MARY, OUR MOTHER: Thanksgiving and Advent: You Snooze

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Thanksgiving and Advent: You Snooze - You Lose!

The Crossroads Initiative, Dr. Marcellino D'Ambrosio

Giving Thanks -

This Thursday marks the celebration of Thanksgiving in the USA – but before you put the Turkey in the oven – be sure to come and check out the amazing collection of online Thanksgiving resources – such as Marcellino's article "Thanksgiving and the Eucharist!", the original proclamation of Abraham Lincoln declaring Thanksgiving a National Holiday and a special blessing for your Thanksgiving Day table. These are all available for download and printing to share at your family and parish celebrations!

This article is available in Spanish!

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Advent - And So it Begins -

With bellies full of Thanksgiving Turkey, how about curling up in front of the fire and settling in for a long winter's nap? The readings for this Sunday, the First Sunday of Advent, tell us that Advent is the time to wake up, not fall asleep! Read all about it at the Crossroads Initiative . . . you snooze, you lose!

And, before you light the first candle on the Advent Wreath – make sure to stop by the Advent and Christmas Library to check out the awesome online resources to help enrich your Advent season. You can download and print a blessing for your Advent Wreath and learn the joy of the Jesse Tree!

CHRISTmas Gifts for All!

This Friday the Christmas s*h*o*p*p*i*n*g season will be in full swing and Crossroads is here to help you find the perfect Gifts for everyone on your list!

Come to The Crossroads Initiative and check out the amazing faithful gifts that we have assembled for young and old alike - below are only a few! (All at prices that will not make you feel like a GRINCH!)

Nothing Hi-Tech or flat screened with mirrors here – just wonderful resources that will entertain and educate your kiddos and touch the soul of anyone on your gift list!

Besides, where else can you find F*R*E*E shipping on ALL orders over $45?!

Be sure to order by Friday, December 17th for Christmas Delivery of instock resources!

An Angel at Christmas -
Jimmy has a unique Christmas tradition. Each Christmas Eve he aims his slingshot skyward and fires a personal message to heaven. The custom is Jimmy's little way of saying a special prayer on a special day. He prays that "the infant Jesus will be born in many hearts." One amazing Christmas, his prayer was answered in a most unexpected way. Accompanied by his guardian angel, Jimmy visits the Holy Family, and they encourage him to make his wide-eyed wish come true. Together Jimmy and his "angel buddy" travel the world delivering figures of the infant Jesus to people setting up their Nativity scenes. Join Jimmy on his journey, and don't be surprised if, somewhere along the way, his Christmas prayer becomes your own.

Small Steps for Catholic Moms - Gift Set
This wonderful gift set includes both the Small Steps for Catholic Moms Book and Journal - This book includes thought provoking quotes, prayers and simple actions to take day by day. The journal has ample room to record thoughts, prayers and actions with supplemental material! Great gift idea for Mom for Christmas or to do with your study group through out the year!

Curtis Stephan - Born to Us - Christmas CD
Celebrate Christmas with Curtis Stephan - 14 Holiday Songs!
"Born to us" Christmas music CD by Curtis Stephan, contemporary Christian Music. Curtis Stephan is a consumate composer, vocalist, and performer who prays his songs so that they raise your mind and heart when you listen.

Kitty Cleveland - Oh Holy Night CD
"And the angel said to them "Be not afraid! For behold, I bring you good news of great joy which will come to all of the people; for to you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord." Beautiful, uplifting and we promise it will put the spirit of Christmas into your Advent.

5 Minutes with the Child Jesus
Jesus may be busy on Christmas Eve - answering prayers, watching over creation, and doing all the other things the Son of God does for all eternity - but he can surely spare five minutes for a ten-year-old boy named Michael. After all, to God one minute may be as an hour...or a lifetime. And it's all the better when Jesus comes to Michael as he, the Lord, was at ten years old - and teams up with his wonder-struck friend to spread faith, hope, and love to the sick, hungry, and needy. Young readers will feel the true, formative spirit of Christmas charity flying off these pages and into their hearts.

Mountain Miracle - A Christmas Story
What if a small, rural Catholic congregation put on a living Nativity after Midnight Mass - and the Holy Family showed up to help? What if Mary and Joseph's "help" included entrusting the real, live Baby Jesus to the wide-eyed youngsters playing them? Read this charming Christmas fable aloud to your family, and children of all ages will delight in the joyful and wondrous answers to both those questions.

Nicholas the Boy Who Became Santa - DVD
Nicholas was still a young boy when he discovered the love of Jesus and the gift of giving that changed the world. Based on historical fact and tradition...this is a beautiful Christmas classic for children!

Grace Cafe - Serving Up Recipes for Faithful Mothering
"Ever wish you had a cookbook for life as a Catholic wife and mother … a step-by-step guide for various “domestic church” situations? Consider your prayers answered. The recipe theme may be lighthearted, fun even, but there’s real nourishment to be had in this wonderful dish too. Inspiriting entrees — practical ways Catholic women can live out their familial vocation — are seasoned with simple suggestions for answering Christ’s universal call to holiness. Lovely poems conclude each chapter on a note of warmth that will lift hearts beyond the kitchen and point mothers straight toward heaven.

Great Adventure Kids Pack
The five items included in this educational package (Chart, Game Set, Bible Story Coloring Book, Bookmark, and Prayer Beads) are based on the color-coded system of the Great Adventure and will aid in teaching children the narrative story of salvation history. Through play, memorization, prayer, and interaction, these learning tools bring familiar Bible stories into a system where children can relate them to their own life. Perfect for a stocking stuffer!

How to Book of Catholic Devotions
Everything You Need to Know But No One Ever Taught You

What do you say when someone asks, "You're a Catholic. So tell me, what do Catholics do when they pray a novena?"... Or when they "offer it up."... Or "wear a medal."... Or "go to Confession."... Or any of the dozens of other devotions that set Catholics apart from other Christians.

Friendly Defenders Gift Pack - Vols I and II
The Friendly Defenders Catholic Flash Cards VOLs I & II are designed to help you "train up your child" so that they will never stray from God's love and from the Catholic Church our Lord Jesus established. The 50 cards within each packet offer common objections people have to the Catholic faith as well as short, pithy answers to these objections. Order today for special pricing!

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Quotes from 'The Glories of Mary':

‘I will put enmities between thee and the woman, and thy seed and her seed: she shall crush thy head.’

(Gen. 3:15)

“Since the devil is the head of original sin, this head it was that Mary crushed: for sin never had any entry into the soul of this Blessed Virgin, which was consequently free from all stain.”

Saint Augustine

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PSALM 71 SPEAKS TO MY HEART

Forsake Me Not When My Strength Is Spent

In you, O Lord, do I take refuge;
let me never be put to shame!
In your righteousness deliver me and rescue me;
incline your ear to me, and save me!

Be to me a rock of refuge,
to which I may continually come;
you have given the command to save me,
for you are my rock and my fortress.

Rescue me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked,
from the grasp of the unjust and cruel man.
For you, O Lord, are my hope,
my trust, O Lord, from my youth.
Upon you I have leaned from before my birth;
you are he who took me from my mother's womb.
My praise is continually of you.

I have been as a portent to many,
but you are my strong refuge.
My mouth is filled with your praise,
and with your glory all the day.
Do not cast me off in the time of old age;
forsake me not when my strength is spent.

For my enemies speak concerning me;
those who watch for my life consult together
and say, “God has forsaken him;
pursue and seize him,
for there is none to deliver him.”

O God, be not far from me;
O my God, make haste to help me!
May my accusers be put to shame and consumed;
with scorn and disgrace may they be covered
who seek my hurt.

But I will hope continually
and will praise you yet more and more.
My mouth will tell of your righteous acts,
of your deeds of salvation all the day,
for their number is past my knowledge.

With the mighty deeds of the Lord God I will come;
I will remind them of your righteousness, yours alone.

O God, from my youth you have taught me,
and I still proclaim your wondrous deeds.

So even to old age and gray hairs,
O God, do not forsake me,
until I proclaim your might to another generation,
your power to all those to come.
Your righteousness, O God,
reaches the high heavens.
You who have done great things,
O God, who is like you?

You who have made me see many troubles and calamities
will revive me again;
from the depths of the earth
you will bring me up again.
You will increase my greatness
and comfort me again.

I will also praise you with the harp
for your faithfulness, O my God;
I will sing praises to you with the lyre,
O Holy One of Israel.
My lips will shout for joy,
when I sing praises to you;
my soul also, which you have redeemed.

And my tongue will talk of your righteous help all the day long,
for they have been put to shame and disappointed
who sought to do me hurt.

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Thanksgiving and Advent: You Snooze - You Lose!

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