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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!
Tuesday, September 25, 2018
Mary TV: September 25, 2018 Message from Our Lady
Mary TV: September 25, 2018 Reflection -The great family of Medjugorje!
Archbishop Hoser gives the homily at St. James Church - September 24
September 25, 2018
Dear Family of Mary!
Dear Family of Mary!
Today we receive a message from Our Lady! Let's pray as we wait, with great anticipation!
I want to share with you a portion of the homily given by the Apostolic Visitor, Archbishop Henryk Hoser at Holy Mass in Medjugorje yesterday (September 24, 2018). The Archbishop spoke so beautifully about the light which is Christ, and which shines through the Scriptures so that we can find our way. But I want to share the latter part of his homily where he talks about the crisis in the Church and the role Medjugorje plays in this most difficult time.
Archbishop Henryk Hoser, homily at St. James Church, Medjugorje, September 24, 2018:
Today we have gathered in great numbers.
And we represent the great family of Medjugorje. It is the family that
has been dispersed all over the world....
Our Church has been endangered. It is in
trouble, not just from the outside because of persecution (though
Christianity today is the most persecuted religion in the whole world).
But there is other trouble, which is the inner crisis of the Church.
This is the trouble that comes from the lack of faith in lay people,
priests and bishops. It is those who have lost the light on their way.
And they allow deeds and terrible, horrible sins. The greatest sins of
these people is when they are silent. When they silently agree to
something and they fall from the Church. Holy Fathers John Paul II and
Benedict XVI said that people live as though God does not exist at all.
If they have not been lit with the source of Light, then they will be in
darkness. And this trouble in which the Church finds itself, is a
challenge for us and also a possibility. A possibility that we can come
back to the authenticity of the Church.
You know that the human body is made of
cells. Cells make up our body. Each one of us, each faithful, is a cell
of the Mystical Body of Christ. And we make that Mystical Body of
Christ that has been immersed in Mankind. If the cells are healthy, then
the body will be healthy too. We need to be living cells of the
Mystical Body that lives the fullness of life.
The Church of Jesus Christ is the
universal family from all over the world. Medjugorje has become an image
of the universality of the Church. I think that pilgrims who are coming
here come from about 100 countries. We had the beautiful Youth Festival
here in August. And there were young people from 72 countries of the
world. That is how our Medjugorje family needs to be spread all over the
world so it will be universally present all over the world.
Our Queen, our Mother, she is our leader.
She leads us on the way of the Light. She is very close to each one of
us. She follows us, she gives us guidelines of what to do, she leads us
to Christ. You can express this Marian spirituality when you pray before
her statue (on Apparition Hill), when you climb Cross Mountain where
Jesus gave His life for us, when you pray before the Risen Christ
statue, and when you come down to the doors of the Church, that was born
from the side of Christ, from His pierced side.
We can see the Church is the New Eve who
was born from the New Adam. The personification of the New Eve is the
Blessed Virgin Mary, who is the Mother of the Church. The New Adam is
Jesus Christ, who is the Head of the Church. So let's be proud that we
are Christians. Let us come to the source of Light, to the source of
Life. In that way we will help in the crisis of the Church. Medjugorje
has become a place where this renewal of the Church takes place, where
the Resurrection of the Church takes place.
Let us continue in that way of life in the Light and let us follow Him, He who is never silent. Amen.
Yes, Medjugorje is a place of renewal and resurrection for the
Church! We have seen it in action all these years. Medjugorje is Our
Mother's peace plan, her plan to save the Church and the World. We can
be part of her plan, if we follow her, and live the life she is giving
us. It is the life of true faith! Thank you, Archbishop Hoser, for
joining us in this plan from heaven!!
Our Lady once said to us:
October 25, 1996 "Dear children! Today I invite you to open yourselves to God the Creator, so that He changes you. Little children, you are dear to me. I love you all and I call you to be closer to me and that your love towards my Immaculate Heart be more fervent. I wish to renew you and lead you with my Heart to the Heart of Jesus, which still today suffers for you and calls you to conversion and renewal. Through you, I wish to renew the world. Comprehend, little children, that you are today the salt of the earth and the light of the world. Little children, I invite you and I love you and in a special way implore: Convert!" Thank you for having responded to my call."
In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
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Monday, September 24, 2018
Mary TV: September 24, 2018 Reflection -Run like a child to the Heart of Jesus
(c)Anthony Zubac
September 24, 2018
Dear Family of Mary!
St. Faustina once wrote:
Dear Family of Mary!
St. Faustina once wrote:
When I see that the burden is beyond my strength, I do not consider or analyze it or probe into it, but I run like a child to the Heart of Jesus and say only one word to Him: "You can do all things." And then I keep silent, because I know that Jesus himself will intervene in the matter, and as for me, instead of tormenting myself, I use that time to love Him. (Diary 1033)
I think for all of us now, in this particularly agonizing time in the Church, where it could seem that the burden is beyond all of us, beyond all of our good bishops and priests, it is important not to consider or analyze or probe into it, but instead to run like a child to the Heart of Jesus, and say only one word to Him, "You can do all things." Then we can use that time to love Him.
I know that the enemy's plan for each one of us, for all of our good priests and bishops, for everyone who wants the Church to be cleaned and brought back to health, is that we torment ourselves for hours about what is going on. But that torment is not productive. And it is not going to help the Church get stronger. Instead we need to go to Jesus and ask Him to do it. And pray, just pray. Not waste the time, but use it to love Jesus.
This helps me, because every time I hear another piece of bad news, I am tempted to just go on thinking about it and worrying about it, and that is not helpful. Denis says these things are part of the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, and that she is cleaning house.
I wonder if Our Lady has spent the last 37 years filling the Church with her sons, the good, holy priests who got their vocation in Medjugorje, so that they can stand in this terrible time and help the Church. I wonder if that was part of her plan, that she had to build up the priesthood for these days.
St. Faustina chose silence and prayer as the way to endure the burdens of her day. Our Lady calls us to the same solution:
August 25, 2018 "Dear children! This is a time of grace. Little children, pray more, speak less and permit God to lead you on the way of conversion. I am with you and love you with my motherly love. Thank you for having responded to my call."
May we run to the Heart of Jesus and whisper to Him, "You can do all things!"
In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
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Friday, September 21, 2018
Mary TV: September 21, 2018 Reflection -Be Gardens of the Most Beautiful Flowers!
(c) Mateo Ivankovic
September 21, 2018
St. Matthew, Apostle
Dear Family of Mary!
Our Lady tells us: "Be gardens of the most beautiful flowers." I take this to mean that we should pray the Rosary, offering each prayer as a flower to God for the sake of souls. We don't have to know who we are praying for, but we must pray for love of souls, so that the love of Jesus will be spread to everyone. And in this time, that Jesus' love will cover our shepherds (good and bad) and heal them now.
Archbishop Fulton Sheen wrote the most beautiful book on Our Lady, called "The World's First Love - Mary, Mother of God." He includes a chapter on the Rosary. Here is an excerpt:
St. Matthew, Apostle
Dear Family of Mary!
"...Be true apostles of my love; spread the love of my Son to everyone. Be gardens of the most beautiful flowers. With your prayers help your shepherds that they may be spiritual fathers filled with love for all people. Thank you." (September 2, 2018)
Our Lady tells us: "Be gardens of the most beautiful flowers." I take this to mean that we should pray the Rosary, offering each prayer as a flower to God for the sake of souls. We don't have to know who we are praying for, but we must pray for love of souls, so that the love of Jesus will be spread to everyone. And in this time, that Jesus' love will cover our shepherds (good and bad) and heal them now.
Archbishop Fulton Sheen wrote the most beautiful book on Our Lady, called "The World's First Love - Mary, Mother of God." He includes a chapter on the Rosary. Here is an excerpt:
It
is objected that there is much repetition in the Rosary inasmuch as the
Lord' Prayer and the Hail Mary are said so often; therefore, it is
monotonous. That reminds me of a woman who came to see me one evening
after instructions. She said, "I would never become a Catholic. You say
the same words in the Rosary over and over again, and anyone who repeats
the same words is never sincere. I would never believe anyone who
repeated his words, and neither would God." I asked her who the man was
with her. She said he was her fiancé. "Does he love you?" "Certainly, he
does." "But how do you know?" "He told me." "What did he say?" "He said
'I love you.'" When did he tell you last?" "About an hour ago." "Did he
tell you before?" "Yes, last night." "What did he say?" "I love you."
"But never before?" "He tells me every night." I said: "Do not believe
him. He is repeating; he is not sincere."
The
beautiful truth is that there is no repetition in "I love you." Because
there is a new moment of time, another point in space, the words do not
mean the same as they did at another time or space. A mother says to
her son: "You are a good boy." She may have said it ten thousand times
before, but each time it means something different; the whole
personality goes out to it anew, as a new historical circumstance
summons forth a new outburst of affection. Love is never monotonous in
the uniformity of its expression. The mind is infinitely variable in its
language, but the heart is not. The heart of a man, in the face of the
woman he loves, is too poor to translate the infinity of his affection
into a different word. So the heart takes one expression, "I love you",
and in saying it over and over again, it never repeats. It is the only
real news in the universe. That is what we do when we say the Rosary -
we are saying to God, the Trinity, to the Incarnate Savior, to the
Blessed Mother: "I love you, I love you, I love you." Each time it means
something different because, at each decade, our mind is moving to a
new demonstration of the Savior's love: for example, from the mystery of
His Love that willed to become one of us in His Incarnation, to the
other mystery of love when He suffered for us, and on to the other
mystery of His Love where He intercedes for us before the Heavenly
Father. (Fulton J Sheen. "The World's First Love - Mary, Mother of God."
From Chapter 18, Roses and Prayers.)
This
is the way that we can become gardens of the most beautiful flowers! By
saying to God, "I love you, I love you, I love you..." through our
prayer of the Rosary. The world needs our prayer of love. Our Shepherds
need our prayer of love. We need to pray our prayer of love. Our Lady of
the Rosary, pray for us!
In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
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Thursday, September 20, 2018
Apostolic visitor outlines plans for expansion at Medjugorje shrine
Pilgrims pray in front of a statue of Mary on Apparition Hill in Medjugorje, Bosnia-Herzegovina, in 2011. CNS photo/Paul Haring
The Polish archbishop tasked with overseeing Bosnia-Herzegovina’s Medjugorje shrine has outlined plans for expansion, including more Masses in different languages and facilities for young pilgrims who flock to the site of the alleged Marian apparitions.
Read more here: https://thecatholicspirit.com/news/nation-and-world/apostolic-visitor-outlines-plans-for-expansion-at-medjugorje-shrine/
Mary TV: September 20, 2018 Reflection -You must love a lot...
(c)Anthony Zubac/Mary TV
September 20, 2018
Saints Andrew Kim Tae-gon, Priest, and Paul Chong Ha-sang, and Companions, Martyrs
Saints Andrew Kim Tae-gon, Priest, and Paul Chong Ha-sang, and Companions, Martyrs
Dear Family of Mary,
"...you must love a lot if you desire to grow spiritually. I know, apostles of my love, that it is not always easy, but, my children, also the painful paths are paths which lead to spiritual growth, to faith, and to my Son. My children, pray-think of my Son. In all the moments of the day, raise your soul to Him, and I will gather your prayers as flowers from the most beautiful garden and give them as a gift to my Son..." (September 2, 2018)
"...you must love a lot if you desire to grow spiritually..."
Our Lady told us that we must love a lot!! That is if we want to grow spiritually. I had never thought of it that way, but plainly put, she's right! To grow spiritually means to become more and more like God. And that means to become more and more loving, more and more capable of love.
"
We know it is not easy. In our fallen world there is a lot that contradicts love. Sin denies love, and makes life all about oneself. Sin is saying "no" to love and to God. And when we live in a very sinful culture, we will be contradicted if we try to love.
But Our Lady tells us that the pain of daily contradictions and rejections, of wounds and trials, will become the pathways to faith and to Jesus. The very difficulties we encounter will become helps in our growth in love. Isn't it true? Most of the saints have trodden those paths, and turned them into beautiful walkways, surrounded to flowers. The very stuff designed to destroy us can instead make us saints, if we do these things:
We know it is not easy. In our fallen world there is a lot that contradicts love. Sin denies love, and makes life all about oneself. Sin is saying "no" to love and to God. And when we live in a very sinful culture, we will be contradicted if we try to love.
But Our Lady tells us that the pain of daily contradictions and rejections, of wounds and trials, will become the pathways to faith and to Jesus. The very difficulties we encounter will become helps in our growth in love. Isn't it true? Most of the saints have trodden those paths, and turned them into beautiful walkways, surrounded to flowers. The very stuff designed to destroy us can instead make us saints, if we do these things:
"My children, pray..."
Our Lady will augment our prayer, our thoughts, our worship of Jesus, with her own prayers and thoughts and worship, making them all the more beautiful. Our prayers and thoughts of Jesus, our worship of Him will be the stuff that changes the world. Indeed, the Rosary is a "Rose Garden" for Jesus. And I think that praying the Rosary, nonstop, can help us to do all those things that Our Lady suggests to us, if we want to grow spiritually!
Finally, I had a moment yesterday that spoke very loudly to me. Denis and I were lighting a candle at St. Andre Bessette's statue at church. As we prayed, I found myself gazing at St. Andre's right hand, in which he holds a rosary, very tightly, with his fingers on a bead. St. Andre prayed the Rosary non-stop. It was the Rosary that accomplished all His wonderful works. I felt the Holy Spirit showing me that the Rosary must be in my hand constantly, and the prayer of the Rosary constantly going on in my heart. That is how I will survive these terrible days, and indeed it will be giving to Our Lady the flowers she asked us for. "I will gather your prayers as flowers from the most beautiful garden and give them as a gift to my Son..."
In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
(c)Mary TV 2018
We must pray as much as possible, maybe constantly. I find
myself needing to say decade after decade of the Rosary during my daily
tasks, just to keep myself on an even keel, and to overcome the
temptations that assail me, such as worry and fear and consternation at
the troubles we are in. The Rosary is not only a prayer, it is a weapon,
which fends off the evil one and his torments. Now, like never before,
we need to pray, non-stop!
"Think of my Son." Instead of thinking of the latest news report of political turmoil or scandal in the Church, I need to think of Jesus. He is the safest and most comforting person to think about. Just to meditate on a Gospel story will bring us peace and perspective. Like St. Ignatius, we need to meditate on our Lord, bringing to life His story. In that way we will be elevated and encouraged. Here again, the Rosary fits the bill. Each decade introduces a facet of Jesus' life. We can think on the mysteries and it will keep our minds on Jesus.
"In all the moments of the day, raise your soul to Him..." Wow! Now there is powerful advice. I think of the Gospel for today from Luke 7:36-50. Luke describes an encounter Jesus has with a "sinful woman" who approaches Him while He is dining with a Pharisee. The Gospel compares the woman and the Pharisee, in relation to Jesus. The Pharisee has invited Jesus to dine, in order to grill Him over matters of the law. The Pharisee is stand-offish. But the woman kneels at Jesus' feet, washes them with her tears, dries them with her hair and anoints them with oil. She does not take her eyes of Jesus, and she says nothing. I would say she is a good example of someone who constantly raises her soul to Jesus. She worships Him, rather than hold a discussion with Him. Praying our Rosary constantly is a way to constantly worship Jesus. Through the mysteries we can pour out our thanksgiving to Him for having saved us by His life, death and resurrection. We can be like the woman who anoints His feet with her tears and oil, thanking Him for her salvation.
"And I will gather your prayers as flowers from the most beautiful garden and give them as a gift to my Son." "Think of my Son." Instead of thinking of the latest news report of political turmoil or scandal in the Church, I need to think of Jesus. He is the safest and most comforting person to think about. Just to meditate on a Gospel story will bring us peace and perspective. Like St. Ignatius, we need to meditate on our Lord, bringing to life His story. In that way we will be elevated and encouraged. Here again, the Rosary fits the bill. Each decade introduces a facet of Jesus' life. We can think on the mysteries and it will keep our minds on Jesus.
"In all the moments of the day, raise your soul to Him..." Wow! Now there is powerful advice. I think of the Gospel for today from Luke 7:36-50. Luke describes an encounter Jesus has with a "sinful woman" who approaches Him while He is dining with a Pharisee. The Gospel compares the woman and the Pharisee, in relation to Jesus. The Pharisee has invited Jesus to dine, in order to grill Him over matters of the law. The Pharisee is stand-offish. But the woman kneels at Jesus' feet, washes them with her tears, dries them with her hair and anoints them with oil. She does not take her eyes of Jesus, and she says nothing. I would say she is a good example of someone who constantly raises her soul to Jesus. She worships Him, rather than hold a discussion with Him. Praying our Rosary constantly is a way to constantly worship Jesus. Through the mysteries we can pour out our thanksgiving to Him for having saved us by His life, death and resurrection. We can be like the woman who anoints His feet with her tears and oil, thanking Him for her salvation.
Our Lady will augment our prayer, our thoughts, our worship of Jesus, with her own prayers and thoughts and worship, making them all the more beautiful. Our prayers and thoughts of Jesus, our worship of Him will be the stuff that changes the world. Indeed, the Rosary is a "Rose Garden" for Jesus. And I think that praying the Rosary, nonstop, can help us to do all those things that Our Lady suggests to us, if we want to grow spiritually!
Finally, I had a moment yesterday that spoke very loudly to me. Denis and I were lighting a candle at St. Andre Bessette's statue at church. As we prayed, I found myself gazing at St. Andre's right hand, in which he holds a rosary, very tightly, with his fingers on a bead. St. Andre prayed the Rosary non-stop. It was the Rosary that accomplished all His wonderful works. I felt the Holy Spirit showing me that the Rosary must be in my hand constantly, and the prayer of the Rosary constantly going on in my heart. That is how I will survive these terrible days, and indeed it will be giving to Our Lady the flowers she asked us for. "I will gather your prayers as flowers from the most beautiful garden and give them as a gift to my Son..."
In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
(c)Mary TV 2018
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Wednesday, September 19, 2018
Mary TV: September 19, 2018 Reflection - Love never fails...
(c)Anthony Zubac/Mary TV
September 19, 2018
St. Januarius
Dear Family of Mary!
St. Januarius
Dear Family of Mary!
"...Love changes everything; it makes most beautiful also that which, without love, seems insignificant to you. That is why, anew, I am saying to you that you must love a lot if you desire to grow spiritually..." (September 2, 2018)
Reading 1 for Holy Mass
September 19, 2018
1 Cor 12:31-13:13
Brothers and sisters:
Strive eagerly for the greatest spiritual gifts.
But I shall show you a still more excellent way.
If I speak in human and angelic tongues
but do not have love,
I am a resounding gong or a clashing cymbal.
And if I have the gift of prophecy
and comprehend all mysteries and all knowledge;
if I have all faith so as to move mountains,
but do not have love, I am nothing.
If I give away everything I own,
and if I hand my body over so that I may boast
but do not have love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient, love is kind.
It is not jealous, love is not pompous,
it is not inflated, it is not rude,
it does not seek its own interests,
it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury,
it does not rejoice over wrongdoing
but rejoices with the truth.
It bears all things, believes all things,
hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never fails.
If there are prophecies, they will be brought to nothing;
if tongues, they will cease;
if knowledge, it will be brought to nothing.
For we know partially and we prophesy partially,
but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.
When I was a child, I used to talk as a child,
think as a child, reason as a child;
when I became a man, I put aside childish things.
At present we see indistinctly, as in a mirror,
but then face to face.
At present I know partially;
then I shall know fully, as I am fully known.
So faith, hope, love remain, these three;
but the greatest of these is love. (1 Cor 12:31-13:13)
In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
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Tuesday, September 18, 2018
Mary TV: September 18, 2018 Reflection - Love changes everything!
(c)Mateo Ivankovic
September 18, 2018
Dear Family of Mary!
"Love changes everything..." I think that when we love, it is like putting on special glasses. Through these special glasses we can see everything differently. We see the gifts that are pouring out upon us, gifts of love, of kindness, peace, support, hope, beauty, and on and on. Love changes the way we see everything.
Dear Family of Mary!
"Love changes everything; it makes most beautiful also that which, without love, seems insignificant to you.That is why, anew, I am saying to you that you must love a lot if you desire to grow spiritually..." (September 2, 2018)
"Love changes everything..." I think that when we love, it is like putting on special glasses. Through these special glasses we can see everything differently. We see the gifts that are pouring out upon us, gifts of love, of kindness, peace, support, hope, beauty, and on and on. Love changes the way we see everything.
Now think of God. He has told us that He is love itself. How do we recognize this? Here is a quote from Mother Teresa of Calcutta. She could see God's love everywhere:
As Our Lady told us: "Love changes everything; it makes most beautiful also that which, without love, seems insignificant to you." Those little signs of love are all around us, but without love in our hearts, we won't see them. They will be insignificant. Love changes the way we see everything. When we have love, when we love others, love ourselves and love most of all, God, then we see love everywhere. We begin to see that God is pouring out His love on us. Nothing is insignificant when we love and know that we are loved.
I often experience little acts of love from my grandchildren. Many of them are very little. But I receive so much love from them. A hug. A smile. An invitation to go with them on a walk, or to read a book. A call for help, which is a big honor to receive from a little one. All these things would be insignificant to a stranger. But to Grandma, they are much more than a million dollars. They are little windows into heaven.
So, as Our Lady says, love changes everything. And God is very busy loving us, though we may not notice most of the time. Mother Teresa is right, He is very busy with us, loving us non-stop. If only we could love enough to see Him doing it!
"That is why, anew, I am saying to you that you must love a lot if you desire to grow spiritually!" The more we practice love, the better we will be at recognizing it all around us!
In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
©Mary TV 2018
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Monday, September 17, 2018
Sister Emmanuel's Report from Medjugorje for September 2018
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