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Rediscovering the Rosary: A Journey Through the Mysteries

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Jesuits Survived the Atomic Bomb Thanks to the Rosary

About 80,000 people died right away in the Hiroshima attack, and up to 130,000 people, mostly civilians, may have died because of it. About 40,000 people were killed right away in the attack on the port city of Nagasaki, and a third of the city was destroyed.
Four Jesuits were near the center of the Hiroshima bombing, but they lived through the disaster and were not hurt by the radiation that killed thousands of people in the months afterward.
Hugo Lassalle, Hubert Schiffer, Wilhelm Kleinsorge, and Hubert Cieslik, who were all Jesuit priests, were at the rectory of the church of Our Lady of the Assumption, which was one of the few buildings that did not get damaged by the bomb.
Father Cieslik wrote in his diary that the broken windows hurt them a little, but that the atomic energy that was released did not hurt them at all.
The doctors who cared for them afterward told them that the radiation they had been exposed to would cause serious lesions, illness, and death at an earlier age.
The …

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How to Pray the Rosary Step by Step for Beginners

How to pray the Rosary
How to say the Rosary
1. Preparation
Start by making the sign of the Cross:
In the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Then recite the Apostle’s Creed:
I believe in God, the Father Almighty,
Creator of Heaven and earth; and in Jesus Christ,
His only Son Our Lord, Who was conceived by the Holy Spirit,
born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried.
He descended into Hell; the third day He rose again from the dead;
He ascended into Heaven, and sitteth at the right hand of God, the Father almighty; from thence He shall come to judge the living and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy Catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body and life everlasting. Amen.
Then say 1 Our Father, 3 Hail Marys (for the virtues of Faith, Hope and Charity) and then 1 Glory Be:
Our Father, Who art in heaven, Hallowed be Thy Name. Thy Kingdom come. Thy …

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A True Story: The “Hail Mary” is a Powerful Prayer

A little six-year-old Protestant boy had often heard his Catholic companion reciting the prayer ‘Hail Mary.’ He liked it so much that he copied it, memorized it and would recite it every day. ‘Look, Mummy, what a beautiful prayer,’ he said to his mother one day. ‘Never again say it,’ answered the mother.’ it is a superstitious prayer of Catholics who adore idols and think Mary a goddess. After all, she is a woman like any other. Come on, take this Bible and read it. It contains everything that we are bound to do and have to do.’
From that day on the little boy discontinued his daily ‘Hail Mary’ and gave himself more time to reading the Bible instead. One day, while reading the Gospel, he came across the passage about the Annunciation of the Angel to Our Lady. Full of joy, the little boy ran to his mother and said: ‘Mummy, I have found the ‘Hail Mary’ in the Bible which says: ‘Hail Mary full of grace, the Lord is with thee, blessed art thou amongst women. ‘ Why do you call it a …

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I Am Not Ashamed to Call Mary Mother!

St. Paul says, “For I am not ashamed of the gospel: it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who has faith, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.” (Romans 1:16) This is true for all the gospel message of Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour. At the crucifixion, Jesus gave Mary as Mother to the disciple whom he loved. We read, “When Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing near, he said to his mother, ‘Woman, behold, your son!’ Then he said to the disciple, ‘Behold, your mother!’ And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home.” (John 19:26-27)
This above act of love of a dying Son entrusting a sorrowful Mother to a beloved disciple is one worthy of our imitation as beloved disciples of Jesus whom we claim to be our Master. The Master in his wisdom thought it wise to give his Mother to us for a good reason. Who are we to refuse such an offer from our Lord Jesus Christ? After all, we all know that Jesus honoured his heavenly Father and his earthly …

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Questions and Answers About Devotion to Mary

St. Bonaventure said, “Into thy hands, O Lady, I commend my spirit.” Thus he served the creature more than the Creator, to whom alone all such words should be addressed.
St. Bonaventure did not serve the creature more than the Creator. In commending his soul to Mary he was not commending it to anyone opposed to God. He did it because of God, who chose Mary as the second Eve. Eve brought us forth to misery and to death; Mary brought us forth to happiness and to life when she brought forth our Saviour. Like the kings from the East, St. Bonaventure knew that after the long journey through this life, he would also find the child Jesus with Mary His mother and that if he commended his soul to the mother he would necessarily find himself in the presence of the child, even in eternity. Gladly on my own deathbed would I utter the words used by St. Bonaventure. As Jesus came to us through Mary, so we should go to Him through her, whether we think of it or not.
Mary is no different from your own …

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Questions and Answers About Images and Statues

Why are Catholic Churches decorated with images and statues in direct violation of the second commandment?
The second commandment is, “Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.” Protestants, of course, call that the third commandment. But they are wrong in doing so, having taken that part of the first commandment which refers to images as the second of God’s commandments. But do those words forbid the making of images? They do not. God was forbidding idolatry, not the making of images. He said, “Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven image of anything in the heaven above, or in the earth beneath. Thou shalt not bow down to them nor worship them.” God deliberately adds those last words, yet you ignore them. He forbids men to make images in order to adore them. But He does not forbid the making of images. You will find the commandments given in Exodus, XX. But in that same Book, XXV., 18, you will find God ordering the Jews to make images of Angels! Would you accuse …

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Questions and Answers about the Rosary

Attending a Catholic Church one evening I was disgusted by the rigmarole called the Rosary. What is that Rosary?
The Rosary is a special form of devotion to Mary. One takes a set of beads, divided into five sections, each section consisting of one large bead and ten small ones. Holding the large bead, one says the Our Father, and on each of the small ones, the Hail Mary. Between each section or decade the Gloria is said. Whilst saying the prayers, one meditates or thinks of the joys, or sorrows, or glories of Christ’s life and of that of His Mother. It is a very beautiful form of prayer with which you were disgusted merely because you did not understand it.
The Rosary is a relic of the superstitious middle ages, when it was meant for ignorant people.
The use of beads dates from the earliest centuries. The prayers embodied in the Rosary were composed by Christ Himself in the case of the Our Father, and by the Angel Gabriel, St. Elizabeth, and the Council of Ephesus in the 5th century, …

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Is the Hail Mary Prayer Biblical?

The “Hail Mary” is the illuminative word ever spoken to a human being and it is through it that the Light (Jesus Christ) came into the midst of men to overcome darkness.
Let’s examine the Hail Mary prayer.
Hail Mary, full of Grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou amongst women, and blessed is the Fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and in the hour of our death. Amen
[Part 1] Hail Mary, full of Grace, the Lord is with thee.
This is derived from the greeting of the angel Gabriel to Mary.
And he came to her and said, “Hail, O favoured one, the Lord is with you!” (Luke 1:28 RSV)
And the angel being come in, said unto her: Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women. (Luke 1:28 DRB)
The biblical Greek word used by the angel kecharito¯mene¯ is rightly translated as “full of grace,” it is the perfect passive participle of the Greek word charitoo¯ which means, “to grace.” Mary was “full of grace” because the …

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Free Rosary Book to Help You Explain the Rosary

Let’s talk about the Rosary
Is the Rosary Biblical?
by Godwin Delali Adadzie
Many people are wondering why Catholics hold those beads called the rosary in their hands and what the real inspiration behind them is. In this little booklet, I will attempt to give quick answers to some of the questions and doubts often raised by people.
Catholic Apologetics Guide 101
Scriptural Reference for Catholic Apologetics
by Godwin Delali Adadzie
This is a little book for those seeking a right understanding of apologetics in the context of Catholicism. It is written in a simple and friendly manner. It is an attempt to look at some Catholic positions from a Biblical perspective. It is hoped that this book will appeal to both Catholic and non-Catholic readers. It is not written in a “scholarly” way, but as a plain “theological” statement with the hope of carrying conviction.
This book does not pretend to be exhaustive. The field which it covers is too vast to admit of minute analysis. A good number …

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A 3-Year-Old Catholic Girl with Miraculous Healing Powers from Tanzania, Africa

Annice is a three year old girl from Mara in Tanzania, East Africa. Her gift of healing people with various diseases and illnesses just with water that she prays over and pours over the heads of people is causing a lot of shock worldwide.
Annice by the special grace of God has been used to heal thousands of people with all manner of diseases and illnesses that even specialized medical doctors and surgeons could not cure or treat effectively.
Annice, unlike ordinary children, was born in an extraordinary way. Normally, babies are born after 9 months in their mothers womb. However, Annice stayed in the womb of her mother for 3 years. As if that is not enough, Annice began talking and walking 7 months after her birth.
Annice is the lastborn in the family of 11 children. Julius Utieno is her father and Agnes Taabu Julius is her mother. They are Catholics from Tanzania in East Africa.
Annice began to demonstrate her miraculous healing of the sick after she claimed that she was being called …

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DIVINE MERCY - Sunday Homily and Mass Readings

THEME: DIVINE MERCY
READINGS: Acts 5:12-16/ Revelation 1:9-13, 17-19/ John 20:19-31
2nd Sunday of Easter (Divine Mercy Sunday)
Mercy is “a kind or forgiving attitude towards somebody that you have the power to harm or right to punish”. Divine Mercy is, therefore, God’s kind or forgiving attitude towards us who deserve His punishment as a result of our sins. Pope Francis puts it this way: Divine Mercy is “the ultimate and supreme act by which God comes to meet us.” It is “the bridge that connects God and man, opening our hearts to the hope of being loved forever despite our sinfulness”.
Divine Mercy, according to Pope Francis, “has become living and visible in Jesus of Nazareth”. Jesus Christ, the Pope continues, “is the face of the Father’s mercy. … Whoever sees Jesus sees the Father (cf. John 14:9). Jesus of Nazareth, by His words, His actions, and His entire person reveals the mercy of God”.
Jesus Christ, the face of the Father’s mercy, demonstrated and continues to demonstrate …

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THE RESURRECTION: JESUS MAKES THE IMPOSSIBLE POSSIBLE - Sunday Homily and Mass Readings

THEME: THE RESURRECTION: JESUS MAKES THE IMPOSSIBLE POSSIBLE
READINGS: Acts 10:34, 37-43/ Colossians 3:1-4 or 1 Corinthians 5:6-8/ John 20:1-9 or Luke 24:1-12
Easter Sunday homily
By His resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ has made the impossible possible. As humans, we sometimes encounter problems or difficulties that are simply impossible to resolve on our own. A relation, for instance, is diagnosed of a terminal cancerous condition, and we realize that all the science, technology, medicine and money of the world cannot help. Or a dear one dies and we are grieved by the impossibility of bringing him/her back to life. Jesus, however, is capable of turning impossibilities into possibilities.
Mary Magdalene and her companions went to the tomb early that faithful resurrection morning worried about the impossibility of removing the huge stone from the entrance of the tomb (Mark 16:3). Fortunately, they were soon to realize that the resurrection of Jesus had made the impossible possible…

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Why Is Mary Crying? Jack Chick’s Gospel Tract About the Virgin Mary Exposed! - cathoolic.com | The number one Catholic fact-checking website fighting misinformation, urban legends, folklore, myths, and rumors.

Tract: Why Is Mary Crying?
Claim: Devotion to Mary doesn’t please her. It breaks her heart.
The Big Question: Is that true? Lets find out.
Above is a nice example of appeal to emotion. Its interesting what Jack Chick wants to achieve by appealing to the emotions of his readers using such words as Poor Mary. Her heart is broken Really?
Well, the faithful are doing what Mary herself prophesied in the Bible concerning how generations to come would honor her. See for example:
For he hath regarded the low estate of his handmaiden: for, behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed. (Luke 1:48 KJV emphasis mine)
The question one should sincerely ask himself/herself, Am I also part of the generation that call Mary blessed as she said in the Scriptures? Think about this deeply.
Of course she knew this and she also knew that God is with her.
Here, Jack Chick presents some half-truths and misrepresentation to achieve his anti-Catholic propaganda.
Chick says, In Luke 1:46-47, …

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NO CROSS, NO CROWN - Sunday Homily and Mass Readings

THEME: NO CROSS, NO CROWN
READINGS: Isaiah 50:4-7/ Philippians 2: 6-11/ Luke 22:14-23:56.
Palm Sunday
The Palm Sunday celebration begins with the joyful triumphant entry of Jesus into Jerusalem. It then continues with the passion narrative of His arrest, suffering and crucifixion. Whereas in the Lord’s triumphant entry, He was greeted with cheers of “Hosanna … hosanna”, in His passion, He received jeers of “crucify Him …crucify Him”. His crucifixion, however, was not the end of His story; for He arose on the third day. The fact that the resurrection of Jesus followed His humiliating death on the cross could be succinctly stated as, “no cross, no crown (NCNC)”.
Another way of putting it is, “no suffering, no salvation (NSNS)”. Our Lord’s suffering for us does not, however, mean the end of our own experiences of temporal suffering. Hence, He invites us to renounce ourselves, take up our cross (of suffering) daily, and follow him (Luke 9:23). It may be worthwhile to explain why we …

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MARY, GOD’S CHOSEN VESSEL OF SALVATION - Sunday Homily and Mass Readings

THEME: MARY, GOD’S CHOSEN VESSEL OF SALVATION
READINGS: Isaiah 7:10-14; 8:10/ Hebrews 10:4-10/ Luke 1:26-38
Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord
The Good News of salvation was announced to the Blessed Virgin Mary by the angel Gabriel (cf. Luke 1:26-38). It is clear from the message of God which the angel delivered that Mary was the unique vessel of honour chosen by God to bear the only Begotten Son of God. She was to become the only woman in history in whose womb the Son of God would be conceived and the only mother in history to give birth to the Saviour of the world (cf. Gal. 4:4-5).
On her part, the Blessed Virgin Mary wholeheartedly accepted to become God’s chosen vessel of our salvation. Hence, she said, in response to the angel: “I am the handmaid of the Lord, let it be done to me according to your word” (Luke 1:38). For unreservedly accepting to become the chosen vessel of our salvation and perfectly executing this role, Mother Mary deserves our honour.
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Prayer for a Good Husband or Wife

Prayer for a Good Husband or Wife
O Jesus, lover of the young, the dearest Friend I have, in all confidence I open my heart to You to beg Your light and assistance in the important task of planning my future. Give me the light of Your grace, that I may decide wisely concerning the person who is to be my partner through life. Dearest Jesus, send me such a one whom in Your divine wisdom You judge best suited to be united with me in marriage. May her/his character reflect some of the traits of Your own Sacred Heart. May s/he be upright, loyal, pure, sincere and noble, so that with united efforts and with pure and unselfish love we both may strive to perfect ourselves in soul and body, as well as the children it may please You to entrust to our care. Bless our friendship before marriage, that sin may have no part in it. May our mutual love bind us so closely, that our future home may ever be most like Your own at Nazareth.
O Mary Immaculate, sweet Mother of the young, to your special care …