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In Persecution Hold High the Cross!

Christ Crucified

Even in Time of Persecution 

Let the Cross 

be Your Joy

From the Catecheses by Saint Cyril of Jerusalem, bishop

The Catholic Church glories n every deed of Christ.  Her supreme glory, however, is the cross.  Well aware of this, Paul says: God forbid that I glory in anything but the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ!

At Siloam, there was a sense of wonder, and rightly so.  A man born blind recovered his sight.  But of what importance is this, when there are so many blind people in the world?  Lazarus rose from the dead, but even this only affected Lazarus.  What of those countless numbers who have died because of their sins?  Those five miraculous loaves fed five thousand people.  Yet this is a small number compared to those all over the world who were starved by ignorance.  After eighteen years a woman was freed from the bondage of Satan.  But are we not all shackled by the chains of our own sins?

For us all, however, the cross is the crown of victory!  It has brought light to those blinded by ignorance.  It has released those enslaved by sin.  Indeed, it has redeemed the whole of mankind!

Do not, then, be ashamed of the cross of Christ; rather, glory in it.  Although it is a stumbling block to the Jews and folly to the Gentiles, the message of the cross is our salvation.  Of course it is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.  For it was not a mere man who died for us, but he Son of God, God made man.

In the Mosaic law a sacrificial lamb banished the destroyer.  But now it is  the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.  Will he not free us from our sins even more?  The blood of an animal, a sheep, brought salvation.  Will not the blood of the only-begotten Son bring us greater salvation? 

He was not killed by violence, 

he was not forced to give up his life.  

His was a willing sacrifice.  

Listen to his worn words: I have the power to lay down my life and to take it up again. Yes, he willingly submitted to his own passion.  He took joy in his achievement; in his crown of victory he was glad and in the salvation of man he rejoiced.  

He did not blush at the cross 

for by it he was to save the world.  

No, it was not a lowly man 

who suffered but God incarnate.  

He entered the contest for the reward he would win by  his patient endurance.

Certainly in times of tranquillity the cross should give you joy.  But maintain the same faith in times of persecution.  Otherwise you will be a friend of Jesus in times of peace and his enemy during war.  Now you received the forgiveness of your sins and the generous gift of grace from our king.  When war comes, fight courageously for him.

Jesus never sinned; yet he was crucified for you.  Will you refuse to be crucified for him, who for your sake was nailed to the cross?

You are not the one who gives the favor; you have received one first.  

For your sake 

he was crucified on Golgotha.  

Now you are returning his favor; 

you are fulfilling your debt to him.

Be a Knight for Christ

Blessed Jose Sanchez del Rio

Blessed Jose Sanchez del Rio - On the way to execution, soldiers struck him savagely with sharp machetes. With every blow, the young boy cried out, "Viva Cristo Rey!" When he got to the cemetery, he was bleeding heavily. His torturers had also cut off the soles of his feet and forced him to walk on salt. The boy screamed with pain but would not give in. As the road was nothing but rocks and dirt, the stones where he had walked were soaked in his blood. 

In 1927, Catholic Mexico was immersed in a violent storm of religious persecution. The President of Mexico at that time was a despot named Plutarco Calles.  His hatred for the Church had no limits. He killed priests and burned churches.

In legitimate self defense, countless Catholics took up arms to defend their Faith.  Whenever they charged into battle, the Cristeros, as they were called, shouted: "Viva Cristo Rey!" "Long live Christ the King!"

Blessed Jose Luis Sanchez del Rio

Young Jose Joins the Cristeros

Many Catholics shed their blood in this conflict.  Many were martyred. And Blessed Jose Luis Sanchez del Rio was among them.  

From a young age he had a great love and enthusiasm for the Blessed Sacrament, and encouraged his friends to have more devotion to Our Lord and Our Lady of Guadalupe.  Whenever Jose heard of the glorious battles of the Cristeros, which his two brothers were engaged in, his desire to join the holy army only intensified.  Finally, Jose wrote a letter to one of the Cristero Generals, Prudencio Mendoza, pleading to be allowed to fight. The general acquiesced.

Mexican soldiers "Cristeros" standing up for the Catholic Faith

Capture and Imprisonment

In a certain battle, Jose was rushing to bring a fellow soldier a new supply of ammo.  Just then, he caught sight of the General whose horse had been shot dead.  On foot, without a horse, the General was extremely vulnerable. 

From movie For the Greater Glory
about  Blessed Jose Sanchez del Rio 

Making a sacrifice that might cost him his life, Jose freely gave the general his own horse.  Moments later, he was caught by the federalists and locked up in a church sacristy that had been turned into a prison.  One of the guards had put a number of expensive fighting roosters inside the church for safekeeping.  This sacrilege troubled young Jose. He said: "This is not a barnyard! This is a place for God!"  He soon caught all the prized roosters and snapped their necks.

The enemies of Christ the King soon decided to kill him.

Holy Boldness in Defense of the Faith

On the way to execution, soldiers struck him savagely with sharp machetes.  

With every blow, the young boy cried out, 

"Viva Cristo Rey!" 

Representation of Blessed Jose Sanchez del Rio
depicted in a movie about him

 When he got to the cemetery, he was bleeding heavily.  His torturers had also cut off the soles of his feet and forced him to walk on salt.  The boy screamed with pain but would not give in.  As the road was nothing but rocks and dirt, the stones where he had walked were soaked in his blood.  The soldiers said:  "If you shout, ‘Death to Christ the King’, we will spare your life."  

He only answered: 

"Long live Christ the King! 

Long live Our Lady of Guadalupe!"

The commander ordered the soldiers to bayonet Jose.  They pierced his body.   But with every stab he only shouted louder and louder:

 "Viva Cristo Rey!"  

The commander was so enraged that he pulled out his pistol and on February 10, 1928 killed Blessed Jose on the spot.  There was no trial.

Blessed Jose is an outstanding example of faith and courage for all Catholic young men — for you— who wish to be faithful to Christ.  

He was declared a martyr and was beatified by Pope Benedict XVI on November 20, 2005.

Blessed Jose, pray for us!

Will YOU be able to give your life up for Christ and His Mother?  The times are coming when you may have to do just that.  Pray for strength and courage to be a martyr for Christ.

http://www.tfpstudentaction.org/politically-incorrect/hall-of-heroes/the-stunning-story-of-blessed-jose.html

Miraculous Cure Intercession of Blessed José Luis Sánchez del Río

Mexico City, Mexico, Jan 29, 2016 / 12:04 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The miraculous cure of a baby with brain damage through the intercession of Mexican martyr Blessed José Luis Sánchez del Río has been approved by the Vatican, completing the final step for the teen’s path to sainthood.

Pope Francis signed the decree Jan. 21, verifying the inexplicable recovery of a baby who doctors said had “no hope of survival” due to a myriad of health problems including brain damage caused by a stroke as a miracle attributed to Jose Luis Sanchez del Rio, a teenager who was martyred for his faith during the Cristero wars of the 1920s.

Ximena Guadalupe Magallón Gálvez was just a few weeks old in September 2008 when her parents took her to Sahuayo in the Mexican state of Michoacán where Bl. José was born. During the visit, Ximena began running a fever that her regular doctor was unable to treat, her mother Paulina Gálvez Ávila said in a post on the Facebook page dedicated to Bl. José.

Concerned that the fever was a sign of something more serious like pneumonia, the doctor sent her to have X-rays at Santa María Hospital in Sahuayo where doctors ruled out that disease, but were still unable to treat the fever. Her parents took Ximena to get a second opinion from Dr. Rosendo Sánchez in Aguascalientes State who had the child readmitted to the hospital, saying that she might be suffering from atypical pneumonia.

“We spent two months living that nightmare and (the doctors) didn’t know what was going on since she wasn’t responding to any treatments,” Mrs. Gálvez said.

They sought another opinion from Dr. Adán Macías who diagnosed her with pneumococcus, a bacterial infection that can cause several different life-threatening illnesses including meningitis, severe pneumonia, and bloodstream infections. Ximena was transferred back to to Aguascalientes where Dr. Rosendo discovered that Ximena’s right lung was filled with fluid. She would need to immediately undergo an operation which could be very risky on such a young child.

“Dr. Rosendo spoke with us and informed us that she would have to undergo a very delicate operation since she could bleed and die. We gave our consent and we told him to do whatever it takes  to save little Ximena and that we were putting her in God’s hands,” Mrs. Gálvez said.

Concerned about their young child’s worsening health, the couple decided to have her baptized before the operation rather than waiting until she was older.

The operation was successful, but upon examining lung tissue, doctors discovered that Ximena had been suffering from tuberculosis.

“When they told us it was in fact tuberculosis and they brought her to us in the room, she looked strange, just staring off with an empty look in her eyes. We talked to her but she didn’t react. I told the doctor she looked bad, it wasn’t my baby because she was always smiling before,” the mother said.

The baby underwent began intense treatment for tuberculosis, but her health took a turn for the worse when doctors informed the parents that baby Ximena had suffered from a stroke, causing 90 percent of her brain to be dead.

Mrs. Gálvez asked to see her daughter. Before going into the room where the child was, one of the doctors warned her “that my baby was already in a vegetative state and that appropriate procedures should be initiated.”

“Dr. Rosendo arrived and crying I begged him to save my daughter. They put her into an induced coma and gave us 72 hours to see if she would live, since 90 percent of her brain was dead,” she said.

During those three days, Ximena’s parents went to Mass everyday “to ask God and Joselito to intercede for my baby, that they would work a miracle” she said, using the affectionate nickname her family had for Bl. José Luis Sánchez del Río.

Mrs. Gálvez said, “I asked them to let me be with her and hug her, then they disconnected her.”

“At that moment I put my baby in God’s hands and the intercession of Joselito and at that moment she opened her eyes and smiled.”

Ximena looked at the doctors “and she started laughing with them.”

The doctors “couldn’t explain what had happened. Because they had done everything medically possible and that’s when they said it’s a miracle.”

The doctors took Ximena to do a CT scan and an encephalogram. They were surprised to see that 80 percent of her brain had recovered. When they examined her the next day, her brain had become completely healthy again.

Even after such an inexplicable recovery, doctors told Ximena’s parents that as a result of the temporary brain damage, she would never be able to eat or walk properly and that would most likely be blind and deaf and unable to speak due to the stroke.

However, when her mother gave her a bottle of milk at the hospital, she drank eight ounces right away. The doctors were astonished.

Contrary to all of the doctors predictions, Ximena completely recovered and is “perfectly well thanks to God and the intercession of Joselito,” Mrs. Gálvez said.

“We give endless thanks to Almighty God for this miracle and to Blessed Martyr José Sánchez del Río for his ample intercession.”

http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/one-familys-unimaginable-suffering-paves-the-way-for-a-teens-sainthood-61117/

Mexican Martyr’s Miracle Helped Save Hometown Girl

Lupis was on the brink of death when her mother sought Blessed Jose Sanchez del Rio's intercession

The miracle attributed to a young Mexican martyr who will now be canonized was the healing of a girl from the future saint’s hometown.

Ximena Guadalupe Magallan Gálvez, known by family and friends as Lupis, fought tremendous odds to live, but because of the intercession of Blessed José Luis Sánchez del Río, who was killed at age 14 during the Mexican Cristero war, she is now a healthy seven-year-old.

The Vatican announced last week that Lupis’ cure, attributed to Blessed José, was accepted as a miracle, clearing the way for his canonization. Pope Francis will make his first visit as pope to Mexico Feb. 12-17, though it has not been announced whether he will canonize Blessed José while he is there.

The future saint grew up and died in Sahuayo, which is in the state of Michoacán. Pope Francis will be visiting Morelia, that state’s capital. The area has suffered from drug cartel-related violence in recent years.

Lupis was born in Los Angeles, Calif., on Sept. 8, 2008, the feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Her mother, Paulina Gálvez, told Aleteia’s Spanish edition that she’d had serious problems during her pregnancy, including placental abruption, a condition that can lead to the unborn child’s death.

She had heard stories of Blessed José, known locally and affectionately as “Joselito,” and the Cristeros of Sahuayo since her childhood. “As the pregnancy progressed and I came to live in America for a while, I became more attached to him,” she said.

They returned to Sahuayo a month after Lupis was born, but the girl contracted pneumonia and tuberculosis. At four months, Lupis had a stroke, contracted meningitis and experienced epileptic seizures. She was transferred to an intensive care unit in Aguascalientes and underwent therapy and a series of tests.

Because she was continuing to endure constant spasms, doctors induced a coma. In an interview with Notimex, the official Mexican news agency, Gálvez said the doctors told her that 90 percent of Lupis’ brain was dead. She asked if she could hold her child in her arms while they disconnected life support.

“At that time I put my baby in the hands of God and the intercession of Joselito,” she said.

Then Lupis “opened her eyes and smiled, looked at the doctors and started to laugh,” said the mother.

A subsequent CT scan and EEG showed that Lupis’ brain was 80 percent recovered. The next day, after further tests, the brain appeared normal.

“The doctors were shocked because they believed that if she lived, she probably would not walk and would not speak due to the stroke,” Gálvez explained.

Gálvez contacted the priest who had baptized her daughter and told him what had happened after she prayed to Blessed José Sánchez del Río. Together, they contacted Antonio Berumen, vice postulator of the cause of canonization. The process of documenting and verifying the miracle culminated in this month’s announcement at the Vatican, just short of seven years after Lupis was brought back from the edge of death.

“The canonization of child Joselito means we are blessed in a land of martyrs,” Gálvez said. “Having a saint in our Mexico and Michoacán is the best thing that could have happened at this difficult time.”

http://aleteia.org/2016/01/30/mexican-martyrs-miracle-helped-save-girl-from-his-hometown/#sthash.yMKTY8Mb.dpuf

YOUTUBE VIDEOS 

Blessed José Luis Sánchez del Río

Blessed José Luis Sánchez del Río History – YouTube  https://youtu.be/He27roks6y8

PT I - Heart of a Hero - The Story of Blessed Jose Sanchez Del Rio  https://youtu.be/KYtcsyoj_ro

PT II - Heart of a Hero - The Story of Blessed Jose Sanchez Del Rio  https://youtu.be/N9HOUiRqo3w

Be a Faithful and Courageous Witness

From a Commentary on Psalm 118 by Saint Ambrose, Bishop

"As there are many kinds of persecution, so there are many kinds of martyrdom.   

Every day you are 

a witness to Christ.  

A knight of Christ being tempted by the Spirit of Fornication

You were tempted by the spirit of fornication, 

but feared the coming judgment of Christ 

and did not want your purity 

of mind and body to be defiled:   

you are a martyr of Christ.  

Spirit of Avarice

You were tempted by 
the spirit of avarice

 to seize the property of a child 

and violate the rights of a defenseless widow, 

but remembered God’s law and 

saw your duty to give help, 

not act unjustly: 

you are a witness of Christ.   

Christ wants witnesses 

like this to stand ready, 

as Scripture says:  

Do justice for the orphan 

 










and 
defend the widow.   

Spirit of Pride

You were tempted 

by the spirit of pride 

but saw the poor and the needy and looked 

with compassion on them, and 

loved humility rather than arrogance:   

you are a witness of Christ.   

What is more, your witness 

was not in word only but also in deed.  

Mother Teresa of Calcutta a True Witness of Christ... WE CAN BE ONE TOO!

Who can give greater witness 

than one who acknowledges 

that the Lord Jesus has come in the flesh  

and keeps the commandment of the Gospel?   

One who hears but does not act, 

denies Christ.   

Even if he acknowledges Him by his words, he denies Him by his deeds.   

How many will say to Christ: Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy and cast out demons and work many miracles, all in your name?  

On that day He will say to them: Depart from me all you evildoers.  The true witness is one who bears witness to the commandments of the Lord Jesus and supports that witness by deeds.

 

How many hidden 

martyrs there are, bearing witness to Christ

each day 

and acknowledging 

Jesus as the Lord!   

The Apostle knew this kind of martyrdom, this faithful witness to Christ.  This is our boast, he said, the witness of our conscience.   

How many have borne witness in public 

but denied it in private!  

 Do not believe every spirit, he said, 

but know from their fruits whom you should believe.   

 

Be faithful and courageous 

when you are persecuted in public.   

Even in those unseen persecutions 

there are kings and governors, 

judges with terrible power.   

You have an example in the temptation 

endured by the Lord.

In another place we read:   

Do not let sin be king in your mortal body.   

You see the kings before whom you are made to stand, 

those who sit in judgment over sinners, 

where sin is in control.   

There are as many kings as there are sins and vices; 

it is before these kings that we are led 

and before these that we stand.    

These kings have their thrones in many hearts.   

But if anyone acknowledges Christ, 

he immediately makes a prisoner 

of this kind of king and 

casts him down from the throne of his own heart.   

How shall the devil maintain his throne

 in one who builds a throne 

for Christ in his heart?"

Taken from, The Liturgy of the Hours, according to the Roman Rite Catholic Book Publishing Corp.  New York 1975

Go to You Tube for a WITNESS OF FAITH that should blow you mind away...

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And I am certain that God, 

who began the good work within you, 

will continue his work until it is finally finished 

on the day when Christ Jesus returns.

                                                             Philippians 1:6