Who is like God?
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Saint Michael, defend us in battle!
Blessed Lindalva Justo de Oliveira
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Daughter of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul
Called to serve Jesus Christ in the person of those who are poor and marginalized
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Sister Lindalva was the first woman to be beatified in Brazil. She was still a young Daughter of Charity, 4 years-vocation, when she was martyred. Her fidelity to her vocation and her love for everyone without preferences were so intense that she didn’t hesitate to give her life for them.
Lindalva received an ordinary Christian education. A generous child, she often helped her mother in the home. Whenever arguments broke out among her childhood companions, she always tried to settle them with gentleness. Attentive to the suffering of others, she would visit people who were lonely or poor in the town; at times she even gave them her own clothes, always in a sensitive and discreet way. Over time, she understood that she was being called to follow Christ by reaching out to poor persons to witness to the Father’s love for them. After completing her studies as an administrative assistant, she took care of her elderly and ill father. After his death, she asked to be admitted to the Company of the Daughters of Charity: “I’m 33 years old; I come from a simple, honest family. I have felt God’s call for a long time but have not been available to serve Christ until now. I am in good health and feel I have endless energy to do good works”
The process of beatification was started by popular acclaim. The people were touched by this young Sister’s faith, her service of the poor and fidelity to her commitment that ultimately led to her martyrdom. The beatification took place in Salvador – Bahia, Brazil, on December 2nd 2007, in a huge stadium with nearly 60,000 people present.
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“But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, 'You know nothing, nor do you consider that it is better for you that one man should die instead of the people, so that the whole nation may not perish.' He did not say this on his own, but since he was high priest for that year, he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation, and not only for the nation, but also to gather into one the dispersed children of God. So from that day on they planned to kill him.”
– Jn 11:49-52
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Are You For or Against the Cross?
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Fr. Christopher Pietraszko
Priest in Diocese of London, Ontario. Contributor to Ignitum Today
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The greatest Shame of Palm Sunday is that they celebrated Christ as though He came to save them from their political and temporal problems. Entirely unaware that part of His plan would involve martyrdom at the hands of a state that would soon turn against them. With minds on legal liberty, they thought the man who could raise the dead would raise an army of temporal warriors, rather than a host of angels to wage war with the interior life of man, whose default disposition due to sin was hell. To wage this war against the gates of hell, rather than Roman Oppressors, was a concept and truth lost on many of His followers. Rather than saving them from their crosses he commanded them to carry them as the only path, a narrow path, to evade the real enemy to whom they were enslaved.
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As we are heading into Holy Week, let us remember that our Lord thirsts for us!
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Deacon Ryan Sales
Deacon | Campus Minister | Rosary Warrior
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Please join us in praying for these intentions!
Please pray for my Aunt Luisa. She has cancer in multiple areas of her body. May God grant her strength and may she feel Jesus Christ right by her side. Please also pray for Selenia her daughter who takes care of her. May God continue to bless them both.
- Elva
Please pray for continued healing and recovery of Tommy from months of physical and mental suffering. Please pray for a cancer free outcome for surgery and MRI/ biopsy for JC and Shelley. Thanks be to God for His love and Faithfulness to us His broken children.
- Brenda
Pray for my daughter Victoria as she received a diagnosis of MS. And for me since my youngest daughter Theresa recently passed from this disease.
- Donna
Have a blessed Palm Sunday tomorrow! But now, it's meme time.
See ya next week! 👋
A.M.D.G.