Encountering Christ...

   ...at his tabernacle will I sacrifice with shouts of joy: 

I will sing and make music to the LORD.
...Your face, LORD, will I seek. - Psalm 27:6b, 8b

 
"Christianity is not a new philosophy or a new form of morality. 
We are only Christians if we encounter Christ... 
We can encounter Christ in reading Holy Scripture, 
in prayer and in the liturgical life of the Church - 
touch Christ's heart and feel that Christ touches ours. 
And it is only in this personal relationship with Christ,
in this meeting with the Risen One, 

that we are truly Christian."

Pope Benedict XVI

Reflections on the conversion of St Paul

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Happily remembering today...

Traditional Feast of St Gabriel the Archangel,
patron of telecommunications and diplomats
March 24

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A day in history:  24 March 2011
Adoration Chapel, 

Cathedral of St Paul (Minnesota)
Inspiration Day
Seven Sisters Apostolate...
committed to praying for priests.

15 years of praying 

for our shepherds!

A Seven Sister: one holy hour/one priest/
each week/one heart of prayer

 

Visit the Apostolate website… leave a comment!  
www.sevensistersapostolate.org

PRAYERFULLY CONSIDER joining

this growing, international Apostolate!

Now in 37 countries!

 

"In strengthening the priest you strengthen the whole Church. ...

Strengthen the priest and

you strengthen the whole foundation,

you strengthen everything in the Church."
Fr Gerald Fitzgerald, s.P.

Bear Christ fully...

   O God, you are my God,

earnestly I seek you...  Psalm 63:1

  

 "Bear Christ 

in heart, mind, and will.

Bear Him in your mind 

by His teaching.

Bear Him in your will 

by your observance of the Law.

Bear Him in your heart 

by the Holy Eucharist."

Ven Pope Pius XII

Central point of our life: Fifth Sunday of Lent...

  Fifth Sunday of Lent*

*Final Lenten Sunday before Palm Sunday

Give me justice, O God, and plead my cause 

against a nation that is faithless.  From the deceitful 

and cunning rescue me, for you, O God, are 

my strength. - Entrance Antiphon (Today's Liturgy)

 "Without the Eucharist, 
the Church would not exist.

The holy Eucharist is the central point of our life. 

I remember once a priest I met. He never talked at great 

length about the sufferings, persecutions and tortures, 

but he mentioned that even in prison, 

all the priests would celebrate the liturgy.

We were amazed; how could this be possible? 
Where did you get a Chalice and a Paten? 

He took off his glasses and said: 
'This is what we used; one lens served as the chalice 
with a drop of wine and on the other a piece of bread 
was placed, which served as the paten.' 

This is how they celebrated the liturgy in the prison 
or around the premises of the concentration camps.”

Major-Archbishop Swiatoslav Schevchuk

Primate of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church

Same Body broken, same Blood flowing...

   “Our way of thinking is attuned to the Eucharist, 

and the Eucharist in turn 

confirms our way of thinking.” – St Irenaeus

"The Mass is that which makes the cross visible 

to every eye; it placards the Cross at all the 

crossroads of civilization; it brings Calvary so 

close that even tired feet can make the journey 

to its sweet embrace; every hand may now 

reach out to touch its Sacred Burden, 
every ear may hear its sweet appeal, 
for the Mass and the Cross are the same.

In both there is the same offering of a 

perfectly surrendered will of the beloved Son, 
same Body broken, the same Blood flowed 

forth, the same Divine Forgiveness.

All that has been said and done and acted 

during Holy Mass is to be taken away with us, 
lived, practiced, and woven into all the 
circumstances and conditions of our daily lives."

Venerable Fulton J Sheen

Calvary and the Mass: The Ite, Missa Est

The Sick Child - Edvard Munch

Bringing our hearts to His...

   Though I sit in darkness, the 

LORD will be my light. - Micah 7:8b

“Our lives must be woven around the Eucharist...

fix your eyes on Him Who is the light;

bring your hearts close to His Divine Heart;

ask Him to grant you the grace of knowing Him,

the love of loving Him, the courage to serve Him.

Seek Him fervently.”- St Teresa of Calcutta

(Quote chosen to honor St Photina)

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St Photina

Samaritan Woman at the Well

Convert, Evangelizer of the Faith, Martyr

Name meaning: 

“resplendent” or “shining with light”

Historical Feast Day - March 20

  

By the well of Jacob, O holy one, /
thou didst find the Water /
of eternal and blessed life; /
and having partaken /
thereof, O wise Photina, /
thou wentest forth proclaiming Christ, 

the Anointed One.

(Megalynarion for St. Photina, 

according to the Byzantine usage)

 St Photina, pray for us -

that we may have zeal for the faith!

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A Day in history...

TWENTY-SEVEN years ago today I joyfully 

reconciled with the Catholic Church and 

in so doing was enabled to fully partake of the 

Holy Eucharist, the Sacrament of Charity and Unity. 
Let us join in the holy endeavors of praying and 

living lives that speak of the strength and love 

of our Eucharistic Lord - to come 

to know, love and serve Him more and more - 

and to draw many to the inexhaustible riches 

of His Most Sacred Heart. 

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“I will not rest until I find the whole world 

devoted to the Blessed Sacrament!” 

Bl. Didacus Joseph of Cadiz.   

Amen and Amen. - Janette +JMJ+