Let Freedom Ring: Freedom from Wrath
At a word from You the devil and his minions flee in terror.
You are the source of all truth. You are the source of all strength.
By the power of your Cross and Resurrection, we beseech You, O Lord
To extend Your saving arm and to send Your holy angels
To defend us as we do battle with Satan and his demonic forces.
Exorcise, we pray, that which oppresses Your Bride, The Church,
So that within ourselves, our families, our parishes, our dioceses, and our nation
We may turn fully back to You in all fidelity and trust.
Lord, we know if You will it, it will be done.
Give us the perseverance for this mission, we pray.
Amen
St. Joseph...pray for us
St. Michael the Archangel...pray for us
(the patron of your parish )... pray for us
(your confirmation saint)...pray for us
Christ, have mercy on us.
Lord, have mercy on us.
Christ, hear us. Christ, graciously hear us.
God the Son, Redeemer of the world, Have mercy on us.
God the Holy Ghost, Have mercy on us.
Holy Trinity, One God, Have mercy on us.
Heart of Mary, like unto the Heart of God, Pray for us.
Heart of Mary, united to the Heart of Jesus, Pray for us.
Heart of Mary, instrument of the Holy Ghost, Pray for us.
Heart of Mary, sanctuary of the Divine Trinity, Pray for us.
Heart of Mary, tabernacle of God Incarnate, Pray for us.
Heart of Mary, immaculate from thy creation, Pray for us.
Heart of Mary, full of grace, Pray for us.
Heart of Mary, blessed among all hearts, Pray for us.
Heart of Mary, throne of glory, Pray for us.
Heart of Mary, most humble, Pray for us.
Heart of Mary, holocaust of Divine Love, Pray for us.
Heart of Mary, fastened to the Cross with Jesus Crucified, Pray for us.
Heart of Mary, comfort of the afflicted, Pray for us.
Heart of Mary, refuge of sinners, Pray for us.
Heart of Mary, hope of the agonizing, Pray for us.
Heart of Mary, seat of mercy, Pray for us.
Spare us, O Lord.
Lamb of God, Who takest away the sins of the world,
Graciously hear us, O Lord.
Lamb of God, Who takest away the sins of the world,
Have mercy on us.
Make our hearts like unto the Heart of Jesus.
O most merciful God, Who, for the salvation of sinners and the refuge of the miserable, wast pleased that the Most Pure Heart of Mary should be most like in charity and pity to the Divine Heart of Thy Son, Jesus Christ, grant that we, who commemorate this sweet and loving Heart, by the merits and intercession of the same Blessed Virgin, may merit to be found like unto the Heart of Jesus, through the same Christ Our Lord. Amen.
__ Daily reflection and prayers
__ Litany of the day
__ Pray a Rosary
__ Divine Mercy Chaplet
__ Spiritual or corporal work of mercy
__ Fast/abstain (according to level)
__ Exercise (according to level/ability)
__ Refrain from conventional media (only 1 hr. of social)
__ Examination of conscience (confession 1x this week)
Saturday Third Week of Lent
day light savings
Deuteronomy, Chapter 6, Verse 24-25
24 The
LORD commanded us to observe all these statutes in FEAR of the LORD, our God, that we may always have as good a life as
we have today. 25 This is our justice before the Lord,
our God: to observe carefully this whole commandment he has enjoined on us.”
Today
reflect on Christ’s mind from the gospel.
“To you who
hear I say, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who
curse you, pray for those who mistreat you. To the person who strikes you on
one cheek, offer the other one as well, and from the person, who takes your
cloak, do not withhold even your tunic. Give to everyone who asks of you, and from
the one who takes what is yours do not demand it back. Do to others as you
would have them do to you. For if you love those who love you, what credit is
that to you? Even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those
who do good to you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners do the same. If
you lend money to those from whom you expect repayment, what credit is that to
you? Even sinners lend to sinners, and get back the same amount. But rather,
love your enemies and do good to them, and lend expecting nothing back; then
your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High, for he
himself is kind to the ungrateful and the wicked. Be merciful, just as also
your Father is merciful. “Stop judging and you will not be judged. Stop
condemning and you will not be condemned. Forgive and you will be forgiven.
Give and gifts will be given to you; a good measure, packed together, shaken
down, and overflowing, will be poured into your lap. For the measure with which
you measure will in return be measured out to you.”
Saturday Third Week of Lent
Prayer. GRANT, we beseech Thee, O Almighty
God, that they who, to mortify their flesh, abstain from food, may, following
justice, abstain from sin.
EPISTLE. Daniel xiii.
1-62.
In
those days there was a man, that dwelt in Babylon, and his name was Joakim; and
he took a wife whose name was Susanna, the daughter of Helcias, a very
beautiful woman, and one that feared God. For her parents being just, had
instructed their daughter according to the law of Moses. Now Joakim was very
rich and had an orchard near his house: and the Jews resorted to him, because
he was the most honorable of them all. And there were two of the ancients of
the people appointed judges that year, of whom the Lord said: Iniquity came out
from Babylon from the ancient judges, that seemed to govern the people. These
men frequented the house of Joakim, and all that had any matters of judgment
came to them. And when the people departed away at noon, Susanna went in, and
walked in her husband’s orchard. And the old men saw her going in every day,
and walking: and they were inflamed with lust towards her: and they perverted
their own mind and turned away their eyes that they might not look unto heaven,
nor re member just judgments. So, they were both wounded with the love of her,
yet they did not make known their grief one to the other: for they were ashamed
to declare to one another their lust, being desirous to have to do with her:
and they watched carefully every day to see her: and one said to another: Let
us now go home, for it is dinnertime. So, going out, they departed one from
another. And turning back again, they came both to the same place: and asking
one another the cause, they acknowledged their lust: and then they agreed upon
a time, when they might find her alone. And it fell out, as they watched a fit
day, she went in on a time, as yesterday and the day before, with two maids
only, and was desirous to wash herself in the orchard: for it was hot weather.
And there was nobody there, but the two old men that had hid themselves and
were considering her. So, she said to the maids: Bring me oil, and washing
balls, and shut the doors of the orchard, that I may wash me. And they did as
she bade them: and they shut the doors of the orchard and went out by a back
door to fetch what she had commanded them, and they knew not that the elders
were hid within. Now when the maids were gone forth, the two elders arose, and
ran to her, and said: Behold the doors of the orchard are shut, and nobody
seeth us, and we are in love with thee: wherefore consent to us and lie with
us. But if thou wilt not, we will bear witness against thee, that a young man
was with thee, and therefore thou didst send away thy maids from thee. Susanna
sighed and said I am straitened on every side: for if I do this thing, it is
death to me: and if I do it not, I shall not escape your hands. But it is
better for me to fall into your hands without doing it, than to sin in the
sight of the Lord. With that Susanna cried out with a loud voice: and the
elders also cried out against her. And one of them ran to the door of the
orchard and opened it. So, when the servants of the house heard the cry in the
orchard, they rushed in by the back door to see what was the matter. But after
the old men had spoken, the servants were greatly ashamed; for never had there
been any such word said of Susanna. And on the next day, when the people were
come to Joakim her husband, the two elders also came full of wicked device
against (Susanna, to put her to death. And they said before the people: Send to
Susanna, daughter of Helcias the wife of Joakim. And presently they sent, and
she came with her parents, and children, and all her kindred. Now Susanna was
exceedingly delicate, and beautiful to behold. But those wicked men commanded
that her face should be uncovered (for she was covered) that so at least they
might be satisfied with her beauty. Therefore, her friends and all her
acquaintance wept. But the two elders rising up in the midst of the people,
laid their hands upon her head. And she weeping looked up to heaven, for her
heart had confidence in the Lord. And the elders said: As we walked in the
orchard alone, this woman came in with two maids, and shut the doors of the
orchard, and sent away the maids from her. Then a young man that was there hid
came to her, and lay with her. But we that were in a corner of the orchard,
seeing this wickedness, ran up to them, and we saw them lie together. And as
for him we could not take him because he was stronger than we, and opening the
doors he leaped out: but having taken this woman, we asked who the young man
was, but she would not tell us: of this thing we are witnesses. The multitude
believed them as being the elders and the judges of the people, and they
condemned her to death. Then Susanna cried out with a loud voice, and said: O
eternal God, Who knowest hidden things, Who knowest all things before they come
to pass, Thou knowest that they have borne false witness against me: and behold
I must die, whereas I have done none of these things which these men have
maliciously forged against me. And the Lord heard her voice. And when she was
led to be put to death, the Lord raised up the holy spirit of a young boy,
whose name was Daniel. And he cried out with a loud voice: I am clear from the
blood of this woman. Then all the people turning themselves towards him, said:
What meaneth this word that thou hast spoken?
But
he standing in the midst of them, said: Are ye so foolish, ye children of
Israel, that without examination or knowledge of the truth, you have condemned
a daughter of Israel?
Return
to judgment, for they have borne false witness against her. So, all the people
turned again in haste, and the old men said to him: Come, and sit thou down
among us, and show it us: seeing God hath given thee the honor of old age. And
Daniel said to them: Separate these two far from one another, and I will
examine them. So, when they were put asunder one from the other, he called one
of them and said to him: O thou that are grown old in evil days, now are thy
sins come out, which thou hast committed before: in judging unjust judgments,
oppressing the innocent, and letting the guilty to go free, whereas the Lord
saith: The innocent and the just thou shalt not kill. Now then, if thou sawest
her, tell me under what tree thou sawest them conversing together. He said:
Under a mastic tree. And Daniel said: Well, hast thou lied against thy own
head: for behold the angel of God having received the sentence of Him, shall
cut thee in two. And having put him aside, he commanded that the other should
come, and he said to him: O thou seed of Chanaan, and not of Juda, beauty hath
deceived thee, and lust hath perverted thy heart: thus, did you do to the
daughters of Israel, and they for fear conversed with you: but a daughter of
Juda would not abide your wickedness. Now therefore tell me, under what tree
didst thou take them conversing together. And he answered: Under a holm tree.
And Daniel said to him: Well, hast thou also lied against thy own head: for the
angel of the Lord waiteth with a sword to cut thee in two, and to destroy you.
With that all the assembly cried out with a loud voice, and they blessed God,
who saveth them that trust in Him. And they rose up against the two elders (for
Daniel had convicted them of false witness by their own mouth) and they did to
them as they had maliciously dealt against their neighbor, to fulfil the law of
Moses: and they put them to death, and innocent blood was saved in that day.
GOSPEL. John viii.
1-11.
At that time:
Jesus went unto Mount Olivet. And early in the morning He came again into the
temple, and all the people came to Him, and sitting down He taught them. And
the scribes and Pharisees bring unto Him a woman taken in adultery; and they
set her in the midst. And said to Him: Master, this woman was even now taken in
adultery. Now Moses in the law commanded us to stone such a one. But what
sayest Thou?
And this they
said tempting Him that they might accuse Him. But Jesus bowing Himself down,
wrote with His finger on the ground: when therefore they continued asking Him,
He lifted up Himself, and said to them: He that is without sin among you, let
him first cast a stone at her. And again, stooping down, He wrote on the
ground. But they hearing this went out one by one, beginning at the eldest. And
Jesus alone remained, and the woman standing in the midst. Then Jesus lifting
up Himself, said to her: Woman, where are they that accused thee? Hath no man
condemned thee?
Who said: No
man, Lord. And Jesus said: Neither will I condemn thee. Go, and now sin no
more.
Lenten Calendar
Read:
The Seven Penitential Psalms, Day Five:
(During times when we wish to express
repentance and especially during Lent, it is customary to pray the seven
penitential psalms. The penitential designation of these psalms’ dates
from the seventh century. Prayerfully reciting these psalms will help us to
recognize our sinfulness, express our sorrow and ask for God’s forgiveness.)
Today
we will focus on Psalm 102.
Reflect: Read a reflection of Psalm 102—Prayer in Time of Distress.
Pray: “LORD, hear my prayer; let my cry
come to you. Do not hide your face from me in
the day of my distress.” (Ps
102:2-3, NABRE)
Act: In this psalm, the psalmist calls
to God in great distress. He acknowledges his weakness in body and spirit
before the Lord. Yet he fixes his sight on the Lord, extolling the Lord’s name and his mercy.
Daylight Saving Time Begins Tomorrow[1]
Daylight Savings time had
begun in an effort to help save energy and provide workers with more hours of
serviceable daylight during the long summer days. Daylight Savings
Time was first introduced in the U.S. in 1918. However, it was not until
1966, when the Uniform Act was passed, that all states had to either observe
DST or pass a state law to abstain.
Daylight Saving Time Begins
Facts
·
Benjamin Franklin first
proposed the idea of DST in 1784. He wrote An Economical Project for the
Journal of Paris, wherein he discussed the cost of oil for lamps as well as
working while it was dark and sleeping while it was day.
·
Daylight Savings Time changes
at 2:00 a.m. This time is selected in an effort to provide the least
amount of inconvenience to businesses and citizens.
·
Hawaii and Arizona do not use
DST. Up until 2006, Indiana only used DST in part of the state.
Daylight Saving Time Begins
Top Events and Things to Do
·
Move your clocks forward 1
hour before bed on Saturday night before the Daylight-Saving Time day in March.
·
Go to bed an hour earlier
Saturday night before the Daylight-Saving Time day.
·
Get outside and enjoy the
extra hour of daylight.
·
Replace the batteries in the
smoke alarm and carbon dioxide monitors.
·
Clean out the medicine
cabinet. Dispose of all medicines properly.
Today imagine that
God came to you and said you can move back time for two hours for any moment in
your life. What would you change? Think of that before going to confession.
Daily
Devotions
·
Saturday Litany of the Hours
Invoking the Aid of Mother Mary
·
Manhood of
the Master-week 4 day 4
·
Offering
to the sacred heart of Jesus
·
Make
reparations to the Holy Face
·
Rosary
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