When the Angel Gabriel announces Christ’s coming birth when saying the ‘Hail Mary’ a mystery is also revealed about Mary herself – Her immaculate conception, Mary was kept clean from Original sin . Mary is considered the “Second Eve”. She reversed the disobedience of our first mother, and with the willingness to be the Mother of God, she became a mother to every human being. A beautiful day when Mary was born became a day we could all be free from sin if we are willing.
One source of Chaminade’s inspiration came from prayerful reflection on the Church community presented in the Acts of the Apostles.
How did the fearful little community of the Upper Room, through the Holy Spirit, become the vibrant missionary Church of the later chapters of Acts?
Blessed Chaminade noted three key elements in the Church of Acts: the centrality of Mary, the need for inclusiveness, and the urgency to foster faith and a deep sense of missionary activity.
Xavier Rudd – Amazing Musician who is a visionary in our world! Played this song, Better People, at the November 7, 2012 Chicago House of Blues show. It was incredible!! Check out his new 2012 Album, Spirit Bird – very spiritual. All the way from Australia, he brought his spirit and vision. Songs encompassed prayers. They spread amongst the crowd, out into our universe. The concert was very transforming and intense. The music was rocking. The didgeridoo, a wind instrument developed by Indigenous Australians of northern Australia around 1,500 years ago, blew us awayyyyyy.
Thanks Xavier, you truly Light My Way!
best song of the decade! “creating a dream”
BETTER PEOPLE LYRICS
People saving whales and giving your thanks to our seas
My respect to the ones in the forest
Standing up for our old trees
Them giving food to the hungry
Giving hope to the needy
Giving life to a baby, giving care for free
‘Cause there is freedom around us
We have everything we need and I will care for you
‘Cause you care for me
And we all have opinions, some of them get through
But there’s better people with more good to do, good to do
What I have could be a message
Or just some words from my heart
My respect to the ones making changes
For all the lives they’ll give their all
Like giving food to the hungry
Giving hope to the needy
Giving life to a baby, giving care for free
‘Cause there is freedom around us
We have everything we need and
I will care for you
‘Cause you cared for me
And we all have opinions, some of them get through
But there’s better people with more good to do, good to do
When our world keeps spinning round and round it goes
Mother Nature keeps spreading its disease
And our children keep growing up with
What they know through what we teach and what they see
And so only a question of the time we have
And the lives that our children need
As they can only keep growing up with
What they know through what we teach and what they see
Like giving food to the hungry
Giving hope to the needy
Giving life to a baby, giving care for free
‘Cause there is freedom around us
We have everything we need and I will care for you
‘Cause you care for me
We all have opinions, some of them get through
But there’s better people with more good to do, good to do
Oh good to do
Every soul needs spiritual encouragement. Even those who have died still need our help. With preparation like going to confession, today we can attend Mass and obtain a plenary indulgence to release a soul from Purgatory.
Alfred Cortot – Nocturne in E flat Major, Op. 9 No 2 (Chopin), HMV 1929
Special note from the creator of the video: In the days, when ghosts came back to earth and witches, skeletons, Elm Street Maniacs, bats and Frankensteins are running down the streets all over the Western world, from San Francisco to Berlin, Poland goes totally the opposite direction. These are the days of a thoughtful contemplation and memory by the graves of the family members or friends who are gone. All over the country, in little villages as well as in cities, by the solitary crosses commemorating somebody’s tragedy on the road or in crowded cemeteries, myriads of lamps begin to twinkle and glitter casting, through that wonderful misty air of the early Autumn, a reddish-yellow gleam onto the black sky, which keeps shining over the towns and cities until the dawning. It is the day as teaches the Catholic faith of joy brought by Saint Mary into the purgatory, where the sinners souls are waiting for their turn to join the eternal happiness in Heaven. And it is All Souls Day when many receive final dismissal of their sins. Now, they can take off, spread their wings and fly, singing, into that red-orange gleam of the sky above.
In the video clips are photographs of ancient Polish tombstones, which were miraculously saved through the Soviet rule and are still standing (formerly Polish, since 1945 in Ukraine).