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Prayer to the Blessed Virgin Mary Protectress of Africa
Holy Mary, Mother of God, Protectress of Africa, you have given to the world the true Light, Jesus Christ. Through your obedience to the Father and the grace of the Holy Spirit, you have given us the source of our reconciliation and our justice, Jesus Christ, our peace and our joy.
Mother of Tenderness and Wisdom, show us Jesus, your Son and the Son of God. Guide our path of conversion, so that Jesus might shine his glory on us in every aspect of our personal, familial and social lives.
Mother, full of Mercy and Justice, through your docility to the Spirit, the Counselor, obtain for us the grace to be witnesses of the Risen Lord, so that we will increasingly become the salt of the earth and the light of the world.
Mother of Perpetual Help, we entrust to your maternal intercession the preparation and fruits of the Second Special Assembly for Africa. Queen of Peace, pray for us! Our Lady of Africa, pray for us!
Yaounde, 19 March 2009
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ALEXANDER THE GREAT IN AFRICA
(This section will explain why there were so many Greeks in Egypt (Kemet) and the Northern and Northeastern parts of Africa, as it relates to Black Saints).
In 360 B.C. Egypt (Kemet) fell again to the Macedonian, Alexander the Great. The age of Pharaohs ended with the 30th dynasty. Alexander went on to conquer Palestine in 332 B.C. closely united once again politically, if not ethnically, the people of both countries.
(Not One reads in history about Hellenized Jews, or Hellenized Christians. This is one reason why they existed).
Candace, an Ethiopian Queen warned Alexander about drawing conclusions from the Ethiopian’s color. (Read about the Alexander Romance on the web).
(Candace means queen. To some extent, old peoples were named for what they looked like, or what they were. There were several so-called Kandakes—one much later on responsible for the conversion of her nation/territory to Christianity under the Ethiopian Eunuch, and the apostles Philip and Matthew).
Candace told Alexander, “We are whiter and brighter in our souls than the whitest of you,” she said according to the Alexander Romance legend.
Having heard the legend of Memnon, The black Ethiopian king who helped Priam (Laemedon in Greek Mythology) at Troy, Alexander visited Ethiopia.
He continued on to India, reporting the inhabitants to be “blacker than the rest of the world with the exception of the Ethiopians.” (Remember this, when you see the Indian saints, Barlaam, and Iosaph.)
Naturally, the Indians south of the Ganges were bronzed. (We have already mentioned that India, Africa partially formed the continent/tectonic plate of Gondwanaland eons prior. And that Africa and Arabia were once joined in a huge land mass).
Alexander died, and his lieutenants, the Ptolemies (323-30 B.C.) divided and ruled Egypt (Kemet). In 51 B.C. they succeeded by the most famous of Cleopatras (there were many). Egypt became a Roman province.
A hundred years prior (146 B.C.), the Romans had already turned black Carthage into Provincia Africana. Modern Tunisia and Tripolitania were taken later.
As Cleopatra reigned, Rome conquered the African Numidian Kingdom of Juba (Jueben). Some of the readers may remember grandparents, or great- grandparents being told of an African (en) slave (d) dance by the same name.
By 40 B.C. Romans had solidified holdings in Mauretania, Africa Nova, and Africa Vetus. These areas formed Africa Proconsularis, Mauretania Caesariensis with the capital at Caesarea, and Tripolitania, or Tingitia with the capital at Tingis.
THIS WRITER SUBMITS THAT ON OLD GREEK, ROMAN, AND LATER AL ISLAM, NOR OTTOMAN TURK MAPS, THERE WAS NO NORTH AFRICA—A RACIST CONCEPT.
From Africa to the wall of Hadrian at the English –
Scottish border, on the river Tyne, south Midlothian county, Rome, a major center of civilization for 2000 years, consolidated much of the then known world into one political entity (with the exception of the Chinese and Indians).
Rome controlled much of the Middle and near East, what is now Romania, Bulgaria (from where the Roman Emperor Diocletian several hundred years later conducted his Christian persecutions), Yugoslavia, parts of what was Russia’s old USSR, Spain, Great Britain, Italy, France, Germany, and Switzerlamd
Black- Roman contact proved more extensive than in just Kemet and areas west. Considerable evidence exists of black presence throughout the Greco-Roman world (Remember the Black wrestlers and athletes on old Greek vases we mentioned?)
This proved true in cities along or near the African coast in the Northern part of the continent. And Roman influence would be found in western Africa, south of Tingis, Caesarea, Cyrenaica, and areas southwest and southeast of Darius, south of Marmarica, Libya, and Egypt (Kemet).
We know that Tripolitania traded with Central Africa. (We have already posited—as goes trade, so goes ideas, called diffusion, or dispersion).
We know that one of the Caesars at one time received a 3,000,000 Librae contribution from Kinshasa (Congo) area. We know that from the same general region, elephant tusks were imported.
Old Roman charts (See Barrington) showed mapping down well into what is now modern Chad.
Greeks and Romans in fact used the word Ethiopians, to designate several dark races, “the yardsticks by which they measured colored peoples.”
Blackness and Ethiopian wee often synonymous, as people were named according to their appearances. Herodotus described Ethiopians as “most ulotrichous,” crisp or wooly-headed.
Greeks and Romans also used another tem, Mauri, (Greek, Moros), as an all inclusive, political equivalent for Aethiopes. The word included Ethiopians.
The country and civil provinces called Mauretania (there were at least two), received their name from the color of their inhabitants. For Romans and Greeks “had no theories of dark-race inferiority. They thought color to be a physical and/or attribute of geographic location.”
Color was not considered a quality with which to judge men. “Whether the Ethiopian was ambassador, adventurer, prisoner of war, or slave, he was not excluded by blackness.”
Near the end of the 1st century after Christ Jesus, Septimus Flacus, a legate (consul officer) of Augustus invaded the interior Ethiopian territory “three months’ journey distance from beyond the country of the Garamantes.”
As there is no Garamantes today, presumably the general’s report meant the Oasis of Garamantes, near modern Fezza Libya.
Julius Maternus commanded a second foray. We know he stopped at Garma, 13 degrees longitude, 40 degrees latitude, in the Phazania region of Libya, southwest Africa.
With the arrival of Cephas Simon Peter, and Paul in Rome, the Eternal City became one of the headquarters of The Way, the Church established by Yeshua, Jesus, the Christ. (Remember—Yeshua established one Church. Man split it! But most, if not all are “still His children.”)
Throughout this mesh of territories, kingdoms and states controlled by Mighty Rome, Africans traveled freely in it. An earlier branch headquarters had been set up in the African city of Alexandria.
The African, St. Mark (Gospel of Mark), was its first bishop. Some say Mark (aka John Marcus, or John Mark) was the disciple of Peter himself. Others say he followed Paul.
It was through this Roman Empire and its civil provinces and administration that God chose to systematically spread the Church, though the Church itself was nurtured initially in Africa. And was Africa that would her initial impetus. Indeed, in early Christian literature, the Latin Church was African in thought. (See Tertullian, Origen, Augustine of Hippo, Cyprian of Carthage, Denis of Alexandria, in other volumes of this series, Vol. II, and Writings of the Black Saints, and Annals of the Black Saints.
Around the year(s) 29 A.D. to 33 A.D. upon Yeshua’s selection of Cephas, Simon Peter, as rock and Keeper of the Keys, the one Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church came into being. Yeshua promised his Christian Church would prevail against even the gates of hell.
Peter was first among equals. But based upon his acclamation of Christ as Messiah (Who has told you this?) —and his faith (though he was to deny Christ later), Yeshua-- Jesus, the Christ-- appointed him head.
Christians should be aware Peter went to Africa (with John Marcus?), then on to Antioch, where he set up the Church (which became one of the Eastern Sees or headquarters), before he went to Rome.
As sayd, the Apostles methodically began conversions in each of Tome’s civil divisions. These convenient sized administrative dioceses are units, which the Church retains today.
In the Eastern Church (and Oriental Church), impetus increased when the Roman Emperor Constantine fixed the capital at Byzantium in 330 A.D. For the next 724 years, Churches east and west made one Holy Catholic and Apostolic body.
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PROPHECY MEDITATIONS TODAY
Test! Discern The Spirit! Accept what speaks to YOUR SOUL/SPIRIT. Disregard the rest!
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FATHER MELVIN DOUCETTE
"I suffer for you today"
Friday, April 03, 2009
Dear Friends,
Now on the occasion of the feast the governor was accustomed to release to the crowd one prisoner whom they wished. And at that time they had a notorious prisoner called Barabbas.
So when they had assembled, Pilate said to them, "Which one do you want me to release to you, Barabbas, or Jesus called Messiah?" For he knew that it was out of envy that they had handed him over.
While he was still seated on the bench, his wife sent him a message, "Have nothing to do with that righteous man. I suffered much in a dream today because of him." The chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowds to ask for Barabbas but to destroy Jesus.
The governor said to them in reply, "Which if the two do you want me to release to you?" They answered, "Barabbas!" Pilate said to them, "Then what shall I do with Jesus called Messiah?" They all said, "Let him be crucified!" But he said, "Why? What evil has he done?" They only shouted the louder, "Let him be crucified!"
When Pilate saw that he was not succeeding at all, but that a riot was breaking out instead, he took water and washed his hands in the sight of the crowd, saying, "I am innocent of this man's blood. Look to it yourselves." And the whole people said in reply, "His blood be upon us and upon our children." Then he released Barabbas to them, but after he had Jesus scourged, he handed him over to be crucified. Matthew 27:15-26
Here is the message Our Lord gave Joseph. Jesus spoke to him in these words, "As you can see My trial before Pilate was a farce. Although he said that I was innocent, he had Me scourged and then handed Me over to the soldiers to be crucified. He had a notorious prisoner released instead of Me.
For the scourging the soldiers tied Me to a pillar and stripped Me. Then they started beating Me with long whips with some metal on the tips. This metal would enter My skin and tear out My flesh every time. At the end I was bleeding all over My body and I was lying on the floor covered with blood. I had no more strength to stand up. After the whipping was over, they placed a crown of thorns on My head driving the thorns into My flesh. Blood poured out of these wounds into My eyes and on the face.
My dear friends, I accepted all this suffering for you because I love you. I am indeed your Savior who paid the price for all your sins. I accepted to suffer and to die on the cross so that you would become My friend and live in union with Me every day. My heart is full of mercy for you, so come to Me and repent of your sins. I will take them all away. Come to the cross today and contemplate Me, Your Savior, as I suffer for you today."
Father Melvin
FATHER MELVIN DOUCETTE
"The gift of Myself"
Thursday, April 02, 2009
Dear Friends,
Jesus withdrew in a boat to a deserted place by himself. The crowds heard of this and followed him on foot from their towns. When he disembarked and saw the vast crowd, his heart was moved with pity for them, and he cured their sick.
When it was evening, the disciples approached him and said, "This is a deserted place and it is already late; dismiss the crowds so that they can go to the villages and buy food for themselves." Jesus said to them, "There is no need for them to go away; give them some food yourselves." But they said to him, "Five loaves and two fish are all we have here."
Then he said, "Bring them here to me," and he ordered the crowds to sit down on the grass. Taking the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, he said the blessing broke the loaves, and gave them to the disciples, who in turn gave them to the crowds. They all ate and were satisfied, and they picked up the fragments left over-twelve wicker baskets full. Those who ate were about five thousand men, not counting women and children. Matthew 14:13-21
Here is another message from Our Lord addressed to Joseph. Jesus spoke to him in these words, "During My public life, often large crowds followed Me. When I went to a deserted area, they would gather there by the thousands. I would heal the sick and teach them. A number of times I multiplied loaves of bread and fish to feed all these people. I had the Apostles to help Me distribute all this food to the people.
I know for the Jewish people these feeding in the desert brought back to them what happened to their ancestors when they spent forty years in the desert. My Father gave them manna to eat every day. This miracle was to bring them to believe that I was doing the Father's work and in time I would be accepted as the Son of the Father.
For you who are My followers today, this miracle brings you to another miracle, that of the Eucharist. The Eucharist is the food for your soul. I am truly present in the host and in the chalice so that I can come and live in your heart. I would like that all the people of the world would hunger for the Eucharist and come to receive Me regularly. It is the greatest gift that I left you, the gift of Myself. Repent of your sins and come to receive Me every day if it is possible. Come and live in union with Me."
Father Melvin
Message to Mirjana on Apil 2, 2009
"Dear children, God's love is in my words. My children, that is the love which desires to turn you to justice and truth. That is the love which desires to save you from delusion. And what about you, my children? Your hearts remain closed; they are hard and do not respond to my calls. They are insincere. With a motherly love I am praying for you, because I desire for all of you to resurrect in my Son. Thank you."
Medjugorje Day By Day Apr 05 - I call you today to complete surrend
NOTE DATE: 2005 Medjugorje seer claims Pope appeared to him
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A friend of ours close to Medjugorje seer Ivan Dragicevic of Bosnia-Hercegovina writes, "At Ivan's apparition tonight (4/2) Ivan was recommending intentions to Our Lady when the Pope appeared on her left. He was smiling, young and very happy. All in white with a long gold cape. Our Lady said to Ivan: 'this is my son; he is with me.' Personally, I have never seen Ivan so happy."
"We adore You, Jesus Eucharist. We adore Your body and blood given for us and for all in the remission of sins. ... As we adore You, how can we not think about the many things we should do to give You glory? ... Help us, Jesus, to understand that 'to do' in Your Church, .... it is important above all 'to be', that is, to stay with You in adoration, in Your gentle company." (Pope John Paul II, March 18, 2005).
Mother Teresa
Anyone is capable of going to Heaven. Heaven is our home. Dying is not the end, it is just the beginning. Death is a continuation of life. This is the meaning of eternal life; it is where our soul goes to God, to be in the presence of God, to see God, to speak to God, to continue loving Him with greater love. We only surrender our body in death - our heart and our soul live forever.
Meditations by Padre Pio -
Observe well that as long as you are displeased by the temptations you have nothing to fear. But why are you sorry about this, if not because you don't want to experience it? These troublesome temptations come from the evil of the devil. But the displeasure and suffering we experience come from the mercy of God, who, contrary to our enemy's will, draws holy tribulations from malice, through which He purifies the gold that wants to be part of His treasure.
Furthermore, your temptations come from the devil but your suffering and afflictions come from God and Paradise. The mother is from Babilonia, but the children are from Jerusalem. Despise the temptation and embrace the tribulation. No, no, my daughter, let the wind blow, and do not believe the noise of leaves is the blast of arms (Letters III, pp 636-637).
Archbishop Fulton Sheen
05-Be righteously angry at wrongs!
"When more get mad, not because they lose money, but because right is ignored and wrong enthroned, then the fires will come back to democracy. And these fires will burn like beacons summoning men to a finer and better world."
St. Faustina's diary http://www.marian.org/directory_flash.html
Once the Lord said to me, Act like a beggar who does not back away when he gets more alms [than he asked for], but offers thanks the more fervently. You too should not back away and say that you are not worthy of receiving greater graces when I give them to you. I know you are unworthy, but rejoice all the more and take as many treasures from My Heart as you can carry, for then you will please Me more. And I will tell you one more thing: Take these graces not only for yourself, but also for others; that is, encourage the souls with whom you come in contact to trust in My infinite mercy. Oh, how I love those souls who have complete confidence in Me. I will do everything for them. (294)
Ask of my faithful servant [Father Sopocko] that, on this day, he tell the whole world of My great mercy; that whoever approaches the Fount of Life on this day will be granted complete remission of sins and punishment.
Mankind will not have peace until it turns with trust to My mercy.
Oh, how much I am hurt by a soul's distrust! Such a soul professes that I am Holy and Just, but does not believe that I am Mercy and does not trust in My Goodness. Even the devils glorify My Justice but do not believe in My Goodness.
My Heart rejoices in this title of Mercy. (300)
MEDJUGORJE DAY BY DAY
These thoughts for a day are taken from a daily meditation book based on the Messages of Our Lady of Medjugorje by Father Richard J. Beyer, Ave Maria Press.
APRIL 5 - I CALL YOU TO SURRENDER
Today the Blessed Mother speaks of both surrender and joy:
"Dear Children, I call you today to complete surrender to God-to great joy and peace which only God can give. I am with you and I intercede for you every day before God (Monthly Message March 25, 1989).
Christ also speaks of the rewards of abandoning oneself to God:
Peter began to say to him, "Look, we have left everything and followed you. " Jesus said, "Truly I tell you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields, for my sake and for the sake of the gospel, who will not receive a hundredfold…" (Mk 10:28-30).
Reflection:
Following Christ, surrendering ourselves to his care, is accompanied by beautiful gifts of the Holy Spirit, chief among them being inner peace. Yet it is a seeming paradox that in abandoning ourselves, placing ourselves totally at God's disposal, we should at the same time experience a profound freedom of spirit. But this is because all our cares, worries, and problems are no longer ours, but the Lord's. We become like trusting children again, confident and safe in the hands of our Father.
Application:
Mindful of Our Lady's message today, surrender yourself again to the Lord, using this prayer composed by St. Teresa of Avila:
Lord, grant that I may always allow myself to be guided by you, always follow your plans, and perfectly accomplish your will.
Grant that in all things, great and small, today and all the days of my life, I may do whatever you require of me. Help me to respond to the slightest prompting of your grace, so that I may be a trustworthy instrument for your honor.
May your will be done in time and in eternity---by me, in me, and through me. Amen.
Medjugorje Day By Day Apr 04 - You will encounter God
"For Christians, the greatest gift is certainly Jesus, our salvation. In the Eucharist He wished to remain with us: He became our 'viaticum', that is, our spiritual nourishment along the path of life. He sustains us in trials and difficulties: He makes us firm in hope and in everyday commitments" (Pope John Paul II, Jan. 15, 2005).
Mother Teresa
Never let anything so fill you with pain or sorrow so as to make you forget the joy of Christ Risen
Meditations by Padre Pio -
Apr 4 I know the Lord permits the devil to make these assaults, because His mercy renders you dear to Him, and He wants you to be similar to Him in the anguish of the desert, the garden and the Cross. But you must defend yourselves, cast aside and despising his evil insinuations in the name of God and Holy obedience (Letters III, p 588).
Archbishop Fulton Sheen
Not knowing the absolutes of goodness have got us into the mess we're in!
"Democracy today finds it hard to make up its mind on what is right. Communism, on the contrary, made up its mind on what was wrong. All its passions were devoted to evil. Evil today is starting the fires that are burning down the world. Leadership in democracies today cannot be expected to come out of the ashes of spineless indifference."
St. Faustina's diary http://www.marian.org/directory_flash.html -
The words of Jesus during my perpetual vows: My spouse, our hearts are joined forever. Remember to Whom you have vowed... everything cannot be put into words.
My petition while we were lying prostrate under the pall. I begged the Lord to grant me the grace of never consciously and deliberately offending Him by even the smallest sin or imperfection.
Jesus, I trust in You! Jesus, I love You with all my heart! When times are most difficult, You are my Mother.
For love of You, O Jesus, I die completely to myself today and begin to live for the greater glory of Your Holy Name.
Love, it is for love of You, O Most Holy Trinity, that I offer myself to You as an oblation of praise, as a holocaust of total self-immolation. And through this self-immolation, I desire the exaltation of Your Name, O Lord. I cast myself as a little rosebud at Your feet, O Lord, and may the fragrance of this flower be known to You alone. (239)
MEDJUGORJE DAY BY DAY
APRIL 4 - YOU WILL ENCOUNTER GOD
In her monthly message for October, 1989, Our Lady said:
"Dear children, today I am also inviting you to prayer.
I am always calling you, but you are still far away. Therefore, from today, seriously commit yourselves to dedicating time to God. I am with you and I wish to teach you to pray with the heart. In prayer with the heart, you will encounter God. Therefore, dear children, pray, pray, pray." (Monthly Message October 25, 1989).
The conditions of quiet and solitude are needed to pray with the heart. In the gospels, Jesus often withdrew to a place of quiet:
The apostles gathered around Jesus, and told him all that they had done and taught. He said to them, "Come away to a deserted place all by yourselves and rest a while." For many were coming and going, and they had no time even to eat (Mk 6:30-31).
Reflection:
Ohiyesa, a Santee Dakota Indian, once said:
In the life of the Indian there is only one inevitable duty the duty of prayer the daily recognition of the unseen and the eternal. He sees no need for setting apart one day in seven as a holy day, since to him all days are God's.
In the past, some of us have suffered from a mentality that tended to reject anything beyond ourselves. Whatever was unseen or eternal remained invisible to us. We were skeptical, scientific, task-oriented, self-centered, unreflective. It was like racing down a country highway at top speed, hardly tuned in to the rich vitality of life that surrounded us. When we stopped the car and explored the terrain, we could suddenly smell the grasses, hear birds singing, perhaps see a whole community in an anthill, or watch a darting squirrel.
Quiet prayer or meditation is not something we create on our own. It is largely a matter of shifting our attention, of being open to the spiritual, to the gentle urgings of the Holy Spirit deep with us. We don't need to force it. We need only to quiet ourselves and listen.
Application:
Today, make an effort to live moment to moment with the Spirit of God. Try to spend some time in a quiet place.
"Do not be afraid"
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Dear Friends,
Jesus came to his native place and taught the people in their synagogue. They were astonished and said, "Where did this man get such wisdom and mighty deeds? Is he not the carpenter’s son? Is not his mother named Mary and his brothers James, Joseph, Simon and Judas?
Are not his sisters all with us? Where did this man get all this? And they took offense at him. But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his native place and in his own house." And he did not work many mighty deeds there because of their lack of faith. Matthew 13:54–58
Here is a message from Our Lord and Savior addressed to Joseph. Jesus spoke to him in these words, “I was often rejected in My homeland and especially in Nazareth where I was born. As they knew Me and My family, they could not believe that I could speak as I did and that I had such mighty powers to heal and to bring back the dead to life.
The people looked at Me as just another man. They could not see that I was the Son of God and the Messiah sent by My Father to bring salvation to all the people of the world. Because of their lack of faith, I could not perform many mighty deeds there.
Am I better accepted today than when I lived in Israel? Am I still rejected by the people? I know that there are many people who have accepted Me and they live with great faith and they are My followers. They go to church and they pray every day. They follow the commandments of God and they are always ready to help the poor. These are My beloved disciples whom I bless every day and they live in close union with Me. However, there are many today who have rejected Me.
They fight against Me and My followers. They make fun of Me and the successor of St. Peter. Others are trying to destroy the Church I founded and spread all kinds of lies against Me and My Church. These are even worst than those who opposed Me during My public life.
They follow Satan and his evil ways. Do not be afraid of them because they will not last. I am now making all things new. Believe in Me, your Savior and your Friend. I will never abandon you. I live in you and I will give you the graces you need to stand up for Me. I love you all.”
Father Melvin
Current Message
Public Message
Our Lady of Emmitsburg
To the World
through Gianna Sul
September 7, 2008
The Vigil of the Feast
of the
Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Dear little children, praised be Jesus!
Thank you, little ones, for praying with all your heart. In this world there will always be inequality of the poor and of the wealthy. But in the next world, God dwells in glory and in equality. What you do in this world, God will reward you according to your deeds in the next. At some point, all can be in glory with Him, but the main key to dwelling in His glory is spiritual poverty.
In all humility you must seek meekness and pray with a humble heart. In everything that you do, you must seek humility. Everything that you are gifted is a grace from God and is not of your doing. You alone can do nothing!
Those who are poor truly have the upper hand, and it leads more quickly to spiritual poverty. However, there are many wealthy; and these, my children, give in the benevolence of their work. But everything granted is a gift from God whether it is your health, your appearance, your financial means, or even your spiritual component. Everything is from God! If He took that gift from you, you would have nothing!
Live in humility now, so that in the next world you are rewarded more quickly this greater gift of reigning in glory with Jesus. A wonderful gift indeed, spiritual poverty, humility of heart! Pray, children. Pray with all your heart, and remember: Whether you are loved in this world or hated, if you are forgotten or if your good name is remembered, it does not matter because God knows. He will never forget you. He will always love you.
If you continue to pray with a humble heart, your name is chosen to be among all the saints where a seat in His Kingdom has been reserved for you. So seek only God; and give Him glory, for He loves you. And if you desire to give me a gift, the greatest gift you can give to me is to live in humility and do all your works in Love, for Love, and through Love—that being my Son.
Peace to you, as I bless you abundantly with the great gifts of Heaven and graces from the abode of my Son’s Most Sacred Heart.
Thank you for responding to my call.
Fair use for those in the African Diaspora who would otherwise not be exposed to such 17 U.S.C
SHORT POWERFUL PRAYER THROUGH ST. JOSEPH
"Glorious St. Joseph, tenderhearted father, faithful
guardian of Jesus, chaste spouse of the Mother of
God, I ask you to join me in praising God the Father
through His Divine Son who died on the cross and
rose again to give us sinners new life. Through the
Holy Name of Jesus, pray with me that we may obtain
from the eternal Father the favor we ask. (here
state your intention)."
Say this prayer for nine consecutive days.
Fear not! God is your shelter (the 23rd Psalm and the Lord’s Prayer. God never fails. Don’t fail him. Call on Jesus. Jesus on the mainline, tell him what you want!
http://www.live365.com/stations/283424
BLACK CATHOLIC GOSPEL RADIO (Afrocentric Rosary, Stations of Cross, Chaplet of Divine Mercy)
AFROCENTRIC CHAPLET OF DIVINE MERCY DEVOTION
http://www.angelfire.com/realm/blackcatholics/blog/ChapletofDivineMercy.mp3
http://www.angelfire.com/realm/blackcatholics/blog/ChapletPtII.wma
http://www.angelfire.com/realm/blackcatholics/streamaudio/Chaplet_Pt_lII.wma
FRIDAY-AFROCENTRIC SORROWFUL MYSTERIES OF ROSARY , AND STATIONS OF THE CROSS
Part I
http://www.angelfire.com/realm/blackcatholics/blog/11_AfrocentricSorrowfulMysteries--TheCrossScourge_Artis.mp3
Part II
http://www.angelfire.com/realm/blackcatholics/blog/12_AfrocentricSorrowfulMysteries-CrownofThorns-Carrying.mp3
Part IIII
http://www.angelfire.com/realm/blackcatholics/blog/13_StationsoftheCrossI-VII_Artist_Album.mp3
STATIONS OF THE CROSS
Part I
http://www.angelfire.com/realm/blackcatholics/blog/13_StationsoftheCrossI-VII_Artist_Album.mp3"
Part II
http://www.angelfire.com/realm/blackcatholics/blog/14_StationsoftheCrossVIII-End_Artist_Album.mp3"
For further information:
BLACK CHRISTIANITY’S AFRICAN BEGINNINGS
http://www.angelfire.com/realm/blackcatholics/
BLACK CATHOLICS BLOG
http://blackcatholicsprophecymeditations.blogspot.com
Black, African Saints
www.angelfire.com/realm/blackcatholics/BlackSaintsMysticHoly.html
Black and African Catholics Prophecy Meditations
www.angelfire.com/realm/blackcatholics/recentmeditations.html
http://www.angelfire.com/realm/blackcatholics/blog/
Black African Catholics Coptic, Latin rite, Orthodox Prophecies Meditations
http://www.angelfire.com/realm/blackcatholics/blog/
Black Saints Videos Part I
LINKS
YouTube, Yahoo, MySpace, Google, DailyMotion, Blip.tv, Veoh, Stupid Videos, Sclipo, Viddler and Howcast
Part II
http://www.youtube.com/watchv=jMnYwZEfBg4
LINKS
YouTube, Yahoo, MySpace, Google, Revver, DailyMotion, Blip.tv, Veoh, Stupid Videos, Sclipo, Viddler and Howcast
A writer/producer of more than 30 audio visual film projects on the Black Genesis of Christianity, with an emphasis on the early African Liturgical Churches, Attorney James Wesly Smith ‘s 30 year effort resulted in the reference tome, Black Saints, Mystics, Holy Folk, (Ancient African Liturgical Church) Volume I, and II, detailing Black involvement in the Church from before 1 A.D. (See Out of Africa I called my Son, Hosea 11:1, Matthew 2:13-15). Smith may be reached at stbernice@yahoo.com
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