Love For Lent!

Greetings in Jesus and Mary....

Tomorrow is the Feast Day of the Most Holy Face of Jesus! We are then entering into Lent the day after with Ash Wednesday. We are all faced with the question.....how will this Lent be for me this year? Here is my suggestion for a world grown cold....add love where there is no love. God is Love! Of course, Our Lady has many times come to ask us for Penance, Penance Penance! Would not the sacrifices that we make for Love be Penance! They are because we put the Will of God before our own......which is to love God above ALL THINGS, and love our neighbor as ourselves.

Here are a few suggestions as well as considering the Act of Offering that St. Therese made while on earth. This Act is a serious Act so there are two 16 minute videos explaining this Act if you wish to consider making this Act in imitation of St. Therese:

SUGGESTIONS FOR LENT......
If you do not already....as you wake from sleep in the morning, have a crucifix at your bedside and kiss the hands, feet and heart and pray the prayer found on our prayer page of this website (link below). You can pray it for others in your family who have turned away from God so that their days may be sanctified....God will reveal to them in the end how their days were offered in love...by a loved one!

Keep the Practice of the Presence of God with you from that moment of kissing your crucifix to the time you finish your day before retiring back to bed. Tell Him..."I love You! Jesus, Mary, I love You, save souls! Jesus, mercy! Blessed be God!" or any little act of love throughout the day to keep your mind on God!

Another suggestion is to be faithful to the Fatima prayers (also linked below). These reparation prayers are to bring love to the world and to repair the sins committed against God and His Blessed Mother.

Another suggestion is to be faithful to our prayer life throughout the day because it is OWED in justice to God for belonging to Him. (We fall into the temptation that it is only "our loss" when we do not engage in prayer....not so! We owe this love to HIM and therefore sadden Him when we fail to come to Him.)

Meditate throughout Lent on the Passion of Jesus. Choose a book or two on His Passion such as books written by St. Alphonsus, Fr. Frederick Faber, Mother Mary Agreda, St. Brigid, Anne Catherine Emmerich, etc. to be read  for at least 15 minutes a day to recall HIS LOVE and to grow ourself in that Love!

Develop a stronger devotion to the Sorrowful Mother in order to grow closer to understanding Her Love for Jesus and souls! May we comfort our Mother with this devotion of Love. We can recall her 7 sorrows briefly or make little ejaculatory prayers to Her...Our Lady of Sorrows, pray for us (after the Stations or our Passion reading)

The Stations of the Cross can not be missed on Fridays of Lent for those who call themselves lovers of God! Our Lady Herself (according to Mary Agreda in the City of God) made the Stations EVERY DAY! This will increase our own love and appreciation that God has for all of us! If you can not go to a Church to make the Stations....then pull out your Stations booklet at home to use before a crucifix or purchase a set of 8 x 10 pictures of the Stations to meditate on them.

All of these things, DONE WITH LOVE, will increase our love for God and bring graces to the world of coldness that we live in today.

I will end with the saint who declared that her vocation was LOVE!
Here is her Offering of Herself as a Victim to God's Merciful LOVE...May we do the same (if called to make this same offering)!  God bless all of you. May we keep each other in prayer and have a blessed Lent!

​"O Bleeding Face, O Face Divine...be every Adoration Thine!!!"
"Our Mother of Sorrows, pray for us to be saints of LOVE!!!"
​"St. Therese, pray for us!!!"

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Explanation of the Offering Prayer of St. Therese PART 1

Explanation of the Offering Prayer of St. Therese Part 2

Offering To God's Merciful Love - ST THERESE

Fatima Reparation Prayers & Daily Prayers