 Greetings in Jesus and Mary....
Blessed be God forever! The election in November is coming very soon. We are almost into September. We have been losing our sovereignty in the USA as it has been eroding in other countries as well. This is to pave the way for a Global Government of Communism worldwide. If this sounds unreal (and I wish it was); there is proof to show that this has been coming and it will be full blown SOON. (links below) We all need to prepare spiritually, emotionally and physically as best we can. Most of all, live the Fatima message and place yourself and your family in the greatest refuge and that is the Immaculate Heart of Mary so that She can place you into the Heart of Jesus. If you have not made the Consecration to Jesus through Mary....NOW IS THE TIME! Our Lady, Our Good Queen and Mother, came over and over again as a concerned Mother to her wayward children to warn us to get off the path that we have been on and to amend our lives and love and serve God above ALL THINGS! Since we have not listened to her, calamities will come to us and we will have no other alternative but to turn to God. "Wars are allowed by God as a punishment for the sins of the world"....words given to us by Our Lady of Fatima. This election is important but like our last presidential election; the globalists put in their puppet to get their plan fulfilled. It may well happen again. We will need a miracle even if the majority of Americans vote for Trump (which there is proof that he won by a landslide against Biden in the last election.) God may allow this to happen as a chastisement to this country (and the world) for the sins that this country and others are guilty of. PRAY AND BE PREPARED. Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us! Below is some info to help you understand what is happening (even though it is obvious now and all over the news)
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 Greetings in Jesus and Mary...
Many of you have read what Bishop Strickland has written on the Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (Queenship of Mary in Modern calendar), Aug 22nd. ( link at the bottom of this article). He has mentioned Akita, Fatima and the words of Pope Pius XII who spoke these words obviously before the Second Vatican Council. These words were....... The future Pope Pius XII, 31 years before the beginning of the Second Vatican Council, spoke these words: “I am worried by the Blessed Virgin’s messages to little Lucia of Fatima. This persistence of Mary about the dangers which menace the Church is a divine warning against the suicide of altering the faith, in her liturgy, her theology and her soul … I hear all around me innovators who wish to dismantle the Sacred Chapel, destroy the universal flame of the Church, reject her ornaments and make her feel remorse for her historical past … A day will come when the civilized world will deny its God, when the Church will doubt as Peter doubted. She will be tempted to believe that man has become God. In our churches, Christians will search in vain for the red lamp where God awaits them. Like Mary Magdalene, weeping before the empty tomb, they will ask, ‘Where have they taken Him?’” The Oath Against Modernism was written by Pope St. Pius X in 1910 because he too could see the tide of modernism coming to dismantle the Sacred Chapel and destroy the universal flame of the Church. (Link Below) I truly believe that every Catholic should read this Oath and then hopefully and prayerfully make a commitment to pledge this Oath before God. When the Second Vatican Council had finished its modernist destructions to EVERYTHING in the Church; Cardinal Suenens, one of the four moderators of the Council said the following....."The Second Vatican Council is the French Revolution in the Church." Which translates... the Declaration of Man over God. If this does not convince one that we have been infiltrated, then read the Vatican II closing statement of Pope Paul the VI. The closing statement says it all. I was 8 years old and in a Catholic grade school when the Council closed and there were so many changes coming at us right and left. In first grade, I had a teaching Felician Sister in a full beautiful habit and each of the 16 rooms had a teaching sister. Just in the next year, the habits were modified to the knee, the veils were shorter with a poof of hair sticking out above the forehead and the number of them decreased BY HALF. WHAT HAD HAPPENED? I was young, but knew something was wrong.....soon by 8th grade there was only a religious sister as the principal and ALL LAY TEACHERS! Was this suppose to happen? Did all the sisters, nuns, and priests who took the Oath Against Modernism have to leave because now they were told to be modernized???? My Mom and Dad are now deceased, but they did mention that something seemed wrong. They both had 12 years of Catholic education with teaching sisters and a Latin Mass each day. Where was the outcry from Catholics who knew better?? I guess they forgot to teach them about modernism and all about St. Pius X who wrote endless "sandbags" of documents against the tsunami of Modernism. THANKS BE TO GOD WE STILL HAVE THOSE DOCUMENTS TODAY TO KEEP OUR SANITY IN THIS INSANE WORLD WE ARE LIVING IN; AND GOD MADE THIS SAINT INCORRUPT TO PROVE TO US......YES.....HE IS GOOD.....LISTEN TO HIM!!! Below are the links to Bishop Strickland's article and the Oath Against Modernism....please read and share. Also, please pray for all the good and holy bishops, priests and sisters who are still being persecuted for wanting to remain Catholic....especially Archbishop Vigano. May God richly bless them with grace to be strong and faithful. Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us! God have mercy on us poor sinners! Sad Reality For The Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary - Reparation Needed (and Boycotting)8/21/2024  Greetings in Jesus and Mary,
This will be the saddest article you will have ever read. Someone sent me a Twitter (X) Post that is very telling about abortion. It is a fact that abortion throughout the world is not only a means of "depopulation" for the elites that run this world but it is also a means of disgusting profit. This is sick to have to say....if we give it enough thought....it would move us to live a life of reparation INDEFINITELY! Tomorrow is the Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Immaculate Heart should never be said without the word Sorrowful as well. Our poor Mother Mary is very sorrowful for many reasons. Looks like the Democratic Party is offering free service at their convention. We know who they serve! (LINK BELOW) This will be during Her Feast day tomorrow as well! We all feel the evil around us and an imminent punishment for the world. Until that day finally comes, we can offer prayers of reparation and sacrifice which is what we have been asked to do at Fatima. She asked for reparation and for all of us to pray the Rosary daily and to consecrate ourselves to Her Immaculate Heart. May we all live the consecration daily and promote this consecration to all those around us. Below are some videos to show the evil that Satan has perpetrated on mankind. First, is the message from Twitter by a man named, Brandon Morse. He gives a real analysis of why abortion is such a sick industry today.....it is a blasphemy against God as well as murder. A must listen to for all Catholics! Also, are videos to show how they use these innocent ones for profit. This is very alarming and I am sure there are more sick ways in which they profit from these little ones than what I have posted here. After listening to these there will be NO DOUBT TO THE ANSWER OF THIS QUESTION......DO WE NEED REPARATION DONE? ARE THE HEARTS OF JESUS AND MARY CRYING OUT FOR US TO STOP AND MAKE THIS REPARATION? O Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Ghost, I adore Thee profoundly. I offer Thee the most precious Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ present in all the tabernacles of the world, in reparation for the outrages, sacrileges and indifferences by which He is offended. By the infinite merits of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary I beg the conversion of poor sinners. Jesus and Mary, I love You, save souls! God have mercy, upon us!  Greetings in Jesus and Mary!
Tomorrow is the Feast of the Assumption!! Below is some info from previous articles on Our Lady. The following truly needs another repeat! The Most Holy Trinity had assumed our Blessed Mothers Immaculate Soul and Body into Heaven upon Her Dormition. What a great grace from God given to His most perfect creature and so very deserving! We will only come to know how much She has done for all of us in the eternal life. How beautiful it will be to see Her in Her splendor and radiance seated upon Her rightful throne as Queen of Heaven (and Earth)! How She has been so misunderstood and so little loved here on this earth! Her importance is about to be revealed though as we inch closer and closer to the Reign of Her Immaculate Heart here on this earth which was promised at Fatima. What a glorious day to live in hope for! How we need a renewal of love - of Christian spirit! It must be evident to anyone who reflects upon the sad state of things; that what the world needs more than anything else -- is spiritual regeneration. The fatherhood of God, the brotherhood of mankind, love and charity, peace and happiness, holiness in the family, all the good things which Christ brought down from Heaven have practically disappeared all because Our Redeemer has been banished from His rightful throne....our hearts!! He has been driven from government, from education, from the home, from the lives of men and women and from all human relations. The social body is no longer vitalized by the life of the spirit of Christ. It is because Our Savior has been dethroned that the peace of the Holy Ghost no longer rests upon the world. Since there is no name under Heaven in which there is salvation for man except the Name of Jesus, the world must be reborn in Him, and, Mary must be the Mother of its regeneration! When the world sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, it was She who gave it its Redeemer; and to the end of time, She will remain our Life, our Sweetness and our Hope! How beautiful and how this fact expresses the love of God the Father in giving us so great, so loving, so beautiful, so self sacrificing a Queen and Mother. Her divine motherhood has made Her the Spiritual Mother of all men and never has it been known that anyone who fled to Her for help was left unaided. If men and nations would return to Her love, they would be as safe as the Infant Jesus was when He rested in Her arms. The Lord is with Her; and if we want Him to be with us, we must love Her whom He has made the Mother of our salvation. This insistence on Mary’s role in the Church for the salvation of all mankind brings us back to the Magnificat, the song of Mary expressing her gratitude: for “the Almighty has done great things for me” (Lk 1:49) In this song, St. Luke expressed, under the inspiration of the Holy Ghost, the interior life of Mary, her love for God, and her dedication to His Holy Will. We could say that he became the first interpreter of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. The Fatima prayer said at the end of each decade: “O my Jesus, forgive us our sins. save us from the fires of hell; lead all souls to Heaven, especially those most in need of Your mercy,” is said to Jesus through Mary in the Rosary. Mary has an essential role in God’s plan in the achieving of the salvation of the human race. It is to this Queen of Heaven that the Church should have recourse in all of its difficulties. It should entrust all its plans to Her because in praying to Her and loving Her, it can respond to the wish expressed by the Savior on the Cross, and it is certain it will not be disappointed in its prayers. We in no way will take anything away from Jesus by doing this but on the contrary we will be giving all to Him through Her hands -- and it is a sure way to Him! St. John Bosco taught his boys the advice of St. Bernard which was the following: “When the storms of temptation burst upon you, when you see yourself driven upon the rocks of tribulation, look up at the star, call upon Mary. When buffeted by the billows of pride, ambition, or hatred, or jealousy, look up at the star, call upon Mary. Should anger, or avarice, or carnal desires violently assail the little vessel of your soul, look up at the star, call upon Mary. If troubled on account of the heinousness of your sins, confounded at the filthy state of your conscience, and terrified at the thought of the awful judgment to come, you begin to sink into the bottomless gulf of sadness and to be absorbed in the abyss of despair, oh, then think of Mary! In danger, in doubts, in difficulties, think of Mary, call upon Mary. Let not Her name depart from your lips. Never suffer it to leave your heart that you may more surely obtain the assistance of Her prayers, neglect not to walk in Her footsteps. With Her for your guide, you will never go astray. While invoking Her, you will never lose heart so long as She is in your mind, you are safe from deception. While She holds you in Her hand, you cannot fall. Under Her protection, you have nothing to fear. If She walks before you, you will not grow weary. If She shows you favor, you will reach your goal – Heaven!” These are encouraging words for such a dismal world that seems to be imploding. She is Queen of all the empire of which He is King; all that He possesses as Son of God, She possesses as the Mother of Jesus. May we pray daily: May His Kingdom come through Mary! Queen of Heaven and Earth pray for us now and at the hour of our death! Mary we love You - please lead us to Jesus so that we may all be with You in Heaven...our true Home!  Greetings in Jesus and Mary...
Blessed Feast of the Transfiguration of Our Lord! Here is a story for a day in history when Our Lady gave us a miracle to help all of us believe in her warnings and believe in her requests for a daily Rosary. This is an amazing miraculous story to help all of us today in our lives of living the Fatima message. May we share this story to gain graces and hope during these trying times. Below is a short homily and commentary to help us understand this miracle. It is a DEEP SHAME that the hierarchy of the Catholic Church is bent on suppressing the entire Fatima message. Just imagine how this world would be right now if the message of Fatima was shared and lived ..... even if only in our Catholic churches. Share and live the Fatima message! Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us! Little Jacinta, Francesco and Lucia, pray for us!  Greetings in Jesus and Mary...
I am going to post three links below that are all related to the present moment in time. They help us to understand how we got here (and realize how we could have prevented it). We can mitigate some of this suffering with prayer, penance and reparation. This is all related to the Fatima message and the warnings Our Blessed Mother tried to give us. This ties into my last article on the necessity of the First Saturday devotion. The first link is a video of comments by Fr, Malachi Martin put together by Anthony Stine a few years ago compiling some info from his works and interviews. I think this report is relevant since he actually read the Third Secret of Fatima. Here is a little background on Fr. Martin: Malachi Brendan Martin (23 July 1921 – 27 July 1999),was an Irish born American, traditional Catholic priest, biblical archeologist, exorcist, paleographer, professor, and writer on the Catholic Church. I think it is important to say that he is one of 10 children which 4 had become priests. Ordained as a Jesuit, Martin became Professor of Paleography at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome. From 1958, he served as secretary to Cardinal Augustin Bea during preparations for the Second Vatican Council. Disillusioned by the council, Martin asked to be released from certain aspects of his Jesuit vows in 1964 and moved to New York City. He sacrificed everything because of the corruption in the Jesuit Order. Instead, he chose to alarm the world with his books and interviews. Martin's 17 novels and non-fiction books were frequently critical of the Catholic Heirarchy, who he believed had failed to act on what he called "the Third Prophecy" revealed by our Blessed Mother at Fatima in 1917. I think this is pertinent to our website since he saw first hand the suppression of the Fatima message in Rome. The next link below is a related message from Dr. Taylor Marshall talking about Padre Pio and his words about the relationship of the Fatima message and the apostasy in Rome. Last is a link about the New World Order (which Papa Bergoglio is a part of and has been working with) and what they have in store for us. Of course, this is all to educate us and inspire us to continue our faithfulness to Truth and continue our Reparation Prayers to console the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. Also, may we share this with those who are strong enough to listen and to act accordingly. May The Reign of the Immaculate Heart of Mary come so that the Reign of Jesus may come to all the hearts of the world. PS...Please pray for all Church leaders, especially those who are suffering from revealing the Truth such as Archbishop Vigano. May the Hearts of Jesus and Mary comfort their suffering hearts and may we pray that the suffering endured now for Truth may be offered to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary in Reparation for the crimes now committed in the Church. God bless all of you!  Greetings in Jesus and Mary...
Happy August, the month of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Tomorrow is First Saturday and a great month to refresh our memories of the need for the Five First Saturdays. As we all know, we need Reparation like we have never needed it before. Everywhere we look....everywhere....screams the need for Reparation. We can not overlook the need. One of the main messages of Fatima was the need for Reparation. As soon as the children were visited by the Angel (before Our Lady appeared to them), he asked the children for prayers of Reparation which is part of our Rule and for the children to make sacrifices. The message of the Five First Saturdays began in December 1925, almost 100 years ago; when Our Lady and the Child Jesus appeared to Sister Lucia, who had become a Dorothean sister living in a convent at Pontevedra and requested the institution of the First Saturdays Devotion. She showed Her Heart to Sister Lucia encircled with thorns. The Christ Child said: “Look My daughter, at My Heart, surrounded with thorns with which ungrateful men pierce Me at every moment by their blasphemies and ingratitude. You, at least, try to console Me, and announce in My Name that I promise to assist at the hour of death, with all the graces necessary for salvation, all those who, on the first Saturdays of five consecutive months, confess, receive Holy Communion, recite the Rosary and keep Me company for fifteen minutes while meditating on the fifteen mysteries of the Rosary with the intention of making reparation to Me.” Our Lord later revealed to Sr. Lucia that the reason for the five first Saturdays is because of the five types of offenses and blasphemies committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary: 1. Blasphemies against the Immaculate Conception. 2. Blasphemies against Her Perpetual Virginity. 3. Blasphemies against Her Divine Maternity, refusing at the same time recognize Her as the Mother of men. 4. The blasphemies of those who publicly seek to sow in the hearts of children indifference or scorn, or even hatred of the Immaculate Mother. 5. The offenses of those who outrage Her directly in Her holy images. Here My daughter, is the reason why the Immaculate Heart of Mary inspired Me to ask for this little act of reparation…and in consideration of it, to move My mercy to pardon souls who have had the misfortune of offending Her. As for you, always seek by your prayers and sacrifices to move My mercy to pity for these poor souls.” The Blessed Mother promised to assist at the hour of death with the graces necessary for salvation all who, as an act of reparation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, on the first five Saturdays of consecutive months:
The life of Reparation is the life of a Traditional Lay Carmelite of Fatima. We are to breathe Reparation. May we memorize ALL the prayers of Fatima and say them THROUGHOUT all of our days. May we add, "Jesus, Mary, I love You, save souls." for all those souls who are now perishing in the present chastisements and all those souls who will be perishing in the coming chastisements. May Our Lord draw back a curtain on our Judgement Day to show us all the souls we helped save with our prayers and all the pain mitigated from the Hearts of Jesus and Mary with our prayers of Reparation. WHAT A LIFE! Even if we were to be arrested and put in prison for life, we can live this life of prayer and it will be so fruitful! May we glorify God for this gift of our vocation and may we live in the hope of mitigating the sufferings from the Hearts of Jesus and Mary and may we win for them MANY MANY souls. May we pray for the TRIUMPH OF THE IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY! May we live in joy and thanksgiving as we pray our prayers of Reparation during these cold and dark times we are living in! Blessed be the Hearts of Jesus and Mary!  Greetings in Jesus and Mary....
Blessed Feast day of St. Mary Magdalene. May we ask for her intercession during these trying days on earth. I am posting this article today because there are reports that Sr. Sasagawa is dying and is in need of our prayers as she parts to her reward. Michael Matt from The Remnant just posted a vintage video of Michael Davies explaining what happened during the Second Vatican Council. Here we are some 60 plus years later and we can see that the Freemasons have hijacked the Council. He does a great job of explaining the important points of it. (Link Below) This video is important for this article on Akita which followed Fatima in their dire warnings which Our Blessed Mother gave to us. It helps us to understand now why they have all been ignored. The infiltrated Rome has silenced Our Blessed Mother. Below is a video of an interview done by Father Elias Mary of the Franciscan of the Immaculata regarding the coverup of the apparitions at Akita in the 1970's regarding a chastisement by fire because of the apostasy in the Church and a lack of repentance and reparation of the people of the Church and the world. In Akita, Japan, on Saturday, Oct. 13, 1973 — the anniversary of Fatima’s Miracle of the Sun — Our Blessed Mother gave a dire warning for the world. In part, she said: "My dear daughter, listen well to what I have to say to you. … As l told you, if men do not repent and better themselves, the Father will inflict a terrible punishment on all humanity. It will be a punishment greater than the deluge, such as one will never have seen before. Fire will fall from the sky and will wipe out a great part of humanity, the good as well as the bad, sparing neither priests nor faithful. The survivors will find themselves so desolate that they will envy the dead." She also told her the following........ "The only arms that will remain for you will be the Rosary and the Sign left by my Son. Each day recite the prayers of the Rosary. With the Rosary, pray for the Pope, the bishops and the priests. The work of the devil will infiltrate even into the Church in such a way that one will see cardinals opposing cardinals, bishops against other bishops. The priests who venerate me will be scorned and opposed by their confrères … churches and altars sacked; the Church will be full of those who accept compromises and the demon will press many priests and consecrated souls to leave the service of the Lord." AKITA EUCHARIST PRAYER (To be added on this website to our daily prayers) Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, truly present in the Holy Eucharist, I consecrate my body and soul to be entirely one with Your heart, being sacrificed at every instant on all the altars of the world and giving praise to the Father pleading for the coming of His Kingdom. Please receive this humble offering of myself. Use me as You will for the glory of the Father and salvation of souls. Most Holy Mother of God, never let me be separated from Your Divine Son. Please defend and protect me as Your special child. Amen. Like Fatima, we are called to a Consecration to Her Immaculate Heart by wearing the Brown Scapular and praying our Rosary during these very trying days in the world and in the Church. At Fatima, Eucharistic Adoration and belief in the Real Presence were stressed in the reparation prayers. Therefore, we need to go to as many Tridentine Masses as we can to offer reparation as well as the prayers taught. Promote wearing the Brown Scapular and teach others the prayers of the Rosary. Now is the time to be diligent in answering the requests of our good Mother and Queen. Below are the videos.....you may need to listen to them more than once because there is so much to understand and pray about. May Our Lady, Queen of Heaven and Earth, pray for us! Sacred Heart of Jesus, Have Mercy on us!  Greetings in Jesus and Mary:
St. Elijah is an important Feast in Carmel, July 20th – a Prophet used by God to steer people clear of false gods. How we need this Prophet today! Elijah stood up boldly for God in a time when idolatry had swept his land. In fact, his name means "My God is Yah(weh)." The false god Elijah opposed was Baal, the favorite deity of Jezebel, wife of King Ahab of Israel. To please Jezebel, Ahab had altars erected to Baal, and the queen murdered God's prophets. Elijah appeared before King Ahab to announce God's curse: "As the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, whom I serve, there will be neither dew nor rain in the next few years except at my word." (1 Kings 17:1) Then Elijah fled to the brook Cherith, east of the Jordan River, where ravens brought him bread and meat. When the brook dried up, God sent Elijah to live with a widow in Zarephath. God performed another miracle there, blessing the woman's oil and flour so it did not run out. Unexpectedly, the widow's son died. Elijah stretched himself on the boy's body three times, and God restored the child's life. Confident of the power of God, Elijah challenged the 450 prophets of Baal and the 400 prophets of the false god Asherah to a showdown on Mount Carmel for it to once again rain. The idolaters sacrificed a bull and cried out to Baal from morning until nightfall, even slashing their skin until blood flowed, but nothing happened. Elijah then rebuilt the altar of the Lord, sacrificing a bull there. He put the burnt offering on it, along with wood. He had a servant douse the sacrifice and wood with four jars of water, three times, until all was thoroughly soaked. Elijah called on the Lord, and God's fire fell from heaven, consuming the offering, the wood, the altar, the water, and even the dust around it. The people fell on their faces, shouting, "The Lord, he is God; the Lord, he is God." (1 Kings 18:39, ) Elijah ordered the people to slay the 850 false prophets. Elijah prayed, and rain fell on Israel. Jezebel was furious at the loss of her prophets, however, and swore to kill Elijah. This brought on a dark night for him despite all of this success. When Queen Jezebel sent her men to hunt him down for slaughtering most of her false prophets, at the showdown in Mount Carmel, Elijah went into hiding and despair and begged God to take his life (1 King 19:1-4). Instead, the prophet slept, and an angel brought him food. Strengthened, Elijah went 40 days and 40 nights to Mount Horeb, where God appeared to him in a whisper. Elijah was both a man of prayer and action. He lived in Mount Carmel to savor the delights of deep contemplation and left it only when sent by God to do His bidding. He was a man of no compromise, a man who spoke the truth when it wasn’t popular, a man who allowed himself to be guided by his zeal for the Lord God of Hosts. He was also a man of deep compassion and sensitivities. God ordered Elijah to anoint his successor, Elisha, whom he found plowing with 12 yoke of oxen. Elisha killed the animals for a sacrifice and followed his master. Elijah went on to prophesy the deaths of Ahab, King Ahaziah, and Jezebel. Like Enoch, Elijah did not die. God sent chariots and horses of fire and took Elijah up to heaven in a whirlwind, while Elisha stood watching. (2Kings 2: 9-12), The story of Elijah is always an inspiring one. He is very relevant to us in our modern age. The basic needs of the human heart never really change. The ways of expressing these needs may vary because of culture and time, but the realities of thirst for the supernatural, search for truth, dissatisfaction with the false gods of power, wealth, ambitions and prestige, longing for a deeper respect for human life, the need to call on a power greater than our own, experiences of fear and despair when faced with forces greater than our own, remain the same. Faced as we are in this modern era with materialism, secularism and intellectual atheism, we most often straddle important issues of our day and adopt a “politically correct” and overly simplistic approach to life’s most important questions. Elijah did not find solutions to his problems by himself but always had recourse to God through prayer. He allowed himself to be filled and guided by God in moments when he sought Him in prayer. He did not weigh the consequences of his actions in the sense of acting only when there was assured victory. He was totally abandoned, docile and trusting that God would finish what he had begun. Even in his dark night of spirit he was docile and humble. He was not afraid to lend a voice to his despair and to acknowledge the fact that he was afraid and inadequate. He desired death because the fight became wearisome. He felt abandoned thinking he was the only one left among the followers of Yahweh. He was ready to give up. Yet, it was through this fear that true courage was born. It was through this emptiness that the cup was filled. It was in this nothingness of man that God was manifested as God. As a Carmelite, we pray that the spirit of our holy father Saint Elijah be given to us. His double spirit of prayer and action is the hallmark of true Carmelite spirituality. In our age of intellectual rationalizations, the voice of this great prophet is once again heard: How long will we straddle the issue? If we believe in God then we must follow him unreservedly, with docility and courage, and trust. What does this mean? It means not counting the cost, not acting only because of assured success, not worrying too much about the good opinions of others. We accept the fact that we will never understand everything that happens to us despite our greatest and honest efforts. We must trust in God – He alone matters. Our Lady of Mt. Carmel pray for us!  Greetings in Jesus and Mary!
Blessed feast day to all! I am repeating an article done in the past for this great feast day because of the message of the Scapular being a garment of war. Yes, we are at war. This is a very special title for Our Lady. The Carmelite Order IS the Order of Our Lady. The history of it goes back to before Christ on Mount Carmel where the first monks prayed for the coming of the Messiah and for the coming of The Virgin who would give Him birth. It only makes sense that the Eternal Father would have these prayer warriors inspired to pray for the necessary graces needed for the world to receive Our Lady who would then receive the Son of God - our Savior. It is a very beautiful and rich history. It is a great honor and privilege to be a Carmelite! Traditionally, today, many priests will offer either today or the Sunday nearest this day to enroll new members into the Confraternity of the Brown Scapular. Today, so little emphasis is given to this amazing sacramental. For those of us who study God's gift of Our Lady, we know Her amazing place in our salvation. Her yes, allowed the Son of God to be born and die for our sins. We have so much to be grateful for. She was conceived without Original Sin in order to be the first tabernacle of Jesus which had to be very pure. She is Immaculate! We need to give Her our gratitude with our obedience to Her wishes which She has given to us so many times throughout Catholic history. It is always the same --- repent, do penance, pray the Rosary and wear Her Scapular! Lucia of Fatima stated that the Rosary and the Scapular are inseparable. We must do both in order to receive the graces given to those enrolled in Her army. Father Daniel Lord, SJ has written so much for us in the years gone by and I will take some of the words he wrote for the nine day novena pamphlet to Our Lady of Mt Carmel given to us in 1947. I quote: "The scapular of Our Lady of Mount Carmel is a uniform, the splendid uniform of those who enlist under Christ and Mary to battle evil and defend the right. Almost from the dawn of history uniforms have suggested war. Soldiers wore them when they went out to do battle. Now with the coming of Christ, a new kind of war was emphasized: the war of truth against lies, of right against wrong. Naturally enough in this new war, in which there were armies on the side of Christ, the men and women who pledge to fight the good fight and thrust Satan back into hell came to wear uniforms. These were the religious habits of early Christian times, the special garb worn by priests and brothers and nuns. The scapular of Our Lady is the badge of our allegiance to Christ and His Mother in their fight against the forces of Evil. It has become a distinctive emblem of a Catholic. When Satan, the great and immortal enemy of the human race, won the preliminary skirmish of Eden, the voice of God Himself foretold that the foot of a conquering woman would crush the devil's head. Mary, conqueror of heresies... Mary, triumphant always in the battle with sin... We wearers of the uniform of Mary know the certainty of victory and the clear prospect of eternal peace. Before all observers, that scapular says: "I am a soldier of Christ and of Mary. I am a sworn enemy of evil." Mary watches with eagerness and guards with care those sons and daughters who wear Her uniform and profess by Her scapular their consecration to Her!" Above is taken from Father Daniel Lord, SJ "Mount Carmel Novena" 1947 So we conclude by saying that we should be happy and proud to be able to wear Her Scapular in this battle today. We can't help but think that it is no wonder that the enemy, who now is actually lurking in the Church, has silenced the promotion to this Scapular - EVEN WITHIN THE CARMELITE ORDER! Satan doesn't want a single soul to be wearing it!! Much Reparation is needed for this crime!! Even the Blue Army, that once promoted it - is now renamed "The Fatima Apostolate". It is politically incorrect to talk of an army or being a soldier of Christ ---- we are now called to tolerate evil - everywhere. THIS IS FALSE TEACHING AND SHOULD BE COUNTERED WITH THE TRUTH! May we wear our uniform bravely, courageously and boldly in this battle of good vs. evil, knowing that the Queen of Mt. Carmel is given the grace by God to crush the head of the devil. Let us not disappoint our King and Queen - let us promote enrollment in Our Lady's army which is fighting a very great battle right now against Satan and his cohorts. Let us put on the uniform of the Brown Scapular of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel on our bodies and the weapon of Her Rosary beads in our hands so that we can help protect many souls from being deceived by the enemy and present them instead to the Heart of Her Son - Jesus Christ - Our Lord and King. May Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, pray for us. All ye Carmelite saints, pray for us. Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us! |
AuthorBernadette Porter is a Traditional Catholic, a wife of 44 years with 6 adult home-schooled children and 7 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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