An Opportunity to Perform a Corporal Work of Mercy: Visit the Imprisoned with a Letter

Two Red Rose Rescuers are in jail for defending God's babies. While child trafficking and abuse is epidemic in this country and often goes unpunished, trying to save babies from the hired killers in abortion storefronts earns significant time in the U.S. gulag. The abortion sacrament must be protected, whatever it takes!

Three Red Rose Rescuers are in Jail in New York: Will You Do a Corporal Work of Mercy?

PLEASE SHOW SUPPORT FOR OUR RED ROSE RESCUERS IN JAIL NOW !!   WRITE TO THEM!!!    

Nabi Sayeth: I've Had Enough! Study the Church's Rich History of Charity!

When the plague hit medieval Europe wiping
out a third of the population, it was
the monks and nuns who often tended the
sick when others, even family,  fled. They
are a heroic example of the corporal work
of mercy -- VISIT THE SICK.

Nabi Sayeth: To listen to what is being said or read what is being written about Catholic Christianity by those who are either lukewarm in the practice of it or clueless about its meaning can be disturbing. Those who criticize our Faith such as the pro-abortionists, the extremely liberal college professors (many who cast off their Catholic roots long ago), clergymen of all ranks who hypocritically criticize and/or fail to truly practice the Catholic Faith, members of the LGBTQ movement who label Catholics “intolerant”, and the ever-clueless liberal media…have closed their minds to the rich history and Truth of Catholicism. 

Nabi Sayeth: Clergy Cat Fights vs. the Corporal Works of Mercy

Nabi Sayeth: There does appear to be an Ecclesiastical Cat Fight underway:

Bishop Holley says 'revenge,' not ‘mismanagement’ led to his removal

What a shamefully catty public display, and over what? POWER, PRESTIGE, MONEY…. everything that Our Lord found repulsive. Did these people never read the words of Jesus to His apostles in Mark 10:35-45….

Want to do a good deed? Take a child to a nursing home!

Every Sunday I take Communion to eight Catholics at a local nursing home. All but one are seriously mentally incapacitated with either Alzheimer's disease or dementia. Several are often difficult and hostile. But what a change comes over them when they see children! One lady is often negative and cheerless. Not today! We took our two little visitors from the Fresh Air Fund and she just kept telling them over and over how beautiful they are. She asked them questions about school and how they were enjoying their visit. She repeated herself several times. Alzheimer's patients can't remember from one minute to the next what they just said, but the entire visit was sweet and charming.

I love all these dear people and am saddened when people talk about how their lives aren't worth living. Of course they are! They invite us to self-sacrifice. They remind us of what we need to be before our God -- dependent and little. They are the ones in the highways and byways that the master sent his servants to gather in for the banquet. And they are also the ones he said to invite to dinner -- those who can't invite us back.

Please, please take your children and grandchildren to nursing homes. Teach them that the sick, the suffering, and the elderly are precious in God's sight. It is a corporal work of mercy, but I can tell you that you will receive more than you can give.

Eleven Children and On Her Own

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There are a lot of fathers who will be in boiling water on Judgment Day! And the father of this family is one of them. So please pray for the mom and kids, but also for the dad of these wonderful children who have pulled together to help their mom keep the family going. Could your family of  (how many) survive on $1200 a month? Why not try it and see. I think I'll order a saint doll.

Praying for the People of Moore, Oklahoma & Partnering with Mercy Chefs

And helping by joining the Mercy Chef family of donors. They will serve thousands of hot meals to those devastated by the tornadoes. Check out their website here. The first imperative for Christians after a natural disaster is prayer; the second is to perform the corporal works of mercy.

Bury the Dead, A Corporal Work of Mercy

In Lent we remember the passion and death of Our Blessed Lord. Somehow, funerals during this time seem to me to share in a special way in the death of the Lord. That's how I felt this morning at the funeral of a dear man who was a deacon at our parish until he retired a few years ago. He was 87 and a veteran of World War II and the Battle of Iwo Jima. The closing hymn from the service was taken from the Navy Hymn, the verses relating to Marines. I heard that same hymn at my own father's funeral in 1985. He also was a World War II veteran and a survivor of Pearl Harbor. These two men were linked across the years by their service to God and country. It is comforting to think of the veterans meeting together to share stories and pray for their families still on earth. Daddy never knew our deacon, but I'm certain they would have liked one another because they were both honest men without guile like that true Israelite Nathaniel whom Jesus saw under the fig tree.

To bury the dead is a corporal work of mercy; to pray for the dead a spiritual one. Tonight I'm offering my rosary for the repose of the soul of the deacon and the comfort of his wife and family. I pray that he will be welcomed into the heavenly banquet where he and my dad will sing the Navy/Marine hymn together. "Eternal Father, strong to save...have mercy on them."

Please Pray for my Brother John

Larry and I went to visit my brother John yesterday. John, a retired police officer, had a stroke about two years ago at age 54. He has had numerous complications since including the condition transverse myelitis. He lives with chronic pain.

Once, years ago, when we were studying the Book of Job, the priest teacher commented that the hardest suffering was the condition where a person was suffering and it wasn't going to get better. He had only one prospect, a worsening condition, with the only exit being death. John is Job. Short of a miraculous intervention, he will live the rest of his life with one side mostly paralyzed and minimal ability to walk or do much for himself.

I can only imagine the challenge his condition offers. And that's why people who live in such situations need lots and lots of support: physical support, of course, but spiritual support even more.

Have you visited a nursing home lately? Many people there are bed and wheelchair bound. Some are unaware of their condition. Others suffer not only from their physical limitations, but from the mental agony of watching their deterioration and remembering how things used to be.

I remember one lady Larry and I visited every Sunday, dead now, who bemoaned her fate every time we saw her. She lived at home until she was about 90 years old when her caregiver got sick. (She almost blamed her caregiver for getting cancer and abandoning her.) She lived in the nursing home for about six years and never accepted her situation. Her memory was sharper than mine: sometimes she asked about something we told her the week before. Sadly, she made her own life miserable and often that of those around her, including her daughter. She was angry at God and occasionally, if I chided her gently, she would order me out of the room. But she always welcomed me back. I pray she reconciled with God in the end and went to him like a little child.

Life is filled with challenges and sufferings. One of the greatest charities we can perform is to walk on the suffering road with others, praying and encouraging. Please pray for John and for all those living Job lives. This saying is so true: "Life is fragile, handle with prayer." Somebody needs your prayer today, and perhaps a visit? It's a corporal work of mercy.

How Do We Treat the Dead?

One of the corporal works of mercy is to bury the dead. But are graveyards likely to become a thing of the past? California has a bill coming up that allows you to be "dissolved in lye" in lieu of burial or cremation. In view of the way babies have been chemically burned and killed in saline abortions, chemical disposal of dead bodies is a minor issue. So why does it give me the heebie jeebies to read about it?

See the article here....

Corpus Christi Sunday and the Corporal Works of Mercy

Today is the Feast of Corpus Christi, the day we celebrate the Body and Blood of Christ, the God-Man. He dignified our human nature by taking on flesh. What better day to do the corporal works of mercy in honor of the feast.

So Larry and I are taking a trip to Johns Hopkins to visit my brother who is suffering the ravages of a debilitating stroke (last July) complicated by onset of a disease related to MS (I can't remember the name off-hand.). Please pray for John. Only a few months ago he was able to walk with a four-pronged cane and, while he needed lots of assistance, he could do many things for himself. Now he needs help for everything. He's a relatively young man, only 55, a retired police officer, who was always there for anyone who needed a helping hand. He has shifted from being the Good Samaritan to being the wounded Jew, a much more difficult role.

We'll be praying several rosaries in the car on our five-hour round trip both for John and all those who face the prospect of suffering that isn't likely to go away. That's the worst kind, a priest once told me. You suffer and know things are only likely to get worse. We pray for a miracle of healing for John if it's God's will and for his courageous perseverance if it's not. Only God knows the purpose of this painful time in John's life. He is downhearted but not defeated. May his guardian angel and patron saints surround him with their love and strength and help him lift his eyes toward the throne of God.

Our Lady Help of Christians, pray for John and all those suffering this day. St. John, St. Michael, and St. Joseph, pray for him. Angel of God, stay his side. And may the Body and Blood of Christ in the Most Holy Eucharist bring relief to John and our suffering world.

A Hero Story from Haiti: Love Among the Ruins

Visit Orate Fratres for a hero story from Haiti. Love is a sign of contradiction that brings order out of chaos. To bury the dead is a corporal act of mercy. Pray for the poor people of this devastated country.