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Posted byajayjavalkarApril 16, 2021Posted inPiety

Saint Faustina Kowalska, Apostle of Divine Mercy
(✠) SISTER FAUSTINA VISION OF HELL.
I, Sister Faustina Kowalska, by the order of God, have visited the Abysses of Hell so that I might tell souls about it and testify to its existence…the devils were full of hatred for me, but they had to obey me at the command of God,
What I have written is but a pale shadow of the things I saw.
But I… noticed one thing: That most of the souls there are those who disbelieved that there is a hell.” (Diary 741)
“Today, I was led by an angel to the Chasms of Hell. It is a place of great torture; how awesomely large and extensive it is! The kinds of tortures I saw:
The First Torture that constitutes hell is:
THE LOSS OF GOD
The Second is:
PERPETUAL REMORSE OF CONSCIENCE.
The Third is:
3.THAT ONE’S CONDITION WILL NEVER CHANGE.
The Fourth is:
4.THE FIRE THAT WILL PENETRATE THE SOUL WITHOUT DESTROYING IT. A TERRIBLE SUFFERING SINCE IT IS A PURELY SPIRITUAL FIRE, LIT BY GOD’S ANGER.
The Fifth Torture is:
CONTINUAL DARKNESS AND A TERRIBLE SUFFOCATING SMELL, AND DESPITE THE DARKNESS, THE DEVILS AND THE SOULS OF THE DAMNED SEE EACH OTHER AND ALL THE EVIL, BOTH OF OTHERS AND THEIR OWN.
The Sixth Torture is:
6.THE CONSTANT COMPANY OF SATAN.
The Seventh Torture is:
HORRIBLE DESPAIR, HATRED OF GOD, VILE WORDS, CURSES AND BLASPHEMIES.
These are the Tortures suffered by all the damned together, but that is not the end of the sufferings.
Indescribable Sufferings
There are special Tortures destined for particular souls. These are the torments of the senses. Each soul undergoes terrible and indescribable sufferings related to the manner in which it has sinned.

I would have died
There are caverns and pits of torture where one form of agony differs from another. I would have died at the very sight of these tortures if the omnipotence of God had not supported me.

No One Can Say There is No Hell
Let the sinner know that he will be tortured throughout all eternity, in those senses which he made use of to sin.
I am writing this at the command of God, so that no soul may find an excuse by saying there is no hell, or that nobody has ever been there, and so no one can say what it is like…how terribly souls suffer there! Consequently,
I pray even more fervently for the conversion of sinners. I incessantly plead God’s mercy upon them.
O My Jesus, I would rather be in agony until the end of the world, amidst the greatest sufferings, than offend you by the least sin.” (Diary 741)
“How terribly souls suffer there!” ~ Saint Faustina’s vision of Hell

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October 5 is the feast of Saint Faustina Kowalska.
Too many Catholics have bought into the lie that there is no Hell. This position is only a half-step from saying that there is no Heaven.
A few particularly high-profile modern Catholics have taken the rather toothless position that there is a Hell, but we can have a reasonable hope that it’s empty.
This is sunshine and lollipops theology straight out of the 1960s generation. Such reasoning cheapens the Christian message of salvation and repentance to the point of insignificance and makes a mockery out of the ancient teachings of the Church all the way back to Jesus Himself who speaks about Gehenna as a real place,
“where the worm dieth not and the fire is not extinguished” [Mark 9:43 — quoting Isaiah 66:24]

But the most famous saints of the 20th century have taught otherwise. Among these saints one may not find many brilliantly educated academics or prelates with popular YouTube channels. Instead, one finds humble souls, poorly educated in the affairs of this world, but illuminated by the Holy Spirit.
The shepherd children of Fatima—St. Lucia, St. Francisco and St. Jacinta—received a vision of Hell that had a tremendous impact on them. Little Jacinta would reportedly cry out:
“If Our Lady allows you, tell everybody what Hell is really like so that they will never commit sin again. So many people falling into Hell, so many people.
“
The blessedly blunt Saint Pio, no great scholar he, when faced with an atheist who said he didn’t believe in Hell, retorted:
“You’ll believe in Hell when you get there!”
St. Faustina Kowalska, the early 20th century Polish visionary nun who would later become known as the apostle of Divine Mercy, also experienced a vision of Hell.
The words included with the image at the top of this post were written by Saint Faustina in her Diary in late October 1936, two years prior to her death.
Here is the above quote in context: “Today, I was led by an Angel to the chasms of hell.
It is a place of great torture; how awesomely large and extensive it is! The kinds of tortures I saw:
The first torture that constitutes hell is the loss of God;
the second is perpetual remorse of conscience;
the third is that one’s condition will never change;
the fourth is the fire that will penetrate the soul without destroying it, a terrible suffering, since it is a purely spiritual fire, lit by God’s anger;
the fifth torture is conditional darkness and a terrible suffocating smell, and despite the darkness, the devils and the souls of the damned see each other and all the evil, both of others and their own;
the sixth torture is the constant company of satan;
the seventh torture is horrible despair, hatred of God, vile words, curses and blasphemies.
“These are the tortures suffered by all the damned together, but that is not the end of the sufferings. There are special tortures destined for particular souls. These are the torments of the senses. Each soul undergoes terrible and indescribable sufferings, related to the manner in which it has sinned.
There are caverns and pits of torture where one form of agony differs from another.
I would have died at the very sight of these tortures if the omnipotence of God had not supported me. Let the sinner know that he will be tortured throughout all eternity, in those senses which he made use of to sin.
“I am writing this at the command of God, so that no soul may find an excuse by saying there is no hell, or that nobody has ever been there, and so no one can say what it is like.
I, sister Faustina, by the order of God, have visited the abysses of hell so that I might tell souls about it and testify to its existence.
I cannot speak about it now; but I have received a command from God to leave it in writing.
The devils were full of hatred for me, but they had to obey me at the command of God.
What I have written is but a pale shadow of the things I saw.
But I noticed one thing: that most of the souls there are those who disbelieved that there is a hell.
“When I came to, I could hardly recover from the fright. How terribly souls suffer there! Consequently,
I pray even more fervently for the conversion of sinners.
I incessantly plead God’s mercy upon them. O my Jesus, I would rather be in agony until the end of the world, amidst the greatest sufferings, then offend You by the least sin.”
This passage may be found in St. Faustina’s diary, here on page 193: The Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska.

Many saints have claimed to have had supernatural visions of hell. Of course, all private revelations of the saints are non-authoritative, so you shouldn’t look to these for your theology.
Rather, the saints’ visions of hell should remind us of what our faith already teaches: that hell is a real and terrible place, and people can really go there.
[See also: Why Satan Is So Scared of St. John Paul II, According to Rome’s Chief Exorcist]
[See also: Burned by the Hands of Souls in Purgatory: A Museum’s Rare Collection]
The great 19th century mystic St. Faustina said her vision of hell had this effect on her:
“Consequently, I pray even more fervently for the conversion of sinners. I incessantly plead God’s mercy upon them. O my Jesus, I would rather be in agony until the end of the world, amidst the greatest sufferings, than offend You by the least sin.”
So don’t just be afraid: turn away from your sins, and work to lead others to Christ!
1) Bl. Anne Catherine Emmerich: “No one could behold without trembling”
Bl. Anne Catherine Emmerich lived in the late 18th and early 19th centuries in the Holy Roman Empire. She was a mystic who claimed to have had visions of all sorts of spiritual things. Here is an excerpt of one of her visions of hell:
“The exterior of Hell was appalling and frightful; it was an immense, heavy-looking building, and the granite of which it was formed, although black, was of metallic brightness; and the dark and ponderous doors were secured with such terrible bolts that no one could behold them without trembling.
“Deep groans and cries of despair might be plainly distinguished even while the doors were tightly closed; but, O, who can describe the dreadful yells and shrieks which burst upon the ear when the bolts were unfastened and the doors flung open; and, O, who can depict the melancholy appearance of the inhabitants of this wretched place! […]
“[A]ll within it is, on the contrary, close, confused, and crowded; every object tends to fill the mind with sensations of pain and grief; the marks of the wrath and vengeance of God are visible everywhere; despair, like a vulture, gnaws every heart, and discord and misery reign around. […] In the city of Hell nothing is to be seen but dismal dungeons, dark caverns, frightful deserts, fetid swamps filled with every imaginable species of poisonous and disgusting reptile. […]
“[I]n Hell, perpetual scenes of wretched discord, and every species of sin and corruption, either under the most horrible forms imaginable, or represented by different kinds of dreadful torments. All in this dreary abode tends to fill the mind with horror; not a word of comfort is heard or a consoling idea admitted; the one tremendous thought, that the justice of an all-powerful God inflicts on the damned nothing but what they have fully deserved is the absorbing tremendous conviction which weighs down each heart.
“Vice appears in its own, grim disgusting colors, being stripped of the mask under which it is hidden in this world, and the infernal viper is seen devouring those who have cherished or fostered it here below. In a word, Hell is the temple of anguish and despair…”
2) St. Teresa of Avila: “On fire, and torn to pieces”
The great 16th century mystic and Doctor of the Church claims to have had this experience of hell:
“The entrance seemed to be by a long narrow pass, like a furnace, very low, dark, and close. The ground seemed to be saturated with water, mere mud, exceedingly foul, sending forth pestilential odors, and covered with loathsome vermin. At the end was a hollow place in the wall, like a closet, and in that I saw myself confined. […]
“I felt a fire in my soul. […] My bodily sufferings were unendurable. I have undergone most painful sufferings in this life… yet all these were as nothing in comparison with what I felt then, especially when I saw that there would be no intermission, nor any end to them. […]
“I did not see who it was that tormented me, but I felt myself on fire, and torn to pieces, as it seemed to me; and, I repeat it, this inward fire and despair are the greatest torments of all. […]
“I could neither sit nor lie down: there was no room. I was placed as it were in a hole in the wall; and those walls, terrible to look on of themselves, hemmed me in on every side. I could not breathe. There was no light, but all was thick darkness. […]
“I was so terrified by that vision – and that terror is on me even now while I am writing – that though it took place nearly six years ago, the natural warmth of my body is chilled by fear even now when I think of it. […]
“It was that vision that filled me with the very great distress which I feel at the sight of so many lost souls, especially of the Lutherans – for they were once members of the Church by baptism – and also gave me the most vehement desires for the salvation of souls; for certainly I believe that, to save even one from those overwhelming torments, I would most willingly endure many deaths.”
3) St. John Bosco: “Indescribable terror”
In 1868, St. John Bosco claimed to have had a dream about hell. His full narration is fairly long, so here is just a short excerpt:
“As soon as I crossed its threshold, I felt an indescribable terror and dared not take another step. Ahead of me I could see something like an immense cave which gradually disappeared into recesses sunk far into the bowels of the mountains. They were all ablaze, but theirs was not an earthly fire with leaping tongues of flames. The entire cave – walls, ceiling, floor, iron, stones, wood, and coal – everything was a glowing white at temperatures of thousands of degrees. Yet the fire did not incinerate, did not consume. I simply can’t find words to describe the cavern’s horror. […]
“[My guide] seized my hand, forced it open, and pressed it against the first of the thousand walls. The sensation was so utterly excruciating that I leaped back with a scream and found myself sitting up in bed.
“My hand was stinging and I kept rubbing it to ease the pain. When I got up this morning I noticed that it was swollen. Having my hand pressed against the wall, though only in a dream, felt so real that, later, the skin of my palm peeled off.
“Bear in mind that I have tried not to frighten you very much, and so I have not described these things in all their horror as I saw them and as they impressed me. We know that Our Lord always portrayed Hell in symbols because, had He described it as it really is, we would not have understood Him. No mortal can comprehend these things.”
4) Sr. Lucy of Fatima: “Shrieks and groans of pain and despair”
Sr. Lucy of Fatima isn’t a saint (she died recently, in 2005), but she was one of the visionaries of Fatima in the early 20th century, an approved apparition in the Church. As a part of that vision, she claims she saw hell:
“We saw, as it were, a vast sea of fire. Plunged in this fire, we saw the demons and the souls [of the damned].
“The latter were like transparent burning embers, all blackened or burnished bronze, having human forms. They were floating about in that conflagration, now raised into the air by the flames which issued from within themselves, together with great clouds of smoke. Now they fell back on every side like sparks in huge fires, without weight or equilibrium, amid shrieks and groans of pain and despair, which horrified us and made us tremble with fright (it must have been this sight which caused me to cry out, as people say they heard me).
“The demons were distinguished [from the souls of the damned] by their terrifying and repellent likeness to frightful and unknown animals, black and transparent like burning coals.”
5) St. Maria Faustyna Kowalska: “A place of great torture”
St. Maria Faustyna Kowalska, often known simply as St. Faustina, was a Polish nun who claimed to have a large number of mystical experiences in the 1930s. Here’s an excerpt from her diary about one of her visions:
“Today I was led by an Angel to the chasms of hell. It is a place of great torture; how awesomely large and extensive it is!
“The kinds of tortures I saw: the first torture that constitutes hell is the loss of God; the second is perpetual remorse of conscience; the third is that one’s condition will never change; the fourth is the fire that will penetrate the soul without destroying it – a terrible suffering, since it is a purely spiritual fire, lit by God’s anger; the fifth torture is continual darkness and a terrible suffocating smell, and, despite the darkness, the devils and the souls of the damned see each other and all the evil, both of others and their own; the sixth torture is the constant company of Satan; the seventh torture is horrible despair, hatred of God, vile words, curses and blasphemies. […]
“Each soul undergoes terrible and indescribable sufferings, related to the manner in which it has sinned. There are caverns and pits of torture where one form of agony differs from another. […]
“But I noticed one thing: that most of the souls there are those who disbelieved that there is a hell. When I came to, I could hardly recover from the fright. How terribly souls suffer there!” (Diary of St. Faustina, 741)
[See also: How the Famous Sell Their Soul to Satan]
[See also: Satan Loves to Take Over Politicians, Says Roman Exorcist]
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    This is not a papal hot-take
    BY JD FLYNN – 14 MAR 2023 – VIEW ONLINE →

    “Fiery furnace,” Toros Roslin, Mashtots, 1266. Wikimedia.
    Hey everybody,

    Today is Tuesday in the third week of Lent, and you’re reading The Tuesday Pillar Post.

    If you went to Mass today, or read the readings, you know that today’s Old Testament reading is a prayer of Azariah, also known as Abednego, who along with his friends Shadrach and Meshach was bound by ropes and thrown by King Nebuchadnezzar into a “fiery furnace,” because they refused to bow to an image of the king.

    The men survived the fire unscathed. The book of Daniel says that “they walked about in the flames, singing to God and blessing the Lord!” And indeed, Nebuchadnezzar saw in the fire a fourth man, regarded by many Christians as a prophetic prefigurement of Christ the Lord.

    The Scripture today includes these words of Azariah:

    “For your name’s sake, O Lord, do not deliver us up forever,
    or make void your covenant.
    Do not take away your mercy from us,
    for the sake of Abraham, your beloved,
    Isaac your servant, and Israel your holy one,
    To whom you promised to multiply their offspring
    like the stars of heaven,
    or the sand on the shore of the sea.”
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    for those who trust in you cannot be put to shame.
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    but deal with us in your kindness and great mercy.
    Deliver us by your wonders,
    and bring glory to your name, O Lord.”

    I don’t have any especially compelling insight into Azariah’s prayer, but I did learn something interesting yesterday.

    At least some scholars think that the “fiery furnace” into which the men were thrown was Baba Gurgur, a naturally occurring crater of flame outside the modern-day Iraqi city of Kirkuk.

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    The “eternal flame” at Baba Gurgur. Credit: Chad.r.hill/wikimedia. public domain.
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    The final plenary meeting of the German synodal way ended Saturday, with participants voting in favor of resolutions supporting women deacons, a re-examination of priestly celibacy, lay preaching at Masses, and same-sex blessings, among other things.

    During the meeting, Luke Coppen reported in detail the decision to back liturgical blessings for same-sex couples, explaining the controversy in the assembly over the proposal, and that the majority of German bishops voted in favor of the idea.

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    Pope Francis yesterday celebrated 10 years in the chair of St. Peter, leading the Church as its visible head on earth as the bishop of Rome.

    If you read much Catholic media, you probably saw about a million think pieces written to mark the occasion — it seems that a lot of journalists regard anniversary pieces for the pontiff’s reign as an important part of the job.

    We’ve been doing Catholic journalism for quite a while, but we didn’t get that memo, apparently.

    And if we had gotten the memo, I’m not sure we would have stepped back from our work to write long reflections on Francis’ decennial. In fact, Ed suggested that I take the occasion of my newsletter to lampoon those papal hot takes, and, if I were Ed, I’d probably do that quite successfully.

    But I’m not usually the caliber of sarcasm-artist Ed is, and so I’ll just offer a couple of notes on the papacy of Pope Francis.

    These are not comprehensive; much more could be said. But that’s the problem with papal hot takes — they don’t leave room for the full analysis their subject really merits. That’s what books are for, written with the clarity of time’s passage.

    Still:

    —We are obviously living in a complicated papacy which has a very different feel than the ones which preceded it. There’s been no small degree of controversy and disagreement among bishops and other Catholics about the meaning of that papacy, and about the governance of Pope Francis. That won’t go away in the near future, even when we enter the era of his succesor.

    The Francis papacy has been the occasion in which conflicts that will not quickly resolve have been opened — many of which pertain to the ongoing and unresolved issues surrounding the interpretation of Vatican II.

    Part of the reason that’s become controversial is that a lot of Catholic bishops, scholars, intellectuals, and journalists believed prior to the Francis papacy that John Paul II and Benedict XVI had definitively and normatively interpreted Vatican II, and did not expect their interpretations to be re-litigated.

    — Numerous long-simmering and latent issues in the life of the Church have come to a head during the papacy of Pope Francis — the German synodal way, the Vatican finance scandal, a global sexual abuse crisis, among them. Francis is often assessed or analyzed on his leadership of those issues, and it’s fair to raise questions and concerns about his policy reforms.

    Those questions are important. We should tackle questions about governance and its effectiveness.

    But a fair evaluation of the problems would also note that whatever can be said about how Francis has handled them, the roots, on several fronts, precede his papacy.

    — Despite the profound social impact of the global pandemic, Francis has proceeded very quickly on the implementation of major projects important to him — the global synod on synodality and the norms of Traditionis custodes.

    While the pontiff encourages a kind of pastoral gradualism, both of those projects were launched very, very quickly, and have faced real problems with implementation and episcopal support.

    On other issues the pontiff’s pace has been decidedly more plodding — among them, the doctrinal issues unfolding in the West, and the full implementation of Vos estis lux mundi or other disciplinary reform efforts.

    — Francis has become a kind of divisive litmus test among Catholics in a way that previous popes weren’t — at least not to the same degree.

    Fawning papal supporters claim the pope has ushered in a new “climate of service and of freedom” and a “conversion of power” in the Church which is expressive of “God’s style” itself. On the other side of the coin, some papal critics can’t seem to go two minutes without decrying the pontiff as the worst pope in history, or with similar invectives.

    The loudest voices rarely land in the middle. In fact, I’m inevitably going to get emails in response to this newsletter, half of which will tell me I was too hard on the pope, and half of which will tell me I wasn’t hard enough on the pope.

    But here’s what I think is true about many practicing Catholics:

    Most practicing Catholics I talk with know the challenges in this papacy, and know that some of them – among them issues pertaining to abuse and misconduct – are quite serious. At the same time, Catholics (myself included) want to love the pope, and want to have a proper filial piety towards him, even if they’re experiencing frustration over elements of the pope’s leadership. This means developing a sense of what it means to be a Catholic, and to have a proper relationship of obedience and respect for the pope, while accepting that the papacy, protected from some kinds of error by the Holy Spirit, is not an expression of episcopal perfection, or anything like it.

    But getting all of this right is not always an easy needle to thread, and some Catholics have had real challenges with it.

    Ultimately, the pope is not an electoral candidate, and labels like “pro-Francis” or “anti-Francis” are simply unhelpful category errors, in which the language of partisanship and personality politics is imported into the sacramental and spiritual reality of the Church. He’s the pope — being “pro” or “anti” is not really the point, and isn’t the way in which most Catholics think through these things. It’s the commentary class which can’t help but use reductive and simplistic labels like that.

    At the same time, the Francis papacy should convey that controversy about how to read Vatican II is not waning as much as had been previously expected. That spells ongoing and significant clashes of worldview in the life of the Church.

    And at the same time, the Francis papacy has demonstrated that Vatican I still needs more serious reflection in the Church’s life. That its teachings on the papacy, and some of the guardrails articulated in the Second Vatican Council, are still being meted out, in real life, and that’ll take a while to resolve.

    Also, we are living, as Pope Francis says, in a change of era — in a “hinge moment” in time, in which the communications revolution and the internet, especially social media, have changed the very way that we think. Francis has the misfortune of being the first pope living in this era, even while his advisers seem not really to understand the transformation itself — and who can blame them? Which of us really do?

    The challenges of the Francis papacy have been amplified by our epochal change. That’ll be a long-term challenge for the Church, no matter who follows Francis.

    — The papacy itself is a gift, a sign of the visible structure God has given us, which gives us assurance of his action in the world through the communion of the Church. That’s a profound grace, and one we ought not lose sight of.

    Ok, I hope that wasn’t a papal hot take. Join me in praying for Pope Francis.

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    La pagina del Vangelo di oggi registra un incontro abbastanza teso tra Gesù e i suoi compaesani. Senza troppi giri di parole Egli dice che è più facile fare del bene agli estranei che a quelli più vicini perché solitamente chi ti è vicino può ammalarsi di pregiudizio nei tuoi confronti e quindi non riesce a vedere il bene che hai da offrirgli. È una lezione immensa quella che nasce dalla famosa frase “nessun profeta è bene accetto in patria”. Sembra che il Vangelo voglia spingerci a fare un grande esame di coscienza su quanto siamo disposti a mettere in discussione i nostri pregiudizi specialmente con le persone che sono a noi più vicine. Troppe volte infatti l’incomprensione, la distanza, il risentimento diventano dei muri che separano le persone nella stessa casa, nello stesso condominio, nello stesso quartiere, nella stessa città. Troppo spesso ci convinciamo che il bene esiste ma non abita con noi e proprio per questo ce lo andiamo a cercare altrove. Ma dire tutto questo ad alta voce non porta a Gesù consensi bensì desiderio di buttarlo giù da un dirupo. Eppure per mostrare la verità delle sue parole aveva portato degli esempi concreti: «Vi dico anche: c’erano molte vedove in Israele al tempo di Elia, quando il cielo fu chiuso per tre anni e sei mesi e ci fu una grande carestia in tutto il paese; ma a nessuna di esse fu mandato Elia, se non a una vedova in Sarepta di Sidone. C’erano molti lebbrosi in Israele al tempo del profeta Eliseo, ma nessuno di loro fu risanato se non Naaman, il Siro». Se Dio opera più facilmente miracoli con gli “estranei” ciò significa che i “familiari” hanno un problema da risolvere. Siamo noi quei “familiari” che devono convertirsi.
    (Lc 4,24-30) ~D.L.M.E~

    #DALVANGELODIOGGI
    Dagens evangeliesida spelar in ett ganska intensivt möte mellan Jesus och hans landsmän. Utan för många ordvitsar Han säger att det är lättare att göra gott mot främlingar än mot de som står dig närmast eftersom oftast kan de som står dig närmast insjukna i fördomar mot dig och därför inte se det goda du har att erbjuda dem. Det är en enorm läxa som härrör från den berömda frasen “ingen profet är väl accepterad i hemlandet”. Verkar som evangeliet vill driva oss till en bra självundersökning om hur villiga vi är att ifrågasätta våra fördomar speciellt med de som står oss närmast. För många gånger faktiskt missförstånd, avstånd, förbittring blir väggar som skiljer människor i samma hus, i samma flerbostadshus, i samma kvarter, i samma stad. Alltför ofta intalar vi oss själva att det goda finns men det lever inte med oss och det är därför vi letar efter det någon annanstans. Men att säga allt detta högt ger inte Jesus samtycke utan en önskan att kasta honom nerför en klippa. Men för att visa sanningen i sina ord hade han gett konkreta exempel: “Jag säger er också att på Elia dagar fanns många änkor i Israel, när himlen var stängd i tre år och sex månader, och det var en stor svält i hela landet, men ingen av dem skickades Elijah, om inte till en änka i Sarepta av Sidon. “Det fanns många spetälska i Israel på profetens Eliseus tid, men ingen av dem blev helad förutom Naaman syrieren. “Om Gud gör mirakel med “främlingar” betyder det att “familj” har ett problem att lösa. Vi är de där “familjen” som behöver konvertera.
    (Lc 4,24-30) ~D.L.M.E~
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    San Michele Arcangelo
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    14 Marzo
    “Mechtilde Taller diceva di Gabriele che egli soccorre quelli che soffrono nella loro anima e nella loro carne, e che egli è un angelo della buona morte. Se i paracadutisti hanno preso San Michele per protettore, gli aviatori hanno scelto Gabriele. E poiché egli fu il messaggero della Buona Novella per eccellenza, Pio XIl, nel Breve Apostolico del 19 gennaio 1951.
    fece dell’arcangelo Gabriele il patrono di tutti gli impiegatí delle poste e delle telecomunicazioni”.
    (Anne Bernet, Enquête Sur les Anges, Edizioní Perrin, Parigi 1998, p. 58. Traduzione dal francese di Alfonso Giusti).
    (365 giorni con i tre Arcangeli di Marcello Stanzione)
    14 mars
    “Mechtilde Taller sa om Gabriel att han hjälper dem som lider i deras själ och kött, och att han är en ängel av god död. Om fallskärmsjägarna valde San Michele som beskyddare valde flygarna Gabriel. Och eftersom han var budbärare för den goda romanen för sin förträfflighet, Pio XIl, i den apostoliska briefingen den 19 januari 1951.
    Jag gjorde ärkeängeln Gabriel till skyddshelgon för alla anställda på post- och telekommunikationsområdet”.
    (Anne Bernet, undersökning om änglar, Edizioní Perrin, Paris 1998, s. 58 fransk översättning av Alfonso Giusti).
    (365 dagar med de tre ärkeänglarna i Marcello Stanzione)
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    Suzana Monika
    NOVENA TILL SANKT JIUSEPPE
    5:e dagen – St. Joseph brudgum av Guds moder – 14 mars
    + I FADRENS, SONENS OCH DEN HELIGA ANDENS NAMN. AMEN
    – SEKVENS TILL DEN HELIGA ANDEN
    Kom Helige Ande, sänd oss ditt ljus från himlen.
    Kom, fader till de fattiga, kom, givare av gåvor, kom, hjärtans ljus.
    Perfekt täcke, söt värd av själen, sötaste lättnad.
    I slit, vila, i värme, skydd, i gråt, tröst.
    O vackraste ljus, invadera dina trognas hjärtan.
    Utan din styrka finns inget i människan, inget utan skuld.
    Tvätta det som är döva, blöta det som är torrt, läka det som blöder.
    Böj det som är stelt, hetta det som är kallt, mjuka upp det som är snett.
    Ge till dina trogna som litar på dina heliga gåvor endast på dig.
    Ge dygd och utmärkelse, ge helig död, ge evig glädje. Amen.
    LÅT OSS BE
    O Fader, som i ljuset av den helige Ande vägleder troende till den fulla kunskapen om sanningen, ge oss att smaka på din Ande sann kunskap och att alltid njuta av dess tröst.
    För vår Herre Jesus Kristus, din son som är Gud, lever och regerar med dig, i den helige Andes enhet, för alltid och alltid.
    Amen.
    – APOSTOLISK TRO
    Jag tror på Gud den allsmäktige Fadern, himmelens och jordens skapare;
    och i Jesus Kristus, hans ende son, vår Herre,
    som blev till av den helige Ande,
    föddes av jungfru Maria, dog under Ponzio Pilato,
    korsfästes, dog och begravdes;
    går ner till helvetet;
    Han uppstod från de döda på den tredje dagen;
    steg upp till himlen, sitter vid Gud den allsmäktige faderns högra sida:
    därifrån kommer han att döma levande och döda.
    Jag tror på den Helige Ande, den Helige Katolska kyrkan,
    helgons nattvard, syndernas eftergift,
    Köttets uppståndelse, evigt liv.
    Amen.
    – DAGBÖN TILL SANKT JOSEPPE
    Helige Josef, när du känner Marias tro, hennes kärlek, hennes mod, hennes renhet, förstår du din lycka att ha henne som brud: hon som var värdig Guds son. Som i en äkta mänsklig familj var du hennes brudgum och hon är din brud. Hennes hjärta tillhörde dig, ni älskade varandra som ett gift par kan. Öm kärlek, full av uppmärksamhet, som släpper igenom de minsta gesterna, en verkligt mänsklig anknytning. Stark och kraftfull kärlek som förenar två människor, mellan vilka inga svårigheter, inget våld, ingen olycka, kan öppna en reva.
    Ren och fri kärlek som släpar köttet med sig i att övervinna dess rädslor och svagheter. Jungfru Maria hade anförtrott sin själ och kropp till dig, hon förblev oskuld för att du ville ha honom med henne. Och er gemensamma kärlek blommade ut i oskulden som ett tecken från Gud till män. Såsom Adam och Eva avvisade Gud i deras kärlek, så är det i din förening med Maria som Kristus Frälsaren har kommit bland oss.
    Helige Josef, lär oss att älska; inte i en själviskhet där var och en stänger in sig själv och hårdnar mot den andra, utan i en generös gåva som förbinder oss på vägen av ömhet, delikatess, hängivenhet. Vi vet det väl, som påstår sig älska och inte tror det för sig själv, är en lögnare. Lär oss sanningen i kärlek, så att vi kan känna igen dess närvaro i oss. Vi har anförtrotts varandra för att rädda oss själva tillsammans; lär oss, helige Josef, att respektera varandra.
    Du som öppnade vägen för världens frälsning i renheten av din kärlek, gör oss för att välkomna Guds son som du gjorde och vara Hans vittnen i världen idag. Amen.
    VÅR FADER HIL MARY ÄRA TILL FADDERN
    – AKT FÖR ITALIEN I SAN JOSEPPE
    Helige Josef, Heliga Marias brudgum, Jesu moder och mänsklighetens moder, som ville ha vårt Italien utspritt från sina helgedomar, och som alltid såg på det med samma kärlek till fördomar som Jesus såg på henne, som ville etablera sin präst på jorden, påven.
    Till er, idag, viger vi detta älskade Italien och dess familjer. Värna om henne försvara henne skydda henne! Må tron vara ren; må herdarna vara heliga; må kallet vara kopiöst; må livet vara heligt och försvarat; må sederna vara friska; må familjerna vara rena; må skolan vara kristen; må härskarna vara upplysta; kärlek, rättvisa och fred regera överallt.
    Vårda, försvara, skydda eller ge vårdare av den gudomliga familjen, våra unga, hopp om en bättre värld, och de äldre, rötterna till vår tro och livets mästare.
    Nå oss med din kraftfulla förbön, förenade med din heliga bruds, nya män som har modet att upphäva de unika lagarna mot Gud och mot människan, ärvda från ett sorgligt och mörkt förflutna.
    Med ditt beskydd, o helige Josef, fortsätter Italien att vara livets centrum och den kristna civilisationen, ledstjärna av evangeliskt ljus för hela världen, helgonnas land för den himmelske faderns ära och för alla människors frälsning.
    Och när du en gång flydde från döden det livshotade barnet Jesus, så försvara Guds heliga kyrka och våra familjers tro från ondskans mörka fällor.
    Jesus, Josef och Maria, välsigna, skydda, rädda Italien! Kom tillbaka med din hjälp och “för din förbön” för att öppna dörrarna för Kristus. Amen.
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    Suzana Monika
    danas je metchilde na svedski kalendaru Angelo Travaini
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    NOVENA A SAN GIUSEPPE
    5° giorno – San Giuseppe sposo della Madre di Dio – 14 marzo
    + NEL NOME DEL PADRE, DEL FIGLIO E DELLO SPIRITO SANTO. AMEN
    – SEQUENZA ALLO SPIRITO SANTO
    Vieni, Santo Spirito, manda a noi dal cielo un raggio della tua luce.
    Vieni, padre dei poveri, vieni, datore dei doni, vieni, luce dei cuori.
    Consolatore perfetto, ospite dolce dell’anima, dolcissimo sollievo.
    Nella fatica, riposo, nella calura, riparo, nel pianto, conforto.
    O luce beatissima, invadi nell’intimo il cuore dei tuoi fedeli.
    Senza la tua forza nulla è nell’uomo, nulla senza colpa.
    Lava ciò che è sordido, bagna ciò che è arido, sana ciò che sanguina.
    Piega ciò che è rigido, scalda ciò che è gelido, drizza ciò che è sviato.
    Dona ai tuoi fedeli che solo in te confidano i tuoi santi doni.
    Dona virtù e premio, dona morte santa, dona gioia eterna. Amen.
    PREGHIAMO
    O Padre, che nella luce dello Spirito Santo guidi i credenti alla conoscenza piena della verità, donaci di gustare nel tuo Spirito la vera sapienza e di godere sempre del suo conforto.
    Per il nostro Signore Gesù Cristo, tuo Figlio che è Dio, e vive e regna con te, nell’unità dello Spirito Santo, per tutti i secoli dei secoli.
    Amen.
    – CREDO APOSTOLICO
    Io credo in Dio, Padre onnipotente, Creatore del cielo e della terra;
    e in Gesù Cristo, suo unico Figlio, nostro Signore,
    il quale fu concepito di Spirito Santo,
    nacque da Maria Vergine, patì sotto Ponzio Pilato,
    fu crocifisso, morì e fu sepolto;
    discese agli inferi;
    il terzo giorno risuscitò da morte;
    salì al cielo, siede alla destra di Dio Padre onnipotente:
    di là verrà a giudicare i vivi e i morti.
    Credo nello Spirito Santo, la santa Chiesa cattolica,
    la comunione dei santi, la remissione dei peccati,
    la risurrezione della carne, la vita eterna.
    Amen.
    – PREGHIERA DEL GIORNO A SAN GIUSEPPE
    San Giuseppe, quando si conosce la fede di Maria, il suo amore, il suo coraggio, la sua purezza, si comprende la tua felicità di averla avuta come sposa: ella che era degna del Figlio di Dio. Come in una famiglia veramente umana, tu sei stato suo sposo e lei è stata tua sposa. Il suo cuore ti apparteneva, vi siete amati come due sposi possono farlo. Amore tenero, ripieno di attenzione, che lascia trasparire attraverso i minimi gesti, un attaccamento veramente umano. Amore forte e vigoroso che unisce solidamente due persone, tra le quali nessuna difficoltà, nessuna violenza, nessuna disgrazia, possono aprire una breccia.
    Amore puro e libero che trascina con sé la carne nel superamento delle sue tare e delle sue debolezze. La Vergine Maria ti aveva affidato la sua anima e il suo corpo, Ella è rimasta vergine perché tu l’hai voluto con lei. E il vostro reciproco amore è sbocciato nella verginità come un segno di Dio per gli uomini. Come Adamo ed Eva avevano rifiutato Dio nell’unità del loro amore, così è nella tua unione con Maria che il Cristo Salvatore è venuto tra noi.
    San Giuseppe, insegnaci ad amare; non in un egoismo dove ognuno si chiude in se stesso e s’indurisce contro l’altro, ma in un dono generoso che ci impegna nelle vie della tenerezza, della delicatezza, della dedizione. Lo sappiamo bene, chi pretende di amare e non pensa che a se stesso, è un bugiardo. Insegnaci la verità nell’amore, affinché possiamo riconoscere la sua presenza in noi. Siamo stati affidati l’uno all’altro per salvarci insieme; insegnaci, san Giuseppe, il rispetto dell’altro.
    Tu che hai aperto la via alla salvezza del mondo nella purezza del tuo amore, rendici capaci di accogliere il Figlio di Dio come hai fatto tu e di essere suoi testimoni nel mondo di oggi. Amen.
    PADRE NOSTRO, AVE MARIA, GLORIA AL PADRE
    – ATTO DI CONSACRAZIONE E DI AFFIDAMENTO DELL’ITALIA A SAN GIUSEPPE
    San Giuseppe, sposo di Maria Santissima, Madre di Gesù e Madre dell’umanità, che hai voluto la nostra Italia disseminata dei suoi santuari, e che sempre hai guardato ad essa con lo stesso amore di predilezione con cui l’ha guardata Gesù, che volle stabilire il suo vicario in terra, il Papa.
    A te, oggi, noi consacriamo questa amata Italia e le sue famiglie. Custodiscila, difendila, proteggila! Sia pura la fede; siano santi i pastori; siano copiose le vocazioni; sia sacra e difesa la vita; siano sani i costumi; siano ordinate le famiglie; sia cristiana la scuola; siano illuminati i governanti; regni ovunque amore, giustizia e pace.
    Custodisci, difendi, proteggi, o provvido custode della divina famiglia, i nostri giovani, speranza di un mondo migliore, e gli anziani, radici della nostra fede e maestri di vita.
    Ottienici con la tua potente intercessione, unita a quella della tua Santissima Sposa, uomini nuovi che abbiano il coraggio di abrogare le inique leggi contro Dio e contro l’uomo, ereditate da un triste e oscuro passato.
    Con la tua protezione, o san Giuseppe, continui l’Italia a essere centro vivo e di civiltà cristiana, faro di luce evangelica a tutto il mondo, terra di Santi per la gloria del Padre celeste e per la salvezza di tutti gli uomini.
    E, come un tempo scampasti dalla morte la minacciata vita del bambino Gesù, così difendi la Santa Chiesa di Dio e la fede delle nostre famiglie da tutte le oscure insidie del male.
    Gesù, Giuseppe e Maria, benedite, proteggete, salvate l’Italia! Ritorni con il vostro aiuto e “per la vostra intercessione” a spalancare le porte a Cristo. Amen.
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    Gabriella Roscio
    Ma non è il 29 settembre?
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    San Michele Arcangelo
    Gabriella Roscio si , ma in precedenza si festeggiava il 25 Marzo, la data di oggi è fortuita , sto utilizzando un bel libro che mette una riflessione quotidiana sui 3 Arcangeli

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