Wednesday, September 27, 2023
DAY 44 - MARY, QUEEN OF ALL SAINTS, PRAY FOR US
Join us for Rosary Coast to Coast!
In the Battle of Lepanto, the Turks believed Christianity had become so weak, it was time to move in and "deal the last blow." Outnumbered, Pope St. Pius V called upon the world to pray the rosary. Miraculously, victory was won on October 7, 1571, which brought the Feast of Our Lady of Victory.
Here we are again, my brothers and sisters. The enemy appears to be attempting to "deal the last blow." There is no doubt we are living in diabolically influenced times. This, while Godless leaders and influencers in our nation have usurped the phrase, “This is a battle for the soul of America,” as their evil abominations unto God easily become a “new normal” in the lives of our loved ones?! Those who choose to stand in the “Spirit of Truth” are mocked, persecuted, abandoned and put out?! The time is now to do the "Lepanto thing!"
PLEASE join us for Rosary Coast to Coast on the Feast of Our Lady of Victory, October 7, 2023 at 3:00pm CST to pray the Glorious Mysteries as a nation. It simply means to gather with a group of 2 or more outside (if possible) as we call upon the powerful intercession of Our Lady to Heal Our Land!!
Go to RosaryCoasttoCoast.com to find more information and register your group.
Let’s … UNITE AT THE FOOT OF THE CROSS!!
The Warrior Ethos
The Soldier’s Creed of the United States Army states: “I am disciplined, physically and mentally tough, trained and proficient in my warrior tasks and drills.” Former Navy SEAL Eric Greitens said: “One of the things that makes a warrior into a warrior is that they are dedicated to developing their strength in service to others.”
Whether it’s a Navy SEAL or a saint, we admire those who put it all on the line — go “all in!” — those who are totally dedicated to the mission. In the military, this dedication is revealed in the Warrior Ethos, four simple lines embedded in the Soldier’s Creed:
- I will always place the mission first.
- I will never accept defeat.
- I will never quit.
- I will never leave a fallen comrade.
Sustained and developed through discipline, commitment, and pride, these four lines motivate every soldier to persevere and, ultimately, to refuse defeat. What would happen if we dedicated ourselves to the training and mission of Jesus Christ with the same intensity Eric Greitens and his comrades dedicated themselves to the “Warrior Ethos” and to their training to become Navy SEALs? What is keeping us from becoming, in essence, SEALS for Christ?
We must learn the special operations (special ops) techniques and procedures for search and rescue missions of fallen comrades (those who have become weak in their faith). Although rarely wielded by the Catholics today, this supernatural strength and these techniques are truly authentic gifts of the Church that are field-tested and battle-hardened. We must commit ourselves to their restoration if we ever hope to stem the tide of evil and rescue our lost loved ones who may be destined for eternal damnation. (Excerpt from Church Militant Field Manual).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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ST. VINCENT DE PAUL
Judith, Chapter 4,
Verse 1-2
1 When
the Israelites who lived in Judea heard of all that Holofernes, the ranking
general of Nebuchadnezzar king of the Assyrians, had done to the nations, and
how he had looted all their shrines and utterly
destroyed them, 2
they were in very
great FEAR of him, and greatly
alarmed for Jerusalem and the temple of the Lord, their God.
Join the resistance! No not the fake news one but the resistance to all that is evil. Godly resistance is much different than the guttural take no prisoners of modern time’s resistance with our pink devil horned hats.
Holy
Resistance[1]
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The
Israelites’ reaction to invasion differs from their neighbors in two respects:
The nature of their fear and their response.
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Their
fear is not only for themselves but primarily for Jerusalem and the temple of
the Lord.
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Most
secularists surrender to evil with joy; but the holy prepare to defend its most
precious possession: faith and trust in He who is.
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We
must prepare to defend the mountain passes by defending our faith.
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However,
the most important preparation for siege is spiritual through prayer and
fasting.
·
Note
Mary the Mother of Christ via Fatima apparitions tell us that we like the
Israelites must continue in prayer,
making reparation and consecration to God.
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The
key is cry unto the Lord.
The Book of Judith symbolic of the Virgin Mary[2]
Judith was a holy widow. She wore haircloth and fasted almost every day. She spent most of her time in a chamber of her home, praying. The land of Israel was in distress, being under siege by Holofernes. It is when Israel is in it's greatest need that she comes forth from the chamber to save them by her intercession. This is symbolic of the Blessed Virgin Mary and her victory over Satan in the very last days to come. What is most interesting and noteworthy is the talk she gave to the leaders of the people. Her words apply to us in the latter days of this great apostasy from the Catholic faith. We should pay heed and learn from her as they are words Our Lady would no doubt address to each of us: Have patience, be humble, pray to God for mercy, it was our fathers that drew down this chastisement upon us: Our part is to suffer these tribulations as penance for our sins. It is for our sanctification.
Judith was symbolic of the Virgin Mary
And they came to her, and she said to them: What is this word, by which Ozias hath consented to give up the city to the Assyrians, if within five days there come no aid to us? And who are you that tempt the Lord? This is not a word that may draw down mercy, but rather that may stir up wrath, and enkindle indignation. You have set a time for the mercy of the Lord, and you have appointed him a day, according to your pleasure. But forasmuch as the Lord is patient, let us be penitent for this same thing, and with many tears let us beg his pardon: For God will not threaten like man, nor be inflamed to anger like the son of man. And therefore, let us humble our souls before him, and continuing in an humble spirit, in his service: Let us ask the Lord with tears, that according to his will so he would shew his mercy to us: that as our heart is troubled by their pride, so also we may glorify in our humility. For we have not followed the sins of our fathers, who forsook their God, and worshiped strange gods. For which crime they were given up to their enemies, to the sword, and to pillage, and to confusion: but we know no other God but him. Let us humbly wait for his consolation, and the Lord our God will require our blood of the afflictions of our enemies, and he will humble all the nations that shall rise up against us, and bring them to disgrace. And now, brethren, as you are the ancients among the people of God, and their very soul resteth upon you: comfort their hearts by your speech, that they may be mindful how our fathers were tempted that they might be proved, whether they worshiped their God truly. They must remember how our father Abraham was tempted, and being proved by many tribulations, was made the friend of God. So Isaac, so Jacob, so Moses, and all that have pleased God, passed through many tribulations, remaining faithful. But they that did not receive the trials with the fear of the Lord, but uttered their impatience and the reproach of their murmuring against the Lord, Were destroyed by the destroyer, and perished by serpents. As for us therefore let us not revenge ourselves for these things which we suffer. But esteeming these very punishments to be less than our sins deserve, let us believe that these scourges of the Lord, with which like servants we are chastised, have happened for our amendment, and not for our destruction. And Ozias and the ancients said to her: All things which thou hast spoken are true, and there is nothing to be reprehended in thy words. Now therefore pray for us, for thou art a holy woman, and one fearing God. JUDITH 8, 10-34
Feast of St. Vincent
de Paul[3]
Having lived and worked in Belgium
it is interesting to note the little “d” from “de Paul” normally denotes that
Vincent was of a royal blood line.
St. Vincent de Paul was a
great apostle of charity and brought a great revival of the priesthood in the
17th century. He was born near Dax in the Landes (France) in 1581. As a young
priest he was captured by Moorish pirates who carried him to Africa. He was
sold into slavery but freed in 1607 when he converted his owner. Having
returned to France, he became successively a parish priest and chaplain to the
galley-slaves. He founded a religious Congregation under the title of Priests
of the Mission or Lazarists (now known as Vincentians), and he bound them by a
special way to undertake the apostolic work of charity; he sent them to preach
missions, especially to the ignorant peasants of that time, and to establish
seminaries. In order to help poor girls, invalids, and the insane, sick and
unemployed, he and St. Louise de Marillac founded the Congregation of the
Daughters of Charity, now better known as the Sisters of St. Vincent. St.
Vincent worked tirelessly to help those in need: the impoverished, the sick,
the enslaved, the abandoned, the ignored. He died in 1660 at St. Lazarus's
house, Paris. His motto: "Let us love God; but at the price of our hands
and sweat of our face."
Things to Do:[4]
- Find
out more about the Vincent de Paul Society near you, see if you can
participate.
- Find
out more about the two orders founded by St. Vincent.
- Other
people to find out more about: St.
Louise de Marillac, Bl. Frederic Ozanam and St.
Francis de Sales.
- Learn
what France was like during St. Vincent's life. At that war-torn time, the
lives of peasants were far removed from those of the nobility.
- Make
a banner or poster with St. Vincent's motto to remind us of God's presence.
Remembering that, "God sees you."
Catechism of the Catholic
Church
PART TWO: THE CELEBRATION OF THE CHRISTIAN
MYSTERY
SECTION TWO-THE SEVEN
SACRAMENTS OF THE CHURCH
CHAPTER ONE-THE SACRAMENTS OF CHRISTIAN
INITIATION
I. Confirmation in the Economy of Salvation
1286 In the Old Testament the
prophets announced that the Spirit of the Lord would rest on the hoped-for
Messiah for his saving mission. The descent of the Holy Spirit on Jesus at
his baptism by John was the sign that this was he who was to come, the Messiah,
the Son of God. He was conceived of the Holy Spirit; his whole life and
his whole mission are carried out in total communion with the Holy Spirit whom
the Father gives him "without measure."
1287 This fullness of the Spirit
was not to remain uniquely the Messiah’s but was to be communicated to the
whole messianic people. On several occasions Christ promised this
outpouring of the Spirit, a promise which he fulfilled first on Easter
Sunday and then more strikingly at Pentecost. Filled with the Holy Spirit
the apostles began to proclaim, "the mighty works of God," and Peter
declared this outpouring of the Spirit to be the sign of the messianic age. Those
who believed in the apostolic preaching and were baptized received the gift of
the Holy Spirit in their turn.
1288 "From that time on the apostles,
in fulfillment of Christ's will, imparted to the newly baptized by the laying
on of hands the gift of the Spirit that completes the grace of Baptism. For
this reason, in the Letter to the Hebrews the doctrine concerning Baptism and
the laying on of hands is listed among the first elements of Christian
instruction. the imposition of hands is rightly recognized by the Catholic
tradition as the origin of the sacrament of Confirmation, which in a certain
way perpetuates the grace of Pentecost in the Church."
1289 Very early, the better to
signify the gift of the Holy Spirit, an anointing with perfumed oil (chrism)
was added to the laying on of hands. This anointing highlights the name
"Christian," which means "anointed" and derives from that
of Christ himself whom God "anointed with the Holy Spirit." This
rite of anointing has continued ever since, in both East and West. For this reason,
the Eastern Churches call this sacrament Chrismation, anointing with chrism, or
myron which means "chrism." In the West, Confirmation suggests both
the ratification of Baptism, thus completing Christian initiation, and the
strengthening of baptismal grace - both fruits of the Holy Spirit.
Two traditions: East and West
1290 In the first centuries
Confirmation generally comprised one single celebration with Baptism, forming
with it a "double sacrament," according to the expression of St.
Cyprian. Among other reasons, the multiplication of infant baptisms all through
the year, the increase of rural parishes, and the growth of dioceses often
prevented the bishop from being present at all baptismal celebrations. In the
West the desire to reserve the completion of Baptism to the bishop caused the
temporal separation of the two sacraments. the East has kept them united, so
that Confirmation is conferred by the priest who baptizes. But he can do so
only with the "myron" consecrated by a bishop.
1291 A custom of the Roman Church
facilitated the development of the Western practice: a double anointing with
sacred chrism after Baptism. the first anointing of the neophyte on coming out
of the baptismal bath was performed by the priest; it was completed by a second
anointing on the forehead of the newly baptized by the bishop. The first
anointing with sacred chrism, by the priest, has remained attached to the
baptismal rite; it signifies the participation of the one baptized in the
prophetic, priestly, and kingly offices of Christ. If Baptism is conferred on
an adult, there is only one post-baptismal anointing, that of Confirmation.
1292 The practice of the Eastern
Churches gives greater emphasis to the unity of Christian initiation. That of
the Latin Church more clearly expresses the communion of the new Christian with
the bishop as guarantor and servant of the unity, catholicity, and apostolicity
of his Church, and hence the connection with the apostolic origins of Christ's
Church.
Every Wednesday is Dedicated
to St. Joseph
The Italian culture has
always had a close association with St. Joseph perhaps you could make
Wednesdays centered around Jesus’s Papa. Plan an Italian dinner of pizza or
spaghetti after attending Mass as most parishes have a Wednesday evening Mass.
You could even do carry out to help restaurants. If you are adventurous, you
could do the Universal Man Plan: St. Joseph style. Make the evening a family night,
perhaps it could be a game night. Whatever you do make the day special.
·
Do the St.
Joseph Universal Man Plan.
Daily
Devotions
·
Unite in the work of the Porters of St. Joseph by joining them
in fasting: Today's Fast: Reparations
for offenses and blasphemies against God and the Blessed Virgin Mary
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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]The Collegeville Bible Commentary,
1986.
[3]http://www.catholicculture.org/culture/liturgicalyear/calendar/day.cfm?date=2017-09-27
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