🔴++#PapaLeoneXIV si arrampica su scoglio, gli vola papalina
👉Fuoriprogramma del #Papa alla Porta d'Europa di #Lampedusa. Dopo aver varcato il monumento dedicato ai #migranti, aver poggiato la sua mano sull'opera e aver sostato qualche istante guardando verso il mare, il Pontefice da solo si è incamminato su uno scoglio nel suo punto più alto e ha guardato l'orizzonte. Un'immagine intensa e commovente.
Il vento gli ha fatto anche volare la #papalina, successivamente recuperata.
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#4luglio #LeoXIV #PopeLeo #PopeLeoXIV #LeonXIV #Pape #Pontefice #Sicilia
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Do you have treasure in heaven?
Fr. Rocky explains how prayer builds treasure that never runs out. One prayer reaches God's heart — but pray for someone else, and it multiplies.
Who are you praying for today?
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Why do Catholics ring bells at Mass?
Here's the whole thing explained:
In the Middle Ages, churches had many side altars. You can still see the many side chapels when you visit a medieval cathedral in Europe.
Often, the side chapels were added to a church or cathedral by a wealthy benefactor who left an endowment (a parcel of land from which there would be a revenue stream).
The endowment paid for a priest's stipend to say Mass in that chapel every day for the repose of the soul of the donor and his family members.
As a result, Masses were said every day at all the side chapels and altars. In the monasteries, all the monk-priests celebrated their own Mass for designated intentions. The stipends paid by the donors supported the priest or monk.
These priests were called "chantry priests," and in addition to their duty of saying Mass in their chapel, they often had pastoral duties.
The chantry chapel in one of the old Anglican churches where I served, for example, doubled as a school room, and the chantry priest was the schoolmaster.
Anyway...if you went into a medieval church, abbey, or cathedral at any point in the day, Mass would be happening.
In fact, many masses took place at the same time. The church was open, and instead of the faithful going to Mass at a set time to intentionally attend Mass and receive communion, the faithful simply dropped into the church to pray, worship, and spend time with the Lord.
Most people rarely received communion--and if so, only once a year at Easter.
So if they were in the church praying, or even in the church meeting with neighbors for gossip, their attention was given when the bell was rung.
Imagine you are in one of those churches at that time. It's been a busy day for you in the fields. You drop into the church to say your prayers, and while kneeling at the far end, behind the rood screen, a bell rings, and you know the Lord is present.
So you turn your attention to Him in praise and worship. That's why the bells were rung, and if you visit a medieval cathedral today - busy with noisy tourists - you can see why the bell was necessary to quiet people down and turn them to prayer.
The tradition has carried on, and although our circumstances are different, the bell still rings to gather us back and give us focus.
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You should know by now St Charbel is one of my favorites🥰
Need a miracle?
Ask for the intercession of St. Charbel Makhlouf!
Modern-day miracles of this great Saint;
A blind woman from Arizona was healed in 2016 after venerating the relics of St. Charbel. The medical committee investigating the miracle admitted, "We have no medical explanation and therefore believe this to be a miraculous healing through the intercession of St. Charbel.”
In France, a baby boy was destined to die, so the family used some oil from St. Charbel's tomb and prayed a novena to St. Charbel for a miraculous healing. According to the family, "The doctors told us that he would sleep more and more and eat less and less. Instead, he was becoming increasingly alert and continued to drink his bottles in small doses. At the end of September, Côme was evaluated again. To our joy and to the astonishment of the doctors, his condition had improved so much that it was determined he would live ... The Blessed Virgin and St. Charbel protected him."
There are many more miracles reportedly dedicated to St. Charbel, proving that God enjoys working miracles through this humble Lebanese saint.
A Powerful prayer to Saint Charbel in times of need
O Lord, infinitely holy and glorified in your saints, you inspired the holy monk and hermit Saint Sharbel to live and die in the way of Jesus Christ and gave him the strength to detach himself from the world in order to make the monastic virtues triumph in his hermitage.
We implore you to bestow upon us the grace to love you and to serve you by following his example.
Almighty God, who manifested the power of Saint Sharbel’s intercession by numerous miracles and favors, grant us, through his intercession, this grace (state your intention).
Amen.
Our father, Hail Mary, Glory be.
While we are never "guaranteed" a miracle when praying to God through a saint, the process can often transform our hearts and help us be prepared for whatever plan God has designed.