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Blessed Memorial of the Most Holy Name of Mary – 12 September

On this day dedicated to the Holy Name of Mary let us repeat that wonderful prayer of Saint Bernard, responding to Pope Benedict XVI’s invitation to “invite everyone to become a trusting child before Mary, even as the Son of God did. Saint Bernard says and we say with him: ‘Look to the star of the sea, call upon Mary … in danger, in distress, in doubt, think of Mary, call upon Mary. May her name never be far from your lips, or far from your heart … If you follow her, you will not stray; if you pray to her, you will not despair; if you turn your thoughts to her, you will not err. If she holds you, you will not fall; if she protects you, you need not fear; if she is your guide, you will not tire; if she is gracious to you, you will surely reach your destination”’ (Pope Benedict XVI, address at Heiligenkreuz Abbey, September 9, 2007).

Most Holy Name of Mary: In accordance with Jewish custom our Lady’s parents named her eight days after her birth and were inspired to call her Mary. The feast of the Holy Name of Mary therefore follows that of her Birthday, as the Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus follows Christmas. The feast originated in Spain and was approved by the Holy See in 1513; Innocent XI extended its observance to the whole Church in 1683 in thanksgiving to our Lady for the victory on September 12, 1683 by John Sobieski, king of Poland, over the Turks, who were besieging Vienna and threatening the West. This day was commemorated in Vienna by creating a new kind of pastry and shaping it in the form of the Turkish half-moon. It was eaten along with coffee which was part of the booty from the Turks (this is the origin of the of the croissant). Image below - Under Mary’s Holy Name: Victory in Vienna – King Sobieski sending a message to Pope Innocent XI

The ancient Onomastica Sacra have preserved the meanings ascribed to Mary’s name by the early Christian writers and perpetuated by the Greek Fathers. “Bitter Sea,” “Myrrh of the Sea,” “The Light Giver,” “The Enlightened One,” “Lady,” “Seal of the Lord” and “Mother of the Lord” are the principal interpretations. These etymologies suppose that the Hebrew form of the name is Maryãm, not Miryãm. From the time of St Jerome until the 16th century, preferred interpretations of Mary’s name in the West were “Lady,” “Bitter Sea,” “The Light Giver,” and especially “Star of the Sea.” tella Maris was by far the favoured interpretation. The revival of Hebraic studies, which accompanied the Renaissance, led to a more critical appraisal of the meanings assigned to Our Lady’s name. Miryãm has all the appearance of a genuine Hebrew name and no solid reason has been discovered to warrant rejecting the Semitic origin of the word. The Hebrew name of Mary, Miryãm, (in Latin Domina) means lady or sovereign; this Mary is in virtue of her Son’s sovereign authority as Lord of the World. We call Mary our Lady as we call Jesus our Lord and when we pronounce her name we affirm her power, implore her aid and place ourselves under her protection.

“Therefore a certain Star has risen for us today: Our Lady, Saint Mary. Her name means Star of the sea; no doubt the Star of this sea which is the world. Therefore, we ought to lift up our eyes to this Star that has appeared on earth today in order that she may lead us, in order that she may enlighten us, in order that she may show us these steps so that we shall know them, in order that she may help us so that we may be able to ascend. And therefore it is a beautiful thing that Mary is placed in this stairway of which we are speaking, there where we must begin to climb. As the Evangelist says, Jacob begot Joseph, the husband of Mary, so immediately at the very moment of our conversion she appears to us and receives us into her care and enlightens us in her light and accompanies us along this laborious path.” – St Aelred (110-1167).

(via AnaStpaul – Breathing Catholic)

anastpaul

Quote of the Day – 10 September

“We need to find God and He cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.”

St Mother Teresa

(via AnaStpaul – Breathing Catholic)

dollsfromheaven

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eah894

In Him, all things come together.

The Alpha and Omega, beginning and the end.

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hail-to-the-risen-king-deactiva

When it comes to life, pro-choice people are correct; God gave us free will and the ability to choose.

But before he could ever do that he gave us life.

It’s why murder is illegal: your choice does not trump their right to life. The same is said for abortion. The choice “I don’t want to have a kid right now” should have absolutely no say in that child’s life. Every life is worth living.

tobeyisprochoice

Every life is worth living, even if it comes at the expense of someone else’s right to bodily autonomy?

hail-to-the-risen-king-deactiva

“Right to bodily autonomy.” The last recorded case of a woman getting pregnant without having sex was 2017 years ago. Every other woman has had sex before getting pregnant.

Abortion is “I took a chance and I don’t like the outcome so I’m gunna kill the outcome.” People have a right to choice. They also have to live with the outcome of their choice. Sex is not required, it’s not food or water or shelter. They made the decision, they have to live with outcome for at least the pregnancy, and then they could give the child up.

You can’t kill someone just because you don’t want them.

motherbychoice

Holy shit. Did you honestly just say that every pregnancy since Jesus has been the result of sex? Lol.

There are TONS of recorded cases of people experiencing pregnancy not caused by sex.

hail-to-the-risen-king-deactiva

Sex is intercourse between two people. I did not specify consensual, and artificial insemination is not very wide spread as of yet.

motherbychoice

And still you were wrong. You could just say ‘oops, I fucked up.’

hail-to-the-risen-king-deactiva

I’m intrigued. Enlighten me on the other ways a person has became pregnant throughout history.

motherbychoice

You just said it yourself. Rape, artificial insemination, and IVF. And these situations are well documented. So yeah. There have been many pregnancies that were not the result of sex.

arcaneins

I personally know 3 separate families who have undergone at least one of those things, too.

motherbychoice

But OP says the last recorded instance of pregnancy without sex was over 2,000 years ago! Are those families mummies?

themixedfeminist

My favorite teacher used IVF to become pregnant with her twins. This was about 3 years ago.

My cousin gave birth a couple of months ago. Her daughters weren’t conceived during sex. Instead my cousin and her wife used artificial insemination.

themushroomkiller

Doing the unnatural and your death worshipping paganism seem to go hand in hand.

themixedfeminist

Look, the two women I mentioned and I are all Christians. If you are going to make wild, unfounded claims about my religious beliefs, at least get my religion right.

themushroomkiller

You cannot serve two masters. The act of killing your own child comes from paganism who killed people based on their political "usefulness."

Your "artifical insemination" is an abomination that seeks to dehumanize all of the parties involved. The fact that people are trying to use that abomination to justify the murder of children right here in this thread is a perfect example of that.

anastpaul

Saint of the Day – 4 July – Blessed Pier Georgio Frassati T.O.S.D. “The Man of the Eight Beatitudes”, Apostle of Charity and Love, layman, Apostle of the Holy Eucharist and Eucharist Adoration, also known as Girolamo (6 April 1901 in Turin, Italy – 4 July 1925 in Turin, Italy of poliomylelitis.) His remains were buried in the family cemetery of Pollone, Italy. His body was found incorrupt when moved to the Cathedral of Turin in 1981. He was beatified on 20 May 1990 by Pope John Paul II.

Pier Giorgio Michelangelo Frassati was born in Turin, Italy on April 6, 1901. His mother, Adelaide Ametis, was a painter. His father Alfredo, was the founder and director of the newspaper, “La Stampa,” and was influential in Italian politics, holding positions as an Italian Senator and Ambassador to Germany. (With his sister below).

At an early age, Pier Giorgio joined the Marian Sodality and the Apostleship of Prayer, and obtained permission to receive daily Communion (which was rare at that time).

He developed a deep spiritual life which he never hesitated to share with his friends. The Holy Eucharist and the Blessed Virgin were the two poles of his world of prayer. At the age of 17, he joined the St. Vincent de Paul Society and dedicated much of his spare time to serving the sick and the needy, caring for orphans and assisting the demobilized servicemen returning from World War I. He decided to become a mining engineer, studying at the Royal Polytechnic University of Turin, so he could “serve Christ better among the miners,” as he told a friend. Although he considered his studies his first duty, they did not keep him from social and political activism. In 1919, he joined the Catholic Student Foundation and the organization known as Catholic Action. He became a very active member of the People’s Party, which promoted the Catholic Church’s social teaching based on the principles of Pope Leo XIII’s encyclical letter, Rerum Novarum.

What little he did have, Pier Giorgio gave to help the poor, even using his bus fare for charity and then running home to be on time for meals. The poor and the suffering were his masters and he was literally their servant, which he considered a privilege. His charity did not simply involve giving something to others but giving completely of himself. This was fed by daily communion with Christ in the Holy Eucharist and by frequent nocturnal adoration, by meditation on St. Paul’s “Hymn of Charity” (I Corinthians 13), and by the writings of St. Catherine of Siena. He often sacrificed vacations at the Frassati summer home in Pollone (outside of Turin) because, as he said, “If everybody leaves Turin, who will take care of the poor?”

In 1921, he was a central figure in Ravenna, enthusiastically helping to organize the first convention of Pax Romana, an association which had as its purpose the unification of all Catholic students throughout the world for the purpose of working together for universal peace.

Mountain climbing was one of his favorite sports. Outings in the mountains, which he organized with his friends, also served as opportunities for his apostolic work. He never lost the chance to lead his friends to Mass, to the reading of Scripture, and to praying the rosary.

He often went to the theater, to the opera, and to museums. He loved art and music, and could quote whole passages of the poet Dante.

Fondness for the epistles of St. Paul sparked his zeal for fraternal charity and the fiery sermons of the Renaissance preacher and reformer Girolamo Savonarola and the writings of St. Catherine impelled him in 1922 to join the Lay Dominicans (Third Order of St. Dominic). He chose the name Girolamo after his personal hero, Savonarola. “I am a fervent admirer of this friar, who died as a saint at the stake,” he wrote to a friend.

Like his father, he was strongly anti-Fascist and did nothing to hide his political views. He physically defended the faith at times involved in fights, first with anticlerical Communists and later with Fascists.Participating in a Church-organised demonstration in Rome on one occasion, he stood up to police violence and rallied the other young people by grabbing the group’s banner, which the royal guards had knocked out of another student’s hands. Pier Giorgio held it even higher, while using the banner’s pole to fend off the blows of the guards.

Just before receiving his university degree, Pier Giorgio contracted poliomyelitis, which doctors later speculated he caught from the sick whom he tended. Neglecting his own health because his grandmother was dying, after six days of terrible suffering Pier Giorgio died at the age of 24 on July 4, 1925.

His last preoccupation was for the poor. On the eve of his death, with a paralyzed hand he scribbled a message to a friend, asking him to take the medicine needed for injections to be given to Converso, a poor sick man he had been visiting.

Pier Giorgio’s funeral was a triumph. The streets of the city were lined with a multitude of mourners who were unknown to his family — the poor and the needy whom he had served so unselfishly for seven years. Many of these people, in turn, were surprised to learn that the saintly young man they knew had actually been the heir of the influential Frassati family.

Pope John Paul II, after visiting his original tomb in the family plot in Pollone, said in 1989: “I wanted to pay homage to a young man who was able to witness to Christ with singular effectiveness in this century of ours. When I was a young man, I, too, felt the beneficial influence of his example and, as a student, I was impressed by the force of his testimony.”

On May 20, 1990, in St. Peter’s Square which was filled with thousands of people, the Pope beatified Pier Giorgio Frassati, calling him the “Man of the Eight Beatitudes.”

His mortal remains, found completely intact and incorrupt upon their exhumation on March 31, 1981, were transferred from the family tomb in Pollone to the cathedral in Turin. Many pilgrims, especially students and the young, come to the tomb of Blessed Frassati to seek favours and the courage to follow his example.

(via AnaStpaul – Breathing Catholic)

escravadaimaculada

Ave Maria.

eternal-echoes

If there is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals, it is the modern strengthening of minor morals.

G.K. Chesterton (via catherine-of-alexandria)

imaginesisters

Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us, who have recourse to thee.

randytemple-deactivated20180205

What kind of man is this? Even the winds and waves obey Him.

Matthew 6:27 (via randytemple)

hissaltandlight

Jesus is the source and the summit of our faith..

catholicconnect

“Suppose that you had fallen into the river, and that a charitable person threw himself into the water to save you. What would you say to such kindness? Moreover, suppose that, hardly drawn from the water, you had been attacked by assassins, and that your rescuer again came to your assistance, and saved your life at the risk of his own. What would you do in return for such friendship? It is certain that you would do all in your power to heal the bruises he received on your account. So ought we to act towards Christ: we must contemplate Him engulfed in an ocean of sorrows to save us from the eternal abyss; consider Him all covered with wounds and bruises to purchase for us eternal life. Then let us make His pains our own, sympathize with His sorrows, and consecrate to Him all our affections.” -St. Paul of the Cross #CatholicConnect

autumnhobbit

What I mean by Vulgarity is this. When six men stand up and we suddenly see that one of them is a dwarf, we are startled to find him so stunted. We only realize that he is stunted because he is standing up; because he is stretching himself to his full height. When the mind of man stretches itself, in order to show off, and is still stunted, that is the revelation that I mean. It is by the showing off that we see how little there is to show. When somebody tries to impress us, either with his wit or assurance, or knowledge of the world, or power, or grace, or even poetry and ideality, and in the very act of doing so shows he has low ideas of all of these things—that is Vulgarity. In other words, a thing is only vulgar when its best is base.

G.K. Chesterton, On Vulgarity (via autumnhobbit)

anastpaul

Blessed Memorail of Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati - the Man of the Beatitudes- be inspired!

asciiheart

The nuclear family is probably the greatest enabler of child abuse, ever.

Putting two people in complete control of another person (who is particularly vulnerable and has few legal rights) and then having no oversight for the whole arrangement is the absolute worst idea.

Families are garbage.

libertarirynn-deactivated202006

Hahaha wtf

yourownpetard

I wouldn’t even know where to start with this. omg.

amal-wa-ahlam

OP, what would you propose as an alternative to families?

asciiheart

communal child raising

less isolated familial structures in general

children being made aware of how they should and shouldn’t be treated

Some form of child protection services that don’t just believe the parents and assume a child is lying when they report abuse

more legal and counselling services made available to children

tracyalexander-deactivated20201

I don’t get people that are like “lol, what? that’s so weird, lets laugh at the very notion that traditional families are abusive”.

itsfridaybutimstillaro-deactiva

communal child raising is the traditional family. 70-100 years ago 4 generations lived together in the same house, having 4 grandparents, 6 aunts and 15 cousins around every day was normal.

queeranarchism

Things that should be mentioned:

- These communities are not necessarily connected by an biological ties. In a lot of these multigenerational ‘families’, including people in the family who are not relatives or married into the family is totally normal. This has always created a lot more space to support people without families, support people who do now want to partner up and to create communities in which couples who can not have children (like some queer couples but not all & other couples too) can be a part of child raising.

- Having a lot more young people around often means young people learn from each other. In many cultures young people form a non-hierarchial group that learns together and can do a great deal without adult supervision.

The nuclear family doesn’t just facilitate abuse, it facilitates hierarchy. It’s a training school for obedience to authority.

Now, which system would push such a training school strongly so it could get docile obedient citizens? Which system whould push the nuclear family.

I’m not saying it’s capitalism but it’s capitalism.

And then there’s the fact that the 2 parent, nuclear family can be most easily pushed into the pattern where one adult works an extremely exhausting job many hours a day that leaves that adult hardly capable of doing anything else, while the other adult takes on all the other things that adult would otherwise have done: care for children, clean the living space, prepare food, prepare clean clothing, etc. for free. What we know as traditional gender roles.

This way capitalism gets one intensely loyal worker who feels ‘responsible’ for ‘supporting a family’ while all the work to keep that worker going is done for free by an unpaid worker in the home.

And, you know, communities need a lot less stuff. A community of 50 can do just fine with one or two hammers. 25 nuclear families need 25 hammers. The nuclear family demands a huge amount of commodity purchasing.

themushroomkiller

You are advocating for what is called polyamory, in which families join into a faceless mob where no one knows who they are anymore, ripe for government control. It is done in communist countries or in jonestown-like compounds (who not unexpectedly were communist). Oh what idiocy you communists delude yourself into thinking. To you, everything is seen from the lens of the phantom “capitalism” despite the fact that capitalism is the exact same thing as communism but applied to business. The family has existed long before “capitalism.” The reason you advocate for taking children away from their natural families is because that is the first step to brainwashing. The family exists as the building block for all society that leads to people becoming fully grown adults. Your system as used in communust countries leads to mentally ill cogs in a faceless communist horde. Mothers raise children, fathers provide. That is Marriage, the institution of motherhood. This has been happening long before the fraud john money gave communist useful idiots like you the erroneous idea of “gender” and long before marx tried to destroy the family by any means necessary. @asciiheart you have munchausens. The most dangerous thing anyone could do is enable you. @tracyalexander families are not “abusive,” they are the first and last defense against government slavery like @queeranarchism is desperately advocating for here. That is actual abuse, just like the communist brainwashing you got from common core that turned you into an unthinking footsoldier for “global revolution” and therefore slavery You monsters can all take a trip to iran or venezuela then read up on mao’s china, stalin’s russia, or hitler’s germany to see exactly what the fruits of your “communities” are. You’ll see the evil your expediency bears.

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