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Mother Mary said at Fatima: "My Immaculate Heart will be your refuge and the sure way which will lead you to God." St. Thomas Aquinas said: "The things we love tell us who we are!" With that in mind, I will try to post each day something about Our Blessed Lady, items about the Holy Roman Catholic Church, and public domain Catholic books too! I pray you enjoy my ministry! Below are two albums of pictures that I created: 1. Our grand daughter Adrianna. 2. Tears of Mary!
Monday, July 16, 2018
Mary TV: July 16, 2018 Reflection - Become a Sign!
Friday, July 13, 2018
Mary TV: July 13, 2018 Reflection - The truth and true life
(c)Mateo Ivankovic 2016
July 13, 2018
Saint Henry
Dear Family of Mary!
Our
Lady speaks of the truth and the true life. The truth is Jesus, who is
the revelation of the Father. And true life is to live the way Jesus
lived. All the virtues are designed to help us live the true life. They
move us to love one another as we have been loved by God.
"...My children, do not lose the truth and true life so as to follow the false one.By life in truth, the Kingdom of Heaven enters into your hearts, and that is the Kingdom of peace, love and harmony. Then, my children, there will not be the selfishness which distances you from my Son. There will be love and understanding for your neighbors. Because, remember, again I repeat to you, to pray also means to love others, your neighbors, and to give yourself to them. Love and give in my Son, and then He will work in you and for you. My children, ceaselessly think of my Son and love Him immeasurably and you will have true life, and that will be for eternity. Thank you, apostles of my love." (July 2, 2018)
To
live the true life, we must become like Jesus, live with Him, get to
know Him, follow Him, contemplate His words, think about Him...become
connatural with Him. We must develop the sensus fidei, the sense of faith. We must be able to feel the truth!
And so Our Lady says; "My
children, ceaselessly think of my Son and love Him immeasurably and you
will have true life, and that will be for eternity."
If
we ceaselessly think of Jesus and love Him immeasurably we will be able
to intuit His every wish and desire, we will be able to understand what
Jesus would do, through holy empathy. This will be how the truth takes
over in our lives.
Our Lady is calling us to a very important mission. We are to become those who comprehend - even if sometimes we do not understand the words- and within ourselves feel what the truth is! In our pure and simple hearts, we will become real apostles of love!
In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
©Mary TV 2018
Our Lady is calling us to a very important mission. We are to become those who comprehend - even if sometimes we do not understand the words- and within ourselves feel what the truth is! In our pure and simple hearts, we will become real apostles of love!
In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
©Mary TV 2018
"Medjugorje is the spiritual center of the world."
Saint John Paul II
Be connected!
www.marytv.tv
Thursday, July 12, 2018
Mary TV: July 12, 2018 Reflection - Within yourselves you feel what the truth is...
(c)Mateo Ivankovic 2017
July 12, 2018
Dear Family of Mary!
What does Our Lady mean - "and within yourselves you feel what the truth is..."? I was puzzled at first by her words. How do we feel what the truth is? But then I remembered a phrase that was used by St. John Paul II, and by Vatican II, etc. It is "sensus fidei". It means the "sense of the faith", and describes exactly what Our Lady was talking about.
Our Lady said that it is the pure and simple souls who can feel what the truth is. These souls simply and purely love Jesus and listen to His words in Scripture with the heart. They pray with the heart. And so they understand Jesus with the heart. This heart understanding gives them the sense of the faith, the understanding of the truth that comes from knowing Jesus.
There is a document that describes the sensus fidei. It was written by the International Theological Commission, and is called "Sensus Fidei in the Life of the Church." It was written in 2014. I want to quote part of the introduction. I think it helps to make clear what Our Lady is talking about:
Dear Family of Mary!
"...You, with pure and simple souls comprehend-even if sometimes you do not understand the words-and within yourselves you feel what the truth is..." (July 2, 2018)
What does Our Lady mean - "and within yourselves you feel what the truth is..."? I was puzzled at first by her words. How do we feel what the truth is? But then I remembered a phrase that was used by St. John Paul II, and by Vatican II, etc. It is "sensus fidei". It means the "sense of the faith", and describes exactly what Our Lady was talking about.
Our Lady said that it is the pure and simple souls who can feel what the truth is. These souls simply and purely love Jesus and listen to His words in Scripture with the heart. They pray with the heart. And so they understand Jesus with the heart. This heart understanding gives them the sense of the faith, the understanding of the truth that comes from knowing Jesus.
There is a document that describes the sensus fidei. It was written by the International Theological Commission, and is called "Sensus Fidei in the Life of the Church." It was written in 2014. I want to quote part of the introduction. I think it helps to make clear what Our Lady is talking about:
The sensus fidei as an instinct of faith
49.
The sensus fidei fidelis is a sort of spiritual instinct that enables
the believer to judge spontaneously whether a particular teaching or
practice is or is not in conformity with the Gospel and with apostolic
faith. It is intrinsically linked to the virtue of faith itself; it
flows from, and is a property of, faith. It is compared to an instinct
because it is not primarily the result of rational deliberation, but is
rather a form of spontaneous and natural knowledge, a sort of perception
(aisthesis).
50.
The sensus fidei fidelis arises, first and foremost, from the
connaturality that the virtue of faith establishes between the believing
subject and the authentic object of faith, namely the truth of God
revealed in Christ Jesus. Generally speaking, connaturality refers to a
situation in which an entity A has a relationship with another entity B
so intimate that A shares in the natural dispositions of B as if they
were its own. Connaturality permits a particular and profound form of
knowledge. For example, to the extent that one friend is united to
another, he or she becomes capable of judging spontaneously what suits
the other because he or she shares the very inclinations of the other
and so understands by connaturality what is good or bad for the other.
This is a knowledge, in other words, of a different order than objective
knowledge, which proceeds by way of conceptualisation and reasoning. It
is a knowledge by empathy, or a knowledge of the heart.
We see that the sensus fidei is more of a feeling or perception than it is a rational deliberation. Exactly what Our Lady meant when she said: "even if sometimes you do not understand the words..." This sense of the faithful comes rather from some other kind of knowing than intellectual discovery. It is not through verbal discourse but through a language of the heart that the simple and pure come to the truth. Why? Because through prayer and the simple reading of Scripture, they come to know Jesus as one would know his best friend. They know how Jesus thinks, what He finds important, what pleases Him. And in that knowing they come to know everything good, because Jesus is all goodness, all truth. They know Him, and so they can just intuit or feel what Jesus would do or say in a situation.
This is what the document expresses as "connaturality". It is the knowledge that comes from being with and loving someone so much that you just know their inclinations and desires as you do your own. You just know them. And when it is Jesus we know, then we have a deep sense of what is true, because Jesus is Truth.
I love this whole idea.
No wonder Our Lady has urged us to pray, pray, pray. No wonder she has
called us to Adoration of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder she
has counseled us to read Holy Scripture. These are the ways that we come
into a deep relationship with her Son. And once we have come to know
him intimately, we will feel the truth.
This poor,
confused world we live in needs to encounter the Truth now more than
ever. If we follow Our Lady, we will become living signs of the Truth
through our deep relationship with He who is the Truth. It is a gift we
can give to others.
In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
©Mary TV 2018
"Medjugorje is the spiritual center of the world."
Saint John Paul II
Be connected!
www.marytv.tv
Wednesday, July 11, 2018
Mary TV: July 11, 2018 - Update from Denis - We're getting ready!
Our Tower at Mary TV's station in Texas!
July 11, 2018
Dear Mary TV team:
The
tower at Mary TV's station just went up 50 feet - at no cost to Mary
TV! It's now 90 feet tall! I can't wait to tell you what's happened!
When
Providence brought Fiber Optics to Mary TV's studios in Medjugorje Tom
Matasso couldn't believe it. Mary TV had been at the mercy of that one
little cell tower on the mountain - everyone with a phone in Medjugorje
was at its mercy. I remember telling you that when he heard of the
Fiber Optics being laid to our station in Medjugorje, Tom was so excited
he could hardly contain himself!
But we still had
a problem. From Medjugorje our team streams to Mary TV's station in
rural Texas - and it's from Texas that our Medjugorje programming goes
out to the world. The problem is that the only internet available in
our remote location in Texas is a satellite dish. From that station in
Texas Mary TV's Medjugorje internet TV channel broadcasts 24/7. And
we're streaming HD, broadcast quality!
Now I'm the one who can hardly contain himself!
Just
last month a company in Texas decided to start laying Fiber Optics
underground to Mary TV's station in Texas, a distance of over 30 miles,
at their own expense! And they're giving Fiber Optics to Mary TV for
free - in exchange for being allowed to put an Omni transmitter on Mary
TV's tower, which they just raised 50 feet (again, at no cost to Mary
TV)! Its height is now 90 feet (see photo at top)!
Fiber Optics is the best connection in the world!
I
believe Our Lady is able to pull off these miracles because of your
faith - the faith and prayers of Mary TV's shipmates! Tom always said
you are the most important part of the team!
...Mary
TV is becoming a more and more trusted news source. The Papal Envoy's
April 5, 2017 Press Conference in Medjugorje didn't escape notice by the
world's media (who weren't present) because it was streamed Live by
Mary TV! Also, when the President of Croatia, (who has been in the news
recently because of Croatia's Soccer team advancing in the World Cup)
came to Medjugorje during the Summer of 2016, all requests by news media
for interviews were turned down, except for one: the president said she
was happy to give an interview to Mary TV! (see Tea with Rosie # 173).
...We're
installing a "Continuous Solar Power System" in Medjugorje ....so we
can stream Live from anywhere at any time direct to the Fiber Optics in
our studio....
...We've also just set up a new
radio internet connection system in Medjugorje that will allow us to do
the same - connect to our Fiber Optics - from anywhere in the
village....
.... We're beginning to install a
Search Function on the web page, so programs and topics can easily be
located (it will take a little time to log the thousands of hours of
programming Mary TV has archived) ...
...Today the
web page was moved to a new, more powerful cluster of servers. Just
wait and see! We expect everything to be fine-tuned in time for the
Youth Festival!
...Today a company from Zagreb
started fixing the leak in the basement of our facility in
Medjugorje.... constructed for Mary TV's main studios, engineering
rooms, control rooms, etc..... I'm told the job will take two weeks (so
keep praying) .... We've been waiting 15 years to start using these
facilities!!!!
And it's coming just in time!
Satanists, occultists and witches are gathering during solar eclipses and waning crescent moons to
cast spells, curses and incantations to protect the sacrament to Satan,
abortion. July 27, 28, 2018 will see the longest lunar eclipse of the
21st
Century.
Our Lady tells us that it's by keeping our gaze and hearts
always directed towards heaven and eternity that we will be open to God
and to His plans - we will be helping facilitate them.
Mary
TV is an important help to Our Lady's family right now...a daily portal
for Our Lady's children around the world to keep their gaze and heart
directed towards Heaven and eternity by staying connected to
Medjugorje! "My Son promised me that evil will never win, because you, the souls of the just, are here!"
Thank
you for your continued financial support. It's because of your
generosity that we're able to continue... Monthly donations are
down.... Yes, your help is needed. (You can become a monthly donor on
line at www.MarytV.tv ) We thank the Lord for you!
Make your donations on line here!
Make your donations on line here!
"Dear
children! This is the day that the Lord gave me to give Him thanks for
each of you...Rejoice, little children, because God is merciful and
loves you all with His immeasurable love and leads you to the way of
salvation through my coming here." Our Mother's June 25, 2018 message, the 37th Anniversary of her apparitions in Medjugorje!
Thank you and God bless you,
Denis Nolan
Mary TV
PS. Mary TV's station has numerous back-up systems set in place, including energy by solar power in case the electricity was ever to fail. We are working hard to be ready for anything!!
Solar Power for the Channel!!
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Battery storage for emergencies!!
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Mary TV: July 11, 2018 Reflection - You are given the freedom to choose...P.5
(c)Mateo Ivankovic 2017
July 11, 2018
St. Benedict
Dear Family of Mary!
St. Benedict
Dear Family of Mary!
"...My children, you are given the freedom to choose, but, as a mother, I implore you to choose the freedom for the good..." (July 2, 2018)
Our final virtue, and the most important of all is Charity
(love)! As you can tell from the Catechism, love is the essence of God
and our goal in life. All our actions must be motivated by and imbued
with love. Because love is God and God is love.
Charity
1822 Charity is the theological
virtue by which we love God above all things for his own sake, and our
neighbor as ourselves for the love of God.
1823 Jesus makes charity the new commandment. (Jn
13:34) By loving his own "to the end," (Jn 13:1) he makes manifest the
Father's love which he receives. By loving one another, the disciples
imitate the love of Jesus which they themselves receive. Whence Jesus
says: "As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you; abide in my
love." and again: "This is my commandment, that you love one another as I
have loved you." (Jn 15:9)
1824 Fruit of the Spirit and
fullness of the Law, charity keeps the commandments of God and his
Christ: "Abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide
in my love." (Jn 15:9-10)
1825 Christ died out of love for
us, while we were still "enemies." (Rom 5:10) The Lord asks us to love
as he does, even our enemies, to make ourselves the neighbor of those
farthest away, and to love children and the poor as Christ himself. (Mt
5:44)
The Apostle Paul has given an
incomparable depiction of charity: "charity is patient and kind, charity
is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. Charity does
not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not
rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. Charity bears all things,
believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things." (1 Cor
13:4-7)
1826 "If I . . . have not charity,"
says the Apostle, "I am nothing." Whatever my privilege, service, or
even virtue, "if I . . . have not charity, I gain nothing." (1 Cor
13:1-). Charity is superior to all the virtues. It is the first of the
theological virtues: "So faith, hope, charity abide, these three. But
the greatest of these is charity." (1 Cor 13:13)
1827 The practice of all the
virtues is animated and inspired by charity, which "binds everything
together in perfect harmony"; (1 Cor 13:13) it is the form of the
virtues; it articulates and orders them among themselves; it is the
source and the goal of their Christian practice. Charity upholds and
purifies our human ability to love, and raises it to the supernatural
perfection of divine love.
1828 The practice of the moral life
animated by charity gives to the Christian the spiritual freedom of the
children of God. He no longer stands before God as a slave, in servile
fear, or as a mercenary looking for wages, but as a son responding to
the love of him who "first loved us": (Col 3:14)
If we turn away from evil out of
fear of punishment, we are in the position of slaves. If we pursue the
enticement of wages, . . . we resemble mercenaries. Finally if we obey
for the sake of the good itself and out of love for him who commands . .
. we are in the position of children. (Jn 4:19)
1829 The fruits of charity are joy,
peace, and mercy; charity demands beneficence and fraternal correction;
it is benevolence; it fosters reciprocity and remains disinterested and
generous; it is friendship and communion: Love is itself the
fulfillment of all our works. There is the goal; that is why we run: we
run toward it, and once we reach it, in it we shall find rest.
Our Lady calls us to love in this message:
"Dear children! Today I call you to love with all your heart and with all your soul. Pray for the gift of love, because when the soul loves it calls my Son to itself. My Son does not refuse those who call Him and who desire to live according to Him. Pray for those who do not comprehend love, who do not understand what it means to love. Pray that God may be their Father and not their Judge. My children, you be my apostles, be my river of love. I need you. Thank you." (March 18, 2010)
"Be my river of love." Oh how much we want to respond to this call from Our Lady. May we become rivers of love, rivers of hope, and rivers of faith. May we become true Apostles of Our Lady!
In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
©Mary TV 2018
"Medjugorje is the spiritual center of the world."
Saint John Paul II
Be connected!
www.marytv.tv
Tuesday, July 10, 2018
Mary TV: July 10, 2018 Reflection - You are given the freedom to choose...P.4
(c)Mateo Ivankovic 2017
July 10, 2018
Dear Family of Mary!
"...My children, you are given the freedom to choose, but, as a mother, I implore you to choose the freedom for the good..." (July 2, 2018)
Today we reflect on the Theological Virtue of Hope! This wonderful virtue powers us through the most difficult trials and keeps our eyes fixed on Heaven. It helps us to endure our troubles and choose the good, because of the joy that is set before us in Christ. Here is the Catechism's description of Hope:
Hope
1817 Hope is the theological virtue
by which we desire the kingdom of heaven and eternal life as our
happiness, placing our trust in Christ's promises and relying not on our
own strength, but on the help of the grace of the Holy Spirit. "Let us
hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who
promised is faithful. (Heb 10:32-32) "The Holy Spirit . . . he poured
out upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that we might be
justified by his grace and become heirs in hope of eternal life." (Titus
3:6-7.)
1818 The virtue of hope responds to
the aspiration to happiness which God has placed in the heart of every
man; it takes up the hopes that inspire men's activities and purifies
them so as to order them to the Kingdom of heaven; it keeps man from
discouragement; it sustains him during times of abandonment; it opens up
his heart in expectation of eternal beatitude. Buoyed up by hope, he is
preserved from selfishness and led to the happiness that flows from
charity.
1819 Christian hope takes up and
fulfills the hope of the chosen people which has its origin and model in
the hope of Abraham, who was blessed abundantly by the promises of God
fulfilled in Isaac, and who was purified by the test of the sacrifice.
(Gen 17:4-8) Hoping against hope, he believed, and thus became the
father of many nations." (Rom 4:18)
1820 Christian hope unfolds from
the beginning of Jesus' preaching in the proclamation of the beatitudes.
the beatitudes raise our hope toward heaven as the new Promised Land;
they trace the path that leads through the trials that await the
disciples of Jesus. But through the merits of Jesus Christ and of his
Passion, God keeps us in the "hope that does not disappoint." (Rom 5:5.)
Hope is the "sure and steadfast anchor of the soul . . . that enters . .
. where Jesus has gone as a forerunner on our behalf." (Heb 6:19-20)
Hope is also a weapon that protects us in the struggle of salvation:
"Let us . . . put on the breastplate of faith and charity, and for a
helmet the hope of salvation." (1 Thess 5:8.) It affords us joy even
under trial: "Rejoice in your hope, be patient in tribulation." (Rom
12:12.) Hope is expressed and nourished in prayer, especially in the
Our Father, the summary of everything that hope leads us to desire.
1821 We can therefore hope in the glory of heaven promised by God to those who love him and do his will. (Cf. Rom 8:28-30; Mt 7:21.)
In every circumstance, each one of us should hope, with the grace of
God, to persevere "to the end" (Mt 10:22) and to obtain the joy of
heaven, as God's eternal reward for the good works accomplished with the
grace of Christ. In hope, the Church prays for "all men to be saved."
(1 Tim 2:4) She longs to be united with Christ, her Bridegroom, in the
glory of heaven:
Hope, O my soul, hope. You know
neither the day nor the hour. Watch carefully, for everything passes
quickly, even though your impatience makes doubtful what is certain, and
turns a very short time into a long one. Dream that the more you
struggle, the more you prove the love that you bear your God, and the
more you will rejoice one day with your Beloved, in a happiness and
rapture that can never end. (St. Teresa of Avila, Eccl. 15:3)
Our Lady calls us to accept Jesus in our hearts, and carry hope to the world:
November 25, 2008 "Dear children! Also today I call you, in this time of grace, to pray for little Jesus to be born in your heart. May He, who is peace itself, give peace to the entire world through you. Therefore, little children, pray without ceasing for this turbulent world without hope, so that you may become witnesses of peace for all. May hope begin to flow through your hearts as a river of grace. Thank you for having responded to my call."
May hope begin to flow through our hearts as a river of grace!!!!
In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
©Mary TV 2018
"Medjugorje is the spiritual center of the world."
Saint John Paul II
Be connected!
www.marytv.tv
Monday, July 09, 2018
Sister Emmanuel's Report from Medjugorje for July 2018
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