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Showing posts with label Mother of God. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mother of God. Show all posts

Wednesday, 5 October 2016

Blessed Virgin Mary sermon by St. Sophronius, bishop



Mary, the Mother of  God
From a sermon by Saint Sophronius, bishop

Through Mary 
the Father’s blessing has shone forth on mankind

Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with you. What joy could surpass this, O Virgin Mother?  What grace can excel that which God has granted to you alone?  What could be imagined more dazzling or more delightful?  Before the miracle we witness in you, all else pales; all else is inferior when compared with the grace you have been given.  All else, even what is most desirable, must take second place and enjoy a lesser importance.

The Lord is with you.  Who would dare challenge you?  You are God’s mother; who would not immediately defer to you and be glad to accord you a greater primacy and honor?  For this reason, when I look upon the privilege you have above all creatures, I extol you with the highest praise: Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with you.  On your account joy has not only graced men, but is also granted to the power of heaven.

Truly, you are blessed among women. For you have changed Eva’s curse into a blessing; and Adam, who hitherto lay under a curse, has been blessed because of you.

Truly, you are blessed among women.  Through you the Father’s blessing has shone forth on mankind, setting them free of their ancient curse.

Truly, you are blessed among women, because through you your forebears have found salvation.  For you were to give birth to the Savior who was to win them salvation.

Truly, you are blessed among women, for without seed you have borne, as your fruit, Him who bestows blessings on the whole world and redeems it from the curse that made it sprout thorns.

Truly, you are blessed among women, because, though a woman by nature, you will become, in reality, God’s mother.  If He whom you are to bear us is truly God made flesh, then rightly do we call you God’s mother.  For you have truly given birth to God.

Enclosed within your womb is God Himself.  He makes His abode in you and comes forth from you like a bridegroom, winning joy for all and bestowing God’s light on all.


You, O Virgin, are like a clear and shining sky, in which God has set his tent.  From you he comes forth like a bridegroom leaving his chamber.  Like a giant running His course, He will run the course of His life which will bring salvation for all who will ever live, and extending from the highest heavens to the end of them, to will fill all things with divine warmth and with life-giving brightness.

Saint Sophronius, bishopc. 560 – March 11, 638

Thursday, 3 March 2016

Our Lady of Good Counsel Prophecies Pertaining to TODAY

Our Lady of Good Success
Prophecies for our Times

In the 1500-1600s Our Lady of Good Success appeared in Quito, Ecuador to a Spanish nun, Mother Mariana of Jesus Torres y Berriochoa, giving grave prophecies that pertain to our present age.  These prophecies are now reality!  


Read and weep, 
we are living in such a time as this…. 

Pray as you have never prayed before 
and cooperate with God 
by learning the Truth of our Faith.  

God is being defied and rejected.  
We must counter with 
God’s Truth – Catholic Truth 
that is the Only Truth without it there is no salvation.


Our Lady of Good Success says:

“At the end of the nineteenth century 
and throughout a great part of 
the twentieth, 
many heresies will be propagated 
in these lands.…


“Unbridled passions will give way to a total corruption of customs because Satan will reign through 
the Masonic sects, targeting the children in particular to insure general corruption.



“Unhappy, the children 
of those times! 
Seldom will they receive the sacraments of Baptism and Confirmation. 
As for the sacrament of Penance, 
they will confess only while attending Catholic schools, 

which the devil will do his utmost to destroy by means of persons in authority.




Sacrilegious Mass in Catholic church!!!
“The same will occur with Holy Communion. Oh, how it hurts me to tell you that there will be many and enormous public and hidden sacrileges!



“In those times, the sacrament of Extreme Unction will be largely ignored.… Many will die without receiving it, being thereby deprived of innumerable graces, consolation, and strength in the great leap from time to eternity.



“The sacrament of Matrimony, which symbolizes the union of Christ with the Church, will be thoroughly attacked and profaned. 

Masonry, then reigning, will implement iniquitous laws aimed at extinguishing this sacrament. They will make it easy for all to live in sin, thus multiplying the birth of illegitimate children without the Church’s blessing….



The Lie & the Law taught -- No God but this one
“Secular education will contribute to a scarcity of priestly and religious vocations.”




“The holy sacrament of Holy Orders will be ridiculed, oppressed, and despised, for in this both the Church and God Himself are oppressed and reviled, since He is represented by His priests.

“The devil will work to persecute 
the ministers of the Lord 
in every way, working with 
baneful cunning to destroy 
the spirit of their vocation 
and corrupting many. 

Those who will thus scandalize the Christian flock will bring upon all priests the hatred of bad Christians and the enemies of the One, Holy, Roman Catholic, and Apostolic Church. 

This apparent triumph of Satan will cause enormous suffering to the good pastors of the Church...and to the Supreme Pastor and Vicar of Christ on earth who, a prisoner in the Vatican, will shed secret and bitter tears in the presence of God Our Lord, asking for light, sanctity, and perfection for all the clergy of the world, to whom he is King and Father.”


“Unhappy times will come 
wherein those who should 
fearlessly defend 
the rights of the Church 
will instead, blinded despite 
the light, give their hand 
to the Church’s enemies and do their bidding. 

Cardinal Dolan and  Gay Rights

But when [evil] seems triumphant and when authority abuses its power, committing all manner of injustice and oppressing the weak, their ruin shall be near...

They will fall and crash to the ground.



Coptic Christians beheaded

“The small number of souls 
who will secretly safeguard 
the treasure of Faith 
and virtues will suffer a cruel, 
unspeakable, and long martyrdom. 

Many will descend to their graves 
through the violence of suffering 
and will be counted among 
the martyrs who sacrificed themselves 
for the country and the Church.


“In those times the atmosphere will be saturated with the spirit of impurity which, like a filthy sea, will engulf the streets and public places with incredible license.… Innocence will scarcely be found in children, or modesty in women.

Shameful Immodesty

“There shall be scarcely any virgin souls in the world. The delicate flower of virginity will seek refuge in the cloisters.




Without virginity, fire from heaven 
will be needed to purify these lands.…






“Sects, having permeated all social classes, 
will find ways of introducing themselves 
into the very heart of homes 
to corrupt the innocence of children. 


The children’s hearts will be dainty morsels 
to regale the devil.… 
(television, movies, secular world)

“Religious communities will remain to sustain the Church and work with courage for the salvation of souls.… 

The secular clergy will fall far short 
of what is expected of them 
because they will not pursue 
their sacred duty. 
Losing the divine compass, 
they will stray from the way 
of priestly ministry mapped 
out for them by God 
and will become devoted to money, 
seeking it too earnestly.

Pope Francis speaks on environment but not on the Sexual Corruption of the world



“He who should speak seasonably 
will remain silent.







Put on the Armour of God
“To be delivered from the slavery 
of these heresies, those whom the merciful love of my Son has destined 
for this restoration 
will need great will-power, perseverance, courage, and confidence in God. 

To try the faith and trust of these just ones, 
there will be times 
when all will seem lost and paralyzed. 
It will then be the happy beginning of the complete restoration….

Eucharistic Lord

“Pray constantly, implore tirelessly, and weep bitter tears in the seclusion of your heart, beseeching the Eucharistic Heart of my most holy Son to take pity on His ministers and to end as soon as possible these unhappy times by sending to His Church the Prelate who shall restore the spirit of her priests.”

Church Triumphant

“Then will the Church, 
joyful and triumphant like a young girl, reawaken and be comfortably 
cradled in the arms 
of My Most Dear and elect Son 
of those times. 
If he lends an ear 
to the inspirations of grace–
one of which will be the reading 
of these great mercies that my Son 
and I have had toward you–
we shall fill him with graces
 and very special gifts 
and will make him great on earth 
and much greater in Heaven. 
There we have reserved 
a precious seat for him 
because, heedless of men, 
he will have fought for truth 
and ceaselessly defended the rights of the Church, deserving to be called ‘martyr.’”

Saturday, 29 November 2014

Prayer to Mary





To Mary in Praise!

given by the Queen of Heaven to St. Bridgett
taken from St. Bridgett Prophecies & Revelations Chapter 8





Blessed be You, God,
Creator of all things,
Who deigned to descend into
the womb of Mary!
Blessed be You God,
Who wished to be within the
Virgin Mary without burdening her,
and deigned to take immaculate flesh
from her without sin!
Blessed be You God,
Who came to the Virgin,
bringing joy to her soul
and her whole body,
and Who went out of her without sin,
to the joy of her whole body!
Blessed be You God,
who after your heavenly ascension
gladdened the Virgin Mary,
Your Mother,
with continuous comforts
and visited her with Your Consolation!
Blessed be You God,
Who assumed the body and soul
of the Virgin Mary, Your Mother,
into heaven and honorably placed her
above all the angels next to Your Divinity!
Have Mercy on me f
or the sake of all her prayers!





Tuesday, 25 March 2014

God Became Man

Paolo de Matteis - The Annunciation



Receive, O Virgin Mary,

 the word which the Lord

has made known to you

 by the message of the angel:

 You will conceive and give birth to a son,

 both God and man,

– and you will be called blessed among women.




 





The mystery of man’s reconciliation with God

Pope Leo the Great

From a letter by Saint Leo the Great, pope

"Lowliness is assured by majesty, weakness by power, mortality by eternity. To pay the debt of our sinful state, a nature that was incapable of suffering was joined to one that could suffer. Thus, in keeping with the healing that we needed, one and the same mediator between God and men, the man Jesus Christ, was able to die in one nature, and unable to die in the other.

He who is true God was therefore born in the complete and perfect nature of a true man, whole in his own nature, whole in ours. By our nature we mean what the Creator had fashioned in us from the beginning, and took to himself in order to restore it.

For in the Savior there was no trace of what the deceiver introduced and man, being misled, allowed to enter. It does not follow that because he submitted to sharing in our human weakness he therefore shared in our sins.

He took the nature of a servant without stain of sin, enlarging our humanity without diminishing his divinity. He emptied himself; though invisible he made himself visible, though Creator and Lord of all things he chose to be one of us mortal men. Yet this was the condescension of compassion, not the loss of omnipotence. So he who in the nature of God had created man, became in the nature of a servant, man himself.

Thus the Son of God enters this lowly world. He comes down from the throne of heaven, yet does not separate himself from the Father’s glory. He is born in a new condition, by a new birth.

He was born in a new condition, for, invisible in his own nature, he became visible in ours. Beyond our grasp, he chose to come within our grasp. Existing before time began, he began to exist at a moment in time. Lord of the universe, he hid his infinite glory and took the nature of a servant. Incapable of suffering as God, he did not refuse to be a man, capable of suffering. Immortal, he chose to be subject to the laws of death.

He who is true God is also true man. There is no falsehood in this unity as long as the lowliness of man and the pre-eminence of God coexist in mutual relationship.

As God does not change by his condescension, so man is not swallowed up by being exalted. Each nature exercises its own activity, in communion with the other. The Word does what is proper to the Word, the flesh fulfils what is proper to the flesh.

One nature is resplendent with miracles, the other falls victim to injuries. As the Word does not lose equality with the Father’s glory, so the flesh does not leave behind the nature of our race.


One and the same person — 
this must be said 
over and over again — 
is truly the Son of God 
and truly the son of man. 
He is God in virtue of the fact 
that in the beginning was the Word, 
and the Word was with God, 
and the Word was God. 

He is man in virtue of the fact 
that the Word was made flesh, 
and dwelt among us."








O God, who willed 
that your Word should take on
the reality of human flesh 
in the womb of the Virgin Mary,
grant, we pray, that we, who confess our Redeemer to be God and man,
may merit to become partakers 
even in his divine nature.
Who lives and reigns with you 
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever.
– Amen.



-taken from the Liturgy of the Hours, Lent and Easter. 
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