The Flame of Love of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

TEACHINGS 1969-1981

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Partial Quote by Jesus in the book, Spiritual Diary:

"My Love is almighty. Get thoroughly into your mind this great miracle: I am continuously at your disposal. With Me, all of you don’t need to wait forming a queue, nor asking the hour and place for an appointment. I am present everywhere continually. If you call Me, my ear is already against your heart and I attend to you, I caress you, I cure you...." _Jesus

He is Love...He is so beautiful, so gentle, so merciful...how can we not be be so devoted and in love with Him...how we can easily prefer material things or created things over His love and intimate friendship and serving Him and His Will is amazing, but we all do it or have done it...let's keep each other in prayer so we overcome that.

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Blessed Mother Teresa - Beatitudes

  
Download now or listen on posterous

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From a talented FB friend, Keith John Paul Horcasitas:
Here's a Mother Teresa song.   

Keith John Paul Horcasitas, LCSW, MHA
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Feel free to drop by him and let him know your thoughts! :-) 

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A Prayer to Jesus

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A Prayer to Jesus

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Read the Bible in One Year this Year

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Prayer

"The Creator of the universe awaits the prayer of one poor little soul to save a multitude of others, redeemed like her at the price of His Blood."
       

 

--St. Therese of Lisieux

 

For Reflection: 

 

WOW! St. Therese is saying that God is waiting for MY prayer so that a multitude of others may be saved through the Blood of His Son. Who would He choose for me to pray for today? What is my response?

Source: Johnette B. http://www.womenofgrace.com 

Women of Grace Daily Gracelines (free in your inbox)

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Prayer

 

 

"Prayer is not only the mutual presence of God and the soul. It is also a relationship between them, a relationship of intimacy, exchange, activity, and life indeed, it is the highest kind of life there is, the life of love, divine love."
       

~Canon Jacques Leclercq

 

For Reflection:

 

What characterizes my prayer life - is it a monologue rather than a dialogue; is it a stream of rote prayers with no thought or meditation involved, is it a "grocery list" of petitions or "I wants?" Or, is my prayer life a relationship of intimacy, exchange, and love between God and my soul? How can I work more fervently toward this latter description?

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24 Hours in A Day of Opportunity

 How many useless thoughts, how many superfluous preoccupations, which whirl around our own ego and fill us during one single day ! How many journeys there and back do we do mechanically in one single day!

 What efficient means it could be to educate us by ourselves if, by a thought of love, we should help a suffering soul! They are going to be very grateful for that, and in their Blessed state (in Heaven), they will help us in our work to save souls. For our part, this compassion serves us as merit, and the Most Holy Virgin changes it in good for souls.

Source.

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The Flame of Love of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Book

SPIRITUAL DIARY

1962 - 1981

by ELIZABETH KINDELMANN

Messages of Jesus and Mary who speak about
the Flame of Love of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

Description :

This SPIRITUAL DIARY has been written in Hungary by Elizabeth Kindelmann (1913-1985), an humble widow who listened to the voices of Our Lord and the Virgin Mary by way of interior expression.
The DIARY contains a very important message : our most Holy Mother will blind Satan with the flame of Light and Graces that flashes from her Immaculate Heart. That Flame of Love will warm up all hearts, even the non-baptized.
We have to collaborate with Her to this Work.
Mary cries, implores, prays and asks for prayers, sacrifices, Holy Hours in family, fasts, in order to help Her in this struggle against the Evil and for the Salvation of souls.

The Diary is in PDF. If you need to charge Acrobat Reader, just click here :

To download The complete book

Table of Contents
1 :	DIARY covert 1
	cover page I	PDF - 70 ko
2 :	ELIZABETH KINDELMANN
	pages I - III	PDF - 64 ko
3 :	ECCLESIAL APPROVAL
	page IV	PDF - 142 ko
4 :	INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS The national coordinator of Mexico
	pages V - VII	PDF - 100 ko
5 :	LETTERS OF BISHOPS
	pages VIII - XVII	PDF - 268 ko
6 :	INTRODUCTION The translator from hungarian to spanish The author Elizabeth Kindelmann
	pages 1 - 8	PDF - 135 ko
7 :	MY SPIRITUAL FIGHTS 1962
	pages 9 - 36	PDF - 187 ko
8 :	A NEW INSTRUMENT 1962
	pages 37 - 64	PDF - 157 ko
9 :	I AM LOOKING FOR HEARTS 1962
	pages 65 - 77	PDF - 239 ko
10 :	TO BLIND SATAN 1962
	pages 78 - 121	PDF - 261 ko
11 :	A PROFOUND SPIRITUAL LIFE 1962 PETITION : important invocation
	pages 122 - 161	PDF - 313 ko
12 :	BEAUTIFUL RAY OF THE AURORA 1963
	pages 162 - 203	PDF - 230 ko
13 :	LIKE THE BURNING BUSH 1963 The interacting forces of the whole world
	pages 204 -236	PDF - 220 ko
14 :	SACRIFICE UP TO MARTYRDOM 1964
	pages 237 - 285	PDF - 207 ko
15 :	FAN THE FLAME OF LOVE 1964
	pages 286 - 310	PDF - 134 ko
16 :	YOUR DIGNITY AS A MOTHER 1965
	pages 311 - 348	PDF - 180 ko
17 :	THE SMILE OF MY MOTHER 1966-1971
	pages 349 - 362	PDF - 115 ko
18 :	TEACHINGS 1969-1981 Fast on bread and water on Mondays Renew the Third-Order of the Carmel
	pages 363 - 374	PDF - 153 ko
19 :	SUMMARY
	pages 375 - 384	PDF - 311 ko
20 :	THE MOVEMENT OF THE FLAME OF LOVE
	pages 385 - 406	PDF - 360 ko
21 :	TABLE OF CONTENTS
	pages 407 - 419	PDF - 189 ko
22 :	PHOTOS OF BRAZIL
	pages 420 - 421	PDF - 199 ko
23 :	PHOTO : THE POPE AND THE VIRGIN
	page 422 - 423	PDF - 69 ko
24 :	DIARY covert 2
	cover page 2	PDF - 35 ko

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The Dairy is ONLINE for free reading!

This is very important reading. I ask you to read it....at least consider it. :-)

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Prayer Need: Human sacrifices 'on the rise in Uganda' as witch doctors admit to rituals

One man said he had clients who had captured children and taken their blood and body parts to his shrine, while another confessed to killing at least 70 people including his own so

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Copts see Virgin Mary over Cairo

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This isn't the first time Mary has appeared & filmed there.

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Scary but not surprising news: Federal official heads company's vaccine division

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WHITEHOUSE STATION, N.J., Dec 21, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Merck & Co., Inc. (MRK 37.71, -0.01, -0.04%) today announced that Dr. Julie Gerberding has been named president of Merck Vaccines, effective January 25, 2010.

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Interview: Global Disaster Coming Warns Human Life International Priest-President

ROME, January 6, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The killing of 50 million unborn children a year and the moral degradation of the post-Christian west will naturally and necessarily lead to a global political and financial crisis even greater than that which is already happening, said the head of Human Life International (HLI), the world’s largest pro-life organization .  

  In a lengthy interview, Fr. Thomas Euteneuer spoke to LifeSiteNews.com (LSN) at the HLI office in Rome and said that he anticipates a disaster like the collapse of ancient civilizations, but on a global scale, as a result of abortion and the abandonment of Judeo-Christian values in the West. (Read the complete interview here)

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Prayer Need: Catholic Student Assassinated in Mexico

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VIETNAM Explosive used to demolish crucifix in a Hanoi Catholic cemetery - Asia News

Hanoi (AsiaNews) – The crucifix in the cemetery of Hanoi's Dong Chiem Parish Church was blown up with explosives yesterday. Parishioners who came to the site upon hearing the loud explosion were charged and beaten by police. Two youths were wounded and taken away; it is not known how many other were hurt.

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Maybe we can do at least a little reparation for THIS particular incident by KISSING A CRUCIFIX TODAY :-) MAYBE 5 X IN HONOR OF THE 5 WOUNDS OF CHRIST.

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Prayer Need: Catholic Portugal set to legalise gay marriage -

LISBON (AFP) – Catholic Portugal, traditionally one of Europe's most socially conservative countries, is expected to approve the legalisation of gay marriage on Friday with a minimum of fuss.

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Very scary if they are one of Europe's MOST socially CONSERVATIVE country!!!!

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Prayer Need: Frigid weather hits Midwest, -52 wind chill in ND

DES MOINES (AP) - Snow was piled so high in Iowa that drivers couldn't see across intersections and a North Dakota snowblower repair shop was overwhelmed with business as residents braced Thursday for heavy snow and wind chills as low as 52 below zero.

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No more boring sermons: Italian bishop's plea - CathNews

A leading Italian Bishop has criticised Sunday homilies as boring, uninspired and unpalatable. Bishop Mariano Crociata urged priests to pay more attention to their homilies, acknowledging that the minds of churchgoers need to be nourished.

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Prayer Need -Priest tries to commit suicide.

JOLIET — A priest who has been accused of sexual abuse reportedly tried to take his own life by jumping from the balcony of a downtown church Wednesday.

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This is not the way to end your guilt, if guilty. This is not the way to end your stress, if innocent and falsely accused.

Let's pray for his healing.

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Choosing the Narrow Path to Life

"Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it" - Matthew 7:13-14 - The NIV Bible.

What incredibly POWERFUL words! And remember this poem from years past...

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And ******that has made all the difference.*****

----"The Road Not Taken" - by Robert Frost

Taking "the narrow path"..."the road not taken"...has been the charge from every man and woman of GOD throughout history.

It all starts with a DECISION and a COMMITMENT.

Then, commit to the commitment.

Now, be off with ya & God bless you! :D

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3 year old sings a duet with "Josh Groban" You Raise Me Up

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This is more precious! LOL

Here's a little 3 year old girl...looking at herself on the video at times, many times, and singing "You Raise Me Up"...trying to work w/ her dad's large earphone/microphone LOL

Gosh does it well, but she does it most precious.

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You Raise Me Up

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(Lee and Josh Groban (as if you wouldn't know LOL))

Always an inspiring song!

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You Raise Me Up

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(Lee and Josh Groban (as if you wouldn't know LOL))

Always an inspiring song!

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Flame of Love online PDF booklet

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Video-slideshow on the Spiritual Diary of Elizabeth Kindelmann

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Elizabeth Kindelmann is the Flame Of Love Messenger.

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The Flame of Love of the Virgin Mary

An important event for the whole Movement Flame of Love
of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

Imprimatur given by Cardinal Erdö to the Spiritual Diary 
of Elizabeth Kindelmann ( the messenger of the Flame of Love ),
 in Budapest, Hungary

on June 6, 2009

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I got this beautiful little booklet in my 20's and loved it. Now, it's nice to know it got an Imprimatur so I know it is "Catholic Catholic" ;) .

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Saint Joseph Software EBooks

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Enjoy reading, save funds :-).

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New York - Clothes Discarded by H and M in Manhattan Are First Destroyed

In the bitter cold on Monday night, a man and woman picked apart a pyramid of clear trash bags, the discards of the HM clothing store that reigns in blazing plate-glass glory on 34th Street, just east of Sixth Avenue in Manhattan.

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Cynthia Magnus with mutilated clothing she found on West 35th Street last month. She said she was appalled by the waste.

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At the back entrance on 35th Street, awaiting trash haulers, were bags of garments that appear to have never been worn. And to make sure that they never would be worn or sold, someone had slashed most of them with box cutters or razors, a familiar sight outside H & M’s back door. The man and woman were there to salvage what had not been destroyed.

He worked quickly, never uttering a word. A bag was opened and eyed, and if it held something of promise, was tossed at the feet of the woman. She said her name was Pepa.

Were the clothes usually cut up before they were thrown out?

“A veces,” she said in Spanish. Sometimes.

She packed up a few items that had escaped the blade — a bright green T-shirt that said “Summer of Surf,” and a dark-blue hoodie in size 12, with a Divided label. The rest was returned to the pyramid.

It is winter. A third of the city is poor. And unworn clothing is being destroyed nightly.

A few doors down on 35th Street, hundreds of garments tagged for sale in Wal-Mart — hoodies and T-shirts and pants — were discovered in trash bags the week before Christmas, apparently dumped by a contractor for Wal-Mart that has space on the block.

Each piece of clothing had holes punched through it by a machine.

They were found by Cynthia Magnus, who attends classes at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York on Fifth Avenue and noticed the piles of discarded clothing as she walked to the subway station in Herald Square. She was aghast at the waste, and dragged some of the bags home to Brooklyn, hoping that someone would be willing to take on the job of patching the clothes and making them wearable.

A Wal-Mart spokeswoman, Melissa Hill, said the company normally donates all its unworn goods to charities, and would have to investigate why the items found on 35th Street were discarded.

During her walks down 35th Street, Ms. Magnus said, it is more common to find destroyed clothing in the H & M trash. On Dec. 7, during an early cold snap, she said, she saw about 20 bags filled with H & M clothing that had been cut up.

“Gloves with the fingers cut off,” Ms. Magnus said, reciting the inventory of ruined items. “Warm socks. Cute patent leather Mary Jane school shoes, maybe for fourth graders, with the instep cut up with a scissor. Men’s jackets, slashed across the body and the arms. The puffy fiber fill was coming out in big white cotton balls.” The jackets were tagged $59, $79 and $129.

This week, a manager in the H & M store on 34th Street said inquiries about its disposal practices had to be made to its United States headquarters. However, various officials did not respond to 10 inquiries made Tuesday by phone and e-mail.

Directly around the corner from H & M is a big collection point for New York Cares, which conducts an annual coat drive.

“We’d be glad to take unworn coats, and companies often send them to us,” said Colleen Farrell, a spokeswoman for New York Cares.

More than coats were tossed out. “The H & M thing was just ridiculous, not only clothing, but bags and bags of sturdy plastic hangers,” Ms. Magnus said. “I took a dozen of them. A girl can never have enough hangers.”

H & M, which is based in Sweden, has an executive in charge of corporate responsibility who leads the company’s sustainability efforts. On its Web site, H&M reports that to save paper, it has shrunk its shipping labels.

“How about all the solid waste generated by throwing away usable garments and plastic hangers?” Ms. Magnus asked in a letter to the executive, Ingrid Schullstrom. She volunteered to help H & M connect with a charity or agency in New York that could put the unsold items to better use than simply tossing them in the trash. So far, she said, she has gotten no response.

On Monday night, Pepa’s shopping bag held a few items. She pointed to her gray sweatpants. “From here,” she said.

How about coats?

“Maybe tomorrow,” she said.

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This is such a sin! How terrible!

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The Cracked Pot

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A beautiful message :-) Listen and Read along.

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NOVENA TO THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS

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Epiphany Chalk

Epiphany Chalk

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I cannot believe we didn't do this this year...we were over worked and tired and we completely forgot (we forgot St Nicholas' day, too! Grr).

Well, check the blog above, actually Jan. 6th being 12th night is still acceptable to do this.

We usually use regular chalk. Our church doesn't do a ceremony.

Thanks to Easter (a follower of my blog) for pointing out this website on her blog! :))

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Adoration

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A nice ADORATION break while online...be at peace with the Prince of Peace...who gives it not as the world gives it, but gives True Peace.

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Interesting Video

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Watch this if you haven't. I never saw it before, maybe you have.

It's interesting...I starting thinking it was well done...peaceful music...but didn't get the point until about mid-way or past....it hit me through the images and peaceful music alone, well, conveyed to me, the idea of PRAY! PRAYER is URGENTLY NEEDED FOR MANKIND. It's no longer an option or something we do half-heartedly in our busy lives....we are here right now in this time for a reason. God has a heart for man as God is man and loves man. He wants us to pray for our mankind.....our brothers. He wants us to intercede and listen....and pray the powerful rosary! Times are critical.

ONLY GOD knows the day and hour.

For each, we are ONE HEARTBEAT away from our "end times," eh? So, we need not worry about dates, but doing all that we can do NOW for love of our brother and love of God. There is a lot of evil right now...a very anti-life, anti-family, anti-God mindset being set up in societies.

Jesus had it bad when he was on earth as well. Who can forget Herod's slaughter of the innocents? We have our new slaughter of the innocents in our times, too.

Anyhow, watch and see if you like it or not.

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HEALING HOMILY AT MONTEMARIA fr fernando suarez CYBER HEALING CENTER

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Healing homily and healing prayer by FATHER FERNANDO SUAREZ on Feb 2008 at the 3-day vigil in Montemaria, Batangas province, Philippines, where there are plans to erect a mega-shrine of Our Lady for pilgrims worldwide.

FATHER SUAREZ, a Filipino Catholic priest of the Companions of the Cross, is constantly traveling worldwide, healing thousands.

PLEASE PASS TO OTHERS ESPECIALLY THE TERMINALLY SICK.

Healing inquiries www.fatherfernando.com

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Thought to Ponder...

the vicious circle

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we lose our health to make our wealth

we lose our wealth to regain our health

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we live as if we will never die

we die as if we never lived

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we are so busy with daily tasks

yet we are so bored in being so busy

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we look for meaning in meaningless things

and overlook things fraught with meaning

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we have no time for others

yet we waste our time in absurd undertakings

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Be a Prayer Warrior for the Mother Ignacia Healing Ministry

WHY BE A PRAYER WARRIOR

 

PRAYING FOR OTHERS IS PRAYING FOR YOURSELF TEN FOLD.

PRAYING FOR OTHERS SANCTIFIES AND PURIFIES YOU.

 

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PRAYER WARRIORS ARE INSTRUMENTS OF THE LORD’S LOVE AND MERCY, OF CONVERSION AND HEALING.

THE LORD LISTENS TO A THOUSAND IN PRAYER. THIS IS THE POWER OF GROUP PRAYER.

PRAYER WARRIORS PRAY FOR AND STRENGTHEN EACH OTHER.

READING PRAYER REQUESTS IS A FORM OF PRAYER.

 

Prayer warriors report how reading prayer requests have changed them, how they are touched and sanctified. They know they are instruments of the Lord’s love when requestors write back and say they have been healed.

Be a prayer warrior. Try it out. You have nothing to lose and all to gain. Unsubscribe anytime later.

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Lateral Thinking Exercise

A murderer is condemned to death. He has to choose between three rooms. The first is full of raging fires, the second is full of assassins with loaded guns, and the third is full of lions that haven't eaten in 3 years. Which room is safest for him?

(Give up?)

(The Lions that have not eaten in 3 years...they're dead.)

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Book: Maid of Heaven: All About Joan of Arc

If you are a legitimate school or homeschooler, please contact me directly by email and I will do everything I can to get you copies at either the cost of printing or for free if you are truly financially challenged. I passionately believe that the history of Joan of Arc is one that everyone should study because the lessons that you can learn from the life of Joan are truly priceless and life changing.

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Saint Joan of Arc's Birthday is Jan 6th

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Joan of Arc's birth was not officially recorded in the small town where she was born however the people of her town remembered that she was born on Epiphany, or Twelfth-night, which is January 6. The Epiphany celebrates the revelation of God in human form in the person of Jesus Christ and part of the celebration commemorates the arrival of the three "Wise Men" who were led to the baby Jesus by a star in the sky above Bethlehem. It is very significant that Saint Joan was born on Epiphany because she not only led her people to freedom in this world but she ultimately led them, and generations since, to the true freedom that is only found through Jesus Christ.
Saint Joan of Arc is truly a "brilliantly shining light" of the Kingdom of Heaven and will forever point the way to God.

Jehanne d'Arc
Born January 6, 1412
Died May 30, 1431

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Breaking News » Blog Archive » Lawmakers Plan for Speedy Health Reform Passage

Lawmakers Plan for Speedy Health Reform Passage

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It appears the Democrats in power right now wish to do this outside public scrutiny...far from Mr Obama's pledge when he was running for office of an open process and transparency. Transparency, my dupey. He has been a severe disappointment to me.

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Obama Appoints Transgendered Woman to Commerce Department

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Turkey Wants Bones of St. Nicholas Returned

A Turkish archeologist, who claims that because St. Nicholas spent most of his life in Turkey and once said he did not want to be buried anywhere else, is calling on Turkish authorities to demand the return of his bones from their burial place in southern Italy

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Montana Becomes Third State to Allow Assisted Suicide

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Geek Out with the Original Geek Test

Take the Geek Test!

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Go, ahead! I double-dog dare you! :-)

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Google "Easteregg"

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If you click on "I'm feeling lucky" right now, watch what happens :-)

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How would you react?

A TRUE STORY

It was a freezing January morning. A man sat at a subway station in Washington DC, opened his the violin case, and started playing Bach. His music echoed loud and clear, amplified by the cavernous station. In the winter rush hour, thousands of people passed by on their way to work, mostly ignoring him, or giving a fleeting glance. The shuffle of their feet drowned the music, and when the train left, it would re-emerge.

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A middle aged man slowed his pace, stopped for a few seconds and then hurried to his appointment. Soon, the violinist received his first dollar tip. A woman threw the money into his open violin case without stopping. Someone leaned against the wall to listen to him, looked at his watch and started to walk again. He was late for work.

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A 3 year old boy stopped in front of him. His mother pulled him along, but he resisted, intently looking at the face of the violinist. Finally the mother shoved him hard and the child was forced to move along. Several other children did the same. Their parents, without exception, dragged them away by force.

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In the 45 minutes the musician played six Bach masterpieces, only 6 people stopped and lingered. About 20 gave money but continued to walk their normal pace. He collected $32. When he finished playing and silence took over, no one noticed it. No one applauded.

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The violinist was Joshua Bell, one of the best musicians in the world. He played some of the most intricate pieces ever written with a violin worth 3.5 million dollars. Two days before his subway gig, Joshua Bell sold out at a theater in Boston and the seats average $100.00 each.

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Joshua Bell playing incognito in the subway was organized by the Washington Post as part of a ‘social experiment’ about perception, taste and priorities of people. Some possible questions from the experiment include –

1

In a commonplace environment at an inappropriate hour, can we perceive beauty? Are we capable of stopping for a moment to appreciate it? Do we recognize the talent in an unexpected context?

2

If we do not have a moment to stop and listen to one of the best musicians in the world playing some of the best music ever written, how many other things are we missing?

3

Do we give value to something only because others do? Do we buy a $100 ticket because many are fighting for them and we do not want to miss out on the ‘goodies’? Why do we ignore beauty when it is staring us in the face, only because it is not ‘packaged’ into our mood and our circumstance?

4

Are our sensitivities and priorities controlled so much by time, social circumstance, and band-wagon pressures? Can we possibly change our lives by changing our perspectives and priorities?

5

If the Washington Post announced the time and place of Bell’s subway gig, would the above story be very different?

6

Finally, why do children create joy out of things adults are too busy to bother with? The poem below explains.

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perspective is power

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a foot soldier sees the trees

he has a ground view

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a general sees the forests

he has a helicopter view

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a president sees the horizon

he has a geographic view

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an astronaut sees the earth

he has a planetary view

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a child sees the unseen

he has a cosmic view

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eastwind

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Prayer Need

Priest held for Christmas Eve murder in Italy

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Is it okay to visit Medjugorje?

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Prominent Cardinal: supernatural nature of Medjugorje not yet determined but fruits are 'good' and pilgrims are free to go...just not on a diocesan level. Have patience.

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MonteMaria Shrine, Batangas, Philippines

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Monte Maria : a breathtaking shrine to Mama Mary in the Philippines (Address below to donate if you wish).

A prayer to our Lord through the intercession of our Mother Mary

September 8 is the birthday of Mama Mary, the Blessed Virgin Mary as she is fondly called by Pinoys. In the not so distant future, Filipinos will take pride in having a shrine dedicated to Mama Mary, Mother of the Poor. The shrine, renamed Monte Maria, located on a mountain peninsula overlooking Batangas Bay on the right and the Verde island on the left, will be like no other in the world. On the tip of the peninsula, a large statue of the Blessed Virgin will be constructed. Stretching 33 stories high, it will be taller than the statue in Rio de Janeiro. 1001 spiral steps will lead to the crown of Mother Mary. Half way up will be a view deck, a perpetual adoration chapel and a 1000 seat chapel. As well a large oratory to the Blessed Virgin Mary will be built on the site. In the lower ground of the oratory, images of popular Philippine Marian devotions – Our Lady of Manaoag, Our Lady of Peñafrancia, Our Lady of Piat, Ina Poon Bato, Our Lady of Caysasay, Our Lady of Antipolo, Our Lady of Mediatrix and Birhen ng Barangay - will be displayed. Monte Maria will be a house of prayer for international pilgrims to come for peace, healing and spiritual rejuvenation.

With the ground-breaking celebration held at Pinamukan, Batangas City on January 7, 2007, the Feast of the Epiphany, and with support coming from all over the world, Fr. Fernando Suarez’ vision is slowly coming to reality. In all his talks while here in Winnipeg, Fr. Fernando emphasized that God, through the Holy Spirit and the Blessed Virgin is using him as an instrument of healing. Monte Maria, he said, is a place being set aside from all eternity for the Blessed Mother so that the nation will be healed and that the poor will be raised up to the dignity and respect they deserve as the children of God.

Those who want to support this project can send their tax-deductible donations to: Mary Mother of the Poor – Monte Maria U.S.A. 1150 N. Kregmont Dr.,Glendora CA 91741

MONTEMARIA is a project of Mary Mother of the Poor Foundation (MMPF), an apostolic initiative being led by Fr. Fernando Suarez Healing Ministry. MMPF is an apostolic initiative whose aim is to ‘seek holiness in evangelizing and working with the poor through the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary.’

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The Manhattan Declaration! Sign It Here!

Check out this website I found at manhattandeclaration.org

Here is where you can SIGN the Manhattan Declaration as you have heard on Catholic Radio,etc.

If you have not heard about it, visit the site to find out more.

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THE HUMBLE HEALER: FATHER FERNANDO SUAREZ

THE HUMBLE HEALER: FATHER FERNANDO SUAREZ

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This is a nice write up (intro) on (healing priest) Fr Fernando Suarez.

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Some Thoughts about God....

"My name is The Lord Almighty!"  (Is 51:15)

He is worthy!  God is God.  Anything else is a false god, a false idol.

God doesn't want a divided heart. (Who would?!)

He says He is a jealous God for ALL our love.

"But TRUST in the Lord, RELY ON YOUR God." (Is 50:10)

"The BODY was DESIGNED to be a TEMPLE OF GOD." (1 Cor. 3:16)

Psalm 127:1 says,

"Unless the LORD builds the house (ie: you!), they labor in vain who build it."

Have a ravenous appetite for His Word.

"Taste and see how GOOD the Lord is!" (Pslm 34:8)

"Listen, listen to me, and EAT WHAT IS GOOD (The Word!) and your soul will DELIGHT in the RICHEST FARE (nothing is better or higher!)...." (Is 55:2)

God IS sufficient and satisfying!  "It's living and effective"

"Every morning He makes me EAGER TO HEAR what HE is going to TEACH ME."  (Is 50:4)  

(Of course, that implies that I am listening with an open heart and desire to HEAR Him.)

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"With man, this IS impossible, BUT WITH GOD, ALL THINGS are possible!!"  (Matt 19:26) 

"The Lord shall FIGHT FOR YOU and you shall hold your peace."  (Ex 14:14)

When tempted GOD WILL PROVIDE A WAY OUT (but you have to LOOK for it & take Him up on it!).  (1Cor 10:13) 

"I CAN do EVERYTHING THROUGH HIM who GIVES ME STRENGTH." (Phil 4:13)

"...BE STRONG, and DO NOT GIVE UP, for your work will be rewarded!" (2Chron 15:7)

...His INCOMPARABLY GREAT POWER FOR US who believe.  That POWER is like the WORKING OF HIS MIGHTY STRENGTH."  (Eph 1: 18-19)

He has a PLAN, a HOPE, and  a FUTURE for us!!  (Jer 29:11)  He has his New Year Goals for you! ;)

His dreams are FAR GREATER than our own.

God loves YOU and accepts you completely.  His desire is to TRANSFORM each of us FROM WITHIN.  

His plans are WONDROUS and beyond FATHOMING!

He is your LIBERATOR!  You were created to be FREE.  He gave you HIS PEACE.  He LIGHTENS your burdens.

"The Lord YOUR God is WITH YOU.  He is MIGHTY to save YOU.  He will take GREAT DELIGHT in YOU.  He will QUIET YOU with HIS LOVE.  He will rejoice OVER YOU with SINGING." (Zeph 3:17)

You are a miraculous masterpiece.  God has unfathomable love for you.  He is love and He loves EACH.  This love is NOT based on your performance.....He will call a sin a sin, as He is Truth, and abhor the sin, because He is Pure...but He always LOVES YOU!!

Our bodies are jars of clay made PRICELESS by the CONTENTS within!  (God, the Holy Spirit!)

"But WE HAVE THIS TREASURE [the presence of God] in jars of clay to show that this ALL SURPASSING POWER is from God and NOT from us." (2 Cor 4:7)

WE ARE VESSELS, CONTAINERS OF THE LIFE OF GOD.  

BUT, WE are NOT the contents of the vessel, GOD IS. 

 We cannot PRODUCE His life in us, but we CAN REFLECT IT.

The beauty and value of the vessel  is found in WHAT IT CONTAINS.  

The BODY was DESIGNED to be a TEMPLE OF GOD." (1 Cor. 3:16)

"Do you not know that YOU ARE A TEMPLE of the Holy Spirit?!"

Consistent Bible-theme = the desire of a holy God to dwell among mortals.  

To be in a heart-to-heart relationship with the creatures He made OUT OF LOVE and crowned above all other creation!

Appreciate the great intensity of God's revolutionary words:

"Let them MAKE ME A SANCTUARY (our interior soul!) that I may DWELL AMONG THEM." (Ex 25:8)

We MUST welcome Him and His friendship and Lordship and OPEN our HEARTS.

"THERE I will MEET WITH THEE, I will COMMUNE with thee." (Ex 25:22)

God's glorious incomprehensible desire is to MEET with humans!  HE DESIRES OUR INTIMATE FRIENDSHIP & LOVE.

Is your focus on YOUR WILL BE DONE or GOD'S WILL BE DONE??   

"THY WILL BE DONE..."

"My food is to DO THE WILL OF THE FATHER."  (Jesus said in John 4:34)

Do you act as if you were a TEMPLE of GOD??

WHO is God in whom I am asked to trust??

"GOD IS LOVE." (1John 4:8)

"....for Thou hast created ALL things (YOU! ME!) and FOR THY PLEASURE they ARE and WERE created!"  (Rev 4:11)

You are here for God's pleasure and glory!  He didn't create us so that He could have a front row seat at an ongoing saga of our follies and failures.

He created us because He DELIGHTS in us!  Not because He needed us, but HE WANTED us!!  The act was based on the pleasure of His Will!

He doesn't just LOVE us---He likes us!!! :-)

Whether you like it or not, GOD IS CRAZY ABOUT YOU!!!!

Let's use this year to "rebuild our temple".....make it even better for such a wonderful God!  

Remember when he said to St Francis...."Rebuild My Temple, it is in ruins." ??  That could very well be said of mankind today.

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foodforthesoul PRAYER POEMS

forget about your eyes and see with your heart

forget about your ears and listen with your soul

only then can you discern

what you have known all the while

which wise men cannot comprehend

but children can see so plainly

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praise to You o Father
for what You have hidden from the wise
You have revealed to little children
-
Luke 10:21

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The More Powerful Things......

peace is a more powerful weapon than war

a smile is more powerful than a sneer

a whisper is louder than a scream

the calm is in the eye of the storm

and total darkness recedes

when a single candlelight glows

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God shows His power and strength through our weaknesses...so don't be afraid of them. St Paul said he'd even boast of his just because of this fact. The little statement above reminds us that the world is upside-down...thinking war is powerful, sneers are powerful put-downs, screams make you get your way, and darkness can scare your enemy and confound him....but, in reality, the opposite is true. God works through the little things....the weak things.

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Late have I loved You....

late have i loved You

o Beauty ever ancient ever new

late have i loved You

You were within me but I was away

there within of late

i searched for You

in my un-loveliness

and You touched me

st augustine

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I always loved this of St Augustine. Reminds me of "the sinner's prayer" because a sinner feels this upon return to his senses and repentance....that how beautiful is the Lord, how awesome! How could I have missed this beauty all those years I was steeped in sin?

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HEALING PRAYER sr raquel CYBER HEALING CENTER

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Yes, Jesus healed on the Sabbath.

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St Philomena's Oil (genuine)

St Philomena's Oil (genuine)

The Oil of St. Philomena is a sacramental of the Church and any
oil not originating from the Sanctuary of St. Philomena in Mugnano del
Cardinale – Avellino – Italy , simply is
not St. Philomena oil. The blessed oil is distributed to our official
approved worldwide Centres and to all the devotees that make request.

This
Holy Oil CANNOT BE REPLICATED; please distrust in any other
organization that may distribute oil which is not the original blessed
oil of St. Philomena and does not come in the original red bottles of
the Sanctuary, shown in the following pictures.

The lamp that burns before the Sacred Body of St. Philomena

and the original bottles of blessed oil of St. Philomena.

There
are other oils being distributed worldwide by devotional private
movements that is not the original oil of St. Philomena and have no
contact with the Sanctuary. Please distrust in the ones distributed by
the Living Rosary in Dickenson, Texas, USA - run by Patti & Richard
Melvin, the St. Philomena Shrine in Miami Florida - run by Fr. Timothy
Hopkins, a few associations in Switzerland, Philippine, Germany and
Ukraine which is not the Sacred oil of St. Philomena that comes from
the Sanctuary. As we have no contact with them, even though many think
that these associations are linked to us. They were revoked many years
back for not following the directives and many guidelines. To help all
of you distinguish the original and false oil of St. Philomena, please
keep in mind the original bottles of the Sanctuary.

The original red bottles of the Blessed oil of St. Philomena this is distributed from the Sanctuary here.

Oil which is not original

Another
very important thing that was done in the last few weeks and today; the
Living Rosary Association of Dickenson Texas- USA , sent out
newsletters to a list of our devotee's mailing list. I personally
apologise for this and exhort you to not confuse their newsletters with
our official ones, as I received plenty of e-mails asking me if the
newsletter was linked to the Sanctuary and if it was approved by me.
They have no approval from me to do this and if this was possible for
them to send you all the newsletter, it was only done through our Ex
web master Richard Fox still having a copy of the mailing list in his
possession. For those of you that are not informed of the whole back
scenes of this matter, he is working as their webmaster now majorly to
try and disturb our good work from the Sanctuary. For further
information of this situation please read my previous newsletter of
December 2009. If you do not want to receive their newsletters anymore
please unsubscribe from them on their link at the bottom of their
newsletter.

I have worked many years to try
and spread the message to clarify the importance of the original
Sacramental blessed oil of St. Philomena, informing all the worldwide
devotees of the truth, but this still remains a daily question that I
receive from many devotees. Hoping that these frequent detailed
newsletters will help you all spread the word of this frustrating
worldwide abuse of the blessed oil of St. Philomena, plus all the other
situations which I am informing you of through my recent newsletters.

As
I said in my last newsletter, it is time that all the worldwide
devotees are informed of the truth regard the devotion to St. Philomena
for Her major glory and triumph worldwide. The new year is also a new
beginning for the various strategies that I have to face and tackle, there is saying that says “a bold man confronts danger without fear”
as Rector of the Sanctuary of St. Philomena, custodian of Saint
Philomena's Sacred Body and President of the Universal
Archconfraternity of St. Philomena it is my duty to fight back and
protect the Sanctuary of St. Philomena which is Her and all the Saint's
worldwide devotees home on Earth.

“To love Saint Philomena is to love Her Sanctuary Her home on earth”

I
often travel a lot to various worldwide countries to visit all the
worldwide devotees and official centres that do not have the
possibility to come and visit the Sanctuary here. My next coming visit
in the beginning of February will be to some states, churches and
devotional centres in the USA :

You will find
full details following below in this newsletter. Hoping to meet some of
you during the various gatherings and bless you with the Sacred Relic
of our dear Princess.

In the meantime, I
assure you of our prayers, invoking the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary
through the intercession of St. Philomena.

THE RECTOR

If you would like to receive a Bottle of St. Philomena's original
blessed oil direct from the Sanctuary here, please send a $5,00 dollar
donation to help cover the shipping cost. (They use Paypal)

Support the Sanctuary of Saint Philomena

“To love Saint Philomena is to love Her Sanctuary

Her home on earth”

If
you can, please send a donation, if not pray for the works of the
Sanctuary, tell people about them and spread the devotion to our Little
Saint.

(Italy)

See: free newsletter: www.philomena.us

(The official St Philomena Shrine/Website)

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Again, to get your St Philomena Oil direct from the source, the Shrine in Italy, check out www.philomena.us (the official website) and check the store out.

You can get a 2nd class relic as well there.

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Blessed Be Your Name by Tree63

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