tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40549273831828348772024-03-18T23:06:41.468-10:00Guadalupe House Ministry A Roman Catholic Pilgrim Statue & Sacred Relics Lay-Ministry in Oahu, HawaiiGuadalupe House Ministry, Honoluluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12963024851327671717noreply@blogger.comBlogger674125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4054927383182834877.post-28568889040978178252024-03-17T21:09:00.092-10:002024-03-18T23:06:08.892-10:00The Flame of Love graces Hawaii!<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_NzvriIVSw3FDz0lsBbB9aAfN94X7l_uN6X5-scLdkN0gae7rWBJBMUGfx89NxVBXEfg45mSzvCUl0W96lllOBvhRIrf7UJ0hmWkSLKNQXbVbnm0YPuyA_JWD93aZYo-u7QywHgaFFCX7K74Qq4QG-hANikpTBeS2_7vVTrx_gQqa6tqZj1dupaRO0rC_/s219/Flame%20of%20Love.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="219" data-original-width="164" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_NzvriIVSw3FDz0lsBbB9aAfN94X7l_uN6X5-scLdkN0gae7rWBJBMUGfx89NxVBXEfg45mSzvCUl0W96lllOBvhRIrf7UJ0hmWkSLKNQXbVbnm0YPuyA_JWD93aZYo-u7QywHgaFFCX7K74Qq4QG-hANikpTBeS2_7vVTrx_gQqa6tqZj1dupaRO0rC_/w299-h400/Flame%20of%20Love.jpeg" width="299" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: georgia;"><i>"... I am providing you with so powerful</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: georgia;"><i>a grace: the burning Flame of Love from</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: georgia;"><i>My Heart, that has never before been</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: georgia;"><i>offered as it is now."</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: georgia;">- Our Lady to Elizabeth Kindelmann</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">This author had the joy and blessing of attending one of two presentations given today about the Church-approved private revelations called the <i>Flame of Love of the Immaculate Heart of Mary </i>or simply the <i>Flame of Love.</i> The speaker was none other than Mr. John Sullivan III, the International Coordinator of the devotion's worldwide apostolate.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQLYObhDID1oYLcQEatqTHwRqSmrCZ87UZxRcxii4PDMeKWgOmUvQzPk7RcAXcdjVYSrvzFGDVT1UV5s5sruD4pFlQM6UpbfejIRskFhGxLYR2ZAW2gU5S-LCg3BTO82-J8M2F6gJuRMk-XS6yc9y46e9Jq4RXydWGq-IFlEdGdVixkQBiqag0lpqIgt1H/s3511/20240317_163427.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1580" data-original-width="3511" height="288" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQLYObhDID1oYLcQEatqTHwRqSmrCZ87UZxRcxii4PDMeKWgOmUvQzPk7RcAXcdjVYSrvzFGDVT1UV5s5sruD4pFlQM6UpbfejIRskFhGxLYR2ZAW2gU5S-LCg3BTO82-J8M2F6gJuRMk-XS6yc9y46e9Jq4RXydWGq-IFlEdGdVixkQBiqag0lpqIgt1H/w640-h288/20240317_163427.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><i><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: georgia;">Mr. Sullivan speaking at St. Pius X</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">Church in Manoa, Honolulu.</span><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><br /></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">I recall first reading bits about the Flame of Love over 25 years ago from pamphlets, and it's exciting for me to see how the devotion has spread exponentially since gaining approval in 2009! It now seems to be a frequently discussed topic in various faith-based social media platforms, and there are prayer cenacles throughout the world. In a time when our society is becoming increasingly godless and, consequently darker, these private revelations received by the late Elizabeth Kindelmann (d. 1985) from Jesus and our Blessed Mother are also highly relevant. It really does appear to be the hand of God at work.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">From what I gathered from this afternoon's talk, the gist of the messages are:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><ul><li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: georgia;">The Holy Virgin is lamenting the sins of the world and is offering us her own love - the Flame of Love of her Immaculate Heart - which she desires to ignite in our own hearts.</span></li></ul><span style="color: #fff2cc;"><br /></span><ul><li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Our Lady desires that we not only open ourselves to the gift of the Flame of Love, but to also <i>"add our love to this Flame and pass it on to others..." </i></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">in order to bring about a positive, spiritual change in the world.</span></span></li></ul><span style="color: #fff2cc;"><br /></span><ul><li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: georgia;">The<i> </i>Flame of Love is none other than Jesus, himself, who desires to fill us with Sanctifying Grace and, thus, intimately live within us and work through us.</span></li></ul><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #fff2cc;"><br /></span></div><ul><li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: georgia;">The actual miracle of the Flame of Love is its spreading from one heart to another, causing a blazing conflagration of Divine Love and Light that will "blind" Satan, rendering him powerless in our personal lives; within our families; and through all the world. Thus, ushering in the era of the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, as prophesied at Fatima.</span></li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">It was a great presentation and I found the Flame of Love revelations beautiful and inspiring ... and </span><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">John</span><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">'s delivery was excellent. I actually picked him up from the airport this morning so had a one-on-one conversation with John while driving to the church-venue where we attended Mass together - my impression of the man is that he doesn't only tirelessly preach the message, but he is totally committed to living it! Hence, the sincerity and the passion that was evident during his talk.</span></div><div><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguU9_Y9xANktOR8wJEH6DwxMkr20dAADKUQjAKJ2M9P3LWcEZPx71kAVKeiRn5Rp3CMZp8jWXk28yDYrNVg01r4tPD2Kmuz-cbWQ7oU79qIk6bIB0NhdfzjV_We-dhUq6m7TKeCxdmCy5WsApuUVjWnUXMfasIvxWlMvjatRMeE7dOqqvx0-VBaWvh1SW_/s4000/20240317_124024.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="1800" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguU9_Y9xANktOR8wJEH6DwxMkr20dAADKUQjAKJ2M9P3LWcEZPx71kAVKeiRn5Rp3CMZp8jWXk28yDYrNVg01r4tPD2Kmuz-cbWQ7oU79qIk6bIB0NhdfzjV_We-dhUq6m7TKeCxdmCy5WsApuUVjWnUXMfasIvxWlMvjatRMeE7dOqqvx0-VBaWvh1SW_/w288-h640/20240317_124024.jpg" width="288" /></a></div><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: georgia;"><i>Me, with Mr. John Sullivan in St. Pius X</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: georgia;"><i>Church prior to the first presentation.</i></span></div><div><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">I anticipate our local Church will reap an abundant harvest of good spiritual fruit from these presentations. In fact, there were clear indications that God was providentially behind John's coming to Hawaii with the Flame of Love message</span><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">. First off, he </span><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">was only initially scheduled to make a 6-hour layover in Honolulu during which he planned to meet with a friend of mine named Margaret ... but when John's scheduled visit to Papua New Guinea fell through, time opened up and Margaret seized the opportunity to connect him with the Coordinator of our Diocesan Evangelization Task Force (another close friend named Dominic). Amazingly, within an unusually short span of time, Dominic received the necessary approval for </span><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">John</span><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"> to speak in our diocese and the venues were secured! </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">Then, yesterday morning (a day before John's talks), after attending morning Mass at St. John Vianney Church in Kailua, I stopped to pray at the parish's outdoor shrine to the <i>Immaculate Heart of Mary</i>. I asked the Blessed Mother for the favor of a solid response to a question I had and snapped a photo of the sky - below is the remarkable pic that resulted:</span></div><div><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoyB0aCcS8JorrImFH3YQ4JoQZW4wp78PKIcloUhvUgY8zrG4ZV8M-P3PWBpPNlcMpfaQ5LZX_L-dAUoBHARdrv9mmKtMqGT3Gg-GmH8WuhKitJQAfoQ2ixDgU1hpuDftZHLmTdbK1wBbF3alD9RyorbuAUNuSkJ5QUMDRjwAiIL7eScvYqiJgYGTr17y2/s1515/20240316_085113%20(1)%20(1)%20(1).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1083" data-original-width="1515" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoyB0aCcS8JorrImFH3YQ4JoQZW4wp78PKIcloUhvUgY8zrG4ZV8M-P3PWBpPNlcMpfaQ5LZX_L-dAUoBHARdrv9mmKtMqGT3Gg-GmH8WuhKitJQAfoQ2ixDgU1hpuDftZHLmTdbK1wBbF3alD9RyorbuAUNuSkJ5QUMDRjwAiIL7eScvYqiJgYGTr17y2/w400-h286/20240316_085113%20(1)%20(1)%20(1).jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: georgia;"><i>"I place a beam of light in your hands;</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: georgia;"><i>it is the Flame of Love of my heart. Add</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: georgia;"><i>your love to this Flame and pass it</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: georgia;"><i>on to others ..."</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: georgia;">- Our Lady to </span><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: georgia;">Elizabeth Kindelmann,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: georgia;">April 13, 1962</span></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimPO8NmKCPSIi_4GWa7V2ZX2fhd46NJdzdCPhEAIs_sTB7wSqlsf1MSzbURy9j1a7FpZ1VY3eXef04Y25mKGCwRT6e5pPYL_caK_OjDU78XuHxOwD3MwQyCNw06coKyBpsuE8SLgPqf8TXp_qLk6snn5QMFimr1rY_jNRUa9lN37LnFIqbr6AMvUwMivAl/s716/Mediatrix%20of%20All%20Grace,%203-16-2024.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="418" data-original-width="716" height="374" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimPO8NmKCPSIi_4GWa7V2ZX2fhd46NJdzdCPhEAIs_sTB7wSqlsf1MSzbURy9j1a7FpZ1VY3eXef04Y25mKGCwRT6e5pPYL_caK_OjDU78XuHxOwD3MwQyCNw06coKyBpsuE8SLgPqf8TXp_qLk6snn5QMFimr1rY_jNRUa9lN37LnFIqbr6AMvUwMivAl/w640-h374/Mediatrix%20of%20All%20Grace,%203-16-2024.gif" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">For me and several friends, we discerned the brilliant figure of the Holy Virgin amongst the clouds ... and note the "beams of light" streaming down from her! The photo not only answered my question but was it also a prophetic, visible sign of special graces to descend upon Hawaii through the Flame of Love? Upon careful reflection, I believe so. We are indeed being graced in an extraordinary manner, and I thank our Lord and dear Blessed Mother profusely for their kindness towards us. Praises be to God!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzIW0DCzxQsjNjhLFMTqyoD1GX2IukrrJltPrXHinUU-4xGpKsMghyR71U8-hTlJ8fSQb2jllpJiWOCUTMqPhUJt0DBsqvwS_gOQKPDtMPYiUK6rwvyme7T1vLTzcG6xaHAZgn3lz6o16xkqXxDxhhzn0t-d1ZWWxnGWX314RGc3lWoyhsIzpnppXx0UZz/s2257/20231223_075859.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2257" data-original-width="1694" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzIW0DCzxQsjNjhLFMTqyoD1GX2IukrrJltPrXHinUU-4xGpKsMghyR71U8-hTlJ8fSQb2jllpJiWOCUTMqPhUJt0DBsqvwS_gOQKPDtMPYiUK6rwvyme7T1vLTzcG6xaHAZgn3lz6o16xkqXxDxhhzn0t-d1ZWWxnGWX314RGc3lWoyhsIzpnppXx0UZz/w300-h400/20231223_075859.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: georgia;"><i>The shrine to the Immaculate </i></span><i style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: georgia;">Heart of</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><i style="font-family: georgia;">Mary at St. John Vianney Church </i><i style="font-family: georgia;">(note the</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><i style="font-family: georgia;">golden flames of love </i><i style="font-family: georgia;">above her heart).</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">There are more talks scheduled for tomorrow - see </span><a href="https://guadalupehousehi.blogspot.com/2024/02/coming-to-hawaii-in-june.html?m=1" target="_blank"><span style="color: #fff2cc;"><b>here</b></span></a><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"> - which I strongly encourage Oahu Residents to attend, if possible. Otherwise, to learn more about the Flame of Love Devotion, visit its official website by clicking </span></span><a href="https://flameoflove.us/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #fff2cc;"><b>here</b></span></a><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUwYmF3v8dgLtvaVoCZluiEzJIiB7StI288IfT3ygKMzPMQ3f6Ur9B5lpgmCvF-RhtTpiZH8SvhsdM8p1yfM8f0O-hwJcOH7Nzdy2SCxQ9EQ98vIzyEfm3gAaZW51Wcdwzsh-QEt17nmjUS9rvchkB6nRC3M9NDpxxz7jIaS0DX6s8jlxKVVJVw6rbiD77/s2880/20230520_074444.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2880" data-original-width="2880" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUwYmF3v8dgLtvaVoCZluiEzJIiB7StI288IfT3ygKMzPMQ3f6Ur9B5lpgmCvF-RhtTpiZH8SvhsdM8p1yfM8f0O-hwJcOH7Nzdy2SCxQ9EQ98vIzyEfm3gAaZW51Wcdwzsh-QEt17nmjUS9rvchkB6nRC3M9NDpxxz7jIaS0DX6s8jlxKVVJVw6rbiD77/w640-h640/20230520_074444.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><i>Prayers revealed to Elizabeth Kindelmann.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><i><br /></i></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fff2cc;"><i>"We shall fight fire with fire: </i><i>the fire</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fff2cc;"><i>of </i><i>hate with the Fire of Love! </i><i>I obtained</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fff2cc;"><i>this </i><i>grace from the Eternal Father on</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fff2cc;"><i>your behalf </i><i>by virtue of the five Blessed</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #fff2cc;">Wounds of My Divine Son.”</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #fff2cc;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fff2cc;"><i>- </i>Our Lady to Elizabeth Kindelmann</span></div><div style="color: #cfe2f3; text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div></span></div>Guadalupe House Ministry, Honoluluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12963024851327671717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4054927383182834877.post-47946734642389292482024-03-08T07:00:00.002-10:002024-03-12T09:20:38.046-10:00Annual Novena to St. Joseph: March 11th - 19th<br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">It's that time again - this ministry cordially invites readers to honor and celebrate St. Joseph through this annual novena. The novena will be prayed begining from March 11th through March 19th, the <i>Feast of St. Joseph</i>. All those participating and their respective prayer petitions will be commended to St. Joseph in the special presence of his relic in this ministry's custody. So le</span><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">t's pray together - for each other - in the course of these 9 days of prayer.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">Blessings and best wishes to all participants - St. Joseph, pray for us!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO64ezhx92GLKTaVW6a8YqJ0zMsqZT-XuqqKqDaxK8W-MB0N13MfF5QsRf65A-CK141P_RNW1UzIeQRRFajtGI7uEksvobK1di9EU8u113zX0SDcA1gnYQL1g3hn9xJKqiVrTTYWm2F038/s680/20210311_123200.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="680" data-original-width="340" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO64ezhx92GLKTaVW6a8YqJ0zMsqZT-XuqqKqDaxK8W-MB0N13MfF5QsRf65A-CK141P_RNW1UzIeQRRFajtGI7uEksvobK1di9EU8u113zX0SDcA1gnYQL1g3hn9xJKqiVrTTYWm2F038/w320-h640/20210311_123200.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d5a6bd; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span><span style="color: #d5a6bd; font-family: georgia;">Dear </span><span style="color: #d5a6bd; font-family: georgia;">St. Joseph, glorious foster father</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span><span style="color: #d5a6bd; font-family: georgia;">of our Lord Jesus Christ; protector of</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="color: #d5a6bd; font-family: georgia; font-style: italic;">His</span><span> </span></span><i><span><span style="color: #d5a6bd; font-family: georgia;">Mystical Body, the Church - I entrust</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="color: #d5a6bd; font-family: georgia; font-style: italic;">myself,</span><span> </span></span><i><span><span style="color: #d5a6bd; font-family: georgia;">this day, to your fatherly care.</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="color: #d5a6bd; font-family: georgia; font-style: italic;">As you lovingly</span><span> </span></span><i><span><span style="color: #d5a6bd; font-family: georgia;">did for Jesus and your</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="color: #d5a6bd; font-family: georgia; font-style: italic;">beloved spouse, the</span><span> </span></span><i><span><span style="color: #d5a6bd; font-family: georgia;">Blessed Virgin Mary,</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="color: #d5a6bd; font-family: georgia; font-style: italic;">watch over me and assist</span><span> </span></span><i><span><span style="color: #d5a6bd; font-family: georgia;">me with my</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span><span style="color: #d5a6bd; font-family: georgia;">daily needs... and through the intercession</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span><span style="color: #d5a6bd; font-family: georgia;">of your most Chaste Heart, obtain for</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span><span style="color: #d5a6bd; font-family: georgia;">me </span></span></i><i><span><span style="color: #d5a6bd; font-family: georgia;">from your Divine Son, this favor</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span><span style="color: #d5a6bd; font-family: georgia;">I </span></span></i><i><span><span style="color: #d5a6bd; font-family: georgia;">humbly ask of you:</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span><span style="color: #d5a6bd; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">[mention or describe your petition]</span></span></div><span style="color: #d5a6bd; font-family: georgia;"><span><i><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d5a6bd; font-family: georgia;"><span><br /></span></span></div>St. Joseph, benevolent and efficacious</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d5a6bd; font-family: georgia;"><span><i>advocate, </i></span></span><i style="color: #d5a6bd; font-family: georgia;">pray for us who have recourse</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="color: #d5a6bd; font-family: georgia;">to you. Amen.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d5a6bd; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="color: #d5a6bd;"><!--/data/user/0/com.samsung.android.app.notes/files/clipdata/clipdata_bodytext_210311_132754_014.sdocx--><span style="font-family: georgia;">[Add an <i>Our Father</i>, a <i>Hail Mary</i>,</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="color: #d5a6bd;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">and a <i>Glory Be </i></span></span><span style="color: #d5a6bd; font-family: georgia;">in honor of St. Joseph]</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d5a6bd; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>Guadalupe House Ministry, Honoluluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12963024851327671717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4054927383182834877.post-10501433758528468282024-03-01T05:00:00.161-10:002024-03-01T05:47:44.780-10:00Saint of the Month - March 2024: Blessed Giustina Bezzoli Francucci<div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjys_oQUtzvDVEtlAEyY9Q_UWgEky3V5EdVuK2RmWbt0baFCSQ6hHMcxbEfn2z1Yyy8nFFf1Qckne-J0kCpA0BHqXA7mYTsRj3ZWKnOwumqZ5hpMoN_2RvkxBCGpnKvusoj8x3IbZm-tAM3a8ucGMJXbu8Ieki5dDyltgsaQxBiMJ7O55_n1BEGN74-tZKm/s362/Beata%20Giustina%20Bezzoli1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="362" data-original-width="244" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjys_oQUtzvDVEtlAEyY9Q_UWgEky3V5EdVuK2RmWbt0baFCSQ6hHMcxbEfn2z1Yyy8nFFf1Qckne-J0kCpA0BHqXA7mYTsRj3ZWKnOwumqZ5hpMoN_2RvkxBCGpnKvusoj8x3IbZm-tAM3a8ucGMJXbu8Ieki5dDyltgsaQxBiMJ7O55_n1BEGN74-tZKm/w432-h640/Beata%20Giustina%20Bezzoli1.jpg" width="432" /></a></div><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>Bl. Giustina Bezzoli Francucci</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: georgia;"><i>An Enemy of Demons</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: georgia;"><i>Memorial: March 12th</i></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">Our featured holy person for March 2024 is <i>Bl. Giustina Bezzoli Francucci</i>. Born in Arezzo, Italy, circa 1237, she was a woman of noble birth who was apparently touched by the Holy Spirit from a very young age. Biographers report that, as a child, she displayed pious and penitential tendencies that were exceptionally mature for her age. For example, she preferred praying in solitude rather playing with other youngsters, and she often skipped meals in favor of giving her food to the poor.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">At just 12-years-old, Giustina disclosed her desire to enter religious life to her family, but was met with intense opposition from both her father and paternal uncle. A serious illness then struck her father, which caused him to reconsider, granting her leave to follow-through with her plan to become a nun.</span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: justify;">Giustina chose the Benedictine Monastery of San Marco, where she entered at 13. Upon crossing the threshold, a dove alighted on her head, indicating the special presence of the Holy Spirit upon her. Once inside, she cast aside her fine clothing to wear the coarse habit of the sisters; the only personal belonging from the outside world that she kept was a crucifix, which she treasured all her life. </div><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: justify;">As a young nun, by all accounts, she was a model religious who impressed her companions with her faithful adherence to the Benedictine Rule, her humility, and obedience to her superiors.</div><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #9fc5e8; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6Hf-wlxmXhQJi4Jc3UxlKx1NDFGW1doutJBkMTxGgjcZDKhTFxqigZWjHJ1Jyt6_kgxq-oU2Fm6g_ylQUFGemrTbqBVt8Xgz0f3PG9S4XPx9Ab-y-O36WViat1Qqce6x6ddxpDPhtbU8LnXE8gsToGhN0HJ5ClTqySi2YfQztLq40q1wWXTl-is744T95/s606/Beata%20Giustina%20Bezzoli2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="291" data-original-width="606" height="309" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6Hf-wlxmXhQJi4Jc3UxlKx1NDFGW1doutJBkMTxGgjcZDKhTFxqigZWjHJ1Jyt6_kgxq-oU2Fm6g_ylQUFGemrTbqBVt8Xgz0f3PG9S4XPx9Ab-y-O36WViat1Qqce6x6ddxpDPhtbU8LnXE8gsToGhN0HJ5ClTqySi2YfQztLq40q1wWXTl-is744T95/w640-h309/Beata%20Giustina%20Bezzoli2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">The incorrupt body of Bl. Giustina</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">enshrined in Florence, Italy.</span></i></div><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: justify;">Four years after Giustina’s entry, war forced the Sisters of San Marco to merge with the Benedictine community in the nearby Monastery of All Saints, where the Beata’s stay was short-lived. At their new home, word came to her of a holy hermitess named Lucia, who had taken up a solitary life of contemplation amongst the ruins of a remote abandoned castle in Civitella. Inspired, Giustina obtained necessary permission from her Bishop to become a recluse, herself, and was welcomed by Lucia.</div><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: justify;">In the woods, the two women quickly became solid friends and lived a spiritual regimen of poverty and austerity. They lived off the land and spent their days in prayer and meditation; signal graces were granted by our Lord to the pair. For example, packs of wolves roamed the area, but the protection of their angelic guardians kept the two anchorites free from their attacks.</div><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: justify;">After a few years of peaceful coexistence, Lucia fell ill and was lovingly cared for by her companion. She died after a year, leaving Giustina alone in their tiny hermitage … but the Beata persevered in her voluntary isolation, adding extreme mortifications to her spiritual exercises in her desire to conform closely to Christ Crucified: she wrapped an iron chain around her waist; wore a hair-shirt under her outer clothing; and regularly used a flagrum. Ecstasies and visits from her Divine Spouse were sublime consolations that sustained her in her difficult mode of life.</div><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: justify;">Giustina remained 35 years in the castle ruins before her rigorous lifestyle took a toll on her health – her eyesight began failing, which prompted her to return to the Monastery of All Saints where the Benedictines welcomed her back with open arms, given her fame of sanctity.</div><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: center;"><div style="color: black;"><i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5fwt-ca2hm0fYlTsml-0K6-mFAe3iXabRcNtaepStqaDZNHyACovrq0H0gLpo3SZrnltE_H9mu0w-jNb6aSSLYW7iR_k3fIvFP25nj2Y1ceqWTFvrPL-0wAMQms57kHFhT291iOF00-iwQ8LjA697op9EixnC5bC37aYu3__S2bj4cSebam7kgvjoKVw1/s254/Beata%20Giustina%20Bezzoli3.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="191" data-original-width="254" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5fwt-ca2hm0fYlTsml-0K6-mFAe3iXabRcNtaepStqaDZNHyACovrq0H0gLpo3SZrnltE_H9mu0w-jNb6aSSLYW7iR_k3fIvFP25nj2Y1ceqWTFvrPL-0wAMQms57kHFhT291iOF00-iwQ8LjA697op9EixnC5bC37aYu3__S2bj4cSebam7kgvjoKVw1/w400-h301/Beata%20Giustina%20Bezzoli3.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div></i><i><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">A closer view of Bl. Giustina's face.</span></i></div><div style="color: black;"><br /></div></div><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: justify;">The Blessed lived her last 20 years completely blind but still in fruitful ministry. Her charisms of effecting cures and working miracles became well-known in the region, attracting pilgrims to her monastery ... and it was also noted that to be in her presence was enough to cast out demons from the possessed! Such was the great power of the Holy Spirit working through her.</div><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">By the time she died on March 12, 1319, Giustina was already revered as a local Saint. Cures occurred at her grave, on which a lily sprouted after her burial ... and spontaneous exorcisms of possessed individuals continued to occur. Her body, discovered </span><a href="https://guadalupehousehi.blogspot.com/2012/05/mystery-of-incorruptibles.html?m=1" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><b>incorrupt</b></span></a><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"> 10 years after her passing, was initially enshrined in the Arezzo monastery, but was later transferred in 1968 to the Benedictine Monastery of Santa Maria del Fiore in Lapo, Florence. It remains there, today, in a simple glass-sided shrine for the public to venerate.</span></div><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: justify;">Bl. Giustina Bezzoli Francucci's cultus was recognized and approved in January 1891 by Pope Leo XIII, effectively Beatifying her. Presently, a second "official" miracle is still needed for her Cause to advance to Sainthood. Let us pray for it.</div><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">Bl. Giustina Bezzoli,</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">advocate against evil spirits,</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">pray for us!</span></i></b></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> Guadalupe House Ministry, Honoluluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12963024851327671717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4054927383182834877.post-64855760187307711032024-02-28T17:06:00.012-10:002024-03-17T09:26:55.337-10:00Coming to Hawaii in March 2024!<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Oahu Residents, mark your calendars ...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtw69TORmjbZLE_M0uEKmf4afH8I_Z4577DSr2Aemx1YVREX6byOXednr8TPRMC4ghjrVZ5BIF6ncwBRzCYWHg0ZuZFH7sMjUYSfLbAOrPedYy62fyiBJVIJd_JGWPtx5T9InyW1_yMWLHQd_FtLu2IuFUqTEpceE6ZQmb2zmIJAbeLmKxpmRXzdRmV7pN/s1080/FB_IMG_1710696645285.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="608" data-original-width="1080" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtw69TORmjbZLE_M0uEKmf4afH8I_Z4577DSr2Aemx1YVREX6byOXednr8TPRMC4ghjrVZ5BIF6ncwBRzCYWHg0ZuZFH7sMjUYSfLbAOrPedYy62fyiBJVIJd_JGWPtx5T9InyW1_yMWLHQd_FtLu2IuFUqTEpceE6ZQmb2zmIJAbeLmKxpmRXzdRmV7pN/w640-h360/FB_IMG_1710696645285.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: large;">Holy Mary, Mother of God,</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">pray for us sinners ... </span><span style="color: #ffd966;">spread the </span></i><i><span style="color: #ffd966;">effect</span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-size: large;"><i><span>of grace of thy Flame of Love over </span></i><i><span>all </span></i><i><span>of</span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: #ffd966;">humanity</span><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"> ... now and at the hour </span></i><i><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">of</span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">our </span></i><i><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">deaths. Amen.</span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div>Guadalupe House Ministry, Honoluluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12963024851327671717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4054927383182834877.post-6784859921189094402024-02-25T11:10:00.006-10:002024-02-25T11:14:49.296-10:00Monthly Message of the Queen of Peace of Medjugorje: February 2024<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHMwwUzjNeagiLKb0K7tjkXy6xrYwF9xb90MiOSGI8BshuK1CJDp-mcyEG5yHb76fu_ulGAu6E3yvmG995gJc28_FNmrinXts53KXzcv7V66l4oOv2iqeLudJqeBc_8d2a9MN99Urnb9WyNQl0M4ogI6WA9c3diGCp1lc2-YxW4LUVsDanolzNMdmsHTUL/s3005/20230903_081257.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3005" data-original-width="2044" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHMwwUzjNeagiLKb0K7tjkXy6xrYwF9xb90MiOSGI8BshuK1CJDp-mcyEG5yHb76fu_ulGAu6E3yvmG995gJc28_FNmrinXts53KXzcv7V66l4oOv2iqeLudJqeBc_8d2a9MN99Urnb9WyNQl0M4ogI6WA9c3diGCp1lc2-YxW4LUVsDanolzNMdmsHTUL/w436-h640/20230903_081257.jpg" width="436" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: georgia;"><i> "Dear Children! Pray and renew your heart so that the good which you have sown may bear the fruit of joy and oneness with God. Darnel has seized many hearts and they have become unfruitful<b>*</b>; that is why, you little children, be light, love and my outstretched hands in this world, which yearns for God Who is love. Thank you for having responded to my call."</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-small;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>* NOTE:</b> "Darnel" is a type of weed</span><i style="color: #cfe2f3;">.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i style="color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></i></span></div>Guadalupe House Ministry, Honoluluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12963024851327671717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4054927383182834877.post-81904077378366265852024-02-24T12:06:00.027-10:002024-02-24T21:08:11.239-10:00Saints & Relics Presentation: Mary Star of the Sea Youth Group, 2/23/2024<div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">Praise the Lord! The Saints were once again warmly welcomed at Mary, Star of the Sea Church by its resident Youth Group.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_GmvE-YdKSQVuysdvAUKdt-rCfH4S2wCjClJmANIZOe8t1r4GLvILz5nmOh9L2XC9DzDtUyOwC2wL9pqCom5QXlf7bYSXz6QIYdViGIEMvIcn72wGNxdsZTO5Um0hbvD4rKY7xwDiu_BRWZtxG83M7KIc2ZflaoLaRWmIhbNYUmlopzZLI6ameRCrfmwk/s3484/20240223_190224.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1606" data-original-width="3484" height="296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_GmvE-YdKSQVuysdvAUKdt-rCfH4S2wCjClJmANIZOe8t1r4GLvILz5nmOh9L2XC9DzDtUyOwC2wL9pqCom5QXlf7bYSXz6QIYdViGIEMvIcn72wGNxdsZTO5Um0hbvD4rKY7xwDiu_BRWZtxG83M7KIc2ZflaoLaRWmIhbNYUmlopzZLI6ameRCrfmwk/w640-h296/20240223_190224.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">It's always encouraging and a joy for this blogger to see young people being genuinely enthusiastic about our Saints ... and </span><a href="https://guadalupehousehi.blogspot.com/2011/07/great-article-about-sacred-relics.html?m=1" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">Relics</span></a><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">, too - it's a positive and hopeful sign for our local Church! In fact, I recognized a couple of girls at last night's presentation who were also at the same talk I conducted at a </span><a href="https://guadalupehousehi.blogspot.com/2024/01/saints-relics-presentation-girls.html?m=1" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">Girl's Retreat</span></a><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"> in another parish last month ... so it's a good indication that something from the last presentation actually motivated them to sit through another one.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlXhjsBCuyVg6gntGRPOlv28yYnd-r-QfpnzOH3jrI8_De4h_0g46GGtxj6aDewn_aIm7DdI6WNmfxv1XdU59wbjFtDnTMDLxTbRHGeYgbVrXV9DL2XzV75nt4rhK_8iqpL6YfuG6Rwg6MGt088fJQjMHLtoAr_dnDUDWhtZkXzmyiK1a5Yx7JVfEGhySV/s3280/20240223_190257.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="3280" height="352" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlXhjsBCuyVg6gntGRPOlv28yYnd-r-QfpnzOH3jrI8_De4h_0g46GGtxj6aDewn_aIm7DdI6WNmfxv1XdU59wbjFtDnTMDLxTbRHGeYgbVrXV9DL2XzV75nt4rhK_8iqpL6YfuG6Rwg6MGt088fJQjMHLtoAr_dnDUDWhtZkXzmyiK1a5Yx7JVfEGhySV/w640-h352/20240223_190257.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><i>Holy Family Relics</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">This time around, the holy persons/relics who were featured, included: </span><i style="color: #9fc5e8;">St. Bernadette of Lourdes</i><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">; </span><i style="color: #9fc5e8;">Ven. Domenica Lazzeri</i><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">; </span><i style="color: #9fc5e8;">Bl. Miguel Agustin Pro</i><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">; </span><i><a href="https://guadalupehousehi.blogspot.com/2024/02/saint-of-month-february-2024-blessed.html?m=1" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">Bl. Sebastian de Aparicio</span></a></i><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">; </span><i style="color: #9fc5e8;">St. Maria Goretti</i><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">; </span><i style="color: #9fc5e8;">St. Peregrine Laziosi</i><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">; </span><i style="color: #9fc5e8;">St. Padre Pio</i><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">; </span><i><a href="https://guadalupehousehi.blogspot.com/2011/10/saint-of-month-october-2011.html?m=1" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">St. Therese the Little Flower</span></a></i><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">; and the </span><i style="color: #9fc5e8;">Holy Family</i><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmpSls-f2tCNFyNoMpQpTuSOWhb7RbvfQ4KnKoKrER7yLLsvVz_kivt2ulqsn2PxTAIt_d3X3ru3AY_VuoLaX886KMeeZPKNGU8rWP3oAbdfWy_aXofGgGPBQJ79FR6OnrVJ-l-9y_A0LhF9KxqKkmI9a9OgYpa0ysuVpUWxIjIWvnvYVHSUrn9NnxxMVi/s2891/20240223_212757.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1638" data-original-width="2891" height="362" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmpSls-f2tCNFyNoMpQpTuSOWhb7RbvfQ4KnKoKrER7yLLsvVz_kivt2ulqsn2PxTAIt_d3X3ru3AY_VuoLaX886KMeeZPKNGU8rWP3oAbdfWy_aXofGgGPBQJ79FR6OnrVJ-l-9y_A0LhF9KxqKkmI9a9OgYpa0ysuVpUWxIjIWvnvYVHSUrn9NnxxMVi/w640-h362/20240223_212757.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><i><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">Participants venerating the relics.</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">What definitely was affirming for me from this night was when a girl - Jade - who was one of the repeat-attendees, shared that, after listening to the presentation at the St. Ann Parish Girl's Retreat, she immediately knew who her upcoming Confirmation Saint would be - St. Maria Goretti, whose life touched her in a powerful way! S</span><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">he was noticeably excited that I had also brought the Saint's relic to this event.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6eMoKGbgizRpzUv0mqFKBFSwbGsCOgaQKjULEUzIQndsayQ1V6tGpcVt3zOkEqYO_bLI10Lr9QG-hqg9PnnjyO45-guecuNMUmoJAAzsUKsqJSu43Pa05dUuNwj4lYpvnDvuANvKN1UoJZp0Wj5mqdExQUiGw1ombG6bXzICkglfEuOSJ4xlNccWkbVrB/s2676/20240223_190245.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1587" data-original-width="2676" height="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6eMoKGbgizRpzUv0mqFKBFSwbGsCOgaQKjULEUzIQndsayQ1V6tGpcVt3zOkEqYO_bLI10Lr9QG-hqg9PnnjyO45-guecuNMUmoJAAzsUKsqJSu43Pa05dUuNwj4lYpvnDvuANvKN1UoJZp0Wj5mqdExQUiGw1ombG6bXzICkglfEuOSJ4xlNccWkbVrB/w640-h380/20240223_190245.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: georgia;"><i>A reliquary of Bl. Sebastian de Aparicio</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">with a piece of his religious habit.</span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">Judging by the youngsters' reactions and the testimony below from the Youth Group Coordinator, it's evident that the holy example of our Faith-Heroes and their respective relics are making a positive impression on people young and nature - the Holy Spirit is at work! All thanks and praises be to God, our Blessed Mother, and the Saints!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4jn7SDAtjgRiJirOMJd9OcoJ2ubZ4M9a_04Fq6J5MM-uhV9kiUb0mG1LGAHo6buZztNsYMmvkz1slDSVsJtVis6he3h2ZFJEQiL4L4UDYvXtb-GCpTPxZAH21TTRfuNdM0IukIuD04UOYQ9O5hThDziUiQ_llagZZuKsDv7djAM8uXRZ6quxNie7TNKoI/s3742/20240223_190303.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3742" data-original-width="1684" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4jn7SDAtjgRiJirOMJd9OcoJ2ubZ4M9a_04Fq6J5MM-uhV9kiUb0mG1LGAHo6buZztNsYMmvkz1slDSVsJtVis6he3h2ZFJEQiL4L4UDYvXtb-GCpTPxZAH21TTRfuNdM0IukIuD04UOYQ9O5hThDziUiQ_llagZZuKsDv7djAM8uXRZ6quxNie7TNKoI/w288-h640/20240223_190303.jpg" width="288" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnqGoO3SurKk0uQdsOkiRK4zX5XkjV-rmjWy5GLZKcfPrcdbut_4os_1YzYkMtlifLPyXa7BJSULpWsya2Tpp-Y6CoIJsqZnTi2HaV5TfFL1eppCmQpZ1s8huLexX9rqqpSZTaDRSviAPkrodTrMm4EwVaNSU4n0l2WsGHLcK2bdAU_zKnLYWI_FnR-RMk/s3579/20240223_190251.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3579" data-original-width="1610" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnqGoO3SurKk0uQdsOkiRK4zX5XkjV-rmjWy5GLZKcfPrcdbut_4os_1YzYkMtlifLPyXa7BJSULpWsya2Tpp-Y6CoIJsqZnTi2HaV5TfFL1eppCmQpZ1s8huLexX9rqqpSZTaDRSviAPkrodTrMm4EwVaNSU4n0l2WsGHLcK2bdAU_zKnLYWI_FnR-RMk/w288-h640/20240223_190251.jpg" width="288" /></a></div><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: georgia;"><i>Bodily Relics of Sts. Bernadette & Peregrine</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><b> * * * T E S T I M O N Y * * *</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifwJBrypms9krRPXx9oaRTEYgpUi1210wpQO_wMP30ZySn_ys9se1jIesSmlBX2zmx-xJmsxfNjd009GPl0Q2G8FwlYk18RZl5w_-HU5cAhWlRxoy7ClOpyltfvTw3FdIBwXAK656UvVyT6J_RFtT3Qs44cHzsfEvojSWqsObjxwqbb1YTKSswXdXa8nHc/s720/Screenshot_20240224_114532_Messages.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="519" data-original-width="720" height="462" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifwJBrypms9krRPXx9oaRTEYgpUi1210wpQO_wMP30ZySn_ys9se1jIesSmlBX2zmx-xJmsxfNjd009GPl0Q2G8FwlYk18RZl5w_-HU5cAhWlRxoy7ClOpyltfvTw3FdIBwXAK656UvVyT6J_RFtT3Qs44cHzsfEvojSWqsObjxwqbb1YTKSswXdXa8nHc/w640-h462/Screenshot_20240224_114532_Messages.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div>Guadalupe House Ministry, Honoluluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12963024851327671717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4054927383182834877.post-68752701058083089232024-02-17T14:37:00.028-10:002024-02-17T20:45:15.582-10:00Saints & Relics Presentation: St. John Vianney Church, 2/17/2024<div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPZLJBpYkhS_4fG7x75bqgU2h36tX92rvbuM1aZiONiNC5CM1yWUxxzZ9zWPObuX7CiNchLF4hvOeOGLa8BH92ve0oVxE7cxV40NesZpUv-BjzxgfjKB77lA7tE94cOtX-xc1Xll_ViYqgexDvF8mMN7T2K67-UgEgQ3K8WjiSKZap_bfpAU2l0ojJKHK4/s3665/20240217_100133.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1750" data-original-width="3665" height="306" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPZLJBpYkhS_4fG7x75bqgU2h36tX92rvbuM1aZiONiNC5CM1yWUxxzZ9zWPObuX7CiNchLF4hvOeOGLa8BH92ve0oVxE7cxV40NesZpUv-BjzxgfjKB77lA7tE94cOtX-xc1Xll_ViYqgexDvF8mMN7T2K67-UgEgQ3K8WjiSKZap_bfpAU2l0ojJKHK4/w640-h306/20240217_100133.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">Our children need good role-models. Forget those superficial, self-indulgent celebrities and social media "influencers" out there who come and go - </span><b style="color: #9fc5e8;">our children need God and holy role-models who truly represent positive values </b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">... which is why when this author got a last-minute request to do a </span><a href="https://guadalupehousehi.blogspot.com/p/blog-page.html?m=1" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">Saints & Relics Presentation</span></a><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"> today for CCD kids and their adult sponsors, I had to accept despite short notice. After all, these youngsters will eventually grow up to be our future ... and children ignorant of God translates to a very bleak tomorrow for all of us. Try to picture it.</span></div><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">So, this morning, I introduced my audience to several holy persons/relics with the triple goal of making our spiritual heroes better known and appreciated; inspiring deeper faith in the audience members; and to emphasize <b>HOLINESS IS POSSIBLE FOR ALL</b>. Among those whose lives and relics were shared were: </span><i><a href="https://guadalupehousehi.blogspot.com/2021/02/saint-of-month-february-2021-venerable.html?m=1" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">Ven. Anne de Guigne</span></a></i><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">; </span><i><a href="https://guadalupehousehi.blogspot.com/2011/06/hawaiis-devotion-to-st-damien-bl.html?m=1" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">St. Damien of Molokai</span></a></i><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">; </span><i><a href="https://guadalupehousehi.blogspot.com/2021/05/saint-of-month-may-2021-saint-margaret.html?m=1" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">St. Margaret of Castello</span></a></i><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">; </span><i style="color: #9fc5e8;">Bl. Pier Giorgio Frassati</i><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">; </span><i><a href="https://guadalupehousehi.blogspot.com/2011/10/saint-of-month-october-2011.html?m=1" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">St. Therese the Little Flower</span></a></i><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">;</span><i style="color: #9fc5e8;"> </i><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">and the</span><i style="color: #9fc5e8;"> Holy Family</i><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">, too!</span></div><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #9fc5e8; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjA5RN0pI0UA56XcB414ii7Lbt71dcsnhyphenhyphen9fpp4-5cUvvQ37MPaZk-yPh2gWRkDVSj3HscmpGfXFchf8mANHtYtHNa0gVaBm2Hnp90i13N_tyyXpOBWHi36yP8PrdYeWZyl6j_C5zdOjFiFqG2ABFWH6JvKaZX-fC_yBZg0ei3JuVdEgfDt7FyFCYChMIRB/s2207/20240217_100231.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1675" data-original-width="2207" height="152" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjA5RN0pI0UA56XcB414ii7Lbt71dcsnhyphenhyphen9fpp4-5cUvvQ37MPaZk-yPh2gWRkDVSj3HscmpGfXFchf8mANHtYtHNa0gVaBm2Hnp90i13N_tyyXpOBWHi36yP8PrdYeWZyl6j_C5zdOjFiFqG2ABFWH6JvKaZX-fC_yBZg0ei3JuVdEgfDt7FyFCYChMIRB/w200-h152/20240217_100231.jpg" width="200" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYEHDrT8HEYfLSEwWFTYLbiH3gA7QTXd9v_DsL0lyLLPTaJXevge-O2RbhxauL2hhKfPHFBsEtkZFPK09kuju3OoR8V3pp6wtoDRpG2MNWT28jcFUz-ZGNp5bIz2UlRsnBJI61Cai4KakQVpO4nRnbARLWMdz07VEHE3zYVMHhPO56uDNWed3jUsU6On8w/s1895/20240217_100218.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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color: #9fc5e8; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">Holy Relics on display at St. John</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">Vianney </span></i><i><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">Church in Kailua</span></i></div><br /><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqtIc2hCS6mXBVeP-_fx7XuSLYwGRO9QxcNYakohCHhXVR3w2C_gGZRDLenDoBI_MyuEFg_tJqiuqjH9YKBEiA_crPIK8TO-10Pm84Xc9n2yeGG5K7mZEHZu-ajA0NB6Pn1B9DFPIywS3zAnRvZ-sNSD2GlfFHmDlwCzuDDqz8z-vDFIzWUvNWZjNzmNcW/s1954/20240217_100045.jpg"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqtIc2hCS6mXBVeP-_fx7XuSLYwGRO9QxcNYakohCHhXVR3w2C_gGZRDLenDoBI_MyuEFg_tJqiuqjH9YKBEiA_crPIK8TO-10Pm84Xc9n2yeGG5K7mZEHZu-ajA0NB6Pn1B9DFPIywS3zAnRvZ-sNSD2GlfFHmDlwCzuDDqz8z-vDFIzWUvNWZjNzmNcW/w200-h160/20240217_100045.jpg" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8vlCi8QkdsQC2LqNbZybUn7QFG-Ku74qMCJwS9LtQarqnINwCDhvbyCVHXD9mKqOEOaamZQHkI-rRR219QwarzhJVZt-B8UkfZBr8Ssu7Micbd0_GtpjFCTUQfAwP14jP-7NlACDu6_cYOIwuoP9eUU5AjVpLnOjDMi8NY_glu30HuI6d2uzF1fAEbCKq/s1864/20240217_100700.jpg"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8vlCi8QkdsQC2LqNbZybUn7QFG-Ku74qMCJwS9LtQarqnINwCDhvbyCVHXD9mKqOEOaamZQHkI-rRR219QwarzhJVZt-B8UkfZBr8Ssu7Micbd0_GtpjFCTUQfAwP14jP-7NlACDu6_cYOIwuoP9eUU5AjVpLnOjDMi8NY_glu30HuI6d2uzF1fAEbCKq/w200-h152/20240217_100700.jpg" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_vAwzINYkoGCYceEH0wLJfqR2RonrqsVw0csX-6M3sEcPMU1KNxTMRykLutHhjeT2BOxqkwGw-qItYyLXpMHeTXANlTIQMqKAkoDRieYPwlUo6jlYySeO0j4rQYtTQAjqQj40Irx4eQ5OFppVKdFWEUVEIp9j8GA-jL2kl75dC9apnJ9lRYkdgdKrfCZm/s2356/20240217_100052.jpg"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_vAwzINYkoGCYceEH0wLJfqR2RonrqsVw0csX-6M3sEcPMU1KNxTMRykLutHhjeT2BOxqkwGw-qItYyLXpMHeTXANlTIQMqKAkoDRieYPwlUo6jlYySeO0j4rQYtTQAjqQj40Irx4eQ5OFppVKdFWEUVEIp9j8GA-jL2kl75dC9apnJ9lRYkdgdKrfCZm/w200-h151/20240217_100052.jpg" /></a></div></span> <span style="font-family: georgia;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #9fc5e8; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">After each talk, I always invite my audiences to approach the displayed relics to personally "meet" the Saints and to invoke their intercession for their various needs. I allow people to respectfully touch the reliquaries and/or to apply their devotional items while they pray, but not pick them up. This time around, the kids didn't even wait for the invitation - instead, as soon as I finished describing all the </span><a href="https://guadalupehousehi.blogspot.com/2011/06/saint-of-month-st.html?m=1" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">sacred relics</span></a><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"> present, they rushed the display tables ... and the adults followed!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">Many took holy cards made especially for the event by the parish's CCD Director, and the children delighted in touching them to their respective reliquaries; those with cellphones took advantage of the QR Codes next to the relics to download "Bio-Cards" of each featured Blessed or Saint.</span></div><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #9fc5e8; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0j6H3wquF6yZJtsH675UALfHNbpDpBEWxRX_Ya0lT0zMLeukmRyf-xvYfQRSQgvNyfIhno2yah2e2lBylv2DHo09ZDA9b7L2iOrQgl8aS1OWI96rM6DciFO2pK5qLOL9OG4Lknb7QPECGiwF9RbFfculyalmwvrfYsufTSuDy1i-6D3-V2u7e52xQlPRg/s2838/20240217_110939.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2838" data-original-width="1689" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0j6H3wquF6yZJtsH675UALfHNbpDpBEWxRX_Ya0lT0zMLeukmRyf-xvYfQRSQgvNyfIhno2yah2e2lBylv2DHo09ZDA9b7L2iOrQgl8aS1OWI96rM6DciFO2pK5qLOL9OG4Lknb7QPECGiwF9RbFfculyalmwvrfYsufTSuDy1i-6D3-V2u7e52xQlPRg/w380-h640/20240217_110939.jpg" width="380" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">Adults and children having personal</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">encounters </span></i><i><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">with Saints and Relics</span></i></div></span><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: justify;">Feedback received from several parents and grandparents present all agreed with me about our children needing quality role-models ... and it was encouraging for this ministry to know that the grownups were appreciative to learn about our awesome Church Heroes, alongside their kids. God bless and help their families!</div><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>Jesus said, “Let the little children</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>come to me, and do not hinder them,</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: georgia;"><i> </i></span><i style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: georgia;">for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">to such as these.”</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: georgia;">- Matthew 19:14</span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span></div>Guadalupe House Ministry, Honoluluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12963024851327671717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4054927383182834877.post-4299662525139263302024-02-11T00:52:00.071-10:002024-02-27T08:54:03.563-10:00Saint of the Month - February 2024: Blessed Sebastian de Aparicio<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEbqP-OBvUd0Tr-RMH8QrknZdLPSszR06BWtMxrKnotEMD5dBOR4VSxeQvvyAmsSUu4RWFI-BO9JtuBtWrahkXbNK3dEEhtkHd3Rb21vP8yLnKixTpbyjIomrO7OKnkt_ouez6QESR3Q-DjecTSrlkz7943zpHH1lmWtqFM0MRBNBiTmTkhAJ4l8wA0fBH/s902/Bl.%20Sebastian%20de%20Aparicio%20Features.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="902" data-original-width="630" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEbqP-OBvUd0Tr-RMH8QrknZdLPSszR06BWtMxrKnotEMD5dBOR4VSxeQvvyAmsSUu4RWFI-BO9JtuBtWrahkXbNK3dEEhtkHd3Rb21vP8yLnKixTpbyjIomrO7OKnkt_ouez6QESR3Q-DjecTSrlkz7943zpHH1lmWtqFM0MRBNBiTmTkhAJ4l8wA0fBH/w448-h640/Bl.%20Sebastian%20de%20Aparicio%20Features.jpg" width="448" /></a></div><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>Bl. Sebastian de Aparicio</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: georgia;"><i>A humble son of St. Francis</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: georgia;"><i>Memorial: February 25th</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">This month's featured holy person - <i>Bl. Sebastian de Aparicio</i> - was born in Gudiña, Spain, on January 20, 1502, but died in Puebla de los Angeles (aka Puebla), Mexico; he was reported to be a miracle worker during the golden years of his life and this is his story.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">Raised in a family of devout Spanish peasant farmers, as a child he fell victim to the black plague and was secretly isolated in a shack in the woods by his parents. There, the sick boy was visited by a mysterious wolf that nipped at his swollen sore - the "bubo" - which then bled and drained. Sebastian began improving right away and eventually fully recovered so</span><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"> he was able to resume work on his family's farm.</span><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"> The cure left the youngster with a growing love for God, as well as, a great appreciation for all His creatures. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">At the age of 20, Sebastian left home to look for work so as to better assist his impoverished family and to raise dowries for his unwed sisters. He worked as a servant in the home of a wealthy widow but left when she made unwanted advances towards him. The youth next took a job on a farm, but was again the object of affection, this time by his employer's daughter; he again quit. Apparently, Sebastian was said to be so handsome and strong, he attracted attention from the ladies wherever he went, which tried his personal virtue. At 31, he decisively boarded a ship bound for the Americas, never to return.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn62Es7qv84AUnMq40QEjiqv-IrfMa1Hz0b7Sef8Yel-DB8hVuLWbL3AdgJM5_xIZziLwlYSvsGdc3bp6SBmRhxKY7RNZnkriVaecdmmKF1TOwUr_VdxqE6eeLVk4I-L855C6wqg0MFHq1o3-5_wUwgr0h6NGkZ3vAq2KsMfZAP9ZqRFsSNioKy0Kl0n5X/s963/Bl.%20Sebastian%20de%20Aparicio.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="963" data-original-width="653" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn62Es7qv84AUnMq40QEjiqv-IrfMa1Hz0b7Sef8Yel-DB8hVuLWbL3AdgJM5_xIZziLwlYSvsGdc3bp6SBmRhxKY7RNZnkriVaecdmmKF1TOwUr_VdxqE6eeLVk4I-L855C6wqg0MFHq1o3-5_wUwgr0h6NGkZ3vAq2KsMfZAP9ZqRFsSNioKy0Kl0n5X/w434-h640/Bl.%20Sebastian%20de%20Aparicio.jpg" width="434" /></a></div><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: georgia;"><i>Bl. Sebastian sometimes saw angels</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: georgia;">who </i><i style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: georgia;">assisted him in his ministry. </i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">In 1533, Sebastian arrived in the port city of Veracruz, Mexico, where he made his way to the newly established town of Puebla. Being illiterate, he at first worked odd jobs doing manual labor, but seeing how primitive the method of transport was in Mexico (people still carried things on their backs), he started both a wagon manufacturing business and a goods transport operation; thus, Sebastian has the unique distinction of having introduced the wheel to Mexico ... and since he needed better surfaces on which to run his wagons, he was also instrumental in constructing the first paved roads along his trade routes between Puebla and Veracruz ... then to Mexico City, where he later moved his business. Sebastian's dealings quickly made him a very wealthy man.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">At the mature age of 50, Sebastian retired from the transport industry and went into farming and cattle ranching in Zacatecas, which was also lucrative for him. Despite his wealth and prestige in Mexico, he retained his pious and humble disposition, and practiced mortifications to keep his human weaknesses in check. Sebastian treated his workers more like family than hired help, teaching them the European methods of farming and domesticating livestock; his less-fortunate neighbors were also beneficiaries of his exceeding kindness and charity. It goes without saying that the Beato was</span><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"> highly respected, if not outright loved, by many for both his secular and charitable contributions to Mexican society.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">Sebastian remained a bachelor until the age of 60. A serious illness somehow made him more receptive to the idea of marriage so he entered into one with a much younger woman from Chapultepec, a poor friend's daughter who couldn't raise a dowry; the union was never consummated, and his wife died within a year of their wedding.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">At 67, Sebastian married yet another young woman, but again, he and his new bride agreed to live in chastity - she, too, passed away after an accidental fall from a tree. This tragedy caused further reflection about the purpose of his life and, upon the suggestion of his confessor, the widower sold his belongings and distributed the proceeds to his workers and the poor; his farm/ranch was donated to a struggling new Poor Clare convent where he volunteered for a time as a servant. In June 1574, he entered the Franciscan Order in Mexico City, and was professed a Lay Brother a year later, but not before undergoing certain difficulties due to his illiteracy, and from retaliatory physical assaults from the devil that started in response to his religious vocation.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmAxCc-QE7efDHrdcSkCGwMn_hkrGeMUD3tXaMDf_E2rF_IcXAlT9JpJJYTosVw7-zVrLneXT_wx9EMwqKvdAcn9ky8X929uUT1l1x63lBygBw0bIZ-b7xaN4iDHFiveztzp0tgwhGmckxDlE1vv3ifbHaO6TymYYbRCZlYESZQMtVVssUXv7val_Y72Jg/s3094/20230423_161354.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1392" data-original-width="3094" height="288" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmAxCc-QE7efDHrdcSkCGwMn_hkrGeMUD3tXaMDf_E2rF_IcXAlT9JpJJYTosVw7-zVrLneXT_wx9EMwqKvdAcn9ky8X929uUT1l1x63lBygBw0bIZ-b7xaN4iDHFiveztzp0tgwhGmckxDlE1vv3ifbHaO6TymYYbRCZlYESZQMtVVssUXv7val_Y72Jg/w640-h288/20230423_161354.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: georgia;"><i>This author at the shrine of Bl. Sebastian</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: georgia;"><i>in </i></span><i style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: georgia;">the Church of St. Francis of Assisi, Puebla,</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: georgia;"><i>in April of 2023</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">The Beato, now 73-years-old, was first sent to the monastery of Santiago in Tecali where he served as porter, gardener, and cook, before being reassigned to Puebla, his former hometown. There, Bro. Sebastian was primarily given the task of begging for food and necessities for the entire monastery so it became a common sight to see him out and about in Puebla. Consequently, the townspeople and Sebastian's fellow Franciscans were witness to his many good deeds and the wonders that surrounded him during this latter period of his life - the Beato was graced with the following spiritual gifts ...</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><ul><li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><b>Animals of all sorts understood and obeyed his commands: </b>Examples include times when the oxen he employed to pull the monastery's alms wagon would be let loose in open wilderness only to obediently return to him when he called to them; an unruly horse known for bucking riders would become docile only when the Blessed rode it; and ants that once harvested wheat intended for the monastery returned what they collected upon Sebastian's command.</span></li></ul><br /><ul><li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><b>Private apparitions of Our Lady and Saints: </b> In the monastery of Cholula, it was once recorded that the Blessed Virgin appeared to Bro. Sebastian during his thanksgiving after Holy Communion; on another occasion, the holy friar was encouraged in his vocation and devotions by visits from St. Francis of Assisi and St. James the Apostle to whom he was greatly devoted.</span></li></ul><br /><ul><li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://guadalupehousehi.blogspot.com/2017/12/saints-who-saw-angels.html?m=1" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">Angelic assistance:</span></a> </b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">Bl. Sebastian was often helped by his personal guardian angel during difficult tasks. For example, he once got his wagon stuck in thick mud and was unable to pull it free, even with the aid of his oxen. A youth dressed in white appeared out of nowhere and single-handedly pulled the wagon out of the mud before vanishing.</span></span></li></ul></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">In addition to the above, Sebastian sometimes predicted future events with uncanny accuracy.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">After living religious life for 25 years, the "Angel of Mexico" peacefully died on February 25, 1600, from the effects of a strangulated hernia; he was 98-years-old and his final word was, "Jesus". People flocked to his funeral and, almost immediately, miracles were reported as mourners touched his remains and took away pieces of his habit for </span><a href="https://guadalupehousehi.blogspot.com/2011/07/great-article-about-sacred-relics.html?m=1" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><b>relics</b></span></a><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">. Furthermore, two exhumations conducted after his death revealed his corpse to be miraculously preserved.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihUKsVWm3PRRyQwsizOfgHivB8VJoj99Dmyi7ek2PEiAYnyU1MPYe5d8jm4mntnAXzAjAqsAtwzxGzdIqtasJj6FF4RwSzyYho0HCOe5Ij5VypQKRpToTHT-qZjaSZ82wxeIFUFwb46AZ-GOtN8KlpgQOavNcMHTMvTcoTVMRKYhhs1s4cQ_NIFCScvNzz/s3894/20230423_161850.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1752" data-original-width="3894" height="288" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihUKsVWm3PRRyQwsizOfgHivB8VJoj99Dmyi7ek2PEiAYnyU1MPYe5d8jm4mntnAXzAjAqsAtwzxGzdIqtasJj6FF4RwSzyYho0HCOe5Ij5VypQKRpToTHT-qZjaSZ82wxeIFUFwb46AZ-GOtN8KlpgQOavNcMHTMvTcoTVMRKYhhs1s4cQ_NIFCScvNzz/w640-h288/20230423_161850.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><i>The incorrupt body of Bl. Sebastian de Aparicio<span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">Beatified in 1789, the </span><a href="https://guadalupehousehi.blogspot.com/2012/05/mystery-of-incorruptibles.html?m=1" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><b>incorrupt body</b></span></a><span><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"> of Bl. Sebastian is now enshrined in the Church of St. Francis of Assisi in Puebla. This author had the blessed joy of venerating this major relic during a </span><a href="https://guadalupehousehi.blogspot.com/2023/04/mexico-pilgrimage-2023-part-i.html?m=1" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><b>Mexico pilgrimage back in April 2023</b></span></a><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">. May God bless his Cause with a speedy Canonization.</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>Bl. Sebastian de Aparicio,</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>pray for us!</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span>Guadalupe House Ministry, Honoluluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12963024851327671717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4054927383182834877.post-60245194634074575972024-01-28T09:00:00.020-10:002024-02-18T08:47:37.504-10:00Saints & Relics Presentation: St. Ann Parish Girl's Retreat, 1/27/2024<div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrT1ZyGYCEwoYMdwGUbiR2qq8237G1pz1mO3WHlrP1fCb7_OBzOGJpfTQGCVkAOsDzEY49IfFcC9u9iqn872leWUTHAJ_lPf5knShML4fohEGbet_aMQRkiG_L3Ezib5dt1QpZBbUe8Bt-nKNnCVUA7xOxmpuu37acH9Wu3l-UUjQamSJS2YLTca6h0pDj/s2730/20240127_114452.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="831" data-original-width="2730" height="194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrT1ZyGYCEwoYMdwGUbiR2qq8237G1pz1mO3WHlrP1fCb7_OBzOGJpfTQGCVkAOsDzEY49IfFcC9u9iqn872leWUTHAJ_lPf5knShML4fohEGbet_aMQRkiG_L3Ezib5dt1QpZBbUe8Bt-nKNnCVUA7xOxmpuu37acH9Wu3l-UUjQamSJS2YLTca6h0pDj/w640-h194/20240127_114452.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">The Church's teaching on the Communion of Saints was highlighted yesterday during a presentation at St. Ann Church, Kaneohe. The event was a retreat arranged for 32 girls from various parishes, ranging in ages between 12 to 17 ... and what a spiritually fruitful event it was!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDhb-AdK8kIBXbT-gPH2L7cNv4KjWnZhAZGtuvNyh0NV6_FphcCDli0JFsZYjt61WN4-fsRlu_UZWRDnyFFeRqgUg3yPaeK0_UXG2RUsCfF1xathhbuYnWlETDk71Ojok8HqmGwJh5OXdN6N5JeswdngvFHymVmq9ipfW2PriN07aMemLKPcQ7Do_un0VU/s3480/20240127_134452.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1769" data-original-width="3480" height="326" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDhb-AdK8kIBXbT-gPH2L7cNv4KjWnZhAZGtuvNyh0NV6_FphcCDli0JFsZYjt61WN4-fsRlu_UZWRDnyFFeRqgUg3yPaeK0_UXG2RUsCfF1xathhbuYnWlETDk71Ojok8HqmGwJh5OXdN6N5JeswdngvFHymVmq9ipfW2PriN07aMemLKPcQ7Do_un0VU/w640-h326/20240127_134452.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><span>The lineup of holy persons featured at this talk included the </span><i>Servant of God, Charlene Richard of Louisiana</i></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">; </span><i><a href="https://guadalupehousehi.blogspot.com/2021/02/saint-of-month-february-2021-venerable.html?m=1" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">Ven. Anne de Guigne</span></a></i></span><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia; font-weight: bold;">;</span><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: georgia; font-weight: bold;"> </span><i style="font-family: georgia; font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://guadalupehousehi.blogspot.com/2017/05/saint-of-month-may-2017-bl-rolando-rivi.html?m=1" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">Bl. Rolando Rivi</span></a></i><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia; font-weight: bold;">;</span><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: georgia; font-weight: bold;"> </span><i style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://guadalupehousehi.blogspot.com/2019/02/saint-of-month-january-2019-saint.html?m=1" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span>S</span>t. Gabriel of the Sorrowful Virgin</span></b></a></i><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">;</span><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"> </span></span><i style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">Sts. Louis & Zelie Martin</i><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"> and their famous daughter - </span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://guadalupehousehi.blogspot.com/2011/10/saint-of-month-october-2011.html" style="font-style: italic;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><b>St. Therese the Little Flower</b></span></a><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><i> ... </i>and the Virgin-Martyr,<i> St. Maria Goretti.</i></span></span><span> </span></span><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">In addition, I also brought along clothing relics from Our Lady and St. Joseph.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbHIVgZMR_187wq3doS5W8_L2AJ0w3V46TAvM-ZQtw-yho4po5nP1LhBZMzvnT9HYe7yiXOsm6LwoKUXkhAThRGL8qrQORySWNbpydzIKWDqT8WaIR3r93dFYPvQ2xManGm7eKKWNVhIkT_cooMTYzhj4MRUgVmdWoe9nbqdugWUx79VN2vBKQjdVMZH1G/s1663/20240127_114501.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1663" data-original-width="1062" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbHIVgZMR_187wq3doS5W8_L2AJ0w3V46TAvM-ZQtw-yho4po5nP1LhBZMzvnT9HYe7yiXOsm6LwoKUXkhAThRGL8qrQORySWNbpydzIKWDqT8WaIR3r93dFYPvQ2xManGm7eKKWNVhIkT_cooMTYzhj4MRUgVmdWoe9nbqdugWUx79VN2vBKQjdVMZH1G/s320/20240127_114501.jpg" width="204" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy0S67_NjC3KkKhG8_p7tZt-AbVAx1LVzBd6PUd1ktSJbLg8Iik624MmdmltzI5UKmMNC2eCObuIVrnPXFnY94r_fuCpY86mLt8AOoZrohB9NfIXpBSFbef1qBh-uUpDHhL7bGrkGxxMBYp7g_TQ9lbQkbe5rMLz3YyILBA7ZthRUntloeixI_sNtu2-mc/s2063/20240127_114539.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2063" data-original-width="1376" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy0S67_NjC3KkKhG8_p7tZt-AbVAx1LVzBd6PUd1ktSJbLg8Iik624MmdmltzI5UKmMNC2eCObuIVrnPXFnY94r_fuCpY86mLt8AOoZrohB9NfIXpBSFbef1qBh-uUpDHhL7bGrkGxxMBYp7g_TQ9lbQkbe5rMLz3YyILBA7ZthRUntloeixI_sNtu2-mc/s320/20240127_114539.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: georgia;">Relics of Ven. Anne and Bl. Rolando</i></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPDjZpaAGJH0k9tzXuj6AkZl0Lmq-PPdDwMZt1Y8CoWTHBnI3VwfrV8j2iptI06G_hgIdI6KwxOVMCt5O-yWuz1J4VZ2ZeInE70XYiQa95IZFxHe28lJIO67EjODXNVAH_KEDhcUoqPo_ZbxwOSr-z_oWVaVD4BEOMdKlTYfc4HySpx-lcSLCcMb1DVCCp/s2432/20240127_114520.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1754" data-original-width="2432" height="462" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPDjZpaAGJH0k9tzXuj6AkZl0Lmq-PPdDwMZt1Y8CoWTHBnI3VwfrV8j2iptI06G_hgIdI6KwxOVMCt5O-yWuz1J4VZ2ZeInE70XYiQa95IZFxHe28lJIO67EjODXNVAH_KEDhcUoqPo_ZbxwOSr-z_oWVaVD4BEOMdKlTYfc4HySpx-lcSLCcMb1DVCCp/w640-h462/20240127_114520.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><i style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: georgia;">This ministry's relics of St. Joseph and</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: georgia;">the Blessed Virgin Mary</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi77zVejp_2JAPGQMRe3JRVnzOAgsAfADYVxzyWIZY5xeeevrubmeV0jM3nfnlNTOjj8mYx6GR9vPvZhyphenhyphenZw_p9ajgaM1OgedyotUCF5WLS4DVJOik4-5ffVLKlipeMpgfTf9Mt26YViKfUtYcsxaf_8Dbs-HfqFlYcEQQfxQ4m2J9wbhj2RM0JNQ3pRB-au/s1981/20240127_114507.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1981" data-original-width="1205" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi77zVejp_2JAPGQMRe3JRVnzOAgsAfADYVxzyWIZY5xeeevrubmeV0jM3nfnlNTOjj8mYx6GR9vPvZhyphenhyphenZw_p9ajgaM1OgedyotUCF5WLS4DVJOik4-5ffVLKlipeMpgfTf9Mt26YViKfUtYcsxaf_8Dbs-HfqFlYcEQQfxQ4m2J9wbhj2RM0JNQ3pRB-au/s320/20240127_114507.jpg" width="195" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqqkQBG6LzcaHZ4sLqcXvQq7Y1wLj8wdXCsgFAb099GgE77SP7Zo1r_-Mzj6YdaA759DMNkYZSYxbpfSowVdO4J_TewShLTsKz-eVPZ8rSzabLPeu-Zsn0kzWpFXbe04uNz0SdBFd2N6TuiS9hC_EOXPWGRUOV-1njKq4ss63i6gaV1WSGjToU8lQO5SUh/s1979/20240127_114527.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1979" data-original-width="1197" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqqkQBG6LzcaHZ4sLqcXvQq7Y1wLj8wdXCsgFAb099GgE77SP7Zo1r_-Mzj6YdaA759DMNkYZSYxbpfSowVdO4J_TewShLTsKz-eVPZ8rSzabLPeu-Zsn0kzWpFXbe04uNz0SdBFd2N6TuiS9hC_EOXPWGRUOV-1njKq4ss63i6gaV1WSGjToU8lQO5SUh/s320/20240127_114527.jpg" width="194" /></a></div><i style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">Relics of St. Maria and </span></i><i style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">Sts. Louis & Zelie</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i style="font-family: georgia;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5plU51wJz3nMuNj_mUJu947jGVVn4nmTJoOv6C6RR6N7hLawSr0MUDvUIkbhHaOiHlkJecW0m22MpWb5y63rLI2NABKcMJ_4_0SkoSZg-JX_-9enkmy1A0weuZYS0v29SLUXK5XSO0tuoYqZ9FRV18t1QqvJp2o8Vu7gpTsWL52rH6tE_05z9oJcDQ8d4/s2174/20240127_114512.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2174" data-original-width="1305" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5plU51wJz3nMuNj_mUJu947jGVVn4nmTJoOv6C6RR6N7hLawSr0MUDvUIkbhHaOiHlkJecW0m22MpWb5y63rLI2NABKcMJ_4_0SkoSZg-JX_-9enkmy1A0weuZYS0v29SLUXK5XSO0tuoYqZ9FRV18t1QqvJp2o8Vu7gpTsWL52rH6tE_05z9oJcDQ8d4/s320/20240127_114512.jpg" width="192" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsTsvCgdgplFPg3wB1MPd5FLWCoOqn8B5xR3E4WNRV9FuVvpgL-Nn33Y7DyryEEjcHqk2B93Y9-3x6qGVA9I4C9MtJHKCaEKxp-cMma6SxmnzuWXDVq_2PJJQrFKPs3LWcJIOFiTTykvFrNJ6vMwrAjNx09e7ePfoORcl6cm-8xBJX1dVN_F1NQKQPahF3/s2350/20240127_114534.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2350" data-original-width="1763" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsTsvCgdgplFPg3wB1MPd5FLWCoOqn8B5xR3E4WNRV9FuVvpgL-Nn33Y7DyryEEjcHqk2B93Y9-3x6qGVA9I4C9MtJHKCaEKxp-cMma6SxmnzuWXDVq_2PJJQrFKPs3LWcJIOFiTTykvFrNJ6vMwrAjNx09e7ePfoORcl6cm-8xBJX1dVN_F1NQKQPahF3/s320/20240127_114534.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">Relics of St. Therese and St. Gabriel</span><br /></i></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">Based on the demeanor of girls during the talk, it was clear most of them were engaged as this author recounted stories of the spiritual heroes whose relics were present. A</span><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">ll showed their enthusiasm for what they learned by lining up to honor their respective relics after the talk ended.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlbL8eiCKSYOpMnnFZOsznGVeMFJ4J1OwOFqh-EgxKUEXAuWmbPBGJIfIcNohMDLAGg7EUBXgtbkkOFXTVcjzlML6B6SxeEz8b19MHdCpLXo_hw4c79Vu1TDZHcfj0iMhMw6-QrHi2lnQqN-WSHrAEGlj2e-rWTY11XFC2d_WP7k9QzQ55XjTIzVXiMUjR/s3178/20240127_133624.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1671" data-original-width="3178" height="336" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlbL8eiCKSYOpMnnFZOsznGVeMFJ4J1OwOFqh-EgxKUEXAuWmbPBGJIfIcNohMDLAGg7EUBXgtbkkOFXTVcjzlML6B6SxeEz8b19MHdCpLXo_hw4c79Vu1TDZHcfj0iMhMw6-QrHi2lnQqN-WSHrAEGlj2e-rWTY11XFC2d_WP7k9QzQ55XjTIzVXiMUjR/w640-h336/20240127_133624.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: georgia;">Participants touched the reliquaries;</i></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: georgia;"><i>applied sacramentals to them; took </i></span><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: georgia;"><i>photos</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: georgia;"><i>& scanned the QR codes to view</i></span><i style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"> softcopy</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">"Bio-Cards" of each holy person.</span></i></div><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">I left the event feeling certain and hopeful that the message of the Saints had found a place in the youngsters' hearts. May our good Lord, Our Lady, and all the Angels and Saints inspire and protect these precious souls!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>* * Help from Heaven * *</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">On a side note, this author wants to testify to a grace granted in regards to this presentation:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">Two days prior to the event, I was hit by a sudden episode of back and leg aches. The pain was so bad, I was concerned that I wouldn't be able to conduct the presentation.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">On the night before the talk, a brilliant and stunning full moon illuminated the sky and I took a handful of photos to capture the moment; not expecting anything special.</span></div><div><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_Ktp40HG-ja4Lb0r9FMcq04EEz3WIuF8g6dpn1nw7KlJfugO1FcActCZjSotktpiSPm7dC0E8aJcvkQXPFbQhSUVQxB8j2rJVbN_FK8pyCv1LpHhd4HclaWjodRFnl7AGbbynGwY1KYwApr6woifpxvcW-FOCLzwmqDe_4F7sJZf5P5v4EeklFBK8t8X3/s824/20240128_042120.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="824" data-original-width="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_Ktp40HG-ja4Lb0r9FMcq04EEz3WIuF8g6dpn1nw7KlJfugO1FcActCZjSotktpiSPm7dC0E8aJcvkQXPFbQhSUVQxB8j2rJVbN_FK8pyCv1LpHhd4HclaWjodRFnl7AGbbynGwY1KYwApr6woifpxvcW-FOCLzwmqDe_4F7sJZf5P5v4EeklFBK8t8X3/s16000/20240128_042120.gif" /></a></div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">Well imagine my relief and excitement when I awoke the next morning with my pain almost completely gone ... and then also discovered a mysterious "figure" in two of the moon pics - see above! I don't recall the figure when I was snapping photos, but in hindsight, I believe Heaven - specifically our Blessed Mother - had come to my aid so I could proceed with the presentation for these children. Thanks and Praises be to God and to Our Lady!</span></div></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div></div>Guadalupe House Ministry, Honoluluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12963024851327671717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4054927383182834877.post-14280209576058873252024-01-25T21:41:00.003-10:002024-01-26T11:52:08.154-10:00Monthly Message from the Queen of Peace of Medjugorje: January 2024 <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzNj91IOCaoqusU40ZUXOSLNtgxI-Eh3T7yrnqm1hj3w2zf-KUJfmhaNKTjPgvJBbwetkqqgZFUYBeBrcw2qRccOHEvvCTFgpkhuYXhLoZQMe6NkfUeMNRJI9XJn-VW787TKIbZfkTYqTHzli255Wkv6rhOSvMEVzcrpxAW6ehmuCDb_t3t1mZd1PXDCdI/s560/Medjugorje2.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="560" data-original-width="368" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzNj91IOCaoqusU40ZUXOSLNtgxI-Eh3T7yrnqm1hj3w2zf-KUJfmhaNKTjPgvJBbwetkqqgZFUYBeBrcw2qRccOHEvvCTFgpkhuYXhLoZQMe6NkfUeMNRJI9XJn-VW787TKIbZfkTYqTHzli255Wkv6rhOSvMEVzcrpxAW6ehmuCDb_t3t1mZd1PXDCdI/w263-h400/Medjugorje2.gif" width="263" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">“Dear Children! May this time</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">be a time of prayer.”</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></b></span></div>Guadalupe House Ministry, Honoluluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12963024851327671717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4054927383182834877.post-3642966385798984362024-01-09T06:33:00.031-10:002024-02-26T19:26:47.124-10:00Saint of the Month - January 2024: Saint Mutien-Marie Wiaux<p><a name="top"></a></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI9pP2EQoEIZAWrEH7onRlREMFiTD6KuzAkF8lE6_jR4p-li5bcjCp0oUNS5Zj3xuBMR35yvn8-zQ_PJYs7Ad1OampKU3UivNXuKbcV8K1Cik6E4nZSSdfrGN2rTe5WJ3M3f7_xPK0k7KL_-atq2ec7xIhd5-I3PKaXFNTFyaikY0mgvJB7aRmA84sV28w/s968/Screenshot_20240109_003738_Chrome.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="968" data-original-width="645" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI9pP2EQoEIZAWrEH7onRlREMFiTD6KuzAkF8lE6_jR4p-li5bcjCp0oUNS5Zj3xuBMR35yvn8-zQ_PJYs7Ad1OampKU3UivNXuKbcV8K1Cik6E4nZSSdfrGN2rTe5WJ3M3f7_xPK0k7KL_-atq2ec7xIhd5-I3PKaXFNTFyaikY0mgvJB7aRmA84sV28w/w426-h640/Screenshot_20240109_003738_Chrome.jpg" width="426" /></a></div><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b>St. Mutien-Marie Wiaux</b></div></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: georgia;"><i>"The Brother who always prayed"</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: georgia;">Feast: January 30th</span></i><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">B<span>orn on March 20, 1841 in the hamlet of Mellet, Belgium, little Louis-Joseph Wiaux was baptized the same day in the parish churc</span>h. Blessed with highly devout Christian parents, he learned the Faith from them and developed a piety that was exceptional compared to other children his age. In particular, he had a singular love for Our Lady, which he maintained all his life.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">After completing primary school, he apprenticed with his father - the local blacksmith - but realized early on that the Lord was tugging at his heart; a call he couldn't resist. So, in April 1856, at the youthful age of just 15, he left Mellet to pursue religious life. Per the suggestion of his priest, he applied with, and was accepted at the novitiate of the teaching institute of the <i>Brothers of the Christian Schools </i>in Namur. There, on the Feast of the Visitation in 1856, he was clothed in the habit and given the name Bro. Mutien-Marie.</span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: justify;">Initially, Bro. Mutien was assigned to train and teach elementary courses in Chimay where he stayed for a year. He was then transferred to a school in Brussels for another year-long assignment. In 1859, his superiors sent him to their boarding school in Malonne, where he remained for the rest of his earthly life.</div><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #9fc5e8; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQy4KtFCyy19lmaZKJAxdSbs3k3roPSlzAT3-0EkEkj5TxR_3dIkjUdGqzfIxYB7cAgWrUWuc1MQiLneI2DB6kLjtbZaBxMg1V7uyyLRAAP6jsDnMg8qfORZ9j7JliYJHioE0DHDxEaWla2ME9wh9IQt0GZVbSKvUjmWWeJdvjjeWryolLCR04qdj-MoOB/s250/download.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="250" data-original-width="163" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQy4KtFCyy19lmaZKJAxdSbs3k3roPSlzAT3-0EkEkj5TxR_3dIkjUdGqzfIxYB7cAgWrUWuc1MQiLneI2DB6kLjtbZaBxMg1V7uyyLRAAP6jsDnMg8qfORZ9j7JliYJHioE0DHDxEaWla2ME9wh9IQt0GZVbSKvUjmWWeJdvjjeWryolLCR04qdj-MoOB/w418-h640/download.jpeg" width="418" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">The youthful Bro. Mutien-Marie</span></i></div><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: justify;">Although the new religious enjoyed his vocation, it wasn't all smooth sailing for Bro. Mutien. Being from a humble background and of simple mind, he had difficulty teaching the academic curriculum and his superiors at first considered dismissing him from the institute. Instead, through the intervention of one of his fellow teachers, they allowed him to teach art and music; two subjects Mutien had no prior knowledge of, but to which he diligently applied himself to learning in order to convince his superiors to allow him to remain.</div><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: justify;">In addition to his lack of experience, the young religious had to contend with certain disruptive students. Fortunately for both parties, Bro. Mutien was a determined and committed saint-in-the-making, and his exemplary patience, innate piety, and genuine concern for his students eventually won the youth over ... and his companions, too.</div><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: justify;">It goes without saying, everyone came to love and respect Bro. Mutien as a model religious of great virtue. He was not one of those Saints reknown for great signs and wonders, but instead, his sanctity was revealed through his consistent exercise of deep prayer, and diligently living his institute's Rule along with the precepts of our Catholic Faith. His day-to-day routine usually consisted of:</div><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: justify;"></div><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: justify;"><ul><li style="text-align: left;">Rising at 4:30 AM for his first visit to the Tabernacle for Eucharistic Adoration, followed by a stop at Our Lady's altar for the rosary</li></ul><ul><li style="text-align: left;">Holy Mass</li></ul><ul><li style="text-align: left;">Teaching Architecture, Art, and Music Lessons</li></ul><ul><li style="text-align: left;">Additional visits, in between classes, to the Blessed Sacrament and to a Lourdes Grotto replica on the school grounds </li></ul></div><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: justify;">The students widely referred to him as the <i>"Brother who is always praying"</i>, while<i> </i>Mutien's fellow religious described him as a "<i>Living Rule"</i>; none could recall any occasion in which the Saint ever made the slightest infraction to their Rule. On his part, Mutien was humble, fulfilling his daily duties with zero fanfare; going about in constant prayer, and sometimes caught up in ecstasy in the chapel with his face reflecting God's Light. For him, personally, praying and subjecting himself in obedience to the Rule and to his superiors was equivalent to fulfilling the Divine Will of God. This was his simple way of living his vocation ‐ "holy monotony", as this author likes to call it - for a span of 50+ years!</div><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5Qou6MIHxApfyL65iHH-t9f_JGRMJ7Y75TJKIlBycx00_8k4-ww8y71_F2pzLQd_vfqW4fOpUiHfqDDCpbU8lTnl51w_26CEenYJ_bUCgY_xQlL_PVYmbhihSzOJbFpTi_TLTa0wDsX4dsfXm0rc7ZmCoA6a0AAL9F-pG76dmpl2LQXiTu3RYQUWNGdDw/s223/Jan.30-St.MutienMari_549651.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="223" data-original-width="160" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5Qou6MIHxApfyL65iHH-t9f_JGRMJ7Y75TJKIlBycx00_8k4-ww8y71_F2pzLQd_vfqW4fOpUiHfqDDCpbU8lTnl51w_26CEenYJ_bUCgY_xQlL_PVYmbhihSzOJbFpTi_TLTa0wDsX4dsfXm0rc7ZmCoA6a0AAL9F-pG76dmpl2LQXiTu3RYQUWNGdDw/w459-h640/Jan.30-St.MutienMari_549651.jpg" width="459" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">A later photo of St. Mutien-Marie</span></i></div><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: justify;">Bro. Mutien's peaceful death occurred on January 30, 1917; he was 75-years-old. Almost immediately after his passing, his intercession was invoked by many and cures were reported at his tomb, which lead to an inquiry into his virtues only six years later.</div><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: justify;">The Church declared Bro. Mutien-Marie Wiaux a Saint on December 10, 1989. He is considered a Patron Saint for both Teachers and Students.</div><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: large;"><i>St. Mutien-Marie Wiaux,</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: large;"><i>pray for us!</i></span></b></div><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="text-align: justify; width: 609px;"><tbody></tbody></table>Guadalupe House Ministry, Honoluluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12963024851327671717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4054927383182834877.post-50865241300023446852024-01-06T23:38:00.024-10:002024-01-07T19:47:49.056-10:00Epiphany Escarchas<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">This morning, this author drove to St. John Vianney Church in Kailua for morning Mass. That parish celebrates three Sacraments every First Saturday: <b>Eucharist</b>, <b>Anointing of the Sick</b>, and <b>Reconciliation</b> so talk about graces in abundance ... and yet,</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"> today, there was something extra - </span><i><a href="https://guadalupehousehi.blogspot.com/search/label/Escarchas?m=1" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #fcff01;">escarchas</span></b></a></i><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">It’s been a long while since I last witnessed them manifesting so the escarchas went a long way towards making my observance of Epiphany Day special and </span><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">meaningful. </span><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">Here's a brief recap of how it happened ...</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAMiVbrsa3m26VFlSBCaMqG_4jGERVf1bpduPyFUz4QLDHEuHI-XMMKwTU8_gBelm54dGJdlMC9HXLxYjjfA5E96V9iO9GnXojToXs_S8rQeAdO2cQxCl_TKNniw5UjPViZtA6AymJr5-rlh8urkQJ1nwl3OkOR4WAlxY7wL6-4cvLpdhDVWdDGnTA1eAf/s2288/20231222_235310.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2288" data-original-width="1552" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAMiVbrsa3m26VFlSBCaMqG_4jGERVf1bpduPyFUz4QLDHEuHI-XMMKwTU8_gBelm54dGJdlMC9HXLxYjjfA5E96V9iO9GnXojToXs_S8rQeAdO2cQxCl_TKNniw5UjPViZtA6AymJr5-rlh8urkQJ1nwl3OkOR4WAlxY7wL6-4cvLpdhDVWdDGnTA1eAf/w434-h640/20231222_235310.jpg" width="434" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">I brought with me to the church a Marian icon (shown above) that I hand-burnt, stained, and painted on a wooden plaque in August 2023, and which I titled </span><i><span style="color: #fcff01;">"Mary, Immaculate Spouse of the Holy Spirit"</span></i><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">. I intended</span><i style="color: #9fc5e8;"> </i><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">to get it blessed by the priest. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">After I sat down in my usual spot, I laid the icon beside me on the pew, and turned away for a bit. When I looked back at it, there they were - fine flakes of golden escarchas, sprinkled all around the icon. </span><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">Here are photos and a short video I filmed that shows just some of the escarchas on the pew ...</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkifjg9tnlABAfR2JPribNrBbbSTcv2CxpzDd13ZEaguj-n4jVxEQyZQ5CsRnx2iLJXg5R2LoACLE7lN3Gd0vE9Jy_CEYeshk91nX9RYLxEF8SvgsNAXzja5sjG9m2n9Nop053HG6t5eZHRaaZOQ7Fg__xvu3i2aUpZlvTgMaSphvSFkP4qPSf_RLGpJKk/s418/20240106_201517.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="418" data-original-width="314" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkifjg9tnlABAfR2JPribNrBbbSTcv2CxpzDd13ZEaguj-n4jVxEQyZQ5CsRnx2iLJXg5R2LoACLE7lN3Gd0vE9Jy_CEYeshk91nX9RYLxEF8SvgsNAXzja5sjG9m2n9Nop053HG6t5eZHRaaZOQ7Fg__xvu3i2aUpZlvTgMaSphvSFkP4qPSf_RLGpJKk/w480-h640/20240106_201517.gif" width="480" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">I'm pretty certain they're not craft-glitter for the simple reason that they weren't there a few moments earlier. Given how much there was, I would've noticed them right away. So I do believe it's an actual appearance of escarchas.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">As to the reason why it happened, that I'm not sure. Perhaps it's a special blessing for the Solemnity of the Epiphany ... or maybe the Lord is kindly acknowledging the work that went into it (it took me about 9 hours to write this icon) ... or perhaps God and/or Mary are pleased with how Our Lady is depicted ... or they could also be affirming the beautiful Marian title - <i>Spouse of the Holy Spirit</i>. Again, it's a mystery to me but I'm just very grateful to the Holy Spirit and our Blessed Mother for this blessing.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">Whatever the reason for the escarchas, I pray Heaven will use this unique image to inspire and bless many souls, particularly to a deeper devotion to the Holy Spirit!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="color: #fcff01; font-size: large;">O Mary, Immaculate Spouse</span></b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><span style="font-size: large; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">of the Holy Spirit,</span><span> </span><i><b><span style="font-size: large;">pray for us!</span></b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>Guadalupe House Ministry, Honoluluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12963024851327671717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4054927383182834877.post-14828240702466236052023-12-25T22:34:00.008-10:002023-12-26T05:55:49.049-10:00Messages from the Queen of Peace of Medjugorje: December 2023<div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRkXzbT5irdvFz6_zIA47ajnayWei06BRjpEgZ6yEJVZefjyuL7eBiZHAehh9KJ9Fn0W_-qLoovSsjBBtPn5aPCH8-HYP2eEQ6BzfbynzoAWX39tiMogzmKFHr7mSEwk0IigdezspWWMNp-Po7Xq1Od3BZMsIWXM1SojBP3C5shl0cH-Diy9eQLQVJrAUP/s528/Medjugorje1.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="528" data-original-width="368" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRkXzbT5irdvFz6_zIA47ajnayWei06BRjpEgZ6yEJVZefjyuL7eBiZHAehh9KJ9Fn0W_-qLoovSsjBBtPn5aPCH8-HYP2eEQ6BzfbynzoAWX39tiMogzmKFHr7mSEwk0IigdezspWWMNp-Po7Xq1Od3BZMsIWXM1SojBP3C5shl0cH-Diy9eQLQVJrAUP/w446-h640/Medjugorje1.gif" width="446" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><b>Message given to Marija on December 25th, 2023:</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: georgia;"> <i>"Dear Children! I am carrying my Son Jesus to you to fill your hearts with peace, because He is peace. Little children, seek Jesus in the silence of your heart that He be born anew. The world needs Jesus, therefore seek Him through prayer, because He gives Himself daily to each of you."</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><b>Message given to Jacov during his annual Christmas Day apparition:</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: georgia;"> <i>"Dear Children, I am calling you, through prayer and mercy, to come to know my Son all the better; to learn to listen with a pure and open heart; to listen to what my Son is saying to you in order to come to see spiritually. That, as one people of God in communion with my Son, you may bear witness to the truth with your life. Pray, my children, that, together with my Son, you can bring only peace, joy and love to all your brothers and sisters. I am with you and am blessing you with a motherly blessing."</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>Guadalupe House Ministry, Honoluluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12963024851327671717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4054927383182834877.post-26060813234241093082023-12-10T16:56:00.050-10:002024-02-26T19:23:14.840-10:00Saint of the Month - December 2023: Venerable Louise Margaret Claret de la Touche<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5I0o7G5aKM-5v4tbUGUd-oyl5Ak-n29S04AC91MChkfiEtGxbN1CkAYh_VxzLardMRLraA1jR6Ev_WqepQv0xyQTlDzgXshgLlxUGSw1VSuijyOm6PNa0m6xk8BVC8S-M2ZoTPl42JM4LkiZjk3Hfue0KFMQFtrnyEA-eREvx0IdH9Qlttrcpsu4ngBlh/s270/Ven.%20Louise%20Margaret.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="270" data-original-width="186" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5I0o7G5aKM-5v4tbUGUd-oyl5Ak-n29S04AC91MChkfiEtGxbN1CkAYh_VxzLardMRLraA1jR6Ev_WqepQv0xyQTlDzgXshgLlxUGSw1VSuijyOm6PNa0m6xk8BVC8S-M2ZoTPl42JM4LkiZjk3Hfue0KFMQFtrnyEA-eREvx0IdH9Qlttrcpsu4ngBlh/w442-h640/Ven.%20Louise%20Margaret.jpeg" width="442" /></a></div><b style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Ven. Louise Margaret</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Claret </span></b><b style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: georgia;">de la Touche</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">A Mystic & Victim Soul for </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">the Priesthood</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">The Order of the Visitation, founded in 1610 by two great Saints - </span><i style="color: #9fc5e8;">St. Francis de Sales</i><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"> and </span><i style="color: #9fc5e8;">St. Jane de Chantal</i><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"> - has the distinction of being particularly favored and commissioned by the </span><a href="https://guadalupehousehi.blogspot.com/2011/07/most-sacred-heart-of-jesus-have-mercy.html?m=1" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><b>Sacred Heart of Jesus</b></span></a><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">. Starting with arguably the most famous member of the Visitandines - </span><i style="color: #9fc5e8;">St. Mary Margaret Alacoque (d. 1690) - </i><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">our dear Lord has deigned to reveal the devotion to his Heart and all its secrets to several mystics from within this Order. This month’s Saint Bio is about one of these chosen women.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">Margaret Claret de la Touche was born in the French town of Saint-Germain-en-Laye on March 15, 1868. She was plagued from early childhood with poor health, including severe respiratory issues, and nearly died twice, as a result. It was through the fervent prayers of her mother to Our Lady that she was repeatedly saved. Consequently, Margaret developed a spirit of piety uncommon for a youngster.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">At 11, </span><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">Margaret</span><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"> celebrated her First Holy Communion and Confirmation, and was inspired to make a private vow of virginity a few weeks later. Frequent bouts with illness caused her to drift from her initial thoughts of entering a convent ... but through the admirable example of a nun who nursed her during a serious sickness, she regained her desire to become a religious. However, when </span><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">Margaret</span><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"> shared her intention with her mother, the woman vehemently opposed her daughter.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGOkHTHkxiF-fFL_3U315NPo2CB1lABtVG5DINUVXuOTigkifAQD4QmNFZyyiwdHvTpBdqcaZMCNM1xamhfu-mu0WX_cnI37aC9J1gBkm_zsWZvQJY5s316AjrgBnL0U6qmE_sy0KFj42Co0uxNFBAFjPVsz7v_9qZy9l4kmY-HqdjOUwQECGFIyGSPyUi/s254/Young%20Louise.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="254" data-original-width="174" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGOkHTHkxiF-fFL_3U315NPo2CB1lABtVG5DINUVXuOTigkifAQD4QmNFZyyiwdHvTpBdqcaZMCNM1xamhfu-mu0WX_cnI37aC9J1gBkm_zsWZvQJY5s316AjrgBnL0U6qmE_sy0KFj42Co0uxNFBAFjPVsz7v_9qZy9l4kmY-HqdjOUwQECGFIyGSPyUi/w438-h640/Young%20Louise.jpg" width="438" /></a></div><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: georgia;"><i>The 17-year-old Margaret</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">What followed next was a period of intermitting illnesses and worldly distractions for the young woman</span><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">, including innocent romantic sentiments towards a soldier and then a lawyer; both relationships eventually led to nothing but, still, they caused her to waiver in regards to her childhood vow of virginity.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">Margaret</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">'s intense struggles with her calling continued until things turned around after reading a biography of the youthful </span><i><a href="https://guadalupehousehi.blogspot.com/2013/06/saint-of-month-june-2013.html?m=1" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><b>St. Aloysius Gonzaga</b></span></a></i><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">. She then clearly understood that she was truly called by God to be a consecrated virgin and resolved to follow-through.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">In January 1891, at the age of 22, </span><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">Margaret</span><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"> finally entered the Visitandine Monastery at Romans, taking the name Sr. Louise Margaret. Her initial years were marked with accute bronchial maladies and uncertainty, but she abandoned herself to God's Will, trusting that He had a plan for her. In fact, sometime during or after her sickness, she began receiving mystical communications from Jesus who guided her in uniting herself to Him. She was professed an official Visitandine nun in October 1892.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtKweU4baAad-U7wD3i7_t8AJ4FSERC-iGoTx5bRl0jooI1quGiVrWg2LrA_u9_M3VT0d_wGHeVl79oyzZSaf_N2Bx3-bHpATlQeHeCTCzvKPQ-72sneeSmXDDWPrXKxQy21EQs7yGog6V7tgd4acRLCLjsRvEm4h3bxyLMiKAb-yAxaWlY0diKaQyRl6r/s303/JesusLouise.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="303" data-original-width="191" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtKweU4baAad-U7wD3i7_t8AJ4FSERC-iGoTx5bRl0jooI1quGiVrWg2LrA_u9_M3VT0d_wGHeVl79oyzZSaf_N2Bx3-bHpATlQeHeCTCzvKPQ-72sneeSmXDDWPrXKxQy21EQs7yGog6V7tgd4acRLCLjsRvEm4h3bxyLMiKAb-yAxaWlY0diKaQyRl6r/w403-h640/JesusLouise.jpg" width="403" /></a></div><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: georgia;"><i>A beautiful image of "Jesus of Mercy"</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: georgia;"><i>painted by Mo. Louise Margaret, herself.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">As her spiritual life and ongoing private revelations progressed, Louise Margaret obtained approval from her confessor and superiors to pronounce another vow - one of "total abandonment" to God. The following are from her </span><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">own words:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i style="background-color: white; color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia; text-indent: 15px;"><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><i>"O my God, prostrate in Thy presence,</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><i>I adore Thy infinite perfection, I adore</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><i>Thy </i></span><i style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">sovereign dominion over all Thy</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">creatures </i><i style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">and, in order to recognise Thy</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">dominion </i><i style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">over me, I make a vow of total</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">abandonment of my whole being into</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">Thy hands, allowing Thee to dispose of</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">me according to Thy good pleasure,</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">for time and eternity ...</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><i>... O Jesus, I abandon myself without</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><i>reserve to Thy Divine Heart, giving</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><i style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">Thy</i> </span><i style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">love entire liberty of action in me</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">and</i> <i style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">around me, wishing to see</i> <i style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">only</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">Thy</i> <i style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">action in all things and to adore</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">every </i><i style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">disposition of Thy will."</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">And, as time passed, it became clear that this mystic's mission was directed specifically towards the Priesthood. In 1902, she recorded the following words from Christ: </span><i style="color: #fcff01;">"Margaret Mary showed my heart to the world; you will show it to Priests. </i><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">Later, in the same year, the Lord said to her: </span><i><span style="color: #fcff01;">"I will give you souls of men. I will give you souls of Priests."</span></i><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"> When the nun expressed being intimidated by His words, Jesus added: </span><i><span style="color: #fcff01;">"No, it is for My clergy that you will immolate yourself."</span></i></div><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">As the revelations escalated, the monastery's chaplain - Fr. Alfred Charrier - ordered the nun to record her extraordinary experiences, which she did reluctantly under obedience. They were later compiled into two books: </span><i style="color: #9fc5e8;">The Sacred Heart and the Priesthood</i><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"> and </span><i style="color: #9fc5e8;">The</i> <i style="color: #9fc5e8;">Book of Infinite Love</i><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">. These revelations and the mystic's other writings, which include the Lord’s request for a </span><span style="color: #fcff01; font-style: italic;">"Union of Priests"</span><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><i>, </i>a</span><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">re extensive and won't be covered here, but there are many resources that can be found online. The main gist of the message is this, spoken by the Lord to Sr. Louise Margaret:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span><br /></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #fcff01;">"Nineteen centuries ago, twelve men</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #fcff01;">changed the world; they were not merely</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #fcff01;">men, but they were Priests. Now, once more</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #fcff01;">twelve Priests could change the world ...</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #fcff01;">but they must be <u>holy</u>."</span></i></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">In a nutshell, Jesus desires to sanctify His priests especially through a love and devotion to His Sacred Heart!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">Not surprisingly, other charisms surfaced in the wake of the nun's mission. For example, Sr. Louise Margaret sometimes foresaw future events and was also likely </span><a href="https://guadalupehousehi.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-enigma-of-sacred-stigmata.html?m=1" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><b>stigmatized</b></span></a><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">, but experienced the wounds of the Crucifixion invisibly. In her notes she described <i>"suffering inexpressible pains, and for more than an hour our Lord made me again share in His suffering ... I suffered excruciating pains in all my members, especially my feet, and there remained with me for a long time after the impression of burning heat accompanied with sharp pangs.</i>" It all goes to show that the nun was not only called upon by God to deliver an important message to His priests, but she was also chosen to suffer as a victim-soul for them.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">As for Sr. Louise Margaret, she went on to be elected the Superior of her monastery during a time of political changes, and hostile religious suppression in France. In 1913, due to internal opposition that arose concerning the messages she received and promoted, Louise Margaret was exiled from her own community. She made her way to Vische, Italy, where with the help of a supportive prelate - Bishop Matteo Filipello - she founded a new monastery in March 1914. The nuns followed the Visitation Rule, but with slight adjustments to allow for certain austerities. The new community eventually became an approved autonomous institution now known as the <i>Bethany of the Sacred Heart</i>.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">Mo. Louise Margaret died peacefully on May 14, 1915, at 3:00 PM, surrounded by her spiritual daughters; it was a Friday and she gave witnesses the strong impression that she was mystically crucified in union with our Lord, prior to her passing. She was only 47.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglqsVyZJIjcYPhWBo1ZNTCsxiao2aE6ycVDE7ctmTBiKwEA_8blNy40m14vDeF9tdU7sW48HhKTgICyidI_BbA8Adu0ZIfdD-lv6VhjsRCmrjIWZQ95RGWZPUFM4G4wm3VGmo84r01hxGdd4pOdzEAkrHdb6Mw8LM57UVv2Z3mWzSicEOO1_rAGlo46tvi/s618/Relic%20Louise%20Margaret%20Claret.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="618" data-original-width="375" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglqsVyZJIjcYPhWBo1ZNTCsxiao2aE6ycVDE7ctmTBiKwEA_8blNy40m14vDeF9tdU7sW48HhKTgICyidI_BbA8Adu0ZIfdD-lv6VhjsRCmrjIWZQ95RGWZPUFM4G4wm3VGmo84r01hxGdd4pOdzEAkrHdb6Mw8LM57UVv2Z3mWzSicEOO1_rAGlo46tvi/w387-h640/Relic%20Louise%20Margaret%20Claret.jpg" width="387" /></a></div><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: georgia;"><i>A relic from the clothing of Ven. Louise</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: georgia;"><i>Margaret, gifted to this ministry by her nuns</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: georgia;"><i>from the </i></span><i style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: georgia;">Bethany of the Sacred Heart.</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">Today, Mo. Louise Margaret Claret de la Touche is a candidate for Sainthood; her memory is revered in both the Visitation Order and by her own Visitandines in the Bethany of the Sacred Heart. Declared Venerable by the Church in 2006, her Cause requires one recognized miracle to advance this virtuous founder to Beatification; a second miracle for Sainthood. Let us pray that God will bestow abundant favors through the intercession of Mo. Louise Margaret to hasten her hoped-for Canonization.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: georgia;"><i><b>Mo. Louise Margaret Claret de la Touche,</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: georgia;"><i><b>pray for us and for our Priests!</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div>Guadalupe House Ministry, Honoluluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12963024851327671717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4054927383182834877.post-38051278254073383962023-11-26T19:53:00.032-10:002024-01-28T10:20:18.520-10:00 A Blessing from Christ, our King ...<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">Today is the </span><i style="color: #9fc5e8;">Feast of Christ the King of the Universe</i><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"> and, last night, this author experienced another </span><a href="https://guadalupehousehi.blogspot.com/p/below-is-collection-of-unusual.html?m=1" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><b>little sign</b></span></a><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">; one relating to today's feast - take a look at this photo:</span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #9fc5e8; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9LUHvePsUogyDWiDqQ_Ipf-ERT4Hks6dwnK-55ChHbK0d4JIEJnatmWM7Brf4V0ukk_tyiBvUWs5K21zgXNRcNWUYBXrk9lMbPgz_4l_umin7aAqrh9E4WtmXwWtIfb0IydHiMX_9BqOhpbRekvfRlVRCu1g_R3APdOETqS9mH-2Io3nUmbTXN6ioUbUq/s1555/20231125_181018.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1555" data-original-width="875" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9LUHvePsUogyDWiDqQ_Ipf-ERT4Hks6dwnK-55ChHbK0d4JIEJnatmWM7Brf4V0ukk_tyiBvUWs5K21zgXNRcNWUYBXrk9lMbPgz_4l_umin7aAqrh9E4WtmXwWtIfb0IydHiMX_9BqOhpbRekvfRlVRCu1g_R3APdOETqS9mH-2Io3nUmbTXN6ioUbUq/w360-h640/20231125_181018.jpg" width="360" /></a></div><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: justify;">I had just returned home from serving at my parish's Saturday evening Vigil Mass, when I was drawn to the sight of the full moon. It was so big and beautiful, and brilliant gold, I wanted a keepsake of it so snapped three photos with my cellphone. Upon viewing the images, the photo above immediately stood out as special.</div><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: justify;">What do you see?</div><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">I shared the pic with a few close friends and we all came to the same conclusion - instead of the moon, a brilliant heart appears - the</span><i> <a href="https://guadalupehousehi.blogspot.com/2011/07/most-sacred-heart-of-jesus-have-mercy.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">Sacred Heart of Jesus!</span></b></a> </i><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">It was a blessed surprise for which we thanked the Lord.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrfoTspISuG-6puQDUXBDI1AY0EvB_2a9BOJM7z3hW9_Wtckv74bdSbs6Kq5jo0N_i9KyrzRWQml1FcQ9fIEtpxx3NDtLQdSEWePU5rvieBAWR8CZ7bH_UAM5nHD6JN7w6fJ3PLszUhlhw120j4G4E6Z2UPOJAmHl1qiii3YXzgAR6Idcr-1kijkRWBgGI/s728/Sacred%20Heart,%2011-25-2023.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="728" data-original-width="430" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrfoTspISuG-6puQDUXBDI1AY0EvB_2a9BOJM7z3hW9_Wtckv74bdSbs6Kq5jo0N_i9KyrzRWQml1FcQ9fIEtpxx3NDtLQdSEWePU5rvieBAWR8CZ7bH_UAM5nHD6JN7w6fJ3PLszUhlhw120j4G4E6Z2UPOJAmHl1qiii3YXzgAR6Idcr-1kijkRWBgGI/w378-h640/Sacred%20Heart,%2011-25-2023.gif" width="378" /></a></div></i><i><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">Note the uncanny resemblance of the heart</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">of light </span></i><i><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">to a Sacred Heart painting.</span></i></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: justify;">... and being aware of today's solemn feast, I wondered if the Sacred Heart's appearance was somehow linked to the Kingship of Christ. I did some Googling and providentially found this quote from a website promoting the <i>Home Enthronement of the Sacred Heart of Jesus</i>:</div><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;">"I WILL REIGN THROUGH MY HEART,</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">DESPITE SATAN AND HIS AGENTS</span></b><b><span style="font-size: medium;">."</span></b></span></div><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: center;">- Words of Jesus to St. Margaret</div><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;">Mary Alacoque</span></div><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: justify;">That powerful statement made by our Lord to St. Mary Margaret was enough to convince me that the photo wasn't just a random coincidence. Rather, I personally think our Lord was really trying to communicate something through the symbolism of His loving heart ... because how appropriate is that quote? It's relevant not just in regards to its imagery and its connection to today's Feast of Christ's Kingship, but also for our present, turbulent times!</div><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIVivbZNlu-3b6G3lkp_tBT4xKhJkeKkL7SZPL2uX5xIMXnTin4v9yqQS7kueccORAjFkl0fwDnHYEwWkdXXhWSG0QZQV2G_62q_krYMSJ553rNFWoJ4FTpYIVaUSUOSpOy3iNKR_8QVgZem1mxRREFpwu0CZ9gIiV1KQVwbqinp1bIYG6dSCZansijRvq/s3424/20231127_123507.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3424" data-original-width="1541" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIVivbZNlu-3b6G3lkp_tBT4xKhJkeKkL7SZPL2uX5xIMXnTin4v9yqQS7kueccORAjFkl0fwDnHYEwWkdXXhWSG0QZQV2G_62q_krYMSJ553rNFWoJ4FTpYIVaUSUOSpOy3iNKR_8QVgZem1mxRREFpwu0CZ9gIiV1KQVwbqinp1bIYG6dSCZansijRvq/w288-h640/20231127_123507.jpg" width="288" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">The Sacred Heart of Jesus, depicted as a</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">King, in this stained-glass window in the</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">Sanctuary of the Cathedral Basilica of </span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">Our Lady of Peace in Honolulu, HI.</span></i></div><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: justify;">My spirit is filled with joy, gratitude, and a sense of peace and security, being affirmed in the truth that <i>Jesus reigns supreme and Divine Love shines continously upon us from above</i>. It's an uplifting notion for all Christians to draw strength and comfort from.</div><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: large;">VIVAT CHRISTUS REX!</span></b></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>Guadalupe House Ministry, Honoluluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12963024851327671717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4054927383182834877.post-30835941011322709742023-11-25T19:26:00.004-10:002023-11-25T19:26:45.705-10:00Monthly Message from the Queen of Peace of Medjugorje: November 2023 <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkWXKQsm0wRNue65LX-pIBcpN5j6urnyfyPj2i_CSuaeLyhlIg8-M1noT5qHrAKHSJXaInh3fBKl4I8yjj9DXbOkRuotqVD5hyn-oG34LHjbP7a6xcPjddYtJMIAjg0IAYkWwcv0YVGfcuVMiF4DADZQ24c40BgvPqzLO_vzN4aL_D2RluG3Nod2RGZhBc/s524/20220625_062321.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="524" data-original-width="382" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkWXKQsm0wRNue65LX-pIBcpN5j6urnyfyPj2i_CSuaeLyhlIg8-M1noT5qHrAKHSJXaInh3fBKl4I8yjj9DXbOkRuotqVD5hyn-oG34LHjbP7a6xcPjddYtJMIAjg0IAYkWwcv0YVGfcuVMiF4DADZQ24c40BgvPqzLO_vzN4aL_D2RluG3Nod2RGZhBc/w466-h640/20220625_062321.gif" width="466" /></a></div><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><b>Message given to Marija on November 25th, 2023:</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"> <i>"Dear Children! May this time be interwoven with prayer for peace and good deeds, so that the joy of the expectation of the King of Peace may be felt in your hearts, families and in the world which does not have hope. Thank you for having responded to my call."</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><i><br /></i></span></div>Guadalupe House Ministry, Honoluluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12963024851327671717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4054927383182834877.post-50978889630068300922023-11-23T18:25:00.052-10:002024-02-04T22:09:26.622-10:00Let us give Thanks and Praises to GOD!<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>Happy Blessed Thanksgiving to All!</b></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: justify;">On this day when we especially express our gratitude for all that we have in this life, let us first, and foremost, give thanks and praises to God, from whom every blessing proceeds!</div><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><b>"Enter His gates with thanksgiving</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><b>and H</b></span></i><b style="color: #cfe2f3;"><i>is courts</i> <i>with praise; give thanks</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><b>to Him and praise His name."</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">- Psalm 100:4</span></div><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">So this blogger went to a special Thanksgiving Mass this morning. After I exited my car and was crossing the parking lot to head into church, I glanced up at the sky and had another one of those remarkable and unexpected episodes of </span><a href="https://guadalupehousehi.blogspot.com/search/label/Personal%20Signs" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">"spiritual serendipity"</span></b></a><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"> - there, above the parish's Day Chapel, was a bright "cloud‐figure" resembling a woman, all in white with a blue sash around her waist like </span><i style="color: #9fc5e8;">Our Lady of Lourdes!</i></div><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: justify;">I may have blocked traffic for bit while contemplating the holy image and hastily taking out my cellphone to snap a couple of photos (sorry to those I may have inconvenienced), but I couldn't help it - the sight was beautiful and amazing ... but the resulting photos don't do justice to what I saw; the blue sash, too, didn't translate into the pics. At least the luminous silhouette of the Virgin Mary is evident, as seen below:</div><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLVI-CF_qQ3wj5v4EB_1nHeYHuWWkFSVv05Z49AN0MrpV63EXO4IpGxm9tGA53j5WvXQul43KxhFMFjdZcTsQxxIzfJNsMvR6wqtzBt6422YJDUIoK4qRxdy2EjT4DpVmV00NbRYchk1S96HDcfIKD0a2r3O1BHeHNyuwmmEfoqhLckcK4vmXWg9O9L0g8/s1498/1-Our%20Lady%20of%20Thanksgiving%20(original).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1498" data-original-width="843" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLVI-CF_qQ3wj5v4EB_1nHeYHuWWkFSVv05Z49AN0MrpV63EXO4IpGxm9tGA53j5WvXQul43KxhFMFjdZcTsQxxIzfJNsMvR6wqtzBt6422YJDUIoK4qRxdy2EjT4DpVmV00NbRYchk1S96HDcfIKD0a2r3O1BHeHNyuwmmEfoqhLckcK4vmXWg9O9L0g8/w360-h640/1-Our%20Lady%20of%20Thanksgiving%20(original).jpg" width="360" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">Given the occasion, I </span></i><i><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">discerned</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">and </span></i><i><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">decided to interpret this </span></i><i><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">image of</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">Mary as </span></i><i><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">"Our Lady of Gratitude"</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim6h7se9nLNbqHcoANHjAn4BMLdoySI3ykK6bYMuZX-jzdcJ39KpeMKFFrKL29WKem17xrR6Y5sjLNZrp1Q9FEbeZ_iHogRzkpHo7fsW9LIl_Zs6EN10pfCYyD3__XObVUC4tV9H9_8gB3ggMyugitfIomZAimFB_a8_0DNBMjfWf08Ycksv6dO9Pezu5I/s724/20240204_212732.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="724" data-original-width="432" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim6h7se9nLNbqHcoANHjAn4BMLdoySI3ykK6bYMuZX-jzdcJ39KpeMKFFrKL29WKem17xrR6Y5sjLNZrp1Q9FEbeZ_iHogRzkpHo7fsW9LIl_Zs6EN10pfCYyD3__XObVUC4tV9H9_8gB3ggMyugitfIomZAimFB_a8_0DNBMjfWf08Ycksv6dO9Pezu5I/w382-h640/20240204_212732.gif" width="382" /></a></div><br /></i></div><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: justify;">I went through the Mass very moved, excited, and affirmed that we have a God and a Heavenly Mother who are so very, very close to us ... and generous in dispensing graces.</div><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><b><i>"Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><b><i>His love endures forever."</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">‐ Psalm 136:1</span></div><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: justify;">In his homily, exhorting us to be grateful to our Lord, one phrase that my pastor spoke really impressed me: <b style="text-align: center;">"The more gratitude you have, the </b><b style="text-align: center;">more miracles you'll experience." </b>As soon as I heard it, I knew he was right. My priest went on to recommend that we try writing a list of 10 personal blessings just so we can better realize God's goodness in our lives - what excellent advice!</div><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><b>"And now we thank you, our God,</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><b>and praise Your glorious name."</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">- 1 Chronicles 29:13</span></div><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: justify;">I left that church more grateful than when I first walked in - grateful for the inspiring homily ... grateful for Jesus united to me through the Eucharist ... and, of course, grateful to our Blessed Mother, who I personally believe descended this morning in order to participate and encourage us in our thankgiving to God. Why? I don't know ... but who else could be a better role-model of Thanksgiving and Praise than Our Lady? Her own words from Sacred Scriptures eloquently bear witness to the immensity of her gratitude and joy over what God was doing in her life:</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><i><b><br /></b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><i><b>"My soul doth magnify the Lord,</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><i><b>and my spirit hath rejoiced in God</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><i><b>my Saviour!"</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">‐ The Magnificat (Canticle of Mary),</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">Luke 1:46-47</span></div><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: justify;">So, taking a cue from the Holy Virgin, let us joyfully give thanks to God, as well - "magnifying" Him before the world - not just today, but every day!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span>Guadalupe House Ministry, Honoluluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12963024851327671717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4054927383182834877.post-13057897322058177032023-11-12T18:24:00.080-10:002024-02-26T19:31:52.333-10:00Saint of the Month - November 2023: Saint Cecilia of Rome<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSH14mWUMFia3_K7n6kJaw2uPqNIyUw2gHKrhCX_Qxc7lPbPc5aPqidohI13RPCsD3DNI7zpnipQgTNI61W8mpW4Dw-fLvT7vRShRrg8OCLS-CSg4EBbL7l8fNP2HhnMWBdMG__cBvRF0W4NXZUfbnOLEam6Upbb1uoyShCIcIx47dLk6QavBN-h2IQKzS/s1255/St.%20Cecilia1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="705" data-original-width="1255" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSH14mWUMFia3_K7n6kJaw2uPqNIyUw2gHKrhCX_Qxc7lPbPc5aPqidohI13RPCsD3DNI7zpnipQgTNI61W8mpW4Dw-fLvT7vRShRrg8OCLS-CSg4EBbL7l8fNP2HhnMWBdMG__cBvRF0W4NXZUfbnOLEam6Upbb1uoyShCIcIx47dLk6QavBN-h2IQKzS/w640-h360/St.%20Cecilia1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>St. Cecilia, Virgin & Martyr</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: georgia;"><i>Her Love was a Hymn to Jesus</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: georgia;"><i>Feast: November 22nd</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">This Saint has the distinction of not just being one of the most famous of the Virgin Martyrs from the early Church, but she is also the very first confirmed case of </span><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">"</span></span><a href="http://guadalupehousehi.blogspot.com/2012/05/mystery-of-incorruptibles.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">Incorruptibility</span></a><span><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">"</span><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"> in the history of our Faith. What we know of her life is from an ancient, historical document called the </span></span><i style="color: #9fc5e8;">Passio Sanctae Caeciliae</i><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">. </span></span><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">According to the Passio, St. Cecilia was a Roman noblewoman martyred circa 230AD.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">Educated in the Christian Faith as a child, the Saint was reported to have been divinely inspired to consecrate her life and virginity to Jesus; living a spiritual routine of prayer, charitable works, and voluntary penances. Despite these worthy practices, Cecilia was given in marriage - against her will, by her father - to a wealthy pagan Patrician named Valerian. As her story goes, during their wedding ceremony, the Saint sang improvised hymns in her heart to her Divine Spouse to reassure herself.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">L</span><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">ater, that same evening of the nuptials, Cecilia confessed to Valerian that she was a Christian who had vowed herself completely to our Lord. She also warned him that she was specially protected by her guardian angel against any carnal advances and/or physical harm that he may attempt against her. When her husband asked to see the angel, the Saint challenged him to first convert and be baptized to which he surprisingly agreed.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">Valerian received instructions in the Faith and was baptized by Pope Urban I ... and subsequently witnessed an apparition of his wife's angel, which had the effect of invigorating his blossoming faith. The new convert went on to lead several others, including his brother - Tiburtius - into Christianity.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">Valerian and Tiburtius were later apprehended by Roman officials for their evangelization work in Rome, and sentenced to death by the Prefect Almachius when they flatly refused to offer sacrifices to heathen deities. Instead, the brothers passionately admonished and preached to the spectators who had gathered to watch them die. Many were converted, including the executioner, Maximus, who professed belief in Christ and heroically chose to die with the brothers - all three were beheaded together and buried by Cecilia; it was a pious act that drew the attention of the Prefect.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">Not long after the martyrdoms of Valerian, Tiburtius, and Maximus, Cecilia was also arrested for being a suspected Christian. As with her late husband, Prefect Almachius offered her freedom if she would only pay homage to the Roman gods. Cecilia refused and rebuked her judge, after which Almachius sentenced her to a unique death - she was taken to and locked in her villa's private bath, which was then heated to such a high degree so as to suffocate her with steam ... but inexplicably, the woman was unharmed and heard singing hymns inside the bath, </span><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">which contributed to her designation as the </span><i style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">Patron Saint of Musicians.</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia; font-style: normal;">Upon hearing of her survival, the infuriated Prefect ordered</span><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia; font-style: normal;"> Cecilia's beheading, but instead of immediately killing her, the swordsman botched the execution and failed to decapitate her even after three blows! The soldiers fled, leaving our Saint with a half-severed neck on the floor of her bath, where she was soon discovered by other Christians. Still conscious and in terrible agony, the Saint managed to briefly speak only to bequeath her remaining wealth to the poor and to the Church. She then turned her face to the floor and spoke no more; on her left hand she extended a single finger, while on the right hand she extended three. It was her silent and final profession of faith in the Holy Trinity - one God in three Divine Persons - and </span></i><i style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia; font-style: normal;">those around her were</span></i><i style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia; font-style: normal;"> effectively edified.</span></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyTw2BSQvsIi4hGmKmbWOYTswcOyJyvrT_6RkSfZ-OHgl5tSlc2y4cTtrR4hJtt-WbCrHy3HsLyZPSSr621utKKaKRvTP39Z47cIPTCo1vsztQ455pscxk-mP696FB8bEF61UTvvTjTwUWmJDvrcsNq9NXCUsdxCX8kq828kAgXDDnCjV9r9kvVnmcVJoJ/s1600/St.%20Cecilia2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1250" data-original-width="1600" height="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyTw2BSQvsIi4hGmKmbWOYTswcOyJyvrT_6RkSfZ-OHgl5tSlc2y4cTtrR4hJtt-WbCrHy3HsLyZPSSr621utKKaKRvTP39Z47cIPTCo1vsztQ455pscxk-mP696FB8bEF61UTvvTjTwUWmJDvrcsNq9NXCUsdxCX8kq828kAgXDDnCjV9r9kvVnmcVJoJ/w640-h500/St.%20Cecilia2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: georgia;"><i>The martyrdom of St. Cecilia.</i></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">Incredibly, Cecilia lingered for three painful days before finally expiring. The Christians covered the Saint's remains with a veil before placing it in a cypress wood coffin, in the exact position in which she died. Pope Urban I then had her body buried in a place of honor in the Catacombs of St. Callixtus, and had the Saint's home converted into a chapel, which eventually became a large basilica.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">In 822, Pope Pascal I commissioned a restoration of the Basilica of St. Cecilia, and desired that the relics of the Martyr be transferred into it from the catacombs ... but the location of her grave had been forgotten over time. The Saint solved this problem by appearing to the Pontiff to disclose the exact place of her burial. Subsequently, Cecilia's original coffin was retrieved, along with those of Valerian, Tiburtius, and Maximus (now honored as Saints, too) ... and all were reinterred in the renovated Basilica.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">Another renovation of the Saint's basilica was undertaken in 1599 by a Cardinal Paolo Sfrondati. At that time, the Cardinal wished to rediscover Cecilia's relics, which had again been lost. The prelate enlisted the aid of a reputable mystic - a stigmatic Dominican nun named, <i>Ven. Caterina Paluzzi of Morlupo</i> (d. 1645) - who through her mystical gift of prophetic insight, provided the location of the tomb under the main altar of the Basilica ... while also predicting that the Saint's body would be found intact. Excavations revealed two marble sarcaphogi, which contained Cecilia's orginal wooden coffin and another for the three other Roman Martyrs associated with her. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">As described by Sr. Caterina, when the lid of the coffin was lifted, the remains of the Saint were discovered perfectly incorrupt and wearing a silk dress stained at the neck/chest with her blood; she lay on her right side with arms extended towards the legs, which were somewhat bent at the knees. At her feet were bundles of cloth that were used by the early Christians to collect her precious blood. Witnesses also reported a wonderful fragrance of roses and lillies emanating from the sacred body. All who witnessed the scene were profoundly moved and amazed at the miraculous state of the relic.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgokQBfwME-lcF6QtNb4FtHIhmi3HfJRVURliIuGbIsV81lXjBzWCtADBXVUzMqwcrfMW20u3fK5oBnm8HgN99rljwpsepdZN-kSmN2y8cnBEY7R2qCKeUJb11uIjObhdRzGe4gxPS8jkAcwW5CavL09LXhoF9GyRRmwJ6YS6IpnToyVAaBb-3u5kHK8peI/s632/img-3-small480.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="632" data-original-width="480" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgokQBfwME-lcF6QtNb4FtHIhmi3HfJRVURliIuGbIsV81lXjBzWCtADBXVUzMqwcrfMW20u3fK5oBnm8HgN99rljwpsepdZN-kSmN2y8cnBEY7R2qCKeUJb11uIjObhdRzGe4gxPS8jkAcwW5CavL09LXhoF9GyRRmwJ6YS6IpnToyVAaBb-3u5kHK8peI/w486-h640/img-3-small480.jpg" width="486" /></a></div><br /><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: georgia;"><b>ABOVE:</b> <i>An eye-witness account and</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: georgia;"><i>drawing </i></span><i style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: georgia;">of the Saint's incorrupt body.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>BELOW:</b> <i>The statue in the Basilica of</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>St. Cecilia </i></span></span><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><i style="font-family: georgia;"><i>representing her </i>in death</i></span><i style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: georgia;">.</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqIj5Tn9mx6Ot6VEXJmvN4880Onv76WR76cJjIDBVy3LEVxRSsMPNgLKHdBsVHbMWSojATHzfY6md_x20oDQz-qI25Eu946Qzl7CgVBak2-VVUVbD4JwdAmGQDHZ6XhokahulSv0p8RhQHxkd4yEySS0NT7SVxWOai6ZoGqe4zmo5LhyphenhyphenJFJk0H_3874dMB/s400/St.%20Cecilia%20Altar%20&%20Tomb.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="400" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqIj5Tn9mx6Ot6VEXJmvN4880Onv76WR76cJjIDBVy3LEVxRSsMPNgLKHdBsVHbMWSojATHzfY6md_x20oDQz-qI25Eu946Qzl7CgVBak2-VVUVbD4JwdAmGQDHZ6XhokahulSv0p8RhQHxkd4yEySS0NT7SVxWOai6ZoGqe4zmo5LhyphenhyphenJFJk0H_3874dMB/w640-h480/St.%20Cecilia%20Altar%20&%20Tomb.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">Today, St. Cecilia remains entombed in a crypt-chapel in her Basilica in Trastavere, Rome, over which is a marble statue carved by the artist, Stefano Maderno, who personally saw her body in 1599. The famous sculpture depicts Cecilia in the position in which her corpse was discovered ... with her fingers forever professing her faith in our triune God for whom she heroically gave up her life.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>St. Cecilia, </i></b></span><b style="font-family: georgia;"><i>pray for us!</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div>Guadalupe House Ministry, Honoluluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12963024851327671717noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4054927383182834877.post-82164959704299833922023-11-01T20:17:00.033-10:002024-01-30T21:53:18.301-10:00Saints & Relics Presentation: Our Lady of Good Counsel School, 11/1/2023<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7sHvAQnOvLk2xbxFDrEdhQzv3yU7AznltKEP7PP82OEkYd3KUhd8aS8wV_AT0yT4lJkg_lADnXhYU93ur7BVl8mCiNyiODtctKtt2QQ1_Fnn2m6raanVYLZDsMTlNeNgAjqFP91A3qdrY6PQy0yZzCsN-hXFMW5D-weUwy2vduo8nSkPIDKUZ-XJFwghD/s3710/20231101_095556.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1669" data-original-width="3710" height="288" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7sHvAQnOvLk2xbxFDrEdhQzv3yU7AznltKEP7PP82OEkYd3KUhd8aS8wV_AT0yT4lJkg_lADnXhYU93ur7BVl8mCiNyiODtctKtt2QQ1_Fnn2m6raanVYLZDsMTlNeNgAjqFP91A3qdrY6PQy0yZzCsN-hXFMW5D-weUwy2vduo8nSkPIDKUZ-XJFwghD/w640-h288/20231101_095556.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>Happy All Saints Day!</b> This morning, this ministry was invited by the Diocesan Evangelization Task Force and the Faculty of Our Lady of Good Counsel (OLGC) School to share about Saints and Relics with their students. Of course, this ministry accepted, and it turned out to be a beautiful and fitting way to celebrate our incredible Saints in Heaven!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh-5xBPKmJOr8PPUgYdieGzsiIt0PY-OERmNA1HjKIw9uFV-pHJkZxwxIwELqC6F1gqSZuOp1Sh9z5qnWM5TnwJ9FlTAls9I1GatdT2FaPj-qPxOJ4GgTkGpqnc0ZgHO4dz6iS2uen2Km9ZfUV-1yIi-GrxZE6b5q9EMsLXbCdkKEHGYszz-Ysw_jz0eUZ/s4000/20231101_081753.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="4000" height="288" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh-5xBPKmJOr8PPUgYdieGzsiIt0PY-OERmNA1HjKIw9uFV-pHJkZxwxIwELqC6F1gqSZuOp1Sh9z5qnWM5TnwJ9FlTAls9I1GatdT2FaPj-qPxOJ4GgTkGpqnc0ZgHO4dz6iS2uen2Km9ZfUV-1yIi-GrxZE6b5q9EMsLXbCdkKEHGYszz-Ysw_jz0eUZ/w640-h288/20231101_081753.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><i><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">Mass with the students, prior to the</span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: georgia;"><i>Saints & Relics presentations.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: justify;">First off - a very big shout out to the school's faculty and the Pastor of the adjoining Church, as I found the children, including the younger groups, well-exposed to the Saints and the Eucharist! In fact, today, many students and teachers dressed up as their favorite Saints - I saw several Blessed Mothers, St. Michaels, St. Damiens, St. Thereses, St. Padre Pios, St. Patricks, etc. It was a joy and amusing for me to see so many "saints" walking around in one place!</div><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQOWIUMgy6GImAnMpZYUXfx8SLeMZByOA5fi3obanKwPH3MBHgtX8AeNH2QGESpD5exVI4iLIoZ1hUIRLS-xasVO6ukg884DE9cI9UF5XwMBketS8y7Yw_3POrDxzZ_MP1TDmXgKQCaspgL670T_6PxIJwjm58f7-6BKucTfuvoZ1IQTihfKHA97ddkn1w/s3433/20231101_081237.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1425" data-original-width="3433" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQOWIUMgy6GImAnMpZYUXfx8SLeMZByOA5fi3obanKwPH3MBHgtX8AeNH2QGESpD5exVI4iLIoZ1hUIRLS-xasVO6ukg884DE9cI9UF5XwMBketS8y7Yw_3POrDxzZ_MP1TDmXgKQCaspgL670T_6PxIJwjm58f7-6BKucTfuvoZ1IQTihfKHA97ddkn1w/w640-h266/20231101_081237.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">ABOVE: R<i>elics displayed at the school.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">BELOW: <i>The older students crowding</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><i>around </i><i>the relics after the talk.</i></span></div><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiktQhTHaiRX659bDMcPXHnRwI036XFooO7yB7PQZP8NE81NFOLF_1sWWvqQu8hPQ1PY674R_LNAw63sO213qogflZwNJqIS7QxZs827bVGzArZoBMQiAQJc_olOpPlvJHy0UJA5ijg8j50msdJIjrcMCWS81j8SLPlEgCjblt_wHnYg_V0VJ_dNvs4wZwP/s3017/20231101_103553.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1523" data-original-width="3017" height="324" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiktQhTHaiRX659bDMcPXHnRwI036XFooO7yB7PQZP8NE81NFOLF_1sWWvqQu8hPQ1PY674R_LNAw63sO213qogflZwNJqIS7QxZs827bVGzArZoBMQiAQJc_olOpPlvJHy0UJA5ijg8j50msdJIjrcMCWS81j8SLPlEgCjblt_wHnYg_V0VJ_dNvs4wZwP/w640-h324/20231101_103553.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: justify;">During two separate presentations, this ministry emphasized various holy persons going through the Sainthood Process, as "Faith-Heroes" for the children to look up to and imitate ... as well as, to relate to as heavenly "best friends" to ask help from in times of need.</div><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRzgobd4l0bPwO15sx5U3G1jZNcYFlmDjLAE3LwPfjAszPaYGi-pfUSw5LROtQn3l52baC2D7MeV8PGlDAEBYp5ge1AqIHNIrOEzW7rAnQswpbhRN2B-aVYo-ujOp6_bNBE1Gaxu4JHZgB1KoelqkgSNBKmN2ScTPFBxMRcpVTebEkyoJRWYLT6rTh6NX2/s3970/20231101_113924.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1534" data-original-width="3970" height="248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRzgobd4l0bPwO15sx5U3G1jZNcYFlmDjLAE3LwPfjAszPaYGi-pfUSw5LROtQn3l52baC2D7MeV8PGlDAEBYp5ge1AqIHNIrOEzW7rAnQswpbhRN2B-aVYo-ujOp6_bNBE1Gaxu4JHZgB1KoelqkgSNBKmN2ScTPFBxMRcpVTebEkyoJRWYLT6rTh6NX2/w640-h248/20231101_113924.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">The younger children standing in line to</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">view the relics they just learned about.</span></i></div><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">The Relics presented for the students to see were from Our Lady, </span><a href="https://guadalupehousehi.blogspot.com/2021/02/saint-of-month-february-2021-venerable.html" target="_blank"><b><i><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">Ven. Anne de Guigne</span></i></b></a><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">, </span><i style="color: #9fc5e8;">Bl. Carlo Acutis</i><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">, </span><i><a href="https://guadalupehousehi.blogspot.com/2021/05/saint-of-month-may-2021-saint-margaret.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><b>St. Margaret of Castello</b></span></a></i><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">, </span><i style="color: #9fc5e8;">Bl. Pier Giorgio Frassati</i><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">, </span><i style="color: #9fc5e8;">St. Joseph</i><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"> the foster-father of Jesus, and </span><i><b><a href="https://guadalupehousehi.blogspot.com/2011/10/saint-of-month-october-2011.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">St. Therese the Little Flower</span></a></b></i><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">. In addition, there was a relic of a fragment from our Lord’s manger to complete the set of relics from the Holy Family, who represent the Domestic Church.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIa_5adqs6lc-zTww2Nr3S1m4RdKWOOoDe35EIQm1PrvLaJgttbbqICJgMFvgC-pZRFMG7Zkqekph7IdKhwOl8NcUZ90plcv015qjzt8Bl7NrBO0dA-FXcev0naQ3DhMVfZedF6-9e4f57u-8LNlsp43pgd1TY2RiRY612EPhujEUNbQjCbLBoaf0Tvf1I/s4000/20231101_105710.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="4000" height="288" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIa_5adqs6lc-zTww2Nr3S1m4RdKWOOoDe35EIQm1PrvLaJgttbbqICJgMFvgC-pZRFMG7Zkqekph7IdKhwOl8NcUZ90plcv015qjzt8Bl7NrBO0dA-FXcev0naQ3DhMVfZedF6-9e4f57u-8LNlsp43pgd1TY2RiRY612EPhujEUNbQjCbLBoaf0Tvf1I/w640-h288/20231101_105710.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><i><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">The younger group of students watch as</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">older students begin a thanksgiving hula</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">dance for this ministry. Priceless.</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">All in all, the students were engaged and responsive, as I shared stories and played interactive games relating to our Church's Heroes whose lives and relics were featured.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAW0y7JnXiOviuRpBHmcLfODTWAJkwvgkcPyxzMapDm_JpTL9YCTNtLSHNaObKy56zchEBClex4QmtdduPRPHGcg5e-Hi22CeQHtMJh9UmsjOPK0pzwhraUwykFzQgVGfnw3_5YEhRnSze8znWHakyM73vjt0ti06sVb_azH8TXtibWZ2WtKu4J8K5zMCy/s2753/20231101_113845.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2753" data-original-width="1549" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAW0y7JnXiOviuRpBHmcLfODTWAJkwvgkcPyxzMapDm_JpTL9YCTNtLSHNaObKy56zchEBClex4QmtdduPRPHGcg5e-Hi22CeQHtMJh9UmsjOPK0pzwhraUwykFzQgVGfnw3_5YEhRnSze8znWHakyM73vjt0ti06sVb_azH8TXtibWZ2WtKu4J8K5zMCy/w360-h640/20231101_113845.jpg" width="360" /></a></div><i><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">Youngsters personally encountering</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">Saints and other holy persons through</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">various relics in their school hall.</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: justify;">This author is firm in my belief that exposing our children to our beautiful traditions and devotions - including Saints & Relics - are key factors that help keep them in the Church as adults. Trust me - our kids are paying attention! Just look at some of the homemade, illustrated Thank You Cards they made for me. Priceless!</div><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZYwuaIC83-V-bNLQQE_AqGtG-z9X1raU6pJN5ypOlkcHnauMDs1pURoD8qNb360i4_8nnnmIzMYl9FBsoYOAyxWEGbhP0gS01j7uSIeKsUuy8cI5OFHYM4mxVYBckUrqkD6D7wppmBuMOFxSP1Vb93jKMhFPxfUqox6f3BlXULfEbLQWDEvgMS_ur1LSv/s2880/20240130_213303.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2880" data-original-width="2880" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZYwuaIC83-V-bNLQQE_AqGtG-z9X1raU6pJN5ypOlkcHnauMDs1pURoD8qNb360i4_8nnnmIzMYl9FBsoYOAyxWEGbhP0gS01j7uSIeKsUuy8cI5OFHYM4mxVYBckUrqkD6D7wppmBuMOFxSP1Vb93jKMhFPxfUqox6f3BlXULfEbLQWDEvgMS_ur1LSv/w640-h640/20240130_213303.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><i style="color: #cfe2f3;">Love the drawing of St. Margaret of</i></div></span><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: georgia;"><i>Castello to the upper-right!</i></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMZrQrK5aNn-mZmuWG5lx48qsocVH4pIuGLi-nunV27BTlOkWOMpEuSd4xBwzKB8-6M4ynUlo5HYvLXThx7Z2Gy8AEeVQaZmlxzjNR_5BSkuHaNpKNDijvKbYnGwn22NMY6ltMloPWXGmS44dJvqkgf5S-0iRG4yKfQRMdKcK3z-gzbMA2NEcVNkOeDnZk/s2574/20240130_203529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1677" data-original-width="2574" height="416" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMZrQrK5aNn-mZmuWG5lx48qsocVH4pIuGLi-nunV27BTlOkWOMpEuSd4xBwzKB8-6M4ynUlo5HYvLXThx7Z2Gy8AEeVQaZmlxzjNR_5BSkuHaNpKNDijvKbYnGwn22NMY6ltMloPWXGmS44dJvqkgf5S-0iRG4yKfQRMdKcK3z-gzbMA2NEcVNkOeDnZk/w640-h416/20240130_203529.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: georgia;"><i>These kids from OLGC can draw!</i></span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3Bdl5yqwWydl-aQC7KrEeCBb8iS7Vmm3JeunkwQE2A6AsEt_9gWAt15x_jXMHsO5Hi9wFQftWf4p7Rs1w-jTQqCAQs-7Orb9W-1LVuTRE6pKvl5A7_dANibO20jm2lNEUqKp8jIelx6ZKRg_FRXHqtUJESfLo9qUBH3w9f6Qw-IBB7dUPc-KrPdCZh6hS/s2880/20240130_204714.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2880" data-original-width="2880" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3Bdl5yqwWydl-aQC7KrEeCBb8iS7Vmm3JeunkwQE2A6AsEt_9gWAt15x_jXMHsO5Hi9wFQftWf4p7Rs1w-jTQqCAQs-7Orb9W-1LVuTRE6pKvl5A7_dANibO20jm2lNEUqKp8jIelx6ZKRg_FRXHqtUJESfLo9qUBH3w9f6Qw-IBB7dUPc-KrPdCZh6hS/w640-h640/20240130_204714.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">Clearly, the Saints and their Relics were</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">a </span></i><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-style: italic;">big hit</span><span> </span><i><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">with the kids!</span></i></div><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: justify;">So, again, kudos to the teachers of OLGC School for what they're teaching! God bless them and especially the students ... may Our Lady and the Saints continually guide and protect them all.</div><div style="color: #9fc5e8; text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span></div>Guadalupe House Ministry, Honoluluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12963024851327671717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4054927383182834877.post-40190158500969270172023-10-31T23:30:00.015-10:002023-11-01T19:02:36.560-10:00Saints & Relics Presentation: St. Pius X Church, 10/31/2031<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcuLz99NnF2YWvNSbWOimSdVIAn0NJ4GB85ziBN183DD8CCgOixP6d7_FUUpOjBFM6D-MPslBWYa260d9Fx37hghiRP9X8foGtMDVkTAZQAZojPDEd3QZZPZKNiKJsdvBmTIlkLHxTrETISPa12C9ws5ThqWap08SF8hYPrDib43TKO5fFmhHRbX4w8t9e/s3992/20231031_195200.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2044" data-original-width="3992" height="328" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcuLz99NnF2YWvNSbWOimSdVIAn0NJ4GB85ziBN183DD8CCgOixP6d7_FUUpOjBFM6D-MPslBWYa260d9Fx37hghiRP9X8foGtMDVkTAZQAZojPDEd3QZZPZKNiKJsdvBmTIlkLHxTrETISPa12C9ws5ThqWap08SF8hYPrDib43TKO5fFmhHRbX4w8t9e/w640-h328/20231031_195200.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">This evening was a blessing for this author for many reasons. This ministry was invited to speak about Saints and Relics at a parish I have never been to before ... and where one of my former pastors from St. Anthony of Padua Church - Fr. Nick - who I haven't seen in years, is now residing. It was nice to see this beautiful church in quaint Manoa Town, and to see Fr. Nick again; to share this ministry's relics ... and to also have the privilege of adoring and consoling our Eucharistic Lord on a night when diabolic deeds are so prevelant.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; text-align: start;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">The Holy Persons who were discussed, and whose relics were present, were </span><i><a href="https://guadalupehousehi.blogspot.com/2022/10/saint-of-month-october-2022-blessed.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">Bl. Bartolo Longo</span></b></a><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">, </span></i><i style="color: #9fc5e8;">St. Bernadette of Lourdes</i><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">, </span><i><a href="https://guadalupehousehi.blogspot.com/2016/09/saint-of-month-september-2016-saint.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">St. Catherine of Genoa</span></b></a></i><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">, </span><i style="color: #9fc5e8;">St. Damien of Molokai</i><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">, </span><i><a href="https://guadalupehousehi.blogspot.com/2016/05/saint-of-month-may-2016-saint-leopoldo.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">St. Leopoldo Mandic</span></b></a></i><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">,</span><i style="color: #9fc5e8;"> </i><i style="color: #9fc5e8;">Bl. Miguel Pro, </i><i style="color: #9fc5e8;">St. Peregrine Laziosi</i><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">, </span><i style="color: #9fc5e8;">St. Padre Pio</i><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">, and </span><i style="color: #9fc5e8;">St. Pope Pius X. </i><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">Relics of </span><i style="color: #9fc5e8;">Our Lady's clothing ("Ex Camisia") </i><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">and the </span><i style="color: #9fc5e8;">Scourging Pillar of our Lord </i><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">were also brought to the church</span><i style="color: #9fc5e8;">.</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i style="color: #9fc5e8;"><br /></i></div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpn63hnee87crHMZbBZnv1OHd9ivcBdKe4Bhf39dE7PSuYJi-S2OC8l4vyQ9OhS2NgZXluKlsXi4TTWGkaNEHGc0zFqY_6O80M6f0O2I_KLo07Pq0_wPlnRQ4cFYRzlU1rGgNRUcmxXmQZTxZbTnRBPMl1BNIOBRioylDp2ZWk1qrFx9FejW9shSWFF7jq/s2935/20231031_201207.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2935" data-original-width="1651" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpn63hnee87crHMZbBZnv1OHd9ivcBdKe4Bhf39dE7PSuYJi-S2OC8l4vyQ9OhS2NgZXluKlsXi4TTWGkaNEHGc0zFqY_6O80M6f0O2I_KLo07Pq0_wPlnRQ4cFYRzlU1rGgNRUcmxXmQZTxZbTnRBPMl1BNIOBRioylDp2ZWk1qrFx9FejW9shSWFF7jq/w360-h640/20231031_201207.jpg" width="360" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">O Sacrament Most Holy, O Sacrament</span></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">Divine! All praise and all thanksgiving</span></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">be every moment Thine!</span></i></span></div></div><span style="font-family: georgia; text-align: start;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">Immediately after the talk concluded, Fr. Nick exposed the Blessed Sacrament for a period of adoration and prayer. It was surreal to think we had actual Saints and Blesseds physically with us before the altar; just imagine - inhabitants of Heaven and earth were united for a brief time in adoration of our precious Lord! POWERFUL.</span></div></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuag-2IeyHa3qlSsyK0S7GIvu220twpVA9zPMkpq5pxU0O-wWxlsUk6KR4z3UGxJ4yb88bG4_NWEoqnh9iiYL0up-4jcTIDWZqTQmhvgyFuG63vn8-z6UyhqipSXvI1xhvcqknv3xQsWefuU-8A88MnG__8eWeAbWeMvKRjAWTkUr_ISRBihWI2bBsjcGb/s3972/20231031_180904.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1787" data-original-width="3972" height="144" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuag-2IeyHa3qlSsyK0S7GIvu220twpVA9zPMkpq5pxU0O-wWxlsUk6KR4z3UGxJ4yb88bG4_NWEoqnh9iiYL0up-4jcTIDWZqTQmhvgyFuG63vn8-z6UyhqipSXvI1xhvcqknv3xQsWefuU-8A88MnG__8eWeAbWeMvKRjAWTkUr_ISRBihWI2bBsjcGb/s320/20231031_180904.jpg" width="320" /></a> <img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPyb2Loj6rXPchyAOVuBKlEzRjHTZvOkqJC_n_Rm5Z9uecxX-4ZegIiOPUFg4Ncbi6b2OmJpTVkwNyXr1eAxhAq9x-gKAIw5eF8EX82PLYzsVSm5y4WQWGRrpiz-3pOsewZCxxxk8-3uncXYhCwFoeuSfcxxWmTuMpF5KlcfHH2mn2OHAEtN74PuHTQV7R/s320/20231031_180521.jpg" /></div><i><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: georgia;">Relics of the holy Faith-Heroes whose lives were shared during the presentation.<br /></span></i></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">After the Eucharist was reposed in the Tabernacle, parishioners were then invited to come forward to venerate the relics, which was also a special encounter with the holy.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">So a big MAHALO to Fr. Nick and to the parishioners of St. Pius X for their warm welcome of this ministry. God's continued blessings and the guidance of the Saints be with them always.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnCZFMkgjyTbl5QiXufNoHO2F0N7gXNJ9hkIYZfy2jNkkBpno73pWjHb0CHplxUooYnA-_PJ1ihZCWo7MUCVUnEo4Hdx9-Ddu4heAQ7ykg82c8FE4NmH1218AkXy8jUvCL92tuhIZuZeaN8X_G-IhBKt5CSNyyIdQimpOKIqXEE8G27CtL7dr3kvCcOlKb/s2658/20231031_201501.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2658" data-original-width="1652" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnCZFMkgjyTbl5QiXufNoHO2F0N7gXNJ9hkIYZfy2jNkkBpno73pWjHb0CHplxUooYnA-_PJ1ihZCWo7MUCVUnEo4Hdx9-Ddu4heAQ7ykg82c8FE4NmH1218AkXy8jUvCL92tuhIZuZeaN8X_G-IhBKt5CSNyyIdQimpOKIqXEE8G27CtL7dr3kvCcOlKb/w249-h400/20231031_201501.jpg" width="249" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLqWkPqt5sqPx1rqXqq9yQoOZiDE9ceN3aFrevG4b6MXalXryMtvpbnU8htw-5OAi3IFLLr0qbK5chAUDFDas68on82YMWXpxuljgD1C4A3JoPzOp3qMdSVnOECqBk0Ur0jsvFrbjjfQ7V_FLLdIYA3JIUqzA-qjXGTzLoVMygENUKjR9pILgrtPSd8hV9/s2997/20231031_203345.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2997" data-original-width="1798" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLqWkPqt5sqPx1rqXqq9yQoOZiDE9ceN3aFrevG4b6MXalXryMtvpbnU8htw-5OAi3IFLLr0qbK5chAUDFDas68on82YMWXpxuljgD1C4A3JoPzOp3qMdSVnOECqBk0Ur0jsvFrbjjfQ7V_FLLdIYA3JIUqzA-qjXGTzLoVMygENUKjR9pILgrtPSd8hV9/w240-h400/20231031_203345.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><i>Fr. Nick set an example by starting the</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="color: #cfe2f3;">veneration of relics. Parishioners followed,</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><i>including this young mother with children.<br /></i></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></span>Guadalupe House Ministry, Honoluluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12963024851327671717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4054927383182834877.post-7049703266720117452023-10-25T06:27:00.001-10:002023-10-26T06:39:33.012-10:00Monthly Message from the Queen of Peace of Medjugorje: October 2023<div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDuBxLS6-CkCQQefZgUrSnoLcmgke4E3JeW7Ho0Y3FIj5ZDlxbdudWUQeXW_AM4cl51NrRfECXFjNEUHCRWvOtFYbFjiAJifJoqT-8-7ok50EcHNPxF6sG_T0pnUsxhzI7VDeo0QoZ06rg85ol0iYBIMachvPIg8tAC_4CZsKk0dRT_KXxAvP-RDyrzLOK/s528/Medjugorje1.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="528" data-original-width="368" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDuBxLS6-CkCQQefZgUrSnoLcmgke4E3JeW7Ho0Y3FIj5ZDlxbdudWUQeXW_AM4cl51NrRfECXFjNEUHCRWvOtFYbFjiAJifJoqT-8-7ok50EcHNPxF6sG_T0pnUsxhzI7VDeo0QoZ06rg85ol0iYBIMachvPIg8tAC_4CZsKk0dRT_KXxAvP-RDyrzLOK/w446-h640/Medjugorje1.gif" width="446" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">October 25, 2023 (Monthly Message given through Marija):</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: georgia;"> <i>"Dear Children! Winds of evil, hatred and peacelessness are blowing through the earth to destroy lives. That is why the Most High sent me to you, to lead you towards the way of peace and unity with God and people. You, little children, are my extended hands: pray, fast and offer sacrifices for peace - the treasure for which every heart yearns. Thank you for having responded to my call."</i></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div style="color: #cfe2f3; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #cfe2f3; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">October 20, 2023 (Special Message given through Ivan):</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="color: #cfe2f3; text-align: justify;"> <i>"Dear Children! Today I invite you to pray for peace. At this time, peace is threatened in a special way, and I ask you to renew fasting and prayer in your families and to encourage others to pray for peace. Dear children, I want you to understand the seriousness of the situation and that much of what will happen depends on your prayer and perseverance. Dear children, I am with you and I invite you to seriously start praying and fasting. Thank you for responding to my call!"</i></div><div style="color: #cfe2f3; text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span>Guadalupe House Ministry, Honoluluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12963024851327671717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4054927383182834877.post-43931078120293913602023-10-21T16:15:00.044-10:002024-01-28T05:34:35.611-10:00Saints & Relics Presentation: Sts. Peter & Paul Church, 10/20/2023<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimdod1W6fY5UO6K_gmssE-giqKnnShB7qcv2JPN5RKi-xbNB7N-3DDeEuwGr7g937K339s7tsiqjQY0auX1DFUIqjdo9lggADngZV1JFhxuJGSUFHsKc9RpDMV50h8rzvDp9We9mix_sozeJpw3Wfi34RelXUypFzWxN_VUYjexY8UsrcltNsL-t8qrePW/s3994/20231020_181530.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2047" data-original-width="3994" height="328" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimdod1W6fY5UO6K_gmssE-giqKnnShB7qcv2JPN5RKi-xbNB7N-3DDeEuwGr7g937K339s7tsiqjQY0auX1DFUIqjdo9lggADngZV1JFhxuJGSUFHsKc9RpDMV50h8rzvDp9We9mix_sozeJpw3Wfi34RelXUypFzWxN_VUYjexY8UsrcltNsL-t8qrePW/w640-h328/20231020_181530.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">Last night was a wonderful night; time well-spent with our Lord amd His Saints at Sts. Peter & Paul Church, Honolulu. A good-sized group turned out, including entire families, which I was happy to see because it meant more people got to "encounter" the Saints in a direct and personal manner through relics.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">The Saints and Blesseds who this ministry featured at the event and, whose relics were displayed, were: </span><i style="color: #9fc5e8;">St. Bernadette of Lourdes</i><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">, </span><i style="color: #9fc5e8;">Bl. Carlos Manuel Rodriguez Santiago</i><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">, </span><i><a href="https://guadalupehousehi.blogspot.com/2012/04/saint-of-month-may-2012.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><b>St. Dymphna of Gheel</b></span></a></i><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">, </span><i style="color: #9fc5e8;">Sts. Louis & Zelie Martin</i><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">, </span><i><a href="https://guadalupehousehi.blogspot.com/2017/12/saints-of-month-july-2017-bl-mattia.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><b>Bl. Mattia Nazarei</b></span></a></i><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">, </span><i style="color: #9fc5e8;">St. Peregrine Laziosi, Padre Pio</i><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">, </span><i><a href="https://guadalupehousehi.blogspot.com/2017/05/saint-of-month-may-2017-bl-rolando-rivi.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><b>Bl. Rolando Rivi</b></span></a></i><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">, </span><i><a href="https://guadalupehousehi.blogspot.com/2011/10/saint-of-month-october-2011.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><b>St. Therese the Little Flower</b></span></a></i><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">... and there were also relics from </span><i style="color: #9fc5e8;">Our Lady's dress</i><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"> and the </span><i style="color: #9fc5e8;">True Cross of our Lord</i><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3GGL7vX8kNbNFYL_O86xAlRXvAVSCP4WTH7RLP_va_6xJgxgDSmNL89VV4eN67WeTCATMRuFcDhNuHs4Dv8dK_QHLUVcAUcqNMx1JY8AzboHRwuGv_AUMM6BmKYPAjzLKbHizzC8xcKAZXyc0NBN1WrFxKRY-egIrq9QuWP5T954Hp_hhxbB3UP7dbGtR/s4000/20231020_200726.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2250" data-original-width="4000" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3GGL7vX8kNbNFYL_O86xAlRXvAVSCP4WTH7RLP_va_6xJgxgDSmNL89VV4eN67WeTCATMRuFcDhNuHs4Dv8dK_QHLUVcAUcqNMx1JY8AzboHRwuGv_AUMM6BmKYPAjzLKbHizzC8xcKAZXyc0NBN1WrFxKRY-egIrq9QuWP5T954Hp_hhxbB3UP7dbGtR/w640-h360/20231020_200726.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: georgia;">Parishioners lined up to honor the 12 rare</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: georgia;">relics that were present in the church.</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">I also recognized many people in the pews who were present at the </span><a href="https://guadalupehousehi.blogspot.com/2023/10/marian-apparitions-presentation-sts.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">Marian Apparitions Presentation this author did at this parish two weeks ago</span></a><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"> ... so the Saints are evidently touching hearts and drawing people to our Lord, present in the Tabernacle.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">In fact, one thing this ministry tries to emphasize during presentations is how the Lord is </span><u style="color: #9fc5e8;">truly</u><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"> </span><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">present</span><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"> in the </span><a href="https://guadalupehousehi.blogspot.com/2011/06/eucharist-physical-presence-of-jesus-in.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><b>Eucharist</b></span></a><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">; how the Eucharist, along with the other Sacraments Jesus gifted us, gave our Saints the grace to become the Saints we honor today ... and we can become Saints, too, if we diligently live similar sacramental lives.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhY0DFn2actCZT4fDDyFact5XIsXoSjkMUmdF4OydFHMBR5zvksHwcn5RPnGZbzVI2Pg8begdmFUqR1uXZ8DKDTOkg4Fo7Y_167y3bPpVCinFWdC0_QEgLIkdTOTes8lTqCxgxv9NA66bs4PEZiaPgB0uD51VuV7Rv4xaXp8vK8HN3rK_gKKrasSL2XxOkX/s4000/20231020_181559.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="2250" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhY0DFn2actCZT4fDDyFact5XIsXoSjkMUmdF4OydFHMBR5zvksHwcn5RPnGZbzVI2Pg8begdmFUqR1uXZ8DKDTOkg4Fo7Y_167y3bPpVCinFWdC0_QEgLIkdTOTes8lTqCxgxv9NA66bs4PEZiaPgB0uD51VuV7Rv4xaXp8vK8HN3rK_gKKrasSL2XxOkX/w225-h400/20231020_181559.jpg" width="225" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7w23NKXaEBkJUKyNJElSPfWYOk42nmpEdiZV9MAmwVAJLC-nd0m_uMaf-E5Elj85GPTpHyO9RBoZt732QfqakoD0SVUY3uysrwOmi6XDTWw8Gv7kv9-CyBdQBU5AIWkqmALm7-mAwUx39osaD-Q-SHys2HdyM0T6G-awpxFjyyOVyJzfeJaarXsmm2GEL/s4000/20231020_203401.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="2250" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7w23NKXaEBkJUKyNJElSPfWYOk42nmpEdiZV9MAmwVAJLC-nd0m_uMaf-E5Elj85GPTpHyO9RBoZt732QfqakoD0SVUY3uysrwOmi6XDTWw8Gv7kv9-CyBdQBU5AIWkqmALm7-mAwUx39osaD-Q-SHys2HdyM0T6G-awpxFjyyOVyJzfeJaarXsmm2GEL/w225-h400/20231020_203401.jpg" width="225" /></a></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: georgia;">Expressions of the parish's devotion to</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: georgia;">our Saints - fantastic banners and people</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: georgia;">kneeling as they pray for their needs.</span></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">And finally, my heartfelt thanks to the parish youth group who invited this ministry to speak at Sts. Peter & Paul Church. May the Saints continue to inspire them, as well as, guide and intercede for their worthy endeavors.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFqYWFHIjZqolnxZvK9Iy4mI-lq-qh2mK-rnuKzREcHEpGTvlNGE-dnOTjGWXZNXv4HcJqwk5QMm2Fl_stOaonQ047nnrCdlRzeEQVORzSPhYOy5dntJjkfSvoe4s8fr9VlIo7kgZAIbVnPsR6Kc5scYPgB89As5NDV78cDstd3f91mnQu4jVjo6cEBA3J/s1024/370102800_1382706549016813_4835333584870820925_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1024" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFqYWFHIjZqolnxZvK9Iy4mI-lq-qh2mK-rnuKzREcHEpGTvlNGE-dnOTjGWXZNXv4HcJqwk5QMm2Fl_stOaonQ047nnrCdlRzeEQVORzSPhYOy5dntJjkfSvoe4s8fr9VlIo7kgZAIbVnPsR6Kc5scYPgB89As5NDV78cDstd3f91mnQu4jVjo6cEBA3J/w640-h480/370102800_1382706549016813_4835333584870820925_n.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">This author with the young adult event</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">organizers and other youthful members</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">of Sts. Peter & Paul Church, Honolulu.</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgch0n-TyzoYz1bwQsw9L5EVb1VbkV4rHLaXxs54Ei-cpetUaUA8AZx4HNUkicnmtlc7-uuI05HkQ9n9sQtoXD_KPM_NBVGnHbyx25BLN2EM6_OdsHBRelXdrBBC-7plEQPKo-gQWUxOEwqn8zu3SbhUm9_iwLCww9ESPN73kC5LxbHgYvD-04edkl9yGiF/s1779/399898174_880433753402344_454803795371072232_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1481" data-original-width="1779" height="532" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgch0n-TyzoYz1bwQsw9L5EVb1VbkV4rHLaXxs54Ei-cpetUaUA8AZx4HNUkicnmtlc7-uuI05HkQ9n9sQtoXD_KPM_NBVGnHbyx25BLN2EM6_OdsHBRelXdrBBC-7plEQPKo-gQWUxOEwqn8zu3SbhUm9_iwLCww9ESPN73kC5LxbHgYvD-04edkl9yGiF/w640-h532/399898174_880433753402344_454803795371072232_n.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /></i></div>Guadalupe House Ministry, Honoluluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12963024851327671717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4054927383182834877.post-50106225992994487952023-10-15T19:59:00.089-10:002024-02-22T09:28:31.845-10:00For Discernment: Is this a Message from Jesus and Mary?<div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">T</span></span><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">here’s something going on in our Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace; an ongoing blessing that's unusual ... beautiful ... relevant ... and even prophetic, in light of current events. I'm posting about this occurrence because I now feel prompted to do so, given its visible nature.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">On Monday, 10/2/2023, during the Noon Mass, I noticed a strange formation on a pillar near the Sanctuary - it closely resembles a classic representation of the Madonna and Christ Child ... and it's an uncanny likeness.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">What's more remarkable is that, a few days later, I noticed another image on the same pillar, near the original figures - a profile of the f</span><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">ace of Jesus</span><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"> looking downcast and sad. See the photos and illustrations below ...</span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWKdL5eDEcvQB-HNDbZhAZg-0k1i7smqFhgDxzayxHL9mxQlrPchuTPKWgU9dA5N0we_1BlUf_VwIr2rRdsvEFVrxFEWb1kdTVDyIjNmlNAnWtdN-_auXuq1j4ddlcetabBjfr6OMqQo0AiaLjQ4eFEANf0WkiWa5HUh8P3gqy6653FZBZ-bLvyAmGxaTY/s702/Our%20Lady%20of%20Peace%20(gif1).gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="702" data-original-width="418" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWKdL5eDEcvQB-HNDbZhAZg-0k1i7smqFhgDxzayxHL9mxQlrPchuTPKWgU9dA5N0we_1BlUf_VwIr2rRdsvEFVrxFEWb1kdTVDyIjNmlNAnWtdN-_auXuq1j4ddlcetabBjfr6OMqQo0AiaLjQ4eFEANf0WkiWa5HUh8P3gqy6653FZBZ-bLvyAmGxaTY/w382-h640/Our%20Lady%20of%20Peace%20(gif1).gif" width="382" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">... and let me make this clear - I wasn't looking for these figures; they just happened to one day be there and I saw them. I've sat regularly in that part of the church for years now, and have looked at that very pillar countless of times, but I've never noticed the seemingly holy personages before ... and I know it's not just my imagination because I pointed out the figures to several other regular parishioners, and they all see the same thing - their consistent reactions are: <i>"I see it!"</i> or <i>"When did that happen?" </i>None<i> </i>of them have seen it before, either, but they do now.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>But what does it all mean?</b> I prayed to discern the significance of it and the answer finally came 5 days later on Saturday, 10/7/2023 - the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary and the day Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel. The timing of this manifestation is simply too spot on ... so, given the circumstances, my interpretation of this event is, as follows:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHR_Dvh1R2q17gSh_cahHUMjiptnJY2vHMgUHT_x-TBi7PYBH_FAoGRlgecQAYqkB_msWuzIlhW-C_p2gp1eHk83i0ydqwtndyuE_qAUth2qpcVssmEL3SE9rdsF55jtv_i0L1AH6LNtFmBMgmJ7ADqYqRl9JTFxRbVia_XC9-gjGkfPayXfsA1Jc3tZU2/s2869/Our%20Lady%20of%20Peace%20Pillar2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2869" data-original-width="1892" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHR_Dvh1R2q17gSh_cahHUMjiptnJY2vHMgUHT_x-TBi7PYBH_FAoGRlgecQAYqkB_msWuzIlhW-C_p2gp1eHk83i0ydqwtndyuE_qAUth2qpcVssmEL3SE9rdsF55jtv_i0L1AH6LNtFmBMgmJ7ADqYqRl9JTFxRbVia_XC9-gjGkfPayXfsA1Jc3tZU2/w422-h640/Our%20Lady%20of%20Peace%20Pillar2.jpg" width="422" /></a></div><i><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">Parishioners looking at the figures.</span></i><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-size: large;">🕊 </span>the formation of the Blessed Mother with her Divine Son are representive of </span><b style="color: #9fc5e8;"><i>Our Lady of Peace</i></b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">, after whom the Cathedral Basilica is named. </span><i style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>Is</b></i><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"> </span><i style="color: #9fc5e8; font-weight: bold;">she is asking for prayers for peace? </i><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">Absolutely </span><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">- particularly inviting us to Adoration of the </span><a href="https://guadalupehousehi.blogspot.com/2011/06/eucharist-physical-presence-of-jesus-in.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">Blessed Sacrament</span></b></a><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"> and to pray</span></span><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"> the </span><a href="https://guadalupehousehi.blogspot.com/2011/10/15-rosary-promises-of-blessed-virgin.html?m=1" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><b>Rosary</b></span></a><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-size: large;">🕊 </span>the profile of the </span><b><i><a href="https://guadalupehousehi.blogspot.com/2011/06/The-Holy-Face-Devotion.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">Holy Face of Christ</span></a></i></b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"> looking grieved is clearly </span><i style="color: #9fc5e8; font-weight: bold;">a sign of the Lord’s deep sorrow over the war</i><i style="color: #9fc5e8;">; that people are killing one another rather than working towards peace. </i><i style="color: #9fc5e8; font-weight: bold;">Are we also being asked to offer reparation? </i><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">Definitely - to console Jesus who is saddened and offended by our sins. Again, through Eucharistic Adoration and prayer.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">Although I don't profess it's a full-fledged miracle, I do view the dual-images of the Holy Mother and her Son as a genuine sign (again, the timing of their appearance is just too coincidental with the war). But a nun-friend of mine who saw it in person remarked to me, <i>"It is a miracle." </i>and<i> </i>Jesus is sad because mankind has <i>"embraced evil".</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9mWLnWhTvZIallouwYML35OcjGqxBCjWX6OQ8zA7gxtu04_aZr9YGeEcnHOhNoGCw9OPHi01WvtwH2yb16-tvhyOVaTLzzY4BDioVd0i0DXwXCeBZp1U1zUl0s5PRYeeO97BjnIl_4Il3Zavcci79h99B448LD7dN2QmFzJP7gKSSPZmtB92biY0yw8im/s2880/Our%20Lady%20of%20Peace%20Tryptic1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2880" data-original-width="2880" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9mWLnWhTvZIallouwYML35OcjGqxBCjWX6OQ8zA7gxtu04_aZr9YGeEcnHOhNoGCw9OPHi01WvtwH2yb16-tvhyOVaTLzzY4BDioVd0i0DXwXCeBZp1U1zUl0s5PRYeeO97BjnIl_4Il3Zavcci79h99B448LD7dN2QmFzJP7gKSSPZmtB92biY0yw8im/w640-h640/Our%20Lady%20of%20Peace%20Tryptic1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">Whether it's a miracle, or not, shouldn't really matter. What's important is that we pray for the peaceful resolution to what's going on in the Middle East. <b>It is a war that has the potential to spread, and I personally believe we're being given the immediate opportunity to help end it, or stem its growth, through our collective prayers and voluntary sacrifices.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #9fc5e8; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwQ3mvFh01SonG-HjTf2YcCw_i6B-frKXnoEh1clyWynXMOsr3bR-3Q4FbZZ_z3gfPgLaIG5sKY9tks-HvYBKSvyBgFAqRaTBaOdvqgSNZ2IYtT7nmSOUN7vsjt6cL_1ZwrGYFEax6qPWGvc_b0jDltmdrjtuzJUhO55iXNiQ5DSmJc6eQX3V8ow_bj2SQ/s2924/20240221_124445.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2924" data-original-width="1521" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwQ3mvFh01SonG-HjTf2YcCw_i6B-frKXnoEh1clyWynXMOsr3bR-3Q4FbZZ_z3gfPgLaIG5sKY9tks-HvYBKSvyBgFAqRaTBaOdvqgSNZ2IYtT7nmSOUN7vsjt6cL_1ZwrGYFEax6qPWGvc_b0jDltmdrjtuzJUhO55iXNiQ5DSmJc6eQX3V8ow_bj2SQ/w332-h640/20240221_124445.jpg" width="332" /></a></div><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><i>Two visiting priests from the Philippines</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><i>look on with joyful awe at the holy figures.</i></span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">Please join this author in responding "YES" to this call from Jesus and Our Lady for prayer and reparation.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><b><i>Lord Jesus, </i></b></span><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><b><i>King </i></b></span><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><b><i>of Peace,</i></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><b><i>have mercy on </i></b></span><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><b><i>us.</i></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="color: #cfe2f3;"><i>Our Lady, </i></b><b style="color: #cfe2f3;"><i>Queen </i></b><b style="color: #cfe2f3;"><i>of </i></b><b style="color: #cfe2f3;"><i>Peace,</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="color: #cfe2f3;"><i>pray </i></b><b style="color: #cfe2f3;"><i>for us!</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="color: #cfe2f3;"><i>We ask for a speedy </i></b><b style="color: #cfe2f3;"><i>and</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: #cfe2f3;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">peaceful end to the</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="color: #cfe2f3;"><i></i></b><b style="color: #cfe2f3;"><i>war </i></b><b style="color: #cfe2f3;"><i>in </i></b><b style="color: #cfe2f3;"><i>the </i></b><b style="color: #cfe2f3;"><i>Middle East ...</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="color: #cfe2f3;"><i>as </i></b><b style="color: #cfe2f3;"><i>well as, </i></b><b style="color: #cfe2f3;"><i>all </i></b><b style="color: #cfe2f3;"><i>other wars</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="color: #cfe2f3;"><i>raging in the </i></b><b style="color: #cfe2f3;"><i>world</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="color: #cfe2f3;"><i>today. </i></b><b style="color: #cfe2f3;"><i>Amen.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span>Guadalupe House Ministry, Honoluluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12963024851327671717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4054927383182834877.post-49676895015508177292023-10-14T11:33:00.012-10:002023-10-15T14:02:48.743-10:00Pilgrim Statue & Holy Relics Visitation: Vargas Residence, 10/14/2023<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0BW0WgucdwiXc26e_dHsFNGSxiMV1DN1OoPBIs_BdE3Qv_3hDUrjAmX1pH2HB16TrFNZqgDYaqGDWUD1pwhw2Axrsm0tsTClEkkFfvwSsL7ozcRLd7kjgwbwSRsRklQmMVCV-H-RqJ2whaRPDpWI4QEXJlwE4o4LV-RZsuBFSR5_Of8fPdZ45AKpHe4hO/s3315/20231014_122325.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1865" data-original-width="3315" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0BW0WgucdwiXc26e_dHsFNGSxiMV1DN1OoPBIs_BdE3Qv_3hDUrjAmX1pH2HB16TrFNZqgDYaqGDWUD1pwhw2Axrsm0tsTClEkkFfvwSsL7ozcRLd7kjgwbwSRsRklQmMVCV-H-RqJ2whaRPDpWI4QEXJlwE4o4LV-RZsuBFSR5_Of8fPdZ45AKpHe4hO/w640-h360/20231014_122325.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">I always looks forward to October. For Fatima Devotees, like myself, we understand that this month - particularly October 13th - commemorates Our Lady's last apparition in Fatima, as well as, the great Miracle of the Dancing Sun that convinced 70,000+ pilgrims of the truth of the Fatima apparitions. But, for me, this month also means it's time for Auntie Patty's annual America Needs Fatima Rosary Rally!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTkG3NDybSisRdSVAbMtK9EJBMLQ5E_HxEEJGXBkhpTY-JwrRgOhvzoxcUog430sH2iUYWQxd3jvGtBeQlMb8PdLsciopFwZtY0CpOjTzi1mBR_Ty81jmzwSqQTvhQRrDmwUEWb7gMPigpnehiFyvkVXeYO6T69ELyr-I4kVNVtFniB9ZsQL94-DVTEmoS/s3174/20231014_114504.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1969" data-original-width="3174" height="398" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTkG3NDybSisRdSVAbMtK9EJBMLQ5E_HxEEJGXBkhpTY-JwrRgOhvzoxcUog430sH2iUYWQxd3jvGtBeQlMb8PdLsciopFwZtY0CpOjTzi1mBR_Ty81jmzwSqQTvhQRrDmwUEWb7gMPigpnehiFyvkVXeYO6T69ELyr-I4kVNVtFniB9ZsQL94-DVTEmoS/w640-h398/20231014_114504.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><div><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">About 25 people came together to pray for</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">our country at this year's Rosary Rally.</span></i></div><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiIuCRBUbcMCCy7SLCmE6cRku4VEJRBujTGf2PiBqNcpUrCw_xJXV5XrUQXiZu0p9SnJdL40ioLL21NFuzdYb3FvYkxjYHPtNewlpLHiSPwunI7c11YtqeEgWYZw6_44qqATCq3zTelWqd00RKl0j6Z92DTpWCchFaQe_x6wEsLbPLC3a9B9_E0mAQ1NgJ/s3220/20231014_122306.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1932" data-original-width="3220" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiIuCRBUbcMCCy7SLCmE6cRku4VEJRBujTGf2PiBqNcpUrCw_xJXV5XrUQXiZu0p9SnJdL40ioLL21NFuzdYb3FvYkxjYHPtNewlpLHiSPwunI7c11YtqeEgWYZw6_44qqATCq3zTelWqd00RKl0j6Z92DTpWCchFaQe_x6wEsLbPLC3a9B9_E0mAQ1NgJ/w640-h384/20231014_122306.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">So, this year I was again asked by Auntie Patty to speak a few words in the beginning and, being somewhat unprepared, I did a little something different - I took inspiration from my pilgrim statue and directed the people to look upon the image on display; to meditate on the following details concerning our Holy Mother's appearance and mannerism at Fatima:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">* first off, the star at the hem of her dress, which recalls to mind Our Lady's beautiful titles of "Morning Star" and "Star of the Sea". How she is for us a guiding star - an example to follow - leading to her Divine Son.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">* her pure white dress and veil, signifying our Mother Mary's simplicity and purity ... and her desire for us to live with a simple, childlike faith and pure hearts.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">* the golden ball pendant - symbolic of the globe - hanging down her neck to the area of her heart; an indication of her maternal love and concern for all the world.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">* her hands joined together in prayer with the rosary hanging down from them, clearly representing Our Lady of Fatima's call to prayer, especially the daily </span><a href="https://guadalupehousehi.blogspot.com/2019/10/when-rosary-turns-gold-its-time-to-take.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #fcff01;"><b>Rosary</b></span></a><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">* her sweet, yet serious expression, which emphasized the urgency of her messages and dire warnings given at Fatima.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">It was a different approach to the Fatima Message compared to my past talks at these rallies ... but thankfully, it all came together and added a new level of understanding to the occasion, especially to those not so familiar with the apparitions.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJfm5vIWOtVPfORxgeN2by7omldpPW4SmyLP-A0QyUctUuEz1N-4VByGbM4tIQ7871haLTHDr70gVErN-JnREepBRzlz-BrB4-ofuaZIgX201v9zsZO4Q3F8_nNOXzUTtGlcdx47qTLq591i2jmpL2lI4OUOkHUB4vjJzquni0kRGdqnurQW9N7MtUlfO-/s3818/20231014_114517.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3818" data-original-width="2148" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJfm5vIWOtVPfORxgeN2by7omldpPW4SmyLP-A0QyUctUuEz1N-4VByGbM4tIQ7871haLTHDr70gVErN-JnREepBRzlz-BrB4-ofuaZIgX201v9zsZO4Q3F8_nNOXzUTtGlcdx47qTLq591i2jmpL2lI4OUOkHUB4vjJzquni0kRGdqnurQW9N7MtUlfO-/w225-h400/20231014_114517.jpg" width="225" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFzoxrEOdpANRO2laZZPLZ-1F4Bj7zPBZpLWfr81A_llZZPBnOjE2R0L_esdMp_2lKFeMAqpoh6BbsRDH-muF51UtFH_ZSfr4X2SwfYtFMsh22WstnR0hacABKNORmdPkTcZXlsOBHcwIL_NDvFRh2Z-7lQaixQcVyNm8wjyHKivYFuXKrLB45eItoizXM/s2897/20231014_114717.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2897" data-original-width="1738" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFzoxrEOdpANRO2laZZPLZ-1F4Bj7zPBZpLWfr81A_llZZPBnOjE2R0L_esdMp_2lKFeMAqpoh6BbsRDH-muF51UtFH_ZSfr4X2SwfYtFMsh22WstnR0hacABKNORmdPkTcZXlsOBHcwIL_NDvFRh2Z-7lQaixQcVyNm8wjyHKivYFuXKrLB45eItoizXM/w240-h400/20231014_114717.jpg" width="240" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">Little Auntie Patty, standing before this</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">ministry's beautiful Fatima statue and</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">the relics of all three Fatima Seers.</span></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">Then, after our prayers finished, the usual fellowship time commenced along with a feast of delicious Chinese food, courtesy of our gracious Auntie Patty.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">It goes without saying that it was a spiritually meaningful and enjoyable time, made all the more special after golden flakes of </span><a href="https://guadalupehousehi.blogspot.com/2012/08/an-update-on-escarchas.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #fcff01;">escarchas</span></b></a><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"> were later discovered on a cement walkway - what a blessing from Heaven!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><b>Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us!</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>Guadalupe House Ministry, Honoluluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12963024851327671717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4054927383182834877.post-88416400964284598032023-10-07T14:18:00.013-10:002023-11-26T21:43:46.970-10:00Marian Apparitions Presentation: Sts. Peter & Paul Church, 10/6/2023<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrsMFHSIuir5O-r8wkKV6cEIGg-UBB46BwoP3qhZiLtB95DXyZsQrx86RGt4toBMRpuzLhqcQeUbDwLfDfTF0YFR_OO0jYnILv9vfTmP1jv0pBnNpbTMzonYRx55IdwIluXBgtJVB17ub7n6Vi0lvdI9bNStja16_JMt3cl_KAFUEUBvgPHHmQuaytwOZC/s3701/20231006_175622.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2082" data-original-width="3701" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrsMFHSIuir5O-r8wkKV6cEIGg-UBB46BwoP3qhZiLtB95DXyZsQrx86RGt4toBMRpuzLhqcQeUbDwLfDfTF0YFR_OO0jYnILv9vfTmP1jv0pBnNpbTMzonYRx55IdwIluXBgtJVB17ub7n6Vi0lvdI9bNStja16_JMt3cl_KAFUEUBvgPHHmQuaytwOZC/w640-h360/20231006_175622.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">Last night, on the eve of the </span><i><a href="https://guadalupehousehi.blogspot.com/2011/10/15-rosary-promises-of-blessed-virgin.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary</span></a></i><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">, as well as the eve of a </span><i><a href="https://guadalupehousehi.blogspot.com/p/this-monthly-prayer-meeting-is-also.html?m=1" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">First Saturday</span></a></i><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">, this ministry had the privilege of speaking about the messages delivered by Our Lady throughout the world.</span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">This author spoke to parishioners of Sts. Peter and Paul Church in Honolulu about approved apparitions such as <i>Fatima</i>, <i>Kibeho</i>, <i>Pontmain</i>, <i>Champion</i>, <i>Akita</i>, <i>Tre Fontane</i>, <i>Betania</i>, <i>Cuapa</i>, and <i>Ngome</i>; emphasizing Heaven's call for <b>Conversion</b>, <b>Prayer</b>, <b>Reparation</b>, <b>Peace</b>, and <b>Eucharistic Devotion</b>.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjbYi_snH8PM2UaVECIsksGnJtUPpcApx01G6SFd6spxB2Ia1KDKRGwZotYjZ5IAXTZ81eLm2lPQMkLlJdzZxWMcNJ7SDfDyfezB57dKGeM9owC5bAR9kzd-MTb9zD8VE7_f7R1ItU23iyxaScXTgUOctx8JI0YqL9kTjzFiYARGfmdXKpRdrc3LpuUGE0/s4000/20231006_175638.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2250" data-original-width="4000" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjbYi_snH8PM2UaVECIsksGnJtUPpcApx01G6SFd6spxB2Ia1KDKRGwZotYjZ5IAXTZ81eLm2lPQMkLlJdzZxWMcNJ7SDfDyfezB57dKGeM9owC5bAR9kzd-MTb9zD8VE7_f7R1ItU23iyxaScXTgUOctx8JI0YqL9kTjzFiYARGfmdXKpRdrc3LpuUGE0/w640-h360/20231006_175638.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><i>Relics of Marian Visionaries on display</i>.</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">The group that attended was smaller than hoped for, but those who showed up were, overall, responsive to the message they were hearing, based on feedback this author received. Furthermore, I encouraged those new to Marian Apparitions to consider taking advantage of tomorrow's Feast as an opportunity to begin living the message (i.e. praying the Rosary daily, monthly confession, frequent Mass attendance, etc.).</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">Relics of Marian visionaries - <i>St. Bernadette of Lourdes</i>, <i>St. Catherine Laboure of the Miraculous Medal</i>, and the <i>Fatima Seers</i> were also displayed for the edification of the Faithful, adding to the overall impact of the presentation. In addition, Miraculous Medals were freely distributed to further promote devotion to our Heavenly Mother.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpf3o9FY528EqNfJt0mw2BQOg9-hV9VXIBBqoku6vcyhM7s7AIGJ_vCl4GVdLUC0daur0zALxGzTYghtPAQ8jvy9cbaXkZkvnrww_1ppmwcnJbD6huRGPlDj81qnK1VkJ5kQZy1R1ZwAMPWoBw6_wfRYpQBCX61d12LsoORLVTkAgZCrFmzx4vJwE_pv1g/s2634/20231006_200610.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1756" data-original-width="2634" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpf3o9FY528EqNfJt0mw2BQOg9-hV9VXIBBqoku6vcyhM7s7AIGJ_vCl4GVdLUC0daur0zALxGzTYghtPAQ8jvy9cbaXkZkvnrww_1ppmwcnJbD6huRGPlDj81qnK1VkJ5kQZy1R1ZwAMPWoBw6_wfRYpQBCX61d12LsoORLVTkAgZCrFmzx4vJwE_pv1g/w640-h426/20231006_200610.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><i><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">Parishioners lining up to pay their</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">respect to Marian Saints who modeled</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">Our Lady's messages.</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;">I left the church especially hopeful after one woman remarked to me: <i>"We'll spread the message." </i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3EqeZMR2lcnir6ooSnioBpkSFwXEJp_HkJ1UBYzefvidzmTLJOFo_S8Q2ukWHDBsxnjt5KqYbcDxiSyl1AN09J86xIozndN9gMBwemiVFrxXbX6zArl9qLej7lkwIxX5rzU1zmsxZW4ZP4jsYFjLLt0jum2sqtolWuRrULShzy5sDX1aPrntj4Rreu8lF/s1952/400654908_24581804554743873_1041123398118738129_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1464" data-original-width="1952" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3EqeZMR2lcnir6ooSnioBpkSFwXEJp_HkJ1UBYzefvidzmTLJOFo_S8Q2ukWHDBsxnjt5KqYbcDxiSyl1AN09J86xIozndN9gMBwemiVFrxXbX6zArl9qLej7lkwIxX5rzU1zmsxZW4ZP4jsYFjLLt0jum2sqtolWuRrULShzy5sDX1aPrntj4Rreu8lF/w640-h480/400654908_24581804554743873_1041123398118738129_n.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: georgia;"><i><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: georgia;"><i><br /></i></span></div>This author with youth organizers of</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: georgia;">this evening's presentation ... and look at</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: georgia;">the banners they had </i><i style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: georgia;">made - awesome!</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: georgia;"><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3m9QbIU9-2EPQ2yODQcooDSZBLjrxvgFFlyMA8i1JE2yLBEff4ZEH4US5mZA07Ru6EoTe68oKLrzVoE7kE-Uj5xdVYzA9FSiDwLd-Mtsa5YwsC7tnkOV0Hw22PEp4k9lTsdz7GmLxD9jyiQZZthD5UsNyKE7xQKYOSDErtNv3TEBEzKjbwJ6NSxyCe0y5/s1996/400419986_767593241845490_2306195745676270033_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1996" data-original-width="1345" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3m9QbIU9-2EPQ2yODQcooDSZBLjrxvgFFlyMA8i1JE2yLBEff4ZEH4US5mZA07Ru6EoTe68oKLrzVoE7kE-Uj5xdVYzA9FSiDwLd-Mtsa5YwsC7tnkOV0Hw22PEp4k9lTsdz7GmLxD9jyiQZZthD5UsNyKE7xQKYOSDErtNv3TEBEzKjbwJ6NSxyCe0y5/w432-h640/400419986_767593241845490_2306195745676270033_n.jpg" width="432" /></a></div><br /></div>Guadalupe House Ministry, Honoluluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12963024851327671717noreply@blogger.com0