Let Freedom Ring: Freedom from Materialism
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 Spirit, etc.
Holy Trinity, One God,
Heart of Jesus, Son of the Eternal Father,
Heart of Jesus, formed in the womb of the Virgin Mother by the Holy Ghost,
Heart of Jesus, united substantially with the word of God,
Heart of Jesus, of infinite majesty,
Heart of Jesus, holy temple of God,
Heart of Jesus, tabernacle of the Most High,
Heart of Jesus, house of God and gate of heaven,
Heart of Jesus, glowing furnace of charity,
Heart of Jesus, vessel of justice and love,
Heart of Jesus, full of goodness and love,
Heart of Jesus, abyss of all virtues,
Heart of Jesus, most worthy of all praise,
Heart of Jesus, king and center of all hearts,
Heart of Jesus, in whom are all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge,
Heart of Jesus, in whom dwelleth all the fullness of the Divinity,
Heart of Jesus, in whom the Father is well pleased,
Heart of Jesus, we have all received,
Heart of Jesus, desire of the everlasting hills,
Heart of Jesus, patient and rich in mercy,
Heart of Jesus, rich to all who invoke Thee,
Heart of Jesus, fount of life and holiness,
Heart of Jesus, propitiation for our sins,
Heart of Jesus, saturated with revilings,
Heart of Jesus, crushed for our iniquities,
Heart of Jesus, made obedient unto death,
Heart of Jesus, pierced with a lance,
Heart of Jesus, source of all consolation,
Heart of Jesus, our life and resurrection, .
Heart of Jesus, our peace and reconciliation,
Heart of Jesus, victim for our sins,
Heart of Jesus, salvation of those who hope in Thee,
Heart of Jesus, hope of those who die in Thee,
Heart of Jesus, delight of all saints,
Spare us, oh Lord.
Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world,
Christ graciously spare us.
Lamb of God who takest away the sins of the world,
Have mercy on us.
Make our hearts like unto Thine.
Almighty and everlasting God, look upon the Heart of Thy well-beloved Son and upon the acts of praise and satisfaction which He renders unto Thee in the name of sinners; and do Thou, in Thy great goodness, grant pardon to them who seek Thy mercy, in the name of the same Thy Son, Jesus Christ, who liveth and reigneth with Thee, world without end. 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)
First Friday
FEAST
OF THE TRANSFIGURATION
Ester, Chapter 4D, Verse 5
She glowed with perfect beauty and
her face was as joyous as it was lovely, though her heart was pounding with FEAR.
Ester
after making a total and complete commitment to save the people and fasting for
3 days approached her husband the King. She was at peace. This verse reflects
the joy of the woman in Mark’s chapter 5 whom Christ healed:
There
was a woman afflicted with hemorrhages for twelve years.
26She had suffered greatly at the
hands of many doctors and had spent all that she had. Yet she was not helped
but only grew worse. 27She had heard about Jesus and came
up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak. 28 She said, “If I but touch his
clothes, I shall be cured.” 29Immediately
her flow of blood dried up. She felt in her body that she was healed of her
affliction. 30Jesus,
aware at once that power had gone out from him, turned around in the crowd and
asked, “Who has touched my clothes?” 31But
his disciples said to him, “You see how the crowd is pressing upon you, and yet
you ask, ‘Who touched me?’” 32And
he looked around to see who had done it. 33The
woman, realizing what had happened to her, approached in fear and trembling.
She fell down before Jesus and told him the whole truth. 34He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has saved
you. Go in peace and be cured of your affliction.
An
unclean person in general had to avoid that which was holy and take steps to
return to a state of cleanliness. Uncleanliness placed a person in a
"dangerous" condition under threat of divine retribution, even death,
if the person approached the sanctuary. Uncleanness could lead to expulsion of
the land's inhabitants and its peril lingered upon those who did not undergo
purification. Bodily discharges (blood for women, semen for men) represented a
temporary loss of strength and life and movement toward death. Because decaying
corpses discharged, so natural bodily discharges were reminders of sin and
death. Physical imperfections representing a movement from "life"
toward "death" moved a person ritually away from God who was
associated with life. Purification rituals symbolized movement from death
toward life and accordingly involved blood, the color red, and spring (lit.
"living") water, all symbols of life.[1]
Christ also being clean took this woman’s uncleanliness and gave her his
Holiness. Indeed, she was filled with wonder and awe.
For
you know the gracious act of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich,
for your sake he became poor, so that by his poverty you might become rich. (2 Corinthians 8:9).
First
Friday[2]
“I promise you, in the excessive mercy of my
Heart that my all-powerful love will grant to all those who receive Holy
Communion on the first Friday for nine consecutive months, the grace of final
repentance; they shall not die in my disgrace nor without receiving the
sacraments; my divine Heart shall be their safe refuge in that last moment.”
— Our Lord to St.
Margaret Mary
How to complete the First Friday’s Devotion
1. Receive
Holy Communion on each First Friday.
2. The
nine Fridays must be consecutive.
3. They
must be made in honor and in reparation to His Sacred Heart.
ACT OF REPARATION TO THE SACRED HEART OF
JESUS
Sacred Heart of Jesus, animated with a desire to repair the
outrages unceasingly offered to Thee, we prostrate before Thy throne of mercy,
and in the name of all mankind, pledge our love and fidelity to Thee!
·
The more Thy mysteries are blasphemed, the more firmly we shall believe them, O
Sacred Heart of Jesus!
·
The more impiety endeavors to extinguish our
hopes of immortality, the more we shall
trust in Thy Heart, sole hope of mankind!
·
The more hearts resist Thy Divine attractions, the more we shall love Thee, O infinitely
amiable Heart of Jesus!
·
The more unbelief attacks Thy Divinity, the more humbly and profoundly we shall
adore It, O Divine Heart of Jesus!
·
The more Thy holy laws are transgressed and
ignored, the more we shall delight to
observe them, O most holy Heart of Jesus!
·
The more Thy Sacraments are despised and
abandoned, the more frequently we shall
receive them with love and reverence, O most liberal Heart of Jesus!
·
The more the imitation of Thy virtues is
neglected and forgotten, the more we
shall endeavor to practice them, O Heart of Jesus, model of every virtue!
·
The more the devil labors to destroy souls, the more we shall be inflamed with desire to
save them, O Heart of Jesus, zealous Lover of souls!
·
The more sin and impurity destroy the image of
God in man, the more we shall try by
purity of life to be a living temple of the Holy Spirit, O Heart of Jesus!
·
The more Thy Holy Church is despised, the more we shall endeavor to be her
faithful children, O Sweet Heart of Jesus!
·
The more Thy Vicar on earth is persecuted, the more we will honor him as the infallible
head of Thy Holy Church, show our fidelity and pray for him, O kingly Heart of
Jesus!
O Sacred Heart, through Thy powerful grace, may we become
Thy apostles in the midst of a corrupted world, and be Thy crown in the kingdom
of heaven. Amen.
12 Promises of the Sacred Heart to St.
Margaret Mary
1. I will give them all the
graces necessary for their state of life.
2. I will give peace in their
families.
3. I will console them in all
their troubles.
4. I will be their refuge in
life and especially in death.
5. I will abundantly bless
all their undertakings.
6. Sinners shall find in my
Heart the source and infinite ocean of mercy.
7. Tepid souls shall become
fervent.
8. Fervent souls shall rise
speedily to great perfection.
9. I will bless those places
wherein the image of my Sacred Heart shall be exposed and venerated.
10. I will give to priests the
power to touch the most hardened hearts.
11. Persons who propagate this
devotion shall have their names eternally written in my Heart.
12. In the excess of the mercy of
my heart, I promise you that my all-powerful love will grant to all those who
will receive Communion on the First Fridays, for nine consecutive months, the
grace of final repentance: they will not die in my displeasure, nor without
receiving the sacraments; and my Heart will be their secure refuge in that last
hour.
Feast of the Transfiguration[3]
This is the second commemoration during the
liturgical year of the miracle of the Transfiguration. (The first, on the
second Sunday in Lent, recalls Christ's divinity, while today emphasizes His
triumph and glory.
GOSPEL Matt xvii 1-9
At that time: Jesus taketh unto Him Peter and James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into a high mountain apart: and He was transfigured before them. And His face did shine as the sun: and His garments became white as snow. And behold there appeared to them Moses and Elias talking with Him. And Peter, answering, said to Jesus: Lord, it is good for us to be here: if Thou wilt, let us make here three tabernacles, one for Thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias. And as he was yet speaking, behold a bright cloud overshadowed them. And lo a voice out of the cloud saying: This is My beloved Son, in Whom I arn well pleased: hear ye Him. And the disciple’s hearing, fell upon their face: and were very much afraid. And Jesus came and touched them: and said to them: Arise, and fear not. And they lifting up their eyes saw no one, but only Jesus. And as they came down from the mountain, Jesus charged them, saying: Tell the vision to no man, till the Son of man be risen from the dead.
Why was Jesus transfigured before His
disciples on Mount Thabor?
1. To give them a manifest proof of His
divinity.
2. To prevent all doubt on their part when
they should see Him on Mount Calvary.
3. To encourage all the faithful to patience
under agony and suffering.
4. To show us how our glorified bodies shall rise from the dead (i. Cor. xv. 52).
Why did Moses and Elias appear with Our Lord? To testify that Jesus, was the Savior of the world, spoken of by the law and the prophets.
Night Operations[4]
This vision happened in the night. As they went down the
mountain early the next morning, Jesus bade them not to tell anyone what they
had seen till he should be risen from the dead. In the Transfiguration Christ
enjoyed for a short while that glorified state which was to be permanently His
after His Resurrection on Easter Sunday. The splendor of His inward Divinity
and of the Beatific Vision of His soul overflowed on His body and permeated His
garments so that Christ stood before Peter, James, and John in a snow-white
brightness. The purpose of the Transfiguration was to encourage and strengthen
the Apostles who were depressed by their master’s prediction of His own Passion
and Death. The Apostles were made to understand that His redeeming work has two
phases: The Cross, and glory—that we shall be glorified with Him only if we
first suffer with Him.
Transfiguration-Things to do:[5]
- In
the Russian Orthodox church, honey, pears, apples, plums and other fruits
are brought to the church for blessing. This feast is also referred to as
"Metamorphosis" in the Eastern church.
- The
Transfiguration was another "first fruits" harvest feast
particularly of grapes and wheat. The Roman Ritual has a blessing of
grapes and blessing of the harvest for this feast.
- Playing
up on the brilliant white of the garments, decorating with white
(tablecloth, candles, etc.) and serving some white foods (mashed potatoes,
vanilla ice cream, Mexican wedding cookies, meringues, etc.) can bring to
mind that dazzling white.
- Having
Moses and Elijah at the Transfiguration is a reminder of the Old
Testament. Bring in some Jewish recipes or foods to highlight this aspect
of the feast day.
Root Beer Float Day[6]
Root Beer Float Day is celebrated on August 6th every year. Between the luxurious vanilla ice-cream and the sumptuous root beer foam, how can any individual resist this delightful beverage? This amazingly refreshing summer treat has its own special day to celebrate its undeniable brilliance. Towards the end of the 19th century, a gentleman named Frank Wisner created the first root beer float. Strangely, this float was nicknamed the “black cow.” If you are wondering how to make one of these superb drinks, then simply add a scoop of vanilla ice-cream to a cold glass of root beer. The taste of root beer float makes the taste buds tingle with utter excitement. To celebrate Root Beer Float Day why not create your own float? Make the float colorful and presentable so that other people can see you have really made an effort for this special occasion!
Daily Devotions
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Offering to the sacred heart of Jesus
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Rosary
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