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  DAY 43: Please continue your prayers for those embroiled in the bitter war in the Balkans on both sides, especially the innocent civilians caught in the crossfire of hate and deception.
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EASTER WEEKDAY
 
On this date in 1045, Pope Gregory VI became the 148th successor of Peter, succeeding Benedict IX who was forced to abdicate. To Gregory is attributed the forming of the first Pontifical Army. For other pertinent events throughout the centuries that are memorable in Church history today, click on MILLENNIUM MILESTONES AND MEMORIES
 hoping and praying... 
Dear children! Also today I call you to prayer. Little children, be joyful carriers of peace and love in this peaceless world. By fasting and prayer, witness that you are mine and that you live my messages. Pray and seek! I am praying and interceding for you before God that you convert; that your life and behavior always be Christian. Thank you for having responded to my call.
For more on Medjugorje, click on MEDJUGORJE AND MORE
Tomorrow:
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"Non-conformity with the mass mind can be expected to bring down upon the offender's head opposition and ridicule. Second, those who discover a truth must stand naked before the uplifted stroke of its duties or else take up the cross that it imposes."
O God, Who, in order to crush the enemies of Thy Church and to restore Divine worship, didst vouchsafe to call Blessed Pius to the Supreme Pontificate, grant that we may be defended by his protection, and may so adhere to Thy service that overcoming all the snares of the enemy, we may rejoice in perpetual peace. Amen.
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A Vatican II author and colleague of the Holy Father's, Cardinal Alois Grillmeier has dedicated his life to academics and theology 
Today we feature our fifty-second red hat in alphabetical order. He is the 89 year-old German Jesuit Cardinal Alois Grillmeier, whose life has been devoted to theology and dogmatic history from ordination through the Second Vatican Council to the time of his mandatory retirement. Yet he continues to write today. For more on this Jesuit scholar who was appointed by Pope John Paul II during the Consistory of November 26, 1994, click on 
Today is Cinco de Mayo, when the sounds of mariachis and castanets during Mass and the aroma of fresh tortillas wafting in from outside signals that this day is like no other to the faithful of Mexican descent. Cinco de Mayo is the day Mexico celebrates their independence from France. The best thing about this is that both Mexico and France retained their Catholicity.
The Blood of the Martyrs is the seed of Christianity. 
We continue today with the abridged History of the Mass and Holy Mother Church over a 2000 year span called 2000 YEAR VOYAGE ON THE BARQUE OF PETER. Today we continue to bring you that period known in Church annals as the persecution years in Rome and yet the Church flourished, undaunted in her quest to fulfill what Christ had asked of His Disciples to "Go and preach the Gospel to all nations." For Installment ten, click on 
"Call out to Me in humility and I will answer. Beware of spiritual pride, lest you forget the words and signs I am giving to you to warn you."
Today, while secularly it's Cinqo de Mayo, liturgically we observe the Fifth Wednesday of Easter and tomorrow the Fifth Thursday of Easter. For the readings, liturgies and meditations, click on 
WORLDWIDE
Yesterday marked the one year anniversary of the tragic shooting of Commandant-elect Alois Estermann and his wife by fellow Swiss Guard member Cedric Tornay inside the walls of Vatican City, a crime that shocked the world and all of Christendom. But the commandant who the Holy Father named to replace Estermann, Colonel Segmuller is optimistic about the new morale within the corps and that the period of mourning is now officially over. For more, click on 
A group of Canadian Bishops from Ontario are in Rome for their ad limina visit and the Holy Father emphasized to them the need to evangelize the urban culture working from the inner city on out in striving to form "cities of God" where neighbors care for each other rather than the impersonal way of life today. For more, click on 
It was one thing to show devotion and dedication to those who died for the faith at Auschwitz by planting temporary crosses in their memory near the cross placed there to commemorate the Pope's visit there, but after the Polish government turned it over to the Polish bishops and they ruled that the crosses must go, save for the Holy Father's, now it is flat out disobedience and will not bear good fruit. In fact it can only hurt the Catholic cause there and with the Jewish people who have demanded all crosses be removed from near this shrine they consider exclusively Jewish. For more, click on 
In football it's called the "end around," in baseball "the squeeze play" and in relgious life when it deals with unreasonable politics such as Russia is wielding it is called "surviving" as Orders scramble to find loopholes that will allow them to continue their apostolates in Russia in hopes they will not run into the roadblocks the Society of Jesus did recently when they played everything above board and were rejected. For more, see 
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