Day: November 19, 2024

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Thought for the Day – 19 November – The Practice of Praying Constantly 2

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Thought for the Day – 19 November – Meditations with Saint Alphonsus Maria de Liguori (1696-1787) Bishop, Confessor, Most Zealous Doctor of the Church

“How to Pray at All Times”
By St Alphonsus Maria de Liguori (1696-1787)

The Practice of Praying Constantly
Excerpt from Chapter Five:2

“Perform your more important Acts of Devotion with great care, such as going to Confession, receiving Holy Communion, reciting the Divine Office and other similar duties.

Whenever you are going to begin some external occupation, like study or work, or the duty of your state in life, do not forget to offer it to God, praying His assistance to enable you to perform it well.
Afterwards, follow the example of St Catharine of Siena and retire often to the cell of your heart, in order to unite yourself to God.
In a word, whatever you do, do it with God and for Him. When you leave your room, or go out of the house and when you return – say a Hail Mary and thus recommend yourself to the Blessed Virgin.

At your meals, whether you find them pleasant to your taste, or not to your liking, offer all to God. On rising from table, say, as grace, some little prayer like this: ‘Lord, how good Thou art to one who has offended Thee!’

During the day give some time to spiritual reading and make a visit to the Blessed Sacrament and to Our Lady.
In the evening, say the Rosary, examine your conscience, make Acts of Faith, Hope, Charity and Contrition; promise to serve God more fervently and to receive the holy Sacraments during life and at death and form the intention of gaining all the Indulgences within your power.
When you go to bed, reflect that you have deserved to lie in the fire of hell – then, with a Crucifix in your arms, compose yourself to sleep, saying: ‘In peace, in the self-same I will sleep and I will rest‘ (Ps 4:9).”

Posted in DOCTORS of the Church, FATHERS of the Church, GOD is LOVE, QUOTES on ALMS, QUOTES on HEAVEN, QUOTES on LOVE of GOD, QUOTES on WEALTH/RICHES, The HEART, The WORD

Quote/s of the Day – 19 November – Heavenly Treasures

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Quote/s of the Day – 19 November – St Elizabeth of Hungary (1207-1231) Widow – Proverbs 31:10-31;, Matthew 13:44-52 – Scripture search here: https://www.drbo.org/

“The Kingdom of Heaven
is like a treasure
hidden in a field.”

Matthew 13:44

“Do not lay up for yourselves
treasures on earth,
where rust and moth consume
and where thieves break in and steal
but lay up for yourselves,
treasures in Heaven …”

Matthew 6:19-20

“For the man who loves God,
it is sufficient to please the One he loves
and, there is no greater recompense to be sought,
than the loving itself.
For love is from God, by the very fact
that God Himself is love.
The good and chaste soul
is so happy to be filled with Him
that it desires to take delight in nothing else.
For what the Lord says is very true:
‘Where your treasure is,
there also will your heart be.’”

“What is a man’s treasure
but the heaping up of profits
and the fruit of his toil?
For, whatever a man sows,
this too will he reap and each man’s gain,
matches his toil and where delight
and enjoyment are found,
there the heart’s desire is attached.
Now, there are many kinds of wealth
and a variety of grounds for rejoicing –
every man’s treasure is that, which he desires.
If it is based on earthly ambitions,
its acquisition makes men not blessed but wretched.
… By distributing what might be superfluous
to support the poor, they are amassing
imperishable riches, so that what they have
discreetly given, cannot be subject to loss.
They have properly placed those riches,
where their heart is – it is a most blessed thing,
to work to increase such riches,
rather than to fear that they may pass away.”

St Pope Leo the Great (400-461)
ather and Doctor of the Church

“The love of God is the end,
the perfection and the excellence,
of the universe. ”

(Treatise on the Love of God,
Book 10, Chapter 1)

St Francis de Sales (1567-1622)
Doctor of the Church

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One Minute Reflection – 19 November – ‘ … Thinking only of the life to come …’

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One Minute Reflection – 19 November – “The Month of the Holy Souls in Purgatory” – St Elizabeth of Hungary (1207-1231) Widow – Proverbs 31:10-31;, Matthew 13:44-52 – – – Scripture search here: https://www.drbo.org/

“The Kingdom of Heaven is like a treasure hidden in a field;
he who finds it, hides it and in his joy, goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.” – Matthew 13:44

REFLECTION – “Let us call to mind that widow who, in her care for the poor, forgot herself, to the point of giving away everything she had to live on, thinking only of the life to come, as our Lord Himself attests. The others gave of their abundance but she – even poorer, perhaps, than many of the poor, for her whole fortune resided in two small coins – she it was, who carried in her heart more wealth than many of the wealthy.

She looked only at the riches of the eternal reward. In her desire for heavenly treasure, she gave up all she possessed, as being goods which come from the earth and return to the earth (Gn 3:19). She gave all she had, in order to possess that which she did not as yet see. She gave away perishable goods, so that she might gain immortal ones. This poor little lady had not forgotten the means foreseen and arranged by our Lord, for acquiring the future reward. Neither, therefore, did the Lord forget her on His part and even now, the Judge of the world has pronounced His sentence – He praises her whom He will crown on the Day of Judgement.” – St Paulinus of Nola (355-431) Bishop, Father of the Church (Letter 34 2-4).

PRAYER – O merciful God, enlighten the hearts of Thy faithful people and through the glorious prayers of blessed Elizabeth, make us look upon worldly prosperity as nought and ever rejoice in heavenly consolation. Through Jesus Christ, Thy Son our Lord, Who lives and reigns with Thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end. Amen (Collect).

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Our Morning Offering – 19 November – – Acts of Faith, Hope and Charity

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Our Morning Offering – 19 November – Acts of Faith, Hope and Charity

ACT of FAITH

O MY GOD,
I firmly believe
that Thou art one God in Three Divine Persons,
Father, Son and Holy Ghost.
I believe that Thy Divine Son became Man
and died for our sins
and that He will come to judge the living and the dead.
I believe these and all the truths
which the Holy Catholic Church teaches
because Thou hast revealed them,
Who canst neither deceive nor be deceived.
Amen

ACT of HOPE

O MY GOD,
relying on Thy almighty power
and infinite mercy and promises,
I hope to obtain pardon of my sins,
the help of Thy grace
and Life Everlasting,
through the merits of Jesus Christ,
my Lord and Redeemer.
Amen

ACT of CHARITY

O MY GOD,
I love Thee above all things,
with my whole heart and soul
because Thou art all-good
and worthy of all love.
I love my neighbour as myself
for the love of Thee.
I forgive all who have injured me
and ask pardon.
of all whom I have injured.
Amen

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Saint of the Day – 19 November – Saint Pontianus (Died 235) Pope Martyr

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Saint of the Day – 19 November – Saint Pontianus (Died 235) Pope Martyr. Papal Ascension 21 July 230. Born at Rome, Italy and died on 19 November 235 from the horrible violence of the scourgins received in the mines of Sardinia. Patronages – Carbonia and Montaldo Scarampi, both Cities in Italy. Also known as – Pontian, Pontianius, Ponziano. Additional Memorial – 13 August (Depositiones Martyrum, 354).

The Roman Martyrology reads today: “The birthday of St Pontian, Pope and Martyr, who with the Priest, Hippolytus, was transported to Sardinia by the Governor Alexander and there, being scourged to death with rods, consumated his Martyrdom. His body was conveyed to Rome by the blessed Pope Fabian and buried in the Cemetery of Callixtus.”

In the first years of Pontian’s Pontificate, the early Christian Church enjoyed relative peace. But then, according to the well-known Church historian St Eusebius, the next Emperor, Maximinus, began a campaign of active and brutal persecution of the nascent Church. Both Pope Pontian and the Antipope Hippolytus of Rome, were arrested and exiled to laboUr in the mines of Sardinia, generally regarded as a death sentence.

In order to make certain that the Church was not deprived of its leadership, Saint Pontian stepped down, the first Pope ever to do so. Consequently, Pope Anteros was elected in his stead but reigned for less than two months.

Pope Fabian (236-50), successor to Pope Anteros, had the remains of StPontian brought to Rome at a later date and Pontian was buried in the Papal crypt of the Catacomb of Callixtus on the Appian Way. The slab covering his Tomb was discovered in 1909. Thereon the Greek inscribed reads: “Pontianus Bish”). The inscription “MARTUR” had been added in a different hand.

In 235 during the reign of Maximinus, a persecution directed chiefly against the Ecclesiastical hierarchy began. One of its first victims was Pontian, who with Hippolytus, was banished to the mines on the Island of Sardinia. How long Pontian endured the sufferings of exile and harsh treatment in the Sardinian mines is unknown.

Pope Fabian (236-250), successor to Pope Anteros, had the remains of St Pontian and Hippolytus brought to Rome.

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Feast of Our Lady of Divine Providence. St Pontian, Pope and Martyr, St Elizabeth, Widow and the Saints for 19 November

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Feast of Our Lady of Divine Providence:
HERE:
https://anastpaul.com/2018/11/19/feast-of-our-lady-of-divine-providence-and-memorials-of-the-saints-19-november/

Italian Painter Scipione Pulzone 1530

St Pontian (Died 235) Pope Martyr

St Elizabeth of Hungary TOSF (1207-1231) Widow, Princess, Third Order Franciscans, Mother, Apostle of the poor, the sick, the needy.. She was Canonised on 27 May 1235 by Pope Gregory IX at Perugia, Italy. Patronages – hospitals, nurses, bakers, brides, countesses, dying children, exiles, homeless people, lace-makers, widows. all Catholic charities and the Third Order of Saint Francis.
About St Elizabeth:
https://anastpaul.wordpress.com/2017/11/17/saint-of-the-day-st-elizabeth-of-hungary-1207-1231-t-o-s-f/
Her Feast Day is 19 November – movedto the 17 November in 1969

St Atto of Tordino
St Azas of Isauria
St Barlaam of Caves
St Barlaam of Antioch
St Corbre of Anglesey
St David of Augsburg
St Ebbe of Minster-of-Thanet
St Egbert of York

Blessed James Benefatti OP (Died 1332) Bishop, Priest of the Order of Preachers, Papal Legate in the service of Pope Benedict XI and of Pope John XXII, Beatified in 1859 by Pope Pius IX.
“Father of the Poor”
https://anastpaul.com/2022/11/19/saint-of-the-day-19-november-blessed-james-benefatti-op-died-1332-father-of-the-poor/

St James of Sasseau
St Maximus of Caesarea
St Maximus of Rome

St Mechtilde of Hackeborn (c 1241-1298) Benedictine Nun, Mystic, Teacher, Spiritual adviser, called “God’s nightingale” – also known as Saint Mechtilde of Hackeborn and of Helfta, sister of St Gertrude the Great. Patronage – against blindness.
Her Life:
https://anastpaul.com/2019/11/19/saint-of-the-day-19-november-saint-matilda-of-hackeborn-c-1241-1298/

St Medana
St Nerses the Great
St Obadiah the Prophet
St Tuto

Martyrs of Heraclea – 40 Saints: Forty women, a mix of Nuns, widows and other lay women, who were Martyred together. No other details have come down to us. They died at Heraclea, Thrace.

Martyrs of Vienne: – 3 Saints
St Exuperius
St Felicianus
St Severinus