CATHOLIC FAITH AT HOME RESOURCES
For Our Family of Parishes
St. Thomas More, St. Bernadette, St. Mary's, St. Peter's
August 14
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CONSECRATION TO THE
IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY
August is dedicated to the
Immaculate Heart of Mary!
After prayer and discernment,
Click below for a pdf of :
But wait, there's more...
Miltiple ways, actually, that you can prepare
for such an important commitment using devotionals.
by Fr. Nicholas Norman,
is a popular resource that uses St. Louis De Montfort’s plan.
draws from St. Louis de Montfort's Marian devotions
St. Maximilian Kolbe,
St. Mother Teresa of Calcutta,
St. Pope John Paul II
He pulls their devotions together in a beautiful way
that is sure to strengthen your
understanding and commitment to Our Lady.
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ST. BERNADETTE FESTIVAL
AUGUST 19-20
6 PM -11 PM
“Celebrate Life – The St. Bernadette 2022 Festival.”
Their Major Annual Spirit and Fund Raising Event...
After the past two years' limitations, this is a very important year!
Click the link below to learn ways you can help:
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A NEW
EUCHARISTIC MIRACLE??!!
A video circulating on social media
shows what
appears to be a Eucharistic miracle
— a consecrated Host exposed for adoration
seems to “beat” like a heart.
The Holy Eucharist looks as though it is oscillating
within its monstrance during Adoration,
keeping the rhythm of a beating heart.
The video was recorded July 22 at Our Lady of the Rosary parish
in the town of Zapotlanejo, near Guadalajara,
in the Mexican state of Jalisco.
Click below to read about:
Click below to watch a video of it:
Click below to see a:
Click below to see science-defying:
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National Eucharistic Revival Resources
Scandal, division, disease, doubt.
The Church has withstood each of these throughout our very human history...
But today we confront all of them... all at once!
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WEEKLY UPDATE
The Spiritual Life:
How the Eucharist Catechizes about
the Meaning of Life
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Everything we do in preaching the Gospel
has one goal:
to bring people to the Eucharist.
Why?
Because this is where we encounter Christ himself,
where he gives us his life,
and where he teaches us how to fulfill the meaning of our lives.
He is the source and the summit.
The Eucharist is not only a place to encounter Jesus
and receive his life, the source, but also
the place where we give him ourselves in
worship, the summit.
It is where we offer ourselves, our labors,
and all created things, together with Christ,
which fulfills the reason we were created.
Click below to read more of Bishop Cozzen's wise words:
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KNOW ANYONE WHO WANTS TO BECOME CATHOLIC?
The RCIA process starts again in September!
If you know someone interested in becoming Catholic,
suggest they fill out the form on our STM website.
Click the link below:
As a Fundamentalist Christian, when Michael Kelleher
began to be drawn to the Catholic Church,
he had a sense he might end up there,
but he still had a number of major questions.
He shares how he worked through some of them
on his way towards Catholicism,
and some of the ways he learned to trust God
even more through that discernment process.
Click the link below to hear his story:
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PRAY MORE HEALING RETREAT
St. John Paul II said that
suffering is almost inseparable from man's earthly existence.
At times, suffering can lead you closer to Christ.
And at other times, it can seem to lead you further away from Him.
Check out this self-paced, online retreat
to help steer you closer back to Him,
who is the Divine Healer.
You participate wherever you are and whenever you have the time.
6 speakers
24 audio and video presentations
24 reflective study guides
NOTE: Because not everyone is able to afford to pay for something like this.
You can choose what to pay for this.
Such as: $50, $20, $1 or skip paying completely.
Click the link below to register:
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Novena to
The Queenship of Mary
Novena Begins: August 13
Feast Day: August 22
On the 11th of October 1954,
Pope Pius XII established the
Feast of the Queenship of Mary
to be celebrated throughout the world, and commanded that on that day each year,
the world should renew its consecration to her.
Click the link below to find the nine day prayers for the:
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WHAT IS BLESSED SALT?
Scroll down to find the answer!
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GOSPEL READING REFLECTION
For August 14, 2022
The Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
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People often reject those
who serve God!
"Do you think that I have come to establish peace on the earth?
No, I tell you, but rather division.
From now on a household of five will be divided,
three against two and two against three."
- The baptism Jesus had to undergo was his death on the Cross.
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Even though Christ did come to establish peace between God and man, that peace causes a division between those who accept it and those who reject it. In this way Christ becomes a sign of contradiction (CCC 575-576).
- If there is a conflict between God’s will and any other will, including the will of your own family of birth or of marriage, whose will do you think you should follow?
- We should never go looking for conflicts between our faith and our family, but what kinds of conflicts can we expect to see?
- Your family might reject the Gospel and disown you if you become a Christian.
- Your family might object to your taking the demands of your Christian faith seriously.
- Your family might object to the vocation you think God is calling you to.
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The family is so important that the Catechism of the Catholic Church devotes thirty-three points to it exclusively (CCC 2201-2233).
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ANSWER TO QUIZ
Blessed salt is one of many
sacramentals in the Church.
Sacramentals “are sacred signs
that bear a resemblance to the sacraments:
they signify effects, particularly of a spiritual kind,
which are obtained through the Church’s intercession.
By them men are disposed
to receive the chief effect of the sacraments,
and various occasions in life are rendered holy” (Second Vatican Council, Sacrosanctum Concilium, No. 60).
Salt is mentioned frequently in Scripture
— in both Old and New Testaments
(see 2Kgs 2: 20-21 and Mk 9: 49-50).
An interesting tidbit of history is that
salt was a valuable commodity in much of the ancient world.
The word “salary” finds its root in the Latin word “sal”
because Roman soldiers were paid in quantities of salt.
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Click the link below to find more:
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BOOK
RECOMMENDATIONS
The world is fast becoming
not merely secular but anti-God!
The only way to shield our hearts and minds
from the lies of a hostile culture is to fill them with reinforcements.
Spiritual reading brings us closer to Christ
and provides a peace and joy that the world can never offer.
The more we fill our hearts with the love of Christ,
the greater the light we bring to the darkness around us!
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This week's recommendation is:
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ST. TERESA OF AVILA
Translated by E. Allison Peers
Edith Stein converted to Catholicism after reading this book!
Written in 1565 at the request of her confessor,
St. Teresa's autobiography is at once
an extraordinary chronicle of a
life governed by the desire to draw closer to God
and a literary masterpiece that
brings to life a woman of candor, humor, and great spiritual strength.
Teresa writes of her early life, the conflicts and crises she faced,
and her decision to enter a life of prayer.
Click below to learn how the Vatican biography of St. Teresa
was found by Edith Stein and led to:
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We pray you will be excited to embark on purposeful spiritual reading as a way to build a more prayer-filled, Christ centered life.
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