Pope Francis delivered a powerful homily at morning Mass in which he denounced modern day “leeches” – those who take advantage of unemployment desperation to offer workers subpar working conditions without health insurance or pensions – calling this “civilized trafficking” and warning the faithful to develop a “correct relationship” with money.
Monthly Archives: May 2016
Training Session for Young Women of Grace Facilitators
Thirty potential facilitators and teachers for the Young Women of Grace program attended a hands-on training session on May 14 at the Sisters of St. Joseph convent in Watertown, New York.
Father Knows Best!
“There are more tears shed over answered
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Doctor: Stars’ Sexy Selfies Are Damaging Teen Girls
A leading British psychologist says increased use of social media, including the latest trend among stars to post over-sexualized “selfies”, is wreaking havoc on the self-esteem of young girls.
Vatican: 3rd Secret of Fatima Has Been Released in Full
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.
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.
