Articles For Heart Mind Soul

(Received in email) Dear little handmaids, friends, and family, This is a gold mine of talks and homilies from great preachers and teachers who present reconciliation and inner healing retreats at Our Sorrowful Mother's Ministry in Vandalia, Illinois. What amazing gifts from OSMM and Our Lord! Thank you OSMM! Thanks be to God! Cami We are very excited to announce that AUDIO RECORDINGS of recent retreats are now available! Visit our new Audio Recordings page on the OSMM website to listen to talks and homilies by Msgr. Stuart Swetland, Fr. Anthony Gramlich, and Fr. Philip Scott.

(Received in email) Señor, Dios, dueño del tiempo y de la eternidad, tuyo es el hoy y el mañana, el pasado y el futuro. Al terminar este año quiero darte gracias por todo aquello que recibí de Ti. Gracias por la vida y el amor, por las flores, el aire y el sol, por la alegría y el dolor, por cuanto fue posible y por lo que no pudo ser. Te ofrezco cuanto hice en este año, el trabajo que pude realizar y las cosas que pasaron por mis manos y lo que con ellas pude construir. Te presento a las personas que a lo largo de estos meses amé, las amistades nuevas y los antiguos amores, los más cercanos a mí y los que estén más lejos, los que me dieron su mano y aquellos a los que pude ayudar, con los que compartí la vida, el trabajo, el dolor y la alegría. Pero también, Señor hoy quiero pedirte perdón, perdón por el tiempo perdido, por el dinero mal gastado, por la palabra inútil y el amor desperdiciado. Perdón por las obras vacías y por el trabajo mal hecho, y perdón por vivir si

      "He will destroy... the web that is woven over all nations." —Isaiah 25:7                    One possible meaning of Isaiah's prophecy is that the "web that is woven over all nations" (Is 25:7) is the Internet, or World Wide Web. The Internet literally is woven over all nations, connected by strands of wire, cable, and fiberglass.   Some of you are on it at this instant, reading this very teaching from your e-mail inbox or at our web site, www.presentationministries.com . Thank God for you!   A spider's web is woven for the purpose of ensnaring insects,   leading to their death and consumption. Isaiah refers to this web as a "veil that veils all peoples" (Is 25:7).   Scripturally, the word "veil" refers to the cloth in the inner sanctuary of the Temple that kept people away from God (see Lv 16:2).   However, someday soon the Lord will destroy this web woven over all nati

The pro-life group Operation Rescue has released a list of 10 pro-life victories against the abortion industry that occurred in 2012 because of its efforts to hold abortion clinics and practitioners accountable for breaking the law. 1. Tiller associate, Ann Kristin Neuhaus’ medical license was revoked as a result an Operation Rescue complaint. Another former Tiller associate, Shelley Sella, also facing Board action, spotlighting dangers of late-term abortions. 2. Operation Rescue exposed 32 medical emergencies at abortion clinics, raising public awareness of abortion’s dangers. 3. New York abortionist Robert Hosty’s medical license was revoked in February after Operation Rescue filed a complaint against him for the grisly killing patient Alexandra Nunez during a severely botched second trimester abortion in 2010. 4. Abortionists face discipline after Operation Rescue, others filed complaints. In 2012, at least nine abortionists were disciplined as a

   

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(Received in email) Dear little handmaids and friends, In our Lady’s messages to Mirjana in Medjugorje in 2012, each of them ended with her request that we pray for our priests. I would like to suggest that we give our priests the gift of a novena of Divine Mercy chaplets, to begin on Christmas Day, December 25, 2012, and to end on January 2, 2012. We could choose one of the messages each of the nine days to guide our prayers. I implore you, pray for those whom my Son has chosen. Do not judge because you will all be judged. ” (Jan. 2, 2012) Again I implore you to pray for those whom my Son has chosen – those are your shepherds. ” (Feb. 2, 2012) Pray for those whom my Son has chosen that they can always live through Him and in Him – the High Priest. Thank you. ” (March 2, 2012) Pray for your shepherds that, united in my Son, they can always joyfully proclaim the Word of God. Thank you. ” (Mar. 18, 2012) Do not forget your shepherds. Pray that in their thoug

    A light will shine on us this day: the Lord is born for us!

       

  Ron Rolheiser, a Roman Catholic priest and member of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, is president of the Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio, Texas 1.      God's insight and understanding surpass our own.   2.      God's compassion and forgiveness surpass our own.    3.      God respects nature, our human make-up, and our innate propensities.   4.      God is a blessing parent, not a threatened one.   5.      God can handle our questions and doubts and angers.    6.      God reads the heart and can tell the difference between wound and malice.    7.      God gives us more than one chance, opening another door every time we close one.    8.      God desires our salvation and the salvation of our loved ones more than we do.    9.      God is the author of all that is good.   10.  God can, and does, descend into hell to help us.    "There is no fear in love, but per

  Imagine being a Catholic priest in Newtown, CT. Fr. Luke Suarez and Msgr. Robert Weiss serve at St. Rose of Lima parish in the heart of the shattered New England town. CV blogger Tom Crowe personally knows Fr. Luke as he was in seminary with him for a year. Tom also knows Fr. Luke's sister, who penned the note below. We send it along and hope you will be moved to act on her suggestion. - Your Friends at CatholicVote.org My friends, All of you, I am sure, have heard so much about the tragedy in Newtown, CT. Many of you have received emails from me about my younger brother, Father Luke Suarez, who is a priest at St. Rose of Lima parish, a Catholic church just down the road from Sandy Hook Elementary. He, and his pastor, Monsignor Weiss, arrived at the school within moments of the shooting, and have been caring for the community ever since. The picture I have included was taken at the school. Father Luke has an impossible task before him. His diocese is without a

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On Saturday, December 1, 2012 at the annual Prayer Brunch benefiting The Pilgrim Center of Hope (Catholic evangelization ministry), over 300 persons enjoyed this address given by Bishop Oscar Cantu, Auxiliary Bishop for the Archdiocese of San Antonio, Texas. For more about The Pilgrim Center of Hope, visit http://pilgrimcenterofhope.org

     

Listed below is the link to the PARENT SURVEY that needs to be distributed to all the schools and parishes in Del Rio at the request of Dr. Convey.   For SURVEY in ENGLISH, click on the link below: http://cua.sanantonio.sgizmo.com/s3/            For SURVEY in SPANISH, click on the link below: http://cua.sanantoniospanish.sgizmo.com/s3/   Dear ACTS & Catholic Community of Del Rio, Please take a few minutes to answer these questions on behalf of your family for the Archdiocese of San Antonio Strategic Plan. Please forward to everyone you can think of. Thank you. Yours in Christ, Aurora Guerra Principal of Sacred Heart Catholic School and Director of Religious Education          

 

“You have faith in God; have faith also in me. In my Father's house there are many dwelling places. If there were not, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you?”   My heart is saddened by the terrible loss of life at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut. I pray for the repose of the soul of those many children and adults whose lives were ended in a tragic, violent moment. My heart breaks for the parents and families of all those who were taken from them so suddenly and in such a horrific way. We pray that their faith will sustain them at this time of great sorrow. I call upon the faithful to join me in prayer as we raise our voices in our faith and hope that Jesus has prepared a place for them in heaven as he has promised. Our Blessed Mother understands the pain of the loss of a child. Therefore, I pray for her intercession to bring comfort to those grieving at this time of heartbreak. May we also pray for all those who are victi

        Dear Friend of Life, Do you want to come to Washington, D.C. on January 25th , and be a voice for the unborn? We want you to come and we would like to give you and a friend the chance to win a free trip to join us at the March for Life ! Enter today to win a trip for two to the March for Life in Washington, D.C.! Many people hope to make the journey to Washington, D.C. for the March for Life at some stage, but with financial constraints and other responsibilities, it's not always feasible. Well -- we want to make it easy for you, so we're going to pay for a pro-life advocate and one of their friend's to come to the March. Win a trip to the 2013 March for Life! The Grand Prize winner will win: - Two (2) round-trip tickets (airfare) to the March for Life - Two (2) night hotel stay in Washington, D.C. - And you'll get to hangout with Lila, the Live Action team, and thousands of pro-lifers from across America! It's so easy to win. All you have to do i

The Catechism of the Catholic Church brings light to the Scriptural truths of marriage:   The matrimonial convenant, by which a man and a woman establish between themselves a partnership of the whole of life, is by its nature ordered toward the good of the spouses and the procreation and education of offspring (1601).   Holy Scripture affirms that man and woman were created for one another: "It is not good that the man should be alone...Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and cleaves to his wife, and they become one flesh...So they are no longer two, but one flesh" (1605).     God Himself is the author of marriage (1603) .        

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  Happy Feast Day! The feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe is joyfully celebrated today throughout the Americas. The Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to Juan Diego in 1531 with a message of hope. Through her intercession, millions of people were liberated from the demonic influence of the Aztecs, who practiced human sacrifice. Throughout the history of the Church, Catholics have turned to the Mother of Our Lord for strength, courage, and for her intercession during times of great trial and crisis. The stories abound. She never fails. She is the Star that points to her Son. Please join us today in praying to Our Lady of Guadalupe for our Church and our nation, that the hope of the New Evangelization may be realized. The following prayer is an excerpt taken from the words recited by Pope John Paul the Great at the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in 1979: Mother of Mercy, Teacher of hidden and silent sacrifice, to you, who come to meet us sinners, we dedicate on this day all our being and