a little update

=D sorry guys, I have been busy of late, many things to finish and write, so I can't spend as much time as I want to on this blog so I cant complete the post on Quid est caritas properly. BUT :) don't worry, I'll be back at it once I get over this stress - ful period ... lalala. Please pray for me. It's now Lent - how apt.

But its beautiful, I must say, now that its Lent and its time for us to really think and meditate about the Passion, the Cross. How we must bear our little crosses and perservere. Hang on there! The very cliched phrase, but how beautiful it is, if you think about it in this way, how Jesus hanged on the Cross - and perservered till the end. Love perserveres.

I love You, my dearest Jesus and my dearest Mother very much. Deo gratias et Mariae.

A beautiful Spiritual Communion - according to a formula by St Alphonsus Ligouri

My dearest Jesus, I firmly believe that Thou art really present in the Most Blessed Sacrament. I love Thee above all things and I desire to possess Thee within my soul. Since I cannot now receive Thee sacramentally, come at least spiritually into my heart. (Pause)

As though Thou wert already there, I embrace Thee, and unite myself wholly to Thee; permit not that I hsould ever be separated from Thee.

May the Body of Our Lord Jesus Christ keep my soul unto Everlasting Life. Amen.

P/S: Here's a link to a video of a solemn pontifical Mass by the Papal Nuncio in Osterreich (Austria) to commemorate the 150th Anniversaire of the Apparition of Our Lady of Lourdes. I got the link from the Sacred Heart Choir Blog. :) The narration is in deutsch but the footage alone tells a beautiful story. The Tridentine Mass is beautiful.

Deus propitius esto mihi peccatori.

Jesus, Mary, I love Thee; Save Souls!

Jesu mitis et humilis corde, Fac cor nostrum secundum Cor tuum. (ter)

Feast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Today's also the Feast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. It's a very beautiful feast and you can read more about it from the book, the Mystical City of God by Ven. Mary of Agreda. :)

Next, some interesting stuff:

Relics of St. Therese of Lisieux in Rome

The relics of St. Therese of the Child Jesus are once again making a pilgrimage across Italy, between November 9 and December 27. The reliquary was taken to St. Peter’s Square on November 14, for the general weekly audience of Benedict XVI.

This pilgrimage commemorates several anniversaries: the journey made to Italy 120 years ago by the little Therese, in order to ask Leo XII if she could enter the Carmel while she was still only 15 years old (1887); the death of St. Therese 110 years ago (1897); the 80th anniversary of her proclamation as Patroness of the Missions by Pius XI (1927).
(Sources: Apic/AMI)

Beautiful ... :)

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I don't like the exams only because everything else seems so much more interesting than actually studying for the exams ... :) it's always the case. Anyway, here's a link to a very interesting article by Sandro Magister, A Great Reunion: Romano Amerio and the Changes in the Catholic Church.

That, is so much more interesting than studying immunology, human physiology and microbiology ... lol. :)

I can't wait for the exams to be over... Deo gratias et Mariae, in the meantime, I need all the prayers I can get, please pray for me dear blog readers as I go back to my notes now.

Deus propitius esto mihi peccatori.

Jesus, Mary, I love Thee; Save Souls!

Jesu mitis et humilis corde, Fac cor nostrum secundum Cor tuum. (ter)

Storm Heaven 2!

Mihi autem absit gloriari, nisi in cruce Domini nostri Jesu Christi - Gal. vi.14

Here's an earlier post, on storming heaven :) with of course our prayers and all the masses you can. :)

I need some help, O all ye dear readers of this blog.
Your humble blogger requests your assistance.

She got news that her cousin, Irene, who has Leukaemia and is now undergoing chemotheraphy has taken a slight turn for the worst and might become blind because the blood vessels behind her eyes has burst.

Please pray for her that she might know our Dearest Lord et our Dearest Mother Mary more intimately for she is not Catholic yet, even though her brother is. She is slowly, day by day, getting to know our Lord and now, since last night, our dear Mother Mary, I hope, but she needs all the prayers and support she can get. Please do pray for her.

Jesus, Mary, I love Thee, Save Souls!

p/s:

and now, on the commemoration of St. Benedict (yesterday),

Your blogger spent a nice long day in the lab until 7plus in the evening. She got the call from her daddy about her cousin. And then when on the way to the hospital, she got news that another cousin has just given birth. ;) Here's the picture of a beautiful newborn Charlotte, half an hour or more after she came out of her mother's womb.

Deo gratias et Mariae! :)

And now, dear dinner awaits.

Have a good Lent! :)

Juxta crucem tecum stare,

Et me tibi sociare

In planctu desidero

By the †cross with thee to stay,

There with thee to weep and pray,

Is all I ask of thee to give.

(From the Stabat Mater)