Keep
your eyes open!...
September 3, 2010
THE TRIB TIMES WILL
RETURN NEXT
WEEK, GOD WILLING (James 4:15).
(Mar 1:15) And saying: The time is accomplished and the kingdom of God is at hand. Repent and believe the gospel:
VIA MANILLA: A Communist’s Conversion
Let me relate the story of Douglas Hyde, a statesman, who was a
dedicated communist and former editor of Britain’s communist paper.
Douglas Hyde was converted to Catholicism through the help of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
As the editor of their communist paper, he began to read all about the
Catholic Church with the avowed intention of tearing it down in his
writings.
But something happened as he tried to gather more weapons to destroy
the church. The more he read, the more intellectually convinced
he became of its truthfulness and origin as a divine institution.
But he could not yet bring himself to believe. Something was holding him back.
One day, he was going to work in London on the daily commuter
train. When the train arrived at the Ely Place station, he saw a
sign he had seen a hundred times. It read, “St.
Etheldreda’s Catholic Church.” He decided to get off the train and go
to it.
When he arrived, he sat in the last pew, wondering what strange power
had brought him here. Suddenly a teenage girl came in. She
walked down the center aisle and went straight to a statue of
Mary. As she passed, Hyde noticed the troubled look on her face.
The girl knelt at Mary’s feet for a long time. Then she got up
and left the church. As she did, Hyde noticed that her troubled
look was gone. She was totally at peace.
When she had gone, he decided to do what she had done. He decided to take his problem to Mary.
As he knelt down and looked up into the face of the Virgin, he wondered
how one prayed to Mary. These are his exact words, written in his
book titled I Believed:
“How did one pray to Our Lady? I did not know... At last I
heard myself mumbling something which seem appropriate enough, when I
began it, but petered out, becoming miserably inappropriate.
“But it did not matter. I knew my search was at an end...
Outside the church I tried to remember the words I had said and almost
laughed as I recalled them. They were those of a secular dance
tune:
“O sweet and lovely lady, be good, O lady be good to me.”
Mary is indeed a sweet and lovely lady. And she will indeed be good to
you – as she was to an atheist and communist Douglas Hyde.
NCR: Hadley Arkes Speaks About His Reception Into the Catholic Church
CATHOLIC.NET: Cardinal Newman's cost of discipleship
On Sept. 19, 2010, in Birmingham, England, the long awaited
beatification ceremony will take place for the great Victorian Catholic
theologian, John Henry Cardinal Newman, one of the most influential
English Catholics of the 19th century. He journeyed from
Anglicanism to Catholicism and used his great intellect and masterful
writing ability to win over thousands of people to Christ and the Roman
Catholic Church.
In becoming Catholic, Newman had to make many sacrifices. Many of
his friends broke off relations with him after his conversion, and his
family kept him at a distance. He had to resign his teaching
fellowship and lost his only source of income. He lived the
terrible pain of misunderstanding from his own family, from Church
leaders, and those closest to him. Newman said that the one thing
that sustained him during this trying period was Christ's presence in
the Blessed Sacrament.
As a tribute to his extraordinary work and devotion, Pope Leo XIII
named Father John Henry Newman a Cardinal in 1879. After a life
of trials, Newman received the news with joy and declared, "The cloud
is lifted forever."
Ladder
of Divine Ascent excerpt: Step 26- "Brief Summary on Discernment"
7. Faith and exile are the death of cupidity. But
compassion and love betray the body.
September 1, 2010
(Eph 6:11-12) Put
you on the armour of God, that you may be able to stand against the
deceits of the devil. For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood;
but against principalities and powers, against the rulers of the world
of this darkness, against the spirits of wickedness in the high places.
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NEWS REPORT: Gibson crashed his Maserati into a hillside in Malibu
FROM THE MAILBAG
VIA Christian-Witness: Trapped by the Devil
If you, O Lord, will not give me who am miserable understanding, nor
enlighten my heart, then, due to my great indifference, shall I be
unable to recognize my ruin and decay.
Because I am trapped by the merciless enemy who oppresses me, with
tears do I ceaselessly cry day and night to your goodness to deliver me
from his snares.
For hourly does he renew the trickery he wields against me; hourly does
he disturb my soul with wanton thoughts and desire for pleasure.
May your power, O Christ, that rebuked the waves of the sea also rebuke
him, that he may have no influence on me, your useless servant. Be
quick to send, O Master, your grace that it might drive away from your
servant the great serpent and all his defilements and evil thoughts.
For the wounds that his arrows have inflicted on my heart have become
fetid sores, and I in my folly try to hide them every way I can.
The good Physician calls me and demands no payment, nor does he spill my blood.
But my slothfulness prevents me from going to him. He comes himself to
heal me, but always finds me engaged in acts that prevent his remedies
from rendering me their healing power.
O Lord, enlighten and sober me. Cure me and I will be cured!
Saint Ephrem the Syrian, deacon and hermit (+ 373)
Ladder
of Divine Ascent excerpt: Step 26- "Brief Summary on Discernment"
6. The helper and foundation of chastity is stillness.
The quenching of fleshly burning is fasting. The adversary of evil and
shameful thoughts is a contrite spirit.
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