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I am a consecrated brother within an Association of Christ's Faithful called the Little Eucharistic Brothers of Divine Will. We are a contemplative-active community based in Tasmania, patterned after the Hidden Life of the Holy Family, with Eucharistic Adoration central to our daily prayer life, and a modest apostolate of teaching Catholic faith and spirituality. St. Joseph is the especial patron of our community.

This blog focuses on exploring the Catholic faith with an emphasis on Scripture, mystagogy, and spirituality. True devotion to Mary and Joseph, and the importance of the Holy Family, are favourite topics. I am also an occasional contributor at IGNITUM TODAY.

Peace in Christ,

Br. John-Joseph (Martin) of the Immaculate Womb and the Holy Family

+JMJL+

 

BA (Major: Theology, Minor: Social Justice), The University of Notre Dame Australia, 2013

 

MThelSt (Biblical and Early Christian Studies), Australian Catholic University, 2020*

 

GCertGovCanonLaw, BBI, 2021

 
*Focus in Ancient Languages, major research paper in biblical hermeneutics.

Note: I submit all the contents of this blog to the authority of the Catholic Church, in obedience to the Magesterium instituted by Christ on Peter and the Apostles.

Blog Concept...

NEW ISRAEL - This term is not to say that Israel, the Jewish People, the Chosen People of God, are finished and gone, as if Holy Mother Church -the New Israel- has superseded these People. Not at all, for as the Church teaches, God has not revoked His covenant with the Jews but He has simply expanded it to all people in Christ, within the New Israel of the Church. Furthermore, to describe the Church as the New Israel is a spiritual title which does not deny the Jewish People as Israel in a literal and particular sense, whereas the Church is Israel in a spiritual and universal sense. All people are called and welcomed into the New Israel, which both transcends human culture and is capable of being home to those of every culture to whom the call of conversion, the invitation to relationship with the Trinity is extended.

TEN-STRINGED LYRE - The 'Ten-Stringed Lyre' denotes the call to live out the universal vocation of holiness, according to "the new and divine holiness" (St. Pope John Paul II), for and within the Church, the New Israel. This vocation is the call to be an instrument in the hands of Christ, the New David (the fulfillment of King David), so that the Melody of the God's Will may sound on earth as it does in heaven. This melody is Love and Mercy, and in the lives of His pilgrim members it is the praise He is due. No lyre, no soul is the same; no melody, no praise is the same. In each soul the King wants to pluck forth a unique song of praise, a new song of praise. Hence the Psalmist: "To thee, O God, I will sing a new canticle: on the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings I will sing praises to thee." (Ps 144:9). How each member goes about this task of singing the "new song" differs according to their office, state of life and personality. This blog is a meager attempt at doing my little bit.

Patronage

I entrust this blog and its contents to the patronage of Mary and Joseph in the Holy Family, in union with all the holy angels and saints. I invoke the special patronage of the following...

Ss. Michael, Raphael, and Gabriel the Archangel,

My own guardian angel;

St. John of the Cross,

St. Therese of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face,

St. Teresa of Avila,

St. Francis of Assisi,

St. Maria Faustina Kowalska,

St. Catherine of Siena,

St. Hildegard of Bingen,
St. Mary (MacKillop) of the Cross,

St. Augustine,
St. Jerome,
St. Athanasius,

St. Jean Marie Vianney,

St. Padre Pio,

St. Peter the Apostle,

St. John the Beloved,

St. Columba,

St. King David,

St. Eljiah the Prophet,

Ss. Moses, Aaron and Miriam,
St. Joseph the Patriarch,

The Holy Patriarchs, Abraham, Issac and especially Jacob;

Along with the Holy Matriarchs Sarah, Rebekah, Leah and especially Rachel;

And those, please God, awaiting canonisation/beatification:

Bl. Charles de Faucald;

The Servant of God Luisa Picarretta, the Little Daughter of the Divine Will.

For the reign of the Kingdom of God's Will on earth as it is in heaven; for the good and salvation of all souls; for the spread of true devotion to Mary and Joseph for the sake of Jesus, through whom alone be all glory to the Father, in the mutual love of the Holy Spirit. Amen.