Cardinal Raymond Burke in Connecticut

Comment from one of my blog readers...

Hello Julie:

I just saw a post on Rorate Caeli that I would like to share with you and with all CT residents. It is a tragedy that our diocese and parishes do not tell CT Catholics when Catholic events are being held in the nearby area. I cannot understand why this would be so. It is so frustrating! 

This Saturday, on March 25, 2017, at St. Mary's Church at 178 Greenwich Avenue, Greenwich, CT., there is a very wonderful event going on. Raymond Cardinal Burke will be celebrating a Solemn Pontifical Mass in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite, for the Feast of the Annunciation. It is at 11:00.

This is a once in a lifetime event, and I know I will be there. Can you please get the word out, for the starving Catholics in this poor state? If they want more information they can check out Rorate, the Twitter feed, or perhaps call St. Mary's.

Thank you, and God bless!
Kathleen 

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website: http://www.stmarygreenwich.org/ 

Thank you for the heads up Kathleen! :) 

God bless! 

In Christ, 

Julie @ Connecticut Catholic Corner 

Feast of the Annunciation with Fr. Paul Nicholson

I simply love listening to Fr. Paul Nicholson's homilies and teachings.  He's a wonderful priest, full of love for the Church and graced with a gift to teach the Faith to others.

If you don't know Fr. Nicholson, please visit his website (below) and his Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/FrPaulNicholson

This years Annunciation homily by Father Paul Nicholson:

Wonderfully said and taught Fr. Paul!

And please don't miss last years 2014 homily "The Most Important Day in History!"- its spectacular!

For more works by Fr. Paul Nicholson go here: http://www.fatherpaulnicholson.com/index.php

Catholic Meme:

:)



In Christ,


Julie @ Connecticut Catholic Corner

The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

By Connecticut Catholic Corner

Quote from EWTN...


The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary - Feast: Aug. 15th

The Assumption is the oldest feast day of Our Lady, but we don't know how it first came to be celebrated.

Its origin is lost in those days when Jerusalem was restored as a sacred city, at the time of the Roman Emperor Constantine (c. 285-337). By then it had been a pagan city for two centuries, ever since Emperor Hadrian (76-138) had leveled it around the year 135 and rebuilt it as <Aelia Capitolina> in honor of Jupiter.

For 200 years, every memory of Jesus was obliterated from the city, and the sites made holy by His life, death and Resurrection became pagan temples.

After the building of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in 336, the sacred sites began to be restored and memories of the life of Our Lord began to be celebrated by the people of Jerusalem. One of the memories about his mother centered around the "Tomb of Mary," close to Mount Zion, where the early Christian community had lived.

On the hill itself was the "Place of Dormition," the spot of Mary's "falling asleep," where she had died. The "Tomb of Mary" was where she was buried.

At this time, the "Memory of Mary" was being celebrated. Later it was to become our feast of the Assumption.

For a time, the "Memory of Mary" was marked only in Palestine, but then it was extended by the emperor to all the churches of the East. In the seventh century, it began to be celebrated in Rome under the title of the "Falling Asleep" ("Dormitio") of the Mother of God.

Soon the name was changed to the "Assumption of Mary," since there was more to the feast than her dying. It also proclaimed that she had been taken up, body and soul, into heaven. [continue reading at EWTN]

Source: http://www.ewtn.com/saintsholy/saints/A/assumptionoftheblessedvirginmary.asp#ixzz3AU3ANNXl



In Christ,

Julie @ Connecticut Catholic Corner