The 'IT'? Could be your looks, wealth, health, social status (might be God's permissive Will since some are achieved through the wrong means), talent/skill, records, achievements or even outfits!
Whatever it is, when we fail to discern or seek to discern, pride easily creeps in
O Mary, Mother of Jesus, Mother of Christians, Mother of the Church and Mother of Africa, intercede for your children scattered over the African landscape and beyond who pass through hunger, oppressive governments, hate for Christianity, trafficking and all forms of evil. Amen🙏🏿
O Mary, Mother of Jesus, Mother of Christians, Mother of the Church and Mother of Africa, intercede for your children scattered over the African landscape and beyond who pass through hunger, oppressive governments, hate for Christianity, trafficking and all forms of evil. Amen🙏🏿
Imagine that your cellphone rings and the display says the call is from a “private number.” You expect it to be a telemarketer, but instead when you answer, you hear a man with an Argentine accent say: “This is Francis. I received your letter.”
That phone call happened to Daniel Ibañez, CNA and EWTN News Vatican photographer, on an ordinary weekday morning in December 2018.
“I effectively stayed frozen, because I was speaking with the pope,” Ibañez told CNA. “He said: ‘I would like to invite you to the Mass at Casa Santa Marta on Dec. 20, 2018, which will be the last I publicly celebrate in the Vatican [before Christmas].’”
Ibañez had sent a letter to Pope Francis two months prior, in October 2018, telling him about his experience as a young Catholic from Palencia, Spain, living and working in Italy as a photographer for a Catholic media organization.
He had also expressed his desire for the opportunity to experience Pope Francis as an ordinary Catholic, since Ibañez is always working — that is, taking photos — during papal Masses and events.
Ibañez, 27 at the time, said he was touched and surprised that during their phone call, which lasted about five minutes, Pope Francis asked his pardon for not responding to his letter sooner.
The pope also gave him the directions for what to do in two days to attend the private Mass at the Vatican’s guesthouse.
“He repeated what I should do four times, like a grandfather. Because I was not understanding. My brain was really frozen... I was speaking with the pope on my cellphone!” Ibañez said.
On Dec. 20, 2018, the photographer went through all the security to arrive at the chapel of the Casa Santa Marta. He said at first he sat at the very back, but the priests made him move to the front: “From a photographic perspective, the best seat.”
After the Mass, the pope greeted each person individually. Ibañez introduced himself as a photographer for CNA and EWTN and gave him two photos he had taken of him. https://t.co/5TwQ8MhKXI
How many people know of these Apocrypha books in the Bible?
Sussana
Bel and the Dragon
Baruch
Judith
Tobit (Favorite book in the Bible)
1 & 2 Maccabees
Catholics will be more familiar with most of them.
Day 5
Today bring to Me THE SOULS WHO ESPECIALLY VENERATE AND GLORIFY MY MERCY, and immerse them in My mercy.
For the sake of his sorrowful passion, have mercy on us and the whole world!🙏🏼
Day 7
Today bring to Me THE SOULS WHO ESPECIALLY VENERATE AND GLORIFY MY MERCY, and immerse them in My mercy.
For the sake of his sorrowful passion, have mercy on us and the whole world!🙏🏼
It seems everybody became Catholic this Easter. All I am seeing on my TL is "I am officially a Catholic" or "I was baptised and confirmed into the Catholic Church this Easter."
@theweeknd Hail Mary, full of Grace, the Lord is with thee, Blessed art Thou amongst women, and Blessed is the fruit of Thy Womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death.
This is it Abel. Your escape ticket. Don't let them lie 2 u. @theweeknd