Prayers to Ss. Peter and Paul http://catholicharboroffaithandmorals.com/St.%20Peter%20and%20Paul%20popup.html
This post is dedicated to St. Peter.
Month: June 2015
Messsage for Today’s Catholics: Hope
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/blog/how-to-escape-islamic-militants-sing-to-them-about-jesus/
This post is dedicated to St. Lucy.
One Man + One Woman = Marriage
This post is dedicated to St. Charles Lwanga.
An Important Prayer for Today’s World
This is the “Prayer for Peace to Mary, the Light of Hope” from St. John Paul II’s Act of Consecration of the Modern World to Our Lady of Fatima (1982) which many Catholics are promising to pray daily for the conversion of our corrupted world:
Immaculate Heart of Mary,
help us to conquer the menace of evil,
which so easily takes root
in the hearts of the people of today,
and whose immeasurable effects already
weigh down upon our modern world
and seem to block the paths toward the future.
From famine and war, deliver us.
From nuclear war, from incalculable self destruction,
from every kind of war, deliver us.
From sins against human life from its very beginning,
deliver us.
From hatred and from the demeaning of the dignity
of the children of God, deliver us.
From readiness to trample on the commandments
of God, deliver us.
From the loss of awareness of good and evil,
deliver us.
From sins against the Holy Spirit,
deliver us.
Accept, O Mother of Christ,
this cry laden with the sufferings of all individual
human beings, laden with the sufferings
of whole societies.
Help us with the power of the Holy Spirit conquer all
sin:
individual sin and the “sin of the world,”
sin in all its manifestations.
Let there be revealed once more in the history of the
world the infinite saving power of the redemption:
the power of the merciful love.
May it put a stop to evil.
May it transform consciences.
May your Immaculate Heart
reveal for all the light of hope. Amen.
This post is dedicated to St. Margaret Clitherow.
Virtues Gained Through Meditation on the Passion
- Love: when we see how wonderful Jesus is.
- Gratitude: when we see how greatly we are loved.
- Humility: when we see how our virtue pales in comparison with His.
- Contrition: when we realize what we did to Him.
- Compassion: when we see how greatly He suffers and longs for more Veronicas.
- Self-discipline: when we persevere in meditation.
- True self-esteem: when we realize that to Jesus (whose opinion matters most), we are worth His very life.
- Selflessness: when we see how small our sufferings are compared with His.
- Courage to embrace our cross: when we realize we’re not alone and given but a small load to bear.
- Patience: when we see how Jesus bore such outrages in perfect peace.
This post is dedicated to St. Catherine of Alexandria.
Meditation on the Passion
- “He who desires”, says St. Bonaventure, “to go on advancing from virtue to virtue, from grace to grace, should meditate continually on the Passion of Jesus.” And he adds that “there is no practice more profitable for the entire sanctification of the soul than the frequent meditation of the sufferings of Jesus Christ.”
- In our meditation, the Passion of Christ comes out of its cold historical frame and stops being a pious consideration, presenting itself before our eyes, as terrible, brutal, savage, bloody… yet full of Love.–St Josemaria Escriva
- One day,” writes Bonaventure, “while Francis was praying… Jesus Christ appeared to him fastened to the cross” “And the memory of Christ’s passion was so impressed on the innermost recesses of his heart that from that hour, whenever Christ’s crucifixion came to mind, he could scarcely contain his tears and sighs.”
- “Meditate on the Passion of the Redeemer and compassionate Him Who alone suffered intensely. I only suffered a little, because Jesus Christ had suffered for us.”–St Philomena to Sister Luisa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDr4OM72LJ4 Passion of the Christ “My Deliverer” music video
The Office of the Passion http://www.poorclarestmd.org/clareshare/way/office/passion.html
This is like a shorter, easier, version of the Liturgy of the Hours focused on the Passion of Christ. (See link above.) I expected this 3-minute prayer by St Francis of Assisi to be centered on the Passion narratives of the Gospels. I discovered instead that it was hardly anything more than a collection of seemingly random Psalms. After reciting it a couple times, however, I discovered the beautiful secret behind this prayer. The Psalms selected were those that Jesus was undoubtedly praying on Good Friday. (You hear Jesus quoting a couple of these same Psalms in the movie The Passion of the Christ) Instead of being an outside spectator while meditating on the Gospels, you get to get inside Jesus’ Head while meditating on His prayers in the Psalms. Repeating the words He Himself must have prayed and imagining the emotion behind those words is enough to provoke tears! The Office of the Passion is one of the most creative and moving prayers I’ve ever said. Good job St. Francis!
- St. Augustine also said that a single tear shed at the remembrance of the Passion of Jesus is worth more than a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, or a year of fasting on bread and water.
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But especially I commend earnest mental prayer to you, more particularly such as bears upon the Life and Passion of our Lord. If you contemplate Him frequently in meditation, your whole soul will be filled with Him, you will grow in His Likeness, and your actions will be molded on His. He is the Light of the world; therefore in Him, by Him, and for Him we shall be enlightened and illuminated. –St Francis De Sales_
- “The remembrance of the most holy Passion of Jesus Christ is the door through which the soul enters into intimate union with God, interior recollection and most sublime contemplation…”
- “The Passion of Christ is the greatest and most stupendous work of Divine Love. “The greatest and most overwhelming work of God’s love.”
“The most holy Passion of Jesus Christ is the most efficacious means to convert obstinate sinners.”– St. Paul of the Cross
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“The holy sufferings of Jesus is a sea of sorrows, but it is also a sea of love. Ask the Lord to teach you to fish in this sea. Immerse yourself in it, and, no matter how deeply you go, you will never reach the bottom. Allow yourself to be penetrated with love and sorrow. In this way you will make the sufferings of the gentle Jesus your own. Fish for the pearls of the virtues of Jesus. This holy fishing is done without words.” 8th April, 1758–St Paul of the Cross
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“There is more merit to one hour of meditation on My sorrowful Passion than there is to a whole year of bloody scourging; the contemplation of My Wounds is of great profit to you, and it brings Me great joy.”–Jesus to St Faustina
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The death and passion of Our Lord is the sweetest and most constraining motive that can animate our hearts in this mortal life… so, in the glory of heaven above, next to the Divine goodness known and considered in itself, Our Savior’s death shall most powerfully ravish the blessed spirits in the loving of God–St Francis De Sales-Our Savior’s passion raises men and women from the depths, lifts them up from the earth, and sets them in the heights.–St Maximus of Turin
This post is dedicated to the Holy Innocents.
Happy Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus!
This post is dedicated to St. Stephen.
Act of Consecration of the Human Race to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Most sweet Jesus,
Redeemer of the human race,
look down upon us,
humbly prostrate before Thine altar.
We are Thine and Thine we wish to be;
but to be more surely united with Thee,
behold each one of us freely consecrates himself today
to Thy Most Sacred Heart.
Many, indeed, have never known Thee;
many, too, despising Thy precepts,
have rejected Thee.
Have mercy on them all,
most merciful Jesus,
and draw them to Thy Sacred Heart.
Be Thou King, O Lord,
not only of the faithful who have never forsaken Thee,
but also of the prodigal children who have abandoned Thee,
grant that they may quickly return to their Father’s house,
lest they die of wretchedness and hunger.
Be Thou King of those who are deceived by erroneous opinions,
or whom discord keeps aloof
and call them…
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A Message For Today’s Catholics Part 3
helpful articles: http://www.aleteia.org/en/religion/article/are-you-prepared-to-be-persecuted-5884406350741504
This post is dedicated to St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross.
A Message for Today’s Catholics: An Amazing Video
The Nazarenes’ response to the Islamic State: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2nvvu2_the-people-of-the-cross-just-sent-a-powerful-message-to-isis-wow-very-powerful_lifestyle
And it’s already working: http://www.gospelherald.com/articles/55860/20150603/violent-isis-fighter-converts-to-christianity-after-encountering-jesus-christ-in-powerful-dream.htm
This post is dedicated to the first martyrs of Rome.
Tuesday Adoration… embraced by Mercy
Another beautiful post about the spousal love of Jesus! Please pray for my family for some special intentions. Thank you! This post is dedicated to St. Agnes of Rome.
Today, I was all alone with Jesus for my entire two hours of Eucharistic Adoration. This is a rare grace for me, although I feel sad when Jesus does not have other visitors.
But, His Love is so great that He is pleased and happy to remain in the monstrance for just one little soul.
When I have Him all to myself, I feel a special kind of joy. I recall St. Jean Marie Vianney’s words, “His eyes are fixed on you alone.” And I know, that if I truly understood that, I would surely die on the spot.
Being alone with Jesus is being like Mary of Bethany, sitting at His feet, fixing a loving gaze upon His Divine Countenance, choosing to do the “one necessary thing.”
I know that wherever Jesus is, all of Heaven dwells, and so I am never truly alone in the chapel. But Jesus doesn’t…
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Amo Iesu by Grace Pax 