in the news....

Nice article out of the UK:  http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2011/01/27/us-bishop-opens-cause-for-french-founder-of-marys-house/

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Bishop Opens Sainthood Cause for French Sister http://ncronline.org/news/bishop-opens-sainthood-cause-french-sister

New Prayer Card!

So happy to tell that the new prayer card is now available for printing to the left.  Notice the three new words:  Servant of God.  Also, notice above that I have inserted those three beautiful words to Sister Marie's name and title of this blog!  Please consider sending this prayer card link to your local printer, have cards printed, and distribute far and wide!  Praise God from whom all blessing flow.  

Homily by Bishop Finn at Friday's Vespers Ceremony opening the Cause for Sister Marie.

Please visit the Catholic Key Blog where you will find posted Bishop Finn's very moving homily.  He has also granted his permission to post it here.  Another blessing.  See the sidebar under the PHOTOS! Kansas City section. 

Opening the Investigation into the Cause for the Beatification of Sister Marie ~ Ceremony Photos

Please enjoy this set of photographs of Friday's Ceremony.  Caulfield Photographers “Photos by John Caulfield.”  Also, view my photos in the left toolbar under the heading PHOTOS! Kansas City.  I will updating them over the next few days.

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Mary Unites Christians and Muslims http://www.zenit.org/article-31530?l=english

Servant of God

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 There are no words for the joy!

Together with one heart in the Heart of Mary Immaculate let us Praise God and delight in the graces of our new

Servant of God!

Check the new pages added at the left under the Dove of Peace with the heading PHOTOS! Kansas City

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WHEN I GET HOME I WILL ADD A PROPER PDF OF THE NEW PRAYER CARD.  THIS IS JUST A PHOTO SINCE THE NEW CARD WAS ONLY REVEALED AFTER THE CEREMONY!

Kansas City! 1.19

We have arrived.  Kansas City is very pretty and becoming very white!  We had an uneventful flight; the best kind.  However, looks like we brought the snow with us.  They are expecting 6-10 inches tonight!  All the city is dressed in white for Sister Marie.  If I squint a bit and preen my neck to the left I have a snow-blurry view of the beautiful gold domed Immaculate Conception Cathedral from my room window where Friday night the initial step for the opening of the investigation into the cause for Sister Marie will take place.  Bishop Finn called to welcome us to his Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph.  God bless him.  More later...and hopefully some better photos too.  We carry you all and your intentions in our hearts.  We can't stop smiling!

 

It does not escape me that the date we arrive to open the Cause  is 1/19.  The very same date I learned of Sr. Marie six years earlier…and all the implications this reverse of 9/11 could and would mean.

a spark and a star...

Pope John Paul II will be beatified on May 1st. We know this is the Feast of St. Joseph but it is also Divine Mercy Sunday this year and the "spark from Poland" foretold by St. Faustina in her diary Divine Mercy in My Soul will ignite the faith of many souls to trust the the Mercy of Jesus.

Visite virtuelle/Virtual tour

Another link form our friend at the Anne Catherine Emmerich Society:

Bonjour à tous!

Hello everybody!

Une autre excellente visite virtuelle sur la ville d'Ephèse et les environs. Cliqué entre autres, en haut dans le coin gauche, sur "Church" THE HOUSE OF THE VIRGIN MARY.

Another excellent virtual tour of the town of Ephesus and surrounding areas. Clicked among others, in upper left corner, on "Church" THE HOUSE OF THE VIRGIN MARY.

http://kursats2.fortunecity.com/Tr-Efes.htm

Gilbert Foucoult

We Thank God!

A message from Erin von Uffel
President of the Sr. Marie de Mandat-Grancey Foundation

It is now only days away until the status of Sr. Marie de Mandat-Grancey, DC will change forever in the eyes of the Catholic Church. On January 21, 2011 an official ceremony to initiate an Investigation into the life of Sr. Marie de Mandat-Grancey will be opened by Bishop Robert Finn of Kansas City –St.Joseph Diocese. The Immaculate Conception Church at 6 PM will be welcoming people from near and afar. We will not know what the last step of this the process will be for Sr. Marie de Mandat-Grancey, but we do know God arranges all things, in His time, for His purpose.

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From The Long Island Catholic
 http://www.licatholic.org/news/2011/011211/HopeforPeacemotivatesLongIslanderstoPromoteSainthoodCause.html

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http://www.examiner.com/christian-history-in-kansas-city/sister-marie-de-mandat-grancey-considered-for-sainthood-kansas-city

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http://www.kspr.com/sns-ap-mo--diocese-sainthood,0,343818.story

Excellent Virtual Tour

Here is a note from our friend Gilbert Foucault who is a researcher for the Cause for Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich.

Bonjour à tous!

Hello everybody!

Excellente visite virtuelle sur la ville de Selçuk et les environs. Cliqué entre autres, en bas, à gauche, sur Efes (Ephèse), Meryemana (Marie notre mère).

Excellent virtual tour of the town of Selcuk and surrounding areas. Clicked among others, in down, left, on Efes (Ephesus) and Meryemana (Mother Mary).

http://www.selcuk.bel.tr/eng/360derece.html

Gilbert

Mother of God

Mother of God, the highest of all titles by which Our Lady has been crowned, comes to us from Ephesus 1380 years ago in the year 431 AD.  To teach once and for all that Jesus was both human and divine, the First Council of Ephesus attended by the Oriental Orthodox, the Eastern Orthodox, the Roman Catholics, and a number of other Western Christian groups and held at the Church of Mary, proclaimed  Mary Theotokos, Mother of God.