Dear friends,

Hours away from New Year's Day, on behalf of the Catholic Doors Ministry, I am forwarding to you our last monthly newsletter of year 2002. At the same time, may I take this opportunity to wish you all a fruitful year during 2003, filled with a thousand blessings to meet all of your physical and spiritual needs for the glory of God.

Reviewing the statistics of the Catholic Doors Ministry that are based on its daily logs, I wish to share with you in December, 2001, 251,373 files were downloaded from our website. In November, 2002, this being only 11 months later, 720,429 files were downloaded. Our statistics also show that which 1,492,935,000 bytes were downloaded in December, 2001, (this equivalent to 497,645 typed pages), in November, 2002, it had increased to 3,696,934,772 bytes (1,232,311 typed pages). Since the beginning of our evangelization on the Internet in May, 1999, our visitors have downloaded 17,557,332 pages from our website. During the last four months, our ministry has maintained a steady flow of slightly over 100,000 visitors per month. Praise the Holy Spirit for guiding so many believers to the spiritual material that we have to offer.

During the coming year, you and your personal needs shall continue to be remembered in my daily prayers during my celebration of the Holy Mass.

Tomorrow, January 1 st, is the Feast of Mary, Mother of God. Below, under homilies, you will find a beautiful homily on the subject of this special Feast. Take a few moments to read it. I am sure you will all enjoy it.

In the love of Jesus and Mary,

Fr. Maurice Levesque

December 31, 2002

HOMILIES

During December, 2002, 5 homilies were prepared for the month of January, 2003. These were:

Mary, Mother of God
http://catholicdoors.com/homilies/2003/030101.htm

Epiphany Sunday
http://catholicdoors.com/homilies/2003/030105.htm

Baptism of the Lord
http://catholicdoors.com/homilies/2003/030112.htm

2 nd Sunday in Ordinary Time
http://catholicdoors.com/homilies/2003/030119.htm

3 rd Sunday in Ordinary Time
http://catholicdoors.com/homilies/2003/030126.htm

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CHAPLETS

A new category of devotions/prayers was started during December, 2002. It consist of Chaplets. The first 9 Chaplets have been added to this webpage. These are:

Chaplet of Faith
Chaplet of Saint Michael Archangel
Chaplet of Saint Theresa (the Little Flower)
Chaplet of the Divine Mercy
Chaplet of the Five Wounds
Chaplet of the Holy Face
Chaplet of the Most Holy Trinity
Chaplet of the Precious Blood
Chaplet of the Way of the Cross

You may wish to save under "Favourites" the webpage where all future new Chaplets shall be added. To view the webpage, please visit: http://www.catholicdoors.com/prayers/chaplets.htm

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LITANIES

The Catholic Doors Ministry now enjoys a treasure of 41 different Litanies. 10 of these were newly added during December, 2002. The new additions were:

Litany of Mary, Mother of God
Litany in honour of Jesus, King of all Nations
Litany of The Most Precious Blood Of Our Lord Jesus
Litany of The Love Of God
Litany of Saint Jude
Litany of the Passion
Litany of Our Lady of Hope
Litany Of Saint Aloysius
Litany for the Church
Litany Of Our Lady of Prompt Seccor

The complete list of Litanies is found at http://www.catholicdoors.com/prayers/litanies.htm

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LITURGICAL CALENDAR

The last two months of the present Liturgical Calendar (Ordo) have been completed and may be viewed at:

October, 2003
http://catholicdoors.com/liturgy/2003-10.htm

November, 2003
http://catholicdoors.com/liturgy/2003-11.htm

Also added to this section was the webpage, "Liturgical Year 2003 at a glance." You may view this webpage at http://catholicdoors.com/liturgy/year2003.htm

To view the Main Page of liturgical material, click below:
http://catholicdoors.com/liturgy/index.htm

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PRAYING THE ROSARY

As most of you are aware, on October 16, 2002, Pope John-Paul II added a new mystery to the Marian Sacramental, the Rosary. Consequently, we had to update our webpage "Praying the Rosary" so it may include the "Mysteries of Light." Such has now been completed. You may now read how this change has affected the praying of the Holy Rosary. To view this material, please visit http://www.catholicdoors.com/prayers/english/p04200.htm

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