Lena {JOYfilledfamily}

Sneak Peek…..

February 23, 2011 by Lena {JOYfilledfamily} Filed Under: Giveaway, Nun Run, Team ALL FOR

Members of Team ALL FOR! have a chance to win some great items. Melody and I will be revealing the items as they become available.

Be sure to keep an eye out at Blossoming Joy for the first giveaway item.

Do you know what this is?

Melody will be revealing this giveaway, soon!

REGISTER TODAY!

Here are the current countries and states represented in NUN RUN 2011

Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut,District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Puerto Rico, Canada

To cover every state in the USA, the NUN RUN needs shadow participants from the following states: Alaska, Delaware, Hawaii, Idaho, Kentucky, Maine, Montana, Nebraska, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, and Wyoming!

So, pass the word to those you know in these states – and lets do the NUN RUN in every state of our beautiful country!!!

JOIN TEAM ALL FOR!

Chair of St. Peter

February 22, 2011 by Lena {JOYfilledfamily} Filed Under: 02 February Saints, Chair of St. Peter

SAINT PETER’S CHAIR AT ANTIOCH

GREATER DOUBLE / WHITE

1st. Class Feast for FSSP and CSP

This feast commemorates the seven years during which Pope Peter ruled the Church from Antioch before he went to Rome. Since the majority of the Jews had rejected Christianity, Peter left Jerusalem and founded the see of Antioch among the Gentiles. In that large Eastern city, Christianity took deep root, and it was there that the faithful were first called by the name of Christians. After seven years the Vicar of Christ transferred his see to Rome, the very center of the ancient world, so that from it the messengers of salvation might radiate to the uttermost ends of the earth.

"Blessed art thou, Simon BarJona: because flesh and blood hath not revealed it to thee, but my Father who is in heaven. And I say to thee: That thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. And I will give to thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven. And whatsoever thou shalt bind upon earth, it shall be bound also in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth, it shall be loosed also in heaven." ~ Matt. 16:13-19

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Confraternity of Saint Peter

The Apostolic Penitentiary, by virtue of the faculties granted to it by Pope Benedict XVI, has kindly willed to grant (by decree of June 7, 2008, for 7 years ad experimentum as is customary) to the members of the Confraternity of Saint Peter at the usual conditions (sacramental confession, Eucharistic communion and prayer at the intentions of the Sovereign Pontiff).

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Team ALL FOR! Roster

February 22, 2011 by Lena {JOYfilledfamily} Filed Under: Fitness, Health, Nun Run, Running, Team ALL FOR 1 Comment

Join Team ALL FOR! – 2nd Annual NUN RUN 2011 – March 12, 2011.

We will be running the race as a shadow running team.

It’s not too late to register. More info can be found here.

You can make a donation if you are unable to run.

All proceeds from the Nun Run benefit the Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration as they build a cloistered Monastery and place of retreat in the beautiful Arizona desert!

Please sign up for the linky-ROSTER if you would like to be a part of Team ALL FOR!

Be sure to link to your blog post stating that you will be joining Team ALL FOR!

You can email or leave a comment if you don’t have a blog.

Septuagesima Sunday

February 21, 2011 by Lena {JOYfilledfamily} Filed Under: 02 February, Lent, Pre-Lent, Septuagesima Sunday

SEPTUAGESIMA SUNDAY

DOUBLE, SECOND CLASS / PURPLE

The emphasis today has ceased to be upon the joys of Christ’s coming or upon the peace and wonder of possessing Him. Now the stress is on what it cost Our Lord to atone for the sins of men, on how much everyone needs His atoning death, and on what everyone can do to have a part in atoning for sin.

Every Christian without exception must enter into the warfare between Christ and Satan — the warfare that begins to be dramatized and lived anew in these weeks.

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Septuagesima Season

This Season, then, is a prelude to the penitential mortifications of Lent — a time that ends with the Passion of Christ and leads to the glorious Resurrection and Ascension that end our exile. It’s as if during Septuagesima, we recognize our exile and the reasons for it; during Lent we repent of those reasons; during Passiontide, Our Lord assuages the Father’s wrath at those reasons; and then, during Easter, we rejoice that, through the Cross, we can avoid the eternal price of sin.
For now, though, exile it is, and to indicate this, we eliminate the alleluia — which means "All hail to Him Who is" — from the Mass. Just as at Requiem Masses (and also the Mass for the Holy Innocents), the alleluia isn’t heard and will be heard no more until the Easter Vigil on Holy Saturday. ~Fisheaters

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Gospel Reading on Septuagesima Sunday

Matthew 20:1-16

The kingdom of heaven is like to an householder, who went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard. And having agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard. And going about the third hour, he saw others standing in the market place idle. And he said to them: Go you also into my vineyard, and I will give you what shall be just. And they went their way.
And again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour, and did in like manner.
But about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing, and he saith to them: Why stand you here all the day idle?
They say to him: Because no man hath hired us.
He saith to them: Go you also into my vineyard. And when evening was come, the lord of the vineyard saith to his steward: Call the labourers and pay them their hire, beginning from the last even to the first.
When therefore they were come, that came about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny. But when the first also came, they thought that they should receive more: and they also received every man a penny. And receiving it they murmured against the master of the house, Saying: These last have worked but one hour, and thou hast made them equal to us, that have borne the burden of the day and the heats.
But he answering said to one of them: Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst thou not agree with me for a penny? Take what is thine, and go thy way: I will also give to this last even as to thee. Or, is it not lawful for me to do what I will? is thy eye evil, because I am good? So shall the last be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few chosen.

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“But if it be thy will to be busy about the things of other men also, busy thyself about their good works, not their sins, that both by the memory of our negligences and by our emulation for the good works they have done, and by setting before ourselves the judgment-seat from which no prayers can deliver, wounded each day by our conscience as by a kind of goad,we may lead ourselves on to humility, and a greater diligence, and attain unto the good things to come, by the grace and love towards man of our Lord Jesus Christ; with whom be to the Father, together with the Holy Ghost, glory, might, honor, now and always, and world without end. Amen.” ~ St. John Chrysostom on Matthew 20:1-16

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