Aug 22, 2024 | NEWS
On 17.08.2024r a group of pilgrims from Mieszkowice, Szybowice and Nysa wandered in the footsteps of our servant of God Fr. John Schneider. We were accompanied by a group of 8 of our sisters from Nysa. We prayed at Fr. Schneider’s grave asking for graces, experienced the Eucharist together at the Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Sand. In Wroclaw Cathedral we visited the exhibition DEFENDER OF WOMEN dedicated to our servant of God. in St. Mary’s Chapel we gave thanks for the gift of his 175th anniversary of priestly ordination. We also visited the Panorama of Raclawice and at the end , in front of the face of Our Lady Help of Christians of Wroclaw, before whom Fr. Jan Schneider entrusted the Association, the girls and our congregation every year, we recited together the act of entrustment to Mary with the words of Fr. Jan’s prayer. It was a wonderful time of grace. We are already arranged for the next pilgrimage next year:)
s. Barbara Mroziak
Aug 22, 2024 | SPIRITUALITY
Feast Day: August 23
Born: April 20, 1586, Lima, Peru, as Isabel Flores de Oliva
Died: August 24, 1617, Lima, Peru
Canonized: April 12, 1671 by Pope Clement X
Patronage: embroiderers, gardeners, florists, Latin America, Peru, Philippines, India, California, against vaniry, ridiculed for piery.
Prayer for intercession
Glorious Saint Rose of Lima, you who knew what it was to love Jesus with such a fine and generous heart.
You, whom since infancy, despised the world’s vanities in order to embrace His Cross.You who loved, with unfailing devotion, our Heavenly Mother and professed a great tender dedication to the destiture, serving them the same why Jesus did.
Teach us to imitate your greatest virtues, so that we, following your example, can enjoy your glorious protection in Heaven.
For our Lord, Jesus Christ, Who lives and reigns forever.
Amen
Aug 21, 2024 | DAILY BREAD
Our Lady, Mother and Queen
Gospel Luke 1:26-38
The doctrine of the Assumption was promulgated in 1951, with its feast on 15 August. Today we remember that the Blessed Virgin reigns in heaven together with her Son. She reigns not because she is in any way equal to God but because she is the mother of Christ the King. Her privileges come from her willingly agreeing to become the Mother of God and make our redemption possible. The reading suggested to this memorial is the episode of Annunciation where Mary willingly accepts be the Mother of God. Mary, Mother of the God, reigns as Queen and as Mother of all of us. All Her apparitions around the world are visible signs of how She is a mother for all of us. Our devotion to Mary is not just a pious activity but it’s a real relationship. We are related to Mother Mary as we carry in us, the life of Her Son, Jesus Christ through our Baptism. This is not a theory. But a real relationship of love and redemption. Mary is our Mother in all senses and let’s enjoy Her maternity to us in all senses. Let’s be close to Her in all senses. Let’s reflect: How much am I close to Mother Mary in my daily life?
Don Giorgio
Aug 20, 2024 | DAILY BREAD
Saint Pius X, Pope
Wednesday of week 20 in Ordinary Time
Gospel – John 21:15-17
This is the conversation between Jesus and Peter. Jesus asking Peter, ‘Simon son of John, do you love me more than these others do?’ And Peter answers, “Yes Lord, you know I love you”. And then Jesus says to him, “Feed my lambs”. In this we can understand that there is an intrinsic relationship between the love to Jesus and feeding his lambs. If we love Jesus, we must feed His lambs. That’s His wish. We must take care of those around us. The more you love Jesus, the more we must take of those around us. Our love to others around us, those in our family, those in our neighbourhood, those in our community, those at our work, must be proportionate to our love to Jesus. If we love Jesus, it must be seen in our dealing with those around us. Let’s reflect: Do my love towards others reflect my love to Jesus?
Don Giorgio
Aug 19, 2024 | DAILY BREAD
Saint Bernard, Abbot, Doctor
Tuesday of week 20 in Ordinary Time
Gospel – John 17:20-26
“I have given them the glory you gave to me, that they may be one as we are one”. This is something very big which we must recognize in our vocation as Christians. Jesus, the only Son of God has given His glory to us. What is this glory? This glory is our dignity as sons and daughters of God. Jesus shared this dignity with us for specific reasons. The first reason is that we may be united. But we know how much we are divided as Christians. Also, we know how much we are divided among ourselves in the same family, in the same parish, in the same society. This happens because we don’t recognize our dignity as sons and daughters of God, brothers and sisters of Christ. Whenever we make unity, we become more Christian because we are realizing the dream of Jesus. Again, we are given this dignity so that we may recognize the love with which God the Father loves us, “so that the love with which you loved me may be in them”. This is what we must recognize in being Christian. Recognizing that the love with which God the Father loved His only Son, Jesus Christ, is in me. This is something very very big. Often it goes unnoticed! Let’s reflect: Do I recognize that the love with which God the Father loved His only Son, Jesus Christ, is in me?
Don Giorgio
