The CatholiCity Message
Volume V, Number 15 – August 16, 2001
Dear CatholiCity Citizen,
Two quotes, a joke, and a prayer, plus a sneak preview of something that will surely save you and your families thousands of dollars, perhaps tens of thousands of dollars, in the coming years. (Sounds too good to be true, right?)
QUOTES OF THE WEEK
"The heart is free which is held by no love other than the love of God."
Saint Bonaventure
"Love is sufficient by itself, it pleases by itself, and for its own sake. Love seeks neither cause nor fruit beyond itself. Its fruit is its use. I love because I love; I love that I may love."
Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
1. BERNIE'S PRAYER
Speaking of Saint Bernard, let's all 65,000+ CatholiCity Citizens join together in one of the greatest Marian Prayers ever, composed by Saint Bernard himself, "The Memorare." Let's pray, simply, for each others' special intentions. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit:
"Remember, O most gracious virgin Mary, that never was it known that anyone who fled to thy protection, implored thy help, or sought thy intercession was left unaided. Inspired by this confidence, we fly unto thee, O Virgin of Virgins, our mother. To thee do we come, before thee we stand, sinful and sorrowful. O Mother of the Word Incarnate, despise not our petitions, but in thy mercy hear and answer us, Amen."
JOKE OF THE WEEK
(You may have to read this twice)
A dad was reading Bible stories to his son, "The man named Lot was warned to take his wife and flee out of the city, but his wife looked back and was turned to salt."
"That's terrible!" his son said. "But what happened to the flea?"
2. SAVING YOU LOTS OF MONEY
It is incredibly simple, one-page written Course on How to Negotiate. It could help you save yoru family thousands of dollars while negotiating for cars, houses, contracts, household items, loans, and even at garage sales, and we just posted it online on our Grab Bag page:
http://www.catholicity.com/grabbag/
4. SPEAKING OF PRAYERS Did you know that we promote five 54 Day Rosary Novenas during every calendar year? There's something totally cool about offering a Rosary for 54 straight days (six sets of nine day novenas, in fact) in communion with thousands of other families. It's also a great way of getting into the habit of saying the Rosary on a daily basis. Our latest novena, for the intentions of all CatholiCity Citizens, started on August 15th, Feast of the Assumption, and ends on October 7th, Feast of the Holy Rosary. As we always say, Our Lady is not a bureaucrat, so feel free to jump in and finish on October 7th. If you already pray the Rosary every day, just join in with your intentions. For more information on the 54 Day Rosary Novena, go here:
http://www.catholicity.com/support/praywithus.html
For a free copy of the Rosary on CD or tape to help you stick with it, go here:
https://secure.catholicity.com/order.html
Well, that's it for this week. Thanks for reading. God bless. We'll "see you" in a couple of weeks, if not sooner.
With Christ,
Your Friends at CatholiCity
