The Crusader Bulletin of the Eucharistic Crusade for Children in Great Britain February 2015: Read inside: - Life of Saint Martin de Porres - Eucharistic devotion - The life of Christ - Bible History - The burning bush - Saints & Nations - Martyrs of Japan - Holy Souls Corner - My Catholic Faith - An image of God p. 4 p. 6 p. 8 p. 11 p. 12 p. 13 p. 14 Month of the Presentation of Our Lord Hostia 2 The Saint of the month V February 2015 Saint Valentine Priest and Martyr († 268) alentine was a holy priest in Rome, who assisted the martyrs during the persecution under Claudius II. His great virtue and influence became known, and he was apprehended and brought before the emperor's tribunal: “Why, Valentine, do you want to be the friend of our enemies and reject our friendship?” The Christian priest replied: “My Lord, if you knew the gift of God, you would be happy, and your empire with you; you would reject the cult of your idols and would adore the true God and His Son Jesus Christ.” One of the judges interrupted, asking the martyr what he thought of Jupiter and Mercury. “They are miserable, and spend all their lives in debauchery and crime!” The judge, furious, cried, “He has blasphemed against the gods and against the empire!” The emperor nonetheless continued his questioning with curiosity, pleased to have this opportunity to know what Christians thought. Valentine had the courage to exhort him to do penance for the blood of Christians which he had shed. “Believe in Jesus Christ, be baptised and you will be saved, and already in this life you will ensure your empire's glory and the triumph of your arms.” Claudius began to be convinced, and said to those in attendance, “Hear the beautiful doctrine this man is teaching us!” But the prefect of Rome, dissatisfied, cried out, “See how this Christian is seducing our prince!” Claudius, weakening, abandoned the holy priest to another judge. This man, named Asterius, had a little girl who had been blind for two years. Hearing of Jesus Christ, the Light of the world, he asked Valentine if he could convey that light to his child. Saint Valentine placed his hand on her eyes and prayed: “Lord Jesus Christ, true Light, illuminate this blind child!” The child saw, and the Judge with all his family confessed Christ and received Baptism. The emperor, hearing of this, would have turned his gaze away from these conversions, but fear caused him to betray his sense of justice. With several other Christians Saint Valentine was tortured and martyred in the year 268. This illustrious martyr has always been held in great honour in Rome, where there still exists a catacomb named for him. Saint Valentine’s feastday is on 14th February February 2015 Hostia FROM THE CHAPLAIN Dear Crusaders and Friends, By the time you receive this, you will probably be back in school. How did your summer go? I am sure that you had lots of fun and adventures. That is good. But did you grow in the love of Our Lord and in the practice of virtues. You might tell me that you are not able to check to see, that your soul is invisible. It is true that your soul is invisible, that there is no gauge you can check to see if you love God more. However, there is a way to check and it is by looking to see if we fulfilled the promises we made in the Eucharistic Crusade. Did I say the prayers that I promised to say? Did I fill out and turn in my treasure sheet as I promised I would? Did I make good Communions with good thanksgivings? Did I make acts of sacrifice, to suffer a little with Jesus? Did I try to make Jesus more known and loved by the people I live with and play with? If you can answer yes to those questions, then God bless you! You make my heart glad and the Heart of Jesus rejoices. If you find that you did these things poorly or completely forgot about them, then it is true that Jesus’ grows sad in looking at you; but don’t be discouraged, remake your promises and start again to do these things. Jesus will accept you back. 3 You may say to me that it never feels like you are becoming holier or that you love God more when you do the things you promised. I must tell you that you will never feel this growth like you feel a cool breeze or a cool drink. Have you ever seen a tree grow? No, it grows too slowly to actually see its growth. Yet, it grows so very big and strong. It is the same with your soul. When it grows, it makes no noise and doesn’t attract attention. As long as you do those things that are pleasing to God, He will make your soul grow bigger and stronger. —————————————— Please show this to your parents! Subscription fees for the Crusader magazine are now due for the year 2015. The cost for the 12 issues of the year 2015 is $10.00 per subscription. All payments are to be addressed to: Crusader Magazine 61 Koplick Road Park Ridge, QLD 4125 If checks are sent, please make them payable to: St. Philomena School. Thank you for your support in this matter. God bless you. Yours in Christ, Father Campbell Hostia 4 February 2015 Saint MARTIN OF PORRES The story of the little doctor of Lima, Peru THE LITTLE DOCTOR By Mary Fabyan Windeatt T he months passed, and Martin left the house of Dona Francesca, where his mother still lived. He had become Dr. de Rivero’s assistant, and every day was learning more and more about how to cure the sick. He lived in a house close to his work, a house belonging to a lady called Ventura de Luna. Each morning he got up very early and went to hear Mass at the church of San Lazaro. Although he was just a Negro boy, and the rich white people in the town paid him little attention, he knew that God loved him. God had thought so much of him, and of every other poor Negro in the world, that He had given each a soul that could never die. Now black people had extra sufferings to bear, but there would come a day when all the cruelty and injustice would be at an end. In Heaven there would be no one to care about the colour of one’s skin, or about the other things that mattered so much on earth. All that would matter in Heaven would be how well one had done his duty on earth, how faithfully one had loved God and done His will. God’s Will! Martin often used to think about that, as he knelt in the church of San Lazaro every morning, and watched the priest offer Holy Mass. What was God’s Will for those who lived on earth? Wasn’t it to love one another, because in every human body there is a soul that is the image of God Himself? “If I love people, and try to make them happy, I am really loving God and making Him happy,” Martin decided. “How glad I am that I was born! How glad everybody should be that they are living in this world, with a chance to do God’s Will and then go to live with Him forever in Heaven! And what a pity so few people see it this way!” Martin loved his new life. Before six months had passed, his employer, Dr. de Rivero, was telling his friends that he had never known such a trustworthy boy. “His hands seem to know just what to do for the sick,” he said. “And his memory? Well, it’s simply remarkable! That lad can make up any medicine, no matter how difficult. Why, he’s even learned how to set a broken bone!” It was true. Martin liked nothing better than to work around the little shop of his employer. Here were many shelves, each reaching to the ceiling, and each holding rows and rows of bottles. The bottles were all shapes and sizes, holding brightly coloured liquids and powders. These were the medicines which the doctor made out of herbs and plants. In only a short time, Martin knew all these medicines by name. He liked to look at the different bottles and to realise that they held comfort and relief for those who were sick. One morning the boy was alone in the shop, for Dr. de Rivero had gone to the other side of the city to visit a sick man. As usual, February 2015 Hostia Martin was busy. He swept the shop, dusted the tables, the chairs, the shelves with their bottles, and was hanging up a large bunch of herbs to dry when he heard a terrible commotion in the street. Two Indians had been fighting farther up the block, and one of them was bleeding badly from a great cut over the eyes. Martin looked out of the door and saw that the wounded man was being carried toward the shop. “Quick! Where is Dr. de Rivero?” cried a woman who had run ahead of the others. “This poor Indian is bleeding to death!” “The doctor isn’t here,” said Martin. “But don’t worry. I’ll look after the man.” The woman tossed a scornful look at the boy. “This is no time for jokes,” she said. “Quick! Tell me where there is another doctor’s shop!” Martin was very calm. “There wouldn’t be time to go for anyone else,” he said. “Here, help me open the door so they can bring the poor man inside.” “But you’re only a child!” cried the woman. “Don’t you see that this is a matter of life and death?” “Yes,” said Martin. “I see.” The Indian was brought in and laid upon a couch, and everyone was amazed to see how Martin at once took command of the situation. In an instant he had some water in a basin, a sponge in his hand and some strange, sweet-smelling white powder in a little dish. He bent over the man, who was moaning with pain, and went quietly to work. “Don’t worry,” he whispered. “You’re going to be all right.” The people who had crowded into the shop were silent as they watched the twelve-year -old Martin go about his 5 work. Where had a mere boy learned such gentle skill? Scarcely had he washed the dreadful wound with water and put the white powder on it than the bleeding began to stop. “Who is this little Negro?” whispered the woman who had first run into the room. There was wonder now, not scorn, in her voice. “He is Martin de Porres,” someone replied, “Dr. de Rivero’s apprentice. And a good one, too, by the look of things.” In a few minutes Martin had finished his work. The deep cut was now covered with a clean white cloth, and the man able to sit up and look around. “There,” said the boy. “You’re all right now. Just remember to be quiet and rest. And if you’ll come in tomorrow, I’ll put on a clean bandage. In the meantime, you might take this along with you.” The Indian took the little bottle of liquid that Martin handed to him and looked at it curiously. It was deep red in colour. “What’s this?” he asked. “Wine,” answered Martin. “You’ve had a bad shock, and a little drink of wine will help you to feel better.” One by one the people left the doctor’s house and went out into the street. Two of them took the wounded man by the arm to lead him home. But the others remained, talking in little groups about the remarkable scene they had just witnessed. “That lad’s a marvel!” said one man. “I don’t think the doctor himself could have done a better job. For myself, I’m afraid that the sight of all that blood would have made me lose my nerve.” “Young Martin de Porres doesn’t know what fear is,” put in another. “Why, I’ve seen him fix up many cases that were far worse than this…” More next month Hostia 6 February 2015 EUCHARISTIC DEVOTION The Heaven of the Tabernacle T here is a true Heaven here upon earth, a Heaven so genuine, so beautiful, so grace-abounding, that the human heart finds in it a true foretaste of the joys of Paradise. This Heaven is the Eucharistic Tabernacle, wher e our God dwells with us in the Blessed Sacr ament. Befor e the Tabernacle all our labours are lightened and sweetened; there our heart is satiated with the Bread of Life. There we receive eternal, inexpressibly precious graces and gifts. Once when the Venerable Balthasar Alvarez, the confessor of St. Teresa, knelt before the Tabernacle, Jesus appeared to him in the form of a child, His little hands filled to overflowing with pearls and diamonds – so many, that He could scarcely hold them. Looking at Balthasar with a sorrowful expression, the Divine Child said to him with touching pathos: If only someone would take them from Me! Every Catholic should be impressed with joyful amazement and deepest gratitude at the sight of the condescension which God manifests in the Holy Eucharist, and should, without intermission, praise this celestial gift, this Manna from Heaven. Whoever regards this wonderful gift of God with indifference forgets that in the Tabernacle the same God is present who conversed with our first parents in Paradise and spoke to Moses from the burning bush; that in the Tabernacle dwells the same God who once in human form walked upon earth and brought to mankind the glad tidings of salvation; who comforted the sorrowing, healed the sick and raised the dead to life. He forgets that the white Host conceals the God who once lay as a tiny Infant in the crib, and that from the altar the same Divine eye looks upon him which, dying, gazed upon the Blessed Mother and the beloved disciple at the foot of the Cross. February 2015 Hostia 7 Through the Blessed Sacrament earth is made, in very deed, a vestibule of Heaven. The supreme happiness of Heaven consists in possessing God. The Blessed in Heaven behold God face to face; they know Him, they love Him and are most intimately united with Him. According to the Prophet Ezechiel, the name of the new holy city of Heaven and the name of the Church on earth shall be: The Lord is there! (Ezech. 48:35). In the same sense St. John writes: “Behold the tabernacle of God with men, and He will dwell with them. And they shall be His people and God Himself with them shall be their God.” (Apoc. 21:3). It would, indeed, be something great if a seraph or a saint were to dwell among us in the form of bread; but how we should marvel at the love of the eternal God who dwells among us in so condescending a manner! God r evealed His pr esence in the Ark of the Covenant by listening to the prayers of the Jews and granting them many graces and favours, but He did not reveal Himself with the real and personal presence which He accords us in the Blessed Sacrament. Oh, let us appreciate this unspeakable gift! On the first Sunday of Lent in the year 1585, St. Teresa appeared to Father Jerome Gratian and said to him: We in Heaven and you on earth must be alike in purity and love; we in perfect enjoyment, and you in suffering. What we in Heaven do before the Divine Reality, that you on earth must do before the Blessed Sacrament. Announce this to all my daughters. Blessed Crescentia of Kaufbeuren often said: “Two things constitute my Heaven on earth: The Holy Will of God and the Most Blessed Sacrament.” Heaven is a state of perfect and eternal happiness, the spiritual possession of God, beholding Him face to face in the Beatific Vision and loving Him to the utmost of the creature’s powers in communion with the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Angels and the Saints. In the Blessed Sacrament we come closest to the supreme bliss of Heaven for we possess the same God who is the joy of the Blessed, in whose presence the angels veil their faces and sing their Sanctus, sanctus, sanctus! – “Holy, holy, holy!” – the God whom they reverently surround in every Tabernacle where He is present. Yes, we possess God and can even receive into our very being in Holy Communion Him who is the “Bread of Angels,” the “Manna from Heaven,” who becomes, as St. Thomas writes in the Lauda Sion, “the Food of pilgrims striving for Heaven.” 8 THE Life of christ Hostia February 2015 February 2015 Hostia 9 1) fold in half and then 2) fold along this line Daily Offering (to be recited when you wake up): O Jesus, through the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I offer Thee all my prayers, works, joys and sufferings of this day, for all the intentions of Thy Sacred Heart, in union with the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass throughout the world, and in reparation for my sins. I offer them particularly for... January: for broken families (follow the dotted line instruction and send it without an envelope) 10 Hostia February 2015 PROMISES IN THE EUCHARISTIC CRUSADE PAGE: Mor ning pr ayer and offer ing, Evening pr ayer and tr easur e sheet CRUSADER: 2 Decades, Holy Communion ever y Sunday, at least 1 sacr ifice a day fight against dominant fault, Confession once a month KNIGHT and HANDMAID: 5 decades ever y day, Spir itual Communion, 15 min. of meditation, Confession every 2 weeks. February 2015 Day of Month 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Total Morning Offering Hostia Crusader Treasure Chart—February 2015 For broken families Masses Commuions Sac. Spirit Sacrifces Visits to the B.Sac Rosary Decades 11 15 mins of Meditation Good Example Place Stamp Here The Crusader 61 Koplick Road Park Ridge, QLD 4125 Use tape to seal this edge Hostia 12 February 2015 February 2015 Hostia 13 14 Hostia February 2015 More next month! Hostia February 2015 BIBLE HISTORY 15 THE BURNING BUSH I can do all things in Him who strengtheneth me. – Phil. IV, 13 M oses fed the sheep of Jethro, his father-in-law. One day he drove his flock into the desert, and came as far as Mount Horeb. There the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire, which issued from the midst of a bush. Moses saw that the bush was on fire and was not burnt. He said: “I will go near to see why the bush is not burnt.” As Moses drew near the Lord cried out to him from the burning bush: “Moses, Moses!” and he answered: “Here I am.” And God said: “Come not nigh hither. Put off the shoes from thy feet; for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground. I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” Moses, in awful reverence, hid his face, and dared not look at God. And the Lord said to him: “I have seen the affliction of My people in Egypt, and I am come to deliver them out of the hands of the Egyptians, and to bring them out of that land into a land that floweth with milk and honey.” The Lord further told Moses that he should go to Pharaoh to demand the liberation of the children of Israel. Moses answered: “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh, and should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?” The Lord said: “I will be with thee.” Moses declared that the people would not believe him; but would ask who had sent him. Then God said to Moses, “I AM WHO AM. Thus shalt thou say to the children of Israel: ̕HE WHO IS hath sent me to you̒.” Moses answered and said: “They will not believe me, nor hear my voice; but they will say, ̒The Lord hath not appeared to thee̕.” Then God asked Moses: “What is that thou holdest in thy hand?” Moses answered, “A rod.” The Lord then told Moses to cast his rod upon the ground. He threw it upon the ground, and the rod was turned into a serpent, so that Moses fled from it in terror. But the Lord called him back, saying: “Take it by the tail.” Moses did so, and the serpent became again a rod. The Lord told Moses to work this, and some other signs, before the Israelites, and they would believe. But Moses still objected, saying that he was not eloquent, but that his speech was slow and hesitating. Then the Lord said to him, “Who made man’s mouth? or who made the dumb and the deaf, the seeing and the blind? Did not I? Go, therefore, and I will teach thee what thou shalt speak.” Moses answered: “I beseech Thee, Lord send whom Thou wilt send.” The Lord, being angry at Moses, said: “Aaron, thy brother, is eloquent; speak to him and put My words into his mouth; he shall speak in thy stead to the people.” So Moses returned to Egypt; and Aaron, his brother, inspired by the Lord, came forth to meet him. Moses repeated to his brother all the words of the Lord. Then they went together to assemble the children of Israel; and Aaron spoke to them that the Lord had looked upon their affliction. And Moses wrought the sign of the rod, and other miracles. Whereupon the people believed; and, falling down, they adored the Lord. As the people of Israel would not have believed that God had sent Moses to free them from slavery, but for the miracles he wrought; so we should not receive any one as sent by God, in a special manner, except he prove his mission by signs and miracles. Hostia 16 February 2015 Angels, Saints and NATIONS sing Praised be Jesus Christ our King. Japanese martyrs, 5th February J apan, or Nihon as the natives call it, was first discovered to the Church in 1541 by the Portuguese. Saint Francis Xavier visited there in 1549 and had a great influence. But he thought China was the key to the country’s heart and would later die on the threshold of that country without entering it. Meanwhile, in 1582, the Japanese emperor drove out the Jesuits, and forbade practice of the faith. Many natives died martyrs, while missionaries worked in secret. In 1597, twentysix Christians were arrested of whom three were Jesuit, including one priest, and seventeen Third Order Franciscan, all Japanese. Six others, including three priests, were Franciscans of Spanish origin. Three were only fourteen, thirteen and eleven years of age. Thomas Cozaki was left by his father (martyred too!) the family fortune but he replied that while his father was gaining a heavenly crown, he was left with the earthly stuff, which he didn’t want! Anthony was begged by his parents to at least put his faith aside and consider what he was losing. But he scorned their offer of this momentary life at the cost of his eternal one! Little Louis was offered his life by the governor who staggered at killing one so young. But he too embraced his cross. All twenty-six were tied to their cross, then transpierced by two spears which met in their breast and re-surfaced at the shoulders. It was February 5th 1597. When missionaries were able to return there in the middle of the nineteenth century they were met by Catholics who wished to know if they venerated Mary, were obedient to the Pope, and were celibate. When they answered yes to each question they were told that ten thousand secret Catholics lived there! Truly the blood of martyrs is the seed of Christians. As Our Lord tells us “For in this is the saying true: That it is one man that soweth, and it is another that reapeth. I have sent you to reap that in which you did not labour: others have laboured, and you have entered into their labours.” Is it mere coincidence that that the place of their martyrdom, Nagasaki, was also the city destroyed by the American atom bomb in 1945? And that Catholics faithful to their Rosary survived all the evil effects of this bomb? Let us pray for the missions of Asia. February 2015 Hostia 17 HOLY souls corner W e have a regard for the Holy Souls. We realise the severe punishments they undergo, and, no doubt, it has been impressed on us that we may help them in a number of efficient ways. For example, we may wish to gain indulgences on their behalf; the ultimate being plenary indulgences applicable to the Holy Souls. It should be remembered that the gaining of a plenary indulgence is subject to certain conditions. One of these should particularly be noted: we must have no affection at all for sin, even venial sin. What ought we deduce from this? We should firstly have a great horror of the smallest sins. We take great care to avoid actions for which human justice would inflict on us even a single year’s imprisonment. For venial faults divine justice punishes with sufferings infinitely more terrible than earthly prisons. It is not uncommon that, where venial sin is in question, there is often a strange forgetfulness of our faith. We know that the penalties of Purgatory will be the chastisement of every word we have spoken which is untrue; every word which is contrary to charity or humility; of all acts of sensuality and of selfishness; of all fits of bad temper; of our vanity; of all the time we have lost or have employed badly. Yet in spite of that we allow ourselves to commit all of these faults. What folly to expose ourselves for so little to such great punishments. If we had really meditated on Purgatory we should have developed a spirit of penance. Our venial sins and temporal punishments due to sins already pardoned must be paid for to satisfy divine justice. Now to acquit ourselves of these great debts, we have only two means to choose from: either penance in this world, or Purgatory in the next. Purgatory is terrible, penance here below is easy; for in proportion as God is severe after death, He is good and indulgent during life. We should mortify our little passions during life; we should develop a hatred of sin which so offends God; we should say, “What is this small mortification compared with Purgatory, which I am sparing myself.” In addition, we should consciously determine to develop an aversion for sin, so we shall be in the best possible state to benefit the souls in Purgatory by gaining the maximum benefit from indulgences sought for their release. Some indulgences are granted in behalf of the living only, while others may be applied in behalf of the souls departed. It should be noted, however, that the application has not the same significance in both cases. The Church in granting an indulgence to the living exercises her jurisdiction; over the dead she has no jurisdiction and therefore makes the indulgence available for them by way of suffrage (per modum suffragii), i.e. she petitions God to accept these works of satisfaction and in consideration thereof to mitigate or shorten the sufferings of the souls in Purgatory.” To benefit those poor suffering souls, it is not only important what we do (e.g. gain indulgences,) but maybe more important, what we are (humble and mortified.) St. Dominic Savio, help us to develop an angel-like innocence that was so characteristic of thee. Hostia 18 February 2015 MY CATHOLIC FAITH Chapter 17. An image of God The Book of Genesis describes the creation of the first man and the first woman in these words: "And the Lord God formed man of the slime of the earth, and breathed into his face the breath of life; and man became a living soul. Then the Lord God cast a deep sleep upon Adam: and when he was fast asleep, he took one of his ribs. ... And the Lord God built the rib which he took from Adam into a woman"(Gen. 2:7, 21, 22). Such was the creation of Adam and Eve, our first parents. God gave them power over all created things: the earth, the beasts, birds, fishes, plants, and all things else. What is man? Man is a creature composed of body and soul, and made to the image and likeness of God. Before the creation of man, God said, "Let us make man to our image and likeness; and let him have dominion over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and the beasts, and the whole earth, and every creeping creature that moveth upon the earth" (Gen. 1:26). 1. God formed the body of man from the slime of the earth; but He breathed the soul into man's body. In this way the soul came direct from God, and indicates closer likeness to Him. We should always reverence our likeness to God, trying to perfect it by making our soul as holy as possible. Once the enemies of a king tried to make his son do something wrong. But the youth proudly and resolutely answered, "No! I am the son of the king!" By Baptism man becomes the adopted son of God, Who is infinitely higher than any earthly king. Man’s soul is like his Father in Heaven. 2. The soul of man is different from the soul of brute animals. Animals have senses and instinct, but neither reason nor free will. Free will is that power of the soul to choose whether to act or not to act. If a horse has not eaten for a day, and you put some hay before him, he will eat, because his instinct moves him to do so. But a hungry man may fast for days, and still refuse to eat however hungry he may be, if he wills not to eat. The difference between man’s free will and animal instinct is that a man can say " No"to himself. 3. The soul and the body are not loosely connected parts of man; they are united in a substantial union. The soul is not located in any particular member of the body, but is whole and entire in each part. February 2015 Hostia 19 Liturgy this month The month of February is dedicated to the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple February 1st: Septuagesima Preparation for Lent; God calls us to work in His Vineyard. February 2nd: Candlemas Presentation of Jesus in the Temple 40 days after He was born, according to the Jewish Law of the Old Testament. Our Lady comes to offer the Son of God in the Temple and receives the prophecy of the old man Simeon: a sword will pierce Her Heart! February 3rd: St Blaise On this day or on the following Sunday, in honour of St Blaise, one gets the throat blessed by a priest to prevent illnesses during the coming year and to protect our voice with which one praises God. February 8th: Sexagesima It is not enough to hear the Word of God, we must listen to it, keep it in a good and perfect heart, and then we will bring forth good fruits, for which Jesus will The Stations of the Cross - 10 reward us in eternity. February 11th: Apparition of Our Lady at Lourdes Message of Our Lady to St Bernadette: “I do not promise you happiness in this world, but in the next!”; “Penance! you must pray for sinners.”; “I am the Immaculate Conception!” February 15th: Quinquagesima It is Jesus in His Charity that will deliver us from the slavery of sin! February 18th: Ash Wednesday Fast and abstinence on this first day of Lent. Fast means one main meal and two small meals and abstinence means no meat. Offer this as penance for sin and love of God. February 22nd: 1st Sunday of Lent We prepare our salvation by prayer, penance and works of Charity. Ember days this week, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. Jesus is stripped of His garments Hostia 20 February 2015 The Crusader prays, receives Communion, makes sacrifices and shows good example for the intention that is given him each month by Bishop Bernard Fellay, successor of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre as Superior General of the Society of Saint Pius X February 2015 Intention: For broken families Daily offering PRAYER O To be recited every morning when you wake up Jesus, through the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I offer Thee all my prayers, works, joys and sufferings of this day, for all the intentions of Thy Sacred Heart, in union with the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass throughout the world, and in reparation for my sins. I offer them particularly for broken families SACRIFICE COMMUNION APOSTOLATE NOVEMBER 2014 RESULTS The Intention was for the Holy Souls and the dying Communions Treasure Sheets returned Morning Offering Masses 39 1031 325 Sac. Spirit. 325 490 Sacrifices Decades of the Rosary Visits to Blessed Sacrament 15 mins of meditation Good Example 1677 4022 460 262 1602 Remember that all the good works and prayers from your treasure sheets are given each month to Bishop Fellay and His Excellency offers them at his Mass on the first Saturday of every month. Eucharistic Crusade in Australia, St. Philomena School, 61 Koplick Road, Park Ridge, Queensland 4125 © Eucharistic Crusade 2014 - email: [email protected]
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