St. Anne & St. Joachim

St. Anne’s Novena

July 18 – 26

&

St. Anne & St. Joachim Feast Day Mass

July 26

At The Rosary Shrine of Saint Jude

Washington, DC

Good St. Anne, pray for us and our loved ones.

The Dominican Friars will include you and your family in the prayers and Masses of this Novena

That Honors The Grandparents of Jesus,

St. Anne is a model for grandparents today in guiding their families to live good and virtuous lives.

The greatest gifts grandparents can give are love and faith.

The Rosary Shrine of Saint Jude

Dominican Friars

Washington, DC

www.rosaryshrineofstjude.org

Where did your name come from?

Behind The Name

Derivation Of Your Name:

www.behindthename.com

Our Lady of Mount Carmel

Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel

At the

Carmel of the Holy Spirit Monastery

In Littleton, CO

This feast, instituted in the 14^th Century by the Carmelite Order, commemorates the day in 1251 when the Blessed Mother gave the brown scapular to Saint Simon Stock in England.

“The Blessed Virgin Mary watches unceasingly with a mother’s loving care over the beloved of her Son, and lights us along our pilgrim way to the Mount of your Glory, our beacon of comfort, and the embodiment of all hopes as members of the Church.”

You and your family will be included in the prayers and Mass offered today by the Carmelites.

Carmel of the Holy Spirit Monastery

Littleton, CO

Dancing to "All Night"

Talented . . .

This video was totally viral about three or four weeks ago, a time for levity in the loft of a young man identified only as “JustSomeMotion” on YouTube.

His fancy footwork is set to the tune of “All Night” by an Austrian musician and DJ named Parov Stelar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=5ueJ4-lTa1s

Ave Verum Corpus by Mozart

This was sung at Latin Choral Mass yesterday at Holy Ghost Catholic Church in Denver.  Beautiful . . .

The 'Ave Verum" by, of course, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791 Austrian Composer).

This hymn brings you to the centre of our Catholic Faith, that is Christ in the Eucharist!

The Eucharist gives us a 'foretaste' of Heaven. In the reception of 'Communion' we receive Christ Himself("Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity).

Christ truly enters into us and imparts to us His Holy Spirit of Love and Truth.

After Communion I often say, "Jesus, it is good for us (me) to be here." during my 'thanksgiving'!

Ave, verum corpus
natum de Maria Virgine,
Vere passum immolatum
in Cruce pro homine,
Cujus latus perforatum
unda fluxit et sanguine,
Esto nobis praegustatum
in mortis examine.

Hail, true Body,

born of the Virgin Mary,

who having truly suffered,

was sacrificed on the cross for mankind,

whose pierced side flowed with water and blood:

May it be for us a foretaste [of the Heavenly banquet] in the trial of death.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePe0XyJwdJE

Pipe Organ - Gregorian Chant - Polyphony

What would you say if I told you:

“In the Latin Church the pipe organ is to be held in high esteem, for it is the traditional musical instrument which adds a wonderful splendor to the Church’s ceremonies and powerfully lifts up man’s mind to God and to higher things.” (Sacrosanctum Concilium 120.)

To the extent that the new sacred music is to serve the liturgical celebrations of the various churches, it can and must draw from earlier forms — especially from Gregorian chant — a higher inspiration, a uniquely sacred quality, a genuine sense of what is religious. (St. John Paul II, 1980)

“other kinds of sacred music, especially polyphony, are by no means excluded from liturgical celebrations, so long as they accord with the spirit of the liturgical action.” (SC 116)

Pope Paul VI saw the dam that broke in the Church music situation. In 1974, he tried to plug the hole and set the Church back on course when he wrote to all the Bishops of the world. He sent all the Bishops a book called Jubilate Deo. This document contains all of the basic chants that should be familiar to every practicing Catholic.

Over 50 years after the promulgation of Sacrosanctum Concilium and it is still probably one of the most debated documents of the Church. It’s time for every musician and every Catholic to slowly and prayerfully read the source to see what the Father’s of the Second Vatican Council really said and what they did not so as to stop making it up as we go along.

http://www.courageouspriest.com/the-spirit-vatican-ii-crock-bulloney?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+courageouspriest%2FqTKF+%28Courageous+Priest%29

St. Odilia - Patron of the Eyes

St. Odilia – Patron of the Eyes & of the Afflicted

Solemn Novena

July 10-18

On each day of the Annual Solemn Novena, the

Crosier Fathers and Brothers of Onamia, MN will pray to

Saint Odilia

Asking her to intercede for your special intentions and healing needs.

National Shrine of St. Odilia

Crosier Fathers and Brothers

Onamia, MN

www.crosier.org

Odilia was born in France in the seventh century. When she was still an infant, her parents realized that she was blind. Her father was so angry that he ordered his only child put to death. But Odilia’s mother convinced him to allow Odilia to be raised by nuns.

The nuns raised Odilia with faith and love. They gathered around her on the day of her baptism when she was twelve years old. As the priest blessed her with chrism, her blindness was cured. A legend about this miracle says that the priest then said to her, “Now you will see me in the kingdom of heaven.”

Odilia was welcomed home and began to get to know her family. She was a beautiful young woman and her father planned for her to marry a rich man. Odilia wanted to become a nun and to live the life she knew so well. Her father again lost his temper and treated her badly until one day he saw her hiding a bowl of food under her cloak as she left the castle. He asked her what she was doing. Odilia explained that she was bringing food to the poor.

Odilia’s father gave her his castle to use as a convent and a place for the hungry and sick to find help. At her request, her father also built a monastery at the foot of the steep hill that led to the castle so that the elderly and lame could be cared for without a long journey uphill. Soon, Odilia’s father also built a large church so that everyone, poor or wealthy, could worship God together.

The Church honors St. Odilia on December 13. She is the patron saint of anyone with eye problems. St. Odilia teaches us to see the everything we do with eyes of faith and to believe that with the Lord, anything is possible.