Showing posts with label rosary. Show all posts
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Saturday, 26 February 2022
Thursday, 4 October 2018
Our Lady of the Rosary October 7
Our
Lady of the Rosary
October 7
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| Battle of Lepanto |
This commemorative feast was established by Saint Pius V on
the anniversary of the naval victory won by the Christian fleet at
Lepanto (against Muslim invaders). The victory was attributed to
the help of the Holy Mother of God whose aid was invoked through praying the
rosary.
The celebration of this day
invites all to meditate upon the mysteries of Christ, following the example of
the Blessed Virgin Mary who was so singularly associated with the incarnation,
passion and glorious resurrection of the Son of God.
We
should meditate on the
Mysteries of Salvation
From a sermon by Saint Bernard, abbot
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| St. Bernard, abbot |
The child to be born of you will be called holy, the Son of
God, the fountain of wisdom, the Word of the Father on high. Through you, blessed Virgin, this Word will
become flesh, so that even though as He says: I am in the Father and the Father is in me, it is still true for
Him to say: “I came forth from God and I
am here.”
In the beginning was
the Word. The spring was gushing forth, yet still within Himself. Indeed, the
Word was with God, truly dwelling in inaccessible light. And the Lord said from the beginning: I think thoughts of peace and not of
affliction. Yet your thought was
locked within you, and whatever you thought, we did not know; for who knew the
mind of the Lord, or who was His counselor?
And so the idea of peace came down to do the work of peace: The Word was made flesh and even now dwells among us. It is by faith that He dwells in our
hearts, in our memory, our intellect and penetrates even into our
imagination. What concept could man have
of God if He did not first fashion an image of him in His Heart? By nature incomprehensible and inaccessible,
He was invisible and unthinkable, but now He wished to be understood, to be
seen and thought of.
But how, you ask was this done? He lay in a manger and rested on a virgin’s
breast, preached on a mountain, and spent the night in prayer. He hung on a cross, grew pale in death, and
roamed free among the dead and ruled over those in hell. He rose again on the third day, and showed
the apostles the wounds of the nails, the sign of victory; and finally in their
presence He ascended to the sanctuary of heaven.
How can we not contemplate this story in truth piety and
holiness? Whatever of all this I
consider, it is God I am considering; in all this He is my God. I have said it is wise to meditate on these
truths, and I have thought it right to recall the abundant sweetness, given by
the fruits of this priestly root; and Mary drawing abundantly from heaven, has
caused this sweetness to overflow for us.
taken from Liturgy of the Hours Weeks 18-34
Saturday, 17 June 2017
Educate Yourself -- These Videos will Help!! Watch them!!
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| St. Bernard of Clairvaux |
The anti-Church has come. But, don't be afraid: Fr. Linus
Clovis
Fatima foretold ‘diabolical forces’ that would enter Church
in our time: Cardinal Burke
Fatima Reveals Hell is for Real: Cardinal Arinze
Fr. Corapi ~ FATIMA TODAY (6pts) ~ Pt.1: The Angels:
Messengers & the Message
Fr. Corapi ~ FATIMA TODAY (6pts) ~ Pt.2: Rosary & Brown
Scapular
FATIMA TODAY (6 Pts) ~ Pt.3 : Reality, Sin , Grace, Heaven
or Hell ... Fr.J. Corapi
Father John Corapi ~ FATIMA TODAY ~ Pt. 4: Penance, Penance,
Penance!
FATIMA TODAY ~ Pt.5: The Triumph of the Immaculate Heart of
Mary..
FATIMA TODAY ~ Pt. 6: The Eucharist:Life For A Dying World..
Wednesday, 3 May 2017
Fatima Novena Prayer
Novena
to Our Lady of Fatima
May 5 – May 13
Most
Holy Virgin, who has deigned to come to Fatima to reveal to the three little
shepherds the treasures of graces hidden in the recitation of the Rosary,
inspire our hearts with sincere love of this devotion.
By
meditating on the mysteries of our redemption that are recalled in your Rosary,
may we gather the fruits contained therein and obtain the conversion of
sinners, the conversion of Russia, the Peace of Christ for the world, and this
favor that I so earnestly seek of you in this novena....
(here
mention your request)
I ask this of you, for the greater glory
of God, for your own honor and for the good of all people. Amen
Say three times the following prayers:
Our
Father,
Hail
Mary
Glory Be
Tuesday, 15 March 2016
Prayer to the Virgin Most Powerful
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| Virgin Most Powerful |
Virgin most powerful, loving helper of the Christian people,
how great is the thanks we owe thee for the assistance thou hast given our
fathers who invoked thy maternal help by the devout recitation of thy Rosary
when they were threatened by the Turkish infidels. From Heaven thou didst see
their deadly peril. Thou didst hear their voices imploring thy compassion.
Their humble prayers, enjoined by the great Pope, Saint Pius V, were acceptable
to thee, and thou camest quickly to deliver them.
Grant, Dear Mother, that in like manner the prolonged sighs
of the Holy Bride of Christ in these our days may reach thy throne and win thy
pity. Be moved to compassion and rise once again to deliver her from the many
foes who surround her on every side.
Even now from the four quarters of the earth there arises to
thy throne the prayer of the Rosary, to beg thy mercy in these troubled times.
Unfortunately our sins hinder, or at least retard their effect. Wherefore, Dear
Mother, obtain for us true sorrow for our sins and a firm resolution to face
death itself rather than return to our former sins. It grieves us that through
our own fault, thy help which we need so desperately, should be denied or come
too late.
Turn to us, O Mary, and graciously listen to the prayers of
the whole Catholic World: conquer the pride of those wicked men, who in their
insolence blaspheme Almighty God and would destroy His Church, against which,
according to the infallible words of Christ, the gates of Hell shall never
prevail. Let it be seen once more that when thou doth arise to protect the
Church, her victory is sure.
Amen.
Tuesday, 9 June 2015
Mary's Rosary Promises
The
Fifteen Promises of Mary to Christians Who Recite the Rosary
Ø Whoever shall faithfully serve my by
the recitation of the rosary, shall receive signal graces*.
Ø I promise my special protection and
the greatest graces to all those shall recite the rosary.
Ø The rosary shall be a powerful armor
against hell, it will destroy vice, decrease sin, and defeat heresies.
Ø It will cause virtue and good works
to flourish; it will obtain for souls the abundant mercy of God; it will
withdraw the hearts of men from the love of the world and its vanities, and
will lift them to the desire of eternal things.
Oh, that souls would sanctify
themselves by this means.
Ø The soul which recommends itself to
me by the recitation of the rosary, shall not perish.
Ø Whoever shall recite the rosary
devoutly, applying himself to the consideration of its sacred mysteries shall
never be conquered by misfortune. God
will not chastise him in His Justice, he shall not perish by an unprovided death; if he be just he shall remain in the grace of God, and become worthy of
eternal life.
Ø Whoever shall have a true devotion
for the rosary shall not die without the sacraments of the Church.
Ø Those who are faithful to recite the
rosary shall have during their life and at their death the light to God and the
plentitude of His graces; at the moment of death they shall participate in the
merits of the saints in paradise.
Ø I shall deliver from purgatory those
who have been devoted to the rosary.
Ø The faithful children of the rosary
shall merit a high degree of glory in heaven.
Ø You shall obtain all you ask of me by
the recitation of the rosary.
Ø All those who propagate the holy
rosary shall be aided by me in their necessities.
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| Celestial Court |
Ø I have obtained from my Divine Son
that all the advocates of the rosary shall have for intercessors the entire
celestial court during their life and at the hour of death.
Ø
All who recite the rosary are my sons, and
brothers of my only son Jesus Christ.
Ø Devotion of my rosary is a great sign
of predestination.
Given to St. Dominic
Blessed Alan de la Roche
Imprimatur Patrick J. Hayes, D.D. , Archbishop of New York
Monday, 15 September 2014
Our Father Explained by St. Louis de Montfort
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The Our Father
Excerpts taken from the
Secrets of the Rosary by St. Louis
de Monfort
The Our Father or the Lord’s Prayer derives its great value
above all from its author, who is neither a man nor an angel, but the King of
angels and of men, our Lord Jesus Christ.
St. Cyprian says it was necessary that he who came to give us the life
of grace as our Saviour should teach us the way to pray as our heavenly
Master.
The beautiful order, the tender
forcefulness and the clarity of this divine prayer pay tribute to our divine
Master’s wisdom. It is a short prayer
but can teach us so very much, and it is well within the grasp of uneducated
people, while scholars find it a continual source of investigation into the
mysteries of God. The Our Father contains
all the duties we owe to God, the acts of all the virtues and the petitions for
all our spiritual and corporal needs.
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| St. Louis de Montfort |
Tertullian says that the Our Father is a summary of the New
Testament. Thomas a Kempis says that it
surpasses all the desires of all the saints; that it is a condensation of all
the beautiful sayings of all the psalms and canticles; that in it we ask God
for everything that we need, that by it we praise him in the very best way; that
by it we lift up our souls from earth to heaven and unite them closely to God.
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| St. John Chrysostom |
We should say the Our Father with the certitude that the eternal Father will hear us because it is the prayer of his Son, who he always hears, and because we are his members. God will surely grant our petitions made through the Lord’s Prayer because it is impossible to imagine that such a good Father could refuse a request couched in the language of so worth a Son, reinforced by his merits, and made at his behest.
St. Augustine assures us that whenever we say the Our Father
devoutly our venial sins are forgiven. The
just man falls seven times, and the Lord’s Prayer he will find seven petitions
which will both help him to avoid lapses and protect him from his spiritual
enemies. Our Lord, knowing how weak and
helpless we are, and how many difficulties we endure, made his prayer short and
easy to say, so that is we say it devoutly and often, we can be sure that God
will quickly come to our aid. . .
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| St. Augustine |
. . . People who say the Lord’s Prayer carefully, weighing
every word and meditating on them, may indeed call themselves blessed, for they
find therein everything that they need or can wish for. When we say this wonderful prayer, we touch
God’s heart at the very outset by calling him by that sweet name of Father. . .
We have God for our Father, so we are all brothers, and
heaven is our homeland and our heritage.
. . . So we ought to love our heavenly Father and say to him
over and over again:
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| God the Father |
“Our Father who art in heaven” – Thou who dost fill heaven and
earth with the immensity of thy being.
Thou who art present everywhere: Thou who art in the saints by thy
glory, in the damned by they justice, in the good by thy grace, in sinners by
the patience with which thou dost tolerate them, grant that we may always
remember that we come from thee; grant that we may live as thy true children;
that we may direct our course towards thee alone with all the ardour or our
soul.
“Hallowed be thy name” The name of the Lord is holy and to be feared,
said the prophet-king David, and heaven, according to Isaiah, echoes with the
praises of the seraphim who unceasingly praise the holiness of the Lord, God of
hosts. We ask her that all the world may
learn to know and adore the attributes of our God, who is so great and so
holy. We ask that he may be known, loved
and adored by pagans, Turks, Jews, barbarians and all infidels; that all men
may serve and glorify him by a living faith, a staunch hope, a burning charity,
and by the renouncing of all erroneous beliefs.
In short, we pray that all men may be holy because our God himself is
holy.
“Thy kingdom come” That
is to say; May your reign in our souls by your grace, during life, so that
after death we may be found worthy to reign with thee in thy kingdom, in
perfect and unending bliss; that we firmly believe in this happiness to come;
we hope for it and we expect it, because God the Father has promised it in his
great goodness, and because it was purchased for us by the merits of God the
Son; and it has been made known to us by the light of the Holy Ghost.
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| Thy Will be Done |
“Give us this day our daily bread” Our Lord teaches us to ask God for everything
that we need, whether in the spiritual or the temporal order. By asking for our daily bread, we humbly
admit our own poverty and insufficiency, and pay tribute to our God, knowing
that all temporal goods come from his Providence. When we say bread we ask for that which is necessary
to live; and, of course that does not include luxuries. We ask for this bread today, which means that
we are concerned only for the present, leaving the morrow in the hands of
Providence. And when we ask for our
daily bread, we recognize that need God’s help every day and that we are
entirely dependent upon him for his help and protection.
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| Temptation of Christ |
“Amen” This word at the
end of the Our Father is very consoling, and St. Jerome says that it is a sort
of seal of approbation that God puts at the end of our petitions to assure us
that he will grant our requests, as though he himself were answering: “Amen,
May it be as you have asked, for truly you have obtained what you asked for.” That is what is meant by this word: Amen.
We honour
his sublimity and his glory and his majesty by the words Who art in heaven,
that is to say, seated as on thy throne, holding sway over all men by thy
justice. . .
. . . Each word of the Lord’s Prayer is a tribute we pay to the perfections
of God. We honour his fecundity by the
name of Father. Father, thou who
throughout eternity dost beget a Son who is God like thee, eternal,
consubstantial with thee, who is of the very same essence as thee; and is of
like power and goodness and wisdom as thou art… Father and Son, who, from our
mutual love, produce the Holy Ghost, who is God like unto you; three persons
but one God. Our Father.
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| The Holy Trinity |
This means that he is the Father of mankind,
because he has created us and continues to sustain us, and because he has
redeemed us. He is also the merciful
Father of sinners, the Father who is the friend of the just, and the glorious
Father of the blessed in heave. When we
say Who art, we honour by these words the infinity and immensity and fullness
of God’s essence.
God is rightly called “He
who is;” that is to say, he exists of necessity, essentially, and eternally,
because he is the Being of beings and the cause of all beings, and he is in all
of them by his essence, by his presence and by his power, but without being
bounded by their limitations.
We honour
his sublimity and his glory and his majesty by the words Who art in heaven,
that is to say, seated as on thy throne, holding sway over all men by thy
justice. . .
. . . It is our duty, therefore, to say it often, with
attention, and the same spirit as he composed it.
Louis de Montfort has must more to say in his book, “The
Secret of the Rosary”, you should get a copy.
Wednesday, 4 December 2013
Blessed Virgin Mary Chaplet - Immaculate Conception
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| St. Jouchim, St. Anne and the Child Mary |
CHAPLET
of the
NATIVITY and INFANCY
of the
MOST HOLY VIRGIN MARY
Maria Bambina Santissima
(Recited daily during the novena for the Nativity
of the Infant Mary)
THE FIVE JOYS OF THE INFANT MARY
(Recited upon the beads of the Rosary)
1. The Immaculate Conception of the Holy Infant Mary
Let us meditate upon the First Joy of the Infant Mary, her
Immaculate Conception.
We offer Thee, O Jesus through Mary, this First Joy in
honor of
the Immaculate Conception of the Holy Infant Mary.
Seven Hail Mary's, Glory be to the Father...
We praise thee and we glorify thee, O Immaculate Virgin
Mary, as we rejoice and contemplate with love thy Immaculate
Conception.
V. O Holy Infant Mary,
R. Intercede for us who have recourse to thee!
2. The Holy Nativity of the Infant Mary
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| Nativity of the Infant Mary |
Let us meditate upon the Second Joy of the Infant Mary, her
Holy Nativity.
We offer Thee, O Jesus through Mary, this Second Joy in honor
of
the Holy Nativity of the Infant Mary.
Seven Hail Mary's, Glory be to the Father...
We praise thee and we glorify thee, O Immaculate Virgin Mary,
as we rejoice and contemplate with love thy holy Birth.
V. O Holy Infant Mary,
R. Intercede for us who have recourse to thee!
3. The Bestowal upon the Infant Mary of
Her Most Holy Name
Let us meditate upon the Third Joy of the Infant Mary, the
Bestowal of her Holy Name. We offer Thee, O Jesus through
Mary, this Third Joy
in honor of the Bestowal upon the Infant
Mary of Her Most Holy Name.
Seven Hail Mary's, Glory be to the Father...
We praise thee and we glorify thee, O Immaculate Virgin Mary,
as we rejoice and contemplate with love the Holy Name chosen
for thee by
God.
V. O Holy Infant Mary,
R. Intercede for us who have recourse to thee!
4. The Presentation of the Infant Mary in the Temple
Let us meditate upon the Fourth Joy of the Infant Mary, her Presentation in the Temple.
We offer Thee, O Jesus through Mary, this Fourth
Joy in honor of the Presentation of the Infant Mary in the Temple.
Seven Hail Mary's, Glory be to the Father...
We praise thee and we glorify thee, O Immaculate Virgin
Mary,
as we rejoice and contemplate with love thy Presentation in the
Temple.
V. O Holy Infant Mary,
R. Intercede for us who have recourse to thee!
5. The Consecration by the Infant Mary of
Her Most Holy
Virginity to God the Father
Let us meditate upon the Fifth Joy of the Infant Mary, the Consecration of her most Holy Virginity to God the Father. We offer Thee, O
Jesus through Mary, this Fifth Joy in honor of the
Consecration by the Infant
Mary of her most Holy Virginity to
God the Father.
Seven Hail Mary's, Glory be to the Father...
We praise thee and we glorify thee, O Immaculate Virgin
Mary,
as we rejoice and contemplate with love the holy Consecration
of thy
Virginity to God.
V. O Holy Infant Mary,
R. Intercede for us who have recourse to thee!
Let us Pray
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| Mary as a Child |
O beloved of God, most Holy Infant Mary, do thou hear and
answer me. Thou didst consecrate thy entire self from thy very
childhood to the
love of thy God; obtain that I, during the time
that I have yet to be on earth,
may live for God alone. Do thou
obtain for me from thy Divine Son the grace to
follow His
command to strip myself of all pride and to "convert and become
as a little child," living always in the spirit of humble obedience.
On this day, in union with thee -- most Holy Infant Mary, I
renounce all creatures and the spirit of the world, and I
consecrate myself
entirely to the love of my Lord. I also offer
myself to thee, my Immaculate
Queen, to serve thee always.
Accept me as thy devoted servant in an especial
manner, and
obtain for me the grace to be faithful to thee and to thy Son at
every moment of my life, that I may one day praise thee and love
thee for all
eternity in Heaven. Amen.
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