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Religion without a Cross?

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  April 28, 2026 Scepter Pubishers   Hello!   How is each and every one?   In two days we will be starting the beautiful month dedicated to our Mother, Mary, on the first day of which the Church celebrates the feast of her spouse, St. Joseph the Worker.   Following is an excerpt about the feast and St. Joseph. 1 May St Joseph the Worker Apparently in response to the “May Day” celebrations for workers sponsored by Communists, Pius XII instituted the feast of St. Joseph the Worker in 1955. But the relationship between Joseph and the cause of workers has a much longer history.  In a constantly necessary effort to keep Jesus from being removed from ordinary human life, the Church has from the beginning proudly emphasized that Jesus was a carpenter, obviously trained by Joseph in both the satisfactions and the drudgery of that vocation. Humanity is like God not only in thinking and loving, but also in creating. Whether we make a table or a cathedra...

Courage with Enduring Patience and Firmness

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  April 21, 2026   Hello!   How is each and every one?   We are on the third week of Easter and we continue to pray for long lasting world peace. Let us intensify our prayers and offerings for this intention.   Everything that we could offer, let us offer, our hours of work, activity, dealings, study, prayers, mortification, fasting, exercise, anything and everything in our daily ordinary life for the whole world, for good to overcome evil.   We do all this with God who always wins battles. Let us also invoke St. Michael, the archangel and his choir of angels against the devil who is the source of all evil. This is a long post on fortitude.   Take your time in going through it and as always you and I need to talk to God about these things because our life is His and His life is our model. We need God’s grace to be able to live according to the truth, to discern what is good and do it, what is right and do so.   Following is the continuation ...