Lights, please!...

   "God has placed us all in a dark room, 

hoping that we will have sense enough 

to turn the light on... " - Mother Angelica

"There are two things I want you to do -

keep close to Our Lord in the Holy Eucharist... 

(and) stay close to His Mother.

With those two loves, you will always have the 

light to see what is right and what is wrong."

Mother Angelica

Poor Clare Nun

Founder of EWTN

(Eternal Word Television Network)

Anniversary of Death - 03/27/16

Requiescat in pace

"We are called to be great saints,

don't miss the opportunity." 

 Mother Angelica

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"A soul that trusts God is invincible." 

 Mother Angelica

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"God wants you to be in the world, 

but so different from the world that 

you will change it.  Get cracking."

Mother Angelica

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Related: 
Let go of 'false lights' that lead down the wrong path, Pope says :: Catholic News  Agency (CNA)
18 Mother Angelica Quotes that Hit It Right on the Nose | ChurchPOP

For love of priests and of holy Mass...

  "We are born to love, we live to love, and we will die to love still more." - St. Joseph Cafasso 

"March 26th is one of two days the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church honors a Pearl of Our Lady's Dowry. The Church chose this day, as it was the first available. In reality, she was put to death on quite a momentous day. Not only was it March 25th - the date that the Feast of the Annunciation is normally celebrated, but in the year that she died, 1586, this date was also Good Friday. She followed in  her dear Saviour's footsteps so closely that she died in a cruciform position, her hands and arms outstretched and bound to the floor on which she would be crushed. After having been secured in the cruciform position mentioned before, in imitation of Christ, the martyr was crushed to death by several hundred pounds of weights that were laid on top of her. She was not the only victim of the execution. She had been four months pregnant.

This "Pearl" is St. Margaret Clitherow. She died in defense of the Catholic faith. More specifically, she died in defense of the priesthood, the Mass, and the Blessed Sacrament. 

St. Margaret opened her home to the most reviled class of people in Elizabethan England - Catholic priests. "This is a war and a trial in God's Church," she wrote of the persecution in her country. "Therefore, if I cannot do my duty without peril and dangers, yet by God's grace I will not be a slacker for them. If God's priests dare venture themselves to my house, I will never refuse them." 

One biographer wrote, "The heart and center of [St. Margaret's] life was the Mass." One priest that she harbored, Father John Mush, wrote, "Her most delight was to kneel where she might continually behold the Blessed Sacrament."

Source: Click here: An Imitation of Christ - St. Margaret Clitherow

Click here: PEOPLE Margaret Clitherow - YouTube

St Margaret Clitherow

England ~ 1556-1586

Convert, Wife, Mother, Martyr

aka "Pearl of York"
Co-Patroness: Seven Sisters Apostolate

Seven Sisters Apostolate

Committed to prayers for priests 

Feast Day - March 26

"I die for the love of my Lord Jesu."- St Margaret Clitherow Moved by her saintly life, all her children entered the religious life.
Anne became a nun. Henry and William both became priests.

St Margaret Clitherow, pray for us!

That generous word, "Be it done" ...

  The ANNUNCIATION of the LORD

March 25

Solemnity

 "The Virgin Mary uttered that generous word, "Be it done" 

... Immediately the Heart of Jesus, ever to be adored, 

has begun to pulsate with love, divine and human."

Pius XII, On Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, 63

"The Wisdom of God creates poets. How evidently this is so can be seen by considering Mary of Nazareth. When she had given to the Lord of Hosts the Flesh that would become our Bread, Wisdom caused her to break into a poem of praise, a song repeated by more people than probably any other ever composed. 

The Presence within stirred her to exult and proclaim the One 'who has filled the hungry with good things'. And the praise owed to the Presence of embodied Wisdom among us has never ceased in the Church from that day until this."

James T. O'Connor

The Hidden Manna

“When the Divine Child was conceived, Mary’s humanity gave Him hands and feet, eyes and ears, and a body with which to suffer. Just as the petals of a rose after a dew close on the dew as if to absorb its energies, so too Mary as the Mystical Rose closed upon Him Whom the Old Testament had described as a dew descending upon the earth. When finally she did give Him birth, it was as if a great ciborium had opened, and she was holding in her fingers the Guest Who was also the Host of the world, as if to say, ‘Look, this is the Lamb of God; look, this is He Who takes away the sins of the world.’”

Ven Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen

Life of Christ

Top Image: The Annunciation,  Adolphe-William Bouguereau (1888)
Bottom Image: Mystical Rose - Sr Marie Pierre Semlar, M.M.

Pray for us, O holy Mother of God, 

that we may be made worthy of the promises of  Christ!

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