Day 14-Let Freedom Ring: Freedom from Rebellion
We have allowed the temptation of the devil to move our hearts toward fearfully allowing our nation to rebel against You and Your will.
We have fallen into this nationwide rebellion against You when we have not lived up to the call of our Baptism by standing against the aggressors of violence and destruction. Instead, like Peter, we flee.
We have been too easily swayed by the threats of the elites and their complaint mob to build up a patriotism that is filled with love for You, love of our neighbor, and love of our country.
In our weakness, we have allowed the ancient foe to advance.
We turn to You Lord, in our sorrow and guilt, and beg Your forgiveness for our lack of resolve to let the visible light of our love for God and country push out the darkness of the rebels.
We beg for the grace of Your goodness to build up within us the strength and endurance be this visible light of love for all to see.
We know, Lord, if You will it, it will be done.
Trusting in You, we offer our prayer to You who live and reign forever and ever. Amen.
In Your power and goodness, You created all things.
You set a path for us to walk on and a way to an eternal relationship.
By the strength of Your arm and Word of Your mouth
Cast from your Holy Church every fearful deceit of the Devil
Drive from us manifestations of the demonic that oppress us and beckon us to fear and rebellion.
Still the lying tongue of the devil and his forces so that we may act freely and faithfully to do Your will.
Send Your holy angels to cast out all influence that the demonic entities in charge of fear have planted in Your Church.
Free us, our families, our parish, our diocese, and our country from all trickery and deceit perpetrated by the Devil and his hellish legions.
Trusting in Your goodness Lord,
We know if You will it, it will be done in unity with Your Son and the Holy Spirit, One God forever and ever. Amen.
Hear me.
From the desire of being esteemed,
Deliver me, O Jesus.
From the desire of being loved,
Deliver me, O Jesus.
From the desire of being extolled, etc.
From the desire of being honored,
From the desire of being praised,
From the desire of being preferred to others,
From the desire of being consulted,
From the desire of being approved,
From the fear of being humiliated,
From the fear of being despised,
From the fear of suffering rebukes,
From the fear of being calumniated,
From the fear of being forgotten,
From the fear of being ridiculed,
From the fear of being wronged,
From the fear of being suspected,
Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it.
That others may be esteemed more than I,
Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it.
That, in the opinion of the world, others may increase
and I may decrease,
Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it.
That others may be chosen and I set aside,
Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it.
That others may be praised and I go unnoticed,
Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it.
That others may be preferred to me in everything,
Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it.
That others may become holier than I,
provided that I may become as holy as I should,
Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it.
Matthew, Chapter 21, verse 26:
But if we say, ‘Of human origin,’ we FEAR the crowd, for they all regard John as a prophet.”
The chief priests and the elders of the people were master politicians during Christ’s time. Hmmmm…Some of them were faithful in thought word and deed, but many were as Christ pointed out like marble sepulchers which are pretty on the outside but inside full of death and rottenness within. Many of them put on the airs of piety but in reality, were agnostic in nature.
Here we see the priest and elders were afraid of the people. I think in our time a similar thing occurred with Saint John Paul II’s struggle with communism in Poland. John Paul was a John the Baptist of his time. Poles like the Jews of the Baptists time identified with John Paul and were hungry for a chance to cleanse themselves of the compromises they had to make to live under the rule of the communists. I believe John the Baptist message to have been very similar to John Paul’s.
“He
told them to be good, not to compromise themselves, to stick by one another, to
be fearless, and that God is the only source of goodness, the only
standard of conduct. 'Be not afraid,' he said. Millions shouted in response,
'We want God! We want God! We want God!'
The regime cowered. Had the Pope chosen to
turn his soft power into the hard variety, the regime might have been drowned
in blood. Instead, the Pope simply led the Polish people to desert their rulers
by affirming solidarity with one another. The Communists managed to hold on as
despots a decade longer. But as political leaders, they were finished. Visiting
his native Poland in 1979, Pope John Paul II struck what turned out to be a
mortal blow to its Communist regime, to the Soviet Empire, [and] ultimately to
Communism."[1]
Life is God’s Gift[2]
National NFP Awareness Week - JULY 19
- JULY 25, 2019
Love, Naturally! Is love something natural and part of
being human? Of course, it is. Many of us may not be able to find the precise
words to define love, but we know what it feels like when love is missing in
our lives. We also know how satisfied we feel when we have love. And, even
better— we know
the deep fulfillment we feel when we offer our love to others and they accept
it. The natural ability to know, give, and receive love is a gift from God. As
Scripture teaches, it is rooted in our nature, being made in God’s image and likeness (Gen 1:27).
How often have we heard this building block of our faith but have not thought
about it? This basic truth of our humanity has profound implications for all
human relationships, especially for those of us who are called to the vocation
of marriage. All are called to love God has written the capacity to give and to
receive love into the hearts of every man and woman. As St. Paul says, love is
the greatest gift (1 Corinthians 13:13). Love is the foundation for other
important characteristics such as gratitude, thankfulness, forgiveness, mercy,
and selflessness, all of which foster good relationships. One beautiful
expression of God’s
plan of love is that He created us with sexuality— male and female. Being made male
or female is the means through which we express love and form relationships.
This can take many forms as we relate to neighbors, workmates, friends, and
family members. It is precisely through human sexuality that husband and wife
can form their family. These small “communions
of persons” mirror
the inner love of God as a Trinity of three loving persons. Human sexuality—being created a man or a woman—is woven into our very bodies. This
is true despite the many wounds to their sexuality that some people may
experience. Human sexuality holds the powers of both love and life. The gift of
fertility is a particular awe inspiring attribute since it enables
participation in God’s
creation of new life. It is vital to be good stewards of these sacred gifts.
Chastity helps us to love well In a world wounded by sin, the virtue of
chastity strengthens us to express love in ways that are holy and genuine—whether we are married, single,
celibate, or vowed in religious life. As the Catechism of the Catholic Church
teaches, chastity enables us to maintain “the
integrity of the powers of life and love”
therefore helping us to respect ourselves and the personal boundaries of other
people (2338). Marriage and parenthood Of the various profound forms of human
relationships, marriage—or
more properly, Holy Matrimony—was
willed by God as a blessing. If you have forgotten that, look up the second
chapter of Genesis (Genesis 2:18-25) of which Jesus Himself quotes in the
Gospels when defending marriage to some Pharisees (see Mt 19:1-6). God did not
want the man to be alone. God made a suitable partner for him. That partner is
woman. She is equal to man in being made in God’s image, and she is also very
different. She complements him. Together, they make the one flesh union of
marriage which has the potential to give life and create a family. God intended
marital love to be total, faithful, permanent, and fruitful—accepting and nurturing the powers
of love and life. The nature of marriage calls husband and wife to sacred
responsibilities. Within this vocation, a husband and wife are able to
celebrate human sexuality in all its fullness. Their conjugal love is “meant to express the full meaning
of love,” as
willed by God, “its
power to bind a couple …
and its openness to new life”
(USCCB, Married Love and the Gift of Life, 4). Being “open” to life does not mean that married
couples have to intend to get pregnant every time they have sexual relations.
It means that children are not a mere footnote to marriage—they are a gift from God. It is the
responsibility of the married couple to respect God’s design and to be generously open
to His call to receive and nurture new life. This is true despite the fact that
some couples may not be able to have their own children. How can husband and
wife properly exercise their mutual stewardship over God’s gifts of love and life? Some may
wonder if married couples are expected to leave their family size entirely to
chance. The Church teaches that “a
couple may generously decide to have a large family, or for serious reasons” (e.g., financial, physical,
psychological, etc.), choose to postpone attempting a pregnancy temporarily or
indefinitely (see Humanae vitae 10). That is where the methods of Natural
Family Planning (NFP) enter. NFP—cooperating
with God’s design
for married love In marriage, when serious reasons arise, a husband and wife
may need to limit the size of their family. The ever-present temptation is to
use a form of contraception to limit or avoid having children. But
contraception is not the answer since it harms God’s creation and rejects His good
gifts. It does this by blocking human fertility. What are the moral methods of
authentic family planning that couples can use? Authentic family planning
honors God’s design
by supporting the love-giving and lifegiving nature of sexual intercourse. It
promotes openness to new life and the value of the child. And, it helps to
enrich the marital bond between husband and wife. Authentic family planning
builds healthy and holy families. Only NFP methods can boast of all these
characteristics! NFP methods make use of fertility education. NFP education
teaches husband and wife about their fertile time (the time of the wife’s ovulation, when an egg is
released from the ovary). NFP methods can be used to either attempt a pregnancy
or to avoid one. When avoiding, couples simply abstain from conjugal relations
during the wife’s
fertile time. No drugs, devices or surgical procedures are used. Any woman, no
matter the variety in her menstrual cycle, can use an NFP method. That’s because NFP methods help the wife
to recognize her unique signs of fertility which she can observe on a daily
basis. Love, naturally Take the time to learn, reflect, and pray about God’s marvelous plan for men, women,
and Holy Matrimony. Answer the call to cooperate with God’s design for married love! Let
these divine gifts “inform
and transform”
your marriage so that you and your family may flourish!
Mountaineering[3]
Sir
Edmund Hillary was born on this day. He was the first man to summit Mt. Everest on May 29, 1953.
Pier Giorgio Michelangelo Frassati was born in Turin, Italy on April 6, 1901. His mother, Adelaide Ametis, was a painter. His father Alfredo was the founder and director of the newspaper, “La Stampa," and was influential in Italian politics, holding positions as an Italian Senator and Ambassador to Germany.
At an early age, Pier Giorgio
joined the Marian Sodality and the Apostleship of Prayer, and obtained
permission to receive daily Communion (which was rare at that time). He
developed a deep spiritual life which he never hesitated to share with his
friends. The Holy Eucharist and the Blessed Virgin were the two poles of his
world of prayer. At the age of 17, he joined the St. Vincent de Paul Society
and dedicated much of his spare time to serving the sick and the needy, caring
for orphans, and assisting the demobilized servicemen returning from World War
I.
He decided to become a mining engineer, studying at the Royal Polytechnic
University of Turin, so he could “serve
Christ better among the miners," as he told a friend. Although he
considered his studies his first duty, they did not keep him from social and
political activism. In 1919, he joined the Catholic Student Foundation and the
organization known as Catholic Action. He became a very active member of the People’s Party, which promoted the
Catholic Church’s
social teaching based on the principles of Pope Leo XIII’s encyclical letter, Rerum
Novarum.
What little he did have, Pier Giorgio gave to help the poor, even using his bus fare for charity and then running home to be on time for meals. The poor and the suffering were his masters, and he was literally their servant, which he considered a privilege. His charity did not simply involve giving something to others, but giving completely of himself. This was fed by daily communion with Christ in the Holy Eucharist and by frequent nocturnal adoration, by meditation on St. Paul’s “Hymn of Charity” (I Corinthians 13), and by the writings of St. Catherine of Siena. He often sacrificed vacations at the Frassati summer home in Pollone (outside of Turin) because, as he said, “If everybody leaves Turin, who will take care of the poor?”
In 1921, he was a central figure in Ravenna, enthusiastically helping to organize the first convention of Pax Romana, an association which had as its purpose the unification of all Catholic students throughout the world for the purpose of working together for universal peace.
Mountain climbing was one of his favorite sports. Outings in the mountains, which he organized with his friends, also served as opportunities for his apostolic work. He never lost the chance to lead his friends to Mass, to the reading of Scripture, and to praying the rosary.
He often went to the theater, to the opera, and to museums. He loved art and music, and could quote whole passages of the poet Dante.
Fondness for the epistles of St. Paul sparked his zeal for fraternal charity, and the fiery sermons of the Renaissance preacher and reformer Girolamo Savonarola and the writings of St. Catherine impelled him in 1922 to join the Lay Dominicans (Third Order of St. Dominic). He chose the name Girolamo after his personal hero, Savonarola. “I am a fervent admirer of this friar, who died as a saint at the stake," he wrote to a friend. Like his father, he was strongly anti-Fascist and did nothing to hide his political views. He physically defended the faith at times involved in fights, first with anticlerical Communists and later with Fascists. Participating in a Church-organized demonstration in Rome on one occasion, he stood up to police violence and rallied the other young people by grabbing the group’s banner, which the royal guards had knocked out of another student’s hands. Pier Giorgio held it even higher, while using the banner’s pole to fend off the blows of the guards.
Just before receiving his university degree, Pier Giorgio contracted poliomyelitis, which doctors later speculated he caught from the sick whom he tended. Neglecting his own health because his grandmother was dying, after six days of terrible suffering Pier Giorgio died at the age of 24 on July 4, 1925. His last preoccupation was for the poor. On the eve of his death, with a paralyzed hand he scribbled a message to a friend, asking him to take the medicine needed for injections to be given to Converso, a poor sick man he had been visiting.
Pier Giorgio’s funeral was a triumph. The streets of the city were lined with a multitude of mourners who were unknown to his family -- the poor and the needy whom he had served so unselfishly for seven years. Many of these people, in turn, were surprised to learn that the saintly young man they knew had actually been the heir of the influential Frassati family. Pope John Paul II, after visiting his original tomb in the family plot in Pollone, said in 1989: “I wanted to pay homage to a young man who was able to witness to Christ with singular effectiveness in this century of ours. When I was a young man, I, too, felt the beneficial influence of his example and, as a student, I was impressed by the force of his testimony."
On May 20, 1990, in St. Peter’s Square which was filled with thousands of people, the Pope beatified Pier Giorgio Frassati, calling him the “Man of the Eight Beatitudes.”
His mortal remains, found completely intact and incorrupt upon
their exhumation on March 31, 1981, were transferred from the family tomb in
Pollone to the cathedral in Turin. Many pilgrims, especially students and the
young, come to the tomb of Blessed Frassati to seek favors and the courage to
follow his example.
Novena of St. Ann[4]
Daily Prayer to Saint Ann
O glorious St. Ann, you are filled with compassion for those
who invoke you and with love for those who suffer! Heavily burdened with the weight
of my troubles, I cast myself at your feet and humbly beg of you to take the
present intention which I recommend to you in your special care.
Please recommend it to your daughter, the Blessed Virgin Mary, and place it
before the throne of Jesus, so that He may bring it to a happy issue. Continue
to intercede for me until my request is granted. But, above all, obtain for me
the grace one day to see my God face to face, and with you and Mary and all the
saints to praise and bless Him for all eternity. Amen.
Our Father, . . . Hail
Mary . . .
O Jesus, Holy Mary, St.
Ann, help me now and at the hour of my death. Good St. Ann, intercede for me.
FOURTH DAY
Good Saint Ann, you offered your
daughter in the temple with faith, piety, and love. With the happiness
which then filled your heart, help me to present myself to God and to the world
as a committed disciple of Jesus.
Take me under your protection.
Strengthen me in my temptations. Show yourself to be a mother and help me
to live a life of holiness and love.
Total Consecration to St. Joseph-Day 1[5]
If you are married, I recommend wive’s make the total consecration to
Mary, Mother of Christ, while husband do the total consecration to St.
Joseph.
I did not understand St.
Joseph well enough, but that will change.
— St. John of the Cross
In the 16th century, St. John of the Cross humbly acknowledged that he lacked a
proper understanding of the greatness of St. Joseph. Inspired by the tremendous
love that his friend, St. Teresa of Avila, had for St. Joseph, St. John of the
Cross made a firm resolution to get to know and love St. Joseph better.
What about you? Do you
know St. Joseph? Do you feel you understand his
greatness and love for you?
Saint José Manyanet,
a priest in 19th-century Spain, fervently promoted devotion to St.
Joseph and the Holy Family. He prophesied that a “time of St. Joseph” would
soon arrive in the life of the Church. He wrote:
I believe that the true
time of Saint Joseph has not arrived yet: after two thousand years we started
only now to glimpse something of the mystery in which he is immersed.
Well, my friends, I firmly
believe that in our day the Lord wants to direct our hearts, families,
parishes, dioceses, and Church to St. Joseph in a major way. In 1961, St. Pope
John XXIII made a profound statement about St. Joseph. He wrote:
In the
Holy Church’s worship, right from the beginning, Jesus, the Word of God made
man, has enjoyed the adoration that belongs to him, incommunicable as the
splendor of the substance of his Father, a splendor reflected in the glory of
his saints. From the earliest times, Mary, his mother, was close behind him, in
the pictures in the catacombs and the basilicas, where she was devoutly
venerated as “Holy Mother of God.” But Joseph, except for some slight
sprinkling of references to him here and there in the writings of the Fathers
[of the Church], for long centuries remained in the background, in his
characteristic concealment, almost as a decorative figure in the overall
picture of the Savior’s life. It took time for devotion to him to go beyond
those passing glances and take root in the hearts of the faithful, and then
surge forth in the form of special prayers and of a profound sense of trusting
abandonment. The fervent joy of pouring forth these deepest feelings of the
heart in so many impressive ways has been saved for modern times!
What the Vicar of Christ
clearly stated is that now is the time of St. Joseph. We are living in modern times,
the time in which the Church is witnessing an unprecedented era of devotion to
St. Joseph. According to St. Pope John XXIII, God desires devotion to St.
Joseph to surge forth in our day in the form of special prayers of “trusting
abandonment.” This means one thing in particular: It’s time for total consecration to St.
Joseph!
Here is a list of
remarkable events that have taken place over the past 150 years that show St.
Joseph’s increasing importance in the life of the Church. They clearly indicate
that we are living in an unprecedented time of St. Joseph.
- 1868
— Blessed Jean-Joseph Lataste, OP, writes a letter to Blessed Pope Pius IX
asking him to declare St. Joseph the “Patron of the Universal Church.”
- 1870
— Blessed Pope Pius IX declares St. Joseph the “Patron of the Universal
Church.”
- 1871
— Founding of the Josephites by Cardinal Herbert A. Vaughan
- 1873
— Founding of the Congregation of St. Joseph by St. Leonardo Murialdo
- 1878
— Founding of the Oblates of St. Joseph by St. Joseph Marello
- 1879
— Apparitions at Knock, Ireland. Saint Joseph appears with the Blessed
Virgin Mary, St. John the Apostle, and Jesus (appearing as the Lamb of
God).
- 1889
— Pope Leo XIII writes Quamquam Pluries, an encyclical letter on St. Joseph.
- 1895
— Blessed Petra of St. Joseph begins construction on a shrine to St.
Joseph in Barcelona, Spain. It is consecrated in 1901. At her
beatification in 1994, St. John Paul II calls Blessed Petra the “apostle
of St. Joseph of the 19th century.”
- 1904
— Saint André Bessette constructs an oratory dedicated to St. Joseph in
Montreal, Canada. It expands, is declared a minor basilica, and finally is
completed in 1967. Today, it is known as St. Joseph’s Oratory and is
considered by many to be the preeminent international center of devotion
to St. Joseph.
- 1908
— Saint Luigi Guanella begins constructing a church dedicated to St.
Joseph in Rome. It is completed and consecrated as a basilica in 1912.
- 1909
— Saint Pope Pius X officially approves the Litany of St. Joseph.
- 1914
— Saint Luigi Guanella founds the Pious Union of St. Joseph for the
Salvation of the Dying.
- 1917
— Apparitions at Fatima, Portugal. During the last apparition on October
13, St. Joseph appears holding the Child Jesus and blessing the world.
- 1921
— Pope Benedict XV inserts the phrase “Blessed be St. Joseph, her most
chaste spouse” into the Divine Praises.
- 1947
— Spanish Discalced Carmelites found Estudios Josefinos, the first
theological journal devoted to St. Joseph.
- 1950s
— The alleged apparitions of Our Lady of America given to Sr. Mary Ephrem
emphasize a renewed devotion to St. Joseph, and St. Joseph himself speaks
to the visionary about this devotion.
- 1955
— Venerable Pope Pius XII establishes the Feast of St. Joseph the Worker,
to be celebrated on May 1.
- 1962
— Saint Pope John XXIII inserts St. Joseph’s name into the Canon of the
Mass (Eucharistic Prayer I).
- 1989
— Saint Pope John Paul II writes Redemptoris Custos, an apostolic
exhortation on St. Joseph.
- 2013
— Pope Francis, echoing and fulfilling the intentions of Pope Emeritus
Benedict XVI, inserts the name of St. Joseph into all Eucharistic Prayers.
He also consecrates Vatican City State to St. Joseph.
Whoa! Did you know all
that? Most people are unaware of these remarkable events. Without exaggeration,
the Church has done more to promote St. Joseph in the last 150 years than in
the previous 1,800 years of Christianity! But why now? Why St. Joseph?
There are many reasons,
but I believe there are two that are especially important.
First, we need the
spiritual fatherhood of St. Joseph to help us protect marriage and the family.
Marriage and the family have always been under attack, but in modern times, the
threats have reached extraordinary heights. Many people no longer know what it
means to be a man or a woman, let alone what constitutes a marriage and a
family. Many countries even claim to have redefined marriage and the family.
There is great confusion on these matters, greater confusion than in any
previous era of human history. The Servant of God Sr. Lucia dos Santos, the
longest-lived visionary of the Fatima apparitions, knew the seriousness of the
times and made a powerful statement about this issue. She wrote:
The final battle between
the Lord and the kingdom of Satan will be about marriage and the family.
To combat and overcome
Satan’s deceptions, the Church needs St. Joseph. His example and protection are
the only way out of the confusing mess we are in. Who else can we turn to who
can help us understand what marriage and the family are all about if not to the
Head of the Holy Family and our spiritual father?
Second, the entire world
needs to be re-evangelized, including the vast majority of baptized Christians.
Saint Joseph was the first missionary. Today, he desires again to bring Jesus
to the nations. Many nations and cultures that were previously Christian have
fallen away from their Christian roots and are on a path of self-destruction.
Countries once established on Judeo-Christian principles have become overrun by
ideologies and organizations that seek to strip society of all that is sacred.
Without a major turnaround, civilization itself is going to self-destruct.
In an apostolic
exhortation on St. Joseph in 1989, St. John Paul II reminded us of the necessity
of invoking St. Joseph in the work of re-evangelizing the world. He wrote:
This patronage [of St.
Joseph] must be invoked as ever necessary for the Church, not only as a defense
against all dangers, but also, and indeed primarily, as an impetus for her
renewed commitment to evangelization in the world and to re-evangelization in
those lands and nations where religion and the Christian life were formerly
flourishing and are now put to a hard test.
Now is the time to consecrate yourself to St. Joseph! God is telling his Church that, in
order to defend marriage and the family, elevate morals, recover lost ground,
and win souls for Jesus Christ, we need to bring St. Joseph onto the
battlefield. He is the Terror of Demons! With his powerful spiritual fatherhood,
incredible love for his spiritual children, and constant intercession, the
Church can be renewed as a light to the nations!
What exactly is
consecration to St. Joseph? In other words, what does it mean for a person to
be consecrated to St. Joseph?
Well, it basically means
that you acknowledge that he is your spiritual father, and you want to be like
him. To show it, you entrust yourself entirely to his paternal care so that he
can help you acquire his virtues and become holy. Total consecration to St.
Joseph means you make a formal act of filial entrustment to your spiritual
father so that he can take care of your spiritual well-being and lead you to
God. The person who consecrates himself to St. Joseph wants to be as close to
their spiritual father as possible, to the point of resembling him in virtue
and holiness. Saint Joseph, in turn, will give those consecrated to him his
loving attention, protection, and guidance.
Perhaps someone reading
this has already consecrated themselves entirely to the Blessed Virgin Mary,
and is wondering if they can consecrate themselves to St. Joseph and entrust
everything to him, as well. The answer is a resounding “Yes!”
God desires that all
children be committed to the love and care of a mother and a father. You are
not a member of a single-parent spiritual family. Mary is your spiritual
mother, and St. Joseph is your spiritual father. The spiritual fatherhood of
St. Joseph is extremely important for your spiritual growth. Total consecration
to Mary is not diminished by total consecration to St. Joseph. Mary wants you
to consecrate yourself to St. Joseph! Jesus wants you to consecrate yourself to
St. Joseph! Everything you have given to Jesus and Mary can also be given to
St. Joseph. The hearts of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph are one.
Veni Sancte
Spiritus[6]
Holy Spirit, God of light, fill us with your radiance
bright;
Gentle father of the poor, make us, by your help, secure;
Come, your boundless grace impart, bring your love to every
heart.
Lord of consolation, come, warm us when our hearts are
numb;
Great consoler, come and heal, to our souls your strength reveal;
Cool, refreshing comfort pour, and our peace of mind
restore.
Light immortal, fire divine, with your love our hearts
refine;
Come, our inmost being fill, make us all to do your will;
Goodness you alone can give, grant that in your grace we
live.
Come, our lukewarm hearts inspire, mold our wills to your
desire;
In our weakness make us strong, and amend our every wrong;
Guide us when we go astray, wash our stain of guilt away.
Give to every faithful soul, gifts of grace to make us
whole;
Help us when we come to die, so that we may live on high;
Ever let your love descend, give us joys that never end.
Litany of St.
Joseph
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Lord, have mercy on us |
Christ, have mercy on us. |
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Lord, have mercy on us. |
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Jesus, hear us, |
Jesus, graciously hear us. |
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God the Father of heaven, |
have mercy on us. |
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God the Son, Redeemer of the World, |
have mercy on us. |
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God the Holy Spirit, |
have mercy on us. |
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Holy Trinity, one God, |
have mercy on us. |
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Holy Mary, |
pray for us. |
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St. Joseph, |
pray for us. |
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Renowned offspring of David, |
pray for us. |
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Light of Patriarchs, |
pray for us. |
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Spouse of the Mother of God, |
pray for us. |
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Chaste guardian of the Virgin, |
pray for us. |
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Foster father of the Son of God, |
pray for us. |
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Diligent protector of Christ, |
pray for us. |
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Head of the Holy Family, |
pray for us. |
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Joseph most just, |
pray for us. |
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Joseph most chaste, |
pray for us. |
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Joseph most prudent, |
pray for us. |
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Joseph most strong, |
pray for us. |
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Joseph most obedient, |
pray for us. |
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Joseph most faithful, |
pray for us. |
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Mirror of patience, |
pray for us. |
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Lover of poverty, |
pray for us. |
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Model of artisans, |
pray for us. |
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Glory of home life, |
pray for us. |
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Guardian of virgins, |
pray for us. |
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Pillar of families, |
pray for us. |
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Solace of the wretched, |
pray for us. |
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Hope of the sick, |
pray for us. |
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Patron of the dying, |
pray for us. |
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Terror of demons, |
pray for us. |
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Protector of Holy Church, |
pray for us. |
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Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, |
spare us, O Jesus. |
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Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, |
graciously hear us, O Jesus. |
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Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, |
have mercy on us, O Jesus. |
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He made him the lord of his household |
And prince over all his possessions. |
Let us pray:
O God, in your ineffable
providence you were pleased to choose Blessed Joseph to be the spouse of your
most holy Mother; grant, we beg you, that we may be worthy to have him for our
intercessor in heaven whom on earth we venerate as our Protector: You who live
and reign forever and ever.
Saint Joseph, pray for us.
Daily Devotions
·
Eat waffles and Pray for the assistance
of the Angels
·
Offering to
the sacred heart of Jesus
·
"Faith cannot
save without virtue"
·
Monday:
Litany of Humility
· Rosary
[1] Angelo
M. Codevilla, "Political Warfare: A Set of Means for Achieving Political
Ends", in Waller, ed., Strategic Influence: Public Diplomacy,
Counterpropaganda and Political Warfare (IWP Press, 2008.)
[2]http://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/marriage-and-family/natural-family-planning/awareness-week/index.cfm
[3] https://frassatiusa.org/frassati-biography
[4]Blessed Sacrament Fathers, ST. ANN’S SHRINE, Cleveland, Ohio
[5]https://catholicexchange.com/now-is-the-time-to-consecrate-yourself-to-saint-joseph
[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veni_Sancte_Spiritus
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