Greetings in Jesus and Mary.....

Blessed Easter to all!  Here we are going to concentrate on why Baptism during the Easter vigil. St. Paul writes to the Romans: "Do you not know that all we who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death? For we were buried with Him by means of baptism into death, inorder that, just as Christ has arisen from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also may walk in newness of life. For if we have been united with Him in the likeness of His death, we shall be so in the likeness of His resurrection also." (Rom. 6:3-6) By baptism, therefore, we are linked mysteriously with the death and the resurrection of Christ.  The selected readings from the Old Testament on the Easter Vigil show how wisely God prefigured our rebirth in Christ through baptism, and in former times they were to bring to the mind of the catechumens the glorious effects of baptism and the significance of the approaching hour of grace. Then comes the "Blessing of the Baptismal Water" with symbols of deep meaning. Clothed in their white baptismal robes, with burning candles in their hands, the newly baptized proceed  from the baptistry into the church, there to celebrate with the faithful of the congregation the Holy Sacrifice for the first time and to receive their First Holy Communion.

In holy baptism we, too, for the first time died with Christ unto sin and rose again to a new life. Today, let us never forget: dying and rising again with Christ must dominate our entire life on earth, must constantly reach greater depth and perfection. The holy season of Lent, now behind us with its penance and mortification, was nothing else than a renewed dying with Christ, to the end that we might  rise again on Easter Sunday with Him as new men, more firmly established in grace and spiritual life.

"If you have risen with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Mind the things that are above, not the things that are on earth. For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ your life shall appear, then you too will appear with Him in glory." (Col. 3:1-4)

Every Easter here in this world with all its jubilant joy is only imperfect. Perfect and full consummation will be ours only when the eternal Easter morn begins to dawn for each and every one of us who lives for Christ alone.

May we live in joyful hope for our Easter and may we take our Baptismal promises seriously by living in God's grace until He finally calls us home.

Blessed Easter to all of you!  God bless!!

Holy Mother Mary, Mother of the Risen Lord and Mother of us all .... pray for us!

Greetings in Jesus and Mary.....

 Blessed Good Friday to all. Here is an excerpt from “Martyr of Brotherly Love”. Below that is a very short explanation of why we have two different kind of Masses. And why the Traditional Latin Mass must go!  (link below as well.)
DACHAU ON GOOD FRIDAY
"On Good Friday 1940, sixty clergymen had to go on the “tree” for an hour. Their hands were tied behind their backs and fastened to a chain. They were then “hung up” by these chains until their feet no longer touched the ground. Jean Bernard writes: “This punishment, which was inflicted on sixty clergymen just on Good Friday, was so terrible that the next year we looked forward to Good Friday with trembling. We were threatened with it for months. It was a bad Lent. We hardly dared to breathe, in order not to give them an excuse for using it. Several died during the torture. Many came away with a crippled hand.”

NOVUS ORDO VS. TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS (TLM)

Yesterday was Holy Thursday; the day that Jesus instituted the Holy Mass and gave us the Holy Priesthood. Today, is Good Friday, when we meditate and offer prayers of thanksgiving for the Holy Sacrifice Jesus made on the cross for our salvation. The Mass, in the Roman Catholic Church is described as the unbloody sacrifice of Jesus on the cross. Do we still believe this after all the changes made to the Holy Mass? Why all these changes? Did you know that more are coming? Did you know that it is Rome’s intent to get rid of the Latin Mass? Did you know that many bishops appointed by him are doing just that? Did you know that those that pray and ask God to guide them are finding that the Latin Mass is the true Mass and that they want to bring their large young families to it because they find grace there.

There is much written on these differences. There should not be two Masses because the Church is One Holy Catholic and Apostolic. We should not have a Mass where it can be manipulated by any priest to create many versions. But since the Novus Ordo came about in the 1960’s, we have MANY MANY versions of it. There is only one Traditional Latin Mass and it is universal; meaning that you can go to any country in the world and hear the same Mass. A Mass that can not change and has not changed for centuries. But that is not its only quality. It is recognized as the unbloody sacrifice of Jesus at Calvary.

I will put a link at the bottom for the page on my website that has many references regarding the Latin Mass. There are many books that we all can read. There is a pamphlet that was written by a Father Wickens about the sources of heresy that began these liturgical changes. I will quote some of his paragraphs…...Taken from…..”Christ Denied”. He believes that the philosophies of George Tyrrell, Teilhard de Chardin and Karl Rahner were the culprits in feeding theologians with error…..You decide.

“If we could distill Teilhard de Chardin’s teachings down to one fundamental tenet, it would be this: There was no Adam! This is a very important point even though at first it may seem peripheral. Adam, according to Catholic teaching is not merely a symbol of man, he is a real man (Christ referred to Himself as a Second Adam (my note...also Anne Catherine Emmerich speaks of the bones of Adam as being under the ground where the cross of Christ was placed). It makes all the difference in the world whether you believe in a real Adam, or whether you do not believe in a real Adam. Why? Because if there is no Adam, then there is no Original Sin.

If there is no Original Sin, then there is no need to be redeemed from Original Sin.

If there is no need for Redemption, then what happened on Calvary? Teilhard really doesn’t know...but he will not call it a Sacrifice: he will not speak of the Sacrifice of Calvary. Teilhard may speak of the “Significant Act” of Calvary, but as with everything else with people like deChardin, the “Significance” remains unclear.

The one thing that they (the Modernists) are certain of is this: they do not believe what the Catholic Church teaches! (How many of those in the hierarchy and in the Church fit this description)

They do not believe that Christ is the new Adam. If there is no Adam, there can be no NEW Adam.

If there is no Original Sin, there is no fall from grace, and consequently no need to be restored into grace.

Thus, whatever the Mass is, if there is no Sacrifice on Calvary, there is no Sacrifice of the Mass.

THIS IS REALLY THE ROOT OF ALL THE NONSENSE IN THE LITURGY TODAY!
DO WE REALLY BELIEVE THAT JESUS CHRIST SACRIFICED HIS LIFE ON CALVARY TO REDEEM US FROM OUR SINS?


THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE NOVUS ORDO MASS AND THE TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS IS THIS…...
ONE BELIEVES THAT IT IS THE UNBLOODY SACRIFICE OF JESUS FOR THE REMISSION OF OUR SINS AND THAT HE IS TRULY PRESENT IN THE EUCHARIST.

THE OTHER IS A COMMUNITY GATHERING WITH VERY LITTLE OR NO BELIEF IN THE REAL PRESENCE OF JESUS IN THE EUCHARIST.

The Church has been infiltrated and we are seeing the Passion of the Bride of Christ….soon the crucifixion (persecution of true believers). Did this not happen to Jesus Christ by the High Priest Caiaphas? God is allowing this to happen….just as He allowed Jesus to be crucified. This is my reason for sharing the sufferings of those martyred priests at Dachau during Holy Week. May they pray for us to be strong during these very trying times.

May we be like St. John, the Blessed Mother and the holy women who stood by Jesus at the foot of the cross. May we cling to the Traditional Latin Mass and never give it up….even if we have to go into hiding to participate in it.

Our Lady of the Most Blessed Sacrament, pray for us.
Holy Martyred Priests, from Dachau and throughout the world, pray for us!
Crucified Jesus, have mercy on us!

 Greetings in Jesus and Mary….
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Blessed Holy Thursday! The day Jesus gives us the Holy Mass and the Holy Priesthood. Blessed be God!

The below accounts are how Mass was conducted in their chapel at the Priest Barracks in Dachau. Also, below this is an account of an ordination of a priest by a bishop who was also imprisoned at Dachau! As time ticked forward and war was in full bloom, Pope Pius XII sent messages to the world against it - making things a little stricter for the priests. In fact, if words came out of Rome against the Nazi regime….a NEW punishment was issued for the priests held in these barracks. The Pope, of course, would not have known about the consequences of his words to our Lord’s priests.

Following taken from the book, “Martyr of Brotherly Love”….

THE HOLY MASS
“From January 21, 1941 on, there was a chapel in Barracks 26 where a Mass could be celebrated daily. The chapel was a picture of poverty: the altar was of crate slats, the chalice ws a metal bowl, and the tabernacle was made of tin cans. But it was enough to celebrate Mass. (In the book, "Priestblock 25487", it is stated that a monstrance was made from an open tin can, a broken broom stick and a block of woodl.)

Lay persons – and from Sept. 1941 on, the Polish clergy in Barracks 28 too could not take part in the Eucharistic celebration in the prison chapel of Barracks 26. Nevertheless, individuals sneaked in from time to time. Mass was also often disturbed by ruthless SS men. The Polish priests also had to turn in their rosaries and Breviaries. The commander forbade them, under threat of the severest penalties, every religious practice, even within their own barracks. In spite of this, there was an active religious life in Barracks 28.

Mass was celebrated often of various places on the camp grounds. Always, of course, without Mass vestments and candles and with a tin can or a water glass as chalice. The prisoners stood around a flower bed, or they squatted in the corner of a greenhouse, all the while watching out for the SS who could catch them.

Time and again, German priests succeeded in bringing hosts or particles of hosts to their Polish confreres or other prisoners, naturally always under great danger. Fr. Albert Riesterer of the Archdiocese of Freiburg writes: “Often I took a second host in my hand, carried it with me in a clean piece of paper to the plantation in order to be able to bring Communion to the poor Polish priests who had to do without this comfort. I had my tabernacle in a small fir tree.”

Following Taken from the book, Priestblock 25487”….

One morning Fr. deConinck pulls out a cellophane bag labeled “Vitamin C” from a fold in his shirt. In the good old days it was possible to buy such vitamin C at the camp store. Through the cellophane the shimmer of a piece of consecrated Host was visible, barely half an inch long. We all had difficulty hiding our excitement.

“Don’t give us away”, said Fr. DeConinck, A German priest from barrack 26 has sent the Lord to us.”

We decide to keep the most precious Treasure among us for the time being and then to divide it among ourselves for the day when each of us is put on a transport (which meant death). Those were days of celebration. Now when we spoke the prayers of the Mass together, Fr. DeConinck held the Host inconspicuously in his hand. How much consolation that brought to the hearts of the tormented priests, how much courage and readiness to sacrifice, cannot be expressed in words.”

THE ORDINATION

Taken from the book, “Martyr of Brotherly Love”…..

The high point of the priest’s camp life was the secret ordination to the priesthood of the deacon Karl Leisner by the imprisoned French bishop Gabriel Piguet from Clermont-Ferrand on the Third Sunday of Advent 1944. Maybe this was the most impressive ordination to the priesthood in all of church history, with hundreds of prisoner priests praying for the new priest. Father Engelmar was probably one of the clergy who laid his hands on the head of Karl Leisner in the Dachau camp chapel.

MODERN DAY JUDASES
Holy Thursday was also the day that poor Jesus received a kiss from one of His own...Judas. Below is a link to show how the modern day Judases betray their Master.

Tomorrow is Good Friday. I will present some information on what went on at Dachau on Good Friday as well as talk about the dismantling of the Mass by the Freemasons (Modern day Judases).

Below is a link showing the actions of the new Archbishop of Detroit and how he is dealing with the Diocese that has been known to hold the most TLM’s in the nation. Papa Bergoglio has set him to work!

God forgive them and may we offer reparation today until midnight and watch with Jesus in His Agony in the Garden. Let us pray and watch with Jesus today and always for the salvation of souls and for the glory of God. Please remain in the presence of Jesus today until He is taken away! May this be a night of Reparation with Our Lady before the Blessed Sacrament.

Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament, pray for us!

Greetings in Jesus and Mary....

We are now the day before Holy Thursday. May we reflect on the sufferings of Jesus' priests and all they endured for His sake. May they now be enjoying their eternal reward for their love and faithfulness to Our Saviour Jesus Christ. The following is taken from the book...."Martyr of Brotherly Love"....

Besides the various disciplinary works, the following punishments were most feared: hanging on the tree, twenty-five double lashes, which sometimes were given outside in front of all the prisoners, and the standing cell. The standing cell was a torture of a special kind. The prisoner had to stay in a fifty-four centimeter and 2.10 meters high enclosure for two weeks on bread and water. Sadistic guards, by means of needle points, kept the tortured prisoner from sitting.

Johann Neuhausler describes the twenty-five double lashes on the rack in Dachau….“It pleased the guards when the prisoner screamed, wept, howled, or fainted from pain...shortly before the penalty, the prisoner was told that he must conscientiously count the lashes. If, because of the pain, he forgot to count, they would not know how many lashes he had received, and they would have to begin to count all over again. If the prisoner miscounted, the whole show started over, so that sometimes the twenty-five lashes became thirty or forty. Blood poured out in streams. One SS man bragged that blood began to flow already on his first blow.

Fr. Emil Kiesel from the Archdiocese of Freiburg, I think, had to bear the worst punishments of all the German clergy. They found a rosary on him when he was admitted to Dachau. He had to undress immediately and stand stark naked in the snow. The SS men made a hellish racket, danced around him, ridiculed him, boxed his ears, and beat him wildly. An hour later, he came from the cold into the bath, then followed the usual admittance procedure.

Another time, Fr. Kiesel was clamped to the rack because he secretly heard the confessions of two companions; a camp spy had reported it. Kiesel refused to talk when the barracks leader wanted to know what the two confessed. Thereupon he was put in the dark cell for forty two days. The SS man at first visited him almost every day, had his revolver under his nose, and said; “If you don’t tell me now what the two confessed, I’ll kill you!” After many days of this turture, Fr. Kiesel answered the SS man: “Pull the trigger, please, so that I will finally have peace!” Then the SS man laughed sarcastically and left with the remark: “You would like that, you priest pig! But I don’t want to make a martyr of you!” From then on, he left Fr. Kiesel in peace, until his forty two days were up.

Once during winter, a clergyman had to lie a whole night naked and without blankets upon a table with the windows open. He fainted, but his heart continued to pump. He held out until morning, until Dr. Rascher came and was satisfied with the experiment. If his heart had stopped, there would have been one less prisoner, that is all.

It was horrifying to the prisoners in Dachau to watch their companions being beaten, put on the rack, hanged, trampled on, shot, or subjected to medical experiments. Fr. Franz Weinmann writes: “We silently defied the violence. We quietly bore the injustice. Courage was needed for that. Obstinate rage and repressed indignation shone in some faces. Others’ looks betrayed equanimity and quiet pity...In our ranks, too, there were those who quietly prayed for the tormented and also for the tormenters. And that was, I believe, the greatest weapon which we defenseless ones had.

Father Engelmar was among those who made use of this weapon of prayer daily. In the face of the general misery, the satanic cruelties, and the beastly atrocities, he never lost faith in a good and just God. Untiringly, he stormed Heaven that God would end the suffering and grant the world peace.

In one saved letter by Fr. Engelmar, he wrote: “God grant that the present time of testing will soon end, or at least that it will not break people, but make them better. We usually think that suffering leads to God, but we see that very hard afflictions also break many tepid persons and that their divine intention is not recognized by some. Nothing, however, is impossible with God, so we want to continue to storm Heaven that God may have mercy on the many who have strayed and are severely tested.”

Our Lady of Dachau, Sorrowful Mother, pray for us!

Greetings in Jesus and Mary...

I am going to offer something different this Holy Week. If you want a traditional talk on the Passion of Our Lord during this Holy Week, you can go to the archives of my previous years posts. This week I am going to give you meditations on the suffering Mystical Body of Christ during World War II (since we are about to enter into World War III.....this might help to get us ready!) I am going to give you excerpts from a book on a priest who died in Dachau in 1945 just before the war ended. These thoughts are taken from the book, “Martyr of Brotherly Love”. A book about Fr. Engelmar Unzeitig, a Marianhill priest from Germany who was turned in by a German youth for preaching about Jesus Christ but it was interpreted as being against the new regime. He was only 30 years old and only 2 years ordained. At the end of his stay, he volunteered to care for those who had typhus and ended up dying from it himself. Dachau has been called with more truth than irony….the “biggest monastery in the world”. Nearly 3000 clergymen lived and suffered there. 2500 were Roman Catholic priests, 500 were Protestant ministers.

There were 10 Carmelites who died at Dachau. They were..... Blessed Titus Brandsma, Blessed Hilary Januszewski, Szymon Buszta, Leon Koza, Bruno Makowski, Berthold Mejcher, Franeiszek Nowakowski, Rafael Tijhuis, Albert Irabanski and Elizeusz Wszelaki.

What is unique about this book is that it is written by those who survived these priest barracks with Fr. Engelmar and lived to tell the details for all of us to come to understand. Below is a recounting of a miracle allowed by Our Lady for the well-being of her priests.

“A Protestant pastor, Ernst Wilm, comments about the prayer life in the Dachau priests’ barracks: “In the evening, we all, Catholics, and Protestants, prayed together in the dormitory. In the morning after the Communist barracks elder had shouted, “Everyone up”. One of the priests shouted, “Praised be Jesus Christ!” and all answered in unison, “Forever, Amen.” Then began the feverish and torturous day, but we were strengthen by the word of God and our prayer.

The priests addressed many prayers to the Blessed Mother, for one day a statue of Mary turned up in the prison chapel. (It stands today in the chapel of the Carmelite monastery just behind the old barbed wire fence and watchtower.) Fr. Dominikus Hoffmeister, provincial of the Salvatorians, tells how it came to Dachau:

“During the war years, I was superior of our seminary in Jigerndorf (Czechoslovakia). A long time wish was fulfilled when I was able to obtain a wooden statue of Our Lady in Breslau in order to give it a place of honor in our house chapel. Then the parish secretary told me that Bishop Nathan had the opportunity to get an image of Our Lady to the priests in Dachau. I frankly admit that it was not easy for me to part with the statue. We wrapped it in a blanket and pushed it on a sled – there was deep snow – to the rectory. Bishop Nathan saw to the transport of the precious statue to Dachau”.

Msgr Georg Schelling tells how the statue got to the camp, was unpacked there and put up: “The package was brought to the priests’ barracks like all other packages, and was checked there by the barracks leader. The same SS man on duty did not always come for this. When the barracks leader who had to check the packages on that day saw the package, his eyes grew large and he made a remark that it was hardly likely that it was a “food package”. The package was opened and he saw the contents. He was not cross, but he remarked that he could not let the package in because it did not contain food, clothing, etc. I made the suggestion that the package should be put aside until the matter could be regulated. Later I brought it into the chapel “because of lack of space in the living area. Afterwards not one person asked where the statue had come from.”

A prayer to Our Dear Lady of Dachau, written by Fr. Johann Schulz (died Aug 1941)

Although we ourselves are in need of comfort, we beg You: Go on holy pilgrimage and comfort all who need Your help. It is war time, and millions suffer day and night from dangers to body and soul. Show that You are a Mother and strengthen them. Millions have lost house and home and wander around without shelter among strangers. In that suffering which You Yourself bore in Your exile to Egypt, be for them refuge and strength. And in that great pain which You suffered under the cross, comfort the sick and wounded, give strength to prisoners, and in the hour of death stand by those who must sacrifice their blood and their life….Bless and protect the bishops in their difficult office. Protect and support especially our Holy Father, the Pope, whose heart must be very heavy because he is powerless to remove the distress, lessen the suffering, and bring about peace. And when You, dear Lady of Dachau, come to those places where our parents and relatives, our parishioners and pastoral workers have been praying so long for our return, then tell them that You are watching over us in life and in death. Our dear Lady of Dachau, show that You are a Mother where the need is greatest. Amen.

Father Engelmar, who was a great devotee of Mary, said this prayer innumerable times and thought of his mother, his four sisters, his relatives, and his confreres while doing so. For him, Dachau was not only a path of suffering but also a school of prayer.
(Every day of this Holy Week, I will give an account of the life in Dachau)
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Our Lady of Dachau, Sorrowful Mother, pray for us!

Greetings in Jesus and Mary....

Today is given to Our Mother of Sorrows by the Church. We are close  to entering Holy Week with Palm Sunday. Our thoughts and meditations today will be focused on our dear Mother. I encourage all to read from the passages of the City of God written by Mother Mary Agreda who was given special instructions from the Blessed Mother Herself to write the account of Her life for all of us to meditate upon in order to grow in our love.

Our Lady did so much behind the scenes and still does to this day! Thanks be to God The Eternal Father for supplying us with so good a Mother. Thank you Jesus for giving Her to us at the foot of the cross!

Below is a quote from this book for all to read.  I want to mention that after the Crucifixion....Our Lady walked the Way of the Cross EVERY DAY! She wanted to recount His every move for us. Can we not live in this imitation?

Here is a copied word for word from this book....may you be enlightened of Her love for Jesus and for all of us ..... and Her profound acceptance of the Will of God! This is taken from the 4th Volume Transfixion.

"The executioners, bare of all human compassion and kindness, dragged our Savior Jesus along with incredible cruelty and insults. Some of them jerked Him forward by the ropes in order to accelerate his passage, while others pulled from behind in order to retard it. On account of this jerking and the weight of the Cross they caused Him to sway to and fro and often to fall to the ground. By the hard knocks He thus received on the rough stones great wounds were opened, especially on the two knees and they were widened at each repeated fall. The heavy Cross also inflicted a wound on the shoulder on which it was carried. The unsteadiness caused the Cross sometimes to knock against his sacred head, and sometimes the head against the Cross; thus the thorns of his crown penetrated deeper and wounded the parts, which they had not yet reached. To these torments of the body the ministers of evil added many insulting words and execrable affronts, ejecting their impure spittle and throwing the dirt of the pavement into his face so mercilessly, that they blinded the eyes that looked upon them with such divine mercy. Thus they of their own account condemned themselves to the loss of the graces, with which his very looks were fraught. By the haste with which they dragged Him along in their eagerness to see Him die, they did not allow Him to catch his breath; for his most innocent body, having been in so few hours overwhelmed with such a storm of torments, was so weakened and bruised that to all appearances He was ready to yield up life under his pains and sorrows.

From the house of Pilate the sorrowful and stricken Mother followed with the multitudes on the way of her divine Son, accompanied by saint John and the pious women. As the surging crowds hindered Her from getting very near to the Lord, She asked the eternal Father to be permitted to stand at the foot of the Cross of her blessed Son and see Him die with her own eyes. With the divine consent She ordered her angels to manage things in such a way as to make it possible for her to execute her wishes. The holy angels obeyed Her with great reverence; and they speedily led the Queen through some bystreet, in order that She might meet her Son. Thus it came that both of Them met face to face in sweetest recognition of each Other and in mutual renewal of each other’s interior sorrows. Yet They did not speak to one another, nor would the fierce cruelty of the executioners have permitted such interaction. But the most prudent Mother adored her divine Son and true God, laden with the Cross; and interiorly besought Him, that, since She could not relieve him of the weight of the Cross since She was not permitted to command her holy angels to lighten it, He would inspire these ministers of cruelty to procure some one for his assistance. This prayer was heard by the Lord Christ ; and so it happened, that Simon of Cyrene was afterwards impressed to carry the Cross with the Lord (Matth. 27, 32). The pharisees and the executioners were moved to this measure, some of them out of natural compassion, others for fear lest Christ, the Author of life, should lose his life by exhaustion before it could be taken from Him on the Cross.

Beyond all human thought and estimation was the sorrow of the most sincere Dove and Virgin Mother while She thus witnessed with her own eyes her Son carrying the Cross to Mount Calvary; for She alone could fittingly know and love Him according to his true worth. It would have been impossible for Her to live through this ordeal, if the divine power had not strengthened Her and preserved Her life. With bitterest sorrow She addressed the Lord and spoke to Him in her heart: “My Son and eternal God, light of my eyes and life of my soul, receive, O Lord, the sacrifice of my not being able to relieve Thee of the burden of the Cross and carry it myself, who am a daughter of Adam; for it is I who should die upon it in love of Thee, as Thou now wishest to die in most ardent love of the human race. O most loving Mediator between guilt and justice! How dost Thou cherish mercy in the midst of so great injuries and such heinous offenses! O charity without measure or bounds, which permits such torments and affronts in order to afford it a wider scope for its ardor and efficacy! O infinite and sweetest love, would that hearts and the wills of men were all mine, so that they could give no such thankless return for all that Thou endurest! O who will speak to the hearts of the mortals to teach them what they owe to Thee, since Thou hast paid so dearly for their salvation from ruin!”
(The above is coped from eCatholic2000.com....they have the entire book for you to read if you do not have the 4 Volume Set)

Our Lady gives instructions for all of us at the end of each chapter and this is only a segment of those instructions......

"Many there are who wish to follow Christ and very few who truly dispose themselves to imitate Him; for as soon as they feel the sufferings of the Cross they cast it aside. Laborious exertions are very painful and averse to human nature according to the flesh; and the fruits of the spirit are more hidden and few guide themselves by the light. On this account there are so many among mortals, who, forgetful of the eternal truths, seek the flesh; and the continual indulgence of its pleasures. They ardently seek honors and fly from injuries: they strive after riches, and condemn poverty; they long after pleasure and dread mortification. All these are enemies of the Cross of Christ (Phil. 3, 18), and with dreadful aversion they fly from it, deeming it sheer ignominy, just like those who crucified Christ, the Lord."

Our Lady of Sorrows, thank You for Your love.....we love You!  Please pray for us!

Greetings in Jesus and Mary!

We are now in Passion Week...preparing for Holy Week! Meditating on the Passion of Jesus is only for the few! Why is that? There are only a few humans who have liberated themselves from this world of tinsel in order to find the gold of Heaven. One must be freed of the devil, the world and the flesh by the renunciation of all these things that keep us from God. We must abandon ourselves to the divine action within us. It takes a certain courage for one to open a book on the Passion of Jesus and read and meditate on His Sufferings. But there is a secret to how this is done successfully! By being consecrated to Jesus through Mary, we are a kind of slave for God’s glory and redemptive work upon this earth. This is how we can attain the higher liberty possible in this life. At prayer, we must free ourselves interiorly, in order to make God the absolute master of our hearts, to renounce everything for Him. In imitation of our Good Mother, we must do everything for God’s love and glory….and for the salvation of souls.


No one has possessed so high a degree of holy liberty as the Blessed Virgin Mary and so we are blessed with an amazing role model and teacher. She is not only our teacher but the Dispenser of all the graces contained in the Heart of Jesus. Can we think of a better method of how to meditate on the Passion of Her Son? She shows us the way and gives us grace to acquire a glimpse of understanding these mysteries. She helps make us pleasing to God by Her help and grace.


We can begin our meditations on the Passion of Jesus by first meditating on Our Sorrowful Mother before we even think of Her Son. We can ask Her to share Her Heart with us and this She is pleased to do! Mary was free at the foot of the cross when She offered her dear Son to God, an oblation which She knew as both crucifying and salutary. Her fiat at Calvary was done with the same freedom that she pronounced at the Annunciation. Grace allowed Her to do all of this but it did not take away Her sufferings. It is stated by many saints that She suffered more that all the martyrs put together. May we start by sharing in the sufferings of Our Mother to understand Her Son.


During our lifetime, we always run the risk of not embracing God’s Will, no matter how light our trial may be. We resist His grace. This misfortune is to be feared because the perfection of the will consists in placing ourselves in God’s hands. We need to be dependent on Him and always docile to His grace. Always turn to Mary!


During this Passion Week before Holy Week, may we seek the aid of our Blessed Mother and beg Her to give us the graces we need to truly embrace our own cross and have the courage to meditate on the Passion of our Dear Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. May we come to a greater appreciation and love for all that He did for us! May we pray for the conversion of poor sinners and perform many acts of reparation this week in union with Our Sorrowful Mother Mary. 


As Bishop Fulton Sheen once stated, “There is no resurrection without the cross.” This life is not meant for only comforts and joys. We are to offer our life, our time, our prayers for the salvation of souls and of our own. If we surrender the liberty of our lives to the Heart of Jesus through Mary….we will discover a treasure beyond belief. We will discover a joy surpassing all joys. So let us offer our liberty to Jesus through Mary and try never to ever take it back. May we never find ourselves refusing or dragging our cross. In this holy slavery, may we find deliverance from this world and its tinsel to obtain eternal life with all the gold God has to offer….Let us become spiritual millionaires for it is the Will of God for all of us!

Dearest Mother of Sorrows, pray for us and help us!