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Tuesday, December 24, 2013

Favour received from the Bonnie Prince.

Kelly reports this favour from The Bonnie Prince:

Victoria is a little three year old girl who was born blind.

She lives in the united States.

The endearing child who suffers much

has never been able to eat food normally.

She awaits brain surgery at the Dukes Hospital.

Of late Victoria lay for three days

suffering from a high fever.

Kelly, a friend of Victoria's mother

and who is devoted to the Bonnie Prince,

upon hearing of the fever invoked the Prince's assistance

for little Victoria.

Kelly took her image of the Bonnie Prince

and with it touched it to the photo of Victoria

that she had on her computer screen.

Her prayer was heard.

Less than five minutes later,

the fever left her

Victoria's temperature had dropped to normal.

Public Thanksgiving is offered to the Bonnie Prince:

I praise Him most, I love Him best,

All praise and love is His;

While Him I love, in Him I live

And cannot love amiss. ...

Alas, He weeps, He sighs, He pants!

Yet do His angels sing;

Out of His tears, His sighs and throbs

Doth bud a joyful spring.

O Bonnie Prince whose tender arms

Can force all foes to fly,

Correct my faults, protect my life,

Direct me when I die.

[Hymn in honour of The Bonnie Prince]

Some other fevers Our Lord did cure:

And Simon' s wife' s mother lay in a fit of a fever: and forthwith they tell him of her. And coming to her, he lifted her up, taking her by the hand; and immediately the fever left her... (Mark 1:30-31)

He asked therefore of them the hour wherein he grew better. And they said to him: Yesterday, at the seventh hour, the fever left him. The father therefore knew, that it was at the same hour that Jesus said to him, Thy son liveth; and himself believed, and his whole house. This is again the second miracle that Jesus did, when he was come out of Judea into Galilee. (John 4:52)

Friday, December 20, 2013

MERRY CHRISTMAS

I knew it would happen some day. I just didn't know it would be today. If you have already come to this blog to link this morning and found the new post wasn't here, you know what I'm talking about. I always schedule the post each week on Thursday to go on Friday morning. Well, obviously I goofed this time. I totally forgot to do it yesterday. Blame the busyness of the season? Nope. I just

Thursday, December 19, 2013

O Bread of Heaven!

It is our custom to follow Thursday Mass with Benediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament. Below is a photo from today's adoration.

Wednesday, December 18, 2013

#400 - Finale

Hello Scribblers,

Thank you for 400 weeks of writing!

When Laini and I started Sunday Scribblings in March of 2006, it was to encourage both of us to write. There weren't very many other writing prompt blogs at that time and we wanted to do something to inspire other people as well. In the days before Mr. Linky we would link all of the responses by hand! I never dreamed that 400 weeks later, I'd still be writing prompts.

That being said, this will be the final Sunday Scribblings prompt. I know that there are a group of you who have been with the site for a long time, and I would like to express my deepest gratitude for all of the time you have spent 'Scribbling' with me.

The prompt for this week is: Finale.

If you are still looking for prompts, there are 400 linked in the sidebar! I hope you'll find something to inspire you.

As always, happy scribbling!

With love,
Megg

Sunday, December 15, 2013

Rejoice!

Gaudate Sunday falls on the third Sunday of Advent. It takes its name from the first word of the Introit.

"Gaudete in Domino semper: iterum dico, gaudete. Modestia vestra nota sit omnibus hominibus: Dominus enim prope est. Nihil solliciti sitis: sed in omni oratione petitiones vestræ innotescant apud Deum." Phil. 4:4-6

"Rejoice in the Lord always; again, I say, rejoice. Let your modesty be known to all men. The Lord is nigh. Be nothing solicitous; but in every thing, by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your petitions be made known to God."

Gaudete Sunday is the counterpart to Lætare Sunday in Lent. Falling as it does at the half-way-point of Advent, the penitential season of expectation leading up to Christmas, Gaudate Sunday provides a moment of relief from the austerities of the fast, thus the liturgical colour of rose replaces the penitential violet.

Saturday, December 14, 2013

Rorate Coeli Desuper et Nubes Pluant Justum

The Rorate Mass is a special Advent devotion in honour of Our Blessed Lady and is especially traditional in Germany and Poland. The title of this devotion is taken from the first word of the Introit for the Mass of Our Lady during Advent which is itself taken from the words of Isaiah the Prophet (see below).

The Rorate Mass is traditionally celebrated by candlelight. Today, the Saturday of the second week of Advent, we celebrated a Rorate Mass on Stronsay.

Before Holy Mass.

Rorate, caeli, desuper, et nubes pluant justum; aperiatur terra, et germinet Salvatorem. Isa. 45:8

Drop down dew, ye heavens, from above, and let the clouds rain the just: let the earth be opened, and bud forth a saviour.

"For which cause God also hath exalted him, and hath given him a name which is above all names: That in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those that are in heaven, on earth, and under the earth." Phil. 2:10