Black Saints of the day—From the Black Saints reference book by James Wesly Smith, 456 pages, paperback, 1000 lines of Black and African Saints in the Latin Rite, Coptic and Orthodox branches of the Mystical Body of Christ (all Christianity combined) to year 599 A.D. Order from BarnesandNobles.com, Ingram Book Group internationally, Amazon, wherever online books are sold, or quickly from www.booklocker.com/books/3088.html

BLACK SAINT OF THE DAY

 

8,140 companions of Ischyrion and Aesculapius, Martyrs of Achmin (Panopolis), Kemet. 8 Jan.; 25 Dec. Abyssinian Church. 868 others with Rufinus. Martyred at Alexandria, 22 June (23 June). 21 June. 884 Martyrs of Thmuis, in the reign of terror and persecutions of Roman Emperor Diocletian, 8 May. Coptic Calendar. 9 companions with Saturninus. We were martyred in the Northwestern parts of Africa. 22 March. 330 martyrs (Theban Legionnaires) with Cratusian and Companion at Xanter on the Rhine, 10? Oct 140 soldiers suffered martyrdom in Africa with Boniface. Monks at Zaga-Meelad, in the vicinity of Agows, Kemet (Egypt). 29 Jan.

Afrocentric Rosary Mysteries by St. Brigid Traditional Choir (Los Angeles). Afrocentric Chaplets Divine Mercy moderated by James Wesly Smith,

THURSDAY- AFROCENTRIC LUMINOUS MYSTERIES OF ROSARY

 
First Luminous Mystery

Third Section Luminous Mysteries

Fifth Section Luminous Mysteries

Medjugorje Day By Day July 03 - LEARN TO BE GRATEFUL

 "Our Sweet Jesus, through the excess of His love, has left Himself to us in  the Most Holy Sacrament" (St. Philip Neri).

 St. Blase, Bishop and Martyr (Armenia) d. 316—Feast, February 3
Invoked for the healing of throat diseases, St. Blase wrote: "Father of mercy  and God of all consolation, graciously look upon me and impart to me the blessing which flows from this Holy Sacrament [The Eucharist].  Overshadow me with Your loving kindness, and let this divine Mystery bear fruit in me."

Mother Teresa  -

Jesus, you have given everything, life, blood, all. Now it is my turn. I put everything into the field also. The common soldier fights in the ordinary lines, but the devoted one tries to be near the captain to share his fate. This is the spirit of Christ.

Meditations by Padre Pio -

I bless God with all my heart who made me meet truly good souls, whom I also told that their souls are God's vineyard: The water-supply is faith; the tower, hope; the wine-press is holy charity, and the hedge is the law of God that separates them from the children world (Letter III p 591).

Archbishop Fulton Sheen -

Keeping the fires of enthusiasm going can be an icy proposition

"Hearts would save themselves many sorrows if they knew better the psychology of human feelings. While there is much wisdom in the counsel of Emerson, 'Hitch your wagon to a star,' and to the need of wedding idealism to every ordinary task, there must also be a realization the enthusiasms cool.

Those who have been to the North Pole say that the ecstasy at reaching it was very much dampened by the long, weary Arctic winter, during which hidden weaknesses of men begin to appear. As fires died down, quarrelsomeness stole in."

St. Faustina's diary  http://www.marian.org/directory_flash.html  -

To stay at Your feet, O hidden God,
Is the delight and paradise of my soul.
Here, You give me to know You, O incomprehensible One,
And You speak to me sweetly: Give Me, Give Me your heart.

Silent conversation, alone with You,
Is to experience what heavenly beings enjoy,
And to say to God, "I will, I will give You my heart, O Lord,"
While You, O great and incomprehensible One
     accept it graciously.

Love and sweetness are my soul's life,
And Your unceasing presence in my soul.
I live on earth in constant rapture,
And like a Seraph I repeat, "Hosanna!"

O You Who are hidden, body, soul, and divinity,
Under the fragile form of bread,

You are my life from Whom springs an abundance of graces;
And, for me, You surpass the delights of heaven.

When You unite Yourself with me in Communion, O God,
I then feel my unspeakable greatness,
A greatness which flows from You, O Lord, I humbly confess,
And despite my misery, with Your help, I can become a saint.      (1718)

MEDJUGORJE DAY BY DAY

 - July 3 - LEARN TO BE GRATEFUL

Learn To Be Grateful The Blessed Mother speaks of gratitude today:

Dear children, I wish to tell you to thank God for

all the graces he has given you. For the many fruits of his grace, praise the Lord and thank him. Dear children, learn to be grateful for all the little things, and then you will be able to give thanks for the great things as well. (Monthly Message 10-3-85)

From Ephesians, more on gratitude:

Sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs among yourselves, singing and making melody to the Lord in your hearts, giving thanks to God the Father at all times and for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. (Eph 5:19-20)

Reflection:

Many years ago a wealthy family in England took their children for a holiday in the country. When the children went swimming in a pool, one of the boys began to drown. The other boys screamed for help and the son of the gardener jumped in and rescued the drowning one. Later, the grateful parents asked the gardener what they could do for the youthful hero. The gardener said his son wanted to go to college. "He wants to be a doctor," he said. The visitors shook hands on that. "We'd be glad to pay his way through," they told him.

When Winston Churchill was stricken with pneumonia after the Teheran conference, the King of England instructed that the best doctor be found to save the Prime Minister. The doctor turned out to be Dr. Fleming, the developer of penicillin. "Rarely," said Churchill to Fleming, "has one man owed his life twice to the same rescuer." It was Fleming who saved Churchill in that pool.

Application:

Today, give thanks in your own words for the Lord's saving grace, which rescues us continually from sin and despondency, freeing us to live in hope and freedom.

2 Visions to littlest of servants July 1, 2008

1)  As I was praying before the Blessed Sacrament before Mass in a pew I saw OUR
LORD standing by the pew I was in. HE has HIS hands tied together in front of
HIM, He was scourged, and was wearing the CROWN of THORNS.

HE then said to me that they were scourging HIM again, SACRILEGIOUS
COMMUNIONS. LACK OF RESPECT FOR THE BLESSED SACRAMENT, AND LACK OF LOVE FOR THE BLESSED SACRAMENT. HE then said Reparation, Reparation, HOLY HOURS, ADORATION, ROSARIES, DIVINE MERCY CHAPLETS.

2) Vision to Littlest of Servants July 1, 2008

While Kneeling at the altar in front of the BLESSED SACRAMENT I saw COUNTLESS
ANGELS PROSTRATE before the BLESSED SACRAMENT. There were so many I could not count them all.

Jesus Message to Patsy Soto July 2, 2008

July 2, 2008, Wednesday 3:35 pm

Praise be to Jesus for Jesus is Lord, Savior, Redeemer, Reconciler of all
nations (I plead your most precious blood over the following words My Lord Jesus let
nothing be heard that is not of you)

My Beloved children I thank you all who have opened your hearts to have My
Novena For World Peace in your parishes, your homes, and as you have seen the
love I and My Almighty Father have shared at each one of these novenas, should
remind you to open your hearts to our call.

It is but a short time away when the United States will celebrate the day of
Freedom  with celebrations of joy and festivities. I desire all my children to have joy,
peace and freedom.

This My Beloved little one, is what most of the world does not understand, that unless God is placed in the hearts of all mankind and stop their evil choice for the freedom of their right to kill the innocence in the atrocity of abortion, their can be no real peace, no real joy.

They will bind the truth through the evil deception that God does not exist. Just as those who continue in their misconception that God will not bring down His Justice for the evil of abortion. Where was the Freedom of choice for the many of my aborted
souls who could not speak for themselves or for those that have a RIGHT TO LIFE
yet their parents are contemplating the evil atrocity of abortion.

These words have been spoken over and over and yet the evil atrocity of abortion still
continues on. *I spoke the words to My little one in a message given years ago
that if the killing of My Innocents did not stop, the example being sent to the
youth of the world was that killing was accepted and the youth would think
nothing of killing, IS THAT NOT WHAT YOU ARE SEEN NOW, SUICIDES, MURDERS,
ABORTIONS, CHILDREN KILLING CHILDREN, TERRORISTS COMPRISED OF CHILDREN WHO GO INTO CROWDS STRAPPED WITH BOMBS TO KILL AS MANY AS THEY CAN.

This is what you call freedom on this 4th of July 2008.

I am your Jesus of Mercy, whether you believe that your Jesus of Mercy would
come to you with these words to frighten or to warn or to beg, to plead for
Mercy for My Innocents, your prayers are needed not for My Sake My Children but
for yours.

Gather this fourth of July to beg for Mercy or go on as if you never heard these words it is your free will . I AM your Jesus of Mercy I will always love you even when you aren’t able to do what I ask of you I Am also Justice and Forgiveness

Open my little one to Ezkiel 3 in 3:11, God tells Ezekiel that his task is the same whether they listen or not.

Ezekiel  Chapter 3

11. Now go to the exiles, to your countrymen, and say to them: Thus says the Lord GOD!--whether they heed or resist!

Approved for release July 2, 2008, 4:30 pm by Fr. William Lauriola Spiritual
Director for Art and Patsy Soto

*The message Jesus speaks of is in the book "For Love, With Love, Through Love"  messages to Patsy Soto and is available through Queenship Publishing