Somewhere Across the World 🌎
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John 8:12 "I am the light of the world."
Monday, November 2, 2026
Tuesday is "Army of Prayer & Rosary." 🌹
May you go to " Days of the week music 🎶
You will find Tuesday's.
Between the Crosses ✝️
Your click will be your lit candle 🕯
Together we will keep going forward in The Army of God ' 🛡
From home to home 🏡 and place to place.
May Our Lord wrap all our prayers and concerns in his sacred heart ❤️
Blessings in Christ love,
Lori Foster
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Days of the Week Music 🎶 note: you will find The Divine Mercy Prayer & how to make your five crosses ✝️ towards the bottom of post.
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Friday, October 30, 2026
Army of Prayer & Rosary/ Why do we celebrate Halloween?/ All Saints Day/ All Souls Day/ Carry a Cross & St. Michael Prayer
Saturday is "Army of Prayer & Rosary."🌹
May you go to "Days of the Week Music."🎶
you will find Saturdays between the Crosses➕➕➕
your Click will be your lit candle🕯
Together we will keep going forward in
The Army of God⛨
from home and home 💟and place to place.
May our Lord wrap all our prayers & concerns
in his Sacred Heart 💞
Our Lord knows US and is blessing US💛💛
Blessings in Christ love,
Lori Foster
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Days of the Week Music 🎶note: you will find
The Divine Mercy Prayer & how to make
your five crosses☩☩☩☩☩ towards the bottom of post
Why do we celebrate Halloween? 🍁🍂
All Saints Day celebrated on (Nov.1)
All Souls Day celebrated on (Nov.2)
Carry a Cross and St. Michael Prayer 🌹
May we turn our nightlights on for both days 💫
Embrace the Cross/ Why do we celebrate Halloween? / The Swooping Bat & The Bible and the Bat
Today is Friday "Embrace the Cross."🌹
May you go to "Days of the Week Music."🎶
you will find Fridays between the Crosses➕➕➕
Saturday is "Army of Prayer & Rosary."🌹
Saturday is also Halloween 🎃🍁🍂
Together we will Embrace the Cross of Jesus☩
from home to home💟and place to place.
May we place our prayers & concerns in
Christ Sacred Heart💞
May we turn our nightlights on 💫
Blessings in Christ love,
Lori Foster
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Days of the Week Music🎶note: you will find
the Divine Mercy Prayer & how to make your
five crosses ☩☩☩☩☩ towards the bottom of post.
Thursday, October 29, 2026
Army of Prayer & Rosary/ Blanket our towns Oh' Lord/ Cover me with your holiness/ The Bells of Freedom
Today is Thurs. "Army of Prayer & Rosary."🌹
May you go to "Days of the Week Music."🎶
you will find Thurs. between the Crosses➕➕➕
your Click will be your lit candle🕯
Together we will keep going forward in
The Army of God ⛨
from home to home💟 and place to place.
May we place all our prayers and concerns
in Christ Sacred Heart💞
Blessings in Christ love,
Lori Foster
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Days of the Week Music🎶 note: you will find
the Divine Mercy Prayer & how to make your
Wednesday, October 28, 2026
Pope John Paul II Quotes
Pope John Paul II Quotes:
"It is Jesus that you seek when you
dream of happiness; He is waiting
for you when nothing else you find
satisfies you; He is the beauty to which
you are so attracted; it is he who provoked
you with that thirst for fullness that will
not let you settle for compromise; it is
He who urges you to shed the masks of a
false life; it is He who reads in your heart
your most genuine choices, the choices that
others try to stifle."
"It is Jesus who stirs in you the disire to do
something great with your lives, the will to
follow an ideal, the refusal to allow yourselves
to be ground down by mediocrity, the courage
to commit yourselves humbly and patiently
to improving yourselves and society, making
the world more human and more fraternal."
"The future starts today, not tomorrow.
"Do not abandon yourselves to despair.
We are the Easter people and hallelujah
is our song."
"Artistic talent is a gift from God and
whoever discovers it in himself has a
certain obligation; to know that he
cannot waste this talent, but must
develop it."
"The earth will not continue to offer its
harvest, except with faithful stewardship.
We cannot say we love the land and
then take steps to destroy it for use
by future generations."
"Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied
with mediocrity. Put out into the deep
and let down your nets for a catch."
"I plead with you--never, ever give up
on hope, never doubt, never tire, and
never become discouraged. Be not afraid."
"A person's rightful due is to be
treated as an object of love, not as an
object for use."
"Know what you are talking about."
"Faith and Reason are like two wings
of the human spirit by which it soars
to the truth."
"True freedom is not advanced in the
permissive society, which confuses
freedom with license to do anything
whatever and which in the name of
freedom proclaims a kind of general
amorality. It is a caricature of
freedom to claim that people are free
to organize their lives with no
reference to moral values, and to say
that society does not have to ensure
the protection and advancement of
ethical values. Such an attitude is
destructive of freedom peace."
"The worst prison would be a closed
heart."
"As the family goes, so goes the
nation and so goes the whole world
in which we live."
"Do not be afraid to take a chance on
peace, to teach peace, to live
peace.... Peace will be the last word of
history."
"Have no fear of moving into the
unknown. Simply step out fearlessly
knowing that I am with you.
therefore, no harm can befall you: all
is very, very well. Do this in complete
faith and confidence."
"It is the duty of every man to uphold
the dignity of every woman."
"Love between the man and woman
cannot be built without sacrifices
and self-denial."
"We are not the sum of our
weaknesses and failures, we are the
sum of the Father's love for us and
our real capacity to become the
image of His Son Jesus."
"Love consists of a commitment
which limits one's freedom-it is a
giving of the self, and to give oneself
mea"ns just that; to limit one's
freedom on behalf of another."
"Not all are called to be artists in the
specific sense of the term. Yet, as
Genesis has it, all men and woman
are entrusted with the task of
crafting their own life; in a certain
sense, they are to make of it a work
of art, a masterpiece."
"Friendship, as has been said,
consists in a full commitment of the
will to another person with a view to
that person's good.
"Take away from love the fullness of
self-surrender, the completeness of
personal commitment, and what
remains will be a total denial and
negation of it."
"Limitation of one's freedom might
seem to be something negative and
unpleasant, but love makes it a
positive, joyful and creative thing.
Freedom exists for the sake of love."
"The Gospel lives in conversation
with culture, and if the Church holds
back from the culture, the Gospel
itself falls silent. Therefore, we must
be fearless in crossing the threshold
of the communication and
information revolution now taking
place."
"He was alone in his wonderment,
among creatures incapable of
wonder
--fir them it was enough to exist and
go their way."
"Faith and reason are like two wings
on which the human spirit rises to
the contemplation of truth; and God
has placed in the human heart a
desire to know the truth--in a word,
to know himself--so that, by
knowing and loving God, men and
women may also come to the
fullness of truth about themselves."
"This is no time to be ashamed of the
Gospel. It is the time to preach it
from the rooftops. Do not be afraid
to break out of comfortable and
routine nodes of living in order to
take up the challenge of making
Christ known in the modern
metropolis.
"Pope John Paul II taught that human
life is sacred, inviolable, and worthy of
protection from conception to natural
death, famously stating that a
"society's true greatness is measured
by how it treats its most vulnerable
members--including the unborn. 🌹
"Merry Christmas!
Pope John Paul II
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St. Pope John Paul II Feast Day
Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II was the head of the
Catholic Church and sovereign of
Vatican City from October 16, 1978
until his death April 2, 2005.
He was the first non-Italian pope
since Adrian VI in the 16th century,
as well as the third longest pope in
history, after St. Peter and Pius IX.
**Born: May 18,1920, in Wadowice, Poland.
**Died: April 2, 2005 (84 years), at the
Apostolic Palace, Vatican City
**Languages: He could speak Polish,
Italian, Spanish, English, Latin, French,
German, Esperanto, Portuguese, Ukrainian,
Slovak, Serbo-Croatian.
**Date of burial: April 8, 2005
**Full name: Karol Jozef Wojtyla
**Parents: Emilia Kaczorowska, Karol Wojtyla
**Siblings: Olga Wojtyla, Edmund Wojtyla
**Pope John Paul II Feast Day is October 22
because it marks the anniversary of the
solemn Mass that inaugurated his pontificate
in 1978, rather than the date of his death.
**Pope John Paul II pursued an extensive
academic and theological education across
Poland and Rome
Early Studies and World War II
*Jagiellonian University (1928-1939) learning
up to 15 languages, literature, and philosophy.
*Interruption by War: His studies stopped when
Nazi Germany invaded Poland in 1939. He worked
in a stone quarry and a chemical factory while secretly
joining a clandestine (underground) seminary in Krakow
starting in 1942.
*Priestly Ordination (1946): After the war concluded, he
completed his seminary formation and was ordained
a priest on November 1, 1946.
*Pontifical International
University of Saint Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum)
in Rome (1946-1948): Sent to Rome
immediately after ordination, he earned
his licentiate and doctorate in sacred Theology(STD)
ethics.
*Jagiellonian University/ University of Lublin:
He returned to Poland and earned a doctorate
in sacred theology (STD) and later a second doctorate
in moral philosophy from the Catholic University in Lublin.
*Academic Career: He later spent 25 years teaching moral
philosophy and social ethics as a professor at both the
University of Lublin and Jagiellonian University.
Major Health Complications and Timeline
*1981 Assassination Attempt: Shot in St. Peter's Square,
Requiring extensive emergency surgery and a long
recovery.
*Parkinson's Disease: Diagnosed in the early
1990's (confirmed around 2001), which progressively
impaired his mobility, posture, and ability to speak.
1992: Removal of a noncancerous colon tumor (surgery)
1993: Dislocated shoulder from a fall.
1994: Broken femur (thigh bone) from another fall.
1996: Appendectomy (removal of the appendix).
2005: Respiratory and Acute Illnesses:
Suffered from flu, acute laryngeal tracheitis, and
larynx.
spasm crises that caused severe breathing difficulties.
Underwent a tracheotomy in February 2005 to help
him breathe, which further impacted his ability to speak.
Developed a urinary tract infection that
escalated into a blood infection (sepsis), leading
to multi-system organ failure, septic shock,
and cardio-circulatory collapse.
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