THE ORIGIN OF THE ROSARY
The Holy Rosary had been in use all through the centuries from the time of the apostles and the disciples till now, since it is composed of Christ's prayer and Angelic salutation, that is Our Father and Hail Mary. It is even the first prayer of the faithful.
But in the year 1214 the Holy Rosary as it is now and according to the method we use today came to us through Saint Dominic who received it from our Blessed Mother Virgin Mary as a powerful means of converting the Albigensians and other sinners.
This is how he received it as it is in the very well known book "De Dignitate Psaltari by Blessed Alande la Roche
1" Saint Dominic seeing that the people's sin were too much and that it hinders the conversion of the Albigensians withdrew into the forest near 'Toulouse' where he prayed seriously for three days and three nights. During this period, he always weep and do serious penance in order to reduce the anger of the Almighty God. The penance he did was too much to the extent that his body was not like human being's body. At last he fall into a coma.
At this point our Lady followed by three Angels appeared to him, she said "Dear Dominic do you know which weapon the Blessed Trinity wants to use to reform the world?" Saint Dominic answered. You know far better than I do because next to Your Son Jesus Christ You have always been the chief instrument of our salvation".
Then our Lady replied, "I want you to know that in this kind of warfare, the weapon has always been the Angelic Psalter which is the foundation stone of the New testament. There, if you want to reach these hardened souls and win them over to God, preach my Psalter"
So he arose comfortably and burning with zeal for the conversion of the people in that district, he made straight to the Cathedral. At once unseen Angels rang the bell to gather the people together and saint Dominic began to preach.
To be continued. . .

THE HOLY ROSARY IS A POWERFUL PRAYER.
ENDEAVOUR TO PRAY THE HOLY ROSARY DAIRY.
The fifteen promises made by our Lady to those that recite the Holy Rosary with their heart.
1. To all those who will recite my Rosary devoutly I Promise my special protection and very great Graces.
2. Those who will persever in the recitation of my Rosary shall receive some signal Grace.
3. The Rosary shall be a very powerful amour against hell, it shall destroy vice, deliver from sin, and shall dispell heresy.
4. The Rosary shall make virture and good works flourish, and shall substitute in hearts love of God for love of the world, elevate them to desire Heavenly and eternal goods. Oh that souls would sanctify themselves by this means.
5. Those who trust themselves to Me through the Rosary, shall not perish.
6. Those who will recite my Rosary piously considering its mysteries, shall not be overwhelmed by misfortune nor die a bad death. The sinner shall be converted, the just shall grow in grace and become worthy of etenal life.
7. Those truly devoted to my Rosary shall not die without the consolations of the Church or without Grace.
8. Those who will recite my Rosary shall find during their life and at their death the light of God, the fulness of His grace and shall share in the merits of the Blessed.
9. I will deliver promptly from purgatory the soul devoted to my Rosary.
10. The true children of my Rosary shall enjoy great glory in Heaven.
11. What you ask through my Rosary, shall be obtained.
12. Those who propagate my Rosary shall obtain through Me aid in all their necessities.
13. I have obtained from my Son that all the conferers of the Rosary shall have for their brethren in life and death the Saints of heaven.
14. Those who recite my Rosary faithfully are all my beloved children, the brothers and sister of Jesus Christ.
15. Devotion to my Rosary is a special sign of predestination.

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We must hold Protestants "in great affection and love them very truly, excluding all thoughts and feelings tending to discredit them. We must also win their good will and love by friendly conversation about matters on which we do not differ, taking care to avoid all controversial subjects that lead to bickering and mutual recrimination. The things that unite us ought to be the very basis of our approach, not the things that keep us apart."

While browsing, I came across this wonderful explanation for the above question, Hope it will be some use to somebody. . . Seriously, I knew that Catholic bible had more books, But I didn't know the reason. . . Now I know. The New Testament canon of the Catholic Bible and the Protestant Bible are the same with 27 books. The difference in the old testaments actually goes back to the time before and during Christ's Life. At this time, there was no official Jewish canon of the scripture. The Jews in Egypt translated their choices of the Hebrew scriptures into Greek in the second century before Christ. This translation of 46 books, called the septuagint had wide use in the Roman world because most Jews lived far from palestine in Greek Cities. Many of these Jews spoke only Greek.
The early Christian Church was born into the world. The Church, with its bilingual Jews and more & more Greek - speaking Gentiles used the books of the septuagint as its Bible. Remember the early Christians were just writing the documents what would become the New Testament. After the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem, with increasing persecution from the Romans and the competition from the fledgling Christian Church, the Jewish leaders came together and declared its official canon of scripture, eliminating seven books from the septuagint. The books removed were tobit, Judith, 1 Maccabees, 2 Maccabees, Wisdom ( of solomon ), Sirach and Baruch. Parts of exististing books were also removed including psalm 151 ( from psalms ) parts of the book of Esther, Susanna ( from Daniel as chapter 13 ) and Bel and the Dragon ( from Daniel as chapter 14 ).
The Christian Church filled with the Holy Spirit did not follow suit but kept all the books in the septuagint 46 + 27 = 73 books total.
1500 years later, protestants decided to keep the Catholic New Testament but change its old testament from the Catholic canon to the Jewish canon.
The books that were removed supported such things as
* Prayer for the dead ( tobit 12 : 12 ; 2 Maccabees 12 : 39 - 45).
* Purgatory ( Wisdom 3 : 1 - 7 ).
* Intercession of Saints in heaven ( 2 Maccabees 15 : 14 ).
* Intercession of Angels ( Tobit 12 : 12 - 15 ).
The books they dropped are also called the Apocrypha.
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Lord
Make me an instrument of thy peace
Where there is hatred let me sow love
Where there is injury pardon
Where there is doubt faith
Where there is despair hope
Where there is darkness light
Where there is sadness joy

O Divine Master
Grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console
to be understood as to understand
to be loved as to love
for it is in giving that we receive
pardoning that we are pardoned
dying that we are born to eternal life - St. Francis of Assisi
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The word of God does not belong to him who bears or speaks it, but to him who puts it into practice.

Let not the strong neglect the care of the weak, and let the weak respect the strong. Let the rich distribute to the needs of the poor, and let the poor bless God who gives them people to supply their want. . . . The great can't subsist without the little, nor the little without the great.

What are the servants of God : his singers whose duty it is to lift up hearts of men and women & move them to spiritual joy - Saint Francis of Assisi

You are holy, Lord, the only God, and your deeds are wonderful. You are strong. You are great. You are the Most High, You are almighty. You, holy Father, are king of heaven and earth. You are Three and One, Lord God all Good. You are Good, all Good, supreme Good, Lord God living and true. You are love, You are wisdom. You are humility, You are endurance. You are rest, You are peace. You are joy and gladness, You are justice and moderation. You are all our riches, and you suffice for us. You are beauty. You are gentleness. You are our protector, You are our guardian and defender. You are courage. You are our haven and our hope. You are our faith, our great consolation. You are our eternal life, great and wonderful Lord, God almighty, merciful Saviour.
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Let him that has love in Christ keep Christ's commandments. Who can describe the bond of the love of God? . . . The height to which love raises us is unutterable. Love binds us to God. Love covers a multitude of sins. Love bears all things, is long suffering in all things. There is nothing vulgar in love, nothing overbearing. Love knows no schism, love is not seditious, love does all things in concord. By love all the elect of God were perfected. Without love nothing is pleasing to God. In love the Lord received us. Because of the love he had toward us, Jesus Christ Our Lord gave his blood for us by the will of God, and his flesh for our flesh, and his life for our lives. You see, beloved, how great and marvelous a thing love is. Of its perfection there is no telling. Who is able to be found in it expect those whom God has counted worthy? Let us pray, therefore, and desire his mercy, that we may be found in love, spotless, without human partisanship. . . . Blessed are we, brethren, if we perform the commandments of God in the concord of love, that our sins may be forgiven through love. For it is written: "Blessed are those whose iniquities are forgiven and whose sins are covered. . . ." This blessedness came to those who were chosen by God through Jesus Christ Our Lord, to whom be the glory for ever and ever. Amen.
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There is no failure so great that a christian cannot rise from it, there is no defeat so final that he cannot convert it into a victory.- Helen C. White

Therefore, Christian men, be sure
Wealth or rank possessing, Ye who now will bless the poor, Shall yourselves find blessing.-"Good King Wenceslaus"
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Perhaps you wonder, "Why are the wicked joyous? why do they live in luxury? why don't they have to strive like I do?" The reason is that they who have not signed up to strive for the crown are not required to undergo the labors of the contest. Those who haven't gone down to track don't smear themselves with oil, nor get covered with dust. Trouble comes only to those on their way to glory. The perfumed spectators prefer to watch, not to join in the struggle, nor to endure the sun, the heat, the dust, and the rain.
So those who have devoted themselves to pleasures, luxury, robbery, gain or honors are spectators rather than combatants. They have the profit of labor but not the fruit of virture. They love their ease. By cunning and wickedness they heap up riches. But they will pay the penalty of their iniquity, though it be late in coming. Their rest willl be in hell, yours in paradise. Thus, Job said beautifully that they watch in the tomb ( see Job 21 : 32 ) for they cannot have the calm of quiet rest that he enjoys who shall rise again.
Take time to Pray it is the Greatest power on Earth.
Take time for 12 things
1. Take time to Work - it is the price of success.
2. Take time to Think - it is the source of power.
3. Take time to Play - it is the secret of youth.
4. Take time to Read - it is the foundation of knowledge.
5. Take time to Worship - it is the highway of reverance and washes the dust of earth from our eyes.
6. Take time to Help and Enjoy Friends - it is the source of happiness.
7. Take time to Love - it is the one sacrament of life.
8. Take time to Dream - it hitches the soul to the stars.
9. Take time to Laugh - it is the singing that helps with life's loads.
10. Take time for Beauty - it is everywhere in nature.
11. Take time for Health - it is the true wealth and treasure of life.
12. Take time to Plan - it is the secret of being able to have time to take time for the first eleven things.

Dearest brethren, you have heard that at a single command Peter and Andrew, leaving their nets, followed the Redeemer, Up to that time they had not seen him perform any miracles. They had heard nothing from him concerning a reward of eternal joy, and still, at a single bidding of our Lord, they forgot about that which they seemed to possess. What great miracles have we seen, with how many scourges are we afflicted, by what great anxieties of threatening things are we disheartened, and yet we scorn him who calls us to follow! He who cousels us in a manner of life already sits enthroned in heaven; . . . already, with the world's disasters increasing more and more, does he announce the approaching day of severe judgement. And yet our proud mind still does not wish to abandon freely that which it is daily losing unwillingly.
      . . . But perharps someone will say in his silent thoughts:
"What or how much did either of these fishermen, who possessed almost nothing, forfeit at the call of the Lord?"
In this matter . . . we must consider the disposition rather than personal wealth. He forsakes much who keeps nothing for himself. He forsakes much who gives up every little thing, his all. But we, on the other hand, hold with love the things we have, and even out of desire seek those things which we do not have. Therefore Peter and Andrew forsook much when both forfeited even their desire to possess.

Holy scripture is the table of Christ, from whence we are nourished, from whence we learn what we should love and what we should desire, to whom we should have our eyes raised.
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An egg given during life for the love of God is more profitable for eternity than a cathedral full of gold given after death. To forgive those who have injured us in our body, our reputation, our goods, is more advantageous to us than to cross the seas to go to venerate the sepulcher of the Lord. Knowledge of divine things is imprinted on our minds by union with God, who is Wisdom itself, just as wax molds itself into the seal--not the reverse.
Seeking God is part of holy reading, just as worldly reading . . . leads to losing him. . . . If, then, you want to find the Lord of mercy, read learned and spiritual doctors, for St. Lipsianus says: "As in prayer we speak with God, in reading Our God speaks to us. . ."
Prayer shows the soul the great secrets of God, is the guide of our desires and of so many of our works, and finally is the gate which takes us to the desired garden of contemplation.
Do not go jumping about from one book to another, nor begin by reading the end. For as a philosopher said, we enjoy variety in what we read, but perseverance in reading is what brings us profit. You should always pick out certain passages from what you have read and fix them in your mind. . . . Always have a definite time each day for reading, just as you should have for prayer and contemplation.
The best preparation for prayer is to read the lives of the saints, not from mere curiosity, but quitely and with recollection a little at a time. And pause whenever you feel your heart touched with devotion.-- ST.PHILIP NERI http://adorationministriesenugu.org

If you want God to hear your prayers, hear the voice of the poor, If you wish God to anticipate your wants, provide those of the indigent without waiting for them to ask you. Especially anticipate the needs of those who are ashamed to beg. To make them ask for alms is to make them buy it.- Saint Thomas of Villanova
Today you see many people who already have great possessions still laboring day by day to add one field to another with greed that knows no bounds. And you see those who have houses worthy of a king, nevertheless adding house to house every day ( see Is 5 : 8 ). And do we not see people in high positions striving mightly for still higher positions? There is no end to it all because the highest and best is not to be found in any of these things. If a person cannot be at peace until he has the highest and the best, is it surprising that he is not content with inferior and worse things? It is folly and extreme madness always to be longing for things that cannot only never satisfy but cannot even blunt the appetie. However much you have such things you still desire what you have not yet attained. You are always restlessly sighing after what is missing.
The wicked therefore walk round in circle (see Ps 11:9), naturally wanting what will satisfy their wants, and foolishly thrusting away the means of attaining it--that is, of attaining not consumption but consummation. Thus, they wear themselves out with pointless effort and do not reach the end of happy fulfillment. They delight in the beauty of the creature rather than of the Creator (see Rm 1:23). They lust for each and every experience more than they desire to come to the Lord of all.
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Depends on the gravity of the sin, but with God and sincere confession, i beleive the marriage will be blessed, dry bones shall rise again in my life. Ezekiel 37:1-14

I started blogging cus i like the internet, my first blog is about internet security etc, my second blog is about my faith, catholic catechism

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Prayer to saint. Isidore of seville
Patron saint of the internet

Almighty and etenal God who has created us in thine image and bade us to seek after all that is good, true and beautiful, especially in the divine person of the only begotten son, our Lord Jesus Christ, grant we beseech thee that through the intercession of saint Isidore, bishop and doctor, during our journeys through the internet we will direct our hands and eyes only to that which is pleasing to thee and treat with charity and patience all those souls whom we ecounter. Father we ask you this, through Christ our Lord. Amen

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The state Government has introduced an automated Centralised Salary Payment for the entire state workforce. The state Head of service, Mrs Ngozi Melifeonwu disclosed this, while briefing newsmen at the state new secretariat bulding Awka.
Mrs Melifeonwu explained that the service which will be provided by a designated bank will provide for first time in the history of the State Civil Service, accurate data base for all aspects of personnel and financial planning and administration. According to the Head of Service, through the use of Bank interswitch facilites, salaries will be paid into all workers accounts in any bank in the state and will solve the problem of delay in receiving salaries.
Mrs Melifeonwu said the State Government was equally collaborating with the USA Computer giant, Microsoft to provide Information and Communication Development. She said that Gov. Peter Obi had made welfare of workers a top priority. . . . Source: Our Nation newspaper,Vol. 8, No. 4 March Middle 2009 page 15.

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Grail or holy grail meaning: a cup or chalice that in medieval legend was associated with unusual powers,esp.the regenaration of life and later, christian purity, and was much sought after by medieval knights: identified with the cup used at the last supper and given to joseph of arimathea.
Any greatly desired and sought-after.
Ultimate ideal or reward.
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My username has nothing to do with grail message
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plz read your bible and pray allwayz
Jesus christ is the son of God
"God is love.

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From the texts Proverbs 8 and Ecclesiasticus 24 (which exalt the Wisdom of God and which in the liturgy are applied to Mary, the most beautiful work of God's Wisdom), or from the Canticle of Canticles (4:7, "Thou art all fair, O my love, and there is not a spot in thee", no theological conclusion can be drawn. These passages, applied to the Mother of God, may be readily understood by those who know the privilege of Mary, but do not avail to prove the doctrine dogmatically, and are therefore omitted from the Constitution "Ineffabilis Deus". For the theologian it is a matter of conscience not to take an extreme position by applying to a creature texts which might imply the prerogatives of God.