Psalms 20:5, "May we shout for joy over your victory, and in the name of our God set up our banners! May the LORD fulfill all your petitions!" Psalms 60.4, "Thou hast set up a banner for those who fear thee, to rally to it from the bow." The United States celebration of Flag Day (June 14) originally began in 1777, 240 years ago. June 14 is the birthday of 'Old Glory' which has had 26 design changes since the beginning. In 1916 President Woodrow Wilson made June 14 official

Deepertruth with special permission and aid with Franiciscan Media, a great team for the Lord https://deepertruthdon.podbean.com/e/deepertruth-stand-in-the-gap-with-us-and-st-anthony-of-padua/ This past June 13th was the feast day of one of my favorite Saints, St. Anthony of Padua. Like St. Francis of Assisi, St. Anthony was born into a wealthy family, he would give all that up to follow Jesus Christ, the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. From age 15, he would learn the impo

https://deepertruthdon.podbean.com/e/deepertruth-the-3rd-promise-of-the-sacred-heart-of-jesus-to-st-margaret-mary/ (3) I will comfort them in all their afflictions. I just love this picture, notice the two boys how they are looking at the Eucharist and the Monstrance. Don't you know that Our Lord is smiling down on them! This is a picture that captures in time and space something that speaks volumes. The parents are truly blessed and I am thankful to have been blessed to s

https://deepertruthdon.podbean.com/e/deepertruth-the-promises-jesus-to-st-margaret-mary-promise-2/ 2. I will give peace in their families and will unite families that are divided. This promise is a very important one for most families in our day and time. In fact, Jesus made this interesting statement regarding families: “Do not think that I have come to bring peace upon the earth. I have come to bring not peace but the sword. For I have come to set a man ‘against his fat

https://deepertruthdon.podbean.com/e/deepertruth-the-promises-of-the-sacred-heart-of-jesus-to-st-margaret-mary/ (1) I will give them all the graces necessary in their state of life. Jesus is promising that honoring His Sacred Heart He will give ALL the graces necessary to enter the Kingdom of Heaven! What does this entail? There are basically two elements to the devotion to the Sacred Heart. Consecration and Reparation. The Consecration to the Sacred Heart you are acknowledg

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My day first began watching the Fox News Channel as they were getting ready for a speech coming from President Donald Trump at Arlington Cemetery and this was one great speech. I went out to our front yard and took a picture of statues I have by our flag posted there. I had previously talked with my wife who told me of one of her uncles who had been wounded in battle during WW II as did one of my uncles (Joe) who was bayoneted by a Japanese running upon him during a hand to

Eucharistic Miracle of Glotowo, Poland 1290 Please remember that our faith is not founded on Eucharistic miracles, but on the proclamation of the Lord Jesus, received with faith through the action of the Holy Spirit. We believe because we have believed in the preaching (see Gal. 3:5; also in Rom 10:17): “Faith depends on hearing and hearing by the word of Christ; and, in turn, preaching depends on the word of Christ.” “Believing is an act of the intellect, which under the in

After nearly four years of college and then being in the work force, I caught one of those Army commercials calling us to be "All you can be in the Army". I made a dramatic career change that would change my life forever. I am so thankful that I was strong in my Catholic Faith before I signed up because I would be tested many times through out my Military life. So much so that I do not know how anyone can go though this without have faith! The foundation of the United Sta

Judas Iscariot betrayed Our Lord Jesus Christ with a kiss in the Garden of Gethsemane for 30 pieces of silver (Matthew 26:15). After Judas committed suicide by hanging himself, the Apostles gathered together to replace him choosing between two Candidates, Joseph called Barsabbas, also known as Justus, and Matthias. St. Peter opened the casting of lots with this forward message, "So one of the men who have accompanied us during all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and o