We can learn from the Saints!

[wenlove24]

---

Uumm...I dunno how popular St.Gamaliel to the Jews? He was later known to be a Christian convert after all, that had got to have a negative impact to Judaism

But with regards to his popularity to us Catholics?? (he he he) I'm a bit ashamed to admit it but it is just recently that I chanced to read about him

Here's another interesting article about St. Gamaliel though:
JewishEncyclopedia.com - GAMALIEL I.:

Sis wen, what do you mean by DBTC?

don bosco school...thnx

[ketllac]

ST. Marcellin champagnat

dili ni sya sikat. Kay iyahang charisma is center sa humility, education, ug mga bata..

naa iya famous qoutes nga simple ayo;

To raise children, we must love them and love them equally.
I cannot see a child without wanting to tell them how much God loves them.

Let there be among you just one heart and one mind. Let it always be said of the Little Brothers of Mary as it was of the early Christians: See how they love one another!

[koralstratz]

ST. Marcellin champagnat

dili ni sya sikat. Kay iyahang charisma is center sa humility, education, ug mga bata..

naa iya famous qoutes nga simple ayo;

To raise children, we must love them and love them equally.
I cannot see a child without wanting to tell them how much God loves them.

Let there be among you just one heart and one mind. Let it always be said of the Little Brothers of Mary as it was of the early Christians: See how they love one another!

Ako gi search bro, siya man diay ang founder sa mga Marists Brothers noh

Butangan nato ug picture niya ha (dala na pud libro he he)

[petite fleur]

O Hail Doctors of the Church!

Doctors of the Church | Catholic-Pages.com
Doctors of the Church

VATICAN CITY, OCT 21, 1997 (VIS) - When Pope John Paul II proclaimed St. Theresa of Lisieux Doctor of the Church, she became the 33rd person, and the third woman, to be honoured with this title.

For a person to be proclaimed Doctor of the Church, three requisites are necessary, according to Pope Benedict XIV's well-known definition: an eminent doctrine, a remarkable holiness of life and the declaration by the Supreme Pontiff or by a General Council which has met legitimately.

Following is the list of Doctors of the Church, starting with their name(s), the Pope who proclaimed them and the date on which this occurred:

1-4: Saints Ambrose, Jerome, Augustine, Gregory the Great: Boniface VIII, September 20, 1295.
5: Saint Thomas Aquinas: Saint Pius V, April 11, 1567.
6-9: Saints Athanasius, Basil, Gregory of Nazianzus, Saint John Chrysostom: Saint Pius V, 1568.
10: Saint Bonaventure: Sixtus V, March 14, 1588.
11: Saint Anselm of Canterbury: Clement XI, February 3, 1720.
12: Saint Isidore of Seville: Innocent XIII, April 25, 1722.
13: Saint Peter Chrysologus: Benedict XIII, February 10, 1729.
14: Saint Leo the Great: Benedict XIV, October 15, 1754.
15: Saint Peter Damian: Leo XII, September 27, 1828.
16: Saint Bernard of Clairvaux: Pius VIII, August 20, 1830.
17: Saint Hilaire of Poitiers: Pius IX, May 13, 1851.
18: Saint Alphonsus Liguori: Pius IX, July 7, 1871.
19: Saint Francis of Sales: Pius IX, November 16, 1871.
20-21: Saints Cyril of Alexandria and Cyril of Jerusalem: Leo XIII, July 28, 1882.
22: Saint John Damascene: Leo XIII, August 19, 1890.
23: Saint Bede the Venerable: Leo XIII, November 13, 1899.
24: Saint Ephrem of Syria: Benedict XV, October 5, 1920.
25: Saint Peter Canisius: Pius XI, May 21, 1925.
26: Saint John of the Cross: Pius XI, August 24, 1926.
27: Saint Robert Bellarmine: Pius XI, September 17, 1931.
28: Saint Albert the Great: Pius XI, December 16, 1931.
29: Saint Anthony of Padua: Pius XII, January 16, 1946.
30: Saint Laurence of Brindisi: John XXIII, March 19, 1959.
31: Saint Theresa of Avila: Paul VI, September 27, 1970.
32: Saint Catherine of Siena: Paul VI, October 4, 1970.
33: Saint Theresa of Lisieux: John Paul II, October 19, 1997.

Holy Men and Women, Pray for us.

[koralstratz]

St. Agapitus
(Feast Day Aug 6)



St. Agapitus was but 15 years old, when he was apprehended by the tyrant Aurelian, on account of being a Christian. As he unflinchingly proclaimed his belief in Christ, he was whipped with scourges and then cast into a dungeon, without any food, that he might thus be forced to forsake Christianity. When Antiochus, the prefect, found him, at the end of five days, more determined than before, he ordered a live coal to be put upon his head. The brave youth stood immovably under this torture, and praising God, said: "A head, which would wear an eternal crown in Heaven, must not hesitate to wear suffering and pain upon earth. Wounds and burns make my head the more worthy to be crowned with eternal glory."

Antiochus, greatly provoked, ordered them to whip the holy youth till his body became one great wound, after which they hung him by the feet over a fire, hoping to suffocate him. But they failed; for, after a long silence, he addressed the prefect saying: "Behold, Antiochus, the people will say that all thy ingenuity, all thy wit, ends in smoke." Enraged at this remark, the tyrant had him again cruelly whipped and ordered boiling water to be poured into the open wounds. After this, they knocked all his teeth out and broke his jaws with blows. God punished the tyrant for his cruelty; He caused him to fall from his seat and break his neck. Aurelian, hearing of this, ordered the martyr to be thrown to the wild beasts, but as they refused to touch him, he was finally beheaded. Thus ended the glorious martyrdom of the holy youth, Agapitus, in the year 275.

[LeeLeePot]

^ ako mai nasakitan sa iyang kaagi oi...wiiiw!

[koralstratz]

"The usual snare with which the devil catches the young is to fill them with shame when they are about to confess their sins. When he pushes them to commit sins, he removes all shame, as if there were nothing wrong with it, but when they are going to confession, he returns that shame magnified and tries to convince them that the priest will be shocked by their sins and will no longer think well of them. Thus the devil tries to drive souls to the brink of eternal damnation. Oh, how many lads does Satan steal from God – sometimes forever – by this trick."
(St. Don Bosco)

[koralstratz]

St. Cajetan
(Feast Day Aug 7)


In 1523, the Church was in sad shape. People could not get the spiritual nourishment they needed from the large numbers of uneducated and even immoral priests who took their money but returned nothing. When good priests and laypeople turned to the hierarchy for help, they found leaders at best apathetic and indifferent to their concerns.

How should a good Catholic respond to this situation? We all known how Luther and others responded -- by splitting away from the Catholic Church when their pleas went unheard.

Cajetan took a different route. Just as concerned as Luther was about what he observed in the Church, he went to Rome in 1523 -- not to talk to the pope or the hierarchy but to consult with members of a confraternity called the Oratory of the Divine Love. When he had first come to Rome many years before, he had felt called to some unknown great work there. A few years later he returned to his hometown of Vicenza -- his great work seemingly unrealized. He had however studied for the priesthood and been ordained and helped re-establish a faded confraternity whose aims were promoting God's glory and the welfare of souls.

In the years he had been gone from Rome, he had founded another Oratory in his home town and Verona where he had promoted spiritual life and care for the poor and sick not only with words but with his heroic example. He told his brothers, "In this oratory we try to serve God by worship; in our hospital we may say that we actually find him." But none of the horrors he saw in the hospitals of the incurables depressed him as much as the wickedness he saw everywhere he looked.

In his former confraternity, he found other clergy who felt the way he did. They didn't want to split off from the Church, they wanted to restore it. So they decided to form an order based on the lives of the apostles in the hopes that these lives would inspire them and others to live holy lives devoted to Jesus. In order to accomplish this they would focus on moral lives, sacred studies, preaching and pastoral care, helping the sick, and other solid foundations of pastoral life. This new order was known as Theatines Clerks Regular because it was an order of the regular clergy and because a bishop known as Theatensis was their first superior general (although Cajetan is considered the founder).

Not surprisingly, they didn't find thousands of formerly greedy and licentious priests flocking to their door. But Cajetan and the others persevered even in the face of open opposition from laity and clergy who didn't want to reform. It was his holy example that converted many as well as his preaching.

Worn out by the troubles he saw in his Church and his home, Cajetan fell ill. When doctors tried to get him to rest on a softer bed then the boards he slept on, Cajetan answered, "My savior died on a cross. Let me died on wood at least." He died on August 7, 1547.

[koralstratz]

[wenlove24]

St. Cajetan
(Feast Day Aug 7)


In 1523, the Church was in sad shape. People could not get the spiritual nourishment they needed from the large numbers of uneducated and even immoral priests who took their money but returned nothing. When good priests and laypeople turned to the hierarchy for help, they found leaders at best apathetic and indifferent to their concerns.

How should a good Catholic respond to this situation? We all known how Luther and others responded -- by splitting away from the Catholic Church when their pleas went unheard.

Cajetan took a different route. Just as concerned as Luther was about what he observed in the Church, he went to Rome in 1523 -- not to talk to the pope or the hierarchy but to consult with members of a confraternity called the Oratory of the Divine Love. When he had first come to Rome many years before, he had felt called to some unknown great work there. A few years later he returned to his hometown of Vicenza -- his great work seemingly unrealized. He had however studied for the priesthood and been ordained and helped re-establish a faded confraternity whose aims were promoting God's glory and the welfare of souls.

In the years he had been gone from Rome, he had founded another Oratory in his home town and Verona where he had promoted spiritual life and care for the poor and sick not only with words but with his heroic example. He told his brothers, "In this oratory we try to serve God by worship; in our hospital we may say that we actually find him." But none of the horrors he saw in the hospitals of the incurables depressed him as much as the wickedness he saw everywhere he looked.

In his former confraternity, he found other clergy who felt the way he did. They didn't want to split off from the Church, they wanted to restore it. So they decided to form an order based on the lives of the apostles in the hopes that these lives would inspire them and others to live holy lives devoted to Jesus. In order to accomplish this they would focus on moral lives, sacred studies, preaching and pastoral care, helping the sick, and other solid foundations of pastoral life. This new order was known as Theatines Clerks Regular because it was an order of the regular clergy and because a bishop known as Theatensis was their first superior general (although Cajetan is considered the founder).

Not surprisingly, they didn't find thousands of formerly greedy and licentious priests flocking to their door. But Cajetan and the others persevered even in the face of open opposition from laity and clergy who didn't want to reform. It was his holy example that converted many as well as his preaching.

Worn out by the troubles he saw in his Church and his home, Cajetan fell ill. When doctors tried to get him to rest on a softer bed then the boards he slept on, Cajetan answered, "My savior died on a cross. Let me died on wood at least." He died on August 7, 1547.

glad to know i celebrate my very first earthly breath with his feast hehe...
thanks korz..