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January 13, 2025
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Consecration Prayer for Peace
I consecrate Russia and the Ukraine to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
I further consecrate the priests, the Church and the world to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Immaculate Heart of Mary.
I do this in the name of Jesus in as far as I am able, united to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, praying to the Father, in the Holy Spirit, with all the angels and saints and the souls in purgatory through the powerful intercession of Mary, Queen of Peace. Amen.
I further consecrate myself, all members of my family and ask the Holy Spirit to fill us. I spread the Blood of Jesus on all above, I cast the devil into hell away from all of us and consecrate all persons, in as far as I am able, to the Sacred Heart and Immaculate Heart.
Prayer for Grace for Election and 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.
Morning Offering
Dear Father,
I offer up all I do all day united to Jesus
in the Mass, in the Holy Spirit, through
the powerful intercession of Mary, our
spiritual Mother, with all the angels and
saints, and the souls in purgatory, for
the priest, the Church, and the world.
We love You God so much.
We thank You and adore You and
petition You for our needs. Amen.
January 12, 2025
R. Pray for me today please.
Thank You God for the beautiful
Feast today!!!
Thank you Pope John Paul II for
the Mysteries of Light.
I saw some beautiful snow, it looked
like God pouring white all over the
earth, the white clouds were like
whipped ice cream, Such a beautiful
sky, light shining through in little
spurts. Sun shining in all the white,
sky and earth.
The snow so untouched by any
darkness in the field.
Nothing marred its beauty, not even
footprints in the field.
Heaven’s light and beauty is beyond
anything we can see here, like this
perfection in heaven.
If He can make snow to turn things
so beautiful and new - think of the
Lord’s Day with all the Holy Sacrifice
of the Mass celebrated Saturday afternoon
until Sunday night on the earth.
From the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy
“… the liturgy is the summit toward which
the activity of the Church is directed, at the
same time it is the font from which all her
power flows.”
R. Our love here is imperfect, but always
deepening but like todays feast
“prepare in the wilderness a highway for
the Lord”
That means in our own hearts too.
Prepare,
Prepare,
Prepare (like Fr. Joe said: we prepare
too, be a priest, a doctor, a teacher.
We are so loved - prepare for eternal
life in heaven.
We need our spiritual soul, not marred
by sin, healthy and full of light and filled
with His life.
We need to die to bad habits, not settle
in to the old bad habits (deadly sins)
as familiar.
We need the virtues (good habits) not
old deadly sins.
Some people learned generational
abuses when they were learning to
walk, we are all a work in progress,
we need to die to self-will and ways
not like Jesus to grow in the life of
resurrection.
We live the life, death and resurrection
(the mystery of Christ) in our lives.
God is light and in Him is no darkness.
We are a work in progress.
God wants us to seek forgiveness and
His mercy,
He paid a precious price for this. He
wants to forgive us, we must seek this.
Follow Jesus’ example of perfection
and love.
“This is My beloved Son, in whom I
am well pleased.”
R. We want to please our Heavenly
Father, like Jesus showed us.
Today at Mass, I saw as never before
the energy of the Holy Spirit coming in
fire (like the tongues of fire on their
heads at Pentecost).
The Holy Spirit coming in Love and
Fire. (Burning Love)
R. Come Holy Spirit infuse into our
intellect Your gifts of wisdom,
knowledge and understanding.
Counsel us from the mind of God.
The heavens were thrown open.
The Holy Spirit as a dove over
Jesus’ head.
The Father’s voice was heard.
The beauty of this burns my heart.
The Trinity -
then the public life of Jesus -
miracles, teachings, Jesus’ life,
death and Resurrection.
The gift God gives us in the Church
is so great!
Oh God, thank You for the Church,
the priest, love, hope, faith, eternal
life, forever.
Through Him, With Him and In Him!!!
The gift that keeps giving.
Rita
I love this Feast
I love the Sacraments!!!!!
January 12, 2025
R. It is satan’s tactic to bring disorder
into the human condition with the
misuse of creatures.
Satan uses snares: that is deceptions to
get innocent others to fall into, but once
satan lays his trap he tries to rule, to
control, so the innocent others have
trouble getting out of his well engineered
trap through manipulation of willing men
to operate in unbounded pride to try to
trap the innocent man living to please God.
St. Ignatius tells us of the 2 Standards.
Excerpt of The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, by Louis J. Puhl, S.J. P.60-61
136. THE FOURTH DAY
A MEDITATION ON TWO STANDARDS
The one of Christ, our supreme leader and lord,
the other of Lucifer, the deadly enemy of our
human naturePRAYER. The usual preparatory prayer.
window at a former Jesuit Seminary
137. FIRST PRELUDE. This is the history. Here it will be that Christ calls and wants all beneath His standard, and Lucifer, on the other hand, wants all under his.
138. SECOND PRELUDE. This is a mental representation of the place. It will be here to see a great plain, comprising the whole region about Jerusalem, where the sovereign Commander-in-Chief of all the good is Christ our Lord; and another plain about the region of Babylon, where the chief of the enemy is Lucifer.
139. THIRD PRELUDE. This is to ask for what I desire. Here it will be to ask for a knowledge of the deceits of the rebel chief and help to guard myself against them; and also to ask for a knowledge of the true life exemplified in the sovereign and true Commander, and the grace to imitate Him.
FIRST PART
THE STANDARD OF SATAN
140. FIRST POINT. Imagine you see the chief of all the enemy in the vast plain about Babylon, seated on a great throne of fire and smoke, his appearance inspiring horror and terror.
141. SECOND POINT. Consider how he summons innumerable demons, and scatters them, some to one city and some to another, throughout the whole world, so that no province, no place, no state of life, no individual is overlooked.
142. THIRD POINT. Consider the address he makes to them, how he goads them on to lay snares for men and bind them with chains. First they are to tempt them to covet riches (as Satan himself is accustomed to do in most cases) that they may the more easily attain the empty honors of this world, and then come to overweening pride.
The first step, then, will be riches, the second honor, the third pride. From these three steps the evil one leads to all other vices.
SECOND PART
THE STANDARD OF CHRIST
143. In a similar way, we are to picture to ourselves the sovereign and true Commander, Christ our Lord.
144. FIRST POINT. Consider Christ our Lord, standing in a lowly place in a great plain about the region of Jerusalem, His appearance beautiful and attractive.
145. SECOND POINT. Consider how the Lord of all the world chooses so many persons, apostles, disciples, etc., and sends them throughout the whole world to spread His sacred doctrine among all men, no matter what their state or condition.
146. THIRD POINT. . . . end of excerpt
R. The trap of satan is much like a trap
in the yard trying to catch unwanted
animals hurting one's yard.
Satan comes in noisey, he operates in
pride, anger, jealousy, envy and
slothfulness taking over needed jobs
that is God’s will to take down the
house in dominance for dominance
sake, confusion, disorder, destruction,
unbounded violation of people’s
boundaries and rules.
It is a chain, an entrapment, that satan
sets, satan tries to tie up the innocent
by binding them in his sordid snare.
Satan wants to rule at any expense.
God is omnipotent and almighty,
the person attacking God’s plan uses
sin to try to rule God.
God is all powerful, worthy of our
praise, honor, love and obedience.
We are creatures, God is our Creator.
Such a person deceiving and working
for satan is sinning against God.
If it is of God, it will not be put down.1 Corinthians 15: 20-28
In fact, however, Christ has been raised from the dead, as the first-fruits of all who have fallen asleep. As it was by one man that death came, so through one man has come the resurrection of the dead. Just as all die in Adam, so in Christ all will be brought to life; but all of them in their proper order: Christ the first-fruits, and next, at his coming, those who belong to him. After that will come the end, when he will hand over the kingdom to God the Father, having abolished every principality, every ruling force and power. For he is to be king until he has made his enemies his footstool, and the last of the enemies to be done away with is death, for he has put all things under his feet. But when it is said everything is subjected, this obviously cannot include the One who subjected everything to him. When everything has been subjected to him, then the Son himself will be subjected to the One who has subjected everything to him, so that God may be all in all.
R. God will put His enemies under
His feet.
The sacrifice of Calvary shows Christ
mounting His throne of punishment,
being a victim for our sins.
How easy it is for a creature to use
other's power in disorder.
Satan wants to rule, he tries to go
over those in authority to rule.
God operates in obedience and structure.
The man setting a trap disobeying
authority over him, seeks authority over
their authority to bring them down,
so they can get away with their
disobedience to authority over them.
Satan wants rule.
The Holy Spirit is a breath and moves
gently like the blowing wind.
Satan comes in as one banging a drum
in a person's ear and refuses to stop.
Satan is relentless, he has nothing to lose.
He wants souls to sin and offend God.
Read St. Ignatius Discernment of Spirits.
From The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius,
by Louis J. Puhl, S.J. p. 12
23. FIRST PRINCIPLE AND FOUNDATION
Man is created to praise, reverence and serve God
our Lord, and by this means to save his soul.
From The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius,
by Louis J. Puhl, S.J. p.1121. SPIRITUAL EXERCISES
Which have as their purpose the conquest of self
and the regulation of one's life in such a way that
no decision is made under the influence of any
inordinate attachment
4 days before Fr. Carter's death
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Handmaids of the Good Shepherd
Fr. Carter blessed these handmaids and servants
Please pray for Matthew for heart surgery.
Jerry, Servant of the Good Shepherd 25 Years
Fr. Joe - A priest 59 Years
Jesus called Servants and Handmaids of the
Good Shepherd: Fr. Carter said
Jesus gave and gave and gave.
Jesus gave the last drop of blood and the
last beat of His Heart in love for our sins.
Mary held the lifeless body of her Son
Jesus who gave Himself for our sins.
We love our priests.
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May 14, 2024
R. Dear Holy Spirit come to me, possess
my soul, I love You, Holy Spirit.
When I am weak, I am strong in You.
Outpour Your precious love to me. Amen.
I love You, God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
Dear Holy Spirit infuse in my intellect
wisdom, knowledge and understanding.
Counsel me Holy Spirit from the mind of
God.
Help me, dear Holy Spirit to know the loving
embrace of God all the days of my life.
I turn to You. Amen.
When I find doing God's desire for my life
difficult give me the gift of fortitude, dear
Holy Spirit.
Sanctify my heart to act purely for the
honor and glory of God.
I may be willing, but I need Your gift to
give me courage to act as You desire.
Help me to know and love the heavenly
Father's will for me and to do it in love
for the honor and glory of God.
Help me to always put God first in my life,
in love for God in my heart.
Help me to walk realizing, I am the creature,
God is the Creator.
Help me to be patient and strong and
persevere in my life until I rest with Thee
forever in heaven.
Please Holy Spirit give me the gift of fear
of God that I do not offend you in sins
of unloving ways against God.
You are so good and deserving of all my
love.
I worship You and love You -
Help my interior disposition at Mass to be
that of purity in pleasing the Heavenly
Father, in my offering united to Jesus in
the Mass.
Dear Holy Spirit please help me in the gift
of piety to do that which pleases my Heavenly
Father with the tenderness as His little child.
Thank you God for all You give to me.
I pray this "All for the honor and Glory of
God". Amen.
Matthew 22: 36-40
'Master, which is the greatest commandment of the Law?' Jesus said to him, 'You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment. The second resembles it: You must love your neighbour as yourself. On these two commandments hang the whole Law, and the Prophets too.'
Dear Holy Spirit, strengthen our will and
move like a Divine breath in our soul, to
be docile sons and daughters of our
Heavenly Father. Amen.
Alleluia.
March 10, 2024
Novena to St. Joseph, Patron and Father (2024)
Begins March 11, 2024 - March 19, 2024
Dear Saint Joseph,
I turn to you, you who cared and
protected the child Jesus and the
Virgin Mary.
You taught men and women, the
love of God by your example in life,
and by your faithfulness of living
your calling in greatest commitment
and love.
You loved Mary and Jesus with the
most gentle, bonds of love.
You showed us how you
lived in loving conformity to the
Heavenly Father's will.
You guided Jesus and Mary's precious
lives with the Holy Spirit, Spouse of
the Virgin Mother of God.
Protect us and our family this day and
every day of our lives, like
you did the Holy Family of Nazareth.
We seek your powerful intercession.
How intimately you knew and loved
Jesus and Mary. You were so close to
them. You showed us love.
Your heart was pure and gentle and
yet you were strong in being their
manly protector on earth, intercede
for us to depend more and more on
God for all our needs, for when we
are weak we are strong in God.
St. Joseph please intercede for a
peaceful and holy death for us and
our sick loved ones.
Amen.
St. Joseph help us now in this nine
day novena to you.
Amen.
March 23, 2024
Prayer for Sick and Caregivers at Home
R. Dear God,
I pray Heavenly Father with all my heart,
in the Name of Jesus, united to the Holy
Sacrifice of the Mass, in the Holy Spirit,
with all the angels and saints and souls
in purgatory, through the powerful
intercession of Our Lady of Clearwater
to come to my aid now.
My loved one is very sick and he (she)
needs your help, God.
Outpour Your grace for me in this time
of need to have patience and wisdom to
deal with this now.
I give this sickness up to You, my God.
Please help me in dealing with this and
helping them in doing the right thing
and dealing with this.
I surrender this problem to You, my
Divine God.
Please send Your angels to help me.
Spread us all with the Precious Blood of
Jesus, cast the devil into the fires of hell,
dear Holy Spirit come to my aid.
I consecrate my home, ourselves to the
Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate
Heart of Mary, Thank You.
Most Sacred Heart of Jesus I place my
trust in Thee.
Child Jesus of Good Health, help us.
St. Joseph, Patron of a Holy Death
come to our aid.
Amen.
July 29, 2024
R. Dear Mary,
My Mother, I love you so much.
Please take care of my needs in my family.
Ask your precious Son Jesus to help me
and my family.
You are the Mother of Jesus. You cared
so lovingly for Him in your life on earth.
You are His most perfect disciple.
Oh Mary, I love you so much, you are my
spiritual Mother.
There are many of my friends I ask you
to pray for, too.
I know your powerful intercession from
the wedding of Cana.
You stood beneath the cross on Calvary,
after you endured the bitter treatment of
your precious Son Jesus.
Oh Mary, you know so well the trials and
pains of life. Help me now, I turn to your
powerful intercession.
You stand by the altar at Mass and intercede
for Grace for us all day long, please never
abandon me, your little child.
Oh Mary I love you so, so much.
Oh Mary you are the Queen of Peace, please
help us in peace in the world, the Churchs,
the family, the work place for all your little
children of the world.
We need your help for peace now, hear our
pleas as we turn to your powerful intercession.
We pray especially for our beloved priests,
Oh Mother of the Eucharist we turn to you.
Amen.
God is love, please take us to your Immaculate
Heart of love and place us in the Sacred Heart
of Jesus, there to know the riches of God's love.
Amen. Alleluia
January 7, 2025
Sorrowful Mysteries
The Agony in the Garden
1. The natural fear of death entered in.
2. Jesus knew all that would happen.
3. Oh Jesus. I am so sorry, I love You so
much.
4. Please Jesus, help me now, in this
struggle, I trust in Your Sacred Heart.
5. As I live daily, I unite to the Mass
going on around the world.
6. The Mass is the sacrifice of Calvary,
sacramentally made present.
7. I envision the priest at the Mass
and unite to that Mass.
8. I envision Jesus on the hill of Calvary,
and see the blood He shed on the
cross in my mind.
9. This is the greatest sacrifice, Jesus,
the Son of God.
Lamb of God who takes away our sins,
have mercy on us.
Jesus sweat blood in the Garden.
10. I envision the Last Supper -
Jesus is priest and victim in the Mass.
The Scourging at the Pillar
1. The devil is relentless.
2. Jesus was whipped and whipped for
our sins.
3. Jesus was the innocent Lamb led to
the slaughter.
4. Jesus suffered such a beating for
our sins.
5. Jesus bled and bled.
6. Jesus' flesh was torn, He was a
bloody mess.
7. Jesus was beaten by men He loved
so much.
8. The devil is hatred.
9. God is perfect love.
10. Oh Jesus, thank You so much.
I love You.
The Crowning with Thorns
1. Jesus gives us so much love.
2. We can accept His love
or we can reject it.
3. Peace is in telling God how much we
love Him and thank Him for all His
gifts to us.
4. The Father created us because He
loves us so much and wants us to go
to heaven with Him one day.
5. John 3:16
For this is how God loved the world:
he gave his only Son,
so that everyone who believes in him
may not perish
but may have eternal life.
6. Jesus did not wear a crown of jewels,
but a crown of thorns. Jesus’
head
was full of blood for our sins.
7. Jesus’ head was full of blood, He
shed for sins of pride.
8. Jesus’ eyes were hit and bloodied.
9. Jesus’ thoughts were of you and me
and He gave so much because He
loves us so, so much.
10. Jesus said: I am the way, the truth
and life.
R. Think about God and Heaven and
how wonderful it is.
The Carrying of the Cross
1. These crosses we carry are little
crosses compared to the heavy
cross, Jesus carried, laden with
our sins.
2. The cross leads to life.
3. Jesus shows us this.
4. Jesus fell 3 times with the cross.
5. Jesus endured all this to His death,
for our sins.
6. Jesus was covered from head to toe
with blood and wounds for our sins.
7. Make peace with God who loves us
so much.
8. Jesus carried our sins. Jesus endured
the wounds for our sins.
9. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, perfect love, see
Him carry the cross for us.
10. Oh Jesus, Your blood You shed for
my sins is a precious gift.
I love You, Jesus.
The Crucifixion
1. Can you imagine Mary standing under
the cross, watching the slaughter of
her Son, Jesus, after she watched
what He went through in the bitter
Passion?
2. Oh Mary, I see your heart invisibly
pierced on Calvary!! And so many
souls reject the grace God wants to
give us for inordinate attachments.
3. Jesus hung for 3 hours on the cross.
4. Jesus hung to His death.
5. Jesus gave the last drop of His Blood
and last beat of His Heart.
6. The Mass is the sacrifice of Calvary,
sacramentally made present.
7. God is love. He loves us with Divine
love.
8. God wants us eternally with Him in
heaven.
9. We can unite to the Mass going on
around the world - all day and offer
our lives united to the Mass for grace
for the priests, the Church and the
world.
10. Envision yourself next to Mary
under the cross, offer up all you do
all day united to the Mass.
Morning Offering
Dear Father,
I offer up all I do all day united to Jesus
in the Mass, in the Holy Spirit, through
the powerful intercession of Mary, our
spiritual Mother, with all the angels and
saints, and the souls in purgatory, for
the priest, the Church, and the world.
We love You God so much.
We thank You and adore You and
petition You for our needs. Amen.
Oh Jesus, I love You so much and want
to go to my true home in heaven some day.
I love You and want to do the Father’s will.
Amen.
Death / Resurrection.
We can see us locked up here in our bodies,
breaking forth from the tomb on the other side.
Awesome, beautiful!!!
This is reality. God wants us in heaven eternally.
So awesome.
