Everything went fine. Thank you for your prayers!
Please say a Rosary at 6:15pm tonight for the safety of the Cathedral. A biker gang is going to do a protest at the nearby mosque tonight and we want to make sure the city doesn’t become a war zone. Thank you!
This post is dedicated to St. Joan of Arc.
Lord, have mercy on us.
Christ, have mercy on us.
Lord, have mercy on us.
Christ, hear us.
Christ, graciously hear us.
God the Father of Heaven, have mercy on us.
God the Son, Redeemer of the World, have mercy on us.
God the Holy Spirit, have mercy on us.
Holy Trinity, One God, have mercy on us.
Jesus Most Beautiful, I love You!
Jesus Most Merciful, I love You!
Jesus Truest Love, I love You!
Jesus Most Perfect, I love You!
Jesus Desire of My Heart, I love You!
Jesus Omnipotent, I love You!
Jesus Compassionate, I love You!
Jesus Savior of My Soul, I love You!
Jesus Holiness Itself, I love You!
Jesus Healer of My Heart and Body, I love You!
Jesus Most Humble, I love You!
Jesus Prince Most Charming, I love You!
Jesus My Everything, I love You!
Jesus Beloved Bridegroom of Souls, I love You!
Jesus Wisdom Incarnate, I love You!
Jesus My Comforter, I love You!
Jesus With Me Always, I love You!
Jesus Always Caring, I love You!
Jesus Without Beginning or End, I love You!
Jesus High Priest, I love You!
Jesus So Vulnerable in the Eucharist for My Sake, I love You!
Jesus Dying for Me on the Cross, I love You!
Jesus My Atonement, I love You!
Jesus My Protector, I love You!
Jesus Who Fills Me with Awe, I love You!
Jesus My Lord and My God, I love You!
Jesus My Creator, I love You!
Jesus Giver of All Good Gifts, I love You!
Jesus My Master, I love You!
Jesus My Joy in Life, I love You!
Jesus Prince of Peace, I love You!
Jesus My Essence, I love You!
Jesus My Future, I love You!
Jesus Best Friend Ever, I love You!
Jesus My Love, I love You!
Jesus without Whom I Am Incomplete and Lost, I love You!
Jesus Suffering for My Sake, I love You!
Jesus My Guide and Teacher, I love You!
Jesus Who Gives Your Very Self to Me, I love You!
Jesus My Companion, I love You!
Jesus My Answer, I love You!
Jesus My King, I love You!
Jesus My Helper, I love You!
Jesus Divine Word, I love You!
Jesus Messiah, I love You!
Jesus My Lamb, I love You!
Jesus Most Pure, I love You!
Jesus Most Amazing, I love You!
Jesus Most Adorable, I love You!
Jesus Most Worthy of Love, I love You!
Jesus for Whom I Will Suffer Anything, I love You!
Jesus Son of Mary, I love You!
Jesus My Example in All Things, I love You!
Jesus God in the Flesh, I love You!
Jesus My Very Life, I love You!
Jesus Whom I Adore, I love You!
Jesus Whom I Cherish, I love You!
Jesus Whom I Worship, I love You!
Jesus Son of the Eternal Father, I love You!
Jesus My Hope, I love You!
Jesus Whom I Trust, I love You!
Jesus of Infinite Majesty, I love You!
Jesus My Fulfillment, I love You!
Jesus My Sustenance, I love You!
Jesus My Song, I love You!
Jesus My Delight, I love You!
Jesus My Path, I love You!
Jesus Eternal Truth, I love You!
Jesus My Light, I love You!
Jesus My Refuge and My Hiding Place, I love You!
Jesus Fascination of My Soul, I love You!
Jesus My Rescuer, I love You!
Jesus My Enlightenment, I love You!
Jesus My Treasure, I love You!
Jesus My Support, I love You!
Jesus Upon Whom All Depends, I love You!
Jesus Never Failing, I love You!
Jesus Most Faithful, I love You!
Jesus Burning with Ardent Love for Me, I love You!
Jesus Most Noble, I love You!
Jesus Taking the Form of a Slave, I love You!
Jesus of Constant Strength, I love You!
Jesus My Rest, I love You!
Jesus Source of True Peace, I love You!
Jesus My Advocate, I love You!
Jesus My Righteousness, I love You!
Jesus My God, I adore You! Jesus My God, I adore You! Jesus My God, I adore You!
Lamb of God, Who takes away the sins of the world, spare us O Lord.
Lamb of God, Who takes away the sins of the world, graciously hear us O Lord.
Lamb of God, Who takes away the sins of the world, have mercy on us.
Jesus Christ I love You, because You first loved me.
Let us pray: Most Gracious God and Father, through the perfect unmerited love Your Only Begotten Son Jesus has shown for us, grant us for His sake, that we may be able to worthily adore and love Him throughout eternity. May we His precious children never forget His infinite love and mercy toward us. We ask this through the same Jesus Christ, Your Son, Who lives and reigns with You forever and ever. Amen.
This post is dedicated to the Suffering Savior, King of Martyrs.
Dearest Mother,
Since Pentecost is said to be your birthday, I would like to take a moment to thank you for some of the amazing gifts you’ve given me (there’s too many for me to list them all):
With all the love of my heart,
your daughter Grace
The Mass is the Church’s love song to her Beloved.
This post is dedicated to the Sorrowful Mother, Queen of Martyrs.
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Cardinal Burke video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pnvGWzSsNg
A message from our Holy Father: http://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/pope-prepare-for-martyrdom
“Verily, there is no happiness but in the cross.” — St. John Vianney
“What a cross, to be without a cross!” — St. Louis De Montfort
“I do not fear trials sent by Jesus, for even in the most bitter suffering we can see that it is His loving hand which causes it. When we are expecting nothing but suffering, we are quite surprised at the least joy; but then suffering itself becomes the greatest of joys when we seek it as a precious treasure.” — St. Therese of Lisieux
We all know that an age is coming, the “last age”, when a great persecution will afflict the Church preceding the return of Christ. In this age, Revelation tells us, many will be martyred. Whether this age will come upon us in the near future or not, this world is certainly entering into some sort of battle against the Church and we need to be ready for whatever sacrifice may be required of us as Confirmed soldiers of Christ (be it small or great). Even if the “last age” isn’t coming any time soon, even if another age of martyrdom doesn’t come upon us (like that of ancient Rome, the Reign of Terror, or the Elizabethan Persecution), it is good for us to prepare anyway for two reasons: 1) If such sacrifice is required of us, we do not want to be caught completely unprepared. 2) This degree of the love of God is something every Catholic should strive for as he or she works toward sainthood. Even though St. Therese never suffered red martyrdom, she was ready. Here are her words: “But above all, my Beloved Savior, I would like to shed my blood for You until the last drop….Martyrdom: That is the dream of my youth. That dream has grown within me under the cloisters of Carmel….But there again I feel that my dream is foolishness, because I would not know how to limit myself to one type of martyrdom….To satisfy me I would have to have all of them….Like You, my Beloved Bridegroom, I would like to be scourged and crucified….I would like to die by being skinned alive like St. Bartholomew….Like St. John, I would like to plunged into boiling oil. I would like to undergo all the tortures inflicted on the Martyrs….With St. Agnes and St. Cecilia, I would like to present my neck to the sword, and like Joan of Arc, my dear sister, I would like to be burned at the stake, murmuring your name, Jesus….When I think about all the torments that will be the lot Christians at the time of the Antichrist, I feel my heart leap, and I would like for those torments to be reserved for me….Jesus, Jesus, if I wanted to write down all my desires, I would have to borrow Your book of life [Rev. 20:12]. In it are the records of the actions of all the Saints, and those actions, I would like to have accomplished them for You….Oh, my Jesus! To all my foolishness, what are You going to reply?….Is there a soul that is smaller and more powerless than mine!….However, even because of my weakness, You were pleased, Lord, to fulfill my little childish desires, and You now want to fulfill other desires that are bigger than the universe….” Some of the excellent resources Jesus and His Church provide for us as we prepare for the times ahead include: The Most Holy Eucharist, Devotion to the Blessed Mother (especially St. Louis De Montfort’s Total Consecration to Jesus through Mary), meditation on the Passion, study of and devotion to the holy martyrs, the little crosses of day to day life, the cord of St. Philomena, the Brown Scapular, mortification and sacrifice, sanctification, and the various spiritual warfare resources. And of course, we must pray, for only God can give us the graces we seek.
In light of this, I will dedicate each of my future posts to one of the holy martyrs.
This post is dedicated to St. Cecilia.
video: http://www.churchmilitant.com/video/episode/coming-persecution-10-21
article: http://www.aleteia.org/en/religion/article/are-you-prepared-to-be-persecuted-5884406350741504
video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature+player_embedded&v=E5D33ttzauk
“The blood of martyrs is the seed of Christians!” — Tertullian
“There is a baptism [His Passion] with which I must be baptized, and how great is my anguish until it is accomplished!” — Jesus (Luke 12:50 NAB)
“We must declare the truth and not keep silence out of fear, but be ready generously to give our life for Holy Church.” — St. Catherine of Siena
“But now, compelled by the Spirit, I am going to Jerusalem. What will happen to me there I do not know, except that in one city after another the Holy Spirit has been warning me that imprisonment and hardships await me. Yet I consider life of no importance to me, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to bear witness to the Gospel of God’s grace.” — From today’s first Mass reading.
As today’s world rapidly grows more and more anti-Catholic, it would do well for us to prepare for whatever price (big or small) we may soon have to pay for our love of Jesus Christ.
This post is dedicated to St. Paul Miki.
“This Jesus who has been taken up from you into Heaven will return in the same way as you have seen Him going into Heaven.” — Acts 1:11
Send your intentions to Fatima here: https://www.americaneedsfatima.org/forms/e15065.html?lang=en
“Giuseppe Sarto, the future Pope Pius X, visited his 70-year-old mother after being ordained a bishop. She kissed her son’s ring and, suddenly pensive, pointed out her own simple silver wedding band saying, ‘Yes, Giuseppe, you would not be wearing that ring if I had not first worn mine.’” — Eucharistic Adoration for the Sanctification of Priests and Spiritual Maternity by Congregatio Pro Clericis
My life is a party! A Jesus themed party!
And it’s always a party because…..
St. John Vianney is one of the Church’s incorruptibles.
Lately, I had been concerned about my spiritual health. With my succumbing to vices more than usual, breaking commitments, and spiritual desolation to top it all, I finally grabbed one of the Church’s secret power weapons: the saints. I turned to St. John Vianney, a truly powerful soul-saver and one the “Terrific Trio” of my top favorite saints (The other two being St. Philomena and St. Therese of Lisieux.), I wrote and signed the following act of consecration in my prayer journal to commend myself to this amazing Third Order Franciscan as the Patron of My Soul:
“Dearest St. John Vianney, As a priest of God, you are my spiritual Father. By your prayers and sacrifices for the people of Ars, you showed that nothing was more important to you than the salvation of souls. This is why, my dear Father Vianney, I can think of no better patron than you to entrust my soul to. I am a poor wretched sinner, full of pride and other miseries, and I am in desperate need of your help in saving my soul and attaining a sainthood like yours. Dear Patron of My Soul, I resolve to listen for your voice and counsel on behalf of God and to follow it as best I can. Being such a sinner as I am, I know that I will fall from this resolution quickly, but I remain hopeful that you who traded your life to save all of Ars and beyond will not rest until you have managed to save my soul also. Dear Friend of God and Feared Foe of Satan, I count on you as my powerful defender in the battle for my soul, which grows more violent all the time. You who delight God’s heart and cause the evil one to quake with fright, do not allow my soul to fall, but guard it no matter how it costs me. Faithful and devoted Slave of Our Lady, help me to live my consecration to her as well as you did and to become a saint as you are through it as St. Louis De Montfort promised. Director of young discerning souls and friend of the Virgin Philomena, help me to prepare my soul well for the vocation set before me, and do not abandon my soul to corruption and apathy. As an expression of my filial devotion and fervent gratitude to you, your daughter pledges to receive Communion for the increase of devotion to you and to say your litany three times. St. John Mary Baptist Vianney, pray for me!”
It is has been such a peaceful thought since then that I have such a powerful and amazing saint working with me on the way to Heaven! Such beautiful hope knowing he’s watching over me! Perhaps this is why I have felt such a powerful attraction to him all these years!
One of my favorite pictures of St. John Vianney that I have hanging over my bed.
Amo Iesu by Grace Pax 