"The Spirit.... will lead you into all the truth." ~ Joh n 16:13
In 1858, a girl named Bernadette reported apparitions of Ma ry at a hillside in Lourdes, France. Sick people visited the site and w ere cured. Over, 1,300 cures are well documented.
In the 1930s, A lexis Carrel, a skeptical New York surgeon and Nobel Prize winner, went t o Lourdes to investigate the claims. While there, he witnessed a girl bein g cured. He stood in silence, totally stunned. That night, he went for a long walk. Ending up in a church, he prayed:
"I still doubt... Bene ath... intellectual pride a smothered dream persists... the dream of believ ing."
He returned to his hotel and recorded his observations. In The Voyage of Lourdes, he describes what then happened:
"A n ew coolness penetrated the open window. I felt the serenity of nature enter my soul with gentle calm. All intellectual doubts had vanished." ~ Mar k Link, S.J.
How do you understand such miracles...
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St. Scholastica, Virgin
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"Those who declare publicly that they belong to me, I will do the same for them before my Father in heaven." ~ Matthew 10:32 The preacher at F.W. de Klerk's inauguration made a disturbing point. He said that the South African president had the awesome responsibility of dis cerning God's will and acting on it. This planted a seed in de Kl erk's mind that grew and grew. Slowly, it led him to pursue the dismantlin g of the dehumanizing apartheid system and granting citizenship to 35 milli on blacks. de Klerk said later that he knew that in pursuing this unpopular policy he would be rejected by his own people, but this did not deter him . ~ Mark Link, S.J.
In what areas can the Knights display the same political bravery?
'Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sl eep, we grow strong or weak, and at last some crisis show us what we have become." ~ Bishop Westcott
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Our Lady of Lourdes
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"If my people, who are called by my name, will humble them selves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways; then wil l I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land." ~ 2 Chronicles 7:14
We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven. We have been preserved these many years in peace and pr osperity .We have grown in numbers, wealth and power as no other nation ha s ever grown.
But we have forgotten God.
We have forgotten th e gracious Hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched a nd strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own.
Intoxicate with unbroken success, we have b ecome too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace., too proud to pray to the God that made us! It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power, so confe...
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"These are shadows of things to come; but the substance bel ongs to Christ." ~ Colossians 2:17
Tip O'Neill was a member of t he House of Representatives for 34 years. In the memoirs of his political l ife, Tip says that he'll never forget a day in Missouri in 1960 when he wa s with Jack Kennedy in a campaign parade. He wrote: "Somebody mentioned that in the neighborhood we were driving through there was a good deal of c oncern over the Catholic issue. Then we passed a Catholic school, with all the nuns standing outside, holding their Kennedy signs. 'Stop the car,' said Jack. He gout out and shook hands with all the sisters, and I loved h im for it." ~ Mark Link, S.J.
How ready am I to witness to the goal s of the Knights even if it means risking my own popularity?
"He who sells principles for popularity is soon bankrupt." ~ E .C. McKenzie
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"There are three things that are too amazing to me, four th at I do not understand: the way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a snake on a rock, the way of a ship on the high seas, and the way of a man with a maiden." ~ Proverbs 30:18-19
How was it with you when you fir st fell in love with the girl you married? Or (if you feel that you never w ere in love), look at her now through another man's eyes. Think about thos e things that are attractive in her. Love her with a sensitive appreciation and watch her become beautiful as she reflects and radiates the love you h ave poured out to her.....
As Christians we can be sure that romanti c love is as old as Time itself, for it came into being in the Garden when the first man and woman gazed on each other. We must recognize that it was our Creator who gifted us with the capacity for the intense and passionate emotions required to fall in love. Clearly, God intended for or emotional potential to be fully developed in marriage and ...
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St. Cyril, Monk; St. Methodius, Bishop
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Ave Maria Catholic Church, 9056 E Parker Rd, Parker, CO 80138, USA
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Hot breakfast at 5:45 am followed by discussion. Please join
us. For more information contact Brad Riddell at 303-548-
6184 or Bill Was serman at 954-817-5706.
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"Do not ask me to abandon or forsake you! For wherever you g o I will go, wherever you lodge I will lodge, your people shall be my peo ple, and your God my God." ~ Ruth 1:16
Once there was a war bet ween the birds and the beasts. The Bat was on the birds' side. When he saw defeat was imminent, he crept away and hid under a log until the fight was over. When the victorious beasts were going home, Bat slipped in among th em. The beasts noticed him and said, "Didn't you fight against us?" Bat replied, "Oh no! I'm one of you. What kind of bird has fangs like thi s? I'm a beast."
They said nothing more, and let Bat stay with them . Another battle ensued, but this time the birds prevailed. As soon as Bat saw his side was beaten, he attempted to switch allegiances once again. A nd so it was, Bat went back and forth throughout the war. Eventually, pea ce reigned. The two sides reconciled and realized the Bat's duplicity. They cast him out saying, "Hereafter, you will fly alon...
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Our Lady of the Visitation, 34201 Co Rd 33, Kiowa, CO 80117, U SA