The Brown Scapular Immaculate Heart Messenger Catholic Magazine October-December 2008
Subtitle: The Brown Scapular
Publisher: Fatima Family Apostolate International
Published: October-December 2008
Place of publication: Hanceville, AL
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 52
Subjects: Catholic; eucharist; Brown Scapular; Mt Carmel
Genres: Catholic
First sentence: In this issue, for the first time, there is publicly announced the availability of the final book your editor has hoped to write.
Description: The Brown Scapular

* Belief in Purgatory Is Not An Option
* News Briefs & Comments
* History of Brown Scapular Devotion
* Laus Message Is For Today
* Our Lady of Lourdes Speaks to Us Today
* Our Lady of Fatima & Mt Carmel Directs Us To Jesus Christ
* Questions & Answers
* Lost Fatherhood - Found
* Island of Faith in a Fast Moving World
* An Era of Great Popes - 2nd in a Series
* The Priest: A Man for Others
* Fatima Family Forum
* Light From Asia Minor
* Our Lady of La Salette
* I They Are Converted: Lady of La Salette
* Why Not Contraception?
* The Meaning of La Salette Message
* Editorial - Editor's Intimate Thoughts


Editor's Intimate Thoughts

In this issue, for the first time, there is publicly announced the availability of the final book your editor has hoped to write. Age, health and having already written somewhere around 50 books, many hundreds of articles, seem to indicate I've written my final book. I'm excited that the subject is on the "Eucharist" and that the preface is by Mother Angelica. As our readers know she is founder of the Eternal Word Television Network. Mother Angelica also built the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament, Hanceville, Alabama. I have lived near this Shrine for the past five years. Here I celebrate the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass and preach in its lower Church daily. This was a tremendous setting to write my final book on the subject of the "Eucharist: Heaven and Earth Unite".

Was it providential that recently when I finished the book: "Eucharist: Heaven & Earth Unite" I was informed I had bone cancer that has spread from another site of origin? I shared this news with the scriptural scholar, Scott Hahn, who by God's grace, has brought many ministers into the Church. I said that I laugh at death. Pessimism on the subject of death would please the devil who is responsible for death. Jesus Christ outwitted the devil and used His own death to bring us eternal life. Scott agreed and instantly quoted Wisdom 2. I said, "Oh! I thought you would quote Genesis." Scott, whose friendship I gained shortly after his conversion to Catholicism, it seems to me, is not only a superb Biblical scholar but one with a photographic memory, who, on any subject, can quickly quote chapter and verse from any of the Bible's New or Old Testaments.

I pray God may give me a few more years, with the treatments now underway, yet the news of cancer motivated me to act quickly for the future of this magazine and the Fatima Family Apostolate International which has existed for a time approaching 25 years. I would like it all to continue when I'm gone from this life. John Preiss, who has written for the Immaculate Heart Messenger for some years, and who writes again in this issue, I've name "associate editor". His young family expects a fourth child in January. The oldest just turned six.

Some are praying to Pope John Paul II for my health situation. That's OK by me as I personally met that great Pope who said to me: "You must make your work in the spirit of the Sermon on the Mount." I gave him on that occasion a portrait of the intercession of Blessed Jacinta of Fatima. So, no sympathy for me but call upon the intercession of Pope John Paul II if you are so inclined. In my view John Paul II was especially "the Fatima Pope". And I realize "all sufferings should be offered in reparation for the sins by which God is offended, and in supplication for the conversion of sinners."
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