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A Meditation on The Assumption

B780C281-2B90-4A14-9636-6E32A74D7EDDIn Fr. Geckle’s announcements yesterday he reminded us that Wednesday is a holy day of obligation and that even though he will not be able to say Mass for us that day, we are bound to keep it holy, just as if it were a Sunday.

One idea that you might like to try for this great feast is to add a 15-minute Rosary meditation to your devotions.  Father recommended a meditation booklet recently that may be found online.  It’s called “Rosary Meditations for Fatima Saturdays” by Lester Dooley, S.V.D.,  published in 1950.  Here is the archive.org link to it with many download options.  And here is a large text version that you can read on the Catholic Harbor website.   Fr. Dooley’s meditation for the mystery of the Assumption is copied from Catholic Harbor and pasted below: Read more

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A Night Prayer

The Virgin Lamb, William-Adolphe Bouguereau

Ever blessed Virgin Mary! I commend myself this night, my body and soul, to thy motherly tenderness, to thy special protection, to thy mercy, that thou wouldst watch over me with the same motherly care with which thou didst tend the infant Jesus, thy beloved child, that thus I may be free from all snares of the evil one and remain in safety.  Amen. ~ From The Golden Key of Heaven

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Behind the Scenes with Ben’s Gradines

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Ben Brouse packs up the candlesticks after Mass yesterday.

When we first started having Sunday Mass at the Fitzgerald Ivy Chapel in Tulsa, we had only a simple table for an altar.  Parishioner Ben Brouse quickly started work on making a set of gradines and a mock tabernacle to help provide a Catholic foundation on which to build.  Using select pine he crafted the gradines and mock tabernacle in sections for ease in setting up and taking down the altar.  He said that he added design elements as he worked and saw the need, like the little boxes that form a border underneath each gradine top.  He added what he describes as a “Roman” roof to the mock tabernacle to make it more attractive. Read more

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A Chubby Lil Mass Book for Their Chubby Lil Hands

St. Jerome Homeschool Library and Bookstore, a traditional Catholic publisher, announced this morning that their board book has arrived from the printers and will be officially released August 16.  Written by Fr. Vili Lehtoranta, a master at children’s storytelling, and illustrated with full-color photos of Fr. Bede Nkamuke saying Mass, this is going to be a fantastic resource for children.

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