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Feast of the Holy Family
2007-12-31 05:11:00 To the Immaculate Heart of MaryOh Mother Most Pure, we come to You as a family and consecrate ourselves to your most Immaculate Heart.We come to You as a family and place our trust in Your powerful intercession.Oh Dearest Mother Mary, teach us as a mother teaches her children, for our souls are soiled and our prayers are weak because of our sinful hearts.ready to respond to You and follow Your way, for Your way leads us to the heart of Your Son, Jesus.We are ready to be cleansed and purified.Come then Virgin Most Pure, and embrace us with Your motherly mantle.Make our hearts whiter than snow and as pure as a spring of fresh water.Teach us to pray, so that our prayers may become more beautiful than the singing of the birds at the break of dawn.Dear Mother Mary, we entrust to Your Immaculate Heart of hearts, our family and our entire future.Lead us all to our homeland which is Heaven.Amen.
By: Catholic Prayers
The Holy Family: A Triple Threat
2007-12-30 20:50:00 December has been a great month of feast days for the Church. So far we have celebrated the lives of St. Nicholas, Mary (the Immaculate Conception and our Lady of Guadalupe), and Jesus Christ, in his birth. We end this month with the Feast of the Holy Family.I would suspect that when most people think about the Holy Family--if they think about it at all--they imagine a picture of perfect happiness, where there is no worry or suffering of any kind and where every day just turns out, well, perfectly. Yes, Jesus and Mary were completely sinless, and Joseph was a most chaste and righteous man. But, they still had their struggles. We see from today's Gospel reading that Mary and Joseph had quite a scare when, for three days, they had no clue where to find their son. Just imagine losing the Savior of the World!!Lk 2:41-4941 Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the Passover.42 And when he was twelve years old, they went up according to custom;43 and when the feast ...
The Holy Family
2007-12-24 07:12:00 Pavel Nikolayevich Filonov (January 8,1883?December 3, 1941)The Holy Family 1914Oil on canvas. 159x128 cmThe State Russian Museum. St Petersburg In 1929, a large retrospective exhibition of Filonov art was planned at the Russian Museum; however, the Soviet government forbade the exhibition from going forward.From 1932 onward, Filonov literally starved but still refused to sell his works to private collectors. He wanted to give all his works to the Russian Museum as a gift so as to start a Museum of Analytical Realism.He died of starvation on December 3, 1941 during the Siege of Leningrad.Most of Filonov's works were saved by his sister Yevdokiya Nikolayevna Glebova. She stored the paintings in the Russian Museum's archives and eventually donated them as a gift.Exhibitions of Filonov's work were forbidden.
Pope Benedict on Christmas, the Holy Family and the Human Pe
2007-01-02 06:59:01 On the Meaning of Christmas - translation of the address Benedict XVI gave at the general audience last Wednesday, held in Paul VI Hall:Let us return to the question: "Why did God become man?" St. Irenaeus writes: "The word has become the dispenser of the Father's glory for the usefulness of men.... The glory of God is the living man -- 'vivens homo' -- and the life of man consists in the vision of God" ("Adv. Haer," IV, 20.5.7). God's glory is manifested, therefore, in the salvation of man, whom God has so loved "who gave him," as John's Gospel affirms, "his only Son so that he who believes in him will not perish, but have eternal life" (John 3:16). So love is the ultimate reason for Christ's incarnation. Eloquent in this respect is the reflection of the theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar, who wrote: God "is not, in the first place, absolute power, but absolute love whose sovereignty is not manifested in keeping for himself what belongs to him, but in its abandonment" ("Myst... |
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