Wayne Weible & Carol Dazio, Medjugorje Advocates

TGIF, "Thank God It's Friday!"

 "From the dawn of Christianity, Friday has been signalized as an abstinence day, in order to do homage to the memory of Christ suffering and dying on that day of the week."       

      Quote from Catholic Encyclopedia

How do we truly THANK GOD FOR OUR FRIDAYS!  Do we go out and dine on delicious meals, or go out for that alcoholic TGIF beverage to celebrate the end of the work week?
 
As Catholics we are STILL obliged by Canon Law on all FRIDAYS throughout the year to KEEP FRIDAYS PENITENTIAL  throughout the universal Church because  Friday is the day Our Lord died for OUR SALVATION! 

The  U.S. Bishop's  offered a a revision to the FASTING on Fridays with any penitential offering.  So most people now don't even recognize ALL TOGETHER, that Fridays are still to be considered a day of penitential observance in reparation for Our Lord's death!  

 Today the world is on the brink of disaster or shall I say  IT IS A DISASTER.  Take a look around, 4,000 innocent babies are slaughtered every day in the U.S. alone, same sex marriage is on the verge of being the "common law", natural and man made disasters, science has become a menace, instead of a gift from God especially when it defies God with it's evil practices like Genetically Modified Organism which constitutes most of the food we eat and is very harmful to our health!  Other examples of evil and the attack on God's creation are human cloning, contraception, destruction of human embryos, euthanasia and the biggest slap in the face of God and one of the most frightening, is the "animal human hybrids", mixing humans with animals!  Britain already has done this see the article .  Now there is a new movie called "Splice" which is about animal human hybrids. 

Most people can "read the signs of our times" and see that times are just not right and that we are not in one accord with God Our Father.  Many prayer warriors and mystics lately are getting the same message from Our Lord, "NOW IS A TIME OF PREPARATION."   Mark Mallet a Catholic Evangelist and "Watchman" for "our times" has an awesome message of "EMBRACING HOPE" VIDEO GO HERE

Remember what the Philosopher, Edmund Burke infamously once said,

"All that is necessary for evil to exist is that good men do nothing!!!!

As Catholics we CAN do something to truly "Thank God on Friday", and fight the evil that is rampant. We do this by remembering to keep Friday as a penitential day in "thanks giving", and in "reparation" to God our Father for sending his only begotten Son, to save our humanity as broken as it is!

This obligation is also compatible with Holy Scripture and what Our Lady has said at Medjugorje.
 
Tobit 12:8 - Prayer is good when accompanied by fasting. Throughout salvation history, God has encouraged fasting to be coupled with prayer.

Certain devils, "Can be cast out in no other way except by prayer and fasting", said Jesus. (Mark 9:29)

  More scripture on fasting at http://www.scripturecatholic.com/fasting.html

 Our Lady of Medjugorje has also said  to pray and fast on Wednesdays and Fridays!  
"I would like the people to pray along with me these days. And to pray as much as possible! And to fast strictly on Wednesdays and Fridays, and every day to pray at least one Rosary: the joyful, sorrowful and glorious mysteries.”  Message of August 14, 1984

“By fasting as the Blessed Virgin Mary asks of us at Medjugorje, we learn to depend on God, not ourselves. Fasting in any form – from food, alcohol, substances, media, habits, attitudes – is only successful when we come to that inevitable point of need/want/temptation to break the fast. But instead of bending the rules or giving up, Mary is teaching us to pray to the Holy Spirit so that we can and will continue” – Wayne Weible

 

Wayne Weible was one of the first reporters from the US to cover the Medjugorje message. He is a convert to the Catholic faith and the message of Medjugorje led him into the Church.  Go to Wayne Weible's website to get more and his new book on fasting called the Medjugorje Fast Book. Go here to order...

Our Lady of Medjugorje APRIL 25, 1992: "Dear children, today also I invite you to prayer. Only by prayer and fasting can war be stopped. Therefore, my dear little children, pray; and by your life give witness that you belong to me, because Satan wishes, in these turbulent days, to seduce as many souls as possible.

JUNE 25, 1992: Ivanka's yearly apparition on Our Lady's Anniversary Feast Day: Our Lady pleaded with us to pray and fast. This is the only weapon against Satan. Satan wants to destroy everything good within us. Through prayer and fasting, we can conquer evil and resist all temptations.

Go to our Medjugorje News Page Here for more info

 

Please consider joining this important 40 day prayer and fast for our country.  For more information, prayers, suggestions and materials to

40 Days Prayer and Fasting 

The Devotion to the Sacred Heart is done on Fridays in the Church as well! 

"In the excessive mercy of His Heart that His all-powerful love will grant to all those who receive Holy Communion on the First Fridays in nine consecutive months the grace of final perseverance; they shall not die in His disgrace, nor without receiving their sacraments. His divine Heart shall be their safe refuge in this last moment."

Go here to get the Sacred Heart Devotion.

The National Conference of Catholic Bishops in their

pastoral document  of November 18, 1966 stated:

Catholics in the United States are obliged to abstain from the eating of meat on Ash Wednesday and on all Fridays during the season of Lent. They are also obliged to fast on Ash Wednesday and on Good Friday.  Self-imposed observance of fasting on all weekdays of Lent is strongly recommended. Abstinence from flesh meat on ALL FRIDAYS OF THE YEAR  is especially recommended to individuals and to the Catholic community as a whole.

The entire statement can be found in Canon Law Digest (CLD 6, 679--684).

Canon 1250 -- All Fridays through the year and the time of Lent are penitential days and times throughout the universal Church.

Canon 1251 -- Abstinence from eating meat or another food according to the prescriptions of the conference of bishops is to be observed on Fridays throughout the year unless they are solemnities; abstinence and fast are to be observed on Ash Wednesday and on the Friday of the Passion and Death of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
Canon 1253 -- It is for the conference of bishops to determine more precisely the observance of fast and abstinence and to substitute in whole or in part for fast and abstinence other forms of penance, especially works of charity and exercises of piety.

by Tricia Parsons, Editor

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Precious Blood of Jesus Christ Save Us and the Whole World!

The Church is traditionally dedicated to the Precious Blood of Jesus Christ in the month of July  Go here to get the Precious Blood Devotion.

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NOVENA TO ST. ANNE 

BEGIN JULY 17TH END JULY 25TH

Feast July 26th SS. Joachim and Anne

The Shrine of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré in Quebec, Canada

   Statue of the St. Anne Shrine in Chicago, Illinois.

Crutches hang on the wall of the Shrine of St. Anne in Chicago, Illinois as a sign of healing through St. Anne!

O glorious St. Ann, you are filled with compassion for those who invoke you and with love for those who suffer! Heavily burdened with the weight of my troubles, I cast myself at your feet and humbly beg of you to take the present intention which I recommend to you in your special care.

Please recommend it to your daughter, the Blessed Virgin Mary, and place it before the throne of Jesus, so that He may bring it to a happy issue. Continue to intercede for me until my request is granted. But, above all, obtain for me the grace one day to see my God face to face, and with you and Mary and all the saints to praise and bless Him for all eternity. Amen.

Our Father, . . . Hail Mary . . .

O Jesus, Holy Mary, St. Ann, help me now and at the hour of my death.

Good St. Ann, intercede for me. Get the full Novena Here

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Our Lady of Prompt Succor Hasten to Help Us!

Patroness of Louisiana

As we watch the black sludge they call "an oil  spill" slowly creep onto the shore lines of Louisiana, I can't help but to stop and think of how this will devastate our economy here in Louisiana and ultimately the entire country.  Louisiana's economy depends heavily on seafood and wildlife as the state is one of the top producers for these industries in the country.  The economic woes that it will cause will be a challenge but with that challenge we will have an opportunity to ask ourselves, "Is all this necessary and how should we prevent this from ever happening again?"  God did give us the oil but he also so gave us the sun and maybe it is about time we look to other resources to fuel our motorized vehicles, perhaps solar or electric.  Mitsubishi just came out with their new electric car.

We may need to look a little deeper than the Gulf waters and that is, we may need to look deep into our very own souls and ask God where the problems lie in this state, this country and the world! Is it truly just an environmental and economical issue?  Do our current problems come from our moral issues, such as the lust for power and greed? As the "sludge" creeps into our land and into our hearts, who can we turn to?  We can turn to Our Lady of Prompt Succor, Patroness of Louisiana because she has helped protect our state through many hurricane seasons and more notably she led our state and country to victory during the Battle of New Orleans, the final Battle of 1812!  On January 7-8, 1815 while the Battle of New Orleans was being fought, the Ursuline Sisters and the women of New Orleans prayed during the night to the statue of Our Lady of Prompt Succor.  There were many odds against them but after winning the Battle of New Orleans, Andrew Jackson publicly acknowledged that the American victory was won by heavenly intervention! By Tricia Parsons, Editor

For more history go to Our Lady of Prompt Succor page...

PRAYERS TO OUR LADY OF PROMPT SUCCOR

Our Lady of Prompt Succor, You are after Jesus our only hope.  O Most Holy Virgin, whose merits have raised You high above angel choirs to the very throne of the Eternal and whose foot crushed the head of the infernal serpent, You are strong against the enemies of our salvation.  O Mother of God, You are our Mediatrix most kind and loving.  Hasten, then to our help, and as You once saved Your beloved City from ravaging flames and our Country from an alien foe, do now have pity on our misery, and obtain for us the graces we beg of You.  Deliver us from the wiles of Satan, assist us in the many trials which beset our path in this valley of tears, and be to us truly Our Lady of Prompt Succor now and especially at the hour of our death.  Amen.
 
O Mary, mother of God, who amid the tribulations of the world, watches over us and over the Church of Your Son, be to us and to the Church, truly, Our Lady of Prompt Succor; make haste to help us in all our necessities, that in this fleeting life You may be our succor, and obtain for us (here ask the particular favor you desire).  Help us to gain life everlasting through the merits of  Jesus, Your Son, Our Lord and Redeemer.  Amen.

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Bobby Schindler

    spoke at the Joshua Leadership Institute  for the youth and at the Catholic Life Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Sponsored by Knights of Columbus and Louisiana Right to Life Federation

Deacon Michael T. Chiappetta is Director of Mariage  & Family Life for the Diocese of Baton Rouge, La, Benjamin Clapper  is the Executive Director of the Louisiana Right to Life and Bobby Schindler, far right.

Bobby's life took a dramatic and unexpected turn in February of 1990 when Terri, suddenly collapsed and was left with a profound brain injury. During the time when Terri's estranged husband sought court permission to starve and dehydrate her to death, Bobby was suddenly propelled into a life he'd never imagined. He spoke in defense of his sister's life on numerous national television and radio programs including Hannity & Colmes, Larry King Live, the Oprah Winfrey Show, The Glenn Beck Show, Good Morning America, The Early Show, The Today Show, Dateline NBC, the 700 Club, EWTN and many others.

"My sister was the first court ordered case, ordering someone to die this way!"' Terri Schindler Schiavo died from dehydration under the order of Circuit Court Judge, George W. Greer.  This could happen to anyone!  It doesn't matter if you are a Democrat or a Republican.  Feeding tubes are now being recognized now as extraordinary care!  Through all this experience some positive things did happened and one being that Terri helped bring me back to Christ!

Bobby has now working full time with the Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation. The foundation is dedicated to helping persons with disabilities, and the incapacitated who are in or potentially facing life-threatening situation.  Please help support this important prolife foundation here... Terrisfight.org 

Also go to our Culture of Life Page for more pro-life activities....

By Tricia Parsons, Editor

 

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John Rick Miller

Founder of one of the largest Catholic missions in the world,

"For the Love of God World Wide"!

Visiting Louisiana and Mississippi

August 24 Baton Rouge, St. Agnes Catholic Church, Baton Rouge, LA 749 E. Blvd.

25th-26th To Be Announced

August 27-28 "Evangelization 2010 Conference" Natchez , MS

Natchez, MS Center 211 Main St.  call 1-800-647-6724 for more info and registration.

As a Corporate CEO he had a massive spiritual conversion in 1988 through Our Lady Queen of Peace in Medjugorje. He subsequently surrendered his life to God and today he is the founder and leader of one of the largest and one of the fastest growing Catholic missions "For the Love of God World Wide"
His ministry is marked as well by the establishment of a great number of prayer cenacles in various countries of the world from 1989 to-date where he also preached and taught the doctrines of the Catholic Church. He was one of the few lay people who have been allowed to preach the catechism of The Church in Cairo, Egypt from 1993-1997 and was commended by His Holiness, Maximus Hakim V, Patriarch of Antioch. In 2008 Mr. Miller was instrumental in the consecration of the country of Columbia to the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary and the Sacred Heart of Jesus!

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 Don't Miss the

“Great Event, the Consecration to God the Father of all Mankind”

"JPII declared in 1999, the Year of God the Father!"

Father Miles at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church in participation with "For the Love of God World Wide Mission" are offering a Special Mass of Consecration to God the Father of all Mankind on August 1, 2010 at 2:30 p.m. at OLPH Church in Kenner, LA  on August 1, 2010

OLOP Church located at 1908 Short Street, Kenner, LA 70062-7550

Also, in Baton Rouge Msgr. Bergreen at St. Agnes Catholic Church is offering a special mass to God the Father at 5:30 p.m. stating with the Armada Prayers beginning at 4:30 p.m.  St. Agnes is located at 749 East Boulevard, Baton Rouge, LA 70802-6398

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Pilgrims of St. Michael Journal Annual International Congress

Go here for more info on the Congress

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                            The New Memoir of the Extraordinary                  

        Life of Archbishop Philip Hanna

The Archbishop Wore Combat Boots
From Combat to Camelot to Katrina -Memoir of an Extraordinary Life
Whether parachuting behind enemy lines, jumping into a Secret Service car for an impromptu White House meeting with JFK, or navigating the swirling flood waters of a hurricane, Archbishop Phillip Hannan only knows one way to do things - with total commitment and at full speed ahead!
Grab a front row seat on Archbishop Hannan's incredibly humble, Forrest Gump-like journey, which connects him with critically important people, places and events spanning the 20th century...

Go to Focus TV for the rest of this article and to order the book
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The Holy Father's Intentions

July, 2010

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

General Intentions:  Justice in electing those who govern. That in every nation of the world the election of officials may be carried our with justice, transparency and honesty.

Missionary Intentions: An urban culture of justice, solidarity and peace. That Christians may strive to offer everywhere, but especially in great urban centers, an effective contribution to the promotion of education, justice, solidarity and peace.

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Liturgy of the Hours

Helping to Live the Sacramental Life.

This Apostolate is in total obedience to the Holy Father and the Magisterium of the Holy Catholic Church.