“the time of fulfillment is here. the reign of god is at hand. repent and believe in the gospel.” Mark 1: 15

 

               

 

Please include the unborn, our priests and vocations in your prayers.

 

En este mes del Rosario por favor incluyan los no nacidos, los sacerdotes y las vocaciones en sus oraciones

 

The lady spoke to me…

“I have gone down one day with two other girls to the bank of the river Gave when suddenly I heard a kind of rustling sound.  I turned my head toward the field by the side of the river but the trees seemed quite still and the noise was evidently not from them.  Then I looked up and caught sight of the cave where I saw a lady wearing a lovely white dress with a bright belt.  On top of each of her feet was a pale yellow rose, the same color as her rosary beads.

 

At this I rubbed my eyes, thinking I was seeing things, and I put my hands into the fold of my dress where my rosary was.  I wanted to make the sign of the cross but for the life of me I couldn’t manage it and my hand just fell down.  Then the lady made the sign of the cross herself and at the second attempt I managed to do the same, though my hands were trembling.  Then I began to say the rosary while the lady let her beads slip through her fingers, without moving her lips.  When I stopped saying the Hail Mary, she immediately vanished.

 

I asked my two companions if they had noticed anything, but they said no.  Of course they wanted to know what I was doing and I told them that I had seen a lady wearing a nice white dress, though I didn’t know who she was.  I told them not to say anything about it, and they said I was silly to have anything to do with it.  I said they were wrong and I came back next Sunday, feeling myself drawn to the place…

 

The third time I went the lady spoke to me and asked me to come every day for fifteen days.  I said I would and then she said that she wanted me to tell the priests to build a chapel there.  She also told me to drink from the stream.  I went to the Gave, the only stream I could see.  Then she made me realize she was not speaking of the Gave and she indicated a little trickle of water close-by.  When I got to it I could only find a few drops, mostly mud.  I cupped my hands to catch some liquid without success and then I started to scrape the ground.  I managed to find a few drops of water but only at the fourth attempt was there sufficient for any kind of drink.  The lady then vanished and I went back home. 

 

I went back each day for fifteen days and each time, except on Monday and one Friday, the lady appeared and told me to look for a stream and wash in it and to see that the priests build a chapel there.  I must also pray, she said, for the conversion of sinners.  I asked her many times what she meant by that, but she only smiled.  Finally with outstretched arms and eyes looking up to the heaven she told me she was the Immaculate Conception.

 

During the fifteen days she told me three secrets but I was not to speak about them to anyone and so far I have not.” 

 

From a letter by Saint Marie Bernadette Soubirous

 

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Bible Study

Week #18 – 6^th of May, 2007

Topic: Dangers of Prosperity -- We forget about God

Readings: Book of Deut Chapters 8 and 9.

Verses to Meditate: Deut 8: 2 -5 &  9:3-6

Homework: Romans Chap. 8

 

 

 Bible Study Groups                                                                      Grupos de Estudio Bíblico

Resurrection Catholic Church Msgr Diez 677-2175	Summerfield Yoemy Waller,  Wilma Sánchez
Heather Lakes  Linda Doling	South Pointe y Lakeside Yasmín Castellanos , Carlos Huertas,
BELL Creek  Hammock Gail Cross	Lissette Freire,  Rosie Rivera
Providence Lakes  Yader & Sandra Sequeira	Gibsonton Aurelio Martinez,   Elvia Ortiz
Lake St Charles Ed Mitchell & Al Larson	Rivercrest Zoraida Medina 672-3311
Oakdale Reserve Kathy Samuelsen	Resurrection Catholic Church Julio Cruz
Panther Trace  Shawn P. Bennett	Villages of Lake St. Charles Graciela Saltos
Apollo Beach  Jamie Larson	Maryla Espinosa  y Vanesa Alexander
Rivercrest Tom & Pat McGrath	Random Oaks Maria Isabel Espinosa
South Point Rhonda Gordon,   Anthony Gonzalez	Lakes of Cristina, Silvia Costa

 

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