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Thursday, September 12, 2024
Rachel’s Corner
The LORD answered: I myself will go along, to give you rest.
Exodus 33:14
· How to celebrate Sep 12th
· Wake up and kickstart your day with the enthusiasm of a programmer on Programmers Day. Embody their dedication by setting goals for the day ahead. Transition into National School Picture Day by channeling your inner student. Take a school picture-inspired selfie or recreate a favorite childhood pose. Keep the fun going on National Video Games Day by challenging yourself to beat a new level or try out a new game genre.
· As the day progresses, take a moment to check in with loved ones on R U OK?Day. Send a thoughtful message or plan a video call to show you care. Dive into the spirit of World Dolphin Day by learning more about these fascinating creatures. Watch a documentary or read up on conservation efforts.
· Channel your inner athlete on Gym Day with a quick workout or a brisk walk outdoors. Treat yourself on National Chocolate Milkshake Day with a homemade milkshake using ingredients you have on hand. Celebrate National Police Woman Day by expressing gratitude for the women who serve and protect your community.
· End the day on a positive note by participating in the National Day of Encouragement. Reach out to a friend or family member with words of support or encouragement. Reflect on the joy and camaraderie shared throughout the day, knowing that even the smallest gestures can make a big impact.
Best Place to visit in September: Stanley, Idaho
If you love the outdoors, Stanley, Idaho, at the base of the jagged Sawtooth Mountains, is an excellent place to visit in September.
The crowds of summer have died down, and the weather is pleasant, with just the crisp hint of fall in the air. It’s the perfect temperature to try out some of the incredible hiking trails in the area, which will still be snow- and ice-free. Plus, you might see the first hints of autumnal colors in the wildflowers and shrubs along the mountain slopes.
One of the best hikes in the area is the Alice Lake Trail, which winds through dense pine tree forests, offers jaw-dropping views of the Sawtooths and passes multiple alpine lakes. Alternatively, for something a bit more relaxing, consider kayaking or stand-up paddleboarding on Redfish Lake, as pine trees and the mountains soar overhead.
After all that physical activity, enjoy one of the best parts of this area — any of the incredible hot springs in Stanley! There’s a ton to choose from, like Sunbeam Hot Springs, in the middle of the Salmon River, surrounded by pine trees and craggy cliffs. For something on the quirkier side, check out Boat Box Hot Springs, where you’ll enjoy the steamy waters while sitting in an old mining cauldron along the banks of the river. With just a slight nip in the air, September is the perfect time to relax in these springs.
Afterward, fuel up at Sawtooth Hotel, which provides upscale comfort food with breathtaking views of the surrounding mountains.
- Where to Stay: Stanley High Country Inn
- Nearest Major Airport: Boise International Airport
- Average Temperatures: 69°F // 27°F
Thursday Feast
Thursday is the day of the week that our Lord gave himself up for consumption. Thursday commemorates the last supper. Some theologians believe after Sunday Thursday is the holiest day of the week. We should then try to make this day special by making a visit to the blessed sacrament chapel, Mass or even stopping by the grave of a loved one. Why not plan to count the blessing of the week and thank our Lord. Plan a special meal. Be at Peace.
- Italian Wine
- Minestrone
- Salad
- Pasta
- Tiramisu
SEPTEMBER 12 Thursday
HOLY NAME OF MARY
Ecclesiastes, Chapter
12, Verse 13-14
13 The last word, when all is heard: FEAR God and keep his commandments, for
this concerns all humankind; 14 because God will bring to judgment
every work, with all its hidden qualities, whether good or bad.
Remember your ABCs of the commands of Jesus[1]:
Afraid: Matthew 10:31
- do not be afraid; Matthew 14:27-31 - Take courage, it is I; do not be afraid;
Matthew 17:7 - Rise, and do not be afraid.”
Be alert: Mark 13: 32, 33,
35-37 - “But of that day or hour, no
one knows, neither the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. - Be
watchful! Be alert! You do not know when the time will come. - Watch, therefore;
you do not know when the lord of the house is coming, whether in the evening,
or at midnight, or at cockcrow, or in the morning. May he not come suddenly and find you
sleeping. What I say to you, I say to all: ‘Watch!’”
Cross: Luke 14:26 &
27 - “If anyone comes to me without hating his father and mother, wife and
children, brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he cannot be my
disciple. Whoever does not carry his own cross and comes after me cannot be my
disciple.
Do: Matthew 7:21 –[do] the will of my Father in heaven
Eat: Matthew 26:26-29 - Take and eat…Drink from it, all of you
Fasting: Matthew 6:16-18 - “When you fast, do not look gloomy like the
hypocrites…But when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, so that you
may not appear to be fasting.
Give: Matthew 5:38-42 - offer no resistance to one who is evil. When someone
strikes you on (your) right cheek, turn the other one to him as well. If
anyone wants to go to law with you over your tunic, hand him your cloak as
well. Should anyone press you into service for one mile, go with him for two
miles. Give to the one who asks of you, and do not turn your back on one who
wants to borrow.
Heart: Matthew 22:36-40 - “You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your
heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and the
first commandment. The second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as
yourself. The whole law and the prophets depend on these two
commandments.”
Invite: Matthew 22:9 & 10 - Go out, therefore, into the main roads and invite
to the feast whomever you find.’ The servants went out into the streets and
gathered all they found, bad and good alike, and the hall was filled with
guests. Luke 14:12-14 - When you hold a lunch or a dinner, do not invite your
friends or your brothers or your relatives or your wealthy neighbors…when you
hold a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind
Judging: Matthew 7:1, 5 - “Stop judging…remove the wooden beam from your eye first.
Luke 6:37 - “Stop judging and you will not be judged. Stop condemning and you
will not be condemned. Forgive and you will be forgiven.
Kingdom of God: Matthew 6:33 - But seek first the kingdom (of God) and his righteousness.
Luke 9:58-63 - “Let the dead bury their dead. But you, go and proclaim the
kingdom of God.
Labor: Matthew 11:28-30 - “Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I
will give you rest.
Must deny himself:
Luke 9:23 & 24 - If anyone wishes to come after
me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.
Narrow Gate: Matthew 7:13 - “Enter through the narrow gate.
Observe: Matthew 28:19 & 20 - Go, therefore, and make disciples of all
nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the
holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you.
Pray that you have
the strength: Luke 21:34-36 - “Beware that your hearts do not
become drowsy from carousing and drunkenness and the anxieties of daily life…Be
vigilant at all times and pray that you have the strength to escape the
tribulations that are imminent and to stand before the Son of Man.”
Rise: Matthew 17:7 - Rise, and do not be afraid.”
Seek the Kingdom: Matthew 6:33 - But seek first the kingdom (of God) and his righteousness.
Luke 12:29-31 - do not seek what you are to eat and what you are to drink, and
do not worry anymore…Instead, seek his kingdom.
Take: Mark 14:22-24 - Take it; this is my body.” Then he took a cup, gave
thanks, and gave it to them, and they all drank from it.
Understand: Matthew 15:10 & 11 - Hear and understand.
Visited: Matthew 25:35 & 36 & 45- gave me food…gave me drink…welcomed
me…clothed me…cared for me…visited me.
Watch: Mark 13: 32, 33, 35-37 - “But of that day or
hour, no one knows, neither the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the
Father. - Be watchful! Be alert! You do not know when the time will come. -
Watch, therefore; you do not know when the lord of the house is coming, whether
in the evening, or at midnight, or at cockcrow, or in the morning. May he
not come suddenly and find you sleeping. What I say to you, I say to all:
‘Watch!’” Mark 14:32-39 - Sit here while I pray… Could you not keep watch for
one hour? Watch and pray that you may not undergo the test. The
spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.” Withdrawing again, he prayed, saying
the same thing.
You shall love: Mark 12:29-31 - ‘Hear, O Israel! The Lord our God is Lord alone! You
shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all
your mind, and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘You shall love
your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”
Most Holy Name of Mary[2]
In accordance with Jewish
custom our Lady's parents named her eight days after her birth and were
inspired to call her Mary. The feast of the Holy Name of Mary therefore follows
that of her Birthday, as the Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus follows Christmas.
The feast originated in Spain and was approved by the Holy See in 1513;
Innocent XI extended its observance to the whole Church in 1683 in thanksgiving
to our Lady for the victory on September 12, 1683, by John Sobieski, king of
Poland, over the Turks, who were besieging Vienna and threatening the West.
This day was commemorated in Vienna by creating a new kind of pastry and
shaping it in the form of the Turkish half-moon. It was eaten along with coffee
which was part of the booty from the Turks. The ancient Onomastica Sacra
have preserved the meanings ascribed to Mary's name by the early Christian
writers and perpetuated by the Greek Fathers. "Bitter Sea,"
"Myrrh of the Sea," "The Light Giver," "The
Enlightened One," "Lady," "Seal of the Lord," and
"Mother of the Lord" are the principal interpretations. These
etymologies suppose that the Hebrew form of the name is Maryãm, not Miryãm.
From the time of St. Jerome until the 16th century, preferred interpretations
of Mary's name in the West were "Lady," "Bitter Sea,"
"The Light Giver," and especially "Star of the Sea." Stella
Maris was by far the favored interpretation. The revival of Hebraic
studies, which accompanied the Renaissance, led to a more critical appraisal of
the meanings assigned to Our Lady's name. Miryãm has all the appearance of a
genuine Hebrew name, and no solid reason has been discovered to warrant
rejecting the Semitic origin of the word. The Hebrew name of Mary, Miryãm, (in
Latin Domina) means lady or sovereign; this Mary is in virtue of her
Son's sovereign authority as Lord of the World. We call Mary our Lady as we
call Jesus our Lord, and when we pronounce her name, we affirm her power,
implore her aid and place ourselves under her protection.
Catechism of the
Catholic Church
PART ONE: THE PROFESSION
OF FAITH
SECTION
TWO-I. THE CREEDS
CHAPTER TWO
I
BELIEVE IN JESUS CHRIST, THE ONLY SON OF GOD
Article 5-"HE DESCENDED INTO HELL. ON THE
THIRD DAY HE ROSE AGAIN"
Day
90
631 Jesus "descended into the lower parts of the
earth. He who descended is he who also ascended far above all the
heavens." The Apostles' Creed confesses in the same article Christ's
descent into hell and his Resurrection from the dead on the third day, because
in his Passover it was precisely out of the depths of death that he made life
spring forth:
Christ, that Morning Star, who
came back from the dead, and shed his peaceful light on all mankind, your Son
who lives and reigns for ever and ever. Amen.
Paragraph 1. CHRIST DESCENDED INTO HELL
632 The frequent New Testament
affirmations that Jesus was "raised from the dead" presuppose that
the crucified one sojourned in the realm of the dead prior to his
resurrection. This was the first meaning given in the apostolic preaching
to Christ's descent into hell: that Jesus, like all men, experienced death and
in his soul joined the others in the realm of the dead. But he descended there
as Savior, proclaiming the Good News to the spirits imprisoned there.
633 Scripture calls the abode
of the dead, to which the dead Christ went down, "hell" - Sheol in
Hebrew or Hades in Greek - because those who are there are deprived of the
vision of God. Such is the case for all the dead, whether evil or righteous,
while they await the Redeemer: which does not mean that their lot is identical,
as Jesus shows through the parable of the poor man Lazarus who was received
into "Abraham's bosom": "It is precisely these holy souls,
who awaited their Savior in Abraham's bosom, whom Christ the Lord delivered
when he descended into hell." Jesus did not descend into hell to
deliver the damned, nor to destroy the hell of damnation, but to free the just
who had gone before him.
634 "The gospel was
preached even to the dead." The descent into hell brings the Gospel
message of salvation to complete fulfilment. This is the last phase of Jesus'
messianic mission, a phase which is condensed in time but vast in its real
significance: the spread of Christ's redemptive work to all men of all times
and all places, for all who are saved have been made sharers in the redemption.
635 Christ went down into the
depths of death so that "the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God,
and those who hear will live." Jesus, "the Author of life",
by dying destroyed "him who has the power of death, that is, the devil,
and [delivered] all those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong
bondage." Henceforth the risen Christ holds "the keys of Death
and Hades", so that "at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in
heaven and on earth and under the earth."
Today a great silence reigns on
earth, a great silence and a great stillness. A great silence because the King
is asleep. the earth trembled and is still because God has fallen asleep in the
flesh and he has raised up all who have slept ever since the world began. . .
He has gone to search for Adam, our first father, as for a lost sheep. Greatly
desiring to visit those who live in darkness and in the shadow of death, he has
gone to free from sorrow Adam in his bonds and Eve, captive with him - He who
is both their God and the son of Eve. . . "I am your God, who for your
sake have become your son. . . I order you, O sleeper, to awake. I did not
create you to be a prisoner in hell. Rise from the dead, for I am the life of
the dead."
IN BRIEF
636 By the expression
"He descended into hell", the Apostles' Creed confesses that Jesus
did really die and through his death for us conquered death and the devil
"who has the power of death" (Heb 2:14).
637 In his human soul united
to his divine person, the dead Christ went down to the realm of the dead. He
opened heaven's gates for the just who had gone before him..
Daily Devotions
·
Unite in the work of the Porters of St. Joseph by joining them
in fasting: Today's Fast:
Holy Priests, Consecrated, & Religious
·
Religion
in the Home for Preschool: September
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do
a personal eucharistic stations of the cross.
·
Litany of the Most Precious
Blood of Jesus
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Offering to
the sacred heart of Jesus
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Go to MASS
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Rosary
Wednesday, September 4, 2024
Prayer consecrating the upcoming election in the United States to the Blessed Virgin Mary
Wed Sep 4, 2024 - 11:24 am EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — Father Chad Ripperger has just released a powerful new prayer consecrating the upcoming election in the United States to the Blessed Virgin Mary. Father announced the prayer while appearing on Doug Barry’s U.S. Grace Force show on Tuesday, September 3.
Among other things, Father’s prayer asks Mary to assist with “the integrity of the upcoming election and its outcome, so that what is spiritually and morally best for the citizens of our country may be accomplished.” It also begs elected officials to “govern according to the spiritual and moral principles which will bring our nation into conformity with the teachings of Thy Son.”
READ: Tucker Carlson, others react to Kamala Harris’ acceptance speech: ‘A liar on the deepest level’
The controversial 2020 presidential election four years ago saw widespread allegations of cheating and other forms of interference, including Big Tech censorship. This year has witnessed a failed assassination attempt on Donald Trump’s life and a forced removal of Democratic nominee Joe Biden from the ticket, prompting accusations of a coup by sinister forces.
Last week, GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump came out in favor of forcing insurance companies to cover the anti-life practice of in-vitro fertilization, which is contrary to Catholic moral teaching. He has also repeatedly expressed support for the pro-LGBT Log Cabin Republicans and directed the removal of support for a federal abortion ban from the GOP’s platform. His VP pick JD Vance has said he will veto such a bill if it ever lands on his desk. Bishop Joseph Strickland stated on X recently that Trump’s support for IVF means that “we are left without a profoundly pro-life candidate.”
Fr. Ripperger’s prayer (which can be read in its entirety below) seems to be aware of all this as well as the radically pro-LGBT and pro-abortion and anti-Catholic policies of Kamala Harris.
“Knowing that our country cannot be saved by our own works and mindful of how much our nation has departed from the ways of Thy Son, we humbly ask that Thou wouldst turn Thine eyes upon our country to bring about its conversion,” it reads.
During a recent appearance on Virgin Most Powerful Radio with hosts Jesse Romero and Terry Barber, Fr. Ripperger recalled that many people are telling him that “right now we’ve got, for example, candidates who are not perfect: one actually holds stuff that’s really evil, another guy holds stuff that’s also evil, but it’s not as bad,’ etc.”
Ripperger proceeded to state that when it comes to Catholics and voting, “the basic principle is, in a situation like that, then your obligation is to vote for the lesser of two evils. And the reason being is because … when you’re voting for a lesser evil, you’re not voting for the person’s evil or the evil that the thing is doing. What you’re voting to is to preserve the good that would be lost if the other opponent got in, who’s more evil.”
Below is Father’s prayer in full:
Mary Immaculate, living tabernacle of the Divinity, where the eternal Wisdom lies hidden to be adored and served by angels and men, Queen of heaven and of earth, beneath whose sway are subject all things that are lower than God, Patroness of the United States of America, sorrowful and mindful of our own sinfulness and the sins of our nation, we come to Thee, our refuge and hope. Knowing that our country cannot be saved by our own works and mindful of how much our nation has departed from the ways of Thy Son, we humbly ask that Thou wouldst turn Thine eyes upon our country to bring about its conversion. We consecrate to Thee the integrity of the upcoming election and its outcome, so that what is spiritually and morally best for the citizens of our country may be accomplished, and that all of those who are elected would govern according to the spiritual and moral principles which will bring our nation into conformity with the teachings of Thy Son. Give grace to the citizens of this land so that they will choose leaders according to the Sacred Heart of Thy Son, that His glory may be made manifest, lest we be given the leaders we deserve. Trusting in the providential care of God the Father and Thy maternal care, we have perfect confidence that Thou wilst take care of us and will not leave us forsaken. O Mary Immaculate, pray for us. Amen.
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