Remembering 9/11

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Dear All,

As I awoke today and prayed my “Morning Offering”, I was mindful of all those killed on 9/11 when two planes crashed into the twin towers in NYC, another into the Pentagon, and another was brought down by brave Americans who would not allow another to crash into the Capitol or the White House.

Please let us remember those souls who departed into eternity that day, and all their families and friends who miss them. Let us pray for our enemies and for our country. Let us, by God’s Grace, learn to pray truly for ourselves and the good of all. In reading a Commentary on today’s Gospel, in which we hear that Jesus spent the night in prayer, I was blessed by these words of Bl. Mother Teresa of Calcutta:
…The more we receive in silent prayer, the more we can give in our active life. We need silence to be able to touch souls. The essential thing is not what we say, but what God says to us and through us. All our words will be useless unless they come from within - words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.
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Our progress in holiness depends on God and ourselves - on God’s grace and on our will to be holy. We must have a real living determination to reach holiness. ‘I will be a saint’ means I will despoil myself of all that is not God; I will strip my heart of all created things; I will live in poverty and detachment; I will renounce my will, my inclinations, my whims and fancies, and make myself a willing slave to the will of God
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May Our Blessed Lord and His Sorrowful Mother comfort those who lost family and friends in this tragedy.
 
Kazema said:
May Our Blessed Lord and His Sorrowful Mother comfort those who lost family and friends in this tragedy.
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God, in your infinite mercy please heal the hearts of all who suffered this day and the years since.
 
I remember where I was and what I was doing on the day of 9/11 like it was yesterday. I didn’t here about the attacks until my grandma picked me up. While we were in the car, she had the radio on and I heard two men talking about a horrific tradgedy that just happended at the World Trade Center. Then when I went to my grandmas house, my grandfather had a news channel on and it was showing footage and clips of what happened that morning in New York. It was a very saddening and surreal experience because this is the kind of stuff that happens either in the movies, in our dreams, or in a novel. I can’t beleive that its already been 11 years since the incident.

Anyway, I would like to say a short prayer for the victims of that terrible day.

Dear God, please give these victims comfort and solace and the assurance that you are with them and that you will be always be with them, no matter how difficult life’s trials become. Also, we ask that you be merciful and just to the people who were responsible for the September 11th attacks. In Jesus’s name, Amen.
 
I, too, dedicated my prayers this morning to the victims of 9/11 and their families. There were many in my parish who lost their lives and a special Mass is being held this evening for them. I’m sure it will be packed.

God bless them all.
 
This morning, when I prayed my daily Rosary, I offered a special one in memory of those who died eleven years ago on that horrible day.

Each of the decades was in honor of the ‘Saints, Blesseds and Venerables of New York, Washington and Pennslyvania’:
  1. Mary Immaculate (Patroness of the USA, her National Shrine being in Washington, DC)
  2. Saints Isaac Jogues, Rene Goupil, Jean Lalande, and the soon-be Saint (but still a Blessed for now) Kateri Tekakwitha (died, and born, respectively, in Upstate NY. Saint Isaac was also the first Catholic priest to visit Manhattan Island when he passed through there on his way back to France after escaping his captivity)
  3. Saints Elizabeth Ann Seton, Frances Xavier Cabrini, and soon-to-be Saint (but still a Blessed for now) Marianne Cope (born in New York Cit;, arrived in New York as an immigrant and later buried there;, and arrived in New York as an immigrant and raised in Upstate New York, respectively)
  4. Venerables Fulton J. Sheen, Angeline Teresa McCrory and Pierre Toussaint (lived, worked and died in NYC; arrived as an immigrant in NYC, lived, worked, and later died in Upstate NY; lived, worked, and died in NYC, respectively)
  5. Saints John Neumann and Katherine Drexel, and Venerable Demeterius Gallatzin (arrived in NYC as an immigrant, ordained in NYC, worked as a missionary in Upstate NY, lived and died in Pennsylvania as Bishop; born and died in Pennsylvania; arrived as an immigrant, lived, worked and died in Pennsylvania, respectively)
May all those who died at the Twin Towers in NYC, the Pentagon in Washington DC, and outside Shanksville, PA, rest in peace!

NEVER, EVER FORGET!
 
Father offered prayers at Mass this morning, for the victims of 9/11.

Jim
 
MariaChristi said:
…Let us pray for our enemies and for our country…
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Thank you for mentioning paying for our enemies (Matt 5:44), as well as victims, families and friends of victims, ourselves and the good of all. And thank you for this thread.
 
I prayed for all who lost their lives that day. But since I know so many firefighters I said a special one for the 343 who without thought gave their lives that so many others could live
 
MarkEzraB said:
I prayed for all who lost their lives that day. But since I know so many firefighters I said a special one for the 343 who without thought gave their lives that so many others could live
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Thanks Mark,

I have a cousin in NY who lives in Queens. He had just finished his shift at the Fire Station and was driving home. When he heard the news, he held his badge out the window of his car and drove nonstop back into the city to scene. He is now retired on disability. Yes, nay acts of bravery seen and unseen on 9/11 but all are known to God.
 
May Our Lord and His Mother, Our Lady of Perpetual Help,continue to help and comfort us and to restore Christian values to our our country.
 
That morning I was watching the news while eating breakfast. Coming up in the news: Michael Jordan coming out of retirement. Interesting but looks like a slow news day. After I arrived at work I heard someone in the distance say that a plane hit one of the towers. Then I heard someone else say another tower was hit. I didn’t know what they were talking about because I did not hear them that well but it didn’t sound like a funny joke to me. Soon. though, it was real. Although everyone continued working it was total silence at work. Except for a radio which was on.

I think I spent the rest of the day in shock and confusion. The next in anger.
 
We have to keep praying and not stop caring. Apathy is definitely not helpful- I think it makes everything worse. Jesus, Mary, I love you, save souls.
 
Kazema said:
May Our Lord and His Mother, Our Lady of Perpetual Help,continue to help and comfort us and to restore Christian values to our our country.
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Dear Kazema, wondrousgnat, MarkEzraB,

Thank you all for your thoughts and prayers. As we now hear serious events in Egypt and Libya, which seems to be more terrorism, let us please continue to pray for our country and all the countries of the world.

O my Jesus, pardon us and save us from the fires of hell. Draw all souls to heaven, especially those in most need of Your Mercy.

Our Lady of Sorrows, pray for us.
 
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