Archangels and Birthday....

It is the feast day of the Archangels: Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael. I know more about Saints Michael and Gabriel because of their significance in the New Testament, Saint Raphael I have yet to read the Angel involvement in the Bible. I am still a baby Catholic and to learn is a great for me for me to know God and His love for me, I learn from His Saints. To learn more about these three please I recommend going to this site: Archangels' Information/Biography

Twenty-two years ago a little boy was born. That little boy is now a over six foot young man who is trying to find his way in the world. His is my little brother, Ryan. I cannot believe how old he is, but that could be because I can see him other than my little brother. I know I have not been the best older sister, but then again we were two people who coped with a horrible past together. I know I have finally come through the ordeal, but he on the other is stuck in my opinion in his lost childhood. He needs confidence and prayers.

So, I have two presents for him: a DVD (which I will get sometime this weekend) and prayers. I ask all of you who read this blog post to please pray for my little brother, Ryan. I only hope that this year his birthday will be a start of a better year.

God Bless,
Nikita

Something I thought of while watching television

Many know that the paranormal is something I love, though I do not believe or feel the same as many in the field. I for one believe in the idea of a ghost being someone either in purgatory, reminding others to pray for their soul as they pray for ours and that some boil down to demons trying to make you believe they are innocent ghosts/spirits. Anyways, there is a group that I watch a lot because I like how they approach many of their cases.

TAPS or as many see on television "Ghost Hunters" are of the mindset that you must disprove a haunting. In turn that makes sense, you cannot just sit there watch a curtain moving and instantly say, "that was a ghost" when in actuality it was the vent system kicking in. So why am I wanting to write about this...well I was watching one of the episodes from 2010 and noticed something that bugged me a lot.

They were revealing to the client the evidence collected, but also letting the client know some things that could be explained if something like that happens again to look for. TAPS in my opinion has never sat there and said, "This is what really happened so those who experienced the event; they are liars or just stupid". No, they never experienced the event first-hand, but what they are trying to do is help so that people are not jumpy at ever creak.

Anyways, so they were explaining about a door shutting. Grant Wilson was explaining what he noticed about the door's location and the fact there is an open window inside the room. The client literally in my opinion sounded rude saying, "No, the door actually SLAMMED shut". First off, Grant was just giving you an alternative thing to think about if it happens again.

This client showed me something that I could not help but be peeved about. You cannot honestly sit there and believe every last bit of paranormal evidence out there because you want your place to considered haunted, and there are many who are like that. This person wasn't wanting to look at things with a logical thought, they wanted to know that their location was haunted.

I cannot stand that, but then again it is just like miracles, we wish to believe that when a person claims it was a miracle by a certain person who they asked to intercede for them; suddenly they are healed. I cannot say that I have not at one time fell into that, but there is something I want to explain.

The Church looks at miracles just like TAPS looks at a "haunted" location. We cannot just believe on a whim that something just happens in a miracle that could be explained in a logical manner. We must in turn look at miracles logical and try to disprove them and if the Church nor we its members can, than it is a miracle, just like with TAPS, until they cannot disprove the haunt will it be considered haunted.

I believe in miracles, but I believe them to be divine, where no science or logical explanation that be determined. For those who understand the pain-staking task of opening and moving a cause for person to Sainthood in the Catholic, knows the difficulties of miracles being proven. But, truly this post was for me to explain the lovely thing I noticed while watching "Ghost Hunters".

God Bless,
Nikita

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In the Navy (well not me)

I wanted to write on Monday, but I was either too tired or too excited to write really anything. Yesterday my fiance swore into the Navy. I cannot tell you how excited and relieved I am. He has worked so much and long to join the Navy. I truly believe St. Michael and the other Saints that I ask for intercessions helped JR to be encouraged to not give up on his enlistment. Please keep JR in your prayers as he prepares for his journey in the Navy.

Just like Friday, today it is raining, and they said it would be light showers, when I walked downstairs it was pouring...sometimes the weather just doesn't listen to the weatherman. Also today I got to talk to my friend, Camille who has been trying to get a hold of me. We talked a good while as she updated me on what was up with her life. Keep her in your prayers though, she got injured and going through recovery.

This past Sunday was anniversary of the dedication of St. Patrick's Church in Columbus, Ohio; 158 years old on September 25th. It is amazing that the parish has been around for 158 years. And the history behind the parish is amazing. Did any of you know that the parish was one time where the Bishop of the Diocese of Columbus resided? It was up until St. Joseph's Cathedral was built. It is not the oldest parish in Columbus, Ohio (that title goes to Holy Name, if I am not mistaken).

Yesterday something interesting happened to me at work, a co-worker of mine said she saw Darrell's picture on facebook. I was thinking, 'how?' and certainly I learned the answer to this question. Sunday while I was sleeping I was awoken to sounds in Darrell's room, multiple voices. I had no clue who else was in his room. I found out after actually opening my door and walking past the room it was Darrell's friend, Bob and Bob's two boys. You see Bob took a picture of Darrell and his boys and then uploaded it on Facebook. It was kind of funny when people came up to me at work saying to me, "I do not have a facebook, but my friend who does saw Darrell's picture on there".

My great-uncle is well known through Hilliard by the older residents (those who lived here before 2000). I went on Bob's facebook, and read all the comments that were posted and so many of them were of those who knew Darrell as a child-teenager. I do not know if Darrell knows that his picture with the boys are on facebook. At least people see he is alive and on recovery.

That is all for now.

God bless,
Nikita

Rainy First Day of Autumn plus More

It is raining, go figure on the first day of what I consider the start of my season (which is Autumn into early Spring). But, that doesn't bug too much because normally it is during the start of the season that it rains a lot.

Yesterday, with many thanks to a friend, Trevor (who picked me up from my house) I went with the Saint Patrick's 20s Group to visit the Julibee Museum run by Holy Family Catholic Church and their Pastor, Fr. Lutz. As I have never been to the Museum before I was very glad that I had the chance to go.

It was amazing, to be in the presence of such much history of the Catholic Church. The Museum itself was historic as it was the former Holy Family High School. Each room was dictated to a subject, Nun's Room, Bible Room, Pope's Room (which has a jewel that Mary, Queen of Scotland wore, pretty cool), and etc. In whole I wish we had more time at the Museum where I could hear more stories about each object, but just really to look at the pieces themselves.

I did talk to Fr. Lutz about a few things since Camille's Paper on the 1930 Fire at the Ohio State Pen was in the Museum is he knew if the Museum had a copy of "Hero Priest", he did not believe so, but told me to write him a note of all I knew of the book and he would help look for a copy. He, too, was opt to the idea of opening a cause for Fr. O'Brien, OP. I am very excited, but must keep praying.

St. Padre Pio

Today is the feast day of Saint Pio of Pietrelcina (photo above) or as he is famously known, Padre Pio. He was one of the many Saints I encountered when I was going through RCIA. I knew only little about him, as in a DVD I watched about his life. As in reading material, very little of that because I had no books on him in my library (still do not, need to find an actually good book about him, any recommendations). Padre Pio Biography this website has a great biography of Padre Pio.

I think of the things that attracted me to Padre Pio was how the devil was always attacking him, in this day and age we forget that some things that are happening to us especially bad are the work of devil trying to force us away from God. My constant nightmares before my baptism are factors of the attacks I know I received from the devil. Thanks to the intercession of Saint Joseph to the Lord, I have not had a dream that caused me to scream, "I do not wish to be Catholic".

Lastly, I wanted to write something because I received emails from comments on livejournal, it seems that many think I am forgetting about those injustice of African-Americans. If you remember my lost posting that dealt with this issue I had mention the poor injustice of a man named Troy Davis. I pointed out that he was being put to death, which he was yesterday for being a cop killer and how I did not feel that people should honestly put the race card on this issue.

Well there was a person who commented that there is a higher amount of African-American men being put to Death. I cannot sit here and tell you that is a lie, because I know it is not, but what I am trying to speak about is there was an injustice on part because they dubbed this poor MAN a cop-killer. I believe the injustice was there, but for more reasons than he was African-American.

Now, I know most people who then say that I hated African-Americans that I do not know the injustice done upon, that I did not care. That is not true, I see and hate what has been done to them for they never deserved, but I put a question upon you all, will everyone just fight for an African-American man, or will you fight for the injustice of MEN who are put on DEATH ROW?

God Bless,
Nikita

Saint Thomas of Villianova, Father of the Poor

I knew I could never get away with just writing one post without finding something else to write about, oh well, hopefully the poor readers will forgive me for my constant writing. I thought I should write something about a Saint who I wrote down as today being his feast day (but online it says September 18th, I need to research more, but I am certain that it is today). This being said today I am going to write a few quotes by the Saint, who is Thomas of Villianova, a Augustian (I think I spelled that correctly).

"What does a poor friar like myself want with furniture." -his explanation on why he gave the furniture he was given to a hospital.

"If there are people who refuse to work, that is for the authorities to deal with. My duty is to assist and relieve those who come to my door." -his explanation for why he constantly helped those who knocked at his door.

Saint Thomas of Villianova is considered as one of the "Father of the Poor".

God bless,
Nikita

Early Morning

I am wide awake and it is going to be 5am and I have to say that I have no idea why I am still awake. First I want to post this link: Three Books That Changed My Life this is my livejournal, which I normally do not post that much since I have blogger now. But, I do post when I post something on here or my automatic twitter posts as they are called are on there.

While I was on Livejournal I was reading a friend's post about Troy Davis, who I only knew of today from watching the news (which because I barely watch secular media). My view on Death Penalty are of a pro-life view, but what trigger me to write about this was something she said, that why the state still went through it was because he was black.

I know I am white female Catholic, but I am tired of that card being the excuses of things. Truly there are many factors of this event, but it was not simply because he was black, no they dubbed him a cop-killer, and normally just like a sex offender that wheither you are innocent you are put under that rose color lens.

I ask that all those who read my blog to please pray for his soul and his family, but also the victim's soul and his family for they all need the prayers. This event should bring us to promote peace, justice and the idea that life is precious that murdering someone doesn't truly change the outcome of the crime that was committed, but to teach forgiviness and the criminal acknowledging their guilt and wanting to forgiviness now that is what we should push for.

God Bless,
Nikita

Rainy Wednesday

Today is the feast day of Saint Matthew, who in fact is one of my favorite Saints. But, why would I love the tax collector? Other than the Gospel of Matthew, he is the tax collector who followed Jesus, he was a sinner and yet he heard the call by Jesus.

I found with many of the Saints that I pray to are ones who show conversion or even complete faithfulness to just listen to the call. So, this is the little prayer that I said on this rainy wednesday: Saint Matthew, pray for me and for those who are just wanting to hear the Lord's call.

So, it is raining, but that is what you get during the Autumn season, which will be offically here on Friday. Once Autumn offically begins I consider it my season, but my season doesn't end until mid-Spring. Certainly it is because I cannot live in warmer weather because I actually get ill, which was proven today with no way of cooling my room, I woke up in sweat and then my stomach just would not settle for nothing. JR told me to pray to Saint Charles Borrowmeo (spelled his last name incorrectly), for he is the patron saint of stomach pains.

I am sorry that I am blogging so much, it is just this a rarity to have internet long enough to write down something. Hopefully I will blog again soon, maybe not today, but tomorrow or sometime soon. One thing before I end this entry, the book I am reading "Dominican Preaching in the St. Joseph Providence" I have started writing down some quotes by the sermons I have read in the past few days. Hopefully I will be done reading the book soon and hopefully will write down on this blog the quotes and my thoughts on the the quotes.

God Bless,
Nikita