Please if ya'll could....pray for me. I'm going to visit a community this weekend. That we may have safe travels and that I may be open to the Lord's call and voice. It's my first time ever visiting a NON active community so please pray for me! I will return sometime on Sunday. After I have regathered myself I'll post on my retreat! Thanks!

God Love You,

Allie

St. Wulfram

Although we do not have a record of Wulfram’s birth, it is thought that he died on March 20, 704. Wulfram’s father, Fulbert, was an officer in King Dagobert’s army and was able to provide a good education for Wulfram. As a young man, Wulfram was very devout and strived to live a holy life. He became a priest and his intention was to live a monastic life, but he was called to the Court of Theodoric III of Neustria.

In the year 682 he was consecrated Archbishop of Sens. For two years, he carried out his duties with zeal and great piety. In his compassion and concern for those who did not know Christ, he decided to leave his bishopric to go minister to them. After a brief retreat in Fontenelle, Wulfram, now a poor missionary priest, went to a place called Friseland. He knew there to be many idolaters in this area and he wanted to lead them all to Christ. He baptized many, delivering them from their terrible pagan ways which included human sacrifice.

In one incident, a man named Ovon was to be sacrificed and was hanged. Wulfram pleaded for the man’s life and finally the pagans agreed that if Ovon lived that he would be released and could worship Wulfram’s God and be Wulfram’s slave. Wulfram then went to an area alone to pray. Ovon had been hanging for two hours and was considered dead, however, the rope suddenly broke and he fell to the ground. He was alive and the pagans released him to Wulfram.

A son of King Radbod, seeing a miracle performed by Wulfram, decided to become a Christian and was instructed along with other catechumens. Just prior to being baptized, he asked where his deceased ancestors might be in the next world. When Wulfram replied that idolaters were consigned to hell, the prince changed his mind about being a Christian stating that he would rather spend the hereafter with those he loved. Later he had second thoughts and sent for St. Willebrord, to discuss a conversion to Christianity but before Willebrord could arrive, the prince died.

Wulfram retired to the Abbey of Fontenelle where he resided until his death.

Other Saints We Remember Today

St. Photina (1st Century), Samaritan Woman at the Well

Lessons

Saint Wulfram's relics were moved to Notre Dame at Abbeville in 1058. His feast day is celebrated on March 20.

Prayer

Lord Jesus, we ask for the intercession of Saint Wulfram when we are dealing with those who are spiritually blind. Help us, Lord, to be good witnesses to the idol worshippers we encounter; those who prefer to store up worldly treasures with no thought or care about their eternal souls. May our words and deeds help convert their hearts. Amen.


St. Wulfram, Pray for us!

Devotion to St. Joseph is growing. And there are good reasons for it. Here is but one reason to love the man.

In God's plan to save the world, God wanted to be with us in the flesh. He wanted to save us through the "Word made flesh". As part of that plan, God designed a certain woman to be the one who, at the proper time, would bear His Son, provide Him with a human nature, give birth to Him, and raise Him up. That woman is Mary. God created her and equipped her with all the graces she needed for her particular mission to be the Mother of God.

So when the angel Gabriel appeared to Mary in Nazareth, announcing her calling to bear Jesus, God's plan for being with us and saving us in the flesh depended entirely on Mary's "yes". Although God had marvelously prepared and graced Mary for this moment, it nonetheless remained her free choice to heed the call. And because it was her free choice, we can truly say that at the moment of the annunciation, our salvation was in her hands. Without Mary's freely chosen "yes", God's plan for our salvation would have been ruined.

The same is true for St. Joseph, but not at the moment of the annunciation. Because God had decided to send His Son into the world as an infant, God was exposing his infant Son to all the murderous violence of this world. And according to Scripture, at one point the murderous violence of this world went from being a general threat to being aimed at Jesus in particular. Herod and his men set out to kill the infant messiah-king. Because of their murderous intent, the life and mission of Jesus was in real danger of being snuffed out early.

But God had foreseen all this. And so in advance He designed a certain man to be the one who, at the proper time, would come to the protection of the Child and His mother. That man is Joseph. God created him and equipped him with all the graces he would need for his particular mission to be the earthly Father of Jesus. As an example of such graces, one needs only to think of Joseph's many dreams and interpretations.

So when Joseph heard from the angel in the dream, "rise, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and remain there till I tell you" (Mt. 2:13), he was now in a situation similar to Mary at the annunciation. Although God had marvelously prepared and graced Joseph for this moment, it nonetheless remained Joseph's free choice to take action. It was his free choice to trust what he had heard in the dream. It was his free choice to heed the call to flee and to heed it immediately (Mt. 2:14 says he rose "by night" — as though on the very night he had the dream). It was his free choice to take his wife and newborn on a long, dangerous, and unplanned trip to a foreign land. And it was his free choice obediently to remain in Egypt while awaiting further notice from above. Because all of this was Joseph's free choice, we can truly say that so long as Herod lived and remained a threat to Jesus, our salvation was in Joseph's hands.

Whoever saves the King saves the kingdom. And St. Joseph saved the King.

For that, we all owe him an eternal weight of gratitude.

Br. James Brent, O.P.

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God Love You!

Allie

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Lenten Cross

Deny
oneself
Carry
one's cross
To follow
Jesus Christ
If you are ashamed of the Cross of Jesus Christ
he will be ashamed of you before his Father
Love
the Cross
Desire:
crosses
contempt
pain
abuse
insults
disgrace
persecution
humiliations
calumnies
illness
injuries
May Jesus prevail
May his Cross prevail
Divine love
Humility
Submission
Patience
Obedience:
complete
prompt
joyful
blind
persevering

.....St. Louis de Montfort

But each has his own special gift from God, one of one kind and one of another. To the unmarried and the widows I say that it is well for them to remain single as I do. But if they cannot exercise self-control, they should marry. For it is better to marry than to be aflame with passion" (1 Corinthians 7:7-9). Thus some are given the gift of being able to live without the good of married life in order that they may pursue greater devotion to God (1 Cor. 7:32-34) or to pursue greater ministry for others (2 Timothy 2:3-4), as with priests, monks, and nuns. God gives these people special graces to live the life which they have embraced, just as he gives special graces to the married to live the life they have embraced.

Into Great Silence. Are you interested in buying a copy through the NLM if you could?
The NLM has been approached with an opportunity and is thus exploring the possibility of making available for purchase to readers the much anticipated film, Into Great Silence, which as most should know by now, looks in depth at the monastic and semi-eremetical lives of the Carthusian monks of La Grande Chartreuse.To make this feasible and fruitful for the NLM (especially as a lot of work and organization would be involved), it would require a certain number of pre-orders, followed by collection of payment and shipping information so that I could then safely tell the supplier how many copies would be needed and pay them accordingly. Copies would cost $30.00 USD plus shipping and handling. (Shipping and Handling would likely be $10 USD to locations in Canada and the Continental USA.)However, if the NLM is to pursue this, we need firm committments of people who would be ready to commit to ordering this product through the NLM as of March. As such, those who are interested, please go here and fill in your name and email address (so that I may ascertain the level of interest): Form to Express Interest in Ordering DVD from the NLMAs the numbers matter in determining whether to move ahead with this, only those committing to ordering this through the NLM should put their name on the form. The formal decision will be made when numbers are sufficient, or by the last week in Februrary, whichever comes first.Please spread the word on your own blogs about this. The DVD seems worth promoting and getting into people's hands.