The Path Less Taken: Padre Pio’s favourite painting of Our Lady: its Christmas significance

The Path Less Taken: Padre Pio’s favourite painting of Our Lady: its Christmas significance

Medjugorje Christmas Day Messages

Medjugorje Christmas Day Messages

Today, December 25, 2011, Our Lady appeard to the visionary Marija for her regulard monthly message, and also to Jakov for his annual apparition. The following message was given to Marija:

"Dear children! Also today, in my arms I am carrying my Son Jesus to you, for Him to give you His peace. Pray, little children, and witness so that in every heart, not human but God's peace may prevail, which no one can destroy. It is peace in the heart which God gives to those whom He loves. By your baptism you are all, in a special way called and loved, therefore witness and pray that you may be my extended hands to this world which yearns for God and peace. Thank you for having responded to my call."
At the last daily apparition to Jakov Colo in 1998, Our Lady told him that from then on he would have one apparition a year, every December 25th, on Christmas Day. This Christmas, Jakov's apparition began at 3:30 pm and lasted 11 minutes. Our Lady delivered the following message:

"Dear children! Today, in a special way, I desire to take you to and give you over to my Son. Little children, open your hearts and permit Jesus to be born in you, because only in this way, little children, you yourselves will be able to experience your new birth and set out with Jesus in your hearts towards the way of salvation. Thank you for having responded to my call."

Ancient document sheds new light on Magi story - CathNews

Ancient document sheds new light on Magi story - CathNews

Vatican Declares Boy's Recovery A 'Miracle'

http://www.npr.org/2011/12/20/143981760/vatican-declares-boys-recovery-a-miracle

 February 2006, 5-year-old Jake Finkbonner fell and hit his head while playing basketball at his school in Ferndale, Wash. Soon, he developed a fever and his head swelled. His mother, Elsa, rushed him to Seattle Children's Hospital, where the doctors realized Jake was battling a flesh-eating bacterium called Strep A.          Click on link for the rest of story! Praise be to Jesus and Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha for interceding for him.

Native American to be Declared Catholic Saint -- Kateri Tekakwitha

Feastday: July 14
Patron of the environment and ecology
b. 1656 d. April 17, 1680

Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha, Virgin, She will be named a Saint in 2012

Kateri was born near the town of Auriesville, New York, in the year 1656, the daughter of a Mohawk warrior. She was four years old when her mother died of smallpox. The disease also attacked Kateri and transfigured her face. She was adopted by her two aunts and an uncle. Kateri became converted as a teenager. She was baptized at the age of twenty and incurred the great hostility of her tribe. Although she had to suffer greatly for her Faith, she remained firm in it. Kateri went to the new Christian colony of Indians in Canada. Here she lived a life dedicated to prayer, penitential practices, and care for the sick and aged. Every morning, even in bitterest winter, she stood before the chapel door until it opened at four and remained there until after the last Mass. She was devoted to the Eucharist and to Jesus Crucified. She died on April 17, 1680 at the age of twenty-four. She is known as the "Lily of the Mohawks". Devotion to Kateri is responsible for establishing Native American ministries in Catholic Churches all over the United States and Canada. Kateri was declared venerable by the Catholic Church in 1943 and she was Beatified in 1980. Work is currently underway to have her Canonized by the Church. Hundreds of thousands have visited shrines to Kateri erected at both St. Francis Xavier and Caughnawaga and at her birth place at Auriesville, New York. Pilgrimages at these sites continue today.

Christmas Flash Mob by Journey of Faith at South Bay Galleria - official...

Love Letter From God- I felt that i had to post this again! God Bless you All!

Padre Pio's Christmas Meditation

http://www.sanpadrepio.com/PadrePioChristmas.htm

"The Shroud is not a fake"

http://vaticaninsider.lastampa.it/en/homepage/inquiries-and-interviews/detail/articolo/sacra-sindone-holy-shroud-sabana-santa-10738/

New research from ENEA on the sacred Linen kept in Turin

Our Lady of Guadalupe Stops Aztec Satanic Rituals AND Planned Parenthood

http://prolifeleague.com/component/content/article/46-pro-life-essays/61-our-lady-of-guadalupe-stops-aztec-satanic-rituals-and-planned-parenthood.htmlThe year is 1487.  The place is a little settlement in what is now Mexico, known as Tenochticlan, capital city of the Aztec empire.  It is here that the most brutal and vicious act ever known by man is performed: that of deliberately slaughtering helpless people.  The Aztecs believed that in order to satisfy the wants of their gods, they were required to make a sacrifice of human life.  Thus, in the year 1487, thousands of unwilling victims were dragged to the top of a pyramid, laid upon a flat ritual stone table, there to have their chests cut open, and their hearts ripped out.  Their bodies were then thrown down from the top of the pyramid. 

It sounds horrific and gruesome, and is repulsive just to think about it.  Yet it sounds frighteningly familiar.   Click on link for the full Story!