God's strengthening aid...

 For My flesh is real food

and My blood is real drink. - John 6:55

"Let us stand fast in what is right,

and prepare our souls for trial.

Let us wait upon God's strengthening aid
and say to Him:

O Lord, you have been our refuge

in all generations."

St Boniface

Benedictine monk, Bishop, Martyr

675 - 754

nee England ~ Missionary

Known as  Apostle of Germany
Patron:  Germany, brewers, World Youth Day

Feast Day - June 5

“In her voyage across the ocean of this world, the Church is like a great ship being pounded by the waves of life's different stresses. Our duty is not to abandon ship but to keep her on her course.” ~ St Boniface

Click here: St. Boniface - YouTube (2 mins)

Click here: St Boniface - YouTube (Fr Wagner)

St Boniface, pray for us!

Really live!...

"Live on Him that you may live for Him." - St John Vianney

And as they were eating, He took bread,

and blessed, and broke it, and gave it to them, and said,

"Take; this is My Body."

And He took a chalice, and when He had given thanks

He gave it to them, and they all drank of it. 

And He said to them,

"This is My Blood of the covenant,

which is poured out for many."
Gospel of Mark 14:22-24

St Mark the Evangelist

Evangelist, Martyr (+68 AD)
Disciple of St Peter, Cousin of Barnabus

Symbol:  lion, often winged*

*The Gospel of St Mark begins with St John the Baptist,
"the voice of one crying in the wilderness,"
a voice that St Jerome compared to the roar of a lion.
Feast Day - April 25

Read St Mark's Gospel today in gratitude 
and for the sake of love - and life!

Image above:  The Last Supper ~ Frans Pourbus

Go out into the whole world and 

proclaim the Gospel to every creature.  ~ Mark 16:15

  

Click here: St Mark - YouTube (2 mins)

Click here: Feast of St. Mark, evangelist - Catholic Culture

Prayer over the Offerings (Today's Liturgy)

As we venerate the glory of Saint Mark,

we offer you, Lord, the sacrifice of praise

and humbly beseech you,

that your Church may always persevere

in the preaching of the Gospel.

Through Christ our Lord.

Basilica San Marco ~ Venice, Italy
Contains the reliquary of St Mark's body

Click here: Saint Mark's Basilica, Venice, begun 1063 - YouTube  (5 mins)

St Mark the Evangelist, pray for us!

Day 3
Novena to St Joseph
Solemnity: May 1

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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 Annunication 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

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! ______________________
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Tomorrow - FRIDAY - Holy Father will offer an  Urbi et Orbi blessing on the sagrada of St Peter's Basilica