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Next time you’re about to take on something and fear creeps into your heart, remember this: fear is only as powerful as you allow it to be.
Step up, my friends, and face your fears head-on.
Stay blessed!
Sunday, December 29, 2013
Saturday, December 28, 2013
Amazing Pictures to share!
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| He just learned his brother has been killed :( |
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| Sun set in Mars |
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| Amazing, an Afghan man offering a U.S. Soldier tea |
Wednesday, December 25, 2013
My Merry Christmas Greetings/Message!
Merry Christmas to all of you wonderful pals acrosss the Universe. Christmas is such a wonderful season and I pray you all have a blessed wonderful season with your families, friends ,and love ones.
Always remember, there is no perfect time to show love, reconciliation, forgivess, unity, love than this special day of the year.
For God so love us that He gave his only begotten Son to us. We should on the other hand show some love and appreciation to everyone in our lives and all we haven't heard from or haven't spoken to in a long time. God loves us.
We should materialize, over feast, and Santa Clausify this season without forgiving others, showing love, bearing witness that Jesus's birth have deep meaning than the superficiality we get caught up to.
Merry Christmas!
Stay blessed!
Pal, Ron
Saturday, November 30, 2013
Last Day of November 2013
Woohoo,
It's been a while and I hope all of you my wonderful readers and pals out there have been taking everything cool and easy as I am. I was able to come home early last Tuesday from the home of Paedeia for Thanksgiving break. It was great experience leaving there for home after having been away for the last three or so months.
Thanksgiving which happened to fall on Thursday, two days ago was great. We didn't have a big party at home but it was all good getting to see everyone especially grandpa Gaetano who got an eye surgery and is doing great with that. Now he reported reading nerwspapers without his glasses etc.
I also ventured into Nanuet and it was amazingly good, they have opened new stores at the old mall area and it is unbelievable. One of the stores I was at yesterday was Fairway, never been to any gigantic grocery shop like that.
Also got to catch up with few friends, sleep, and shows etc. All of those are good for the body and soul that man carries you know.
Have a great and blessed Decemeber and unless I forget to comment the sweet Christmas melodies that is being heard all over town and the decorations. It is so nice and wonderful season despite the cold weather tis time of the year. I hope you have the best of the season my wonderful friends. Stay blessed and tune. I will have more to report.
Sincerely,
Yours Pal,
Ronnie :)
It's been a while and I hope all of you my wonderful readers and pals out there have been taking everything cool and easy as I am. I was able to come home early last Tuesday from the home of Paedeia for Thanksgiving break. It was great experience leaving there for home after having been away for the last three or so months.
Thanksgiving which happened to fall on Thursday, two days ago was great. We didn't have a big party at home but it was all good getting to see everyone especially grandpa Gaetano who got an eye surgery and is doing great with that. Now he reported reading nerwspapers without his glasses etc.
I also ventured into Nanuet and it was amazingly good, they have opened new stores at the old mall area and it is unbelievable. One of the stores I was at yesterday was Fairway, never been to any gigantic grocery shop like that.
Also got to catch up with few friends, sleep, and shows etc. All of those are good for the body and soul that man carries you know.
Have a great and blessed Decemeber and unless I forget to comment the sweet Christmas melodies that is being heard all over town and the decorations. It is so nice and wonderful season despite the cold weather tis time of the year. I hope you have the best of the season my wonderful friends. Stay blessed and tune. I will have more to report.
Sincerely,
Yours Pal,
Ronnie :)
Monday, November 4, 2013
Autumn (Fall) Pictures in Town: Part 1
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| Gorgeous |
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| George at Halloween |
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| Food for the body |
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| Almighty Villa |
Sunday, November 3, 2013
Have a good friend??
| A good friend is a connection to life, a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world. | |
| — Lois Wyse |
Thursday, October 31, 2013
Happy 1st November
Anyway, I wish everyone the best of the month of November, praying you abundant blessings and love.
Pal Ron
Surprised
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
The Rosary Month October 2013 on its Last legs
Dear friends,
I can't believe in two days we will be saying bye bye to October 2013. Time we all know is any of us on the surface of our planet. Anyway, I hope you all had a blessed and productive month. For us Catholics the month of October is very important to us as far as the rosary is concerned.
The month of October each year is devoted to the Most Holy Rosary. This is primarily due to the fact that the liturgical feast of Our Lady of the Rosary is celebrated annually on October 7th. It was instituted to honor the Blessed Virgin Mary in gratitude for the protection that she gives the Church in answer to the praying of the Rosary by the faithful.
The feast was introduced by Pope St. Pius V (1504-1572) in the year 1571 to commemorate the miraculous victory of the Christian forces in the Battle of Lepanto on October 7, 1571. The pope attributed more to the "arms" of the Rosary than the power of cannons and the valor of the soldiers who fought there.
Legend tells us that the Rosary as a form of prayer was given to St. Dominic (1170- 1221) by Mary, the Mother of Our Lord, who entrusted it to
him as an aid in the conflicts with the Albigensians. The Dominican pope, St. Pius V, did much to further the spread of the Rosary and it thereafter became one of the most popular devotions in Christendom. It was the same Pope St. Pius V, who in 1569 officially approved the Rosary in its present form with the Papal Bull, CONSUEVERUNT ROMANI PONTIFECES. It had been completed by the addition of the second half of the "Hail Mary" and the "Glory be to the Father" at the conclusion of each mystery.
Current scholarship traces the development of the Rosary to the High Middle Ages where it came into being in various medieval monasteries as a substitute for the Divine Office for the lay monks and devout lay persons who did not know how to read. Instead of the 150 psalms, they would pray 150 "Our Fathers" counting them on a ring of beads known as the crown or "corona". With the growth of popularity of Marian devotion in the twelfth century, the "Psalter of the Blessed Virgin Mary" developed now substituting 150 "Hail Marys" in place of the "Our Fathers."
The 150 "Hail Marys" were subsequently subdivided into 15 decades by the young Dominican friar, Henry Kalkar (1328-1408), with each decade referring to an event in the life of Jesus and Mary. The Dominican, Ananus de Rupe (1428-1478) further divided the episodes in the history of salvation into the joyful, sorrowful and glorious mysteries. He also attributed the origin of the Rosary , then known as the "Psalter of the Blessed Virgin" to St. Dominic and thus spurred the Dominican Order to make the Apostolate of the Rosary their special concern. The Dominicans have, since then, promulgated the Rosary with notable results.
The practice of dedicating the entire month of October to the Holy Rosary developed toward the end of the last century. Pope Leo XIII ( papacy: 1878-1903 ) strongly promoted the increase of devotion to the Blessed Mother by encouraging the constant use of the Rosary. Beginning on September 1, 1883, with SUPREMO APOSTOLATUS OFFICIO, he wrote a total of eleven encyclicals on the Rosary , ending with DIUTURNI TEMPORIS in 1898. We are currently celebrating the centennial of these papal encyclicals.
Many other popes have contributed to help increase devotion to the Rosary by their writings. In the recent past, Pope Paul VI ( papacy: 1963-1978) devoted the last section of his Apostolic Exhortation MARIALIS CULTUS to the Angelus and the Rosary (MC 40-55). In this document, he wrote that "the Rosary retains an unaltered value and intact freshness." (MC, 41)
The Rosary is primarily a scriptural prayer. This can be summarized by the traditional phrase used by Pope Pius XII (papacy: 1939-1958) that the Rosary is " a compendium of the entire Gospel" (AAS 38 [1946] p.419) . The Rosary draws its mysteries from the New Testament and is centered on the great events of the Incarnation and Redemption.
Our Holy Father, Pope John Paul II has called the Rosary his favorite prayer, in which we meditate with Mary upon the mysteries which she as a mother meditated on in her heart. (Lk. 2:19) (Osservatore Romano, 44; 30 Oct. 1979)
In this month of October, let us consider this beautiful prayer of the Rosary as a means that we too can use in order to draw closer to Jesus and Mary by meditating on the great mysteries of our salvation.
Source: http://www.catholic.net/index.php?id=3196&option=dedestaca
Pray the Rosary,
Carry it with you even if you don't know how to pray it.
Thanks for reading,
Pal Ron
I can't believe in two days we will be saying bye bye to October 2013. Time we all know is any of us on the surface of our planet. Anyway, I hope you all had a blessed and productive month. For us Catholics the month of October is very important to us as far as the rosary is concerned.
The month of October each year is devoted to the Most Holy Rosary. This is primarily due to the fact that the liturgical feast of Our Lady of the Rosary is celebrated annually on October 7th. It was instituted to honor the Blessed Virgin Mary in gratitude for the protection that she gives the Church in answer to the praying of the Rosary by the faithful.
The feast was introduced by Pope St. Pius V (1504-1572) in the year 1571 to commemorate the miraculous victory of the Christian forces in the Battle of Lepanto on October 7, 1571. The pope attributed more to the "arms" of the Rosary than the power of cannons and the valor of the soldiers who fought there.
Legend tells us that the Rosary as a form of prayer was given to St. Dominic (1170- 1221) by Mary, the Mother of Our Lord, who entrusted it to
him as an aid in the conflicts with the Albigensians. The Dominican pope, St. Pius V, did much to further the spread of the Rosary and it thereafter became one of the most popular devotions in Christendom. It was the same Pope St. Pius V, who in 1569 officially approved the Rosary in its present form with the Papal Bull, CONSUEVERUNT ROMANI PONTIFECES. It had been completed by the addition of the second half of the "Hail Mary" and the "Glory be to the Father" at the conclusion of each mystery.
Current scholarship traces the development of the Rosary to the High Middle Ages where it came into being in various medieval monasteries as a substitute for the Divine Office for the lay monks and devout lay persons who did not know how to read. Instead of the 150 psalms, they would pray 150 "Our Fathers" counting them on a ring of beads known as the crown or "corona". With the growth of popularity of Marian devotion in the twelfth century, the "Psalter of the Blessed Virgin Mary" developed now substituting 150 "Hail Marys" in place of the "Our Fathers."
The 150 "Hail Marys" were subsequently subdivided into 15 decades by the young Dominican friar, Henry Kalkar (1328-1408), with each decade referring to an event in the life of Jesus and Mary. The Dominican, Ananus de Rupe (1428-1478) further divided the episodes in the history of salvation into the joyful, sorrowful and glorious mysteries. He also attributed the origin of the Rosary , then known as the "Psalter of the Blessed Virgin" to St. Dominic and thus spurred the Dominican Order to make the Apostolate of the Rosary their special concern. The Dominicans have, since then, promulgated the Rosary with notable results.
The practice of dedicating the entire month of October to the Holy Rosary developed toward the end of the last century. Pope Leo XIII ( papacy: 1878-1903 ) strongly promoted the increase of devotion to the Blessed Mother by encouraging the constant use of the Rosary. Beginning on September 1, 1883, with SUPREMO APOSTOLATUS OFFICIO, he wrote a total of eleven encyclicals on the Rosary , ending with DIUTURNI TEMPORIS in 1898. We are currently celebrating the centennial of these papal encyclicals.
Many other popes have contributed to help increase devotion to the Rosary by their writings. In the recent past, Pope Paul VI ( papacy: 1963-1978) devoted the last section of his Apostolic Exhortation MARIALIS CULTUS to the Angelus and the Rosary (MC 40-55). In this document, he wrote that "the Rosary retains an unaltered value and intact freshness." (MC, 41)
The Rosary is primarily a scriptural prayer. This can be summarized by the traditional phrase used by Pope Pius XII (papacy: 1939-1958) that the Rosary is " a compendium of the entire Gospel" (AAS 38 [1946] p.419) . The Rosary draws its mysteries from the New Testament and is centered on the great events of the Incarnation and Redemption.
Our Holy Father, Pope John Paul II has called the Rosary his favorite prayer, in which we meditate with Mary upon the mysteries which she as a mother meditated on in her heart. (Lk. 2:19) (Osservatore Romano, 44; 30 Oct. 1979)
In this month of October, let us consider this beautiful prayer of the Rosary as a means that we too can use in order to draw closer to Jesus and Mary by meditating on the great mysteries of our salvation.
Source: http://www.catholic.net/index.php?id=3196&option=dedestaca
Pray the Rosary,
Carry it with you even if you don't know how to pray it.
Thanks for reading,
Pal Ron
Thursday, October 24, 2013
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