http://halfthekingdom.org/wordpress Esther 7:2 Fri, 05 Sep 2008 05:10:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en     Everything in your life that flows out of love has come to you from God. Everything in your life that is good has been initiated by God. God has done everything for you, He is everything to you, and He is enriching other lives through you. His generosity is overwhelming, ... http://halfthekingdom.org/wordpress/2008/09/05/gratitude/ I only know the names of two angels, Hark and Harold.~~~Gregory, 5Everybody's got it all wrong. Angels don't wear halos anymore. I forget why, but scientists are working on it.~~~Olive, 9It's not easy to become an angel! First, you die. Then you go to Heaven, and then there's still the ... http://halfthekingdom.org/wordpress/2008/09/03/angels-explained-by-children/ http://www.crcoa.com/archives/read.php?id=metamorphosis_of_the_altar [tags]Catechesis + Devotion, Eucharist, Unity[/tags] http://halfthekingdom.org/wordpress/2008/09/03/the-transformation-of-an-altar-something-beautiful-to-behold/ Anne Marie was one of those people who truly lived the commitment and calling of being Christ's follower.  She had raised her family and kept a home by dint of sacrifice.  As she edged into her retirement years, they fully reflected a life of faith.  Even with health challenges of ... http://halfthekingdom.org/wordpress/2008/09/03/the-gift-that-never-fades-a-spiritual-bouquet/ O GOD OF LIFE AND LOVE, You have given us the gift to participate with You to bring new life into the world.  But, all too often, the mother's womb, which should be a nursery of life, becomes instead a place of it's destruction. Help us to remove this evil and ... http://halfthekingdom.org/wordpress/2008/09/02/prayer-for-unborn-life-2/ "Viva Padre Pio""I see so many souls from Purgatory that they don't frighten me any more"“More souls of the dead than the living climb this mountain to attend my Masses and seek my prayers”Padre Pio had a very special relationship with the Holy Souls...indeed such was the relationship that they ... http://halfthekingdom.org/wordpress/2008/09/01/padre-pio-and-the-holy-souls/  Evangelization, Conversion and the Crisis of Faith Fr. C. John McCloskey. III. and Russell ShawIgnatius Press 2007Page 59 A SERMON FOR OUR TIMES I have a dream that one of these days a conscientious new pastor is going to get up in the pulpit of his church and say something like this: "My dear ... http://halfthekingdom.org/wordpress/2008/08/31/a-sermon-for-our-times/ Jesus Christ, Who wishes to lead a soul to the Eucharist as to her sovereign grace, prepares her by a certain grace of sentiment which at first may be little appreciated. On First-Communion Day the feeling of happiness caused by the presence of Jesus is the first call; without the ... http://halfthekingdom.org/wordpress/2008/08/29/my-daily-eucharist-it-will-make-all-the-branches-of-your-life-fruitful/   In her Magnificat, Our Lady says, “All generations shall call me blessed.”  When you pray through the Magnificat, you see all the Beatitudes coming to life in her beautiful exhortation of thanksgiving.  When we live her Magnificat, we will share in that blessedness.  We too will be called blessed.  We ... http://halfthekingdom.org/wordpress/2008/08/29/mother-nadine-our-charism-joy/ Archbishop Burke with Thomas McKenna     Note: In June Archbishop Raymond L. Burke was appointed by the Holy Father to serve as the Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura.    The Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura is the administrative appellate tribunal of the Holy See and, consequently, the highest judicial authority of ... http://halfthekingdom.org/wordpress/2008/08/27/the-holy-eucharist-a-right-or-a-gift/  It is a duty to pray both for him who is in affliction and him who is in relief from it,for him who is in dangers and him who is in prosperity,for him who is in relief and much prosperity,that these may remain unmoved and without vicissitude and may never ... http://halfthekingdom.org/wordpress/2008/08/27/todays-blessing-a-calm-of-consolation/ Why did Our Blessed Lord use bread and wine as the elements of this Memorial? First of all, because no two substances in nature better symbolize unity than bread and wine. As bread is made from a multiplicity of grains of wheat, and wine is made from a multiplicity of ... http://halfthekingdom.org/wordpress/2008/08/26/my-daily-eucharist-gethsemane-and-calvary/ My mother's commitment to the first Friday devotions and to the first Saturday devotions in hail, rain, and snow were a concrete, visible sign of her commitment, reverence, and fidelity to the great gift of the Eucharist. Her tender and consistent devotion to the nightly family rosary and our annual ... http://halfthekingdom.org/wordpress/2008/08/25/my-daily-eucharist-ones-example-has-eternal-impact/