Tell me if you were elected king but were obliged to spend the night before your entrance into your capital city where you were to be crowned, if you were compelled to pass that night in much discomfort in a stable, would you not joyfully endure it in the expectation of your kingdom? And why should not we, in this valley of tears, willingly live through adversities, in expectation of one day obtaining the kingdom of heaven? Saint John Chrysostom
Pope Plans Relocation
Pope Michael plans on relcating near the largest concentration of Catholics in the world for several reasons. First of all he wishes to call the seminarians here to be personally trained by the Pope and the faithful clergy. Pope Michael is also calling all clergy to join him here by Lent, 2007. Plans are to make missionary journeys from this location to Catholics throughout the world. Watch for more announcements here
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Michael Fighting
Would you trade the home to the left for the home on the right? Pope Michael is planning on doing just that.
We build houses that we may have a habitation; not that we may make an ambitious display. Saint John Chrysostom
Help the Catholic Church
We are asking for thee things from Catholic faithful:1. Supplication2. Vocations3. Donations1. SupplicationPray daily for God to send laborers into the harvest and that those He has called will answer the call2. VocationsIf God is calling you, contact the Pope and ask him how to proceed.3. DonationsA donation of $50 a month would accomplish so much to further the work of the Catholic Church! THE LORD'S DAY
BY THE REV. CHARLES BRUEHL, D.D.
Observe the day of the sabbath, to sanctify it, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee.—DEUT. V. 12.
My friends: The proper observance of the Lord's Day is of the utmost importance for the religious life of the faithful. In fact, the religious fervor of anyone may be readily gauged by the manner in which he celebrates the feasts of the Church. Neglect of the days and seasons, sacred to the Lord, bespeaks a spirit of worldliness and an alarming indifference to the things that pertain to God and eternity. No one can claim to be a good and practical Catholic who does not sanctify the Lord's Day in the way which God and the Church have prescribed. Pious observance of the Lord's Day is the surest and easiest test of religious sincerity. It is for this reason, that God in the Old Testament insists so often and so earnestly on this very point. But Christ, who came not to abolish but to fulfill the law, has changed nothing with regard to this matter. Hence, the obligation of sanctifying the Lord's Day is as solemn and grave now as it was in the days of the Prophets, who denounced in such thundering accents all violations of the sabbath. Thus we read: "What is this evil thing that you are doing, profaning the sabbath day? Did not our fathers do these things and our God brought all this evil upon us, and upon this city? And you bring more wrath upon Israel by violating the sabbath" (Neh. xiii. 17, 18). Today's Gospel affords us an excellent opportunity to discourse on the Lord's day and on our duties in its regard.
… No one need expect prosperity as the result of Sunday work. …
… Our salvation will to a very large extent depend on the way in which we have observed the holy day of the Lord.
… In those families … in which the holiness of the Lord's Day is no longer recognized, religion begins to decline. But where the Sunday is sanctified, religion rests on a solid and safe foundation; it is as a tree planted near a river and as a flower, the roots of which draw life from a rich soil. On his first visit to the Penobscot Indians, Bishop Cheverus found that these good Indians still celebrated the Sunday by reciting prayers and singing the hymns they had learned from the Missionary Fathers. And though they had been without a priest for many years, they yet had kept the faith. No one can doubt that it was through the faithful observance of the day of the Lord that they had been enabled to persevere in faith and in the grace of God under such trying circumstances. If the sanctification of the Lord's Day is of such momentous consequence for our religious life it should be of great concern to us to learn how we can celebrate Sunday in the most appropriate and profitable way. …
… Such devout and truly Christian observance of Sunday here on earth will prepare us for the blissful enjoyment of that eternal Sunday in Heaven, which knows no shadow and no diminution and no end.
To read the complete sermon click through to http://www.VaticanInExile.com/Sanctification/LordsDayBruehl.html We recommend also checking out this whole section http://www.VaticanInExile.com/Sanctification/Sanctification.html
