eileen

okay, well i would like to say that alot of you say the Pope is old and feeble and needs to leave. I agree that he is suffering greatly. However, how many of you could even move when you get a small case of the flu, or if you are in pain somewhere, all of you complain. I am just as guilty. If any of you had seen the "Passion of the Christ" it depicted Jesus to be so strong. When the Romans were scouring Him, Jesus stood up when the Roman guards relented for a moment....that was an INSULT to the roman guards. It showed disrespect. Jesus suffered greatly with the constant beating, the ripping away of His flesh, the actual CRUSIFIXION....and He especially suffered because His OWN followers that said they loved HIM and betrayed Him. That goes for the Jewish people(of that time) that were throwing palms on the gound in honor of Him a week before His crusifixion, to His close knit group of Disciples. When i look at the Pope, I see that he is the strongest that he has ever been, because he feels the pain that people inflict upon him when they say demeaning things. When I see Jesus on the Cross...that was the STONGEST He ever was on this earth...because He had beaten the Devil, and gave us all a chance to be FORGIVEN so we could get to heaven....Our Job on this earth as CAtholics is to love Jesus, and to get other's to LOVE Him....on that road we are all going to get persucuted because of what we believe. Jesus constantly reminds us of that.....the POPE is doing everything right, because MILLIONS believe because of one little man. Eileen "O Mary, if I were Queen of Heaven and thou were Therese, I fain would be Therese to see thee Queen of Heaven" Saint Therese @~~

I would also like to add another thing or two about the death of Sister Lucia...The first thing, is that the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to her the 13th of Every MONTH for about 6 months(methinks), and sister Lucia died on the 13th. Also i would like to add that sister lucia's cousins are blessed in the catholic religion....That means that the CAtholic has recognized them to be in Heaven because they started performing miracles on earth. There are serveral stages one must go through to become a saint. They have to have certain unexplainable miracles happen. Well Jacinta And Francisco have proformed alot of miracles, and Blessed Jacinta's body is incorrupt(which means her body has not decayed) that is special in the church. Well after the church recognizes that people whose souls that have gone to heaven they have a feast day. An example of this would be Saint Valentine's Day. Yes folks, Valentines day is a Catholic Feast day. Anyway, Jacinta and Francisco's feast day is next sunday. 1 week after the death of Sister Lucia....my prediction...they will all beadified(spelled wrong) together. Because Jacinta and Fracisco are still only "blessed" they can still become saints. i think this is all a bit mind boogling...... Eileen "Because I was little and weak, Jesus stooped down to me and tenderly instructed me in the secrets of His LOVE." Saint Therese @~~