INTERNATIONAL STEVEN ERTELT 31 MAY 2016 | 11:23AM WARSAW, POLAND
A hospital in Poland has stopped doing ABORTIONS, after every single Physician there signed a pledge refusing to do them.
This good news is a lesson for The United States and other Countries where ABORTION is legal — that getting Doctors to stand up for Life and The Hippocratic Oath is a method of protecting Women and unborn Children, even within the confines of legalised ABORTION.
Text is from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal, unless otherwise stated. Indulgenced Prayer of 300 days, each time. When said on The Feast of The Sacred Heart, to be Solemnly read with The Litany of The Sacred Heart before The Blessed Sacrament exposed: Then, Seven Years and Seven Quarantines, and a Plenary Indulgence, supposing Confession and Communion.
English: Stained-Glass Window of The Sacred Heart,
Church of Saint Konrad and Vincent, Ravensburg, Germany.
Deutsch: Pfarrkirche St. Konrad und Vinzenz, Fronhofen,
Gemeinde Fronreute, Landkreis Ravensburg, Deutschland.
O Sweet Jesus, Whose overflowing Charity for men is requited by so much forgetfulness, negligence, and contempt, behold us prostrate before Thy Altar, eager to repair by a special act of homage the cruel indifference and injuries, to which Thy loving Heart is everywhere subject.
Mindful, alas !, that we ourselves have had a share in such great indignities, which we now deplore from the depths of our hearts, we humbly ask Thy pardon and declare our readiness to atone by voluntary expiation, not only for our own personal offences, but also for the sins of those, who, straying far from the path of Salvation, refuse in their obstinate infidelity to follow Thee, their Shepherd and Leader, or, renouncing the Vows of their Baptism, have cast off the sweet yoke of Thy law.
We are now resolved to expiate each and every deplorable outrage committed against Thee; we are determined to make amends for the manifold offenses against Christian modesty in unbecoming dress and behaviour, for all the foul seductions laid to ensnare the feet of the innocent, for the frequent violation of Sundays and holidays, and the shocking blasphemies uttered against Thee and Thy Saints.
We wish also to make amends for the insults to which Thy Vicar on Earth and Thy Priests are subjected, for the profanation, by conscious neglect or terrible acts of sacrilege, of the very Sacrament of Thy Divine Love; and, lastly, for the public crimes of nations, who resist the rights and the teaching authority of The Church which Thou hast founded.
Would, O Divine Jesus, we were able to wash away such abominations with our blood. We now offer, in reparation for these violations of Thy Divine Honour, the satisfaction Thou didst once make to Thy Eternal Father on The Cross, and which Thou dost continue to renew daily on our Altars; we offer it in union with The Acts of Atonement of Thy Virgin Mother and All The Saints and of the pious Faithful on Earth; and we sincerely promise to make reparation, as far as we can with the help of Thy Grace, for all neglect of Thy great love and for the sins we and others have committed in the past.
Henceforth, we will live a life of unwavering Faith, of purity of conduct, of perfect observance of the precepts of the Gospel and, especially, that of Charity. We promise, to the best of our power, to prevent others from offending Thee and to bring as many as possible to follow Thee.
O Loving Jesus, through the intercession of The Blessed Virgin Mary, our model in reparation, deign to receive the voluntary offering we make of this Act of Expiation; and, by the crowning gift of perseverance, keep us faithful unto death in our duty and the allegiance we owe to Thee, so that we may all one day come to that happy home, where Thou, with The Father and The Holy Ghost, livest and reignest, God, World without end.
English: The Estrela Basilica was built by order of Queen Maria I of Portugal,
as a fulfilled promise for giving birth to a son (José, Prince of Brazil).
Français: La basilique Estrela (en portugais: Basilica da Estrela) est une basilique de Lisbonne, au Portugal. Elle fut construite sous les ordres de la reine Maria I du Portugal, pour remplir la promesse de donner naissance à un fils (José, prinde du Brésil).
Heart of Jesus, formed in The Womb of The Virgin Mother by The Holy Ghost,
have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, united hypostatically to The Eternal Word,
have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, of Infinite Majesty,
have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, Holy Temple of God,
have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, Tabernacle of The Most High,
have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, House of God and Gate of Heaven,
have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, Burning Furnace of Charity,
have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, Vessel of Justice and Love,
have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, Full of Goodness and Love,
have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, Abyss of all Virtues,
have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, Worthy of All Praise,
have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, King and Centre of All Hearts,
have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, in Which are All The Treasures of Wisdom and Knowledge,
have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, in Which dwelleth All The Fullness of The Divinity,
have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, in Which The Father is Well Pleased,
have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, of Whose Fullness we have all Received,
have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, Desire of Eternal Hills,
have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, Patient and Abounding in Mercy,
have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, Rich unto all that Call upon Thee,
have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, Fount of Life and Holiness,
have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, Propitiation for our Offenses,
have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, Overwhelmed with Reproaches,
have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, Bruised for our Iniquities,
have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, Obedient even unto Death,
have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, Pierced with a Lance,
have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, Source of all Consolation,
have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, Our Life and Resurrection,
have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, Our Peace and Reconciliation,
have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, Victim for Our Sins,
have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, salvation of those who hope in Thee,
have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, hope of those who die in Thee,
have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, delight of all saints,
have mercy on us.
Lamb of God, Who Takest Away The Sins of The World,
spare us, O Lord.
Lamb of God, Who Takest Away The Sins of The World,
graciously Hear Us, O Lord.
Lamb of God, Who Takest Away The Sins of The World,
have mercy on us.
Jesus, Meek and Humble of Heart,
make our hearts like unto Thine.
Let us Pray.
Almighty and Eternal God, consider The Heart of Thy Well-Beloved Son and the Praises and Satisfaction He offers Thee in the name of sinners; appeased by worthy homage, pardon those who implore Thy mercy, in the name of the same Jesus Christ Thy Son, Who lives and reigns with Thee, World Without End.
The Consecration in The Encyclical entered new Theological territory by Consecrating non-Christians. The Encyclical, and The Consecration, were influenced by two Letters written to the Pope by Sister Mary of The Divine Heart, who stated that, in Visions of Jesus Christ, she had been told to request The Consecration.
Protestantism, in the 16th-Century, and Jansenism, in the 17th-Century, had attempted to spoil one of the essential Dogmas of Christianity, namely, The Love of God for all men.
It became necessary that The Spirit of Love, which directs The Church, should, by some new means, counteract the spreading Heresy, in order that The Spouse of Christ, far from seeing her love for Jesus diminish, should feel it always increasing.
This was made manifest in Catholic worship, which is The Sure Rule of Our Faith, by the institution of The Feast of The Sacred Heart.
Yet, in the Early-Middle-Ages, the Doctors and Saints used to see, in The Wound of Jesus' Side, The Source of All Graces. Saint Bonaventure invites us "to enter this Wound and to dwell in the quiet of this Heart" (Third Nocturn).
English: Saint John Eudes, 1673.
Nederlands: Portret Jean Eudes ca. 1673 -
publiek domein, ouderdom.
Source: Transferred from nl.wikipedia
Author: Original uploader was Besednjak at nl.wikipedia
(Wikimedia Commons)
Saint Jean Eudes (14 November 1601 - 19 August 1680) was a French Missionary, Founder of The Congregation of Jesus and Mary, and of The Sisters of Our Lady of Charity of The Refuge, and author of The Propers for Mass and The Divine Office of The Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary.
The two Benedictine Virgins, Saint Gertrude and Saint Mechtilde, in the 13th-Century, had a clear vision of the grandeur of The Devotion to The Sacred Heart. Saint John the Evangelist, appearing to Saint Gertrude, announced to her that "the meaning of The Blessed Beating of The Heart of Jesus, which he had heard whilst his head rested on His Breast, was reserved for The Latter Times, when the World, grown old and cold in Divine Love, would require to have its fervour renewed by means of this Mystery of Burning Love".
This Heart, say these two Saints, is an Altar on which Christ offers Himself to The Father as a perfect and most acceptable victim. It is a Golden Censer from which rise, towards The Father, as many Clouds of Incense as there are kinds of men for whom Christ suffered.
In this Heart, the Praise and Thanks we give to God, and all our good works, are ennobled and become acceptable to The Father.
But, in order to make this worship public and recognised, Providence first raised up Saint John Eudes, who, in 1670, composed an Office and a Mass of The Sacred Heart for the so-called Congregation of The Eudists.
Providence then chose one of The Spiritual Daughters of Saint Francis of Sales, Saint Margaret-Mary Alacoque, to whom Jesus showed His Heart at Paray-le-Monial, on 16 June 1675, the Sunday after Corpus Christi, and asked her to institute a Feast of The Sacred Heart on The Friday following The Octave of Corpus Christi.
Lastly, God employed, for the propagation of this Devotion, Blessed Claude de la Colombiere. He belonged to The Company of Jesus, "the whole of which inherited his zeal in the propagation of The Devotion to The Sacred Heart" [the quoted portion is from Dom Guéranger's "The Liturgical Year, Volume 10, Book 1: The Feast of The Sacred Heart"].
[Dom Guéranger writes, in the above tome, on The Feast of The Sacred Heart of Jesus: "A new ray of light shines today in the heaven of Holy Church, and its light brings warmth. The Divine Master given to us by Our Redeemer, that is, The Paraclete Spirit, Who has come down
into this World, continues His teachings to us in The Sacred Liturgy. The earliest of these,
His Divine Teachings, was The Mystery of The Trinity; and we have worshipped The Blessed Three: We have been taught Whom God is, we know Him in His Own Nature, we have been admitted,
by Faith, into the Sanctuary of The Infinite Essence.
"Then, this Spirit, The Mighty Wind of Pentecost, opened to our Souls new aspects of The Truth, which it is His Mission to make the World remember; and His Revelation left us prostrate before The Sacred Host, The Memorial which God Himself has left us of all His Wonderful Works.
"Today, it is The Sacred Heart of The Word Made Flesh that this Holy Spirit puts before us,
that we may know and love and adore It."]
In 1765, Pope Clement XIII, gave his approbation to The Feast and The Office of The Sacred Heart, and, in 1856, Blessed Pope Pius IX, extended it to The Universal Church. In 1929, Pope Pius XI composed a new Mass and Office for this Feast and gave it a Privileged Octave of The Third Order.
The Solemnity of The Sacred Heart sums up all the phases of The Life of Jesus, recalled in The Liturgy from Advent to The Feast of Corpus Christi.
It constitutes an admirable Triptych, giving us, in abridgment, all The Mysteries (Joyous, Sorrowful, and Glorious) of The Saviour's Life devoted to The Love of God and men. This Feast is, indeed, placed on a height from which may be contemplated The Redeeming Labours of The Saviour on Earth and The Glorious Victories He will, by The Working of The Holy Ghost, achieve in Souls until the end of the world.
Pope Leo XIII
in 1880.
Source: 1880 book on Pope Leo XIII.
Author: Karl Benzinger.
(Wikimedia Commons)
Pope Leo XIII wrote the Encyclical, "Annum Sacrum", on The Consecration of The Entire World to The Sacred Heart of Jesus. It was delivered in Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome on 25 May 1899.
Coming after The Feasts of Christ (Ascension and Corpus Christi), this Feast completes them, concentrating them in one object, which is, materially, Jesus' Heart of Flesh, and, formally, the Unbounded Charity symbolised by this Heart. This Solemnity, therefore, does not relate to a particular Mystery of The Saviour's Life, but embraces them all; indeed, The Devotion to The Sacred Heart Celebrates all the Favours we have received from Divine Charity during the year (Collect), and all the marvellous things that Jesus has done for us (Introit, Tract, Alleluia).
It is The Feast of The Love of God for men, a Love which has made Jesus come down on Earth for all, by His Incarnation (Epistle), which has raised Him on The Cross for The Redemption of all and which brings Him down every day on our Altars by Transubstantiation, in order to make us benefit by The Merits of His Death on Calvary.
Born Maria Droste zu Vischering, she was a German Roman Catholic Nun, who was best known for influencing Pope Leo XIII's Consecration of The World to The Sacred Heart of Jesus.
Pope Leo XII called this Consecration "the greatest act of my Pontificate".
These three Mysteries, which manifest to us The Divine Charity in a more special way, sum up the spirit of The Feast of The Sacred Heart. It is "His Love which forced Him to put on a mortal body" (Hymn at Matins). It is His Love which willed that The Sacred Heart should be pierced on The Cross (Gospel and Communion), in order that from the Wound should flow a Spring (Preface) we might draw from, joyfully (Versicle at Second Vespers), whose Water cleanses us from our sins in Baptism and whose Blood nourishes our Souls in The Eucharist.
And, as The Eucharist is the continuation of The Incarnation and The Sacrifice of Calvary, Jesus asked that The Feast should be placed immediately after The Octave of Corpus Christi.
As these manifestations of Christ's Love only show the more the ingratitude of men, who only answer by coldness and indifference (Offertory), this Solemnity has a character of Reparation (Collect) demanded of us by The Wounded Heart of Jesus and by His Immolation in The Crib, on The Cross and on The Altar.
Let us learn from The Heart of Jesus, Whose Gentle and Humble Love turns no-one away, and in it we shall find rest for our Souls (Alleluia).
A mum, expecting her second child, has captured the adorable moment when her two-year-old daughter first saw an ultrasound scan of her little sister.
The home video shows young Myla I'Anson, kissing and hugging the TV screen as she watches her unborn sibling wriggling around in her mother's womb.
And then things get really emotional as Myla bursts into tears and mum Carly tries to comfort her.
Myla mumbles that she "loves" her baby sister and "misses" her.
"'Oh, darling, it's OK . . . you're going to see her soon," Myla's mother says from behind the camera in a bid to comfort the toddler.
Wiping tears from her eyes, Myla sobs:"But I love her so much."
The heartwarming video has gone viral since it was uploaded last week, amassing more than 55,000 views on Facebook and nearly 40,000 on YouTube.
Carly went to have her sixteen-week scan last week, and was filming the video on her phone to show it to her family when Myla started hugging the screen and crying.
Carly's second baby is due on 4 November 2016 and the expectant mother said Myla is "very excited" to meet her sister.
She continued: "She’s already decided she's going to give up her dummies to give them to her. She's keeping and saving lots of things and toys to give to her when she's born.
"She's also decided we have to call her Snow White. It was Aurora last week, so we’ll probably have to name her Ariel or Elsa next week."
He added: "We did have a chat about how she'd react if we were having a boy but it just would’ve meant that he'd have to play princesses with her at some point in his life."
The Society For The Protection Of Unborn Children (SPUC) has a Web-Site,HERE
The Black Madonna of Częstochowa (Polish: Czarna Madonna or Matka Boska Częstochowska, Latin: Imago thaumaturga Beatae Virginis Mariae Immaculatae Conceptae, in Claro Monte ), also known as Our Lady of Częstochowa, is a revered icon of The Virgin Mary housed at The Jasna Góra Monastery, in Częstochowa, Poland. Several Pontiffs have recognised the Venerated icon, beginning with Pope Clement XI, who issued a Canonical Coronation to the image on 8 September 1717 via The Vatican Chapter.
The four-foot-high painting displays a traditional composition well known in the icons of Eastern Christians. The Virgin Mary is shown as the "Hodegetria" ("One Who Shows the Way"). In it, The Virgin directs attention away from herself, gesturing with her Right Hand toward Jesus as The Source of Salvation. In turn, The Child extends His Right Hand toward the viewer, in Blessing, while holding a Book of Gospels in His Left Hand. The icon shows The Madonna in fleur-de-lis robes.
The origins of the icon and the date of its composition are still hotly contested among scholars.The difficulty in dating the icon stems from the fact that the original image was painted over, after being badly damaged by Hussite raiders in 1430. The wooden boards that backed the painting were broken and the canvas slashed.
Mediaeval restorers, unfamiliar with the encaustic method, found that the paints they applied to the damaged areas "simply sloughed off the image", according to the Mediaeval chronicler Risinius, and their solution was to erase the original image and to repaint it on the original panel. The original features of an Orthodox icon were softened; the nose was made more aquiline.
The icon of Our Lady of Częstochowa has been intimately associated with Poland for the past 600 years. Its history, prior to its arrival in Poland, is shrouded in numerous legends which trace the icon's origin to Saint Luke, who painted it on a cedar table top from The House of The Holy Family. The same legend holds that the painting was discovered in Jerusalem in 326 A.D., by Saint Helena, who brought it back to Constantinople and presented it to her son, Emperor Constantine the Great.
Polski: Uproszczony obraz godła Polski; oficjalne godło:
Polski: Częstochowa - zespół klasztorny oo. Paulinów: Kościół pw. Wniebowzięcia NMP i Znalezienia Krzyża Św. z kaplicami, zakrystią, skarbcem, wieżą, klasztorem,
Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal, unless otherwise stated. The Blessed Virgin Mary. Mediatrix of All Graces. Feast Day 31 May. (Local Feasts. Feasts kept in some Religious Congregations and in some places). White Vestments.
A Feast and Mass granted by Pope Benedict XV to many Dioceses.
"The Will of God is that we should have everything through Mary," says Saint Bernard of Clairvaux. The Father has sent us His Son, but His Will was to make His coming depend upon the Fiat of The Virgin, which He commanded the Angel Gabriel to solicit on The Day of The Annunciation.
The Father and The Son send us The Holy Ghost, but it is through Mary that He comes down to men. On The Day of Pentecost, according to an ancient Tradition, the Heavenly Fire, which descended on The Cenacle, first rested on Mary, and then on The Apostles. This is a figure of what happens every day in The Church, where The Holy Ghost is sent invisibly into our Souls.
"All the Gifts of The Holy Ghost are distributed by Mary to those whom she chooses, whenever she wishes and as much as she wishes", says Saint Bernadine of Siena.
The Graces, which The Holy Ghost pours down on us, are due to the Merits of Christ on Calvary; but in order that God may bestow them on the World, it is necessary that Mary should intervene. Having co-operated by her Divine Maternity and by her sufferings at The Foot of The Cross in The Incarnation and Redemption, she has deserved to co-operate when they are continually applied to creatures by The Most High,
"By The Communion of Sorrows and of Will, between Christ and Mary," says Pope Saint Pius X, "she has deserved to become the dispenser of all the Blessings which Jesus acquired for us by His Blood" (Encyclical, 2 February 1904).
Such is His Will, but it is essential that she should constantly intercede for each one of us. This, she does, relying on The Blood of Christ, by Whom she was herself saved, and Who alone saves us. This actual intervention of Mary plays a preponderating part in The Salvation of The World. It is important that we should realise this, and it is the object of The Feast of Mary Mediatrix of All Graces. A clear idea of the fact may be obtained by simply reading the Texts of The Mass and Vespers.
"Through The Virgin," says Saint Bernadine of Siena, "Life-Giving Graces flow from Christ, Who is the Head, into His Mystical Body"."Through her," adds Saint Antonius, "come from Heaven all The Graces granted to The World." "What all The Saints united to thee may obtain for us by their Intercession," writes Saint Anselm, "thy pleading, alone, may obtain without the help of their Prayers."
The Maternal Solicitude of Mary, for The Whole Human Race, is therefore continual, and it is because of this that, unceasingly, through The Mass, The Sacraments, the hierarchy and other channels of Grace, the Merits of Calvary are applied to our Souls. "We may affirm," declares Pope Leo XIII, "that, by The Will of God, nothing is given to us without Mary's Mediation, in such a way that, just as no-one can approach The Almighty Father but through His Son, so no-one, so to speak, can approach Christ but through His Mother." (Encyclical, 22 September 1891.)
Let us therefore not consider as of small importance the efforts made to establish this point of Doctrine of Mary's Mediation, since this Doctrine enables us to understand The Divine Plan, and clearly manifests The Mediation of The Son of God, of which it is a corollary.
Pope Saint Felix I ascended, in 269 A.D., The Throne of Peter, to whom Jesus, before His Ascension, had committed The Church. He commanded Masses to be Celebrated over the tombs of Martyrs, and it is in remembrance of this prescription that the relics of Martyrs are placed in a small cavity of the Altar Stone, called "Tomb".
The Altar, nowadays, has indeed often the shape of a tomb, this being a relic of the "Confession" or underground tomb which is found under The High Altar in Roman Basilicas, and is reached by stairs.
The custom of uniting the remembrance of Martyrs to The Sacrifice of The Mass or of Calvary, shows that these Martyrs, having entered into the bosom of Jesus (Gospel), have found there the strength to confess their Faith before their enemies and the Grace of being children of The Father (Epistle).
Saint Felix bore witness to Christ in 274 A,D, under the persecution of Aurelian.
Mass: In Paschaltide. Protexisti. With Collects of Mass: Statuit.
Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal, unless otherwise stated. Saint Mary Magdalen dei Pazzi. Virgin. Feast Day 29 May. Semi-Double. White Vestments.
Saint Mary Magdalen dei Pazzi.
Date: 1878.
Source: Scanned by uploader from page 296 of
"Little Pictorial Lives Of The Saints", (Benzinger Brothers).
Author: Unknown.
(Wikimedia Commons)
Born at Florence, Italy, in 1566, of the illustrious Pazzi family, Saint Mary Magdalen dei Pazzi, at the age of ten, Consecrated her Virginity to Christ, Whom she chose as her Spouse (Epistle, Gospel, Communion). Wherefore, God loved her with a love of preference (Introit), and made her one of the Virgins who form His Court of Honour (Offertory).
She took The Carmelite Habit in 1584 and subjected herself to frightful mortifications. The Holy Ghost, Who, from Heaven, sent Jesus Risen Again to her, inflamed her with such love that she had to pour fresh water on her burning breast.
She would bitterly deplore that the infidels and sinners were in the way to perdition and offered to endure any torments for their salvation.
Her motto was: "Suffer and not die." She died in 1607 and her body, which she mortified in every way, has remained incorrupt to our day.
In 1580, at age fourteen, Pazzi was sent by her father to be educated at a Monastery of Nuns of The Order of Malta, but she was soon recalled to wed a young nobleman. She advised her father of her vow, and he eventually relented and allowed her to enter Monastic Life. She chose The Carmelite Monastery of Saint Mary of The Angels, in Florence, Italy, because The Rule there allowed her to receive Holy Communion daily. In 1583, she was accepted as a Novice by that Community, and given the Religious Name of Sister Mary Magdalen.
Numerous Miracles allegedly followed Pazzi's death, and the process for her Beatification was begun in 1610 under Pope Paul V, and completed under Pope Urban VIII in 1626. She was not, however, Canonised until sixty-two years after her death, when Pope Clement X raised her to The Altars on 28 April 1669. The Church of The Monastery of Pažaislis, commissioned in 1662 in Lithuania, was one of the first to be Consecrated in her honour.
The Saint is little known outside Italy, but her cult is very strong, especially in Florence. Paulist Press issued a selection of her writings in English translation in their series of Classics of Western Spirituality.
next to The Victoria Pavilion, towards the sea from the bus stops. The service is expected to take about twenty minutes, and will have Hymns, Readings, and Prayers.
