Month: October 2016
FAITHLINK: Blessed Father Francis Xavier Seelos – Seelos.org
The Life of Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos … The Beatification of Francis Xavier Seelos … Seelos Shrine … Prayers to Blessed Francis Seelos … Resources ….
FAITHLINK: “Saint Francis of Assisi” – Pope Benedict XVI Audience 1.27.10
“… Today I would like to present to you the figure of Francis, an authentic “giant” of holiness, who continues to fascinate a great many people of all age groups and every religion. …”
FAITHLINK Catholic Mass Readings: Memorial of Saint Francis of Assisi, Tuesday 10.4.16
“Jesus entered a village where a woman whose name was Martha welcomed him. She had a sister named Mary who sat beside the Lord at His Feet listening to Him speak. …”
FAITHLINK: Catholic Mass Readings: Monday of the Twenty-Seventh Week in Ordinary Time 10.3.16 – USCCB
“… a Samaritan traveler who came upon him … was moved with compassion at the sight. He approached the victim, poured oil and wine over his wounds and bandaged them. Then he lifted him up on his own animal, took him to an inn, and cared for him. …”
FAITHLINK Catholic Mass Readings: Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time 10.2.16 – USCCB
… The Apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our Faith.”
The Lord replied,
“If you have faith the size of a mustard seed,
you would say to this mulberry tree,
‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you. ….
FAITHLINK: Saint Theresa of Lisieux – Pope Benedict XVI Audience 2011
Today I would like to talk to you about St Thérèse of Lisieux, Thérèse of the Child Jesus and of the Holy Face, who lived in this world for only 24 years, at the end of the 19th century, leading a very simple and hidden life but who, after her death and the publication of her writings, became one of the best-known and best-loved saints. “Little Thérèse” has never stopped helping the simplest souls, the little, the poor and the suffering who pray to her. However, she has also illumined the whole Church with her profound spiritual doctrine to the point that Venerable Pope John Paul II chose, in 1997, to give her the title “Doctor of the Church”, in addition to that of Patroness of Missions, which Pius XI had already attributed to her in 1939. My beloved Predecessor described her as an “expert in the scientia amoris” (Novo Millennio Ineunte, n. 42). Thérèse expressed this science, in which she saw the whole truth of the faith shine out in love, mainly in the story of her life, published a year after her death with the title The Story of a Soul. The book immediately met with enormous success, it was translated into many languages and disseminated throughout the world.
FAITHLINK: Catholic Mass Readings – Memorial of Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus, Saturday 10.1.16 – USCCB
… At that very moment He rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said,
“I give you praise, Father, Lord of heaven and earth,
for although you have hidden these things
from the wise and the learned
you have revealed them to the childlike.
Yes, Father, such has been your gracious will.
All things have been handed over to me by my Father.
No one knows who the Son is except the Father,
and who the Father is except the Son
and anyone to whom the Son wishes to reveal him.”