Sunday, September 3, 2023
DAY 20 - VIRGIN MOST FAITHFUL, PRAY THAT WE RECEIVE THE FRUIT OF KINDNESS
GOD’S WORD
“But I tell you who hear me: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you. If someone strikes you on one cheek, turn to him the other also. If someone takes your cloak, do not stop him from taking your tunic. Give to everyone who asks you, and if anyone takes what belongs to you, do not demand it back. Do to others as you would have them do to you.” (Luke 6:27-31)
“Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.” (Ephesians 4:32)
“Since God chose you to be the holy people he loves, you must clothe yourselves with tenderhearted mercy, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience.” (Colossians 3:12)
“She opens her mouth with wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue.” (Proverbs 31:26)
“So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus.” (Philippians 2:1-5)
HEROES’ WORDS
“Be kind to all and severe to thyself.” -St. Teresa of Avila
MEDITATION
Fruit of Kindness: One of the fruits of the Holy Spirit; the quality of understanding sympathy and concern for those in trouble or need. It is shown in affability of speech, generosity of conduct, and forgiveness of injuries sustained. (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
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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:
SEPTEMBER 3 Fourteenth Sunday
after Pentecost
ST. GREGORY THE GREAT-SKYSCRAPER DAY
We
prayed to our God and posted a watch against them day and night for FEAR of what they might do.
Here
this references the Jewish people as they attempt to rebuild their great nation
and the enemies of Judah encircle them and poise to launch an attack against
them.
Sounds like the battle cry of the unbelieving secular media against the
current administration in DC and those who are carrying their guns and their
bibles who resist them. One wonders what the god of a secular media is.
False Gods[1]
The media view
themselves as their own gods—masters of their own fates. Many of these
self-made gods control our media. As gods, they want no competition. They
reject the truth that God is God alone and that He will hold them accountable
for mocking Him and His followers. Thus, the truth is hell to them, even before
they get there. They express their hatred for God’s truth by heaping venom on
anyone who declares the truth. They are rewriting American history, to fit
their desire for self-worship, want to silence truth. Thus, whenever a Christian
lovingly and thoughtfully points them to the truth of history, they hound them
down, accusing them of “racism,” “hate speech” and “bigotry.” Why? Because
truth to them is hell, so they want to muzzle their message. To them these
truths are hell, so they respond by likening Christians to the Taliban and the
Jihadis … can you imagine?
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The Christians who founded the hospital movement.
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The Christians who founded the library movement.
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The Christians who founded the orphanage movement.
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The Christians who founded education.
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The Christians, who have and continue to feed the hungry, clothe
the naked and care for the needy.
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The Christians who sacrificed and continue to sacrifice in
following the role model of their Savior who gave His all on a cross to save
them. How can they say that Christians are likened to the Taliban?
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The Taliban who shoots women in the head at close range in soccer
stadiums.
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The Taliban who buries people alive for their sins and
misdemeanors.
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The Taliban who stone women to death for mere accusations.
My concern is
that the very truth that can set them free is the truth they attack. I know why
they attack it—because it feels like hell to them. It is condemning. However,
my heart is not to condemn them but to pray to God to open their blind eyes,
just like He opened mine, so that they may see the truth before it is too late
for them.
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ON KEEPING THE LORD'S DAY HOLY[2]
My
esteemed Brothers in the Episcopate
and the Priesthood,
Dear Brothers and Sisters!
1.
The Lord's Day — as Sunday was called from Apostolic times — has always been
accorded special attention in the history of the Church because of its close
connection with the very core of the Christian mystery. In fact, in the weekly
reckoning of time Sunday recalls the day of Christ's Resurrection. It is Easter
which returns week by week, celebrating Christ's victory over sin and death,
the fulfilment in him of the first creation and the dawn of "the new
creation" (cf. 2 Cor 5:17). It is the day which recalls in grateful
adoration the world's first day and looks forward in active hope to "the
last day", when Christ will come in glory (cf. Acts 1:11; 1 Th
4:13-17) and all things will be made new (cf. Rev 21:5).
Rightly,
then, the Psalmist's cry is applied to Sunday: "This is the day which the
Lord has made: let us rejoice and be glad in it" (Ps 118:24). This
invitation to joy, which the Easter liturgy makes its own, reflects the
astonishment which came over the women who, having seen the crucifixion of Christ,
found the tomb empty when they went there "very early on the first day
after the Sabbath" (Mk 16:2). It is an invitation to relive in some
way the experience of the two disciples of Emmaus, who felt their hearts
"burn within them" as the Risen One walked with them on the road,
explaining the Scriptures and revealing himself in "the breaking of the
bread" (cf. Lk 24:32,35). And it echoes the joy — at first
uncertain and then overwhelming — which the Apostles experienced on the evening
of that same day, when they were visited by the Risen Jesus and received the
gift of his peace and of his Spirit (cf. Jn 20:19-23).
Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost[3]
Seeking the kingdom of God and its justice.
AT the Introit of the Mass, join with the priest in awaking in your heart a fervent desire for heaven by these words: Behold, O God, our protector, and look on the face of Thy Christ; for better is one day in Thy courts above thousands. How lovely are Thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts! My soul longeth and fainteth for the courts of the Lord” (Ps. Ixxxiii.).
Prayer. Preserve Thy Church, we beseech Thee, O Lord, with perpetual mercy, and since without Thee mortal man goes astray, may we be ever withheld by Thy grace from what is hurtful, and directed to what is profitable.
EPISTLE. Gal. v. 10-24.
Brethren: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfil the lusts of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth against the spirit: and the spirit against the flesh; for these are contrary one to another: so that you do not the things that you would. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are, fornication, uncleanness, immodesty, luxury, idolatry, witchcrafts, enmities, contentions, emulations, wraths, quarrels, dissensions, sects, envies, murders, drunkenness, reveling, and such like, of which I foretell you, as I have foretold to you, that they who do such things shall not obtain the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is charity, joy, peace, patience, benignity, goodness, longanimity, mildness, faith, modesty, continency, chastity. Against such there is no law. And they that are Christ’s have crucified their flesh with the vices and concupiscence’s.
What is it to walk in the Spirit?
It is, in all things and at all times, to follow the inspirations of the Holy Spirit and not merely to abstain from the works of the flesh, but rather to crucify the flesh and its lusts, and earnestly to aspire after those fruits which the Holy Ghost produces in men? such as charity, peace, and joy. So shall we belong to Christ and become partakers of eternal life. Is it not wonderful that while all Christians desire to belong to Christ, and to be heirs of His kingdom, they are unwilling to crucify the flesh with its vices and concupiscence’s, and to destroy its lusts, as though they believed this to be required only of the clergy, whereas it is to all Christians that Christ says: “If any man will come after Me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me” (Matt. xvi. 24.)
GOSPEL. Matt vi. 24-33.
At that time Jesus said to His disciples: No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one and love the other: or he will sustain the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. Therefore, I say to you, be not solicitous for your life, what you shall eat, nor for your body, what you shall put on. Is not the life more than the meat, and the body more than the raiment? Behold the birds of the air, for they neither sow, nor do they reap, nor gather into barns: and your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are not you of much more value than they? And which of you by taking thought can add to his stature one cubit? And for raiment why are you solicitous? Consider the lilies of the field how they grow: they labor not, neither do they spin. But I say to you, that not even Solomon in all his glory was arrayed as one of these. And if the grass of the field, which is to-day, and to-morrow is cast into the oven, God doth so clothe: how much more you, O ye of little faith! Be not solicitous therefore, saying: What shall we eat, or what shall we drink, or wherewith shall we be clothed? For after all these things do the heathens seek. For your Father knoweth that you have need of all these things. Seek ye therefore first the kingdom of God and His justice: and all these things shall be added unto you.
St. Gregory the Great’s 30 Masses[4]
The history of the “Thirty Mass” practice goes back to the year 590 A.D. in St. Andrew’s Monastery in Rome, founded by St. Gregory the Great in his own family villa around 570. It is now known as the Monastery of St. Gregory the Great. The account of the incident which gave rise to it is recounted by St. Gregory himself in his Dialogues.
After his election as Pope in 590, one of the monks, Justus by name, became ill. So he admitted to a lay friend, Copiosus, that he had hidden three gold pieces among his medications years before, when he was professed a monk. Both, in fact, were former physicians. And sure enough, the other monks found the gold when seeking the medication for Justus.
The founder and former abbot of the monastery, now Pope Gregory, hearing of this scandalous sin against the monastic Rule, called in the new Abbot of his beloved monastery, and ordered the penalty of solitary confinement for Justus, even though he was dying, and ordered that his burial not be in the cemetery but in the garbage dump. Copiosus told his wretched friend of this decision. Moreover, the community were to recite over his dreadful grave the words of St. Peter to Simon the Magician: “May your money perish with you” (Acts 8:20).
Let us pray here for all the Bishops and Priest who chose Gold over the Eucharist in response to the COVID 19 and the new world religion.
The Pope’s desired result was achieved: Justus made a serious repentance, and all the monks a serious examination of conscience. Justus then died, but the matter did not, for thirty days later Pope Gregory returned to the monastery filled with concern for Justus, who would now be suffering the grim temporal punishment of Purgatory’s fire for his sins. “We must,” said Gregory to the Abbot, “come by charity to his aid, and as far as possible help him to escape this chastisement. Go and arrange thirty Masses for his soul, so that for thirty consecutive days the Saving Victim is immolated for him without fail.” And so, it was done.
Some days later, the deceased
monk, Justus, appeared in a vision to his friend Copiosus and said, “I have
just received the Communion pardon and release from Purgatory because of the
Masses said for me.” The monks did a calculation and noted that it was exactly
thirty days since the thirty Masses had begun for Justus. They shared this great
consolation with each other, with their Abbott and with Pope Gregory. The Pope
included a full account of this episode.
Skyscraper Day[5]
The construction of tall buildings has become so commonplace in cities around the globe that the general public gives little thought to the visionaries responsible for creating a city’s unique skyline. Skyscraper day provides the opportunity to learn more about the architects who commit a dream to paper and the construction crews that make it reality. Whoever it was that first considered placing dwellings on top of each other instead of side-by-side would be astounded at how modern buildings literally seem to touch the sky. What they may also find interesting is the status that is often attached to living or working at the highest level. Although this analogy is obvious there is another to be drawn from the consequences of a power failure. These are just a few aspects to ponder on a day that is set aside to reflect on man’s apparent conquest of upper space.
Catechism of the Catholic
Church
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 2-THE PASCHAL MYSTERY IN THE
CHURCH'S SACRAMENTS
III. The Sacraments of Faith
1122 Christ sent his apostles so
that "repentance and forgiveness of sins should be preached in his name to
all nations." "Go therefore and make disciples of all nations,
baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy
Spirit." The mission to baptize, and so the sacramental mission, is
implied in the mission to evangelize, because the sacrament is prepared for by
the word of God and by the faith which is assent to this word:
The People of God is formed into
one in the first place by the Word of the living God.... the preaching of the
Word is required for the sacramental ministry itself, since the sacraments are
sacraments of faith, drawing their origin and nourishment from the Word.
1123 "The purpose of the
sacraments is to sanctify men, to build up the Body of Christ and, finally, to
give worship to God. Because they are signs, they also instruct. They not only
presuppose faith, but by words and objects they also nourish, strengthen, and
express it. That is why they are called 'sacraments of faith."'
1124 The Church's faith precedes
the faith of the believer who is invited to adhere to it. When the Church
celebrates the sacraments, she confesses the faith received from the apostles -
whence the ancient saying: lex orandi, lex credendi (or: legem credendi lex
statuat supplicandi according to Prosper of Aquitaine [5th cent.]). The
law of prayer is the law of faith: the Church believes as she prays. Liturgy is
a constitutive element of the holy and living Tradition.
1125 For this reason no sacramental rite may be modified or manipulated at the will of the minister or the community. Even the supreme authority in the Church may not change the liturgy arbitrarily, but only in the obedience of faith and with religious respect for the mystery of the liturgy.
No rubber raft altars
1126 Likewise, since the sacraments
express and develop the communion of faith in the Church, the lex orandi is one
of the essential criteria of the dialogue that seeks to restore the unity of
Christians.
MEDICINAL PLANTS
Day 20 ANTIBIOTIC
PROPIERTIES-Revealed by
Heaven to Luz De María
Europe Scientific name: Origanum vulgare Family:
Lamiaceae America Scientific name: Lippia graeolens Family: Verbenaceae
OREGANO Very
powerful antibiotic, with anti-inflammatory action. Fight microbes (fungus and
bacteria). Relieves cough, eliminates viruses, treats flu, stimulates the
immune system. Reduces skin infections. Fights free radicals and delays aging
due to the antioxidant effect. Useful pain reliever in case of sprains, light
pobalgias, arthritis, toothache, burns, cuts and scratches.
Daily
Devotions
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30 DAY TRIBUTE TO MARY 20th ROSE: Carrying
of the Cross
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30
Days of Women and Herbs – Frauendreissiger
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Today in honor of the
Holy Trinity do the Divine Office giving your day to God. To honor God REST: no
shopping after 6 pm Saturday till Monday. Don’t forget the internet.
· Unite
yourself in the work of the Porters of
St. Joseph by joining them in fasting: Today's Fast: The
Pope
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Religion
in the Home for Preschool: September
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Litany of the Most Precious
Blood of Jesus
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Offering to
the sacred heart of Jesus
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Rosary
[1]http://www.charismanews.com/opinion/32215-why-do-the-members-of-the-secular-media-hate-bible-believing-christians
[3]Goffine’s Devout Instructions, 1896
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