MariaLucia🇯🇵🇺🇸

米へ移住,カトリック, 東京出身, 日本で介護職と社会福祉士, RomanCatholic, St. PadrePio's child, early church fathers, a sinner in need of God's mercy,

[アメリカで10倍うまく立ち回る方法 @Ame10blog]

はじめまして、Masaです🇺🇸
アメリカ生活、最初は「地獄」でした。笑
でも今では、笑って立ち回る知恵がたくさんあります。
駐在・移住・子育て・英語・医療・行政手続きまで——
「こんなこと誰も教えてくれなかった！」をブログとXで発信中📣
👉 https://t.co/uKhj8K3qxY
#アメリカ生活 #駐在あるある

[🎼🌺Music Love♥️ @ThoNg676733]

Everything, good or bad, will eventually come back to you.
I wonder how many people forget that?

[Segundo Católico @seguncocatolico]

🚨HISTÓRICO: A Igreja Católica ultrapassou pela primeira vez na história a marca de 1,422 BILHÃO de fiéis em todo o mundo.

Crescimento muito forte nos Estados Unidos, África e Ásia.

[Saint Adaugoijele ✝️ @JustAdaugoijele]

The Story of the weeping statue of Our Lady of Akita.

In 1973, in a convent in Akita, Japan, a nun named Sister Agnes Katsuko Sasagawa saw strange things happen with a wooden statue of the Virgin Mary.

First, in July 1973, a cross-shaped wound appeared on the statue's right hand, and real blood flowed from it. The statue also seemed to sweat with a sweet smell. Then, starting on January 4, 1975, the statue began to cry real tears from its eyes. This happened 101 times over the years, until 1981. Many nuns, visitors, and even people on Japanese TV saw the tears flowing down the statue's face. Sister Agnes also received messages from Mary through the statue. Mary asked for more prayer (especially the Rosary), penance, and warned about coming troubles in the Church and the world, if people did not repent. They collected samples of the blood from the hand wound, the sweat, and the tears.

Scientists at Akita University and other labs tested them without knowing where they came from. The results showed:

. The blood was real human blood, type B.
. The tears and sweat were real human fluids, type AB.

These are human bodily fluids coming from a wooden statue, which science says is impossible naturally. Experts, including non-Christian ones, confirmed the samples were truly human. The local bishop, John Shojiro Ito, investigated for years.

In 1984, he officially said the events were of supernatural origin and allowed people to venerate Our Lady of Akita. Many Catholics see this as a miracle and a sign from Mary. The statue still draws pilgrims today...

Our Lady of Akita, Japan
Pray for us 🌹

[ドラ課長二世 @dorachan2se]

A Palm Sunday procession was held in Japan.
Processions like this, especially on public roads, are extremely rare here.
It feels like we’re heading toward a wonderful Easter.
https://t.co/E5LU6kvfAC

[Saint Adaugoijele ✝️ @JustAdaugoijele]

FATHER DOLINDO RUOTOLO
A Prophet of our Time

Father Don Dolindo Ruotolo was a Neapolitan priest stigmatized miracle worker and “mouthpiece of the Holy Spirit”.

Father Ruotolo had extraordinary communications with Jesus throughout his heroic life, a life that was totally devoted to God and Holy Mother Mary. He referred to himself as “the Madonna’s little old man” and the Rosary was his constant companion.

Much of what our Lord wants flies in the face of normal human inclination and reason. We can only rise to this level of thinking through the grace of God and the help of the Holy Spirit.

We must let go of our problems, stop worrying, and trying to resolve them ourselves. We must believe, trust, and allow our Lord to rescue us from ourselves and supply our wants, needs and resolve our problems as only He can.

Jesus, You take care of it, should be the first words that come to mind and flow from our lips. After all, we have tried to do things our way and look where it has got us.

Just do as the prayer says, open our hearts and minds in love and close our eyes in trust, and ask Jesus to take care of it. He will.

On November 19, 1970 ,Don (Fr) Dolindo Ruotolo died at the age of 88. Padre Pio once said of this priest from Naples, Italy, The whole of paradise is in your soul. His name “Dolindo” means “Pain” and his life was rich with this pain. As a child, a teenager, a seminarian and a priest, he experienced humiliation, which was the realization of the prophetic words of a bishop who said You will be a martyr, but in your heart, not with your blood.

In his profound humility, he was able to hear the words of God. Even with his hidden life, he was one of the greatest prophets of the last century. He wrote to Bishop Hnilica in 1965 that a new John will rise out of Poland with heroic steps to break the chains beyond the boundaries imposed by the communist tyranny. On this postcard, he wrote words of consolation for Poland and all the countries suffering under the communist regime. This prophecy was realized in the papacy of John Paul II.

In his tremendous suffering, Dolindo became more and more a child who lived his self-offering to the Divine Father. I am totally poor, a poor nothing. My strength is my prayer. My leader is the will of God, which I let take me by the hand. My security over the uneven path is the heavenly mother Mary.

One of the treasures from the words that Jesus spoke to Dolindo was the teaching about total abandonment to God. In this novena, Jesus is talking to Don Dolindo and also to you.

THE SURRENDER NOVENA
Given by Jesus to Fr. Dolindo Ruotolo

O Jesus, I surrender myself to you, take care of everything! (10 times)

[World Scholar @WorldScholar_]

Reminder: This door predates most countries on Earth, and it's still working.

Let that sink in.

The 2,000-year-old door of Lateran Basilica, Rome.

[癒しの動物 @animalkyat]

「菊花継」釘や接着剤を使わず、木片を精巧に組み上げる日本の伝統木工技法。菊の花びらのような美しい形状が特徴で、強度も抜群！職人の技術と美意識が詰まったこの継ぎ手、まるで芸術品ですね

[Pray The Rosary @PrayTheRosary]

“CMB” = Christus mansionem benedicat, which translates to “May Christ bless this home.”

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

Men without degrees built this.

[EWTN Global Catholic Network @EWTN]

Have you ever seen a confession line this long? So encouraging to see the 16,000+ young people at #SEEK26 embracing God’s merciful love ❤️

EWTN's live coverage of SEEK continues on EWTN’s YouTube channel: https://t.co/AZx214ufMc

[Eddie©️🇧🇷🇺🇸 @SantoRosario100]

Somente a igreja verdadeira fundada por Jesus Cristo tem.

[Catholic Sat @CatholicSat]

Christmas Midnight Mass in 1948, in the magnificent Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris celebrated by His Eminence Emmanuel Célestin Suhard, Cardinal Archbishop of Paris. This was the first time Midnight Mass was broadcast on French television.

[Catholic News Service @CatholicNewsSvc]

#PopeLeoXIV gives Christmas greetings in 10 languages.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The Nativity Grotto in Bethlehem is traditionally believed to be the exact spot where Jesus Christ was born. A 14-pointed silver star set into a marble floor marks the exact traditional spot of Jesus' birth.

[📹 exploretheholyland]

[Ryan Rozbiani @RyanRozbiani]

In Bethlehem, for the FIRST TIME IN 3 Years, in the birthplace of Jesus Christ, they celebrate CHRISTMAS

MERRY CHRISTMAS

[Catholic Sat @CatholicSat]

A Christmas tradition in Bethlehem is the chanting of Luke’s account of Our Lord’s birth at the very place where it happened, concluding with the great throng of Heaven singing “Glory to God in the highest”, which is taken up by the Franciscans, who chant Gloria in excelsis Deo

[MotherMary @Mothermary0012]

Japanese Catholics carry Our Lady of Nagasaki

[ドラ課長二世 @dorachan2se]

レオ14世によって教会がどのような方向に進むかを考えるのは正当なことですが、我々が優先すべきは彼のために祈ることです。今は予言の時ではなく、祈りの時です。親愛なる信者方、教皇が聖霊の霊感に従順であり、教会の舟を救いの港へと導き、教会に対する天主の意志を成就されるよう祈ろう。
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