BLESSED CHRISTMAS TO ALL FROM OUR LADY OF THE ROSARY PARISH!!!!

 

 

There is always one bright thought in our minds when all the rest is dark.  There is one thought out of which a moderately cheerful man can always make some satisfactory sunshine, if not a  sufficiency of it.  It is the thought of a bright, populous heaven.  There is joy there !!

 Virgin of all virgins!

To thy shelter take us;

Gentlest of the gentle!

Chaste and gentle make us.

Still, as on we journey,

Help our weak endeavor,

Till with thee and Jesus

We rejoice forever.

 The strict moral code of Christianity, the commandments of self-conquest, abstinence, mortification, and moderation are not inimical to joy any more than the gardener is inimical to the rose-bush, when he prunes it in the spring and in the autumn.

Bishop von Keppler

 

 It is a proof of profound wisdom on the part of the Church not to introduce us at once to the crib of Bethlehem, but to point it out to us as it were with her finger a month in advance, that she may say to us: "Be prepared to meet thy God."   Amos 4:12.

Prepare for Him in your hearts by meditation to have a more lively faith in His greatness; a more profound devotion for the abasement of His majesty; a grateful love for His charity, which has descended so low from so great a height; a true humility, in order to honor Him in His low estate; a gentleness in character and in speech in harmony with His incomparable benignity; a spirit of penitence and recollection which will not form a contrast to the austerity of the crib and the holy occupation of the divine Child.

Hamon-Meditations

 

This sounds like Bishop Giles wrote it - even though it was probably written many years ago.  It ties in with the Sunday Sermon from the First Sunday in Advent:

The holy season of Advent on which we have entered is intended on the part of the Church to make us meditate on the three great advents of the Saviour upon earth:  The first is the humility of the crib in order to save us; the second in the splendor of His glory at the last day in order to judge us; the third in the secret of our hearts by His grace in order to sanctify us.  
We will make the resolution:  first, to enter upon a new life of recollection and prayer suitable to the season of Advent;  secondly, to take particular care with regard to the perfection of every one of our ordinary actions which will be the best manner of sanctifying this holy season.  Our spiritual nosegay shall be the words of St. Paul:  "Behold now is the acceptable time; behold now is the day of salvation.:  2 Cor. 6:2 

Hamon "Meditations"

 

Brother Paul TOSF who is in our fraternity showed me a very interesting book last Saturday so I asked him to send me this information.  It concerns the "Fatima" prayer that we say after each decade of the rosary "O My Jesus....." and it was written in 1882 by Rev. Joseph Cacelia. 

The bogus ordo says it wrong and we never really had a lot of information on it but we knew that Bishop Louis would never steer us wrong!! Here is proof positive that the true Catholic Church said this prayer the correct way long before Fatima happened!!!   

 

Little actions are great when they are well done.  A little action done for the glory of God, with a great desire to please Him is more agreeable to Him than a great one performed with less fervor.  We must, then, study especially to do well little things which are so easy, and which offer themselves at every moment, if we would grow in the friendship of God.

St. Francis de Sales

 

Jesus vouchsafes to teach us how to die.  If He in His great hour would have His Mother by Him, how shall we dare to die without her?  In all things must we imitate Jesus, although it be in a sphere so infinitely below Him.  But most of all it is of importance to us to imitate Him in His death.....Let us leave to God, without dictation or even wish, the time, and place, and manner of our death, so only that it be not an unprovided death and above all things not unprovided with Mary.

Father Faber

 Nothing will prepare a smoother death bed for ourselves than a lifelong daily devotion to those who are daily dying.  Mary assisted her Son to die in many mysterious ways.  By His will, and in the satisfaction of her own maternal love, she has now assisted at the death beds of many millions.  She has great experience by this time, if we might speak, and is wonderfully skilled in the science of the last hour.  By prayerful thoughts, by pious practices, by frequent ejaculations, by the usages the Church has indulgenced, let us win a bright and gentle end for ourselves by following Mary everywhere to the death beds she attends. 

   Father Faber

 History, when truly and fully written, proves that all the notions entertained by our separated brethren on the matter are but the lying artifices of the mischievous, intended to deceive, and that whenever and wherever Luther's abominable principles and his Protestantism triumphed, they succeeded by violence, torture, persecution and the power of wicked princes against the struggle for protestations and the manifest will of the people.  Everywhere that they attained control of the government which they invariably sought, they overthrew religious liberty and imperiously imposed their new-fangled beliefs on the country and on the people thereof.  This may seem a very strong statement, but the facts of history confirm it most abundantly.

The Facts of Luther

 Non-Catholics, as a rule are not familiar with the degrading teachings which Luther expounded in his infamous work on "Slave Will."  They have never been given an opportunity to study this volume at first hand and find out for themselves the destructive principles therein advocated.  Their ignorance of the facts has been taken advantage of, and they have been made to believe that their leader, who declared man's will to be a "slave will" was the real and only one who promoted liberty in the sixteenth century, by breaking the fetters of religious bondage and securing for all perfect freedom of conscience and thought.  This view has been repeated so often by the maligners of truth that they have come to imagine that as soon as the people of Europe got the Bible - Luther's Bible, mistranslated, changed, and altered - they abandoned the Mother Church, rushed into the new man-made form of religion of their own accord, and at once established civil and religious liberty for everybody.  The story is fascinating .  It tells against Rome, and therefore thousands upon thousands have been deceived into giving it credence.  What, however, is the hard, cold, plain truth in this case?

The Facts of Luther

 

St. Ignatius of Loyola trampling on the heretic Martin Luther with the power of the Holy Eucharist. (Church of St. Nicholas, Prague)

"When you become acquainted with his (Luther's) horrible teaching, you will not wonder that to him the word "liberty", which excites a thrill and stirs the deepest feelings of the soul, had little or no significance.

The truth is that Luther rarely spoke or wrote of liberty in the sense in which we know and realize the God given boon.  It is a well known fact of history that he did not favor that freedom of thought which later became the vogue among his progeny.  Liberty, as he understood the word was solely for himself, but not for others.  With him it was a personal matter .  All men were free to differ with the Pope, to reject his teaching, to curse him to the lowest depths, were even invited and encouraged to slay him like a wolf or robber, and wash their hands in his blood and that of his cardinals  and other adherents, but they must not dare to differ from Martin Luther."

The Facts of Luther

 This book was written in 1916 talking about events that happened 500 years ago!  There is nothing new under the sun!!

"Indeed there is today little or no regard for legitimate authority, either in the home or in organized society.  The authority entrusted to the head of the family is almost entirely discarded.  The person of the chief magistrate of city, state or nation is treated with disrespect, and  the tribunal of justice is hailed with contempt.  Majesty is no longer attached to law.  This denial of authority has demoralized all conception of respect for superiors, for property rights, and for individual liberty; and the very foundation stones of the national structure are being moved one by one, so that the structure itself is in danger of tottering and falling asunder.  The general aversion to the guidance of legitimate and divinely established law, which Luther's loose and immoral teachings introduced into the world and which have come down to our day, must be removed if domestic happiness and national prosperity would bless the land, its homes and its people. " 

The Facts about Luther

Where it all started:

 "When in this age of ours when revolution walks like a destroying angel among the nations of the earth and breathes death from its nostrils among the peaceful inhabitants thereof; when the rulers upon their thrones are unsafe; when in this very land of liberty, calling itself Protestant, a Booth strikes down the most peaceful of men, the kindly Lincoln; a Guiteau destroys the useful life of a Garfield; when at the dawn of the twentieth century a ruler chosen by his fellow citizens is murdered by the hands of the assassin Czolgosz while enjoying the quiet hospitality of a sovereign state; and when you ask for the reason that produced such murderous outrages, we bid you turn to Luther and his rebellious teachings announced and embodied in the work falsely styled "Reformation"  producing the result of a deformation. Luther is its father, the sixteenth century its cradle, and autocracy its protector and high priest."

The Facts about Luther

 

Make it the fixed purpose of your life to make all others happy as far as it is in your power, and so (for that will be necessary) to put self out of view altogether.  This then, ought to be the first thought on awaking:  "Dear Mother, for thy honor I will take care that everybody who speaks to me today shall go away happier".  This thought  is to be the first thought in your examen at night:  "How many have I failed to make happy today."

 

Go out into the world with your heart full of gentleness and pity, and you shall find the response of kindliness from others; you will not only protect yourself from being hardened, but you will draw out the gentler side of others.

Father Maturin

 

Giving thanks to God the Father, who hath made us worthy to be partakers of the lot of the saints in light:  Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of the Son of his love, In whom we have redemption through His blood, the remission of sins; Who is the image of the invisible God, the first born of every creature: For in Him were all things created in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones, or dominations, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by Him and in Him.  And He is before all, and by Him all things consist.  And He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things He may hold the primacy: Because in Him, it hath well pleased the Father, that all fulness should dwell;  And through Him to reconcile all things unto Himself, making peace through the blood of His cross, both as to the things that are on earth, and the things that are in heaven.

Colossians 1:12-20

 It is not possible , as long as we are on this earth to think exactly as those think  with whom we live; therefore it is necessary to have a large fund of sweetness to oppose sudden movements of anger, so that we may not lose the peace of our soul.

St. Francis de Sales

 

There are some who appear sweet while every thing prospers and goes according to their wishes, but at the least adversity, the least contradiction, their sweetness disappears, they are on fire.  They may be compared to a coal hidden under ashes.  Their meekness is not of the kind Our Saviour asks when He tells us to be like unto Him.

St. Bernard

 

O Lord!  if we are mistaken, it is Thou who hast led us astray; because this Faith is proved by such signs and prodigies that Thou alone couldst work them.!

Richard of St. Victor

 If it be possible, never permit yourself to become angry; never open the door of your heart to this passion under any pretext whatever.  You may not be able to drive it away, neither can you control it at will; but should it happen to take possession of you, hasten and gather your forces to preserve your peace of heart, gently, without violence, as it is important not to increase the wound, but soothe it.

St Francis de Sales

 ST. SERAPHIM OF MONTEGRANARO

Confessor of the Third Order

October 12

St. Seraphim, who from early childhood looked after his father's flocks, had acquired a love of solitude and prayer.  After his father's death he endured with patience the ill-treatment which his older brother continually meted out to him until the age of sixteen, when he entered the Capuchins.  There he made great progress in all the virtues, regularity, penance, poverty, chastity, humility, obedience, love of the poor, scrupulousness of conscience and devotion to the Passion.  He was loved by all because of his great good ness and cheerfulness.  He died in 1604.  He was canonized by Clement XIII

 Nothing can rank in importance before gentleness of manner and sweetness of demeanor toward others.

**Father Faber**

I remember going to see this play back in the 90's with Father Joseph and a group from church.  It was the first I had ever heard of these brave martyrs!  In light of the world situation today, it's good to remind ourselves of this incident and what could happen!  I know I cried when I read this - 

THE SIXTEEN CARMELITE MARTYRS OF COMPIEGNE

    The French Revolution reveals the titanic struggle between good and evil. During the terror, over 40,000 Frenchmen were executed just for holding fast to the Catholic

Faith and objecting to the worst excesses of the Committee of Public Safety. The

blood lost in the years of 1792-1794 staggers the imagination even in the retelling

and the campaign against the Church was as diabolical as it was cruel.

    Contemplative religious communities had been among the first targets of the fury of the French Revolution against the Catholic Church. Less than a year from May 1789 when the Revolution began with the meeting of the Estates-General, these communities had been required by law to disband. But many of them continued in being, in hiding.

Among these were the community of the Carmelite nuns of Compiegne, in northeastern France not far from Paris -- the fifty-third convent in France of the Carmelite sisters who followed the reform of  St. Teresa of Avila, founded in 1641, noted throughout its history for fidelity and fervor. Their convent was raided in August 1790, all the property of the sisters was seized by the government, and they were forced to discard their habits and leave their house. They divided into four groups which found lodging in four different houses all near the same church in Compiegne, and for several years they were to a large extent able to continue their religious life in secret. But the intensified surveillance and searches of the "Great Terror" revealed their secret, and in June 1794 most of them were arrested and imprisoned.

    They had expected this; indeed, they had prayed for it. At some time during the

summer of 1792, very likely just after the events of August 10 of that year that

marked the descent into the true deeps of the Revolution, their prioress, Madeleine

Lidoine, whose name in religion was Teresa in honor of the founder of their order, by

all accounts a charming perceptive, and highly intelligent woman, had foreseen much

of what was to come. At Easter of 1792, she told her community that, while looking

through the archives she had found the account of a dream a Carmelite had in 1693.

In that dream, the Sister saw the whole Community, with the exception of 2 or 3

Sisters, in glory and called to follow the Lamb. In the mind of the Prioress, this

meant martyrdom and might well be a prophetic announcement of their fate.

    Mother Teresa had said to her sisters: "Having meditated much on this subject, I

have thought of making an act of consecration by which the Community would offer

itself as a sacrifice to appease the anger of God, so that the divine peace of His

Dear Son would be brought into the world, returned to the Church and the state." The

sisters discussed her proposal and all agreed to it but the two oldest, who were

hesitant. But when the news of the September massacres came, mingling glorious

martyrdom with apostasy, these two sisters made their choice, joining their

commitment to that of the rest of the community. All made their offering; it was to

be accepted.

    After their lodgings were invaded again in June, their devotional objects shattered

and their tabernacle trampled underfoot by a Revolutionary who told them that their

place of worship should be transformed into a dog kennel, the Carmelite sisters were

taken to the Conciergerie prison, where so many of the leading victims of the

guillotine had been held during their last days on earth. There they composed a

canticle for their martyrdom, to be sung to the familiar tune of the Marseillaise.

The original still exists, written in pencil and given to one of their fellow

prisoners, a lay woman who survived.

Give over our hearts to joy, the day of glory has arrived,

Far from us all weakness, seeing the standard come;

We prepare for the victory, we all march to the true conquest,

Under the flag of the dying God we run, we all seek the glory;

Rekindle our ardor, our bodies are the Lord's,

We climb, we climb the scaffold and give ourselves back to the Victor.

O happiness ever desired for Catholics of France,

To follow the wondrous road

Already marked out so often by the martyrs toward their suffering,

After Jesus with the King, we show our faith to Christians,

We adore a God of justice; as the fervent priest, the constant faithful,

Seal, seal with all their blood faith in the dying God....

Holy Virgin, our model,

August queen of martyrs, deign to strengthen our zeal

And purify our desires, protect France even yet, help; us mount to Heaven,

Make us feel even in these places, the effects of your power.

Sustain your children,

Submissive, obedient, dying, dying with Jesus and in our King believing.

    On July 17 the sixteen sisters were brought before Fouquier-Tinville. All cases were now being disposed of within twenty-four hours as Robespierre had wished; theirs was no exception. They were charged with having received arms for the emigres; their prioress, Sister Teresa, answered by holding up a crucifix. "Here are the only arms that we have ever had in our house."

They were charged with possessing an altar-cloth with designs honoring the old

monarchy (perhaps the fleur-de-lis) and were asked  to deny any attachment to the

royal family. Sister Teresa responded: "If that is a crime, we are all guilty of it;

you can never tear out of our hearts the attachment for Louis XVI and his family.

Your laws cannot prohibit feeling; they cannot extend their empire to the affections

of the soul; God alone has the right to judge them." They were charged with

corresponding with priests forced to leave the country because they would not take

the constitutional oath; they freely admitted this. Finally they were charged with

the catchall indictment by which any serious Catholic in France could be guillotined

during the Terror: "fanaticism." Sister Henriette, who had been Gabrielle de Croissy,

challenged Fouguier-Tinvile to his face:

"Citizen, it is your duty to respond to the request of one condemned; I call upon you

to answer us and to tell us just what you mean by the word 'fanatic.'" "I mean,"

snapped the Public Prosecutor of the Terror, "your attachment to your childish

beliefs and your silly religious practices."

"Let us rejoice, my dear Mother and Sisters, in the joy of the Lord," said Sister

Henriette, "that we shall die for our holy religion, our faith, our confidence in the

Holy Roman Catholic Church."

    While in prison, they asked and were granted permission to wash their clothes. As

they had only one set of lay clothes, they put on their religious habit and set to

the task. Providentially, the revolutionaries picked that "wash day" for their

transfer to Paris. As their clothes were soaking wet, the Carmelites left for Paris

wearing their "outlawed" religious habit. They celebrated the feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in prison, wondering whether they would die that day.

    It was only the next day they went to the guillotine. The journey in the carts took

more than an hour. All the way the Carmelite sisters sang: the "Miserere," "Salve

Regina," and "Te Deum." Beholding them, a total silence fell on the raucous, brutal

crowd, most of them cheapened and hardened by day after day of the spectacle of

public slaughter. At the foot of the towering killing machine, their eyes raised to

Heaven, the sisters sang "Veni Creator Spiritus." One by one, they renewed their

religious vows.

They pardoned their executioners. One observer cried out: "Look at them and see if

they do not have the air of angels! By my faith, if these women did not all go

straight to Paradise, then no one is there!"

    Sister Teresa, their prioress, requested and obtained permission to go last under

the knife. The youngest, Sister Constance, went first. She climbed the steps of the

guillotine "With the air of a queen going to receive her crown," singing Laudate

Dominum omnes gentes, "all peoples praise the Lord." She placed her head in the

position for death without allowing the executioner to touch her. Each sister

followed her example, those remaining singing likewise with each, until only the

prioress was left, holding in her hand a small figure of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The

killing of each martyr required about two minutes. It was about eight o'clock in the

evening, still bright at midsummer. During the whole time the profound silence of the

crowd about the guillotine endured unbroken.

    Two years before when the horror began, the Carmelite community at Compiegne had offered itself as a holocaust, that peace might be restored to France and the Church.

The return of full peace was still twenty-one years in the future. But the Reign of

Terror had only ten days left to run.

Years of war, oppression and persecution were yet to come, but the mass official

killing in the public squares of Paris was about to end. The Cross had vanquished the

guillotine.

    These sixteen holy Carmelite nuns have all been beatified by our Holy Father, the

Pope, [Pope St. Pius X, 27 May 1906] which is the last step before canonization.

Blessed Carmelites of Compiegne, pray for us!

“The disintegration of any civilization, or a crisis in history, bears within it the threat of an interregnum of barbarism. As in the physical order the putrid remains of the unburied dead create a pestilence, so the disintegration of the liberal civilization through which we have just lived, and which was strong only because it was a parasite on Christianity, creates the possibility of chaos. Liberalism left to itself is really only a transition between a culture which was Christian and one which will be anti-Christian.

By barbarism we mean the destruction of moral values, or the repudiation of the funded heritage of culture. The barbarism of the new era will not be like that of the Huns of old; it will be technical, scientific, secular, and propagandized. It will come not from without, but from within, for barbarism is not outside us; it is underneath us. Older civilizations were destroyed by imported barbarism; modern civilization breeds its own.

Hold fast to your God, your Faith, your Church. The time is now five minutes to twelve. We are in the valley of decision. Either the bloom or the blight. A new crime is arising in the world today; be prepared for it. The crime of being a Christian. The crime of believing in God.”

~ Fulton J. Sheen; Seven Pillars of Peace, The Pillar of World Unity; August 5, 1944 [New York. Scribner's sons, 1945. page 110].

Peace, Be Still!!

Sweet Jesus! By this Sacrament of love

All gross affections from my heart remove;

Let but Thy loving kindness linger there,

Preserved by grace and perfected by prayer;

And let me to my neighbor strive to be

As mild and gentle as Thou are with me.

Take Thou the guidance of my whole career,

That to displease Thee be my only fear:

Give me that peace the World can never give,

And in Thy loving presence let me live.

Ah! Show me always, Lord, Thy holy will,

And to each troubled thought, say:  “Peace be still.”

THE SACRED HEART BADGE

Our Lord revealed to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque His wish for her to order a picture

of the image of His Sacred Heart for people specifically to venerate and have in

their homes and also small pictures to carry with them. St. Margaret Mary always kept

a Sacred Heart badge with her and inspired her novices to do the same. She made many badges and often said this practice was very pleasing to the Sacred Heart.

The popularity of the Badge increased suddenly due to a very dramatic event in the

city of Marseilles in France. In the year 1720, about thirty years after the death of

St. Margaret Mary, Marseilles was ravaged by the plague. About one thousand persons died each day from the disease. Fear had reached near panic proportions. 

The Bishop of Marseilles asked the nuns of the city to make thousands of Sacred Heart Badges similar to the kind used by St. Margaret Mary and her friends. When the Badges were ready, the Bishop led a procession to the center of the city. There he consecrated Marseilles to the Sacred Heart, and everybody present put on a Sacred Heart Badge.

From that moment not one new case of the plague was reported.

In 1870 a Roman lady, wishing to know the opinion of the Holy Father Pius IX about

the Badge of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, presented him with one. Touched by the sight of this emblem of salvation, the Pope approved the devotion forever and said: "This, Madam, this is an inspiration from Heaven. Yes, from Heaven."

Blessed Pope Pius IX granted an indulgence to all the faithful who wear this pious

emblem and pray daily one Our Father, one Hail Mary, and one Glory Be to the Father.

The Badge is a reminder of reparation by which we accept with love and faith our

share in the sufferings of Christ. Thus we cooperate more closely with Christ in the

vital work of the redemption of mankind by accepting the obligations of God's

commandments, by our fidelity to the daily tasks of our state in life, by the patient

acceptance of the trials, disappointments, and crosses thrust upon us each day.

Regarding devotion to His Sacred Heart, Our Lord revealed to St. Margaret Mary:

"Those who propagate this devotion shall have their names written in My Heart never

to be blotted out."

A beautiful prayer composed by Blessed Pope Pius IX:

"Open Thy Sacred Heart 0 Jesus! Show me Its beauty and unite me with It forever. May the throbbing in all the movements of my heart, even during sleep, be a testimony of my love and tell Thee unceasingly: Yes, Lord Jesus, I adore Thee ... accept my poor little actions ... grant me the grace of repairing evil done ... so that I may praise Thee in time and bless Thee for all eternity."

And behold, two of them went, the same day, to a town which was sixty furlongs from Jerusalem, named Emmaus. [14] And they talked together of all these things which had happened. [15] And it came to pass, that while they talked and reasoned with themselves, Jesus himself also drawing near, went with them.

[16] But their eyes were held, that they should not know him. [17] And he said to them: What are these discourses that you hold one with another as you walk, and are sad? [18] And the one of them, whose name was Cleophas, answering, said to him: Art thou only a stranger to Jerusalem, and hast not known the things that have been done there in these days? [19] To whom he said: What things? And they said: Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, who was a prophet, mighty in work and word before God and all the people; [20] And how our chief priests and princes delivered him to be condemned to death, and crucified him.

[21] But we hoped, that it was he that should have redeemed Israel: and now besides all this, today is the third day since these things were done. [22] Yea and certain women also of our company affrighted us, who before it was light, were at the sepulchre, [23] And not finding his body, came, saying, that they had also seen a vision of angels, who say that he is alive. [24] And some of our people went to the sepulchre, and found it so as the women had said, but him they found not. [25] Then he said to them: O foolish, and slow of heart to believe in all things which the prophets have spoken.

[26] Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and so to enter into his glory? [27] And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded to them in all the scriptures, the things that were concerning him. [28] And they drew nigh to the town, whither they were going: and he made as though he would go farther. [29] But they constrained him; saying: Stay with us, because it is towards evening, and the day is now far spent. And he went in with them. [30] And it came to pass, whilst he was at table with them, he took bread, and blessed, and brake, and gave to them.

[31] And their eyes were opened, and they knew him: and he vanished out of their sight. [32] And they said one to the other: Was not our heart burning within us, whilst he spoke in this way, and opened to us the scriptures? [33] And rising up, the same hour, they went back to Jerusalem: and they found the eleven gathered together, and those that were staying with them, [34] Saying: The Lord is risen indeed, and hath appeared to Simon. [35] And they told what things were done in the way; and how they knew him in the breaking of the bread.

Saint Corona pray for us! This saint with the amazingly apt name in the current health crisis is especially venerated in Austria and Bavaria as the patron-saint against epidemics.

In Anzù, Northern Italy, the hotbed of the coronavirus in Europe, is a basilica where the relics of Saint Victor and Saint Corona are being preserved since the 9th century.

Saint Corona was only fifteen when she professed her Christian Faith during the persecution of the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius around 165.

Corona was arrested and tied by her feet to the tops of two palm trees which were bent to the ground. When the palms were let loose she was torn apart. According to the Roman Martyrology, this happened in Syria.

Two investigations in 1943 and 1981, proved that the relics belong indeed to a man and a woman. Cedar pollen was found confirming an original burial in Syria and then in Cyprus.

Saint Corona is especially venerated in Austria and Bavaria as the patron-saint of treasure hunters and against epidemics. Her feast day is May 14.

WELCOME JORDY BLAISE TO THE MYSTICAL BODY OF CHRIST!


At that hour the disciples came to Jesus, saying: Who thinkest thou is the greater in the kingdom of heaven? [2] And Jesus calling unto him a little child, set him in the midst of them, [3] And said: Amen I say to you, unless you be converted, and become as little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. [4] Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, he is the greater in the kingdom of heaven. [5] And he that shall receive one such little child in my name, receiveth me.

"To go to Jesus, we must go to Mary. She is our Mediatrix of intercession. 

To go to God our Father, we must go to Jesus,

For He is our Mediator of Redemption."

St Louis Marie Grignion de Montfort