Friday 25 October 2013

Some Good Reads


Why the Church? Luigi Giussani
He focuses on the Church as a community of people who are aware of themselves as defined by the gift of the Spirit, from which they derive a new conception of existence, the fruit of conversion. He describes the Church's developing self-awareness of its dual elements of the human and divine.
Other books ie. The Risk of Education etc.
Spiritual Communion/Perpetual Adoration Alphonsus de Liguori
Visits to the Most Holy Sacrament and to Most Holy Mary. Alphonsus Liguori wrote: “Of all devotions, that of adoring Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament is the greatest after the Sacraments, the one dearest to God and the one most helpful to us”. The Eucharist is a priceless treasure: By not only celebrating the Eucharist, but also by praying before It outside of Mass, we are enabled to make contact with the very wellsprings of Grace ..."
Making Sense out of Suffering  Peter Kreefthttp://www.peterkreeft.com/topics/suffering.htm
What then is suffering to the Christian? It is Christ's invitation to us to follow him. Christ goes to the cross, and we are invited to follow to the same cross. Not because it is the cross, but because it is his. Suffering is blessed not because it is suffering but because it is his. Suffering is not the context that explains the cross; the cross is the context that explains suffering. The cross gives this new meaning to suffering; it is now not only between God and me but also between Father and Son. The first between is taken up into the Trinitarian exchanges of the second. Christ allows us to participate in his cross because that is his means of allowing us to participate in the exchanges of the Trinity, to share in the very inner life of God.

Friday 11 October 2013


NEW LECTURE !!! Journey Home  Marcus Grodi  see him live ( Marcus is a convert to Catholiscm and speaks to many converts to the Catholic Faith )DONT MISS IT 

Marcus Grodi  from EWTN Catholic Network (ewtn .com on Cable /U-tube /radio)
Location: Canada Christian College, 50 Gervais Drive, Toronto (Don Mills & Eglinton)
Date: Saturday October 19, 2013
Schedule: Doors Open 9:30am, Event: 10:00am – 4:00pm (for detailed schedule click here)www.catholicchapterhouse.com 1-888-522-2070 or by email at info@catholicchapterhouse.com


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Doors open 6:00 movie starts 6:30pm          Call Natalie 647-201-2150 (prayinginthefire.blogspot.com)October Movie  St .Barbara


In 303 A.D., Barbara is the beautiful, twenty-yearold daughter of Dioscoro, the Roman governor during a time of fierce Christian persecution. Barbara is a pagan, but when Giuliana, a slave raised alongside her almost like a sister, is condemned to death for her Christian faith, Barbara rebels.
She valiantly attempts to save Giuliana, as well as other Christians being persecuted, boldly protesting to her father and other government leaders. When that fails, Barbara makes a daring plan for the successful escape from prison of her Christian friends.

Friday 4 October 2013

Remember the Prayer of the Shoulder Wound


Saint Bernard of Clairvaux


It is related in the annals of Clairvaux that St. Bernard asked Our Lord which was His greatest unrecorded suffering, and He answered: "I had on My Shoulder while I bore My Cross on the Way of Sorrows, a grevious Wound which was more painful than the others, and which is not recorded by men.  Honor this Wound with thy devotion, and I will grant thee whatsoever thou does ask through its virtue and merit.  And in regard to all those who shall venerate this wound, I will remit to them all their venial sins, and will no longer remember their mortal sins"


Prayer to the Shoulder Wound of Christ:

Most loving Jesus, meek Lamb of God, I, a miserable sinner, salute and worship the most Sacred Wound of Thy Shoulder on which Thou didst bear Thy heavy Cross which so toreThy flesh and laid bareThy Bones as to inflict on Thee an anguish greater than any other wound of Thy Most Blessed Body.  I adore Thee, O Jesus most sorrowful; I praise and glorify Thee, and give The thanks for this most sacred and painful Wound, beseeching Thee by that exceeding pain, and by the crushing burden of Thy heavy Cross to be merciful to me, a sinner, to forgive me all my mortal and venial sins, and to lead me on towards Heaven along the Way of Thy Cross. Amen.3


Wednesday 2 October 2013



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