p>
<p class="pf" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Bagpipe Day</span></b><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn9" name="_ftnref9" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="line-height: 115%;">[9]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">The sound of bagpipes filling the air
as day dawns is enough to bring joy to the hearts of many. Others may not feel
quite the same. It seems that one either loves the pipes or not at all. There
is not very much middle ground. International Bagpipe Day is the time to find
out where you stand and join those who love them! The Bagpipe Society has been
sponsoring the celebration of International Bagpipe Day since 2012. They have
helped to bring the bagpipe to new players since 1986. It is important to them
that the history and playing of the bagpipes is not lost. Putting this day
together was with the hope of bringing awareness of the over 130 different
types of bagpipes throughout the world. For the first International Bagpipe Day
in 2012, there were reports of events held in some unique places. In South
Africa, pipers gathered and played in an underground canyon. In Greece, they
played on Athenian hill. The Society even heard of events in countries where
previously it was thought that there were not many pipers or any at all! If you
aren’t familiar with this ancient instrument, bagpipe is a term that means a
wind instrument that uses enclosed reeds to produce sound. Air feeds the reeds
with a constant flow of air from a reservoir in the form of a bag. In each area
that it is found, the bagpipe may change in sound and shape. This is an ancient
instrument and is claimed to be represented on a Hittite slab dated to 1000 BC!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><i>How to Celebrate International Bagpipe Day<o:p></o:p></i></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/OJi-uKOlLV4" width="320" youtube-src-id="OJi-uKOlLV4"></iframe></div><p></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->Celebrating the bagpipe when this holiday rolls
around can take many forms. If you have ever wanted to try your hand at it,
don’t wait! This is the time for you to find your local provider of pipes and
take a lesson. You could be the next great Piper! It could happen, you never
know, right?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->There is a multitude of information available
about this instrument. A great idea to celebrate is to learn more about it. A
quick internet search will bring up resources like The Bagpipe Society. You can
follow the history of this unique instrument through the millennia to the
present day and from country to country! There is much more information than
you could learn in just one day, but it’s a great time to start.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->Another way to celebrate is to find out if there
are any events planned in your local area. Grab the family or friends and go
check it out! You may just find that you were missing out on all the fun. If
you ask, it may even be possible to try it out and see if you can make a sound
with it!<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Bagpipes have a long history that spans the ages
and spans many regions. It is an instrument that has weathered the test of time
and surely deserves to be honored on International Bagpipe Day!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Ramadan</span></b><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn10" name="_ftnref10" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="line-height: 115%;">[10]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5pvmUoYNbmU" width="320" youtube-src-id="5pvmUoYNbmU"></iframe></div><p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Ramadan
is the holiest month in the Islamic calendar, during which, for a period of
thirty days, Muslims abstain from eating, and drinking from sunrise to sunset.
Muslims do this because it is a pillar of Islam, and obligatory for everyone
and the entire month is holy for Muslims so that they can increase their
remembrance of life after death. Muslims also abstain from all bad deeds
and habits, like </span><a href="http://www.wincalendar.com/World-No-Tobacco-Day"><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none;">smoking</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">,
swearing, backbiting, and disrespectfulness. Muslims reflect upon themselves,
their religion. Fasting during Ramadan is one of the five pillars of Islam.
Fasting and abstaining from bad habits teaches Muslim’s self-control, humility,
and generosity. Ramadan is a time for </span><a href="http://www.wincalendar.com/International-Day-of-Charity"><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none;">charity</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">,
family, and good deeds. Muslims fast because they believe it is vital for
spiritual health. Unlike the fast of Ashurah, the fasts of Ramadan and salah
(praying towards Mecca), fasting helps Muslims maintain spiritual and physical
health. The month of Ramadan begins when the new moon of Ramadan is sighted and
ends when the new moon of Sha'ban is sighted. Muslims also believe that devils
are chained up during Ramadan.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></p>
<p align="center" class="pcon" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Ramadan
Facts & Quotes<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="pcon" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></i></p>
<p align="left" class="pcon" style="margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Ramadan
comes from the word ramadaa, which means 'sunbaked' in Arabic. This is perhaps
a reference to the pangs of hunger Muslims feel when fasting.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">According
to Islamic tradition, menstruating women, women who are experiencing bleeding
after giving birth, people who are sick (either with short term or long-term
illnesses), and travelers are exempt from fasting. Pregnant women also have the
option of skipping fasts.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">In
Islamic countries, when Ramadan ends and the crescent moon is first seen,
people bang drums and give mighty shouts.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">According
to Sunnah belief, the Prophet Muhammad once said, there is no conceit in
fasting.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">who
believe, fasting is decreed for you as it was decreed for those before you;
perchance you will guard yourselves (Quran, 2:183)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="pcon" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></p>
<p align="center" class="pcon" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Ramadan
Top Events and Things to Do<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="pcon" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></i></p>
<p align="left" class="pcon" style="margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">The
fast is usually broken in a family setting, where traditional foods are served.
Most Muslims begin their meal with a few dates and a glass of milk because the
Prophet Muhammad used to do the same. The high sugar content of the dates
sends energy to weary fasting Muslim, while the fiber in the dates and the
protein in the milk fills them up and prevents nausea.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">During
Ramadan, Muslims congregate every night in the mosque to pray Taraweeh prayers
in congregation. In the United States, in between sets of prayers, the Imam
gives a brief sermon and encourages people to give to charity.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="pcon" style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">In
Islamic countries, the end of the fast is signaled by a loud call to the sunset
prayer. Most people eat a small meal, pray at the mosque, and then join their
families for a large, festive dinner.</span><b><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></b></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Catechism
of the Catholic Church<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: 0.3in;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">PART THREE: LIFE IN CHRIST</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.3in; text-indent: 0.3in;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">SECTION TWO-THE TEN COMMANDMENTS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.9in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">CHAPTER
TWO-YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.9in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-indent: 0.3in;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Article 6-THE SIXTH COMMANDMENT</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.4pt;">You shall
not commit adultery. <br />
You have heard that it was said, "You shall not commit adultery."<br />
But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already
committed adultery with her in his heart. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Claire’s Corner<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Daily Devotions<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->Today in honor of the
Holy Trinity do the <a href="http://www.icemanforchrist.org/p/liturgy-of-hours.html">Divine Office</a> giving your day to God. To honor God REST: no
shopping after 6 pm Saturday till Monday.<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Unite in the work of the <a href="https://portersofstjoseph.org/">Porters of St. Joseph</a> by joining them
in fasting: Today's Fast: <a href="http://www.icemanforchrist.org/2018/09/monday-september-17-2018.html">Restoring
the Constitution</a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Litany of the <a href="https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/devotions/litany-of-the-most-precious-blood-of-jesus-248"><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Most Precious
Blood of Jesus</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Total <a href="http://www.icemanforchrist.org/p/icemans-total.html"><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Consecration
to St. Joseph</span></a> Day 24<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="http://www.icemanforchrist.org/p/an-offering-to-most-sacred-heart-of.html"><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Offering to
the sacred heart of Jesus</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="https://theholyface.com/">Make
reparations to the Holy Face</a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/blueberry-popover-day/">National
Blueberry Popover Day</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="http://www.catholictradition.org/Christ/holy-wounds2.htm"><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Drops of
Christ’s Blood</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="http://www.icemanforchrist.org/p/universal-man-plan-phase-4-st-joseph.html">Universal
Man Plan</a><b><o:p></o:p></b></p>
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</div><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/tcWTDtHB76A?si=IVLZaOJhworp8WR0" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/AZL96ORL-zg" width="320" youtube-src-id="AZL96ORL-zg"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div><br /></div>IcemanforChristhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10737122933196184713noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8604232804852757560.post-88119813613907106442024-03-03T10:56:00.000-08:002024-03-09T03:10:16.709-08:00Saturday, March 9, 2024<iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="480" src="https://remnant-tv.com/videoEmbeded/the-fraternity-of-st.-peter-michael-voris-and-voting-for-donald-trump" style="max-height: 100%; max-width: 100%;" width="640"></iframe><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Saturday Third Week of Lent</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;">MEATBALL DAY</span><b style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></b></div><p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Proverbs, Chapter 31, Verse 30<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Charm is deceptive and beauty
fleeting; the woman who <i>FEARS</i> the
LORD is to be praised.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></p><p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Woman
is the key to the salvation of the world. It is the miracle of God that the
salvation of mankind was deposited in the care of the Virgin Mary and likewise
in the physical sense the material world through the modern woman who is
faithful to the precepts of the Lord. Such a woman knows the secret to raising
children to be happy and successful is to do it in a home overflowing with
love. A woman of faith truly knows:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="pcon" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">God
is our refuge and our strength, an ever-present help in distress. Therefore, we
fear not, though the earth be shaken and mountains plunge into the depths of
the sea.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p align="center" class="pcon" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></i></p><p align="center" class="pcon" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/UNHM5Jg6x74" width="320" youtube-src-id="UNHM5Jg6x74"></iframe></i></div><p></p><p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="pcon" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">A woman
of Influence</span></u><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="line-height: 115%;">[1]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i>“The hour is coming, in fact has come, when the vocation
of woman is being acknowledged in its fullness, the hour in which women acquire
in the world an influence, an effect, and a power never hitherto achieved. That
is why, at this moment when the human race is undergoing so deep a
transformation, women impregnated with a spirit of the Gospel can do so much to
aid humanity in not falling.” </i><i><span style="font-size: 10pt;">(Closing
speeches Vatican Council II, 12/8/65).</span></i><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">Mother Mary is a perfect role model for all women, of
course, but for women who work in particular. According to St. Louis de
Montfort, Mary has principle virtues, which when practiced help to lead us to
her Son and create a home and world that celebrates the greatness of the Lord. <o:p></o:p></p><ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo7; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: left;"><i>Ardent
Charity:</i> How can you demonstrate great love at work? This is not
the same love as spousal love, of course. How do you approach your
employees? Your supervisors? Your clients? Your customers? Is your
approach focused on valuing a relationship more than a material good? Are
you able to articulate information and ideas in a mutually respectful way?<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo7; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: left;"><i>Heroic
Patience:</i> Do you <i>really listen</i> at work? Are you able to
rise above a situation in order to assist others as they learn new tasks?
Do you hold your temper or your judgment about your supervisor when you
disagree with them? Are you willing in your attitude to seek understanding
of others, even when it is difficult?<o:p></o:p></li></ul><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/SxIE6He0mjY" width="320" youtube-src-id="SxIE6He0mjY"></iframe></div><ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo7; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: left;"><i>Divine
Wisdom:</i> Recalling your baptism, and especially your
confirmation, do you recall and use the gifts of the Holy Spirit in your
work decisions? Do you pray for guidance? Do you seek Biblical and Church
tradition answers and solutions? Do you show gratitude to God when you
recognize divine wisdom at work?<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo7; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: left;"><i>Angelic
Sweetness:</i> Is your approach nurturing and relational? Do you
avoid the calumniation of fellow co-workers and supervisors? Even when
difficult, do you respond to others at work by extending grace and mercy?<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo7; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: left;"><i>Profound
Humility:</i> Are you focused on others more than yourself? Do you
recognize the work of the team, or are you taking credit for the work? Do
you care who gets the credit? Does this impact the way you treat
others? <o:p></o:p></li>
</ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">Mary’s virtues bring us to a very feminine leadership
style: one steeped in relationship building, not shying away from truth or
faith, but approaching others in grace. When practiced at work, these virtues
of Our Lady can lead us to Holiness and a fulfilled leadership at work.<b><o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Saturday<span style="text-transform: uppercase;"> </span>Third Week of Lent <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p align="center" class="pcon" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Prayer.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> GRANT, we beseech Thee, O Almighty
God, that they who, to mortify their flesh, abstain from food, may, following
justice, abstain from sin.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="pcon" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">EPISTLE. Daniel xiii.
1-62.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p align="center" class="pcon" style="text-align: center;"><i></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/fjD2T4mTrs0" width="320" youtube-src-id="fjD2T4mTrs0"></iframe></i></div><p></p><p align="left" class="pcon"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">In
those days there was a man, that dwelt in Babylon, and his name was Joakim; and
he took a wife whose name was Susanna, the daughter of Helcias, a very
beautiful woman, and one that feared God. For her parents being just, had
instructed their daughter according to the law of Moses. Now Joakim was very
rich and had an orchard near his house: and the Jews resorted to him, because
he was the most honorable of them all. And there were two of the ancients of
the people appointed judges that year, of whom the Lord said: Iniquity came out
from Babylon from the ancient judges, that seemed to govern the people. These
men frequented the house of Joakim, and all that had any matters of judgment
came to them. And when the people departed away at noon, Susanna went in, and
walked in her husband’s orchard. And the old men saw her going in every day,
and walking: and they were inflamed with lust towards her: and they perverted
their own mind and turned away their eyes that they might not look unto heaven,
nor re member just judgments. So, they were both wounded with the love of her,
yet they did not make known their grief one to the other: for they were ashamed
to declare to one another their lust, being desirous to have to do with her:
and they watched carefully every day to see her: and one said to another: Let
us now go home, for it is dinnertime. So, going out, they departed one from
another. And turning back again, they came both to the same place: and asking
one another the cause, they acknowledged their lust: and then they agreed upon
a time, when they might find her alone. And it fell out, as they watched a fit
day, she went in on a time, as yesterday and the day before, with two maids
only, and was desirous to wash herself in the orchard: for it was hot weather.
And there was nobody there, but the two old men that had hid themselves and
were considering her. So, she said to the maids: Bring me oil, and washing
balls, and shut the doors of the orchard, that I may wash me. And they did as
she bade them: and they shut the doors of the orchard and went out by a back
door to fetch what she had commanded them, and they knew not that the elders
were hid within. Now when the maids were gone forth, the two elders arose, and
ran to her, and said: Behold the doors of the orchard are shut, and nobody
seeth us, and we are in love with thee: wherefore consent to us and lie with
us. But if thou wilt not, we will bear witness against thee, that a young man
was with thee, and therefore thou didst send away thy maids from thee. Susanna sighed
and said I am straitened on every side: for if I do this thing, it is death to
me: and if I do it not, I shall not escape your hands. But it is better for me
to fall into your hands without doing it, than to sin in the sight of the Lord.
With that Susanna cried out with a loud voice: and the elders also cried out
against her. And one of them ran to the door of the orchard and opened it. So,
when the servants of the house heard the cry in the orchard, they rushed in by
the back door to see what was the matter. But after the old men had spoken, the
servants were greatly ashamed; for never had there been any such word said of
Susanna. And on the next day, when the people were come to Joakim her husband,
the two elders also came full of wicked device against (Susanna, to put her to
death. And they said before the people: Send to Susanna, daughter of Helcias
the wife of Joakim. And presently they sent, and she came with her parents, and
children, and all her kindred. Now Susanna was exceedingly delicate, and
beautiful to behold. But those wicked men commanded that her face should be
uncovered (for she was covered) that so at least they might be satisfied with
her beauty. Therefore, her friends and all her acquaintance wept. But the two elders
rising up in the midst of the people, laid their hands upon her head. And she
weeping looked up to heaven, for her heart had confidence in the Lord. And the
elders said: As we walked in the orchard alone, this woman came in with two
maids, and shut the doors of the orchard, and sent away the maids from her.
Then a young man that was there hid came to her and lay with her. But we that
were in a corner of the orchard, seeing this wickedness, ran up to them, and we
saw them lie together. And as for him we could not take him because he was
stronger than we and opening the doors he leaped out: but having taken this
woman, we asked who the young man was, but she would not tell us: of this thing
we are witnesses. The multitude believed them as being the elders and the
judges of the people, and they condemned her to death. Then Susanna cried out
with a loud voice, and said: O eternal God, Who knowest hidden things, Who
knowest all things before they come to pass, Thou knowest that they have borne
false witness against me: and behold I must die, whereas I have done none of
these things which these men have maliciously forged against me. And the Lord
heard her voice. And when she was led to be put to death, the Lord raised up
the holy spirit of a young boy, whose name was Daniel. And he cried out with a
loud voice: I am clear from the blood of this woman. Then all the people
turning themselves towards him, said: What meaneth this word that thou hast
spoken? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="pcon"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">But
he standing in the midst of them, said: Are ye so foolish, ye children of
Israel, that without examination or knowledge of the truth, you have condemned
a daughter of Israel?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="pcon"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Return
to judgment, for they have borne false witness against her. So, all the people
turned again in haste, and the old men said to him: Come, and sit thou down
among us, and show it us: seeing God hath given thee the honor of old age. And
Daniel said to them: Separate these two far from one another, and I will
examine them. So, when they were put asunder one from the other, he called one
of them and said to him: O thou that are grown old in evil days, now are thy
sins come out, which thou hast committed before: in judging unjust judgments,
oppressing the innocent, and letting the guilty to go free, whereas the Lord
saith: The innocent and the just thou shalt not kill. Now then, if thou sawest
her, tell me under what tree thou sawest them conversing together. He said:
Under a mastic tree. And Daniel said: Well, hast thou lied against thy own
head: for behold the angel of God having received the sentence of Him, shall
cut thee in two. And having put him aside, he commanded that the other should
come, and he said to him: O thou seed of Chanaan, and not of Juda, beauty hath
deceived thee, and lust hath perverted thy heart: thus, did you do to the
daughters of Israel, and they for fear conversed with you: but a daughter of
Juda would not abide your wickedness. Now therefore tell me, under what tree
didst thou take them conversing together. And he answered: Under a holm tree.
And Daniel said to him: Well, hast thou also lied against thy own head: for the
angel of the Lord waiteth with a sword to cut thee in two, and to destroy you.
With that all the assembly cried out with a loud voice, and they blessed God,
who saveth them that trust in Him. And they rose up against the two elders (for
Daniel had convicted them of false witness by their own mouth) and they did to
them as they had maliciously dealt against their neighbor, to fulfil the law of
Moses: and they put them to death, and innocent blood was saved in that day.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="pcon" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">GOSPEL. John viii.
1-11.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p align="center" class="pcon" style="text-align: center;"><i></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/4TbaI18gOZE" width="320" youtube-src-id="4TbaI18gOZE"></iframe></i></div><p></p><p class="pcon"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">At that time:
Jesus went unto Mount Olivet. And early in the morning He came again into the
temple, and all the people came to Him, and sitting down He taught them. And
the scribes and Pharisees bring unto Him a woman taken in adultery; and they
set her in the midst. And said to Him: Master, this woman was even now taken in
adultery. Now Moses in the law commanded us to stone such a one. But what
sayest Thou? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="pcon"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">And this they
said tempting Him that they might accuse Him. But Jesus bowing Himself down,
wrote with His finger on the ground: when therefore they continued asking Him,
He lifted up Himself, and said to them: He that is without sin among you, let
him first cast a stone at her. And again, stooping down, He wrote on the
ground. But they hearing this went out one by one, beginning at the eldest. And
Jesus alone remained, and the woman standing in the midst. Then Jesus lifting
up Himself, said to her: Woman, where are they that accused thee? Hath no man
condemned thee? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="pcon"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Who said: No
man, Lord. And Jesus said: Neither will I condemn thee. Go, and now sin no
more.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="pcon" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Lenten Calendar<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p align="center" class="pcon" style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/afs4POzRpT8" width="320" youtube-src-id="afs4POzRpT8"></iframe></p><p align="left" class="pcon"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Read:
The Seven Penitential Psalms, Day Five:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="pcon"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">(<i>During times when we wish to express
repentance and especially during Lent, it is customary to pray the seven
penitential psalms. The penitential designation of these psalms’ dates
from the seventh century. Prayerfully reciting these psalms will help us to
recognize our sinfulness, express our sorrow and ask for God’s forgiveness</i>.)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="pcon"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Today
we will focus on Psalm 102.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="pcon"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Reflect: </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Read a reflection of </span><a href="http://www.usccb.org/prayer-and-worship/liturgical-year/lent/reflection-penitential-psalm-102.cfm"><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none;">Psalm 102—Prayer in Time of Distress</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="pcon"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Pray: </span></i><span style="font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Mincho";">“</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">LORD, hear my prayer; let my cry
come to you. Do not hide your face from me in
the day of my distress.</span><span style="font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Mincho";">”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> (Ps
102:2-3, NABRE)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="pcon"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Act: </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">In this psalm, the psalmist calls
to God in great distress. He acknowledges his weakness in body and spirit
before the Lord. Yet he fixes his sight on the Lord, extolling the Lord</span><span style="font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Mincho";">’</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">s name and his mercy.</span><i><o:p></o:p></i></p><p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Aids in Battle<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;">[2]</span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
</span>When tempted and tested.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">The ordinary activity of
the Enemy is to seek the ruin of souls through various kinds of temptation.
These passages offer counsel about how to turn away from evil so that you can
overcome temptation and pass the tests that God allows for your strengthening.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" style="margin: 5pt 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Because
He Himself suffered and has been tempted, He is able to help those who are
tempted. We may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need. Heb 2: 17–
18; 4: 14– 16<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" style="margin: 5pt 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">My
son, if you come forward to serve the LORD, remain in justice and in fear, and
prepare yourself for temptation. Sir 2: 1<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" style="margin: 5pt 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">[Jesus
prayed:] “I do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but that
you should keep them from the Evil One.” Jn 17: 15 RSVCE<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" style="margin: 5pt 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Blessed
is the man who endures temptation, for when he has been tried, he will receive
the crown of life which God has promised to those who love Him. Let no man say
when he is tempted, that he is tempted by God; for God is no tempter to evil,
and He Himself tempts no one. But everyone is tempted by being drawn away and
enticed by his own passion. Then when passion has conceived, it brings forth
sin; but when sin has matured, it begets death. Therefore, my beloved brethren,
do not err. Jas 1: 12– 16<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" style="margin: 5pt 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">The
fear of men lays a snare, but he who trusts in the LORD is safe. Pr 29: 25<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" style="margin: 5pt 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">The
Lord knows how to deliver the God-fearing from temptation. 2 Pt 2: 9<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" style="margin: 5pt 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Have
no anxiety, but in every prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your
petitions be made known to God. And may the peace of God, which surpasses all
understanding, guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. For the rest,
brethren, whatever things are true, whatever honorable, whatever just, whatever
holy, whatever lovable, whatever of good repute, if there be any virtue, if
anything worthy of praise, think upon these things. Phil 4: 6– 9<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13.65pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>National Meatball Day</b><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%;">[3]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><b><o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13.65pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/TKXQQLCeCBs" width="320" youtube-src-id="TKXQQLCeCBs"></iframe></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 13.65pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Just the word meatball is
enough to bring to mind great family meals for most people. These little balls
of various meats can be found throughout the world in almost every culture.
Most people may associate them with Italian cuisine, though spaghetti and
meatballs are an American dish. No matter your background, you can jump in and
enjoy Meatball Day! There are many times in history that meatballs have been
recorded in culinary records. In Turkey, there is a dish called kofte which has
many different variations. In China, there is a record of a recipe that can
date back to 221 BC! Ancient Rome can add a claim to meatballs as there is a
surviving cookbook that holds a variety of recipes with balls of meat. It is
easy to see that people have been enjoying meatballs for a very long time.
Meatballs are made by taking ground or minced meat that has been mixed with
spices, breadcrumbs, eggs or other ingredients and then rolled into a ball to
be cooked. Cooking methods vary and include frying, braising, or baking. There
is no wrong way to choose to make your version of the meatball. Just remember
to make a large enough batch so that all your friends and family will get to
try them!</span></p><p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">How to Celebrate Meatball Day<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0in 6pt 0.25in; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo6; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Meatball
day, like other culinary holidays, should be enjoyed with family or friends
gathered around. The most difficult part of preparing for Meatball Day is going
to be picking what nation’s recipe you will use. Lucky for you, this is a
yearly occurrence, so you can pick a new nation each year to try if you like.
Or you could be truly adventurous and try more than one at a time!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0in 6pt 0.25in; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo6; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Meatballs
can be an appetizer, a side dish or the star of the meal. To celebrate, you and
your friends who like to cook can have a playful evening by letting each person
bring their own dish and then you can select a favorite! Think if it as the
home version of Iron Chef! With a little craftiness, a prize could even be
offered to grace the winner’s mantle.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0in 6pt 0.25in; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo6; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">What
is your favorite way to enjoy meatballs? There are so many ways to make them.
Have you added them added to your pizza or on a sandwich? Do you prefer to
stick to the traditions of your family or try to create something new? This is
the time to shine! An entire day devoted to meatball goodness.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" style="margin: 5pt 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">It
doesn’t matter if you are a chef or a first-time cook. Making a meal with
meatballs is easy but has the wonderful side effect of making you look like the
star of your kitchen. Just do a search with your favorite search engine for
meatball recipes and pick the one that sounds yummy (that might be all of
them!). Don’t forget to record your adventure by taking a few pictures and use
#meatballday on social media to share!</span><b><o:p></o:p></b></p><p align="left" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Catechism
of the Catholic Church<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: 0.3in;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">PART THREE: LIFE IN CHRIST</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.3in; text-indent: 0.3in;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">SECTION TWO-THE TEN COMMANDMENTS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.9in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">CHAPTER
TWO-YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.2in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b>Article 5-THE FIFTH
COMMANDMENT</b><o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 1.2in; text-indent: 0.3in;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">IN BRIEF</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><i>2318
"In [God's] hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of all
mankind" (Job 12:10).</i><o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><i>2319
Every human life, from the moment of conception until death, is sacred because
the human person has been willed for its own sake in the image and likeness of
the living and holy God.</i><o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><i>2320 The
murder of a human being is gravely contrary to the dignity of the person and
the holiness of the Creator.</i><o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><i>2321 The
prohibition of murder does not abrogate the right to render an unjust aggressor
unable to inflict harm. Legitimate defense is a grave duty for whoever is
responsible for the lives of others or the common good.</i><o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><i>2322 From
its conception, the child has the right to life. Direct abortion, that is,
abortion willed as an end or as a means, is a "criminal" practice (GS
27 # 3), gravely contrary to the moral law. The Church imposes the canonical
penalty of excommunication for this crime against human life.</i><o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><i>2323
Because it should be treated as a person from conception, the embryo must be
defended in its integrity, cared for, and healed like every other human being.</i><o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><i>2324
Intentional euthanasia, whatever its forms or motives, is murder. It is gravely
contrary to the dignity of the human person and to the respect due to the
living God, his Creator.</i><o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><i>2325
Suicide is seriously contrary to justice, hope, and charity. It is forbidden by
the fifth commandment.</i><o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><i>2326
Scandal is a grave offense when by deed or omission it deliberately leads
others to sin.</i><o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><i>2327
Because of the evils and injustices that all war brings with it, we must do
everything reasonably possible to avoid it. the Church prays: "From
famine, pestilence, and war, O Lord, deliver us."</i><o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><i>2328 The
Church and human reason assert the permanent validity of the moral law during
armed conflicts. Practices deliberately contrary to the law of nations and to
its universal principles are crimes.</i><o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><i>2329
"The arms race is one of the greatest curses on the human race and the
harm it inflicts on the poor is more than can be endured" (GS 81 # 3).</i><o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><i>2330
"Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God"
(Mt 5:9).</i><o:p></o:p></p><p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; padding: 0in;">Daylight Saving Time Begins Tomorrow</span></b><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" title=""><sup><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; padding: 0in;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1pt none windowtext; line-height: 115%; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">[4]</span></span></sup><!--[endif]--></span></sup></a><b><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/84aWtseb2-4" width="320" youtube-src-id="84aWtseb2-4"></iframe></div><p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; padding: 0in;">Daylight Savings time had
begun in an effort to help save energy and provide workers with more hours of
serviceable daylight during the long </span><a href="http://www.wincalendar.com/Summer-Solstice"><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; padding: 0in; text-decoration-line: none;">summer</span></a><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; padding: 0in;"> days. Daylight Savings
Time was first introduced in the U.S. in 1918. However, it was not until
1966, when the Uniform Act was passed, that all states had to either observe
DST or pass a state law to abstain.</span><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="pcon" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; padding: 0in;">Daylight Saving Time Begins
Facts</span></i><i><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="pcon" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.25in; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; padding: 0in;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; padding: 0in;">Benjamin Franklin first
proposed the idea of DST in 1784. He wrote An Economical Project for the
Journal of Paris, wherein he discussed the cost of oil for lamps as well as
working while it was dark and sleeping while it was day.</span><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="pcon" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.25in; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; padding: 0in;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; padding: 0in;">Daylight Savings Time changes
at 2:00 a.m. This time is selected in an effort to provide the least
amount of inconvenience to businesses and citizens.</span><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="pcon" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.25in; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; padding: 0in;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; padding: 0in;">Hawaii and Arizona do not use
DST. Up until 2006, Indiana only used DST in part of the state.</span><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="pcon" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; padding: 0in;">Daylight Saving Time Begins
Top Events and Things to Do</span></i><i><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="pcon" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; padding: 0in;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; padding: 0in;">Move your clocks forward 1
hour before bed on Saturday night before the Daylight-Saving Time Day in March.</span><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="pcon" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; padding: 0in;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; padding: 0in;">Go to bed an hour earlier
Saturday night before the Daylight-Saving Time Day.</span><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="pcon" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; padding: 0in;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; padding: 0in;">Get outside and enjoy the
extra hour of daylight.</span><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="pcon" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; padding: 0in;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; padding: 0in;">Replace the batteries in the
smoke alarm and carbon dioxide monitors.</span><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="pcon" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; padding: 0in;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; padding: 0in;">Clean out the medicine
cabinet. Dispose of all medicines properly.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><i>Today
imagine that God came to you and said you can move back time for two hours for
any moment in your life. What would you change? Think of that before going to
confession.<o:p></o:p></i></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b> </b><b> </b><b>Coffee with Christ</b><b> </b></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Christ
sips his coffee and looks at me and says, “Through my mother’s intersession you
will find the victory and the grace of final perseverance. Take all your cares
and suffering to her she will guide you as she did the apostles. She is your
mother.”</p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Vinny's Corner</b></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/dxqTn7-SuPA" width="320" youtube-src-id="dxqTn7-SuPA"></iframe></div><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Daily Devotions<o:p></o:p></b></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Unite in the work of the <a href="https://portersofstjoseph.org/">Porters of St. Joseph</a> by joining them
in fasting: Today's Fast: <a href="https://www.strive21.com/">Purity</a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="http://www.icemanforchrist.org/p/through-consent-of-our-lady-new-eve-son.html">Saturday
Litany of the Hours Invoking the Aid of Mother Mary</a><o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->Total <a href="http://www.icemanforchrist.org/p/icemans-total.html"><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Consecration
to St. Joseph</span></a> Day 23<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="http://www.icemanforchrist.org/p/an-offering-to-most-sacred-heart-of.html"><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Offering to
the sacred heart of Jesus</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="https://theholyface.com/">Make
reparations to the Holy Face</a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="http://www.catholictradition.org/Christ/holy-wounds2.htm"><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Drops of
Christ’s Blood</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="http://www.icemanforchrist.org/p/icemans-40-hour-devotion.html"><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Iceman’s 40
devotion</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="http://www.icemanforchrist.org/p/universal-man-plan-phase-4-st-joseph.html">Universal
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</div><p></p>IcemanforChristhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10737122933196184713noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8604232804852757560.post-43352298329791094432024-03-02T06:43:00.000-08:002024-03-08T03:54:16.641-08:00Friday, March 8, 2024<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><p align="left" class="CSP-ChapterTitle"><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/XwNhYP9f2hI" width="320" youtube-src-id="XwNhYP9f2hI"></iframe></b></div><p></p><p align="left" class="CSP-ChapterTitle"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Friday of the third week of Lent</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p align="left" class="CSP-ChapterTitle"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">International
Women's Day</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="po" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">1 Maccabees, Chapter 3, Verse 30<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in;"><a name="20003030"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">He <i>FEARED</i> that, as had happened once or
twice, he would not have enough for his expenses and for the gifts that he was
accustomed to give with a lavish hand—more so than all previous kings.</span></b></a><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></p><p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">This
was the fear of a powerful King; that he would run out of money for bribery.
When you have no just cause nor are loved by men this is the only power you can
rely on; for such types they have long abandoned the faith in He that Is. I
wonder if this is the fear of Politico’s and the New World Order elites of the
world today. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></p><p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Do
you think it could also apply to the upper crusty's in the Church?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="pcon" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
Reaction of King Antiochus</span></i><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">[1]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></b></p><p align="left" class="pcon" style="margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Angry
at defeat he seeks vengeance.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="pcon" style="margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">He
needs a great army.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="pcon" style="margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">He
needs a pile of cash.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="pcon" style="margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">He,
however, is short of cash because of mismanagement and foolish policies.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="pcon" style="margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">He
needs to squeeze the middle class of Persia for cash.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="pcon" style="margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Going
to Persia himself to get the shekels he needs; he leaves his second in charge
Lysias with orders to destroy Jerusalem. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="pcon" style="margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Yet,
Judas Maccabee does not falter. His primary reliance is upon prayer to God.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="pcon" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Three
Prayers of a Warrior<a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">[2]</span></span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></b></p><p align="left" class="pcon" style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">The
first prayer of a warrior is to the Holy Spirit. He responds directly to us. A
warrior knows to ask for His help for a warrior to be successful must be filled
not with the spirit of vengeance or anger but with peace and resolve to finish
the fight. In prayer we can find our way out of every situation that has no
exit. The Madonna of Medjugorje has said, “Satan cannot defeat you, not even a
little, because you are God’s children and He is watching over you. Pray and
let the rosary always be in your hands as a sign to Satan that you belong to
me. She further instructs, “Open your hearts to the Holy Spirit. Especially
during these days...surrender your hearts and surrender your life to Jesus. The
most important thing is to ask for the gift of the Holy Spirit<i>. Come Holy Spirit. </i>The weapons and
shields, the equipment of battle, all lay in prayer, and prayer to the Holy
Spirit is the first prayer of the prayer-warrior. “<i>Begin by calling on the Holy Spirit each day</i>” says Mary of
Medjugorje.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="pcon" style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></p><p align="left" class="pcon" style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/YzV8yNi26gI" width="320" youtube-src-id="YzV8yNi26gI"></iframe></div><p></p><p class="pcon" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></p><p align="left" class="pcon" style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">The
second prayer of the warrior is the prayer of deliverance. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="pcon" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="pcon" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .3in; margin-right: .3in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.3in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Purge us all, oh Holy Spirit. Lead
us to the proper way of deliverance, in obedience always to the Church. Guide
us every inch of the way. Send us new battalions of angels. Send us the great
Archangel Michael, and Saint Francis of Assisi, and the dragonslayer, Saint
George. Deliver us from the energies that jump at us from social evils too
numerous to name. Come, oh Lord Jesus, and break all bondage. Break the
bondages of anger, sloth, addiction, pride, envy, promiscuity, gluttony, lust,
resentment, un-forgiveness, hatred, false prophecy, and the occult. Free us
from ungodliness of all kinds. Purge us of any demons we may have picked up. Let
us not be deceived, oh Lord! Free us too, of any demonic forces that have come
through the family tree. Free us of oppression, depression, discouragement, and
every mental torment.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p align="center" class="pcon" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .3in; margin-right: .3in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.3in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></i></p><p align="left" class="pcon" style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">The
third prayer of a warrior is the prayer for spiritual wisdom. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="pcon" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="pcon" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .3in; margin-right: .3in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.3in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Lord Jesus, as the strongest Man,
please bind all spirits that come against us. Please open our spiritual eyes.
Please set us forth to understand what we should understand. Please grant us
proper spiritual wisdom. Teach us to be wise. Teach us how sin attracts demons,
or is inspired by evil to begin with. Grant that we carry forth out Christian
duty without undue curiosity. Teach us that the more we sin, the harder and
colder we get, the greater is our bondage.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p align="left" class="CSP-ChapterTitle"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p align="left" class="CSP-ChapterTitle"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nLhS-4KIbdc" width="320" youtube-src-id="nLhS-4KIbdc"></iframe></p><p align="left" class="CSP-ChapterTitle"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Friday of the third week of Lent</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="pcon" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Prayer.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p align="center" class="pcon" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">LOOK down on our fasts, we
beseech Thee, O Lord, with merciful favor, that, as we abstain from food in
body, so we may fast from vice in mind.</span><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Amen.</span><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p align="center" class="pcon" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">EPISTLE. Numbers xx. 2-13.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> In those days, the children of Israel
came together against Moses and Aaron: and making a sedition, they said: Would
God we had perished among our brethren before the Lord. Why have you brought
out the Church of the Lord into the wilderness, that both we and our cattle
should die? Why have you made us come up out of Egypt, and have brought us into
this wretched place which cannot be sowed, nor bringeth forth figs, nor vines,
nor pomegranates, neither is there any water to drink? And Moses and Aaron
leaving the multitude, went into the tabernacle of the covenant, and fell flat
upon the ground, and cried to the Lord, and said: O Lord God, hear the cry of
this people, and open to them Thy treasure, a fountain of living water, that
being satisfied they may cease to murmur. And the glory of the Lord appeared
over them. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: Take the rod, and assemble the
people together, thon and Aaron thy brother, and speak to the rock before them,
and it shall yield waters. And when thou hast brought forth water out of the
rock, all the multitude and their cattle shall drink. Moses therefore took the
rod, which was before the Lord, as He had commanded him. And having gathered
together the multitude before the rock, he said to them: Hear, ye rebellious
and incredulous: Can we bring you forth water out of this rock? And when Moses
had lifted up his hand, and struck the rock twice with the rod, there came
forth water in great abundance, so that the people and their cattle drank. And
the Lord said to Moses and Aaron: Because you have not believed Me, to sanctify
<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Me before the children of Israel, you shall not bring these
people into the land which I will give them. This is the water of
contradiction, where the children of Israel strove with words against the Lord,
and He was sanctified in them.<o:p></o:p></p><p align="center" class="pcon" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">GOSPEL. John iv. 5-42.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p align="center" class="pcon" style="text-align: center;"><i></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/LOa0rDcGtc8" width="320" youtube-src-id="LOa0rDcGtc8"></iframe></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/geCbBNJBPmQ" width="320" youtube-src-id="geCbBNJBPmQ"></iframe></i></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b> </b>At
that time Jesus came to a city of Samaria which is called Sichar; near the land
which Jacob gave to his son Joseph. Now Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore
being wearied with His journey, sat thus on the well. It was about the sixth
hour. There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus Him: saith to her:
Give Me to drink. For His disciples were gone into the city to buy meats. Then
that Samaritan woman saith to How dost Thou, being a Jew, ask of me to drink,
who am a Samaritan woman? For the Jews do not communicate with the Samaritans.
Jesus answered, and said to her: If thou didst know the gift of God, and Who He
is that saith to thee, Give Me to drink; thou perhaps wouldst have asked of
Him, and He would have given thee living water. The woman saith to Him: Sir,
Thou hast nothing wherein to draw, and the well is deep: from whence then hast
Thou living water? Art Thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the
well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle? Jesus answered,
and said to her: Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again; but he
that shall drink of the water that I will give him shall not thirst forever:
but the water that I will give him shall become in him a fountain of water
springing up into life everlasting. The woman saith to Him: Sir, give me this
water, that I may not thirst, nor come hither to draw. Jesus saith to her: Go,
call thy husband, and come hither. The woman answered and said: I have no
husband. Jesus said to her: Thou hast<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> said well, I have no husband: for thou hast
had five husbands: and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband. This thou hast
said truly. The woman saith to him: Sir, I perceive that Thou art a prophet.
Our fathers adored on this mountain, and you say that at Jerusalem is the place
where men must adore. Jesus saith to her: Woman, believe Me, that the hour
cometh when you shall neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem adore the
Father. You adore that which you know not: we adore that which we know; for
salvation is of the Jews. But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true
adorers shall adore the Father in spirit and in truth. For the Father also
seeketh such to adore Him. God is a spirit, and they that adore Him must adore
Him in spirit and in truth. The woman saith to Him: I know that the Messias
cometh (Who is called Christ): therefore when He is come, He will tell us all
things. Jesus saith to her: I am He Who am speaking with thee. And immediately
His disciples came: and they wondered that He talked with the woman. Yet no man
said: What seekest Thou, or why talkest Thou with her? The woman therefore left
her water-pot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the men there:
Come, and see a man Who has told me all things whatsoever I have done. Is not
He the Christ? They went therefore out of the city, and came unto Him. In the
meantime, the disciples prayed Him, saying: Rabbi, eat. But He said to them: I
have meat to eat which you know not. The disciples therefore said one to
another: Hath any man brought Him to eat? Jesus saith to them: My meat is to do
the will of Him that sent Me, that I may perfect His work. Do not you say.
there are yet four months, and then the harvest cometh? Behold I say to you,
lift up your eyes, and see the countries, for they are white already to
harvest. And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life
everlasting: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.
For in this is the saying true: that it is one man that soweth, and it is another
that reapeth. I have sent you to reap that in which you did not labor, others
have labored, and you have entered into their Now of that city many of the
Samaritans believed in Him, for the word of the woman giving testimony: He told
me all things whatsoever I have done. So when the Samaritans were come to Him,
they desired Him that He would tarry there. And He abode there two days. And
many more believed in Him because of His own word. And they said to the woman:
We now believe, not for thy saying: for we ourselves have heard Him, and know
that this is indeed the Savior of the world.<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></b></p><p align="left" class="CSP-ChapterBodyText" style="text-indent: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">International
Women's Day</span></b><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="line-height: 115%;">[3]</span></span></span></span></a><b style="text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></b></span></p><p align="left" class="CSP-ChapterBodyText" style="text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b style="text-indent: 0in;"></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b style="text-indent: 0in;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/esfFE7o5OXA" width="320" youtube-src-id="esfFE7o5OXA"></iframe></b></span></div><p></p><p align="left" class="CSP-ChapterBodyText" style="text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">International Women’s
Day celebrates women’s achievements throughout the world. Its purpose is
to promote women’s equality, encourage support for repressed women and promote
appreciation toward women everywhere. Many organizations, including the </span><a href="http://www.wincalendar.com/United-Nations-Day"><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none;">United Nations</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">,
use this day to also celebrate extraordinary achievements of ordinary women.
International Women's Day was initially promoted by the <i>Socialist Party of
America</i>. In 1909, it designated this day in remembrance of a major
strike by the International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union. The holiday is
now recognized internationally and is an Official National Holiday for many
countries, including China, Russia and Ukraine. It is observed annually
on March 8th.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0in;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="CSP-ChapterBodyText" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">International Women's
Day Facts & Quotes</span></i><i style="text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></i></p><p align="left" class="CSP-ChapterBodyText" style="margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">In
2016, the theme for International Women's Day as promoted by the United Nations
was </span><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Planet
50-50 by 2030: Step It Up for Gender Equality</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="CSP-ChapterBodyText" style="margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">On
the eve of World War I, women across Europe and Russia celebrated the holiday
by protesting the war and campaigning for </span><a href="http://www.wincalendar.com/International-Day-Of-Peace"><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none;">peace</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="CSP-ChapterBodyText" style="margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">On
this day, the US Dept. of State and the First Lady award the International
Women of Courage Awards. Ten women are given the award - who have
exemplified exceptional courage and leadership in advocating for human rights,
women’s equality, and social progress, often at great personal risk.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="CSP-ChapterBodyText" style="margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">There
is one universal truth, applicable to all countries, cultures and communities:
violence against women is never acceptable, never excusable, never tolerable. -
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0in;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="CSP-ChapterBodyText" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">International Women's
Day Top Events and Things to Do</span></i><i style="text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></i></p><p align="center" class="CSP-ChapterBodyText" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;"><i style="text-indent: 0in;"></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="text-indent: 0in;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-ym42lV1ka8" width="320" youtube-src-id="-ym42lV1ka8"></iframe></i></div><p></p><p align="left" class="CSP-ChapterBodyText" style="margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Organize
a </span><a href="http://www.wincalendar.com/International-Day-Sport-Development-Peace"><span color="windowtext" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none;">sporting</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">
event for women. Numerous studies have shown many benefits for women that
play sports. A recent study by the EY Women Athletes Business Network
even found that women that play sports were more likely to excel in business.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="CSP-ChapterBodyText" style="margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">If
you're a woman, try learning a task that is typically done by men. Such a
chore may be: changing the oil on your car, computer programming, mowing the
lawn, painting, and any home improvement project.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="CSP-ChapterBodyText" style="margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">If
you’re a man, show appreciation by performing a chore for your special lady
that is typically done by her. This may include cooking, cleaning, child
care or anything that the special woman in your life does.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="CSP-ChapterBodyText" style="margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Watch
a movie that portrays strong empowered women. Our favorites: Bend
It Like Beckham (2002), Elizabeth (1998), Erin Brockovich (2000), The Help
(2011), A League of Their Own (1992), Mulan (1998), My Fair Lady (1964), Norma
Rae (1979), Volver (2006).</span><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i>The Church
gives thanks for all the manifestations of the feminine "genius"
which have appeared in the course of history, in the midst of all peoples and
nations; she gives thanks for all the charisms which the Holy Spirit
distributes to women in the history of the People of God, for all the victories
which she owes to their faith, hope and charity: she gives thanks for all the
fruits of feminine holiness.</i><o:p></o:p></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;"><i>-John Paul II, Apostolic Letter </i><o:p></o:p></p><p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></b></p><p align="left" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Catechism
of the Catholic Church<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: 0.3in;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">PART THREE: LIFE IN CHRIST</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.3in; text-indent: 0.3in;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">SECTION TWO-THE TEN COMMANDMENTS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.9in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">CHAPTER
TWO-YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.2in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b>Article 5-THE FIFTH
COMMANDMENT</b><o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 1.2in; text-indent: 0.3in;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">III. Safeguarding Peace</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 1.2in; text-indent: 0.3in;"><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/drbshU7Lls8" width="320" youtube-src-id="drbshU7Lls8"></iframe></b></div><p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: 0.3in;">Peace<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">2302 By
recalling the commandment, "You shall not kill," our Lord asked
for peace of heart and denounced murderous anger and hatred as immoral.<br />
Anger is a desire for revenge. "To desire vengeance in order to do evil to
someone who should be punished is illicit," but it is praiseworthy to
impose restitution "to correct vices and maintain justice." If
anger reaches the point of a deliberate desire to kill or seriously wound a
neighbor, it is gravely against charity; it is a mortal sin. the Lord says,
"Everyone who is angry with his brother shall be liable to judgment."
<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">2303
Deliberate hatred is contrary to charity. Hatred of the neighbor is a sin when
one deliberately wishes him evil. Hatred of the neighbor is a grave sin when
one deliberately desires him grave harm. "But I say to you, Love your
enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your
Father who is in heaven." <o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">2304 Respect
for and development of human life requires peace. Peace is not merely the
absence of war, and it is not limited to maintaining a balance of powers
between adversaries. Peace cannot be attained on earth without safeguarding the
goods of persons, free communication among men, respect for the dignity of
persons and peoples, and the assiduous practice of fraternity. Peace is
"the tranquility of order." Peace is the work of justice and the
effect of charity. <o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">2305 Earthly
peace is the image and fruit of the peace of Christ, the messianic "Prince
of Peace." By the blood of his Cross, "in his own person he
killed the hostility," he reconciled men with God and made his Church
the sacrament of the unity of the human race and of its union with God.
"He is our peace." He has declared: "Blessed are the
peacemakers." <o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">2306 Those
who renounce violence and bloodshed and, in order to safeguard human rights,
make use of those means of defense available to the weakest, bear witness to
evangelical charity, provided they do so without harming the rights and
obligations of other men and societies. They bear legitimate witness to the
gravity of the physical and moral risks of recourse to violence, with all its
destruction and death. <o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">Avoiding war<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">2307 The
fifth commandment forbids the intentional destruction of human life. Because of
the evils and injustices that accompany all war, the Church insistently urges
everyone to prayer and to action so that the divine Goodness may free us from
the ancient bondage of war. <o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">2308 All
citizens and all governments are obliged to work for the avoidance of war.<br />
However, "as long as the danger of war persists and there is no
international authority with the necessary competence and power, governments
cannot be denied the right of lawful self-defense, once all peace efforts have
failed." <o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">2309 The
strict conditions for legitimate defense by military force require rigorous
consideration. The gravity of such a decision makes it subject to rigorous
conditions of moral legitimacy. At one and the same time:<br />
- the damage inflicted by the aggressor on the nation or community of nations
must be lasting, grave, and certain;<br />
- all other means of putting an end to it must have been shown to be
impractical or ineffective;<br />
- there must be serious prospects of success;<br />
- the use of arms must not produce evils and disorders graver than the evil to
be eliminated. The power of modern means of destruction weighs very heavily in
evaluating this condition.<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">These are
the traditional elements enumerated in what is called the "just war"
doctrine.<br />
The evaluation of these conditions for moral legitimacy belongs to the
prudential judgment of those who have responsibility for the common good.<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">2310 Public
authorities, in this case, have the right and duty to impose on citizens the
obligations necessary for national defense.<br />
Those who are sworn to serve their country in the armed forces are servants of
the security and freedom of nations. If they carry out their duty honorably,
they truly contribute to the common good of the nation and the maintenance of
peace. <o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">2311 Public
authorities should make equitable provision for those who for reasons of
conscience refuse to bear arms; these are nonetheless obliged to serve the
human community in some other way. <o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">2312 The
Church and human reason both assert the permanent validity of the moral law
during armed conflict. "The mere fact that war has regrettably broken out
does not mean that everything becomes licit between the warring parties." <o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">2313
Non-combatants, wounded soldiers, and prisoners must be respected and treated
humanely.<br />
Actions deliberately contrary to the law of nations and to its universal
principles are crimes, as are the orders that command such actions. Blind
obedience does not suffice to excuse those who carry them out. Thus the
extermination of a people, nation, or ethnic minority must be condemned as a
mortal sin. One is morally bound to resist orders that command genocide.<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">2314
"Every act of war directed to the indiscriminate destruction of whole
cities or vast areas with their inhabitants is a crime against God and man,
which merits firm and unequivocal condemnation." A danger of modern
warfare is that it provides the opportunity to those who possess modern
scientific weapons especially atomic, biological, or chemical weapons - to
commit such crimes.<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">2315 The
accumulation of arms strikes many as a paradoxically suitable way of deterring
potential adversaries from war. They see it as the most effective means of
ensuring peace among nations. This method of deterrence gives rise to strong
moral reservations. The arms race does not ensure peace. Far from eliminating
the causes of war, it risks aggravating them. Spending enormous sums to produce
ever new types of weapons impedes efforts to aid needy populations; it
thwarts the development of peoples. Over-armament multiplies reasons for
conflict and increases the danger of escalation.<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">2316 The
production and the sale of arms affect the common good of nations and of the
international community. Hence public authorities have the right and duty to
regulate them. The short-term pursuit of private or collective interests cannot
legitimate undertakings that promote violence and conflict among nations and
compromise the international juridical order.<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">2317
Injustice, excessive economic or social inequalities, envy, distrust, and pride
raging among men and nations constantly threaten peace and cause wars.
Everything done to overcome these disorders contributes to building up peace
and avoiding war:<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 35.4pt;">Insofar as men are sinners, the threat of war hangs over
them and will so continue until Christ comes again; but insofar as they can
vanquish sin by coming together in charity, violence itself will be vanquished
and these words will be fulfilled: "they shall beat their swords into
plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword
against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore." <o:p></o:p></p><p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Fitness Friday</span></b><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">[4]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><b><o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/p79D6u-6pN4" width="320" youtube-src-id="p79D6u-6pN4"></iframe></div><p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></b></p><p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Enhancing one’s fitness goes a long
way to improving oneself image and raising one to the challenge of God’s
mission for them. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></i></p><p align="center" class="pcon" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Help!
I’m Poor but Want to Eat Healthy!<o:p></o:p></span></u></i></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Unhealthy food is indeed
often more accessible and cheaper than </span><a href="https://www.nerdfitness.com/2011/11/10/healthy-eating/" target="_blank" title="healthy eating"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">healthy
alternatives</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">.
Unfortunately, it’s these very foods that make us unhealthy and
overweight, causing all sorts of INCREDIBLY expensive medical problems down the
road. <em>Healthy eating on a budget IS possible; it just takes a game plan and
a little creativity. </em>Today we’re going to talk about specific foods that
are a great bang for your buck. Whether you’re simply trying losing weight and
getting in shape or build some muscle and put on weight without looking like </span><a href="http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100915194256/starwars/images/7/7f/Jabba_SWSB.png" target="_blank" title="Jabba"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Jabba
the Hut</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">, making
the right dietary choices will always be 80-90% of your success. And because
diet is going to make up THAT BIG of your chance for success, we want you to
slowly shift to the most effective choices you can – and for that we recommend
the Paleo diet. Over the last few decades, we’ve been eating and drinking more
and more, and we developed the idea that a “good deal” means a lot of food. In
other words, we tend to associate a deal by looking at the <strong>price
per calorie</strong><b>. “<em>I got SOO
many fries, what a great deal!” </em></b>Sure, you could buy pasta and ramen
and live on mere dollars a day, but we want a game plan that doesn’t skip out
on practically every macro and micronutrient – this is a strategy that builds
Superheroes. The aim will be to reshape the way you evaluate ‘good deals.’
Instead of price per calorie, we’ll be looking at the <strong><i>price per nutrient.</i></strong> We
want the most nutrients for the least amount of money.<strong> </strong>The
choices below will:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/91/4/1095S.full" target="_blank" title="Nutrient Dense Food Study">Target nutrient dense foods,</a> but
understand that we’re looking for the most economical choices. If food A costs
$10 and has 50 of nutrient x, we’ll pick food B instead, which only provides 45
of x but costs just $2.<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><strong><i>Limit our draw to ‘good caloric deals,’</i></strong> avoiding
nutrient deficient options such as white bread or ramen.<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><strong><i>Identify foods with high caloric AND
nutritional</i></strong><b><i> <strong>value</strong></i></b>,
for those currently trying to gain weight through <a href="https://www.nerdfitness.com/2012/06/25/super-hero-muscle/" target="_blank">strength
training</a>.<o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Let</span></i></strong><strong><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Gothic";">’</span></i></strong><strong><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">s do this!</span></i></strong><strong><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></strong></p><p><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Vegetables</span></u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><u></u></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><u><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ohHYABXMqUQ" width="320" youtube-src-id="ohHYABXMqUQ"></iframe></u></div><p></p><p><strong><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">While vegetables
can often be expensive, when we looked at some of the best choices, veggies are
pretty awesome. One study showed:</span></strong><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-family: "MS Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Gothic";">“</span></em><em><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">that although fruits and vegetables are an expensive
source of dietary energy (calories), they provide key nutrients at a reasonable
cost.</span></em><em><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Gothic";">”</span></em><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p align="left" style="margin: 5pt 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><strong><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">For starters, don</span></i></strong><strong><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Gothic";">’</span></i></strong><strong><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">t
be afraid to buy frozen vegetables</span></i></strong><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> in the freezer section of your local grocery store
(or even canned vegetables). Sure, I love fresh veggies, but since frozen
veggies are picked and then frozen at peak ripeness (and thus most
nutritionally dense), they are often a better value while being edible for
months longer.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" style="margin: 5pt 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Kale and leafy greens (such as mustard or collard):</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> If there is one super cheap
superfood, kale and leafy greens are it! Practically nature’s multivitamin,
kale is packed full of protein, vitamin K, C, and A, dietary
fiber, calcium, potassium, iron, magnesium, and <em>more</em> (a
whole lot more). The catch is that kale and leafy greens can be bitter raw, so
they need to be cooked. But don’t worry, there are tons of quick and easy ways
to make kale delicious. You do NOT want to miss out on one of the most
economical superfoods. To get you started, check out </span><a href="http://allrecipes.com/recipe/baked-kale-chips/" target="_blank" title="Kale Chips"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Kale Chips</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> or this try this </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcewetyeAGo" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">kale and bacon recipe.</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" style="margin: 5pt 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><strong><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Cabbage:</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> A sister food to kale and leafy
greens, from antioxidant to fiber to vitamin C, cabbage is both affordable
and nutritionally dense. Cabbage is extremely versatile (soup, salad,
stir fry, or sandwiches), and looks like it may have some</span><a href="http://www.smart-publications.com/articles/cabbages-and-cancer-the-most-powerful-cancer-prevention-tools-we-now-h" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> superfood
cancer fighting qualities as well.</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" style="margin: 5pt 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><strong><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Broccoli:
</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">I didn’t
understand why everyone else hated Broccoli. Whether fresh or frozen, broccoli
provides an excellent price per nutrient value.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" style="margin: 5pt 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><strong><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Spinach:</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> Rich in minerals and
vitamins, fiber and protein, spinach should be your go-to choose for salads
over cheaper but nutritionally deficient greens like iceberg lettuce.
The </span><a href="http://www.johnnyfit.com/nutrition/spinach-vs-lettuce.html/" target="_blank" title="spinach vs lettuce"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">difference
between spinach and lettuce</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">
is so large, this comparison is a great example to demonstrate why we should be
making choices based on <strong>price per nutrient,</strong> rather than
price per calorie.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" style="margin: 5pt 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><strong><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Carrots: </span></strong><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Carrots are one of my
favorite nutritionally dense snacks. Crazy amounts of vitamin A, good
carbs, and a little bit of everything else; carrots are a solid choice to
supplement a salad or soup.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><em><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Be sure to check out
your local farmers</span></em><em><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Gothic";">’</span></em><em><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> market, as you may find some great deals on fruits
and </span></em><em><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">veggies</span></em><em><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></em><a href="http://frugalliving.about.com/od/foodsavings/tp/Cheapest_Produce.htm" target="_blank" title="Produce by Season"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">depending on the season</span></i></a><em><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> and where you live.</span></em><em><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></em></p><p><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Proteins</span></u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><u></u></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><u><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7zJ0JC1S9yE" width="320" youtube-src-id="7zJ0JC1S9yE"></iframe></u></div><p></p><p><strong><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Consider the </span></strong><a href="https://www.nerdfitness.com/blog/2010/10/04/the-beginners-guide-to-the-paleo-diet/" target="_blank" title="Paleo Diet"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Paleo
Diet</span></i></a><strong><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">,
today we</span></strong><strong><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Gothic";">’</span></strong><strong><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">re going to explore all cheap
protein sources, Paleo or non-Paleo. Meats (chicken/turkey/beef): </span></strong><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">When we looked at prices across the
U.S., chicken and turkey consistently offered better values. However, don’t
count beef out; there is almost ALWAYS a specific cut of beef on sale, and
by targeting cheaper (and fattier) cuts, you can usually leave the meat section
with a killer deal. We aren’t targeting these cuts simply because they’re
cheaper. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" style="margin: 5pt 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><strong><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Eggs:
</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">There’s a
reason eggs are usually a staple among those seriously strength train: eggs are
a simple yet nutritionally dense source of protein. Toss hard boiled eggs
in a salad, scramble eggs in a stir fry, or prepare a regular breakfast staple,
eggs are usually too cheap to pass up.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" style="margin: 5pt 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Canned<strong>
Tuna: </strong>One can of Albacore Tuna
contains approximately 120 calories, 28g of protein, and can cost $1
or less. This makes canned tuna a superb value and an awesomely lean protein
source. Check out other canned fish, such as salmon, for some variety. And be
sure to rotate canned tuna in and out of your diet to </span><a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=canned-tuna-may-contain-excessive-mercury" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">reduce risks
associated with mercury.</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" style="margin: 5pt 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Legumes<strong>: </strong>Beans,
chickpeas, lentils, oh my! Legumes (especially when purchased in
bags), are one of the best prices per nutrient values out there. Legumes such
as beans work great in a salad, soups, or even dips. Providing copious amounts
of both protein and carbs, legumes offer a great value and
easily satisfy macronutrient requirements. Be wary though,
nutritional value will vary depending on your specific legume of choice!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" style="margin: 5pt 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Protein<strong>
Powder: </strong>If the above recommendations don’t work for you and
you’re still a little short on protein, try a huge tub of protein
powder online. Make yourself a quick protein shake breakfast or post
workout meal.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" style="margin: 5pt 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><strong><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Other
`cheap protein options </span></strong><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">that
may be a great deal include quinoa, greek yogurt, cottage cheese, and one of
the many types of nut butter.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Fruits<o:p></o:p></span></u></p><p><u></u></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><u><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/mbPNkDEN3Ps" width="320" youtube-src-id="mbPNkDEN3Ps"></iframe></u></div><p></p><p><strong><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Fruits provide one
of the biggest challenges,</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">
especially in the United States, because they are so expensive relative to
other food groups. Fruits can also be tricky. Grapes, which seem to be a
moderate value, end up being one of the worst price per nutrient options out
there. This may lead to the completely understandable reaction that I had,
“SCREW IT! I love grapes, and I’m buying them!” <strong>But don’t worry, there
are still some excellent cost-efficient options for fruits:</strong><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p align="left" style="margin: 5pt 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><strong><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Watermelon:
</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">I know, I
know. My first thought too was, “isn’t it mostly water?” Well, yes. But as it
turns out, since watermelon is so darn cheap, it is an incredible value per
nutrient. Packed with lycopene (antioxidant), vitamins A and C, potassium,
magnesium, and phosphorus, watermelon is a wonderful and easy to eat
nutritional deal.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" style="margin: 5pt 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><strong><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Bananas: </span></strong><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">If you’re following the Paleo Diet
and avoiding most grains, bananas are a great source of carbs. Bananas are
super cheap and provide you with tons of potassium. They can be added to
oatmeal, eaten as a snack, or my favorite, as a desert (frozen bananas).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" style="margin: 5pt 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><strong><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Plums: </span></strong><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Packed full great micronutrients
like vitamin A, K, and C, plums are an excellent source of fiber and carbs.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" style="margin: 5pt 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><strong><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Pears:</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> Although pears possess a good
amount of natural sugars, they are another great source of fiber and vitamin
C…and usually even cheaper than plums.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" style="margin: 5pt 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><strong><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Other
fruits</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> that
may be great nutritional deals in your area: cantaloupe, apricots, kiwis, and
nectarines.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Don’t forget about
dried fruit – although high in sugar, bulk dried fruit can be an incredible
nutrient value.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">If you are training like crazy or are working hard
to get bigger by packing on muscle and size, </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">then chances are you’ll require
more and more food (read: fuel) to reach your goals. If you’re strength
training and not getting bigger, then you’re not eating enough – it’s that
simple. Calories become more important, fats and oils, beans and legumes, and
dairy products become more cost effective than vegetables and fruits (however,
don’t neglect vegetables to make sure your…um…” plumbing” can handle the extra
calories!).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" style="margin: 5pt 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><strong><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Oats:</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> Oats are incredibly cheap,
provide ridiculous amounts of both carbohydrates and protein, and fulfill other
micronutrient and mineral requirements such as thiamin, folate, magnesium,
and phosphorus. Oats are simple to make, can be prepared a variety of ways
(sweet or savory), and can be bought and stored easily in bulk!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" style="margin: 5pt 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><strong><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Whole
Milk:</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">
Although milk isn’t Paleo, its low cost combined with high amounts of protein,
calcium, and vitamin D makes it an attractive option when trying to meet high
calorie requirements (if your body can handle the lactose).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" style="margin: 5pt 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><strong><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Avocados:
</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Avocados are
perhaps the densest food listed in this entire article,
both calorically and nutritiously. Although they may appear costly,
avocados can be an incredible price per nutrient value. Put them in
salads, on sandwiches, or eat them plain with a little bit of salt! When
your local grocery store puts avocados on sale, be sure to stock up!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" style="margin: 5pt 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><strong><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Sweet
Potato: </span></strong><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">A
better nutritional value than normal potatoes (plus a lower glycemic load),
sweet potatoes are a great source of carbohydrates, dietary fiber, and
incredible amounts of vitamin A. Sweet potatoes sliced, covered in olive oil,
and thrown in the oven at 375 for 12 minutes each side. So simple, even a
nerd could cook it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" style="margin: 5pt 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><strong><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Olive
Oil:</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> One of
the best ways to add good fat without cholesterol or sodium is olive oil. Add
extra olive oil to salads, meats, and legumes. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" style="margin: 5pt 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><strong><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Almonds/Walnuts/Almond
butter:</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> Raw
almonds are a versatile option that can serve as a great
supplementary source of protein and fat. While almonds can be a great value, be
sure to buy them in bulk to optimize your price per nutrient deal. And if you
haven’t tried almond butter and apple slices, you’re missing out.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Eat Smart<o:p></o:p></span></u></p><p><strong><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">No matter what
value foods you plan to buy, be sure approach eating healthy on a budget </span></strong><a href="https://www.nerdfitness.com/2011/10/11/how-to-eat-healthy-without-breaking-the-bank/" target="_blank"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">with a
plan of attack.</span></i></a><strong><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></strong><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">You will find that if you take
advantage of healthy foods on sale (especially buy one get one free deals),
many foods that aren’t listed here will suddenly become a great value! <strong>Remember:
If your goal is weight loss,</strong> the majority of your calories should come
from fat and protein, NOT carbohydrates/grains! This is the whole premise
of </span><a href="https://www.nerdfitness.com/blog/2010/10/04/the-beginners-guide-to-the-paleo-diet/" target="_blank" title="the Paleo Diet"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">the
Paleo Diet</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> that
we’re so fond of. <strong><i>Concerned about pesticides and have a bit more
money to spend?</i></strong><em> Here are </em></span><a href="http://www.marksdailyapple.com/top-9-most-important-foods-to-buy-organic/#axzz2GE1QrsH6" target="_blank" title="9 foods to buy organic"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">nine foods you should try to buy organic</span></i></a><em><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">, and </span></em><a href="http://www.marksdailyapple.com/7-foods-you-dont-need-to-buy-organic/#axzz2GE1QrsH6" target="_blank" title="7 organic foods you don't need"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">seven organic options</span></i></a><em><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> you can pass up. </span></em><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">As long as you’re no longer
thinking “more is better,” but instead searching for value healthy foods,
you’ll be on your way to becoming a Superhero.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Coffee with Christ</b><b> </b></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Christ
sips his coffee and looks at me and says, “None can escape death except by my
ransom. I paid the debt. Therefore, the victory is yours for the asking but you
must ask and if anyone asks you for pardon you must also forgive. You may say
what if they don’t ask? Forgive anyway for they don’t know what they are doing
for paradise awaits you. I was forsaken for your sake. I finished it. The triumph
is yours and your brothers and sisters. I thirst for that victory of all and want
mercy for all-help them to ask.”<b> </b></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/XfZz9ymP5q8" width="320" youtube-src-id="XfZz9ymP5q8"></iframe></div><p></p><p align="left" class="CSP-ChapterTitle"><b>NIC's Corner</b></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/w6KjcavHFrA" width="320" youtube-src-id="w6KjcavHFrA"></iframe></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Daily Devotions<o:p></o:p></b></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Unite in the work of the <a href="https://portersofstjoseph.org/">Porters of St. Joseph</a> by joining them
in fasting: Today's Fast: <a href="http://www.icemanforchrist.org/2021/02/sunday-february-14-2020.html">Protection
of Traditional Marriage</a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><br /></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/msFkebkWaxk" width="320" youtube-src-id="msFkebkWaxk"></iframe></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><br /></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/liturgicalyear/activities/view.cfm?id=1243">Catholic
Activity: Religion in the Home for Preschool: March</a><o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->Total <a href="http://www.icemanforchrist.org/p/icemans-total.html"><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Consecration
to St. Joseph</span></a> Day 22<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="http://www.icemanforchrist.org/p/an-offering-to-most-sacred-heart-of.html"><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Offering to
the sacred heart of Jesus</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="https://theholyface.com/">Make
reparations to the Holy Face</a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="http://www.catholictradition.org/Christ/holy-wounds2.htm"><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Drops of
Christ’s Blood</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="http://www.icemanforchrist.org/p/icemans-40-hour-devotion.html"><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Iceman’s 40
devotion</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="http://www.icemanforchrist.org/p/universal-man-plan-phase-4-st-joseph.html">Universal
Man Plan</a><o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="https://www.saintsfeastfamily.com/copy-of-st-john-of-god-march-8-1">Saint
John of God</a><b><o:p></o:p></b></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="http://www.icemanforchrist.org/p/the-way-of-purity.html">Operation Purity</a><b><o:p></o:p></b></p><p align="left" class="CSP-ChapterTitle">
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Warrior.</span></i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p align="left" class="CSP-ChapterTitle"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">SAINTS FILICITY AND PERPETUA</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="po" style="margin: 0in;"><a name="20003025"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">1 Maccabees, Chapter 3, Verse 25<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
<p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Then Judas and his brothers began
to be <i>FEARED</i>, and dread fell upon the
Gentiles about them.</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">The
<b>Battle of Beth Horon</b> </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/AjqVZ0bsuA8" width="320" youtube-src-id="AjqVZ0bsuA8"></iframe></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">was fought in 166 BC between Jewish forces led by
Judas Maccabaeus and an army of the Seleucid Empire under the command of </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seron_%28Syrian_governor%29&action=edit&redlink=1" title="Seron (Syrian governor) (page does not exist)"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Seron</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">.
The rebel army led by Judas Maccabeus was growing in strength. They had just
inflicted a crushing defeat upon the Seleucid General Apollonius and now they
faced the forces of the Syrian Governor Seron, who was widely overconfident.
With Maccabeus' superior knowledge of the terrain, he prepared his forces to
ambush the larger Seleucid force. Seron had anticipated this and spread out his
force, but the Maccabees exhibited superior tactical skill by decimating the
general's leading unit and killing Seron himself. With their leader dead, the
shocked and disconcerted remnants of the Seleucid army took to the hills and
ran. The stubborn Seleucids refused to give up their slow phalanx-based tactics
when compared to the lightweight and quick Maccabean militia thus always
creating problems for them on the battlefield. Another force was soon sent
against Maccabaeus, which led to the Battle of Emmaus.</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="line-height: 115%;">[1]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Thv9m1LyM-8" width="320" youtube-src-id="Thv9m1LyM-8"></iframe></div><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Reflecting on this constant
struggle between the culture of death and the culture of life; I have just
received a communique that my UNION is endorsing a PRO-CHOICE candidate. Ah now
comes the rub. So begins the battle of sorts. I called 3 times to get a call
back. The answer well union dues are not used to support the candidate (killing
of children) but if I want to quit the union 1) I must draft a letter stating I
want out and 2) ask for a window (2 weeks) of when I can request again the
stoppage of my union dues. (We got your money-ha, ha, ha) or I can divorce
myself and remain silent because I am not responsible. Hmm. I would appreciate
getting feedback on this from my readers. My feeling it is like being silent
during the holocaust but please let me know your thoughts.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p>
<p align="center" class="pcon" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">On the "Pro-Choice" Position on Abortion</span></i><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="line-height: 115%;">[2]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.3in;"><a name="CP_JUMP_1739"></a><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Papal Teaching<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">But
responsibility likewise falls on the legislators who have promoted and approved
abortion laws, and, to the extent that they have a say in the matter, on the
administrators of the health-care centers where abortions are performed. ... In
this sense abortion goes beyond the responsibility of individuals and beyond
the harm done to them and takes on a distinctly social dimension. It is a most
serious wound inflicted on society and its culture by the very people who ought
to be society's promoters and defenders. </span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10pt;">Pope
John Paul II, Evangelium vitae (1995), no. 59.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">When
a parliamentary or social majority decrees that it is legal, at least under
certain conditions, to kill unborn human life, is it not really making a
'tyrannical' decision with regard to the weakest and most defenseless of human
beings?....While public authority can sometimes choose not to put a stop to
something which – were it prohibited – would cause more serious harm, it can
never presume to legitimize as a right of individuals – even if they are the
majority of the members of society – an offense against other persons caused by
the disregard of so fundamental a right as the right to life. </span><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10pt;">Id., nos. 70, 71.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Laws
which legitimize the direct killing of innocent human beings through abortion
or euthanasia are in complete opposition to the inviolable right to life proper
to every individual; they thus deny the equality of everyone before the law. </span><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10pt;">Id., no. 72.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Utilitarianism
is a civilization of production and of use, a civilization of
"things" and not of "persons", a civilization in which
persons are used in the same way as things are used. In the context of a
civilization of use, woman can become an object for man, children a hindrance
to parents, the family an institution obstructing the freedom of its members.
To be convinced that this is the case, one need only look at certain sexual
education programmes introduced into the schools, often notwithstanding the
disagreement and even the protests of many parents; or pro-abortion tendencies
which vainly try to hide behind the so-called "right to choose"
("pro-choice") on the part of both spouses, and in particular on the
part of the woman. </span><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10pt;">Pope John Paul II,
Letter to Families, February 2, 1994, no. 13<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p style="text-indent: 0.3in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">On "social sin":<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Also
social is every sin against the rights of the human person, beginning with the
right to life and including the life of the unborn or against a person's
physical integrity...The term social can be applied to sins of commission or
omission-on the part of political, economic or trade union leaders, who though in a position to do so, do not work
diligently and wisely for the improvement and transformation of society
according to the requirements and potential of the given historic
moment...Whenever the church speaks of situations of sin or when the condemns
as social sins certain situations or the collective behavior of certain social
groups, big or small, or even of whole nations and blocs of nations, she knows
and she proclaims that such cases of social sin are the result of the
accumulation and concentration of many personal sins. It is a case of the very
personal sins of those who cause or support evil or who exploit it; of those
who are in a position to avoid, eliminate or at least limit certain social evils
but who fail to do so out of laziness, fear or the conspiracy of silence,
through secret complicity or indifference; of those who take refuge in the
supposed impossibility of changing the world and also of those who sidestep the
effort and sacrifice required, producing specious reasons of a higher order.
The real responsibility, then, lies with individuals. </span><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10pt;">Pope John Paul II, Reconciliation and Penance (1984),
no. 16<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Thursday
of the Third Week of Lent</span></b><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "PMingLiU",serif; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[3]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><i> </i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.3in; text-align: center;"><i>Prayer.</i><b> </b>MAY heavenly propitiation increase Thy
people subject to Thee, O Lord, we beseech Thee, and make them ever servants of
Thy commandments.<b><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><i>EPISTLE.
Jer. vii. 1-7.<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal">In those days the word of the Lord came to me, saying Stand in the
gate of the house of the Lord, and proclaim there this word, and say: Hear ye
the word of the Lord, all ye men of Juda, that enter in at these gates, to
adore the Lord. Thus, saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Make your
ways and your doings good: and I will dwell with you in this place. Trust not
in lying words, saying: The temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, it is
the temple of the Lord. For if you will order well your ways, and your doings:
if you will execute judgment between a man and his neighbor, if you oppress not
the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in
this place, and walk not after strange gods to your own hurt, I will dwell with
you in this place: in the land which I gave to your fathers from the beginning
and forever, saith the Lord Almighty. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><i>GOSPEL.
Luke iv. 38-44.<o:p></o:p></i></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/AfKTCvbWY2Y" width="320" youtube-src-id="AfKTCvbWY2Y"></iframe></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal">At that time Jesus,
rising up out of the synagogue, went into Simon’s house. And Simon’s wife’s
mother was taken with a great fever, and they besought Him for her. And
standing over her, He commanded the fever, and it left her. And immediately
rising, she ministered to them. And when the sun was down, all they that had
any sick with divers’ diseases brought them to Him. But He laying His hands on
every one of them, healed them. And devils went out from many, crying out and
saying: Thou art the Son of God. And rebuking them He suffered them not to
speak, for they knew that He was Christ. And when it was day, going out He went
into a desert place, and the multitudes sought Him, and came unto Him: and they
stayed Him that He should not depart from them. To whom He said: To other
cities also I must preach the kingdom of God: for therefor am I sent. And He
was preaching in the synagogues of Galilee.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><i>Lenten
Calendar</i><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><i><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[4]</span></b></span></span><!--[endif]--></i></span></a><i><o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><i>Read:</i> The Seven Penitential Psalms, Day
Three:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">(During
times when we wish to express repentance, and especially during Lent, it is
customary to pray the seven penitential psalms. The penitential designation of
these psalms’ dates back to the seventh century. Prayerfully reciting these
psalms will help us to recognize our sinfulness, express our sorrow and ask for
God’s forgiveness.) Today we will focus on Psalm 38. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><i>Reflect: </i>Read this reflection on <a href="http://www.usccb.org/prayer-and-worship/liturgical-year/lent/reflections-seven-penitential-psalms-38.cfm"><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Psalm 38—Prayer of an Afflicted Sinner</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><i>Pray: </i>“LORD, do not punish me in your anger,
in your wrath do not chastise me!” (Ps 38:2)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" class="pcon" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; padding: 0in;">Preparing
for Battle</span></i><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" title=""><i><sup><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: xx-small; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-color-alt: windowtext; padding: 0in;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><b><sup><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1pt none windowtext; line-height: 115%; padding: 0in;">[5]</span></sup></b><!--[endif]--></span></sup></i></a><i><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">
</span>Know Your Weapons</span></i><i><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="pcon" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0in;">The weapon of Sacred Sacraments</span></i><i><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="pcon" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 0.25in; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;">1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; padding: 0in;">Baptism. Baptism is a sacrament of liberation and deliverance
from Satan and his realm.</span><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="pcon" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 0.25in; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;">2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; padding: 0in;">Reconciliation. Each time we sin, the Devil strengthens his
grip on us; that is why it’s so important to go to sacramental Confession
regularly.</span><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="pcon" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 0.25in; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;">3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; padding: 0in;">The Eucharist. Mass is a great defense against the assault of
the Devil. Before Him the all-conquering power, the demons must flee. “We must
return from that Table like lions breathing fire, having become terrifying to
the Devil!”</span><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="pcon" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 0.25in; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;">4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; padding: 0in;">Confirmation. To confirm means to make strong.</span><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="pcon" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 0.25in; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;">5.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; padding: 0in;">Anointing of the Sick. Illness, especially serious illness,
can be a trial in which Satan comes to tempt us to be overcome by fear,
discouragement, doubt, and even despair.</span><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="pcon" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;">6.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; padding: 0in;">Matrimony. The Devil’s first attack on the human race was
focused on a married couple. The home must become a sanctuary, a holy place, a
fortress against Satan’s assaults.</span><b><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="left" class="pcon" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;">7.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; padding: 0in;">Holy Orders. The sacrament through which Christ’s mission for
the Church continues to be exercised until the end of the world.</span><b><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="pcon" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; text-align: center;"><i><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; padding: 0in;">Holy Order of Porters</span></i><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><i><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-color-alt: windowtext; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1pt none windowtext; line-height: 115%; padding: 0in;">[6]</span></b></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></i></span></a><i><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">In
the last 50 years, various minor orders in the church, including porter,
exorcist, and the major order of subdeacon simply no longer exist in the Latin
Church who no longer felt they were necessary [<i>all of the minor orders and
the subdiaconate</i> <i>are still used within the Independent Sacramental
Movement</i>]. What is the theology behind these orders and why were they
abolished?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">As
early as the third century, certain roles of service, including deacon,
subdeacon, lector, and acolyte, were present in the church. These orders over
time became linked to preparation for the priesthood and were divided between
“minor orders” (porter, exorcist, lector, and acolyte) and “major orders”
(subdeacon, deacon, and priest). Each order was received, and its function
performed for a suitable time before a man was ordained to the
priesthood. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">The
roles were varied but served a legitimate purpose in the early church, usually
related to the Mass. For instance, the porter was the doorkeeper, responsible
for opening and closing the church and guarding the door during the celebration
of Mass. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">Together
the orders constituted ministries of service that developed in the church
according to need. Yet over time, many of them lost their function. The orders,
especially porter and exorcist, became symbolic. The loss of these functions
occasioned a revision of the orders after the Second Vatican Council.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><i>The
Ordination of Porters.<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">This
order confers the office of caring for the dignity of the house of God and of
maintaining order therein. During the early persecutions it was necessary to
indicate to the faithful the time and place of divine service, and to keep the
doors of the place of meeting locked against intruders. This was the duty of
the “porters” and “messengers of God.” The duties of this office are pointed
out by the bishop to be: “To strike the cymbal and ring the bell, to open the
church and the sanctuary, and the book of him who preaches.” These duties are
symbolic for the still higher duty “of closing to the devil and opening to God,
by their word and example, the invisible house of God, namely, the hearts of
the faithful.” <o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">The
matter of this order is the presenting of the keys of the church to the clerics
to be touched by their right hand, and the form is the accompanying admonition:
“Conduct yourselves as having to render an account to God for those things
which are kept under these keys.” <o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">The
bishop then invites all present to pray with him “that these porters may be
most diligent in their care of the house of God.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">Although
the Ostiariate is no longer a distinct institution in the Church, still for
that very reason every pastor ought to be a true ostiary, consumed with zeal
for the house of God. He must love the church, frequently visit it, banish from
it all uncleanliness, disorder, and irreverence, procure decent vestments and
ornaments, and guard against the loss or profanation of anything consecrated to
divine service. He must himself be punctual and urge others to punctuality in
divine service. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">Still
greater care must he bestow on the “invisible house of God, the hearts of the
faithful,” that they may be closed to the devil and opened to the graces and
blessings of God, promoting thus the interior service of God by word and deed.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><a href="https://portersofstjoseph.org/"><i>The
Porters Today</i></a><i><o:p></o:p></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/DN1TOO1t96A" width="320" youtube-src-id="DN1TOO1t96A"></iframe></div><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><i>MISSION
STATEMENT</i></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">The
Porters of Saint Joseph is a volunteer apostolate with the mission to imitate
St. Joseph as the Protector of the Holy Church, Pillar of Families, and Terror
of Demons.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">We
do this by providing a safe environment at our parishes so the faithful can
worship God in peace and security. We build teams of faithful men who have felt
the call to get involved but have not yet found the opportunity to put their
courageous, heroic, masculine heart at the service of their parish, while at
the same time, forming a bond of Christian brotherhood with like-minded men.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">Fulfill
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<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"> “The Porters of St. Joseph are a very
active and important ministry for men in our parish. They provide support to
the parish and to me as the Pastor in many ways, most especially as security
and medical assistance during Masses. Recently we had two instances where
members of the parish had medical emergencies during Mass. The Porters of St.
Joseph immediately assisted these parishioners, getting them to safety and
assessing their need for treatment without a disruption to the congregation or
the Mass. The Porters of St. Joseph also provided our parish with a safety
assessment and a plan to increase safety on our parish campus. I highly
recommend this ministry to any Pastor who would love to mobilize the men of
their parish to grow in their spirituality and devotion to the Blessed
Sacrament, while providing a much needed ministry.”<i><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Fr. John Muir
// Vicar General // Diocese of Phoenix</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Martyrdom of </span></b><a href="https://www.saintsfeastfamily.com/copy-of-sts-perpetua-felicity-mar"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Felicity and Perpetua</span></b></a><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn7" name="_ftnref7" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="line-height: 115%;">[7]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p style="margin: 0in;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/cFMbuTbNDvc" width="320" youtube-src-id="cFMbuTbNDvc"></iframe></div><p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Perpetua was twenty-two, well born,
married and the mother of a tiny son still at her breast. Felicitas, an
expectant mother, was a slave. They were among five catechumens whose arrest
and imprisonment were meant as a warning to the other Christians in Carthage in
the year 203. Tormented by her father who was a pagan and wanted her to
apostatize, terrified by the darkness and stifling heat of the dungeon where
they were imprisoned, Perpetua's greatest suffering nevertheless was for her
baby who was with her.</span></p>
<p align="left"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Baptism, however, drove away her <i>fears</i> and with the coming of the Holy
Spirit she was at peace and the prison became to her as a palace; in visions
she learned the manner of their martyrdom and caught glimpses of what awaits
souls in the life after death. Among these was a vision of Purgatory where she
saw her little brother Dinocratus suffering. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Dinocratus had died when he was
only seven, painfully ulcerated about the face. Perpetua saw him "coming
out of a dark place where there were many others," dirtily clad, pale,
with the wound still on his face, and he was very hot and thirsty. Near him was
a fountain but its brim was higher than he could reach and, though he stood on
tiptoe, he could not drink. By this vision she knew he needed her prayers, and
she prayed for him night and day. On the day the Christians were put in stocks,
she had another vision and saw Dinocratus freed. This time he was clean and
finely clothed, on his face was a clean scar and beside him a low fountain
reaching only to his waist. On the edge of the fountain was a golden cup ever
full of water, and Dinocratus drank. "And when he had drunk, he came away
— pleased to play, as children will." <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">In the meantime, Felicitas was
worried for <i>fear</i> her baby would not
be born in time for her to die for Christ with her companions. There was a law
which forbade throwing even a Christian woman to the wild beasts if she was
with child. Three days before they were to go to the arena, they prayed God
would permit the birth of her child, and as soon as their prayers were done,
her labor began. She gave birth to a little girl who was afterward adopted by
her sister. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">At last, the scene of their
martyrdom and in its Perpetua and Felicity were told to put on the garments of
pagan priestesses, the two refused and so were stripped naked, covered with
nets, and sent to face assault by a maddened cow said to have been used in
insult to their womanhood and their maternity. Strangely enough the audience —
screaming for blood though it was — yet was touched by the sight of these two
so young and so valiant, and the people shuddered. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Perpetua and Felicitas were called
back and clothed in loose robes. Now Perpetua was thrown, her garment rent, and
her thigh gored. Regaining her feet, she gathered her tunic over her thigh so
in suffering she would not appear immodest and looking about found her fallen
hair ornament and repinned her hair least one soon to be a martyr seem to
grieve in her glory. Looking for Felicitas, she gave assistance to her and
standing together they awaited another attack. But the mob cried,
"Enough," and the two were led off to the headsman's block. Catching
sight of her brother, Perpetua cried out: "Stand fast in the faith and
love one another; and do not let our sufferings be a stumbling block to
you." Felicitas was struck down first then Perpetua — but only after the
nervous swordsman had struck her once and failed to sever her head. The second
time she guided his sword with her own hands. So brave, and so full of love;
perhaps if she were dying now, she would exhort us to be brave and full of love
in slightly different words. Perhaps she would cry out, "Stand fast in the
faith and love one another; and do not let our color be a stumbling block to
you." Perpetua was white, and Felicitas was black. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Catechism
of the Catholic Church<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: 0.3in;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">PART THREE: LIFE IN CHRIST</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.3in; text-indent: 0.3in;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">SECTION TWO-THE TEN COMMANDMENTS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.9in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">CHAPTER
TWO-YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.2in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b>Article 5-THE FIFTH
COMMANDMENT</b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.2in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-indent: 0.3in;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">II. Respect for the Dignity of Persons</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.2in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-indent: 0.3in;"><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_FEl-z7pBW8" width="320" youtube-src-id="_FEl-z7pBW8"></iframe></b></div><p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">Respect for the souls of
others: scandal<o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2284 Scandal is an attitude or
behavior which leads another to do evil. The person who gives scandal becomes
his neighbor's tempter. He damages virtue and integrity; he may even draw his
brother into spiritual death. Scandal is a grave offense if by deed or omission
another is deliberately led into a grave offense.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2285 Scandal takes on a
particular gravity by reason of the authority of those who cause it or the
weakness of those who are scandalized. It prompted our Lord to utter this
curse: "Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin,
it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened round his neck
and to be drowned in the depth of the sea." Scandal is grave when
given by those who by nature or office are obliged to teach and educate others.
Jesus reproaches the scribes and Pharisees on this account: he likens them to
wolves in sheep's clothing. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2286 Scandal can be provoked by
laws or institutions, by fashion or opinion.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal">Therefore, they are guilty of
scandal who establish laws or social structures leading to the decline of
morals and the corruption of religious practice, or to "social conditions
that, intentionally or not, make Christian conduct and obedience to the
Commandments difficult and practically impossible." This is also true
of business leaders who make rules encouraging fraud, teachers who provoke
their children to anger, or manipulators of public opinion who turn it
away from moral values.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2287 Anyone who uses the power
at his disposal in such a way that it leads others to do wrong becomes guilty
of scandal and responsible for the evil that he has directly or indirectly
encouraged. "Temptations to sin are sure to come; but woe to him by whom
they come!" <o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal">Respect for health<o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2288 Life and physical health
are precious gifts entrusted to us by God.<br />
We must take reasonable care of them, taking into account the needs of others
and the common good.<br />
Concern for the health of its citizens requires that society help in the
attainment of living-conditions that allow them to grow and reach maturity:
food and clothing, housing, health care, basic education, employment, and
social assistance.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2289 If morality requires
respect for the life of the body, it does not make it an absolute value.<br />
It rejects a neo-pagan notion that tends to promote the cult of the body, to
sacrifice everything for it's sake, to idolize physical perfection and success
at sports.<br />
By its selective preference of the strong over the weak, such a conception can
lead to the perversion of human relationships.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2290 The virtue of temperance
disposes us to avoid every kind of excess: the abuse of food, alcohol, tobacco,
or medicine. Those incur grave guilt who, by drunkenness or a love of speed,
endanger their own and others' safety on the road, at sea, or in the air.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2291 The use of drugs inflicts
very grave damage on human health and life. Their use, except on strictly
therapeutic grounds, is a grave offense. Clandestine production of and
trafficking in drugs are scandalous practices. They constitute direct co-operation
in evil, since they encourage people to practices gravely contrary to the moral
law.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal">Respect for the person and
scientific research<o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2292 Scientific, medical, or
psychological experiments on human individuals or groups can contribute to
healing the sick and the advancement of public health.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2293 Basic scientific research,
as well as applied research, is a significant expression of man's dominion over
creation. Science and technology are precious resources when placed at the
service of man and promote his integral development for the benefit of all. By
themselves however they cannot disclose the meaning of existence and of human
progress. Science and technology are ordered to man, from whom they take their
origin and development; hence they find in the person and in his moral values
both evidence of their purpose and awareness of their limits.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2294 It is an illusion to claim
moral neutrality in scientific research and its applications. On the other
hand, guiding principles cannot be inferred from simple technical efficiency,
or from the usefulness accruing to some at the expense of others or, even
worse, from prevailing ideologies. Science and technology by their very nature
require unconditional respect for fundamental moral criteria. They must be at
the service of the human person, of his inalienable rights, of his true and
integral good, in conformity with the plan and the will of God.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2295 Research or
experimentation on the human being cannot legitimate acts that are in
themselves contrary to the dignity of persons and to the moral law. the
subjects' potential consent does not justify such acts. Experimentation on
human beings is not morally legitimate if it exposes the subject's life or
physical and psychological integrity to disproportionate or avoidable risks.
Experimentation on human beings does not conform to the dignity of the person
if it takes place without the informed consent of the subject or those who
legitimately speak for him.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2296 Organ transplants are in
conformity with the moral law if the physical and psychological dangers and
risks incurred by the donor are proportionate to the good sought for the
recipient. Donation of organs after death is a noble and meritorious act and is
to be encouraged as a manifestation of generous solidarity. It is not morally
acceptable if the donor or those who legitimately speak for him have not given
their explicit consent.<br />
It is furthermore morally inadmissible directly to bring about the disabling
mutilation or death of a human being, even in order to delay the death of other
persons.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal">Respect for bodily integrity<o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2297 Kidnapping and hostage
taking bring on a reign of terror; by means of threats they subject their
victims to intolerable pressures. They are morally wrong. Terrorism threatens,
wounds, and kills indiscriminately; it is gravely against justice and charity.<br />
Torture which uses physical or moral violence to extract confessions, punish
the guilty, frighten opponents, or satisfy hatred is contrary to respect for
the person and for human dignity. Except when performed for strictly
therapeutic medical reasons, directly intended amputations, mutilations, and
sterilizations performed on innocent persons are against the moral law. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2298 In times past, cruel
practices were commonly used by legitimate governments to maintain law and
order, often without protest from the Pastors of the Church, who themselves
adopted in their own tribunals the prescriptions of Roman law concerning torture.
Regrettable as these facts are, the Church always taught the duty of clemency
and mercy. She forbade clerics to shed blood. In recent times it has become
evident that these cruel practices were neither necessary for public order, nor
in conformity with the legitimate rights of the human person. On the contrary,
these practices led to ones even more degrading. It is necessary to work for
their abolition. We must pray for the victims and their tormentors.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal">Respect for the dead<o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2299 The dying should be given
attention and care to help them live their last moments in dignity and peace.
They will be helped by the prayer of their relatives, who must see to it that
the sick receive at the proper time the sacraments that prepare them to meet
the living God.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2300 The bodies of the dead
must be treated with respect and charity, in faith and hope of the
Resurrection. the burial of the dead is a corporal work of mercy; it
honors the children of God, who are temples of the Holy Spirit.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2301 Autopsies can be morally
permitted for legal inquests or scientific research. the free gift of organs
after death is legitimate and can be meritorious.<br />
The Church permits cremation, provided that it does not demonstrate a denial of
faith in the resurrection of the body. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b>Thursday
Feast</b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">Thursday
is the day of the week that our Lord gave himself up for consumption. Thursday
commemorates the last supper. Some theologians believe after Sunday Thursday is
the holiest day of the week. We should then try to make this day special by
making a visit to the blessed sacrament chapel, Mass or even stopping by the
grave of a loved one. Why not plan to count the blessing of the week and thank
our Lord. Plan a special meal. Be at Peace.<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->According to Mary Agreda<a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn8" name="_ftnref8" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[8]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
in her visions it was on a Thursday at six o'clock in the evening and at the
approach of night that the Angel Gabriel approached and announced her as Mother
of God and she gave her fiat.<b><i> </i></b></p>
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Iowa Chops<o:p></o:p></li>
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Bar Apple Salad<o:p></o:p></li>
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Dinner Cigars<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="CSP-ChapterTitle"><o:p><b> Rachel's Corner</b></o:p></p><p align="left" class="CSP-ChapterTitle"><o:p></o:p></p><h1><a href="https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/brain-tumour-awareness-month/"><span style="font-size: medium;">Brain Tumor Awareness Month</span></a></h1><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/l4uHBHMrIXI" width="320" youtube-src-id="l4uHBHMrIXI"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5wIXvElEiyo" width="320" youtube-src-id="5wIXvElEiyo"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Full Worm Moon</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: left;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">According
to the almanac we are having a Full Worm Moon-plan to take your family or
grandchildren fishing! Hummingbirds are migrating North now; look for them.</span><b> </b></p><p style="margin: 0in;"><b><br /></b></p><p style="margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/sUsCBJ4Em7E" width="320" youtube-src-id="sUsCBJ4Em7E"></iframe></div><p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Daily Devotions<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Unite in the work of the <a href="https://portersofstjoseph.org/">Porters of St. Joseph</a> by joining them
in fasting: Today's Fast: <a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2004-02-18-0402180306-story.html">Holy
Bishops and Cardinals</a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="http://www.icemanforchrist.org/p/eucharisticstations-of-cross.html"><i>do
a personal eucharistic stations of the cross.</i></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->Total <a href="http://www.icemanforchrist.org/p/icemans-total.html"><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Consecration
to St. Joseph</span></a> Day 21<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="http://www.icemanforchrist.org/p/an-offering-to-most-sacred-heart-of.html"><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Offering to
the sacred heart of Jesus</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="https://theholyface.com/">Make
reparations to the Holy Face</a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="http://www.catholictradition.org/Christ/holy-wounds2.htm"><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Drops of
Christ’s Blood</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="http://www.icemanforchrist.org/p/universal-man-plan-phase-4-st-joseph.html">Universal
Man Plan</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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Wednesday</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="po" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></b></p><p class="po" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">1 Maccabees, Chapter 3, Verse 6-7<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="po" style="margin: 0in;"><span class="bcv"><sup><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">6</span></sup></span><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">The lawless were
cowed by <i>FEAR</i> of him, and all
evildoers were dismayed. By his hand deliverance was happily achieved, </span></b><span class="bcv"><sup><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">7</span></sup></span><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">and
he afflicted many kings. He gave joy to Jacob by his deeds, and his memory is
blessed forever.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="po" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></b></p><p class="po" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Judas
Maccabees was a defender of the weak that were oppressed by renegades and by
the kings of the region. To understand this better let’s look at the words’
meaning.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="po" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></p><p class="po" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">renegades</span></b><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">[1]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
a person who deserts and betrays an organization, country, or set of
principles.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]-->1.<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span><!--[endif]-->A person who behaves in a rebelliously unconventional
manner.<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]-->2.<!--[endif]--><i>Archaic </i>a person who abandons religion, an
apostate.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">How many of us have at times been cowed by the fleshes
weakness or the world as professed by the media and given in to false prophets
that spout the culture of death. We <i>must</i>
stand with the Church and not be cowed and show ourselves as people trusting in
God in the midst of troubles.<o:p></o:p></p><p align="center" class="po" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Trusting
in God in the Midst of Troubles<a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">[2]</span></span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p align="center" class="po" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></p><p align="center" class="po" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/c3EAQ2jPXf4" width="320" youtube-src-id="c3EAQ2jPXf4"></iframe></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">Saint Augustine, 354 –430 A.D.
had something to say about the private storms in our lives. St. Augustine was a
philosopher and theologian who tells us<i>, “Don't forget the presence of
Christ. When you have to listen to abuse, that means you are being buffeted by
the wind; when your anger is roused, you are being tossed by the waves. So when
the winds blow and the waves mount high, the boat is in danger, your heart is
imperiled, your heart is taking a battering. On hearing yourself insulted, you
long to retaliate; but the joy of revenge brings with it another kind of
misfortune—shipwreck. Why is this? Because Christ is asleep in you. What do I
mean? I mean you have forgotten His presence. Rouse him, then; remember Him,
let Him keep watch within you, pay heed to Him. Now what was your desire? You
wanted to get your own back. You have forgotten that when Christ was being
crucified, He said: Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.
Christ, the sleeper in your heart, had no desire for vengeance in his. Rouse
Him, then, call him to mind.”</i> There will
be encounters we cannot envision; cannot see for they lie around the bend in
the roads of our life. Sometimes it takes only the ringing of the telephone to
change an entire well-made plan, bringing us to truths we hope we never hear
such as the death of a beloved relative or the news that someone we care deeply
for has an incurable illness. There might be a knock on the door that brings
life-changing news that will break our hearts.
But it is in the midst of uncertainty and trials, as we teeter on the
brim of a chasm wondering what to do, imploring God with weakening hope to come
forth for us, that we can see we are stronger than we thought. Through
faith, we are able to pull ourselves up from the edge of unspeakable hardship
to keep ploughing forward on our heaven bound journey. It is a time when we can
understand and measure our capacity to endure, to assess our strength and
continue through life’s fiercest turbulence. We look at those who are surviving
terrible calamities and adversities, and we cannot understand how they
persevere, how they can put one foot in front of the other and move on, running
toward a goal that others cannot see. These are the people with great faith,
who are willing to <i>"let go of the branch" </i>and depend on Jesus
Christ and His promises. <i>“God is our refuge and strength, always ready to
help in times of trouble. So we will not fear when earthquakes come and the
mountains crumble into the sea. Let the oceans roar and foam. Let the mountains
tremble as the waters surge!” -</i>Psalm 46: 1-3. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">Do not let your faith be swallowed up by <i>fear</i>. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">Do not wallow in self-pity, for
Almighty God knows your circumstances and what you are going through. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">Take your supplications to God
and find the solace and comfort you need to overcome. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">Be always mindful that in the
middle of the violent storms that steal away your joy, batter your dreams, and
flatten your hopes, you will find the Prince of Peace, Jesus Christ Who says <i>"I
will never leave thee, nor forsake thee” -</i>Hebrews 13:5. <b><o:p></o:p></b></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><i>First Wednesday</i></b><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><i><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%;">[3]</span></b></span></i></span></a> </span></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> <iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/OcxPXcfZn-Y?si=GFnaTfSo-UDO1dsO" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe> </span></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Our Heavenly Father
desires all three hearts of Jesus, Mary and Joseph to be honored. And so along
with devotion to Jesus on First Fridays, and to Mary on First Saturdays, Our
Father longs for us to add devotion to St. Joseph on each First Wednesday of the
month. </p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">"The Sacred
Hearts of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph have been chosen by the Most Holy Trinity to
bring peace to the world." It is at God's request that "special love
and honor be given to them" to help us "imitate" their love and their
lives, as well as "offer reparation" for the sins committed against
them and their love. </p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">The St. Joseph First Wednesday devotion is: </p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">1. Pray the Joyful
Mysteries of the Rosary - remembering St. Joseph's love, his life, his role and
his sufferings </p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">2. Receive Holy
Communion - in union with the love St. Joseph had for Jesus the first time and
each time he held him - his son, his God and Savior - in his arms. </p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">In the approved
apparitions of Our Lady of America, St. Joseph revealed:<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.55in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->"I
am the protector of the Church and the home, as I was the protector of Christ
and his Mother while I lived upon earth. Jesus and Mary desire that my pure
heart, so long hidden and unknown, be now honored in a special way. <o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.55in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CNg03YHWF2s" width="320" youtube-src-id="CNg03YHWF2s"></iframe></div><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.55in; text-indent: -0.25in;"> </p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.55in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->Let my
children honor my most pure heart in a special manner on the First Wednesday of
the month by reciting the Joyful Mysteries of the Rosary in memory of my life
with Jesus and Mary and the love I bore them, the sorrow I suffered with them. <o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.05in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.55in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->Let them
receive Holy Communion in union with the love with which I received the Savior
for the first time and each time I held Him in my arms. <o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.05in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.55in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->Those
who honor me in this way will be consoled by my presence at their death, and I
myself will conduct them safely into the presence of Jesus and Mary." <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><a name="05008005"><b>Wednesday before <i>Laetare</i> Sunday</b></a><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">[4]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> beginning of Mid-Lent<o:p></o:p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><i>Prayer.</i> GRANT us, we beseech Thee, O
Lord, that, instructed by wholesome fasting, and abstaining from dangerous
vices, we may more easily obtain Thy favor.<o:p></o:p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><i>EPISTLE. Exodus xx. 12-24.<o:p></o:p></i></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">Thus,
saith the Lord God: Honor thy father and thy mother, that thou mayest be
long-lived upon the land which the Lord thy God will give thee. Thou shalt not kill.
Thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not bear false
witness against thy neighbor. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s house:
neither shalt thou desire his wife, nor his servant, nor his handmaid, nor his
ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is his. And all the people saw the voices
and the flames, and the sound of the trumpet, and the mount smoking: and being
terrified and struck with fear, they stood afar off, saying to Moses: Speak
thou to us, and we will hear let not the Lord speak to us, lest we die. And
Moses said to the people: Fear not: for God has come to prove you, and that the
dread of Him might be in you, and you should not sin. And the people stood afar
off. But Moses went to the dark cloud wherein God was. And the Lord said to
Moses: Thus, shalt thou say to the children of Israel: You have seen that I
have spoken to you from heaven. You shall not make gods of silver, nor shall
you make to yourselves gods of gold. You shall make an altar of earth unto Me,
and you shall offer upon it your holocausts and peace-offerings, your sheep and
oxen, in every place where the memory of My name shall be.<o:p></o:p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><i>GOSPEL. Matt. xv. 1-20.<o:p></o:p></i></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ivfvKtGetug" width="320" youtube-src-id="ivfvKtGetug"></iframe></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">At that time there came
to Jesus from Jerusalem scribes and Pharisees, saying: Why do Thy disciples
transgress the traditions of the ancients? For they wash not their hands when
they eat bread. But He answering, said to them: Why do you also transgress the
commandment of God for your tradition? For God said: Honor thy father and
mother; and: He that shall curse father or mother, let him die the death. But
you say: Whosoever shall say to father or mother, the gift whatso ever
proceedeth from me, shall profit thee; and he shall not honor his father or his
mother: and you have made void the commandment of God for jour tradition.
Hypocrites, well hath Isaias prophesied of you, saying: This people honoreth Me
with their lips: but their heart is far from Me. And in vain do they worship
Me, teaching doctrines and commandments of men. And having called together the
multitudes unto Him, He said to them: Hear ye and understand. Not that which
goeth into the mouth defileth a man: but what cometh out of the mouth, this defileth
a man. Then came His disciples, and said to Him: Dost Thou know that the
Pharisees, when they heard this word, were scandalized? <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">But He answering, said:
Every plant which My heavenly Father hath not planted shall be rooted up. Let
them alone: they are blind, and leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the
blind, both fall into the pit. And Peter answering, said to Him: Expound to us
this parable. But He said: Are you also yet without understanding? Do you not
understand, that whatsoever entereth into the mouth goeth into the belly, and
is cast out into the privy? But the things which proceed out of the mouth, come
forth from the heart, and those things defile a man. For from the heart come
forth evil thoughts, murders,<b> </b>adulteries,
fornications, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies. These are the things that
defile a man. But to eat with unwashed hands doth not defile a man.<o:p></o:p></p><p align="center" class="CSP-ChapterBodyText" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Mid-Lent
Customs</span></i><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="line-height: 115%;">[5]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: left; text-indent: 0in;"> </span></span></p><p align="left" class="CSP-ChapterBodyText" style="text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Mid-Lent,
the week from the Wednesday before to the Wednesday after Laetare Sunday, is a
note of joy within the context of sorrow. The perfect symbol of this complex
emotion is the rose vestments worn on Laetare Sunday instead of penitential
purple or exultant white. Rose stands somewhere in between, as a sort of joyous
variation of purple. The last day of Mid-Lent is when catechumens would learn
the Apostles' Creed for the first time; the days leading up to that great
revelation were thus for them a cause for gladness. This spirit eventually
permeated to the rest of the community as "a measure of consoling
relaxation... so that the faithful might not break down under the severe
strains of the Lenten fast but may continue to bear the restrictions with a
refreshed and easier heart" (Pope Innocent III (d. 1216)).</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0in;"> </span></p><p align="left" class="CSP-ChapterBodyText" style="text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Mid-Lent
customs predominantly involve pre-Christian celebrations concerning the
"burial" of winter, where flower decorations and the like betoken the
joyous end of the cold and dark. There are also customs involving either
matchmaking or announcing the engagements of young couples. In either case, a
joyous meal is celebrated during this time.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0in;"> </span></p><p align="left" class="CSP-ChapterBodyText" style="text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">In
England Laetare Sunday came to be known as "Mothering" Sunday because
it was the day that apprentices and students were released from their duties to
visit their mother church, i.e., the church in which they had been baptized and
brought up. This custom tied into the theme of Mother Jerusalem.</span><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></b></p><p align="left" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Catechism
of the Catholic Church<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: 0.3in;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">PART THREE: LIFE IN CHRIST</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.3in; text-indent: 0.3in;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">SECTION TWO-THE TEN COMMANDMENTS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.9in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">CHAPTER
TWO-YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.2in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b>Article 5-THE FIFTH
COMMANDMENT</b><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.2in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-indent: 0.3in;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">I. Respect for Human Life</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.2in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-indent: 0.3in;"><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/1X1goDpDy2g" width="320" youtube-src-id="1X1goDpDy2g"></iframe></b></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal">The witness of sacred history<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2259 In the account of Abel's
murder by his brother Cain, Scripture reveals the presence of anger and
envy in man, consequences of original sin, from the beginning of human history.
Man has become the enemy of his fellow man. God declares the wickedness of this
fratricide: "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood is
crying to me from the ground. and now you are cursed from the ground, which has
opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand." <o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2260 The covenant between God
and mankind is interwoven with reminders of God's gift of human life and man's
murderous violence:<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.4pt;">For your
lifeblood I will surely require a reckoning.... Whoever sheds the blood of man,
by man shall his blood be shed; for God made man in his own image. <o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">The Old Testament always
considered blood a sacred sign of life. This teaching remains necessary
for all time.<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2261 Scripture specifies the
prohibition contained in the fifth commandment: "Do not slay the innocent
and the righteous." The deliberate murder of an innocent person is
gravely contrary to the dignity of the human being, to the golden rule, and to
the holiness of the Creator. The law forbidding it is universally valid: it
obliges each and everyone, always and everywhere.<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2262 In the Sermon on the
Mount, the Lord recalls the commandment, "You shall not
kill," and adds to it the proscription of anger, hatred, and
vengeance. Going further, Christ asks his disciples to turn the other cheek, to
love their enemies. He did not defend himself and told Peter to leave his
sword in its sheath. <o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">Legitimate defense<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2263 The legitimate defense of
persons and societies is not an exception to the prohibition against the murder
of the innocent that constitutes intentional killing. "The act of
self-defense can have a double effect: the preservation of one's own life; and
the killing of the aggressor.... the one is intended, the other is not." <o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2264 Love toward oneself
remains a fundamental principle of morality. Therefore it is legitimate to
insist on respect for one's own right to life. Someone who defends his life is
not guilty of murder even if he is forced to deal his aggressor a lethal blow:<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.4pt;">If a man in
self-defense uses more than necessary violence, it will be unlawful: whereas if
he repels force with moderation, his defense will be lawful.... Nor is it
necessary for salvation that a man omit the act of moderate self-defense to
avoid killing the other man, since one is bound to take more care of one's own
life than of another's.<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2265 Legitimate defense can be
not only a right but a grave duty for someone responsible for another's life.
Preserving the common good requires rendering the unjust aggressor unable to
inflict harm. To this end, those holding legitimate authority have the right to
repel by armed force aggressors against the civil community entrusted to their
charge. <o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">Capital Punishment<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2266 The State's effort to
contain the spread of behaviors injurious to human rights and the fundamental
rules of civil coexistence corresponds to the requirement of watching over the
common good. Legitimate public authority has the right and duty to inflict
penalties commensurate with the gravity of the crime. The primary scope of the
penalty is to redress the disorder caused by the offense. When his punishment
is voluntarily accepted by the offender, it takes on the value of expiation.
Moreover, punishment, in addition to preserving public order and the safety of
persons, has a medicinal scope: as far as possible it should contribute to the
correction of the offender. <o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2267 Recourse to the death
penalty on the part of legitimate authority, following a fair trial, was long
considered an appropriate response to the gravity of certain crimes and an
acceptable, albeit extreme, means of safeguarding the common good.<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">Today, however, there is an
increasing awareness that the dignity of the person is not lost even after the
commission of very serious crimes. In addition, a new understanding has emerged
of the significance of penal sanctions imposed by the state. Lastly, more
effective systems of detention have been developed, which ensure the due
protection of citizens but, at the same time, do not definitively deprive the
guilty of the possibility of redemption.<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">Consequently, the Church
teaches, in the light of the Gospel, that “the death penalty is inadmissible
because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person”,
[Francis, <a href="http://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/speeches/2017/october/documents/papa-francesco_20171011_convegno-nuova-evangelizzazione.html">Address
to Participants in the Meeting organized by the Pontifical Council for the
Promotion of the New Evangelization</a>, 11 October
2017] and she works with determination for its abolition worldwide.<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">Intentional homicide<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2268 The fifth commandment
forbids direct and intentional killing as gravely sinful. The murderer and
those who cooperate voluntarily in murder commit a sin that cries out to heaven
for vengeance. <o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.4pt;">Infanticide, fratricide,
parricide, and the murder of a spouse are especially grave crimes by reason of
the natural bonds which they break. Concern for eugenics or public health
cannot justify any murder, even if commanded by public authority.<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2269 The fifth commandment
forbids doing anything with the intention of indirectly bringing about a
person's death. The moral law prohibits exposing someone to mortal danger
without grave reason, as well as refusing assistance to a person in danger.<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.4pt;">The
acceptance by human society of murderous famines, without efforts to remedy
them, is a scandalous injustice and a grave offense. Those whose usurious and
avaricious dealings lead to the hunger and death of their brethren in the human
family indirectly commit homicide, which is imputable to them. <o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">Unintentional killing is not
morally imputable. But one is not exonerated from grave offense if, without
proportionate reasons, he has acted in a way that brings about someone's death,
even without the intention to do so.<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">Abortion<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2270 Human life must be
respected and protected absolutely from the moment of conception.<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">From the first moment of his
existence, a human being must be recognized as having the rights of a person -
among which is the inviolable right of every innocent being to life. <o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.4pt;">Before I
formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you. <br />
My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately
wrought in the depths of the earth. <o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2271 Since the first century
the Church has affirmed the moral evil of every procured abortion.<br />
This teaching has not changed and remains unchangeable.<br />
Direct abortion, that is to say, abortion willed either as an end or a means,
is gravely contrary to the moral law:<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.4pt;">You shall
not kill the embryo by abortion and shall not cause the newborn to perish. <br />
God, the Lord of life, has entrusted to men the noble mission of safeguarding
life, and men must carry it out in a manner worthy of themselves.<br />
Life must be protected with the utmost care from the moment of conception:
abortion and infanticide are abominable crimes. <o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2272 Formal cooperation in an
abortion constitutes a grave offense.<br />
The Church attaches the canonical penalty of excommunication to this crime
against human life.<br />
"A person who procures a completed abortion incurs excommunication latae
sententiae," "by the very commission of the
offense," and subject to the conditions provided by Canon Law. <br />
The Church does not thereby intend to restrict the scope of mercy.<br />
Rather, she makes clear the gravity of the crime committed, the irreparable
harm done to the innocent who is put to death, as well as to the parents and
the whole of society.<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2273 The inalienable right to
life of every innocent human individual is a constitutive element of a civil
society and its legislation:<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">"The inalienable rights of
the person must be recognized and respected by civil society and the political
authority.<br />
These human rights depend neither on single individuals nor on parents; nor do
they represent a concession made by society and the state; they belong to human
nature and are inherent in the person by virtue of the creative act from which
the person took his origin.<br />
Among such fundamental rights one should mention in this regard every human
being's right to life and physical integrity from the moment of conception
until death." <o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">"The moment a positive law
deprives a category of human beings of the protection which civil legislation
ought to accord them, the state is denying the equality of all before the law.<br />
When the state does not place its power at the service of the rights of each
citizen, and in particular of the more vulnerable, the very foundations of a
state based on law are undermined....<br />
As a consequence of the respect and protection which must be ensured for the
unborn child from the moment of conception, the law must provide appropriate
penal sanctions for every deliberate violation of the child's rights." <o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2274 Since it must be treated
from conception as a person, the embryo must be defended in its integrity,
cared for, and healed, as far as possible, like any other human being.<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">Prenatal diagnosis is morally
licit, "if it respects the life and integrity of the embryo and the human
fetus and is directed toward its safe guarding or healing as an individual....<br />
It is gravely opposed to the moral law when this is done with the thought of
possibly inducing an abortion, depending upon the results: a diagnosis must not
be the equivalent of a death sentence." <o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2275 "One must hold as
licit procedures carried out on the human embryo which respect the life and
integrity of the embryo and do not involve disproportionate risks for it, but
are directed toward its healing the improvement of its condition of health, or
its individual survival." <br />
"It is immoral to produce human embryos intended for exploitation as
disposable biological material." <br />
"Certain attempts to influence chromosomic or genetic inheritance are not
therapeutic but are aimed at producing human beings selected according to sex
or other predetermined qualities.<br />
Such manipulations are contrary to the personal dignity of the human being and
his integrity and identity" which are unique and unrepeatable.<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">Euthanasia<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2276 Those whose lives are
diminished or weakened deserve special respect. Sick or handicapped persons
should be helped to lead lives as normal as possible.<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2277 Whatever its motives and
means, direct euthanasia consists in putting an end to the lives of
handicapped, sick, or dying persons.<br />
It is morally unacceptable.<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">Thus an act or omission which,
of itself or by intention, causes death in order to eliminate suffering
constitutes a murder gravely contrary to the dignity of the human person and to
the respect due to the living God, his Creator.<br />
The error of judgment into which one can fall in good faith does not change the
nature of this murderous act, which must always be forbidden and excluded.<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2278 Discontinuing medical
procedures that are burdensome, dangerous, extraordinary, or disproportionate
to the expected outcome can be legitimate; it is the refusal of
"over-zealous" treatment.<br />
Here one does not will to cause death; one's inability to impede it is merely
accepted.<br />
The decisions should be made by the patient if he is competent and able or, if
not, by those legally entitled to act for the patient, whose reasonable will
and legitimate interests must always be respected.<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2279 Even if death is thought
imminent, the ordinary care owed to a sick person cannot be legitimately
interrupted.<br />
The use of painkillers to alleviate the sufferings of the dying, even at the
risk of shortening their days, can be morally in conformity with human dignity
if death is not willed as either an end or a means, but only foreseen and
tolerated as inevitable<br />
Palliative care is a special form of disinterested charity.<br />
As such it should be encouraged.<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">Suicide<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2280 Everyone is responsible
for his life before God who has given it to him.<br />
It is God who remains the sovereign Master of life.<br />
We are obliged to accept life gratefully and preserve it for his honor and the
salvation of our souls.<br />
We are stewards, not owners, of the life God has entrusted to us.<br />
It is not ours to dispose of.<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2281 Suicide contradicts the
natural inclination of the human being to preserve and perpetuate his life.<br />
It is gravely contrary to the just love of self.<br />
It likewise offends love of neighbor because it unjustly breaks the ties of
solidarity with family, nation, and other human societies to which we continue
to have obligations.<br />
Suicide is contrary to love for the living God.<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2282 If suicide is committed
with the intention of setting an example, especially to the young, it also
takes on the gravity of scandal.<br />
Voluntary co-operation in suicide is contrary to the moral law.<br />
Grave psychological disturbances, anguish, or grave fear of hardship,
suffering, or torture can diminish the responsibility of the one committing
suicide.<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal">2283 We should not despair of
the eternal salvation of persons who have taken their own lives. By ways known
to him alone, God can provide the opportunity for salutary repentance. The
Church prays for persons who have taken their own lives.<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Plan ahead for:</b><b> </b></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/d_WiT610Bg4" width="320" youtube-src-id="d_WiT610Bg4"></iframe></b></div><b><br /></b><p></p><p align="left" style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Bird Watching-</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> With about 10,000 species of birds
and only a handful of people who can claim having seen over 7000 of them, bird
watching is become a popular recreation activity. It’s believed that bird
watching is an expression of the male hunting instinct while others link it
with the male tendency for “systemizing”. Either way, bird watching is a great,
safe way to enjoy nature.<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Every Wednesday is
Dedicated to St. Joseph<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">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. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Do the <a href="http://www.icemanforchrist.org/p/universal-man-plan-phase-4-st-joseph.html">St.
Joseph Universal Man Plan.</a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/page/edit/8604232804852757560/8968028950458792505">Devotion to the 7 Joys and Sorrows of St.
Joseph</a><b> </b></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Coffee with Christ</b><b> </b></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Christ
sips his coffee and looks at me and says, “Obedience is the greatest act of
love; why because you must humble yourself to the will of another. During my
lifetime I was obedient first to the Father and was subject to the will of my
mother and earthly father Joseph. Enter the gate of obedience through humility.
I ask Christ how we can know what to
obey in conflict. That is where the Holy Spirit and my church will help you;
but realize that your greatest obedience must be given to the establishment of
life. Second, the priority is for preservation of a person’s freewill/liberty.
The third is a right to ownership of intellectual, physical, and spiritual
property that is done for the building up of the Kingdom.”<b> </b></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Dara's Corner</b></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/aAxGTnVNJiE" width="320" youtube-src-id="aAxGTnVNJiE"></iframe></div><p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Daily Devotions<o:p></o:p></b></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin: 6pt 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Unite in the work of the <a href="https://portersofstjoseph.org/">Porters of St. Joseph</a> by joining them
in fasting: Today's Fast: <a href="https://blessedisshe.net/blog/authentic-feminism/">Authentic Feminism</a><span class="MsoHyperlink"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->Total <a href="http://www.icemanforchrist.org/p/icemans-total.html"><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Consecration
to St. Joseph</span></a> Day 20<o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->Saint Collette recipe: <a href="https://www.saintsfeastfamily.com/copy-of-sts-perpetua-felicity-mar-1">Coq
au Riesling</a><o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="http://www.icemanforchrist.org/p/an-offering-to-most-sacred-heart-of.html"><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Offering to
the sacred heart of Jesus</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="https://theholyface.com/">Make
reparations to the Holy Face</a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="http://www.catholictradition.org/Christ/holy-wounds2.htm"><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Drops of
Christ’s Blood</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="http://www.icemanforchrist.org/p/icemans-40-hour-devotion.html"><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Iceman’s 40
devotion</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p style="margin: 0in;">
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<p align="left" class="CSP-ChapterTitle"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">SEABEE</span></span><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Daniel, Chapter 3, Verse 40-42<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><sup>40 </sup><b>So
let our sacrifice be in your presence today and find favor before you; for
those who trust in you cannot be put to shame. </b><sup>41</sup><b>
And now we follow you with our whole heart, we <i>FEAR</i> you and we seek your face. Do not
put us to shame, </b><sup>42</sup><b> but deal with us in your kindness and great mercy.</b> </p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Has
your Lenten sacrifice been less than you wanted? Well? Welcome to the human
condition. Emotions are what being human is about. Imagine the emotions of
Peter after the resurrection. If your emotions or sinfulness which for some
reason you have committed despite your best efforts have left, you flat. You
are human. Remember the disciples on the road to Emmaus; they were left utterly
defeated at the loss of Christ. Like Peter they felt they could have done more.
Today walk with our Lord tell Him all.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ook2Uoajn2g" width="320" youtube-src-id="ook2Uoajn2g"></iframe></div><p></p><p style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></b></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Tuesday in the Third Week of Lent</span></b><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">[1]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Prayer.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">GRACIOUSLY hear us, O
almighty and merciful God, and~ favorably grant to us the gifts of wholesome
self-denial. Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">EPISTLE,
iv. Kings iv. 1-7.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p align="left"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">In
those days a certain woman of the wives of the prophets cried to Eliseus,
saying: Thy servant my husband is dead, and thou knowest that thy servant was
one that feared the Lord, and behold the creditor is come to take away my two
sons to serve him. And Eliseus said to her: What wilt thou have me do for thee?
Tell me, what hast thou in thy house? And she answered: I thy handmaid have
nothing in my house but a little oil, to anoint me. And he said to her: Go,
borrow of all thy neighbor’s empty vessels not a few. And go in, and shut thy
door, when thou art within, with thy sons: and pour out thereof into all those
vessels, and when they are full take them away. So, the woman went, and shut
the door upon her, and upon her sons: they brought her the vessels, and she
poured in. And when the vessels were full, she said to her son: Bring me yet a
vessel. And he answered: I have no more. And the oil stood. And she came and
told the man of God. And he said: Go, sell the oil, and pay thy creditor: and
thou and thy sons live on the rest.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">GOSPEL.
Matt, xviii. 15-22.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><i></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/z7dHS86g11o" width="320" youtube-src-id="z7dHS86g11o"></iframe></i></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">At that time Jesus said to
His disciples: If thy brother shall offend against thee, go, and rebuke him
between thee and him alone. If he shall hear thee, thou shalt gain thy brother.
And if he will not hear thee, take with thee one or two more: that in the mouth
of two or three witnesses every word may stand. And if he will not hear them:
tell the Church. And if he will not hear the Church, let him be to thee as the
heathen and publican. Amen I say to you, whatsoever you shall bind upon earth,
shall be bound also in heaven: and whatsoever you shall loose upon earth, shall
be loosed also in heaven. Again, I say to you, that if two of you shall consent
upon earth, concerning anything whatsoever they shall ask, it shall be done to
them by My Father Who is in heaven. For where there are two or three gathered
together in My name, there am I in the midst of them. Then came Peter unto Him
and said: Lord, how often shall my brother offend against me, and I forgive
him? till seven times? Jesus saith to him: I say not to thee, till seven times;
but till seventy times seven times.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Lenten Calendar<a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">[2]</span></span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><i>Read</i>:
The Seven Penitential Psalms, Day One:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.3in;">(<i>During times when we wish to express repentance, and especially during
Lent, it is customary to pray the seven penitential psalms. The penitential
designation of these psalms’ dates back to the seventh century. Prayerfully
reciting these psalms will help us to recognize our sinfulness, express our
sorrow and ask for God’s forgiveness</i>.)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.3in;">Today we will focus
on Psalm 6.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><i>Reflect:
</i>Read this reflection on <a href="http://www.usccb.org/prayer-and-worship/liturgical-year/lent/reflection-seven-penitential-psalm-6.cfm"><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Psalm
6—Prayer in Distress</span></a>. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i>Pray: </i>“Have pity
on me, LORD, for I am weak; heal me, LORD, for my bones are shuddering.”
(Ps 6:3, NABRE)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><i>Act:
</i>In this psalm, the psalmist proclaims his weakness before God, with tears
and sighing. Yet he lifts his prayers to the Lord, confident in the Lord, who
is merciful.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.3in;">Listen to a <a href="http://www.usccb.org/prayer-and-worship/liturgical-year/lent/upload/PSALM-6.mp3"><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration-line: none;">recording of
Psalm 6</span></a> as you read along with your Bible.<o:p></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZV1vwyUjEhs" width="320" youtube-src-id="ZV1vwyUjEhs"></iframe></div><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><i>Tuesday Personal Adoration</i><b style="text-align: left;"> </b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><i>Prayer.</i><i> </i></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">"What
happiness is mine, O my Savior, to hold communion with Thee, to thank Thee for
the immense love of Thy heart for mankind, to offer Thee some reparation for
the outrages unceasingly committed against Thee. But sinner as I am, how can I
worthily acquit myself of so holy a duty? O Jesus, unite my prayers to Thine,
offer to Thy heavenly Father the holy dispositions of Thy divine heart in order
to supply for my deficiencies, Holy Virgin, lead me to the heart of thy divine
Son, that sanctuary of grace and virtue. I unite myself to the homage rendered
Him by thy immaculate heart. Ye blessed spirits, ever humbly prostrate before
that adorable heart, I unite myself to your profound adorations; communicate to
me your love and recollection, present to Him my prayers; and ye saints of
heaven and just ones of the earth, come and let us adore together the heart of
our Redeemer. Place yourself in the presence of God, make an act of faith?
and-say with the prodigal son: My Father, I have sinned against heaven and in
Thy sight. 1 am no longer worthy to be called Thy child. Make me as one of Thy
hired servants. I desire nothing more. Place yourself in spirit near the heart
of Jesus, at the foot of the throne of mercy; approach with confidence, listen
to the loving words Our Lord addresses to you, and pray to Him with earnestness
and devotion.<b> </b></p>
<p align="center" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Preparing for Battle-</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Know Your Enemy</span></i><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">[3]</span></span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></i></span></a><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Be sober, be watchful! For
your adversary the Devil, as a roaring lion, goes about seeking someone to
devour. Resist him, steadfast in the faith. (1 Peter 5: 8– 9)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Like it
or not, you are at war. No matter who you are— whether or not you know it— you
have a mortal enemy who wants to destroy you, not just in this life, but in the
next. No matter where you live on this planet— whether or not you can see it—
you live on a hotly contested battlefield, and you can’t escape the conflict.
It’s a spiritual war with crucial consequences in your everyday life. And the
outcome of that war will determine your eternal destiny. The first rule of any
type of warfare is to know your enemy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></p>
<p align="left" style="margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Your
adversary is the Devil, with his army of demons. Your battle with him rages not
only all around you, but also within you, a fierce conflict for control of your
mind, your heart, and your ultimate destiny.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" style="margin: 0in 0in 6pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Those
who deny the devils existence are easy prey. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="pcon"><b><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; padding: 0in;">Seabees</span></b><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-color-alt: windowtext; padding: 0in;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1pt none windowtext; line-height: 115%; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">[4]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><b><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/c4OS7kDCMOQ" width="320" youtube-src-id="c4OS7kDCMOQ"></iframe></div><p class="pcon"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The Navy Construction
Battalion – better known as the Seabees – is responsible for building much of
the temporary and permanent infrastructure at U.S. military locations around
the world.</span></p>
<p class="pcon"><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; padding: 0in;">With roots dating back
to World War II, the Seabees were formally established on March 5, 1942, to
meet the Navy’s growing need to build bases, camps and other structures as part
of the war effort. In the over seven decades since its founding, Seabees have
gone on to serve in most major U.S. conflicts.</span><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="pcon"><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; padding: 0in;">Here are nine things to
know about the Seabees’ monumental history:</span><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="pcon"><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; padding: 0in;"><span> </span>1. The Seabee Motto is
“Construimus, Batuimus.”</span><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="pcon"><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; padding: 0in;">The Latin phrase, which
means “We build, We fight,” was the brainchild of Rear Adm. Ben Moreell, who is
considered the father of the Seabees.</span><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="pcon"><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; padding: 0in;"><span> </span>2. The Nickname
“Seabee” Comes From the First Letters of the Words That Make Up the Unit’s
Formal Name, “Construction Battalion.”</span><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="pcon"><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; padding: 0in;">When said together as
one word, the letters “C” and “B” sound like the word “Seabee,” hence the
battalion’s iconic nickname.</span><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="pcon"><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; padding: 0in;"><span> </span>3. True to Their Motto,
Seabees Can Build Just About Anything, Anywhere.</span><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="pcon"><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; padding: 0in;">“The men and women of
the Seabees have been deployed globally in every theater around the world
constructing bases, building airfields, conducting underwater construction and
building roads, bridges and other support facilities while providing protection
for themselves and those around them,” wrote Navy Petty Officer 1st Class
Heather Salzman in a 2020 DVIDShub.net story.</span><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="pcon"><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; padding: 0in;"><span> </span>4. The Seabees Have One
Medal of Honor Recipient, Marvin G. Shields.</span><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="pcon"><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; padding: 0in;">During the Vietnam War
in 1965, Navy Construction Mechanic 3rd Class Marvin G. Shields, then just 25
years old, showed great heroism when a camp he and his fellow Seabees were
constructing suddenly came under attack. Despite being wounded several times, Shields
continually ignored his own injuries to defend the area and stay in the fight
for roughly 14 hours. His actions helped save 15 Seabees and Green Berets who
were at the camp. Ultimately, Shields’ injuries proved fatal, and he died
before the survivors were rescued. He was posthumously awarded the Medal of
Honor in 1965, which his wife and young daughter accepted on his behalf.</span><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="pcon"><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; padding: 0in;"><span> </span>5. Seabees Used to
Celebrate the Battalion’s Birthday With a “Seabee Ball” That Featured a “Seabee
Queen.”</span><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="pcon"><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; padding: 0in;">The tradition started
in 1943 at Port Hueneme, California, and featured Susan Hayward, who co-starred
alongside John Wayne in the film “The Fighting Seabees,” as the first queen. As
time went on and the tradition expanded to other areas where Seabees were
stationed, Seabee Queens grew to include other famous faces or relatives of the
Seabees themselves. This tradition was discontinued in 1992.</span><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="pcon"><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; padding: 0in;"><span> </span>6. Seabee Units Were
Some of the First Fully Integrated Units in the Navy at the end of WWII.</span><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="pcon"><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; padding: 0in;">During World War II,
Seabees erect a steel tank constructed deep in the jungles of one of the South
Pacific bases.</span><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="pcon"><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; padding: 0in;">During WWII, over
12,500 Black service members enlisted in Seabee battalions – notably the 34th,
20th (Special) and 80th. Many of these units deployed all around the world. As
they fought for our nation, these pioneering Black sailors also fought against
racial prejudices and paved the path toward a fully integrated U.S. military.</span><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="pcon"><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; padding: 0in;"><span> </span>7. Seabees Helped Build
Some of the First Structures at the South Pole.</span><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="pcon"><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; padding: 0in;">After WWII, Seabees
first traveled to Antarctica in 1946 to help the Navy establish a research base
on the continent.</span><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="pcon"><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; padding: 0in;">As part of Deep Freeze
73, Seabees deployed to Antarctica to construct a six-story high dome at South
Pole Station. The dome covered and protected most of the buildings at South
Pole Station.</span><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="pcon"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/zbgkeca1nPc" width="320" youtube-src-id="zbgkeca1nPc"></iframe></div><p></p><p class="pcon"><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; padding: 0in;">Over the next several
decades, Seabees continued to deploy to the harsh frozen environment to build
the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, which features the iconic South Pole
dome. This remote research area is extremely isolated and is located 1,000
miles away from the continent’s larger McMurdo Station.</span><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="pcon"><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; padding: 0in;">8. There is a Seabees
Memorial.</span><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="pcon"><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; padding: 0in;">Located just outside of
Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia, the Seabees Memorial was dedicated in
1972 and was sculpted by Felix de Weldon, a Seabee veteran himself. De Weldon
also sculpted the United States Marine Corps Memorial, which is also located in
Arlington, Virginia.</span><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="pcon"><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; padding: 0in;">9. You Can Spot Seabees
by Looking Closely at Their Uniforms.</span><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; padding: 0in;">Seabees
sport a unique sewn-in logo, or patch, on their left chest pocket. The
embroidered patch features the battalion’s official “Fighting Bee” logo along
with the word “Seabees.”</span><b><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; padding: 0in;"> </span></b><b><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></b></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0in;"><a name="_Hlk159320563"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Catechism of the Catholic Church<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: 0.3in;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">PART
THREE: LIFE IN CHRIST</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.3in; text-indent: 0.3in;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">SECTION
TWO-THE TEN COMMANDMENTS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.9in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">CHAPTER TWO-YOU SHALL
LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.2in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b>Article 5-THE FIFTH COMMANDMENT</b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.4pt;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">You shall not kill. <br />
You have heard that it was said to the men of old, "You shall not kill:
and whoever kills shall be liable to judgment." But I say to you that
every one who is angry with his brother shall be liable to judgment. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">2258 "Human life is
sacred because from its beginning it involves the creative action of God and it
remains for ever in a special relationship with the Creator, who is its sole
end. God alone is the Lord of life from its beginning until its end: no one can
under any circumstance claim for himself the right directly to destroy an
innocent human being." <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Coffee with Christ</b><b> </b></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Christ
sips his coffee and looks at me and says, “In order to maintain your strength
and not to yield to evil rest is necessary; for this reason, the Father
established a Sabbath Rest from work for the people of God. Sundays are the
Sabbath of my resurrection from the dead. On Sunday’s it is necessary to do no
work and to receive me in the Eucharist for the promised strength that only the
Holy Spirit can give by the receiving of my body and blood.”</p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Daily Devotions<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Unite in the work of the <a href="https://portersofstjoseph.org/">Porters of St. Joseph</a> by joining them
in fasting: Today's Fast: <a href="http://www.icemanforchrist.org/2019/01/tuesday-january-15-2019.html">True
Masculinity</a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/MoZPoKQMfCw" width="320" youtube-src-id="MoZPoKQMfCw"></iframe></div><p align="left" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><br /></p>
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Devotion</a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Preschool: March</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="http://www.icemanforchrist.org/p/novena-for-bishops.html">Pray Day 6 of
the Novena for our Pope and Bishops</a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Tuesday:
</span><a href="https://www.ourcatholicprayers.com/the-litany-of-saint-michael.html"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Litany of St. Michael the Archangel</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Total <a href="http://www.icemanforchrist.org/p/icemans-total.html"><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Consecration
to St. Joseph</span></a> Day 19<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="http://www.icemanforchrist.org/p/an-offering-to-most-sacred-heart-of.html"><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Offering to
the sacred heart of Jesus</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="https://theholyface.com/">Make
reparations to the Holy Face</a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="http://www.catholictradition.org/Christ/holy-wounds2.htm"><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Drops of
Christ’s Blood</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/absinthe-day/">National Absinthe Day</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="http://www.icemanforchrist.org/p/universal-man-plan-phase-4-st-joseph.html">Universal
Man Plan</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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Warfare (Kindle Locations 115-124). TAN Books. Kindle Edition.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p align="left" class="pf"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">The
name Maccabee, probably meaning “hammer,” is actually applied in the Books of
Maccabees to only one man, Judas, third son of the priest Mattathias and first
leader of the revolt against the Seleucid kings who persecuted the Jews.
Traditionally the name has come to be extended to the brothers of Judas, his
supporters, and even to other Jewish heroes of the period, such as the seven
brothers. The two Books of Maccabees contain independent accounts of events
that accompanied the attempted suppression of Judaism in Palestine in the
second century B.C. The vigorous reaction to this attempt established for a
time the religious and political independence of the Jews. First Maccabees was
written about 100 B.C., in Hebrew, but the original has not come down to us.
Instead, we have an early, pre-Christian, Greek translation full of Hebrew
idioms. The author, probably a Palestinian Jew, is unknown. He was familiar
with the traditions and sacred books of his people and had access to much
reliable information on their recent history (from 175 to 134 B.C.). He may
well have played some part in it himself in his youth. His purpose in writing
is to record the deliverance of Israel that God worked through the family of
Mattathias—especially through his three sons, Judas, Jonathan, and Simon, and
his grandson, John Hyrcanus. The writer compares their virtues and their
exploits with those of Israel’s ancient heroes, the Judges, Samuel, and David.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="left" class="pf"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/9uf-WghXq6M" width="320" youtube-src-id="9uf-WghXq6M"></iframe></div><p></p><p align="left"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">The
doctrine expressed in the book is the customary belief of Israel. The people of
Israel have been specially chosen by the one true God as covenant-partner, and
they alone are privileged to know and worship God, their eternal benefactor and
unfailing source of help. The people, in turn, <i>must</i> worship the Lord alone and observe exactly the precepts of the
law given to them. The rededication of the Jerusalem Temple in the book is the
origin of the Jewish feast of Hanukkah. There is no doctrine of individual immortality
except in the survival of one’s name and fame, nor does the book express any
messianic expectation, though messianic images are applied historically to “the
days of Simon”. The author insists on fidelity to the law as the expression of
Israel’s love for God. The contest which he describes is a struggle, not simply
between Jew and Gentile, but between those who would uphold the law and those,
Jews or Gentiles, who would destroy it. His severest condemnation goes, not to
the Seleucid politicians, but to the lawless apostates among his own people,
adversaries of Judas and his brothers, who are models of faith and loyalty.</span><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></b></p>
<p align="left" class="CSP-ChapterTitle"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">march 4</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Monday
of the Third Week of Lent</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in;"><a name="01042035"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">1 Maccabees, Chapter
2, Verse 62<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
<p class="po" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Do
not <i>FEAR</i> the words of sinners, for
their glory ends in corruption and worms.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="po" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></b></p>
<p align="left" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Maccabean wars were fought for religious freedom.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p align="center" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">FREEDOM</span></i><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">[2]</span></span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></i></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In
the course of over 2,000 years, the Catholic Church has developed a significant
body of teaching on human rights, conscience protection, the relationship
between Church and state, and religious freedom. Learn more about the depth and breadth of
Church teaching here.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
Second Vatican Council's Declaration on Religious Liberty<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">On
December 7, 1965, the Second Vatican Council approved Dignitatis humanae, the
Declaration on Religious Liberty. The
document roots religious freedom in the perennial teaching of the Church on
human dignity. It teaches that religious
freedom is the cornerstone of a society that promotes human dignity; it is a
fundamental human right, which follows on the duty of all people to seek the
truth about God. Learn more!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Papal
Encyclicals<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Pope
Leo XIII<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p align="left"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Pope
St. John Paul II<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p align="left" style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Monday
of the Third Week of Lent</span></b><a href="file:///C:/Users/rhave/OneDrive/Desktop/BeNotAfraid%20blog.docx#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">[3]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p align="left" style="margin: 0in;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/tzFBXjDT2OI" width="320" youtube-src-id="tzFBXjDT2OI"></iframe></p><p style="margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><br /></p>
<p align="center" class="pf" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Prayer.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p align="left" class="pf"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">POUR forth,
in Thy mercy, we beseech Thee, O Lord, Thy grace into our hearts, that, as we
abstain from flesh, we may also restrain our senses from hurtful excesses.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="pf" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">EPISTLE, iv. Kings v. 1 15.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p align="left" class="pf"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">In those
days: Naaman, general of the army of the king of Syria, was a great man with
his master, and honorable: for by him the Lord gave deliverance to Syria: and
he was a valiant man and rich, but a leper. Now there had gone out robbers from
Syria and had led away captive out of the land of Israel a little maid, and she
waited upon Naaman’s wife. And she said to her mistress: I wish my master had
been with the prophet, that is in Samaria: he would certainly have healed him
of the leprosy which he hath. Then Naaman went into his lord, and told him,
saying: Thus, and thus said the girl from the land of Israel. And the king of
Syria said to him: Go, and I will send a letter to the king of Israel. And he
departed, and took with him ten talents of silver, and six thousand pieces of
gold, and ten changes of raiment, and brought the letter to the king of Israel,
in these words: When thou shalt receive this letter, know that I have sent to
thee Naaman my servant, that thou mayest heal him of his leprosy. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="pf"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">And when
the king of Israel had read the letter, he rent his garments, and said: Am I
God, to be able to kill and give life, that this man hath sent to me, to heal a
man of his leprosy?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p align="left" class="pf" style="text-indent: 0.3in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Mark and see how he seeketh occasions against me. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="pf"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">And when
Eliseus the man of God had heard this, to wit, that the king of Israel had rent
his garments, he sent to him, saying: Why hast thou rent thy garments?</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="pf" style="text-indent: 0.3in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Let him come to me and let him know that there is a
prophet in Israel. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="pf"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">So Naaman
came with his horses and chariots and stood at the door of the house of
Eliseus: and Eliseus sent a messenger to him saying: Go, and wash seven times
in the Jordan, and thy flesh shall recover health, and thou shalt be clean.
Naaman was angry and went away, saying: I thought he would have come out to me,
and standing- would have invoked the name of the Lord his God, and touched with
his hand the place of the leprosy, and healed me. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="pf"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Are not
the Abana and the Pharphar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of
Israel, that I may wash in them, arid be made clean?</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="pf" style="text-indent: 0.3in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">So, as he turned, and was going away with
indignation, his servants came to him, and said to him: Father, if the prophet
had bid thee do some great thing, surely thou shouldst have done it: how much
rather what he now hath said to thee: Wash, and thou shalt be clean? Then he
went down and washed in the Jordan seven times: according to the word of the
man of God, and his flesh was restored, like the flesh of a little child, and
he was made clean. And returning to the man of God with all his train, he came,
and stood before him, and said: In truth, I know there is no other God in all
the earth, but only in Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="pf" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">GOSPEL. Luke iv. 23-30.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p align="center" class="pf" style="text-align: center;"><i><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/E2ojxNR8ECU" width="320" youtube-src-id="E2ojxNR8ECU"></iframe></i></p>
<p class="pf" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">At that
time Jesus said to the Pharisees: Doubtless you will say to Me this similitude:
Physician, heal Thyself: as great things as we have heard done in Capharnaum,
do also here in Thy own country. And He said: Amen I say to you, that no
prophet is accepted in his own country. In truth I say to you, there were many
widows in the days of Elias in Israel, when heaven was shut up three years and
six months, when there was a great famine throughout all the earth. And to none
of them was Elias sent, but to Sarepta of Sidon, to a widow woman. And there
were many lepers in Israel in the time of Eliseus the prophet: and none of them
was cleansed but Naaman the Syrian. And all they in the synagogue, hearing
these things, were filled with anger. And they rose up and thrust Him out of
the city: and they brought Him to the brow of the hill, where on their city was
built, that they might cast Him down headlong. But He passes through the midst
of them, went His way. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="pcon" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></p>
<p align="center" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Aids
in Battle the Power of the Holy Spirit<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">In the
Holy Spirit we have from God a mighty Ally and Protector, a great Teacher of
the Church, a mighty Champion on our behalf. We <i>must</i> not be
afraid of the demons, nor of the Devil himself; for more powerful than those is
the One who fights for us. But we must open our doors to Him, for He goes about
seeking those who are worthy and searching for those on whom He may bestow His
gifts. ST. CYRIL OF JERUSALEM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></p>
<p align="center" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Tutelage
of the Holy Spirit</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Being baptized in
Christ is the only requirement for receiving the Holy Spirit, but to grow in
the Spirit there are certain things that are necessary, and these are a few of
them.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">§</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 7pt;"> A</span><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> genuine desire to be
holy</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">I always use the word 'holy' to mean living a life pleasing to God
in every possible way, not just in those matters you consider
expedient; and obeying his commandments to the fullest extent that you are
capable of. Holiness has to be your goal and you must be prepared to do
whatever it takes to attain it, which includes a total, unwavering commitment.
The course is grueling and if you aren't committed, you will crash out in no
time.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">§</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 7pt;"> </span><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Heartfelt repentance:</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">You have to be genuinely sorry for your sins. It doesn't matter
that you might be constrained by sin at this point — part of the Holy Spirit's
role is to take away the constraints and free you of sin, which will happen in
time — but what is important at this stage is that you be truly sorry for the
offences that you have committed against God and be determined never to sin
against him anymore.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">§ </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 7pt;"> </span><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Honesty and courage:</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Another requirement is honesty, more with ourselves than with
anybody else, and the courage to face up to who we really are. Most of us put
up facades for public display and have been doing it for so long we have ended
up even fooling ourselves. The Holy Spirit is going to rip the masks apart,
albeit gently, and reveal things about you that you will not like to see. If
you aren't willing to face up to the truth of who you are and be ready to
remedy yourself without justification, you aren't going to make much progress.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">§</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 7pt;"> </span><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Love for God:</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">A vital requirement is a genuine love for God, translatable into
action. Love for God is something that will grow as you grow in him, but what
you need is a basic element of it to begin with, because it is only love for
God that will help you make a lot of the tough decisions that you will be
called to make as you progress through this school. The more love for God that
you have, the more you will be prepared to do for him, which will,
consequently, make it that much easier for you.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Catechism
of the Catholic Church<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: 0.3in;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">PART THREE: LIFE IN CHRIST</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.3in; text-indent: 0.3in;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">SECTION TWO-THE TEN COMMANDMENTS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.9in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">CHAPTER
TWO-YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.9in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-indent: 0.3in;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">ARTICLE 4-THE FOURTH COMMANDMENT<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 1.2in; text-indent: 0.3in;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">IN BRIEF</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><i>2247
"Honor your father and your mother" (Deut 5:16; Mk 7:10).</i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><i>2248
According to the fourth commandment, God has willed that, after him, we should
honor our parents and those whom he has vested with authority for our good.</i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><i>2249 The
conjugal community is established upon the covenant and consent of the spouses.
Marriage and family are ordered to the good of the spouses, to the procreation
and the education of children.</i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><i>2250
"The well-being of the individual person and of both human and Christian
society is closely bound up with the healthy state of conjugal and family
life" (GS 47 # 1).</i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><i>2251
Children owe their parents respect, gratitude, just obedience, and assistance.
Filial respect fosters harmony in all of family life.</i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><i>2252
Parents have the first responsibility for the education of their children in
the faith, prayer, and all the virtues. They have the duty to provide as far as
possible for the physical and spiritual needs of their children.</i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><i>2253
Parents should respect and encourage their children's vocations. They should
remember and teach that the first calling of the Christian is to follow Jesus.</i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><i>2254
Public authority is obliged to respect the fundamental rights of the human
person and the conditions for the exercise of his freedom.</i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><i>2255 It
is the duty of citizens to work with civil authority for building up society in
a spirit of truth, justice, solidarity, and freedom.</i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><i>2256
Citizens are obliged in conscience not to follow the directives of civil
authorities when they are contrary to the demands of the moral order. "We
must obey God rather than men" (Acts 5:29).</i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><i>2257
Every society's judgments and conduct reflect a vision of man and his destiny.
Without the light the Gospel sheds on God and man, societies easily become
totalitarian.</i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Coffee with Christ</b><b> </b></p>
<p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Christ
sips his coffee and looks at me and says, “As my mother was a source of
comfort, consolation, and strength to me so likewise she will be to you. Ask
her to aid you in your trials. Ask her to guide you to me as she did the
apostles. Salvation comes through the eucharistic church which is guided by my
mother. She will teach you how to listen to me; and to love with all your mind,
heart, soul, and strength?”<b> </b></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Bucket list?</b></p><p align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"></p><ul><li><a href="https://getpocket.com/explore/item/mapping-a-road-trip-with-the-perfect-70-degree-weather?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us">A Cross-Country Road Trip Where It’s Always 70 Degrees</a></li></ul><p></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Eat waffles and Pray for the assistance of the <a href="http://www.icemanforchrist.org/p/upon-rising-7-am-address-first-choir-of.html"><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Angels</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/liturgicalyear/activities/view.cfm?id=1243" title="Religion in the Home for Preschool: March">Religion in the Home for
Preschool: March</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Total <a href="http://www.icemanforchrist.org/p/icemans-total.html"><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Consecration
to St. Joseph</span></a> Day 19<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="http://www.icemanforchrist.org/p/an-offering-to-most-sacred-heart-of.html"><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Offering to
the sacred heart of Jesus</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="https://theholyface.com/">Make
reparations to the Holy Face</a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Monday: <a href="https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/devotions/litany-of-humility-245">Litany of
Humility</a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="http://www.catholictradition.org/Christ/holy-wounds2.htm"><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Drops of
Christ’s Blood</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="http://www.icemanforchrist.org/p/universal-man-plan-phase-4-st-joseph.html">Universal
Man Plan</a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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