Saturday, August 26, 2023
DAY 12 – MOTHER OF GOOD COUNSEL, PRAY THAT WE RECEIVE THE GIFT OF FORTITUDE!
GOD’S WORD
“The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?” (Psalm 27:1)
“When I am afraid, I will trust in you. In God, whose word I praise, in God I trust; I will not be afraid. What can mortal man do to me?” (Psalm 56:3-4)
“For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, ‘Abba, Father.’” (Romans 8:15)
“Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be men of courage; be strong.” (1 Corinthians 16:13)
“For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline.” (2 Timothy 1:7)
“There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.” (1 John 4:18)
HEROES’ WORDS
“The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them” -St. Thomas Aquinas
MEDITATION
The Gift of Fortitude: One of the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit; it gives a person a special strength of will. This gift confers an extraordinary readiness to undergo trials for love of God or in fulfillment of the divine will; unusual courage to bear difficulties even for many years; firmness in carrying arduous tasks to their completion; perseverance in a lifetime fidelity to one’s vocation in spite of heavy trials or disappointments sent by God; and gladness in being privileged to suffer persecution or humiliation in union with Christ and for the sake of his name. (Fr. John Hardon, Modern Catholic Dictionary)
PRAYERS FOR TRADITIONAL 54 DAY NOVENA
THE GLORIOUS 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, full-blown white roses, tinged with the red of the passion, to remind thee of thy glories, fruits of the sufferings of thy Son and thee, 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 full blown white roses, tinged with the red of the passion, to remind thee of thy glories, fruits of the sufferings of thy Son and thee, 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 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.
For each of the following Mysteries, say: Our Father, 10 Hail Marys, Glory Be.
The Resurrection – Our Father, 10 Hail Marys, Glory Be. Fatima Prayer.
Concluding Prayer: I bind these full-blown roses with a petition for the virtue of faith and humbly lay this bouquet at thy feet.
The Ascension – Our Father, 10 Hail Marys, Glory Be. Fatima Prayer.
Concluding Prayer: I bind these full-blown roses with a petition for the virtue of hope and humbly lay this bouquet at thy feet.
The Descent of the Holy Spirit – Our Father, 10 Hail Marys, Glory Be. Fatima Prayer.
Concluding Prayer: I bind these full-blown roses with a petition for the virtue of charity and humbly lay this bouquet at thy feet.
The Assumption of Mary – Our Father, 10 Hail Marys, Glory Be. Fatima Prayer.
Concluding Prayer: I bind these full-blown roses with a petition for the virtue of union with Christ and humbly lay this bouquet at thy feet.
The Coronation of the Blessed Mother – Our Father, 10 Hail Marys, Glory Be. Fatima Prayer.
Concluding Prayer: I bind these full-blown roses with a petition for the virtue of union with thee 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
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OUR LADY OF CZESTOCHOWA
2 Chronicles, Chapter 20, Verse 29
And the FEAR of God came upon all the kingdoms of the surrounding lands
when they heard how the LORD had fought against the enemies of Israel.
Fear
is a natural response to the unknown and to powers beyond comprehension. After
experiencing our Lord for forty days after the resurrection and seeing him
leave again and without the Holy Spirit’s presence the disciples were heartbroken but He promised them that He would
send the Holy Spirit saying it is better for us that He leave us so we may
receive power from on high. The first gift of the Holy Spirit is the gift of
Holy fear; to respond to God’s love as a son or daughter rather than a servant.
We are given the ability via the Holy Spirit to make and keep commitments.
Our Lady of Czestochowa (The Black
Madonna)[1]
In some areas today Our Lady of
Czestochowa is commemorated. According to tradition, the icon of Jasna Góra
was painted by Luke the Evangelist on a tabletop built by Jesus himself, and
the icon was discovered by St. Helen, mother of Emperor Constantine and
collector of Christian relics in the Holy Land. The icon was then enshrined in
the imperial city of Constantinople, according to the legend, where it remained
for the next 500 years.
Historically today is the
commemoration of Our Lady Health of the Sick, celebrated on the Saturday
before the last Sunday of August. This is one of the titles in the Litany to
Our Lady of Loretto, and there is also a shrine dedicated Our Lady of Health of
the Sick, "La Salud, in Patzcuaro, Michoacan, in Mexico.
While
stationed in the Army I was responsible for the security and protection of ammunition
depots which for the most part was protected by the Polish Labor Service. Interacting with men who always
professed great devotion to Our Lady of Czestochowa.
The image of Our Lady of Czestochowa,
also known as the Black Madonna, was traditionally believed to have been
painted by St. Luke the Evangelist on a cypress wood panel from a table used by
the Holy Family in Nazareth. It was said to have been brought from Jerusalem by
St. Helen and was enshrined in Constantinople for 500 years. It was given to a
Greek princess married to a Ruthenian nobleman and it was housed in the royal
palace at Belz in the Ukraine for the next 600 years. Art historians believe it
is a Byzantine icon of the Hodigitria type dating from the 6th - 9th Century. The
image was brought to Poland in 1382 by Ladislaus of Opole who rescued the
painting from Belz while escaping an attack by the Tartars who had damaged the
painting with an arrow. On his way to Silesia, Ladislaus stopped to rest in the
town of Czestochowa near the church on Jasna Góra (Bright Hill). He believed
that it was Our Lady’s desire for her image to remain in Czestochowa, so he
left the image at the church and invited the Pauline monks from Hungary to be
its guardians.
On April 14, 1430, robbers, sometimes
associated with the Hussites of Bohemia, looted the monastery and made three
slashes on the face of Our Lady in an attempt to remove valuable stones,
finally smashing the image into three pieces. In order to repair the icon, the
original paint was removed, and the icon was repainted. Although the icon was
restored, the slashes in Our Lady’s face remain visible today.
The image of Our Lady of Czestochowa
is associated with several miraculous events. One of the most spectacular
occurred in 1655 during the height of the Protestant Revolution. The Swedish
Lutheran army invaded Poland winning victories over the city after city
including Cracow and Warsaw. The Polish King fled the country. When the Swedish
army came to Jasna Góra hoping to plunder the sacred site, the monks refused to
surrender although they were greatly outnumbered. The following account is from
the Polish historian Norman Davies as quoted in Warren Carroll’s series on
Christianity.
“When negotiations brought no result,
the Swedes began a violent bombardment of the walls. Then, in order to spread
fear among the defenders, they started to hurl blazing firebrands, setting the
monastery’s barn alight together with a great quantity of corn. Next, all
around the monastery, they set up a camp with wooden palisades and gun
emplacements…But their attack had little effect. The walls were banked with
earth on the inside, and only the cannon displaced a few bricks. Before long,
the defenders opened fire in reply. The aim of their gunners was so accurate
that after three hours the Swedes were obliged to pull back with great loss.
Meanwhile, the inhabitants of houses adjacent to the monastery, where the enemy
had found shelter, set their homes on fire, not counting the cost. The Swedes
renewed their attack on the 19th of November, the day of the Transfiguration of
the Virgin…the official printed a description of this siege, which records that
bullets and missiles fell so thick on the church and tower that they seemed to
be in flames. But…the cannon balls bounced off the walls and tiles or flew over
the church roof, causing no damage….Muller (the Swedish commander) was most
angered by the monks, who would climb to the top of the tower and in full choir
pour down pious hymns on his soldiers…Jasna Góra was not saved by men…A thick
mist screened the monastery from attack…Muller himself saw a Lady in a shining
robe on the walls, priming the cannon and tossing shells back in the direction
from which they came…He (General Muller) launched this last attack on Christmas
Day, firing off all his guns in one salvo, and sending his entire army to storm
the walls…But at that very moment, he suffered a fatal accident. He was eating
breakfast in a fairly distant house, and cursing Jasna Góra with blasphemies,
when suddenly an iron shot penetrated the wall, knocked down all the plates,
bottles and glasses from the table, scattered the guests, and struck him in the
arm…At last, in the night before St. Stephen’s Day, the Swedes started to drag
the guns from their emplacements, to collect their equipment, and to direct
their wagons in the direction of Klobuck…Of course, no heretic will believe
that cannon balls were repulsed from the walls of Jasna Góra by supernatural
means…but all that I have described is true.”
The victory of Our Lady of Czestochowa
at Jasna Góra turned the tide of the war. In 1656, the Polish King Jan Casimir
proclaimed the Mother of God the “Queen of the Polish Crown” and the shrine at
Jasna Góra, the “Mount of Victory” and the spiritual capital of Poland. In
recognition of the miraculous image, Pope Clement XI donated a crown to be placed
on the image in 1717. Thieves stole the bejeweled crown in 1909. Pope St. Pius
X replaced the 1717 crown with a crown of gold.
Our Lady intervened again in 1920 when
the Russian army was about to invade Warsaw. As they were about to cross the
Vistula River on September 15th, the Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows, the image of
Our Lady of Czestochowa appeared in the clouds over Warsaw and the Russian Army
retreated. Shortly after this Miracle of the Vistula, in 1925, Pope Pius XI
designated May 3rd as the feast day of Our Lady of Czestochowa.
After the liberation of Poland from
Nazi occupation, 1.5 million people gathered at Jasna Góra in 1945 to
rededicate the nation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Pope John Paul II
visited the image of Our Lady of Czestochowa four times during his pontificate.
Our Lady’s intercession is credited with the liberation of Poland from
Communist rule.
The holy painting enshrined at
Czestochowa has been a lighthouse of hope during centuries of hardship and
defeat. Today, the Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa attracts millions of who
love and honor Our Lady’s intercession.
Things to Do:
- Make
a virtual visit to the National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa
- Read
A Brief History of the Image of Czestochowa
- Read
Who is 'the Black Madonna' and why is she so important?
- Listen
to this sermon on the story of Our Lady Czestochow
Catechism of the Catholic
Church
PART TWO: THE CELEBRATION OF THE CHRISTIAN
MYSTERY
SECTION ONE-THE SACRAMENTAL ECONOMY
1076 The Church was made manifest
to the world on the day of Pentecost by the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. The
gift of the Spirit ushers in a new era in the "dispensation of the
mystery" the age of the Church, during which Christ manifests, makes
present, and communicates his work of salvation
through the liturgy of his Church,
"until he comes." In this age of the Church Christ now lives and
acts in and with his Church, in a new way appropriate to this new age. He acts
through the sacraments in what the common Tradition of the East and the West
calls "the sacramental economy"; this is the communication (or
"dispensation") of the fruits of Christ's Paschal mystery in the
celebration of the Church's "sacramental" liturgy.
It is therefore important first to
explain this "sacramental dispensation" (chapter one). the nature and
essential features of liturgical celebration will then appear more clearly
(chapter two).
MEDICINAL PLANTS
Day 9 FOOD
SHORTAGES-Revealed by
Heaven to Luz De María
IN THE FACE
OF FOOD SHORTAGES Store up food, it will become scarce. Prepare Blessed Grapes
and keep honey. Have the Oil of the Good Samaritan with you and the medicines
that My House has made known to you. Our Lord Jesus
Christ
09.21.2021
Pueblo de
Nuestro Rey y Señor Jesucristo, la Tierra se estremece fuertemente, deben
mantener provisiones de cuanto es específicamente necesario para la
supervivencia, no solo personal y familiar, sino de los hermanos. Almacenen
miel, este alimento es beneficioso. San Miguel Arcángel, 03.07.2021
“Hija amada, una cucharada de miel y unas nueces serán alimento suficiente para la supervivencia del cuerpo, ellas proveen lo necesario para que todos los órganos funcionen debidamente. Esto coméntalo a Mis hijos para que sea bendición para ellos en los momentos de hambruna” Nuestro Señor Jesucristo a Luz de María, 11.11.2012
Daily
Devotions
·
30 DAY TRIBUTE TO MARY 12th ROSE: Baptism
of Jesus, Identifies Himself to Sinners
o
30
Days of Women and Herbs – Frauendreissiger
·
Unite in the work of the Porters of St. Joseph by joining them
in fasting: Growth
of Catholic Families and Households
· Saturday Litany of the Hours
Invoking the Aid of Mother Mary
·
Religion
in the Home for Preschool: August
·
Litany of the Most Precious
Blood of Jesus
·
Offering to
the sacred heart of Jesus
·
Rosary
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