From Catholic Evangelizer - WHEN EVERYTHING IS FALLING APART

 

When Everything Is Falling Apart

Posted on September 12, 2019 by Terry and John

   

Our friend, Lydia, is a nurse with five children who, as a child, had survived emotional and sexual abuse. Still, she worked long hours with much kindness, while raising her own four children. Then one day her husband developed a very serious heart condition. Lydia was overwhelmed. So, she turned to parish friends. They listened, babysat and prayed with her often, even daily, until two years later, when her husband died in surgery at the age of forty-two. More prayer and support was needed. Then after five more years, when Lydia had finally recovered, her teen-age son was murdered in a drug related incident. Lydia’s parish friends rose to the challenge again. They put into practice some of these suggestions for reaching out to someone experiencing life-altering needs, or difficult transitions.

 

1. Choose ONE such person in your circle of family and friends to pray for every day. Speak to God in a way that is beyond your normal routine; standing, kneeling, speaking aloud or singing.
2. Recall the ways Jesus reached out to someone in similar circumstances. Then picture Jesus beside this person.
3. Choose one concrete way to offer regular, long-term support; a weekly phone call, a bi-weekly greeting card, or a small act of ongoing service that is meaningful to him or her.
4. Realize your limits. It may take a whole small community to offer prayer-filled help together. Ask yourself if you are in a position to mobilize such a group.
5. Whatever you do, respond with gentle compassion, or as Scripture puts it, “Do not break a bruised reed.” Matthew 12:20

By the grace of God and through her small faith sharing group, Lydia was able to seek out and forgive her son’s murderer. She also became a public advocate for abolishing the death penalty. One of her favourite prayers became, “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion… who encourages us in our every affliction, so that we may be able to encourage those who are in any affliction with the encouragement with which we ourselves are encouraged by God.” (2 Cor. 1:3-4)

 “You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working, and just so, you learn to love by loving.... All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves." (St. Francis de Sales)



FROM Catholic Evangelizer - https://www.catholicevangelizer.com/?p=1175
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https://www.facebook.com/HolySpiritCalling/








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BLUEPRINTS by Chris D'Alfonso

Blueprints - with lyrics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvxlAnxVSy0

BLUEPRINTS

Master Creator of all
You hold the world in your hand
You’re greater than all the heavens
And you have a plan for me.

You formed the clouds and lift them up
You carved the oceans,
Made them move
From the dawn of creation
You had a plan for me.

Ref:
You hold the blueprints of life
You hold your hand in mine
All that I am is yours
Designer, Creator of life
You hold the plans
You hold the plans.

When I look at the stars
As I gaze at the sunrise
I can see your hand
I can smell your sweet perfume
You hold the plan,
YOU HOLD THE PLANS   

Ref:
You hold the blueprints of life
You hold your hand in mine
All that I am is yours
Designer, Creator of life

You hold the blueprints of life
You hold your hand in mine
All that I am is yours
Designer, Creator of life
You hold the plans
YOU HOLD THE PLANS.



Chris D'Alfonso © 1995 Chris D'Alfonso/
Shipwreck Sounds



THE ORIGINAL VIDEO by Chris D'Alfonso

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueaFxHxTy5M







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Adoration - Jubilate Deo omnis terra - simple guitar chords

One of the hymns during Adoration in Medjugorje

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6DARhnzdV0




simple guitar chords

Servite Domino in laetitia! — I will serve God cheerfully. With a cheerfulness that is a consequence of my Faith, of my Hope and of my Love — and that will last for ever. For, as the Apostle assures us, Dominus prope est!… — the Lord follows me closely. I shall walk with Him, therefore, quite confidently, for the Lord is my Father, and with his help I shall fulfil his most lovable Will, even if I find it hard.

• Text from point 53 of chapter Cheerfulness of Josemaría Escrivá's book Furrow. Link: https://escriva.org/en/surco/53/

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https://hymnary.org/text/jubilate_deo_omnis_terra










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AUGUST 21 - SAINT PIUS X, Pope

 

20 Aug 2024 - In his eleven years as pope, Pius X reformed common Eucharistic practice and the Roman Curia. He died at the outbreak of the First World War in 1914

https://taghrifdwarilqaddisin.wordpress.com/2018/08/19/21-ta-awwissu-san-piju-x/




San Piju X (21 ta' Awwissu)  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17jqiizZoY8

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Crush the Head of Satan in Your Life With These 10 Powerful Quotes from Pope St. Pius X

Pope St. Pius X is such an inspiration for Catholics!

Born into a poor Italian family and one of 10 children, this first pope of the 20th century is most well-known for his liturgical and canonical reforms. Through his 11 year papacy, (1903-1914) he held the motto, Instaurare Omnia in Christo, or “Restore all Things in Christ.”

Pope St. Pius X changed first Holy Communion to an earlier age (seven), encouraged frequent reception of the Eucharist, and held a strong devotion to Our lady.

He was also an advocate against the modernistic theology, encouraged laypeople to read the Bible, restored the Gregorian chant, “revised the Breviary, reorganized the curia, and initiated the codification of canon law.”

Pope Pius XII canonized Pope St. Pius X in 1958.

Here’s 10 Pope St. Pius X Quotes to help you crush Satan’s head in your life:

1) “Where is the road which leads us to Jesus Christ? It is before our eyes: it is the Church. It is our duty to recall to everyone, great and small, the absolute necessity we are under to have recourse to this Church in order to work out our eternal salvation.”

2) “I was born poor, I have lived in poverty, and I wish to die poor.”

3) “All the strength of Satan’s reign is due to the easy going weakness of Catholics.”

4) “The Rosary is the most beautiful and the most rich in graces of all prayers, it is the prayer that touches most the Heart of the Mother of God … and if you wish peace to reign in your homes, recite the family Rosary.”

5) “Holy Communion is the shortest and safest way to Heaven.”

6) “Without any doubt there is a desire in all hearts for peace. But how foolish is he who seeks this peace apart from God; for if God be driven out, justice is banished, and once justice fails, all hope of peace is lost.”

7) “It is necessary that children be nourished by Christ before they are dominated by their passions, so they can with greater courage resist the assaults of the devil, of the flesh, and their other enemies, whether internal or external.”

8) “Truly we are passing through disastrous times, when we may well make our own the lamentation of the Prophet: ‘There is no truth, and there is no mercy, and there is no knowledge of God in the land’ (Hosea 4:1).

“Yet in the midst of this tide of evil, the Virgin Most Merciful rises before our eyes like a rainbow, as the arbiter of peace between God and man.”

9) “The greatest obstacle in the apostolate of the Church is the timidity, or rather the cowardice, of the faithful.”

10) “Let the storm rage and the sky darken – not for that shall we be dismayed. If we trust as we should in Mary, we shall recognize in her, the Virgin Most Powerful ‘who with virginal foot did crush the head of the serpent.'” 

Pope St. Pius X, pray for us!

from --- https://churchpop.com/2019/08/21/crush-the-head-of-satan-in-your-life-with-these-10-powerful-quotes-from-pope-st-pius-x/