Monday, August 28, 2023
· Eat waffles
and Pray for the assistance of the Angels
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Religion
in the Home for Preschool: August
·
Litany of the Most Precious
Blood of Jesus
·
Offering to
the sacred heart of Jesus
· Monday: Litany of
Humility
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DAY 14 – MOTHER OF OUR SAVIOR, PRAY THAT WE RECEIVE THE GIFT OF PIETY!
GOD’S WORD
“The spirit you received is not the spirit of slaves bringing fear into your lives again; it is the spirit of sons, and it makes us cry out ‘Abba, Father!’” (Romans 8:14-15)
HEROES’ WORDS
“In so far as divine love beautifies our souls and makes us pleasing to his divine Majesty, it is called grace; in so far as it gives us strength to do good, it is called charity; but when it reaches such a degree of perfection, that it makes us not only do the good, but do so carefully, frequently, and readily, then it is called devotion.” -St. Francis de Sales
“Charity and devotion differ no more, the one from the other, than the flame from the fire.” -St. Francis de Sales
“Devotion is a certain act of the will by which man gives himself promptly to divine service.” -St. Thomas Aquinas
MEDITATION
The Gift of Piety: A special gift of the Holy Spirit; it perfects the virtue of religion, which is the practice of justice toward God. It produces an instinctive filial affection for God and devotion toward those who are specially consecrated to God. As an infused gift of God, it is ready loyalty to God and the things of God, arising not so much from studied effort or acquired habit as from a supernatural communication conferred by the Holy Spirit. This gift enables a person to see in God not only one’s sovereign Master but a loving Father, according to the teaching of St. Paul: “Everyone moved by the Spirit is a son of God. The spirit you received is not the spirit of slaves bringing fear into your lives again; it is the spirit of sons, and it makes us cry out ‘Abba, Father!’” (Rom 8:14-15). It engenders in the soul a filial respect for God, a generous love toward him, and an affectionate obedience that wants to do what he commands because it loves the one who commands. (Fr. John Hardon, Modern Catholic Dictionary)
PRAYERS FOR TRADITIONAL 54 DAY NOVENA
THE SORROWFUL MYSTERIES OF THE HOLY ROSARY
Prayer before the recitation: Sign of the cross. Hail Mary.
In petition (first 27 days): Hail, Queen of the Most Holy Rosary, my Mother Mary, hail! At thy feet I humbly kneel to offer thee a Crown of Roses, blood red roses to remind thee of the passion of thy divine Son, with Whom thou didst so fully partake of its bitterness, each rose recalling to thee a holy mystery, each 10 bound together with my petition for a particular grace. O Holy Queen, dispenser of God’s graces, and Mother of all who invoke thee! Thou canst not look upon my gift and fail to see its binding. As thou receivest my gift, so wilt thou receive my petition; from thy bounty thou wilt give me the favor I so earnestly and trustingly seek. I despair of nothing that I ask of thee. Show thyself my Mother!
In thanksgiving (last 27 days): Hail, Queen of the Most Holy Rosary, my Mother Mary, hail! At thy feet I gratefully kneel to offer thee a Crown of Roses blood red roses to remind thee of the passion of thy divine Son, with Whom thou didst so fully partake of its bitterness each rose recalling to thee a holy mystery; each ten bound together with my petition for a particular grace. O Holy Queen, dispenser of God’s graces, and Mother of all who invoke thee! Thou canst not look upon my gift and fail to see its binding. As thou receivest my gift, so wilt thou receive my thanksgiving; from thy bounty thou hast given me the favor I so earnestly and trustingly sought. I despaired not of what I asked of thee, and thou hast truly shown thyself my Mother.
Say: The Apostles’ Creed, Our Father, 3 Hail Marys, Glory Be.
The Agony in the Garden – Our Father, 10 Hail Marys, Glory Be. Fatima Prayer.
Concluding Prayer: I bind these blood red roses with a petition for the virtue of resignation to the will of God and humbly lay this bouquet at thy feet.
The Scourging at the Pillar – Our Father, 10 Hail Marys, Glory Be. Fatima Prayer.
Concluding Prayer: I bind these blood red roses with a petition for the virtue of mortification and humbly lay this bouquet at thy feet.
The Crowning with Thorns – Our Father, 10 Hail Marys, Glory Be. Fatima Prayer.
Concluding Prayer: I bind these blood red roses with a petition for the virtue of humility and humbly lay this bouquet at thy feet.
The Carrying of the Cross – Our Father, 10 Hail Marys, Glory Be. Fatima Prayer.
Concluding Prayer: I bind these blood red roses with a petition for the virtue of patience in adversity and humbly lay this bouquet at thy feet.
The Crucifixion – Our Father, 10 Hail Marys, Glory Be. Fatima Prayer.
Concluding Prayer: I bind these blood red roses with a petition for the virtue of love of our enemies and humbly lay this bouquet at thy feet.
Say: The Hail Holy Queen.
Spiritual Communion: My Jesus, I believe that You are present in the Most Holy Sacrament. I love You above all things, and I desire to receive You into my soul. Since I cannot at this moment receive You sacramentally, come at least spiritually into my heart. I embrace You as if You were already there and unite myself wholly to You. Never permit me to be separated from You. Amen.
In petition (first 27 days): Sweet Mother Mary, I offer thee this spiritual communion to bind my bouquets in a wreath to place upon thy brow. O my Mother! Look with favor upon my gift, and in thy love obtain for me (specify request, see below). Hail Mary …
In thanksgiving (last 27 days): Sweet Mother Mary, I offer thee this Spiritual Communion to bind my bouquets in a wreath to place upon thy brow in thanksgiving for (specify request, see below) which thou in thy love hast obtained for me. Hail, Mary, etc.
PETITION: May our Church and our country find hope as we unite at the foot of the cross. (Please add your own petitions to this powerful novena)
All of the daily Novena Prayers and Reflections are found in this book: 54 Day Basic Training in Holiness
All of the daily Novena Prayers and Reflections are also posted at usgraceforce.com
You can join the United State Grace Force Facebook group HERE, to receive the reflections each day.
Spanish language Novena prayers and reflections are available at https://rosarycoasttocoast.
Those who would like to pray with others via The Telephone Rosary, call 1-951-799-9866 daily at 6 pm Eastern.
Enroll in the worldwide Confraternity of the Most Holy Rosary! Click here: https://championshrine.
You are welcomed to join Fr. Richard Heilman as he prays the rosary "over our country" at sunrise from a lookout tower atop Blue Mounds State Park:
Monday Night at the Movies
Agnieszka Holland, The Third Miracle, 1999.
FEAST
OF ST. AGUSTINE OF HIPPO
2 Chronicles, Chapter 26, Verse 5
He
was prepared to seek God as long as Zechariah
lived, who taught him to FEAR God; and as long as he sought the LORD, God made him prosper.
As
long as you seek the Lord you will prosper. This verse is about the reign of
King Uzziah.
Self-righteousness[1]
·
King Uzziah reigns for 52 years and does a whole
bunch of awesome stuff. He wins wars, he makes allies, he builds up cities, he
develops agricultural systems, and he creates a mighty army.
·
But pride comes before a fall. King Uzziah gets
so powerful that he starts to get over-confident.
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One day, he decides that he'd like to step into
the Temple to make some offerings.
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Only the high priests can make offerings in the
Temple, and they warn him to get out.
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While Uzziah's reading the riot act to the
priests, he breaks out in a huge rash all over his face right there in the
Temple.
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After that, he's considered "leprous"
so he can't enter the Temple ever again.
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He's so sick that his son Jotham has to take
over his kingly duties until he dies.
Humble
yourselves therefor under the mighty hand of God, so that he may exalt you in
due time. (1 Peter 5:6)
Feast
of St. Augustine of Hippo[2]
St.
Augustine (354-430) was born at Tagaste, Africa, and died in Hippo. His father,
Patricius, was a pagan, his mother, Monica, a devout Christian. He received a
good Christian education. As a law student in Carthage, however, he gave
himself to all kinds of excesses and finally joined the Manichean sect. He then
taught rhetoric at Milan where he was converted by St. Ambrose. Returning to
Tagaste, he distributed his goods to the poor, and was ordained a priest. He
was made bishop of Hippo at the age of 41 and became a great luminary of the
African Church, one of the four great founders of religious orders, and a
Doctor of the universal Church.
"Though I am but dust and ashes, suffer
me to utter my plea to Thy mercy; suffer me to speak, since it is to God's
mercy that I speak and not to man's scorn. From Thee too I might have scorn,
but Thou wilt return and have compassion on me. ... I only know that the gifts
Thy mercy had provided sustained me from the first moment. ... All my hope is
naught save in Thy great mercy. Grant what Thou dost command, and command what
Thou wilt" (St. Augustine of Hippo, Confessions,
6, 19).
As a young man, Augustine prepared for
a career as a teacher of Rhetoric and subsequently taught in Carthage and Rome.
Unfortunately, despite having a saint for a mother, as his career progressed,
he wandered far from his Christian upbringing, and his life sank into an abyss
of pride and lust. Like many young pagan men of his time, he lived with a
mistress and conceived a child with her out of wedlock. However, the Lord did
not want to lose hold of this lost sheep altogether: thus, inspired by the
writings of the Roman philosopher Cicero (and, no doubt, prompted by the Holy
Spirit), Augustine began what would prove to be a lifelong search for wisdom.
This search took him first to the religious cult called the
"Manichees," a strange sect that believed the material world is the
product of the powers of "darkness," while the spiritual realm is the
realm of "light." After becoming disillusioned with the bizarre theories
of the Manichees, Augustine adopted the philosophy of the Neo-Platonists. This
was a school of philosophy centered on the writings of the ancient philosopher
Plotinus, who described the mystical journey that all people ought to undertake
as "the flight of the alone to the Alone," in other words, as a
mystical, solitary search for the ineffable Source of all things. In 386,
Augustine moved to Milan to a new teaching post, and there, by divine
providence, he encountered the preaching of the archbishop of the city, the
great theologian St. Ambrose. As a result of the example and preaching of this
great saint, as well as the prayers and tears of his saintly mother, Augustine
was quickly plunged into a profound inner struggle, wrestling with his sins of
the flesh and with temptations to intellectual pride. The turning point of this
struggle came in the summer of 386 when Augustine was sitting in a garden,
recollecting his past life and gazing into the depths of his own soul. He
describes what happened next in his autobiographical Confessions
(written in 397)[3]:
Such things I said, weeping in the most
bitter sorrow of my heart. And suddenly, I heard a voice from some nearby
house, a boy's voice or a girl's voice, I do not know but it was a sort of
sing-song repeated again and again, "Take and read, take and read." I
ceased weeping and immediately began to search my mind most carefully as to
whether children were accustomed to chant these words in any kind of game, and
I could not remember that I had ever heard any such thing. Damming back the
flood of my tears I arose, interpreting the incident as quite certainly a
divine command to open my book of Scripture and read the passage at which I
should open. ... I snatched it up, opened it, and in silence read the passage
upon which my eyes first fell: "Not
in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and impurities, not in contention
and envy, but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ and make no provision for the
flesh in its concupiscence’s" (Rom 13:13). I had no wish to read
further, and no need. For in that instant, with the very ending of the
sentence, it was as though a light of utter confidence shone in my heart, and
all the darkness of uncertainty vanished away.
Then we [Augustine and his friend Alypius] went in to my mother and told her,
to her great joy. We related how it had come about: she was filled with
triumphant exultation and praised You who are mighty beyond what we ask or
conceive: for she saw that You had given her more than with all her pitiful
weeping she had ever asked. For You converted me to Yourself ... (Confessions, 8.11-12).
A prayer by St. Augustine
Breathe in me, O Holy Spirit, that
my thoughts may all be holy.
Act in me, O Holy Spirit, That I
love but what is holy.
Strengthen me, O Holy Spirit, to
defend all that is holy.
Guard me, then, O Holy Spirit, That
I always may be holy. Amen.[4]
Things to Do:
- Read
more about St. Augustine at CatholicIreland.net and at CatholicSaints.Info
- Go
here
for links to the writings of St. Augustine
- Also
learn more here, St. Augustine of Hippo
- See
St
Augustine, the Holy Trinity, the Child and the SeaShell
- Visit
Anastpaul for more info including many images
PART TWO: THE CELEBRATION OF THE CHRISTIAN
MYSTERY
SECTION ONE-THE
SACRAMENTAL ECONOMY
CHAPTER ONE THE PASCHAL MYSTERY IN THE AGE OF THE
CHURCH
Article 1 THE LITURGY - WORK OF THE HOLY TRINITY
II. Christ's Work in the Liturgy
Christ glorified . . .
1084 "Seated at the right hand of the Father"
and pouring out the Holy Spirit on his Body which is the Church, Christ now
acts through the sacraments he instituted to communicate his grace. the
sacraments are perceptible signs (words and actions) accessible to our human
nature. By the action of Christ and the power of the Holy Spirit they make
present efficaciously the grace that they signify.
1085 In the liturgy of the Church, it is principally his
own Paschal mystery that Christ signifies and makes present. During his earthly
life Jesus announced his Paschal mystery by his teaching and anticipated it by
his actions. When his Hour comes, he lives out the unique event of history
which does not pass away: Jesus dies, is buried, rises from the dead, and is
seated at the right hand of the Father "once for all."8 His Paschal mystery is a real event that
occurred in our history, but it is unique: all other historical events happen
once, and then they pass away, swallowed up in the past. the Paschal mystery of
Christ, by contrast, cannot remain only in the past, because by his death he
destroyed death, and all that Christ is - all that he did and suffered for all
men - participates in the divine eternity, and so transcends all times while
being made present in them all. the event of the Cross and Resurrection abides
and draws everything toward life.
. . . from the time of the Church of the Apostles . . .
1086 "Accordingly, just as Christ was sent by the
Father so also he sent the apostles, filled with the Holy Spirit. This he did
so that they might preach the Gospel to every creature and proclaim that the
Son of God by his death and resurrection had freed us from the power of Satan
and from death and brought us into the Kingdom of his Father. But he also
willed that the work of salvation which they preached should be set in train
through the sacrifice and sacraments, around which the entire liturgical life
revolves."
1087 Thus the risen Christ, by giving the Holy Spirit to
the apostles, entrusted to them his power of sanctifying: they became
sacramental signs of Christ. By the power of the same Holy Spirit they
entrusted this power to their successors. This
"apostolic succession" structures the whole
liturgical life of the Church and is itself sacramental, handed on by the
sacrament of Holy Orders.
. . . is present in the earthly liturgy . . .
1088 "To accomplish so great a work" - the
dispensation or communication of his work of salvation - "Christ is always
present in his Church, especially in her liturgical celebrations. He is present
in the Sacrifice of the Mass not only in the person of his minister, 'the same
now offering, through the ministry of priests, who formerly offered himself on
the cross,' but especially in the Eucharistic species. By his power he is
present in the sacraments so that when anybody baptizes, it is really Christ
himself who baptizes. He is present in his word since it is he himself who
speaks when the holy Scriptures are read in the Church. Lastly, he is present
when the Church prays and sings, for he has promised 'where two or three are
gathered together in my name there am I in the midst of them."'
1089 "Christ, indeed, always associates the Church
with himself in this great work in which God is perfectly glorified and men are
sanctified. the Church is his beloved Bride who calls to her Lord and through
him offers worship to the eternal Father."
. . . which participates in the liturgy of heaven
1090 "In the earthly liturgy we share in a foretaste
of that heavenly liturgy which is celebrated in the Holy City of Jerusalem
toward which we journey as pilgrims, where Christ is sitting at the right hand
of God, Minister of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle. With all the
warriors of the heavenly army we sing a hymn of glory to the Lord; venerating
the memory of the saints, we hope for some part and fellowship with them; we
eagerly await the Savior, our Lord Jesus Christ, until he, our life, shall
appear and we too will appear with him in glory."
MEDICINAL PLANTS
Day 14 DETOXIFICATION-Revealed by Heaven to Luz De María
Beloved, as
a Mother who sees beyond what you see, I ask you to eat the
blackberry/mulberry.
It is a natural blood purifier, and this will help the organism become more resistant
to the maladies that humanity will suffer. You ignore that a great part of the
virus and bacteria that plague you, have been created by man himself as a
result of the power over all humanity.” Blessed Virgin Mary, 10.13.2014 Scientific
name: Rubus ulmifolius Family: Rosaceae Known as: blackberry or Mulberry BLACK
BERRY Contains natural antioxidants. Contains vitamins A, C and E and minerals such
as zinc and manganese that benefit immune system, reinforcing defenses. Provides
dietary fiber, that facilitates intestinal transit.
Daily
Devotions
·
30 DAY TRIBUTE TO MARY 14th ROSE:
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30
Days of Women and Herbs – Frauendreissiger
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Unite in the work of the Porters of St. Joseph by joining them
in fasting: Binding
and suppressing the Devils Evil Works
·
Religion
in the Home for Preschool: August
·
Litany of the Most Precious
Blood of Jesus
·
Offering to
the sacred heart of Jesus
·
Rosary
[4]https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/liturgicalyear/prayers/view.cfm?id=1116
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