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catharina
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Indeed. Prayers for all, here and gone.
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wildleafblower
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I wasn’t around for that “interesting evening”, but I do thank you now for the blessing Deacon Ed B.
If you only knew what I’ve been through then you would understand the reason for my late arrival. Praise the Lord, I’m here! 
Thank you and the ladies (Catharina and Jeanette L) for continued prayers. Good to be back on this thread. Parties with family and friends here and on the homefront can be uplifting. 
I’d like to briefly mention that I met with the Sisters of Charity many years ago. Inspired by this profound experience I wrote a little prayer which I mailed to Mother Teresa . The prayer was and still is “Pray for me sweet Jesus. Pray that I may see your gentle smile and hear the sound of heaven in your heart. Pray for me sweet Jesus that I may know your love only.” I sure can see a lot of that love resonating on this topic. Up close, person to person, it’s coming from the heart.
A late birthday present from the Vatican in memory of Mother Teresa of Calcutta.
Enjoy the reading and picture journey, remembering, “Less than two years after her death [September 5, 1997], in view of Mother Teresa’s widespread reputation of holiness and the favours being reported, Pope John Paul II permitted the opening of her Cause of Canonization. On 20 December 2002 he approved the decrees of her heroic virtues and miracles.”vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/saints/ns_lit_doc_20031019_index_madre-teresa_en.html
http://www.vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/saints/ns_lit_doc_20031019_index_madre-teresa_en.html
(Unfortunetly, I don’t have my own website to place every document from the Vatican that I have placed on Catholic.com. Well, it is the only place that I post messages to so home is where the heart is.
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Jeanette_L
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That’s a beautiful prayer.I wasn’t around for that “interesting evening”, but I do thank you now for the blessing Deacon Ed B.
I’d like to briefly mention that I met with the Sisters of Charity many years ago. Inspired by this profound experience I wrote a little prayer which I mailed to Mother Teresa . The prayer was and still is “Pray for me sweet Jesus. Pray that I may see your gentle smile and hear the sound of heaven in your heart. Pray for me sweet Jesus that I may know your love only.” I sure can see a lot of that love resonating on this topic. Up close, person to person, it’s coming from the heart.
A late birthday present from the Vatican in memory of Mother Teresa of Calcutta.
vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/saints/ns_lit_doc_20031019_index_madre-teresa_en.html
http://www.vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/saints/ns_lit_doc_20031019_index_madre-teresa_en.html
I hope all is well with you and I will pray for you now as well.
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wildleafblower
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Merci~That’s a beautiful prayer.
I hope all is well with you and I will pray for you now as well.
I have a wonderful life thanks to kind hearted souls that daily surround me. Prayer takes many forms. *Kind *thoughts coming your way.I thought it would be extra nice to add a little icing to this wonderful topic of discussion about saints:
SOLEMNITY OF ALL SAINTS
BENEDICT XVI
ANGELUS
St Peter’s Square
Thursday, 1 November 2007
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
On today’s Solemnity of All Saints, our hearts are dilated to the dimensions of Heaven, exceeding the limits of time and space. At the beginning of Christianity, the members of the Church were also called “saints”. In his First Letter to the Corinthians, St Paul addresses “those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ” (I Cor 1: 2). Indeed, Christians are already saints because Baptism unites them to Jesus and to his Paschal Mystery, but at the same time they must become so by conforming themselves every more closely to him. Sometimes, people think that holiness is a privileged condition reserved for the few elect. Actually, becoming holy is every Christian’s task, indeed, we could say, every person’s! The Apostle writes that God has always blessed us and has chosen us in Christ “that we should be holy and blameless before him… in love” (Eph 1: 3-5). All human beings are therefore called to holiness, which ultimately consists in living as children of God, in that “likeness” with him in accordance with which they were created. All human beings are children of God and all must become what they are by means of the demanding process of freedom. God invites everyone to belong to his holy people. The “Way” is Christ, the Son, the Holy One of God: “no one comes to the Father but by me [Jesus]” (cf. Jn 14: 6).
The Church has wisely placed in close succession the Feast of All Saints and All Souls’ Day. Our prayer of praise to God and veneration of the blessed spirits which today’s liturgy presents to us as “a great multitude which no man could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and tongues” (Rv 7: 9), is united with prayers of suffrage for all who have preceded us in passing from this world to eternal life. Tomorrow, we shall be dedicating our prayers to them in a special way and we will celebrate the Eucharistic Sacrifice for them. To tell the truth, the Church invites us to pray for them every day, also offering our daily sufferings and efforts so that, completely purified, they may be admitted to the eternal joy of light and peace in the Lord.
The Virgin Mary is resplendent at the centre of the Assembly of Saints, “created beings all in lowliness surpassing, as in height, above them all” (Dante, Paradise, Canto XXXIII, 2).
By putting our hand in hers, we feel encouraged to walk more enthusiastically on the path of holiness. Let us entrust to her our daily work and pray to her today for our dear departed, in the intimate hope of meeting one another all together one day in the glorious Communion of Saints.
After the Angelus:I greet all the English-speaking pilgrims and visitors present at today’s Angelus. The Solemnity of All Saints calls us to deepen our communion with the great figures of the Church who radiate the splendour of God’s kingdom of truth and love. May we strive to imitate their heroic virtues and follow their example along the path of perfection. I wish you and your families a happy feast day.
May God bless you all!
vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/angelus/2007/documents/hf_ben-xvi_ang_20071101_all-saints_en.html
http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/b...ts/hf_ben-xvi_ang_20071101_all-saints_en.html
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