Joyful News. Two New Priests. Thanks Be To God.

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JOYFUL NEWS.

Two new Priests are being Ordained.

The soon-to-be Father Yousef Marie and Father Magdala Maria.

See the story at http://papastronsay.blogspot.co.uk/

Three Lives Saved.

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TUESDAY, JANUARY 29, 2013

Three Lives Saved

 Today at the abortion clinic here in Lincoln, Nebraska, we had the great joy of saving three lives!  That’s right, three women, after seeing people praying outside the abortuary, decided not to kill their child, but to let it live!  This is the result not only of prayer, but also of having a visible presence outside the abortion clinic.  All these women and children need our prayers and certainly the graces they received were obtained by prayers in one form or another, but if our counsellors had not been there to talk to the ladies and offer them support, if Our Lady’s Army had not been there praying and giving visible encouragement, who knows but that those three precious lives might by now have been snuffed-out.

If you are in the Lincoln area and can make it to the Lincoln abortuary on a Tuesday, please do come out and join us in praying for an end to abortion and for the women and children who are harmed by abortion.  Who knows how many babies God will save from death if only there are enough people out there praying for it.  Our Lady said at Fatima “Many souls go to hell because they have no one to pray for them.”  Clearly we are not talking about hell for these innocent little babies, but could it not also be said: many babies are slaughtered each day by abortion BECAUSE THERE IS NO ONE TO PRAY FOR THEM?  If you are not in the Lincoln area or cannot make it but know people who could please share this with your friends so that we can get an many people out there praying for mothers and their children as possible.

5631 S. 48th Street

Suite 100

Lincoln, NE 68516

There is parking available.

On Christmas Night, Heaven will bow down to Earth and let drop the Sweet Dew of Our God and Saviour, Our Little Lord Jesus Christ.

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Heaven is Sweet – Heaven is Near – Heaven is Mine

Some of the members of our Congregation had

 the privilege of knowing Sr Judith  Meisner,

 an elderly Norwegian Sister of St Joseph,

 who lived out the final years of her life

 in the Zaitzkofen seminary in Bavaria.

 She often told the story of an event that had made a profound impression on her as young nun. 

Sister, who had received the gift of the Faith as schoolgirl with her future Congregation, while a novice and not yet 20 years of age, recalled that a Redemptorist Missioner had come to their convent. The priest preached a profound retreat which affected all, and on one of the days he gave a conference which ended with the words – and Sister would say them very slowly and solemnly – 

“Heaven is Sweet, Heaven is Near, Heaven is Mine”. 

“Heaven is Sweet, Heaven is…” 

she would repeat a few times making sure you understood the import of those words. 

Like the ending of every retreat conference the nuns went their way to their cells for the night, moved at what  the priest had said, but thinking no more about it than that. Early the next morning after the usual common prayers they were awaiting the appearance of the Missioner in the Convent Church to celebrate the Holy Mass when a nun burst into the choir and quite excitedly told them that
 Father had died in his sleep during the night… 

“Heaven is Sweet, Heaven is Near, Heaven is Mine,” 

Sister would repeat again solemnly… 

“those were his last words!” 

For us who remain in this Valley of Shadows, 

perhaps those words are no more appropriate than
 in this time of Advent. 

For now Salvation at Hand, 
now amidst the Winter Darkness

 we await that 

Heaven on Earth Who is Sweet, and Near, and Who can be Mine

 if only I will open my heart to Him,

if perhaps I make that good and holy confession that I need to make,

if I forgive that soul who is most in need of my mercy,

if I give up that person, that place, that object, that amusement

which is causing my darkness and unhappiness through sin. 

On Christmas Night Heaven will bow down to Earth and

 let drop the Sweet Dew of 

Our God and Saviour, Our Little Lord Jesus Christ.

Would it not be so SWEET if then He would be NEAR,
 if He would be MINE?

The Ukrainian Orthodox Church.

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The Ukrainian Orthodox Church recently "Canonised" Schema-Archbishop Anthony Abashidze, who died in 1942.

To most readers, this would be of limited interest, bar one very interesting detail in the life of this, by all accounts, very intellectually gifted and ascetic monk.

Schema-Archbishop Anthony Abashidze.

Photo taken from Mystagogy,
 The Weblog of John Sanidopoulos,
at http://www.johnsanidopoulos.com.

It was Schema-Archbishop Anthony who, as Inspector of the Tbilisi theological seminary in Georgia, EXPELLED Joseph Dzhugashvili, better known as Joseph Stalin, from the seminary.

Schema-Archbishop Anthony suffered persecution and exile under Communist rule, but, interestingly, he died in peace.

Unlike so many whom Stalin sent to their deaths.

This ends the Article, as taken from the October 2012 issue of " The Catholic Illustrated", the Newspaper of  the Papa Stronsay community, known as The Sons of the Most Holy Redeemer at www.papastronsay.blogspot.com

The following is an observation from Zephyrinus.

The wonderful, all-powerful, all-encompassing Communist regime.
What happened to it ?
Why didn't it go on, and on, and on, and on. and on. . ?
What was wrong with it ?
How come the All-Mighty Stalin died ?
Where is he, now ?

Joseph Stalin, in military uniform, with the rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union (1943).

The Feast of the Seven Sorrows of Our Lady

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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2012

Feast of the Seven Sorrows of Our Lady

It is part of our monastery devotions to recite one of our Lady's dolours everyday after the afternoon recreation. The image above was put together by one of the brothers.

St Alphonsus in the glories of Mary says that it was revealed to St. Elizabeth, that at the request of Our Lady, Our Lord promised four principal graces to those devoted to Her Sorrows:

1. That those who before death invoke the divine Mother in the name of Her Sorrows will obtain true repentance of all their sins;

2. That He will protect all who have this devotion in their tribulations, and will protect them especially at the hour of death;

3. That He will impress on their minds the remembrance of His Passion;

4. That He will place such devout servants in Mother Mary’s hands to do with them as She wishes and to obtain for them all the graces She desires.

In addition to these four graces there are also seven promises (revealed to St. Bridget) attached to the practice of daily praying seven Hail Mary’s while meditating on Our Lady’s Tears and Sorrows:

I will grant peace to their families.

They will be enlightened about the divine mysteries.

I will console them in their pains and I will accompany them in their work.

I will give them as much as they ask for as long as it does not oppose the adorable will of my divine Son or the sanctification of their souls.

I will defend them in their spiritual battles with the infernal enemy and I will protect them at every instant of their lives.

I will visibly help them at the moment of their death, they will see the face of their Mother.

I have obtained (This Grace) from my Divine Son, that those who propagate this devotion to my tears and sorrows, will be taken directly from this earthly life to eternal happiness since all their sins will be forgiven and my Son and I will be their eternal consolation and joy.