3 Saints to be Canonized this Coming October 23

Three intercessors in our Catholic Faith will be canonized this coming October 23, Sunday. Yes, three saints will be proclaimed by Pope Benedict XVI to be added to our veneration of sainthood. Saints are our helpers so that our prayers will be heard by God. These three saints are Sister Bonifacia Rodriguez y Castro, Archbishop Guido Maria Conforti and Father Luigi Guanella



Vatican City, Oct 23, 2011 / 04:37 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Benedict XVI has canonized three new saints at a ceremony in St. Peter’s Square in Rome, describing the heavenly triumvirate as “a model for all believers.”

Saints With Incorruptible Bodies

Saints With Incorruptible Bodies

Vassula Ryden - Modern Prophet, Instrument of God to spread the Good News

Vassula Ryden - Modern Prophet, Instrument of God to spread the Good News

This Image of Christ that one see's so often with her works, what is it? is this a vision she had and was asked to distribute, like St. Faustina had with "Divine Mercy"?

Sacred Host turned Flesh and Blood

A miracle of the flesh from a communion of Julia Kim. A host blessed by a priest turn into real blood of Jesus Christ. Strange but we must believe so that God will give us more grace and happiness.

A Stigmata in Korea

Eucharistic Miracle - A Host just descended - Date: 19970827

This happened in Naju, South Korea. This is one of the greatest miracle in Asia. The Roman Catholic Church is the best church in the world. Roman Catholicism is the foundation of all Christian Faith.

<object style="height: 390px; width: 640px"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/GV6zsKZVk-8?version=3"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/GV6zsKZVk-8?version=3" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="640" height="360"></object>

The Recent Messages of Our Lady of Medjugorje

Latest Apparition

Our Lady's monthly message to Medjugorje seer, Mirjana Soldo on October 2, 2010"Dear children!  Today I call you to a humble, my children, humble devotion. Your hearts need to be just. May your crosses be your means in the battle against the sins of the present time. May your weapon be patience and boundless love – a love that knows to wait and which will make you capable of recognizing God's signs – that your life, by humble love, may show the truth to all those who seek it in the darkness of lies. My children, my apostles, help me to open the paths to my Son. Once again I call you to pray for your shepherds. Alongside them, I will triumph. Thank you.

Our Lady's monthly message to Medjugorje seer, Maria Pavlovic on September 25, 2010
"Dear children! Today I am with you and bless you all with my motherly blessing of peace, and I urge you to live your life of faith even more, because you are still weak and are not humble. I urge you, little children, to speak less and to work more on your personal conversion so that your witness may be fruitful. And may your life be unceasing prayer. Thank you for having responded to my call."                       

Medjugorje Apparition of Mirjana. November 2, 2010 Part 1

Mirjana's Apparition in Medjugorje - October 2, 2010

Medjugorje Apparition of Mirjana. November 2, 2010 Part 2

Medjugorje Apparition of Mirjana. November 2, 2010 Part 3

MESSAGES FROM APPARITIONS WWW.SPIRITDAILY.COM

MESSAGES FROM APPARITIONS WWW.SPIRITDAILY.COM

April 2, 2006

FROM ATTACKS TO TALK OF ‘SIGNS,’ A SWIRL HAS ARISEN AROUND A FAMOUS APPARITION

There is suddenly more than the normal activity swirling around the famous apparition site of Medjugorje in Bosnia-Hercegovina. There is the approach of its 25th anniversary — and so many ready to attend that rooms are all but impossible to obtain. Crowds are said to be larger than ever (if not with so many Americans). There is the sudden flurry of new books on the apparitions. A number have been released in the last several months. There are the attacks: never in its more than two decades of history have there been so many attacks against the site. And there is the speculation on how Pope Benedict XVI feels about the happenings.

But mainly, there has been a series of extraordinary messages.

At a site where indications of the future are few and far between, and where seers carefully deflect questions about their “secrets” (focusing instead on standard Catholic teaching), now come two messages that suddenly sail beyond that low-key approach.

“Dear children! In this Lenten time, I call you to interior renunciation. The way to this leads you through love, fasting, prayer and good works. Only with total interior renunciation will you recognize God’s love and the signs of the time in which you live. You will be witnesses of these signs and will begin to speak about them. I desire to bring you to this. Thank you for having responded to me,” was the missive reported on March 18, 2006, by seer Mirjana Dragicevic-Soldo, who was first to receive all ten secrets and who receives a monthly as well as an annual birthday appearance.

That was the annual message. And not long after, on March 25, 2006 — Feast of the Annunciation — was this message from another seer, Marija Pavlovic-Lunetti:

“Courage, little children! I decided to lead you on the way of holiness. Renounce sin and set out on the way of salvation, the way which my Son has chosen. Through each of your tribulations and sufferings God will find the way of joy for you. Therefore, little children, pray. We are close to you with our love. Thank you for having responded to my call.”

It was the first time in memory that the message did not start out with “Dear children” — and the word “courage” was used in a way that went beyond its previous usage at Medjugorje (where if anything it was used in terms of evangelization). Moreover, “decided” is past tense. It had been 13 years since “signs” was uttered in such a directly prophetic way.

We must always be cautious of problems in translation. But there was no mistaking the overall tenor of two messages less than a month apart. Was she saying that the apparitions were nearing their conclusion? Or was she simply hinting that something was coming — something big?

The few indications offered about the secrets indicate that they include events that will come as warnings to the world, followed by developments in the Church, at Medjugorje itself, and by “chastisements.” John Paul II was known to read the monthly messages — with many of his themes echoing them, including establishment of World Youth Day.

But it is the idea of darkness engulfing the world — a notion John Paul also repeated, in one of his last letters — as well as major events as purification that initially galvanized interest in the apparitions, and the new messages hearken to those early days, as well as to the 1990s.

In fact the last time she uttered the term “signs of the times” had been on January 25, 1993, and then several months later on August 25, 1993, at the height of the civil war in former Yugoslavia — a time when bombs could be heard at night echoing from the nearby city of Mostar and Medjugorje itself had been threatened (but miraculously spared).

“May every hatred and jealousy disappear from your life and your thoughts, and may there only dwell love for God and for your neighbor,” she said that January. “Thus, and only thus shall you be able to discern the signs of the time.”

“Read Sacred Scripture, live it, and pray to understand the signs of the times,” she said that August.

In using similar language now was she simply pointing to the war in Iraq – which at the time of the 2006 messages was going especially badly, with sectarian strife, with the beginnings of civil war as there had been civil war in Bosnia – or is it of higher moment?

The few times she had otherwise used the word “signs” had to do with “signs” of spring, or “signs” of God in a sunrise. It had to do with nature.

These were very weighty words. It was hard to conceive of the seers formulating all this themselves, in such a perfectly succinct way. To do so, each would have to be a proficient writer – at times, more than a proficient writer. It was powerful and exacting prose.

Whatever the Church deems true or untrue (by which we will strictly abide), these were poignant reminders that what was occurring

Many People visit Medjugorje while Vatican studies said apparitions

MEDJUGORJE, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Feb. 28, 2011 (CNS) -- A Vatican-appointed commission is studying the alleged Marian apparitions at Medjugorje, but pilgrims keep arriving in the small town.

As the 30th anniversary of the alleged apparitions approaches, the town is experiencing a building boom with new hostels, restaurants and shops that cater to pilgrims.

The 11 Franciscan friars assigned to the town's convent and its sole parish -- St. James -- are assisted by visiting priests in ministering to the pilgrims and the town's 3,500 residents, who pack the church even in the winter when pilgrim buses are few and far between. A few hotels and dozens and dozens of family-run hostels offer more than 10,000 beds for pilgrims.

Individuals and members of organized groups climb the craggy Apparition Hill where six village children said they first saw Mary in June 1981. The pilgrims pray the rosary as they trudge up the hill, careful not to twist their ankles on the slices of rock jutting out of the hillside.

Most of the Medjugorje "seers" have said the apparitions have continued every day for years. Three say they still have visions each day, while the other three see Mary only once a year now. All six are now married and have children.

Ivanka Ivankovic-Elez, Mirjana Dragicevic-Soldo and Jakov Colo still live year round in Medjugorje or a nearby village; each of them was contacted in late February but declined to be interviewed.

On the second of each month, Dragicevic-Soldo says Mary shares with her a prayer for unbelievers and on the 25th of each month, Marija Pavlovic-Lunetti, who now lives with her husband and children in northern Italy, says she receives a public message from Mary.

For years the local bishop, Bishop Ratko Peric of Mostar-Duvno, has said he believes nothing supernatural is happening in Medjugorje. In an e-mail to Catholic News Service in late February, he said he would no longer comment about what is happening in Medjugorje out of respect for the Vatican commission.

While the Vatican has said dioceses should not organize official pilgrimages to Medjugorje, it has said Catholics are free to visit the town and pray there, and that the Diocese of Mostar-Duvno and the Franciscans should organize pastoral care for them.

Franciscan Father Svetozar Kraljevic, who runs pilgrim-funded social projects on the edge of town, said, "We are all a commission" -- the local Franciscans, the townspeople and the pilgrims, who by their presence continue to study the claims about Mary's appearance in Medjugorje and to judge the authenticity of the messages the young people say she gives them.

At least 1.5 million pilgrims came in the past year and their judgment is clear, he said, although the formal commission members "have been given a special responsibility" for discernment.

Offering an introductory session Feb. 25 for a pilgrim group from St. Louis, Franciscan Father Danko Perutina told them, "Everything Our Lady has been talking about here is already in our tradition -- it's nothing new -- pray, read the Bible, recite the rosary, go to Holy Mass, go to confession."

Father Perutina told the St. Louis group that official church bodies, particularly bishops' conferences, have been investigating the Medjugorje visionaries' claims for years and whatever the Vatican commission decides, "we must accept."

"There weren't as many investigations of Lourdes and Fatima," the Marian apparitions in France and Portugal respectively, "but everything must be tried by fire. Only the good things will remain," he said.

Father Perutina told the pilgrims, "Apparitions are one expression of God's acting in the world and they are helping people."

The Franciscan friar is collecting stories of priests and nuns from around the world who say their vocations are connected to Medjugorje and he said he already has more than 500 such testimonies; Father Rodger Fleming, one of the priests leading the St. Louis group, said his is one of them.

The associate pastor of St. Clement of Rome parish in St. Louis said he was making his 20th visit to Medjugorje, which he first visited with his parents and siblings.

In late February, his group was the only organized English-speaking pilgrimage in Medjugorje; there were several Italian groups, but things were pretty quiet in the little town.

Wandering around the church grounds Feb. 26 were four men in their 30s carrying plastic souvenir bags. The four friends work in Switzerland, but two are Armenian Orthodox from Turkey, one is Italian and one is Croatian.

Jakob, a 37-year-old Armenian, said, "Whether the Vatican says it's true or not really doesn't matter. What counts is what you believe inside, and I believe people need this."

The Italian, who said he has changed his name to Omar, said he agreed to join his friends on the roadtrip to Medjugorje "because I believe. It attracts me. You don't have to have more of a reason than that."

THE PROFESSION OF FAITH-Catholic Catechis

PART ONE
THE PROFESSION OF FAITH

SECTION ONE
"I BELIEVE" - "WE BELIEVE"

26 We begin our profession of faith by saying: "I believe" or "We believe". Before expounding the Church's faith, as confessed in the Creed, celebrated in the liturgy and lived in observance of God's commandments and in prayer, we must first ask what "to believe" means. Faith is man's response to God, who reveals himself and gives himself to man, at the same time bringing man a superabundant light as he searches for the ultimate meaning of his life. Thus we shall consider first that search (Chapter One), then the divine Revelation by which God comes to

Historical Perspectives - Roman Catholicism

As she attempts to interpret and implement the Second Vatican Council, the Roman Catholic Church is reexamining her relationship with the world, other faiths, and fellow Christians.

In January 1959, Pope John XXIII (1958-1963) stunned the Church and the world when he called for an ecumenical council, ultimately called Vatican II and meeting 1962-1965. His goal was to see if the Church could update herself (using the Italian wordaggiornamento), engage fellow Christians, and work toward repairing other difficult relationships, such as the one the Church had with Judaism. He lived only to see the

Who Are The Founders of Roman Catholicism

Jesus' first apostles handed authority down in an apostolic succession that developed into a system of bishops, but the specific jurisdiction of Rome's bishop was initially unclear.

Jesus, of course, is the founder of Christianity, but he was not in the business of organizing an administrative bureaucracy. Christians date the birth of the Church to Pentecost, the feast celebrated ten days after Jesus' ascension into heaven, fifty days after the resurrection. Since the first Christians believed Jesus' second coming would occur any day, creating a structure was unnecessary. As time passed and the first apostles were dying before Jesus' return, they had to hand authority down to successors (apostolic succession) by praying and imposing hands over a person that the apostle and/or community recognized as a natural leader, who was

The Influences of Roman Catholic

Early Christianity drew on a variety of sources - Jewish ideas, Greek philosophy, Greek and Latin vocabulary - in an attempt to explain complex theological formulations.

The first task any new group needs to accomplish is to establish its identity, especially its self-identity; to do so, early Christians drew on an important Jewish notion of themselves as the people of God. The word laos first designated the new people of God in the line of Abraham, a nation, or Israel, all of which denote monotheists standing apart from the

The Beginning of Roman Catholic

What came to be called Roman Catholicism was born as the new Christian faith grounded in the teachings and passion of Jesus Christ, who lived in 1st-century Palestine under Roman occupation.

Christianity developed within what historians call a Jewish matrix: the context of Judaism in Palestine, a Roman province, in the 1st century C.E. Indeed, at first Christianity was so closely tied with Judaism that it is best to speak of a Jesus community comprised of Jews and Gentiles for several decades. Some scholars prefer to

Overview of Catholicism

Roman Catholicism is a worldwide religious tradition of some 1.1 billion members. It traces its history to Jesus of Nazareth, an itinerant preacher in the area around Jerusalem during the period of Roman occupation, in the late 20's of the common era. Its members congregate in a communion of churches headed by bishops, whose role originated with the disciples of Jesus. Over a period of some decades after Jesus' life, death, and resurrection, the bishops spread out across the world to form a "universal" (Greek "katholikos") church, with the bishop of Rome (originally Peter) holding primacy. The pope is the inheritor of Peter's role; today Vatican City--and specifically, Saint Peter's Basilica--stands over the grave of the disciple. Catholic Christianity began as a persecuted religious community, illegal in the Roman Empire in its earliest days, but within some three hundred years and with the conversion of the Emperor Constantine, it became a

Roman Catholicism Suffering and the Problem of Evil

Humans suffer as a result of sin and as a call to turn to God. Evil is the absence of good rather than having existence in itself.

Suffering and evil are distinct and yet interrelated concepts in Catholic thinking. Ultimately, the fall of humanity is the cause of all suffering. Humans were created to exist in harmony with God, but instead they chose the path of disobedience, which brought suffering and death into the world. Catholics believe that while humans have the free choice to disobey, they can never find true joy and peace except in harmony with and obedience to God. As St. Augustine says so eloquently in his Confessions, "Our hearts find no rest until they rest in You."

In the Catholic view, human action is not the only cause of suffering: while God as the source of all goodness can never act in a manner that is evil, God may send suffering to open the hearts of those who have refused to hear God's call. In their pride and

God Is Always Taking Care Of Us

Since I was young, I can feel that God has been really helping us and guiding us in every move we make. There were times when we feel down and nothing to ask for help here on earth but I strongly believe that God is ready to make instruments to accommodate our needs. Allow me to tell all of my sweet and challenging experiences in my life with the guidance and a strange and unexplainable  phenomenon ever happened to me since I know God.

Please leave your comments below!

Good Book:

Honoring God with My Life