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Catholic Caucus: Daily Mass Readings, 02-11-05, Optional, Our Lady of Lourdes
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Posted on 02/11/2005 8:32:05 AM PST by Salvation

February 11, 2005
Friday after Ash Wednesday

Psalm: Friday 9

Reading I
Is 58:1-9a

Thus says the Lord GOD:
Cry out full-throated and unsparingly,
lift up your voice like a trumpet blast;
Tell my people their wickedness,
and the house of Jacob their sins.
They seek me day after day,
and desire to know my ways,
Like a nation that has done what is just
and not abandoned the law of their God;
They ask me to declare what is due them,
pleased to gain access to God.
"Why do we fast, and you do not see it?
afflict ourselves, and you take no note of it?"

Lo, on your fast day you carry out your own pursuits,
and drive all your laborers.
Yes, your fast ends in quarreling and fighting,
striking with wicked claw.
Would that today you might fast
so as to make your voice heard on high!
Is this the manner of fasting I wish,
of keeping a day of penance:
That a man bow his head like a reed
and lie in sackcloth and ashes?
Do you call this a fast,
a day acceptable to the LORD?
This, rather, is the fasting that I wish:
releasing those bound unjustly,
untying the thongs of the yoke;
Setting free the oppressed,
breaking every yoke;
Sharing your bread with the hungry,
sheltering the oppressed and the homeless;
Clothing the naked when you see them,
and not turning your back on your own.
Then your light shall break forth like the dawn,
and your wound shall quickly be healed;
Your vindication shall go before you,
and the glory of the LORD shall be your rear guard.
Then you shall call, and the LORD will answer,
you shall cry for help, and he will say: Here I am!


Responsorial Psalm
Ps 51:3-4, 5-6ab, 18-19

R (19b) A heart contrite and humbled, O God, you will not spurn.
Have mercy on me, O God, in your goodness;
in the greatness of your compassion wipe out my offense.
Thoroughly wash me from my guilt
and of my sin cleanse me.
R A heart contrite and humbled, O God, you will not spurn.
For I acknowledge my offense
and my sin is before me always:
"Against you only have I sinned,
and done what is evil in your sight."
R A heart contrite and humbled, O God, you will not spurn.
For you are not pleased with sacrifices;
should I offer a burnt offering, you would not accept it.
My sacrifice, O God, is a contrite spirit;
a heart contrite and humbled, O God, you will not spurn.
R A heart contrite and humbled, O God, you will not spurn.


Gospel
Mt 9:14-15

The disciples of John approached Jesus and said,
"Why do we and the Pharisees fast much,
but your disciples do not fast?"
Jesus answered them, "Can the wedding guests mourn
as long as the bridegroom is with them?
The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them,
and then they will fast."




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1 posted on 02/11/2005 8:32:06 AM PST by Salvation
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2 posted on 02/11/2005 8:33:12 AM PST by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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Lent 2005, Prayer, Reflection, Action for All

Reflections for Lent: February 6 -- March 27, 2005

The Three Practices of Lent: Praying, Fasting, Almsgiving

3 posted on 02/11/2005 8:34:28 AM PST by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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Some wonderful threads to read and bump!
 

Mardi Gras' Catholic Roots [Shrove Tuesday]

The Holy Season of Lent -- Fast and Abstinence

The Holy Season of Lent -- The Stations of the Cross

[Suffering] His Pain Like Mine

Lent and Fasting

Ash Wednesday

All About Lent

Kids and Holiness: Making Lent Meaningful to Children

 

4 posted on 02/11/2005 8:35:06 AM PST by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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Our Lady of Lourdes

OUR LADY OF LOURDES:[Saint Bernardette Soubirous]

Paralyzed Woman Cured at Lourdes Shrine

Lourdes Has Its 66th Officially Recognized Miracle

5 posted on 02/11/2005 8:39:16 AM PST by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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From: Matthew 9:14-15

The Call of Matthew (Continuation)



[14] Then the disciples of John (the Baptist) came to Him (Jesus),
saying, "Why do we and the Pharisees fast, but Your disciples do not
fast?" [15] And Jesus said them, "Can the wedding guests mourn as long
as the bridegroom is with them? The days will come, when the
bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast."



Commentary:

14-17. This passage is interesting, not so much because it tells us
about the sort of fasting practised by the Jews of the
time--particularly the Pharisees and John the Baptist's disciples--but
because of the reason Jesus gives for not requiring His disciples to
fast in that way. His reply is both instructive and prophetic.
Christianity is not a mere mending or adjusting of the old suit of
Judaism. The redemption wrought by Jesus involves a total
regeneration. Its spirit is too new and too vital to be suited to old
forms of penance, which will no longer apply.

We know that in our Lord's time Jewish theology schools were in the
grip of a highly complicated casuistry to do with fasting,
purifications, etc., which smothered the simplicity of genuine piety.
Jesus' words point to that simplicity of heart with which His disciples
might practise prayer, fasting and almsgiving (cf. Matthew 6:1-18 and
notes to same). From apostolic times onwards it is for the Church,
using the authority given it by our Lord to set out the different forms
fasting should take in different periods and situations.

15. "The wedding guests": literally, "the sons of the house where the
wedding is being celebrated"--an expression meaning the bridegroom's
closest friends. This is an example of how St. Matthew uses typical
Semitic turns of phrase, presenting Jesus' manner of speech.

This "house" to which Jesus refers has a deeper meaning; set beside the
parable of the guests at the wedding (Matthew 22:1 ff), it symbolizes
the Church as the house of God and the body of Christ: "Moses was
faithful in all God's house as a servant, to testify to the things that
were to be spoken later, but Christ was faithful over God's house as a
son. And we are His house if we hold fast our confidence and pride in
our hope" (Hebrews 3:5-6).

The second part of the verse refers to the violent death Jesus would
meet.



Source: "The Navarre Bible: Text and Commentaries". Biblical text
taken from the Revised Standard Version and New Vulgate. Commentaries
made by members of the Faculty of Theology of the University of
Navarre, Spain. Published by Four Courts Press, Kill Lane, Blackrock,
Co. Dublin, Ireland.


6 posted on 02/11/2005 8:41:50 AM PST by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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Marian Apparitions
Question from Adam on 06-23-2003:
Dear Mr. Bunson, What are some of the approved Marian apparitions? Adam
Answer by Matthew Bunson on 06-25-2003:
The Blessed Virgin Mary has appeared throughout the world and throughout history. The seven best-known Marian apparitions are:

Banneux, near Liège, Belgium, in 1933. She appeared to an 11-year-old peasant girl, Mariette Beco, in a garden behind the family cottage in Banneux. She called herself the Virgin of the Poor, and has since been venerated as Our Lady of the Poor, the Sick, and the Indifferent.

Beauraing, Belgium, in 1932 and 1933. She appeared to five children in the garden of a convent school in Beauraing.

Fátima, Portugal, in 1917; one of the most famous of apparitions. Our Lady appeared to three children (Lucia dos Santos, 10, who is now a Carmelite nun; Francisco Marto, 9, who died in 1919; and his sister Jacinta, 7, who died in 1920; Jacinta and Francisco were beatified by Pope John Paul II in 2000) in a field called Cova da Iria near Fátima.

Guadalupe, Mexico, in 1531. Our Lady appeared to an Indian, Juan Diego (declared Blessed in 1990 and canonized in 2002), on Tepeyac hill outside of Mexico City.

La Salette, France, in 1846. Mary appeared as a sorrowing and weeping figure to two peasant children, Melanie Matthieu, 15, and Maximin Giraud, 11, at La Salette.

Lourdes, France, in 1858. Mary, identifying herself as the Immaculate Conception, appeared 18 times to 14-year-old Bernadette Soubirous (canonized in 1933) at the grotto of Massabielle near Lourdes.

Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal, France, in 1830. Mary appeared three times to Catherine Labouré (canonized in 1947) in the chapel of the motherhouse of the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul, Rue de Bac, Paris.

Finally, mention should be made of the alleged apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary to six young people of Medjugorje, Bosnia-Herzegovina. The apparitions were first reported in June 1981, initially in the neighboring hillside field, subsequently in the village church of St. James and even distant places. In 1987, the bishops of Yugoslavia declared: “On the basis of research conducted so far, one cannot affirm that supernatural apparitions are involved” at Medjugorje. Currently, the events remain under on-going investigation by the Holy See to determine their authenticity. Nevertheless, the site of Medjugorje remains a popular destination for Catholic pilgrims from Europe and the United States.


7 posted on 02/11/2005 8:44:24 AM PST by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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8 posted on 02/11/2005 8:53:45 AM PST by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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Friday, February 11, 2005
Our Lady of Lourdes (Commemoration)
First Reading:
Psalm:
Gospel:
Isaiah 58:1-9
Psalm 51:3-6, 18-19
Matthew 9:14-15

To recollect oneself means to turn from the outward to the inward life. The first stage of recollection is the attentiveness to the voice of duty, to the law of God. What is commanded, what is forbidden by the law? Is this or that thought, desire, or action in accordance with the divine law? The recollected conscience asks itself these questions, and its answer is our guide. This recollection in the law is easy, because the least transgression is followed by torment and trouble of spirit, as our conscience cries out," You have done wrong". Be attentive to its first warning. Bind the law of the Lord on your arm and let it be ever before your eyes and your heart.

 -- St. Peter Eymard


9 posted on 02/11/2005 8:55:36 AM PST by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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Today is the first Friday of Lent and a day of fast and abstinence.
 
Lenten Question
Q: What is a day of fast and abstinence?
A: Under current canon law in the Western Rite of the Church, a day of fast is one on which Catholics who are eighteen to sixty years old are required to keep a limited fast. In this country, one may eat a single, normal meal and have two snacks, so long as these snacks do not add up to a second meal. Children are not required to fast, but their parents must ensure they are properly educated in the spiritual practice of fasting. Those with medical conditions requiring a greater or more regular food intake can easily be dispensed from the requirement of fasting by their pastor. A day of abstinence is a day on which Catholics fourteen years or older are required to abstain from eating meat (under the current discipline in America, fish, eggs, milk products, and condiments or foods made using animal fat are permitted in the Western Rite of the Church, though not in the Eastern Rites.) Again, persons with special dietary needs can easily be dispensed by their pastor.



10 posted on 02/11/2005 9:03:09 AM PST by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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Collect:
God of mercy, we celebrate the feast of Mary, the sinless mother of God. May her prayers help us to rise above our human weakness. We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.

February 11, 2005 Month Year Season

Optional Memorial of Our Lady of Lourdes

Old Calendar: Apparition of Our Lady at Lourdes

Today marks the first apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary in 1858 to fourteen-year-old Marie Bernade (St. Bernadette) Soubirous. Between February 11 and July 16, 1858, the Blessed Virgin appeared eighteen times, and showed herself to St. Bernadette in the hollow of the rock at Lourdes. On March 25 she said to the little shepherdess who was only fourteen years of age: "I am the Immaculate Conception." Since then Lourdes has become a place of pilgrimage and many cures and conversions have taken place. The message of Lourdes is a call to personal conversion, prayer, and charity.

The station for today is on Mt. Coelius in the basilica which the Christian Senator Pammachius built over the home of the martyrs Sts. John and Paul and which is dedicated to them. Near the church was a hospice where Pammachius dispensed his fortune in charity to the poor.


Our Lady of Lourdes
The many miracles which have been performed through the intercession of the Blessed Virgin at Lourdes prompted the Church to institute a special commemorative feast, the "Apparition of the Immaculate Virgin Mary." The Office gives the historical background. Four years after the promulgation of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception (1854), the Blessed Virgin appeared a number of times to a very poor and holy girl named Bernadette. The actual spot was in a grotto on the bank of the Gave River near Lourdes.

The Immaculate Conception had a youthful appearance and was clothed in a pure white gown and mantle, with an azure blue girdle. A golden rose adorned each of her bare feet. On her first apparition, February 11, 1858, the Blessed Virgin bade the girl make the sign of the Cross piously and say the rosary with her. Bernadette saw her take the rosary that was hanging from her arms into her hands. This was repeated in subsequent apparitions.   

With childlike simplicity Bernadette once sprinkled holy water on the vision, fearing that it was a deception of the evil spirit; but the Blessed Virgin smiled pleasantly, and her face became even more lovely. The third time Mary appeared she invited the girl to come to the grotto daily for two weeks. Now she frequently spoke to Bernadette. On one occasion she ordered her to tell the ecclesiastical authorities to build a church on the spot and to organize processions. Bernadette also was told to drink and wash at the spring still hidden under the sand.

Finally on the feast of the Annunciation, the beautiful Lady announced her name, "I am the Immaculate Conception."

The report of cures occurring at the grotto spread quickly and the more it spread, the greater the number of Christians who visited the hallowed place. The publicity given these miraculous events on the one hand and the seeming sincerity and innocence of the girl on the other made it necessary for the bishop of Tarbes to institute a judicial inquiry. Four years later he declared the apparitions to be supernatural and permitted the public veneration of the Immaculate Conception in the grotto. Soon a chapel was erected, and since that time numberless pilgrims come every year to Lourdes to fulfill promises or to beg graces. —The Church's Year of Grace, Pius Parsch

February 11 was proclaimed World Day of the Sick by Pope John Paul II. Therefore, it would be appropriate to celebrate the Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick on this day during a Mass or Liturgy of the Word. (The Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick is only to be given to "those of the faithful whose health is seriously impaired by sickness or old age", Roman Ritual. This Sacrament must not be given indiscriminately to all who take part in Masses for the sick.)

Patron: Bodily ills.

Symbols: The Blessed Virgin ("The Immaculate Conception") who wears a white dress, blue belt, and a rose on each foot.

Things to Do:

  • Watch The Song of Bernadette, a masterpiece filmed in 1943.

  • Bring flowers (roses would be appropriate) to your statue of Our Lady at your home altar, especially if you have a statue of Our Lady of Lourdes.

  • Obtain some Lourdes holy water and give the parental blessing to your children (see link).

  • Give extra care to the sick in your community — cook dinner for a sick mother's family, bring your children to the local nursing home (the elderly love to see children), send flowers to a member of your parish community who is ill.

11 posted on 02/11/2005 9:14:36 AM PST by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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"(under the current discipline in America, fish, eggs, milk products, and condiments or foods made using animal fat are permitted in the Western Rite of the Church, though not in the Eastern Rites.)"

Sissies! And only on Fridays? :) You guys have a blessed Great Lent. You'll be done just about when we start this year!


12 posted on 02/11/2005 9:30:33 AM PST by Kolokotronis (Nuke the Cube!)
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Thank you
Please read
http://www.biblia.com/christ/passion.htm
http://biblia.com/jesusm/passion.htm


13 posted on 02/11/2005 11:24:29 AM PST by anonymoussierra (Quo Vadis Domine? Quo Vadis? Thank you)
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To: All; Salvation; blackie

14 posted on 02/11/2005 11:29:19 AM PST by anonymoussierra (Quo Vadis Domine? Quo Vadis? Thank you)
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God of mercy, we celebrate the feast of Mary,
the sinless mother of God.
May her prayers help us to rise above our
human weakness. We ask this through our
Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and
reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever.   Amen

 

15 posted on 02/11/2005 2:11:16 PM PST by Smartass (BUSH & CHENEY to 2008 Si vis pacem, para bellum - Por el dedo de Dios se escribió)
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16 posted on 02/11/2005 5:29:01 PM PST by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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Homily of the Day


Homily of the Day

Title:   Loving Grows Hearts
Author:   Monsignor Dennis Clark, Ph.D.
Date:   Friday February 11, 2005
 


Isaiah 58:1-9; Matthew 9:14-15

Until the mid-1960s, the time of Vatican Council II, we Catholics fasted six days out of seven for the whole six weeks of Lent. How we looked forward to Sundays! And then the discipline of the Church changed to what is now the practice: fasting on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday, and abstaining from meat on the Fridays of Lent.

Has the Church gotten soft? Is that what’s going on? I don’t think so. I think there was something more subtle and wise behind the decision to change, and that is the recognition that we can get so caught up in the externals that we can miss or bypass the real point. It’s so easy to say something like, “I’ve had a very successful Lent because I’ve kept the fasting rule perfectly every single day without exception.” To think or say that would, of course, be a joke. But the speaker might well not know it.

Today’s Old Testament reading tells us what the Lord wants us to accomplish in Lent. “The fasting that I wish: releasing those bound unjustly, setting free the oppressed, sharing your bread with the hungry, sheltering the oppressed and the homeless, clothing the naked when you see them, and not turning your back on your own.”

God is summoning us to do more than play at being Christian. He wants to help us change our hearts, and only the works of love can do that.

Love in deed, and your heart will change and grow very full indeed!

 


17 posted on 02/11/2005 5:34:30 PM PST by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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Friday February 11, 2005   Friday After Ash Wednesday

Reading (Isaiah 58:1-9a)   Gospel (St. Matthew 9:14-15)

 In both of the readings today, we hear about fasting. Now fasting is critically important for our spiritual lives; it goes hand in hand with the prayer and the almsgiving. If we really want to grow in prayer, it is going to require self-denial. As we hunger for the food that we are lacking, it leads us then to a greater spiritual hunger if we can take that hunger and translate it into a spiritual means; but, at the same time, it needs to end in something that is even greater in the way that we live our lives.

 We hear in the first reading about the kind of fasting that was being done by some of the Israelites. They are wondering why, if they sit there in sackcloth and ashes, God was not hearing their prayers; and the Lord says, “It is because of the way that you act when you fast.” If you are driving your laborers, if you are striking people, if you are angry, if you are being mean, if you are being selfish, what good is fasting? If it is leading you to be uncharitable and more selfish then it is having exactly the opposite effect of what it is supposed to do. The idea of fasting is self-denial. The idea of fasting is hungering for God. If what it is doing instead is making us edgy and angry and mean and selfish, then it is doing exactly the opposite of what was intended.

 The Lord is telling us that we need to fast, but that it needs to be in the proper manner. If we are going to be fasting, it needs to end up in greater virtue. That is what we have to focus on. If all we focus on is the fasting, then we are going to think we are doing something heroic just because we are allowing ourselves to feel hunger. And if that is all we are focused on, it is not going to come out in a good way. But if our focus is on the Lord, then the fasting will actually have a greater effect. The fasting is not an end in itself; it is merely a means to something else. So what we need to look at is not merely the fasting, which is a very easy thing to do. When you are feeling hungry, it is very easy to focus on your own self; it is very easy, of course, to focus specifically on the belly; and as Saint Paul comments to some, “Their gods are their bellies and their glory is in their shame.” That is not what we want. What we want is for the focus not to be on the belly but on the heart, to be on the Lord not on the self, and to be on virtue rather than on any kind of vice.

 And so if we are going to be fasting, which the Lord tells us we need to do – the Bridegroom has been taken from us, so we need to fast; this is not something which is merely optional to us – our fasting needs to have a proper focus, it has to have a right purpose, and it has to end in greater holiness. That is something all of us can look at, and I suspect we will see quite easily how it is being done. Is our fasting ending up in being angry? in being mean? in ripping into people? in being more selfish? Or is our fasting ending up in deeper prayer? in greater virtue? in more charity? in a more profound holiness? The Lord is looking for the good to come out of fasting, so if we are focused merely on our own bellies, or if we are focused merely on the fasting as an end in itself, then it is going to end in something that is not good. But if we are focused on why we are fasting – we are offering it to the Lord and we are seeking Him – then our fasting is going to have a very good end. That will be very evident in our own lives, not only to ourselves but especially to the people around us. I am sure if you are married that your spouse will be very quick to help you see whether or not your fasting is having a proper end because it is the people right around you who will notice most easily how you are acting and whether there is greater charity or not. That is the way we need to be able to gauge the quality of our fasting. The Lord makes very clear in Isaiah that the kind of fasting He wishes is to get rid of injustice and any lack of charity, and if we are not then our fasting is not going to be pleasing to the Lord because it is either being done for the wrong reason or because our focus is not where it belongs. So our focus in fasting needs to remain on Christ, on a spiritual hunger more than on a physical hunger, and uniting ourselves to Christ through greater prayer and virtue.

 *  This text was transcribed from the audio recording with minimal editing.


18 posted on 02/11/2005 5:38:12 PM PST by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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American Cathlic's Saint of the Day

February 11, 2005
Our Lady of Lourdes

On December 8, 1854, Pope Pius IX proclaimed the dogma of the Immaculate Conception in the apostolic constitution Ineffabilis Deus. A little more than three years later, on February 11, 1858, a young lady appeared to Bernadette Soubirous. This began a series of visions. During the apparition on March 25, the lady identified herself with the words: “I am the Immaculate Conception.”

Bernadette was a sickly child of poor parents. Their practice of the Catholic faith was scarcely more than lukewarm. Bernadette could pray the Our Father, the Hail Mary and the Creed. She also knew the prayer of the Miraculous Medal: “O Mary conceived without sin.”

During interrogations Bernadette gave an account of what she saw. It was “something white in the shape of a girl.” She used the word aquero, a dialect term meaning “this thing.” It was “a pretty young girl with a rosary over her arm.” Her white robe was encircled by a blue girdle. She wore a white veil. There was a yellow rose on each foot. A rosary was in her hand. Bernadette was also impressed by the fact that the lady did not use the informal form of address (tu), but the polite form (vous). The humble virgin appeared to a humble girl and treated her with dignity.

Through that humble girl, Mary revitalized and continues to revitalize the faith of millions of people. People began to flock to Lourdes from other parts of France and from all over the world. In 1862 Church authorities confirmed the authenticity of the apparitions and authorized the cult of Our Lady of Lourdes for the diocese. The Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes became worldwide in 1907.

Comment:

Lourdes has become a place of pilgrimage and healing, but even more of faith. Church authorities have recognized over 60 miraculous cures, although there have probably been many more. To people of faith this is not surprising. It is a continuation of Jesus’ healing miracles—now performed at the intercession of his mother. Some would say that the greater miracles are hidden. Many who visit Lourdes return home with renewed faith and a readiness to serve God in their needy brothers and sisters. There still may be people who doubt the apparitions of Lourdes. Perhaps the best that can be said to them are the words that introduce the film Song of Bernadette: “For those who believe in God, no explanation is necessary. For those who do not believe, no explanation is possible.”

Quote:

“Lo! Mary is exempt from stain of sin, Proclaims the Pontiff high; And earth applauding celebrates with joy Her triumph, far and high. Unto a lowly timid maid she shows Her form in beauty fair, And the Immaculate Conception truth Her sacred lips declare.” (Unattributed hymn from the Roman Breviary)



19 posted on 02/11/2005 5:44:26 PM PST by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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Mt 9:14-15
# Douay-Rheims Vulgate
14 Then came to him the disciples of John, saying: Why do we and the Pharisees, fast often, but thy disciples do not fast? tunc accesserunt ad eum discipuli Iohannis dicentes quare nos et Pharisaei ieiunamus frequenter discipuli autem tui non ieiunant
15 And Jesus said to them: Can the children of the bridegroom mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then they shall fast. et ait illis Iesus numquid possunt filii sponsi lugere quamdiu cum illis est sponsus venient autem dies cum auferetur ab eis sponsus et tunc ieiunabunt

20 posted on 02/11/2005 7:16:46 PM PST by annalex
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