Call Upon the Lord

[Weedy]

Call Upon the Lord

"You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you. Grant me, O Lord to know and understand which comes first: to call upon you or to praise you: and whether first to know you or call upon you.

How are they to call upon him in whom they have not believed? How are they to believe in him whom they have not heard? And they who seek the Lord shall praise him."
--St. Augustine--Confessions 1, 1

Prayer: May I seek you, Lord, by praying to you, and let me pray to you by believing in you.
--St. Augustine--Confessions 1, 1


<><><><><>
May 23rd - St. Joan Antida Thouret

Born on November 27, 1765 in the Sancey-le-Long in the Doubs department in France, Jeanne Antide Thouret was the fifth child of a family of eight. When she was just 15 years old, her mother died leaving the responsibility of maintaining to Jeanne Antide.

As a young girls she searched for a way that would give meaning to her life and believed that it was important to respond to God's will for her. At 22 she left her home and joined the Daughters of Charity, a congregation at the service of the poor founded by St. Vincent de Paul in Paris.

In 1793, when the French Revolution was at its height, all religious congregations were banned and Jeanne Antide was forced to leave the Daughters of Charity. She returned to her home knowing that she would carry on what she had learned from St. Vincent de Paul. She cared for the sick, the wounded, and the poor -- all of which grew numerous during the chaos of the French Revolution. Jeanne Antide also taught the children, helped the priests who were forced to hide, and gathered Christians in prayer.

Because of her desire to commit herself to Christ and to her religious vocation, Jeanne Antide fled France and escaped to Switzerland to join a different religious itinerant community where she cared for the sick. With them she traveled across Switzerland and Germany.

When she decided to return to France she did so on foot, alone, without a passport and through unknown places at the risk of her own life. Jeanne Antide passed through Einsiedeln and reached the village of Landeron in Switzerland. It was there the representatives from the dioceses of Besançon, also in exile, made a request of her to continue on to France and take in young girls who she should train in the same way she was trained. With these girls Jeanne Antide returned to Besançon, France to teach children and to care for the sick. She accepted this request and in 1799 she opened a school, a dispensary, and a soup kitchen for the poor in Besançon. She had founded a new congregation.

In 1810 Jeanne Antide was called to Naples. There she and a group of sisters faced working in a very hierachial social system where the wealthy never encountered the poor. Jeanne Antide was in charge of the Hospital of the Incurable, the largest hospital in the city. The sisters often visited the poor and sick in their homes.

In 1819, the Pope approved the Rule of Life, a book she used to organize her congregation and the life of the women who had followed her. In fact, the Rule of Life is still used today by the Sisters of Charity of St. Joan Antida.

Jeanne Antide died in Naples in 1826. In 1934, she was canonized by Pope Pius IX.


Saint Quote:
"If you are an ardent reader, seek not brilliant and erudite texts; otherwise the demon of haughtiness will strike your heart. But like a wise bee that gathers honey from flowers, so also through your reading obtain healing for your soul."
--St. Ephraim the Syrian.

Bible Quote:
"The earth is the Lord's, and all its fullness, The world and those who dwell therein. For He has founded it upon the seas, And established it upon the waters." [Psalm 24:1-2]


<><><><>
Daily Thoughts and Prayers for Our Beloved Dead

"Have pity on me, have pity on me, at least you my friends, because the hand of the Lord hath touched me" Job. 19-21.


TWENTY-SEVENTH DAY

Let us accept without a murmur all that God sends us. Every morning let us offer God in behalf of the Souls in Purgatory all our prayers and good works and we shall help them immeasurably.

Prayer: Our Father, Three Hail Marys, Gloria, De Profundis.

De Profundis

Out of the depths, I have cried to Thee,
O Lord, Lord, hear my voice.
Let Thine ears be attentive to the
voice of my supplication.
If Thou, O Lord, shalt mark my iniquities,
O Lord, who shall stand it?
For with Thee there is merciful
forgiveness: and by reason of Thy
law I have waited for Thee, O Lord.
My soul hath relied on His word;
my soul hath hoped in the Lord.
From the morning watch even until
night; let Israel hope in the Lord.
Because with the Lord there is mercy;
And with Him plenteous redemption.
And He shall redeem Israel from
all its iniquities.
Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord,
And let perpetual light shine upon them:
May they rest in peace. Amen.

Most merciful Jesus, by the merits of Thy Holy Childhood, deliver from the pains of Purgatory all the Holy Souls, particularly the soul longest in paying the debt exacted for his imperfections on earth. Take him today to Paradise that he may join the Heavenly Choir in praising Thee and will intercede for me in the hour of need.

[gladys swager]

On Friday, May 24, 2013, Weedy wrote:
> Call Upon the Lord "You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you. Grant me, O Lord to know and understand which comes first: to call upon you or to praise you: and whether first to know you or call upon you. How are they to call upon him in whom they have not believed? How are they to believe in him whom they have not heard? And they who seek the Lord shall praise him." --St. Augustine--Confessions 1, 1 Prayer: May I seek you, Lord, by praying to you, and let me pray to you by believing in you. --St. Augustine--Confessions 1, 1

Weedy, in your postings you appeal to members of your church after the ascension of Jesus Christ.
Your church was not the first Christian Church That was formed in Jerusalem
on the first Day of Pentecost. (Acts 2)
The leaders of your church began to dominate the Christian faith from the time of Constantine as the Roman Emperor, Fouth Century AD.

These facts have been ascertained by entering into Search
"Heresies and Traditions of the Roman Catholic Church.
Prayers for the dead were first given about 300AD and
Purgatory was established by gregory about 600 AD.

I will grant that there have been persons in your church who have been good Christians, but that is also true of those in other Christian denominations.

However, I would be of the opinion, not from an actual calculation,
that there are more heretical beliefs in your church than in many Protestant denominations.

I have reason to believe that I was deliberately placed in a teaching position that had been given high accreditation, but with about twenty children placed in other classes for the ttime of the Inspection. A R.Catholic and a Protestant teachers had been in the administrative positions.

Yes, I knew what it was to experience intense evil ....not a sensation that
I would wish on any person,
but I had learnt that to pray the names of God and Jesus could alleviate the situation.
Eventually I was given Stress Leave and was able to propose
more environmental means for alleviating extreme stress (ie Psychiatric conditions) when an Italian doctor in 1939 had proposed Electro-Convulsice (Shock) Treatment - from which he withdrew his support at a later time.

Jesus told His disciples (John 14 : 12 (a) that they would do the works (miracles) that He had done
and also (John 14 : 12(b)that they would do greater works because He was going
to His Father - God
I read (b) that as causes, cures and preventions would be found.

From a text by an American Profssor of Psychiatry who had stated in it that
such condition had been at their height in the Middle Ages I set out a
KNACK of Living Programme of points for management....a prevention programme.