Pope Francis - First 100 Days

here will be NO INSULTS or any UNKIND WORDS about Pope Benedict's resignation. If you need to comment as such HOLD YOUR TONGUE and research the truth of the matter. Otherwise you will be DELETED. But....God Bless..++

Advent

The word Advent is from the Latin means "Coming" and is associated with the four weeks of preparation of Christ.

To all my friends:
May the Season of Advent fill your Hearts with Love, Joy and Peace.

Month of May

By tradition, the Catholic Church dedicates each month of the  year to a certain devotion.  In May, it is the Blessed Virgin Mary.  This devotion arose among Jesuits in Rome in the late 18th century and quickly spread throughout the Western Church.  By the time of Pope Piux IX's declaration of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception in 1854, it had become universal.  May crownings and other special May events in honor of Mary, such as public recitation of the rosary, stem from this time. 

May, Month of Mary

  As May was the month of Mary, our Blessed Mother, and June is the Month of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, does it not follow that as May leads into June, Mary leads us to her the love of her Son, symbolized by His Sacred Heart.

 

 

Happy Anniversary Pope Francis!

 

 

Pope Francis marks the first anniversary of his papacy, March 13, 2014.

Please let's say a special prayer for our pope.

Pentecost Sunday

Happy Feast of the Pentecost! May the same Spirit that descended in the Apostles stir a fire in our hearts today! Praise Him!

 Happy Birthday to the Catholic Church! Since 33 AD.

 

The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ

Blessed be the Most Precious Body and Blood
of Jesus Christ...
The Heart will see, if it believe and loves...
At the celebration of Mass;
at every Mass as this very Mass,
the past and the future become the present moment.

 

"Let us ask ourselves this evening, adoring the Christ truly present in the Eucharist: do I let myself be transformed by Him?" Pope Francis

The Latin words ‘Corpus Christi’ mean ‘Body of Christ’. On this solemn Feast of Corpus Christi, we proclaim our belief in the Real presence of Jesus Christ in the Holy Eucharist. As we receive the Body and Blood of Christ, we are not only entering into a deep and intimate relationship with Him, but we are also being built up into the living mystical body of Christ.

"The Solemnity of Corpus Christi - The Body of Christ - is an annual liturgical celebration, for centuries accompanied by a procession, whose purpose is to enable the faithful to draw new strength from the Eucharistic source of life and to proclaim Christ's Real Presence to the world.  This is one time when the Blessed Sacrament is exposed, not just to faithful Catholics, but to all the world as we honor Him in a very public way and show our love for our neighbors by bringing Our Lord and Savior closer to them.  Whenever Our Lord is taken outside the confines of His sanctuary home, He changes the lives of all who look upon Him, even those who meet Him for the first time.  As eyes behold Jesus Christ, souls make a connection with the Wellspring of Eternal Life."

When we go before Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament we represent the one in the world who is in most need of God’s Mercy." We "Stand in behalf of the one in the world who does not know Christ and who is farthest away from God and we bring down upon their soul the Precious Blood of The Lamb." - Pope John Paul II
"If I can give you any advice, I beg you to get closer to the Eucharist and to Jesus... We must pray to Jesus to give us that tenderness of the Eucharist." -Mother Teresa of Calcutta

Catholic

I am so proud to be Catholic and have a Christian faith. If Protestants read the teachings of the church doctors, they would abandon Martin Luther's changes.

Success in Examinations

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May is the month a lot of students are taking exams. Here is a great prayer that might help you or someone your love get through them.

May Day May Basket

Please join me in raising your tea cup to
Celebrate the First Day of May

A May Basket
Up the steps,
One, two, three, four.
I will ring the bell on your front door.
I'll leave a May basket just for fun,
I'll turn around and I'll run, run, run!
......unknown

Celebrating May Day!

In the Roman Catholic tradition, May is observed as Mary's month, and in these circles May Day is usually a celebration of the Blessed Virgin Mary.


Please visit my old posts about May Day May Basket Day
http://maureenteatime.blogspot.com/search/label/May%20Day

 

Triduum

Blessed Holy Thursday! 

The Triduum is the center of Catholic worship. It begins with the evening Mass of the Lord's Supper on Holy Thursday, which commemorates when Jesus instituted the Eucharist at the Last Supper.

 

 

Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord

Wishing everyone a very Blessed Palm Sunday of the Lord's Passion, as we enter the Holy Week.

Catholic Bible

Someone mentioned that Catholics never read bible.

We, Catholics, use the Bible a lot!

In Mass, Prayers, Hymnals and more. We have Readings for everyday, Sundays, Holy Day of Obligations and through out the YEAR!

I have more than 30 bibles here in my room. I use NAB and NIV the most.

Ash Wednesday

ASH WEDNESDAY signals the start of the 40~day Lenten Season...
A time to ponder,make alive the Paschal Mystery of CHRIST: Passion and Death, Which wrought forth our Salvation.

PRAY...FAST...GIVE!

"REPENT from your SINS and BELIEVE in the GOSPEL!"


 The best almsgiver is one who keeps back nothing for himself.

Advent

We begin a new liturgical year as we celebrate the First Sunday of Advent. Today's readings are set the pace for the weeks that follow.  They invite us to enter into a time of anticipation.  The Latin word adventus means coming or arrival.  and in this season, we celebrate Jesus' triple coming: his coming into human history when he was born of the Blessed Virgin Mary, his coming into our lives now in his Word and in the sacraments of his Church, and his coming in glory at the end of time.  The readings tell us how to anticipate his coming: be vigilant, be prepared, be hopeful.

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Advent begins today!

So how do we celebrate the story of Christmas?

For me, celebrating Advent is a big part of telling the story of the First Christmas.

The Season of Advent begins four Sundays before Christmas.

Simple.  Lighting candles and reading scripture.

You need 5 candles and a bible.(3 purple, 1 rose and 1 white)

A Simple Life.

To all my friends:
May the Season of Advent fill your Hearts with Love, Joy and Peace.

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Today is the first Sunday of Advent. In a 1996 Homily, Blessed Pope John Paul II said of Advent,
"Advent is the liturgical season that prepares us for the Lord's birth, but it is also the time of expectation for the definitive return of Christ."

Blessed Virgin of the Rosary

The Church dedicates the month of October to the Blessed Virgin of the Rosary. As we pray each decade, we mediate on one of the mysteries of the Rosary, celebrating God's love for us.

Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

It is the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The Church celebrates that in Mary there were no obstacles to prevent her from passing immediately through death and becoming the first after her Son to be raised body and soul into the fullness of God. (unknown author)

Blessed Virgin Mary was made sinless by God by PREVENTING her from sinning, then because of her sinlessness God can never allow Blessed Virgin Mary’s body to decay here on earth that’s why she was assumed to heaven.

In celebration of the Virgin Mary's physical and soul assumption into Heaven.

Thank you for all loving and protecting our Blessed Mother.  
Thank you for enlightening me.

Precious Blood of Our Lord

Happy Feast Day of the Most Precious Blood of Jesus!