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September 3, 2010 THE TRIB TIMES WILL RETURN NEXT WEEK, GOD WILLING (James 4:15).
(Mar 1:15) And saying: The time is accomplished and the kingdom of God is at hand. Repent and believe the gospel:
VIA MANILLA: A Communist’s Conversion
Let me relate the story of Douglas Hyde, a statesman, who was a dedicated communist and former editor of Britain’s communist paper.
Douglas Hyde was converted to Catholicism through the help of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
As the editor of their communist paper, he began to read all about the Catholic Church with the avowed intention of tearing it down in his writings.
But something happened as he tried to gather more weapons to destroy the church. The more he read, the more intellectually convinced he became of its truthfulness and origin as a divine institution.
But he could not yet bring himself to believe. Something was holding him back.
One day, he was going to work in London on the daily commuter train. When the train arrived at the Ely Place station, he saw a sign he had seen a hundred times. It read, “St. Etheldreda’s Catholic Church.” He decided to get off the train and go to it.
When he arrived, he sat in the last pew, wondering what strange power had brought him here. Suddenly a teenage girl came in. She walked down the center aisle and went straight to a statue of Mary. As she passed, Hyde noticed the troubled look on her face.
The girl knelt at Mary’s feet for a long time. Then she got up and left the church. As she did, Hyde noticed that her troubled look was gone. She was totally at peace.
When she had gone, he decided to do what she had done. He decided to take his problem to Mary.
As he knelt down and looked up into the face of the Virgin, he wondered how one prayed to Mary. These are his exact words, written in his book titled I Believed:
“How did one pray to Our Lady? I did not know... At last I heard myself mumbling something which seem appropriate enough, when I began it, but petered out, becoming miserably inappropriate.
“But it did not matter. I knew my search was at an end... Outside the church I tried to remember the words I had said and almost laughed as I recalled them. They were those of a secular dance tune:
“O sweet and lovely lady, be good, O lady be good to me.”
Mary is indeed a sweet and lovely lady. And she will indeed be good to you – as she was to an atheist and communist Douglas Hyde.
NCR: Hadley Arkes Speaks About His Reception Into the Catholic Church
On Sept. 19, 2010, in Birmingham, England, the long awaited beatification ceremony will take place for the great Victorian Catholic theologian, John Henry Cardinal Newman, one of the most influential English Catholics of the 19th century. He journeyed from Anglicanism to Catholicism and used his great intellect and masterful writing ability to win over thousands of people to Christ and the Roman Catholic Church.
In becoming Catholic, Newman had to make many sacrifices. Many of his friends broke off relations with him after his conversion, and his family kept him at a distance. He had to resign his teaching fellowship and lost his only source of income. He lived the terrible pain of misunderstanding from his own family, from Church leaders, and those closest to him. Newman said that the one thing that sustained him during this trying period was Christ's presence in the Blessed Sacrament.
As a tribute to his extraordinary work and devotion, Pope Leo XIII named Father John Henry Newman a Cardinal in 1879. After a life of trials, Newman received the news with joy and declared, "The cloud is lifted forever."
Ladder of Divine Ascent excerpt: Step 26- "Brief Summary on Discernment"
7. Faith and exile are the death of cupidity. But compassion and love betray the body.Prayer request? Send an email to: PrayerRequest3@aol.com
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