Hello Everyone: We had a very beautiful Requiem Mass at St. Joseph Oratory in Detroit for my Dad Bernard Ciolek, on Friday, Aug. 23rd. Thank you all for your prayers. I will have the Gregorian Masses offered for my Dad by the Hermits of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel in PA Link below of this Carmelite Order of Priests and Monks. Today, I would like to share the writings of St. John Eudes from his book - The Admirable Heart of Mary. He wrote about the messages of Our Lord Himself to St. Mechtilde in the 1300's. I wish to share them with you here because this is the month of the Immaculate Heart.
We cannot imagine the love Jesus had for His Mother. If we did understand this – all of us would love Our Good Queen and Mother without exception. I could never understand the Protestant idea of treating her like any other woman or the Catholic that is in agreement to this kind of thinking. Or worse, a Protestant or Catholic that wishes to treat her with contempt and/or hatred because of the love so many souls have for her. Let us consider what Jesus has shared with St. Mechtilde in the 1300’s regarding the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Our Lord Himself deigned to instruct her as follows: “Thou shalt salute My holy Mother’s virginal Heart as an ocean replete with heavenly grace and a treasure filled with myriad blessings for mankind.” “Thou shalt honor it as the purest Heart after Mine own because she was the first to take the vow of chastity.” “Thou shalt hail it as the humblest Heart of any simple creature, for her humility drew Me from My Father’s bosom and rendered her worthy to conceive Me in her chaste womb by the power of the Holy Ghost.” “Thou shalt reverence her Heart as supremely devout and most ardent in its desire for My Incarnation and birth on earth, because the fervor of her desires and of her longing attracted Me to her and became the cause of man’s salvation.” “Thou shalt honor her Heart as most glowingly inflamed with love for God and man. Thou shalt salute it as the wisest and most prudent, for she kept in her Heart the memory of each event of My childhood, youth and adult life and made a most holy use of this remembrance.” “Thou shalt greet her Heart as the most faithful, for she not only consented to permit Me, her only Son, to be sacrificed, but she also offered Me to My Eternal Father as a sacrifice for the redemption of the world.” “Thou shalt salute her Heart as the most vigilant and most zealous for the interests of the nascent Church, for the care she took to pray unceasingly could not be disregarded.” “Thou shalt glorify her Heart as raised to the highest degree of uninterrupted contemplation, for no tongue can worthily speak of the graces and favors that men owe to the power of her intercession.” These are the words of Jesus Himself revealing clearly how pleasing to His Divine Majesty is the devotion to His Blessed Mother’s Holy Heart and how profitable to those who practice it. He continues to tell her ---" I am the eldest Son of this maternal Heart and am therefore filled with the most tender and filial love for it. I am the first-born of My most worthy Mother’s incomparable Heart, as I am the first fruit of the adorable Heart of My Eternal Father. My admirable Mother formed Me and carried Me in her Heart more holily, longer and sooner than in her womb. For the sanctity of her blessed bosom has its origin in the charity and purity of her most holy Heart, and she became worthy to form and to bear Me in her womb because by humility, purity and love, she first formed and carried me in her Heart. I am, therefore, in a way, more truly the fruit of her Heart than of her womb.” “I have given her Heart to you as a divine Sun to enlighten you through the darkness of the world, to warm you in the frosts of mortal life, to gladden and to comfort you in the sorrows, pains and miseries of earth, and to vivify and strengthen you against the decline and weakness of human frailty. I have given the Heart of my incomparable Mother to you as a vast ocean of graces of every kind, from which you must draw the graces you need at every hour, every moment, every place and every occasion, to avoid the manifold snares of Satan, which cover the entire earth, and to be able to serve God in justice and holiness all the days of your lives. I have finally given this marvelous Heart as an inestimable treasure containing every possible blessing. It is for you, beloved children, to engrave in your hearts a high esteem, a profound respect and a particular affection for so rich a treasure, and to preserve it jealously by the continuation and increase of your veneration for a Heart so holy and amiable. Set down My words in your hearts and practice them faithfully. In this way, you will become the true children of my holy Mother’s Heart, and you will live according to My own. My eyes and My Heart shall ever watch over your necessities. I will carry you in My innermost Heart. You will yourselves be My Heart, My joy and My delight. I will love you as My own Heart, and I will prepare a glorious habitation for you throughout eternity in My Heart and in the Heart of My Blessed Mother, which is one with My own. You shall abide forever in our Hearts, and live by their life, you shall possess all the treasures enclosed in our Hearts, and be immersed and buried in their joys. Our Hearts shall be your paradise, the life of your life, the Heart of your heart.” May the Hearts of Jesus and Mary be forever praised, loved and glorified now and forever by all of mankind.
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Yesterday was the feast day of Our Lady's Assumption. So so sorry from being away from this website. My father, Bernard Ciolek, suffered a heart attack on Tuesday and he passed away yesterday on the feast day of Our Lady! What a gift for all of us. He is so greatly blessed. He received Extreme Unction and was blessed by a priest. Canon Sequiera from St. Joseph Oratory was very very kind in coming out the day of his death and blessed him and prayed a rosary with us two hours before he passed away. What a beautiful holy death. God is so good. His funeral will be this week and I may not get to this site again for awhile but I will try. There are many articles in the archives to read as well - please stay tuned and read them. I will be back soon - thank you so much for your prayers - I didn't even have time to ask for your prayers as he was in the hospital but he needs them now as well. Thank you so much and may God richly bless all of you through the prayers and intercession of our Good Queen and Mother!! Thank you Eternal Father for Jesus and Mary! You love us SO MUCH and we love you in return. God be Praised!! Hello Everyone: It has been a busy week. Before we get to the topic above - the mom who I posted a GoFundMe account a couple of articles ago, had her 32 birthday yesterday! We had water fun in the backyard with the 2, 4, and 6 year old sons of hers. Her husband was gracious enough to drive all of them to this surprise birthday party - pinata and all! They had fun and we had fun watching. Her oxygen tank though needed recharging before we were done and they had to part before they ate the cake. They took it home with some food. Please keep her in prayer. Her heart is taking a toll with all the chemo and she and her family are suffering. Please pray for all of them and if you have not donated a bit - please consider it. Thank you so much! Now to our topic - The readers of this website know that I have posted so much on the infiltration of the Catholic Church. The persecution of good priests shows this. The protection of bad priests shows this. This article is about two priests who have been exiled for speaking the truth. Please listen to the videos below and pray for more good priests to speak out. It is when we unite as Christ's army under Our Lady's mantle that the battle will be won. God is God and will lead the way as we do battle with the enemy each day. May Our Lady watch over all of her priest sons. May we continue to pray for all priests and for Christ's Catholic Church! God bless! |
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