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John 8:12 "I am the light of the world."

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

_____________________________________________

Days of the Week Music🎶 note: you will find

the Divine Mercy Prayer & how to make your

five crosses☩☩☩☩☩


Blanket our towns Oh' Lord

Cover me with your holiness

The Bells of Freedom

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




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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St. Pope John Paul II Feast Day  (videos)





Tuesday, October 27, 2026

Army of Prayer & Rosary/ My love for you will never be shaken/ Would you recognize Me? / Shield me Oh' Lord/Snuffed {I was a candle that kindled the lonely hours}

Today is Thursday "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 our Lord wrap all our prayers & concerns

in his Sacred Heart💞

Jesus knows Us and is blessings Us💚💚

Blessings in Christ love,

Lori Foster

____________________________________________________

Days of the Week Music🎶 note: you will find

The Divine Mercy Prayer and how to make

your five crosses☩☩☩☩☩ towards the bottom

of post


My Love for you will never be shaken

Would you recognize me?

Shield Me Oh' Lord

Snuffed {I was a candle that kindled the lonely hours}

Lori Foster's Timeline ➕

Sunday, October 25, 2026

Saturday, October 24, 2026

Army of Prayer & Rosary/ Quotes from (Saint) Mother Teresa/ Illuminated Blessed Mary and Donkey/ The Infant and Rolling Rocks /Made Known to Us/ My Tiny Bag

Today is Saturday "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 go forward in The Army of God⛨

from home to home💟 and place to place.

Our Lord knows Us and is blessings Us💚💚

May our Lord wrap all your prayers & concerns

in His Sacred Heart💞

Blessings in Christ love,

Lori Foster

___________________________________________

Days of the Week Music 🎶note: you will find

the Divine Mercy Prayer and how to make your

five crosses☩☩☩☩☩


Quotes from Saint Mother Teresa 🌹

Illuminated Blessed Mary and Donkey

The Infant and Rolling Rocks

Made Known to Us

My Tiny Bag


Friday, October 23, 2026

Embrace the Cross/ Be with me my Jesus/ Clinging to Christ/ Cover me with your Holiness/Lori Foster's Timeline

Today is Friday "Embrace the Cross." 🌹 

May you go to "Days of the Week Music."🎶

you will find Fridays between the Crosses➕➕➕

your Click will be your lit candle🕯

Together we will Embrace the Cross of Jesus ➕

from home to home 💟 and place to place.

May we turn our nightlights on 💫

May our Lord wrap all our prayers & concerns

in his Sacred Heart 💞

Blessings in Christ love,

Lori Foster

____________________________________________

Days of the Week Music🎶note: you will find

the Divine Mercy Prayer and how to make your

five Crosses☩☩☩☩☩


Be With Me My Jesus

Clinging to Christ

Cover Me with your Holiness

Lori Foster's Timeline ☩