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TOP TEN MOVIES OF LAST WEEK
Saving Private Ryan rescues box office malaise with strong second week!
&bnsp; Continuing with our summer replacement to keep everyone abreast of the proper entertainment to take in, we present this week's top ten movies from a Catholic perspective including our take and the official review by the National Conference of Catholic Bishops. The critically-acclaimed "Saving Private Ryan" continued its mastery over the others nearly tripling Disney's remake of the tripe "The Parent Trap" which finished just ahead of the surprisingly strong and disgustingly presented "There's Something About Mary". The biggest shock of the week was how far "The Mask of Zorro" plummetted, plunging to sixth after holding down the top spot and second over the past two weeks respectively. Besides Disney's "Trap," two other new flicks debuted this past week, both ending up in the top five but both far behind Stephen Spielberg's masterpiece on World War II. Click on MOVIES & MORALS: TOP TEN MOVIES
Are we trying too hard to hit the high notes and missing the melody?
In this weekend's issue the Hidden Flower of the Immaculate Heart continues to speak from her heart. This week she touches on the problems we face when we get too wrapped up in our activities and strive for perfection or the next rung of the corporate ladder. Too often pride and vanity raise their ugly heads while we are totally oblivious to these vices until it is too late. She offers suggestions to slow down, stop and smell the roses and each of us to ease into each's specific Symphony of Suffering in order to make perfect harmony with God. Click on SYMPHONY OF SUFFERING
A Document intended to Protect the Faith: Ad Tuendam Fidem
Because the staff at the DAILY CATHOLIC is on sabbatical this week, we offer the first installment of the Holy Father's Apostolic Letter Motu Proprio AD TUENDAM FIDEM aimed at governing dissidence within the Church. We will resume next Monday, August 17th with the second of two parts. For the first of two parts, click on THE VICAR OF CHRIST SPEAKS.
Whether we know it or not, our Guardian Angels are with us always as many have testified
In her column this week, Sister Mary Lucy Astuto reaffirms the presence of our angels with a response from a reader of Sister's column last week on the miraculous and mysterious mission of the angels. For Sister's column, Tricia's True Angel Story, click on GETTING TO THE HEART OF THE MATTER
The evil one plays on our emotions, prompting us to take the easy way out.
In his fourth part on The subtleties of satan of his weekly column, Father Stephen Valenta, OFM Conv. warns us of the evil one's clever way of enticing God's creatures to opt for the easy way out, thus weakening our resolve of the hard, persistent task of carrying our cross. For Father's column, click on the fourth part of his treatise in HEARTS TO HEART TALK
Countdown to the end of the persecutions
As part of our summer retro campaign, we continue to bring you the early chapters of this on-going megaseries. Today we cover the second half of the third century - the last of the Roman persecutions. For the early installment titled The Blood of the Martyrs replenishes a flourishing Church: 250-300, click on THE HISTORY OF THE MASS AND HOLY MOTHER CHURCH.
Eternal Life can be a steal if we don't steal from others in this life!
The 98th Lesson/ Meditation imparted by Our Lady to the Hidden Flower of the Immaculate Heart, which is one in a series of 100 Meditative Lessons imparted to her deals with the Seventh Commandment. For Lesson/Meditation #98 titled STEALING ONLY LEADS TO STOLEN GRACE, click on THE HIDDEN WAY
LITURGY OF THE WEEK
During this week we celebrate the feasts of Saint Dominic, Saint Lawrence, Saint Clare, Saint Pontian and Saint Hippolytus along with the Solemnity of the ASSUMPTION OF THE BLESSED MOTHER. For the liturgies, readings, meditations and vignettes on all these feasts, click on LITURGY
WORLDWIDE NEWS & VIEWS with a Catholic slant
HEADLINES:
With the staff of the DAILY CATHOLIC on summer sabbatical until August 17th, we recommend you go to the Catholic World News site at the Catholic World News site. CWN is not affiliated with the Daily CATHOLIC but provides this service via e-mail to the Daily CATHOLIC Monday through Friday.
July 25th Medjugorje Monthly Message
Dear children! Today, little children, I invite you, through prayer, to be with
Jesus, so that through a personal experience of prayer you may be able to discover the beauty of God's
creatures. You cannot speak or witness about prayer, if you do not pray. That is why, little children, in the
silence of the heart, remain with Jesus, so that He may change and transform you with His love. This,
little children, is a time of grace for you. Make good use of it for your personal conversion, because
when you have God, you have everything. Thank you for having responded to my call. For more on Medjugorje, click on MEDJUGORJE
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The Warnings of the nineteenth century pertain just as much to the end of the twentieth century
The dire warnings of LaSalette in the mid nineteenth century have come to fruition as we near the millennium. In the second of a multi part we bring you the essence of some of Our Lady's messages to visionaries Melanie and Maximim in the Pyrannee Mountains of southern France. For the chapter The Apparitions of LaSalette: The Warnings from Our Lady of LaSalette click on THE AGE OF MARIAN APPARITION
Mercy is in the heart of the upholder!
As the summer begins to fade with the heat of August, it is time to turn our attention and hearts more than ever to Jesus' Divine Mercy which He has promised us. But we also must make a promise to uphold our part of the bargain as we repeat daily the words "Have mercy on us and on the whole world." in the Chaplet of Divine Mercy. For our last editorial before a late summer sabbatical, titled The Chaplet of Divine Mercy only takes ten minutes or so to say, but the results are timeless. click on this week's CATHOLIC PewPOINT /H5>
Christ prepared his disciples well - from weaklings to spiritual giants that have cast a holy shadow over two millenniums
In his second part on "Survival of the Spiritually fittest" Father John Hampsch, C.M.F. illustrates how Jesus took a group of 90-pound weaklings and turned them into spiritual giants and how these exercises have produced tremendous bulking up within the ranks of the Church over 2000 years. For Father's fifty-second installment of "Faith: Key to the Heart of God," click on KEYS TO LIVING GOD'S WILL
Pope John Paul II: The Rock of Holy Mother Church!
As part of our summer service to readers who may not have had the opportunity to read the earliest chapters of our on-going megaseries on the Church today, we repeat the early installments, today featuring the cornerstone of our faith today - the supreme pontiff. For the sixth installment, The making of the Pope who will lead us into the next millennium, click on WHERE IS HOLY MOTHER CHURCH HEADING AS WE NEAR THE MILLENNIUM?.
The River of Tears is about to spill over!
That is the essence of the Blessed Mother Mary's words in her 175th and 176th messages to the Hidden Flower of the Immaculate Heart, which we bring you today. Our Lady urges her children to be fully obedient to her Divine Son's Vicar on earth during the sorrowful times ahead. Click on "I SOLEMNLY TELL YOU..."
TIME CAPSULES
Events throughout the week in Church History
For time capsule events that happened in Church history on August 7th through August 17th, click on ALL ROADS LEAD TO ROME
PROVERB OF THE DAY
"If your enemy be hungry, give him food to eat, if he be thirsty, give him to drink; for live coals you will heap on his head, and the Lord will vindicate you. " Proverbs 25: 21-22
PRAYERS & DEVOTION
For special prayers and novena to the Blessed Mother for the Solemnity of the Assumption, click on PRAYERS FOR THE ASSUMPTION.
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