Roman Catholic

04/24/2024

03/28/2024

Brothers and sisters,

Why do we visit 7 churches on Holy Thursday?

Every year, on Holy Thursday, there is a well-known tradition that invites you to visit seven churches; in case of need, some visit the same church, going in and out. Today I will tell you the meaning.

The visits to the seven churches symbolize our intention of accompanying Jesus on his journey from the night of his capture to his crucifixion.

Below, we share with you the details of each of the moments represented in the seven churches.

1. First church
The first church reminds us Jesus' journey from the Cenacle, where he celebrated the Last Supper with his disciples, to the garden of Gethsemane, where he prayed and sweated blood.

2. Second church
The second church leads us to meditate on the passage from the garden of Gethsemane to the house of Annas, the High Priest, where he was interrogated by the latter and received a slap in the face.

3. Third church
In the third station, the prayer focuses on Jesus' journey to the house of Caiaphas, where he was spit upon, insulted and suffered pain throughout the night.

4. Fourth church
The center of the reflection for the fourth visit is the first appearance of Jesus before Pilate, the Roman governor of the region. There Christ was accused by the Jews who raised false testimonies against him.

5. Fifth church
In this fifth visit, we accompany the Lord is in his appearance before King Herod, who together with his guards also reviled him.

6. Sixth church
At the sixth station we meditate on the second appearance before Pontius Pilate. There, Jesus was crowned with thorns and condemned to death.

7. Seventh church
In the last church we remember Christ's journey from Pilate's house to Mount Calvary, carrying the cross on his back. We also bring to our memory his death, and his burial in the tomb, from where he will rise again on the third day.

10/02/2023

10/01/2023

Hi everyone! 🌟 You can support me by sending Stars - they help me earn money to keep making content you love.

Whenever you see the Stars icon, you can send me Stars!

09/05/2023

09/05/2023

Thank you all your support star Senders...I hope your continued support...

08/23/2023

Shout out to my newest followers! Excited to have you onboard!

Elize Malelo, Emelita Encluna Barrogo, Merilyn Duyag

04/08/2023

Sayings of Jesus on the cross or The Seven Last word of Jesus on the Cross

1. Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do-

Then Jesus said, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. — Luke 23:34

2. Today shalt thou be with me in paradise

And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, Today shalt thou be with me in paradise. — Luke 23:43

3. Woman, behold, thy son! Behold, thy mother!

When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, Woman, behold thy son! Then saith he to the disciple, Behold thy mother! And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own home. — John 19:26–27

4. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? — Mark 15:34

And the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? — Matthew 27:46

5. I thirst

After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst. - John 19:28

6. It is finished

When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost. - John 19:30

7. Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit

And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost.

— Luke 23:46

02/14/2023

Psalm 91 Prayer for Security Under God’s Protection

This Prayer for God’s Protection is extracted from Psalm 91 in the Bible. It is a very powerful prayer against Calamity, good for our soldiers, police and disciplined forces who are always in harm’s way defending us from our enemies.

Psalm 91 is a psalm of trust in God’s protection and care, and it can be a source of comfort and encouragement to anyone who is feeling vulnerable or in need of protection.

It is often prayed by people who are facing difficult or dangerous situations, or by those who are seeking God’s guidance and protection in their lives.

The psalm can also be a source of hope and inspiration for those who are feeling anxious or worried, as it speaks of God’s faithfulness and the promise of his protection and care.

It can be a reminder that, no matter what challenges we may face, God is always with us and will be our refuge and strength.

Here is the Prayer

1 He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High, who abide in the shade of the Almighty,

2 Say to the Lord, “My refuge and fortress, my God in whom I trust.”

3 He will rescue you from the fowler’s snare, from the destroying plague,

4 He will shelter you with his pinions, and under his wings, you may take refuge; his faithfulness is a protecting shield.

5 You shall not fear the terror of the night nor the arrow that flies by day,

6 Nor the pestilence that roams in darkness, nor the plague that ravages at noon.

7 Though a thousand fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand, near you it shall not come.

8 You need simply watch; the punishment of the wicked you will see.
9 Because you have the Lord for your refuge and have made the Most High your stronghold,

10 No evil shall befall you, no affliction come near your ten

11 For he commands his angels with regard to you, to guard you wherever you go.

12 With their hands, they shall support you, lest you strike your foot against a stone.

13 You can tread upon the asp and the viper, trample the lion and the dragon.

14 Because he clings to me I will deliver him; because he knows my name I will set him on high.

15 He will call upon me and I will answer; I will be with him in distress; I will deliver him and give him honour.

16 With a length of days, I will satisfy him, and fill him with my saving power.

01/01/2023

ROME -- Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI has died at his home in the Vatican at 95, Vatican officials announced.

"With sorrow I inform you that the Pope Emeritus, Benedict XVI, passed away today December 31, 2022 at 9:34 in the Ecclesiae Monastery in the Vatican. Further information will be provided as soon as possible," said the Director of the Holy See press office Matteo Bruni's statement.

The Vatican press office has said that Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI's body will lie in state in St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican from Monday through Wednesday for the faithful to pay their respects.

His funeral is scheduled for Thursday at 9:30 a.m. local time in St. Peter's Square on the parvis of St. Peter's Basilica and will be presided over by Pope Francis, the Vatican press office said. Following the funeral mass, his coffin will be taken to the Vatican Grottoes, located below St. Peter's Basilica, for burial.

12/04/2022

11/04/2022

Trials are ways to weigh your strength and faith. Rcatholic

04/17/2022

History of the Rosary

There are differing views on the history of the Rosary. The exact origin of the Rosary as a prayer is less than clear and subject to debate among scholars. The use of knotted prayer ropes in Christianity goes back to the Desert Fathers in the 3rd and early 4th centuries. These counting devices were used for prayers such as the Jesus prayer in Christian monasticism. The period after the First Council of Ephesus in 431 witnessed gradual growth in the use of Marian prayers during the Middle Ages.

According to some Catholic traditions, the Rosary was given to Saint Dominic in a vision of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

The practice of meditation during the praying of the Hail Marys was attributed to Dominic of Prussia (author of Liber experientiae 1458), a 15th-century Carthusian monk, who called it the "Life of Jesus Rosary" (vita Christi Rosarium). However, in 1977, a theologian from Trier named Andreas Heinz discovered a vita Christi Rosary that dated to 1300, suggesting the origin of the current rosary extends back at least to that time.[1][2] The Christian victory at the Battle of Lepanto in 1571 was attributed to the praying of the Rosary by masses of Europeans based on the request of Pope Pius V and eventually resulted in Our Lady of the Rosary. In 1569, the papal bull Consueverunt Romani Pontifices established the devotion to the rosary in the Catholic Church. In 2002 Pope John Paul II introduced the Luminous Mysteries - based on a compilation by St George Preca, the first Maltese Saint, - as an option in an Apostolic Letter on the Rosary, Rosarium Virginis Mariae.

History

Devout Christians used the Pater Noster cord to pray the 150 Psalms, which were recited daily by Christian monastics in the praying of the canonical hours. As many of the laity and even lay monastics could not read, they substituted 150 repetitions of the Lord's Prayer (Pater noster in Ecclesiastical Latin) for the Psalms, sometimes using a cord with knots on it to keep an accurate count.[3][4]

According to a Dominican tradition, in 1208 the rosary was given to St. Dominic in an apparition by the Blessed Virgin Mary in the church of Prouille.[5][6] This Marian apparition received the title of Our Lady of the Rosary.[7] In the 15th century Blessed Alanus de Rupe (aka Alain de la Roche or Saint Alan of the Rock), a Dominican priest and theologian, is said to have received a vision from Jesus about the urgency of reinstating the rosary as a form of prayer. Blessed Alanus de Rupe also said that he received the Blessed Mother's "15 Promises". Before his death on September 8, 1475 he reinstituted the rosary in many countries and established many rosary confraternities. Despite the popularity of Blessed Alanus's story about the origins of the rosary, there has never been found any historical evidence positively linking St. Dominic to the rosary. The story of St. Dominic's devotion to the rosary and supposed apparition of Our Lady of the Rosary does not appear in any documents of the Church or Dominican Order prior to the writings of Blessed Alanus,[4] some 300 years later.

Historical development

In Western Christendom, the 150 Psalms were prayed (especially by Christian monastics) with the Pater Noster cord being used to count them (full Pater Noster cords have 150 beads); those who could not read substituted the Psalms with the Lord's Prayer (known as the Pater Noster in Ecclesiastical Latin).[3]

By the 7th century prayers to Mary were becoming more common.[8] The earliest known prayer to Mary is the Sub tuum praesidium, which begins with the words: "Beneath your compassion, we take refuge."[9][10] The earliest text of Sub tuum praesidium traces to the Coptic Orthodox liturgy and a copy written in Greek dates to around the year 250.[11]

Around 1075 Lady Godiva refers in her will to "the circlet of precious stones which she had threaded on a cord in order that by fi*****ng them one after another she might count her prayers exactly" (Malmesbury, "Gesta Pont.", Rolls Series 311)[4]

During the middle ages, evidence suggests that both the Our Father and the Hail Mary were recited with prayer beads.[5]

In 13th century Paris, four trade guilds existed of prayer bead makers, who were referred to as paternosterers, and the beads were referred to as Pater Noster cords, suggesting a continued link between the Our Father (Pater noster in Ecclesiastical Latin) and the prayer beads.

It is recorded by a contemporary biographer that St. Aibert, who died in 1140, recited 150 Hail Marys daily, 100 with genuflexions and 50 with prostrations. St. Louis of France (1214–70) that "...knelt down every evening 50 times and each time he stood upright then knelt again and repeated slowly an Ave Maria."[12] In the 12th century, the rule of the English anchorites, the Ancrene Wisse, specified how groups of 50 Hail Marys were to be broken into five decades of ten Hail Marys each. Gradually, the Hail Mary came to replace the Our Father as the prayer most associated with beads. Eventually, each decade came to be preceded by an Our Father, which further mirrored the structure of the monastic Divine Office.[4]

The practice of meditation during the praying of the Hail Marys is attributed to Dominic of Prussia (1382–1460), a Carthusian monk, who called it "Life of Jesus Rosary".[13] The German monk from Trier added a sentence to each of the 50 Hail Marys already popular at his time, using quotes from scriptures.[14] Promoted by his superior Adolf von Essen and others, his practice became popular among Benedictines and Carthusians from Trier to adjoining Belgium and France. A rosary hanging from the belt often forms part of the Carthusian habit even today.[15]

It was greatly promoted by the preaching of the Dominican priest Alan de Rupe, who helped to spread the devotion in France, Flanders, and the Netherlands between 1460 and his death in 1475. He founded his first brotherhood for praying his Psalter in Douai in 1470.[16][17] In 1475 James Sprenger formed one of the first rosary confraternities in Cologne.[18][19] Rosary confraternities in Venice and Florence were formed in 1480 and 1481.[20]

In the 16th century, Rosary confraternities for women spread in France and Italy, partly because women were excluded from most other societies and because this type did not involve common masses or processions, only private prayer.[21] In 1571 Pope Pius V called for all of Europe to pray the rosary for victory at the Battle of Lepanto, in which the Christian belligerents included the Papal States. The Christian victory at Lepanto was at first celebrated as the feast of "Our Lady of Victory" on October 7, but was later renamed Our Lady of the Rosary.[22][23][24]

Official Approval

In 1569, the papal bull Consueverunt Romani Pontifices by the Dominican Pope Pius V officially established the devotion to the rosary in the Catholic Church.[25] Saint Peter Canisius, a Doctor of the Church, who is credited with adding to the Hail Mary the sentence "Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners", was an ardent advocate of the rosary and promoted it (and its Marian devotion in general) as the best way to repair the damage done to the Church by the Reformation.[26]

From the 16th to the early 20th century, the structure of the rosary remained essentially unchanged.[4] There were 15 mysteries, one for each of the 15 decades. In the 20th century the addition of the Fatima Prayer to the end of each decade became popular. After Vatican Council II, Msgr. Annibale Bugnini, architect of the liturgical reform, proposed further changes to the structure of the Rosary, but Pope Paul VI refused to implement the proposal on the grounds that changing such a well-established and popular devotion would unsettle the piety of the faithful and show a lack of reverence for an ancient practice. There were thus no other changes until 2002 when John Paul II instituted five new Luminous Mysteries.[27] In the 17th century, the Rosary began to appear as an element in key pieces of Roman Catholic Marian art. Key examples include Murrillo's Madonna with the Rosary at the Museo del Prado in Spain, and the statue of Madonna with Rosary at the church of San Nazaro Maggiore in Milan. Several Roman Catholic Marian churches around the world have also been named after the rosary, e.g. Our Lady of the Rosary Basilica, in Rosario Argentina, the Rosary Basilica in Lourdes and Nossa Senhora do Rosário in Porto Alegre, Brazil.

04/17/2022

The mysteries of the rosary help you meditate on the life of Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary. Each mystery...

04/17/2022

Divine Mercy!

1. Make the Sign of the Cross

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

2. Optional Opening Prayers

You expired, Jesus, but the source of life gushed forth for souls, and the ocean of mercy opened up for the whole world. O Fount of Life, unfathomable Divine Mercy, envelop the whole world and empty Yourself out upon us.

(Repeat three times)
O Blood and Water, which gushed forth from the Heart of Jesus as a fount of mercy for us, I trust in You!

3. Our Father

Our Father, Who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name; Thy kingdom come; Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil, Amen.

4. Hail Mary

Hail Mary, full of grace. The Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou amongst women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death, Amen.

5. The Apostles’ Creed

I believe in God, the Father almighty, Creator of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died and was buried; He descended into hell; on the third day He rose again from the dead; He ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right hand of God the Father almighty; from there He will come to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and life everlasting. Amen.

6. The Eternal Father

Eternal Father, I offer you the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of Your Dearly Beloved Son, Our Lord, Jesus Christ, in atonement for our sins and those of the whole world.

7. On the 10 Small Beads of Each Decade

For the sake of His sorrowful Passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world.

8. Repeat for the remaining decades

Saying the "Eternal Father" (6) on the "Our Father" bead and then 10 "For the sake of His sorrowful Passion" (7) on the following "Hail Mary" beads.

9. Conclude with Holy God (Repeat three times)

Holy God, Holy Mighty One, Holy Immortal One, have mercy on us and on the whole world.

10. Optional Closing Prayer

Eternal God, in whom mercy is endless and the treasury of compassion — inexhaustible, look kindly upon us and increase Your mercy in us, that in difficult moments we might not despair nor become despondent, but with great confidence submit ourselves to Your holy will, which is Love and Mercy itself.

04/17/2022

We must beg God constantly in our prayers to uphold us by His hand. We should keep ever in our minds the truth that if He leaves us. We most certainly shall fall at once into the abyss, for we must never be so foolish as to trust in ourselves. After this I think the greatest safeguard is to be very careful and to watch how we advance in virtue; we must notice whether we are making progress or falling back in it, especially as regards the love of our neighbor, the desire to be thought the least of all and how we perform our ordinary, everyday duties. If we attend to this and beg Our Lord to enlighten us, we shall at once perceive our gain or loss."

— St. Teresa of Avila

04/17/2022

Luke 6:36-37.

04/17/2022

Happy Easter Brothers and sisters! May God bless us all; with good health, longevity, prosperity, success, and triumphant victories in anything we do for God and with God. May we all rise into power to serve God for his kingdom and for our Church as God chosen Children. Whom God himself for told to be the women offspring Against the Serpent. For Eve lead us to sin, sufferings and death. And our mother Mary lead us back to the Father through the Son of God our savior; the only son of God the Father in heaven. We as the Children of God that lead by the Mother of God, and save By the Son from the tyranny of the devil. Proclaimed by God the father, to be an offspring of our mother Mary. To be lead by her headed by her as women offspring to walk through the valley alongside with Jesus Joseph and all the angels and Saint. May we all one of the few found inside mother Mary's fences when God turn and look for us his Children and women offspring. Amen

02/19/2022

Prayer for the sick...

02/19/2022

Psalms 6 in time of Distress. More Psalm to follow here.

01/17/2022

01/06/2022

Our Father, who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy Name,
thy kingdom come,
thy will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those
who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom,
and the power, and the glory,
for ever and ever.
Amen.🙏🏼❤️
My wish is that everyone who reads this would paste it on their page. It's a world prayer assignment, takes just a couple of minutes, for the health of all the sick, the weary, and the heartbroken.

09/08/2021

Happy Birthday Mama Mary.
https://www.facebook.com/quiapochurch/videos/1137867290070863/

08/06/2021

Pray and attend mass physically or virtually. Do not let, this Covid temptations to our faith, triumph. Pray Angelous, and Rosary everyday. At 3Am and 3pm Devine Mercy and Trisagio. Do your devotion up and running.

Yes get vaccinated. We, all pray for God's help, to keep us safe, during this pandemic. God, answered it already, and sent his help, through the Scientist that created the vaccines. Side effect is normal. No one dies because of vaccine. But people scared and gets nervous breakdown that leads to complications and died, of cardiac or stroke. Trust in God! That God himself will give you what you need and removed the side effects, side effects, that maybe harmful to you. God will protect you. Pray Instead, and trust that those hands that inject you and others be Jesus hands. That nothing harmful and no one can harm you. Read Psalm 91.

If, you are a real believer! You will let God, protect you, and you know he will. Just remember God sent already his army of angels through the health workers for that's what we need against Pandemic. It's been months long, Since God answers our prayers. It is up to us now to put him to work and help you. By getting the vaccine that Leads us to covid free.

08/06/2021

Pray and attend mass physically or virtually. Don't let this Covid temptations to our faith triumph. Pray Angelous and Rosary everyday. At 3Am and 3pm Devine Mercy. Do your devotion up and running.