Our Lady of Czestochowa Mass - August 18, 2018
The Sunday Mass on August 12, 2018.
Our Lady of Czestochowa Church, 84K St., Turners Falls, MA 01376
Czestochowa Icon visits Holy Family Catholic Church in Jacksonville 1 18 2014 (HD)
For almost 17 centuries, the Icon of Our Lady of Czestochowa, also called the Black Madonna, has been venerated in Eastern and Western Christianity. A replica of this Icon has traveled some 40000 miles across Russia and Europe arriving in America and coming to Jacksonville, Florida.
The goal ... that through the intercession of Our Lady of Czestochowa, a culture of life will be restored to the United States and around the World.
Fr. Peter West, a member of Human Life International's Ocean to Ocean Campaign in Defense of Life has traveled with the Icon on her visit to America. He spoke before the Holy Family Catholic Church community in Jacksonville on Saturday evening, January 18th, 2014 during the church's service. This video chronicles that event with excerpts from Fr. West's homily. Run time is approx. 9:30 minutes. Filmed in HD.
Was Jesus and mother as well as the apostles Black?
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There are four main categories of Christian places of worship chapel, church, basilica and cathedral...
A cathedral, its full name being cathedral church, is a church in which we find the bishop, who is in charge of a diocese, that is to say, a geographical and administrative region depending on this cathedral. It is therefore the main church on which the other churches of this region depend, hence the fact that they are generally imposing and richly decorated buildings.
Churches are temples, that is, places of worship of the Christian religion in which religious ceremonies take place. A church is run by a group of clergymen or priests.
A basilica is a church that obtained the honorary title of Basilica from the Pope, therefore, only catholic churches can be honored with the title of Basilica. A basilica is regarded as a remarkable church, because a special event took place there, where many pilgrims go through pilgrimage, whether it contains unique relics or due to its architectural value.
A chapel is a church that is much smaller in size. It usually has only one room and differs from a normal church in the fact that it is nondenominational, therefore welcoming people from different confessions.
The shrine is the smallest place of worship we can find in Christianity. Not so much of a building, it is a place or object that contains a relic or a figure sacred to a certain branch of Christianity such as Saints, holy objects and others.
10. Ulm Minster
9. Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar
8. Basilica of the Holy Trinity
7. Liverpool Cathedral
6. Basilica of Our Lady of Lichen
5. Milan Cathedral
4. Cathedral of Saint John the Divine
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2. Basilica of the National Shrine of Our Lady of Aparecida
1. St. Peter's Basilica
Lesser Poland Voivodeship
Poland is divided into 16 voivodeships (provinces). is polish voivodeship.
Lesser Poland Voivodeship (in Polish, województwo małopolskie [vɔjɛˈvut͡stfɔ mawɔˈpɔlskʲɛ]), also known as Małopolska Voivodeship or Małopolska Province, is a voivodeship (province), in southern Poland. It has an area of 15,108 square kilometres (5,833 sq mi), and a population of 3,267,731 (2006).
It was created on 1 January 1999 out of the former Kraków, Tarnów, Nowy Sącz and parts of Bielsko-Biała, Katowice, Kielce and Krosno Voivodeships, pursuant to the Polish local government reforms adopted in 1998. The province's name recalls the traditional name of a historic Polish region, Lesser Poland, or in Polish: Małopolska. Current Lesser Poland Voivodeship, however, covers only small part of the broader ancient Małopolska region which, together with Greater Poland (Wielkopolska) and Silesia (Śląsk), formed the early medieval Polish state. Historic Lesser Poland is much larger than the current province. It stretches far north, to Radom, and Siedlce, also including such cities, as Stalowa Wola, Lublin, Kielce, Częstochowa, and Sosnowiec.
Paul of Thebes and Lydia Purple reincarnated as Bill and Hillary Clinton ☢ Paulician Trail of Blood
Women in the Scriptures: Lydia Purple and Hillary Rosenberg -- She Worketh Willingly With Her Hands -- Hillary Clinton's Purple Pantsuit Sends Powerful Message, According to Social Media [Yahoo Style] Hayley FitzPatrick November 9, 2016 -- Hillary Clinton’s style throughout the election — and life, for that matter — has largely consisted of just pantsuits. So on Wednesday morning when she delivered her concession speech, she stuck with her uniform.
The former Democratic presidential candidate paired a purple blouse with a black jacket featuring purple satin lapels and matching trousers. Her husband, former President Bill Clinton, coordinated with his wife by wearing a navy blue suit and a purple tie.
Many users on social media noted the significance and symbolism behind the couple wearing the color, which has long been used to mark bipartisanship between the Republican and Democratic parties, as a mix of red and blue makes purple. Some even suggested that the clothing choice was an intentional reference to unity in the United States by the Clinton family.
Others felt that the color choice was a sign of mourning.
Paul and Lydia, the seller of purple cloth. Children's division style art. Part of a series.
St. Lydia Seller of the Purple
Acts 16: 14-15, 40
During Paul's third journey he and Silas are in Troas when Paul has a vision. In his vision Paul sees a man from Macedonia who pleads with Paul, Come over to Macedonia, and help us. (vs. 9). Immediately after having this vision Paul and Silas travel to Phillipi, the capital city of Macedonia, and seek for people to teach (vs. 10-12). They find their first success among the women who are gathered at the river outside of Phillipi (vs. 13).
She is a seller of purple which has reference to her work as a merchant (and perhaps maker) of purple dye used to dye cloth (vs. 14);
New Testament narrative
Acts 16 describes Lydia as follows:
A certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, one who worshiped God, heard us; whose heart the Lord opened to listen to the things which were spoken by Paul. When she and her household were baptized, she begged us, saying, If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and stay. So she persuaded us.
— Acts 16:14-15 World English Bible
LYDIA We sat down and began to talk with the women who had gathered. One of those women was Lydia, a Gentile God-worshipper from the city of Thyatira, a dealer in purple cloth. As she listened, the Lord enabled her to embrace Paul’s message. Once she and her household were baptized, she urged, 'Now that you have decided that I am a believer in the Lord, come and stay in my house.' And she persuaded us. —Acts 16:13b-15 CEB
Map - Paul’s Second Missionary Journey, with Silas returning to Asia Minor and on into Europe c AD49-52
Map Key: 1. Paul's Second Journey as recorded in the Acts of the Apostles.
The Order of Saint Paul the First Hermit (Latin: Ordo Fratrum Sancti Pauli Primi Eremitae, Croatian: Red svetog Pavla prvog pustinjaka – pavlini, Czech: Řád paulínů, German: Pauliner, Hungarian: Szent Pál első remete szerzeteseinek rendje, Polish: Paulini – Zakon Świętego Pawła Pierwszego Pustelnika, Slovak: Rád Svätého Pavla Prvého Pustovníka), known also simply as Pauline Fathers, is a monastic order of the Roman Catholic Church, founded in Hungary during the 13th century. Its post-nominal letters are O.S.P.P.E.
This name is derived from the hermit Saint Paul of Thebes (died ca. 345), canonized in 491 by Pope Gelasius I. After his death, a monastery taking him as its model was founded on Mount Sinai and still exists today.
Among the other famous houses of the congregation are the historical Polish monastery of Our Lady of Jasna Góra (Bright Mountain) in Częstochowa, Poland), with its Miraculous Icon of the Black Madonna of Częstochowa (according to legend the work of St. Luke and discovered by St. Helena with the True Cross), and the monasteries at Pozsony (now Bratislava) and Wiener Neustadt near Vienna.
Thebes (Ancient Greek: Θῆβαι, Thēbai), known to the ancient Egyptians as Waset, was an ancient Egyptian city located east of the Nile about 800 kilometers (500 mi) south of the Mediterranean.
The Ancient Egyptians originally knew Thebes as Waset (wꜣs.t), the City of the Was.
The Trail of Blood (1931) by the Baptist minister, James Milton Carroll.
Founders’ Day Lecture
To mark Prep’s 147th anniversary, Fr. James Joyce, S.J., former Prep president, gives a special presentation on Prep’s history.
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This article lists the feast days of the General Roman Calendar as reformed on 23 July 1960 by Pope John XXIII's motu proprio Rubricarum instructum. This 1960 calendar was incorporated into the 1962 edition of the Roman Missal, continued use of which Pope Benedict XVI authorized in his 7 July 2007 motu proprio Summorum Pontificum as an extraordinary form of the Roman Rite.
Rubricarum instructum replaced the former classifications of Doubles, Semidoubles, and Simples with I, II, and III class feasts and commemorations. It removed a few feasts, in particular duplications such as the Feast of the Cross (3 May and 14 September), the Chair of Peter (18 January and 22 February), Saint Peter (1 August and 29 June), Saint John the Evangelist (6 May and 27 December), Saint Michael (8 May and 29 September), and Saint Stephen (3 August and 26 December).
This calendar is distinct from the General Roman Calendar of 1954 in that it also incorporates the changes made by Pope Pius XII in 1955, which included the reduction of octaves to three only, those of Christmas, Easter and Pentecost. See General Roman Calendar of Pope Pius XII.
National patron saint | Wikipedia audio article
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00:00:28 2 Regions
00:00:37 3 Countries
00:00:46 3.1 Former states
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00:01:51 5 Cities and towns
00:22:10 6 Archdioceses and dioceses
00:23:53 7 See also
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- Socrates
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The idea of assigning a patron saint to a certain locality harks back to the ancient tutelary deities. This is a list of patron saints of places by nation, region, and town/city. If a place is not listed here, it may be listed in Patronage of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
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Statues of St. Luke and Mother Mary
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Our Lady of Medjugorje ❤ Message September 2, 2014
“Dear children, I, your Mother, am coming anew among you out of love which has no end, from endless love of the endless Heavenly Father. And as I am looking into your hearts I see that many of you accept me as a Mother and, with sincere and pure hearts, you desire to be my apostles. But, I am also the Mother of those of you who do not accept me and who, in the hardness of your hearts, do not desire to come to know the love of my Son. And you do not know how much my heart suffers and how much I pray to my Son for you. I pray to him to heal your souls because he can do so. I pray to him to illuminate you with the miracle of the Holy Spirit so that you may stop, always anew, betraying, cursing and wounding him. With all my heart I pray for you to understand that only my Son is the salvation and the light of the world. And you, my children, my dear apostles, always carry my Son in your hearts and thoughts. In this way you are carrying love. All those who do not know him will recognise him in your love. I am always beside you. In a special way I am beside your shepherds because my Son has called them to lead you on the way to eternity. Thank you, my apostles, for your sacrifice and love. ”
EWTN Live - 2016-03-23 - Dr. William Thomas
Dr. William Thomas, S.T.D., Professor of Mariology at Newman College Ireland and the Director of the St. John Paul II Institute of Marian Studies shares his experiences working in the Vatican under St. John Paul II. Hosted by Fr. Mitch Pacwa.
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Nazareth (; Hebrew: נָצְרַת, Natzrat; Arabic: النَّاصِرَة, an-Nāṣira; Aramaic: ܢܨܪܬ, Naṣrath) is the capital and the largest city in the Northern District of Israel. Nazareth is known as the Arab capital of Israel. In 2017 its population was 76,551. The inhabitants are predominantly Arab citizens of Israel, of whom 69% are Muslim and 30.9% Christian. Nazareth Illit (lit. Upper Nazareth), declared a separate city in June 1974, is built alongside old Nazareth, and had a Jewish population of 40,312 in 2014.In the New Testament, the town is described as the childhood home of Jesus, and as such is a center of Christian pilgrimage, with many shrines commemorating biblical events.
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For historical forms of the General Roman Calendar, see Tridentine Calendar, General Roman Calendar of 1954, General Roman Calendar of Pope Pius XII, General Roman Calendar of 1960, and General Roman Calendar of 1969.The General Roman Calendar is the liturgical calendar that indicates the dates of celebrations of saints and mysteries of the Lord (Jesus Christ) in the Roman Rite, wherever this liturgical rite is in use. These celebrations are a fixed annual date; or occur on a particular day of the week (examples are the Baptism of the Lord in January and the Feast of Christ the King in November); or relate to the date of Easter (examples are the celebrations of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary). National and diocesan liturgical calendars, including that of the diocese of Rome itself as well as the calendars of religious institutes and even of continents, add other saints and mysteries or transfer the celebration of a particular saint or mystery from the date assigned in the General Calendar to another date.
These liturgical calendars also indicate the degree or rank of each celebration: Memorial (which can be merely optional), Feast, or Solemnity. Among other differences, the Gloria is said or sung at the Mass of a Feast but not at that of a Memorial, and the Creed is added on Solemnities.
The last general revision of the General Roman Calendar was in 1969 and was authorized by the motu proprio Mysterii Paschalis of Pope Paul VI. The motu proprio and the decree of promulgation were included in the book Calendarium Romanum, published in the same year by Libreria Editrice Vaticana. This contained also the official document Universal Norms on the Liturgical Year and the Calendar, and the list of celebrations of the General Roman Calendar. Both these documents are also printed (in their present revised form) in the Roman Missal, after the General Instruction of the Roman Missal. The 1969 book also provided a detailed unofficial commentary on that year's revision of the calendar.
The contents of the General Roman Calendar and the names in English of the celebrations included in it are here indicated in the official English version of the Roman Missal.
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00:01:46 1 Blending of art, theology and spirituality
00:07:30 2 The diversity of Marian art
00:08:21 3 Early veneration
00:09:52 4 Mother of God
00:12:11 4.1 Nativity of Jesus
00:14:31 4.2 Madonna
00:16:21 4.2.1 Some key Madonnas
00:17:34 4.2.1.1 Latin America
00:18:35 4.2.1.2 Italy and Spain
00:19:27 4.2.1.3 Central and Northern Europe
00:20:14 4.3 Mary in the Life of Christ
00:22:19 5 Perpetual virginity
00:24:39 6 Immaculate Conception
00:26:34 6.1 Depiction of the Immaculate Conception
00:29:53 7 Assumption of Mary
00:32:07 8 Queen of Heaven
00:33:27 9 Our Lady of the Keys and of the end of Times
00:35:58 10 Apparitions
00:37:54 11 Distinguishing characteristics
00:41:00 12 Galleries of Marian art
00:41:10 12.1 Perpetual virginity
00:41:24 12.2 Birth of Jesus
00:41:37 12.3 Adoration of the shepherds
00:41:51 12.4 Adoration of the Magi
00:42:03 12.5 Madonna paintings
00:42:16 12.5.1 Pre 15th century
00:42:27 12.5.2 15-16th century
00:42:39 12.5.3 Post 16th century
00:42:50 12.6 Madonna frescos
00:43:04 12.7 Madonna statues
00:43:18 12.8 Mary in the Life of Christ
00:43:30 12.9 Immaculate conception
00:43:44 12.10 Assumption into Heaven
00:43:57 12.11 Queen of Heaven
00:44:10 12.12 Apparitions
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- Socrates
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The Blessed Virgin Mary has been one of the major subjects of Western Art for centuries. Numerous pieces of Marian art in the Catholic Church covering a range of topics have been produced, from masters such as Michelangelo and Botticelli to works made by unknown peasant artisans.Marian art forms part of the fabric of Roman Catholic Marian culture through their emotional impact on the veneration of the Blessed Virgin. Images such as Our Lady of Guadalupe and the many artistic renditions of it as statues are not simply works of art but are a central elements of the daily lives of the Mexican people. Both Hidalgo and Zapata flew Guadalupan flags and depictions of the Virgin of Guadalupe continue to remain a key unifying element in the Mexican nation. The study of Mary via the field of Mariology is thus inherently intertwined with Marian art.The body of teachings that constitute Roman Catholic Mariology consist of four basic Marian dogmas: Perpetual virginity, Mother of God, Immaculate conception and Assumption into Heaven, derived from Biblical scripture, the writings of the Church Fathers, and the traditions of the Church. Other influences on Marian art have been the Feast days of the Church, Marian apparitions, writings of the saints and popular devotions such as the rosary, the Stations of the Cross, or total consecration, and also papal initiatives, and Marian papal encyclicals and Apostolic Letters.
Each of these fundamental Mariological beliefs has given rise to Roman Catholic Marian art that has become part of Mariology, by emphasizing Marian veneration, being celebrated in specific Marian feasts, or becoming part of key Roman Catholic Marian churches. This article's focus is primarily on how the artistic component of Roman Catholic Mariology has represented the fundamental Marian doctrines of the Catholic Church, and has thus interacted with them, creating a force that has shaped Catholic Mariology over the centuries.
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Christian culture is the cultural practices common to Christianity. With the rapid expansion of Christianity to Europe, Syria, Mesopotamia, Asia Minor, Egypt, Ethiopia, and India and by the end of the 4th century it had also become the official state church of the Roman Empire. Christian culture has influenced and assimilated much from the Greco-Roman Byzantine, Western culture, Middle Eastern, Slavic, Caucasian, and possibly from Indian.Western culture, throughout most of its history, has been nearly equivalent to Christian culture, and many of the population of the Western hemisphere could broadly be described as cultural Christians. The notion of Europe and the Western World has been intimately connected with the concept of Christianity and Christendom many even attribute Christianity for being the link that created a unified European identity. Historian Paul Legutko of Stanford University said the Catholic Church is at the center of the development of the values, ideas, science, laws, and institutions which constitute what we call Western civilization.Though Western culture contained several polytheistic religions during its early years under the Greek and Roman Empires, as the centralized Roman power waned, the dominance of the Catholic Church was the only consistent force in Western Europe. Until the Age of Enlightenment, Christian culture guided the course of philosophy, literature, art, music and science. Christian disciplines of the respective arts have subsequently developed into Christian philosophy, Christian art, Christian music, Christian literature etc. Art and literature, law, education, and politics were preserved in the teachings of the Church, in an environment that, otherwise, would have probably seen their loss. The Church founded many cathedrals, universities, monasteries and seminaries, some of which continue to exist today. Medieval Christianity created the first modern universities. The Catholic Church established a hospital system in Medieval Europe that vastly improved upon the Roman valetudinaria. These hospitals were established to cater to particular social groups marginalized by poverty, sickness, and age, according to historian of hospitals, Guenter Risse. Christianity also had a strong impact on all other aspects of life: marriage and family, education, the humanities and sciences, the political and social order, the economy, and the arts.Christianity had a significant impact on education and science and medicine as the church created the bases of the Western system of education, and was the sponsor of founding universities in the Western world as the university is generally regarded as an institution that has its origin in the Medieval Christian setting. Many clerics throughout history have made significant contributions to science and Jesuits in particular have made numerous significant contributions to the development of science. The cultural influence of Christianity includes social welfare, founding hospitals, economics (as the Protestant work ethic), natural law (which would later influence the creation of international law), politics, architecture, literature, personal hygiene, and family life. Christianity played a role in ending practices common among pagan societies, such as human sacrifice, slavery, infanticide and polygamy.Christians have made a myriad contributions to human progress in a broad and diverse range of fields, both historically and in modern times, including the science and technology, medicine, fine arts and architecture, politics, literatures, music, philanthropy, philosophy, ethics, theatre and business. According to 100 Years of Nobel Prizes a review of Nobel prizes award between 1901 and 2000 reveals that (65.4%) of Nobel Prizes Laureates, have identified Christianity in its various forms as their religious preference. Eastern Christians (particularly Nestorian Christians) have also contrib ...
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
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Christian culture is the cultural practices common to Christianity. With the rapid expansion of Christianity to Europe, Syria, Mesopotamia, Asia Minor, Egypt, Ethiopia, and India and by the end of the 4th century it had also become the official state church of the Roman Empire. Christian culture has influenced and assimilated much from the Greco-Roman Byzantine, Western culture, Middle Eastern, Slavic, Caucasian, and possibly from Indian.Western culture, throughout most of its history, has been nearly equivalent to Christian culture, and many of the population of the Western hemisphere could broadly be described as cultural Christians. The notion of Europe and the Western World has been intimately connected with the concept of Christianity and Christendom many even attribute Christianity for being the link that created a unified European identity. Historian Paul Legutko of Stanford University said the Catholic Church is at the center of the development of the values, ideas, science, laws, and institutions which constitute what we call Western civilization.Though Western culture contained several polytheistic religions during its early years under the Greek and Roman Empires, as the centralized Roman power waned, the dominance of the Catholic Church was the only consistent force in Western Europe. Until the Age of Enlightenment, Christian culture guided the course of philosophy, literature, art, music and science. Christian disciplines of the respective arts have subsequently developed into Christian philosophy, Christian art, Christian music, Christian literature etc. Art and literature, law, education, and politics were preserved in the teachings of the Church, in an environment that, otherwise, would have probably seen their loss. The Church founded many cathedrals, universities, monasteries and seminaries, some of which continue to exist today. Medieval Christianity created the first modern universities. The Catholic Church established a hospital system in Medieval Europe that vastly improved upon the Roman valetudinaria. These hospitals were established to cater to particular social groups marginalized by poverty, sickness, and age, according to historian of hospitals, Guenter Risse. Christianity also had a strong impact on all other aspects of life: marriage and family, education, the humanities and sciences, the political and social order, the economy, and the arts.Christianity had a significant impact on education and science and medicine as the church created the bases of the Western system of education, and was the sponsor of founding universities in the Western world as the university is generally regarded as an institution that has its origin in the Medieval Christian setting. Many clerics throughout history have made significant contributions to science and Jesuits in particular have made numerous significant contributions to the development of science. The cultural influence of Christianity includes social welfare, founding hospitals, economics (as the Protestant work ethic), natural law (which would later influence the creation of international law), politics, architecture, literature, personal hygiene, and family life. Christianity played a role in ending practices common among pagan societies, such as human sacrifice, slavery, infanticide and polygamy.Christians have made a myriad contributions to human progress in a broad and diverse range of fields, both historically and in modern times, including the science and technology, medicine, fine arts and architecture, politics, literatures, music, philanthropy, philosophy, ethics, theatre and business. According to 100 Years of Nobel Prizes a review of Nobel prizes award between 1901 and 2000 reveals that (65.4%) of Nobel Prizes Laureates, have identified Christianity in its various forms as their religious preference. Eastern Christians (particularly Nestorian Christians) have also contrib ...