"IT IS POSSIBLE ... TO BECOME SAINTS !" --- Pope Francis

 

Pope: How to become saints - Published on Jun 21, 2017

Pope Francis met with representatives of the Pro Football Hall of Fame June 21 and later, during his general audience, said everyone has the opportunity to become saints.

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INFERIORITY COMPLEX ---&--- Bullying Conduct Disorder

Exodus 3:11 --- But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and free the Israelites from Egypt?”

Exodus 4:10 --- But Moses said to the Lord, “O my Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor even now that you have spoken to your servant; but I am slow of speech and slow of tongue.”

Exodus 4:13 --- But he said, “O my Lord, please send someone else.”

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Book of Jonah - 4 short chapters (7:25 minutes audio)

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Jeremiah 1:6-7 --- Then I said, “Ah, Lord God! Truly I do not know how to speak, for I am only a boy.”  But the Lord said to me,

“Do not say, ‘I am only a boy’;
for you shall go to all to whom I send you,
and you shall speak whatever I command you.

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Moses, Jonah and Jeremiah hesitated to God before accepting His mission.  They felt not worthy for such a commitment. These three whom God chose as prophets protested when He asked them to undertake His mission

They did not believe at first that God would choose them - Moses mentioned his inability to speak; Jonah even ran away and Jeremiah said he was too young - apparently all three fearing failure, before becoming conscious of God's providence, wisdom and courage that built them to trust totally in Him and accept His mission !

We, and even the nations throughout the world, read, adore and are inspired from the words of Moses, Jonah, and Jeremiah in the Bible. These prophets tried to make the world good and righteous.  Their teachings are alive today.

 

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Pope Francis opens annual Diocese of Rome pastoral conference - 20/06/2017
http://en.radiovaticana.va/news/2017/06/20/pope_francis_opens_annual_diocese_of_rome_conference/1320077




Apertura convegno ecclesiale diocesi Roma - 19.06.2017

L’adolescenza non è una patologia
Nella basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano, Papa Francesco ha aperto il convegno ecclesiale della diocesi di Roma, sul tema: “Non lasciamoli soli! Accompagnare i genitori nell’educazione dei figli adolescenti”. Poco prima, alla vigilia della Giornata mondiale del rifugiato, l’abbraccio con alcuni migranti, accolti nelle parrocchie della capital.






… after all, we are clay – God is the potter. He moulds us in a unique way for our own good and for those in our life, in every situation – in whatever shape or colour: He just uses clay to serve Him … and breathes Eternity in us to spread His Word !

We look at our mould in the mirror and others’ moulds in our life … BUT we tend to concentrate and judge more on the clay – whether a genius, an intellectual, an artist, a common person, a simple person, a difficult person, a poor person, an ugly person, a rejected person, a sinner … Only by God's Grace and our consent that we keep on being moulded in His infinite love and mercy till our earthly death !

He is always with us, ready to give us a HELPING hand ! Let us let Him do the miracles and wonders in our life of trials, by leaning on His shoulder in awesome faith ... and patience - while keeping our sleeves rolled up and doing our part in the mean time !

 



In The Potter's Hands

[Prov:4:25] Żomm għajnejk dritti quddiemek,

u ħarstek 'il quddiem itfagħha.

... [Prov:4:27] Tgħawwiġx 'l hawn u 'l hemm, ... 

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[Lhud:10:35] Tarmux, mela, il-fiduċja tagħkom, għax din iġġib magħha ħlas kbir.

Ġw:21:18] Tassew tassew ngħidlek, meta kont żagħżugħ, kont titħażżem waħdek u tmur fejn trid; imma meta tixjieħ, int tiftaħ idejk u ħaddieħor iħażżmek u jieħdok fejn ma tkunx trid!" [Ġw:21:19] Dan qalu biex ifisser b'liema mewta kien sejjer jagħti glorja lil Alla

[Ġw:21:21] Pietru, mela, kif ra lil dan, qal lil Ġesù: "U dan, Mulej, x'se jsir minnu?" [Ġw:21:22] Ġesù qallu: "Inti x'inhi affarik jekk jiena rridu jibqa' sa ma niġi? Int imxi warajja!"

Fr. Mark Goring - inferiority complex

[Mik:7:8] Tifraħ xejn minħabba fija, għadu tiegħi,

għax jien, jekk waqajt, nerġa' nqum;

jekk ninsab fid-dlam, Alla d-dawl tiegħi.

Fr. Mark Goring - do not gloat my enemy!







[2Mak:5:27] Imma Ġuda, jgħidulu l-Makkabi, flimkien ma' disgħa oħra, rħielha lejn id-deżert, u hemm fuq il-muntanji kien jgħix ma' sħabu bħall-bhejjem, jieklu l-ħaxix biss, basta ma jiċċappsux bit-tinġis tal-pajjiż.

Fr. Mark Goring - into the wild








[Ġdt:8:32] U Ġuditta wieġbet: "Isimgħuni, jien se nagħmel ħaġa li jibqgħu jiftakruha minn ġenerazzjoni għal oħra sa l-aħħar waħda tal-poplu tagħna.



[Est:4:14] Jekk int iżżomm is-skiet f'waqt bħal dan, il-Lhud għajnuna u ħelsien jiġuhom minn ximkien ieħor, imma int u dar missierek tintemmu. Min jaf jekk hux għal mument bħal dan li int ilħaqt sultana?"



Fr. Mark Goring - make history!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Vujicic

Pope reveals the medicine to change people's hearts - Published on Jun 14, 2017







http://en.radiovaticana.va/news/2017/06/14/pope_at_audience_gods_unconditional_love_gives_hope/1318909

Pope Francis began his reflection by noting that none of us can live without love. Yet many people today, he went on, are anguished or empty inside because they don’t believe they are beautiful or important enough to be loved by others.
Imagine a world where everyone is seeking attention and no-one is prepared to give love in a gratuitous way, he said. Behind so much narcissistic behaviour and incomprehensible actions we discover feelings of solitude and abandonment.
When adolescents feel unloved, the pope continued, they may turn to violence, hatred or delinquent behaviour. There is no such thing as bad children or evil adolescents, he said, but there are unhappy people. When we look and smile freely at someone who is sad, he said, we open their hearts and offer them a way out of their unhappiness.
Pope Francis said that God loves us with an unconditional love, not because we deserve it, but rather because he himself is love. Like the father of the prodigal son, he said, God has compassion for us even when we are far away from him. He also recalled the many mothers he met, back in Buenos Aires, who continued to love their sons unconditionally, even when they did wrong and ended up in prison.
It is a time of Resurrection for us all, the pope concluded, because Jesus died to forgive us our sins. It is time to lift up those who are discouraged and to live in the hope of God the Father who loves us for ever, just as we are... May all of us find in God’s embrace the promise of new life and freedom, he said, for in his love is the source of all our hope.

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Bullying is the devil’s work, says Pope Francis
http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2018/01/09/bullying-is-the-devils-work-says-pope-francis/

Pope Francis at Santa Marta:
Attacking weak is work of Satan





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BULLYING IS A CONDUCT DISORDER OR DELINQUENCY.  

DEEP DOWN IT REVEALS SENTIMENTS OF:-

- LOW SELF-ESTEEM (BEHIND THE HOSTILITY)

- ENVY 

- INSECURITY (LACK OF FRIENDS; FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES, HOMLESSNESS)

 - LACK OF SELF-CONTROL AND SOCIAL SKILLS

- LACK OF COMPASSION AND EMPATHY --- COVERING UP THE FEAR THAT HIS/HER ACADEMIC/SOCIAL LIMITATIONS / OR FAILURE WILL BE MADE KNOWN.

- INFERIORITY ( OR SUPERIORITY WHEN THE BULLY COMES FROM A RICH FAMILY)
  

- MORE OFTEN FOUND IN FAMILIES WITH LOW SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS

- EAGER FOR ATTENTION - IN SUCH A NEGATIVE WAY

- AN UPBRINGING IN AN ENVIRONMENT OF IRRESPONSIBLE BEHAVIOUR, AGGRESSIVENESS, EVEN DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, BULLYING.

- OFTEN IT IS A RESULT OF A TRAUMATIC BACKGROUND, ABUSE, BROKEN FAMILY 

- AN ANGER MANAGEMENT PROBLEM 

- A SYMPTOM OF A DEEPER PHYSIOLOGICAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL OR PSYCHIATRIC ISSUE SUCH AS DEPRESSION OR BI-POLAR DISORDER

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The victim must never get upset: Keep resilient, emotionally strong and mentally tough.

- SPEAK TO GOD IN YOUR PRAYERS --- HE IS ALWAYS READY TO LISTEN AND LEAD YOU TO ACT PRUDENTLY AND WISELY. 

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TO THE BULLY & TO THE VICTIM:

- OPEN YOUR HEART WITH A PRIEST AND FAMILY DOCTOR WHO WILL GUIDE YOU.

How to disarm a bully

CHALLENGES IN PARENTING:

BULLYING
http://slideplayer.com/slide/6921963/

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ALSO:-


The Mind Behind the Bully: The Psychology of Bullying
http://cyberbully.org/the-mind-behind-the-bully-the-psychology-of-bullying/





Bullies are not born, they are raised
http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2012/04/bullies-born-raised.html







- THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO WERE BORN WITH TWO ARMS TO STRIKE OTHERS

- and there are people who were born with two arms who do not strike back.

WHO IS SUFFERING FROM - ANGER MANAGEMENT PROBLEM ?
Those who strike others MUST go to Church every day to thank God that they strike those who do not strike back - For it is ONLY by God's Grace that these do not: For the non-strikers believe in God's mysterious ways of teaching HOW BETTER are the GIFTS of humility, even humiliation and mercy. 

These people do no want to lose a day without the eagerness to participate in Holy Mass and receive The Holy Trinity, One God in the Consecrated Host: HE IS ALMIGHTY GOD, WHO IS GIVING BREATH TO THE BULLY TO CONVERT AND CORRECT HIS/HER ANTI-SOCIAL CONDUCT DISORDER, BY SEEKING SPIRITUAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL HELP

... Pope Francis - HUMILITY, EVEN HUMILIATION, will lead you how to be like Jesus






Pope Francis: Humility is needed to understand and transmit the Gospel






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The Case for Christ | Atheist Tries to Disprove Christianity Becomes Christian --- Lecture by Lee Strobel himself !

 

Published on 24 Mar 2017

http://thecaseforchristmovie.com/ - Highlands Church (March 15, 2017)

... SUMMERISING THE EVIDENCE BY USING FOUR WORDS THAT BEGIN WITH THE LETTER E :- @ 18.50

1st - Execution - @ 19.07
2nd - Early - @ 21.26
3rd - Empty Tomb - 26.55
4th - Eyewitnesses - @ 29.11

NO  ONE  IS  BEYOND  HOPE

Ezekiel 36:26
²⁶ A new heart I will give you, and a new spirit I will put within you; and I will remove from your body the heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.

[Eżek 36:26] U nagħtikom qalb ġdida, u ruħ ġdida nqiegħed ġo fikom; u nneħħi minn ġisimkom il-qalb tal-ġebel u nagħtikom qalb tal-laħam flokha.

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MARCH 9 - Saint Catherine of Bologna

St. Catherine of Bologna
1413-1463
Feast day: March 9
Patronage: Artists 





St. Catherine of Bologna was an Italian nun and artist born as Catherine de' Vigri on September 8, 1413, in Bologna, Italy.
She was the member of an aristocratic family and the daughter of a diplomat to the Marquis of Ferrara. Catherine received a wonderful education while being raised at the court of the Duke of Ferrara as the companion to the Marquis’ daughter, Princess Margarita.
After Margarita married, Catherine felt a calling to the religious life and left the court.
In 1426, she entered the convent of Corpus Domini at Ferrara and became a Franciscan Tertiary.
Catherine was determined to live a life of perfection and was admired by her companions for her holiness.
In 1432, Catherine and other young women of Ferrara founded a monastery of the Order of Poor Clares.
The reputation of the Community for its holiness and austerity became widespread.
In 1456, Catherine returned to Bologna with her superiors and the governors requested she found a second monastery of the same Order and be the Abbess of the convent.
Catherine continued to paint and write beautiful spiritual guides and poetry. She wrote the Treatise on the 7 Spiritual Weapons Necessary for Spiritual Warfare. And, her painting of St. Ursula remains on display in a Venice gallery.
Throughout her life, Catherine experienced visions of both Jesus Christ and Satan. In one instance, she had the baby Jesus placed in her arms by the Blessed Virgin Mary.
During the Lenten season of 1463, Catherine became seriously ill, and on March 9th she passed away.
She was buried without a coffin and her body was exhumed eighteen days later because of many cures attributed to her at her graveside and the sweet scent coming from her grave. Her body was discovered incorrupt and remains so today.
Catherine is dressed in her religious habit seated upright on a golden throne behind glass in the chapel of the Poor Clares in Bologna.
Saint Catherine was beatified in 1524 by Pope Clement VII and canonized on May 22, 1712, by Pope Clement XI. She is the patron saint of artists, the liberal arts, against temptations and of Bologna.
Her feast day is celebrated on March 9.

Homily: Spiritual Weaponry of St. Catherine of Bologna - Published on May 9, 2017

St. Catherine of Bologna teaches seven principles of spiritual combat, which she calls "weapons." Among them, mistrust of self and absolute trust in Christ is one that inherently fosters the fundamental virtue of humility and identification in Christ.

Papal Audience - Pope Benedict XVI - 12-29-2010

 

 

 

BENEDICT XVI

GENERAL AUDIENCE

Paul VI Hall
Wednesday, 29 December 2010

http://w2.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/audiences/2010/documents/hf_ben-xvi_aud_20101229.html

St Catherine of Bologna :7 Spiritual Weapons - Published on 22 Nov 2016

One can think of the spiritual weapons as weapons not only for the battles of faith, but as weapons for the battles of depression: to intend solicitude and not be misled by the vagaries of mood, to keep steady hold on one’s life by not giving into the swings of feeling, to rest in the love of God, however inexperienced, to hold to the humanity and suffering of Christ as something close and not far away, to remember that death will come in its own sweet time without any need to hurry it along, to avoid the vain pleasures of dissolving troubles in chemicals, to keep passages of Scripture alive in one’s heart so they are available in time of need. What Catherine reveals to chronically depressed people, is that the interior voices that rage might be stilled by the interior voices that occasionally console. They might be able to choose interior voices, not always, but occasionally, if they don’t let the angry voices go on for too long before attending to them, pretending that they are not there, that they are not hearing, “Wicked, sinful, toad talking, worthless nothing, less than horrible … ” as a constant background to their every thought. With divine hope, they can follow the examples of St. Catherine and other holy men and women who have kept themselves faithful in the observances of their monastic lives, rising with their confreres, praying on the days when prayer is impossible and hard, making works of charity a habit of the body if not of the soul and persevering in spite of doubt and suffering, knowing that, whatever the final and scientific explanation of depression, one can honor one’s own life and live it out in faith and holiness. St. Catherine of Bologna, Virgin (Patroness of Artists) Feast - March 9th Born in 1413, Catherine de Vigri was the daughter of a diplomatic agent of the Marquis of Ferrara. At the age of eleven, she was appointed maid of honor to the daughter of the Marquis and shared her training and education. When the daughter eventually married, she wanted Catherine to remain in her service, but Catherine left the court and became a Franciscan Tertiary at the age of fourteen. Catherine had determined to live a life of perfection, and was admired by her companions for her holiness. Eventually her Community became part of the Poor Clares. She soon began to experience visions of Christ and Satan, and wrote of her experiences, one of which occurred one Christmas. Through her efforts with Pope Nicholas V, the Poor Clare convent at Ferrara erected an enclosure, and Catherine was appointed Superioress. The reputation of the Community for its holiness and austerity became widespread. She then was appointed Superioress of a new convent in Bologna. In Lent of 1463, Catherine became seriously ill, and she died on March 9th. Buried without a coffin, her body was exhumed eighteen days later because of cures attributed to her and also because of the sweet scent coming from her grave. Her body was found to be in-corrupt and remains so today in the Church of the Poor Clare convent in Bologna. She was canonized in 1712.

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