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anuary 2, 2026|
January 3rd Holy Spirit Novena |
The Novena Rosary
Mysteries |
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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.
September 21, 2025
Prayer of Love to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus
Most Sacred, beautiful Heart of Jesus, I trust in Thee.
Dear Father thank you for the precious love You have given me, all the years of my life.
I unite to You, Oh Holy Spirit, fill me with Your light and Your truth.
I see You, Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, Your Heart is on fire for me, I love You so much, Jesus.
Dear Immaculate Heart of Mary, my Mother, please give me through your powerful intercession the motherly love I need to be an instrument in this world to answer that call you have asked for, to help the souls that need my prayers.
I offer up my sacrifices united to the Mass for the Grace to pray for the precious souls all over the world that need prayers today because of their hardened hearts, that refuse to turn from the evil they hold onto and live in the way Jesus shows us.
Dear Most Sacred Heart of Jesus I pray for the grace to help me in the Shepherds of Christ to be able to do what I have been called to do in Your Movement.
Please cast the devil into hell away from me and others in this mission, You have called in trying to accomplish what I have been called to do to help reach the souls You died for and to help these souls on this journey to one day go to heaven.
We have been called to love and adore and worship You, my Savior.
Oh Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, You are the Son of God, You are all good and loving, and worthy of my love, please spread Your Blood on me and this mission, You have called me to.Most Sacred Heart of Jesus,
You are all loving and worthy of my love.I love You with all my heart.
Most Sacred Heart of Jesus I consecrate my heart to Your most Sacred Heart.
My heart is overwhelmed in love of Thee.Most Holy Immaculate Mary, I give you my heart now and ask you to protect me in your pure and Immaculate Heart.
Holy Spirit infuse into my intellect wisdom, knowledge and counsel. Fill me with the vision to see through the eyes of God, to love with the Heart of Jesus and to know and love as You direct me in the Fathers will. Help me to co-operate with this grace to walk in this way in loving conformity to the Father’s will.
Please help the truth to be in me.
Thank You my God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit, come and abundantly dwell in me in great oneness.Help me to grow in loving.
Help me to be obedient to God’s will. Help me to be united in oneness with God and others.
January 2, 1999
Mary: I am Our Lady of Snows. I come to cover the earth with a soft white blanket of my love.
I come to bring peace to the earth. I tell you to let go of the anxiety in your heart and experience my peace and His love.
I am your heavenly Mother. I come to hold you and caress you and take you to my Immaculate Heart.
January 1, 2026
Joy is His Plan,
even in sorrow and suffering.
Jesus showed us love and joy in the cross.
The Mass is the sacrifice of Calvary, sacramentally made present.
Through the pierced Heart of Jesus the Church was born!
A New Year.
Every day is a gift - in light or darkness, life is in Him!
A Few Thoughts
Today is the day
the Lord has made -
Rejoice and be glad.
God gives us the
sunrise -
A new day to live as He has in store for us.
God gives us each
other to love and grow in Him.
Thank Him for the gifts of each other.
Jesus came - He
took flesh - He gives us Himself today in the Holy Eucharist.
God is with us.
Oh God how great is Your love and Your gifts to us.
Oh God, I love You!!
At night God gives us the stars in the sky and a night to rest and pray and slow down -
God has given us
Himself.
Jesus gives to us His Sacred Heart, Heart of Divine Love!!
His love is everlasting, unlimited, and endless.
There is no limit to love in Jesus.
After the days of darkness can come enormous light if we stay rooted in Him.
Live in the moment in Him, surrender to His Plan for our lives, the best Plan for our lives are in Him!
Amen.
Happy New Year.
January 1, 2026
A Few Thoughts
In the Catholic Church the days of Christmas are still celebrated.
We can enjoy the songs:
Do you Hear what I Hear...
Angels we have Heard on High...
Oh Little Town of Bethlehem...
The First Noel.
So many beautiful songs to celebrate the magnificence of these days
God has given us such a gift of our hearts in music.
God has given us the liturgy to celebrate this great gift of our Church.
There is much suffering in the world and yet the steady factor in my life is “God knows everything that is happening now and I am not alone, ever.”
God allows what we may be going through right now.
My focus is always - He is with me now and He knows what is happening and He loves me.
Oh most Sacred
Heart of Jesus, You are with me now, I want to exist in You.
I love You.
His love is burning and on-fire for us.
After the dark
nights comes the morning light -
Everyday is a new day.
Every Day, a day of
deeper oneness with Him. He never abandons us -
Jesus I want to dwell in Your Heart. Amen.
Joy to the world, our Savior has come.
The blind may see better than a man that sees and is not in-touch with his heart.
Focus on your heart, the interior life, stop and hear the silence, how inspiring it can be when we are one in our hearts with God.
Let our hearts be one with the Holy Spirit, dwelling in the Heart of Jesus, living the Father’s Plan in love.
Life is in Him -
The further we go in our heart from Him, the more we "want" for life.
Life is in Him.
The Father says:
Listen to Him.
Listen with your heart, be silent, listen to Him, be silent and empty of
other things.
This is intimacy with Him, emptying oneself and making room for Him.
Even knowing everything, like the wonders of the world cannot fill us like we can be filled by deeply knowing Him, intimacy of our Divine God.
January 1, 2026
A person can be an easy person to be with and live a very purposeful life focused on their goals.
A person can keep their focus and not get bogged down on things out of balance.
Find the solution,
don’t get in the drama others may make and are used to,
stay out of that unnecessary chaos that gets in the way of moving ahead.
The best plan to moving ahead is living the Father’s will in love.
God has a unique
Plan for our lives,
but we must work with others. There is structure in life.
God operates in structure.
The Ten Commandments
1. I, the Lord, am your God. You shall not have other gods besides me.
2. You shall not take the name of the Lord, your God, in vain.
3. Remember to keep holy the Sabbath day.
4. Honor your father and your mother.
5. You shall not kill.
6. You shall not commit adultery.
7. You shall not steal.
8. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
9. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife.
10. You shall not covet anything that belongs to your neighbor.
God created us to know, love and serve God and thereby attain our eternal salvation.
We don’t know many things, God gave us unique talents, God loves us and is with us helping us beyond ways we even know.
Alleluia, Alleluia, we are living, for our Father to please Him, with what He wants, with the talents He has given to us.
So then our Father is well pleased.
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March 10, 2024
Novena to
St. Joseph, Patron and Father
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.
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.
pleas as we turn to your powerful intercession.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
January 1, 2026
Joyful Mysteries
The Annunciation
1. Luke 1: 26-38
In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town in Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man named Joseph, of the House of David; and the virgin’s name was Mary. He went in and said to her, ‘Rejoice, you who enjoy God’s favour! The Lord is with you.’ She was deeply disturbed by these words and asked herself what this greeting could mean, but the angel said to her, ‘Mary, do not be afraid; you have won God’s favour. Look! You are to conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you must name him Jesus. He will be great and will be called Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his ancestor David; he will rule over the House of Jacob for ever and his reign will have no end.’ Mary said to the angel, ‘But how can this come about, since I have no knowledge of man?’ The angel answered, ‘The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will cover you with its shadow. And so the child will be holy and will be called Son of God. And I tell you this too: your cousin Elizabeth also, in her old age, has conceived a son, and she whom people called barren is now in her sixth month, for nothing is impossible to God.’ Mary said, ‘You see before you the Lord’s servant, let it happen to me as you have said.’ And the angel left her.
2. The Angel
Gabriel appeared to Mary and asked her to be the Mother of God.
3. Mary said “yes”.
4. God the Father created us in the image and likeness of Jesus.
5. God the Father has a unique Plan for us.
6. Mary and Jesus always did the will of the Father.
7. Jesus is the New Adam and Mary the New Eve.
8. Jesus obeyed His Father’s will to His death on the cross.
9. Jesus showed us He emptied Himself.
10. Jesus’ will was perfectly aligned to the Father’s will.
The Visitation
1. Luke 1: 39-45
Mary set out at that time and went as quickly as she could into the hill country to a town in Judah. She went into Zechariah’s house and greeted Elizabeth. Now it happened that as soon as Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the child leapt in her womb and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. She gave a loud cry and said, ‘Of all women you are the most blessed, and blessed is the fruit of your womb. Why should I be honoured with a visit from the mother of my Lord? Look, the moment your greeting reached my ears, the child in my womb leapt for joy. Yes, blessed is she who believed that the promise made her by the Lord would be fulfilled.’
2. Mary went to
visit her cousin Elizabeth.
3. Elizabeth was 6 months pregnant.
4. Mary stayed with Elizabeth 3 months.
5. The babe in Elizabeth’s womb leapt in her womb when Mary came, and
Mary was pregnant with Jesus.
6. Our lives are pregnant with the Father’s will for us.
7. The Father’s will is the path to take.
8. Practice this: pray for grace living in the Father’s will.
9. What is important is doing God’s will and when we do, the Father is
well pleased.
10. Doing the Father’s will helps us grow closer to the Father.
The Birth of Jesus
1. Luke 2:1-7
Now it happened that at this time Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be made of the whole inhabited world. This census—the first—took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria, and everyone went to be registered, each to his own town. So Joseph set out from the town of Nazareth in Galilee for Judaea, to David’s town called Bethlehem, since he was of David’s House and line, in order to be registered together with Mary, his betrothed, who was with child. Now it happened that, while they were there, the time came for her to have her child, and she gave birth to a son, her first–born. She wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him in a manger because there was no room for them in the living–space.
2. Mary gave birth
to Jesus in the stable in Bethlehem.
3. Jesus took flesh.
4. Mary’s little boy was the Son of God.
5. Jesus was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit.
6. Mary was a Virgin.
7. Mary was conceived without sin.
8. Jesus is our Savior.
9. Jesus came in poverty.
10. Mary is Mother of Jesus, Joseph, is the Foster Father of Jesus from
the house of David.
The Presentation in the Temple
1. Luke 2: 25-35
Now in Jerusalem there was a man named Simeon. He was an upright and devout man; he looked forward to the restoration of Israel and the Holy Spirit rested on him. It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not see death until he had set eyes on the Christ of the Lord. Prompted by the Spirit he came to the Temple; and when the parents brought in the child Jesus to do for him what the Law required, he took him into his arms and blessed God; and he said:
Now, Master, you are letting
your servant go in peace
as you promised;
for my eyes have seen the salvation
which you have made ready
in the sight of the nations;
a light of revelation for the gentiles
and glory for your people Israel.As the child’s father and mother were wondering at the things that were being said about him, Simeon blessed them and said to Mary his mother, ‘Look, he is destined for the fall and for the rise of many in Israel, destined to be a sign that is opposed—and a sword will pierce your soul too — so that the secret thoughts of many may be laid bare.'
2. Simeon told Mary
of sufferings to come.
3. A sword too will pierce your heart, oh Mary.
4. The Seven
Sorrows of Mary
1st) The prophecy of
Simeon
