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DAILY LITURGY
Today is the Eleventh Wednesday in Ordinary Time whiel tomorrow is the Eleventh Thursday in Ordinary Time. For the readings, liturgies and meditations, click on DAILY LITURGY.
Events in Church History
On this date in 1456 Pope Callixtus III lifted the heresy charges that had been levied on Joan of Arc, the Maid of Orleans twenty five years ago by the French and British bishops for political reasons. The 209th successor of Peter had appointed a special court to investigate the charges and found them ill-founded, thus freeing Joan of the stigma. Yet her canonization process would be delayed for centuries until 1920 when Pope Benedict XV elevated her to sanctity. w For other pertinent events throughout the centuries that are memorable in Church history today, click on MILLENNIUM MILESTONES AND MEMORIES
198 and counting,
hoping and praying...
The DAILY WORD"But when you pray, go into your room, and closing the door, pray to your Father in secret; and your Father, Who sees in secret, will reward you."
Matthew 6: 6
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Medjugorje Monthly Message for MAY 25th
Dear children! Also today I call you to convert and to more firmly believe in God. Children, you seek peace and pray in different ways, but you have not yet given your hearts to God for Him to fill them with His love. So, I am with you to teach you and to bring you closer to the love of God. If you love God above all else, it will be easy for you to pray and to open your hearts to Him. Thank you for having responded to my call.
For more on Medjugorje, click on MEDJUGORJE AND MORE
Coming
Tomorrow:
The one hundred fifth installment of our on-going feature series on the Church today with WHERE IS HOLY MOTHER CHURCH HEADING AS WE NEAR THE MILLENNIUM?
A layman's perspective on the Church today in Pat Ludwa's column VIEW FROM THE PEW
Daily Coverage of the Holy Father's pilgrimage to Poland in the POPE IN POLAND
Time Capsules in Church History with MILLENNIUM MILESTONES AND MEMORIES focusing on June 17th.
Messages 559 and 560 in "I SOLEMNLY TELL YOU..."
DAILY LITURGY for the Eleventh Thursday and Friday in Ordinary Time.
Words of wisdom from Bishop Fulton J. Sheen in SIMPLY SHEEN
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 Former Apostolic Delegate to the United States Cardinal Pio Laghi continues to head up the Congregation for Catholic Education
 Today we feature our sixty-third red hat in alphabetical order. He is the 75 year-old Slovakian prelate Cardinal Jan Chryzostom Korec, S.J. who spent nearly half of his life under Communist suppression. Arrested twice for his faith, he was a bishop in secret for 39 years. When Communism fell in Eastern Europe it opened the door for his bishopric to become public knowledge and the many years of hardship in hardlabor paid off with him being chosen for the cardinalate in the Consistory of June 28, 1991. For more on this Prince of the Church from Slovakia, click on COLLEGE OF CARDINALS COLLECTION
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TODAY'S
HEADLINES:
Serbian Orthodox Church calls for Milosevic to step aside now
Hong Kong Cardinal risks life and limb by calling Chinese government on the carpet for wrongs as leader of Tiananmen Square uprising lashes out against communists as well
Tiny, impoverished Bangladesh leads the way globally in vocations proving the beatitude "Blessed are the Poor"
With Poland trip winding down, under-the-weather Pontiff sets sights on Eastern Churches
These stories and more: featured in today's NEWS & VIEWS below.
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The Gregorian Era gives new life to the Church
  
 We continue with the abridged History of the Mass and Holy Mother Church over a 2000 year span called 2000 YEAR VOYAGE ON THE BARQUE OF PETER.  Today we bring you the second half of the sixth century covering the time leading up to Pope Saint Gregory the Great as the Church and Italy bond to fend off the Byzantine threat, the Lombard invasion and the plague. For Installment fifteen, click on BARQUE OF PETER
      
  
Swinging for a Hole in One can be a diamond in the rough
 With summer upon us it's a golfers paradise and so we bring some good natured fun about golfing and the aficionado weekend golfers known as duffers. If you like playing the links, you'll love these for you should relate. Both clearly show that often some weekend hackers (and we don't mean the computer types) haven't got a clue when they're on the links. Surely you've met some of these types while waiting patiently to play through. Enjoy and go for the birdies! Fore! For these golf vignettes entitled Murphy's Law of Golf and The Duffer's IQ, click on JUNE GEMS: FOOD FOR THOUGHT APPETEASERS
God can turn failure into success
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but the words of Bishop Fulton J. Sheen have been known to launch a thousand images in one's mind, one of the ways this late luminary did so much to evangelize the faith. Because of the urgency of the times and because few there are today who possess the wisdom, simplicity and insight than the late Archbishop who touched millions, we are bringing you daily gems from his writings. The good bishop makes it so simple that we have dubbed this daily series: "SIMPLY SHEEN".
"A successful life can be a spoiled life if it is summed up in 'I made millions.' A spoiled life, on the contrary, need not be a hopeless life. Failures if properly accepted can lead to true success. Abraham Lincoln was defeated for every public office until he was elected President. Einstein was expelled from a school in Munich because he showed no interest in his studies and later failed to pass his test for a polytechnic school. A cross seen as the Will of God leads to an Easter Sunday."
"O, how I long to draw you into the Refuge of My Sacred Heart! How I long to pour out My Divine Mercy upon the world, that you may be given True Light to guide you on the path of salvation."
Those words come from Our Lord on October 30, 1994 in which Jesus imparted to the Hidden Flower of the Immaculate Heart in Message #558 the necessity for all His children to take refuge in His Most Sacred Heart for the Mercy is almost at an end and then the Justice will pour forth. Jesus reminds all that He wants to pour out His Mercy to all but so few are willing to accept it. He warns that the tribulations will touch everyone and that the only safe place will be in the Refuge of His Heart which will help ignite the fire to allow His Blessed Mother's Heart to triumph when it is least expected. Mary prefaces her Divine Son's Message two days prior on the Feast of Saints Simon and Jude paraphrasing everything Christ says and reinforcing to her little ones the signs of the End Times and for all to take note of them and return to her Son. For Messages #557 and #558, click on "I SOLEMNLY TELL YOU..."
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HEADLINES:
Serbian Orthodox Church to Milosevic: "Resign immediately!"
  We said yesterday in our editorial that the only way to get rid of Slobodan Milosevic is not by NATO but by his own people and a Synod of the Serbian Orthodox Church has begun the process for just that scenario by openly and unanimously calling for the Serbian strongman's immediate resignation as a way to renew peace and bring back dignity to the region and the Serbian people. For more, click on Demand for Milosevic to step down.
Hong Kong's Cardinal and Tiananmen Square Leader raise wrath of Chinese officials with criticism of government suppression
  Regardless of the repercussion, China's Cardinal John the Baptist Wu felt it was necessary to speak out strongly against the Chinese government regarding residency laws in Hong Kong because recent expulsions threaten even more Chinese who have the right to residency in China's largest city that was turned over last year by the British. Cardinal Wu's comments in his Pastoral Letter were mild compared to one of the leaders of the Tianenmen Square uprising ten years ago. He claims there was more freedom then than there is now. For more, click on China persecution.
Blessed are the Poor, especially in Bangladesh where the fruits are manifesting themselves in vocations
"By their fruits you shall know them." That is the scriptural passage that comes to mind when one thinks of vocations in one of the poorest nations of the world - Bangladesh. Here in this poverty-stricken country more vocations have come from one seminary percentage-wise than any other seminary in the world. The plethora of vocations in this country is another sign of how the Church is prospering in this southeast Asian country. For more, click on Bangladesh vocations .
Pope still planning on visiting sick Patriarch in Armenia if his own health holds up; also extends invite to Romanian Patriarch.
   Pending the Holy Father's physical condition, he will fly into Erevan, Armenia Friday morning marking the closest a Roman Pontiff has ever come to Moscow and the vast empire of Russia. He will be there on a mercy mission to see his friend Catholicos I Karekin who has throat cancer but the Pope is also interested in bringing reconciliation with the Armenian Apostolic Church and the Orthodox Church, which is another reason he has invited the Romanian Patariarch to visit the Vatican. For more, see Eastern Churches
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