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)
ST.
IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA
Judith, Chapter 11,
Verse 17
Holofernes and his
servants respond to Judith by marveling at her beauty and at her wisdom. Judith
is calm and posed while confronting evil in its lair. She was fearless.
Feast
of St.
Ignatius[1]
Ignatius, by nation a Spaniard, was born of a noble family at Loyola, in Cantabria. At first, he attended the court of the Catholic king, and later on embraced a military career. Having been wounded at the siege of Pampeluna, he chanced in his illness to read some pious books, which kindled in his soul a wonderful eagerness to follow in the footsteps of Christ and the saints. He went to Montserrat and hung up his arms before the altar of the Blessed Virgin; he then watched the whole night in prayer, and thus entered upon his knighthood in the army of Christ. St. Ignatius strongly recommends making a daily examination of conscience.
Examination
of Conscience
Prayer
before Examination:
I am perfectly sensible, O
my God, that I have in many ways offended Thy divine majesty and provoked Thy
wrath by my sins; and that if I obtain not pardon, I shall be cast out of thy
sight forever. I desire, therefore, at present to call myself to an account,
and look into all the sins whereby I have displeased Thee; but O my God, how
miserably shall I deceive myself if Thou assist me not in this work by Thy
heavenly light. Grant me, therefore, at present, thy grace, whereby I may
discover all my imperfections, see all my failings, and duly call to mind all
my sins: for I know that nothing is hidden from Thy sight. But I confess myself
in the dark as to my own failings: my passions blind me, self-love flatters me,
presumption deludes me, and though I have many sins which stare me in the face,
and cannot be hidden, yet how many, too, are there quite concealed from me! But
discover even those to me, O Lord! enlighten my darkness, cure my blindness,
and remove every veil that hides my sins from me, that I may be no longer a
secret to myself, nor a stranger to my own failings, not ever flatter myself
with the thoughts of having repented, an at the same time nourish folly and
vice within my breast. Come, Holy Ghost, and by a beam of Thy divine light
illumine my understanding, that I may have a perfect view of all my sins and
iniquities, and that, sincerely repenting of them, I may know Thee, and be
again received into Thy favor.
A Method of Examination of
Conscience, according to the threefold Duty we owe: (I) To God (II) To our
Neighbor (III) To ourselves.
I-In Relation to God:
·
Have
you omitted morning or evening prayer, or neglected to make your daily
examination of conscience?
·
Have
you prayed negligently, and with willful distraction?
·
Have
you spent your time, especially on Sundays and holidays, not in sluggishly
lying abed, or in any sort of idle entertainment, but in reading, praying, or
other pious exercises; and taken care that those under your charge have done
the like, and not wanted the instructions necessary for their condition, nor
time for prayer, or to prepare for the sacraments?
·
Have
you spoken irreverently of God and holy things?
·
Have
you taken his name in vain, or told untruths?
·
Have
you omitted your duty through human respect, interest, compliance, etc.?
·
Have
you been zealous for God's honor, for justice, virtue and truth, and reproved
such as act otherwise?
·
Have
you resigned your will to God in troubles necessities, sickness, etc.?
·
Have
you faithfully resisted thoughts of infidelity, distrust, presumption,
impurity, etc.?
II-In Relation to Your
Neighbor
·
Have
you disobeyed your superiors, murmured against their commands, or spoken of
them contemptuously?
·
Have
you been troubled, peevish, or impatient, when told of your faults, and not
corrected them?
·
Have
you scorned the good advice of others, or censured their proceedings?
·
Have
you offended any one by injurious threatening words or actions? Or lessened
their reputation by any sort of detractions, or in any matter of importance?
·
Or
spread any report, true or false, that exposed your neighbor to contempt, or
made him undervalued?
·
Have
you been carrying stories backward and forward, created discord and
misunderstanding between neighbors?
·
Have
you been forward or peevish towards any one in your carriage, speech, or
conversation?
·
Or
taken pleasure to vex, mortify, or provoke them to swear, curse, or any ways
offend God?.
·
Have
you mocked or reproached them for their corporal or spiritual imperfections?
·
Have
you been excessive in reprehending those under your care, or been wanting in
giving them just reproof?
·
Have
you borne with their oversights and imperfections, and given them good counsel?
·
Have
you been solicitous for such as are under your charge, and provided for their
souls and bodies?
III-In Relation to
Yourself
·
Have
you been obstinate in following your own will, or in defending your own
opinion, in things either indifferent, dangerous or scandalous?
·
Have
you taken pleasure in hearing yourself praised, or yielded to thoughts of
vanity?
·
Have
you indulged yourself in overmuch ease, or any ways yielded to sensuality?
·
Has
your conversation been edifying and moderate; or have you been forward, proud,
or troublesome to others?
·
Have
you spent too much time in play, or useless employments, and thereby omitted,
or put off your devotions to unseasonable times? If such as confess often fall
into any of the more grievous sins not here mentioned, their own memory will
easily suggest them, since it is impossible for a tender soul to forget any
mortal offense, which must of necessity afflict her; and therefore, it may not
be necessary for them to turn over the following table of sins, which is
chiefly intended for general confessions.
An Examination for Confession
The First Commandment
is Broken
First, by Sins against Faith
·
To
be ignorant of the principal mysteries of Christianity; of the Creed, of the
Commandments of God and his Church, or of the Sacraments.
·
To
give God's honor to any created being or thing whatsoever; to pay divine
worship, or to ascribe God's exclusive powers or attributes, to any being
except God himself.
·
Willfully
to doubt, or obstinately to err, in any point of faith, or of human respect,
interest, fear etc.
·
To
favor heretics or wicked men, in supporting or approving their opinions or
actions.
·
To
endanger our faith by reading their books with pleasure.
·
To
examine divine mysteries with curiosity, and secrets of Providence by pure
human reason.
·
To
disrespect or deride holy things.
·
To
abuse the words of the Holy Scripture, by perverting them to a wicked or
profane sense, making them subservient to jests, or other ill purposes.
·
To
desire to know things to come, which belong to God alone, or things past or
present, which are hid from us, and for this end to employ unlawful means, as
fortune tellers, or other superstitious inventions.
·
To
give credit to dreams, or make superstitious observations; to employ prayers or
sacred names to ill uses; to use charms etc.
Secondly, by Sins against Hope
·
By
distrusting the mercies of God and despairing of the pardon of our sins.
·
By
presuming on God's goodness, without the least concern of amendment.
·
By
deferring our conversion or repentance till the end of life.
·
By
exposing ourselves to the danger of offending God either by company, reading,
or otherwise, which is called tempting God.
·
By
exposing ourselves, without necessity, to some corporal danger; as sickness,
wounds or death.
·
By
neglecting the remedies which God has appointed in these dangers, as physic for
the body, or prayer and the sacraments for the soul.
Thirdly, by Sins against Charity
·
By
not loving God above all things, but rather choosing willfully to offend him,
than suffer any loss of honor, riches, etc.
·
By
preferring the love of man before the love of God; or offending him through
fear of being jeered or slighted.
·
By
omitting our duty through shame, or human respect.
·
By
thinking seldom of God or being ashamed to speak of him; or by not hearkening
to his inspirations, by forgetting his benefits, or neglecting to give him
thanks.
Fourthly, by Sin against Religion
·
By
not adoring God or praying to him but seldom.
·
By
praying without attention, and with willful distractions.
·
By
a want of respect to God in time of prayer; or by talking or being present in
holy places without a becoming modesty and gravity in our looks, words and
actions.
Fifthly, by Sins against the Care we ought
to have of our Salvation.
·
By
a love of idleness.
·
By
being too solicitous in temporal concerns and neglecting the means of
salvation.
·
By
deferring amendment of life, or immediately desisting, after having begun it.
·
By
neglecting the means of salvation; as the sacraments, prayer, good works, or
performing them without devotion.
The Second Commandment
is Broken
·
By
taking the name of God in vain.
·
By
swearing to what one knows or doubts to be false.
·
By
swearing to what is unjust, or prejudicial to others.
·
By
swearing without necessity, though the thing itself be true and just.
·
By
blaspheming God or holy things.
·
By
cursing one's self or others or taking pleasure in hearing others swear or
curse; or by provoking them to it.
·
By
not reprehending them when one could and ought.
·
By
making a vow to do what is impossible to fulfill; or to do what is evil and
displeasing to God; or to do what one never intends to perform.
·
By
breaking lawful vows or deferring to fulfill them without just cause.
The Third Commandment
is Broken.
·
By
doing servile works on Sunday or causing others to do the like without
necessity.
·
By
employing a considerable part of Sundays or holidays in temporal affairs, as is
often the case with merchants, advocates, solicitors, etc.
·
By
omitting to hear Mass, or not hearing it with due attention and reverence.
·
By
spending Sundays and holidays in idleness, gaming, dancing, feasting, and other
recreations.
·
By
not dedicating a considerable part of those days to reading and praying, and by
not taking care that those under your charge to the like.
The Fourth Commandment
is Broken
I. By children:
·
Not
paying due respect to their parents, or by despising them either in their
hearts or actions.
·
By
not loving them, but wishing their death, or some misfortune; or by forsaking
them in their necessities.
·
By
not cheerfully obeying them; or by obeying them in things unlawful.
·
By
slighting their representations and resisting their corrections.
·
By
putting them into a passion, and not taking care to pacify them.
·
By
not executing their last will and testament, or by delaying doing so.
II. By parents not
discharging their duty towards their children.
·
In
not loving them and supplying their corporal necessities.
·
In
not being careful of their salvation.
·
In
not correcting them when it is necessary; in flattering their passions or
indulging their evil inclinations.
·
In
treating them with too much severity.
·
In
not setting them good example.
·
In
forcing them in the choice of their state in life.
The Fifth Commandment
is Broken
·
By
anger, quarreling, or threatening, or by injurious or reproachful words, or
actions against our neighbors.
·
By
revenge, or deliberate thoughts or desires of revenge.
·
By
provoking, striking, challenging, wounding, or being the cause of another's
death.
·
By
bearing malice, refusing to salute or speak to any neighbor out of hatred or
aversion, or refusing to be reconciled to him.
The Sixth Commandment
is Broken
I. By the hearing.
·
In
willingly giving ear to immodest words, discourses, songs, etc.
II. By the sight.
·
In
looking on immodest objects,
·
In
reading or keeping immodest books; lending them to others; or neglecting to
suppress them when we may.
III. By the tongue.
·
In
speaking immodest words.
·
In
relating improper stories or wicked actions of ourselves or others.
IV. By the touch.
·
In
using indecent actions.
V. By thoughts.
·
By
entertaining impure thoughts willfully and with delight.
VI. By immodest actions.
·
In
committing the sin of impurity, and whether effected by soliciting, seducing
with promises, or forcing, whether it be fornication, adultery, or incest.
·
In
sins against nature.
The Seventh Commandment
is Broken.
·
By
taking another's goods, and to what value.
·
By
retaining what we know belongs to another.
·
By
denying our debts, or willfully delaying payment, to the prejudice of our
neighbors.
·
By
making unjust bargains or contracts, into which every trade or profession ought
to make a strict inquiry.
·
By
causing any damage to our neighbors.
·
By
putting off false and counterfeit money.
·
By
desiring another's property.
·
By
not giving alms when necessity requires.
·
By
not paying dues to our pastors, or by not contributing to the decent support of
religious worship.
·
By
simony.
The Eighth Commandment
is Broken
·
By
witnessing what is false, or defending a false accusation, as in lawyers and
solicitors; or condemning the innocent, or discharging the guilty, as judges
and arbitrators.
·
By
detraction, either in laying something false to another's charge, or reporting
for truth what is merely doubtful; or in revealing something as yet secret and
unknown, though true, to the prejudice of some third person; with a
declaration, whether it be done out of levity and indiscretion, or out of
malice or ill-will; whether in the presence of many, or in a matter of
importance.
·
By
lying or speaking what we judge to be otherwise than we say, whether out of
custom, or to the considerable prejudice of others.
·
By
hypocrisy, which is a lie in action.
The
Ninth and Tenth are Broken
·
By
all unlawful and willful desires of impurity and theft, which have been already
mentioned in the sixth and seventh commandment.
The Precepts of the Church
I.
To keep certain appointed days holy, with the obligation of hearing Mass, and
resting from servile works.
II. To observe the days of abstinence and fasting.
III. To confess our sins to our pastors, at least once a year.
IV. To receive the Blessed Sacrament at Easter, or thereabouts.
V. To contribute to the support of our pastors.
VI. To obey the laws of the Church concerning Matrimony.
VII. To participate in the Church's mission of Evangelization of Souls.
The Seven Deadly Sins
(The sins of covetousness,
luxury, and sloth have been already examined in the first, sixth, and seventh
commandments.)
The
Sin of Pride consists:
·
In
entertaining too great and opinion of ourselves, or in valuing others less than
ourselves and maintaining a just and noble self-love.
·
In
publishing what we think good in ourselves, that we may be esteemed by others.
·
In
arrogance, by attributing to ourselves the good we have not.
·
In
presumption and ambition, by confiding too much in our own strength, conceiving
ourselves capable of accomplishing things above our abilities, and in rashly
attempting them.
·
In
contempt of others, on account of the good opinions we have of ourselves, and
when this contempt is manifested by words or actions or by being severe and
exacting on inferiors.
·
In
want of submission to our superiors, by disobeying them, blaming their conduct,
or murmuring against them.
·
In
not acknowledging our faults, or when, in confessing the facts, we maintain we
have done well, or at least allege false excuses.
·
In
contempt of admonitions and corrections.
·
In
discord.
·
In
hypocrisy.
·
In
curiosity, which inclines us to know things prejudicial to our salvation.
·
By
ingratitude for God's benefits.
The Sin of Gluttony
·
In
eating or drinking to excess, as far as they are prejudicial, either to our
health or our reason, or any ways scandalous, or of ill example to others.
The Sin of Envy
·
Trouble
at the good success of our neighbor, or when we endeavor to do him an
unkindness, or speak often against him, or create an ill opinion of him in the
mind of another.
·
When
we rejoice at our neighbor's harm.
The Sin
of Anger
·
Not
to endure anything contrary to our inclinations.
·
To
suffer ourselves to be hurried away by the emotions of wrath against those that
give us any trouble.
·
To
proceed to quarrels, injurious language, oaths, curses, threats; to take
revenge, or to desire and wish to be in a capacity of exercising it.
·
To
refuse to pardon injuries, or to be reconciled to our enemies, or to such of
our neighbors with whom we have had some misunderstanding or falling out.
A Prayer for
Obtaining Contrition
I have
now here before me, O Lord, a sad prospect of the manifold offenses whereby I
have displeased thy divine Majesty, and which I am assured will appear in
judgment against me if, by repentance and a hearty sorrow, my soul be not
prepared to receive thy pardon. But this sorrow and this repentance, O Lord,
must be the free gift of thy mercy, without which all my endeavors will be in
vain, and I shall be forever miserable. Have pity, therefore, on me, O merciful
Father, and pour forth into my heart thy grace, whereby I may sincerely repent
of all my sins; grant me true contrition, that I may bewail my base
ingratitude, and grieve from my heart for having offended so good a God. Permit
me not to be deluded by a false sorrow, as I fear I have been too often,
through my own weakness and neglect; but let it now be thy gift, descending
from thee, the Father of Lights, that so my repentance may be accompanied by an
amendment and a change of life, that being thus acquitted from the guilt of my
sins, I may once more be received into the number of thy servants. Amen.
Novena
in Honor of Saint John Marie Vianney
Confessor of Souls
O Holy Priest of Ars, you
knew how important was a good confession for the Christian life. It was to
procure the happy fruits of millions of souls that you agreed to be in an uncomfortable
confessional, which was like a prison, up to 15 to 16 hours on certain days. I
will try to develop the habit of frequent confession, to prepare properly each
time and to have always regret for my sins, so that the grace of final
perseverance but also the sanctification of my soul will be assured. Ask this
grace for me. Holy Priest of Ars, I have confidence in your intercession. Pray
for me during this novena especially for ... (mention silently your special
intentions).
Our
Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be
Daily Devotions
·
Saturday Litany of the Hours
Invoking the Aid of Mother Mary
·
Offering to
the sacred heart of Jesus
·
Rosary
[1]https://www.ecatholic2000.com/sacraments/exam.shtml
Overview of August[1]
The month of August is dedicated to The Immaculate Heart of Mary. The entire
month falls within the liturgical season of Ordinary Time,
which is represented by the liturgical color green. This symbol of hope is the
color of the sprouting seed and arouses in the faithful the hope of reaping the
eternal harvest of heaven, especially the hope of a glorious resurrection. It
is used in the offices and Masses of Ordinary Time.
August
is often considered the transitional month in our seasonal calendar. It is the
time of the year we begin to wind-down from our summer travels and vacations
and prepare for Autumn — back to school, fall festivals, harvest time, etc. The
Church in her holy wisdom has provided a cycle of events in its liturgical year
which allow the faithful to celebrate the major feasts in the life of Christ
and Mary. Most notably, during August, we celebrate the feast of the Transfiguration
(August 6) and the feast of the Assumption (August 15).
The
days of summer have provided a welcome change of pace. However, while vacations
afford us the time to relax and refresh, the change of habits and routines can
also have a negative impact on our spiritual lives. As if to re-ignite us, the
Church offers us in the plethora of August feasts vivid examples of the virtue
of perseverance: six martyrs — two who are named in Canon I of the Mass and two
who were martyred during World War II; seven founders of religious
congregations, as well as three popes and two kings; the apostle, St.
Bartholomew; the great Doctor of the Church, St. Augustine and St. Monica, his
mother; the humble patron saint of parish priests, St. John Vianney, and the
patron of deacons, St. Lawrence, who joked with his executioners while being
roasted alive.
It
is never too late to begin — as the life of the reformed sinner, St. Augustine
teaches us — nor too difficult to begin again, as demonstrated by the
conversion of the martyr, St. Teresa Benedicta (Edith Stein). We present-day
members of the Mystical Body are certain of the reward to which we are called,
for Christ's Transfigured body (August 6) is a preview of that glory. Moreover,
in the Assumption of his Mother (August 15), Our Lord has demonstrated his
fidelity to his promise. Her privilege is "the highest fruit of the
Redemption" and "our consoling assurance of the coming of our final
hope — the glorification which is Christ's" (Enchiridion on Indulgences).
The
Blessed Virgin Mary is the most perfect example of Christian perseverance, but
she is also our advocate in heaven where she is crowned Queen of Heaven and
Earth (August 22). Mary is the "Mother of Perpetual Help", the patroness
of the Congregation founded by St. Alphonsus Liguori (August 1). "No one
who has fled to her protection is left unaided" is the claim of the
Memorare of St. Bernard (August 20). Heretics have returned to the faith by the
prayers of her Rosary, first preached by St. Dominic (August 8) in the twelfth
Century, and hearts have been converted by the graces received while wearing
her Miraculous Medal, promoted by St. Maximillian Kolbe (August 14) and adopted
as the "badge" for the Pious Union he founded. Hail, holy Queen,
Mother of Mercy, our life, our sweetness and our hope!
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