Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Meditation of St. Francis of Assisi on the Most Blessed Sacrament
"We adore Thee, O Lord Jesus Christ, in this Church and
all the Churches of the world, and we bless Thee, because,
by Thy holy Cross Thou hast redeemed the world."
(St. Francis of Assisi)
Saturday, June 23, 2012
Salve Regina Explanation (excerpts from the Glories of Mary by St Alphonsus Maria de Liguori)
read the Glories of Mary @:
http://www.archive.org/stream/thegloriesofmary00liguuoft#page/n0/mode/2up
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Salve R
Sliem għalik Sultana, Omm tal-ħniena, ħajja, ħlewwa u tama tagħna, sliem għalik lilek ingħajtu għaliex aħna tturufnati ulied Eva, lilek nitniehdu aħna u nibku u nolfqu f’dan il-wied tad-dmugh. Ejja mela avukata tagħna, dawwar lejna dawk l-għajnejn tiegħek tal-ħniena, urina wara dan it-turufnament, lil Ġesu`, frott imbierek tal-ġuf tiegħek. O ħanina, O pija, O ħelwa Verġni Marija
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1. HAIL HOLY QUEEN, MOTHER OF MERCY (pg 25)
2. OUR LIFE, OUR SWEETNESS (pg 80)
3. AND OUR HOPE (pg 115)
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Salve Regina Explanation (excerpts, Glories of Mary) - part 2
4. TO THEE DO WE CRY, POOR BANISHED CHILDREN OF EVE (pg 142)
5. TO THEE DO WE SEND UP OUR SIGHS, MOURNING AND WEEPING IN THIS VALLEY OF TEARS (pg 168)
6. TURN, THEN, MOST GRACIOUS ADVOCATE (pg 200)
7. THINE EYES OF MERCY TOWARD US (pg 241)
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Salve Regina Explanation (excerpts, Glories of Mary) - part 3
8. AND AFTER THIS OUR EXILE SHOW UNTO US THE BLESSED FRUIT OF THY WOMB, JESUS (pg 254)
9. O CLEMENT, O LOVING (pg 290)
10. O SWEET VIRGIN MARY (pg 305)
Dives in Misericordia (Pope, St John Paul II):
Mary is also the one who obtained mercy in a particular and exceptional way, as no other person has. At the same time, still in an exceptional way, she made possible with the sacrifice of her heart her own sharing in revealing God's mercy. This sacrifice is intimately linked with the cross of her Son, at the foot of which she was to stand on Calvary. Her sacrifice is a unique sharing in the revelation of mercy, that is, a sharing in the absolute fidelity of God to His own love, to the covenant that He willed from eternity and that He entered into in time with man, with the people, with humanity; it is a sharing in that revelation that was definitively fulfilled through the cross. No one has experienced, to the same degree as the Mother of the crucified One, the mystery of the cross, the overwhelming encounter of divine transcendent justice with love: that "kiss" given by mercy to justice. No one has received into his heart, as much as Mary did, that mystery, that truly divine dimension of the redemption effected on Calvary by means of the death of the Son, together with the sacrifice of her maternal heart, together with her definitive "fiat."
Mary, then, is the one who has the deepest knowledge of the mystery of God's mercy. She knows its price, she knows how great it is. In this sense, we call her the Mother of mercy: our Lady of mercy, or Mother of divine mercy; in each one of these titles there is a deep theological meaning, for they express the special preparation of her soul, of her whole personality, so that she was able to perceive, through the complex events, first of Israel, then of every individual and of the whole of humanity, that mercy of which "from generation to generation" people become sharers according to the eternal design of the most Holy Trinity.
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Emotional goodbye for young Italian mother who died for unborn child --- L'inno all'amore di Chiara Corbella Petrillo = Siamo nati e non moriremo mai più !
La storia di Chiara Corbella e il giubileo degli ammalati, disabili e anziani -
Published on Jun 10, 2016
La storia di Chiara Corbella, ricordata con Enrico Petrillo, suo marito, e Suor Veronica Donatello, Resp. Catechesi persone disabili Ufficio catechistico CEI
L'inno all'amore di Chiara Corbella
Emotional goodbye for young Italian mother who died for unborn child :: Catholic News Agency (CNA)
.- Hundreds of Italians gathered at the Church of St. Francisca Romana in Rome on June 16 for the funeral Mass of Chiara Corbella, a young Catholic woman who died after postponing her cancer treatments in order to protect her unborn child.
At 28 years of age, Chiara was happily married to Enrico Petrillo. They had already suffered the loss of two children in recent years who died from birth defects. The couple became popular speakers at pro-life events, in which they shared their testimony about the few minutes they were able to spend with their children, David and Maria, before they died.
In 2010, Chiara became pregnant for the third time, and according to doctors the child was developing normally. However, Chiara was diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer and was advised to begin receiving treatment that would have posed a risk to her pregnancy.
Chiara decided to protect the baby – named Francisco – and opted to forgo treatment until after his birth, which took place on May 30, 2011.
Her cancer quickly progressed and eventually she lost sight in one eye. After a year-long battle Chiara died on June 13, surrounded by her loved ones and convinced that she would be reunited with her two children in heaven.
“I am going to heaven to take care of Maria and David, you stay here with Dad. I will pray for you,” Chiara said in a letter for Francisco that she wrote one week before her death.
The funeral Mass was celebrated by the Vicar General of Rome, Cardinal Agostino Vallini, who recalled Chiara as “the second Gianna Beretta,” the 20th century saint who sacrificed her life in similar circumstances to save her unborn baby.
Chiara’s spiritual director, Father Vito, delivered the homily and remembered Chiara as a young woman who chose to risk her own life in order to be an example to other pregnant women, “a testimony that could save so many people,” he said.
Chiara’s husband, Enrico, said he experienced “a story of love on the cross.” Speaking to Vatican Radio, he said that they learned from their three children that there is no difference in a life that lasts 30 minutes or 100 years.
“It was wonderful to discover this love that grew more and more in the face of so many problems,” he said.
“We grew more and more in love with each other and Jesus. We were never disappointed by this love, and for this reason, we never lost time, even though those around us said, 'Wait, don’t be in a hurry to have another child,'” Enrico said.
The world today encourages people to make wrong choices about the unborn, the sick and the elderly, he noted, “but the Lord responds with stories like ours.”
“We are the ones who like to philosophize about life, about who created it, and therefore, in the end, we confuse ourselves in wanting to become the owners of life and to escape from the cross the Lord gives us,” he continued.
“The truth is that this cross – if you embrace it with Christ – ceases to be as ugly as it looks. If you trust in him, you discover that this fire, this cross, does not burn, and that peace can be found in suffering and joy in death,” Enrico explained.
“I spent a lot of time this year reflecting on this phrase from the Gospel that says the Lord gives a cross that is sweet and a burden that is light. When I would look at Chiara when she was about to die, I obviously became very upset. But I mustered the courage and a few hours before – it was about eight in the morning, Chiara died at noon – I asked her.
I said: 'But Chiara, my love, is this cross really sweet, like the Lord says? She looked at me and she smiled, and in a soft voice she said, 'Yes, Enrico, it is very sweet.' In this sense, the entire family didn’t see Chiara die peacefully, but happily, which is totally different,” Ernico said.
When his son grows up, he added, he will tell him “how beautiful it is to let oneself be loved by God, because if you feel loved you can do anything,” and this is “the most important thing in life: to let yourself be loved in order to love and die happy.”
“I will tell him that this is what his mother, Chiara, did. She allowed herself to be loved, and in a certain sense, I think she loved everyone in this way. I feel her more alive than ever. To be able to see her die happy was to me a challenge to death.”
Siamo nati e non moriremo mai più! Storia di Chiara Corbella Petrillo
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