Tuesday, August 22, 2023
DAY 8 – MOTHER INVIOLATE, PRAY THAT WE RECEIVE THE VIRTUE OF TEMPERANCE!
GOD’S WORD
“Do you not know that, of those who run in a race, all of them, certainly, are runners, but only one achieves the prize? Similarly, you must run, so that you may achieve. And one who competes in a contest abstains from all things. And they do this, of course, so that they may achieve a corruptible crown. But we do this, so that we may achieve what is incorruptible.” (1 Cor 9:24-25)
HEROES’ WORDS
“Temperance is a disposition that restrains our desires for things which it is base to desire.” -St. Augustine
“Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.” -St. Teresa of Avila
“If you would rise, shun luxury, for luxury lowers and degrades.” -St John Chrysostom
MEDITATION
Temperance is the moral virtue that moderates the attraction of pleasures and provides balance in the use of created goods. It ensures the will’s mastery over instincts and keeps desires within the limits of what is honorable. The temperate person directs the sensitive appetites toward what is good and maintains a healthy discretion: “Do not follow your inclination and strength, walking according to the desires of your heart.” Temperance is often praised in the Old Testament: “Do not follow your base desires, but restrain your appetites.” In the New Testament it is called “moderation” or “sobriety.” We ought “to live sober, upright, and godly lives in this world.” (CCC 1809)
“To live well is nothing other than to love God with all one’s heart, with all one’s soul and with all one’s efforts; from this it comes about that love is kept whole and uncorrupted (through temperance). No misfortune can disturb it (and this is fortitude). It obeys only [God] (and this is justice), and is careful in discerning things, so as not to be surprised by deceit or trickery (and this is prudence).” -St. Augustine
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)
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QUEENSHIP
OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY
2 Chronicles, Chapter 19, Verse 5-7
5 He appointed judges in the land, in
all the fortified cities of Judah, city by city, 6 and he said to them: “Take care
what you do, for the judgment you give is not human but divine; for when it
comes to judgment God will be with you.7 and
now, let the FEAR of the LORD be upon
you. Act carefully, for with the LORD, our God, there is no injustice, no
partiality, no bribe-taking.”
This
was what Jehoshaphat said to the judges that he was appointing. Reform always
includes justice. The Holy Spirit calls us to be just and merciful to human
needs. Today pray for those who are in need and may not ask for help. Today,
look for and act to address the real needs of all humans.
Hierarch
of Needs[1]
A team of researchers at Arizona State University, led
by evolutionary psychologist Douglas Kenrick, has noticed that most
people really like being parents. Despite the challenges of
child-rearing, Kenrick reported that the warmth, the love, the creativity, the
sense of purpose and belonging—all of these factors and more make parenting the
most enjoyable of all activities. Kenrick’s team reported this breaking news,
which is just a ho-hum factoid to loving parents, in the journal Perspectives
on Psychological Science. Kenrick and his group proposed a revision
to Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs which takes
into account our deepest biological drives. In the new Need Hierarchy, Maslow’s fifth tier need Self-Actualization
has been supplanted at the top by a motivation which Maslow hadn’t even
mentioned: Parenting.
What Is Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs….and Do I
Need It?
In my undergraduate days at the University of Michigan, the
darling of the Psych Department was Abraham Maslow. A psychologist and
motivational researcher, Maslow believed that humans’ most basic needs are
inborn; and he developed his acclaimed Hierarchy of Needs in the 1950s to
explain how these needs motivate us all. According to Maslow, our most
basic needs for survival (food, water and shelter) must be satisfied before we
can turn our attention to higher-level needs such as influence and personal
development. If there is a threat to our lower-level needs (a house fire,
for example, or job loss or nationwide famine), we will no longer be concerned about
higher-level needs but will instead focus on rebuilding the base of security
that we require.
·
Biological and Physiological needs – air,
food, drink, shelter, warmth, sex, sleep, etc.
·
Safety needs – protection from elements,
security, order, law, limits, stability, etc.
·
Belongingness and Love needs – work
group, family, affection, relationships, etc.
·
Esteem needs – self-esteem, achievement,
mastery, independence, status, dominance, prestige, managerial responsibility,
etc.
·
Self-Actualization needs – realizing
personal potential, self-fulfillment, seeking personal growth and peak
experiences.
In the 1970s, behavioral scientists slipped in two
additional categories after Esteem needs:
·
Cognitive
needs (knowledge and meaning), and
·
Aesthetic
needs (appreciation and search for beauty, form).
And in the 1990s, scientists took one more step toward a
benevolent view of Need Hierarchy by topping Self-Actualization with an even higher need, the need for Transcendence.
Once an individual achieved personal potential (Self-Actualization), scientists
claimed, he or she would then seek Transcendence by helping another to achieve
Self-Actualization—for example, through volunteer work in a disadvantaged
community. What has emerged now, though—based on research studies conducted in
2010—is a new understanding that devoted parents find the deepest satisfaction
in shaping the hearts and souls of the children who have been entrusted to
their care. While non-parenting adults may expect the rigors of
child-rearing to be an impediment to happiness, the opposite is true:
Those who have actually experienced the joy of giving selflessly to a helpless
infant achieve a level of wellbeing that is unmatched in human
experience. Those who patiently teach a toddler to tie her shoes or help
a middle schooler to make friends in the classroom, report greater satisfaction
than do those whose focus is personal fulfillment through career, marriage or
other adult relationship. Next in the pyramid, according to Kenrick and team,
is Mate Retention– a marriage which lasts– and before that comes Mate
Attraction (finding that special person). It would appear that all of our
deepest longings derive from the complex biological urge to reproduce.
Queenship
of the Blessed Virgin Mary[2]
On the 11th of October 1954, Pope Pius XII
established the Feast of the Queenship of Mary to be celebrated throughout the
world, and commanded that on that day each year, the world should renew its
consecration to her. In the future the Feast came to be celebrated on 22nd of
August. On the day of her Assumption, Mary our Mother was solemnly crowned by
Christ and received by the whole court of Heaven as Queen. What Christ has done
in Heaven and the Church has done on our behalf we should now do individually,
that is, we should recognize Mary's Queenship, enthrone her in our homes,
consecrate ourselves to her and, by this means, establish in our lives the
reign of Mary Immaculate Queen of the Universe.
How to Enthrone
Mary Immaculate Queen in Your Home and
Consecrate Your Family to Her a
statue or picture may
be blessed; If convenient, ask a priest to perform the ceremony, otherwise the
head of the family can do it. Prepare
her altar with flowers and candles, giving her an honored place in your home
where all will see her and often pray to her. Recite
together kneeling:
Act
of Contrition; 3 Hail Mary’s; 3 Gloria’s; 3 times the invocation: Mary Immaculate Queen: Triumph and Reign. followed by
the
Act of Consecration
O Mary Immaculate Queen, glorious Queen of the Universe, most powerful Virgin,
merciful Mother of a merciful God and refuge of sinners, we consecrate
ourselves to thy Royal and Immaculate Heart.
It is through thee that Jesus Christ our King has come into the world to save
it. It is also through thee that He is to reign over the world.
In order to obtain this great benefit for ourselves and all mankind, we come to
thy feet to consecrate to thee our persons, our lives, all that we are, all
that we have, all that we love. Keep us, enlighten us, dispose of us, reign
over us.
May all hearts and all homes willingly proclaim thee as their Immaculate Queen.
Prayer
O Mary Immaculate Queen, look down upon this distressed and suffering world.
Thou knowest our misery and our weakness. O Thou who art our Mother, saving us
in the hour of peril, have compassion on us in these days of great and heavy
trial.
Jesus has confided to thee the treasure of His Grace, and through Thee He wills
to grant us pardon and mercy. In these hours of anguish, therefore, thy
children come to Thee as their hope.
We recognize thy Queenship and ardently desire thy triumph. We need a Mother
and a Mother's Heart. Thou art for us the luminous dawn which dissipates our
darkness and points out the way to life. In thy clemency obtain for us the
courage and the confidence of which we have such need.
Most Holy and Adorable Trinity, Thou Who didst crown with glory in Heaven the
Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Savior, grant that all her children on earth
may acknowledge her as their Sovereign Queen, that all hearts, homes, and
nations may recognize her rights as Mother and as Queen. Amen.
MARY IMMACULATE QUEEN
Triumph and Reign!
Imprimi potest:
+ Michael Epus Galviensis, 4 June 1966
Catechism of the Catholic
Church
PART ONE: THE PROFESSION
OF FAITH
SECTION
TWO-I. THE CREEDS
CHAPTER
THREE-I BELIEVE IN THE HOLY SPIRIT
Article 12-"I BELIEVE IN LIFE EVERLASTING"
VI. Hope of the New
Heaven and the New Earth
1042 At the end of time, the
Kingdom of God will come in its fullness. After the universal judgment, the
righteous will reign for ever with Christ, glorified in body and soul. the
universe itself will be renewed:
The Church .
. . will receive her perfection only in the glory of heaven, when will come the
time of the renewal of all things. At that time, together with the human race,
the universe itself, which is so closely related to man and which attains its
destiny through him, will be perfectly re-established in Christ.
1043 Sacred Scripture calls
this mysterious renewal, which will transform humanity and the world, "new
heavens and a new earth." It will be the definitive realization of
God's plan to bring under a single head "all things in [Christ], things in
heaven and things on earth."
1044 In this new universe, the
heavenly Jerusalem, God will have his dwelling among men. "He will
wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall
there be mourning nor crying nor pain any more, for the former things have
passed away."
1045 For man, this consummation
will be the final realization of the unity of the human race, which God willed
from creation and of which the pilgrim Church has been "in the nature of
sacrament." Those who are united with Christ will form the community
of the redeemed, "the holy city" of God, "the Bride, the wife of
the Lamb." She will not be wounded any longer by sin, stains,
self-love, that destroy or wound the earthly community. The beatific
vision, in which God opens himself in an inexhaustible way to the elect, will
be the ever-flowing well-spring of happiness, peace, and mutual communion.
1046 For the cosmos, Revelation
affirms the profound common destiny of the material world and man:
For the
creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God . . . in
hope because the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay....
We know that the whole creation has been groaning in travail together until
now; and not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the first fruits of
the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait for adoption as sons, the redemption of
our bodies.
1047 The visible universe,
then, is itself destined to be transformed, "so that the world itself,
restored to its original state, facing no further obstacles, should be at the
service of the just," sharing their glorification in the risen Jesus
Christ.
1048 "We know neither the
moment of the consummation of the earth and of man, nor the way in which the
universe will be transformed. the form of this world, distorted by sin, is
passing away, and we are taught that God is preparing a new dwelling and a new
earth in which righteousness dwells, in which happiness will fill and surpass
all the desires of peace arising in the hearts of men."
1049 "Far from diminishing
our concern to develop this earth, the expectancy of a new earth should spur us
on, for it is here that the body of a new human family grows, foreshadowing in some
way the age which is to come. That is why, although we must be careful to
distinguish earthly progress clearly from the increase of the kingdom of
Christ, such progress is of vital concern to the kingdom of God, insofar as it
can contribute to the better ordering of human society."
1050 "When we have spread
on earth the fruits of our nature and our enterprise . . . according to the
command of the Lord and in his Spirit, we will find them once again, cleansed
this time from the stain of sin, illuminated and transfigured, when Christ
presents to his Father an eternal and universal kingdom." God will
then be "all in all" in eternal life:
True and
subsistent life consists in this: the Father, through the Son and in the Holy
Spirit, pouring out his heavenly gifts on all things without exception. Thanks
to his mercy, we too, men that we are, have received the inalienable promise of
eternal life.
MEDICINAL PLANTS Day 8 ANTIBIOTIC
PROPIERTIES-Revealed by
Heaven to Luz De María
RAW
GARLIC Scientific name: Allium sativum Family: Liliaceae
After
the message from the blessed Mother on June 3, 2016, Luz de María had a vision
in which she was given the following indications as natural remedies for the
illnesses that are approaching. Our Mother told me that true plagues will come
and that we should ingest a raw clove of garlic every morning, or oil of
oregano; these two are excellent antibiotics. If oil of oregano is not
available, oregano can be boiled to make an infusion; however, the Oil of
Oregano is a better antibiotic. Blessed Virgin Mary, 06.03.2016
Daily
Devotions
·
30 DAY TRIBUTE TO MARY 8th ROSE: Mary's
Visitation Gives Charity
o 30
Days of Women and Herbs – Frauendreissiger
·
Unite in the work of the Porters of St. Joseph by joining them
in fasting: Increase
of Vocations to the Holy Priesthood.
·
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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