Greetings in Jesus and Mary...

Below is an interview that is worth watching......

​May Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us!

Greetings in Jesus and Mary....

I have been away from this site because I am out of state right now for awhile helping my daughter who gave birth by C-Section to a baby girl named Mary Margaret, born December 29th and Baptized on January 6th. We are greatly blessed. She also has a 15 month old who is getting over her jealousy slowly but is entering into the terrible twos quickly to get attention...discipline will be needed Soon!  We are giving both much attention and I am glad I made the trip. Healing from this surgery and having two babies in diapers is a challenge. She will have her hands full when I leave which will be at the end of this month.

I was able to take a quick break and I am posting from her computer. I pray all of you are well and praying for a Holy Year ahead. May God's Will be done and may we be His good friends always....because He has so few of them!!

I took a peak at the Tradition in Action website and found this recent article which is interesting....Our Lady at Quito Ecuador stated that good men would remain silent....it is happening now and this article below proves that it happened during the Second Vatican Council.

I am posting this article below for all to read. Take care and God bless.

May Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, pray for us!

Greetings in Jesus and Mary...

I pray all of you will have a blessed Christmas...I will post a prayer to St. Therese of the Child Jesus below.  May she intercede for us and shower us with the graces found in the Heart of the Infant Jesus.

I will not be posting here for a while because I am leaving out of state to help one of my daughters who is having another baby and will be needing help. I will not be back till the end of January so I will not be posting anything on this website until then but I would like to encourage all to check out the articles written in years past...there are so many. I am amazed that I have been doing this since 2017. 

Please keep my daughter Margaret in prayer. I will come back the end of January to give the update and change the info in the corner of this page to 9 grandchildren. God is very good. Please pray for safe travels and health for all during my stay. I thank you!

Below is a prayer to St. Therese of the Child Jesus found in an old  novena book...

O Dear St. Therese, friend and spouse of the Child Jesus, we humbly thank you for the manifold blessings which you have procured for us from the throne of God's infinite mercy!

To you the glowing star in this night of modern materialism, we turn for guidance and for assistance.

Fill the minds of both our boys and girls with the lofty, yet simple ideas of purity, obedience and sacrifice. Soften the hardened hearts of every sinner so that he will know how sweet it is to serve our Lord Jesus Christ!

Relying upon your promise to shower down roses from your heavenly throne we beseech you to be our powerful intercessor before Jesus Christ. Beg Him to send down blessings of health to those who have besought Him; to shower down happiness on those hearts that are ladened with grief.

Fill our souls with faith, with hope and with love. And especially pray that we may receive the gift of final perseverance so that when life's stormy day has passed we may join you in the garden courts of heaven to shower down roses on those whom we, too, will leave behind.

O Father in Heaven, Who through St. Therese of the Child Jesus, do desire to remind the world of the merciful Love that fills Your Heart, and the childlike trust we should have in You, humbly we thank You for having crowned with so great glory Your ever faithful child, and for giving her wondrous power to bring unto You, day by day, innumerable souls who will praise You eternally.

St. Therese of the Child Jesus and of the Holy Face, pray for us.
Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, pray for us.
Good St. Joseph, pray for us.
Dearest Infant Jesus, bless us.

Greetings in Jesus and Mary....

They did not recognize Jesus because He did not come as they had expected.....pomp and splendor but instead....in poverty and lowliness. What an incentive it is for us to embrace poverty and humility...it is so far away from the thinkings of the world.

On the hillside of Bethlehem were caves or grottos which served as stables for donkeys and cattle. This is the Will of God where His Son was to be born...not in the populated inn where most stayed for shelter. How bitterly cold, poor and lacking in comforts this place was for the Newborn King. Joseph and Mary are quiet and content because they have surrender themselves to the profound wisdom and providence of the Almighty Father. In prayer and vigil, both Joseph and Mary prepare the best they can a dwelling for the awaited Messiah...the greatest event since the creation of the world.

This poverty is such a contradiction already to the world that seeks comforts for all of its senses. May we understand that when discomforts come our way, they are meant to form us and to lead us to the only joy.......Jesus! May we make room for Him in our hearts today and prepare them for Him to dwell there....now and for all eternity. "Lift up your heads, O ye gates, and be lifted up, ye ancient doors, that the King of glory may come in."

​Holy Mother Mary, please prepare our hearts to receive their King!

THE ABOVE VIDEO SHOWS HOW SATAN HATES JESUS AND HE HATES WHEN CATHOLICS LOVE JESUS THROUGH THE LATIN MASS (UNBLOODY SACRIFICE OF JESUS ON THE CROSS WHICH BRINGS GRACES TO THE ENTIRE WORLD) AND........WHEN WE KNEEL TO RECEIVE THE REAL BODY BLOOD SOUL AND DIVINITY OF JESUS IT STIRS HATE IN THE ENEMIES HEARTS ....REPARATION...REPARATION...REPARATION!
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GRACES RECEIVED FOR THE WORLD THROUGH THE LATIN MASS MUST BE THWARTED IF THE SATANISTS ARE TO GAIN GROUND!  WE MUST RESIST AND FIGHT FOR JESUS!

Greetings in Jesus and Mary....

Happy Third Week of Advent. Time is always flying by! I hope your Gaudete Sunday was joyful. After Mass, my husband and I helped my brother with his extensive train setup in preparation for when his adult children and grandkids come to visit from other states next week. It was a flash back in time...we were all kids again putting the village, tracks, lights and people in their places. It came out nice and his grand kids should have big eyes when it gets lit up and the trains and trolleys zip through the city! Super fun!

I love Advent because we not only anticipate the birth of Jesus at Christmas but are reminded that we also live in anticipation of Our Lord's Second Coming! Also, the Church reminds us that He whose glorious coming we await on Christmas, is already in our midst as well. He abides in our soul by His graces! We receive Him in Holy Communion each time we go to Mass. His life within us is a veiled one, mysterious, not to be seen with bodily eyes, not perceptible by natural means. "Your life," says St. Paul, "is hidden with Christ in God." (Col. 3:3) It is this life in Christ and with Christ that we can see a new, strong reason for the joy of Advent. This life through grace which we live is the fruit of that first Christmas. It is this grace which we pray may be strengthened in us on every Christmas day, as we draw closer to that great Christmas at the end of time, when the Saviour will appear again to consummate our redemption. In grace, we already possess that festive robe in which we are to await the coming of the Bridegroom for the heavenly nuptials. With grace, we possess the blissful certainty that we too, as St. Paul states, "will appear with Him in glory" (Col 3:4) HOW MUCH REASON, TRULY DO WE HAVE TO REJOICE!  Our entire lives and every minute of our lives should be lived with this great goal in mind....our last end!

Let us listen to St. John the Baptist during this Advent and all of our lives for that glorious end....AND ....."Prepare ye the way of the Lord!"

Prayer: "O God, with reverent admiration, with praise and thanks, I behold the wondrous preparation You did make for Your beloved Son, our Redeemer, over thousands of years. Grant that I too may zealously prepare the way for Him and His grace in my soul! Grant that my preparation may become perfect in silence and solitude, so that I may truly say in the holy night of Christmas: "While all things were in quiet silence, Your Almighty Word lept down from Your royal thone!" (Wisdom 14:18)

Holy Mother of God, pray for us to prepare well for the coming of Your Son not only for Christmas, His Second Coming but EACH TIME we receive Him in Holy Communion!

Greetings in Jesus and Mary...

Tomorrow is the First Saturday of December, Monday is Dec. 8th, Feast of the Immaculate Conception, and also within this month (Dec. 10th) marks the 100th anniversary of when Sr. Lucia received the message for all of us to practice the Five First Saturdays in reparation to Her Immaculate Heart.

How very very sad that this message has been thwarted for the 100 years that it has existed. How amazing the world would look if our Church leaders had asked all of us to offer the Five First Saturdays...not just once but always. I challenge all priests who are in charge of a parish to start if they have not already done so...to offer the Five First Saturdays along with time for confessions, Rosary and time to meditate before the Blessed Sacrament as Our Blessed Mother had asked.

In a huge way, Fatima is the message of devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. In the first apparition of Our Lady, She had asked for reparation for all the blasphemies and offences against Her Immaculate Heart. At the second apparition, Our Lady told Sr. Lucia, "You must remain longer on earth. Jesus wishes to use you in making me known and loved. He wishes to spread in the world the devotion to my Immaculate Heart. I promise salvation to those who embrace this devotion. Their souls will be loved by God with a love of predilection, like flowers placed by Me before His throne!" When Lucia appeared sad about being left here on earth longer than Francesco and Jacinta, Our Lady said to her, "I shall never abandon you, My Immaculate Heart will be your refuge and the way that will lead you to God."

In the third apparition....Our Lady showed the three children hell and said this...." You have just seen hell where poor sinners go. To save them, the Lord wishes to establish in the world devotion to my Immaculate Heart. If people do what I tell you, many souls will be saved, and there will be peace.  The war is coming to an end.. But if men do not cease offending the Lord, a worse war will begin in the reign of Pope Pius XI." She added....."I shall ask for the consecration of Russia to my Immaculate Heart, as well as communion of reparation on the first Saturday of the month. If my requests are granted, Russia will be converted and there will be peace. Otherwise, Russia will spread its errors throughout the world, raising up wars and persecutions against the Church. The good will be martyred, the Holy Father will have much to suffer, and several nations will be annihilated.

The above news is very grim and is one of the reasons why Rome has held it from the Church .....but the consoling words of Our Lady are..."My Immaculate Heart will finally triumph. Russia will be converted and a certain period of peace will be granted to the world; Portugal will keep the faith."

How amazing the world would look if we kept to what Our Lady had asked of us and took Her message seriously. Rome does not want doom and gloom (nor anyone else). If we keep our heads in the sand and ignore the sins around us maybe it will all go away. This thinking is unbelievable....we are on the brink of a major chastisement because we have not fulfilled the requests of Our Good Mother and Queen Who is only trying to help us avert the dangers that lie ahead.

Well, we can come to the conclusion that we are not only going to be chastised for sin and disobedience but also we have learned a beautiful message.... the message of Fatima (and Lourdes) reveal that Our Lady WAS conceived Immaculate....free from all sin....free from the bondage of Satan.....free to be truly united to the Will of God at all times. We can be certain of this!

May we practice the Five First Saturday in reparation of the sins commited against Her Immaculate Heart not only committed in the world but now in Rome itself (which should alarm all of us that a chastisement is close at hand!) We still have time....not sure how much but each day is a blessing and we can offer the reparation prayers taught at Fatima daily and we can honor Our Mother's Immaculate Heart and beg Her to show us the way to Her Son's Most Sacred Heart!

O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to Thee!

Greetings in Jesus and Mary....

Today (or tomorrow) begins a Novena to Our Lady for Her Feast of the Immaculate Conception, December 8th. (posted below) We are also in the Novena given to us by Cardinal Burke for a nine week Novena before the anniversary of the Five First Saturdays, December 10, 2025.(posted below) Also, tomorrow, Nov. 30th, starts the St. Andrew Prayer for those who keep this tradition to make Advent holy with this beautiful prayer. (posted below). Tomorrow also is the first day of Advent. I am going to repeat some words of Archbishop Fulton Sheen to help us with all of these prayers as we begin to prepare our hearts for Christmas with Our Lady.

Below are some paraphrased thoughts taken from the writings of Bishop Sheen to help us understand God's Love and to help motivate us to prayer.....

“God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son so that everyone who believes in Him may have eternal life”. John 3:16 “Let us therefore love God, because God first hath loved us.” 1 John 4:19.  Bishop Sheen claims that there are only two philosophies of life: one, the pagan, the other, the Judaic-Christian. He says that the pagan philosophy is one where man tries to climb to God. In the Judaic-Christian philosophy God descends to man: first by revelation to the prophets for the Jews, and finally in the flesh in the Person of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Love originates not in our showing it to God, but in His showing His Love for us. God loved us first. God’s love for us is not affirmed because we seek Him or reach out to Him, and He responds to us. Bishop Sheen says that God’s love exists not on account of our character but on account of His. Our highest experience is to be responsive – we are not the initiators. It is only because we are loved by Him that we are given the grace to love Him back.
As one begins to seek God and to become more knowledgeable of Him and begins to grow in virtue, it SEEMS as if God begins then to love him. This is only because one is now, for the first time, sensitive to His Love. We are called to seek Him and to remove the barriers that keep the love of God from shining in our souls. Bishop Sheen uses the analogy of a blind man who may have just recovered his sight and comes to believe that the sun just started shining in the heavens  - not realizing that all the while he was blind – the sun shone. He just couldn’t see it before. Also, when a child grows older, he may begin to realize the love of his parents. He witnesses their daily love and suddenly realizes it and begins to understand that his parents love him. The truth is - that the parents loved him since his gestation. All of us must know that the love of God for us began long before we ever become aware of it.

The human heart has many things which it likes to cling to but none can satisfy it like the love of God. This Advent let us meditate on God’s love for us poor miserable creatures. Let us think of the poverty He embraced so that the poor could not say He does not know what it is to be homeless. Let us think of His lowliness so that one could not say that He does not know what it is to be despised. Let us think of His meekness so that we might learn how to be childlike. He took on every form of humiliation of which was capable in order to show men how to struggle through the darkness into the light. Let us think of how God condescended from Heaven to be a little baby in a manger in order to show us the Way and to save us from our sins.

His presence in the crib is a witness of our need for Him. He would not have needed to come if all was well here on earth. He came because of His love for us! May we meditate on His love and seek to give Him our hearts in return for so great a love. May we all come to know that when we go to prayer – He first invited us! He is there waiting for our love in return for His!

May we have an Advent filled with love and gratitude for a loving Father who gave His only begotten Son so that we may have Life with Him here and for all eternity in Heaven. May we also be filled with gratitude for all that our good Queen and Mother has done for us and continues to do for us. 

Through these Novenas to Our Lady, may we ask Her to show us the way to Her Son. May She guide our every step so that we can become the saints that God wants us to be for Him. Everything that Mary is ..... is in accordance to the Will of God. She cooperates and has cooperated with God perfectly and therefore is a Co-Redemptrix...without Her fiat.....the Incarnation would not have happened. But God in His infinite wisdom created Her Immaculate, spotless and full of grace and therefore knew that She would fulfill His Will perfectly. May we turn to her for graces to live a life in imitation of Her as best we can....as Her children.

O Mary conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to Thee!
Mediatrix of All Graces and Co-Redemptrix, pray for us!
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost as it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

BELOW IS EXTRA....MORE REPARATION NEEDED....Moving from Our Lady to the Most Blessed Trinity....

Greetings in Jesus and Mary...

Tomorrow, Nov. 24th is the feast of St. John of the Cross. I would like to begin by asking you to please kindly say a prayer for my daughter Veronica whose birthday is on this feast day, that she may return to the Catholic Church. I wholeheartedly thank you for this! May St. John pray for her to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary!

St. John of the Cross throughout all of his writings continually had the idea of transforming union as his final goal.....and we should have this goal in all of our pursuits as well. We are here a short time on this earth and God has given us all that we need to seek Him (including His Mother Who helps us in the best way). There are very little excuses to put this off while we pursue earthly delights when, in reality, they  are fleeting compared to Heavenly delights which will last for all of eternity.

(Digression) I just got up to put another log in our woodburner and thought about the great analogy that St. John used of the transformed log in the fire. I pick up solid log pieces all day long to feed the woodburning stove......they start out in one state and then each gets transformed slowly in the fire....the wood catches fire and slowly it burns until it becomes a glowing log that is completely consumed by the fire. It seems miraculous. The miraculous fire of God's love will consume us if we accept His Divine Will and deny our own self-will. We must ask Our Lady to plunge ourselves into His Most Sacred Heart which is a Burning Furnace of LOVE!

What keeps one from giving oneself completely to God for this transformation?Contrary to what the world thinks, attachments are killjoys. The worldly man and woman work hard at multiplying experiences and accumulating possessions all in  pursuit of contentment. Do not these same people see that there has been a continual stream of discontentment....that this only feeds one to want more and more in search of satiating that hunger for deep happiness .....which can only come from God. No matter how intense wordly delights may be, they inevitably leave in their wake a disillusionment. Where one does find genuine joy is in the heart and on the lips of those who have generously given up all to have Christ. Saints are proofs that the world has things upside down and all wrong. "The more a person rejoices over something outside God," notes St. John, "the less intense will be his joy in God." In proportion as one is stripped of all self-centered seeking, so the capacity for deep, calm, enduring delight is heightened. St. Paul told the Philippians to "rejoice in the Lord always." Genuine joy, lasting joy is impossible outside of God.

St. John says, "Until a person is purified of his clingings, he will not be equipped to possess God, neither here below through the pure transformation of love, nor in heaven through the beatific vision."

There is so much to write on St. John's teachings but I will add this ....St. John speaks of voluntary desires and not "natural ones" because the natural ones offer little or no hindrance to advanced prayer as long as the will does not intervene with a selfish clinging. By natural desires, the saint has in mind, for example, a felt need for water when thirsty, food when hungry, rest when fatigued. There is no necessary disorder in experiencing these needs. He does condemn "habitual appetites" that are repeated and willed clingings to things less than God for their own sake. An occasional slip is not a habitual inclination. We must meet our needs without excess. In today's world, this is hard because our culture teaches us how to pamper our every whim and to do otherwise receives ridicule....unless done discreetly.

We must ask Our Lady who is perfect to help us in this life to make good choices and to surrender our own will and beg Her to show us God's Will. May She pray for us to have the necessary graces and virtues to live a life of prayer, reparation and self denial as She has lived.

It is good to read the works of St. John of the Cross to understand what to ask for but to rely on ourselves alone to accomplish this is foolish. Surrendering our will and Praying are needed.... prayer especially to Our Lady will help us achieve this in a secure way.

Below is a video of Fr. Ripperger on the Crisis in the Church and it covers the need for sacrifice. May we pray to St. John of the Cross to embrace our cross and to Our Lady for the necessary graces to be truly mortified, to make sacrifices, to pray, to make reparation and to ultimately love God above all things.

Greetings in Jesus and Mary......

Happy Feast Day! Today we celebrate the day that Mary was presented in the Temple by St. Anne and St. Joachim. She was consecrated to the service of God in the Temple at a very early age.

A bit about the feast day itself. Mary, at the age of three, in the presence of her mother, St. Anne and father, St. Joachim, presented Herself in the temple to God. She gave Herself entirely to Him. She thought only of loving and pleasing Him by being perfectly united to His Holy Will. Can you imagine if everyone God created did the exact same thing – what a world we would be living in?  Of course, we do have throughout all of history many saints who have come close. We have saints who at a young age gave themselves to God in a quick and sure way, knowing that God is everything and that nothing else matters. We also have saints who did not figure it out until much later. Look at St. Augustine who lived a life of leisure until later in life when he made the statement: “Our hearts are restless until they rest in you, O God!” How many of us each day try to find our Heaven on earth without God even though we know – God can only give us this peace and love that we are all searching for.

As for ourselves, we may rationalize our actions by stating, “Oh, he was a saint and I am not.” Or “Of course Our Lady did that – She had no sin on Her soul!” The truth of the matter is, God has given us everything we need to be saints. His Sacred Heart has all the treasures held within it that are necessary to make ALL OF SAINTS!  His Heart is known as the burning Furnace of Charity! Our Lord has come to many saints telling them to ask Him for the graces that no one else asks for because He is hungering to give them to us. St. Francis De Sales says that we are not saints because we do not want to be saints. Once a person has desired to be a saint and has prayed for the graces to be that saint, God answers this prayer with the condition that we persevere in prayer. Our Lady is eager to answer as well. There is a warning with this prayer though. In order to fill your soul with these graces, there must be room. If you do not make room yourself by taking the weeds from the garden of your soul, then Our Lady will have to pluck them out for you. She will allow trials to come your way in order to purify the soul in answer to your prayer. When the trials come, know that if we surrender to God’s Will and accept this purification, the room will be made for grace and virtue to flourish. If we resist and resist, then the process will be slow until we learn to surrender like a child in the arms of a tender Mother who knows what is best for that child.

What has been just described is what our Consecration to the Immaculate Heart can do for us. Being the Mother of Jesus, She has a special right to all the gifts of Her Son. The Church teaches that She is the Mother of all Graces. She distributes them to Her children from the Heart of Her Divine Son.

Therefore, let us give ourselves to Our Mother so that She may teach us the sure way of surrender to the Will of the Father. Let us ask Her to teach us how to give of ourselves completely to God in love and in service. Let us meditate on the greatness of Mary’s love and service during the years She spent in the Temple always increasing day by day in Her resplendent virtues and graces.

As Mary presented and offered Herself to God in the temple with promptitude and without reserve, so let us also present ourselves this day to Mary without delay and without reserve; and let us ask Her to offer us to God, who will not reject us when He sees us presented by the hands of our good Queen and Mother, who is the living temple of the Holy Ghost, the delight of Her Lord and the chosen Mother of the Eternal Word.

May we not forget to offer prayers of thanksgiving to our Eternal Father for this great Mother and Queen!
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Thank you Eternal Father, Son and Holy Ghost for the great gift of our Queen and Mother! And thank you Holy Mother for giving yourself wholly to God for His glory and our salvation. We love you!