All Saints Day

Discussion in 'The Saints' started by Robert in IC XC, Oct 30, 2015.

  1. josephite

    josephite Powers

    That is my favorite prayer to St Joseph!

    BTW I love that picture of the infant baby Jesus and St Joseph. I have never seen it before, the artist has certainly captured the devotion and gentleness of St Joseph and the happiness of the infant Jesus, to be in his foster fathers loving, protective and gentle embrace.
     
  2. CrewDog

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    My Old Mother told me about a "tradition" (of unknown origin to me?) where it holds that everyone will be 33 in the next life. The age when Jesus' died and arose. 33 seems like a good age to me. At that age you are still young but, hopefully, have gotten over the "stupid years" of the teens-n-20's..... if true.... My Old Mother is now 33 years my junior :LOL:

    GOD SAVE ALL HERE!!
     
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  3. Katfalls

    Katfalls Powers

    When I met St.Therese the Little Flower . . .it was in 1995. I was raised Catholic but did not go to a Catholic school so I really did not know anything about St. Therese. One day at a garage sale I saw a beautiful statue of her in a glass case, she is about ten inches tall and the case is very ornate, like something that would be flush into a church wall . I asked the woman why she wanted to sell it, and she replied that she had it long enough and it was time to let her go. Well I had to buy her and give her a home! A month or so later I was in a shop and saw a little medallion with her picture on it, and bought it. Another month later in an antique shop hundreds of miles from home I saw a beautiful portrait of her on a wooden plaque . . .I bought it. I thought, you know she is trying to get my attention! So I started to read about her and discovered a new and dear friend. I learned a jubilee year was coming up to celebrate the 100th anniversary of her death. A few hours drive from me was a shrine to her, so a friend and I made the journey to her jubilee Mass. They gave everyone a beautiful rose and told us to bring it back the next year after the year jubilee. We wanted to keep our roses, but were good girls and returned a year later to turn in our rose. The church collected them all and shipped them to Lisieux France to place them on her grave. I love St.Therese . . .I ask for her intercesession and help, and know she is still working on earth. Two years ago I relocated 500 miles and discovered a Carmelite Monastery 2 1/2 miles from my new home. And last week I was accepted into the Carmelite community as a Secular and received my brown scapular . . .it has truly been a humbling experience. JMJ
     
  4. padraig

    padraig Powers

    I found a lovely book on Carmelite women saints many years ago. In a way it was like discovering a hundred St Therese's. :) We kind of look at the beautiful habit and the statues wtih the roses etc and it is all so sweet we gorget that these ladies compose the Elite Troops of the Catholic Church, the hardest of the Hard. Whereas we do our best to kind of stroll up the mountain of God by the slow paths, these women are hitting the cliff face of that Holy Mountain at a run. :D

    I think one of these women who I am really iin awe of is Saint Teresa of the Andes.

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    I don;t know if any of you have read up too much about her? Well anyway there is an excellent movie about her on utube which I will put up and which is well worth watching.

    But the reason I ams o much in awe of her is this; that although she entered Carmel at the very young age of 19 the evidence seems to be that she had already entered the Dark Night of the SOul while she was at school!! Or to put it another way she was at a Spiritual stage when she began Carmel which most nuns would only reach at the very end of her life. In other words she was a saint before she even hit the convent. :D

    Staggering. Interestingly she based her spiritual lif eon that of St Therese.

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    The saint's cell.
     
  5. padraig

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  6. padraig

    padraig Powers

    Though I have to admit, though I find child saints delightful, it is the hardened old sinners who convert I can most relate too.

    The bottom pond dwellers.
     
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  7. padraig

    padraig Powers

    I think we will be the same age as Adman and Eve before the Fall. The perfect age on Man. Whatever it might be. I think as you say, we grow backwards or forwards as is required after getting there.

    Our Lady alwsays seems to ppear on her Appartions as being pretty young , though she must have been advanced in years when she died at Ephesus, by all accounts.
     
  8. padraig

    padraig Powers

    If you google the name, 'St Joseph' and go onto images and look at the pictures, may of them by very great Cahtolic artists down the centuries , I find the vast majority of them do not cpature the essential sweetnes and gentleness and humility of the smiling St Joseph. The humainty of the man.

    Our Lady and Jesus loved him very, very much, God choose him as father of His Son . This tells us all we need to know. Essentially he is very,very sweet. Artists don't capture this. Very,very few anyway.

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  9. PotatoSack

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    I believe in Anne Katherine Emmerich's book on Mary, she described St. Joseph as very handsome with curly/wavy dark hair and I think a beard. That is all I remember. I believe she said he was older than Mary, but not old. It was a while ago when I read it, but it gave me a very good visual of a youngish guy who was very good looking.

    That is a great prayer you posted. It seems it protects you from some things I fear, like drowing and being burned. I must print it out!!
     
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  10. Julia

    Julia Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us.

    The prayer to Saint Joseph is amazing. I did not realise it was nearly 2000 years old until I read it here. WOW. I have a handwritten copy of it somewhere given to me 40 or more years ago.
     
  11. Another great saint who may not be that well know is St. Charbel (his birth name was Joseph). He was a monk/priest of the Maronite Catholic Church in Lebanon. The Maronite Church was the only Church in the East to have never separated from Rome, even though some came back later. He was canonized by Pope Paul VI.

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    There aren't that many books about him in English and even those few are fairly brief. He was known for his holiness throughout Lebanon and many came to him for prayers and healing. His body is not only incorrupt but it also exudes oil that has a heavily aroma. The monks hand out the oil and many miracles have occurred. St. Charbel sometimes shows up in pictures taken by pilgrims to the monetary. You can read more about him here http://saint-charbel.com/miracles/. There is also a movie about him with English subtitles that is a free download or can be watched on You Tube.

    I first learned about him in 1994 and he became one of my favorites. Except for the Maronites, he was not known in the States and even less in Mexico. When I was in Mexico City around 2000 I saw a statue of him in the back of a Church. I asked the priest if that was St Charbel and he said, he had brought it with him. Over the years the devotion to Charbel in Mexico has exploded. It has grown so much that one cannot turn a corner and not see a picture of him - even street vendors. Around 2012, a priest in a small neighborhood parish in Saltillo, Coahuila brought a statue of St Charbel to his Church which was about 3 ft tall and placed in the back of the Church. Miraculously the statue also began to exude oil that smelled heavenly. The priest told the bishop who said to put it behind glass. He did so and placed cotton balls at the base of the statue to soak up the oil. the cotton balls are then given out for free during healing Masses and many cures have happened. The diocese then built a new Church dedicated to St Charbel just down the road from the other Church and the statue was placed there.

    He is extraordinary.
     
  12. fallen saint

    fallen saint Baby steps :)

    My first friend/saint...his mysticism and holiness was a special grace from God.

    I've always liked that picture.

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  13. I am glad that you know him FS. I think you would like the movie. The production is good. It moves a little slow but it does show St. Charbel's holiness and the Maronite richness
     

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