An Urgent Call… “For Such A Time As This”

 

Posted on October 4, 2012 by JBenkovic

Our nation is in the midst of its own “Battle of Lepanto.” Our temporal order – the institutions and enterprises of man, his culture and his society – has been infiltrated by an anti-life, anti-Gospel, anti-Church agenda. The “final confrontation” intimated by Karol Cardinal Wojtyla when he addressed the United States Bishops in 1976 seems to have arrived. From Cairo and the Middle East, to Congress and the Senate, to the attack against the union of one man and one woman in marriage, to the proliferation of the morally reprehensible, to the efforts of Planned Parenthood and sex education in our schools, we see the frontal attack of the “Agenda of the Anti-.“ As Women of Grace® “impregnated with the spirit of the gospel” we must respond.


 

For this reason, in the month of October, we want to blitz the nation with our “Election Initiative,” an effort to inform as many Women of Grace® facilitators, participants, and friends, past and present, with Church teaching on key issues – and to encourage them to contact everyone in their spheres of influence with the same. And then, to invite those individuals to follow in like manner. We see the gift of social media as a perfect way to disseminate information.
We have created a “Take Action – Election Initiative” area on our GracePlace page, where we have made several key resources available for free. We would like you to read and share these materials as widely as possible through your networks including e-mail, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc. Along with these materials, we are executing a social media campaign which we ask that you also share with your contacts. For a more detailed action plan, contact us at takeaction@womenofgrace.com.

If you are not already, please follow us on Facebook and/or Twitter for all of the latest updates at the addresses below:
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These are unprecedented times. God is giving us unprecedented grace. May we respond with the heart of the Woman of Grace – Mary – and give our unequivocal “fiat!”

With joy and hope in Our Lord and Savior, I faithfully remain…
Your Sister in Christ,
Johnnette
 

Posted in Current Events, Johnnette’s Blog | Tagged abortion, election, health care reform, HHS mandate, homosexual, homosexuality, Obama, Obamacare, Planned Parenthood, religious freedom, same sex marriage, Voter Guide, voting, womens health

 

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Top fashion model becomes a nun after an 'earthquake' experience at Fatima



Top fashion model becomes a nun after an 'earthquake' experience.             

At the apex of her career, a beautiful Spanish model has given it all up to don the habit Jun 27, 2014 Spanish fashion model Olalla Oliveros: 'The Lord is never wrong. He asked if I will follow him, and I could not refuse.'             

Olalla Oliveros, a beautiful and well known Spanish model who did advertisements, television commercials, and worked as an actress has given up her career and decided to become a nun.
Last month, Oliveros entered the semi-cloistered Order of Saint Michael. Oliveros is reluctant to talk about herself, but says she had an "earthquake" experience on a visit to Fatima and could not shake the image of herself dressed as a nun, which at the time she thought was absurd. -

See more at: http://thechristians.com/?q=content/top-fashion-model-becomes-nun-after-earthquake-experience#sthash.wKKCiTIc.dpuf

Novena to the Immaculate Heart of Mary

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Christians look to Mary, the Mother of our Lord, as the first Christian and the model of holiness. This novena presents a profound opportunity for us to pray that Jesus may give us the Grace to be more and more like His mother and thus come closer to Him through His Immaculate Mother.
Please join us in praying this novena here and invite your friends and family to pray with us!

Immaculate Heart of Mary Novena Prayers

Immaculate Virgin, by the holy will of your Son my Lord Jesus Christ, you are my Mother in Heaven. Your Immaculate Heart is full of love, mercy and compassion for sinners like me. I ask that you intercede for me today for…
(mention your prayer intentions)
I trust in your intercession before the throne of God for my needs. Please pray also that if my requests are not in accordance with the will of God, that I may be, like you, conformed to His will and not my own.
Hail Mary…
Immaculate Heart of Mary. Pray for us!
Amen.
Act of Consecration
- by Pope Pius XII
Most Holy Virgin Mary, tender Mother of men, to fulfill the desires of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the request of the Vicar of Your Son on earth, we consecrate ourselves and our families to your Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart, O Queen of the Most Holy Rosary, and we recommend to You, all the people of our country and all the world.
Please accept our consecration, dearest Mother, and use us as You wish to accomplish Your designs in the world.
O Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, Queen of the Most Holy Rosary, and Queen of the World, rule over us, together with the Sacred Heart of Jesus Christ, Our King. Save us from the spreading flood of modern paganism; kindle in our hearts and homes the love of purity, the practice of a virtuous life, an ardent zeal for souls, and a desire to pray the Rosary more faithfully.
We come with confidence to You, O Throne of Grace and Mother of Fair Love. Inflame us with the same Divine Fire which has inflamed Your own Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart. Make our hearts and homes Your shrine, and through us, make the Heart of Jesus, together with your rule, triumph in every heart and home.
Amen.

More About the Consecration

This celebration will have strong ties to the apparitions that occurred at Fatima.
Cardinal Rino Fisichella, president of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of the New Evangelization said “The Holy Father strongly desires that the Marian Day may have present, as a special sign, one of the most significant Marian icons for Christians throughout the world, and, for that reason, we thought of the beloved original statue of Our Lady of Fatima,”
You can find more Novenas like this one here.

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About Honouring the Saints

 

The AMAIC has joyfully run with the recent remarkable series of canonisations/beatifications of modern era popes, for it is properly Catholic to honour Our Lady (hyperdulia) and the Saints (dulia). To God alone, however, belongs true worship (latria).

Catholics need to get this right into proper perspective. That is why we have followed up this little section with Pope Francis’s invitation (on next page) to ‘rediscover a sense of the sacred’. “The Eucharistic celebration”, he says, “is something else. In the celebration we enter into the mystery of God, into that street that we cannot control: only He is the unique One, the glory, the power... He is everything”. God is infinitely more interesting than any given saint.

An observer, watching some Catholics in church piously doing the rounds of the saints and the Stations, whilst totally ignoring the Blessed Sacrament as they cross right in front of It, might perhaps be excused for thinking that Catholics really do "worship" Mary and the saints.

Rediscover a 'sense of the sacred'

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(Vatican Radio) .... The first Reading of the day speaks about the “theophany” of God in the time of Solomon the king. The Lord came down like a cloud upon the temple, which was filled with the glory of God. The Lord, the Pope said, speaks to His people in many ways: through the prophets, the priests, the Sacred Scriptures. But with the theophanies, He speaks in another way, “different from the Word: it is another presence, closer, without mediation, near. It is His presence.” This, he explained, happens in the liturgical celebration. The liturgical celebration is not a social act, a good social act; it is not a gathering of the faithful to pray together. It is something else. In the liturgy, God is present,” but it is a closer presence. In the Mass, in fact, “the presence of the Lord is real, truly real.”

“When we celebrate the Mass, we don’t accomplish a representation of the Last Supper: no, it is not a representation. It is something else: it is the Last Supper itself. It is to really live once more the Passion and the redeeming Death of the Lord. It is a theophany: the Lord is made present on the altar to be offered to the Father for the salvation of the world. We hear or we say, ‘But, I can’t now, I have to go to Mass, I have to go to hear Mass.’ The Mass is not ‘heard’, it is participated in, and it is a participation in this theophany, in this mystery of the presence of the Lord among us.”

Nativity scenes, the Way of the Cross... these are representations. The Mass, on the other hand, “is a real commemoration, that is, it is a theophany: God approaches and is with us, and we participate in the mystery of the Redemption.” ....

“The liturgy is to really enter into the mystery of God, to allow ourselves to be brought to the mystery and to be in the mystery. For example, I am sure that all of you have come here to enter into the mystery; however, someone might say: ‘Ah, I have to go to Mass at Santa Marta, because on the sight-seeing tour of Rome, each morning there is a chance to visit the Pope at Santa Marta: it’s a tourist stop, right?’ All of you here, we are gathered her to enter into the mystery: this is the liturgy. It is God’s time, it is God’s space, it is the cloud of God that surrounds all of us.”

... So, the Pope concluded, “to celebrate the liturgy is to have this availability to enter into the mystery of God,” to enter into His space, His time, to entrust ourselves to this mystery:

“We would do well today to ask the Lord to give to each of us this ‘sense of the sacred,’ this sense that makes us understand that it is one thing to pray at home, to pray in Church, to pray the Rosary, to pray so many beautiful prayers, to make the Way of the Cross, so many beautiful things, to read the Bible... The Eucharistic celebration is something else. In the celebration we enter into the mystery of God, into that street that we cannot control: only He is the unique One, the glory, the power... He is everything. Let us ask for this grace: that the Lord would teach us to enter into the mystery of God.” ....

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Taken from: http://en.radiovaticana.va/storico/2014/02/10/pope_francis_rediscover_a_sense_of_the_sacred

Sainthood now a certainty for Pope Paul VI says Vatican



Art Villasanta (Friday, May 16 2014)

 

Pope Paul VI … will be beatified October 19 after Pope Francis … officially confirmed a miracle attributed to the former, the Vatican says. The miracle attributed to Pope Paul VI involved a mother in California who prayed to the Pope for a successful pregnancy after doctors discovered serious threats to the life of the unborn infant in 2001. The mother refused an abortion and prayed for Paul VI's intercession after doctors told her of the rupture of the fetal bladder and absence of amniotic liquid. The baby was born a month prematurely and is now a healthy adolescent. The Vatican did not reveal details about the miracle, which has to be certified by doctors as having no medical explanation.

One miracle is required by the Catholic Church for beatification. A second miracle is traditionally required for canonization or sainthood.  Beatification is the last formal step before sainthood.

Pope Paul VI was viewed as a reformist who fostered improved ecumenical relations with the Eastern Orthodox Church and Protestants. During his pontificate from 1963 to 1978, Paul VI made historic progress in improving the Catholic Church's relationship with other Christians.

He continued the work of his predecessor, St. John XIII, who called the Second Vatican Council … that allowed the mass to be said in local languages instead of in Latin, among other reforms.

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Taken from: http://www.ecumenicalnews.com/article/sainthood-now-a-certainty-for-pope-paul-vi

Mother Teresa And The Devil

 

 

By Michael H. Brown

It's all around the newswires. It's in the headlines. "Exorcism performed on Mother Teresa." It sounds like something out of the movies -- and has to have created shock. How could a woman seen already to be a saint and a sure thing for canonization have been possessed by the devil?

The answer is that Mother Teresa was not possessed, and that the media was playing fast and loose by tossing around the term "exorcism." Yes, the archbishop who released the information also used the term, but he was referring to a general prayer. He was referring to a lifting of evil. What they did with Mother Teresa was chase away a demon that was trying to assault her (as happens so often) in her final days. The same has afflicted many saints. Mother Teresa's namesake, Therese of Lisieux, had terrible doubts toward her own end, and there were times when Padre Pio was physically attacked, even bruised, by devils.

And so everyone would be wiser to use the term "deliverance," and that's something everyone needs. Let's recall that Jesus Himself needed the ministering of an angel when Satan tempted Him on the desert. Life is one constant series of encounters with evil, and that's why Christ put it right there in the Lord's Prayer: "deliver us from evil." Actually, in its strictest translation, the prayer ends with the words "deliver us from the evil one."

So it is that Christ knew we all need constant deliverance and so it is that Mother Teresa was no different. If you were the devil and saw her in a weakened state, you would also have pounced -- and that's what happened to this dear, precious nun: she was not possessed. She was attacked. And it is a time when we are all being attacked. We're constantly hearing from people complaining about how the evil one has infiltrated their homes, caused division, or led to psychological problems and sickness. We're seeing incredible things: nastiness at places that are supposed to be holy, harshness among those who are supposed to be on the same side, tremendous jealousies, competitions, and an absolute explosion of pride. Suddenly, everyone is important. Suddenly, everyone is a big deal. And that's an invitation to demons: where there is pride, Satan (as prince of pride) has a legal territorial right.

As we will be exploring in coming days, this is a time of tremendous spiritual agitation. Every year, the intensity grows -- and lately, every week. While many were sitting around waiting for fireworks in the year 2000 -- waiting for overly apocalyptical events -- the devil has been unleashing a largely undetected spiritual onslaught.

That too is a sign of our times: spiritual warfare. Last winter we carried an article that focused on the official exorcist in Rome, Father Gabriele Amorth, who says we are standing naked before the swarming enemy because dioceses no longer have exorcists, or treat such events as tremendously rare when in fact this is a war fought on a daily and indeed minute-to-minute basis. The stripping away of exorcism rites from Baptism and the elimination of the St. Michael's prayer at the end of Catholic Mass, as well as the decline of deliverance and healing prayers, have greatly weakened our side at a time when the enemy rages. "Every diocese should have at least one exorcist at the cathedral," urges Father Amorth, "and every large parish and sanctuary should have one as well."

Let us add that every home should have an open Bible (preferably turned to Psalm 23 when not in use) and also blessed salt and holy water -- which, these days, should be used on a daily basis.

 

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Taken from: http://www.spirit-digest.com/Life%20in%20Christ/Mother%20Teresa/Mother%20Teresa%20and%20the%20Devil.htm