Contrary to rumors circulating throughout the Catholic world lately, Pope emeritus Benedict XVI denies having ever said that the release of the third secret of Fatima in the year 2000 was incomplete.
Yearly Archives: 2016
Feds Bust Phony Psychic Scam
Federal prosecutors in the state of New York recently shut down a phony psychic ring which was luring the desperate by convincing people they were destined to achieve great wealth. In reality, the only people who became wealthy are the charlatans that masterminded the scheme.
Shhhh! Can You Hear Him?
Feast of St. Rita of Cascia, 1377 – 1457
Hymn to Saint Rita of Cascia
Come, virgins chaste; pure brides, draw near:
Let Earth exult and Heaven hear
The Hymn that grateful accents raise,
Our song of joy in Rita’s praise.
By fast her sinless frame is weak;
Her livid flesh the scourges streak.
In pity for her Savior’s woes,
Her days and even nights are closed.
The thorn-wound on her brow is shown,
The crimson rose in winter blown,
And full-ripe figs on frozen tree
At Rita’s wish the wonders see.
The widowed spouse and wedded wife
The way to heaven see in her life;
The way secure our Rita trod,
In life’s dim day, through paint o God. 
Praise to the Father and the Son,
Praise to the Spirit, Three in One;
O grant us grace in heaven to reign
Through Rita’s prayer and life-long pain.
Thou hast signed thy servant Rita
With the sign of thy Love and Passion.
O God! who didst deign to confer on St. Rita for imitating Thee in love of her enemies, the favor of bearing her heart and brow the marks of Thy Love and Passion, grant we beseech Thee, that through her intercession and merit, we may, pierced by the thorns of compunction, ever contemplate the sufferings of Thy Passion, who livest and reignest forever and ever. Amen.
This is the translation of the hymn of Lauds, office of Saint Rita, approved by Decree of S.C.R. 24
For Reflection:
In this hymn to St. Rita, what most speaks to my heart? Why? If this were God’s word for me, what would be my response to Him?
We Need to Talk: God Speaks to a Modern Girl
NEW! Susan Brinkmann Pb 112 pgs
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Introduction
At some point in the midst of my fifty-hour-a-week job and twenty-hour-a-weekend writing schedule, God somehow managed to get my attention. This story is for all those ordinary people who think a miracle could never happen to them. The “Red Sea” doesn’t part for secretaries and waitresses, but only for the few, the chosen, the holy–or so most of us think. Read on! As impossible as it might sound, a miracle happened to me, and it did so when I was about as holy as Lady Gaga.
Speaking To The Beloved
“Set my heart on the Kingdom? Fine,
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Intolerance Rules at VA Museum of Contemporary Art
Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
There’s more than one way to persecute a Christian and the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) is displaying a prime example of how it’s done in the West by featuring a painting laced with blasphemous references to the Eucharist, the Mass and Jesus Christ.
Iraqi Christian Girl Forgives Murderer
As she lay dying in her mother’s arms after an ISIS attack on her home, a 12 year-old Christian girl in Mosul, Iraq used her last breath to beg her mother to forgive her killers.
Wellness Blogger Fakes Natural Cure
Belle Gibson, who built up an enormous social medial following with her wellness blog is now facing legal action for faking terminal cancer which she claimed was cured using natural remedies.
Feds Muscle Health Care Providers on Gender Issues
Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
The Obama Administration is going full tilt when it comes to pressuring Americans into accepting the idea of gender identity and is now pressuring hospitals who receive Medicare and Medicaid funds into providing services based on a patient’s perceived gender or risk losing their funding.
Resting With Him
“Christ is now exalted above the heavens,
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