Saturday, February 6, 2016
I am posting this a bit early as I am going to be at the men conference in Phoenix where I will be signing my books. www.cmfp.org
Sirach, Chapter 40, Verse 7
As he reaches safety,
he wakes up, astonished that there was nothing to fear.
Our loving God wants us
free; He speaks to us at times through our dreams and reassures us of His
assistance. Rest is an important part of God’s care for us and the world.
In the Jewish calendar
God specified that we are to rest one out of seven days but it goes further
with a rest after seven weeks ending in a year of Jubilee after the 49th
year called a Shemitah (9/2014-9/2015).
The Shemitah Year is the seventh year
of the seven-year agricultural cycle mandated by the Torah for the Land of
Israel and still observed in contemporary Judaism. When Moses received the
Levitical law, God gave the commandment to rest on the seventh day… the
Sabbath. Moses also applied the cycles
of "seven" to weeks
and years. A cycle of seven weeks points to the 50th day, called
Pentecost. And a cycle of seven sets of seven years points to the 50th year,
the year of Jubilee. The year of Jubilee
(9/2015-9/2016) is based on letting the land rest every seventh year as
follows; "For six years sow your fields, and for six years prune your
vineyards and gather their crops. But in the seventh year the land is to have a
Sabbath of rest, a Sabbath to the Lord." (Leviticus 25:3-4)
Before the Exodus, the Israelites had
been slaves in the land of Egypt, without freedom and without possessions. When
they reached the land of Canaan, Joshua divided the land among their tribes and
their families… so that each had his own inheritance. Every adult male among them
became a land owner. This land was a permanent possession that could never depart
from his family. If a man became poor he could sell part or all of his land…
but only temporarily. It would always revert to him or his descendants at the
“Year of Jubilee.” If he became even poorer and was unable to pay his debts, he
could sell himself into slavery, and work to pay off his debts. Again that
slavery could only ever be temporary. When the great “Day of Atonement” in the
“Year of Jubilee” came he became a free man once again and repossessed his
inheritance. The most unusual observance that God commanded the Israelites
through Moses was… the keeping of the Year of Jubilee. For most people this celebration occurred only once in their life time
and for many not even that, as it occurred …only once every 50 years. At
this year of jubilee all Israelites who had sold themselves into slavery were
set free… and all land that had been sold reverted to its original owner. This
meant that the Israelites could not ever be in permanent slavery; nor could any
Israelite permanently lose his inheritance![1]
God’s purpose for the jubilee is
to set men free from slavery. Are there people and things you are enslaved too?
Now is the time to break free from them. If you are indebted do what you can to
satisfy the debt during this Jubilee year. If others happen to be enslaved to
you; now is the time to release them and god’s mercy will shine on you! If you
are enslaved to alcohol, drugs, pornography, food or any other thing or person.
Free yourself to be able to give yourself to God on this year of jubilee.
NOVENA TO THE HOLY FACE
DAILY PREPARATORY PRAYER
We now implore all the Angels and Saints to intercede for us as we pray this Holy Novena to the Most Holy Face of Jesus and for the glory of the most Holy Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen.
(Start novena)
Sixth Day
A pure heart create for us O God, put a steadfast spirit within us. Do not cast us away from your presence nor deprive us of your Holy Spirit.
May our hearts be cleansed, O Lord, by the inpouring of the Holy Spirit, and may He render them fruitful by watering them with His heavenly dew, Mary, the most chaste spouse of the Holy Spirit, intercede for us, Saint Joseph pray for us.
Through the merits of your precious blood and your Holy Face, O Jesus, grant us our petition, Pardon and Mercy.
Prayer to Saint Michael the Archangel
O Victorious Prince, most humble guardian of the Church of God and of faithful souls, who with such charity and zeal took part in so many conflicts and gained such great victories over the enemy, for the conservation and protection of the honor and glory we all owe to God, as well as for the promotion of our salvation, come, we pray Thee, to our assistance, for we are continually besieged with such great perils by our enemies, the flesh, the world and the devil; and as Thou was a leader for the people of God through the desert, so also be our faithful leader, and companion through the desert of this world, until Thou conduct us safely into the happy land of the living, in that blessed fatherland from which we are all exiles. Amen. (St. Aloysius)
Pray one (1) Our Father, (3) Hail
Mary’s, (1) Glory Be.
O Bleeding Face, O Face Divine, be every adoration Thine. (Three times)[2]
O Bleeding Face, O Face Divine, be every adoration Thine. (Three times)[2]
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