Greetings in Jesus and Mary.... Tomorrow is the blessed feast day of the Purification of Mary, Candlemas, Our Lady of Good Success and the Flame of Love! May we thank God for this great day in honor of Mary- Our Good Queen and Mother! In past years for this feast day, I have taken some ideas from Marian Horvat who writes on Tradition in Action and has written on Mother Mariana and the message of Our Lady of Good Success for us! You can find her books and the full article on that website - Tradition in Action. Dr. Marian Horvat has written an article years ago on the relation of the messages of Our Lady of Good Success and the message of Fatima which we are trying to promote here on this website. Dr. Horvat writes that when God sent Prophets in the Old Testament it was to remind men to come back to the truth. In the 20th century Our Lord has sent His Mother, the Queen of Prophets: “Go to earth and destroy heresies.” The Fathers of the Church have written that Our Lady is the hammer or destroyer of all heresies. The message of Our Lady of Fatima, is a call for conversion and prayer - especially the Rosary - but also many warnings against the heresies and errors of our times. Our Lady of Good Success confirms these warnings of Fatima almost 300 years before in a very descriptive and open way to the humble Conceptionist sister in Quito, Ecuador - Mother Mariana de Jesus Torres. Marian Horvat first points out that both messages stress a need for expiatory victims We are approaching the end of the 20th century, the century of man, who has embraced every pleasure and adopted the maxim of the Revolution of the 60s: It is only forbidden to forbid. It is appropriate that the messages of Fatima and Quito speak to man of the need for expiatory victims and the love of the Cross. At the very first apparition of Our Lady at Fatima, Our Lady asks the children, “Do you want to offer yourselves to God to endure all the sufferings He may choose to send you, as an act of reparation for the sins by which He is offended and as a supplication for the conversion of sinners?” She asks for man’s cooperation in the divine plan, and the children agreed. Lucia said, “Yes, we do.” “Then you are going to suffer a great deal, but the grace of God will be your comfort.” Likewise, at Quito, Our Lady asked the cooperation of Mother Mariana in her great mission that connects us to our days. In 1582, when Mother Mariana was praying before the Blessed Sacrament, for the first time she was given to see the heresy, blasphemy and impurity that would inundate the world as punishment in the 20th century. Our Lady asked her: “My daughter, will you sacrifice yourself for the people of this time?” Mother Mariana replied, “I am willing.” From the violence of the shock of previewing the horrors of our day, Mother Mariana fell dead. Historic and documented evidence record that this holy religious truly died in 1582 and resurrected. Before the divine tribunal, she was given the choice to remain in heaven or return to suffer in the world. Following the example of Our Lady, who left the glories of heaven to protect her children during those difficult first years of the fledgling Church, Mother Mariana chose to return to life to expiate for the great sins of our times. It seems there is also a special message for us in the way the children of Fatima and Mother Mariana accepted and embraced the cross. The mystery of the cross is such a very special grace that Eternal Wisdom only bestows it on His best friends. “It is a greater happiness for St. Peter,” writes St. John Chrysostom, “to be imprisoned for Jesus Christ than to be with Him in His glory on Mt. Thabor; it is a greater glory for him to wear his prisoner’s chains than to bear in his hands the keys to Paradise.” Eternal Wisdom tells us that the number of fools is infinite. That is, St. Louis de Montfort says, because the number of those who do not know the value of the Cross is infinite, and they carry it despite themselves. You should thrill with joy, he says, because the cross you carry is a gift so precious, it would arouse the envy for the Blessed if they were capable of envy (Love of Eternal Wisdom, p. 97). Dr. Horvat also points out that both messages prove the Dogma of the Church that hell exists....(Yes, hell exists!) The First Secret of Fatima breaks the myth, the lie of 20th century, that hell does not exist. On July 13, 1917, Our Lady told three children, ages 10, 8, 7, to “pray, pray very much because many souls go to Hell. Then she opened Her hands and showed the three children a hole in the ground, a place. That hole, said Lucy, was like a sea of fire in which we saw the souls of human forms, men and women, burning, shouting, and crying in despair.” Mary said to the children: “You have seen Hell where sinners go when they do not repent.” During her life, Mother Mariana begged Our Lord to save the soul of an insubordinate sister in the convent. He agreed that this rebellious sister would be saved, although she would be required to remain in purgatory until the end of the world. In recompense, Mother Mariana had to suffer five years on earth the pains of hell. For five years, she suffered all the tortures of the senses reserved for souls in that terrible place and the most intense suffering of the sense of the loss of God. Dr. Horvat points out the almost complete breakdown of customs revealed in both messages During Jacinta’s stay at the orphanage of Our Lady of Miracles in Lisbon in 1920, Our Lady told her, “The sins that lead more souls to hell are the sins of the flesh.” There were other prophecies She revealed to the little girl: “Styles will come that will offend Our Lord very much. Persons who serve God should not follow the styles. The Church does not have styles. Our Lord is always the same.” She said that the sins of impurity would be so great there would be almost no virgin souls. She said that many marriages are not good, that they do not please Our Lord and are not of God. Finally, Jacinta repeated continually to Lucia and Mother Godinho: “Pray much for priests and religious. Priests should be pure, very pure!” Three centuries before, in Quito, Ecuador, on January 20, 1610, Our Lady appeared carrying a crozier in Her right hand and her Divine Son in her left arm so that, “all will know that I am merciful and understanding. Let them come to me, for I will lead them to Him.” She told Mother Mariana that in the twentieth century, “the passions will erupt and there will be a total corruption of customs, for Satan will reign almost completely by means of the Masonic sects. They will focus particularly on the children in order to achieve this general corruption. Woe to the children of these times.” Obviously, she is speaking of the secular humanist revolution about which so much has been written that has completely invaded the secular as well as religious institutions of our times. Our Lady continued, describing the abuses that would attack each of the Sacraments: “Woe to the children of these times because it will be difficult to receive the Sacrament of Baptism and also that of Confirmation.” She warned that the devil would assiduously try to destroy the sacrament of Confession and Holy Communion. She lamented the many sacrileges and abuses of the Blessed Sacrament that would occur. The Sacrament of Extreme Unction would be little esteemed and many people would die without receiving it, thus denied assistance they would need for that “great leap from time to Eternity.” The Sacred Sacrament of Holy Orders would be ridiculed, oppressed and despised. The demon would labor unceasingly to corrupt the clergy and would succeed with many of them. And these “depraved priests, who will scandalize the Christian people, will incite the hatred of the bad Christians and the enemies of the Roman, Catholic and Apostolic Church to fall upon all priests. This apparent triumph of Satan will bring enormous sufferings upon the good pastors of the Church.” About the Sacrament of Matrimony, which symbolizes the union of Christ with His Church, she said this: “Masonry, which will then be in power, will enact iniquitous laws with the objective of doing away with this Sacrament, making it easy for everyone to live in sin. … The Christian spirit will rapidly decay, extinguishing the precious light of Faith until it reaches the point that there will be an almost total and general corruption of customs. In these unhappy times, there will be unbridled luxury that would conquer innumerable frivolous souls who will be lost. Innocence will almost no longer be found in children, nor modesty in women. In this supreme moment of need of the Church, those who should speak will fall silent.” This forewarning resounds loudly in the ears of those who have followed the Fatima apparitions: “In this supreme moment of need of the Church, those who should speak will fall silent.” It is impossible not to ask: Why was the third secret of Fatima not revealed in 1960 according to the mandate of the Queen of Heaven? Why have the conciliar and post-conciliar popes remained silent in face of the command of Heaven? Finally, we arrived at one of the most important apparitions of Our Lady of Good Success to Mother Mariana in 1634, a year before her death. As Mother Mariana prayed before the Blessed Sacrament on Feb. 2 (the Feast of the Purification - Presentation), she saw the sanctuary light extinguish itself, leaving the altar place completely dark. This is significant in itself for those of us today who have reason to believe that, in fact, in many churches across the world the Tabernacle light has, quite literally, been extinguished. Our Lady then explained the five meanings of the Tabernacle light that had been extinguished before her eyes. The first meaning: “At the end of the 19th century and into the 20th century, various heresies will be propagated in this land. … As these heresies spread and dominate, the precious light of Faith will be extinguished in souls by the almost total corruption of customs. During this period, there will be great physical and moral calamities, both public and private.” However, there would be souls, she promised, who would remain faithful and would preserve the treasure of the Faith and virtues. But these would suffer a cruel, unspeakable and prolonged martyrdom. “In order to free men from bondage to these heresies, those chosen by My Most Holy Son to effect the restoration will need great strength of will, constancy, valor and confidence in God. To test this faith and confidence of the just, there will be occasions where all will seem to be lost and paralyzed. This, then, will be the happy beginning of the complete restoration.” These chosen souls, who will restore the health of the Church, seem to be very similar to the apostles of the latter times predicted by St. Louis Marie Grignion de Montfort. The second meaning: The crisis in the clergy, both secular and regular. Many vocations would be lost, and injustice and iniquity would enter the convents and monasteries under the guise of “false charity, wreaking havoc in souls.” “The secular clergy,” She said, “will leave much to be desired because priests will become careless in their sacred duties. Lacking the divine compass, they will stray from the road traced by God for the priestly ministry, and they will become attached to wealth and riches, which they will unduly strive to obtain. “How the Church will suffer during this dark night! … [Lacking a prelate and father to guide them with paternal love, gentleness, strength, wisdom and prudence, many priests will lose their spirit, placing their souls in great danger.”] The third meaning: Impurity will permeate the atmosphere and there will almost no virgin souls in the world. I have already mentioned this prophecy, so will continue on to the next. The fourth meaning: “Masonic sects, having infiltrated all the social classes, would subtly introduce its teaching into domestic ambiences in order to corrupt the children,” she warned. It is the invasion of the secular humanism of Freemasonry and the errors of Communism. But Our Lady promised that there would be, “religious communities and individuals who would labor with valor and disinterested zeal for the salvation of souls. Against them, the impious would rage cruel wars.” The fifth meaning is quite interesting: Our Lady said, “The fifth reason that the lamp was extinguished is due to the laxity and the negligence of those who possess great wealth who will indifferently stand by and witness the Church being oppressed, virtue being persecuted, and the triumph of the demon, without piously employing their riches for the destruction of this evil and the restoration of the Faith.” The Queen of Heaven also noted that this quenching of the Tabernacle light was also due to the indifference of the people in allowing the Name of God to be gradually extinguished and in adhering to the spirit of evil, freely delivering themselves to the vices and passions. Fatima and Quito: Messages that confirm each other It seems to me an opportune moment for this story of Our Lady of Good Success and Mother Mariana de Jesus Torres to become better known to the English-speaking public. For there, just as she did at Fatima, she asked for prayer and sacrifice to make amends for the many outrages and abuses of this unhappy century. But also, at Quito, just as She did at Fatima, she assures us of her fortunate intervention and triumph. For the message of Our Lady of Good Success is, like that of Our Lady at Fatima, a message of great hope. She promised a band of stalwart souls filled with confidence who would help to effect the happy Restoration. She promised her intercession at the very moment when the evil will appear triumphant and when the authority abuses her power. This would mark, as She said, “the arrival of my hour, when, in a marvelous way, I will dethrone the proud and accursed Satan, trampling him under my feet and fettering him in the infernal abyss.” These words harmonize perfectly with the message of hope Our Lady delivered to the three children at Fatima in 1917: “In the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph.” To become worthy of the success, the victory that Our Lady predicted, we need a supernatural confidence. We need to be entirely convinced of that victory - the promise of Our Lady at Fatima in 1917: “In the End My immaculate Heart will Triumph.” We need to be completely convinced of the happy restoration: the words of Our Lady at Quito in 1634: “To test this faith and confidence of the just, there will be occasions where all will seem to be lost and paralyzed. This, then, will be the happy beginning of the complete restoration.” HOLY MOTHER MARY - PRAY FOR US SINNERS NOW AND AT THE HOUR OF OUR DEATH! IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY, PLEASE SEND FORTH THE GRACES OF YOUR FLAME OF LOVE TO ALL OF MANKIND!
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Greetings in Jesus and Mary.... We are getting close to Ash Wednesday and Lent. The Christmas season is officially over after February 2nd but we are in the week of Septuagesima which gives us a pre-Lenten preparation which I always feel I need. I also do the Novena to the Holy Face before the Feast day of the Holy Face which is always the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday and will be February 13th this year. My children always knew we started Lent at the start of this Novena which this year will be this Sunday, February 4th. Today's Gospel reading is perfect for getting us to understand that we need to prepare. It is.... Matt 25:1-13. At that time Jesus spoke this parable to His disciples: "Then will the kingdom of heaven be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went forth to meet the bridegroom and the bride. Five of them were foolish and five wise. But the five foolish, when they took their lamps, took no oil with them, while the wise did take oil in their vessels with the lamps. Then as the bridegroom was long in coming, they all became drowsy and slept. And at midnight a cry arose, 'Behold, the bridegroom is coming, go forth to meet him!' Then all those virgins arose and trimmed their lamps. And the foolish said to the wise, 'Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.' The wise answered, saying, 'Lest there may not be enough for us and for you, go rather to those who sell it, and buy some for yourselves.' Now while they were to buy it, the bridegroom came; and those who were ready went in with him to the marriage feast, and the door was shut. Finally there came also the other virgins, who said, 'Sir, sir, open the door for us!' But he answered and said, 'Amen I say to you, I do not know you.' Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour." I also would like to post a presentation done by John Henry Westen Show to help us realize what is coming soon. The events in the Church and in the world prove that we are not far from these prophecies. May we all get ready for Lent and prepare ourselves for what is about to come. Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us! Greetings in Jesus and Mary! Blessed Feast Day of the Epiphany! (and First Saturday) May we give our all this year to Jesus so that He can fill us with the necessary graces to make it through a very likely tough year. The gifts of the Magi were so significant for the King of Kings Who came down from Heaven to die for all of us on the cross in order to open the gates of Heaven!. Epiphany is a time to reflect on Jesus Christ and His Divinity. The Magi’s visit reveals this to us with their symbolic gifts they brought to the infant Jesus: gold, frankincense, and myrrh. These gifts are believed to represent Jesus’ kingship, divinity, and death. Gold which is the most fitting thing for a Royal King, Frankincense and Myrrh were used in the embalming process as a means of perfuming and anointing. It must have been hard for Mary and Joseph to accept these without having a heavy heart for Jesus' coming suffering and death. I searched YouTube to find the song "What Can I Give Him". When my children were small, we would sing this. The below video is the best video I could find that shows a large holy family teaching their little ones to love Jesus. This is so uplifting to watch in a world that is growing colder by the day! The love of God is a pale light in the world right now because so many do not want Him,..... or love Him. I hope you enjoy it and give Him your heart in a bigger way this year. Our Lady of the Most Blessed Sacrament, pray for us! Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us! Greetings in Jesus and Mary.... Blessed Feast day of the Holy Name of Jesus!! I am posting today a talk by Fr. William Casey (below link)which is very relevant for today even though it was from a few years back. He talks about how we are to not be afraid and to start making changes today and not put them off till tomorrow. That is the New Year's failure that we all have encountered....putting it off......putting it off....putting it off. May we ask Our Lady to give us the necessary graces to serve God above all things and to do His most Holy Will daily starting today. May we grow in grace and may that be our goal until we are before Him on our judgement day.....For the greater glory of God and for the salvation of souls. Enjoy the link below and pray your daily Rosary begging Our Lady for help! Blessed New Year to All! How to begin. We have so much chaos in the world and in the Church. This is a great time to be alive! We are called to be magnanimous in virtue and we can not acquire that without the Church...Her Sacraments...Her Tradition...Her Devotions. We are called to be sons and daughters of the One True God and fight for souls now more than ever. (Jesus, Mary, I love you ....save souls!) We can walk confidently with Our Lady; She will always bring us to Her Son! If we are not consecrated to Jesus through Mary and we do not live that consecration; we will be subject to so many temptations that we may not remain steadfast in our Faith. Below is a homily done in Advent but is perfect for the start of the new year. May we trust in the path of the Catholic Church that God has given to us with all of its treasures! May we not find ourselves slumping over the scandals that are all around us. May we take our banner with the words "Jesus and Mary" and go into battle like Joan of Arc with complete confidence that all is either willed by God or allowed by God.....and may we fight the good fight as St. Paul says we are to do! KNOW WE ARE ON THE WINNING SIDE! Blessed New Year to all of you! Greetings in Jesus and Mary! Wow ... it has been so long since I posted...Sooo Sorrryy!! We had a busy month visiting kids downstate and I got the flu coming back. Thanks be to God for the "I" vitamin that we so call it! You know, the forbidden horse medicine. I take it now for any virus because the flu viruses "in my opinion" are all weaponized and mutating now. It WORKS! You get back on your feet fast and it stops the replication of the virus in the body which can cause all kinds of havoc! So MERRY CHRISTMAS!! Not so sure it will be a Happy New Year but we are ready for the challenge because GOD IS IN CHARGE and we were created for such a time as this! May we Consecrate ourselves and our families to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary! At Christmas, I love to always meditate on the fact that Jesus was born in a manger....(a feeding trough) and in Bethlehem (House of Bread) .... .nothing by chance here! He came as the Living Bread come down from Heaven! Below is a beautiful prayer to pray as you receive Holy Communion! Always invite Mary to receive Jesus for you in your soul before each Holy Communion....so that She may receive Him and offer all our prayers....It is living a true Consecration to Jesus through Mary! "With ardent desire, O my Jesus, will I receive You into my soul in Holy Communion. Oh, that my heart were as pure and holy, as full of love for You, as that of Your most pure Mother, that thus I might receive You even as Mary received You from the hands of St. John! But alas, my heart loves You so little; it is so full of sin, so void of all virtues, so attached to the pleasures and goods of this world. O Mary, my dearest Mother, at this important moment I confidently turn to You. Holiest Mother, I pray You to lend me Your Heart, Your Heart so beautiful, so pure and immaculate, Your Heart full of love and humility, that I may be able to receive Jesus with the same sentiments with which You did receive Him. Come, O Mary, Yourself to me, and receive Jesus in me. You can do so, O loving Mother, on account of the dominion You do exercise over all hearts. O Jesus, true Son of God, I believe in You! O Jesus, my only refuge, I hope in You! O Jesus, my sovereign Good, I love You! And because I love You, I am sorry for ever having offended You. (If you cannot receive sacramentally, make an act of desire to receive spiritually) O Jesus, Who on account of Your special love for Mary do still long to take Your delight and rest in Her, and do desire to take this rest even in my soul, which is poorer and more wretched than was the stable of Bethlehem....behold, in humility and love, I lead You into the Heart of Mary and present You to Your Mother. O my dearest Mother, I give You the most noble of gifts, the same gift that the Heavenly Father presented to Your maternal arms, in Your virginal bosom, and enclose Him with greatest reverence in Your sweetest Heart. O Mother most admirable, adore Him, love Him, thank Him for me and in my name. I ask for nothing else than to belong wholly to You and to Your Son, now and forever. O Jesus, living in Mary! Come and live in Your servants, in the spirit of Your holiness, in the fulness of Your might, in the truth of Your virtues, in the perfection of Your ways, in the communion of Your mysteries; subdue every hostile power, in Your spirit, for the glory of the Father. Amen." Greetings in Jesus and Mary!! Blessed Thanksgiving!! May we give thanks to God for all that He has given to us which is EVERYTHING! Below is an article about the true First Thanksgiving! It is taken from the NATIONAL PARK SERVICE! There are more articles on the internet related to this same FACT! I thought this would be more convincing for those who might think a Catholic site would be bias. As Catholics, we should all know that the Catholic Mass is the best offering to God in thanksgiving for all that He has given to us! I hope you went to Mass this AM...if not.....tomorrow AM is the Feast of St. John of the Cross. (PS...please pray for my daughter Veronica who is 28 tomorrow. She is having a crisis of faith and I pray she comes to find the Truth in Jesus Christ and His Catholic Church. St. John of the Cross, pray for her, who was born on your feast day!) Enjoy the below article and do some more homework...facinating! Enjoy your Thanksgiving Day and May God bless us all! Our Lady of the Most Blessed Sacrament...pray for us! Greetings in Jesus and Mary! Well, we are entering into some dark times in the world and rightly so.....sin is everywhere. We must live in hope because God will not abandon us. We must be faithful and pray constantly for guidance, love and surrender to His Holy Will. The reality of today is...we are no match for Satan or his servants. Compared to them, Christians are in a sorry state. There is no unity among us. We are not even sure if we should fight, and if so, for what? We are plagued with ignorance, laxity and lukewarmness. Our thinking is emotional and illogical. We are not militant. We argue amongst ourselves and rebuke the few who try to awaken us; "Leave us alone and let us sleep!"....and in the meantime, the enemy steals our Church and even our countries from us! Our Blessed Mother who was given the duty to crush the head of the serpent has been begging us for centuries to PRAY...PRAY THE ROSARY! This is stronger than nuclear bombs. Satan dreads prayer and is capable of tempting each and every one of us to sleep...we have all been there. It takes true commitment and sincere love for Our Blessed Mother to pick up that rosary and PRAY it daily and more than once a day. In sharp contrast, we see the enemy working. We see the satanists growing in numbers and the satanic rituals that we hear about...they are real. In the Secret of LaSalette is the message, "And then Jesus Christ in an act of His justice and His great Mercy will command His Angels to have all His enemies put to death. Suddenly, the persecutors of the Church of Jesus Christ and all those given over to sin will perish and the earth will become desert like." Do you oppose this form of Mercy? This is the only hope we have left for ourselves and for our offspring! The world today resembles a cancer patient whose days are numbered. Our Lady of Fatima offered us a preventative medicine but we refused to swallow it. Thus we have left no alternative but for God Himself to operate and cut the cancer out! A message from Our Lady to Sr. Elena Aiello: "Listen attentively, and reveal to all: The wrath of God is near. Soon the world will be afflicted with great calamities, bloody revolutions, frightful hurricanes, and the overflowing of streams and the sea...Arms most deadly will destroy peoples and nations! Clouds with lightning, flashes of fire in the sky and a tempest of fire shall fall upon the world. This terrible scourge, never before seen in the history of humanity will last seventy hours. Godless persons will be crushed and wiped out. "Be not silent, my daughter, because the hours of darkness, of abandonment, are near!" "The rulers of nations make so much ado and speak of peace but instead the whole world will soon be at war...tremendous will be the upheaval of the whole world because men as at the time of the Deluge; have lost God's way, and are ruled by the spirit of Satan." "There will be frightful moments for all, because Heaven will be joined with the earth and all the ungodly people will be destroyed! Some nations will be purified, while others will disappear entirely! ....And all this fire is not that which will fall from the hands of men, but will be hurled directly from the Angels!" (Urgent Warning from Heaven, Two Hearts Book Publishing) "Watch and pray because you do not know the day nor the hour." Matt 24:42 May we be obedient to Our Blessed Mother and pray! Pray the Rosary for peace! Below is a video on the tensions overseas....I found it important to watch because we are being deceived on all fronts...worth investigating. Caution on video....fast forward the segment when he is about to show the human sacrifice...knowing about it and watching it are two things....I advise skipping it but it is important to the information presented. May Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary, pray for us!! Greetings in Jesus and Mary... Today we remember all those Carmelite souls that have gone before us. May we not only pray for them today but ask them to pray for us as we journey toward Heaven to be with Our Lord Jesus Christ and His Most Blessed Mother. On this day, the Order remembers in prayer, and confides to the loving mercy of God, all the members of the Carmelite Family who have died. On it we remember all members of the First (priests and monks), Second (nuns and sisters) and Third Orders (laymen and women) who have passed from this life and are not yet admitted to the Beatific Vision. I ask you to pray for them in union with both the Carmelites of the Traditional Observance and the Discalced Carmelites. Prayer: Lord, You are the glory of those who serve You. Look lovingly on our departed brothers and sisters, united in following Christ and His Mother by the waters of baptism and the bonds of Carmel. In your mercy grant them everlasting sight of You their Creator and Redeemer. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen. Eternal rest grant unto them, Oh Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. May the souls of all the faithful departed, through the Mercy of God, rest in peace. Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, pray for them. Greetings in Jesus and Mary! Today is the feast of All Carmelite Saints...November 14th. Tomorrow is the Feast of All Carmelite Souls! I am repeating some of the info that I posted last year for us to renew and repeat which is to focus our attention on becoming saints.....as St. Teresa of Avila said...."Let us be true friends of Jesus because He has so FEW OF THEM." If we have been called to give an intense life of Love and Prayer to God, then we better give it our best shot. We need to make up for so many who do not say..."I love You to God"......day in and day out! AND THERE ARE MILLIONS!.....FOR CENTURIES! This should encourage us to be TRUE LOVERS OF GOD!! Let us be truly obedient, self-sacrificing lovers of the One Who First Loved Us! There is so much coldness in the world and it is intensifying.....may we listen to St. John of the Cross and ...."Put love where there is no love!" Let us throughout our day be as "new" lovers who throughout their day keep their thoughts on the one they love. May we be in union with Him each minute...May we offer our every move to Him. I will post below the link from this website that has daily prayers to say....may we memorize them and say them with pure love in our hearts. First, may we try to receive Jesus at daily Mass and if we can not go to Mass....let us offer Spiritual Communions...even many throughout our day. St. Peter Julian Eymard called Spiritual Communions...kindling for the fire. When we see the fire die down....throw kindling on the fire to keep our love for Jesus vibrant. May we be obedient to Our Blessed Mother and pray the Rosary daily....May we pray Her Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary faithfully (offer this in reparation for the religious who do not and in respect of Her love)...May we wear Her Brown Scapular faithfully and share this knowledge with others even if they reject this advice...maybe someday they will not! It can be a seed planted that Our Lady can nourish with grace! Let us walk in Faith, Hope and Love as true friends of Jesus Christ and of His Most Holy Mother. May we live in imitation of Her as true Carmelites....always in the presence of Our Lord in His service and Love! God does not force anyone...says St. Teresa of Jesus, "but to those who follow Him, He gives them to drink in many ways, so that none may lack comfort or die of thirst!" May we fortify ourselves for the fight and help nourish others with our prayers of reparation. "O Mary, you gave Jesus to the world in silence and retirement; unnoticed, you shared His whole life, His works, His Passion. Teach me the secret of the interior apostolate of prayer and hidden sacrifices, known to God alone....make us saints!" Fr. Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalen, OCD (pray for us) Our Lady of Mt. Carmel...pray for us! Carmelite Saints....pray for us here on earth!!! |
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