Holy Relics Visitation: Our Lady of Fatima Prayer Group, 8/30/2014

Martyrs took the spotlight at last

night's prayer meeting:  St. Dorothy (left),

St. Pancras (right), & St. Peregrine (not

pictured).  Bone relics of all three Saints

were present as we prayed.

Our menu at this month's prayer meeting of Our Lady of Fatima Prayer Group read like a Summer Picnic:  Chili, Fried Chicken, Cole Slaw, Potato-Mac Salad, Banana Lumpia, and the popular Lemon Crunch Cake from Aiea Bowl! Everything was super tasty and how appropriate since the summer season is almost at an end.

More importantly, though, our Rosary and prayer intercessions were deeply inspired by the presence of 1st Class [bone] Relics of three Martyrs from the Early Church:  St. Dorothy of Caesarea (d. 311), St. Pancras (d. 304), and St. Peregrine (d. 192, not "Peregrine Laziosi", the Patron Saint of Cancer Patients).  These Saints heroically witnessed to their faith in Jesus Christ, and willingly died in testimonial of Him, at the time of the Roman persecutions.  Their lives reminded us that, disturbingly, history appears to be repeating itself, with the execution of Christians occurring with more frequency throughout the world at the hands of radical religious groups; the brutality of these heinous killings mirror that of the ancient Romans, as Christians are again being beheaded and even crucified!

"Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life

in Christ Jesus will be persecuted."

~ 2 Timothy, 3:12

So with all due seriousness, we prayed for the protection of Christians throughout the world and invoked the intercession of the Blessed Virgin and the Saints for our suffering brethren around the globe. We also had immense hope in knowing that the Church has countless new intercessors in Heaven - glorious modern Martyrs! - who are certainly praying for us in the very presence of God! The Bible promises that in the end we will prevail... but in the meantime, we - as believers in Christ - need to continue to pray for each other and hope; emanating the LOVE of God in order to be a light in the midst of darkness.  St. Dorothy, St. Pancras, and St. Peregrine, pray for us!

"Blessed are those who are persecuted

 for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the

Kingdom of Heaven; Blessed are you

when others revile you and persecute

you and utter all kinds of evil against you

falsely on my account.  Rejoice and be

glad, for your reward is great in Heaven,

for so they persecuted the prophets

who were before you."

~ Words of Jesus, Matthew 5:10-12

Monthly Messages from the Queen of Peace of Medjugorje: August 2014

Mary, Queen of Peace, pray and intercede for us!

Our Lady's Monthly Message to the World on August 25th:
   "Dear children! Pray for my intentions, because Satan wants to destroy my plan which I have here and to steal your peace. Therefore, little children, pray, pray, pray that God can act through each of you. May your hearts be open to God's will. I love you and bless you with my motherly blessing.  Thank you for having responded to my call."

Our Ladys' Special Message to Mirjana Dragicevic-Soldo on August 2nd:
   "Dear children, the reason that I am with you, my mission, is to help you for 'good' to win, even though this does not seem possible to you now. I know that you do not understand many things as I also did not understand everything, everything that my Son explained to me while He was growing up alongside me - but I believed Him and followed Him. I ask this of you also, to believe me and to follow me. However, my children, to follow me means to love my Son above everything, to love Him in every person without making differences. For you to be able to do this, I call you anew to renunciation, prayer and fasting. I am calling you for the Eucharist to be the life of your soul. I am calling you to be my apostles of light who will spread love and mercy through the world. My children, your life is only a blink in contrast to eternal life. And when you come before my Son, in your hearts He will see how much love you had. In order to spread love in the right way, I am asking my Son, through love, to grant you unity through Him, unity among you, unity between you and your shepherds. Through them my Son always gives Himself to you anew and renews your soul.  Do not forget this.  Thank you."

 

Hawaii needs prayer...

As I write this blog, Hawaii is preparing for an unprecedented back-to-back hit by two hurricanes: Iselle and Julio.  'not sure why, but I'm not so much worried about Iselle... rather, I am having some weird sense of foreboding about Julio.  So I ask my friends out there who regularly visit this blog, as well as newcomers, to please kindly say a prayer for us in Hawaii.

Iselle is scheduled to hit us some time tomorrow in the late afternoon; Julio will arrive sometime on Sunday, the Lord's day.  I know we'll be in for some high winds and the usual flooding in some areas, but may God be merciful and spare us from any severe devastation from these storms.  Thanks in advance for your prayer.