The Excellencies of The Trinity

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The Trinity constitutes the beatitude of God and the final end and beatitude of all creatures, angels and men. It is the Alpha and Omega, the first and the last. So it is with you personally. You are on earth for a very brief interval to work out your return to the God whence you proceeded. Never deviate from this, your one and sole object.

Jesus Mercy, Mary Help! 

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The Beatitude of God

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The miseries of this life, surpassing its good and happiness often, are a trial to us. It is a satisfaction to know that they are transient, and that the one thing which will survive all others and be predominant for ever is infinite happiness. Many indeed will never enjoy it; but it is there for all who care for it, and who will but stretch forth their hands to grasp it. 

This is the solution of all the mysteries of this life; this is the remedy for all its evils.

Jesus Mercy, Mary Help! 

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The Power of God

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How well it is for you to be in the hands of God! How terrible will be the lot of those who have placed themselves under the power of the evil one! Pray to be preserved from this. 

     Whatever power you possess is from God. Endeavor to employ it according to His example. 

Jesus Mercy, Mary Help! 

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The Sunday Homily

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Our first reading for this weekend is from the utterly fascinating book of Daniel. Daniel is an example of apocalyptic literature, and apocalyptic books reveal something of decisive significance. We see that significance when Jesus comes preaching the kingdom of God, by which he was taken to be announcing the fulfillment of the Daniel prophecy. This is the apocalypse, the great unveiling: a new kingdom has come, a dominion that will last forever.

Mass Readings

Reading 1 - Daniel 12:1-3
Psalm - Psalm 16:5-11
Reading 2 - Hebrews 10:11-18
Gospel - Mark 13:24-32

The Discrimination of the Good and The Bad

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If we have a tender devotion and love towards the Blessed Virgin, we know that in one important respect the same mind is in us that was also in Christ Jesus. 

We must never despair of our own or of others' salvation. The grace of God and prayer are continually working wonders in the supernatural order, and God is for ever raising up stones to be children of Abraham. The power and goodness of God are such as to justify the wildest hopes; discouragement is an insult to Him; despair, even under the most adverse circumstances, is a sin against the Holy Ghost. It is folly to disturb oneself about remote uncertainties and the possible evils of a future day. 

Jesus Mercy, Mary Help! 

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The Books of Life and Death

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Although God knows what will happen, His knowledge does not determine the event; it is still undecided, and depends on our efforts.
Your destiny still depends on yourself, aided by God. Do your best, persevere to the end, and you will certainly be saved.

Jesus Mercy, Mary Help!! 

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Flannery O'Connor's One Line Theology on the Eucharist

Reprobation

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The ways of God are inscrutable to your limited vision. Do not expect to penetrate them in this life. Wait with humble faith for the revelation of God's secrets, and say, "I shall be satisfied when Thy glory shall appear (Ps. xvi. 15) 

Jesus Mercy, Mary Help!! 

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The Virgin and The Lilies or How to Pray Always

William Adolphe Bouguereau • The Virgin of the Lilies 1899 

To know you, my Lady―this itself is God's gift to me and I am very grateful to Him for it. If I did not know you or if I forgot you, what a calamity it would be for me! Then the chance of my salvation would be poor indeed. But I do know you, my dear Mother. I bless you, I love you and I have full confidence in you. In your hands I place my whole life.

Blessed is he who knows you, O Mary, and who trusts in you.

How to Pray Always

 

“As you breathe in,” he told him, say, ‘Lord Jesus Christ,’ and as you breathe out, say, ‘Have mercy on me.”

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 Young Grace Kelly

I can hardly believe, O Lord, that your fatherly love has brought me my dear husband. Yet I see him kneeling here beside me and I can hear him saying the words which will bind us for our entire lives.

We pray you, O God, extend your hands over us and bless us. May our married life continue to the very end as you have begun it for us today.  Amen.

April 19th, 1956

  Grace Kelly's Catholic Prayer Book

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Ave Maria - A 1911 Recording

The Permission of Evil

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In the ordinary course no one enters heaven unless he has passed through the school of affliction. It makes men feel the nothingness of this life, it detaches them from possessions and pleasures, it teaches them patience, resignation, fortitude, trust in God; it shows them that nothing is of any value but the service of God on earth and the possession of Him in heaven. Endeavor to learn these lessons.

Jesus - I trust in You!!

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The Sunday Homily by Bishop Robert Barron

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Today’s Scriptures highlight two widows and two very important biblical principles: God reveals himself precisely at that moment of our greatest vulnerability and need, and the grace in your life will increase in the measure that you give it away.

Mass Readings

Reading 1 - 1 Kings 17:10-16

Psalm - Psalm 146:7-10

Reading 2 - Hebrews 9:24-28

Gospel - Mark 12:38-44

The Providence of God

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God, having created the world, did not thenceforward leave it to itself. He still oversees and guides all things, according to the Scripture: "The eyes of all hope in Thee, O Lord, and Thou gives them meat in due season" (Ps. cxliv. 15). The world requires for its conservation and development a continuance of the same divine influx which created it. 

Jesus - I trust in You!!

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