To be happy, do I always need others? (Part 2)

NOTE: This text is an EXCERPT FROM: “THE SECRET OF JOY” a new introduction to the Joyful Mysteries authored by Padre Nuno Rocha for the upcoming 20/20 Rosary365.Substack.com Project that will be announced on April 24, 2025, the Feast Joana Beretta Molla (1922-1962) and final day of the 20th year Anniversary of the Canonization of Beata Alexandrina da Costa, Saint of Balasar, PDV (Porto, Portugal).¹

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BOOKMARK THE PLAYLIST FOR THIS ENCONTRO CONFERENCE INVITE: ²

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLocLEBXyni_tsN77hNVCGNMbcBzILD84U

Join Dr. Blythe Kaufman, Fr. Anthony Gramlich, Fr. Elias Mary Mills and Amelia this Friday as they share more stories of endurance with us in this conference on suffering, Part III.

Preview of April 11 Live Record Instalment includes notes on "The Secret of Joy" from the new introduction to the Joyful Mysteries authored by Padre Nuno Rocha (PdV, Portugal) as he explores the idea of joy as "authentic communication".

Season 3 Episode Spiritual Direction by Fr. Nuno Rocha and Fr. Elias Mary; Episode Narration by Godric Kim and Fr. Chris Alar, MIC.

With thanks to the National Shrine of the Divine Mercy (USA). See Fr. Anthony’s latest video for the shrine from their YouTube site here:

Thanks also to the Franciscans of the Immaculate (USA) also the creators of Hyperdulia Media. See their latest episode here.

The conversation continues in this talk moderated by Fr. Elias Mary Mills, Franciscan of the Immaculate, hosted by Amelia who prays with Zosia and Dr. Blythe Kaufman on Radio Maria this coming Saturday, April 12, 2025 at 3 PM CENTRAL and 4 PM EASTERN. Visit https://radiomaria.us to pray with members of Children’s Rosary as they celebrate 3 years of broadcasting together from 2022-2025.

Learn more about Children’s Rosary here: https://childrensrosary.org and listen to Blythe’s talk on how the Rosary changed her life here:

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Promulgation of Decrees of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, 25.02.2025

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On 24 February, during the audience granted to Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin and Archbishop Edgar Peña Parra, Substitute for General Affairs of the Secretariat of State, the Holy Father Francis authorized the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints to promulgate the decrees regarding:

- the offering of life of the Servant of God Emil Joseph Kapaun, diocesan priest, born on 20 April 1916 in Pilsen, Kansas, United States of America, and died on 23 May 1951 in the Pyokton prison camp, North Korea;

- the offering of life of the Servant of God Salvo D’Acquisto, lay faithful, born in Naples on 15 October 1920 and died in Palidoro, Italy, on 23 September 1943;

- the heroic virtues of the Servant of God Miquel Maura i Montaner, diocesan priest and founder of the Congregación de las Hermanas Celadoras del Culto Eucaristico, born in Palma de Majorca, Spain, on 6 September 1843 and died there on 19 September 1915;

- the heroic virtues of the Servant of God Didaco Bessi, diocesan priest, founder of the Congregation of the Dominican Sisters of Saint Mary of the Rosary, born on 5 February 1856 in Iolo, Italy, and died there on 25 May 1919;

- the heroic virtues of the Servant of God Kunegunda Siwiec, lay faithful, born on 28 May 1876 in Stryszawa – Siwcówka, Poland, and died there on 27 June 1955.

Furthermore, the Supreme Pontiff approved the votes in favour of the Ordinary Session of the Cardinals and Bishops, members of the Dicastery, for the canonization of Blessed José Gregorio Hernández Cisneros, lay faithful, born in Isnotu, Venezuela, on 26 October 1864 and died in Caracas, Venezuela, on 29 June 1919, and of Blessed Bartolo Longo, lay faithful, born in Latiano, Italy, on 10 February 1841 and died in Pompei, Italy, on 5 October 1926, and decided to call a Consistory regarding the upcoming canonizations.

See our previous post on Bartolo Longo authored by Fr. Peter Turrone, here:

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FOOTNOTES

1. The full presentation of this quotation is as follows:

2. NOTE: Dr. Kaufman reads the final line of this passage from the “Book of Job” in the upcoming video. In preparation for this conversation, we invite you to read this excerpt from the Douay-Rheims Bible:

“Job Loses his Health”

1 And it came to pass, when on a certain day the sons of God came, and stood before the Lord, and Satan came among them, and stood in his sight,

2 That the Lord said to Satan: “Whence comest thou?”

And he answered and said: “I have gone round about the earth, and walked through it.”

3 And the Lord said to Satan: “Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a man simple, and upright, and fearing God, and avoiding evil, and still keeping his innocence ? But thou hast moved me against him, that I should afflict him without cause.”

4 And Satan answered, and said: “Skin for skin, and all that a man hath he will give for his life:

5 put forth thy hand, and touch his bone and his flesh, and then thou shalt gee that he will bless thee to thy face.”

6 And the Lord said to Satan: “Behold be is in thy hand, but yet save his life.”

7 So Satan went forth from the presence Of the Lord, and struck Job with a very grievous ulcer, from the sole of the foot even to the top of his head:

8 And he took a potsherd and scraped the corrupt matter, sitting on a dunghill.

9 And his wife said to him: Dost thou still continue in thy simplicity? bless God and die.

10 And he said to her: “Thou hast; spoken like one of the foolish women: if we have received good things at the hand of God, why should we not receive evil?”

In all these things Job did not sin with his lips.

Job's Three Friends

11 Now when Job's three friends heard all the evil that had befallen him, they came every one from his own place, Alphas the Themanite, and Baldad the Suhite, and Sophar the Naamathite. For they had made an appointment to come together and visit him, and comfort him.

12 And when they had lifted up their eyes afar off, they knew him not, and crying out they wept, and rending their garments they sprinkled dust upon their heads towards heaven.

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13 And they sat with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no man spoke to him a word: for they saw that his grief was very great.

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