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A Prayer for the Gifts of the Holy Spirit

Holy Spirit,Divine Consoler,I adore you as my true God,with God the Father and God the Son.I adore You and unite myself to the adorationYou receive from the angels and saints.I give You my heartand I offer my ardent thanksgivingfor all the grace which You never cease to bestow on me.O Giver of all supernatural gifts,who filled the soul of the Blessed Virgin Mary,Mother of God, with such immense favours,I beg You to visit me with Your graceand Your love and to grant me the gift of holy fear,so that it may act on me as a check to prevent me from falling back into my past sins,for which I beg pardon.Grant me the gift of piety,so that I may serve You for the future with increased fervor,follow with more promptness Your holy inspirations,and observe your divine precepts with greaterfidelity.Grant me the gift of knowledge,so that I may know the things of God and,enlightened by Your holy teaching, may walk,without deviation, in the path of eternalsalvation.Grant me the gift of fortitude,so that I may overcome courageously all the assaults of the devil,and all the dangers of this world which threaten the salvation of my soul.Grant me the gift of counsel,so that I may choose what is more conducive to myspiritual advancementand may discover the wiles and snares of the tempter. Grant me the gift of understanding,so that I may apprehend the divine mysteriesand by contemplation of heavenly things detach my thoughtsand affections from the vain things of this miserableworld.Grant me the gift of wisdom,so that I may rightly direct all my actions,referring them to God as my last end;so that, having loved Him and served Him in this life,I may have the happiness of possessing Him eternally in the next.Amen

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POPE RECEIVES GENERAL DIRECTORS OF PONTIFICAL MISSIONARY WORKS FOR FIRST TIME, CONFIRMS THEIR RELEVANCE

Vatican City, 17 May 2013 (VIS) – The Pontifical Missionary Works (POM) are “entirely relevant, even more, they are still necessary today because there are so many peoples who have still not known and met Christ and it is urgent to find new forms and new ways that God’s grace might touch the heart of each man and each woman and bring them to him.” With these words, Pope Francis greeted the national directors of the POM for the first time, thanking them because they help him “keep evangelization, the paradigm of every act of the Church, alive.” The Holy Father noted that the Missionary Works are also called “pontifical” because “they are at the Bishop of Rome’s direct disposal, with the specific purpose of acting so that the precious gift of the Gospel might be offered to all.” “Certainly,” he said, “the mission that awaits us is difficult but, with the guidance of the Holy Spirit, it becomes an exciting mission. … This is what we should always draw courage from: knowing that the strength of evangelization comes from God, belongs to him

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POPE RECEIVES CARITAS INTERNATIONALIS’ EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

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Helping at St. Joe’s

Every year, Catherine saved suitable items from among the donations as Christmas gifts for families who did not have the means to buy them.

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Helping at St. Joe’s

PRESS RELEASE REGARDING CARDINAL O’BRIEN

Home – VIS Vatican – Receive VIS – Contact us – CalendarThe Vatican Information Service is a news service, founded in the Holy See Press Office, that provides information about the Magisterium and the pastoral activities of the Holy Father and the Roman Curia…[+] Loading… PRESS RELEASE REGARDING CARDINAL O’BRIEN Vatican City, 15 May 2013 (VIS) – This afternoon, the Holy See Press Office issued the following press release: “His Eminence Cardinal Keith Patrick O’Brien, archbishop emeritus of St

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PRESS RELEASE REGARDING CARDINAL O’BRIEN

Conrad Black and Crossing Toward Truth

Conrad Black refuses to play the victim.At our Cardus Convivium dinner last week in Calgary, where Black was the marquee attraction, he asserted, responding to a question, his innocence in the criminal case brought against him by the U.S. government.Again responding to a question from Convivium Editor-in-chief Father Raymond J.

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Chaplet of the Holy Spirit

Another thing to be commended during these nine days leading up to Pentecost is the recital of a Chaplet of the Holy Spirit.

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Chaplet of the Holy Spirit

Spirituality: St. Matthias

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Father Robert Barron is a sought-after speaker on the spiritual life-from prestigious universities to YouTube to national conferences and private retreats. The prominent theologian and podcasting priest is one of the world’s great and most innovative teachers of Catholicism.

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Fr. Pavone: Right to choose must yield to right to life

Video Press Release STATEN ISLAND, NY — Father Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, had the following comment on the verdict in the Kermit Gosnell trial: “The guilty verdict on charges of killing babies following abortion shows that the law recognizes a point at which the ‘right to choose’ must yield to the right to life, and also shows that abortionists don’t know where that point is. Such laws must be strengthened in every state.” Note: the babies in this case have been given names by Priests for Life and more information on that can be found here: Priestsforlife.org/library/4620-naming-the-gosnell-babies.

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The Gift of Fear

Just as hope has two objects, one of which is the future good itself that one expects to obtain, while the other is someone’s help through whom one expects to obtain what one hopes for, so, too, fear may have two objects, one of which is the very evil which a man shrinks from, while the other is that from which the evil may come. Accordingly, in the first way God, Who is goodness itself, cannot be an object of fear; but He can be an object of fear in the second way, in so far as there may come to us some evil either from Him or in relation to Him.From Him there comes the evil of punishment, but this is evil not absolutely but relatively, and, absolutely speaking, is a good

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Pope at Mass: The Holy Spirit and historical memory

2013-05-13 Vatican Radio (Vatican Radio) The Holy Spirit helps Christians remember the history of our faith and the gifts we have received from God.

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Three new Saints

Below is the full text of Pope Francis’ homily during Canonization Mass for three new saints, Sunday May 12 at St. Peter’s Square.

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CATHOLIC NEWS WORLD : SATURDAY MAY 11, 2013 – SHARE BREAKING NEWS

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Information: Feast Day:May 11Born:17 December 1642 at Grottaglie, Apulia, near Taranto, ItalyDied:11 May 1716 at Naples, ItalyCanonized:26 May 1839 by Pope Gregory XVIPatron of:Grottaglie, Italy In that part of the kingdom of Naples which is commonly called Terra d’Otranto, a small village near Taranto gave birth to St. Francis di Girolamo

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WSJ on “The Trials of Father MacRae” – IMPORTANT

Rabinowitz: The Trials of Father MacRaeHe was convicted when it was obligatory—as it remains today—to give credence to every accuser charging a priest with molestation. By DOROTHY RABINOWITZ Last Christmas Eve, his 18th behind bars, Catholic priest Gordon MacRae offered Mass in his cell at the New Hampshire state penitentiary

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Pentecost Novena for Toronto Anglican Use Sodality and the Odinariate

The Toronto Anglican Use Sodality (TAUS) will be meeting in June to select a patronal (saint’s) name for the community and to consider the process of forming a mission parish following the year May 2012 – May 2013 that TAUS has offered Sung Mass every Sunday at Sacré-Coeur Parish Church. TAUS receives a second group of baptized people into the full communion of the Catholic Church this week and looks to receive others this Fall.

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Anna House

Anna House Posted onMay 11, 2013bybrad30Anna House soup kitchen is located in Seongnam, just south of Seoul. It is an NGO with a board of governors made up of volunteers, with Father Vincenzo Bordo the appointed manager.Every day between 400 and 500 homeless and very low income people arrive in search of a hot meal between 4:30 and 7:30pm

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New In The Wall Street Journal: The Father Gordon MacRae Case

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Editors Note: In a major development in the case of wrongly imprisoned priest, Father Gordon MacRae, the nations largest newspaper has once again taken up this story. Dorothy Rabinowitz, a pulitzer prize winning journalist on The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board, published a riveting article on the Father MacRae case on May 10 entitled, “The Trials of Father MacRae.”Dorothy Rabinowitz analyzed Father MacRae’s 1994 trial as well as the issues and newer evidence in the current appeal effort now underway.

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Great talk in Halifax

A great talk by Father Rob Arsenault yesterday at the March for Life rally in Halifax, NS.Click on the link below and then on Father Rob’s name at the bottom of the list.

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Council of European Bishops Conference meets Pope Francis

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2013-05-10 Vatican Radio (Vatican Radio) Pope Francis met on Friday with the presidency of the Council of European Bishops Conferences (CCEE) and was briefed on their work.

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Gut versus Self-Doubt

I’ve been thinking a lot about my controversial advice to the nineteen year old reader whose first impulse, when approached for friendship by a stranger a few older than she when she was on a family outing, was to ask her father. She was embarrassed that she had done this–and perhaps that her father had given his opinion not only to her but to the stranger–and wondered what else she might have done.I said she had done the right thing, and she could do it again in future.

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