Quote/s of the Day – 8 March – Monday of the Third week of Lent, Readings: 2 Kings 5:1-15, Psalm 42:2-3; 43:3-4, Luke 4:24-30 and the Memorial of St John of God (1495-1550)
“Love the poor tenderly,
regarding them as your masters
and yourselves as their servants.”
“For just as water extinguishes a fire,
just so does charity blot out our sins.”
MORE HERE:
https://anastpaul.com/2019/03/08/quote-s-of-the-day-8-march-st-john-of-god/
It is time to say au revoir “Noble Company”
Dear fellow “ardent travellers and noble company,” as we were so beautifully described by St Theodore the Studite in this morning’s One Minute Reflection, I have to leave you for a while to prepare for my frightening move in 2 weeks time.
Please remember me in your prayers – we all know the huge stresses of moving. I definitely need assistance from on high! I could probably take a lesson from our Blessed Mother when the Holy Family fled. I am sure they packed a little lighter than what I am trying to do. Between our Blessed Mother Mary and St Joseph, all will be well. And perhaps, St Jude, as the Patron of hopeless causes, will add his prayer to theirs!
I will, as always, be keeping you all, in mine.
May our good Lord bless us all
and our beloved Mother Mary and St Joseph,
constantly intercede for us.
JMJ
Be our Shelter, Lord, when we are home,
our Companion when we are away
and our welcome Guest when we return.
And at last, receive us into the dwelling place
You have prepared for us
in Your Father’s house,
where You live forever and ever.
Amen
With love
Ana
Thanksgiving Mass for Nicole
Holy Mass will be said for Nicole
on Thursday 26 March
And YES! we still have Daily Mass
but not for long as we too, enter ‘lockdown’ on Friday.
Nicole, apologies for the delay but our Priests were on their Lenten Retreat.
Visit Nicole’s inspiring Catholic blog here:
https://devotionsstmaximiliankolbeandmilitiaimmaculata.wordpress.com/
I do not cease to give thanks for you!
Ephesians 1:16
Any Donation, no matter how small,
will be received with all my heart!
Deo Gratias
St Felix of Cantalice (151-1587)
To make a Donation and assist this Site to keep going, please go to:
I thank and bless you all.
Holy Mass and Daily Prayer, will be offered for those who donate.
During this time of uncertainty, may we all draw closer to God and keep our eyes fixed on Christ.
You all remain in my daily prayer.
“I will give you rest.”
Your Inbox will shortly be burdened again with my posts.
The new PC is up (not quite organised yet) and I will be back next week.
In the meantime, I send you greetings and prayers for your Lenten journey and thanksgiving for your prayers and for the Donations some have graced me with. Your Donations have greatly assisted me in getting back online.
“Prayer is an aspiration of the heart.
It is a simple glance directed to Heaven.
It is a cry of gratitude and love
in the midst of trial as well as joy.”
“O God, grant that whatever good things I have,
I may share generously with those who have not
and whatever good things I do not have,
I may request humbly from those who do.”
Holy Mass will be offered in thanksgiving for the generous and gracious support of:
Catherine and Sharyn, on Wednesday 22 January
Suzette and Hugh, on Thursday 23 January
Laracel, on Friday 24 January
All and any donations help keep this site going.
Holy Mass will be offered for all those who assist.
I offer today, special Prayers for Laurie
who, in her generosity and love, has
contributed to the upkeep of this site.“Enter his gates with thanksgiving
and his courts with praise,
give thanks to him and praise his name.”
Psalm 100:4Dear Laurie,
Holy Mass will be said for your Bishop,
who is ill, (as requested by Laurie)
today, Tuesday 17 December
at 18.00 South African time.I wish you, dear Laurie, a beautiful Christmas.
May the Infant Christ bless you abundantly.May God shine His Face upon you, your loved ones and on your Bishop.
“Do not be anxious about anything
but in every situation, by prayer and petition,
with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.
And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding,
will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.”Philippians 4:6-7
Today is #GivingTuesday – “Grow with me” – 3 December
a day when people all over the world
financially support their favourite nonprofit causes.Your donation will help Breathing Catholic to keep going!
If you’ve been impacted by this little apostolate, please consider making a donation.
I rely on your support to sustain this mission of evangelisation, “Grow with Me” in faith, knowledge and love and thus truly begin “Breathing Catholic.”
Holy Mass is offered for all those who assist.
May the good Lord bless and keep us all!
You remain in my daily prayer.
I do not cease to give thanks for you!
Ephesians 1:16
Any Donation, no matter how small,
will be received with all my heart!
To make a Donation and assist this Site to keep going, please go to:
I thank and bless you all.
“So now, our God, we give thanks to you
and praise your majestic name…”
1 Chronicles 29:13
Ana StPaul OP
Dear Followers and Friends
I have done it!
Please go to:
https://anastpaul.com/about/anastpaul-com/
I have at last upgraded – in future, you will find the link at the top of the Screen in a white bar and in the Category “About Me” in the sidebar/
God’s richest blessings to you all.
Love
Ana
About, Yes, about – 10 years ago a new Catholic Social Media website was launched in South Africa. The creators and dreamers were in my Parish and I got involved – before long I was part of the leading Team and thus began this little project of mine.
When, after a long slog of around 8 years and many curved balls – mostly financial ones (being in South Africa makes the financial aspects very difficult) – I left and began my own little project here.
I have been known as Anastpaul online, for much longer than the 10 years though – my name is Ana, St Paul is one of my two Confirmation Saints and I have always been very involved with catechesis and evangelisation in some form or another, trusting always in the passion and zeal of St Paul.
I am a ‘cradle’ Catholic, a Dominican Tertiary, brought up in a wholly Catholic home by Spanish and Italian parents (with a bit of Lithuanian Jewish blood too). Rosary twice a week as a family, daily prayer, weekly Confession, Mass every day during Lent, etc etc. We went to a Dominican Convent Private School and Christian Brothers schools , belonged to all available Catholic apostolates and just “Breathed Catholic”.
And so it has been – married a Catholic and our children too “Breath Catholic”, for our blood is Catholic and is graced by the Holy Trinity and our forefathers are the Apostles. Mary is our Holy Mother and our friends are the Saints and Angels.
I live a totally Catholic life, involved in our Parish, running various apostolates there, am an ‘old-fashioned Catholic’ of the Spanish school and am 100% true to the Magisterium, to Pope Francis and to our home in Rome.
I know this much is true – if you ‘Breath Catholic” so too will your children grow up truly Catholic! Amen.
