La nostra associazione nasce da una esigenza di carità , quella di portare aiuto, sostegno e sollievo al prossimo più sofferente che spesso si trova circondato da indifferenza ed emarginazione. Ci proponiamo di aiutare gli ammalati : coloro che soffrono nel corpo e nello spirito. Assistiamo queste persone con la preghiera , con opere di carità e con aiuti concreti. Accompagnamo in pellegrinaggio gli ammalati presso Santuari riconosciuti dalla Santa Sede .
Opus sectile detail from the church of St Mary in Balham, London of the Annunciation. It vividly depicts the Holy Spirit coming to humanity, and coming to our aid as our Counselor, Advocate, and Comforter as today's Gospel (John 14:21-26) says. My sermon on God as our Parakletos can be read here.
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Bott. napoletana sec. XIX, Madonna immacolata e' un opera di bottega napoletana. Guarda la scheda di dettaglio su Beweb.
Maybe you are like me, Willa, and have much trouble saying a daily Rosary. You want to join in the 54 day Miracle Novena but you have failed often before. Is there any help? Chari already posted some inspirational thoughts, but I thought perhaps for my own sake and in case it helps any of our readers, I might try to regularly post inspiration or trouble-shooting tips for making the Rosary a bigger part of one's life and for persevering to the end of the Rosary Novena. Even if you are a failed Rosary sayer, don't be discouraged. As Chari said, we are something like an army when we are saying the Rosary together. If one of us stumbles and falls, our friends and our angels are there to help us up again. Today I found this quote from St Louis Marie de Montfort's Secret of the Rosary and wanted to share. It talks about why the Rosary is so difficult (for some of us, anyway) and why it is worth it even if it is so difficult. He seems to tell us that it's worth it to persevere, even or especially when it's very hard. What he said made a lot of sense to me and spoke to why the Rosary is so difficult for me! WHEN THE ROSARY is well said it gives Jesus and Mary more glory and it is more meritorious for the soul than any other prayer. But it is also the hardest prayer to say well and to persevere in, owing especially to the distractions which almost inevitably attend the constant repetition of the same words. When we say the Little Office of Our Lady, or the Seven Penitential Psalms, or any prayers other than the Rosary, the variety of words and expressions keeps us alert, prevents our imagination from wandering, and so makes it easier for us to say them well. On the contrary, because of the constant repetition of the same Our Father and Hail Mary in the same unvarying form, it is difficult, while saying the Rosary, not to become wearied and inclined to sleep or to turn to other prayers that are more refreshing and less tedious. This goes to show that one needs much greater devotion to persevere in saying the Holy Rosary than in saying any other prayer, even the Psalms of David. Our imagination, which is hardly still a minute, makes our task harder and then of course there is the devil who never tires of trying to distract us and keep us from praying. To what ends does not the evil one go against us while we are engaged in saying our Rosary against him. Being human, we easily become tired and slipshod----but the devil makes these difficulties worse when we are saying the Rosary. Before we even begin he makes us feel bored, distracted or exhausted----and when we have started praying he oppresses us from all sides. And when, after much difficulty and many distractions, we have finished, he whispers to us: "What you have just said is worthless. It's useless for you to say the Rosary. You had better get on with other things. It's only a waste of time to pray without paying attention to what you're saying; half an hour's meditation or some spiritual reading would be much better. Tomorrow when you're not feeling so sluggish you'll pray better; don't finish your Rosary until tomorrow." By tricks of this kind the devil gets us to give up the Rosary altogether or else hardly say it at all, and we keep putting it off or else change to some other devotion. Dear Rosary Confraternity members, do not listen to the devil, but be of good heart even if your imagination has been bothering you throughout your Rosary, filling your mind with all kinds of distracting thoughts----as long as you really tried hard to get rid of them as soon as they came. Always remember that the best Rosary is the one with the most merit, and there is more merit in praying when it is hard than when it is easy. .... Even if you have to fight distractions all through your whole Rosary be sure to fight well, arms in hand: that is to say, do not stop saying your Rosary even if it is hard to say and you have absolutely no sensible devotion. It is a terrible battle, I know, but one that is profitable to the faithful soul.
Bottega siciliana secc. XVIII-XIX, Statua della Madonna del soccorso e' un opera di bottega siciliana. Guarda la scheda di dettaglio su Beweb.
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Deign, O Jesus, Pelican of heaven, me, a sinner, in Thy Blood to lave, to a single drop of which is given all the world from all its sin to save. ~ from the Latin hymn "Adoro Te Devote" by St. Thomas Aquinas
