CS writes: "My wife's mother recently passed away after a long terrible bout with MS. Prior to her being debilitated with this disease, my wife tells me that she was into new age type beliefs. . .
October 6
"What do you want of me?"
- Lucia dos Santos to Our Lady of Fatima
In spite of a record 500 percent increase in the number of complications related to chemical abortion drugs, Planned Parenthood is planning to open a mobile abortion clinic in southern Illinois where they will dispense abortion pills to women out of a roaming RV where no follow up care is provided.
October 5
"Say the Rosary, to obtain peace for the world and the end of the war."
- Our Lady of Fatima to the children at Fatima
HP asks: “Why are near-death experiences always the same stories about being embraced by a loving light? Are any of these experiences about hell?”
by Theresa CavicchioThe comprehensive Omnibus entitled St. Francis of Assisi: Writings and Early Biographies, published in 1973, is introduced with a statement which rings true still today, close to fifty years later: “There is something paradoxical about the fact that the Little Poor Man of Assisi, who sought only obscurity, should have become so widely known and universally loved as he is today.”
October 4
"A priest without a Rosary is like a knight without a sword. With this heavenly weapon, a priest can defeat falsehood, conquer evil, and win innumerable souls for Jesus Christ!"
- Fr. Donald Calloway
October 3
"Today we have the greatest need of saints, for whom we must assiduously implore God."
-1985 Extraordinary Synod of Bishops
C5 writes: "I listen to Catholic Radio and have heard that partaking in acupuncture and other alternative therapies. I have been to a natural healing center and the practitioner uses muscle testing which she says uses acupuncture ideas about energy flow in my body. That our bodies can let us know what part of our body is being challenged and what it needs to get back into balance. She uses her technique as an assessment tool not as treatment. If what she says is true then it would have to be of our God because it is amazing and miraculous. What is 'bad' about this?"
October 2
"Mary took my weakness and gave me her strength; she took my fear and gave me her trust; she took my insecurity and gave me her confidence. And it all came by way of the Rosary."
- Johnnette Benkovic Williams
