Mgr Le Gatt announced the pilgrimage at the Grotto in Saint-Malo is now officially recognized as the Diocesan Pilgrimage!
Those who took photos of our pilgrimage at the Grotto on the 19th of August, during the Masses celebrated, or during the meal times or of the grounds, could you please send us some copies? We will make a choice of photos to send to the Diocesan website and Facebook site for promotional purposes. Thank you! [email protected]
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Our flesh is at war with our spirit to the detriment of our holiness because of our fear of suffering. Our flesh is at war with our spirit to the detriment of our salvation because of our love for pleasure.
Fr.Jordan Aumann (Spiritual Theology) A great sign of God's love for us is not so much that He would spare us many crosses, but allow many...not that He would not ask any suffering of us, or anything difficult from us, but that He would ask much of us, and ask what is most difficult, from us, because He can count on us so much, He can trust that we will help Him save souls if He asks and do whatever it takes! Saint Therese of Lisieux, the Little Flower
Strong passions are the precious raw material of sanctity. Individuals that have carried their sinning to extremes should not despair or say: I am too great a sinner to change or God does not want me anymore. God will take anyone who is willing to love, not with an occasional gesture, but with a passionless passion, a wild tranquility. A sinner, unrepentant, cannot love God, any more than a man on dry land can swim; but as soon as his errant energies take the Living Water of God's love and asks for redirection, he will become happy, as he was never happy before. It is not the wrong things one has already done which keep one from God; it is the present persistence in that wrong.
Bishop Fulton Sheen It will soon be time to register your children for Catechism! We will determine the starting date for the sessions after our September 4th Meeting with the Catechism Teachers. We are seeking Catechism Teachers for Level 1! Thank you!
Your lot is indeed a beautiful one, since Our Lord has chosen it for you, and has first touched with His own Lips the cup which He holds out to yours.
-St. Therese of Lisieux St. Dominic (1170–1221) was born in Spain to a family of noble lineage. His mother, Blessed Jane of Aza, prayed at the church of St. Dominic Silos to conceive a male child, her first two sons being given to the priesthood. In answer to her prayer, she dreamed that a dog leaped from her womb carrying a torch in its mouth which set the world ablaze. At his baptism, his godmother beheld a star shining from his forehead. As a child Dominic showed signs of great sanctity and intelligence, and he was also given to the Church for the priesthood. When famine struck Dominic sold his rare and expensive theology books to feed the poor. As a priest he traveled with his bishop into southern France and discovered that it had been overrun with a heretical movement which led many away from the Church. This inflamed his desire to devote his life to apostolic preaching for the salvation of souls, at the time an office reserved to bishops. With the Pope's approval he founded the Order of Preachers, or the Dominicans, committed to defend the truth of the Catholic faith. St. Dominic's Order was novel in that it combined the active and contemplative religious life with the labor of scholarly study and itinerate preaching. St. Dominic was innovative in meeting the needs of his time to defend the Church against her enemies. To aid his mission, Our Lady appeared to him and gave him a new devotion—the Holy Rosary. St. Dominic is the patron saint of scientists and astronomers. His feast day is August 8th.
Saint Dominique-founder of the order of preachers
(✝ 1221) Dominicans Félix De Guzman's third son was a curious student at the university of palencia in Spain. The starvation of the city, he sold his books to rescue the poor. All Saint Dominique is in this gesture: studying is a good thing, but the concern of men is first. Becoming a regular Canon of osma in old castile, he accompanies his Bishop Diego on a journey and it is through the midi of France that both are struck by the ravages of heresy of the cathars (*). Diego and Dominique go to Rome and Get Pope Innocent III the mission to browse, with a few companions, the regions concerned and to preach the gospel by word and example. The Evangelical poverty and the happy way characterize these preachers. They go two by two, preaching and begging their food. Saint Dominique is based on the prayer of the monastery of prouilhe, near fanjeaux, where he gathered some "perfect" cathars converted. In order to continue and extend his work of preaching, he brings together his first companions in a convent in Toulouse with the same concern for radical poverty. Pope Honorius III approved his work in 1216, which became the order of the preachers. From the next year, they spread them across Europe to build convents. He died of exhaustion in bologna. (*) see on the website of the diocese of Montpellier: "Heresy Albigensian ( Cathars ), in the 132th century will shake our region hard" (Diocese Directory, PDF document page 132) " the house of Saint Dominique in fanjeaux of the th century. The Saint remained 9 years, fighting against cathar heresy." " a terroir through the history and figure of a saint: Dominique, the man with the wind soles! Of castilian origin, Dominique De Guzman, was born around 1170 in caleruega. Came to toulouse as part of a diplomatic mission where he accompanied his bishop, both measured how much a rich and powerful church could hardly testify to Jesus Christ, they will go to dissident Christians, poor and beggars, according to the evangelical model. For years, Dominique will never stop testifying to the gospel by imitating the apostles. He is a result of men and women that the church no longer touched. At the dawn of the th century, he became, with the brothers and sisters of the holy prédication', the figure of a revival in the Roman church. Fanjeaux, Medieval City, keep track of his passage.* The house of Saint Dominique is open in the summer season, in the heart of the agglomeration. In the th century the Dominicans of the holy family welcome tourists and pilgrims all year round. In Prouilhe Monastery, the prayer of of has been continuing for 8 centuries. Two big holidays mark the summer season: August 8 for st Dominique (mass at the monastery), and August 16 for st Roch (procession and mass in occitan)." (* from the plain to the pyrenean massif - Dominican land, stroll in the country of Aude - Diocese of carcassonne and narbonne) Canon of osma in Spain he made himself humble minister of preaching in regions troubled by the heresy of the albigensian and lived in the despised condition of voluntary poverty, ceasing to speak with God. In search of a new way of spreading faith, he founded in Toulouse the order of preachers, to restore to the church the way to live the apostles, recommending his brothers to serve their next by prayer, the study And the ministry of speech. He died in bologna on 6 August 1221. Keeper of the day, Saint Dominic and Saint Francis join forces to become the real Reformers of the Church:
"You are my companion and must walk with me. For if we hold together no earthly power can withstand us." -- Upon meeting Francis of Assisi. Arm yourself with prayer instead of a sword; be clothed with humility instead of fine raiment." "These, my much loved ones, are the bequests which I leave to you as my sons; have charity among yourselves; hold fast to humility; keep a willing poverty." "We must sow the seed, not hoard it." I could not bear to prize dead skins, when living skins were starving and in need. -- After selling books inscribed on parchment (sheepskin) and giving the money to the poor. "I would tell them to kill me slowly and painfully, a little at a time, so that I might have a more glorious crown in Heaven." -- After being asked what he would do if caught by his enemies. "A man who governs his passions is master of the world. We must either rule them, or be ruled by them. It is better to be the hammer than the anvil." "The important thing is not to think much but to love much; and so do that which best stirs you to love."
— St. Teresa of Avila Keeper of the day, just needs to be translated: « Après Dieu, le Prêtre, c’est tout ! Laissez une paroisse vingt ans sans Prêtre : on y adorera les bêtes » (Curé d'Ars)
After God, the Priest is everything! Leave a Parish without a Priest for twenty years: we'll be adoring the beasts! Hmmm...based on the principle of St Thomas Aquinas and what Saint Paul says in the Letter to the Romans-once we spurn the Creator, we turn towards creatures...once there is no witness in any place to be a sign of the One True God, we do worship creatures, pleasure, nature, forces of nature and fleshy comforts, our selfish feelings, mental security and grow moss...hard enough with the Priest! esp. if the Priest succumbs to that himself! Pray for Priests and for those who form them and who maintain them! 1. “To approach God one should go straight to Him, like a ball from a cannon.”
2. “Remain humble, remain simple; the more you are so, the more good you will do.” 3. “This is real faith, when we speak to God as we would converse with a man.” 4. “The sun never hides his light for fear of inconveniencing the owls.” 5. “Do not distrust the Providence of God. He who made your corn to grow will assuredly help to gather it in.” 6. “If we possessed a real penetrating faith like the Saints we should see Our Lord like they did.” 7. “Humility is to the various virtues what the chain is to the Rosary; take away the chain and the beads are scattered, remove Humility and all virtues vanish.” 8. “The Saints never complain.” 9. “God acts vigorously and gently; it is good to rely on Him.” 10. “Do not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the Angels, and the Saints – they are your public.”Ten August 4th:
Feast Day of the Cure d'Ars, Saint Jean Marie Vianney, Patron Saint of Priests On Priesthood: When people want to destroy religion they begin by attacking the priest; for where there is no priest, there is no sacrifice: and when there is no sacrifice, there is no religion. On Priesthood: Without the priest, the passion and death of our Lord would be of no avail. It is the priest who continues the work of redemption here on earth...What use would be a house filled with gold, were there no one to open its door? The priest holds the key to the treasures of heaven: it is he who opens the door: he is the steward of the good Lord; the administrator of His goods...Leave a parish for twenty years without a priest and they will end by worshiping the beasts there...The priest is not a priest for himself, he is a priest for you. Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him, familiarly and with confidence and love, as to the dearest and most loving of friends. Speak to Him often of your business, your plans, your troubles, your fears - of everything that concerns you. Converse with Him confidently and frankly; for God is not wont to speak to a soul that does not speak to Him. St Alphonsus of Ligouri
"the way to overthrow the demon when he gives us thoughts of hatred against those who make us of is to pray immediately for their conversion" (ARS PRIEST)
"it is self-love that always makes us believe that we deserve only praise; while we should only seek the insults that are due to us" (Jean-Marie Vianney) "we must hate only the demon, sin and ourselves" (priest of ARS) "the demon has come to sow temptations under our footsteps; but with grace we can defeat it, we can choke the chaff... the chaff is mostly the impurity and pride" (Jean-Marie Vianney) " three things are absolutely necessary against temptation: prayer to enlighten us, the sacraments to fortify us and vigilance to preserve us. Happy souls tempted! It is when the demon provides that a soul tends to the union with God that it is redoubled. Oh! Happy Union " (ARS PRIEST) " the greatest temptation is not to have. We can almost say that we are happy to have temptations: this is the moment of the spiritual harvest where we hoard for the sky " (Jean-Marie Vianney) " the demon tries only souls who want to come out of sin and those who are in grace. The others are to him, he doesn't need to try them " (ARS PRIEST) " if we were well imbued with the holy presence of God, we would be very easy to resist the enemy. With this thought: God sees it! We never sin " (Jean-Marie Vianney) " at the moment of temptation, the promises of his baptism must be firmly renewed. Here, listen to this: when you are tempted, give the good God the merit of this temptation to obtain the opposite virtue. Also offer temptation to ask for the conversion of sinners: it will dépite the demon and make it run because temptation turns against him. Come on! After that, he will leave you alone " (ARS PRIEST) " a Christian must always be ready to fight. As in times of war there are always sentries placed there and there, to see if the enemy approaches; likewise, we must always be on our guards to see if the enemy does not tend us traps and if he does not come Surprise us " (Jean-Marie Vianney) " after God, the priest is all! Leave a parish years without priest: we will love the beasts " (ARS PRIEST) " the priesthood is the love of Jesus's heart. When you see the priest, think of our LORD JESUS CHRIST " (Jean-Marie Vianney) "the passion of our Lord is like a great river that descends from a mountain and never exhausts" (priest of ARS) " when we are in front of the Holy Sacrament, instead of looking around us, let us close our eyes and mouth; open our heart, the good God will open his. We will go to him, he will come to us, one to ask and the other to receive: it will be like a breath from each other. Let us not forget to look for God! The Saints lost to see only God, only to work for him; they forgot all the objects created to find only him: this is how we arrive in heaven " (Jean-Marie Vianney) "humility is like a balance; the more we fall on one side and the more we are raised from the other" (ARS PRIEST) We do not have to talk very much in order to pray well. We know that God is there in His holy tabernacle; let us open our hearts to Him; let us rejoice in His Presence: This is the best prayer. St. John Vianney
Know also that you will probably gain more by praying fifteen minutes before the Blessed Sacrament than by all the other spiritual exercises of the day. True, Our Lord hears our prayers anywhere, for He has made the promise, 'Ask, and you shall receive,' but He has revealed to His servants that those who visit Him in the Blessed Sacrament will obtain a more abundant measure of grace. St Alphonsus of Ligouri
There is nothing more pleasing to God, than to see a soul who patiently and serenely bears whatever crosses it is sent; this is how love is made, by putting lover and loved one on the same level. . . A soul who loves Jesus Christ desires to be treated the way Christ was treated-desires to be poor, despised and humiliated. St Alphonsus of Ligouri
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