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Saturday, September 24, 2016

Holy Mass 1st Reading on Saturday Morning of week 25 in Ordinary Time --- [Ecclesiastes] Kohelet 11:9 - 12:8 ... Youth and Old Age - Vanity of vanities, says Qoheleth; all is vanity.


  








[Koħ:11:9] Thenna, o żagħżugħ, fir-rebbiegħa ta' ħajtek,

u ħa tkun ferħana qalbek f'jiem żgħożitek.

Imxi wara t-taħbit ta' qalbek,

u wara l-għaxqa ta' għajnejk.

Iżda kun af li ta' dan kollu jitolbok kont Alla fil-ħaqq tiegħu.

[Koħ:11:10] Ħarrab ukoll minn moħħok it-tħassib,

u żomm il-ħsara 'l bogħod minn ġismek;

għax it-tfulija u ż-żgħożija buffura riħ.

 
12. Ix-xjuħija

[Koħ:12:1] Ftakar f'min ħalqek f'jiem żgħożitek

qabel ma jaslu jiem  in-niket,

u joqorbu s-snin li tgħid għalihom: "Xejn ma jogħġbuni";

[Koħ:12:2] qabel ma jiddallmu x-xemx u d-dawl,

u l-qamar u l-kwiekeb,

u s-sħab jerġa' jidher wara x-xita;

[Koħ:12:3] meta dawk li jgħassu d-dar jibdew jitriegħdu,

meta l-qalbenin jitgħawwġu,

u jieqfu dawk li jitħnu, għax jonqsu fl-għadd,

u jiddallmu dawk li jħarsu 'l barra mit-tieqa;

[Koħ:12:4] meta l-bibien jingħalqu fuq it-triq,

u l-ħoss tal-mitħna jonqos,

u l-għana ta' l-għasfur jintefa,

u kull għana jieqaf;

[Koħ:12:5] meta kull telgħa tbażża',

u t-triq issir tkexkix,

meta s-siġra tal-lewż tarmi ż-żahar,

u l-ġrad jitqal fil-mixi;

u l-kappara titlef gostha,

għax il-bniedem imur id-dar tiegħu ta' dejjem,

u l-bekkejja jiġġerrew mat-toroq;

[Koħ:12:6] qabel ma l-ħajta tal-fidda tinqata',

u l-musbieħ tad-deheb jitfarrak;

qabel ma l-ġarra fuq l-għajn tinkiser,

u   t-tarjola fuq il-bir tinqasam;

[Koħ:12:7] u t-trab jerġa' jmur fl-art mnejn ġie,

u n-nifs tal-ħajja jitlaq lejn Alla, minn fejn ġie.

[Koħ:12:8] O frugħa tal-frugħat, jgħid Koħèlet, kollox frugħa.



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11:  ...Youth and Old Age...

Rejoice, young man, while you are young, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Follow the inclination of your heart and the desire of your eyes, but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.
10 Banish anxiety from your mind, and put away pain from your body; for youth and the dawn of life are vanity. 

 


12: 

 1 Remember your creator in the days of your youth, before the days of trouble come, and the years draw near when you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”;

  before the sun and the light and the moon and the stars are darkened and the clouds return with the rain;

  in the day when the guards of the house tremble, and the strong men are bent, and the women who grind cease working because they are few, and those who look through the windows see dimly;

  when the doors on the street are shut, and the sound of the grinding is low, and one rises up at the sound of a bird, and all the daughters of song are brought low;

  when one is afraid of heights, and terrors are in the road; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags itself along and desire fails; because all must go to their eternal home, and the mourners will go about the streets;

  before the silver cord is snapped, and the golden bowl is broken, and the pitcher is broken at the fountain, and the wheel broken at the cistern,

  and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the breath returns to God who gave it.

  Vanity of vanities, says the Teacher; all is vanity.
 








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Saturday, September 17, 2016

Friday, 16 September 2016 — Father Gabriele Amorth, the famous Italian exorcist who was the exorcist for the diocese of Rome for the last 30 years, since 1986, died today in Rome at the age of 91



John 8:44b ... the devil was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

 
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Indagine ai confini del sacro - Padre Gabriele Amorth, "l'ultimo esorcista"-Published on Feb 14, 2017

Indagine ai confini del sacro - Padre Gabriele Amorth, "l'ultimo esorcista" su Tv2000 (canale 28)

 
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"I, afraid of that beast? It is he who should be afraid of me: I work in the name of the Lord of the world. He is just the monkey of God."
Father Gabriele Amorth, the famous Italian exorcist who was the exorcist for the diocese of Rome for the last 30 years, since 1986, referring to the devil. Father Amorth died today in Rome at the age of 91
 
 
 
 
 
 
Dr Robert Moynihan Letters - Letter #57, 2016: Adieu, Padre Amorth
 
 
 
 
 
16, 2016, Friday -- Adieu, Padre Amorth


"I, afraid of that beast? It is he who should be afraid of me: I work in the name of the Lord of the world. He is just the monkey of God."

Father Gabriele Amorth, the famous Italian exorcist who was the exorcist for the diocese of Rome for the last 30 years, since 1986, referring to the devil. Father Amorth died today in Rome at the age of 91

 
"Stefano Maria Paci: Father Amorth, Satanism is increasingly widespread. The new exorcism ritual makes it difficult to do exorcisms. Exorcists are prevented from attending an audience with the Pope in St. Peter's Square. Tell me honestly: what is happening?
Father Gabriele Amorth: The smoke of Satan enters everywhere. Everywhere! Maybe we were excluded from the papal audience because they were afraid  so many exorcists would be able to chase out the legions of demons that have taken up residence in the Vatican.
Paci: You're kidding, right?
Amorth: It may seem a joke, but I think it is no joke. I have no doubt that the devil tempts especially the leaders of the Church, as he tempts all leaders...
Paci: Are you saying that here, as in any war, Satan wants to conquer the opposing generals?
Amorth: It is a winning strategy. One always tries to implement it. Especially when the defenses of one's opponents are weak. Satan also tries. But thankfully there is the Holy Spirit who governs the Church: 'The gates of hell shall not prevail.' Despite the defections. And despite the betrayals. Which should cause us no surprise. The first traitor was one of the apostles closest to Jesus, Judas Iscariot. But despite this, the Church continues on her way. She is held up by the Holy Spirit and therefore all the efforts of Satan can have only partial results. Of course, the devil can win some battles. Even important ones. But never the war."

—from a 2001 interview between Italian journalist Stefano Maria Paci and Father Gabriele Amorth, published in the June 2001 issue of 30 Giorni magazine

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In September 2006, 10 years ago, I received several letters from readers asking me if the new, post-Vatican II ritual of exorcism was as valid and effective as the old, pre-Vatican II ritual. I replied that I knew little about the matter, but would try to talk about the issue with Father Gabriele Amorth, the exorcist of the city of Rome since 1986. Two of these readers flew to Rome to accompany me for the conversation.

We drove over to a section of Rome near the via Cristoforo Colombo and parked the car. As we walked up to the address, located on a city block filled with residential apartment buildings, the music to the song "YMCA" was blasting out over the street from one of the open windows.

Father Amorth (photo below) greeted us warmly and ushered us into his office, which had the appearance of a kitchen, with a sink and stove at one end of the room.

But, since he did not know who we were, having never met us before, he asked if we would agree to answer three questions, and then to allow him to pray over us, one by one, before we began our interview. We agreed.

I was the first to sit down on a chair at the end of the room.

He moved his stole so that half of it was over my neck and shoulder while half remained over his neck and shoulder. Then he asked me the questions.

"Do you attend Sunday Mass regularly, every Sunday?" he asked. "Do you pray the Rosary? Do you go regularly to confession?"

After I gave him my answers, he began to pray over me, reciting a series of prayers, while I sat there. After a time, my eyes slowly closed. He then tapped on my head and then, with his fingers, raised my eyelids to look deeply into my eyes. I still remember the intensity of his gaze, just a few inches from my face. Then he continued to pray and at a certain moment, he finished, and said to me: "I declare you free of any evil spirits."

He asked the same questions and prayed the same prayers over my two companions, each of whom heard him say the same final words, declaring them free of evil spirits.

Only then did we begin a long conversation about the Church today, about his work as an exorcist, and related matters, that continued for almost two hours.

I asked him how the new rite compares to the old rite, and whether concerns about the new rite are legitimate.

He said the new rite is legitimate, but that its prayers are less precise and powerful against the devil than the prayers of the old rite, so he prefers to do exorcisms in the old rite, and does so.

He also said that when he and one other exorcist went to the Vatican to try to gain a hearing for their concerns about the revisions in the rite, only one cardinal came to their assistance: Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who defended their continued use of the old rite.

Though now he has passed away, I would like to express thanks to him for the hospitality he showed to me that day, and for the prayers that he prayed over us.

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Gabriele Amorth was born in Modena, in northern Italy, on May 1, 1925. He died today in Rome at the age of 91.

He was a Catholic partisan soldier at the end of the Second World War, and active after the war in Catholic Action, the youth movement of the Christian Democratic Party

He was ordained a priest in 1954 at the age of 29. An excellent writer, he published many articles in Italy's leading Catholic magazine, Famiglia Cristiana.
 
Passionate about Mariology, he became the editor of the Catholic monthly magazine Madre di Dio ("Mother of God"). He was a member of the Pontifical International Marian Academy.

In 1986, the Pope's cardinal vicar for the diocese of Rome, Cardinal Ugo Poletti, named Amorth the exorcist for the diocese.


He was a student of Father Candido Amantini, who for many years was the exorcist at the Scala Santa (the Holy Stairs) in Rome (the stairs believed to be those which Christ walked up to his trial before Pontius Pilate in Jerusalem, brought to Rome by St. Helena in the early 4th century, in about the year 326 A.D.). Today, many pilgrims go to those steps and walk up them on their knees, praying.

In various interviews, Amorth said he had carried out more than 50,000 exorcisms over the years, some taking him just a few minutes, others taking many hours of prayer.

Amorth also said that he had only been faced with about 100 cases of real demonic possession in all those tens of thousands of cases.

Most of the cases, he said, were either "disturbances" caused by the devil, or simple mental illnesses.

In an interview with Stefano Maria Paci of 30 Giorni in 2001, Amorth sharply criticized the post-Vatican II revision of the rite of exorcism.

"The old Ritual should have been amended, not entirely redone," Amorth said. "There were prayers used for 12 centuries. Before canceling prayers so old which for centuries had proven effective, we should hesitate. But instead, no. All of us exorcists, using the prayers of the new interim Ritual, have experienced that they are totally ineffective... The new Book of Blessings has painstakingly removed any reference to the fact that the Lord must protect us from Satan, that the angels protect us from the assaults of the devil. They removed all the prayers that there were for the blessing of homes and schools. Everything should be blessed and protected, but today the protection from the devil does not exist anymore. There are no more defenses or even prayers against him. Jesus himself taught us a prayer of liberation, in the Our Father: 'Deliver us from the Evil One. Deliver us from Satan.' In Italian it has been translated incorrectly, and today we say: 'Deliver us from evil.' We speak of a generic evil, which we do not know the origin of, but the evil which our Lord Jesus Christ taught us to fight is a concrete person: Satan."

Amorth tells Paci that the "greatest victory" of the devil is to persuade us that he does not exist.

In another interview (link), Amorth once said that he believed the consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, as requested by Our Lady of Fatima in her apparitions to Sister Lucy, had not been done fully.

"The Consecration has not yet been made," he said. "I was there on March 25 (1984) in St. Peter's Square, I was in the front row, practically within touching distance of the Holy Father. John Paul II wanted to consecrate Russia, but his entourage did not, fearing that the Orthodox would be antagonized, and they almost thwarted him. Therefore, when His Holiness consecrated the world on his knees, he added a sentence, not included in the distributed version, that instead said to consecrate "especially those nations of which you yourself have asked for their consecration." So, indirectly, this included Russia. However, a specific consecration has not yet been made. You can always do it. Indeed, it will certainly be done..."

Amorth died today in Rome after several days in the hospital of Santa Lucia.

May he rest in peace, and may eternal light shine upon him.



 
 

Vade Retro - "L'ultimo esorcista" - Published on May 2, 2012

Puntata del 7 aprile 2012
Padre Gabriele Amorth ci conduce in viaggio tra esorcismi e preghiere di liberazione, passando attraverso malefici, ossessioni e vessazioni diaboliche.

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Father Gabriel Amorth, Chief Exorcist of the Vatican - The power of the Rosary

https://medjugorjemalta.blogspot.com.mt/2012/11/father-gabriel-amorth-chief-exorcist-of.html









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Thursday, September 08, 2016

Miracle Prayer to St Teresa of Calcutta --- & --- The 9 Prayers


 
 
 
Miracle Prayer to St Teresa of Calcutta

 
 



 


Miracle Prayer to St Teresa of Calcutta --- & --- The 9 Prayers





 
 
  • People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centred.   -   Forgive them anyway.
  • If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives.   -   Be kind anyway.
  • If you are successful, you will win some unfaithful friends and some genuine enemies.   -   Succeed anyway.
  • If you are honest and sincere,  people may deceive you.   -   Be honest and sincere anyway.
  • What you spend years creating, others could destroy overnight.   -   Create any way.
  • If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous.   -   Be happy anyway.
  • The good you do today, will often be forgotten.   -   Do good anyway.
  • Give the best you have, and it will never be enough.   -   Give your best anyway.
  • In the final analysis, it is between you and God.   -   It was never between you and them anyway.

    Amen

Saint Teresa of Calcutta



 
 
 
 



Thursday, September 01, 2016

August 31st 2016 --- Pope Francis: This is the time of grace, the moment of forgiveness, the time of mercy. Have courage!













 
 
 






 
 
 
 
 
Pope at Santa Marta: Following the law without thinking about justice is hypocrisy - Published on Oct 31, 2014

 
 
 
 
 
Pope: When you start feeling superior to others, remember your sins - Published on Oct 22, 2014

 
 
 
 
 
Pope Francis: Falling into temptations can make Christians 'lukewarm' - Published on Oct 17, 2014

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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