•PRAYER OF SPOUSES FOR ONE ANOTHER
Lord Jesus,
Grant that my spouse and I may have a true and understanding love for each other. Grant that we may both be filled with faith and trust. Give us the grace to live with eachother with peace and harmony. May we always bear with one another’s weaknesses
and grow from each other's strengths. Help us to forgive one another's failings and grant us patience, kindness, cheerfulness and the spirit of placing the well being of one another ahead of self.
May the love that brought us together grow and mature with each passing year. Bring us both ever closer to Thee through our love for each other. Let our love help us grow in perfection. Amen•

Prayer requests for a 92 year old aunt on my wife's side of the family who's been taken to the hospital for what appears to be a stroke. She only speaks Spanish and was raised Catholic, but she's taken care of by her evangelical protestant family. I fear they've tried to "convert" her as shes lived with them and would probably deny her a priest for last rites. Pray for God's mercy.

“An honest man falls in love with an honest woman; he wishes, therefore to marry her, to be the father of her children, to secure her and himself. All systems of government should be tested by whether he can do this. If any system—feudal, servile, or barbaric—does, in fact, give him so large a cabbage-field that he can do it, there is the essence of liberty and justice. If any system—Republican, mercantile, or Eugenist—does, in fact, give him so small a salary that he can’t do it, there is the essence of eternal tyranny and shame.”
~ G.K. Chesterton

Artwork: 𝘠𝘰𝘶'𝘷𝘦 𝘎𝘰𝘵 𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘛𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘴 by Mark Keathley

@TheNewColumbiaMovement

1980, When Every Soft Drink Bottle On The Shelf Was Still Glass

For everyone married and unmarried, kids or wanting kids, would you let your parents live with your family when they become elderly?

Please, for the love of God, stand at Christmas mass so that women, children, and elderly may sit.

DECEMBER 24: SHE LOST A FAMILY AND FOUNDED A FAMILY
Saint Paola Elisabetta Cerioli
Widow and Founder
Died: 1865
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She was an Italian widow and founder. Her original name was Costanza Cerioli. Her marriage was an unhappy one. All her 4 children and her husband died one by one. She spent her time and her riches in helping the poor. She concentrated on helping the orphans. She eventually established two religious congregations - the Institute of the Sisters of the Holy Family and the Congregation of the Family of Bergamo. Both are charitable groups.

THE REHABILITATOR OF PROSTITUTES
Venerable Francisco of the Child Jesus
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Today is the death anniversary of the Ven. Francisco of the Child Jesus. He was a Spanish Discalced Carmelite brother. His original name was Francisco Pascual Sanchez. Before becoming a Carmelite, he was involved with charitable works. Widows, the poor, maids, and prostitutes found help from him. He continued this as a Carmelite. He established a house that welcomed women who wanted to abandon prostitution.
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Please help us, Ven. Francisco of the Child Jesus, to rehabilitate the promiscuous women of our age so that they might become faithful Catholic women. Please prevent them from falling into worse sins, and help them to become loving wives for their husbands and wonderful mothers for happy children. Amen.

SAINTLY INSPIRATION
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“Concern for the child, even before birth, from the first moment of conception and then throughout the years of infancy and youth, is the primary and fundamental test of the relationship of one human being to another.”
(St. John Paul II)