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This Saturday is the First Saturday of the month: December 3, 2011 First Saturday's of devotion to Our Lady (1) Confession (2) Holy Communion (3) Five Decades of the Holy Rosary (4) Meditation on the Mysteries of the Rosary for 15 minutes  

Access: Catholic Digest By Peggy Weber INTERNET The Congregation of Holy Cross recently re-launched holycrossvocations.org , offering tools designed to introduce potential candidates to life as a Holy Cross priest or Brother and help lead them through their discernment process. Catholic TV offers short pro-life videos, created in October for Pro-life Month but available year-round at catholic-tv.blogspot.com/2011/10/october-pro-life-month.html . MyConsecration.org is a Catholic apostolate formed by an alliance of Catholic groups that share a common concern for the saving of souls and strengthening of the Catholic Church through the Total Consecration to Jesus Though Mary. The website offers free resources about the Rosary and total consecration. Fatimafortoday.com , developed by Ignatius Press, offers study guides and films related to the miracles at Fatima, Portugal, in 1917. TELEVISION & RADIO The Hallmark Channel continues to provide many original and family-orient...

Our Lady of Guadalupe is the Patroness of the Pro-life Movement. In preparation for her Feastday, Priests for Life invites all believers to join in a special novena for life from December 4 through 12th by saying the prayer below. The image of Our Lady, given to St. Juan Diego (whose feast is Dec. 9), shows Mary as pregnant with Jesus. The Aztec Indians, among whom this image circulated, practiced human sacrifice because they believed the gods were against them. This image proclaimed the Gospel that "God is with us" (Emmanuel) and that therefore we can have the hope that gives us the courage to say "Yes" to life, just like Mary did. In our day, the image is helping to end child sacrifice as it is brought to abortion facilities worldwide.        Novena Prayer for Life to Our Lady of Guadalupe ( Click here for Spanish -- En Español ) Oh Mary, Mother of J...

Father Moreno asked the congregation to meditate on these three (3) images during Advent. These are true stories. 1.         A seven (7) year old boy in New Jersey was asked by his mother how he was going to dress up for Halloween and he told her it was a secret. On Halloween he went to school dressed in his costume. The principal called his parents and told them that he was being expelled because his Halloween costume was offensive; the school board was offended, the school administration was offended, the teachers, the parents and the students were all offended because his was dressed like Jesus. The boy said he wanted to be like Jesus. We have to offend, to let others see Jesus in our work, in our lifestyle. To embrace Jesus is offensive to many people. Are we like that little boy in New Jersey: free, innocent, loving, a child of God? Do we want to be like Jesus? 2.       Father Moreno went home for Thanksgiving to...

  Access: Human Dignity at the End of Life Conference HLI America, Converging Roads, Assumption Seminary, & CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Health System will host “Human Dignity at the End of Life” March 23-24, 2012 at CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Hospital in San Antonio, Texas. View and download the event flyer here. Featuring: Archbishop García-Siller, STD; Janet Smith, PhD; Grattan Brown, STD; Joseph Capizzi, PhD; John Travaline, MD and more!

The enemies of God know the power of instilling fear. The friends of God know the power of releasing faith. Fear deals in weakness – our weakness Faith deals in strength – God’s Strength Fear predicts failure and a negative outcome Faith predicts success and a positive outcome

To help make our Advent more fruitful, an Advent practice or prayer that you and your family can incorporate into your own celebration for years to come is the Saint Andrew Christmas Novena. This popular Advent devotion from years past begins on November 30, the Feast of Saint Andrew the Apostle. On this day, we begin the  Saint Andrew Christmas Novena , also known as the Christmas Anticipation Prayer or simply the Christmas Novena. While a novena is technically a nine-day prayer (the word comes from the Latin word for nine,  novem ), the name is sometimes applied to any prayer that we say repeatedly over a series of days. It is prayed 15 times every day from the Feast of Saint Andrew the Apostle (November 30) until  Christmas . The prayer is addressed to God the Father and asks Him to grant us our request in honor of the birth of His Son on Christmas. It's an excellent prayer to pray with children, becaus...

Access: Archdiocese of San Antonio "My dear sisters and brothers in the Lord, it almost does not seem possible that it has been a whole year already since we first gathered in prayer in the plaza outside this cathedral on the evening before my installation as your Archbishop. I acknowledged that evening that you undoubtedly wanted to know who I am, what kind of bishop I am, what the future of our local church will be...I told you that this will become clearer as we get to know one another in the days and months and years that lie before us. That first evening I simply wanted to share with you-briefly-my deepest faith and prayer and love for you. You and I have gotten to know one another better. What is truly important, however, is our relationship with God, and our life in Him." View slide show from the Anniversary Mass.   Click here to view slide show. Click here to watch Archbishop’s CTSA TV Show . Read the archbishop's Today's Catholic Columns ...

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Access: Mary's Touch Bless the God of all, who has done wondrous things on earth; Who fosters people's growth from their mother's womb, and fashions them according to His will! May He grant you joy of heart and may peace abide among you; May His goodness toward us endure… …to deliver us in our days. Sirach 50:22-24 When we count our blessings on this day of thanksgiving, we thank our Heavenly Father for you and your generous hearts. God bless you and your loved ones. Happy Thanksgiving From Your Friends at Mary’s Touch www.marystouch.org  

May we have a HEART of Thanksgiving giving thanks to God a MIND of Thanksgiving giving thanks to God a SOUL of Thanksgiving giving thanks to God

  It is always and everywhere in the little things that God most manifests His greatness and grandeur His most ardent and adamant love for us His magnificent and majestic gestures of touching our heart mind and soul causing a tear drop to well up in misty eyes to roll down the cheek in gratitude for a love so exquisitely divine that nothing or no one can match it much less surpass it A sunset is such a little thing that happens every day the brilliant splash of an array of colors cascading on a canvass of richly textured hues a picture perfect portrait lighting up the sky a backdrop greeting the night time as it is inevitably approaching to bring to an end another day of life A smile is such a little thing that happens upon millions of people throughout the world the face of another illuminated with depth and warmth that overflows and spills out radiating joy beyond understanding encompassing the totality of ...

 

Access: Texas Alliance for Life Texas Alliance for Life (TAL) announces that the state's newest specialty license plate, the Choose Life license plate, is finally on sale across the state. Proceeds from the sale of the plates will go to promote infant adoption as a compassionate alternative to abortion.   Of the $30 annual fee, $22 goes to the Office of the Attorney General of Texas to be distributed to qualified organizations that provide counseling and material assistance to pregnant women considering placing their unborn children for adoption, including pregnancy resource centers, maternity homes, and adoption agencies.   The remaining $8 covers state and county administrative costs.   Texas is the 25th state with a Choose Life plate, and more than $15 million has been raised to promote adoption in the 24 states that currently have the plate available, according to Choose Life America, Inc .   The Choose Life license plate can be ordered o...

1.         Hebrews 12:28-29   Therefore, since we receive a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us show gratitude, by which we may offer to God an acceptable service with reverence and awe; for our God is a consuming fire . 2.        Psalm 28:7 - The LORD is my strength and my shield; My heart trusts in Him, and I am helped; Therefore my heart exults, And with my song I shall thank Him. 3.        Psalm 69:30 -   I will praise the name of God with song, And shall magnify Him with thanksgiving. 4.        Psalm 95:1-6 -  O Come, let us sing for joy to the LORD; Let us shout joyfully to the rock of our salvation. Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving; Let us shout joyfully to Him with psalms. For the LORD is a great God, And a great King above all gods, In whose hand are the depths of the earth; The peaks of the mountains a...