Prayer for Grace for our Country

Dear Father united to Jesus in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the Sacrifice of Calvary sacramentally made present, celebrated around the world, in the Holy Spirit. We offer up all we do united to the Mass. We unite in one mind and one heart as members of the mystical body of Christ, with Christ our head in the pure and holy Hearts of Jesus and Mary, through the powerful intercession of Mary with all the angels and saints and souls in purgatory, and we beg for the saving grace, for our country, the United States. Please help us. We further pray for unity to always do the will of God in love. We spread the Blood of Jesus on the leaders and people of the United States and cast the devil into hell. We consecrate our country to the Sacred Heart and Immaculate Heart and all our dioceses, and beg for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit. God help us. We pray for our families, the priests, the Church and the world. In the Name of Jesus please hear us, we pray. We pray for our president and leaders. We pray that we are united as one nation under God to work together in love as God wants.   

                January 13, 2019

                R. I have been studying St. Augustine a little –
                At one time he stole pears and he hated pears,
                he did it for the joy of stealing and getting
                away with it. He enjoyed the evil – he was operating
                from his wounded human nature –
                There are tendencies toward the deadly sins,
                even though we have been baptized –
                Our human nature is wounded.

                    God created the world in order and symmetry
                to praise Him. God is the Creator. He created
                the world from nothing.

                    God said "Let there be light" and
                command / response – there was light –
                "Call" and "response". He called the light
                "day" and the darkness "night".

                    He called the dry land, the earth and
                the waters, the sea

                    God is the Creator –

                    God the master over creation –

                    He created plants and fruit – ability
                        for rain and snow

                    He created the sun and the moon
                    He created birds and fish and the
                ability for them to "be fruitful and to
                multiply"

                    God created animals and plant and
                fruit eaters.

Genesis 1: 26-27

God said, ‘Let us make man in our own image, in the likeness of ourselves, and let them be masters of the fish of the sea, the birds of heaven, the cattle, all the wild animals and all the creatures that creep along the ground.’

God created man in the image of himself,
    in the image of God he created him,
    male and female he created them.

                R. God created man the apex of creation –

                We are to be good stewards to God –

                God is the Creator – we are the
                    creatures –

                God made male and female creatures.

                The Trinity is 3 Persons in one God –

                Man is to have relationship – communion
                    with God and others –

                God created man to have children in
                    relationship with one another –
                    to increase and multiply.

                The 7th day of Creation God rested –
                    This day is to be holy –
                    A day of worship to God –
                    This Day tells us to stop –
                        God is the Master!!

                    God created a beautiful, loving, peaceful,
                orderly and good world without sin,
                without evil, without violence –
                The world was made in love –
                The creatures made in love –

                Now the world God created had health and order,
                    peace, the absence of disease and
                    war, division, hatred, violence.

                    God gave us a free will to obey or
                disobey Him – Obedience to God's will
                brings order and good –

                    Disobedience to God will bring
                disorder and evil.

                    God brings life!

                    In God is life!

                    God breathes life!

                God gave to man a Garden to live in
                    to prosper, to grow and
                    produce –

                    Adam and Eve are not to touch
                the tree of good and evil.

                    Work to Adam and Eve was a gift –
                the Land was in the beautiful
                Garden of Paradise –

                    There is harmony – perfect harmony
                and love –

                    Adam and Eve were not to eat of the tree
                of good and evil –

                    They are not to seek independence
                from God –

                    Original sin is moral independence.
                    Sin is offending God and
                    disobeying God's Divine Will.
                    We are dependent on God –
                    God is the Master –
                    When we obey His will we are
                        living as we should.

                    Original sin is disrespect for one's
                dependency on God –
 

                R. Woe to those who decide what is right
                    and wrong without God.

                Men and women are called to a life
                    of marriage –
                    giving of one-self to the other in love –

                    ONE-BODY, ONE FLESH!

                Animals are male and female likewise.

                Women are to help men and men
                    help each other to gain eternal
                    salvation.

                God gave marriage a big
                    emphasis –
                    creation of children is to come from
                    men and women living in marriage.

                Shame comes from the deadly sins –
                    pride, greed, envy, wrath, lust, gluttony, and sloth.

                The devil makes good look evil and
                    evil look good.

                Death came because of Adam and Eve's
                    disobedience.

                God's world was harmonious and
                    ordered –

                Death entered the world as a
                    consequence of sin –

                Adam and Eve sinned in pride and jealousy
                    and envy of God's knowledge –

                Because of the fall man's ability to
                    see good and evil becomes
                    distorted –
                    Even after baptism which
                    takes away original sin
                    we have a tendency toward
                    evil because of our
                    wounded human nature.

                Adam and Eve determined they could decide
                    what was good and evil
                    independent of God –

                The sinner places themselves above
                    God and operates against
                    God's law – telling themselves
                    they can decide independently
                    what they can do.

                God gives us His laws to govern
                    our freedom –

                We can obey or disobey God's Laws,
                    God's will –
                    We have a free will –

                R. Adam and Eve disobeyed God's command and
                    were thrown out of the
                    Garden of Paradise –

                Innocence is lost.

                Shame comes in.

                Sin is seeking independence of God –

                Sin entered the world and harmony
                    is distorted!

                Thus man has tendencies toward
                    the deadly sins –
                    pride, greed, envy, wrath,
                    lust, gluttony, and sloth.

                Man has a distorted image of things –
                    Man can be full of fear
                        because he sees things
                        distortedly and run from
                        his call from God –

                We are accountable to God for our
                    disobedience to His laws –
                    for our sin –

                    We offend God when we sin
                        and our relationship
                        becomes fractured –

                    We need to tell God we are sorry
                        and ask for forgiveness –
                        have a firm purpose of
                        amendment and tell God
                        we intend to stop sinning – ask for
                        His forgiveness and mercy!!

                Blame enters the world –

                Lies enter the world to cover up one's
                    evil and disobedience to God –

                Loss of personal responsibility –

                There is competition between those
                    over us, as one under decides
                    independence and does what
                    they want –
 

                R. Grace moves us to God –

                We pray for grace –

                We pray for the grace we need most –

                Concupiscence moves us to sin –
                    because we have a wounded
                    human nature –

                Sin is Rebellion against God

                Jesus and Mary are the New Adam and New Eve.

                Original sin wounds human nature.

                Sin is stopping the order God wants with us.

                Men and women become in conflict
                    with one another because
                    of Adam and Eve.
 

                R. We must toil because of Adam's sin –

                Life becomes hard work –

                Works honors God –

                God gives us gifts and we use
                    them for His honor and glory –

                    Gratitude

                In the sin of Adam and Eve that
                    intimacy with God
                    is harmed –

                R. We need to be saved because of
                    the fall of Adam and Eve.

                Song: A Song from Jesus

                R. Because of original sin –
                    (Adam and Eve looked at each other imperfectly)

                    we see each other distortedly
                    we see God distortedly
                    we see ourselves distortedly

                There is disorder in elements

                    Lose of harmony in animals and
                        humans

                Because of original sin people can
                    think they are independent of God
                    and they may say

                    "I'll pick what I like about faith,
                        but I will reject what
                        I don't like"

                Even some teachers in Catholic
                    schools teaching religion
                    may not be Catholic.

                We have a free will –
                    Love must be free.
                    It is a gift from the heart –

                God commands us to love Him
                    and love others.
 

                R. There is tension between husband
                    and wife because of
                    original sin –

                Adam and Eve's sin was
                    self-centered.

                Seeking dominance in relationships
                    especially between men and women,
                    those under authority trying
                    to win over authority –
                    BECAUSE of ORIGINAL SIN

                Tension between men and women
                no longer other centered as it should be

                    Parent - child etc. – tension

                To have greater perfection
                    we must die to self-will –
                    Seek Virtue
                    Vision of God for men

                At Mass – Beginning of Mass
                                Sorrow for sins – prepare
                                to be holy offering in
                                the Mass

                Unity with others
                            one-mind, one heart
                            living faith, hope & love

                R. Put on Mind of Christ at Mass
                    (1) Thanksgiving
                    (2) Reparation
                    (3) Love
                    (4) Satisfaction for Sin

                Interior Disposition

                    PUTTING ON THE MIND of CHRIST

                Demons hate God
                Demons hate creatures
                Demons hate each other
                Demons hate us –

                Demons are envious of us –
                Demons want to SPOIL God's work
                        want to drag us to hell

John 8: 44

You are from your father, the devil,
and you prefer to do
what your father wants.
He was a murderer from the start;
he was never grounded in the truth;
there is no truth in him at all.
When he lies
he is speaking true to his nature,
because he is a liar, and the father of lies.

                R. Christ said of satan
                    "He was a murderer from
                        the beginning"

                    Solomon had wisdom –
                        he did bad things –

                The demons are SMART
                    have wonderful intellects!

                The demons test man –
                    watch man –

                Satan is a pro – he has been working
                    for centuries –

                EVIL SPIRITS are wicked!

                God permits devils to test us –
                    to see if we are loyal –

                To one much is given –
                    much will be expected!

                Satan works in men's minds –
                    imagination and memory –

                (1) Satan gives suggestions (we have freedom to
                                                            listen or not)

                (2) Then man acts (according to God's wishes
                                                    or according to satan)

                (3) Habits (if man does repeated evil
                                    actions they become habits)

                (4) Slavery to evil

                The devil knows our weaknesses, memories,
                    anger, jealousy, envy, pride –

                The devil can watch our actions and can
                    work on these pleasures!

                The devil suggests things –
                    tempts us –
                    We don't have to give in!

                The devil can't win, if we don't
                    let him.

                R. Mary is the New Eve –

                Jesus the New Adam

                Servants and Handmaids of Jesus –

                Interior Disposition at Mass –
                    put on the mind of Christ