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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Richard Collins the author of the </span></b></span><b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://linenonthehedgerow.blogspot.co.uk/" sl-processed="1" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Linen">Linen on the Hedgerow</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, as you are probably already aware </span></span></b></span><b style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">as </span></span></b><b style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">sadly passed away.</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Like others, I think he was an wonderful man. </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Anyone who has read his blog can testify that he was devout, loyal to the Church and Her teachings, he was a defender of the One True Faith, and he had a great sense of humour (even with the knowledge that we are knee-deep in </span><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">a crisis in the Church today). He certainly kept me going with a cheery word, and was always ready to answer my questions when organising Latin Masses. He also gave us his heart felt support, with the work we are doing in Lincolnshire, to return the authentic Catholic Faith, in this spiritually barren part of the world. </span></b></span></span></div>
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ORA PRO NOBIShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17546605493757534530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-117678880459597343.post-55020325540052410802013-05-27T18:14:00.000+09:302016-09-26T20:57:16.284+09:30THE CATECHISM OF POPE PIUS X & ON MODERNISM<div style="text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">A: The members of the Church are found partly in heaven, forming the Church Triumphant; partly in purgatory, forming the Church Suffering; partly on earth, forming the Church Militant.</span></span></b></div>
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ORA PRO NOBIShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17546605493757534530noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-117678880459597343.post-83813140717256588772013-05-20T04:50:00.001+09:302016-09-26T20:57:30.564+09:30PENTECOST<div style="text-align: center;">
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ORA PRO NOBIShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17546605493757534530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-117678880459597343.post-53275044497653254182013-05-09T20:48:00.001+09:302016-09-22T05:17:07.169+09:30Ascension Thursday in the Latin Rite & The Litany of the Saints in Latin.<div style="text-align: center;">
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ORA PRO NOBIShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17546605493757534530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-117678880459597343.post-81728013319296138792013-05-04T18:07:00.002+09:302013-05-04T18:08:26.706+09:30THE CROWNING OF MARY QUEEN OF HEAVEN<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">By his encyclical <i>Ad Caeli Reginam</i>, Pope Pius XII, recognising traditional precedents, proclaimed the "Queenship of Mary". </span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">While May devotions may differ in various countries, the Marian title Queen of May exists identically in several countries as manifested in Marian songs such as:</span></span></b></span></div>
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ORA PRO NOBIShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17546605493757534530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-117678880459597343.post-39664109042010941402013-05-04T05:33:00.000+09:302016-05-16T22:53:03.860+09:30PETER KREEFT GOD OR ATHEISM WHICH IS MORE RATIONAL?<div style="text-align: center;">
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ORA PRO NOBIShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17546605493757534530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-117678880459597343.post-90846539608659037282013-05-03T08:03:00.002+09:302013-05-22T19:45:42.048+09:30POPE EMERITUS BENEDICT ARRIVES AT THE VATICAN<div style="text-align: center;">
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ORA PRO NOBIShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17546605493757534530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-117678880459597343.post-29242957076052607692013-04-20T04:27:00.000+09:302016-05-16T23:03:00.325+09:30HABEMUS PAPAM<div>
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ORA PRO NOBIShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17546605493757534530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-117678880459597343.post-26740098559470949622013-04-05T19:20:00.000+10:302013-04-05T19:56:05.351+10:30THE SACRED HEART PART 2<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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the Visitation of Holy Mary) Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque (1647–1690),
who claimed to have received visions of Jesus Christ. The revelations were
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allowed St. Gertrude, to rest her head upon his heart, and then disclosed
to her the wonders of his love, telling her that he desired to make them known
to all mankind and to diffuse the treasures of his goodness, and that he had
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claiming that, when he appeared radiant with love, he asked for a devotion of
expiatory love: frequent reception of Communion, especially Communion on
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reportedly took place, where Jesus said, "Behold the Heart that has so
loved men ... instead of gratitude I receive from the greater part (of mankind)
only ingratitude ...", and asked Margaret Mary for a feast of reparation of
the Friday after the octave of Corpus Christi, bidding her consult her
confessor Father Claude de la Colombière, then superior of the small
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Margaret Mary reported everything she saw to Father de la Colombière, and he
directed her to write an account of the apparition. Upon his death on <st1:date day="15" month="2" year="1682">February 15,
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account and an "offering" to the Sacred Heart, in which the devotion
was well explained and went on to be published. Margaret Mary<span style="background-color: white;"> </span></b></span><b><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">finally approved of the book
for the spreading of her devotion. Outside of the Visitandines,
priests, religious, and laymen promoted the devotion, particularly the Capuchins,
and some Jesuits. From this the Jesuit Fr. Croiset also wrote </span></b><b><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">The Sacred Heart (also known as Most
Sacred Heart of Jesus) is one of the most widely practiced and well-known devotions,
taking Jesus' physical heart as the representation of His </span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">unmitigated </span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">divine love, </span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">compassion, and long-suffering </span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">towards humanity.</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">The origin of this devotion in its modern form is derived from a French Roman
Catholic nun, Marguerite Marie Alacoque, who said she learned the
devotion from Jesus during a mystical experience. Predecessors to the
modern devotion arose in the Middle Ages in various
facets of Catholic mysticism.</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">In the Roman Catholic tradition, the Sacred
Heart has been closely associated with Acts of Reparation to Jesus Christ.
In his encyclical <a href="http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/pius_xi/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-xi_enc_08051928_miserentissimus-redemptor_en.html" target="_blank">Miserentissimus Redemptor</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miserentissimus_Redemptor" target="_blank">(in short here)</a>, Pope Pius XI stated:
"the spirit of expiation or reparation has always had the first and
foremost place in the worship given to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus". The Golden
Arrow Prayer directly refers to the Sacred Heart.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">The Sacred Heart is often depicted in Christian
art as a flaming heart shining with divine light, pierced by the lance-wound,
encircled by the crown of thorns, surmounted by a cross and bleeding.
Sometimes the image is shown shining within the bosom of Christ with his
wounded hands pointing at the heart. The wounds and crown of thorns allude to
the manner of Jesus' death, while the fire represents the transformative
power of divine love.</span></span></b></div>
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after Pentecost. As Pentecost is always celebrated on Sunday, the Feast of
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ORA PRO NOBIShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17546605493757534530noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-117678880459597343.post-14979393514832861652013-03-22T07:25:00.002+10:302013-03-22T07:29:54.161+10:30Feast Day of St Benedict<div style="text-align: center;">
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ORA PRO NOBIShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17546605493757534530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-117678880459597343.post-29457159828362935862013-03-19T20:28:00.000+10:302013-03-20T20:12:59.215+10:30THE INAUGURATION OF POPE FRANCIS<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 193, 0); line-height: 12.25pt; text-align: center;">
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ORA PRO NOBIShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17546605493757534530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-117678880459597343.post-65371190929143718452013-03-19T07:42:00.001+10:302013-03-19T10:14:01.502+10:30PRAYER FOR POPE FRANCIS<div style="text-align: center;">
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mercy upon Thy servant Francis, our Supreme Pontiff, and direct him, according
to Thy loving-kindness, in the way of eternal salvation. We pray that he
may ever desire that which is pleasing unto Thee and may accomplish it with all
his might. Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.</span></i></b></span><br />
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ORA PRO NOBIShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17546605493757534530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-117678880459597343.post-65223835842412125902013-03-18T21:26:00.000+10:302015-12-10T20:49:56.377+10:30COMMUNION & LIBERATION POPES FRANCIS & BENEDICT THE STORY STARTS TO UNFOLD<div style="text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial";">Pope Francis has a close tie to a
movement called Comunione e Liberazione, or Communion and Liberation (CL).<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><b><span style="font-family: "arial";">For the Fr. Z </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "arial";">Analysis </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "arial";">(RE: NCR) click <a href="http://wdtprs.com/blog/2013/03/liberals-will-soon-turn-on-pope-francis/" target="_blank">here!</a></span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial";">CL grew out of the educational and catechetical
methods of Don Luigi Giussani, who founded the movement. Giussani
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<b><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial";">1. The awareness that Christ is the one true response
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movement to develop a worldwide presence, and in a letter to Giussani of </span></b><st1:date day="22" month="2" year="2004"><b><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: "arial";">February 22, 2004</span></b></st1:date><b><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: "arial";"> </span></b></span></div>
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ORA PRO NOBIShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17546605493757534530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-117678880459597343.post-1438337129958197412013-03-17T01:20:00.004+10:302013-03-18T03:29:48.599+10:30POPE FRANCIS SPEAKS ABOUT HIS NAME CHOICE AND MISSION.<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">It is always attributed to St. Francis and is
intended to say that proclaiming the Gospel by example is more virtuous than
actually proclaiming with voice. It is a quote that is often used by liberals
(sorry for bringing that word up again) who are maybe too embarrassed to mention Christ in their conversations with non-believers, at risk of being unpolitically correct and offending people (in my experience very few are in fact ever offended). It is also used by those who have had this falsehood passed down
to them (it’s not their fault, but is easily rectified in conversation). The spirit behind it can be arrogant and
intimates that those who "practice the Gospel" are more faithful to
the faith than 'those who preach it'. In fact both things are essential, though ultimately proclaiming the gospel is absolutely paramount.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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indiscriminately. All the Friars , however, should preach by their deeds."</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">As Father Ray says</span> <a href="http://marymagdalen.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/pope-francis.html" target="_blank">here!</a></span></span><br />
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ORA PRO NOBIShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17546605493757534530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-117678880459597343.post-19543703356939655922013-03-13T22:46:00.000+10:302015-03-01T03:47:47.028+10:30Does God make you suffer? Why does God make bad things happen? Catholic Christian<div style="text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">Why does God make bad things happen? This issue seems to be the second biggest stumbling block after general disbelief in God. This excellent apostolic letter which is summarised below starts to deal with the subject in more depth.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><u><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: red;">1. Man in his sufferings remains an intangible mystery.</span></span></u></b><b><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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suffering begins, is ‘an intangible mystery’ i.e. it is not just the suffering
that is an intangible mystery. Pope John Paul II does not shy away from
the difficult point that suffering is something that humans simply will never
understand. This in turn is something that the culture will not accept because modern
society will not tolerate 'mystery' and wants immediate answers. Also the
answers that can be gleaned from suffering involves inward soul searching that involves
admitting to difficult realities which many people are not prepared to
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">3. Suffering must serve for conversion, that is, for the
rebuilding of the goodness within us so that we become more Christ like. This
goodness is further strengthened by repentance.</span></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">4. <u>Love is the ultimate source of the meaning of suffering
which will always remain a mystery. However, Christ does call us to search for
answers as to the 'why?' of suffering</u>. </span></span></b><b style="line-height: 13.6pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">This is difficult to understand. How
can love be the ultimate source of the meaning of suffering? God never causes
suffering, but He sometimes allows us to experience suffering so that we might overcome the evil that caused us to suffer in the first place. We may
be surprised to hear that this is one of the ways that God shows His love for us, but God’s genuine version of Love is not the same as the secularised version
that we are used to. God may test us, not to prove that we love him, but so
that we might conquer evil. This is because God made us so that you might
overcome the world. (Ironically, by overcoming the suffering of the world we automatically prove that we love God).</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Arial;">7. <u>Salvation gives us liberation from evil, but unless we start to
concentrate on the source of suffering then we will continue to concentrate
'on the suffering', and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>not<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>'on our salvation'</u>. </span></b><b style="color: #6aa84f; line-height: 13.6pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">[In other words, when
we start to concentrate on the source of the suffering then we start to move towards our salvation. Satan
wants us to concentrate 'on our suffering' rather than the 'source of suffering' so that he moves us away from our salvation so
that we will end up in hell. T</span></b><b style="color: #6aa84f; line-height: 13.6pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">hose who search and admit to the deepest problems and issues in their lives start to learn why the suffering is there, which may then lead them on a path to removing that suffering, which in turn will lead to salvation].</span></b></span></div>
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