Chrismas With Covid 2020

As I prepare to celebrate Midnight Mass I realize how appropriate that Our Blessed Lord was born in a place (stable/cave) appropriate for animals and not humans. This is because Our Jesus came to us as a LAMB in a town called House of Bread- Bethlehem. In the midst of our holy celebrations, do not forget the cross, the reason He came. Let us do for Him through others so that real joy will be born in our hearts. Do not be afraid of anything, human sickness touches us all sooner or later. Let us remember that whether we live or die- we are the Lord’s!  God takes care of His Own.   May the beauty of God’s love and the protection of His Holy Angels be upon you and all those you love. DOMINUS VOBISCUM+

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Advent 2020

Somehow we’ve made it to the almost end of a most imperfect year.  I have experienced much grief.  My dear sister, Rosemary Kennedy died and my heart if bereft in the natural sorrow of her leave-taking.  She was the finest person I ever met and she led me at a very young age to the Blessed Mother and it was the Blessed Mother who took me to her Son.  I was able to give my sweet sister the Sacrament of Extreme Unction on her birthday.  Holy Viaticum was hers, as well as the Plenary Indulgence at the Hour of Death.  She told me that it was the happiest birthday she ever had!  She was so holy that there was a palpable presence of the Holy Spirit when one was in her presence.  She suffered from one of the most horrible illnesses in God’s fallen world- Incipient Pulmonary Fibrosis.  She told me that the Good Lord told her she was carrying someone on her back up the Mountain of Faith and she would not know who it was until after her death.  She prayed always, every day the full Rosary, many chaplets, and of course went to Holy Mass daily.  Her last words were “Jesus, Mary I love you!” Also, she wore the Brown Scapular always and so earned the Sabbatine Privilege.  I am not worried about my sister!

I will let you know more about my dear sister as we progress with God’s help into the new year.  Just a quick thought on the meaning of Advent for us believers.  It begins the liturgical year.  This is important because God is telling us in this one fact the great truth that His time and our time and not necessarily the same!  For us the new year begins on January first.  Let us remember that Holy Mother Church wants us to be on God’s timetable while we sojourn through this Vale of Tears!  God’s events, or you can say ENLIGHTENMENT happen on God’s schedule and the closer we get to Him, the happier we will be.

Also remember that you are in our daily prayers and at the altar.  This Christmas Midnight Holy Mass will offered for all of our benefactors.  Remember that Our Lady told St. Dominic and many other saints and seers that more souls are released from Purgatory on Christmas than at any other time of year!  Thank you for your prayers and offerings.  Know that each week this blog will be updated and I have many wonderful stories of faith and miracles to share with you.  O COME, O COME EMMANUEL AND RANSOM CAPTIVE ISRAEL!

DOMINUS VOBISCUM!

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Grief Is An Animal

Beloved In Christ,

It has been so long since I have been able to post on this site.  Illness and death have touched my life for a long, long year.  I learned something about grief when I was young and the mother of a friend died unexpectedly.  I did not realize how much I liked this dear lady and I experienced real grief for the first time in my life.  I found that grief is its own animal and that it can not be tamed but by time and grace.  One must simply walk through the behavior of this thing and get to the other side.  Grief is not like we see it portrayed in the movies;  It is ugly and nasty and undignified and incredibly sad.

Because Our Blessed Lord knew grief Himself and showed us His sadness when his friend Lazarus died, we know that grief is something that can be offered to God in union with the Cross of Christ and it can be conquered and tamed only by the infusion of grace and the passage of time, another gift of God.

May you all be blessed in your own grief and sadness and know that God loves you with an everlasting LOVE and that He will give you everything you need not just to survive but to thrive.  You are all remembered at the altar of the Lord and in the Holy Rosary and in our devotions.  Dominos Vobiscum!

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100th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VISIT OF OUR LADY OF FATIMA

One hundred years ago in a small village in the mountains of Portugal, unknown to any but those who lived on its rocky slopes, the great Mother of God, Mary Most Holy visited three, innocent children.  One year before the apparitions of Our Blessed Mother, the Angel of Peace came to the children.  The Angel said that God has designs of grace and good for them and they were to prepare themselves with prayers and sacrifices for the great gift of receiving her visitations.

It is important to note that wherever Our Lady appears in the world, throughout the ages, she asks for only these things: Prayer of the Holy Rosary and Repentance of life.  The Holy Rosary is a great gift of Almighty God and brings us to Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, without Whose shedding of Blood we can  not be saved.

Many believe that this year will bring about worldwide, political changes, particularly as far as Russia is concerned.  Let us pray deeply and with constancy the Holy Rosary.  One can not pray the Rosary on a regular basis and remain in sin!  Our God has given too many graces to this most Catholic of devotions to have a sinner remain obstinate in the way of sin.  How amazing are the graces of God to His children.

Pray for the tortured; pray for the imprisoned; pray for the homeless; pray for the lonely; pray for the forgotten; pray for those who are in trouble; pray for those who have no one to pray for them; pray for your family and friends; pray for yourself, but PRAY, PRAY AND THEN PRAY SOME MORE!

Let us take this opportunity to forgive all those who have done us wrong.  This is pleasing to God and brings His blessing upon our little lives.  Our Blessed Mother promised that, “In the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph and those who do not believe, will believe.  My Immaculate Heart is the way that will lead you to God.”  Holy Scripture tells us that “Mary kept in mind all these things, pondering them in her heart.”  Also, the prophet Simeon said, “Thine own soul a sword shall pierce, that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed!”  How can this prophesy direct from the Holy Gospel, be fulfilled if there is not devotion to Holy Mary?  Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us who have recourse to thee.  Lead us to Jesus now and at the hour of our death.  Amen

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AN ACT OF CONTRITION

Forgive me my sins, O Lord, forgive me my sins;  the sins of my youth, the sins of my age, the sins of my soul, the sins of my body, my idle sins, my serious sins and voluntary sins, the sins I know, the sins I do not know; the sins I have concealed so long and which are now hidden from my memory.

I am truly sorry for every sin, mortal and venial, for all the sins of my childhood up to the present hour.  I know my sins have wounded Thy Tender Heart, O my Saviour.

Let me be freed from the bonds of evil O Heavenly Father, through the most bitter passion and death of my gentle and powerful Redeemer Jesus Christ.  AMEN.

O my Jesus, forget and forgive what I have been.

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Easter Wednesday 2017

THE STARS SHINE OVER THE MOUNTAINS,

THE STARS SHINE OVER THE SEA.

THE STARS LOOK UP TO THE MIGHTY GOD,

THE STARS SHINE DOWN ON ME.

THE STARS SHALL LAST FOR MILLIONS OF YEARS-

MILLIONS OF YEARS AND A DAY

BUT GOD AND I SHALL LIVE AND LOVE

WHEN THE STARS HAVE PASSED AWAY!

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April 18, 2017 in Easter Week

“One just soul can obtain pardon for a thousand sinners.” – St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, Apostle of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

“One day in the service of the Lord can make up for a lifetime of sin.” – Fr. Luke Zimmer, Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary.

“No one who follows Me will ever walk in darkness.  These words of Our Lord counsel all to walk in His footsteps.  If you want to see clearly and avoid blindness of heart, it is His virtues you must imitate.  Make it your aim to meditate on the life of Jesus Christ.  Christ’s teachings surpasses that of all the saints.  But to find this spiritual nourishment you must seek to have the Spirit of Christ.  It is because we lack this Spirit that so often we listen to the Gospel without really hearing it.  Those who fully understand Christ’s words must labor to make their lives conform to His.”- Thomas a Kempis

“Nothing is covered up that will not be uncovered, and nothing secret that will not become known.  Therefore whatever you have said in the dark will be heard in the light, and what you have whispered behind closed doors will be proclaimed from the housetops.”- Luke 12: 2-3

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EASTER SUNDAY, 2017

QUEEN OF HEAVEN, REJOICE, ALLELUIA

FOR HE WHOM YOU WERE WORTHY TO BEAR, ALLELUIA

HAS RISEN, AS HE FORETOLD, ALLELUIA;

REJOICE AND BE GLAD, O VIRGIN MARY, ALLELUIA

FOR THE LORD HAS RISEN INDEED, ALLELUIA!

God Our Father, you give joy to the world by the resurrection of your Son, Our LORD JESUS CHRIST.  Through the prayers of His Blessed Mother, the Virgin Mary, bring us to the HAPPINESS of eternal life.  We ask this through Christ Our Lord.  AMEN.

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GOOD FRIDAY, 2017

WE ADORE THEE O CHRIST AND WE PRAISE THEE, BECAUSE BY THY HOLY CROSS THOU HAST REDEEMED THE WORLD!

God, in His kindness has allowed your humble servant to return to this site after more than a year of chronic illness. All who visit this site are remembered at the altar and in the Holy Rosary.

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Holy Wisdom

“Let each of us accept the truth of the following statement and try to make it our most fundamental principle:  Christ’s teaching will never let us down, while worldly wisdom always will.  Christ Himself said that this sort of wisdom was like a house with nothing but sand as its foundation, while His own was like a building with solid rock as its foundation.”-St. Vincent de Paul

“Since Christ Himself has said, “This is My Body” who shall dare to doubt that It is His Body?”-St. Cyril of Jerusalem

“Teach us to give and not count the cost.”-St. Ignatius of Loyola

“Pray as though everything depended on God.  Work as though everything depended on you.”=St. Augustine

“On the question of relating to our fellowman- our neighbor’s spiritual need transcends every commandment.  Everything else we do is a means to an end.  But LOVE is an end already, since GOD IS LOVE.”- Sr. Teresia Benedicta of the Cross

“If you are what you should be, you will set the whole world ablaze!”-St. Catherine of Sienna

“Charity is certainly greater than any rule.  Moreover, all rules must lead to charity.”- St. Vincent de Paul

“We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason; nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable.”-St. Bernard of Clairvaux

“You can not be half a saint; you must be a whole saint or none at all.”-St. Therese of Lisieux

“Let us go forward in peace, our eyes upon Heaven, the only one goal of our labors.”-St. Therese of Lisieux

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