http://www.totus2us.com/podcasts/3-2us/ en-us ℗ & © 2009-2012 Totus2us.com Short reflections on Feast Days and Saints Days, given to us by a fab collection of Catholic priests. Visit Totus2us.com for lots more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Blessed John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Totus2us Short reflections on Feast Days and Saints Days, given to us by a fab collection of Catholic priests reflecting on Our Lady (of Guadalupe, Fatima, Lourdes, Walsingham, Medjugorje, the Immaculate Conception), St Joseph, St John the Baptist, St John the Apostle, Saints Peter and Paul, Saint James (Santiago), the Carmelites St Teresa of Avila and St Thérèse of Lisieux, Franciscans St Francis of Assisi, St Padre Pio and St Maximilian Kolbe, Dominican St Thomas Aquinas, Jesuits St Ignatius of Loyola and St Francis Xavier, St Faustina Kowalska, St Ambrose, St Margaret Mary Alacoque, St Catherine of Alexandria, St Albert the Great, Blessed John Paul II, Blessed Mother Teresa, Blessed Cardinal John Henry Newman, the Easter Triduum, the Feasts of Christmas, Epiphany, Presentation of Jesus in the Temple, the Baptism of Jesus, the Ascension, Pentecost, Christ the King, the Transfiguration, the Triumph of the Cross, the Trinity, Corpus Christi, the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the Immaculate Heart of Mary, the Holy Souls, Our Lady of the Rosary, Our Lady's birthday, and on the seasons of Advent and Lent. Many thanks to all the Catholic priests who have given their reflections. Visit Totus2us.com for much more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Blessed John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Short reflections on Feast Days and Saints Days, given to us by a fab collection of Catholic priests reflecting on Our Lady (of Guadalupe, Fatima, Lourdes, Walsingham, Medjugorje, the Immaculate Conception), St Joseph, St John the Baptist, St John the Apostle, Saints Peter and Paul, Saint James (Santiago), the Carmelites St Teresa of Avila and St Thérèse of Lisieux, Franciscans St Francis of Assisi, St Padre Pio and St Maximilian Kolbe, Dominican St Thomas Aquinas, Jesuit St Ignatius of Loyola and St Francis Xavier, St Faustina Kowalska, St Ambrose, St Margaret Mary Alacoque, St Catherine of Alexandria, St Albert the Great, Blessed John Paul II, Blessed Mother Teresa, Blessed Cardinal John Henry Newman, the Easter Triduum, the Feasts of Christmas, Epiphany, Presentation of Jesus in the Temple, the Baptism of Jesus, the Ascension, Pentecost, Christ the King, the Transfiguration, the Triumph of the Cross, the Trinity, Corpus Christi, the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the Immaculate Heart of Mary, the Holy Souls, Our Lady of the Rosary, Our Lady's birthday, and on the seasons of Advent and Lent. Many thanks to all the Catholic priests who have given their reflections. Visit Totus2us.com for much more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Blessed John Paul to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. www.Totus2us.com totus2us.com@googlemail.com Totus2us.com Fr Bryan Storey: "'I am the branches' says the Lord, and you and I are the vines. We have to dwell in Him in order to find this divine energy, in order to ourselves become committed Christians and to share the commitment with one another. It's an extraordinary thing, we can't really love one another at all unless we are in union with God, because only God is love; the more we are united with Him, the more we are a loving people that can share with each other. It's not just words or talk, St John says in his first epistle, but something real and active. The commandments follow from this love of God. It's amazing to think St Catherine of Siena said that if we realised that God is love within us, we'd never commit a single sin." Visit Totus2us.com for lots more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Blessed John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Fr Bryan Storey: "'I am the branches' says the Lord, and you and I are the vines. We have to dwell in Him in order to find this divine energy, in order to ourselves become committed Christians and to share the commitment with one another. It's an extraordinary thing, we can't really love one another at all unless we are in union with God, because only God is love; the more we are united with Him, the more we are a loving people that can share with each other. It's not just words or talk, St John says in his first epistle, but something real and active. The commandments follow from this love of God. It's amazing to think St Catherine of Siena said that if we realised that God is love within us, we'd never commit a single sin." Visit Totus2us.com for lots more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Blessed John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Sun, 7 May 2012 12:00:00 GMT 4:22 Easter, joy, faith, Christianity, Jesus, confession, forgiveness, mercy, God, Father Totus2us.com Mgr Keith Barltrop: "This Sunday is traditionally observed throughout the Church as Vocation Sunday. It's a day when we should all be down on our knees, begging the Holy Spirit to give us light. 'Lord, help me to see beneath the surface of my own life, help me to see what you are saying in my life, help me to see what you are calling me to.' ... The Holy Spirit is a real light who shines on us and gives us surprising insight into the meaning of our lives and what we're capable of. And that's the second great gift of the Holy Spirit: He gives us power. ... We're created with a capacity for God, to love God, to know God, to be united with God and to share God to others; but on own we will fail to bring that capacity to its fulfilment. But if, through experiencing our own weakness, we turn to the Holy Spirit every day and say to Him: 'Give me your light; show me what I should do today. Give me your power.' These 2 gifts go together, because if the Holy Spirit gives us light and says to us 'You are capable of giving yourself 100% in love and that is the meaning of your life' .. if we don't have the power of the Holy Spirit to know that we can do that, then we will get depressed. So let's make that prayer every day, in union with Peter and the other apostles: Holy Spirit, give me light, open the Scriptures to me, open to me the meaning of my own life, give me the power to do what I cannot do by myself, which is to live every moment receiving your love, giving your love.'" Visit Totus2us.com for lots more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Blessed John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Mgr Keith Barltrop: "This Sunday is traditionally observed throughout the Church as Vocation Sunday. It's a day when we should all be down on our knees, begging the Holy Spirit to give us light. 'Lord, help me to see beneath the surface of my own life, help me to see what you are saying in my life, help me to see what you are calling me to.' ... The Holy Spirit is a real light who shines on us and gives us surprising insight into the meaning of our lives and what we're capable of. And that's the second great gift of the Holy Spirit: He gives us power. ... We're created with a capacity for God, to love God, to know God, to be united with God and to share God to others; but on own we will fail to bring that capacity to its fulfilment. But if, through experiencing our own weakness, we turn to the Holy Spirit every day and say to Him: 'Give me your light; show me what I should do today. Give me your power.' These 2 gifts go together, because if the Holy Spirit gives us light and says to us 'You are capable of giving yourself 100% in love and that is the meaning of your life' .. if we don't have the power of the Holy Spirit to know that we can do that, then we will get depressed. So let's make that prayer every day, in union with Peter and the other apostles: Holy Spirit, give me light, open the Scriptures to me, open to me the meaning of my own life, give me the power to do what I cannot do by myself, which is to live every moment receiving your love, giving your love.'" Visit Totus2us.com for lots more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Blessed John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Sun, 29 Apr 2012 12:00:00 GMT 5:58 Easter, joy, faith, Christianity, Jesus, confession, forgiveness, mercy, God, Father Totus2us.com Fr Michael Krychiwskyj: "The essential point is not the number and kind of our sins but the presence of true contrition, the willingness to change. Confession enables us to experience for ourselves what the Church sings in the exultet 'Oh happy fault! Oh necessary sin of Adam which gained for us so great a redeemer.' Jesus knows how to make all of our faults, once they've been repented, into happy faults, no longer remembered for the guilt or the shame that they engendered but for the experience of divine mercy which they occasioned. The way to experience profoundly the joy of Easter is through the door of the confessional." Visit Totus2us.com for lots more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Blessed John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Fr Michael Krychiwskyj: "The essential point is not the number and kind of our sins but the presence of true contrition, the willingness to change. Confession enables us to experience for ourselves what the Church sings in the exultet 'Oh happy fault! Oh necessary sin of Adam which gained for us so great a redeemer.' Jesus knows how to make all of our faults, once they've been repented, into happy faults, no longer remembered for the guilt or the shame that they engendered but for the experience of divine mercy which they occasioned. The way to experience profoundly the joy of Easter is through the door of the confessional." Visit Totus2us.com for lots more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Blessed John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Sun, 22 Apr 2012 12:00:00 GMT 3:40 Easter, joy, faith, Christianity, Jesus, confession, forgiveness, mercy, God, Father Totus2us.com Fr David Barnes: "Today we begin Passiontide, we begin our final preparation to celebrate the paschal mystery, which is the crown of Christ's saving work, saving us because it saves us from our destructiveness, sets us free from destructiveness of sin which has the consequence of death. And in the paschal mystery, the great Easter mystery, Christ overcomes that power of destructiveness, that power of sin the consequence of which is death. Yes, it's hard to understand and yet our Lord in the Gospel gives us an image to help us, it's an image of a seed of the wheat grain and he says: 'I tell you most solemnly unless a wheat grain falls on the ground and dies it remains a single grain but if it dies it yields a rich harvest.' That image of the seed helps us understand the paschal mystery: the passion, death and resurrection of the Lord. It's God's way of showing us His power and His love for us. It's the way in which God makes Himself known above every other way." Visit Totus2us.com for lots more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Blessed John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Fr David Barnes: "Today we begin Passiontide, we begin our final preparation to celebrate the paschal mystery, which is the crown of Christ's saving work, saving us because it saves us from our destructiveness, sets us free from destructiveness of sin which has the consequence of death. And in the paschal mystery, the great Easter mystery, Christ overcomes that power of destructiveness, that power of sin the consequence of which is death. Yes, it's hard to understand and yet our Lord in the Gospel gives us an image to help us, it's an image of a seed of the wheat grain and he says: 'I tell you most solemnly unless a wheat grain falls on the ground and dies it remains a single grain but if it dies it yields a rich harvest.' That image of the seed helps us understand the paschal mystery: the passion, death and resurrection of the Lord. It's God's way of showing us His power and His love for us. It's the way in which God makes Himself known above every other way." Visit Totus2us.com for lots more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Blessed John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Sun, 25 Mar 2012 12:00:00 GMT 6:12 love, God, Christianity, Lent, Passion, Jesus, love, hope, faith Totus2us.com Fr Stephen Wang: "And finally, as Jesus falls under the weight of the cross, he catches the eye of his Blessed Mother, and Mel Gibson the director has him whisper to her, 'Behold, I make all things new.' It's a clever image. It shows us how Jesus is renewing all creation and renews the life of each one of us, through his faithfulness and love, calling us to do the same. So, yes, The Passion of the Christ is a violent film, and the Holy Week that approaches us soon is a dark time. But God loved the world so much that He sent His Son to be with us in this darkness, to carry it for our sake and to show that even there love is possible, the love of God. So the seed of eternal life that we've heard about in this Gospel today is planted in the soil of the Passion." Visit Totus2us.com for lots more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Blessed John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Fr Stephen Wang: "And finally, as Jesus falls under the weight of the cross, he catches the eye of his Blessed Mother, and Mel Gibson the director has him whisper to her, 'Behold, I make all things new.' It's a clever image. It shows us how Jesus is renewing all creation and renews the life of each one of us, through his faithfulness and love, calling us to do the same. So, yes, The Passion of the Christ is a violent film, and the Holy Week that approaches us soon is a dark time. But God loved the world so much that He sent His Son to be with us in this darkness, to carry it for our sake and to show that even there love is possible, the love of God. So the seed of eternal life that we've heard about in this Gospel today is planted in the soil of the Passion." Visit Totus2us.com for lots more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Blessed John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Sun, 18 Mar 2012 12:00:00 GMT 5:17 The Passion of the Christ, film, Mel Gibson, Jesus, love, hope, faith Totus2us.com Fr Pat Browne: "When Patrck was alone on those hillsides, Slemish it was in County Armagh, he had noone to turn to for help but God. Patrick found God in his loneliness there. In fact Patrick needed those 6 years to mature, because at the end of the them he had become what we might call a holy man. He eventually escaped and found his way back to Wales. He became a priest and then a bishop. He writes in his Confessions: 'After I had come to Ireland, I daily used to feed cattle, and I prayed frequently during the day. The love of God and the fear of Him increased more and more, and faith became stronger and the spirit was stirred, so that in 1 day I said about 100 prayers and in the night nearly the same. So that I used even to remain in the woods and in the mountains; before daylight I used to rise to prayer through snow, frost and rain, and I felt no harm, nor was there any slothfulness in me as I now perceive because the spirit was then fervent within me." Visit Totus2us.com for lots more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Blessed John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Fr Pat Browne: "When Patrck was alone on those hillsides, Slemish it was in County Armagh, he had noone to turn to for help but God. Patrick found God in his loneliness there. In fact Patrick needed those 6 years to mature, because at the end of the them he had become what we might call a holy man. He eventually escaped and found his way back to Wales. He became a priest and then a bishop. He writes in his Confessions: 'After I had come to Ireland, I daily used to feed cattle, and I prayed frequently during the day. The love of God and the fear of Him increased more and more, and faith became stronger and the spirit was stirred, so that in 1 day I said about 100 prayers and in the night nearly the same. So that I used even to remain in the woods and in the mountains; before daylight I used to rise to prayer through snow, frost and rain, and I felt no harm, nor was there any slothfulness in me as I now perceive because the spirit was then fervent within me." Visit Totus2us.com for lots more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Blessed John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Sat, 17 Mar 2012 12:00:00 GMT 5:17 Saint, Patrick, Patron, Ireland, Christian, conversion, suffering, Love, God Totus2us.com Fr Francis Selman: "At his transfiguration, Christ's face shone like the sun and his clothes were brighter than light. In his apostolic exhortation for the Jubilee Year 2000, Blessed John Paul encouraged us to behold and contemplate the face of Christ. The transfiguration especially calls us to direct our looks to the face of Christ. St Paul tells us that God who said light will shine out of darkness has shone into our hearts to enlighten us with the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ." Visit Totus2us.com for lots more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Blessed John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Fr Francis Selman: "At his transfiguration, Christ's face shone like the sun and his clothes were brighter than light. In his apostolic exhortation for the Jubilee Year 2000, Blessed John Paul encouraged us to behold and contemplate the face of Christ. The transfiguration especially calls us to direct our looks to the face of Christ. St Paul tells us that God who said light will shine out of darkness has shone into our hearts to enlighten us with the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ." Visit Totus2us.com for lots more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Blessed John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Sun, 4 Mar 2012 12:00:00 GMT 9:11 Our Lady, Lourdes, Notre Dame, Marie, Maria, sick, conversion, suffering, Love, God Totus2us.com Fr Emmanuel Mansford CFR: "He had hoped, maybe even half expected, to be healed because he'd heard about Jesus, he'd heard that he'd done this before, but not this. 'Your sins are forgiven.' My sins are forgiven? He must have thought. All of them? Gone, just like that? It was a scandal to everyone around. Never mind, they thought to themselves, if he heals him, but only God can forgive sins. But to prove that Jesus could forgive sins, he heals him and the man walks home, cleansed and healed, washed clean and set free, no longer paralysed physically or spiritually. The amazing scandal of God's mercy, so simple and straightforward, these words 'Your sins are forgiven', anticipating the power of the Cross, his blood shed for you and for me, washing our sins away when we come to him in repentance." Visit Totus2us.com for lots more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Blessed John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Fr Emmanuel Mansford CFR: "He had hoped, maybe even half expected, to be healed because he'd heard about Jesus, he'd heard that he'd done this before, but not this. 'Your sins are forgiven.' My sins are forgiven? He must have thought. All of them? Gone, just like that? It was a scandal to everyone around. Never mind, they thought to themselves, if he heals him, but only God can forgive sins. But to prove that Jesus could forgive sins, he heals him and the man walks home, cleansed and healed, washed clean and set free, no longer paralysed physically or spiritually. The amazing scandal of God's mercy, so simple and straightforward, these words 'Your sins are forgiven', anticipating the power of the Cross, his blood shed for you and for me, washing our sins away when we come to him in repentance." Visit Totus2us.com for lots more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Blessed John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Sun, 19 Feb 2012 12:00:00 GMT 5:17 time, joy, faith, Christianity, Jesus, confession, forgiveness, mercy, God, Father Totus2us.com Mgr Leo Maasburg: "Sickness and suffering are a big puzzle to human beings. We're all created for health - health is the normal state of man. But sickness and suffering are a reality of our life, nobody can avoid it completely, it will hit everybody at a certain moment in their life. Since we believe that for God there is no trash, everything he has permitted he can use for a good end, the secret of suffering and of sickness reveals a big mystery, a mystery of God's greatness. I believe this was the reason of Our Lady's appearing on 11th February 1858 to Bernadette Soubirous. But she didn't appear to explain suffering, she appears silently, she doesn't say anything the first three apparitions, and she just holds a rosary in her hand and Bernadette prays the rosary. The beginning of that revealing, of the understanding of the mystery of suffering is prayer. If we ask Our Lord, if we enter, if we approach Him in prayer, He can reveal to us the mystery of suffering." Visit Totus2us.com for lots more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Blessed John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Mgr Leo Maasburg: "Sickness and suffering are a big puzzle to human beings. We're all created for health - health is the normal state of man. But sickness and suffering are a reality of our life, nobody can avoid it completely, it will hit everybody at a certain moment in their life. Since we believe that for God there is no trash, everything he has permitted he can use for a good end, the secret of suffering and of sickness reveals a big mystery, a mystery of God's greatness. I believe this was the reason of Our Lady's appearing on 11th February 1858 to Bernadette Soubirous. But she didn't appear to explain suffering, she appears silently, she doesn't say anything the first three apparitions, and she just holds a rosary in her hand and Bernadette prays the rosary. The beginning of that revealing, of the understanding of the mystery of suffering is prayer. If we ask Our Lord, if we enter, if we approach Him in prayer, He can reveal to us the mystery of suffering." Visit Totus2us.com for lots more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Blessed John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 12:00:00 GMT 8:35 Our Lady, Lourdes, Notre Dame, Marie, Maria, sick, conversion, suffering, Love, God Totus2us.com Fr Francis Selman: "The Benedictine Order whose daily life is based on prayer has been a great civilizing influence in Europe quietly throughout the centuries. For when civilization receded with the end of the Roman Empire, as Europe was overrun by Barbarians, learning and art continued in the monasteries until the high Middle Ages. Here is a lesson for us today. Much of what we value in European civilization, which for the most part until very recent decades has been Christian, was built on prayer. May the beauty and freshness of St Scholastica's hidden life of prayer inspire us to seek God in simplicity of heart from day to day in our own time." Visit Totus2us.com for lots more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Blessed John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Fr Francis Selman: "The Benedictine Order whose daily life is based on prayer has been a great civilizing influence in Europe quietly throughout the centuries. For when civilization receded with the end of the Roman Empire, as Europe was overrun by Barbarians, learning and art continued in the monasteries until the high Middle Ages. Here is a lesson for us today. Much of what we value in European civilization, which for the most part until very recent decades has been Christian, was built on prayer. May the beauty and freshness of St Scholastica's hidden life of prayer inspire us to seek God in simplicity of heart from day to day in our own time." Visit Totus2us.com for lots more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Blessed John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:00:00 GMT 4:35 Benedictine, nun, Saint, prayer, Jesus, Gospel, Love, God, Catholic, Christian Totus2us.com Fr Marcus Holden: "We are talking about ultimate human fulfilment: we've been offered something so sublime, so majestic, so great: the eternal love of God. If this isn't worth giving our time to, what is? St Bernardine of Siena used to say: 'Time is worth what God is worth. For with each moment of time we may purchase God and buy eternal glory.' In the world around us, people forget that time is precious ... In reality, every moment, every thought, every word and every action will have infinite repercussions in eternity, for good or for ill. And what then will shine out from our lives? I assure you it will be our prayers and our Masses, our confessions and our spiritual reading, our acts of charity and our evangelisation. To say this stuff is like gold dust is to underestimate it." Visit Totus2us.com for lots more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Blessed John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Fr Marcus Holden: "We are talking about ultimate human fulfilment: we've been offered something so sublime, so majestic, so great: the eternal love of God. If this isn't worth giving our time to, what is? St Bernardine of Siena used to say: 'Time is worth what God is worth. For with each moment of time we may purchase God and buy eternal glory.' In the world around us, people forget that time is precious ... In reality, every moment, every thought, every word and every action will have infinite repercussions in eternity, for good or for ill. And what then will shine out from our lives? I assure you it will be our prayers and our Masses, our confessions and our spiritual reading, our acts of charity and our evangelisation. To say this stuff is like gold dust is to underestimate it." Visit Totus2us.com for lots more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Blessed John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Sun, 5 Feb 2012 12:00:00 GMT 3:50 time, joy, faith, Christianity, Jesus, confession, forgiveness, mercy, God, Father Totus2us.com Fr Francis Selman: "St Francis de Sales was not only a bishop but he is also a Doctor of the Church, especially for his particularly consoling teaching about prayer, which again especially reflects his spirit of gentleness, as he teaches us not to be troubled by past sins but to have confidence in God and to make our misery into a throne for God's mercy." Visit Totus2us.com for lots more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Blessed John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Fr Francis Selman: "St Francis de Sales was not only a bishop but he is also a Doctor of the Church, especially for his particularly consoling teaching about prayer, which again especially reflects his spirit of gentleness, as he teaches us not to be troubled by past sins but to have confidence in God and to make our misery into a throne for God's mercy." Visit Totus2us.com for lots more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Blessed John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT 8:57 Doctor of Church, Francis de Sales, Saint, prayer, Jesus, Gospel, Love, God Totus2us.com Fr Ian Kelly: "There is a truth, I believe, in saying that the secret of Peter, Andrew, James and John was that they trusted the One who called them. It wasn't that they believed that they had all the answers themselves; no, because later in their following of Jesus, they would make mistakes, Peter would betray Him, and yet what carried them through to the end was that ability to trust. If we are to make commitment, if we are not to be mere historians of what might have been in our own lives, there does come a point when we hear the invitation 'Follow me' and we dare to trust the One who issues the invitation. In the words of good Pope John Paul II, 'Let us arise. Let us move forward in hope.'" Visit Totus2us.com for lots more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Blessed John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Fr Ian Kelly: "There is a truth, I believe, in saying that the secret of Peter, Andrew, James and John was that they trusted the One who called them. It wasn't that they believed that they had all the answers themselves; no, because later in their following of Jesus, they would make mistakes, Peter would betray Him, and yet what carried them through to the end was that ability to trust. If we are to make commitment, if we are not to be mere historians of what might have been in our own lives, there does come a point when we hear the invitation 'Follow me' and we dare to trust the One who issues the invitation. In the words of good Pope John Paul II, 'Let us arise. Let us move forward in hope.'" Visit Totus2us.com for lots more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was the motto of Blessed John Paul II to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Sun, 22 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT 5:15 Easter, joy, faith, Christianity, Jesus, confession, forgiveness, mercy, God, Father Totus2us.com Fr Francis Selman: "St John was the youngest of the Apostles, 'the beloved disciple', the one whom Jesus loved and the only one of the 12 who remained with his Master all the way to the foot of the Cross. He was the last to write a Gospel and the last of the apostles to die as an old man, still the Bishop of Ephesus, around the year 100. With the wiritings of the last of the apostles, revelation came to a close. We keep his feast day just 2 days after the birth of our Saviour, when we think of the great mystery of the Incarnation, for St John was especially the Evangelist of the Incarnation. He wrote the phrase 'And the Word was made flesh', perhaps the most important sentence ever to have been written in history. I like to think that the reason why St John had a special insight into the mystery of the Incarnation was because he was the disciple to whom Jesus entrusted his mother at the foot of the Cross, "Behold your mother." Thus teaching us all to look to Mary as our mother and the mother of the Church." Visit Totus2us.com for lots more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Fr Francis Selman: "St John was the youngest of the Apostles, 'the beloved disciple', the one whom Jesus loved and the only one of the 12 who remained with his Master all the way to the foot of the Cross. He was the last to write a Gospel and the last of the apostles to die as an old man, still the Bishop of Ephesus, around the year 100. With the wiritings of the last of the apostles, revelation came to a close. We keep his feast day just 2 days after the birth of our Saviour, when we think of the great mystery of the Incarnation, for St John was especially the Evangelist of the Incarnation. He wrote the phrase 'And the Word was made flesh', perhaps the most important sentence ever to have been written in history. I like to think that the reason why St John had a special insight into the mystery of the Incarnation was because he was the disciple to whom Jesus entrusted his mother at the foot of the Cross, "Behold your mother." Thus teaching us all to look to Mary as our mother and the mother of the Church." Visit Totus2us.com for lots more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Tue, 27 Dec 2011 12:00:00 GMT 10:48 Apostle, Disciple, John, Saint, Evangelist, Jesus, Gospel, Love, Incarnation, God Totus2us.com Fr Emmanuel Mansford CFR: "Over the years millions, literally millions, of Mexican Indians were converted because the image is such that Our Lady of Guadalupe is clothed with the stars (on her cloak are the stars), behind her is the sun and she is standing on the moon, and so the Indians, who worshipped these pagan gods of the sun, the moon and the stars, knew that she was more powerful than them because she stood on the moon, she was in front of the sun and she was clothed in the stars. But they also knew that she wasn't God because her head was bowed and her hands were joined in prayer, and they saw that round her waist was this sash that meant that she was pregnant and right over her womb was this flower in the shape of a star which was a sign to them of the one true God. So they came to believe that this true God she was in fact pregnant with. Over the years around 9 million Mexican Indians became Catholics. All this happened in 1531 and following years. So while the Reformation in Europe was happening and hundreds of thousands were leaving the Catholic Church, in Central America millions were becoming Catholic due to the advocacy and love for the poor of Our Lady." Visit Totus2us.com for lots more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Fr Emmanuel Mansford CFR: "Over the years millions, literally millions, of Mexican Indians were converted because the image is such that Our Lady of Guadalupe is clothed with the stars (on her cloak are the stars), behind her is the sun and she is standing on the moon, and so the Indians, who worshipped these pagan gods of the sun, the moon and the stars, knew that she was more powerful than them because she stood on the moon, she was in front of the sun and she was clothed in the stars. But they also knew that she wasn't God because her head was bowed and her hands were joined in prayer, and they saw that round her waist was this sash that meant that she was pregnant and right over her womb was this flower in the shape of a star which was a sign to them of the one true God. So they came to believe that this true God she was in fact pregnant with. Over the years around 9 million Mexican Indians became Catholics. All this happened in 1531 and following years. So while the Reformation in Europe was happening and hundreds of thousands were leaving the Catholic Church, in Central America millions were becoming Catholic due to the advocacy and love for the poor of Our Lady." Visit Totus2us.com for lots more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Mon, 12 Dec 2011 12:00:00 GMT 11:17 Mary, Madonna, Blessed Viring, Maria, Immaculate Conception, Lourdes, Miraculous medal Totus2us.com Fr John Edwards SJ: "It took a long time for the Church to work out how the Immaculate Conception could have happened. (After all, Our Lady was redeemed like all of us, but how could Jesus have redeemed her before as man he existed?) Heaven took a hand in nudging the Church towards the right conclusion, especially when it was given the “Miraculous Medal” in 1831 (“Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.”) At last in 1854 the Church was clear enough in its mind to define the doctrine, and to say that rightly understood you could work it out from Scripture. And then heaven intervened again. At Lourdes in 1858 Our Lady said “I AM the Immaculate Conception.” Let’s honour Our Lady, and praise her beauty, and thank God that we welcome the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception, and its consequence, the Redemption, and accept the fact of original sin; and are grateful that the Church which teaches us the truth with Christ’s authority clarifies what is obscure in Scripture." Visit Totus2us.com for lots more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Fr John Edwards SJ: "It took a long time for the Church to work out how the Immaculate Conception could have happened. (After all, Our Lady was redeemed like all of us, but how could Jesus have redeemed her before as man he existed?) Heaven took a hand in nudging the Church towards the right conclusion, especially when it was given the “Miraculous Medal” in 1831 (“Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.”) At last in 1854 the Church was clear enough in its mind to define the doctrine, and to say that rightly understood you could work it out from Scripture. And then heaven intervened again. At Lourdes in 1858 Our Lady said “I AM the Immaculate Conception.” Let’s honour Our Lady, and praise her beauty, and thank God that we welcome the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception, and its consequence, the Redemption, and accept the fact of original sin; and are grateful that the Church which teaches us the truth with Christ’s authority clarifies what is obscure in Scripture." Visit Totus2us.com for lots more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Thu, 8 Dec 2011 12:00:00 GMT 6:01 Mary, Madonna, Blessed Viring, Maria, Immaculate Conception, Lourdes, Miraculous medal Totus2us.com Fr Emmanuel Mansford CFR: "This man, this bishop, this shepherd, clearly in his life was reproduced the life of Christ. I think in our times when there's increasingly greater confrontation between the Church and the secular authorities of civil society, that we need the courage of St Ambrose and we need shepherds who have his gift of prayer and humility and fortitude to stand firm. And if we look at how God chose him, it's a reminder to all of us that we never know what God has in store for us, but once we submit to His plan, simply to put ourselves into the hands of God, and to allow His grace but also the gifts that He has given us to be used for his glory. So, Saint Ambrose, pray for us." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Fr Emmanuel Mansford CFR: "This man, this bishop, this shepherd, clearly in his life was reproduced the life of Christ. I think in our times when there's increasingly greater confrontation between the Church and the secular authorities of civil society, that we need the courage of St Ambrose and we need shepherds who have his gift of prayer and humility and fortitude to stand firm. And if we look at how God chose him, it's a reminder to all of us that we never know what God has in store for us, but once we submit to His plan, simply to put ourselves into the hands of God, and to allow His grace but also the gifts that He has given us to be used for his glory. So, Saint Ambrose, pray for us." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Wed, 7 Dec 2011 12:00:00 GMT 10:06 Catholic Church, Saint, bishop, doctor, grace, Christian, courage, God, love Totus2us.com Fr Francis Selman: "When the Emperor Maxentius began persecuting Christians in the early 4th century, in the final gasp of pagan fury, before Constantine through his defeat of Maxentius at the Milvian bridge in 312 brought peace to the Church, Catherine rebuked him and, with the clear-sighted wisdom of her young mind, she showed that his pagan gods were empty idols. As Maxentius could not reply to her arguments, he called a large group of philosophers to a dispute with St Catherine, who was only 18 years of age but well able to handle her case single-handed against the most learned men of Alexandria. On the way she converted the Emperor's wife, which further infuriated him. He gave orders for a spiked wheel to tear her flesh, a so-called 'Catherine wheel', but the bonds that held her down broke, so she was beheaded instead." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Fr Francis Selman: "When the Emperor Maxentius began persecuting Christians in the early 4th century, in the final gasp of pagan fury, before Constantine through his defeat of Maxentius at the Milvian bridge in 312 brought peace to the Church, Catherine rebuked him and, with the clear-sighted wisdom of her young mind, she showed that his pagan gods were empty idols. As Maxentius could not reply to her arguments, he called a large group of philosophers to a dispute with St Catherine, who was only 18 years of age but well able to handle her case single-handed against the most learned men of Alexandria. On the way she converted the Emperor's wife, which further infuriated him. He gave orders for a spiked wheel to tear her flesh, a so-called 'Catherine wheel', but the bonds that held her down broke, so she was beheaded instead." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Fri, 25 Nov 2011 12:00:00 GMT 4:21 Catholic Church, saint, philosopher, student, courage, vocation, love, God, Christian Totus2us.com Fr Francis Selman: "The relevance of St Albert for our own time can hardly be over-estimated. Surely the Patron of Scientists deserves to be better known today than he is and to be properly honoured. For the main attack on Christianity today comes from materialists who are much influenced by the scientific outlook. We need to pray to St Albert the Great, so that the study of natural science does not lead people away from God but can open their eyes and minds to Him, for they are studying the wonders of His creation. St Albert also reminds us that a knowledge of natural science needs to be a part of Christian learning today if we are to be able to hold a dialogue with non-believing scientists. For this purpose the Pope now has a Pontifical Institute of the Sciences. In our time we especially need to know how to apply our scientific knowledge and to use the inventions of technology with wisdom: this is, in a way that is truly beneficial for our way of life and is not destructive of human life nor diminishes a fully human life but respects God's design of nature. As St Albert wrote: 'There is in us an imprint as though a stamp of the divine wisdom .. Because of this more is acquired by prayer and devotion than by study.'" Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Fr Francis Selman: "The relevance of St Albert for our own time can hardly be over-estimated. Surely the Patron of Scientists deserves to be better known today than he is and to be properly honoured. For the main attack on Christianity today comes from materialists who are much influenced by the scientific outlook. We need to pray to St Albert the Great, so that the study of natural science does not lead people away from God but can open their eyes and minds to Him, for they are studying the wonders of His creation. St Albert also reminds us that a knowledge of natural science needs to be a part of Christian learning today if we are to be able to hold a dialogue with non-believing scientists. For this purpose the Pope now has a Pontifical Institute of the Sciences. In our time we especially need to know how to apply our scientific knowledge and to use the inventions of technology with wisdom: this is, in a way that is truly beneficial for our way of life and is not destructive of human life nor diminishes a fully human life but respects God's design of nature. As St Albert wrote: 'There is in us an imprint as though a stamp of the divine wisdom .. Because of this more is acquired by prayer and devotion than by study.'" Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Tue, 15 Nov 2011 12:00:00 GMT 7:21 Catholic Church, scientist, intelligence, God, Christian Totus2us.com Mgr Leo Maasburg: "John Paul II was a very courageous man, not only during the Nazi occupation when he was studying for the priesthood himself secretly and was ordained priest. But also later on in his life he never shrank back from things which his heart told him to do. A few weeks after his election to the See of St Peter, I had a friend with advanced cancer and she asked me if it would be possible to meet the Pope ... After Mass, he came out and greeted us and said to her: "Il tuo sorriso mi indica la presenza di Dio in te' - 'Your smile indicates to me the presence of God in your heart.' .. When I had the occasion to meet him together with Mother Teresa of Calcutta, the way they met, how they communicated with each other, it was such a joy, but the atmosphere was so normal, although there was a big, big tenderness in their relationship. And I noticed that when they had finished talking about their business hardly anything was said, they didn't speak anymore. The Pope normally accompanied Mother Teresa to the door, but they didn't speak, they just walked and sometimes the Pope put his arm round Mother Teresa. So I thought real love doesn't need any words and maybe even forbids small talk, and they were two such big personalities they didn't need to cover something through their talking but they could let love shine through them just by a simple gesture." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Mgr Leo Maasburg: "John Paul II was a very courageous man, not only during the Nazi occupation when he was studying for the priesthood himself secretly and was ordained priest. But also later on in his life he never shrank back from things which his heart told him to do. A few weeks after his election to the See of St Peter, I had a friend with advanced cancer and she asked me if it would be possible to meet the Pope ... After Mass, he came out and greeted us and said to her: "Il tuo sorriso mi indica la presenza di Dio in te' - 'Your smile indicates to me the presence of God in your heart.' .. When I had the occasion to meet him together with Mother Teresa of Calcutta, the way they met, how they communicated with each other, it was such a joy, but the atmosphere was so normal, although there was a big, big tenderness in their relationship. And I noticed that when they had finished talking about their business hardly anything was said, they didn't speak anymore. The Pope normally accompanied Mother Teresa to the door, but they didn't speak, they just walked and sometimes the Pope put his arm round Mother Teresa. So I thought real love doesn't need any words and maybe even forbids small talk, and they were two such big personalities they didn't need to cover something through their talking but they could let love shine through them just by a simple gesture." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Sat, 22 Oct 2011 12:00:00 GMT 13:33 John Paul, GPII, JPII, Pope, saint, love, Mother Teresa Totus2us.com Fr John Edwards SJ: "It's 1673 in France. A nun aged 26 has been 2 years in the convent, she's pale, she's thin, she's ill, big eyes, nervous, it's dark, she's praying. What's she doing? She's talking to Jesus who will reveal to her in 4 visions over the next 2 years the mystery of His Sacred Heart. This woman, St Margaret Mary Alacoque, is terribly important, massively important. What she sees and hears will alter nearly every Catholic church to be built and the devotional life of every good Catholic. It will restore the Church after the blight of Jansenism, it will give rise to religious orders and devotional practices. Until the devotion to the Divine Mercy in the late 20th century, it will do more than anything else to assure us that God loves us - loves us humanly as well as divinely, that God thinks we're worth dying for." Music by John Bevan and sung by the Holy Redeemer Choir.Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was Blessed John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Fr John Edwards SJ: "It's 1673 in France. A nun aged 26 has been 2 years in the convent, she's pale, she's thin, she's ill, big eyes, nervous, it's dark, she's praying. What's she doing? She's talking to Jesus who will reveal to her in 4 visions over the next 2 years the mystery of His Sacred Heart. This woman, St Margaret Mary Alacoque, is terribly important, massively important. What she sees and hears will alter nearly every Catholic church to be built and the devotional life of every good Catholic. It will restore the Church after the blight of Jansenism, it will give rise to religious orders and devotional practices. Until the devotion to the Divine Mercy in the late 20th century, it will do more than anything else to assure us that God loves us - loves us humanly as well as divinely, that God thinks we're worth dying for." Music by John Bevan and sung by the Holy Redeemer Choir. Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was Blessed John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Sun, 16 Oct 2011 12:00:00 GMT 10:20 God, Jesus, Saint, Margaret Mary, Divine Mercy, Sacred Heart, love, Totus2us.com Mgr Keith Barltrop: "It's a message that although we have so much to distrust in ourselves, we can have an absolute complete confidence in God's mercy towards us. St Faustina was not only the 'secretary', the mouthpiece of this message but she lived it herself in the convent, through many ups and downs, as did St Thérèse. She had to learn to trust the message of mercy, she had to learn to detach herself, as we all do, from doing what she wanted, she had to experience many, many trials, disbelief, people thinking that she was deluded. Even after her death for many years the message of Divine Mercy was suspect. .. Eventually, thanks to the very providential appointment of John Paul II as Pope, these messages became known and accepted, and with them obviously it was only right to honour St Faustina, the very unknown, humble saint." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was Blessed John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Mgr Keith Barltrop: "It's a message that although we have so much to distrust in ourselves, we can have an absolute complete confidence in God's mercy towards us. St Faustina was not only the 'secretary', the mouthpiece of this message but she lived it herself in the convent, through many ups and downs, as did St Thérèse. She had to learn to trust the message of mercy, she had to learn to detach herself, as we all do, from doing what she wanted, she had to experience many, many trials, disbelief, people thinking that she was deluded. Even after her death for many years the message of Divine Mercy was suspect. .. Eventually, thanks to the very providential appointment of John Paul II as Pope, these messages became known and accepted, and with them obviously it was only right to honour St Faustina, the very unknown, humble saint." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was Blessed John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Wed, 5 Oct 2011 12:00:00 GMT 10:30 God, Jesus, Saint, Faustina, Divine Mercy, chaplet, mystic, love, Totus2us.com Fr Emmanuel Mansford CFR: "St Francis had everything - from a very wealthy family, properous father, very popular young man, bit of a party boy, went off to be a knight when he was about 20 which was sort of the equivalent of being the winner of the X-Factor, very respected and loved by his friends, the one who was at the centre of the life in Assisi - and yet when Jesus came into his life, it was like a revolution for him and he simply responded whole-heartedly. Just as he had given himself totally to partying, totally to fighting in the war, suddenly when Christ comes into his life he's changed and the encouraging thing for all of us is that it wasn't just overnight. Sometimes we think with the saints they're bad and then they become good but for Francis it was probably over a period of 5 years where Jesus is taking more and more of his heart captive." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was Blessed John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Fr Emmanuel Mansford CFR: "St Francis had everything - from a very wealthy family, properous father, very popular young man, bit of a party boy, went off to be a knight when he was about 20 which was sort of the equivalent of being the winner of the X-Factor, very respected and loved by his friends, the one who was at the centre of the life in Assisi - and yet when Jesus came into his life, it was like a revolution for him and he simply responded whole-heartedly. Just as he had given himself totally to partying, totally to fighting in the war, suddenly when Christ comes into his life he's changed and the encouraging thing for all of us is that it wasn't just overnight. Sometimes we think with the saints they're bad and then they become good but for Francis it was probably over a period of 5 years where Jesus is taking more and more of his heart captive." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was Blessed John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Tue, 4 Oct 2011 12:00:00 GMT 9:40 God, Jesus, Christ, Saint, Francis, Francesco, Assisi, Franciscan, love, Totus2us.com Fr Anthony Doe: "Thérèse embodies an extremely important truth that Jesus clearly enunciated to his disciples many times. Thérèse with that transparency of faith, that openness of heart, that childlike trust in the power, the mercy and love of the Lord, embodies for us this message so profound of Jesus: unless we become like little children, we cannot enter the kingdom of heaven. To become a little child, not to become childish but childlike: open, receptive, willing to receive what God wishes to give us, just as a child so desires the gifts that the parents wish to give, the gifts of their love, of their strength. And Thérèse above all embodies that spirit of openness, childlike willingness to receive from God. And in her teachings she very clearly enunciated a pattern of life, what she called her 'Little Way', a way of surrender to the person of Jesus in the minutest details of daily life, but particularly when she and we are confronted by our weakness, our failure, our human frailty, our vulnerability, all those things that we cannot change in ourselves. Thérèse had that wonderful insight to see that these were moments not to deplore but in fact to rejoice in because they were opportunities to give herself, give ourselves, to the person of Jesus and to recognise that it's His power, His strength, His love, His wisdom that in the end is meant to empower us. And she encourages us constantly to see our daily life in terms of moving more deeply into this bond of love with the person of Jesus who can only give himself to us when we are open and receptive to His gifts like children." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was Blessed John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Fr Anthony Doe: "Thérèse embodies an extremely important truth that Jesus clearly enunciated to his disciples many times. Thérèse with that transparency of faith, that openness of heart, that childlike trust in the power, the mercy and love of the Lord, embodies for us this message so profound of Jesus: unless we become like little children, we cannot enter the kingdom of heaven. To become a little child, not to become childish but childlike: open, receptive, willing to receive what God wishes to give us, just as a child so desires the gifts that the parents wish to give, the gifts of their love, of their strength. And Thérèse above all embodies that spirit of openness, childlike willingness to receive from God. And in her teachings she very clearly enunciated a pattern of life, what she called her 'Little Way', a way of surrender to the person of Jesus in the minutest details of daily life, but particularly when she and we are confronted by our weakness, our failure, our human frailty, our vulnerability, all those things that we cannot change in ourselves. Thérèse had that wonderful insight to see that these were moments not to deplore but in fact to rejoice in because they were opportunities to give herself, give ourselves, to the person of Jesus and to recognise that it's His power, His strength, His love, His wisdom that in the end is meant to empower us. And she encourages us constantly to see our daily life in terms of moving more deeply into this bond of love with the person of Jesus who can only give himself to us when we are open and receptive to His gifts like children." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was Blessed John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Sat, 1 Oct 2011 12:00:00 GMT 9:52 God, Jesus, Christ, Saint, Thérèse, Theresa, Lisieux, Carmelite, love, Totus2us.com Fr Ed Tomlinson: "Today's the feast of Our Lady of Walsingham, calling us to prayer for Christian unity. Why this connection between Mary's appearance in Britain and Christian unity? Because Our Lady's appearance was not accidental but a moment of grace and the start of a chain of events connected to England's conversion which involves, I believe, the implementation of the ordinariate in our day. To better understand, let us travel back together to the day it all started. The year is 1061 and, under a Catholic banner, England is known as Our Lady's dowry and its flourishing like never before. This was a great golden era, a time of renewal: cathedrals are built, churches are erected and they're going to define the landscape for so many different generations. Catholic devotion suits the English people and it leads to a great cultural flowering, producing in my opinion the greatest art, music and architecture that this land has ever seen. And in a tiny Norfolk village we find a noblewoman, Richeldis de Faverches, deep in prayer. To her amazement, the Blessed Virgin appears to her in a vision 3 times, instructing Richeldis to build a replica of the Holy House of Nazareth. Richeldis undertakes this work with obedience and soon a spring of living water is unearthed. Once built, the priory shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham became the beating heart of Catholic England. From all over Europe people flocked, to be healed, to pray, to receive the sacraments, to give devotion to the Lord. Peasants and kings were equal here, in this place of profound grace, miracle and favour." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was Blessed John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Fr Ed Tomlinson: "Today's the feast of Our Lady of Walsingham, calling us to prayer for Christian unity. Why this connection between Mary's appearance in Britain and Christian unity? Because Our Lady's appearance was not accidental but a moment of grace and the start of a chain of events connected to England's conversion which involves, I believe, the implementation of the ordinariate in our day. To better understand, let us travel back together to the day it all started. The year is 1061 and, under a Catholic banner, England is known as Our Lady's dowry and its flourishing like never before. This was a great golden era, a time of renewal: cathedrals are built, churches are erected and they're going to define the landscape for so many different generations. Catholic devotion suits the English people and it leads to a great cultural flowering, producing in my opinion the greatest art, music and architecture that this land has ever seen. And in a tiny Norfolk village we find a noblewoman, Richeldis de Faverches, deep in prayer. To her amazement, the Blessed Virgin appears to her in a vision 3 times, instructing Richeldis to build a replica of the Holy House of Nazareth. Richeldis undertakes this work with obedience and soon a spring of living water is unearthed. Once built, the priory shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham became the beating heart of Catholic England. From all over Europe people flocked, to be healed, to pray, to receive the sacraments, to give devotion to the Lord. Peasants and kings were equal here, in this place of profound grace, miracle and favour." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was Blessed John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Sat, 24 Sep 2011 12:00:00 GMT 11:00 God, Jesus, Christ, Our Lady, Walsingham, love, forgiveness, Christian, unity Totus2us.com Mgr Leo Maasburg: "Jesus redeemed us because he accepted all that suffering without hating us. Because the normal human reaction if we are hurt, if we're offended, if we suffer, is at least resentment, if not hatred. And Christ did not hate us for a single second (had he hated us for a single second we would not be here). So in that moment on the Cross, instead of reacting humanly, he reacted divinely. He said 'Father, forgive them, they do not know what they are doing.' And maybe the young people of our day have understood that there is suffering in the world - there is no life without suffering, we cannot avoid, we cannot flee suffering; so suffering is part of our human condition. But the answer, our reaction to suffering, is a revelation either of our human state or of our divine state. And I believe that this celebration of the Exultation of the Cross is for us a question mark: where are you standing? How are you reacting to suffering? Are you so close to Christ that you say "His example, his suffering on the Cross will give me the strength to at least attempt not to hit back, not to hate, not to have resentments, but to say 'Father help me to the will of forgiveness and please forgive.'"" Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was Blessed John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Mgr Leo Maasburg: "Jesus redeemed us because he accepted all that suffering without hating us. Because the normal human reaction if we are hurt, if we're offended, if we suffer, is at least resentment, if not hatred. And Christ did not hate us for a single second (had he hated us for a single second we would not be here). So in that moment on the Cross, instead of reacting humanly, he reacted divinely. He said 'Father, forgive them, they do not know what they are doing.' And maybe the young people of our day have understood that there is suffering in the world - there is no life without suffering, we cannot avoid, we cannot flee suffering; so suffering is part of our human condition. But the answer, our reaction to suffering, is a revelation either of our human state or of our divine state. And I believe that this celebration of the Exultation of the Cross is for us a question mark: where are you standing? How are you reacting to suffering? Are you so close to Christ that you say "His example, his suffering on the Cross will give me the strength to at least attempt not to hit back, not to hate, not to have resentments, but to say 'Father help me to the will of forgiveness and please forgive.'"" Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was Blessed John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Wed, 14 Sep 2011 12:00:00 GMT 12:52 God, Jesus, Christ, Cross, suffering, love, forgiveness, Christian Totus2us.com Fr John Edwards SJ: "In 590 he became Pope; he was Pope for 13 years and what a lot he did. He was only Pope for 2 years before he had to make treaties with the invading Lombards. He reformed the administration of Church lands, managed to devote an awful lot to charity, he kept the Church free from civil power. He had to deal with barbarian Franks and Visigoths, as well as the Lombards. A busy man, a very able man and, of course, he did something about the Anglo-Saxons. In the slave market in Rome he saw these 3 handsome young men and he said 'Where do they come from?' and they told him 'They're Angli' and he said 'Non Angli sed angeli' - 'Not Angles but angels.' And he realised that here was a country that needed evangelizing and so in 597 he sent St Augustine to evangelise the Anglo-Saxons." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was Blessed John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Fr John Edwards SJ: "In 590 he became Pope; he was Pope for 13 years and what a lot he did. He was only Pope for 2 years before he had to make treaties with the invading Lombards. He reformed the administration of Church lands, managed to devote an awful lot to charity, he kept the Church free from civil power. He had to deal with barbarian Franks and Visigoths, as well as the Lombards. A busy man, a very able man and, of course, he did something about the Anglo-Saxons. In the slave market in Rome he saw these 3 handsome young men and he said 'Where do they come from?' and they told him 'They're Angli' and he said 'Non Angli sed angeli' - 'Not Angles but angels.' And he realised that here was a country that needed evangelizing and so in 597 he sent St Augustine to evangelise the Anglo-Saxons." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was Blessed John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Sat, 3 Sep 2011 12:00:00 GMT 5:30 Saint, Gregory the Great, Pope, Doctor of the Church, Catholic, love, Christianity Totus2us.com Fr Francis Selman: "Although Edtih Stein became intellectually convinced of the truth of the Catholic faith, what moved her to become a Catholic was the example of the serenity of a friend in accepting the death of her young husband. One night when she was guarding the house for some friends, she found a copy of St Teresa of Avila's 'Life of Herself' on the bookshelves. She took it down and read it right through that night. In it St Teresa of Avila talks about 'the Truth that underlies all truth'. Edith wanted to possess what St Teresa of Avila had. Thus Edith Stein's conversion to Catholicism was a the same time her vocation to be a Carmelite. She was baptised in 1922, aged 31, but it wasn't until 1933 that she entered the Carmelite Order in Cologne. .. After a time her superiors asked her to continue her writing, this time in the form of a commentary and summary of the works of St John of the Cross, which she called 'The Science of the Cross'. St John of the Cross tells us that the highest wisdom is to meditate on the mysteries of Christ and we only reach this wisdom by entering into suffering. .. When the Gestapo called in the early hours one morning in 1942 at the convent for Edith Stein, she turned to her sister, Rosa, and said "Let us go for our people." After a stop at Westerbrook, she was transported with Sr Rosa by train in cattle trucks to Auschwitz where they were gassed on arrival and offered up their lives as a sacrifice for their people, the Jews." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was Blessed John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Fr Francis Selman: "Although Edtih Stein became intellectually convinced of the truth of the Catholic faith, what moved her to become a Catholic was the example of the serenity of a friend in accepting the death of her young husband. One night when she was guarding the house for some friends, she found a copy of St Teresa of Avila's 'Life of Herself' on the bookshelves. She took it down and read it right through that night. In it St Teresa of Avila talks about 'the Truth that underlies all truth'. Edith wanted to possess what St Teresa of Avila had. Thus Edith Stein's conversion to Catholicism was a the same time her vocation to be a Carmelite. She was baptised in 1922, aged 31, but it wasn't until 1933 that she entered the Carmelite Order in Cologne. .. After a time her superiors asked her to continue her writing, this time in the form of a commentary and summary of the works of St John of the Cross, which she called 'The Science of the Cross'. St John of the Cross tells us that the highest wisdom is to meditate on the mysteries of Christ and we only reach this wisdom by entering into suffering. .. When the Gestapo called in the early hours one morning in 1942 at the convent for Edith Stein, she turned to her sister, Rosa, and said "Let us go for our people." After a stop at Westerbrook, she was transported with Sr Rosa by train in cattle trucks to Auschwitz where they were gassed on arrival and offered up their lives as a sacrifice for their people, the Jews." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was Blessed John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Tue, 9 Aug 2011 12:00:00 GMT 10:34 Saint, Teresa Benedicta, God, Carmelite, martyr, Auschwitz, love, Christianity, Jew Totus2us.com Fr John Edwards SJ: "Dominic was a very lovable, a very compassionate man and of course he loved God, and that, as with every saint, was the main thing about him. The order that he founded, the Dominicans, the Order of Preachers, has as its main note love of truth and approaching God through the intellect. And the greatest theologian of the Church, St Thomas Aquinas, was a Dominican. So a man very compassionate, very far-seeing, moved with love of sinners, eager for the truth, ready to spend himself for the Word of God. Very good with women ... But of all the things we might remember him for, perhaps the main thing is the rosary. St Dominic it is who is associated with it above all, the great saint of the rosary. And if we want to please him in heaven, we've only got to say the rosary." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was Blessed John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Fr John Edwards SJ: "Dominic was a very lovable, a very compassionate man and of course he loved God, and that, as with every saint, was the main thing about him. The order that he founded, the Dominicans, the Order of Preachers, has as its main note love of truth and approaching God through the intellect. And the greatest theologian of the Church, St Thomas Aquinas, was a Dominican. So a man very compassionate, very far-seeing, moved with love of sinners, eager for the truth, ready to spend himself for the Word of God. Very good with women ... But of all the things we might remember him for, perhaps the main thing is the rosary. St Dominic it is who is associated with it above all, the great saint of the rosary. And if we want to please him in heaven, we've only got to say the rosary." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was Blessed John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Mon, 8 Aug 2011 12:00:00 GMT 5:30 Saint, Dominic, God, Dominicans, Friars, Albigensian heresy, love, Christianity Totus2us.com Mgr Leo Maasburg: "I believe this is a little bit what Jesus wanted to tell his apostles: the big storms of our life are coming but do not forget I am with you. I am not only with you as a human person, as your friend, as your brother, your counsellor, I am also with you as the Son of God, because your vocation, every person's vocation, is not just to be a good human person, an anthropologically good person, but we are all called to be beyond that saints, beyond that we are called to be simply children of God, children of God who are the first born of Our Lord. And we have to learn in the whole of our life to come into a relationship, to God, to the Most Holy Trinity, to each other, exactly in the way the Father loves the Son and the Son loves the Father. There is a new communion coming up and that communion comes through the mystery, and for many the scandal, of the Cross. And this is precisely what Jesus wanted to prepare his apostles for. Never to cease loving, never to cease to be in friendship with one another, never to blame others, never to put the guilt which we all carry, the whole human race carries on one or the other's particular shoulder but to carry the Cross, our small crosses, the crosses of our life, each one, knowing that we are part of a much bigger mystery, of a mystery between heaven and earth, of a love story between God and man, between God and his creatures." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was Blessed John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Mgr Leo Maasburg: "I believe this is a little bit what Jesus wanted to tell his apostles: the big storms of our life are coming but do not forget I am with you. I am not only with you as a human person, as your friend, as your brother, your counsellor, I am also with you as the Son of God, because your vocation, every person's vocation, is not just to be a good human person, an anthropologically good person, but we are all called to be beyond that saints, beyond that we are called to be simply children of God, children of God who are the first born of Our Lord. And we have to learn in the whole of our life to come into a relationship, to God, to the Most Holy Trinity, to each other, exactly in the way the Father loves the Son and the Son loves the Father. There is a new communion coming up and that communion comes through the mystery, and for many the scandal, of the Cross. And this is precisely what Jesus wanted to prepare his apostles for. Never to cease loving, never to cease to be in friendship with one another, never to blame others, never to put the guilt which we all carry, the whole human race carries on one or the other's particular shoulder but to carry the Cross, our small crosses, the crosses of our life, each one, knowing that we are part of a much bigger mystery, of a mystery between heaven and earth, of a love story between God and man, between God and his creatures." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was Blessed John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Sat, 6 Aug 2011 12:00:00 GMT 4:35 transfiguration, Jesus, God, Father, love, Cross, suffering, Medjugorje, hope Totus2us.com Fr Anthony Meredith SJ: "St Bonaventure had the enormous power of having both a spiritual approach to life, which was not something which was divorced from a clearly articulated way of dealing with the subject. It wasn't simply a question of having a funny inside feeling, it was something connected very closely with very clearly articulated ideas and structures, some of which he inherited from his ancestors in the spiritual life. There are 2 particular works of his which call for our attention - one is called The Threefold Way and the other is The Journey of the Mind into God. The Threefold Way outlines 3 basic stages through which the human spirit has to go if it wishes to arrive at the knowledge and love of God. And these 3 are: purgartio - freeing ourselves from sin, illuminatio - the knowledge of God which is the consequence of our purification, and perfectio - finally enjoying God, which takes place most perfectly in the life to come. ..This work has been called a masterpiece of the spiritual psychology - it's not simply a question of knowledge, or learning or understanding, or even of moral purity but it is a psychological introduction to the depth of the nature of God and that is something extremely important for us - the demand for the upward journey." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was Blessed John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Fr Anthony Meredith SJ: "St Bonaventure had the enormous power of having both a spiritual approach to life, which was not something which was divorced from a clearly articulated way of dealing with the subject. It wasn't simply a question of having a funny inside feeling, it was something connected very closely with very clearly articulated ideas and structures, some of which he inherited from his ancestors in the spiritual life. There are 2 particular works of his which call for our attention - one is called The Threefold Way and the other is The Journey of the Mind into God. The Threefold Way outlines 3 basic stages through which the human spirit has to go if it wishes to arrive at the knowledge and love of God. And these 3 are: purgartio - freeing ourselves from sin, illuminatio - the knowledge of God which is the consequence of our purification, and perfectio - finally enjoying God, which takes place most perfectly in the life to come. ..This work has been called a masterpiece of the spiritual psychology - it's not simply a question of knowledge, or learning or understanding, or even of moral purity but it is a psychological introduction to the depth of the nature of God and that is something extremely important for us - the demand for the upward journey." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was Blessed John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Fri, 15 Jul 2011 12:00:00 GMT 10:06 Saint, Bonaventure, Catholic, God, faith, culture, Jesus, christianity, Catholic, love Totus2us.com Abbot Kevin Taggart OSB: "When St Benedict fled to Subiaco many wanted to come and lead the life he was embarking on and they wanted him as their leader and so he wrote his rule. It's a wonderful document well known for its humanity and its simplicity of living, much of it going into considerable detail about how to pray what is called the Divine Office in Church, but preceded and followed by some wonderful spiritual advice to people who wanted to lead the monastic life. I suppose his most famous chapters are on obedience and humility. The other thing St Benedict stresses is stability within the community. So for a Benedictine, a monk takes 3 vows - obedience, stability and a third vow called 'conversatio morum' which is really conversion of life. For me, that's a wonderful vow because it gives one the whole of one's life to convert into a better way of life and that ties in so much with St Benedict's idea of a monk never despairing of the love and the mercy of God, and that continues right through one's life." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was Blessed John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Abbot Kevin Taggart OSB: "When St Benedict fled to Subiaco many wanted to come and lead the life he was embarking on and they wanted him as their leader and so he wrote his rule. It's a wonderful document well known for its humanity and its simplicity of living, much of it going into considerable detail about how to pray what is called the Divine Office in Church, but preceded and followed by some wonderful spiritual advice to people who wanted to lead the monastic life. I suppose his most famous chapters are on obedience and humility. The other thing St Benedict stresses is stability within the community. So for a Benedictine, a monk takes 3 vows - obedience, stability and a third vow called 'conversatio morum' which is really conversion of life. For me, that's a wonderful vow because it gives one the whole of one's life to convert into a better way of life and that ties in so much with St Benedict's idea of a monk never despairing of the love and the mercy of God, and that continues right through one's life." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was Blessed John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Mon, 11 Jul 2011 12:00:00 GMT 6:11 Saint, Benedict, God, faith, Benedictine, culture, Jesus, christianity, Catholic, love Totus2us.com Fr Anthony Meredith SJ: "St Peter is the person who stands, as it were, by his very name for stability, for endurance, for strength, whereas St Paul was always on the go, going all over the place, doing his best to teach the gospel of Christ to others, which he also supplemented by his wonderful letters, many of which still survive, arranged in order of length in the New Testament, from the longest - the Letter to the Romans, to the shortest - the Letter to Philemon. .. Both of them ended their lives as martyrs in Rome during the persecution of the Emperor Nero, which took place in 65 AD when he was able to accuse the Christians of the great fire in Rome .. they both gave their lives for the gospel." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was Blessed John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Fr Anthony Meredith SJ: "St Peter is the person who stands, as it were, by his very name for stability, for endurance, for strength, whereas St Paul was always on the go, going all over the place, doing his best to teach the gospel of Christ to others, which he also supplemented by his wonderful letters, many of which still survive, arranged in order of length in the New Testament, from the longest - the Letter to the Romans, to the shortest - the Letter to Philemon. .. Both of them ended their lives as martyrs in Rome during the persecution of the Emperor Nero, which took place in 65 AD when he was able to accuse the Christians of the great fire in Rome .. they both gave their lives for the gospel." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was Blessed John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Wed, 29 Jun 2011 12:00:00 GMT 7:25 Peter, Paul, Saint, history, Pope, God, faith, christianity, martyr Totus2us.com Mgr Leo Maasburg: "Our Lady takes us to the Lord in the Blessed Sacrament, and she comes to us, inviting us to open our hearts to the Lord. Our Lady is the expression of the highest dignity which God has bestowed on men and that dignity which makes him a real child of God. St John says 'Now we are children of God. What we are going to be, we do not know, but we will see Him as He is.' So let's get rid of false glitters and idols, that our eyes become clear and that we can collaborate with Our Lady, to bring not only ourselves to conversion, fasting, prayer, to the Lord, but to take many with us; to be co-redeemers, to be collaborators in the redemptive work of God; that we too one day can say 'Our Lady, your visit was not in vain. You have stayed so long with us but thank you because you have convinced us, that through your humility, through your simplicity, through your tender love, you have convinced us that we can follow you, that we can open our hearts to you and that you can lead us into the open heart of your son." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was Blessed John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Mgr Leo Maasburg: "Our Lady takes us to the Lord in the Blessed Sacrament, and she comes to us, inviting us to open our hearts to the Lord. Our Lady is the expression of the highest dignity which God has bestowed on men and that dignity which makes him a real child of God. St John says 'Now we are children of God. What we are going to be, we do not know, but we will see Him as He is.' So let's get rid of false glitters and idols, that our eyes become clear and that we can collaborate with Our Lady, to bring not only ourselves to conversion, fasting, prayer, to the Lord, but to take many with us; to be co-redeemers, to be collaborators in the redemptive work of God; that we too one day can say 'Our Lady, your visit was not in vain. You have stayed so long with us but thank you because you have convinced us, that through your humility, through your simplicity, through your tender love, you have convinced us that we can follow you, that we can open our hearts to you and that you can lead us into the open heart of your son." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was Blessed John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Fri, 24 Jun 2011 12:00:00 GMT 9:40 Medjugorje, Mary, Our Lady, Queen of Peace, God, faith, christianity, apparition Totus2us.com Mgr Keith Barltrop: "The two martyrs who really stand at the head of our English martyrs are Thomas More and Bishop John Fisher. .. They were in no sense narrow-minded men; they were part of what was really called a humanistic revival of the Renaissance, they were very open to new ideas, which made it so tragic that they had to give their lives for a new ideas which they couldn't accept, that is the supremacy of the king over the Church of England and the complete alteration of the Catholic faith. Blessed Newman, who was beatified last year by Pope Benedict, spoke eloquently about the way Catholic teaching and life develops over the years, but he stressed that while it is continually growing it doesn't mutate from one thing to another, so the whole art of discernment is seeing if this new development that is taking place, is this enriching our Catholic faith?" Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was Blessed John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Mgr Keith Barltrop: "The two martyrs who really stand at the head of our English martyrs are Thomas More and Bishop John Fisher. .. They were in no sense narrow-minded men; they were part of what was really called a humanistic revival of the Renaissance, they were very open to new ideas, which made it so tragic that they had to give their lives for a new ideas which they couldn't accept, that is the supremacy of the king over the Church of England and the complete alteration of the Catholic faith. Blessed Newman, who was beatified last year by Pope Benedict, spoke eloquently about the way Catholic teaching and life develops over the years, but he stressed that while it is continually growing it doesn't mutate from one thing to another, so the whole art of discernment is seeing if this new development that is taking place, is this enriching our Catholic faith?" Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was Blessed John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Wed, 22 Jun 2011 12:00:00 GMT 6:39 Thomas More, John Fisher, martyrs, England, God, faith, christianity, politicians Totus2us.com Fr Anthony Meredith: "So marvellous was St Anthony's preaching that the churches in Northern Italy weren't large enough to contain the crowds that wanted to hear him preach. He did preach remarkably and this fact is recorded. Not only did he write out many of his sermons, which are still preserved, but also the animals also wanted to hear him preaching and apparently even the fish poked up their heads out of the water to hear him.. One of the extraordinary things about him is that the rest of his body corrupted very quickly except for one particular part, the tongue. The fact the tongue alone remains now reflects something of his power as a speaker, that he was able to attract so many people and perhaps even the animal world to hear him, and that brings home to us the importance of preaching, of bringing home to other people the message of the Gospel." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was Blessed John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Fr Anthony Meredith: "So marvellous was St Anthony's preaching that the churches in Northern Italy weren't large enough to contain the crowds that wanted to hear him preach. He did preach remarkably and this fact is recorded. Not only did he write out many of his sermons, which are still preserved, but also the animals also wanted to hear him preaching and apparently even the fish poked up their heads out of the water to hear him.. One of the extraordinary things about him is that the rest of his body corrupted very quickly except for one particular part, the tongue. The fact the tongue alone remains now reflects something of his power as a speaker, that he was able to attract so many people and perhaps even the animal world to hear him, and that brings home to us the importance of preaching, of bringing home to other people the message of the Gospel." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was Blessed John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Mon, 13 Jun 2011 12:00:00 GMT 6:26 St Anthony, Padua, lost, found, God, preacher, Franciscan, poor Totus2us.com Fr Matt Blake: "Jesus has just been conceived in the womb of Mary; it's probably only days, weeks at the very most, time when most women would not even know that they are pregnant, Jesus is a living human being but in the most hidden place any human being can be. Yet we remember that Jesus is hidden within us, within every person, in what St John of the Cross calls our deepest centre. That's where we first meet Him in the Gospels and that's where He is with us always. John the Baptist is also a child in the womb. We're told by his mother Elizabeth that he leapt with joy. John, in the womb, could receive Jesus, could receive the grace of Jesus's presence. A reminder to us that not only is a child in the womb a living human being, but a child in the womb has the capacity to receive God's grace, has a spiritual life, is in relationship with God." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Fr Matt Blake: "Jesus has just been conceived in the womb of Mary; it's probably only days, weeks at the very most, time when most women would not even know that they are pregnant, Jesus is a living human being but in the most hidden place any human being can be. Yet we remember that Jesus is hidden within us, within every person, in what St John of the Cross calls our deepest centre. That's where we first meet Him in the Gospels and that's where He is with us always. John the Baptist is also a child in the womb. We're told by his mother Elizabeth that he leapt with joy. John, in the womb, could receive Jesus, could receive the grace of Jesus's presence. A reminder to us that not only is a child in the womb a living human being, but a child in the womb has the capacity to receive God's grace, has a spiritual life, is in relationship with God." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Tue, 31 May 2011 12:00:00 GMT 8:57 Visitation, Mary, Elizabeth, love, God, Our Lady, rosary, joy, prayer Totus2us.com Fr Leo Maasburg: "The angel asked the children in Fatima if they were ready to go out and they say yes, we are ready to face the sufferings of this world which nobody can avoid. On 13th May 1981 another great person had to suffer and that was Blessed John Paul II. And I happened to be at St Peter's Square when, in the evening, hundreds and thousands of people gathered just to pray. There were candles on the ground where he had been shot and he was in hospital. We were praying the rosary there. Suddenly you could hear a strong clicking noise and the loud speakers were switched on in St Peter's Square. And after a long time, maybe 10 minutes, you could hear a very heavy breathing, very slowly, and already the word spread that this was a broadcast from the room of the Holy Father in hospital. And then a very, very slow, a real suffering voice came across "Totus tuus ego sum." A long silence; it took him I guess at least 3 minutes to pronounce these words. And then he said "I have forgiven the man who made an attempt on my life." I believe this is exactly what the message of Fatima wants to tell us: are we ready to offer our lives, are we ready to offer our sufferings, in order to be able to forgive?" Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Fr Leo Maasburg: "The angel asked the children in Fatima if they were ready to go out and they say yes, we are ready to face the sufferings of this world which nobody can avoid. On 13th May 1981 another great person had to suffer and that was Blessed John Paul II. And I happened to be at St Peter's Square when, in the evening, hundreds and thousands of people gathered just to pray. There were candles on the ground where he had been shot and he was in hospital. We were praying the rosary there. Suddenly you could hear a strong clicking noise and the loud speakers were switched on in St Peter's Square. And after a long time, maybe 10 minutes, you could hear a very heavy breathing, very slowly, and already the word spread that this was a broadcast from the room of the Holy Father in hospital. And then a very, very slow, a real suffering voice came across "Totus tuus ego sum." A long silence; it took him I guess at least 3 minutes to pronounce these words. And then he said "I have forgiven the man who made an attempt on my life." I believe this is exactly what the message of Fatima wants to tell us: are we ready to offer our lives, are we ready to offer our sufferings, in order to be able to forgive?" Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Fri, 13 May 2011 12:00:00 GMT 11:29 Fatima, Blessed, Mary, apparition, love, God, Our Lady, redemption, prayer Totus2us.com Fr Francis Selman: "What can we learn from this brief outline of St Catherine's life? First, she knew how to find all the time and space she needed for prayer in the busy household of her family. Second, prayer was not so much something that Catherine went to, as we do in moments snatched from our work, but she went from to her activity. Third, she knew how to combine inner peace with political activity.. Fourth, the Eucharist was the centre of her daily life. And lastly, her life was focused on the Trinity, the source of all love, and on Christ who, by his Incarnation, is the bridge by which we cross over from earth to heaven." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Fr Francis Selman: "What can we learn from this brief outline of St Catherine's life? First, she knew how to find all the time and space she needed for prayer in the busy household of her family. Second, prayer was not so much something that Catherine went to, as we do in moments snatched from our work, but she went from to her activity. Third, she knew how to combine inner peace with political activity.. Fourth, the Eucharist was the centre of her daily life. And lastly, her life was focused on the Trinity, the source of all love, and on Christ who, by his Incarnation, is the bridge by which we cross over from earth to heaven." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Fri, 29 Apr 2011 12:00:00 GMT 7:34 Saint, Catherine, love, Jesus, Christ, God, Catholic, redemption Totus2us.com Fr William Pearsall: "Christ washes the feet of his disciples and on the day that follows he will wash the world in his own blood. So the bread which is broken is his own body which will be offered for us and the cup which he blesses and gives to his disciples is the cup of his blood which will be shed for us. And for this reason the Last Supper can never be separated from the Cross. They belong together. And the Cross itself is the reason Christ came - it is so that we can be reconciled with God through this gift of love whereby the Son of God offers himself on behalf of humanity and in his human nature is crucified to the wood of the cross, with his arms outstretched in an embrace nailed to that wood and an embrace that will include the whole universe and he bares the wounds of that suffering, even in his risen body. They remain the marks of that love in His glory in heaven so that God's own life is inseparable now from this moment of death, the death of Christ on the Cross and the Gospels speak of that as his hour of glory." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Fr William Pearsall: "Christ washes the feet of his disciples and on the day that follows he will wash the world in his own blood. So the bread which is broken is his own body which will be offered for us and the cup which he blesses and gives to his disciples is the cup of his blood which will be shed for us. And for this reason the Last Supper can never be separated from the Cross. They belong together. And the Cross itself is the reason Christ came - it is so that we can be reconciled with God through this gift of love whereby the Son of God offers himself on behalf of humanity and in his human nature is crucified to the wood of the cross, with his arms outstretched in an embrace nailed to that wood and an embrace that will include the whole universe and he bares the wounds of that suffering, even in his risen body. They remain the marks of that love in His glory in heaven so that God's own life is inseparable now from this moment of death, the death of Christ on the Cross and the Gospels speak of that as his hour of glory." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Thu, 21 Apr 2011 12:00:00 GMT 11:56 God, love, Jesus Christ, Passion, crucifixion, redemption Totus2us.com Fr John Edwards SJ: "We should be so grateful that we have a mother like Mary. A mother is one who gives life. The life of Christ, which is meant to be in each one of us, comes as a condition through Mary. As St Augustine said: "From one woman, death (meaning Eve), from a woman, life (meaning Mary). On 25th March we should, among other things, be very grateful to our mother." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Fr John Edwards SJ: "We should be so grateful that we have a mother like Mary. A mother is one who gives life. The life of Christ, which is meant to be in each one of us, comes as a condition through Mary. As St Augustine said: "From one woman, death (meaning Eve), from a woman, life (meaning Mary). On 25th March we should, among other things, be very grateful to our mother." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Fri, 25 Mar 2011 12:00:00 GMT 7:55 angel, Father, God, love, Mary, Madonna, Jesus, Christianity, joy, grace Totus2us.com Fr Anthony Doe: "The Father chose Joseph because He saw in him a man who would be able to initiate His Divine Son into His own life; He saw in Joseph the depth and tenderness of heart, the compassion, the mercy, the wisdom and the openness to others that He wished to communicate to His Son Jesus in the flesh. So Joseph was the one who enabled Jesus to really freely embrace the Father in the depths of His spirit and come to know him, because Joseph was the human template that had cared for him as a child. So Joseph played an extremely important part in the life of Jesus. In those hours of silent prayer, in those encounters with the Father, something had already been implanted so that Jesus could genuinely know that the Father's presence was authentic and true, because he had already experienced it in Joseph." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Fr Anthony Doe: "The Father chose Joseph because He saw in him a man who would be able to initiate His Divine Son into His own life; He saw in Joseph the depth and tenderness of heart, the compassion, the mercy, the wisdom and the openness to others that He wished to communicate to His Son Jesus in the flesh. So Joseph was the one who enabled Jesus to really freely embrace the Father in the depths of His spirit and come to know him, because Joseph was the human template that had cared for him as a child. So Joseph played an extremely important part in the life of Jesus. In those hours of silent prayer, in those encounters with the Father, something had already been implanted so that Jesus could genuinely know that the Father's presence was authentic and true, because he had already experienced it in Joseph." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Sat, 19 Mar 2011 12:00:00 GMT 11:07 Jesus, Father, Joseph, God, love, Saint, family, Christianity, silence, grace Totus2us.com Fr David Barnes: "Another David, living 500 years after Christ, is the patron saint of Wales. He too wanted to put his whole heart into loving God. As a young priest he defended Catholic teaching, especially about how Christ alone saves us from the power of sin which is destructive of our humanity and how our humanity grows only with the help of God's grace. David lived a very ascetic life, he founded monasteries where a very simple life was promoted, a life stripped of as many material things as possible. It was not that he saw material things as bad, but simply that our attachment to material things, an over-dependence on them blinds us to the love of God. He became known as the waterman because his monks drank only water, a way of wanting to rely totally on God." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Fr David Barnes: "Another David, living 500 years after Christ, is the patron saint of Wales. He too wanted to put his whole heart into loving God. As a young priest he defended Catholic teaching, especially about how Christ alone saves us from the power of sin which is destructive of our humanity and how our humanity grows only with the help of God's grace. David lived a very ascetic life, he founded monasteries where a very simple life was promoted, a life stripped of as many material things as possible. It was not that he saw material things as bad, but simply that our attachment to material things, an over-dependence on them blinds us to the love of God. He became known as the waterman because his monks drank only water, a way of wanting to rely totally on God." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus (All Yours) was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Tue, 1 Mar 2011 12:00:00 GMT 5:40 Jesus, Wales, Patron, God, love, Saint, David, Christianity, Church, grace Totus2us.com Fr John Edwards SJ: "We too are presented to God. Please God each one of us is alive in the life of Christ, what we Catholics call 'in a state of grace', and presented in some way also through the hands of his mother. It was through her, after all, through her yes, that God became man. So we are endlessly in the situation of being held before God in his holy place by Mary and we must pray that the Christ life in us should grow and develop." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Fr John Edwards SJ: "We too are presented to God. Please God each one of us is alive in the life of Christ, what we Catholics call 'in a state of grace', and presented in some way also through the hands of his mother. It was through her, after all, through her yes, that God became man. So we are endlessly in the situation of being held before God in his holy place by Mary and we must pray that the Christ life in us should grow and develop." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Wed, 2 Feb 2011 12:00:00 GMT 6:00 Jesus, Holy Spirit, God, love, Saint, Paul, Christianity, Church, grace Totus2us.com Fr John Edwards SJ: "Now what is important about his conversion? Well this, that he is so vital for the Church. It's very mysterious, Our Lord had chosen 12 apostles to whom he gave authority to teach all nations and guaranteed that they would teach the truth. We look on them as the first bishops; 1 of them was Judas, he had to be replaced, but these people had all known Our Lord in his earthly life. He chose out 12, St Mark says, to be with him. But St Paul was not with him. St Paul, a learned man, learned in Jewish religion, highly intelligent .. persecuted the Church and did it zealously for a long time. Now it was this man who met Jesus in a different way. He was on his way to Damascus to persecute Christians and Jesus appeared to him, he knocked him off his horse, turned him blind, and a voice from heaven... Now that was the man whom Jesus chose. God can do anything and he chose him, as St Paul says, as it were out of due time. He really did meet Jesus but it was in a different way and he realised that God was calling him to preach, to be the apostle, to the non-Jews, the Gentiles." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Fr John Edwards SJ: "Now what is important about his conversion? Well this, that he is so vital for the Church. It's very mysterious, Our Lord had chosen 12 apostles to whom he gave authority to teach all nations and guaranteed that they would teach the truth. We look on them as the first bishops; 1 of them was Judas, he had to be replaced, but these people had all known Our Lord in his earthly life. He chose out 12, St Mark says, to be with him. But St Paul was not with him. St Paul, a learned man, learned in Jewish religion, highly intelligent .. persecuted the Church and did it zealously for a long time. Now it was this man who met Jesus in a different way. He was on his way to Damascus to persecute Christians and Jesus appeared to him, he knocked him off his horse, turned him blind, and a voice from heaven... Now that was the man whom Jesus chose. God can do anything and he chose him, as St Paul says, as it were out of due time. He really did meet Jesus but it was in a different way and he realised that God was calling him to preach, to be the apostle, to the non-Jews, the Gentiles." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Tue, 25 Jan 2011 12:00:00 GMT 6:53 Jesus, Holy Spirit, God, love, Saint, Paul, Christianity, Church, grace Totus2us.com Fr Javier Igea: "The best gift that we can give is the gift of ourselves. The best gift is not a material thing but it is our heart and It is what we truly celebrate in the Feast of the Epiphany: God has given himself to us, God has given our heart to us in the Incarnate Word, the baby Jesus, which is given to humanity." Carol - In the Bleak Midwinter. Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Fr Javier Igea: "The best gift that we can give is the gift of ourselves. The best gift is not a material thing but it is our heart and It is what we truly celebrate in the Feast of the Epiphany: God has given himself to us, God has given our heart to us in the Incarnate Word, the baby Jesus, which is given to humanity." Carol - In the Bleak Midwinter. Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Fri, 6 Jan 2011 12:00:00 GMT 4:55 Jesus, Holy Spirit, God, love, our good, Christmas, Mary, grace Totus2us.com Fr Leo Maasburg: "The World Day of Peace is about God who works together with us to change the state of the fallen world into the state of the redeemed world of paradise. Mother Teresa in her 80s was asked by a journalist "What have you changed in the world?" She answered "I never wanted to change the world. I only wanted to be a drop of fresh water in which God's love could be reflected into the world." .. I hope that we will be the same - to be little drops of clean water through which the love of God can, unhindered, be let through into the world. And that love of God is done by faith, by prayer, by fasting and by almsgiving. In this way our love for God and for our brothers and sisters will grow, and through that the light of God will start shining into the world. Here in Medjugorje this is precisely the message of Our Lady: faith, to change our way, to believe in God, to fast, to pray and to give alms. This is the classical teaching of the Church throughout all the centuries. Our Lady does not change - she is the same, with her complete dedication, her complete obedience to God: "Be it done unto me according to Thy Word." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Fr Leo Maasburg: "The World Day of Peace is about God who works together with us to change the state of the fallen world into the state of the redeemed world of paradise. Mother Teresa in her 80s was asked by a journalist "What have you changed in the world?" She answered "I never wanted to change the world. I only wanted to be a drop of fresh water in which God's love could be reflected into the world." .. I hope that we will be the same - to be little drops of clean water through which the love of God can, unhindered, be let through into the world. And that love of God is done by faith, by prayer, by fasting and by almsgiving. In this way our love for God and for our brothers and sisters will grow, and through that the light of God will start shining into the world. Here in Medjugorje this is precisely the message of Our Lady: faith, to change our way, to believe in God, to fast, to pray and to give alms. This is the classical teaching of the Church throughout all the centuries. Our Lady does not change - she is the same, with her complete dedication, her complete obedience to God: "Be it done unto me according to Thy Word." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Sat, 1 Jan 2011 12:10:00 GMT 8:30 Saints, heaven, God, faith, love, heart, conversion, hope, Mary, Madonna, Immaculate Totus2us.com Fr Leo Maasburg: "The Immaculate Conception of Mary in the womb of her mother Anna - it starts us off to think: Why is that something so exceptional? Why do we celebrate it in a special feast day? I believe it is because we rejoice in the Lord for the unique holiness He has given to Our Lady. Her unique holiness was not a special gift for her, she was not just a privileged woman whom the Lord has chosen, but He has chosen the whole of humankind in her, she is only you could say the point where He entered that human history. She is the entrance door and also at the same time the symbol and the aim, the fulfilment and the example for that unique holiness to which all humankind is called. God has somehow promised in that vocation which He gave to Our Lady that He will lead the whole of humankind to that holiness. Our Lady in Lourdes calls herself "I am the Immaculate Conception". We know that in baptism, which is symbolised by the waters in Lourdes, we are called to follow her into that holiness, into that complete cleanliness in front of God; and humankind will not find its peace unless it is clean, unless it is holy whole." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Fr Leo Maasburg: "The Immaculate Conception of Mary in the womb of her mother Anna - it starts us off to think: Why is that something so exceptional? Why do we celebrate it in a special feast day? I believe it is because we rejoice in the Lord for the unique holiness He has given to Our Lady. Her unique holiness was not a special gift for her, she was not just a privileged woman whom the Lord has chosen, but He has chosen the whole of humankind in her, she is only you could say the point where He entered that human history. She is the entrance door and also at the same time the symbol and the aim, the fulfilment and the example for that unique holiness to which all humankind is called. God has somehow promised in that vocation which He gave to Our Lady that He will lead the whole of humankind to that holiness. Our Lady in Lourdes calls herself "I am the Immaculate Conception". We know that in baptism, which is symbolised by the waters in Lourdes, we are called to follow her into that holiness, into that complete cleanliness in front of God; and humankind will not find its peace unless it is clean, unless it is holy whole." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Wed, 8 Dec 2010 12:10:00 GMT 10:34 Saints, heaven, God, faith, love, heart, conversion, hope, Mary, Madonna, Immaculate Totus2us.com Fr John Edwards SJ: "St Francis Xavier is one of the patrons of the missions .. when he turned to Jesus, he was ambitious for Jesus. The thing is he was totally unselfish which is the vital thing. Unselfishness is really almost what we mean by charity, by love: not having self first. Incredible journeys in those 10 years in the East, massive responsibility, India, Malaysia, islands of the East Indies, Japan, very nearly China; greatest hardship and through it all immense prayer life, immense charity, immense love. " Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Fr John Edwards SJ: "St Francis Xavier is one of the patrons of the missions .. when he turned to Jesus, he was ambitious for Jesus. The thing is he was totally unselfish which is the vital thing. Unselfishness is really almost what we mean by charity, by love: not having self first. Incredible journeys in those 10 years in the East, massive responsibility, India, Malaysia, islands of the East Indies, Japan, very nearly China; greatest hardship and through it all immense prayer life, immense charity, immense love. " Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Fri, 3 Dec 2010 12:10:00 GMT 5:26 Saints, everyone, heaven, God, faith, love, heart, conversion, hope Totus2us.com Fr Nathan Cromly CSJ: "St Catherine Labouré was a woman to whom Mary revealed the desire of God to give grace. In a special way therefore in celebrating this feast day, we need to celebrate this saint who allowed herself to receive that message: the humility of her heart to enable herself to be so loved by God that she could even receive Mary as a mother, mediatrix (which means channel) of His gift of Himself to her; to allow oneself to be loved in a way that we can't even understand. For example to think about those graces for which we haven't even asked - what must those graces be like? That's what Our Lady told St Catherine: God wants to give even more than what you ask for. It's like plunging St Catherine on a spiritual path of desire, saying 'Do you really want to cooperate with God?' then desire for the rest of your life." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Fr Nathan Cromly CSJ: "St Catherine Labouré was a woman to whom Mary revealed the desire of God to give grace. In a special way therefore in celebrating this feast day, we need to celebrate this saint who allowed herself to receive that message: the humility of her heart to enable herself to be so loved by God that she could even receive Mary as a mother, mediatrix (which means channel) of His gift of Himself to her; to allow oneself to be loved in a way that we can't even understand. For example to think about those graces for which we haven't even asked - what must those graces be like? That's what Our Lady told St Catherine: God wants to give even more than what you ask for. It's like plunging St Catherine on a spiritual path of desire, saying 'Do you really want to cooperate with God?' then desire for the rest of your life." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Sat, 27 Nov 2010 12:10:00 GMT 4:58 Miraculous medal, nun, apparition, God, faith, love, heart, conversion, hope Totus2us.com Fr Leo Maasburg: "The Church celebrates all saints - all the saints of all the centuries.. all those who have gone to heaven through the grace of God. Sanctity, Mother Teresa once said, is not the privilege of the few, sanctity is the simple duty for you and me, we have all been created for that. That is her view and she echoes very well what the Second Vatican Council tells us: the common call to sanctity. .. Of course none of us can live the virtues but we all can open up to the guidance, to the strengthening, to the counselling of the Holy Spirit .. Sanctity is the path and it is the narrow path into the kingdom of God. It is a path which Jesus says is comparable to the eye of a needle - it cannot be found by ourselves. It is very difficult for ourselves to enter the kingdom of heaven but what for us is impossible, for God is possible. So sanctity has a lot to do with us being linked closely to God. And how do we get linked to God? By the means by which the Holy Spirit guides us and the Church teaches us; it is very simple. It is by getting into silence first, into the silence of our hearts. God speaks in the silence of our hearts." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Fr Leo Maasburg: "The Church celebrates all saints - all the saints of all the centuries.. all those who have gone to heaven through the grace of God. Sanctity, Mother Teresa once said, is not the privilege of the few, sanctity is the simple duty for you and me, we have all been created for that. That is her view and she echoes very well what the Second Vatican Council tells us: the common call to sanctity. .. Of course none of us can live the virtues but we all can open up to the guidance, to the strengthening, to the counselling of the Holy Spirit .. Sanctity is the path and it is the narrow path into the kingdom of God. It is a path which Jesus says is comparable to the eye of a needle - it cannot be found by ourselves. It is very difficult for ourselves to enter the kingdom of heaven but what for us is impossible, for God is possible. So sanctity has a lot to do with us being linked closely to God. And how do we get linked to God? By the means by which the Holy Spirit guides us and the Church teaches us; it is very simple. It is by getting into silence first, into the silence of our hearts. God speaks in the silence of our hearts." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Mon, 1 Nov 2010 12:10:00 GMT 7:16 Saints, everyone, heaven, God, faith, love, heart, conversion, hope Totus2us.com Fr John Edwards: "There wasn't a slacker or a coward among them. These men were on fire with the love of God and of Jesus crucified and love of the indigenous people they came to serve. Men of total generosity, faithful to God, gifted in prayer, unsparing in their unselfishness, courageous, tough, spiritual giants .. But physically how did this weak man, Noel Chabanel, stand up to martyrdom - superbly; he died, like the others, without a murmur. You see he was hit on the head with a tomahawk by a renegade Huron while they were going through the forest and he never knew a thing, he just woke up in heaven. He wasn't a wimp but I like to think he is the patron of those of us who are." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Fr John Edwards: "There wasn't a slacker or a coward among them. These men were on fire with the love of God and of Jesus crucified and love of the indigenous people they came to serve. Men of total generosity, faithful to God, gifted in prayer, unsparing in their unselfishness, courageous, tough, spiritual giants .. But physically how did this weak man, Noel Chabanel, stand up to martyrdom - superbly; he died, like the others, without a murmur. You see he was hit on the head with a tomahawk by a renegade Huron while they were going through the forest and he never knew a thing, he just woke up in heaven. He wasn't a wimp but I like to think he is the patron of those of us who are." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Tue, 19 Oct 2010 12:10:00 GMT 4:22 Martyrs, Jesuits, courage, God, faith, love, heart, conversion, America Totus2us.com Fr Ian Ker: "When the Catholic Church canonises somebody they are talking about heroic virtue, heroic sanctity, that a person was heroic, they are not talking about somebody being faultless. I think sometimes people used to say 'O well, Newman had this fault and that fault, so he couldn't be a saint.' That is actually not relevant because no-one is perfect and indeed all the saints have faults. What the Church is looking for is a heroic quality, it is not looking for impeccability, it is looking for heroism and Newman heroically followed the kindly light of truth through his life." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Fr Ian Ker: "When the Catholic Church canonises somebody they are talking about heroic virtue, heroic sanctity, that a person was heroic, they are not talking about somebody being faultless. I think sometimes people used to say 'O well, Newman had this fault and that fault, so he couldn't be a saint.' That is actually not relevant because no-one is perfect and indeed all the saints have faults. What the Church is looking for is a heroic quality, it is not looking for impeccability, it is looking for heroism and Newman heroically followed the kindly light of truth through his life." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Sat, 9 Oct 2010 12:10:00 GMT 7:25 Blessed, Cardinal, John Henry Newman, God, faith, love, heart, conversion Totus2us.com Mother Teresa: "The young people, especially in their applications, write: 'I want a life of poverty, prayer and sacrifice that will lead me to a service of the poor.' … The lonely, the unwanted, the unloved – we try to bring Jesus to them, by involving them in the service of the poor, by our presence among them, they must be able to look up and see Jesus in us. And also I believe in helping them to come in touch with the poor, because the poor give us much more than we give to the poor." Father Leo: "John Paul II said 'In Mother Teresa we meet one of the most important personalities in history' ... Hers is the sanctity which shows the whole mystery of the redemption, sin and redemption. And I believe that we can pray to and venerate Mother Teresa precisely for this, to help us to collaborate in the redemption of the world. On her feast day this is the biggest wish I want to express. When we celebrate the memory of her death on 5th September, we can even liturgically invoke that favour from her: to be able to collaborate for the redemption of the world." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Mother Teresa: "The young people, especially in their applications, write: 'I want a life of poverty, prayer and sacrifice that will lead me to a service of the poor.' … The lonely, the unwanted, the unloved – we try to bring Jesus to them, by involving them in the service of the poor, by our presence among them, they must be able to look up and see Jesus in us. And also I believe in helping them to come in touch with the poor, because the poor give us much more than we give to the poor." Father Leo: "John Paul II said 'In Mother Teresa we meet one of the most important personalities in history' ... Hers is the sanctity which shows the whole mystery of the redemption, sin and redemption. And I believe that we can pray to and venerate Mother Teresa precisely for this, to help us to collaborate in the redemption of the world. On her feast day this is the biggest wish I want to express. When we celebrate the memory of her death on 5th September, we can even liturgically invoke that favour from her: to be able to collaborate for the redemption of the world." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Sun, 5 Sep 2010 12:10:00 GMT 17:05 Blessed, Mother, Teresa, God, faith, love, heart, Totus2us.com Fr Anthony Meredith SJ: "One of the most vital and important elements of St Augustine's spiritual vision is his stress on the importance of the heart; he is not simply a mental thinker or a mental prayer. He believes the heart is important and he has famous sentence in the opening of The Confessions when he says 'Thou has created O Lord for Thyself and our hearts are restless until they rest in Thee.' The word heart occurs on many, many occasions. The inner truest self.. the heart directing itself always inwards and upwards, upwards and outwards to God." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Fr Anthony Meredith SJ: "One of the most vital and important elements of St Augustine's spiritual vision is his stress on the importance of the heart; he is not simply a mental thinker or a mental prayer. He believes the heart is important and he has famous sentence in the opening of The Confessions when he says 'Thou has created O Lord for Thyself and our hearts are restless until they rest in Thee.' The word heart occurs on many, many occasions. The inner truest self.. the heart directing itself always inwards and upwards, upwards and outwards to God." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Sat, 28 Aug 2010 12:10:00 GMT 11:56 Augustine, Saint, theologian, City of God, faith, love, heart, Totus2us.com Fr Anthony Doe: "This is really the meaning of Our Lady as Queen of Heaven: Queen of Mercy, Queen of the compassionate outreach of the Father's love in her Son. And so she stands as the greatest gift to the human race. She is one of us, somebody who is now living her humanity to the full, and who is living it for us, for our salvation, and is there always with that power and authority that comes from God, to take every single human being by the hand and lead them into His merciful presence." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Fr Anthony Doe: "This is really the meaning of Our Lady as Queen of Heaven: Queen of Mercy, Queen of the compassionate outreach of the Father's love in her Son. And so she stands as the greatest gift to the human race. She is one of us, somebody who is now living her humanity to the full, and who is living it for us, for our salvation, and is there always with that power and authority that comes from God, to take every single human being by the hand and lead them into His merciful presence." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Sun, 22 Aug 2010 12:10:00 GMT 6:44 Mary, Coronation, heaven, God, Mother, love, Mercy, peace, Queen Totus2us.com Fr Iain Matthew OCD: "To be assumed into heaven means to be taken into the fullness of love. It does not mean to be taken away, it means be taken into the fullness of love, into the life of the Blessed Trinity. So the whole of Mary is taken into God's love, which means that she is completely here with me, with you. Assumed into heaven means more in God, so more with you, able to embrace you, to take you into her heart, to carry you in her heart." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Fr Iain Matthew OCD: "To be assumed into heaven means to be taken into the fullness of love. It does not mean to be taken away, it means be taken into the fullness of love, into the life of the Blessed Trinity. So the whole of Mary is taken into God's love, which means that she is completely here with me, with you. Assumed into heaven means more in God, so more with you, able to embrace you, to take you into her heart, to carry you in her heart." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Sun, 15 Aug 2010 12:10:00 GMT 9:05 Mary, Assumption, heaven, God, Mother, love, Blessed, Virgin Totus2us.com Fr Emmanuel Mansford CFR: "The words of Jesus, quoted by Pope John Paul II at his canonisation, are what come to mind "Greater love has no man than to lay down his life for his friends." St Maximilian, aided by the prayers and his love for Our Lady, gave himself completely, totally, as she did, up to the point of the Cross, so that another man may live, may go home and look after his wife and his family. This man, this priest, St Maximilian Kolbe, was called by Pope John Paul II "the Patron Saint of our difficult century." Where so much innocent life was taken through communism and nazism, he stood for the Gospel, for the gospel of life, as a witness. In our age, we, especially men, should be challenged by his life of commitment, of sacrifice, of saying yes to God totally, of being a man for others." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Fr Emmanuel Mansford CFR: "The words of Jesus, quoted by Pope John Paul II at his canonisation, are what come to mind "Greater love has no man than to lay down his life for his friends." St Maximilian, aided by the prayers and his love for Our Lady, gave himself completely, totally, as she did, up to the point of the Cross, so that another man may live, may go home and look after his wife and his family. This man, this priest, St Maximilian Kolbe, was called by Pope John Paul II "the Patron Saint of our difficult century." Where so much innocent life was taken through communism and nazism, he stood for the Gospel, for the gospel of life, as a witness. In our age, we, especially men, should be challenged by his life of commitment, of sacrifice, of saying yes to God totally, of being a man for others." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Sat, 14 Aug 2010 12:10:00 GMT 10:52 Saint, Maximilian Kolbe, Auschwitz, martyr, priest, love, vocation, charity Totus2us.com Fr David Barnes: "For St John Vianney, prayer - lifting up our mind and heart to God each day - enables us to find our true home, where we really belong, deep in the heart of Jesus. John Vianney writes 'In prayer, which is union with God, the soul and God are like two pieces of wax molded into one.' What a wonderful image for us to pray with. One of the most famous stories about the Curé d'Ars is about someone who came to him as he sat at the back of the Church before the Blessed Sacrament, Our Lord fully present among us, and when this person asked "What are you doing all day with this?" he answered, "Nothing. I just look at Him and He looks at me." John Vianney knew the beauty of true friendship - just to be with the beloved was all he asked. This enabled him to see everything in a different light and so he writes for us 'In prayer well made, troubles vanish like snow in the rays of the sun." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Fr David Barnes: "For St John Vianney, prayer - lifting up our mind and heart to God each day - enables us to find our true home, where we really belong, deep in the heart of Jesus. John Vianney writes 'In prayer, which is union with God, the soul and God are like two pieces of wax molded into one.' What a wonderful image for us to pray with. One of the most famous stories about the Curé d'Ars is about someone who came to him as he sat at the back of the Church before the Blessed Sacrament, Our Lord fully present among us, and when this person asked "What are you doing all day with this?" he answered, "Nothing. I just look at Him and He looks at me." John Vianney knew the beauty of true friendship - just to be with the beloved was all he asked. This enabled him to see everything in a different light and so he writes for us 'In prayer well made, troubles vanish like snow in the rays of the sun." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Wed, 4 Aug 2010 12:10:00 GMT 6:26 Saint, John Vianney, Curé d'Ars, patron, priests, love, vocation, parish Totus2us.com Fr William Pearsall SJ: "Ignatius gave us ways of prayer that deepen our union with Christ and our commitment, the call of Christ and our response. And he gave us also the idea that we needn't be afraid of the world around us, we should engage in the culture, take part in the great events of our time, be a part of the life because God is active in the world, just as He is active in our lives. And so we discern our way, to decide the best way of serving the Gospel in the world, and this begins from a vision of finding God in all things. God is present and active in His creation." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Fr William Pearsall SJ: "Ignatius gave us ways of prayer that deepen our union with Christ and our commitment, the call of Christ and our response. And he gave us also the idea that we needn't be afraid of the world around us, we should engage in the culture, take part in the great events of our time, be a part of the life because God is active in the world, just as He is active in our lives. And so we discern our way, to decide the best way of serving the Gospel in the world, and this begins from a vision of finding God in all things. God is present and active in His creation." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Sat, 31 Jul 2010 12:10:00 GMT 8:33 Saint, Ignatius, Loyola, priest, jesuit, love, vocation Totus2us.com Fr Javier Igea: "After Christ sent his apostles to the end of the world, St James came to the end of the world which was thought in those times to be in North Western coast of Spain … The city of Santiago, where his tomb now is, is one of the main sanctuaries of Christianity, a place of pilgrimage .. Pope John Paul said that Santiago and the Camino was a prominent part in the construction of Europe .. To say Santiago is the same as to say to become a pilgrim, to pilgrimage .. Life is a pilgrimage, a pilgrim has to travel with a very light backpack...somebody who is always walking, who is weak, who goes through dangers ..All these symbols are symbols for life. We cannot carry many things in our life, we have to love God above every other thing. . A true pilgrim in life has to be poor, has only to put what is needed in his life which is the love of God our Saviour, a pilgrim should always be moving, in spiritual life we say that a pilgrim cannot stop growing, cannot say 'it is enough, I am not going to continue walking, I have loved enough, I do not need to grow in love' ..that is not going to the goal of our pilgrimage which is the greater Love." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Fr Javier Igea: "After Christ sent his apostles to the end of the world, St James came to the end of the world which was thought in those times to be in North Western coast of Spain … The city of Santiago, where his tomb now is, is one of the main sanctuaries of Christianity, a place of pilgrimage .. Pope John Paul said that Santiago and the Camino was a prominent part in the construction of Europe .. To say Santiago is the same as to say to become a pilgrim, to pilgrimage .. Life is a pilgrimage, a pilgrim has to travel with a very light backpack...somebody who is always walking, who is weak, who goes through dangers ..All these symbols are symbols for life. We cannot carry many things in our life, we have to love God above every other thing. . A true pilgrim in life has to be poor, has only to put what is needed in his life which is the love of God our Saviour, a pilgrim should always be moving, in spiritual life we say that a pilgrim cannot stop growing, cannot say 'it is enough, I am not going to continue walking, I have loved enough, I do not need to grow in love' ..that is not going to the goal of our pilgrimage which is the greater Love." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Sun, 25 Jul 2010 12:10:00 GMT 8:11 Santiago, Saint, James, camino, pilgrim, pilgrimage, love, Totus2us.com Fr Matt Blake OCD: "When people meditated upon Mary they saw that Mount Carmel was such a fitting meditation. Mary is the one who reveals to the world the true God, Mary is the one who gives the world her Son. What Elijah did on Mount Carmel, showing the world who the true God is, is brought to completion in Mary; and the reins, the new life, the waters of baptism, all the symbols of that episode, become associated with Mary. So Our Lady of Mount Carmel is a devotion that has grown through the faith of people, through people's meditation upon Mary and what she means to them." For more, visit www.totus2us.com Fr Matt Blake OCD: "When people meditated upon Mary they saw that Mount Carmel was such a fitting meditation. Mary is the one who reveals to the world the true God, Mary is the one who gives the world her Son. What Elijah did on Mount Carmel, showing the world who the true God is, is brought to completion in Mary; and the reins, the new life, the waters of baptism, all the symbols of that episode, become associated with Mary. So Our Lady of Mount Carmel is a devotion that has grown through the faith of people, through people''s meditation upon Mary and what she means to them." For more, visit www.totus2us.com Fri, 16 Jul 2010 12:10:00 GMT 7:40 Our Lady, Mary, Maria, Marie, Mount Carmel, love, Elijah Totus2us.com Fr Francis Selman: "The example of St Maria Goretti strengthens us to hold fast to the virtues of courage and chastity, which alone can bring us happiness, joy in life, and peace in our relationships." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Fr Francis Selman: "The example of St Maria Goretti strengthens us to hold fast to the virtues of courage and chastity, which alone can bring us happiness, joy in life, and peace in our relationships." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Tue, 6 Jul 2010 12:10:00 GMT 4:08 Saint, Maria, Goretti, virgin, martyr, chastity, courage Totus2us.com Fr Tekadiomona Nima SJ: "The life of both saints, Peter and Paul, show that there is nothing which is beyond Christ's redeeming love, for Peter had betrayed Jesus and Paul had persecuted Christians. In their weakness, Saint Peter and Saint Paul saw Christ as their strength. " Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Fr Tekadiomona Nima SJ: "The life of both saints, Peter and Paul, show that there is nothing which is beyond Christ's redeeming love, for Peter had betrayed Jesus and Paul had persecuted Christians. In their weakness, Saint Peter and Saint Paul saw Christ as their strength. " Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Tue, 29 Jun 2010 12:10:00 GMT 3:32 St Peter, Love, St Paul, evangelist, Jesus, God Totus2us.com Fr Leo Maasburg: "Mother Teresa of Calcutta always said that it was interesting that it is an unborn child which announces Jesus' presence in the womb of Our Lady. The unborn child is the first to recognise Christ and I believe that for our times this is a strong message to respect the life of unborn children. .. She also said the biggest power in the world is the power of tenderness, and although John was such an outspoken, strong person, he was still the herald and the messenger of the one who brought us God's tenderness.. I believe this is the message of St John: the tenderness of God with the clarity and the strength of the truth." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Fr Leo Maasburg: "Mother Teresa of Calcutta always said that it was interesting that it is an unborn child which announces Jesus' presence in the womb of Our Lady. The unborn child is the first to recognise Christ and I believe that for our times this is a strong message to respect the life of unborn children. .. She also said the biggest power in the world is the power of tenderness, and although John was such an outspoken, strong person, he was still the herald and the messenger of the one who brought us God's tenderness.. I believe this is the message of St John: the tenderness of God with the clarity and the strength of the truth." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Thu, 24 Jun 2010 12:10:00 GMT 5:55 St John the Baptist, Love, tenderness, Mother Teresa, Jesus, God Totus2us.com Fr Emmanuel Mansford CFR: "The wonderful thing about the heart of Mary is that it was a human heart and so she loved Jesus with this human heart. She loved him as we love people, she felt sad when he went away, she didn't always understand some of the things he said or did, but because she didn't have sin she trusted in the word that was revealed to her. So when we struggle to understand the work of Jesus in our life, the plan of God for us, we can say "Mary, lend me your heart that trusts so fully." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Fr Emmanuel Mansford CFR: "The wonderful thing about the heart of Mary is that it was a human heart and so she loved Jesus with this human heart. She loved him as we love people, she felt sad when he went away, she didn't always understand some of the things he said or did, but because she didn't have sin she trusted in the word that was revealed to her. So when we struggle to understand the work of Jesus in our life, the plan of God for us, we can say "Mary, lend me your heart that trusts so fully." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Sat, 12 Jun 2010 12:10:00 GMT 7:21 Immaculate Heart, Mary, God, Love Totus2us.com Fr Stan Fortuna CFR: "As we're closing the Year for Priests and celebrating the Sacred Heart of Jesus, there is a big connection there and not just for the ordained ministry but for the priesthood of the baptised. Because, as St Jean-Marie Vianney has said, and as Pope Benedict has made him the Patron Saint of Priests, "Love of the heart of Jesus is the priesthood." And I don"t think he is just referring to us loving the heart, but the love of the heart of Jesus, the burning love that is in the heart of Jesus, is itself the priesthood. And when he was speaking last year about this, Pope Benedict said the first thing we need to learn from St John Vianney is the complete identification of the man with his ministry, and this ministry is nothing less than love. So on this great Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus it's really all about love." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Fr Stan Fortuna CFR: "As we're closing the Year for Priests and celebrating the Sacred Heart of Jesus, there is a big connection there and not just for the ordained ministry but for the priesthood of the baptised. Because, as St Jean-Marie Vianney has said, and as Pope Benedict has made him the Patron Saint of Priests, "Love of the heart of Jesus is the priesthood." And I don"t think he is just referring to us loving the heart, but the love of the heart of Jesus, the burning love that is in the heart of Jesus, is itself the priesthood. And when he was speaking last year about this, Pope Benedict said the first thing we need to learn from St John Vianney is the complete identification of the man with his ministry, and this ministry is nothing less than love. So on this great Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus it's really all about love." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Fri, 11 Jun 2010 12:10:00 GMT 9:39 Sacred Heart, Jesus, God, Love Totus2us.com Fr Anthony Doe: "And this is really what the meaning of the Eucharist is - being brought alive first of all by the intimate love that Jesus has for our humanity, uniting himself to us in our woundedness but also our great capacity to be free and to love like He loves. And then, through the presence of Jesus within us, mysteriously He opens our spirit up to the love of the Father." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Fr Anthony Doe: "And this is really what the meaning of the Eucharist is - being brought alive first of all by the intimate love that Jesus has for our humanity, uniting himself to us in our woundedness but also our great capacity to be free and to love like He loves. And then, through the presence of Jesus within us, mysteriously He opens our spirit up to the love of the Father." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Thu, 3 Jun 2010 12:10:00 GMT 6:43 Corpus Christi, Eucharist, Mass, Jesus, sacrifice, God, Communion Totus2us.com Fr Leo Maasburg: "Our heart is built according to the Trinity, our love is built according to the Trinitarian love. All nature has a trinitarian character, one could say a genetic character of the Trinity, a fingerprint of the Trinity - from the nuclear structure to heaven and earth, from man and woman to all the laws of the universe." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Fr Leo Maasburg: "Our heart is built according to the Trinity, our love is built according to the Trinitarian love. All nature has a trinitarian character, one could say a genetic character of the Trinity, a fingerprint of the Trinity - from the nuclear structure to heaven and earth, from man and woman to all the laws of the universe." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Sun, 30 May 2010 12:10:00 GMT 4:30 God, Trinity, most holy, blessed, Jesus, Father, Son, Holy Spirit Totus2us.com Fr Marcus Holden: "Catholic means universal. On that first day of Pentecost, the disciples went out and preached to people from all different nations, and they heard the message in their own language. You see, the Spirit unites the faithful at the deepest level whilst respecting their own characteristics and integrity." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Fr Marcus Holden: "Catholic means universal. On that first day of Pentecost, the disciples went out and preached to people from all different nations, and they heard the message in their own language. You see, the Spirit unites the faithful at the deepest level whilst respecting their own characteristics and integrity." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Sun, 23 May 2010 12:10:00 GMT 5:10 Descent of, Holy Spirit, disciples, love, Jesus, Our Lady Totus2us.com Fr Iain Matthew OCD: "The ascension of Christ means the passage of Christ into the dimension of eternal love. He paid the price for that, on the Cross, He loved to the end, even when they were crucifying Him, even when I was crucifying Him. So now He truly can live love to the end. In His sacred humanity He can enter into that dimension of being which is pure love, pure hospitality, pure welcome." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Fr Iain Matthew: "The ascension of Christ means the passage of Christ into the dimension of eternal love. He paid the price for that, on the Cross, He loved to the end, even when they were crucifying Him, even when I was crucifying Him. So now He truly can live love to the end. In His sacred humanity He can enter into that dimension of being which is pure love, pure hospitality, pure welcome." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Thu, 13 May 2010 12:10:00 GMT 6:11 Ascension, heaven, Jesus Christ, Father, love, Totus2us.com Mgr Keith Barltrop: "What St Louis is most known for is this marvellous teaching on the way we can consecrate ourselves to Our Lady." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Mgr Keith Barltrop: "What St Louis is most known for is this marvellous teaching on the way we can consecrate ourselves to Our Lady." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Wed, 28 Apr 2010 12:10:00 GMT 5:58 Saint, Louis de Montfort, Totus Tuus, consecration, love, Jesus, Our Lady Totus2us.com Fr Piotr Prusakiewicz CSMA: "Mercy is the second name of love; it is love which gives itself, love in action. We celebrate the Feast of Divine Mercy, we worship the mercy of the Father who gave His Only Son; the mercy of the Son Jesus who is Mercy Incarnate Himself, who gave His life for us; and the mercy of the Holy Spirit because God's love is poured out into our hearts by the Holy Spirit." Music by Burke Ingraffia - Divine Mercy. Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Fr Piotr Prusakiewicz CSMA: "Mercy is the second name of love; it is love which gives itself, love in action. We celebrate the Feast of Divine Mercy, we worship the mercy of the Father who gave His Only Son; the mercy of the Son Jesus who is Mercy Incarnate Himself, who gave His life for us; and the mercy of the Holy Spirit because God's love is poured out into our hearts by the Holy Spirit." Music by Burke Ingraffia - Divine Mercy. Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Sun, 11 Apr 2010 12:10:00 GMT 9:34 Jesus, Christ, Divine, Mercy, Father, St Faustina, love Totus2us.com Fr Martin Sabathé CSJ: "We need the Holy Spirit to make this act of faith in the risen Christ. To meet Jesus in our faith, we do have to call on the Holy Spirit - please, Holy Spirit, come. Come into my heart, pour your light and your love into my heart so that I am able to make an act of faith, which is to discern the presence of Jesus, whereas I do not see him." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Fr Martin Sabathé CSJ: "We need the Holy Spirit to make this act of faith in the risen Christ. To meet Jesus in our faith, we do have to call on the Holy Spirit - please, Holy Spirit, come. Come into my heart, pour your light and your love into my heart so that I am able to make an act of faith, which is to discern the presence of Jesus, whereas I do not see him." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Sun, 4 Apr 2010 20:10:00 GMT 5:50 Jesus, Christ, resurrection, Holy Spirit, God, Saviour, faith, love, mercy Totus2us.com Archbishop Vincent : "This risen Christ is a leader. He is not risen off to some distant place where we can only look at him from afar but he is now an energetic, revitalised leader and he leads us primarily to his Father but asking us, in the power of the Holy Spirit, to make that pathway clear through the time in which we live. So we are, on this day, called to begin to share in His mission." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Archbishop Vincent: "This risen Christ is a leader. He is not risen off to some distant place where we can only look at him from afar but he is now an energetic, revitalised leader and he leads us primarily to his Father but asking us, in the power of the Holy Spirit, to make that pathway clear through the time in which we live. So we are, on this day, called to begin to share in His mission." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Sun, 4 Apr 2010 12:10:00 GMT 3:30 Jesus, Christ, resurrection, light, vigil, Easter Triduum, Saviour, world, love, mercy Totus2us.com Archbishop Vincent: "So what we try to do on an Easter Vigil is understand how this light of Christ is calling me, through the ups and downs of my own story, through its twists and turns, maybe my own flight into Egypt, my own imprisonment and slavery, and now this exodus, this coming out, so that we can return to the light of Christ." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Archbishop Vincent: "So what we try to do on an Easter Vigil is understand how this light of Christ is calling me, through the ups and downs of my own story, through its twists and turns, maybe my own flight into Egypt, my own imprisonment and slavery, and now this exodus, this coming out, so that we can return to the light of Christ." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Sat, 3 Apr 2010 22:10:00 GMT 3:40 Jesus, Christ, resurrection, light, vigil, Easter Triduum, Saviour, world, love, mercy Totus2us.com Archbishop Vincent: "There is nothing beyond the reach of this Saviour. No matter how desperate we might feel about ourselves, no matter how dark we might think our sin is, He is capable of reaching us, and of healing us, and of raising us." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Archbishop Vincent: "There is nothing beyond the reach of this Saviour. No matter how desperate we might feel about ourselves, no matter how dark we might think our sin is, He is capable of reaching us, and of healing us, and of raising us." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Sat, 3 Apr 2010 12:10:00 GMT 3:45 Jesus, Christ, hell, dead, Holy Saturday, Easter Triduum, Saviour, world, love, mercy Totus2us.com Archbishop Vincent: "Today, Good Friday. Funny isn't it that we call the day good on which Our Lord is put to death but it is profoundly the best of days because it is the day in which our freedom is won." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Archbishop Vincent: "Today, Good Friday. Funny isn't it that we call the day good on which Our Lord is put to death but it is profoundly the best of days because it is the day in which our freedom is won." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Fri, 2 Apr 2010 12:10:00 GMT 4:10 Jesus, Christ, Crucifixion, Good Friday, Easter Triduum, Saviour, world, love, mercy Totus2us.com Archbishop Vincent: "Today we recall the Last Supper of the Lord with his disciples and there are two things that are prominent, but they're very connected. One is the washing of the disciples' feet and the second is the giving of Himself in the bread and wine of their supper which, in our Mass, becomes His body and blood." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Archbishop Vincent: "Today we recall the Last Supper of the Lord with his disciples and there are two things that are prominent, but they're very connected. One is the washing of the disciples' feet and the second is the giving of Himself in the bread and wine of their supper which, in our Mass, becomes His body and blood." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Thu, 1 Apr 2010 12:10:00 GMT 3:30 Jesus, Last Supper, Washing of feet, Disciples, Easter Triduum, Maundy Thursday Totus2us.com Fr Anthony Doe: "We must always remember that Our Lady is the Lord's first disciple. And what she did we are called to do as well." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Fr Anthony Doe: "We must always remember that Our Lady is the Lord's first disciple. And what she did we are called to do as well." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Thu, 25 Mar 2010 12:10:00 GMT 8:57 Saint Joseph, holy family, Jesus, Our Lady, father, helper, protector Totus2us.com Fr Bryan Storey: "All importance in life comes from making God big and important and that was what St Joseph was all about. Being humble before God, making way for God so that we find in everything that we really look for in life comes about wonderfully, if God is central to the whole thing." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Fr Bryan Storey: "All importance in life comes from making God big and important and that was what St Joseph was all about. Being humble before God, making way for God so that we find in everything that we really look for in life comes about wonderfully, if God is central to the whole thing." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:00:00 GMT 3:40 Saint Joseph, holy family, Jesus, Our Lady, father, helper, protector Totus2us.com Fr Michael Dunne: "It prefigures our own transfiguration into all that Christ calls us to be. Sharing his divine life we can be ready, especially in Lent, to bear even something of His Cross in our daily lives mindful that as we contemplate the transfigured Christ we see not only His glory but the promise of our own." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Fr Michael Dunne: "It prefigures our own transfiguration into all that Christ calls us to be. Sharing his divine life we can be ready, especially in Lent, to bear even something of His Cross in our daily lives mindful that as we contemplate the transfigured Christ we see not only His glory but the promise of our own." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:10:00 GMT 4:56 Lent, Jesus, Transfiguration, Peter, James, John, transformation Totus2us.com Fr Francis Selman: "Several of the saints, for example St Augustine and St Catherine of Siena, teach us that the first step to knowing God is to know ourselves. Lent is a time for being truly free and discovering ourselves in the presence of God." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Fr Francis Selman: "Several of the saints, for example St Augustine and St Catherine of Siena, teach us that the first step to knowing God is to know ourselves. Lent is a time for being truly free and discovering ourselves in the presence of God." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:00:00 GMT 4:35 Lent, Jesus, 40 days, fasting, prayer, temptation, desert Totus2us.com Fr Alexander Sherbrooke: "What happened in Lourdes, as then as today, Our Lady came to those who were suffering greatly because of poverty, illness, brokenness in their lives. Our Lady comes to teach us and to lead us to her Son Jesus. She wants to show us the way to understand that we are loved unconditionally by God." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Fr Alexander Sherbrooke: "What happened in Lourdes, as then as today, Our Lady came to those who were suffering greatly because of poverty, illness, brokenness in their lives. Our Lady comes to teach us and to lead us to her Son Jesus. She wants to show us the way to understand that we are loved unconditionally by God." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:00:00 GMT 3:32 Our Lady, Notre Dame, Lourdes, sick, suffering, healing Totus2us.com Fr Kevin Taggart: "As Christians we are asked to take the light of the world around with us so that we can spread God's Word and the Gospel, because each of us is a temple of the Holy Spirit and therefore the light of the world." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Fr Kevin Taggart: "As Christians we are asked to take the light of the world around with us so that we can spread God's Word and the Gospel, because each of us is a temple of the Holy Spirit and therefore the light of the world." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Tue, 2 Feb 2010 12:00:00 GMT 2:26 Presentation of Jesus in the Temple, Candlemas, Simeon, prophecy Totus2us.com Fr Peter Pitre CSJ: "Thomas Aquinas was humble enough to be formed at the school of the pagan philosopher, Aristotle, because he understood that everything that is true, whoever may say it, is from the Holy Spirit." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Fr Peter Pitre CSJ: "Thomas Aquinas was humble enough to be formed at the school of the pagan philosopher, Aristotle, because he understood that everything that is true, whoever may say it, is from the Holy Spirit." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:00:00 GMT 3:42 Saint Thomas Aquinas, Doctor of the Church, philosopher, theologian, Aristotle Totus2us.com Fr Augustine Conner CFR: "In Jesus Christ, true man and true God, we discover who we are and why we exist." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Fr Augustine Conner CFR: "In Jesus Christ, true man and true God, we discover who we are and why we exist." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Sun, 10 Jan 2010 12:00:00 GMT 3:40 Baptism, Jesus, Father, Son, Holy Spirit, Trinity, love, Jordan Totus2us.com Fr David Barnes: "Christmas tells me so much about myself, about being a human being. It tells us that God wants to share his life with us completely. The fact that God became flesh and dwelt among us tells us that God identifies with us in every way except sin. This is an important message for us to take to heart because it tells me that I am infinitely loveable to God." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Fr David Barnes: "Christmas tells me so much about myself, about being a human being. It tells us that God wants to share his life with us completely. The fact that God became flesh and dwelt among us tells us that God identifies with us in every way except sin. This is an important message for us to take to heart because it tells me that I am infinitely loveable to God." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Fri, 25 Dec 2009 20:01:00 GMT 4:54 Jesus, Holy Spirit, God, love, our good, Christmas, Mary, grace Totus2us.com Fr Anthony Doe: "Advent is the time when we pray that the Holy Spirit will move deeply and mysteriously in the hearts of all of us." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Fr Anthony Doe: "Advent is the time when we pray that the Holy Spirit will move deeply and mysteriously in the hearts of all of us." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Sun, 29 Nov 2009 22:01:00 GMT 6:04 Jesus, Christ, Holy Spirit, God, love, our good, Advent, grace Totus2us.com Fr Martin Sabathé CSJ: "Jesus is King in serving us for our good and the good of all His Church… Jesus is King by washing the feet of his disciples, in this very humble service by which he says to his disciples "Do you accept that I wash your feet." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Fr Martin Sabathé CSJ: "Jesus is King in serving us for our good and the good of all His Church… Jesus is King by washing the feet of his disciples, in this very humble service by which he says to his disciples "Do you accept that I wash your feet." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:01:00 GMT 6:26 Jesus, Christ, King, Service, Priesthood, God, Servant, our good, Washing of Feet, grace Totus2us.com Fr Marcus Holden talks about Purgatory in this month of prayer for the Holy Souls: "The Lord desires us to share eternal life with Him but this comes about through grace and it is not cheap grace, it was brought at a price, the precious blood of the Lamb and we have to co-operate with that grace in life." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Fr Marcus Holden talks about Purgatory in this month of prayer for the Holy Souls: "The Lord desires us to share eternal life with Him but this comes about through grace and it is not cheap grace, it was brought at a price, the precious blood of the Lamb and we have to co-operate with that grace in life." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Mon, 2 Nov 2009 12:01:00 GMT 5:25 Purgatory, Holy, Souls, Prayer, Dead, God, Mercy, November, grace, purification Totus2us.com Fr Iain Matthew OCD: "St Teresa's manifesto for the Church is that prayer, as friendship with Christ, changes you; that prayer in which the one whom we know loves us is given access to our heart." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Fr Iain Matthew OCD: "St Teresa's manifesto for the Church is that prayer, as friendship with Christ, changes you; that prayer in which the one whom we know loves us is given access to our heart." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:00:00 GMT 7:07 Saint Teresa, Avila, Carmelite, mystic, Totus2us.com Mgr Leo Maasburg: "We pray the rosary because we want to unite in prayer so that the Holy Spirit can come upon us, overshadow us and bear fruit, the fruit of love, the fruit of the Kingdom of God." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Mgr Leo Maasburg: "We pray the rosary because we want to unite in prayer so that the Holy Spirit can come upon us, overshadow us and bear fruit, the fruit of love, the fruit of the Kingdom of God." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:00:00 GMT 4:22 Our Lady, Mary, Rosary, Maria, Madonna, Rosario, Marie, Feast, Queen of Peace Totus2us.com Fr Matt Blake OCD: "Thérèse of Lisieux lived a quiet, hidden and prayerful life but her holiness, her spirit is reaching the entire world and her spirit is changing the world." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Fr Matt Blake OCD: "Thérèse of Lisieux lived a quiet, hidden and prayerful life but her holiness, her spirit is reaching the entire world and her spirit is changing the world." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Thu, 1 Oct 2009 12:00:00 GMT 5:17 Saint, St, Teresa, Thérèse, Lisieux, Carmelite, relics, Catholic, Doctor, flower Totus2us.com Fr Emmanuel Mansford CFR: "St Padre Pio was truly a priest. As Pope John Paul said, 'A man for others' ....He was a man truly configured to Christ." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Fr Emmanuel Mansford CFR: "St Padre Pio was truly a priest. As Pope John Paul said, 'A man for others' ....He was a man truly configured to Christ." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:00:00 GMT 5:58 Saint, St, Padre, Pio, Pietrelcina, Franciscan, Capuchin, Catholic, priest, God Totus2us.com Fr Peter Pitre CSJ: "If we let ourselves be drawn to Jesus, His Cross even now is lifted up within us." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Fr Peter Pitre CSJ: "If we let ourselves be drawn to Jesus, His Cross even now is lifted up within us." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:00:00 GMT 4:30 Catholic, priest, pray, God, suffering, redemption, mystery, Jesus, pain, Christ Totus2us.com Mgr Leo Maasburg: "Our Lady's birthday reminds us that each one of us has been born to love and be loved. That is the reason of our being." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Mgr Leo Maasburg: "Our Lady's birthday reminds us that each one of us has been born to love and be loved. That is the reason of our being." Visit Totus2us.com for more. Totus Tuus ('All Yours') was Pope John Paul II's motto to Mary. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us. Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:00:00 GMT 4:10 Catholic, Mother, pray, God, Blessed, Virgin, Mary, meditation, Jesus, Church