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My God! My God! Why hast Thou Forsaken me?

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  August 4, 2026 St Josemaria Institute Hello!   How is each and every one? I thought I had finished working on this post last week by mistake.   Yes, it was done but not completed.   I just realized it now.   Anyway, this post is delayed by two days.   I had to do a new version of the book, ‘Give It One More Year, Sir’ so it could be printed soon. And just now I got distracted with my Jurassic Nokia phone. I was gluing the keypad buttons and then the phone stopped functioning. Glue got into contact with the circuit board.   This is an opportunity to learn and to get myself up to date with technology.  And yet I still am hoping my Jurassic Nokia will be revived.   Challenges come when there is already an ongoing challenge.   Life is exciting and dynamic, right?   I want to sing ‘I will survive’! Let us now start the fourth word of Christ from the Cross (From The Cries of Jesus from the Cross , A Fulton J. Sheen’s Anthology). ...
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It is Truly Right and Just! Our Duty and our Salvation

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  August 11, 2026 Hello!   How is each and every one? What are we looking forward to this week?   We hope for sunny days this week. On the 15 th , we will be celebrating with the Church the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Following from the Daily Roman Missal:   15 August The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Aleteia November 1, 1950, Pius XII defined the Assumption of Mary to be a dogma of faith: “We pronounce, declare and define it to be a divinely revealed dogma that the immaculate Mother of God, the ever Virgin Mary, having completed the course of her earthly life, was assumed body and soul to heavenly glory.” The Pope proclaimed this dogma only after a broad consultation of bishops, theologians and laity. There were few dissenting voices. What the Pope solemnly declared was already a common belief in the Catholic Church.  We find homilies on the Assumption going back to the sixth century. In following centuries the ...
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Ignorance Calls for Humility

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  August 4, 2026 Hello!   How is each and every one? Wow! Wow! Wow! We are now in the month of August, second month of the second half of the year 2026!   How time flies!   Time, indeed, runs fast! Lest we miss the point of the meaning of life, that is, time, I just remembered The Poem I came across the other day as I was searching for two other articles in the book, Family Occasions , Speaking Heart to Heart. Maybe I should share it in today’s post.   The Poem I knelt to pray but not for long, I had too much to do. I had to hurry and get to work For bills would soon be due.   So I knelt and said a hurried prayer, And jumped up off my knees. My Christian duty was now done My soul could rest at ease…   All day long I had no time To spread a word of cheer No time to speak of Christ to friends, They’d laugh at me I’d fear.   No time, no time, too much to do, That was my constant cry, No time to give to souls in...
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