![]() Greetings in Jesus and Mary.... Today is the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross. How we need to try to grow closer to the understanding of the mystery of the cross. To be a Christian means to embrace our cross as Jesus did for the glory of God and the salvation of souls. Suffering is a mystery that we must not waste. We can unite our sufferings to the Cross of Jesus Christ in order to offer reparation for the sins of the world. Below is a link with some info on the Purple Scapular. I encourage all to obtain one today and to learn the prayers associated with it as well as the story behind it. We need all the protection that we can get today as long as we have faith in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary Who gave us this gift for these times. The Purple Scapular Prayer I hail thee, Jesus crucified, for granting me life. I hail thee with all the joy of the angels and saints during your descent from the Cross. I hail thee with the sadness of your mother while you rested on her Immaculate heart and lap. Repeat 5 times: O Crux Ave, spes unica, et Verbum caro factum est. O Jesus, conqueror of death, save us! Amen.
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![]() Greetings in Jesus and Mary.... Happy Feast Day! I am repeating this article from last year. In the end - The Immaculate Heart of Mary will triumph! Our hope! Our Lady is such a good Mother in giving us so much help during these stormy days. And of course this is the will of the Eternal Father that she should crush the head of the serpent! We have to be reminded constantly not to look down at the turbulent waters of the world but at the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. We are reminded with the Fatima message these words spoken earlier to St. Dominic...... “By means of the Holy Rosary and the Scapular, I will save the world.” (Pray the Daily Rosary wear the Brown Scapular) This is the promised Triumph of Her Immaculate Heart, a promise ratified by Heaven by the miracle of the sun which is a public miracle recognized by the Church and represents Heaven’s seal upon Our Lady’s promise. These tremendous events did not just occur ‘out of the blue’. In retrospect, we can see a long preparation for the time when the foes of the Church would seem victorious, when both “throne and altar would be overthrown” by the Jacobins:- Robspierre, Garibaldi, Lenin and Trotsky in the revolutionary command of the Masonic sects. To the challenge of the Revolution inaugurated in 1789, Our Lady has answered on behalf of the Church. Her entrance to this battle was long prepared and anticipated by the Saints of the Church. St. Louis de Montfort stated: “God wishes that His holy Mother should be at present more known, more loved, more honored than she has ever been.” This accords with the statements of the Sacred Heart messages. The peace of Christ, the King, the conversion of Russia has been entrusted to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Our Lord will only give us this victory through Our Lady, to His glory. This desire of God pre-eminently marks the time of our Counter Revolutionary era and the Great Apostasy – a time of most critical danger for all souls. For when the ordinary means of grace which our Lord wills for His Church is being extinguished, when the power of the antichrist would be given strength over the continual sacrifice of the altar, how then do we conquer our natural tendencies to sin ...... by developing a devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary! In the consecration to Jesus through Mary, St. Louis de Montfort laid the foundation stone of the devotion to the Immaculate Heart, a devotion uniquely reserved for our time and revealed at Fatima. On July 13, 1917, Our Lady of Fatima told the children: “You have seen Hell, where the souls of poor sinners go. To save them, God wishes to establish in the world, devotion to My Immaculate Heart” and “To those who will embrace this devotion to My Immaculate Heart, I promise salvation.” As Sister Lucia explained to Father Fuentes (Dec. 26, 1957) “The holy Rosary and devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary (which the Brown Scapular signifies) are our two last recourses, and so this means there will be no others…With a certain trepidation, God offers us the final means of salvation, His Most Holy Mother.” The following also needs to be repeated so that we understand the greatness of Fatima. Sometimes one hears that the message of Fatima is referred to as “merely a repetition of the requests for prayer and penance in the Gospels”. Actually, Fatima is immensely more significant than that. We are living in a confused time inside the Church as well as in the world. It is in helping to clear up this confusion that Fatima is immensely important. The revelations at the Cova da Iria in Fatima Portugal made by Our Lady to three shepherd children give us, in addition to the vital message, a compendium of the major doctrines of the Church. In an age when many doubt the Real Presence in the Blessed Eucharist, we find the Angel who appeared to the three children leaving a Host and Chalice suspended in the air while he prostrates himself and prays the prayer: Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Ghost, I adore You profoundly! I offer You the Most Precious Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ, present in all the tabernacles of the world, in reparation For the outrages, sacrileges and indifferences committed against Him; and through the infinite merits of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary – I beg for the conversion of poor sinners. Not only does the vision of the angel adoring the Host and Chalice reassure us in our belief in the beautiful doctrine of the Real Presence, but the drops of the Precious Blood falling from the Host into the Chalice confirm what the Church has always taught, that Christ is present, whole and entire, in either species. Could it be that the Eucharistic Reparation Prayers taught at Fatima were mainly for our time when Jesus is received in the hand, when some priests take the liberty to make up their own Eucharistic Prayers in the Novus Ordo Mass, when unconsecrated extraordinary ministers are distributing Our Lord and purifying the vessels? If you think the answer is yes - I advise you to please consider memorizing these prayers and say them constantly throughout your day! Another doctrine of the Faith brought forward at Fatima is the doctrine on hell. How many so-called theologians, in this sad age, have taken it upon themselves to dismiss the doctrine of a hell of eternal fire as “not suitable for the mentality of modern man”? At Fatima, the children were given a terrifying vision of that same hell of fire, proving that the magisterium has not erred. These children of 7, 9 and 10 were told by Our Lady that this is where the souls of poor sinners go because there is no one to pray and make sacrifices for them. Our Lady urged the necessity of compassion for our neighbors when She said this, telling us that we are all in some sense mediators of intercession for souls, many of whom we can save if we pray and do penance for them. Upon hearing and seeing this, the children spent their days making little sacrifices and prayers so that souls would not fall there, leaving us with this heroic example. How many funerals have you gone to where the priest and faithful say this person is now resting in peace and is in a better place? The Immaculate Conception of Our Lady was clearly implied in the references to Her Immaculate Heart. Therefore, by inference, the doctrine of Original Sin, so often challenged today, is confirmed. If Our Lady is immaculate, then the rest of us are conceived in sin as the Church has always taught. The doctrines of Heaven, Hell and Purgatory, of the existence of angels and devils, of the need for prayer and penance to attain salvation are all brought to the notice of the modern world at Fatima, and of course, are confirmed by the great Miracle of the Sun on October 13, 1917. This happens to be the only miracle predicted to happen, day and hour, which actually did happen as predicted. This makes this a public revelation and NOT a private revelation as many brush it off saying that it is! Shouldn’t this make this message significant? Shouldn’t we study what the message is and live it? We need to live the Fatima message of Reparation, daily Rosary, wearing of the Brown Scapular and believing in the traditional sound teachings of the Catholic Church! May we pray for the Reign of the Immaculate Heart to come into our hearts so that Jesus can Reign there as He does in the Immaculate Heart of Mary! For where ever She is....He is! Our Lady of Fatima pray for us! Immaculate Heart of Mary, please send forth the graces of Your flame of Love to all of mankind! ![]() Greetings in Jesus and Mary. The Feast of the Assumption is August 15th. Mary is assumed into Heaven! May the Reign of Mary become a reality soon on earth so that She may bring us grace...so that She may bring us Jesus because the world is growing so very very cold. May we meditate on the great glory of one day being with Our Lady and Our Lord in Heaven for all eternity. Below is a link to a very beautiful little talk about how fleeting this world is and how we need to meditate on Heaven......our true Home! Have a blessed day! ![]() Greetings in Jesus and Mary... Happy August .. the Month dedicated to the Immaculate Heart! I have been busy in my garden and when canning is over...there will be a celebration! I do thank God for the harvest and His GREAT BLESSINGS!! Now to the article, there is so much suffering in the world and I know many of you have heard of the World Youth Day craziness. MAY WE OFFER REPARATION! I am not going to write on it because the World Youth Day has always been a sore spot for me. It has never been done well! Well, Papa Bergoglio is causing more destruction in the Church outside of WYD. This seems to be not new news (2021) but SERIOUS... they’re preparing to preemptively stop all future warnings from heaven from being taken seriously. We know they have never taken Fatima seriously and the 3rd Secret was so painful for human ears to hear that they decided to not reveal it. Below is a video revealing this info by Anthony Stine on Return to Tradition, who has just discovered this piece of info. It is regarding what Papa Bergoglio is doing in Rome regarding the "doom and gloom" messages of Our Lady in relation to the Pontifical International Marian Academy. The same falsehood of Marian theology that was discussed by the Carmelites before the Catechism on the Brown Scapular was changed in 2000....has obviously been spreading all through Rome. This falsehood is that Mary is "to be understood by the TRUE Gospel"....(which means she has been misunderstood for the past 2000 years) SSSSOOO for 2000 years we have been misunderstanding Who the Blessed Mother is until these modernists showed up????? Let us remember what the incorrupt St. Pope Pius X stated; "Modernism is the synthesis of ALL heresies!" WE CAN NOT MODERNIZE TRUTH! They want to use this new Pontifical International Marian Academy to teach CHILDREN and FAMILIES ...."THE TRUE THEOLOGY OF MARY"!!! WWWHHHAAATTT!!! This is pathetic to the highest degree....and if we can't see that what is going on in the Church and in the World right now is leading us to a well deserved chastisement ....we truly have our heads in the sand. REPARATION>>>>>>>REPARATION>>>>>>>REPARATION!!!! Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us! May the Reign of the Immaculate Heart of Mary come to bring all hearts to Jesus Christ! ![]() Greetings in Jesus and Mary.... Today is the feast day of Good St. Anne....the Blessed Mother's Mother! Below is some information from the book.."Good St. Anne". "Good St. Anne" Nihil Obstat: William J. Blacet, J.C.L. Censor Librorum Imprimatur: +J. John P. Cody, S.T.D. Bishop of Kansas City-St. Joseph December 4, 1957 Originally published by the Benedictine Convent of Perpetual Adoration, Clyde, Missouri in 1958. Revised edition published in 1963. Retypeset and re-published by TAN Books and Publishers, Inc. in 1998. Updates and additions made to information on shrines by the Publisher, 1998. TAN BOOKS AND PUBLISHERS The Power of St. Anne's Intercession Almighty God privileged St. Anne above all others in choosing her to be the mother of the Queen of Heaven. This favored Saint ranks high in merit and glory, near to the Word Incarnate and to His most holy Mother. Certainly, then, St. Anne has great power with God. Yes, assuredly the mother of the most powerful and amiable Virgin is likewise full of power and mercy. To many Saints God has granted the power of working miracles. He told His Apostles that they would do greater things than He had done. Now surely, what He promised to His chosen followers He could not refuse to His own grandmother! Those related to Him by the ties of blood were dear to Him in life and still have great power through their intercession. There can be no question, then, that St. Anne has great influence over her Divine Grandson and that by her intercessory power she can also work miracles in favor of her clients. Tradition, the history of the Church and the chronicles of various places of pilgrimage have recorded countless miracles wrought by Christ through the intercession of His Sainted grandmother. Nor have they ceased to this day. Yearly, hundreds of thousands of persons visit the shrine of St. Anne de Beaupré in Canada alone. Many are cured of diseases; all are comforted and consoled. These favors serve to strengthen and confirm our trust and confidence in the power of the intercession of good St. Anne. The famous and learned Abbot Trithemius practiced an extraordinary devotion to St. Anne and did all in his power to induce others to venerate her. He wrote a book in her praise in which he says: "To St. Anne God has given the power to aid in every necessity, because Jesus, her Divine Grandchild according to the flesh, will refuse her no petition, and Mary, her glorious daughter, supports her every request. Those who venerate good St. Anne shall want for nothing, either in this life or the next. Believe me, if you love and venerate this Saint, you will experience how highly God esteems her. He grants all she asks! It would be impossible to enumerate the many graces she obtains daily for her servants." The same writer continues: "St. Anne by her intercession dispels melancholy and evil desires. She also aids the poor, cures the sick and comforts the sorrowing. She removes tribulations and by her intercession obtains for her clients the grace to eradicate vice and implant virtue. She obtains light for the intellect, strength for the will and affection for the heart. This powerful Saint has preserved thousands from contagious diseases. Through her intercession, evil spirits have been expelled. For the barren in the married state, she obtains children and Heavenly assistance in delivery. She inspires the despairing with trust in God's mercy and excites the tepid to zeal and fervor. St. Anne has rescued many from imminent death; yes, through her intercession the dead have, in several instances, been restored to life. Those who worthily venerate St. Anne can obtain aid in every necessity through her mediation." Pope Gregory XIII, when introducing the feast of St. Anne into the Church, declared: "We believe that St. Anne continually intercedes for us with the merciful Lord, for through her great benefits have come to mankind. From her was born the ever pure and immaculate Virgin Mary, who was found worthy to bring forth Jesus Christ, our Redeemer." Pope Gregory XV encourages us thus: "We do not doubt that the more love we show to the mother of Mary, the more we merit the intercession and aid of the holy Virgin who brought forth the only-begotten Son of God, Our Lord Jesus Christ." St. Teresa of Avila often said: "We know and are convinced that our good mother St. Anne helps in all needs, dangers and tribulations, for Our Lord wishes to show us that He will do also in Heaven what she asks of Him for us." The saintly Abbot Trithemius again exhorts us: "Approach St. Anne, your amiable protectress, with full confidence. Knock at her gates with persevering prayer, because she can obtain for you the forgiveness of your sins and can open Heaven for you. She lacks nothing that can profit you ... Believe me, who has already obtained many a favor through her whom the Queen of Heaven honors as her dearest mother ... No one knows, no one believes, how many favors God confers on lovers of St. Anne!" ![]() Greetings in Jesus and Mary... We are definitely in some challenging times in all of history! Do you think we need extra helps....extra graces....extra prayer and penance?? Do you get the feeling that we should all be screaming H E L P!!!! I want to start this article with some words from the greatest enemy of the Catholic Church...The Masonic Sect (Below is taken from a Letter of Vindice to Nubius; [pen-names of 2 leaders of the Italian ‘Alta Vendita’ (A link to this document many be found on this website under Devotions/Latin Mass] dated the 9th August 1838) “Catholicism does not fear a very sharp sword any more than the monarchies feared it. But, these two foundations of Social Order can collapse under corruption; let us never tire to corrupt them. Tertullian was right in saying that from the blood of martyrs Christians are born; let us not make martyrs; but, let us popularise vice among the multitudes; may they breathe it through their five senses; may they drink it and be saturated. Make vicious hearts and there will be no more Catholics. It is corruption on a big scale that we have undertaken…a corruption that should one day enable us to lead the Church to its grave. Lately, I heard one of our friends laughing philosophically at our projects saying: ‘To destroy Catholicism, we should do away with women’. The idea is good in a certain way, but since we cannot get rid of women, let us corrupt them with the Church. ‘Corruptio optimi, pessima’. The best dagger to strike the Church is corruption.” Wow! Do you think we have corruption? Amazing! So what do we do? Well, let us see if Our Lady predicted this to happen and see what Her solutions are. Our Lady of LaSalette, France (1846 - 8 years after the above letter)......... “At the end of the 19th century and for a large part of the 20th, various heresies will flourish on this earth which will have become a free republic. The precious light of the Faith will go out in souls because of the almost total moral corruption: in those times there will be great physical and moral calamities, in private and in public. The little number of souls keeping the Faith and practicing the virtues will undergo cruel and unspeakable suffering; through their long drawn out martyrdom many of them will go to their death because of the violence of their sufferings, and those will count as martyrs who gave their lives for Church or for country. To escape from being enslaved by these heresies will call for great strength of will, constancy, courage and great trust in God… “ In those days the spirit of impurity which like a deluge of filth will flood the streets, squares and public places. The licentiousness will be such that there will be no more virgin souls in the world." “The society of men is on the eve of the most terrible scourges and of gravest events. Mankind must expect to be ruled with an iron rod and to drink from the chalice of the wrath of God” Quito Ecuador - Our Lady of Good Success (2nd February 1634)...... “By having gained control of all the social classes, the (Freemasonic) sects will tend to penetrate with great skill into the hearts of families to destroy even the children. The devil will take glory in feeding perfidiously on the heart of children. The innocence of childhood will almost disappear. Thus priestly vocations will be lost, it will be a real disaster. Priests will abandon their sacred duties and will depart from the path marked out for them by God.” Events before Our Lady of Fatima Pope Leo XIII, who received on the 13th October 1884, a revelation that God had given permission to Satan to try to demolish His Church, took this warning very seriously and composed the Leonine Prayers to be said after each mass. He then published for priests and faithful the famous exorcism of Saint Michael against Satan and the rebellious Angels to protect mankind against the plagues to come. Later on Saint Pius X himself, did not hesitate to refer the present calamities, the great perversity of minds and the furious efforts “to blot out the memory and the knowledge of God,” as “the foretaste and perhaps the beginning of these evils reserved for the last days” (E Supremi Apostolatus, 4 October 1903). Our Lady of Fatima and Sister Lucia Sister Lucy, explained to Father Agustin Fuentes, the postulator for the cause of beatification of Francisco and Jacinta, in a conversation held on the 26th December 1957: “The Most Holy Virgin did not tell me that we are in the last days of the world but She made me understand this for three reasons.” 1. – THE FINAL BATTLE: “The first reason is because She told me that the devil is in the midst of waging a decisive battle against the Blessed Virgin. And a decisive battle is the final battle where one side will be victorious and the other side will suffer defeat. Hence from now on we must choose sides. Either we are for God or we are for the devil. There is no other possibility.” 2. – THE LAST REMEDIES: “The second reason is because She said to my cousins as well as to myself that God is giving two last remedies to the world. These are the Holy Rosary and Devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. These are the last two remedies which signify there will be no others.” 3. – THE SIN AGAINST THE HOLY GHOST: “The third reason is because in the plans of Divine Providence, before He is about to chastise the world, God always exhausts all other remedies. Now, when He sees that the world pays no attention whatsoever then, as we say in our imperfect manner of speaking, He offers us with a certain trepidation the last means of salvation, His Most Holy Mother. It is with a certain trepidation because if you despise and repulse this ultimate means we will not have any more forgiveness from Heaven because we will have committed a sin which the Gospel calls the sin against the Holy Ghost. This sin consists in openly rejecting with full knowledge and consent, the salvation which He offers. Let us remember that Jesus Christ is a very good Son and that He does not permit that we offend and despise His Most Holy Mother. We have recorded through many centuries of Church history the obvious testimony which demonstrates, by the terrible chastisements which have befallen those who have attacked the honor of His Most Holy Mother, how Our Lord Jesus Christ has always defended the honor of His Holy Mother.” If we now consider the tragic collapse in the Catholic Church, since the last Council, which is made obvious with the breathtaking drop of religious practice and of vocations, with the closing and sale of so many churches, convents, monasteries, the loss of faith and basic moral values among the priests and the faithful, together with the appalling vast spread of homosexuality within the seminaries and dioceses – who cannot see the literal application of Our Lady’s words. When we consider what has been achieved worldwide by the Masonic Governments to destroy the family and to turn upside down all the moral values on which Christian civilisation was based, are we not the appalled witnesses of a world engulfing itself in a state of barbarism, which can end only in its own destruction? Can we fail to see in the construction of this Masonic One World Government the realisation of the prophecy of Our Lady warning us that: “All the civil governments will have one and the same plan, which will be to abolish and do away with every religious principal, to make way for materialism, atheism, spiritualism and vice of all kinds.” These warnings of Our Lady also make it evident to every Catholic that the duty of keeping the Faith and preserving one’s soul in the state of grace is much more demanding in our days than it was in the past because of the greater power of the devils, the unprecedented crisis of the Church and the general state of corruption and apostasy of the world. In order to keep the true Faith and to keep his soul pure and clean of any sin, the Christian will have then to make special efforts in the practice of the virtues, in regular prayer and the reception of sacraments, along with flying from the vanities, pleasures and fashions of the world. Sister Lucia said to Fr. Fuente...... “Father, we should not wait for an appeal to the world to come from Rome on the part of the Holy Father, to do penance. Nor should we wait for the call to penance to come from our bishops in our diocese, nor from the religious congregations. No! Our Lord has already very often used these means and the world has not paid attention. That is why now, it is necessary for each one of us to begin to reform himself spiritually. Each person must not only save his own soul but also the souls that God has placed in our path…The devil does all in his power to distract us and to take away from us the love for prayer; we shall be saved together or we shall be damned together.” I am including the below link to show what happens when a society turns away from God. This is HUGELY due to the corruption in the Catholic Church. If we were holy, the world would receive graces. If the true Mass were offered....many graces would be received. (THIS IS THE SOLE REASON FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF THE LATIN MASS - Not for its language but for its authenticity of the True Sacrifice offered to God)(Do read your Catholic history....the true Mass HAS ALWAYS BEEN ATTACKED...If Papa Bergoglio takes it away more than he already has - Justice will be seen on the earth) Also, Rome has not taken heed to the warning of Our Lady. We should be promoting Her messages of Holy Rosary, Penance and Consecration to Her Immaculate Heart through the spreading of the Brown Scapular devotion...HOW MANY GRACES WOULD WE SEE IF THIS HAPPENED! YES - The Catholic Church has a HUGE RESPONSIBILTY before God! May you and I do our part! God bless your day! Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary, pray for us! Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us! ![]() Greetings in Jesus and Mary.... Today is the feast day of St. Elijah...a feast in the Carmelite calendar. We consider St. Elijah the Father of the Carmelite Order. He stood in the Old Testament against the false god Baal. May we seek his intercession today as we battle against Baal in our own day. Below is a link to the new video posted on The Remnant. We seem to be up against Baal even in the Catholic Church. May we seek Our Lady's help in combatting the evils within. The following Carmelite history is taken from the website...carmelites.org.au....A little homily on it is linked below from Sensus Fidelium. Have a blessed feast day! The Order of Carmelites has its origins on Mount Carmel, in Palestine, where, as we read in the first Book of Kings, the great prophet Elijah defended the true faith in the God of Israel, when he won the challenge against the priests of Baal. It was also on Mount Carmel that the same prophet, praying in solitude, saw the small cloud which brought life-giving rain after the long drought. From time immemorial, this mountain has been considered the lush garden of Palestine and symbol of fertility and beauty. Indeed, "Karmel" means "garden". In the 12th century (perhaps after the third crusade, 1189-1191), some pilgrims who had come from Europe, came together near the "spring of Elijah", in one of the narrow valleys of Mount Carmel, to live out their Christianity as hermits after the example of the prophet Elijah in the very land of our Lord Jesus Christ. Then and in later times, the Carmelites did not acknowledge anyone in particular as their founder, but remained faithful followers of Elijah who was associated with Mount Carmel through biblical events and through Greek and Latin patristic tradition which saw in the prophet one of the founders of the monastic life. In the middle of the cells they built a chapel which they dedicated to Mary, Mother of Jesus, thus developing a sense of belonging to Our Lady as Patroness, and they became known by her name as "Brothers of Saint Mary of Mount Carmel". Thus Carmel is deeply associated with Elijah and Mary. From Elijah the Carmelites inherited a burning passion for the living and true God and the desire to make His Word intimately their own in order to witness to Its presence in the world; with Mary, the Mother of God, they are committed to live "in the footsteps of Jesus Christ" with the same intimate and deep feelings which were Mary's. In order to have some juridical stability, this group of lay hermits turned to the Patriarch of Jerusalem, Albert Avogadro (1150-1214), who was then living at St John of Acre near Mount Carmel. Between 1206-1214, Albert wrote for them a formula of life. Successive approvals of this formula of life by various Popes helped the process of transforming the group into a Religious Order, a fact which took place at the time of the definitive approval of the text as a Rule by Innocent IV in 1247. Thus the Carmelite Order took its place alongside the Mendicant Orders. However, about 1235, the Carmelites were forced to abandon their place of origin due to the incursions and persecutions of the Saracens who were reconquering the Holy Land from the crusaders. Most of them went back to their country of origin in Europe. Soon they increased and flourished in the sciences and in holiness. Later some women in 1452 became cloistered nuns living in their own communities near the friar monasteries. Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, pray for us! Prophet Elijah, pray that we may return to the One True God! ![]() Greetings in Jesus and Mary.... Tomorrow is the Feast of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel. Happy Feast day! Today, I want to bring to the attention of all those who seek to live as Carmelites, that bringing the story of Carmel and its Brown Scapular to ALL Catholics is greatly needed! Do we want to show our love and thanksgiving to Our Lady? Under the patronage of St. Elijah, Our Holy Founder and St. Simon Stock, may we beg their intercession to be true disciples of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel and share Her Brown Scapular. Can we think of all that is going on today and still refuse to take the Brown Scapular message to ALL Catholics? Can we believe that the Scapular carries a Promise of salvation and yet fail to promote the Scapular Confraternity? Consider the millions of good Catholics who could enrich their lives, enhance their usefulness to God, by seeking a closer relationship with Mary through affiliating themselves with Mary’s Order; you and I must bring them the story of Carmel so that they will draw closer to Jesus…Her Son. Life’s purpose is to know God, to love God and to serve God in this life in order to enjoy eternal happiness with Him in the next. If you and I become messengers of this message; we are making use of a wonderful privilege. “It is as though Mary had opened the Treasury of Heaven to her Carmelites and told us to become her agents in bringing souls to Heaven.” What a responsibility…are we up to it? Mary, clothed in the habit of Carmel, appeared at Fatima in 1917, at which time she delivered a message which was to be spread throughout the world. Mary asked that men do penance and stop offending God. Keep in mind that this request was made in our day; it was made to us. To the world in which we live. What has our Catholic Church done about Mary’s message? We have gone on offending God as God has never before been offended. Never before has there been the wholesale slaughter of men, women and children as there has been in our world. Never before has there been the widespread hatred of one toward another. Never before has there been a comparable denial of the dignity of man. Never before has there existed an atmosphere so conducive to evil as that brought about by our movies, our press, our radio, our internet. Our world from 1917 to 2023 is a portrait of horrific godlessness. Do we believe that Mary is pleased with us? What have we done about Mary’s message? Are we living as though we believed that Our Lady appeared at Fatima with a message for the world that if heeded, would bring peace to the world? The world has not yet heeded the message of Fatima. We must become Mary’s voice in the world. The message is so important that the future of our civilization, our liberties, depends upon its acceptance. When a sufficient number offer their sacrifices and fulfill our Lady’s requests, Mary has promised the dawning of a better world, an era of peace and security for mankind. Go from parish to parish with like-minded lovers of Truth and talk to the pastors about sharing this message....at least help him to understand the enrollment of the Brown Scapular at his First Communion Sacrament...a great start that has gone by the wayside. May we pray to Our Lady to guide us and the Holy Spirit to fortify us with the necessary graces of fortitude and knowledge. Offer the First Saturdays. Offer Prayers to the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus (Reparation Prayers of Fatima) Pray the Rosary Daily. Enroll in the Brown Scapular (prayers below) and live in union with Jesus and Mary. Consecrate yourselves and families to the Immaculate Heart. Offer your daily duty and prayers. Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, pray for us! Carmelite Saints, pray for us! ![]() Greetings in Jesus and Mary... I am bringing to you information that is being posted on Liberty Counsel website just recently. A California Representative Mr. Takano is proposing the following Bill to be passed to give liberal rights to all of the immoral actions that Christians are opposed to. Please read the following and I have also posted the Bill in the link below for you to scrutinize. Please contact your Representatives in Washington in order for this to stop. In an obvious assault on the High Court, which just last year overturned the genocidal horror of Roe v. Wade, pro-death leftists in Congress have reintroduced the “Equality Act” in the U.S. House as HR 15. This bill already has 212 co-sponsors — which includes every Democrat. If only a few Republicans sign on, this bill will pass even over the Speaker’s objections. HR 15 includes both radical LGBTQ and abortion-up-to-birth provisions. If the so-called Equality Act passes, late-term abortions — even gruesome abortions that rip off limbs — will be federally protected. The tremendous work we have done to end abortion will no longer matter if HR 15 passes. Every state law will be overridden. No one, not even religious institutions or doctors, will be allowed to refuse to participate in the murder of the unborn. Read on to learn what is in this outrageous bill and how you can stop it. Tell Congress: Abortion is NOT an unalienable right! Vote NO on HR 15! No person, church, school, hospital, doctor, pharmacist — no one — will be able to escape HR 15, the “Equality Act.” With a few sheets of hastily written proclamations, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) will be effectively dissolved. There will be no conscience protection measures. No Christian or religious adherent will be safe from the reaches of this deviant and life-ending bill because even our “perceptions” and “beliefs” (using the bill’s own words) will be forced to comply with the radical left’s sterile design for America’s future. That’s because HR 15, the Equality Act, seeks to undo recent rulings of the U.S. Supreme Court, namely the Dobbs decision that overturned Roe v. Wade. Instead, under HR 15, abortion will become a federally protected right. The bill applies to “pregnancy, childbirth or a related medical condition.” Treatment for pregnancy, in the eyes of abortionists, includes the “right” to kill the child in a mother’s womb. Under this horrific bill, which also forces Christians to accept and promote sexual deviancy, every state law will be preempted. No parental notice, consent, or informed consent — no restrictions whatsoever — on abortion from conception to birth. ALL hospitals, medical providers, pharmacists, employers, and insurance companies will be forced to participate in chemical and surgical abortions whether they want to or not. And YOUR tax dollars will pay for it, because under HR 15, abortion will be federally funded. Under the Equality Act, health insurance offered by churches, religious schools, and employers must cover abortion. No one can refuse because the Equality Act revokes the Religious Freedom Restoration Act! Remember Hobby Lobby and Little Sisters of the Poor who objected to abortion-inducing drugs and devices? They won under RFRA. They will not win under the Equality Act. Before this bill, every time sex discrimination was written into law, abortion was excluded. Not so under the Equality Act, which will preempt every state law. Any and all abortion restrictions will be erased if this bill passes. Without question, this bill will force crisis pregnancy centers to refer women for abortion. This is what California tried to do a few years ago. But we dragged then-CA Attorney General Xavier Becerra (now Biden’s secretary of Health and Human Services) to the Supreme Court — and won. But if the Equality Act passes, these bloodthirsty extremists will once again force crisis pregnancy centers to refer women to killing machines. Wait, it gets worse … Because the Equality Act applies to “perceptions” and “beliefs” and is not limited to a “physical facility or place,” it will also apply online and even to your own personal posts on websites, emails, social media, and more. If HR 15 passes, YOU will be censored and punished for daring to defend the unborn even in social media posts. Under this bill, a child in the womb has no rights — and neither do parents, spouses, health care providers, or pharmacists. There is NOTHING EQUAL about eliminating a helpless life and revoking the religious freedom of all. We can stop the Equality Act from making abortion a federal right. Say “NO — I will not be forced to accept and promote abortion!” ![]() Greetings in Jesus and Mary.... I hope and pray that everyone is enjoying their families in the summer sun! Another year to thank God for what we have and pray that we do not lose it! Of course, our path is far from God in America and therefore we need to pray and make sacrifices to help bring people back to the reality that we NEED GOD! Who can help us more in this path back to God than Mary, Our Mother. Below is a prayer to Her. There are so many playing God today or at least they are trying to. May we be wise to their tactics and never surrender our freedoms especially the freedom of religion. May we pray for a miracle of grace from God through the prayers and intercession of our good and holy Mother Mary......may we pray for Her to ask God to Free America from its bondage to sin and destruction. Consecration of America (Taken from Catholic.org) Immaculate Mary, most Holy Mother of God and of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, we the people of the United States of America at this historic moment stand before You in a humbled condition of love, loyalty, affection, and thankfulness. To Your Immaculate Heart we recommit and dedicate ourselves throughout the entire American nation. To Your Son Jesus Christ we pledge to serve His teaching, His church, and to work for His kingdom on earth. O Mary, to You do we flee for protection. Surround the American family with Your maternal care; enfold us in Your arms. Give to this American land, built on the blood and tears of so many faithful forebears, a peaceful and praiseworthy existence in truth, love, justice, and freedom. O Mary, we submit to You as the Patroness of our beloved country. O Mary, Help of Christians, enfold the Holy Father and the Catholic Church within Your protective cloak; be our shield in the days ahead. Give to the Church true holiness and freedom. Obtain for our leaders holy zeal, the ability to face the truth, and the courage to correct all abuses. Stop the flood of atheism, greed, heresy, impurity, lukewarmness, materialism, and selfishness that threaten our nation. Show to those who have strayed from the Church the way to Our Lord Jesus Christ, especially those in our families. Mother of God, accept our personal consecration to You and, through You, bind us forever to the Holy Trinity Who willed to give us You as our Mother. Gather us all into Your Immaculate Heart and unite us forever with the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus. O Mary, we love You and thank You, please pray for us! |
AuthorBernadette Porter is a Traditional Catholic, a wife of 42 years with 6 adult home-schooled children and 6 grandchildren. A sincere devotion to Mary, the Mother of God leads me to want to share "The Church's best kept secret" - Mary! Archives
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