DAY 24 - MARY, SPIRITUAL VESSEL, PRAY THAT WE RECEIVE THE FRUIT OF FAITHFULNESS!
Vinny’s Corner
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How to celebrate
Sep 7th
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So, you wake up and decide it’s time to give your facial hair some
love. Start the day by embracing your inner lumberjack for World Beard Day, groom
it with care!
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Feeling puckish?
o Whip up a delicious
breakfast with bacon, salami, and a side of acorn squash for a hearty meal
celebration. Maybe flip through a good book while munching down. It’s National Buy a Book
Day after all.
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As you step outside, notice the birds chirping?
o Take a moment to
appreciate the hummingbirds fluttering by, it’s National
Hummingbird Day. Head to the park and admire the vulture’s soaring
overhead, it’s International
Vulture Awareness Day, they’re nature’s clean-up crew!
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Feeling energized, challenge yourself and push your limits like a
superhero. It’s Superhuman
Day, so maybe attempt a new activity or break a personal record.
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Need a break?
o Raise a glass for National Beer Lovers
Day. Cheers to good times and unforgettable memories!
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Feeling the love in the air?
o Reach out to someone
special for National
Feel the Love Day. Share a heartfelt message or spend quality time with
loved ones.
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Feeling grateful?
o Reflect on your blessings
for National
Grateful Patient Day.
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In the midst of the day’s activities, channel your creativity like
Grandma Moses. Try your hand at a new craft or DIY project. Remember, Neither
Snow Nor Rain Day reminds us that dedication conquers all obstacles.
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Wrap up the day by spreading awareness. Whether it’s for Duchenne
disease or any cause close to your heart, shine a light on important issues.
It’s a day to educate and support each other. Hats off to a day filled with
embracing nature, love, gratitude, knowledge, and delicious food. Enjoy every
quirky moment to the fullest!
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30
DAY TRIBUTE TO MARY 24th ROSE: Mary, the Help of Christians
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30
Days of Women and Herbs – Frauendreissiger
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Yarrow
(Achillea millefolium)
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Today is International Bacon Day
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Perhaps you could delay your bacon till tomorrow as an
offering to Mary, who’s lips never touch bacon, as an offering for the First Saturday
MEDICINAL PLANTS Day 23 FOOD SHORTAGES-Revealed by Heaven to Luz
De María
BLESSED GRAPES WHEN SCARCITY BECOMES GENERALIZED, remember that My Mother
thought about you way in advance and blessed grapes so that at that instant
your hunger will be appeased, also I have asked you to pray NOW for those
instants and to prepare yourselves spiritually so you will be able to
encounter—with Faith, strength, and perseverance—the instants of harsh and
difficult trial that lie ahead for everyone. Our Lord Jesus Christ 09.27.2015 I
do not abandon you. Do not forget to keep in your home the blessed grape in My
Name for the instants of shortage. Our Lord Jesus Christ 10.27.2014
Prepare the
Blessed Grapes Regarding Christ’s request for blessed grapes, Luz de María’s
comments: Christ indicates that we must look for a priest and ask him to bless
a bunch of grapes (or only one grape because one blessed grape can be used to
bless other grapes and can feed two people if they have Faith and are properly
prepared spiritually.) This will be useful for times of food shortage. To bless the other grapes: Take one grape
blessed by a priest and use it to bless the remaining ones with it, as follows:
Cut each
remaining grape away from the bunch with scissors so each one will have a piece
of stem attached to it. Each of the new grapes is blessed by rubbing it with
the grape that was originally blessed by a priest while saying: “In the Name of
the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, amen.
Then store
the blessed grapes in sterilized containers. Fill ¾ of each container with
grapes and then add cognac or brandy (no other liquor) until each container is full.
Close the containers properly.
The blessed
grapes will keep for as long as necessary until the time when they will be
consumed. These blessed grapes may be shared with brothers for them to bless
grapes on their own. Fifteen years ago, Christ asked us to bless some grapes
and today the grapes are still in good condition. If in some country grapes are
not available, any other abundant fruit may be substituted if it is small like
a grape. The Blessed Virgin Mary indicates how to transfer the blessing of the
grapes from one Blessed Grape to a new bunch of grapes so that more people may
benefit from them. While the grapes are still attached to the bunch, wash them
thoroughly in a solution of water with one or two drops of liquid soap and then
rinse them. Then each grape is cut away from the bunch with scissors leaving a
piece of stem on each one. Then take one Blessed Grape and rub it against one
new grape making the Sign of the Cross on it while saying, “In the Name of the
Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, amen.” Beforehand, prepare a clean
glass container with a lid that seals well. The blessed grapes can be eaten by
sick people who cannot retain food. People who fast with the Blessed Grape will
be protected from plagues, terrible diseases and other catastrophes. People
will receive sustenance equivalent to the food, water, vitamins and minerals that
the body needs. The brandy used to prepare them has medicinal value (if you are
sick take a teaspoon that taken with FAITH will cure). One grape will sustain
two people throughout the day. A supply should be kept for up to six months or
more (approximately 180 grapes). The Blessed Grape will not sustain any person
who mocks or does not believe. One grape will sustain two people for the entire
day. A supply should be kept for up to six months or more (approximately 180
grapes). The Blessed Grape will not sustain any person who mocks or
disbelieves. Cross on it while saying, “In the Name of the Father and the Son
and the Holy Spirit, amen.” Beforehand, prepare a clean glass container with a
lid that seals well.
Video of how the blessed grapes is prepared. https://youtu.be/nVO3w5I5LF0
SEPTEMBER 7 First Saturday
Proverbs, Chapter 29, Verse 25
FEAR
of others becomes a snare, but the one who trusts in the LORD is safe.
Fear
of others the political correctness of the bible. With this fear we are
apprehensive of what others may think of us over a concern of what God thinks
of us. We all fall into the trap of wishing for as many likes as we can get on
our Facebook page. We cater to the approval of others, often letting our Lord
take the back seat.
God’s Laws Do Not Depend on Popular Votes of
Approval[1]
Since the French
Revolution, revolting from God’s ways has been the norm for governments and
people. Before the French Revolution, Emperors and Empresses, Kings and
Queens received from God, via the Catholic Church, authority to rule. They were
bound to rule by obeying God’s Rules. There were good Catholic popes, bishops’
emperors and kings. There were also bad popes, bishops, emperors and kings who
abused the authority God had given them to rule. But each one of them, at
death, have had to give a detailed account of how they had used the divine
authority they had been given to rule. In fact, everyone has
some sort of authority, and we will have to give a strict account to God as to
how we used His authority for the good or the bad. I as a priest will have to
give an account of how I used my priestly authority over the parishioners under
my care. I will have to give an account of all the money, buildings and
programs that I have had under my care while I was an associate pastor and as
pastor. Each one of you, bishops, religious and priests reading this, will also
have to give an account of how you used your God given authority over God’s
flock. For us who have been vigilant in guiding God’s flock to heaven, there
will be a reward. For each one of us who have been lazy, there will be
punishment. But each one of us who has abused our God given authority to
persecute holy priests and people or mislead our people by telling them not to
worry about sin, the devil and eternal damnation, it will be one horrible awakening
into eternal chastisement. The road to Hell is paved with skulls of bishops and
priests”.
Each husband will give an
account of how he ruled over his wife and children. Each parent will have to
give an account of the way they have raised their children. Each teacher, each
principal, each government leader; each Emperor, King, Empress, Queen, and
those under their orders, will also be rewarded or terribly chastised for how
they did or did not implement God’s rules on their subjects. They will also
have to give a detailed account on how they spent God’s money and treated God’s
people placed under their care.
I am totally in favor of
the Kingdom of Jesus Christ. He is the head of the pope, cardinals,
bishops, priests and religious. The Church is head of the Emperors and Kings
and those subject to their authority. Under this system, when the Holy Roman Empire
existed, there was all sorts of great Christian growth as well as cultural
growth: the great cathedrals,
universities, hospitals, buildings, art, all over the world, was created in
this divinely ordered society where God was the center of government and society.
His divinely revealed laws were the laws that men lived by even though people
broke them. This didn’t just start under the great Catholic Emperor
Constantine. We can see it under the rule of the Judges of the Old Testament,
who ruled by God’s authority, inforced His laws and guided by His wisdom. Under
this divine system these judges/prophets were able to guide the Jewish people
into a flourishing society. Under King David we see the great development and
peace of Israel. When King Solomon ruled on the throne of his father King
David, he did not ask for riches or a long life, but for divine wisdom. When he
was faithful to The True God and lived by His wisdom, he built the great Temple
and palace and had wealth unknown before his time. But when he became overcome
by his lust and all his wives, he succumbed to allowing his wives to bring into
God’s kingdom the abomination of worshipping of devil gods. From then on, the
kingdom of Israel went down and was eventually divided. And so, his-story (King Saul, King Solomon and
all the other Kings who abused God’s authority) goes on through out time.
Jesus, when He showed his
Sacred Heart to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque in 1671, gave an important message to King Louis XIV
of France. He was told to consecrate France to Jesus’ Sacred Heart and there
would be great success in all his battles and in France. He was also instructed
to put the Sacred Heart on the flag of France to remind everyone that France
belongs to God, not the king. King Louis XIV never did what Jesus asked. King
Louis XV also failed to comply with what Jesus asked for. When King Louis XVI
came to rule, again, he did not obey Jesus’ request. After France financed the
American Revolt against Britain, they ended up deep in debt. So, to try to
resolve the problem, King Louis XVI called together the Estate General. From
there, the other Estates were formed to try to solve the financial crisis. The
1st. Estate consisted of clergy. The 2nd consisted of Nobles. The 3rd.
consisted of mostly bourgeois lawyers and other representatives. This is when
democracy took power away from the king. No longer was it God, from above, who
was giving authority through the His Church, to the kings and queens. Now,
through democratic voting, authority was given to the leaders from below. What
ever was the desire of the people who had the most power became law and Man
became god.
From this democracy came
the “Reign of Terror” in France where thousands and thousands of bishops,
priests, religious and lay people were put to death by the guillotine. King
Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette lost their kingdom and heads. Blood
flowed so profusely in Paris that people could not stand the stench. It
literally saturated the soil and would squish up when walking on the
soil around where they were daily killed. So, when we think of voting on what
is or is not moral, sanctioning what is or is not popular, we are giving into
the authority of people and not the Divine Revealed Laws of God. The
consequences of this are evident every time you watch the news filled with
murders, raping, stealing and wars. And yet everyone, Catholics and non alike,
want to judge what is and what is not moral by democratic decision. When will
we wake up to the reality, we are selfish.
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We
want pleasure.
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We
are greedy.
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We
will steal and kill to get our drugs.
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We
will use and then discard our sex partners.
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We
will kill unborn babies, up to 9 months, because it is lawful and convenient.
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People
say it is good to blow up innocent people for political reasons.
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Cartoon
child pornography is ok because of freedom of speech.
Wake up, open your closed
mind, society is leading itself into self destruction. It is not too late to
humbly recognize what simple common sense is telling us: the world is going to
hell. Now let us admit that popular opinion has led us to where we are, wars,
drugs, violence, crime and broken families everywhere.
God created us. Jesus died
for us. Let us humbly submit to His divine loving laws while we still have
somewhat of a chance to survive. Let us give Jesus His due and obey Him as our
King and resubmit society under Him and His laws. It is so good to be a traditional
Catholic and believe in the Kingdom of Christ the King. And Mary is our Queen
too.
Blessed the man who fears the LORD,
who greatly delights in his commands. His posterity shall be mighty upon the
earth; the upright generation shall be blessed.
The Five First Saturday’s devotion is one of
the principal points of the Fatima message. It centers on the urgent need for
mankind to offer reparation and expiate for the many injuries that the
Immaculate Heart of Mary suffers from the hands of both impious and indifferent
men.
On
the First Saturday during 5 Consecutive Months, the Devotion consists of:
1.
Going to Confession,
2. Receiving the Sacrament of Holy Communion,
3. Saying five decades of the Rosary,
4. Meditating for 15 minutes on the mysteries of the Rosary.
All this
offered in REPARATION for the sins of blasphemy and ingratitude committed
against the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
During the third
apparition on July 13, 1917, Our Lady revealed that she would come to ask for
the consecration of Russia to her Immaculate Heart and for the Communion of
Reparation of the Five First Saturdays. Consequently, she asked for the
devotion in 1925 and the consecration in 1929. While staying at the House of
the Dorothean Sister in Pontevedra, Portugal, Sister Lucia received a vision on
December 10, 1925, where the Blessed Mother appeared alongside a Boy who stood
over a luminous cloud. Our Lady rested one hand on the Boy’s shoulder while she
held on the other hand a heart pierced with thorns around it. Sister Lucia
heard the Boy say, "Have pity on the Heart of your Most Holy Mother which
is covered with thorns with which ingrate men pierce it at every moment with no
one to make an act of reparation to pull them out." Our Lady expressed her
request in the following words, "See, my daughter, My Heart surrounded
with thorns with which ingrates pierce me at every moment with blasphemies and
ingratitude. You, at least, make sure to console me and announce that all those
who for five months, on the first Saturdays, go to confession, receive
Communion, say five decades of the Rosary and keep me company for 15 minutes
meditating on the mysteries of the Rosary, with the purpose of making
reparation to Me, I promise to assist them at the hour of death with all the
graces necessary for the salvation of their souls." A few days
afterward, Sister Lucia detailed this vision in a letter addressed to Monsignor
Manuel Pereira Lopes, her confessor when she resided in the Asylum of Vilar in
the city of Oporto, Portugal.
Why
Five Saturdays?
Sister Lucia’s
confessor questioned her about the reason for the five Saturdays, asking why
not seven or nine. She answered him in a letter dated June 12, 1930. In it she
related about a vision she had of Our Lord while staying in the convent chapel
part of the night of the twenty-ninth to the thirtieth of the month of May,
1930. The reasons Our Lord gave were as follows: The five first Saturdays
correspond to the five kinds of offenses and blasphemies committed against the
Immaculate Heart of Mary. They are:
1.
Blasphemies against the Immaculate Conception
2.
Blasphemies against her virginity
3.
Blasphemies against her divine maternity, at the same
time the refusal to accept her as the Mother of all men
4.
Instilling, indifference, scorn and even hatred towards
this Immaculate Mother in the hearts of children
5.
Direct insults against Her sacred images
Let us keep the
above reasons firmly in our minds. Devotions have intentions attached to them
and knowing them adds merit and weight to the practice.
Modifications to the Five First Saturdays Devotion to facilitate its observation
The original
request of Our Lady asks one to confess and receive Communion on five
consecutive first Saturdays; to say five decades of the Rosary; to meditate
during 15 minutes on the mysteries of the Rosary for the purpose of making
reparation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary in reparations for the sins of men.
In subsequent private visions and apparitions however, Sister Lucia presented
to Our Lord the difficulties that devotees encountered in fulfilling some
conditions. With loving condescension and solicitude, Our Lord deigned to relax
the rules to make this devotion easy to observe:
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Confession may be done on other days other than
the First Saturdays so long as one receives Our Lord worthily and has the
intention of making reparation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
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Even if one forgets to make the intention, it
may be done on the next confession, taking advantage of the first occasion to
go to confession.
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Sister Lucia also clarified that it is not
necessary to meditate on ALL mysteries of the Rosary on each First Saturdays.
One or several suffice.
With much latitude
granted by Our Lord Himself, there is no reason for the faithful to hesitate or
delay this pious practice in the spirit of reparation which the Immaculate
Heart of Mary urgently asks.
This
devotion is so necessary in our days
The culture of
vice and sin remains unabated even as one reads this. Abortion, blasphemy, drug
abuse, pornography, divorce and bad marriages, religious indifference, the
advances of the homosexual agenda and others are just some of society’s many
plagues that cut deeply into the Immaculate Heart of Mary. We must console Our Lady amidst all these
insults and injuries to her and her Divine Son. She asks for reparation, she
pleads for our prayers, she hopes for our amendment of life. Let us listen to
her maternal pleas and atone for the ingratitude of men. The First Five
Saturday’s devotion stimulates the spirit of reparation; it instills a tender
love for the Holy Sacraments of Confession and the Blessed Eucharist. It
nurtures a holy affection for the Immaculate Heart of Mary and the Rosary.
Above all, it is an excellent means to maintain one in the state of grace while
immersed in the daily spiritual battles and prosaic existence in the neo-pagan
world that we live in. Let us not delay in observing this devotion for it too
gives us hope for eternal salvation.
Catechism of the
Catholic Church
PART ONE: THE PROFESSION
OF FAITH
SECTION
TWO-I. THE CREEDS
CHAPTER TWO
I
BELIEVE IN JESUS CHRIST, THE ONLY SON OF GOD
Article 4-"JESUS CHRIST SUFFERED UNDER PONTIUS PILATE, WAS
CRUCIFIED, DIED AND WAS BURIED"
Paragraph 2. JESUS DIED CRUCIFIED
Day
85
I. THE TRIAL OF JESUS
Divisions among the Jewish
authorities concerning Jesus
595 Among the religious
authorities of Jerusalem, not only were the Pharisee Nicodemus and the
prominent Joseph of Arimathea both secret disciples of Jesus, but there was
also long-standing dissension about him, so much so that St. John says of these
authorities on the very eve of Christ's Passion, "many.. . believed in
him", though very imperfectly. This is not surprising, if one recalls
that on the day after Pentecost "a great many of the priests were obedient
to the faith" and "some believers. . . belonged to the party of the
Pharisees", to the point that St. James could tell St. Paul, "How
many thousands there are among the Jews of those who have believed; and they
are all zealous for the Law."
596 The religious authorities
in Jerusalem were not unanimous about what stance to take towards
Jesus. The Pharisees threatened to excommunicate his followers. To
those who feared that "everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will
come and destroy both our holy place and our nation", the high priest
Caiaphas replied by prophesying: "It is expedient for you that one man
should die for the people, and that the whole nation should not
perish." The Sanhedrin, having declared Jesus deserving of death as a
blasphemer but having lost the right to put anyone to death, hands him over to
the Romans, accusing him of political revolt, a charge that puts him in the
same category as Barabbas who had been accused of sedition. The chief
priests also threatened Pilate politically so that he would condemn Jesus to
death.
Jews are not collectively
responsible for Jesus' death
597 The historical complexity
of Jesus' trial is apparent in the Gospel accounts. the personal sin of the
participants (Judas, the Sanhedrin, Pilate) is known to God alone. Hence, we
cannot lay responsibility for the trial on the Jews in Jerusalem as a whole,
despite the outcry of a manipulated crowd and the global reproaches contained
in the apostles' calls to conversion after Pentecost. Jesus himself, in
forgiving them on the cross, and Peter in following suit, both accept "the
ignorance" of the Jews of Jerusalem and even of their leaders. Still
less can we extend responsibility to other Jews of different times and places,
based merely on the crowd's cry: "His blood be on us and on our
children!", a formula for ratifying a judicial sentence. As the
Church declared at the Second Vatican Council: . . .
Neither all
Jews indiscriminately at that time, nor Jews today, can be charged with the
crimes committed during his Passion. . . the Jews should not be spoken of as
rejected or accursed as if this followed from holy Scripture.
All sinners were the authors of
Christ's Passion
598 In her Magisterial teaching
of the faith and in the witness of her saints, the Church has never forgotten
that "sinners were the authors and the ministers of all the sufferings
that the divine Redeemer endured." Taking into account the fact that
our sins affect Christ himself, The Church does not hesitate to impute to
Christians the gravest responsibility for the torments inflicted upon Jesus, a
responsibility with which they have all too often burdened the Jews alone:
We must
regard as guilty all those who continue to relapse into their sins. Since our
sins made the Lord Christ suffer the torment of the cross, those who plunge
themselves into disorders and crimes crucify the Son of God anew in their
hearts (for he is in them) and hold him up to contempt. and it can be seen that
our crime in this case is greater in us than in the Jews. As for them,
according to the witness of the Apostle, "None of the rulers of this age
understood this; for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of
glory." We, however, profess to know him. and when we deny him by our
deeds, we in some way seem to lay violent hands on him.
Nor did demons crucify him; it is you who have crucified him and crucify him still, when you delight in your vices and sins.
Daily
Devotions
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Unite yourself in the work of the Porters of St. Joseph by joining them
in fasting: Today's Fast: Protection
of Traditional Marriage
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Saturday Litany of the Hours
Invoking the Aid of Mother 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
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