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    Two Surfers Make A Heroic Attempt To Save A Young Catholic Girl In A Shark Attack.

    Two young girls, around the age of 14, went on vacation from our area of New Orleans to Destin, Florida. If you are not familar with Destin, it is one of the most beautiful places on the beaches of Florida, but it is one of the best places to fish and they are always bring in sharks, but they...
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    How The Carmelite Nun's Saved The City Of New Orleans In War Of 1812.

    I have told this story before on OBOB but thought I would post it again because of the hurricane season. We pray to of Lady of Prompt Succor to protect our city from hurricanes. This came from what happened in the War of 1812. A large force of British, about 10,000, had landed in south...
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    Tthe Southern Baptist Are Meeting Right Now And They Intend On Baptising 1,000,000

    The Southern Baptist are meeting right now and I found out that they want to baptise 1,000,000 new people to the Baptist religion. Question? Have you every tried to convert someone to the Catholic religion or at least try and explain our religion and were you sucessful?
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    A Prayer For The Hurricane Season And Any Bad Weather.

    This is a prayer we say in New Orleans during the hurricane season, or any other type of bad weather. With the way Florida was hit last year I thought I would put this out there for everyone. Our Father in Heaven, through the powerful intercession of Our Lady of Prompt Succor spare us all...
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    Erwin, I Would Like To Make A Donation To Keep This Board Alive, But Would Like To

    Ewrin, I would like to give a donation to the CF but would like to do so by check rather than paypal. Recently somehow my sons banking account got cleaned out of $1600 dollars and no matter what these companies say about there security, there is someone out there that can find a way to get into...
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    It was revealed to Saint Gertrude the Great by our Lord

    It was revealed to Saint Gertude the Great that your prayers are the strongest at the Consecration in the Holy Mass during the raising of the Host and the Chalice. Anyone who has been praying for something important to them should attend Mass and follow this. I have tried this and I received...
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    Saint Therese Has Said That It Is Better To Say A Prayer Very Slowly With Thought

    Saint Therese, a Doctor of the Catholic Church, in one of her many writings said that she feels it is better to say a prayer, for example the Our Father, very slowly and with thought than to say a hundred Our Fathers with speed and no thought of what you are saying. I have tried to go slow...
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    Hotel Sudan...the Terror Has Not Stopped..please

    I watched the movie Hotel Rwanda the other night and some may say, thats only a movie. WRONG, its happening right now in the Sudan and I have been trying to keep everyone informed so that these poor people might have some kind of voice in this whole world while everyone turns their back...
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    We Should Try And Answer Post On Obob

    I think it is our responsibility to check out post on OBOB and at least give a response, especially a new member that is asking a question. I have been on this board for over a year, and I know when I first came on board, if I would have asked a question and no one answered it I would think...
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    At George Bush's News Confrence Today He Told The Chinese They Need To Allow Catholic

    At George Bush's news confrence today he told the Chinese that they need to allow Catholic Bishops to enter the country. Question......Has anyone heard what happened to the Catholic priests that were arrested about 3 weeks ago in China. From what I have heard Mr. Walmart would not have like to...
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    Therese Movie Update

    The movie THERESE has been seen by over 355,000 people and many lives have been changed by it. A woman who had had a strained relationship with her father before he died went to see the movie. She related with Saint Therese and Saint Therese's father Louis and the woman was overwhelmed with...
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    God, Please Save Our Children From Such Things. This Is Distrubing

    Our children are a gift from God. Its up to us to protect them from harm. There is no way to sugar coat what I'm about to tell you. This just hit our news 2 days ago. A pastor of a Church( I do not want to name, but its certainly not Catholic) that has dropped its charter with its parent...
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    What Does Having The Holy Spirit Mean To You?

    I was confirmed Sunday and I felt so wonderful, but I did not know how to handle it. I mean receiving the Holy Spirit, until yesterday I saw a lady at Mass who has been very ill. I told her I was confirmed Sunday and she grabbed my hand. She said "you have recently received the Holy Sprit and...
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    It Was My Confirmation Yesterday And My Birthday Today.

    My confirmation yesterday was one to remember. The Church had a Mass at 10:30 AM for all that had been confirmed in the past year and will be confirmed today. The service was held at Saint Louis Cathedral in New Orleans and if you have ever seen pictures of New Orleans this is the beautiful...
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    Internet Alert. Please Read

    I wanted to alert everyone to a problem my son had this pass week. He does online banking including paying all of his bills that way. A week ago today he had $1600 in his account. By the end of the day his account had 0. It seems like someone from Turkey got into his computer and took...
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    My Prayer's Have Been Answered

    I have been doing a Novena of Divine Promise which I posted on the board two days ago. I'm on day 25 of the total of 30 consecutive days of Mass and Communion required to complete the Novena. I have been asking the Lord to please help my son to be more responsible and to please act like the...
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    Two Divine Promises From Our Lord Given To Saint Faustina

    You may be familar with Saint Faustina from the Novena to the Divine Mercy. This was taken from her diary to give to us. Well, there was a lot of other information in her diary. The Two Divine Promises is another Promise that the Lord gave to then Sister Faustina and she put it down into her...
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    Pope John Paul II Is Ill Again

    There was just a short news flash saying that Pope John Paul II is vomiting and the medication is not having any effect. They also said he is still in a weaken state from his operation on his throat. At this time they do not feel that he will have to be hospitalized. He needs our prayers...
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    Please Sign This Card To All In Rcia

    Please sign this card and add your thoughts for all of our RCIA members that are about to enter the most important week of their life. With Holy Week coming up there will be so much going on but it will be a time to remember. All of your studing will pay off and you will soon be a joining at...
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    Mel Gibson Has Bought Rights To Book About Lady Of Fatima

    I just heard that Mel Gibson has bought the rights to make a film about Our Lady of Fatima. I would love to see this film made. Lets let Mel know that people are interested by posting your thoughts on the subject. Something tells me he will get some feed back from this which he would like...