Aaron De Guzman

Filipino. Catholic.

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"Truth never ages, ideologies have their days numbered." -Pope Benedict XVI

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A blessed feast of Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary - La Naval de Manila! Ora pro nobis, Sancte Mater!

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My spiritual brother, now St. Pier Giorgio Frassati, pray for us! 🙏🏼

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To the heights! Ora pro nobis, Bl. Pier Giorgio!!

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Still praying for it 🙏🏼

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I will visit Bl. Pier Giorgio's hometown someday. #Turin

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To the heights! Ora pro nobis, Bl. Pier Giorgio!!

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Verso l'alto! Happy birthday Bl. Pier Giorgio Frassati! #BeLikeFrassati

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Does Saturday vigil Mass count towards five first Saturdays devotion?

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Ave Maria, gratia plena, Dominus tecum. Benedicta tu in mulieribus, et benedictus fructus ventris tui, Jesus. Sancta Maria, Mater Dei, ora pro nobis peccatoribus, nunc et in hora mortis nostrae. Amen

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Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me a sinner.

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Our Lady of Sorrows, pray for us.

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Even under Spain there was already the Philippines since it was a Spanish invention. The Philippines stretched from these archipelago to the Marianas.

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Prayer Before a Crucifix: The Plenary Indulgence You Can Obtain on Fridays During Lent

On Fridays during Lent, there is a beautiful way to obtain a plenary indulgence: reciting the prayer before a crucifix.

Lent is the time of year when Catholics focus especially on repentance, penance, and the search for reconciliation with God.

In addition to a time of fasting, prayer, and almsgiving in preparation for Holy Week, Lent is also a time when the Church provides different ways to obtain a plenary indulgence.

What is a plenary indulgence?

According to the Manual of Indulgences, a plenary indulgence is the total remission "before God of the temporal punishment for sins, whose guilt is forgiven" and can be earned for oneself or for a deceased relative in purgatory.

Praying the Stations of the Cross, the Holy Rosary, going to Eucharistic Adoration, or reading or listening to the Holy Scriptures are some additional ways to access these treasures of mercy.

However, there is another little-known alternative to obtaining a plenary indulgence on Fridays during Lent: reciting the prayer, "En ego, O bone et dulcissime Iesu," before a crucifix.

According to the Manuel of Indulgences, Fourth Edition, "a plenary indulgence is granted to the faithful who on any of the Fridays of Lent devoutly recite after Communion the prayer, 'En ego, O bone et dulcissime Iesu,' before a crucifix."

Also, a partial indulgence can be obtained if the prayer is recited on another day of the year as thanksgiving after communion.

The Prayer Before a Crucifix to Jesus Christ Crucified ("En ego, O bone et dulcissime Iesu"):

Behold, O kind and most sweet Jesus,
I cast myself upon my knees in thy sight,
and with the most fervent desire of my soul,
I pray and beseech thee that thou wouldst impress upon my heart lively sentiments of faith, hope, and charity, with true contrition for my sins and a firm purpose of amendment; while with deep affection and grief of soul I ponder within myself and mentally contemplate thy five wounds, having before my eyes the words which David the prophet put on thy lips concerning thee: “My hands and my feet they have pierced, they have numbered all my bones.”

In addition to this prayer, to obtain the plenary indulgence, the faithful must also meet three usual conditions:

1) Go to Confession
2) Receive Communion
3) Pray for the pope’s intentions (The Church suggests one Our Father and one Hail Mary.)

The individual must also be completely detached from sin to obtain a plenary indulgence. If he or she is not detached, the indulgence becomes partial.

Let us not waste this treasure of mercy!

Written by Andres Jaromezuk and Jacqueline Burkepile

https://t.co/MIZ9quPkIg

[Bishop J. Strickland @BishStrickland]

Although this has been removed from Novus Ordo liturgical calendar it still can remind us to begin preparing for Lent. In these confusing times let us embrace our faith more deeply in prayer & practice.

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Happy feast day to all Paulinians out there! Hark sons and daughters of St. Paul. ⚜️

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Merry Christmas 😊

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Growing up Protestant, I was bombarded with antiCatholic diatribes on a regular basis at Church; told constantly that we don't believe this or that interpretation of Scripture because that is Catholic. So much protesting, so at university, I decided to look for myself and...👇

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Requiem aeternam dona eis Domine; et lux perpetua luceat eis. Requiescant in pace. Amen.

[Stephen @PrayTheRosary]

On Oct. 7, 1571, two years after the Vatican urged the Rosary for universal use, an event took place that caused the devotion to gain widespread popularity. One of the most famous (and bloodiest) naval battles in history took place that day on the Bay of Lepanto, off the coast of Greece. The opposing forces were Christians, made up of an alliance of fleets from Spain and Italy, against a far superior Turkish navy. The Muslim force was threatening to take over the Mediterranean Sea and hence be in a position to attack European countries. Pope Pius V asked the Christian faithful to pray the Rosary and seek the intercession of the Blessed Mother to defeat the Muslim navy. Despite being outnumbered, the Christian fleet prevailed. Accordingly, Pope Pius established Oct. 7 as a feast day of Our Lady of Victory, thus perpetually bringing honor to the Blessed Mother for her assistance. In 1573, Pope Gregory XIII (r. 1572-85) changed the name of the feast to Our Lady of the Rosary, a feast the Church continues to celebrate.

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Catholic women’s Rosary rally in Warsaw, Poland, today.

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The Rosary contains within itself the healing power of the Most Holy Name of Jesus, invoked with faith and love at the centre of each "Hail Mary".
— Benedict XVI