Tuesday, 20 May 2014

A Thousand Times I've Failed Still Your Mercy Remains...........

Fr. Augustine: When we Sin God is the Closest to our heart, It is we who Go Away from God.

People Say: God is Close to the Saints but He is Far Away from the Sinners. But Jesus Says: "Suppose a man has 100 sheep and loses one of them. Doesn't he leave the 99 sheep grazing in the pasture and look for the lost sheep until he finds it? Luke 15:4

When Adam & Eve Sinned God the Father Came Searching out of Love to Clean Adam & Eve. God Covered the Shame of Adam & Eve with the Animal Coat.

If we are Not Able to Cry for our Sins and Repent, It is Because we do not know how Forgiving our Father God is.

When Jesus Washed the feet of His Apostles, It was not only an Act of Humility but of Washing the Sins of His Apostles ONCE & FOR ALL (INCLUDES ALL BAPTIZED CHRISTIANS). Jesus Washed the Sins of Past, Present & Future............ This is the Reason Jesus Said to Peter - "If I do not wash you, you have no part with Me."  (you don't belong to me). John 13:8 God's Word Translation.

7 He declared us Not Guilty because of his Great Kindness. And now we know that we will Inherit Eternal Life. 8 These things I have told you are All True. I want you to Insist on them so that everyone who Trusts in God will be Careful To Do Good Deeds All the Time. These Things are Good and Beneficial for everyone............ Please Continue Reading 

TITUS 3:7-15
http://www.biblestudytools.com/nlt/titus/passage.aspx?q=titus+3:7-15

Message by Fr Augustine Vallooran
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Your Desires Tell You What You Are --- 

By the late Father Kilian McGowan, C.P. -- 
Used with permission, from the Passionist Priests ---

For where your Treasure is, there your heart will be also. Matthew 6:21

Do you really want to know what you're like? Study your desires. What things does your heart habitually seek? Desire is like a thermometer that actually measures your spiritual life. Worldly desires lead to a life of worldliness. Sensual desires make a sensual person. Self-centered desires cause a mediocre and selfish life.

If your desire for God is only half-hearted, you're leading a tepid Christian life. You're suffering from spiritual mediocrity and you're a long way from perfection of the First Commandment. If your desire for God is consistently ardent, you're making progress. If it's ever on the increase, you're making great progress in holiness.

God loves great desires. If a man ceases to desire God and the things of God, his soul is in a tragic state. Earthbound, tied to earth by a hundred shackles of sensual and worldly desires, he seems incapable of any spiritual ambition or aspiration for God. Spiritually he is a walking corpse! He needs a miracle of resurrection to awaken his soul to its need for God. Such people, incidentally, usually are a burden to themselves and to their friends.

God loved Daniel because he was a man of desires. He loves anyone who has great desires, Christlike ambitions, or longings for the spread of God's Kingdom. These are the timbers used by God to ignite the world with His love. Why is a cloistered contemplative like St. Theresa named "Patroness of the Missions?" Because of her overwhelming desire for the conversion of all souls to God!

Desire is always the first step of your soul toward God. If there's no desire for Christian Perfection...if your soul experiences no deep need of God, obviously you'll expend no great effort to achieve union in love with Him. That's why the study of Christ is so basic to a fervent Christian life. In meditation He is seen to be totally desirable both as God and man. There the desire to follow Him is ignited and stimulated. So, if you want to know what you are really like, take out fifteen minutes for some serious soul-searching and make this test...

Think of those things or objects in life that you consider most desirable. Be very honest with yourself and make an objective list. What are those things upon which your heart has become attached? This list will uncover the depth of your vanity, your pride and your sensuality. It will also point up any secret avarice, envy, or any other species of selfishness. Of course, it will also be a measure of your fervor and love of God.

Is God just an afterthought in your life? Do you use Him just to call on for the fulfillment of your own desires? Do you strive to bend your will to His, rather than to try to get Him to conform His Sanctifying will to your own? Do you really consider the perfect love of God as the greatest and most desirable object in life? Do you have any longing for greater union with our Lord? What do you do about it?

An honest appraisal of one's self is always the first step towards self-improvement. Any psychiatrist will add that it's also the foundation of emotional maturity. So face up to your habitual desires. Find out just what does motivate your usual activities. Compare these desires with the Beatitudes given by Christ in His Gospel. Then, you'll know whether your desires need intensification or reformation!

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WHERE IS YOUR TREASURE?: So many people spend their whole lives working for material goods - you know, just "stuff" that we think we 'have to have' in order to be happy! After college, they move into a tiny little apt. and work hard filling it up with "stuff" until they get so much that they move into a house, filling it with more "stuff," then move into a bigger house, working overtime to have enough money to buy even more "stuff," until they reach middle age and decide it's time to downsize, so they give away lots of the "stuff" they worked so hard for, and by the time they reach their retirement years, they are living back in a tiny little apt, and all that "stuff" they worked so hard for was given or thrown away, and they look back over their life and say, "Was my whole life spent working for "stuff?" Life goes by so quickly and there is no time to waste! We must decide now how we want to use this life that God has given us. The Bible tells us in Matt 6:19-21, "Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth where moths and vermin destroy . . . for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also."
TEXT: Mal 3:8-10, Phil 4:19, Matt 25:23, Rev 17:14



Tuesday, 13 May 2014



THE STORY OF FATIMA PORTUGAL


The Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of God, appeared 6 times to 3 shepherd children; Lucia, Francisco, and Jacinta; between May 13 and October 13, 1917. She came to the little village of Fatima which had remained faithful to the Catholic Church during the recent persecutions by the government. Our Lady came with a message from God to every man, woman, and child of our century. Our Lady of Fatima promised that the whole world would be in peace, and that many souls would go to Heaven if Her requests were listened to and obeyed. She told us that war is a punishment for sin; that God would punish the world for its sins in our time by means of war, hunger, persecution of the Church and persecution of the Holy Father, the Pope, unless we listened to and obeyed the command of God. At Fatima, Pope John Paul II said on May 13; " the message of Fatima is more relevant and more urgent " then when Our Lady first appeared. The message is an anguished appeal of our Heavenly Mother, Who sees us in great danger and Who comes to offer Her help and advice. Her message is also a prophesy, a clear indication of what was about to transpire in the 20th century, and what is still going to happen infallibly in the near future, depending on our response to Her requests.



THE MIRACLE

As a great sign of the whole message truly coming from God, a marvelous miracle was worked in the sky above Fatima before 70,000 witnesses on October 13, 1917 at the time, date and place that Lucy and the other two children had prophesied in the name of Our Lady of Fatima. The children were told by Our Lady that God would perform a miracle so that people would believe in the apparitions. The date the children was October 13, 1917, in Fatima. On that date, 70,000 people came to see the phenomenon. The miracle occurred with the sun. All could stare perfectly at the sun without blinking, or even hurting heir eyes. While all were watching the sun, it rotated, got large and small, got close to the people, and got far away from them. The sun " danced ". Every single person who was there testified to seeing the sun dance, even non- believers who immediately dropped onto their knees and begged for forgiveness.

MIRACLES TODAY Our Lady of Fatima continues to work miracles today through Fatima water which is sent from Fatima, Portugal around the world. This Fatima water sprang up in Fatima at the spot the Bishop told people to dig, very near where Our Lady appeared at the Cova de Iria (the Cove of Peace) in Fatima. The water is known to cure people with sicknesses and poor health. Still, other people are cured when they go on pilgrimage to Fatima, which is about 90 miles north of Lisbon, Portugal.

OUR LADY OF FATIMA SAID:
http://jesusbloggerforu.blogspot.in/2014/05/our-lady-of-fatima-said-offering-will.html


PRAYERS TAUGHT TO THE CHILDREN OF FATIMA
http://jesusbloggerforu.blogspot.in/2014/05/prayers-taught-to-children-of-fatima.html
The 13th Day: The True Story of Fatima
https://www.facebook.com/The13thDay

FATIMA FOR TODAY
http://www.fatimafortoday.com/

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The Basilica at Fatima, Portugal. The tiled building, left foreground, is the original Shrine marking the exact spot where Our Lady Appeared to the children.



OUR LADY OF FATIMA SAID:



OFFERING: "Will you offer yourselves to God, and bear all the sufferings He sends you? In atonement for all the sins that offend Him? And for the conversion of sinners?"

BLESSED SACRAMENT: Our Lady opened her hands and flooded the children in light. They fell to their knees, repeating: "O Most Holy Trinity, I adore Thee! My God, My God, I love Thee in the Most Blessed Sacrament!"

HEAVEN: "I come from heaven." Our Lady promised that the children to whom she appeared will go to heaven, but one of them would have to pray many rosaries.

PURGATORY: "She is in purgatory." Our Lady was referring to a friend of the children who had recently died--her name was Amelia.

ROSARY: "Say the Rosary every day, to obtain peace for the world. Add after each decade the following prayer: "O my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of hell, lead all souls to heaven, especially those in most need of Thy mercy."

IMMACULATE HEART: "My Immaculate Heart will be your comfort and the way which will lead you to God."

SACRIFICES: "Make sacrifices for sinners, and say often, especially while making a sacrifice: "O Jesus, this is for love of Thee, for the conversion of sinners, and in reparation for the offenses committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary."

HELL: "You have seen hell, where the souls of sinners go. It is to save them that God wants to establish in the world devotion to my Immaculate Heart. If you do what I tell you, many souls will be saved, and there will be peace." As Our Lady spoke these words, she opened her hands, and the children were able to see a sea of fire. Plunged in this flame were devils and souls that looked like transparent embers; others were black or bronze, and in human form; these were suspended in flames which seemed to come from the forms themselves--there to remain, without weight or equilibrium, amid cries of pain and despair which horrified the children so that they trembled with fear. The devils could be distinguished from the damned souls by the terrifying forms of weird and unknown animals in which they were cast. (taken from the memoirs of Lucia)

5 WARNINGS: "If my requests are not granted, Russia will scatter her errors throughout the world, provoking wars and persecutions of the Church. The good will be martyred, the Holy Father will have much to suffer, and various nations will be destroyed!"

PEACE: "If my requests are fulfilled, Russia will be converted and there will be peace.... In the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph.... a period of peace will be granted to the world."

PRAY: "Pray, pray, a great deal, and make the sacrifices for sinners, for many souls go to hell because they have no one to make sacrifices and pray for them."

WAR: "War is a punishment from God for sins!"

AMEND: "I have come to warn the faithful to amend their lives and ask pardon for their sins. They must not continue to offend Our Lord Who is already deeply offended."

ST. JOSEPH: The only saint who appeared at Fatima besides Our Lady. St. Joseph held the Child Jesus in his arms and blessed the 70,000 people three times. It is he of whom it has been said: "The sound of victory will be heard when the faithful recognize the sanctity of St. Joseph."

SCAPULAR: In the final vision, on October 13, 1917, Our Lady silently held out the Scapular. Lucia has said the Blessed Mother wants everyone to wear it.... "The Scapular and the Rosary are inseparable."

1st SATURDAY DEVOTION: "I promise to help at the hour of death with graces needed for salvation, whoever: on the 1st Saturday of 5 consecutive months, shall confess and receive Holy Communion; recite 5 decades of the Rosary; and keep me company for 15 minutes while meditating on the mysteries of the Rosary with the intention of making reparation to my Immaculate Heart."

FASHIONS: "Certain fashions will be introduced that will offend Our Lord very much."

6th COMMANDMENT: "More souls go to hell because of sins of the flesh than for any other reason."

MARRIAGES: "Many marriages are not good; they do not please Our Lord and are not of God."

PRIESTS: "Priests must be pure, very pure. They should not busy themselves with anything except what concerns the Church and souls. The disobedience of priests to their superiors and to the Holy Father is very displeasing to Our Lord."

* These quotations are in the exact order in which Our Lady of Fatima spoke them beginning with the first apparition on May 13, 1917.


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THE STORY OF FATIMA PORTUGAL


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PRAYERS TAUGHT TO THE CHILDREN OF FATIMA

Pardon Prayer

O My God, I believe, I adore, I trust, and I love you! And I beg pardon for those who do not believe, do not adore, do not trust, and do not love you.

Prayer of Reparation

O Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, I adore thee profoundly. I offer thee the most precious Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ, present in all the tabernacles of the world, in reparation for the outrages, sacrileges and indifferences by which He is offended. By the infinite merits of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I beg of thee the conversion of poor sinners.

Eucharistic Prayer

Most Holy Trinity, I adore you! My God, my god, I love you in the Most Blessed Sacrament!

Sacrifice Prayer

O my Jesus, it is for love of you, in reparation for the offenses committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary, and for the conversion of poor sinners.

Rosary Decade Prayer

O my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of hell. Lead all souls to Heaven, especially those most in need of Thy mercy.




OUR LADY OF FATIMA SAID:
http://jesusbloggerforu.blogspot.in/2014/05/our-lady-of-fatima-said-offering-will.html


THE STORY OF FATIMA PORTUGAL

http://jesusbloggerforu.blogspot.in/2014/05/the-story-of-fatima-portugal-blessed.html











Monday, 12 May 2014

IMAGES & QUOTES ON WOMANHOOD & MOTHERHOOD. 

            


WOMANHOOD - Woman & The Fertile Ground 
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