We offer prayer support and comfort to the brokenhearted who suffer the pains of infertility at any stage of life, difficult pregnancy, miscarriage, stillbirth, the loss of a child and the adoption process.
Have you endured the loss of miscarriage? Please consider naming your unborn child just as the angel Gabriel told St. Joseph what to name the unborn child so God will lead you as you call on St. Joseph for intercession as well as the baby’s own guardian angel.
“The angel then makes explicit Joseph’s role to give the child the personal name that indicates his identity: “you are to name him Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.” Together with Mary at the circumcision, Joseph fulfills this command of the angel. In doing so he declares his legal fatherhood over Jesus, and proclaims the child’s mission as Savior. Without hesitation he accepts his responsibility as father, trusts in God’s love, and puts his faith in the salvation the child has come to bring.
St. Joseph was the one chosen by God to name His own Son, and since he was told the specific name to give while the child was still in the womb, he is a most fitting model and patron for this important, but difficult step. He may be prayerfully invoked for assistance in choosing and giving the name.”
Have you heard of the Pope Paul VI Institute? Dr. Thomas Hilgers is the founder and has a fertility care program called the Creighton Method of Natural Family Planning. This method of fertility health care has helped many couples when they thought all was impossible. Please check out their web site:
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FertilityCare and NaProTechnology!
The Pope Paul VI Institute, founded in 1985 by Thomas W. Hilgers, MD, is internationally recognized for its outstanding achievements in the field of natural fertility regulation and reproductive medicine — 30 years of scientific research and educational program development; allied health professional education programs for couples and professionals; professional, caring, and morally acceptable patient services. The Pope Paul VI Institute for the Study of Human Reproduction is building a culture of life in women’s health care through its major developments — Creighton Model FertilityCare System and NaProTechnology.
Be sure to check out The NaProTechnology Revolution to find out more about the impact of the newest women’s health science. Newly added to the site is a PDF download of the Introduction from the book for you to read. NaProTechnology…what every woman has a right to know about her body…her health…her future!
Don’t miss our early Saint Patrick’s day tomorrow on This is the Day! Join us at 10:30 EST as we talk with Audrey Sommers about the new series coming to CatholicTV, “Stories of Faith”. We also have a new Faith out Loud and an important talk with Father Tad Pacholczyk about the HHS mandate.
This morning while praying the Liturgy of the Hours, I came upon the third Psalm and thought I would share it with you, as the holiness of God’s presence struck me to the core of my heart. Something that I find very compelling is that we all seem to seek answers to prayer and God’s blessing but some of us are not willing to make the great sacrifice of obedience according to the laws of the Church. Some of us seem determined to walk our own path, isn’t this how the angel of light was thrown out of Heaven? Don’t we want and yearn to be with God in Heaven someday? Let us pray for one another that we may remain strong as we follow the teachings of the Church and the Laws of God, for He is HOLY and we also want to be holy.
Those of us that hold the laws of the Church in our hearts weep for those who will not follow the path of blessing and truth. Our Lord told Peter (our first Pope, in Matthew 16:18), “And I say to thee: That thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it”. It’s not an easy undertaking to always be obedient but this is where GRACE will flow if you follow this path of TRUTH, this is why Our Lord gave us the Universal (Catholic) Church, why is it so difficult for some to understand? This is a great mercy that God gives us, HE is holy and don’t we also want to be holy in HIS everlasting presence? Let us walk together in this TRUTH, let us walk with HIM and the CHURCH we have been given! For He is HOLY….
Psalm 99
Holy is the Lord our God
Christ, higher than the Cherubim, when
you took our lowly nature you transformed
our sinful world (Saint Athanasius).
The Lord is king; the peoples tremble.
He is throned on the cherubim; the earth quakes.
The Lord is great in Zion.
He is supreme over all the peoples.
Let them praise his name, so terrible and great,
he is holy, full of power.
You are a king who loves what is right;
you have established equity, justice and right;
you have established them in Jacob.
Exalt the Lord our God;
bow down before Zion, his footstool.
He the Lord is holy.
Among his priests were Aaron and Moses,
among those who invoked his name was Samuel.
They invoked the Lord and he answered.
To them he spoke in the pillar of cloud.
They did his will; they kept the law,
which he, the Lord, had given.
O Lord our God, you answered them.
For them you were a God who forgives;
yet you punished their offenses.
Exalt the Lord our God;
bow down before his holy mountain
for the Lord our God is holy.
Let us all hold this valuable teaching in our heart and soul, God tells us in Scripture that obedience is greater than sacrifice. So too, does the Catechism of the Catholic Church teach us how to live this truth.
1 Samuel 15:22 Samuel said, “Has the LORD as much delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices As in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, And to heed than the fat of rams.
CCC 2087 – Our moral life has its source in faith in God who reveals his love to us. St. Paul speaks of the “obedience of faith” 9 as our first obligation. He shows that “ignorance of God” is the principle and explanation of all moral deviations. 10 Our duty toward God is to believe in him and to bear witness to him. 2100 – 18 Jesus recalls the words of the prophet Hosea: “I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.” 19 The only perfect sacrifice is the one that Christ offered on the cross as a total offering to the Father’s love and for our salvation. 20 By uniting ourselves with his sacrifice we can make our lives a sacrifice to God.
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If you go to- and type in- The Chaplet of St. Colette Y Tube you will find a video posted yesterday of the Blessing of St. Coletts blessing in our chapel. You may just find the first edition which was removed there is a live one there, we hope you enjoy it, lovingly all your sisters…
Saturday February 4 2012 was a bitterly cold day with sub-zero temperatures and black ice on the roads here in North Wales. Those who came to the Mass and blessing of St. Colette were either local enough to walk or suicidal enthusiasts!
We could have re-filmed the blessing with an invited audience and a packed chapel on a road-worthy day, but this, in its simplicity, is what the Lord gave us, and – as God pleases as God wills!
Mother is blessing those present with two threads from the mantle of St. Colette given to us by our Sisters at Bruges. They are mounted on a decorated Poor Clare veil. The Community is singing the Colette Chaplet.
If you would like to know more about St Colette and her blessing please visit the section on St. Colette on our website http://www.poorclarestmd.org
Saturday February 4 2012 was a bitterly cold day with sub-zero temperatures and black ice on the roads here in North Wales. Those who came to the Mass and blessing of St Colette were either local enough to walk or suicidal enthusiasts!
We could have re-filmed the blessing with an invited audience and a packed chapel on a road-worthy day, but this, in its simplicity, is what the Lord gave us, and – as God pleases as God wills!
Mother is blessing those present with two threads from the mantle of St Colette given to us by our Sisters at Bruges. They are mounted on a decorated Poor Clare veil. The Community is singing the Colette Chaplet.
If you would like to know more about St Colette and her blessing please visit the section on St Colette on our website http://www.poorclarestmd.org
The Spirit drove Jesus out into the desert,
and he remained in the desert for forty days,
tempted by Satan.
He was among wild beasts,
and the angels ministered to him.
After John had been arrested,
Jesus came to Galilee proclaiming the gospel of God:
“This is the time of fulfillment.
The kingdom of God is at hand.
Repent, and believe in the gospel.”
The Apostolate of Hannah's Tears 