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Anonymous Coward User ID: 34510444 United States 02/15/2014 11:50 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | FASTING 12. When Nehemiah prayed for his people, he said, "When I heard these words I sat down and wept, and mourned for days, fasting and praying before the God of heaven." [Neh. 1:4] Before beginning His ministry, Jesus fasted for forty days and forty nights. [Mt. 4:2] The prophet Anna, the daughter of Phanuel of the tribe of Asher never left the temple where Jesus was presented as the Divine Infant. She fasted and prayed night and day. [Lk. 2:37] In the Acts of the Apostles, we read that when the first Christians were worshipping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit told them that Barnabas and Saul were being commissioned to do the Lord's work. [Acts 13:2-3] In many instances, fasting, over and above praying, has obtained blessings that otherwise would not have been received from God. Fasting represents another petal that belongs to the flower. 13. Prior to fasting, the faithful should consult their family physician to ensure that this will not have an adverse effect on their health, especially when it concerns the very young, the elders, the sick, those who are physically handicapped and those on medication................................................................................................................................... |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 34510444 United States 02/25/2014 06:09 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | This is the best article on the internet about John Paul II and Medjugorje [link to ministryvalues.com] Pope John Paul II "Medjugorje - The Spiritual Heart of the World" Pope John Paul II once powerfully observed, "Today's world has lost its sense of the supernatural, but many are searching for it - and find it in Medjugorje, through prayer, penance, and fasting." The late pontiff and future saint, his holiness, spoke these words on August 1, 1989, while addressing a group of Italian physicians studying the apparitions in Medjugorje with medical and scientific investigations.It is no secret within Rome that John Paul II absolutely loved Medjugorje, once even acquiring the nickname "Protector of Medjugorje" within the Vatican. Even eminent American intellectuals were no strangers to this reality. .................................................................................................................................................. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 34510444 United States 02/25/2014 06:17 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | In reality, this relationship was mutual. According to the testimony of the Medjugorje visionaries, on May 13, 1982, on the anniversary of the Fatima apparitions and on the occasion of an assassination attempt on John Paul II's life, Our Lady said, "His enemies tried to kill him, but I have protected him." from mystic post |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 34510444 United States 02/26/2014 06:31 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to www.ministryvalues.com] there are two sets of Marian apparitions of the 20th century (one extending into the 21st) that have had much in common, and whose similarity is quite noteworthy for the immeasurable consequences. They are the apparitions of Medjugorje, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and the apparitions of Kibeho, Rwanda. Both apparitions began in 1981. Both contained a group of young visionaries, mostly teenagers, experiencing the phenomena – six visionaries at Medjugorje, seven at Kibeho. Both featured extraordinary supernatural signs witnessed by thousands of people. Both contained visions of the afterlife given t........................................................ |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 34510444 United States 03/01/2014 12:52 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to marytv.tv] Sunday March 2, 2014 (Saturday night and early Sunday morning in USA) Our Lady's apparition to Mirjana in Medjugorje will be streamed LIVE at www.marytv.tv 8:00 am Medjugorje time (2:00 am EST) - Live streaming begins 8:45 am Medjugorje time (2:45 am EST) - Apparition to Mirjana 9:30 am Medjugorje time (3:30 am EST) - Live streaming ends (Weather Permitting) |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 34510444 United States 03/04/2014 06:42 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to catholicexchange.com] Know Your Needs, Conquer Your Worries. Supposing I ask you now to name all of your heart’s wants and desires. Name those things that make you say things like, “God, please give me this or that and I will be happy.” No doubt you can easily list so many of your wants. Next, supposing I asked you to name one thing that you need today to be faithful to God’s plan for you. I really doubt if we could readily name two to three of such needs. On the other hand, many of us may even find ourselves unsure if something were a want or a need. ................................................................................. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 55475699 United States 03/25/2014 07:04 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Read more: [link to digitaljournal.com] medjugorje - More mysterious happenings are happening in a small town in Bosnia and Herzegovina, as a wheelchair-bo Read more: [link to digitaljournal.com] |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 55475699 United States 03/28/2014 10:17 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | From the treatise On Prayer by Tertullian, priest (160-220) The spiritual offering of prayer Prayer is the offering in spirit that has done away with the sacrifices of old.What good do I receive from the multiplicity of your sacrifices? asks God. I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams, and I do not want the fat of lambs and the blood of bulls and goats. Who has asked for these from your hands? What God has asked for we learn from the Gospel. The hour will come, he says, when true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth. God is a spirit, and so he looks for worshipers who are like himself. We are true worshipers and true priests. We pray in spirit, and so offer in spirit the sacrifice of prayer. Prayer is an offering that belongs to God and is acceptable to him: it is the offering he has asked for, the offering he planned as his own. We must dedicate this offering with our whole heart, we must fatten it on faith, tend it by truth, keep it unblemished through innocence and clean through chastity, and crown it with love. We must escort it to the altar of God in a procession of good works to the sound of psalms and hymns. Then it will gain for us all that we ask of God. Since God asks for prayer offered in spirit and in truth, how can he deny anything to this kind of prayer? How great is the evidence of its power, as we read and hear and believe. Of old, prayer was able to rescue from fire and beasts and hunger, even before it received its perfection from Christ. How much greater then is the power of Christian prayer. No longer does prayer bring an angel of comfort to the heart of a fiery furnace, or close up the mouths of lions, or transport to the hungry food from the fields. No longer does it remove all sense of pain by the grace it wins for others. But it gives the armor of patience to those who suffer, who feel pain, who are distressed. It strengthens the power of grace, so that faith may know what it is gaining from the Lord, and understand what it is suffering for the name of God. In the past prayer was able to bring down punishment, rout armies, withhold the blessing of rain. Now, however, the prayer of the just turns aside the whole anger of God, keeps vigil for its enemies, pleads for persecutors. Is it any wonder that it can call down water from heaven when it could obtain fire from heaven as well? Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God. But Christ has willed that it should work no evil, and has given it all power over good. Its only art is to call back the souls of the dead from the very journey into death, to give strength to the weak, to heal the sick, to exorcise the possessed, to open prison cells, to free the innocent from their chains. Prayer cleanses from sin, drives away temptations, stamps out persecutions, comforts the fainthearted, gives new strength to the courageous, brings travelers safely home, calms the waves, confounds robbers, feeds the poor, overrules the rich, lifts up the fallen, supports those who are falling, sustains those who stand firm. All the angels pray. Every creature prays. Cattle and wild beasts pray and bend the knee. As they come from their barns and caves they look out to heaven and call out, lifting up their spirit in their own fashion. The birds too rise and lift themselves up to heaven: they open out their wings, instead of hands, in the form of a cross, and give voice to what seems to be a prayer. What more need be said on the duty of prayer? Even the Lord himself prayed. To him be honor and power for ever and ever. Amen. (divineoffice.org) |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 59386854 United States 06/28/2014 06:21 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Hi It has been some time. I hope all are well. Say a prayer form me please. What is a Signal Grace? Signal Graces are signs sent by God to help us make the right decisions in life. Moses saw a burning bush as a sign from God, and other people received signs from God daily. Signal graces usually come about as subtle hints to help keep us moving in the right direction - these signs are truly gifts from God. Remember - there is no such thing as a coincidence, everything happens for a reason! By praying the rosary you will be more conscious of the way that God tries to help you and speak to you every day. 'If you say the Rosary faithfully until death, I do assure you that, in spite of the gravity of your sins "you shall receive a never-fading crown of glory." Even if you are on the brink of damnation, even if you have one foot in hell, even if you have sold your soul to the devil as sorcerers do who practice black magic, and even if you are a heretic as obstinate as a devil, sooner or later you will be converted and will amend your life and save your soul, if - and mark well what I say - if you say the Rosary devoutly every day until death for the purpose of knowing the truth and obtaining contrition and pardon for your sins.' --St. Louis Marie de Montfort "The holy Rosary is a powerful weapon. Use it with confidence and you'll be amazed at the results." --St. Josemaria Escriva "If you say the Holy Rosary every day, with a spirit of faith and love, our Lady will make sure she leads you very far along her Son's path." --St. Josemaria Escriva "Say the Holy Rosary. Blessed be that monotony of Hail Mary's which purifies the monotony of your sins!" |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 60652651 United States 07/28/2014 05:48 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Unusual happening during apparition In a conversation with Fr Livio Fanzaga on Radio Maria last weekend, the Medjugorje seer Marija Pavlovic reported that during a recent apparition in a Verona Seminary Our Lady appeared in front of her and then, surprisingly, went past her and approached an unwell child in the front row of the gathering of priests, seminarians and families. Marija said she was shocked when Our Lady went past her in this way and she got up from her kneeler and turned around to watch where the apparition was going. Marija said she saw Our Lady caress and bless the little girl and heard very clearly the child cry out, “Hail Mary! Come to my house! Come into my heart! Hail Mary, full of grace!” Marija added: “I don’t know if the child saw the Madonna or not. She wept, as did others, when this happened. Since then the child was brought to Medjugorje. They call her the Angel of the Madonna.” The Medjugorje seer was speaking with Fr Livio on the mention of angels in Our Lady’s latest message (July 25): “I am with you and, with the saints and angels, intercede for you. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 61446780 United States 08/29/2014 08:25 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to www.usccb.org] United States Conference Of Catholic Bishops Joins Pope Francis’ Call For Day Of Fasting And Prayer For Peace In Syria September 3, 2013 WASHINGTON – U.S. Catholics are being encouraged to join a Day of Fasting and Prayer for Peace in Syria, the Middle East and the World Sept. 7 as the United States government considers its role in the ongoing struggle in Syria. Pope Francis called the world's Catholics to the day of fasting and prayer for peace during an address Sunday, Sept. 1. ............................................................................................................................................................... |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 61446780 United States 08/29/2014 02:25 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Facts about fasting brought to light in Medjugorje by Our Lady Fasting is an armament, as Our Lady calls it, the “arms” in which to destroy Satan’s power in your life. There are 26 main statements Our Lady has told us about fasting. The facts about fasting are as follows: * 1. Fasting stops wars. 2. Fasting can suspend the laws of nature. 3. Fasting reduces punishments from God. 4. Fasting is an “arm,” a weapon of significant power to defeat, of which atomic power does not compare. 5. Bread and water is the best fast. 6. Fasting, to be powerful, must be done with the heart. 7. Through fasting, the whole plan of Our Lady, that God himself planned for the world’s salvation during this special time, will be achieved. 8. By giving our fasting to Our Lady, it “forces” Satan not to be able to seduce us to evil and drives him away. 9. Fasting purifies our hearts from the sins of our past. (Through Confession, sins of the past are forgiven, but healing from life-long vice or memories that Satan uses against us to lead us back into sin, requires purification 10. Fasting, coupled with prayer WILL obtain EVERYTHING you ask for (the exception would be something illicit). 11. Fasting sanctifies you to receive the Holy Spirit. 12. Humility is a fruit from fasting, when coupled with prayer. 13. The present fasting in the Church is not adequate. Our Lady desires this to change. She said fasting has been forgotten in the last quarter of this century in the Catholic Church. 14. Fasting is one element that keeps Satan from conquering us. Faith and prayer are the other two. We, in turn, are to conquer Satan. The arms to do so are fasting coupled with prayer. 15. Satan is enraged against those who fast and convert. 16. Fasting for the sick can cure them along with faith and prayer. 17. Fasting, along with prayer, was offered as a remedy by Our Lady to stop arguments from the Holy Priesthood. 18. Fasting will bring the Kingdom of God among us. 19. Fasting makes Our Lady happy. 20. Fasting will make prayer more vigorous. 21. Our Lady will make the maximum good come from our fast. She wants us to give our fast to her in which she “disposes of them “according to the will of God. 22. Fasting, coupled with prayer, especially community prayer, will protect you from Satan’s aggression in destroying marriages, creating division among priests and will crush him in his plans for obsessions and murders in society today of which Our Lady says he is responsible. 23. To obtain a grace from God, it is best you let no one know you are fasting. 24. We are to fast out of gratitude. 25. Fasting is to be encouraged in others. 26. Our Lady tells us to fast to prepare for the coming of Jesus. from the book Words from Heaven, Messages of Our Lady from Medjugorje, the 7th edition, if you wish to read the whole message. It is the most authoritative book on the messages of Medjugorje. (From “Fasting” booklet published by Caritas, Birmingham, AL.) |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 61446780 United States 08/31/2014 01:02 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Vaticanist Andrea Tornielli has published on the Vatican Insider site a serious testimony about Padre Pio's bilocation to the Hungarian dungeon where Joszef Cardinal Mindszenty was imprisoned in the fifties. The Hungarian anticommunist cardinal was a fierce adversary of the Vatican policy of detente toward Communist governments known as Ostpolitik. Here is a summary of Tornielli's article: A new element has just been added to the collection of miraculous episodes that marked the life of Padre Pio. It is found in a recently published book presented on the 10th anniversary of the dedication of the new sanctuary of San Giovanni Rotondo where the Capuchin's body is buried. The testimony tells how Padre Pio bilocated to a jail cell in Budapest where József Cardinal Mindszenty, the Primate of Hungary, was incarcerated. Bilocation is an extraordinary mystical phenomenon that causes a person to be in two places at the same time. Padre Pio had this rare gift. Eye witnesses in different places attested to his presence, described him, and even talked with him simultaneously. The already-known Hungarian episode was immortalized in one of the mosaics in the crypt of the sanctuary dedicated to Padre Pio. However, the new testimony contains details never published before. The book, Padre Pio: his Church and Places Between Devotion, History, and Art, was written by Stefano Campanella, director of Padre Pio Teleradio and author of countless essays about the saint. It contains a report by Angelo Battisti, director of the House for the Relief of Suffering (the hospital founded by Padre Pio) and typist at the Vatican Secretariat of State. Battisti was one of the witnesses in the saint's beatification process. Cardinal Mindszenty during the iniquitous trial that convicted him. József Cardinal Mindszenty, Archbishop of Esztergom, Primate and Regent of Hungary, was imprisoned by the Communists in December 1948 and condemned to life imprisonment the next year. He was falsely accused of conspiring against the government and spent eight years in jail and under house arrest until he was freed during the popular insurrection of 1956. He then took refuge at the United States trade delegation office in Budapest until 1973, when Paul VI imposed his resignation and departure from the archdiocese. The bilocation which took Padre Pio all the way to the cardinal's cell is said to have taken place during those years. Here is how Battisti describes the miraculous scene: "The Capuchin with the stigmata, while [remaining] in San Giovanni Rotondo, went to see the cardinal to bring bread and wine destined to become the body and blood of Christ, that is, the reality of the eighth day [Easter Sunday]. "In this case, the bilocation acquires further significance as an anticipation of the eighth day, i.e. the Resurrection, when the body is freed from the limits of space and time. "Also symbolic is the inmate registration number printed on his pajamas: 1956, the year of the cardinal's release. "As is well known," Battisti recounts, "Cardinal Mindszenty was arrested, put in jail and watched around the clock. Over time, his desire to celebrate holy Mass strongly increased. "One morning, Padre Pio presented himself before him with everything he needed. The Cardinal celebrated his Mass and Padre Pio served [as acolyte]; then they spoke, and finally, Padre Pio disappeared with everything he had brought with him. "A priest from Budapest told me confidentially about the episode, asking if I could get a confirmation from Padre Pio. I answered that if I were to ask something like that, Padre Pio would drive me out of the room hollering." Padre Pio Padre Pio. Padre Pio But on a March evening in 1965, at the end of a conversation Battisti asked the stigmatized friar: "Father, did Cardinal Mindszenty recognize Padre Pio?" - After a first reaction of irritation, the saint of Gargano answered: - "Well, we met and talked and so you think he would not have recognized me?" He thus confirmed his bilocation to the cardinal's cell, which supposedly happened a few years earlier. "Then," Battisti added, "he became sad and said, ‘The devil is ugly, but they had left him uglier than the devil,'" referring to the mistreatment the cardinal suffered. Padre Pio concluded: "Remember to pray for this great confessor of the faith, who suffered so much for the Church." |
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