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Deepertruth: Stand In the Gap With Us And Saint Andrew Dung-Lac and Companions’

Stand In the Gap With Us And Saint Andrew Dung-Lac and Companions’ 11/24/2023
Andrew Dung-Lac, a Catholic convert ordained to the priesthood, was one of 117 people martyred in Vietnam between 1820 and 1862. Members of the companions group gave their lives for Christ in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, and received beatification during four different occasions between 1900 and 1951. All were canonized during the papacy of Saint John Paul II.
Christianity came to Vietnam through the Portuguese. Jesuits opened the first permanent mission at Da Nang in 1615. They ministered to Japanese Catholics who had been driven from Japan.
Severe persecutions were launched at least three times in the 19th century. During the six decades after 1820, between 100,000 and 300,000 Catholics were killed or subjected to great hardship.
Foreign missionaries martyred in the first wave included priests of the Paris Mission Society, and Spanish Dominican priests and tertiaries.
In 1832, Emperor Minh-Mang banned all foreign missionaries, and tried to make all Vietnamese deny their faith by trampling on a crucifix.

Deepertruth: Stand In the Gap With Us And Blessed Miguel Agustín Pro

Stand In the Gap With Us AndBlessed Miguel Agustín Pro "Viva Cristo Rey!” Long live Christ the King! 11/23/2023
Happy Thanksgiving
“Viva Cristo Rey!”—Long live Christ the King!—were the last words Pro uttered before he was executed for being a Catholic priest and serving his flock.
Born into a prosperous, devout family in Guadalupe de Zacatecas, Mexico, Miguel entered the Jesuits in 1911, but three years later fled to Granada, Spain, because of religious persecution in Mexico. He was ordained in Belgium in 1925.
Father Pro immediately returned to Mexico, where he served a Church forced to go “underground.” He celebrated the Eucharist clandestinely and ministered the other sacraments to small groups of Catholics.
He and his brother Roberto were arrested on trumped-up charges of attempting to assassinate Mexico’s president. Roberto was spared, but Miguel was sentenced to face a firing squad on November 23, 1927. His funeral became a public demonstration of faith. Miguel Pro was beatified in 1988.
Miguel Augustine Pro Juárez (1891-1927) was killed for being a Catholic priest during the persecution of the Church under President Plutarco Elías Calles, who was rabidly anti-Catholic.
 

Deepertruth: Stand In The Gap With Us and St. Cecilia Arise Soldiers of Christ

 Stand In The Gap With Us and The St. Cecilia  11/22/2023
The Roman world in 230 A.D. was far from safe for the Christian population that had been for the most part underground throughout the Roman Empire. Burying the dead was officially against Roman Law and those caught would themselves be executed.
About 177 A.D., a baby girl was Baptized into the Catholic Faith. Her name given was Cecilia who was raised in a Christian home who developed a love for the Mass and the Lord Jesus Christ and His Mother.
From an early age she made a vow to virginity to honor the Lord, her first love. Cecilia would make sacrifice serving God through fasting, wearing sackcloth next to her skin, she had great devotion to the Virgin Mary, the Saints, angels, especially the virgin and martyrs for the faith.
The Parents of Cecilia living in a Roman world found it difficult having to give their Christian Daughter to a Noble Roman who was raised Pagan. Their money could not be dependable to maintain their freedom so they lived in trying times for the faithful.

Deepertruth: Our LADY OF GOOD SUCCESS With Dr. Gregory Thompson

 Our LADY OF GOOD SUCCESS Our LADY  OF  GOOD  SUCCESS 
Approved Prophecies and Devotions for Our Times
“He who should speak seasonably will remain silent.
Remember that statement as we go forward, and may the Holy Spirit guide our steps, because that will define much of the culture we live in today. So pray on your knees for souls of the Pope and the clergy of the Catholic Church that they are able to accept this love for them and the souls they scandalize and touch. Let us go back in time to start this hopeful blessing from Jesus through His mother to the Pope and clergy, but so much also for the souls that they impact which has caused many to step away from the fullness of Truth in the Catholic Church. God help us and thank you for the Holy Shepherds that have tried to stay true to Scripture, Tradition and the Deposit of Faith.
In the years between 1594 and 1634, the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to a cloistered Conceptionist sister in Quito, Ecuador named Mother Mariana de Jesus Torres. During these forty years, Our Lady appeared to her asking that she wished to be known under the title of Nuestra Senora del Buen Suceso which in English translates to Our Lady of Good Success. She spoke to Mother Mariana about the future times that were to come for the Catholic Church particularly during the 20th Century. Our Blessed Mother described for her the grave crisis that would take place then in the Church and also society in general. In fact, the gravity of this crisis was conveyed so distinctly that it caused this poor sister to die from the effects of watching what was to happen to the Church in the future.
 

Deepertruth: Stand In the Gap With Us Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Stand In the Gap With Us  Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary 11/21/2023
It commemorates a visit by the three-year-old Mary to the Temple in Jerusalem, where she was dedicated to the service of God and left to be raised as a consecrated virgin. This act was done in fulfillment of a sacred promise made by her parents, Saints Anne and Joachim, during their long struggle with childlessness.
The Presentation of Mary reminds us that we can go on a pilgrimage of thanksgiving, to give thanks to God for a blessing received. In their gratitude, Joachim and Anne pledged to dedicate Mary to God and give her to His service in the temple. To carry this out, it meant they had to make sacrifice and go on pilgrimage.
The consecration of Mary to God presented all the conditions of the most perfect sacrifice: it was prompt, generous, joyous, unregretted, without reservation. How agreeable it must have been to God!
Anne Catherine Emmerich, Bl. Anne describes Mary being brought to the Temple at the tender age of three by Joachim and Anne. There, Mary attended the priests and Levites in the sacred ministry of the temple along with other consecrated virgins for several years until her betrothal to Joseph.

Deepertruth: Stand In The Gap With Us And St. Rose Philippine Duchesne

Stand In The Gap With Us And St. Rose Philippine Duchesne 11/20/2023
St. Rose was born in Grenoble (1769), France from wealthy parents who developed a love of politics from an early age. Her father was very involved with the politics of the time and her mother held a strong Catholic dedication to the poor.
That is a special combination that through her many battles worked out a great Saint.
At age 19, St. Rose joined a religious order during the horror of the French Revolution that closed her convent.
St. Rose work to help the poor continued above ground, while at the same time, she supported priests serving underground at the risk of her own life. St. Rose loved children opening a school for homeless boys and girls.
With the religious order demolished by the evil taking place in France, St. Rose led four religious nuns joining a new order, the Society of the Sacred Heart. St. Madeleine Sophie Barat, the founder, would become close friends with St. Rose. This relationship only advanced the ambition of St. Rose of going to the New World. How she began to yearn serving the American Indians that she was learning about in Louisiana.
Finally, at age 49, in 1818, St. Rose made the break for America. With four nuns, St. Rose was able to charter a ship heading for the United States sailing for 11 weeks with much anticipation and uncertainty.

The Virgin Mary in Valmala, Italy, 1834

Join John Carpenter, Don Hartley, and the Deeper Truth research team as they review another Marian apparition in 1834.  
plateau called The Chiotto, where the shrine now stands.
Suddenly, with great astonishment, they saw before them, standing on a stone slab, a lady of majestic appearance, in their twenties.
She wore a long dress with a belt tied to the sides, reddish in color, on which the head down a long blue veil, held his neck by a gold button.
The Lady always appeared alone, with open hands, the traditional attitude of the Mother of Mercy.
She was sad, in tears. There is agreement that has not spoken, except perhaps to ask a chapel on site.
 
 
 
 
 

Deepertruth: Stand In the Gap With Us and Saint Agnes of Assisi

 Stand In the Gap With Us and Saint Agnes of Assisi 11/19/2023
Agnes of Assisi“The most deadly poison of our times is indifference. And this happens, although the praise of God should know no limits. Let us strive, therefore, to praise him to the greatest extent of our powers.”
One quote attributed to her is this: “Christ made my soul beautiful with the jewels of grace and virtue.I belong to Him whom the angels serve.” However, Agnes' earthly life was to be cut very short. In 303 Roman Emperor Diocletian, overturned the tolerance era, and made another declaration of Christian persecution.
Born Caterina Offreducia, Agnes was the younger sister of Saint Clare, and her first follower.
When Caterina left home two weeks after Clare’s departure, their family attempted to bring her back by force.
They tried to drag her out of the monastery, but her body suddenly became so heavy that several knights could not budge it.
Her uncle Monaldo tried to strike her but was temporarily paralyzed.
The knights then left Caterina and Clare in peace.
Saint Francis himself gave Clare’s sister the name Agnes, because she was gentle like a young lamb.
Agnes matched her sister in devotion to prayer and in willingness to endure the strict penances that characterized the Poor Ladies’ lives at San Damiano.
In 1221, a group of Benedictine nuns in Monticelli near Florence asked to become Poor Ladies. Saint Clare sent Agnes to become abbess of that monastery.

Deepertruth: Stand In The Gap With Us As We Honor St. Peters Basilica

Stand In The Gap With Us As We Honor  Churches named after  Saints Peter aand Paul 11/18/2023
St. Peter’s is probably the most famous church in Christendom.
Massive in scale and a veritable museum of art and architecture,it began on a much humbler scale.
Vatican Hill was a simple cemetery where believers gathered at Saint Peter’s tomb to pray. In 319, Constantine built a basilica on the site that stood for more than a thousand years until, despite numerous restorations, it threatened to collapse. In 1506,
Pope Julius II ordered it razed and reconstructed, but the new basilica was not completed and dedicated for more than two centuries.
St. Paul’s Outside-the-Walls stands near the Abaazia delle Tre Fontane, where Saint Paul is believed to have been beheaded. The largest church in Rome until St. Peter’s was rebuilt, the basilica also rises over the traditional site of its namesake’s grave. The most recent edifice was constructed after a fire in 1823. The first basilica was also Constantine’s doing.
Constantine’s building projects enticed the first of acenturies-long parade of pilgrims to Rome.
From the time the basilicas were first built until the empire crumbled under “barbarian” invasions,
the two churches, although miles apart, were linked by a roofed colonnade of marble columns.
Saint Peter’s Basilica was originally built in 323 by the emperor Constantine.
The basilica was constructed over the tomb of Peter the Apostle, the Church’s first Pope. After standing for more than a thousand years, Pope Julius II ordered the building to be torn down due to structural concerns. The construction of the new church spanned over 200 years before its completion. It was dedicated on Nov. 18, 1626. It is considered the most famous church in Christendom.
 

Deepertruth: Stand In The Gap With Us And St. Elizabeth of Hungary

 Stand In The Gap With Us And  St. Elizabeth of Hungary  11/17/2023
Jesus warns, "Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God." But just two versus later, Jesus says, "With men this is impossible, but with God, all things are possible." In other words, it is not money that is the real issue, it is the love of it. St. Elizabeth is an example of how God can use someone who is wealthy because they place him first over all their blessings.
St. Elizabeth of Hungary, was born in Hungary on July 7, 1207 to the Hungarian King Andrew II and Gertrude of Merania. She was born of noble birth. From her young age, she was given the prestige of royalty.
At age four, St. Elizabeth was sent to the court of Landgrave of Thuringia to prepare her for a marriage arrangement from her father. She was to be educated for such a marriage.
When St. Elizabeth was six years old, in 1213, her mother, Gertrude was murdered by Hungarians who had been quarreling with Germans who had not accepted her nationality coming from Merania.
From this time forward, St. Elizabeth placed the Virgin Mary as her spiritual Mother leading her to prayer which offered her peace in difficult times.