Mother Mary

 

Our Lady of Sorrows at St Anthony Church

Today 8 June 2025, I went to church.  It was Pentecost day.  There were incense and the priest wore red vestment.  The vestment was so nice.  There was a white dove on the vestment of Father Eugene.  After mass was over, I walked towards the above image where I saw everytime I went to mass.  Walking over there, I realised that the image was Our Lady of Sorrows.  This is a new addition to the renovated new church.  

Devotion to Our Lady’s Sorrows has existed since the early centuries of the Church. It came into particular focus in the 13th century when Our Lady appeared to the Seven Founders of the Servite Order, giving them a black garment as their habit and asking them to meditate on her Sorrows. In the 14th century, Our Lady revealed to St. Bridget of Sweden seven special graces that she would grant to those devoted to her Sorrows. She spoke at length to St. Bridget about the Passion of her Son and her own Sorrows, and made these promises to those who would say seven Hail Marys daily while meditating on her tears and sufferings: 

1.  I will grant peace to their families. 

2.  They will be enlightened about the divine mysteries. 

3.  I will console them in their pains and I will accompany them in their work. 

4.  I will give them as much as they as for as long as it does not oppose the adorable will of my Divine Son or the sanctification of their souls. 

5.  I will protect them against the infernal enemy and I will protect them at every instant of their lives. 

6.  I will visibly help them at the moment of their death; they will see the face of their Mother. 

7.  I have obtained the grace from my Divine Son, that those who propagate this devotion to my tears and dolors, will be taken directly from this earthly life to eternal happiness since all their sins will be forgiven and my Son and I will be their eternal consolation and joy. 

 Our Lady also told Marie Claire, one of the three Kibeho visionaries, that with the recitation of her Seven Sorrows Rosary: 

- The hardest hearts will change. 

- They shall be freed from obsessions and addictions. 

- They will find the strength to repent and convert their hearts. 

- They will obtain an understanding of the weaknesses that lead them to sin. 

- Praying it from the heart, they will obtain whatever they ask.

Closer look at Our Lady of Sorrows

Taco Comes Home

 

Taco and his mum at Singapore Cartons

That was the first time I met Taco, on 26 February 2022.  On that day, we tried to find the kittens but was unsuccessful.  After a prayer, the mother cat came to call me.  She led me to the kittens!  And that was how the children and me saw the mother cat and the kittens.  

We wanted to bring home the two kittens.  There was an opportune time when I was able to capture them.  They were in the palette.  I caught hold of Taco, the ginger cat.  Then Taco meowed so loudly and fiercely that I released him.  If I did not release him at that moment, I would have brought him home on that day.  

Taco in the carrier bag

The children were sad that we went home on 26 Feb empty handed.  But fortunately on the next day we managed to bring home Taco.  It was so hard to capture the kittens.  They were able to run and hide very well.  Then the company got so many palette and they hide too deep into the palette that's why no one can catch them.  The children had to lure the cats out using food.  

We put Taco in the yellow carrier bag with roller.  But during transportation, the children put the bag on their lab and watched him while in the car.  I was sitting in the front of the car and I was not able to look at how Taco was doing.  

The car owner's sister happens to be a Catholic too.  The reason why we were taking his car was because there was no Grab or Gojek vehicles that were willing to come Gul Crescent on that day.  I kept calling for them but to no avail.  Then my mum and I walked to this colleague of her, she told him that we would pay him and he was so kind to accept the offer.  

I was sitting at the front seat of the car, and that was what I saw. 

I thought we must thank St Anthony and Mother Mary for what we had got for the day.  

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