Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary
"Say the Rosary every day. Pray, pray a lot and offer sacrifices for sinners. I'm Our Lady of the Rosary. Only I will be able to help you. In the end my Immaculate Heart will triumph."
Our Lady of Fatima
For Reflection:
To what extent am I personally heeding Our Blessed Mother's plea? In what one way can I be more diligent?
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"Airplanes must have runways before they can fly. What the runway is to the airplane, the Rosary beads are to prayer - the physical start to gain spiritual altitude."
Fulton J. Sheen
For Reflection:
To what extent has the Rosary been a runway to spiritual altitude for me in my life? How has it led me into a deeper understanding of God's presence in my life?
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A self-appointed "minister" of a cult-like church in Wauconda, Illinois is under investigation for his use of a healing method known as "light therapy" which involves nudity and what he calls non-sexual touching, as well as telling followers that God implants messages in their dreams which only he can interpret.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
As Obama administration officials sink ever deeper into the scandal involving a mismanaged government-run firearms-trafficking operation known as "Fast and Furious" that resulted in the death of at least one law enforcement official, a reporter says White House officials are now screaming and cussing at her for staying on top of the story.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In a ruling that may prove pivotal for religious organizations in the future, the Supreme Court decided to let stand a lower court decision in favor of a religious employer’s right to make employment decisions based on religious beliefs.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Homosexual activists may have met their match in 57 year old Rose Marie Belforti, the town clerk for the small town of Ledyard, New York who is refusing to be bullied into resigning because she won't sign marriage licenses for same-sex couples.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The controversial new NBC program, The Playboy Club, has become the year's first official cancellation as poor ratings and a steady barrage of viewer complaints forced the network to shut it down after only three episodes.
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"After Holy Mass [the Rosary] is one of the most beautiful and efficacious forms of prayer, on condition of understanding it and living it."
Grarrigou-Lagrange
For Reflection:
What do I think it means to understand and to live the Rosary? To what extent do I do this in my everyday life? Is there a strategy I can employ to help me do so more faithfully?
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The Archdiocese of Omaha is criticizing the Fremont Public Schools in Fremont, Nebraska for forbidding a sixth-grader from wearing a rosary to school, saying it violates the dress code and has been used as gang-identification symbols in several western states.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Polish Archbishop Edward Ozorowski led the faithful in a special Mass on Sunday to celebrate a Eucharistic miracle that occurred in 2008.
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