TO LIVE BY ST. CATHOLIC WOMEN’S LEAGUE #72 DECEMBER 2015 Oh Come Emmanuel! gave her to us too! As a various churches for he thought caring mother Mary is happy to that anyone praying in front of The busy month of December is upon bring our prayers to her Son Jesus. them was guilty of idolatry. Leo us and we turn our focus to the two ordered for them to be destroyed! important seasons during this month Gregory III then sent a letter – the season of Advent and the season to Leo asking him to stop this order. of Christmas. The term ‘advent’ is Unfortunately the messenger never from the word ‘adventus’ which got this message to Leo and Leo means ‘coming’. During the season of sent ships to kidnap Gregory. The Advent, which is 4 weeks long, we good Lord came to Pope Gregory’s prepare our hearts and souls for the rescue and sent a storm to destroy birth of Jesus on Christmas Day. Leo’s ships. Interestingly enough, Your family may have an Advent this Pope Gregory III was the last wreath which consists of a circular non-European pope until the wreath with 3 purple candles and one election of our current Pope pink one. Each candle represents the Francis in 2013, 1,272 years later! 4 Sundays leading up to Christmas. As you can see this pope was not The Crèche, which many homes afraid to take a stand in Jesus’ include, is a model stable with Mary, name and the good Lord came to and Jesus, symbolizing his rescue. He is a good patron for She never gets tired of hearing Christmas. those Christians in Syria who are from us! How can we prepare our hearts and currently suffering. This ’s souls for Christmas? Perhaps you could feast day is December 10th. say a few extra prayers during Advent Pope St. Gregory III or make some small sacrifices or rather At this special time when we than buying candy give that money to This Syrian priest was pope from first prepare for, then celebrate, those in need. This extra effort will 731 – 741. It was at the funeral of the birthday of our Saviour we please Jesus very much! Pope Saint Gregory II that he was wish all a happy and peaceful taken away and named the next The feast of the season. May your patron saints pope for he was known to be a very also falls in December. This day watch over you and guide you as holy man. During Gregory III ‘s honours Mary as being conceived reign the Emperor Leo III was you strive to be good people without the stain of original sin. Not against statues and icons in the like them! only is Mary the mother of Jesus but PRAYER TO POPE ST. ✤ Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church GREGORY III ✤ The Prince of Apostles Saint Gregory III, it's hard to stand still ✤ The Vicar of Christ ✤ and wait for God to do his work. of the West ✤ The Successor of St.Peter Sometimes I doubt God's providence. ✤ Primate of Italy I'm afraid that God's plan won't work ✤ Sovereign of the Vatican out unless I push it along. ✤ Archbishop and Metropolitan of the Did you know... Roman Province Help me, when I'm confused, to stop, pray, and wait for God. The Pope has many titles including: ✤ The of - Amen ✤ The Holy Father St. Edmund Campion Edmund was one of the great Jesuit JUST FOR FUN martyrs of the 16th. Century canonized by Pope Paul VI in 1970. Across King Henry V111 had abandoned the 1.Pope who Leo tried to kidnap? Church in order to divorce his first 3. Is Jesus' Birthday? wife and when his daughter Elizabeth 4.Advent is ______weeks long? 1 became queen of England she did 5.Had a daughter, Anastasia who her utmost to stamp out Catholicism became a saint? completely. Edmund was born in 8.First non-european pope since London, earned a scholarship to St. Pope St. Gregory III? John's College, Oxford, when only 9.Was a missionary aide to St. fifteen. Because he was so bright he Boniface? attracted the attention of the Earl of 10.The saint who was betrayed Leicester, and even the queen herself. and imprisoned in the Tower of Though initially raised as a Catholic London? he did take the Oath of Supremacy acknowledging the queen as head of Down the church in England and became an 2.Feast day honouring Mary? Anglican deacon. However he had 3.Model Stable with Mary, doubts about this new religion and in Joseph and Jesus? 1569 went to Ireland where further 6.The _____ of Christ is another study convinced him he had been in name for the Pope. error, and he returned to 7.Word Means Coming? Catholicism. He then went to France, where he studied theology and joined treason, but in reality because of his St. Fausta the Jesuits. He was one of the first priesthood. His body lies in Jesuits sent to England in 1580 to Westminster Cathedral in London. Fausta lived in the 3rd. Century in a uphold the faith. Queen Elizabeth was His feast day is December 1, the province of the Roman Empire that is determined to stamp out this mission anniversary of his martyrdom at age now part of modern day Serbia. She as, in her own words; she knew that it 41. is honoured as one of the 140 saints was “the Mass that mattered”. whose image adorns the Colonnade in Edmund’s activities among Catholics St. Agatha St. Peter's Square in Rome yet little made him the object of one of the This saint was a Benedictine nun and has been written about her. She was most intensive manhunts in English a missionary aide to St. Boniface. St. considered a model wife and mother, history. He was eventually betrayed Boniface was a missionary in with the added virtue of being known and imprisoned in the Tower of and St. Agatha was there to to have raised a saintly daughter. London. He refused to give up his assist him. Because she worked with This daughter is St. Anastasia of faith despite the offering of rich St. Boniface we are sure that like him Sirmium, who was martyred for her bribes, even the Archbishopric of she would have a soft spot for those faith. St. Fausta’s feast day is Canterbury, then torture. He was in our parish attending St. Boniface December 19. hanged, drawn, and quartered at School. Tyburn on the technical charge of Her feast day is December 12th. Feast Days to Remember PRAYER TO ST. St. Edmund Campion EDMUND CAMPION Dec 1 St Edmund Campion, martyr for Feast of the Immaculate the Roman Primacy, obtain for Conception Dec 8 us, but especially for the Church’s Pope St. Gregory III and priests, such obedient loyalty to the Vicar of Christ that Dec 10 like you, they will not be afraid St. Agatha In the name of the Father and Dec 12 to proclaim the truth and like St. Fausta you, they will be willing to shed of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.

their blood for Jesus Christ. Amen. Dec 19