MARY, OUR MOTHER: The Manger and the Cross - Calvary Begins in Bethlehem

Thursday, December 22, 2011

The Manger and the Cross - Calvary Begins in Bethlehem

Tribulation Times

December 22, 2011

THE TRIB TIMES WILL RETURN IN EARLY JANUARY 2012, GOD WILLING (James 4:15).

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL FROM THE ZAMBRANO FAMILY! BLESSINGS FOR A JOYOUS NEW YEAR!

(Luk 2:15) And it came to pass, after the angels departed from them into heaven, the shepherds said one to another: Let us go over to Bethlehem and let us see this word that is come to pass, which the Lord hath shewed to us.
FATHER GERRY KANE: "Christmas is not just for children, far from it (look at the number of parents at the Nativity play – think of parish carol services, the multiplication of Messiahs , even Christmas Mass). But in a time of confusion such as ours, children are guardians of the simplicity and the truth at the heart of the story".
"That is why the Christmas story is so important. And so hopeful. And visiting schools is such a privilege for me. Because the wonder of this Christmas story is eternally fresh. I have my take on it this year directly from children: God is being born. Simple. True".

ADVENT REFLECTION: The Manger and the Cross - Calvary Begins in Bethlehem

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POPE BENEDICT XVI: "Both Christmas and Easter are feasts of redemption. Easter celebrates redemption as a victory over sin and death. It marks the culminating moment when the glory of the Man-God shines like the light of day. Christmas celebrates redemption as the entry of God into history, when He became man in order to bring man to God. It marks, so to speak, the starting point when the first light of dawn begins to appear".
"Even the seasons of the year in which these two great feasts fall, at least in some areas of the world, can help us understand this aspect. Easter coincides with the beginning of spring when the sun triumphs over the cold and the fog and renews the face of the earth. Christmas comes at the very beginning of winter when the light and heat of the sun are unable to awaken nature, covered in a shroud of cold under which, nonetheless, life is pulsating".

LINK: MESSAGE OF HIS HOLINESS POPE BENEDICT XVI FOR THE CELEBRATION OF THE WORLD DAY OF PEACE 1 JANUARY 2012

LINK: Christmas Traditions Around the World- How "Merry Christmas" is said .....

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DIVINE MERCY: St Faustina’s Christmas
St. Faustina truly loved Christmas. For her, Christmas was about the birth of Jesus, the promised Messiah. As a poor nun, living far from her home, she probably didn’t receive many gifts. If you read the Christmas passages in the Diary, on every occasion, Jesus told her that her heart was His delight and His resting place. These words of love from Jesus must have been the greatest gift St. Faustina could have ever received.

Like many great saints, she also had beautiful visions of Jesus as a small child during Christmas. On Christmas Day, 1934 during Midnight Mass, the child Jesus appeared on the Altar dressed in a white pinafore. She described Him as “incomparably beautiful” and said “the whole time the Infant kept looking at everyone, stretching out His little hands”. (Diary 347) St. Faustina also saw Mary holding her child during this Mass, which she told St. Faustina was the “secret of her happiness”. (Diary 346) If you’ve ever held a new born baby, you will understand the powerful feelings this can stir. It must have been truly amazing for Joseph & Mary to know they were holding the Messiah in their arms that glorious night.

Thoughts and Sayings of Saint Margaret Mary: The Holy Eucharist

27. There is nothing sweeter and milder, and at the same time stronger and more efficacious than the gentle unction of the burning charity of this lovable Heart, to convert the most hardened souls and to penetrate the most unfeeling hearts.

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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.

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