Acts, Chapter 2,
Verse 26-27
26 Therefore my heart
has been glad and my tongue has exulted; my flesh, too, will dwell in hope, 27 because you will not
abandon my soul to the netherworld, nor will you suffer your holy one to see
corruption.
God desires that all men be saved. Christ by the
action of His precious blood has sought to redeem all and He desires that none
see corruption. Traditionally during the month of November, the church seeks to
aid all those who are in purgatory awaiting the grace of God.
If anyone says
that after the reception of the grace of justification the guilt is so
remitted, and the debt of eternal punishment so blotted out to every repentant
sinner that no debt of temporal punishment remains to be discharged, either in
this world or in Purgatory, before the gates of Heaven can be opened, let him
be anathema.
Decree Concerning
Purgatory. The Council of Trent. Session XXV. December 4, 1563
Since the Catholic
Church, instructed by the Holy Ghost, has, following the sacred writings and
the ancient tradition of the Fathers, taught in sacred councils and very
recently in this ecumenical council, that there is a Purgatory, and that the
souls there detained are aided by the suffrages of the faithful and chiefly by
the Acceptable Sacrifice of the Altar, the Holy Council commands the bishops
that they strive diligently to the end that the sound doctrine of Purgatory,
transmitted by the Fathers and sacred councils, be believed and maintained by
the faithful of Christ, and be everywhere taught and preached.
Canons Concerning The
Sacrament Of Penance. The Council of Trent. Session XIV, November 25, 1551
CANON 12. If
anyone says that God always pardons the whole penalty together with the guilt
and that the satisfaction of penitents is nothing else than the faith by which
they perceive that Christ has satisfied for them, let him be anathema.
CANON 13. If
anyone says that satisfaction for sins, as to their temporal punishment, is in
no way made to God through the merits of Christ by the punishments inflicted by
Him and patiently borne, or by those imposed by the priest, or even those
voluntarily undertaken, as by fasts, prayers, almsgiving or other works of
piety, and that therefore the best penance is merely a new life, let him be
anathema.
CANON 14. If
anyone says that the satisfactions by which penitents atone for their sins
through Christ are not a worship of God but traditions of men, which obscure
the doctrine of grace and the true worship of God and the beneficence itself of
the death of Christ, let him be anathema.
CANON 15. If
anyone says that the keys have been given to the Church only to loose and not
also to bind, and that therefore priests, when imposing penalties on those who
confess, act contrary to the purpose of the keys and to the institution of
Christ, and that it is a fiction that there remains often a temporal punishment
to be discharged after the eternal punishment has by virtue of the keys been removed,
let him be anathema.
Chapter IX— On the
Works Of Satisfaction. Session XIV. The Council of Trent. November 25, 1551.
It [the Council] teaches furthermore that the
liberality of the divine munificence is so great that we are able through Jesus
Christ to make satisfaction to God the Father, not only by punishments
voluntarily undertaken by ourselves to atone for sins, or by those imposed by
the judgment of the priest according to the measure of our offense, but also,
and this is the greatest proof of love, by the temporal afflictions imposed by
God and borne patiently by us.
Blessed are you who fear the LORD, who walk in
his ways!
Coffee with Christ: Tuesdays
Are Special
We seek friendship with God through Christ, the Holy
Spirit and His mother-Mary. There is no greater help in our life’s journey in
this world than through friendship with Jesus Christ and His mother. Prayer is,
in its purest sense, a personal journey or intimacy with Our Lord. The
imaginary premise of this article is to encourage having a “Coffee Clutch” with
Christ and gather for coffee and conversation through the inspiration of the
Holy Spirit. Ideally having a regular or daily set time or appointment to meet
and discuss with Him your hopes, dreams, plans and goals. To bear your heart to
Him. To just sit down with Christ and talk, laugh, and enjoy each others
company, over a cup of coffee. To make the common Holy and grow in the love and
likeness to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
My
Coffee Conversation with Christ
During a Coffee I apologize to Christ as I hand Him a
cup of micro waved coffee. I tell him
that I could not sleep last night and that I got up in the middle of the night
and could not go back to sleep. He states that when that happens it is a good
time to pray. Pray and I will be there with you. He mentions that the coffee is
good, and he would have liked to have had a micro wave back in Jerusalem. He
also tells me that I should try and make it to the Blessed Sacrament Chapel for
a little “one on one” time. He further reveals that Tuesdays are always trying
for Him; for it was the day that Judas went to the Sanhedrin to betray Him and
that it comforts Him when someone has a special devotion to him on that day. He
further states that I would grow in grace if I was careful to observe and make
a Novena to His Holy Face for the nine days preceding Ash Wednesday ending the
Novena on Shrove (day before Ash Wednesday) Tuesday.
(as dictated by Our Lord to Sister Marie of St. Peter)
May the most holy, most sacred, most adorable, most incomprehensible and ineffable Name of God be forever praised, blessed, loved, adored and glorified in Heaven, on Earth, and under the Earth by all the creatures of God and by the Sacred Heart of Our Lord Jesus Christ in the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar. Amen. Eternal Father, I offer Thee the adorable Face of Thy Beloved Son for the honour and glory of Thy Name, for the conversion of sinners and the salvation of the dying. Amen.
May the most holy, most sacred, most adorable, most incomprehensible and ineffable Name of God be forever praised, blessed, loved, adored and glorified in Heaven, on Earth, and under the Earth by all the creatures of God and by the Sacred Heart of Our Lord Jesus Christ in the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar. Amen. Eternal Father, I offer Thee the adorable Face of Thy Beloved Son for the honour and glory of Thy Name, for the conversion of sinners and the salvation of the dying. Amen.
Those who by words, prayers or writing defend My cause
in this Work of Reparation I will defend before My Father and will give them My
Kingdom.
By offering My Face to My Eternal Father, nothing will
be refused, and the conversion of many sinners will be obtained.
By My Holy Face, they will work wonders, appease the
anger of God, and draw down mercy on sinners.
As in a kingdom they can procure all that is desired
with a coin stamped with the King's effigy, so in the Kingdom of Heaven they
will obtain all they desire with the precious coin of My Holy Face.
Those who on earth contemplate the wounds of My Face
shall in Heaven behold it radiant with glory.
They will receive in their souls a bright and constant
irradiation of My Divinity, that by their likeness to My Face they shall shine
with particular splendor in Heaven.
I will defend them, I will preserve them, and I assure
them of Final Perseverance.[8]
We do well to take seriously a biblical text of 1 Cor
11:17-34, where Saint Paul faces a shameful situation in the community. The
wealthier members tended to discriminate against the poorer ones, and this
carried over even to the agape meal that accompanied the celebration of the
Eucharist. While the rich enjoyed their food, the poor looked on and went
hungry: “One is hungry and another is drunk. Do you not have houses to eat and
drink in? Or do you despise the Church of God and humiliate those who have
nothing?” The Eucharist demands that we be members of the one body of the
Church. Those who approach the Body and Blood of Christ may not wound that same
Body by creating scandalous distinctions and divisions among its members. This
is what it means to “discern” the body of the Lord, to acknowledge it with
faith and charity both in the sacramental signs and in the community; those who
fail to do so eat and drink judgment against themselves. The celebration of the
Eucharist thus becomes a constant summons for everyone “to examine himself or
herself”, to open the doors of the family to greater fellowship with the
underprivileged, and in this way to receive the sacrament of that Eucharistic
love which makes us one body. We must not forget that “the ‘mysticism’ of the
sacrament has a social character”. When those who receive it turn a blind eye
to the poor and suffering, or consent to various forms of division, contempt
and inequality, the Eucharist is received unworthily. On the other hand,
families who are properly disposed and receive the Eucharist regularly,
reinforce their desire for fraternity, their social consciousness and their
commitment to those in need.
"Read
these counsels slowly. Pause to meditate on these thoughts. They are things
that I whisper in your ear-confiding them-as a friend, as a brother, as a
father. And they are being heard by God. I won't tell you anything new. I will
only stir your memory, so that some thought will arise and strike you; and so
you will better your life and set out along ways of prayer and of Love. And in
the end you will be a more worthy soul."
112. You, a doctor, an apostle, write to me: 'We all know by experience
that we can be chaste, living vigilantly, frequenting the sacraments and
stamping out the first sparks of passion before the fire can spread. And it so
happens that among the chaste are found the finest men in every way. And among
the lustful predominate the timid, the selfish, the treacherous and the cruel —
characters of little manliness.'
Daily Devotions
[1]John Maxwell, The Maxwell Leadership
Bible.
[2]Bishop
Robert Baron, October 27, 2017, gospel reflection.
[3]https://www.catholicgentleman.net/2014/04/spiritual-weapons-fasting/
[4] Pope Francis, Encyclical on Love.
[5]http://www.escrivaworks.org/book/the_way-point-1.htm
[6]Schouppe S.J., Rev. Fr. F. X.. Purgatory
Explained (with Supplemental Reading: What Will Hell Be Like?)
[9] Pope Francis, Encyclical on Love.
[10]http://www.escrivaworks.org/book/the_way-point-1.htm
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