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Angels & Dragons XXVIII: St. Michael the Archangel, Conductor of Souls!

Published January 20, 2021 • Written by Deacon Guadalupe Rodriguez Filed Under: Column, Faith

Excerpts on St. Michael the Archangel, Conductor of Souls were taken from the messages from a Soul in Purgatory [Sister M.G.] to Sister M. de L. C. who was under the care of a spiritual director (priest) when receiving the messages.  The messages were published in a book called: AN UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPT ON PURGATORY  The… [Read More]

Written by Deacon Guadalupe Rodriguez • Published January 20, 2021

CONSECRATION TO ST. JOSEPH VI: ST. JOSEPH MOST FAITHFUL, PRAY FOR US!

Published October 21, 2020 • Written by Deacon Guadalupe Rodriguez Filed Under: Faith

One of my favorite sections in the book “CONSECRATION TO ST. JOSEPH, THE WONDERS OF OUR SPIRITUAL FATHER” by Fr. Donald Calloway is Day 21 – St. Joseph Most Faithful, Pray for Us.  This section and meditation show St. Joseph’s faithfulness in rescuing Jesus and Mary in different life and death circumstances (Mat. 2:13 &… [Read More]

Written by Deacon Guadalupe Rodriguez • Published October 21, 2020

Consecration to St. Joseph V: St. Joseph, Hope of the Sick, Pray for Us!

Published July 18, 2020 • Written by Deacon Guadalupe Rodriguez Filed Under: Faith

One of my favorite parts in the book Consecration to St. Joseph, The Wonders of Our Spiritual Father by Fr. Donald Calloway is Day 29 – St. Joseph, Hope of the Sick, Pray for Us.  This is and was a powerful part of the book during the consecration because it covers the miraculous physical healings… [Read More]

Written by Deacon Guadalupe Rodriguez • Published July 18, 2020

Consecration to St. Joseph III: St. Joseph’s Staff!

Published March 16, 2020 • Written by Deacon Guadalupe Rodriguez Filed Under: Faith

As thousands prepare to consecrate themselves on March 19th (Solemnity of St. Joseph, Husband of Mary) and others prepare for the second consecration beginning March 30th and ending May 1st (Feast of St. Joseph the Worker) let us contemplate the power of our spiritual father St. Joseph and his mighty “Staff” which is a prefiguration… [Read More]

Written by Deacon Guadalupe Rodriguez • Published March 16, 2020

Consecration to St. Joseph II: The Medal of St. Joseph

Published February 7, 2020 • Written by Deacon Guadalupe Rodriguez Filed Under: Faith

As February 16, 2020 nears for the start of the Consecration to St. Joseph let us begin to prepare our hearts to encounter the man who most influenced Our Lord Jesus Christ, St. Teresa of Avila, St. André Bessette, and many others.  Let us prepare for 33 days to enter St. Joseph’s workshop every day… [Read More]

Written by Deacon Guadalupe Rodriguez • Published February 7, 2020

Processing the truth about Fr. Michael Sullivan and why we should

Published December 28, 2019 • Written by Shawn Rain Chapman Filed Under: Blog, Faith, Family, World and News

We Catholics love our priests so much. Without them we could not practice our beautiful Catholic faith. We receive the Eucharist at their hands. They extend the mercy of the Lord to us. They give us spiritual counsel. They represent Jesus to us. They are there for us in the most intense times of our… [Read More]

Written by Shawn Rain Chapman • Published December 28, 2019

Angels & Dragons XXVII: St. Michael the Archangel in Thassos

Published December 10, 2019 • Written by Deacon Guadalupe Rodriguez Filed Under: Faith

At the end of the 11th century a monk named Luke lived for fourteen years on a Greek island called Thassos.  The place he lived was later called Louka in his honor, but not before he constructed a church in honor of the beloved apostle St. John the Evangelist.   Later, seeking a more contemplative life,… [Read More]

Written by Deacon Guadalupe Rodriguez • Published December 10, 2019

Angels & Dragons XXVI: The St. Michael Relic Stone Miracles

Published November 22, 2019 • Written by Deacon Guadalupe Rodriguez Filed Under: Blog, Faith

For centuries, St. Michael the Archangel has used relic stones from his cave in Gargano, Italy, to perform miracles. (See: St. Michael Relic Stone article September 2, 2017.) On September 25, 1656, St Michael said: “I am the Archangel St. Michael. Anyone who uses the stones of this grotto will be liberated…”   At the St…. [Read More]

Written by Deacon Guadalupe Rodriguez • Published November 22, 2019

Angels & Dragons XXIV: The Scapular of Saint Michael the Archangel

Published September 25, 2019 • Written by Deacon Guadalupe Rodriguez Filed Under: Faith

The Scapular of Saint Michael the Archangel is a sacramental of the Catholic Church. It was blessed by Pope Pius IX in 1878 and formally approved by Pope Leo XIII in 1880. The official blessing and investiture prayer found in the Roman Ritual for the Scapular of St. Michael the Archangel has seven important statements… [Read More]

Written by Deacon Guadalupe Rodriguez • Published September 25, 2019

Angels & Dragons XXII: St. Michael the Archangel in Mexico

Published August 6, 2019 • Written by Deacon Guadalupe Rodriguez Filed Under: Faith

On April 25, 1631, St. Michael the Archangel appeared in Tlaxcala, Mexico to a 17-year-old named Diego Lázaro de San Francisco who was married to Francisca Castillian Xuchitl.   The apparition occurred as everyone was processing in celebration of a previous apparition of St. Michael to St. Gregory the Great (April 25, 590 A.D) during a… [Read More]

Written by Deacon Guadalupe Rodriguez • Published August 6, 2019

Angels & Dragons XXI: St. Michael the Archangel in Spain

Published July 8, 2019 • Written by Deacon Guadalupe Rodriguez Filed Under: Faith

“I, Jesus, have sent my angel to give you this testimony (Rev. 22:16).” On June 18, 1961, St. Michael the Archangel appeared to four girls, Conchita Gonzalez (12), Mari Cruz Gonzalez (11), Jacinta Gonzalez (12), and Mari Loli Mazon (12), at Garabandal which is a small village in Spain consisting of 300 habitants.   As in… [Read More]

Written by Deacon Guadalupe Rodriguez • Published July 8, 2019

Sister Lynn’s “Lectio on Life

Published June 26, 2019 • Written by Shawn Rain Chapman Filed Under: Blog, Faith, Prayer

  I had been talking to Sister Lynn D’Souza, OSB about the way people interpret dreams and often feel God is speaking to them in the stories and symbolic situations of their dreams. I had thought that one could also interpret life and its events as messages from God. In some situations, I tend to… [Read More]

Written by Shawn Rain Chapman • Published June 26, 2019

The Crowning of St. Joseph!

Published March 12, 2019 • Written by Deacon Guadalupe Rodriguez Filed Under: Column, Faith

“Thus should he be honored whom the King desires to honor!” The Solemnity of Saint Joseph, Husband of the Blessed Virgin Mary is on Tuesday, March 19, 2019.  This year is also the 61st anniversary of the church approved apparitions of St. Joseph in America in which Sr. Mary Ephrem (1916-2000) saw him being crowned… [Read More]

Written by Deacon Guadalupe Rodriguez • Published March 12, 2019

Angels & Dragons XIX: The Angel of Peace in America

Published February 25, 2019 • Written by Deacon Guadalupe Rodriguez Filed Under: Column, Faith

In the fall of 1954, the Angel of Peace came to prepare Sr. Mary Ephrem (1916-2000) of the Sisters of the Precious Blood of Jesus for the coming of Our Lady of America.  In 1960 and 1972 these apparitions received official imprimatur approval from Archbishop Paul F. Leibold (1914-1972) and in 2007 the president of… [Read More]

Written by Deacon Guadalupe Rodriguez • Published February 25, 2019

Angels & Dragons XVIII: St. Michael the Angel of Peace!

Published January 29, 2019 • Written by Deacon Guadalupe Rodriguez Filed Under: Column, Faith

For centuries St. Michael the Archangel has been known as the Angel of Peace!  In the pre-Vatican Roman Breviary (Liturgy of the Hours) published in 1482 and in use until Vatican II, it clearly states, “St. Michael is the Angel of Peace because he was the leader of the heavenly hosts that fought the rebel… [Read More]

Written by Deacon Guadalupe Rodriguez • Published January 29, 2019

Angels & Dragons XVI: St. Michael & All Souls

Published October 31, 2018 • Written by Deacon Guadalupe Rodriguez Filed Under: Column, Faith

What happens when we die?  And what does the Archangel Michael have to do with our life after death? The Catholic Church teaches through the mass prayers, Her prayers for the dying, and through the lives of the saints that St. Michael has been given a very important role both during and after our death…. [Read More]

Written by Deacon Guadalupe Rodriguez • Published October 31, 2018

Angels & Dragons XIV: Mont Saint Michel

Published October 11, 2018 • Written by Deacon Guadalupe Rodriguez Filed Under: Column, Events, Faith

Saint Aubert, the Bishop of Avranches in France, founded Mont Saint Michel in 708 after St. Michael the Archangel appeared to him in his dreams three times. Saint Aubert ignored the Archangel in the first two dreams, but in the third dream St. Michael drove his finger into Aubert’s skull and commanded him to build… [Read More]

Written by Deacon Guadalupe Rodriguez • Published October 11, 2018

Cardinal Sarah: Defender of the Faith

Published October 10, 2018 • Written by Matt Sullivan Filed Under: Blog, Faith, Family, Social Justice, World and News

Within the ranks of the Church leadership, Robert Cardinal Sarah stands out as a rare example of outspoken zeal for the faith accompanying his conspicuous love of God. Born and raised in Guinea, he first became a priest and then archbishop of Conakry (covering all of Guinea). He was made Cardinal by Pope Benedict XVI… [Read More]

Written by Matt Sullivan • Published October 10, 2018

Angels & Dragons XIII: The Glorious Michaelmas!

Published September 25, 2018 • Written by Deacon Guadalupe Rodriguez Filed Under: Column, Faith

The Michaelmas is the centuries-old Latin Mass celebrated in honor of the Archangel Michael on September 29th. Devotion to St. Michael the Archangel existed in the Old Testament (Daniel 10:13, 10:21, & 12:1), and it continued in the New Testament (Jude 1:9 and Revelations chapter 12.) The Apostle John prophesied a healing spring which was… [Read More]

Written by Deacon Guadalupe Rodriguez • Published September 25, 2018

Angels & Dragons XII: St. Michael’s Flaming Sword!

Published September 15, 2018 • Written by Deacon Guadalupe Rodriguez Filed Under: Column, Faith

St. Padre Pio did spiritual battle with demons to free souls, and at his shrine, there is a mosaic of the Archangel Michael handing Padre Pio a sword. In the book “Deliverance Prayers For Use by the Laity,” exorcist Fr. Chad Ripperger uses the sword of St Michael, together with the sword of Our Lady… [Read More]

Written by Deacon Guadalupe Rodriguez • Published September 15, 2018

On Disagreeing With the Pope

Published September 10, 2018 • Written by Matt Sullivan Filed Under: Faith

On August 2, in light of an address last October to the Pontifical Council, Pope Francis made a modification to the Catholic Catechism declaring that “the death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person”. As an officially declared teaching of the Church, this poses a serious… [Read More]

Written by Matt Sullivan • Published September 10, 2018

Angels & Dragons XI: “Michael the Archangel will Arise.” (Dn.12:1)

Published September 7, 2018 • Written by Deacon Guadalupe Rodriguez Filed Under: Column, Faith

Throughout history St. Michael the Archangel has arisen to protect God’s Church and heal God’s people. St. Michael will arise now during these most turbulent times, but we must invoke his protection with prayer, consecrations, penances, novenas, and processions as in the ages past. In the year 590 Pope Pelagius and many souls died of… [Read More]

Written by Deacon Guadalupe Rodriguez • Published September 7, 2018

The Church is true but we are a very sick family right now

Published August 18, 2018 • Written by Shawn Rain Chapman Filed Under: Blog, Faith, Family, Social Justice, World and News

I entered the Church officially at the age of 22, in 1990. It took me a long time. I attended daily mass for two years even though almost everything about the Catholic Church freaked me out. I had authority issues. I had spiritual issues. I had sexual abuse issues. I had issues with men. I… [Read More]

Written by Shawn Rain Chapman • Published August 18, 2018

The Jesus We Never Knew

Published August 9, 2018 • Written by Matt Sullivan Filed Under: Blog, Faith, Family

  The Gospels we hear week by week focus on the venerable accomplishments of Jesus as He went about His ministry here on earth. And generally the homilies that follow focus on the message to be gained by these stories in conjunction with the other readings. We are exhorted to imitate this message in our… [Read More]

Written by Matt Sullivan • Published August 9, 2018

Crowd Funding Hail Marys

Published July 8, 2018 • Written by Shawn Rain Chapman Filed Under: Blog, Faith, Family, Social Justice, World and News

After a week of losing sleep over the suffering of little children taken from their parents at the border, many days of speaking out and also of sending what money I could to organizations trying to help these separated families, I texted to one of my sisters in Carmel, still feeling very sad. I asked… [Read More]

Written by Shawn Rain Chapman • Published July 8, 2018

Blessed Isidore Bakanja – Martyr of the Brown Scapular

Published June 25, 2018 • Written by Deacon Guadalupe Rodriguez Filed Under: Column, Faith

Blessed Isidore Bakanja is the first martyr of the Brown Scapular of Our Lady of Mount Carmel whose feast we celebrate on Monday, July 16th.  Isidore Bakanja was a young black teenage martyr from the Boangi tribe in Zaire, Africa with plenty of zeal, valor, and faith for the gospel and Our Lady. Receiving the… [Read More]

Written by Deacon Guadalupe Rodriguez • Published June 25, 2018

Sin? Not a problem.

Published June 11, 2018 • Written by Rachel Filed Under: Faith, Prayer, Resources, Young Adult

Sin? No problem. This Sunday we heard the Gospel reading on the Fall, of the moment sin entered creation and divided all that was meant to be united. Since then the human person has been faced with the conditions of inner division and brokenness as a personal reality and as a reality in creation. Yet,… [Read More]

Written by Rachel • Published June 11, 2018

Jesus, give us your Heart, make us strong to love!

Published June 8, 2018 • Written by Shawn Rain Chapman Filed Under: Blog, Faith, Social Justice

I have to think, in these dark times, during this epidemic of heartlessness, that we need to look to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, that we need the refuge and the example of His Heart more than ever. Every day I think we are all having to find ways to decompress from all the hatred,… [Read More]

Written by Shawn Rain Chapman • Published June 8, 2018

The Modest Ornaments of the Day: simple routines that re-center

Published May 28, 2018 • Written by Shawn Rain Chapman Filed Under: Blog, Faith, Prayer

I have a cup of coffee, and I am listening to jazz (Alice Coltrane today,) because it is 2 o’clock. That’s what I always do this time of day; jazz and coffee. Somehow this makes me feel more present in the day. The loose, open-ended routine of stopping the day, at least a little bit,… [Read More]

Written by Shawn Rain Chapman • Published May 28, 2018

The Corpus Christi Procession and Divine Mercy

Published May 18, 2018 • Written by Deacon Guadalupe Rodriguez Filed Under: Events, Faith

The Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (the feast of Corpus Christi) is the celebration of Christ’s Real Presence in the Holy Eucharist. As Our Lord is carried through the streets of cities and villages around the world, the faithful give public witness to their faith and devotion to the Holy… [Read More]

Written by Deacon Guadalupe Rodriguez • Published May 18, 2018

Come, Holy Spirit, renew my life

Published May 15, 2018 • Written by Shawn Rain Chapman Filed Under: Blog, Faith

  Something that seems to be returning to me as I very slowly recover from the grief and trauma (it’s complicated) of these past few years is a sense of self determination. I had not realized it was gone in the first place. What I did know is that for a long time it was… [Read More]

Written by Shawn Rain Chapman • Published May 15, 2018

Love as presence

Published May 2, 2018 • Written by Shawn Rain Chapman Filed Under: Blog, Faith, Family, Young Adult

I want to talk about a great part of my life, Mac, who has Cerebral Palsey, and about what it’s like to spend my days with “his Eminent Lovableness. ” Mac and I don’t actually “do” much. I mean, not really. We mostly just hang out together. We mostly just “are.” Fortunately, we are really… [Read More]

Written by Shawn Rain Chapman • Published May 2, 2018

Dear Austin, let us pray…

Published March 21, 2018 • Written by Rachel Filed Under: Blog, Faith, Prayer, Resources, Social Justice, World and News

It is a morning to pray. We woke up to the news today that the suspect behind the recent package bombs had been caught, and indeed had taken his own life in the process. Let us pray this morning together for peace in our city, for peace in our families, for peace in our own… [Read More]

Written by Rachel • Published March 21, 2018

A traditional St. Joseph altar in the Brazos Valley

Published March 18, 2018 • Written by Shawn Rain Chapman Filed Under: Blog, Faith, Family

He is sweating in the morning sun, easily turning a huge table top over in a cloud of wood shavings. I cough but he doesn’t break his concentration, only smiles as he measures an edge with his hands, squinting, nodding to himself as he stands up. “You still do this kind of thing in Heaven?”… [Read More]

Written by Shawn Rain Chapman • Published March 18, 2018

The Betrothal and Love of Joseph and Mary

Published March 15, 2018 • Written by Deacon Guadalupe Rodriguez Filed Under: Column, Faith

As the Solemnity of Saint Joseph approaches let us contemplate the betrothal and love of Joseph and Mary and how it can help couples today. It is mentioned very little in scripture. Yet it was the foundation for the family into which Jesus Christ was born. Blessed Pope John Paul II says in the church… [Read More]

Written by Deacon Guadalupe Rodriguez • Published March 15, 2018

Angels & Dragons IX: 40 Days to Slay Your Dragon!

Published February 10, 2018 • Written by Deacon Guadalupe Rodriguez Filed Under: Column, Faith

“Rise up; this matter is in your hands (Ezra 10:4)!” Your time has come Dragon Slayer! On your feet! You can no longer be “the brother of dragons,” (Job 30:29) for “Lent is the very badge of the Christian warfare!” (Pope Benedict XIV) How will you spend your 40 Days of Lent, in what may… [Read More]

Written by Deacon Guadalupe Rodriguez • Published February 10, 2018

The Presentation of the Lord; a story

Published February 2, 2018 • Written by Shawn Rain Chapman Filed Under: Blog, Faith, Family, Marriage and Love

I woke up early, long before my usual time. I could feel morning coming on as Yeshi slept deeply; still and warm between Joseph and me. He was on my arm, making it numb, but I didn’t mind. I enjoyed these moments of silence and warmth listening to Joseph’s and the baby’s breathing. I moved… [Read More]

Written by Shawn Rain Chapman • Published February 2, 2018

Angels & Dragons VIII: St. Gemma Galgani Relic

Published January 31, 2018 • Written by Deacon Guadalupe Rodriguez Filed Under: Faith

A fierce female dragon slayer! St. Gemma Galgani died at the young age of 25 on April 11, 1903 (Feast Day), but she lived an extraordinary life. She wanted to be a Passionist religious nun but was not accepted due to her health so she joined the lay Passionist association and took private vows as… [Read More]

Written by Deacon Guadalupe Rodriguez • Published January 31, 2018

Angels & Dragons VII: Transferences

Published January 18, 2018 • Written by Deacon Guadalupe Rodriguez Filed Under: Column, Faith

In the heat of the spiritual battle there is a lot clashing of swords, shields, spears, and other armor in the fight between St. Michael and his angels defending us against the dragon and his angels. (Rev. 12:7) Sometimes the good guys get wounded in the tussle and scuffle. Concerning deliverance prayers, the good news… [Read More]

Written by Deacon Guadalupe Rodriguez • Published January 18, 2018

The Most Important Prayer in a Cataclysmic Event (Part II)

Published December 11, 2017 • Written by Deacon Guadalupe Rodriguez Filed Under: Column, Faith

While the Act of Contrition prayer is the most important prayer for someone facing imminent death in a cataclysmic event, it is also the most important prayer for a survivor. During cataclysmic events like the current California fires, Hurricane Harvey, Hurricane Irma, Hurricane Maria, and the 7.1 earthquakes in Mexico, victims gather in huge numbers… [Read More]

Written by Deacon Guadalupe Rodriguez • Published December 11, 2017

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