D-DAY-MEMORIAL- GARDENING EXERCISE DAY
Deuteronomy,
Chapter 31, Verse 12-13
12 Assemble
the people—men, women and children, as well as the resident aliens who live in
your communities—that they may hear and so learn to FEAR the LORD, your God, and to observe carefully all the words of
this law. 13
Their children also, who do not know it yet, shall hear and learn to FEAR the LORD, your God, as long as you
live on the land which you are about to cross the Jordan to possess.
With the coming of the secular age,
we have forgotten Who made us great and have not taught our children and
immigrants fear of the Lord and as a
result our world languishes.
Fear
not, my people! Remember, Israel, you were sold to the nations not for your
destruction; It was because you angered God that you were handed over to your
foes. For you provoked your Maker with sacrifices to demons, to no-gods (Are we not doing this through the institution of a right to
abortion, euthanasia and eugenics?).
You forsook the Eternal God who nourished you and you
grieved Jerusalem who fostered you. She indeed saw coming upon you the anger of
God; and she said: “Hear, you neighbors of Zion! (Baruch 4: 5-9)
Fear
not, my children; call out to God! He who brought this upon you will remember
you. As your hearts have been disposed to stray from God, turn now ten times
the more to seek him; For he who has brought disaster upon you will, in saving
you, bring you back enduring joy.” (Baruch 4: 27-29)
What Can We Do?
We must promote faith by having
devotion to the Divine Mercy and prayer in our families. Christ started His
ministry via Mary’s request at the wedding at Cana with a new family: a couple;
a new Eve and a new Adam. Christ ended his ministry by making a new family.
Woman this is your son…what is needed today to restore, protect and sanctify
our world is devotion through families to the Divine Mercy. The Divine Mercy
devotion is meant for the end times, therefore, the consecration prayer which
enriches the devotion, fits perfectly into the “real time” of families
everywhere.
Prayer
Lord Jesus, if you want to pour
your mercy out on souls, how much more must you desire to pour it out on whole
families, especially in our time when so many families reject you. Therefore,
we the ______________ Family offer ourselves to your merciful love and ask for
the graces and mercy that other families refuse. We ask this in order to
console your Heart and because we need your mercy. Fill us with your mercy,
Lord. Please forgive us our sins, and give us the grace to be merciful to one
another in our deeds, words, and prayers. May the rays of mercy that go forth
from your Heart reign in our home and in our hearts. Please make our home a
place where your mercy can rest and where we, too, can find rest in your mercy.
Bless us with your mercy when we leave our home and bless us again when we
return. Bless everyone we meet with the mercy you pour into our hearts.
Especially bless those who visit our home — may they experience your mercy
here.
Mary, Mother of Mercy, help us to faithfully
live our Offering to God's Merciful Love. We give ourselves to you and ask you
to share with us your Immaculate Heart. Help us to accept your Son's mercy with
your own openness of heart at the Annunciation. Help us to be grateful for
God's mercy with your own joyful heart at the Visitation. Help us to trust in
God's mercy, especially during times of darkness, with your own steadfast faith
at Calvary. Finally, Mary, protect and preserve our family in love, so that one
day we may rejoice together with you and all the saints in the communion of the
eternal Family of Love, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Amen.
St. Joseph, pray for us. St.
Faustina, pray for us. St. Thérèse, pray for us.[1]
D-Day Memorial
The men who took the beach at D-Day were afraid because they too knew what may happen to them, yet too, they were succored by our Lord and our nation’s prayers.
This is the prayer originally entitled "Let Our Hearts Be Stout" written by President Franklin D. Roosevelt as Allied troops were invading German-occupied Europe during World War II. The prayer was read to the Nation on radio on the evening of D-Day, June 6, 1944, while American, British and Canadian troops were fighting to establish five beach heads on the coast of Normandy in northern France.
The previous night, June 5th, the President had also been on the radio to announce that Allied troops had entered Rome. The spectacular news that Rome had been liberated was quickly superseded by news of the gigantic D-Day invasion which began at 6:30 a.m. on June 6th. By midnight, about 57,000 American and 75,000 British and Canadian soldiers had made it ashore, amid losses that included 2,500 killed and 8,500 wounded.
"Let Our Hearts Be Stout"
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
My
Fellow Americans:
Last
night, when I spoke with you about the fall of Rome, I knew at that moment that
troops of the United States and our Allies were crossing the Channel in another
and greater operation. It has come to pass with success thus far.
And
so, in this poignant hour, I ask you to join with me in prayer:
Almighty God: Our
sons, pride of our nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle
to preserve our Republic, our religion, and our civilization, and to set free a
suffering humanity.
Lead them straight
and true; give strength to their arms, stoutness to their hearts, steadfastness
in their faith.
They will need Thy
blessings. Their road will be long and hard. For the enemy is strong. He may
hurl back our forces. Success may not come with rushing speed, but we shall
return again and again; and we know that by Thy grace, and by the righteousness
of our cause, our sons will triumph.
They will be sore
tried, by night and by day, without rest -- until the victory is won. The
darkness will be rent by noise and flame. Men's souls will be shaken with the
violence’s of war.
For these men are
lately drawn from the ways of peace. They fight not for the lust of conquest.
They fight to end conquest. They fight to liberate. They fight to let justice
arise, and tolerance and goodwill among all Thy people. They yearn but for the
end of battle, for their return to the haven of home.
Some will never
return. Embrace these, Father, and receive them, Thy heroic servants, into Thy kingdom.
And for us at home
-- fathers, mothers, children, wives, sisters, and brothers of brave men
overseas, whose thoughts and prayers are ever with them -- help us, Almighty
God, to rededicate ourselves in renewed faith in Thee in this hour of great sacrifice.
Many people have
urged that I call the nation into a single day of special prayer. But because
the road is long and the desire is great, I ask that our people devote
themselves in a continuance of prayer. As we rise to each new day, and again when
each day is spent, let words of prayer be on our lips, invoking Thy help to our
efforts.
Give us strength,
too -- strength in our daily tasks, to redouble the contributions we make in
the physical and the material support of our armed forces.
And let our hearts
be stout, to wait out the long travail, to bear sorrows that may come, to
impart our courage unto our sons wheresoever they may be.
And, O Lord, give
us faith. Give us faith in Thee; faith in our sons; faith in each other; faith
in our united crusade. Let not the keenness of our spirit ever be dulled. Let
not the impacts of temporary events, of temporal matters of but fleeting moment
-- let not these deter us in our unconquerable purpose.
With Thy blessing,
we shall prevail over the unholy forces of our enemy. Help us to conquer the
apostles of greed and racial arrogances. Lead us to the saving of our country,
and with our sister nations into a world unity that will spell a sure peace --
a peace invulnerable to the scheming’s of unworthy men. And a peace that will
let all of men live in freedom, reaping the just rewards of their honest toil.
Thy
will be done, Almighty God. Amen.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt - June 6, 1944
Top things to do in the US
for D-Day Anniversary[2]
- Participate
in an eletronic
field trip that explores the historic invasion site in Normandy,
France.
- Visit
the D-day
memorial in Bedford, Virginia.
- Watch a documentary about the battle for the bridge at La Fière.
The power of Diligence
In John McCain’s book Character is Destiny[3] he perceived the character traits exemplified by Winston Churchill who best displays the characteristic of DILIGENCE. Churchill persevered through every trial and misfortune to alert his countrymen to the approaching danger of Nazi Germany, and to save them when they ignored his warning.
We must be just as diligent in our pursuit to do the will of God in our lives.
Churchill’s most famous quote is,
“Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never—in nothing great or small, large or petty—never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense.”
Winston never did give in he led his country at the age of 67 living a life of many failures to become the prime minister of England during their greatest need.
McCain says of Churchill:
This extraordinarily diligent man, who would not give in to many bitter trials that would have forced most of us to surrender to a cruel and unrelenting fate, who had fought, been beaten, and risen again so many times to take his place among the great democratic leaders of world history, would, by the power of his speech and the unyielding courage of his example and convictions, lead his country through the most dangerous experience of its long history. He stood alone first, and then as Britain’s leader as she stood alone, letting no defeat, no danger, no impossibly overwhelming odds destroy his courage or his will. He would not give in. Never, never, never, never. And, due in great part to the courage he inspired in others, neither would his country.
The New D-Day[4]
Today we battle an enemy of dark and demonic forces not on the shores of Normandy but in our homes as these demonic forces make their final assault on the family via the contempt of the modernist elitists. Never give in. We may not have an Eisenhower (where is our general?) (Is the Pope or the president Catholic?) It may our Lady and the Holy Spirit that has to lead us.
Here are three ways to resist the spirit of defeat and maintain faith in the family.
·
Make a renewal
of the marriage promises.
·
Do family
retreats.
·
Weekly Family
Holy Hour in a church.
Gardening Exercise Day[5]
Research indicates that Gardening
Exercise Day originates with gardening clubs and groups. It is a day when
people are encouraged to get off the couch, head out into the garden, and tend
their patches. Not only does this help ensure that the garden looks good, but
it also offers a healthy means of getting some exercise, while enjoying the
benefits that fresh air can bring. To enjoy Gardening Exercise Day, all that is
really required is to head out and water the plants, mow the lawn, and do some
weeding, but more active people may choose to increase the intensity of their
gardening efforts to really reap the rewards of exercise. Participants can
consider using hand tools instead of electric and power tools, squatting
instead of sitting, and bending from the back to limber the body up. Regardless
of the type of exercise, any additional exercise will help the body, and being
outside will mean a healthy and natural intake of vitamin D.
Apostolic Exhortation[6]
Veneremur
Cernui – Down in Adoration Falling
of The Most
Reverend Thomas J. Olmsted, Bishop of Phoenix,
to Priests, Deacons, Religious and the Lay Faithful of the Diocese of Phoenix
on the Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist
My beloved Brothers and
Sisters in Christ,
Part III
Loving and Adoring the
Eucharistic Lord
III. Increase your time of
Eucharistic adoration.
79. Friends deepen their love
and affection by spending time together. The same is true of our relationship
with Christ. Eucharistic adoration prolongs the mystery of Jesus’ self-offering
in the Mass. To adore the Eucharistic Jesus is to lovingly savor and delight in
His sacramental presence. It is not opposed to the Mass or a substitute to the
Mass. Rather, Eucharistic adoration flows from the sacred liturgy and back to
it again. As lovers’ eyes linger in a shared gaze after and before their kiss,
so adoration before the Eucharist shares a natural rhythm of the “kiss” of Holy
Communion. Love survives on both contemplation and union, on the gaze and the
kiss.
80. Saint Augustine teaches us
this when, in speaking about the Eucharistic Body of Christ, he said that “we
consume what we adore, and we adore what we consume.” To enter into this circle
of adoration and consummation is to know a foretaste of the beatitude which the
Lord desires us to know. The Saints are the best teachers of the power of
Eucharistic adoration. Saint Dominic Savio once wrote: “To be happy nothing is
lacking for me in this world; I lack only the vision in Heaven of that Jesus,
whom with the eyes of faith I now see and adore on the altar.” Once a person
complained to Saint Teresa of Avila that his faith in Jesus would have been
stronger if he could have seen the Lord during the days of his earthly
ministry. The Saint quickly responded, “But do we not have in the Eucharist the
living, true and real Jesus present before us? Why look for more?”. Who can
forget the moving wisdom of the farmer who, when asked by Saint John Marie
Vianney what he does for hours in front of the tabernacle, responded: “I look
at Him and He looks at me.” Venerable J.J. Olier wrote: “When there are two
roads which will bring me to some place, I take the one with more churches so
as to be nearer the Blessed Sacrament. When I see a place where my Jesus is, I
could not be happier, and I say, ‘You are here, my God and my All’.”
81. Extended time in
Eucharistic adoration deepens our prayer in marvelous ways. Pope Francis spoke
of this prayer as a kind of necessity during a homily in 2016: “We cannot know
the Lord without this habit of worship, to worship in silence, adoration. If I
am not mistaken, I believe that this prayer of adoration is one of the least
known by us, it’s the one that we do the least. Allow me to say this: waste
time in front of the Lord, in front of the mystery of Jesus Christ. Worship
him. There in silence, the silence of adoration. He is the Savior and I worship
him”.
An
HOUR’S Adoration before the Blessed Sacrament
To be continued…
Which are the fruits of the Holy Ghost? They are the twelve following:
1. Charity.
2.
Joy.
3. Peace.
4. Patience.
5. Benignity.
6. Goodness.
7. Longsuffering.
8. Mildness.
9. Faith.
10. Modesty.
11.
Continency.
12.
Chastity.
These fruits
should be visible in the Christian, for thereby men shall know that the Holy
Ghost dwells in him, as the tree is known by its fruit.
Notice I have
placed the Fruits of the Holy Spirit in stairstep fashion so we may
reflect on them seeing that by concentrating on each step of our growth in the
spirit we may progress closer and closer to our heavenly Father. Today we will
be focusing on the sixth step which is longsuffering.
Catechism of the Catholic Church
PART ONE: THE PROFESSION OF FAITH
SECTION ONE-"I BELIEVE" -
"WE BELIEVE"
CHAPTER TWO GOD COMES TO MEET MAN
Article 3 SACRED SCRIPTURE
III. The
Holy Spirit, Interpreter of Scripture
109 In
Sacred Scripture, God speaks to man in a human way. To interpret Scripture
correctly, the reader must be attentive to what the human authors truly wanted
to affirm, and to what God wanted to reveal to us by their words.
110 In order
to discover the sacred authors' intention, the reader must take into account
the conditions of their time and culture, the literary genres in use at that
time, and the modes of feeling, speaking and narrating then current. "For
the fact is that truth is differently presented and expressed in the various
types of historical writing, in prophetical and poetical texts, and in other
forms of literary expression."
111 But
since Sacred Scripture is inspired, there is another and no less important
principle of correct interpretation, without which Scripture would remain a
dead letter. "Sacred Scripture must be read and interpreted in the light
of the same Spirit by whom it was written."
The Second
Vatican Council indicates three criteria for interpreting Scripture in
accordance with the Spirit who inspired it.
112 Be
especially attentive "to the content and unity of the whole
Scripture". Different as the books which compose it may be, Scripture is a
unity by reason of the unity of God's plan, of which Christ Jesus is the center
and heart, open since his Passover.
The phrase "heart of Christ" can refer to Sacred
Scripture, which makes known his heart, closed before the Passion, as the
Scripture was obscure. But the Scripture has been opened since the Passion;
since those who from then on have understood it, consider and discern in what
way the prophecies must be interpreted.
113 2. Read
the Scripture within "the living Tradition of the whole Church".
According to a saying of the Fathers, Sacred Scripture is written principally
in the Church's heart rather than in documents and records, for the Church
carries in her Tradition the living memorial of God's Word, and it is the Holy
Spirit who gives her the spiritual interpretation of the Scripture (". . .
according to the spiritual meaning which the Spirit grants to the Church").
114 3. Be
attentive to the analogy of faith. By "analogy of faith" we mean
the coherence of the truths of faith among themselves and within the whole plan
of Revelation.
The senses
of Scripture
115
According to an ancient tradition, one can distinguish between two senses of
Scripture: the literal and the spiritual, the latter being subdivided into the
allegorical, moral and anagogical senses. the profound concordance of the four
senses guarantees all its richness to the living reading of Scripture in the
Church.
116 The
literal sense is the meaning conveyed by the words of Scripture and discovered
by exegesis, following the rules of sound interpretation: "All other
senses of Sacred Scripture are based on the literal."
117 The
spiritual sense. Thanks to the unity of God's plan, not only the text of
Scripture but also the realities and events about which it speaks can be signs.
1. the allegorical sense. We can acquire a more profound understanding of
events by recognizing their significance in Christ; thus the crossing of the
Red Sea is a sign or type of Christ's victory and also of Christian Baptism.
2. the moral sense. the events reported in Scripture ought to lead us to act
justly. As St. Paul says, they were written "for our instruction".
3. the anagogical sense (Greek: anagoge, "leading"). We can view
realities and events in terms of their eternal significance, leading us toward
our true homeland: thus the Church on earth is a sign of the heavenly
Jerusalem.
118 A
medieval couplet summarizes the significance of the four senses:
The Letter speaks of deeds; Allegory to faith;
The Moral how to act; Anagogy our destiny.
119 "It
is the task of exegetes to work, according to these rules, towards a better
understanding and explanation of the meaning of Sacred Scripture in order that
their research may help the Church to form a firmer judgement. For, of course,
all that has been said about the manner of interpreting Scripture is ultimately
subject to the judgement of the Church which exercises the divinely conferred
commission and ministry of watching over and interpreting the Word of
God."
But I would not believe in the Gospel, had not the
authority of the Catholic Church already moved me.
Daily
Devotions
·
Unite in the work of the Porters of St. Joseph by joining them
in fasting: Authentic
Feminism
· Make
reparations to the Holy Face-Tuesday Devotion
· Pray Day 1
of the Novena for our Pope and Bishops
· Tuesday:
Litany of St. Michael the Archangel
·
Litany of the Most Precious
Blood of Jesus
·
Offering to
the sacred heart of Jesus
·
Rosary
[3] McCain, John and Salter, Mark. (2005) Character is destiny. Random
House, New York
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