An International Missionary Outreach Dedicated to Evangelizing the Lost  By Sharing The Gospel According to the Scriptures

To add your name to our Ministry Update List and/or our Prayer Partners List please enter your email address below and then click on the "Go" button.  People on our Ministry Update List will receive our weekly newsletter and periodic ministry updates. People on our Prayer Partners List will receive prayer requests from time to time.
Email:

Slideshow image


Since your web browser does not support JavaScript, here is a non-JavaScript version of the image slideshow:

slideshow image


slideshow image


slideshow image


slideshow image


slideshow image


slideshow image


slideshow image


 

In The News
   
 
 

 

In The News

 
February 10 - Where There's Suffering, There's Mary
 
Article: Roman Catholic Church And The Last Days  
 

On Feb. 11, 1858, the Immaculate One appeared to a true anawim, a "blessed poor of the Lord" from the mountain town of Lourdes -- 14-year-old Bernadette Soubirous. Beside the River Gave in the grotto of Massabielle, "Aquero" or "that One" -- as Bernadette first referred to her in her local patois dialect -- appeared with rosary in hand to convey a global message of prayer and penance in reparation to God for sin and for the conversion of sinners.

After the instruction by the Lady to dig for water, which caused a stream from which a supernatural generosity of miracles would flow down to our own day, Bernadette received the great Marian self-revelation which would awe the faithful and bewilder the theologian: "I am the Immaculate Conception."

St. Maximilian Kolbe would later explain that
for the Mother of Jesus to say "I am the Immaculate Conception" conveys that Mary is mysteriously in her very essence full of grace and free from sin. She is a new creation, the perfect creation of the Father, so as to be the immaculate Mother of God, and also to be the faithful co-redeemer with her Son the Redeemer.

Karol Cardinal Wojtyla preached powerfully on this theme in a Dec. 8, 1973, homily on the Immaculate Conception. The future John Paul II reminded his congregation at Cracow: "Mary was the Co-redemptrix, because she was first the Immaculate Conception."

"Associated with the Sacrifice of Christ, Mary, Mater Dolorosa, who at the foot of the Cross suffers with her divine Son, is felt to be especially near by the Christian community, which gathers around its suffering members who bear the signs of the passion of the Lord. Mary suffers with those who are in affliction, with them she hopes, and she is their comfort, supporting them with her maternal help.

Not only does Our Lady bring to the sick a perfect human example of Christian redemptive suffering, but the Holy Father says further that "Mary suffers with those who are in affliction."

"This complete 'yes' of love is the Immaculate Conception of our dear Mother, Mary, who participated on Calvary as the co-redemptrix with the Savior. [...] Christ on the cross suffered all the pains that his Most Holy Mother suffered. And she in Christ suffers all our pains, she assumes them and knows how to commiserate with us. Our suffering is also her suffering."

The intercessory power of Our Lady of Lourdes is not limited to the geographical confines of a French hamlet in the foothills of the Pyrenees. Where there is suffering and sickness, there is the Mother, hovering in wait to mediate graces of consolation, healing, and courage, all in conformity to the perfect and generous will of the Heavenly Father. She waits only for our fiat in faith, to be freely welcomed into our homes, into our hearts, as she was by the disciple who Jesus loved (John 19:27), to bring to each one of us extraordinary healing graces of the Crucified Christ.

Whatever our present ailment or cross may be, Our Lady of Lourdes is the universal Mediatrix of healing and persevering grace, universally for all humanity, and personally for you and for me.

Read More ....

 

 

Understand The Times is an independent non-profit organization in Canada and the United States.
Understand The Times is not affiliated or dependent upon any other organization or denomination.
Understand The Times is accountable to a board of directors in the United States and Canada and accountable,
first of all, to Jesus Christ and His word.

 

Fair Use Notice


Home
Speaking Schedule | Ministry Update | Missions Updates
Goals and Objectives | Statement of Faith | History of Ministry | UTT Internet Bible School
Books  | DVDs | Tract Booklets | Commentary by Roger Oakland | Commentary By Others
Subscribe To Podcast | Podcast Information | Radio Programs and Transcripts | Articles | Weekly News In Review
2009 Year In Review | 2008 Year In Review | 2007 Year in Review Let There Be Light | Creation Gallery
Exposing The Emerging Church | Live Broadcasts | Broadcast Archives
  Join E-Mail Update List | Support The Ministry | Bryce Homes International  | Making Disciples Ministry

Mission Myanmar | Mission Kenya | Mission Philippines | Mission South Africa | UTT YouTube Channel
Lighthouse Trail Research

Understand The Times
International
P.O. Box 27239
Santa Ana, CA 92799 USA
(800) 689-1888

P.O. Box 1160
Eston, Saskatchewan
Canada S0L 1A0
306-962-3672