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Deepertruth: Stand In The Gap With Us And Blessed John of Parma

Stand In The Gap With Us And Blessed John of Parma 3/21/2024
St John of Parma was a Priest and abbot of Saint John’s Abbey in Parma, Italy. He was born in the 10th century AD in Parma, Italy, and died in 982 AD. We celebrate his feast day on May 22 every year in the Catholic Church.
The seventh general minister of the Franciscan Order, John was known for his attempts to bring back the earlier spirit of the Order after the death of Saint Francis of Assisi.
He was born in Parma, Italy, in 1209. It was when he was a young philosophy professor known for his piety and learning that God called him to bid good-bye to the world he was used to and enter the new world of the Franciscan Order.
After his profession, John was sent to Paris to complete his theological studies. Ordained to the priesthood, he was appointed to teach theology at Bologna, then Naples, and finally Rome.
In 1245, Pope Innocent IV called a general council in the city of Lyons, France. Crescentius, the Franciscan minister general at the time, was ailing and unable to attend. In his place he sent Friar John, who made a deep impression on the Church leaders gathered there. Two years later, when the same pope presided at the election of a minister general of the Franciscans, he remembered Friar John well and held him up as the man best qualified for the office.
And so in 1247, John of Parma was elected to be minister general. The surviving disciples of St. Francis rejoiced in his election, expecting a return to the spirit of poverty and humility of the early days of the Order.
The pope called on John to serve as legate to Constantinople, where he was most successful in winning back the schismatic Greeks.

Deepertruth: Stand In The Gap With Us And Saint Salvator of Horta

Stand In The Gap With Us And Saint Salvator of Horta 3/20/2024
St Salvador can be another name for Jesus. He is the Saviour Saint, who through his death on the cross gives his life to save the world and brings freedom and forgiveness to all people.
At the age of 21, he entered the Franciscans as a brother and was soon known for his asceticism, humility, and simplicity. As cook, porter, and later the official beggar for the friars in Tortosa, he became well known for his charity. He healed the sick with the Sign of the Cross.
he entered the novitiate of the Observant branch of the Order of Friars Minor in Barcelona as a lay brother on 3 May 1541.He made his profession of vows in 1542,having become known among the friars for his asceticism and humility.
Salvator often came upon sick people for whom his prayers were requested. He would make the Sign of the Cross over them, and immediately they were healed. News of this spread abroad and may sick were brought to the convent. All were restored to health through the Sign of the Cross that Brother Salvator made over them.
While gathering alms, Saint Salvator of Horta often came upon sick people for whom his prayers were requested. He would make the Sign of the Cross over them, and immediately they were healed. News of this fact soon spread abroad and may sick were brought to the convent. All were restored to health through the Sign of the Cross which Brother Salvator made over them.

Deepertruth: Stand In The Gap With Us And Saint Joseph, Husband of Mary

 Stand In The Gap With Us And Saint Joseph, Husband of Mary 3/19/2024
the biblical passage, "The just man shall blossom like the lily" is applied to St. Joseph in the liturgy of the Roman Catholic Church for his feastday, March 19. Thus, in religious art the lily is used as an emblem of St. Joseph, and similarly in religious flower symbolism the names "St.
A St. Joseph medal is said to protect wearers, as he protected and cared for Jesus. St. Joseph is the holy person for specialists and a defender of the Catholic Church.
To foster deep devotion to Saint Joseph among Catholics, and in response to the “May Day” celebrations for workers sponsored by Communists, Pope Pius XII instituted the feast of Saint Joseph the Worker in 1955. This feast extends the long relationship between Joseph and the cause of workers in both Catholic faith and devotion. Beginning in the Book of Genesis, the dignity of human work has long been celebrated as a participation in the creative work of God. By work, humankind both fulfills the command found in Genesis to care for the earth (Gn 2:15) and to be productive in their labors. Saint Joseph, the carpenter and foster father of Jesus, is but one example of the holiness of human labor.
The Bible pays Joseph the highest compliment: he was a “just” man. The quality meant a lot more than faithfulness in paying debts.
When the Bible speaks of God “justifying” someone, it means that God, the all-holy or “righteous” one, so transforms a person that the individual shares somehow in God’s own holiness, and hence it is really “right” for God to love him or her. In other words, 
By saying Joseph was “just,” the Bible means that he was one who was completely open to all that God wanted to do for him. He became holy by opening himself totally to God.
 

Deepertruth: The Eucharistic Miracle of Calanda, Spain 1640

The Eucharistic Miracle of Calanda, Spain 1640
Young Miguel-Juan Pellicer had his leg amputated due to an accident. Thanks to his great devotion, the young man nurtured himself through the most Holy Sacrament and the Virgin of Pilar.
A great miracle came upon him, which was immediately recognized and approved by the Archbishop of Zaragoza who presided over the canonical process. In his clear judgment he wrote that “Miguel-Juan Pellicer of Calanda was miraculously given back his right leg, which was amputated years prior and it was not a natural occurrence but a miraculous one”.
Miguel-Juan Pellicer was born in 1617 to a poor family of farmers in Calanda, a village about 100 kilometers from Zaragoza.
At 19 years of age, he decided to go to work for an uncle near Castellon de la Plata. One day, while working in the fields, he fell under a wagon full of grain and the wheels fractured his right leg.
Miguel-Juan was immediately taken to the local hospital in Valencia. Realizing that it would be impossible for the doctors to cure him, he decided to discharge himself and begin a 13-kilometer trip towards Zaragoza to ask the Madonna of Pilar for help.
He walked with crutches, leaning the knee of the fractured and now infected leg on a piece of wood. He reached Zaragoza in October 1637, waning and feverish.
He dragged himself to the Sanctuary of Pilar where he made his confession and received the Holy Eucharist. He was immediately sent to recover at Royal Hospital of Grace.

Deepertruth: Stand In The Gap With Us And Saint Cyril of Jerusalem

 Stand In The Gap With Us And Saint Cyril of Jerusalem 3/18.2024
Cyril is counted among the Church Fathers and also as a Doctor of the Church, and his reputation within the Christian world has resulted in his titles Pillar of Faith and Seal of all the Fathers.
(313 – 386 AD) was a theologian of the early Church. About the end of 350 AD he succeeded Maximus as Bishop of Jerusalem
Cyril left important writings documenting the instruction of catechumens and the order of the Liturgy in his day.
Soon after his appointment, Cyril in his Letter to Constantius of 351 recorded the appearance of a cross of light in the sky above Golgotha, witnessed by the whole population of Jerusalem. The Greek church commemorates this miracle on 7 May.
Raised in Jerusalem and well-educated, especially in the Scriptures, he was ordained a priest by the bishop of Jerusalem and given the task during Lent of catechizing those preparing for Baptism and catechizing the newly baptized during the Easter season. His Catecheses remain valuable as examples of the ritual and theology of the Church in the mid-fourth century.

The Virgin Returns to Italy in 1888

Join John Carpenter, Don Hartley, and the Deeper Truth research team as we review another Marian apparition.
On this day in 1888, "two countrywomen belonging to Pastine, a hamlet in the diocese of Bojano, in Southern Italy, were sent to look for some sheep that had strayed on a neighboring hill, to which Castelpetroso is the nearest village. One was named Famiana Cecchino, and the other Serafina Giovanna Valentino; the former being a spinster aged thirty-five, and the latter a married woman a little younger. Before long they returned home, crying, sobbing, trembling, and terrified."
People naturally inquired into the cause of their emotion, and heard from these women that they had seen a light issuing from some fissures in the rocks; and when they approached nearer the spot they saw distinctly the image of the Addolorata--a lady, young, very beautiful, pale, with disheveled hair, and bleeding from the wounds received from seven swords."
As the weeks went by, more and more people saw "the Blessed Virgin under the form known as Our Lady of Mount Carmel; others saw her as Our Lady of Grace, others as Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary; but for the most part she appeared as Our Lady of Dolors. Generally, too, she was alone, but sometimes she was accompanied by St. Michael, sometimes by St. Anthony, sometimes by St. Sebastian, and sometimes by troops of angels. Among those who testified to these Apparitions was a well-known scoffer, who received the grace of seeing Our Lady four times in half-an-hour."
Others favored with visions of the Lady were the archpriests of Castelpetroso and Bojano, the bishop of Bojano, his "Vicar-General, and many other ecclesiastics".
A spring appeared, and there was a miraculous cure. In 1890, the cornerstone for the Santuario dell'Addolorata was laid. In March, 1995, Pope John Paul II visited the shrine.
 

Deepertruth: Stand In The Gap With Us And Saint Patrick

Stand In The Gap With Us And  Saint Patrick 3/17/2024
By the time St. Patrick became a young to middle teenager (14-16) he was kidnapped by pirates who sold him into slavery in Ireland.
St. Patrick was taken to modern day Dalriada as a slave tending sheep which in a real way, became a source of strength for him. He was able to identify with young King David as he remembered the stories of the bible coming to life.
In The Confession, St. Patrick wrote:
"The love of God and his fear grew in me more and more, as did the faith, and my soul was rosed, so that, in a single day, I have said as many as a hundred prayers and in the night, nearly the same. I prayed in the woods and on the mountain, even before dawn. I felt no hurt from the snow or ice or rain."
"I saw, in a nocturnal vision, a man named Victoricus coming as if from Ireland, with a large parcel of letters, one of which he handed to me. On reading the beginning of it, I found it contained these words: 'The voice of the Irish;' and while reading it I thought I heard, at the same moment, the voice of a multitude of persons near the Wood of Foclut, which is near the western sea; and they cried out, as if with one voice, 'We entreat thee, holy youth, to come and henceforth walk amongst us. ' And I was greatly affected in my heart, and could read no longer; and then I awoke."
Not knowing the story of St. Victoricus, it is extremely interesting that the man in the dream was St. Victoricus , who suffered martyrdom at Amiens, A.D. 286.
Despite the Pagan influence, young St. Patrick clung to Christ and was strengthened by his Catholic Faith and the vision. Because of the people of Irish being held on the bondage of Paganism, St. Patrick began to see himself a missionary to these peoples.
 

Deepertruth: The Adventures of Trumperman II, Trumps great Rally in Ohio 3/16/24

The Adventures of Trumperman II, Trumps great Rally in Ohio 3/16/24
Trump reveals 'very first actions' he'll take as president during Ohio rally, hammers Biden's border policies
Former President Trump is set to speak in Dayton, Ohio, Saturday, at the Buckeye Values PAC Rally, backing GOP Ohio Senate Candidate Bernie Moreno in his primary race.
While Ohio's Senate race was the onus for his visit, Trump also used the occasion to rally supporters in a state he won by 8 points in 2016 and 2020. He bemoaned his docket of court cases, railed against President Joe Biden and called for one-day elections − even as Ohio Republicans promote early voting for 2024.
Trump endorsed Moreno back in December, which many observers thought would make Moreno the clear front-runner. Instead, the candidates are locked in a tight battle as the race nears its end, with many Republicans still unsure who to support. That left allies of Moreno and Trump − who brags about the power of his endorsements − scrambling to push Moreno across the finish line.
 

Deepertruth: Stand In The Gap With Us And Saint Clement Mary Hofbauer

Stand In The Gap With Us And Saint Clement Mary Hofbauer 3/16/2024
Born in 1751, the youngest of twelve children, Clement was six years old when his father died. His great desire was to become a priest, but since his family was unable to give him the necessary education, he became a baker's assistant, devoting all his spare time to study.
Redemptorist preacher and reformer. He was born on December 26,1751, at Taswitz, Moravia, the ninth child of a butcher and his wife and was baptized John.
Clement Mary might be called the second founder of the Redemptorists, as it was he who carried the congregation of Saint Alphonsus Liguori to the people north of the Alps.
John, the name given him at Baptism, was born in Moravia into a poor family, the ninth of 12 children. Although he longed to be a priest, there was no money for studies, and he was apprenticed to a baker.
But God guided the young man’s fortunes. He found work in the bakery of a monastery where he was allowed to attend classes in its Latin school. After the abbot there died, John tried the life of a hermit, but when Emperor Joseph II abolished hermitages, John again returned to Vienna and to baking.
One day after serving Mass at the Cathedral of St. Stephen, he called a carriage for two ladies waiting there in the rain. In their conversation they learned that he could not pursue his priestly studies because of a lack of funds. They generously offered to support both John and his friend Thaddeus, in their seminary studies. The two went to Rome, where they were drawn to Saint Alphonsus’ vision of religious life and to the Redemptorists. The two young men were ordained together in 1785.
Newly professed at age 34, Clement Mary, as he was now called, and Thaddeus were sent back to Vienna. But the religious difficulties there caused them to leave and continue north to Warsaw, Poland. 

Deepertruth: Stand In The Gap With Us And Saint Louise de Marillac

 Stand In The Gap With Us And Saint Louise de Marillac 3/15/2024
August 12, 1591 – March 15, 1660
was the co-founder, with Vincent de Paul, of the Daughters of Charity.
Born near Meux, France, Louise lost her mother when she was still a child, her beloved father when she was but 15. Her desire to become a nun was discouraged by her confessor, and a marriage was arranged. One son was born of this union. But Louise soon found herself nursing her beloved husband through a long illness that finally led to his death.
Louise dedicated her time to helping abandoned children on the streets. She also visited sick men in the prison hospital and established a house near the hospital where, each day, many women would cook food that visitors would then take to the prisoners. Throughout France, women set up centres to serve the poor.Louise was fortunate to have a wise and sympathetic counselor, Francis de Sales, and then his friend, the bishop of Belley, France. Both of these men were available to her only periodically. But from an interior illumination she understood that she was to undertake a great work under the guidance of another person she had not yet met. This was the holy priest Monsieur Vincent, later to be known as Saint Vincent de Paul.
Louise found true happiness in her work. She established hospitals, schools, and orphanages all over France. By the time Louise died in 1660, 40 convents of the Sisters of Charity had been established. Louise was canonized in 1934 and is today the patron saint of social workers.