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Canonize Him! The Incredible Story Of Priest Who Went Down With Titanic
April 16, 2021 by sd
From America Magazine:
“When the Titanic went to the bottom, Father Thomas B. Byles stood on the deck with Catholics, Protestants, and Jews kneeling around him,” Agnes McCoy, another Irish immigrant, told the New York Telegram after the sinking, according to the website FatherByles.com. “Father Byles was saying the Rosary and praying for the repose of the souls of those about to perish. To many he administered the last rites of the Church.”
“When the crash came, we were thrown from our berths,” Ellen Mary Mockler, an Irish immigrant in third class, said after the sinking. “We saw before us, coming down the passageway, with his hand uplifted, Father Byles…. ‘Be calm, my good people,’ he said, and then he went about the steerage giving absolution and blessings.”“Father Byles could have been saved, but he would not leave,” Mockler said. “After I got in the boat, which was the last one to leave, and we were slowly going further away from the ship, I could hear distinctly the voice of the priest and the responses to his prayers.”+Father Byles may have perished in the sinking, but like the theme song to the Titanic movie says, his heart goes on. Graham Smith, a priest who headed Father Byles’ former parish of St. Helen’s in Ongar, England, introduced the cause for beatification in 2015. Father Smith described Father Byles to the BBC as “an extraordinary man who gave his life for others.” He added, “We hope people around the world will pray to him if they are in need and, if a miracle occurs, then beatification and then canonization can go forward.” At least two miracles must be attributed to the intercession of a candidate for sainthood.
“Father Byles could have been saved, but he would not leave,” Mockler said. “After I got in the boat, which was the last one to leave, and we were slowly going further away from the ship, I could hear distinctly the voice of the priest and the responses to his prayers.”RELATED STORIES
Probably THE GREATEST NATIVITY SCENE EVERY FILMED, with Jimmy Stewart.4 min.
Probably THE GREATEST NATIVITY SCENE EVERY FILMED, with Jimmy Stewart.
A truly inspiring imaginary scene that depicts: “what might have been” if you supernaturally visited the manger scene in Bethlehem.” Circa 3 BC.
Jimmy Stewart filmed this scene in ONE TRY because the tender feelings in his expressions of love for Jesus could not be vainly repeated. “I have only one of these in me,” he said. “I’m absolutely serious when I say this scene is one of the greatest honors I’ve ever had.”
Imagine BEING THERE when Jesus/Yeshuah was born ! … this is a truly classic and wonderful piece of acting from the heart…
btw, I do not celebrate ANY of the pagan aspects or traditions of “Christmas”, but this film clip is precious…
you see: Jesus was pure & innocent DEITY from moment one: a long long LONG step down from the glories of Heaven. let this touch your heart…
NOTE: “Mr. Krueger’s Christmas” (made in 1980) starring Jimmy Stewart. This is his OTHER great Christmas movie besides the very well known, “It’s A Wonderful Life.” This one was a TV special. It’s the story of a lonely old man as could only be played by (the man who is probably) the Most Beloved Actor of All Time. This part is from the Nativity Scene Prayer he gives, as sort of a vision or visitation (the movie already has established he is prone to such things). It is EXTREMELY moving, as only Jimmy Stewart can deliver it from the heart and soul of someone projecting themselves into THE MOST IMPORTANT EVENT IN HUMAN HISTORY for the Redemption of Mankind.
Let this touch you heart.
I just want to say this: WE DON’T LOVE JESUS HALF AS MUCH AS HE DESERVES. This beautiful & inspiring clip is worth watching more than once during the Christmas Season.
“let those who have spiritual ears to hear: HEAR what the Holy Spirit and the Spirit of THE LORD Yeshuah is saying to the seven churches…”4Like
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Probably THE GREATEST NATIVITY SCENE EVERY FILMED, with Jimmy Stewart – gloria.tv
The Miraculous Story of St. Michael’s Shrine in Tarpon Springs, FL Video 4 Min.
Fr. Kapaun-video 5 min.Really good
The Wonderful Death of Saint Teresa of Avila
https://gloria.tv/post/6zSSY8m6YJAnEvtrs4B7K9qj1
Moments before St. Teresa died, Bl. Ana de San Bartolomé saw Our Lord at the foot of St. Teresa’s bed in majesty and splendor, attended by myriad angels, and at the head, the ten thousand martyrs of Mount Ararat, who were crucified there in 138 A.D., and to whom she had a great devotion all her life.
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The Ten Thousand Martyrs came to welcome her and escort her to the Beatific Vision keeping Their promise they made to St. Teresa, in a rapture years before, to come for her in the moment of death. When she sighed her last, one of the sisters saw something like a white dove pass from her mouth. And while Sister Catalina de la Concepción, who was very holy and had less than a year to live, was sitting by the low window opening on the cloister by La Madre’s cell, she heard a great noise as of a throng of joyful and hilarious people making merry, and then saw innumerable resplendent persons, all dressed in white, pass the cloister and into the room of the dying Saint, where the nuns gathered about her seemed but a handful in comparison; and then all advanced toward the bed. And this was the moment when St. Teresa died.
Police Hunt for Vandal Who Toppled Our Lady of Guadalupe Statue-video
Police Hunt for Vandal Who Toppled Our Lady of Guadalupe Statue
Police are asking the public to help them find a man who brazenly climbed over a fence outside the Shrine Church of Our Lady of Solace in Coney Island, and threw a statue of Our Lady of Guadalupe to the ground on Sept. 11. Cops, who are investigating the incident as a case of criminal mischief, released a video of the man committing the act.
Video at link.
Athens: Icon Of Our Lady Weeps The Greek-Orthodox Metropolis- Pics at link.
(Diocese) of Kaisariani, Vyronas and Ymittos, which covers three suburbs of Athens, announced that an icon of Our Lady is “weeping” in Vyronas. The phenomenon began on September 8, the Nativity of Mary, during a liturgy. It repeated itself the following days and attracted many people. The diocese interprets this as a “signs from God for the faithful.”
Vatican Overturns Dutch Apparitions
Vatican Overturns Dutch Apparitions
September 18, 2020 by sd
[Rough translation, Aleteia:
“The Amsterdam apparitions are false. The “Lady of All Peoples” must not be venerated and the faithful must stop all propaganda ”, declared the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in a letter which dates back to July 20, 2020 but which has just been made public. After several decades of controversy, the fifty-six alleged apparitions of the Virgin Mary to Ida Peerdeman were thus formally rejected by the Holy See.
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Is the Peerdeman case now closed? Young Dutch woman of the XX th century, Ida Peerdeman says he attended between 1945 and 1959, at fifty six apparitions of the Virgin as the “Lady of All Nations.” These mystical revelations were still controversial until July 20 when, at the request of Cardinal Béchara Boutros Raï, Patriarch of Antioch of the Maronites, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), formerly called the “Holy Office” , clarified in a letter to the prelate the position of the Holy See regarding the visions of Ida Peerdeman.
Although the Madonna appeared to Ida Peerdeman has, for some, many similarities with the Virgin appeared to Catherine Labouré in 1830 (globe under the feet, rays of light emanating from the hands turned downwards), the former Holy Office has confirmed a notification signed in 1974 which “considers that it is not opportune to contribute to the dissemination of the veneration of Mary as“ Lady of All Peoples.’”
On several occasions, in 1957, 1972 and 1974, the CDF confirmed the position of the Dutch bishop. However, on May 31, 1996, one of his successors, Bishop Hendrik Bomers, with permission from the CDF, subsequently authorized the public veneration of the same virgin, now that the question of the supernatural character of the apparitions themselves did not was not resolved. He reiterated his decision in a letter dated December 3, 1997.
On May 31, 2002, Bishop Jozef Marianus Punt, the next bishop, declared that the apparitions were of supernatural origin. Since then, the question remains as to whether Bishop Punt had the power to overrule his predecessor’s decision, given that the latter’s decision had been confirmed by the CDF. In an unpublished letter from July 2005, the CDF requested that the prayer associated with the apparition be changed, replacing the words “who once was Mary” with “the Blessed Virgin Mary”. The supporters of the alleged apparitions deduced that the CDF had tacitly accepted Bishop Punt’s approval.