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October 2, 2023
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October
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.
October 1, 2023
Mystical Mary Now 12:10 am
R. Mary is a Gift God gives us!
Knowing the Father, is
deeply wanting His will on
earth as it is in heaven.
Knowing the Son, is
knowing Him more to
imitate and follow Him, as
the Eucharistic Bridegroom
of our soul, here below.
Knowing the Holy Spirit is
allowing yourself to be
possessed by Him to be
operated by Him as He fills
us with God’s grace and
love, and moves like a
breath in us forming us
more in the image of Jesus,
sanctifying us and helping
us live as the Father wills.
God's love is awesome!!!!!
And it is a mystery.The spiritual life is to follow
and imitate Jesus.
We live to imitate Jesus
more perfectly, as Jesus
said: ”Be perfect as My
Heavenly Father is perfect.”
St. Paul says: I have been
crucified with Christ, it is no
longer I who live, but Christ
who lives in me.
We see in Fr. Carter’s
Newsletter on suffering,
how we are to identify with
Christ's suffering when we
suffer.
We live the life, death, and
resurrection in our lives.
We die to the ways not like
Jesus, as we rise in Him.
Jesus is our Leader.
The Father says ”… Listen to
Him”.
We are to strengthen our
union with God in joy and
glory.
We are here to help build
the Kingdom of God. We are
to consistently love God in
our actions. Examine our
conscience to this effect -
1) are we loving as God
wants?
2) are we consistent in
living to obey God’s will.
Love comes in joys and
sorrows, we share the joys
and sorrows of those we
love, Jesus loved, we learn
by knowing Jesus more and
more.Prayer for Union with Jesus
Come to me, Lord, and possess my soul. Come into my heart and permeate my soul. Help me to sit in silence with You and let You work in my heart.
I am Yours to possess. I am Yours to use. I want to be selfless and only exist in You. Help me to spoon out all that is me and be an empty vessel ready to be filled by You. Help me to die to myself and live only for You. Use me as You will. Let me never draw my attention back to myself. I only want to operate as You do, dwelling within me.
I am Yours, Lord. I want to have my life in You. I want to do the will of the Father. Give me the strength to put aside the world and let You operate my very being. Help me to act as You desire. Strengthen me against the distractions of the devil to take me from Your work.
When I worry, I have taken my focus off of You and placed it on myself. Help me not to give in to the promptings of others to change what in my heart You are making very clear to me. I worship You, I adore You and I love You. Come and dwell in me now.
-God's Blue Book, January 17, 1994
Prayer for Intimacy with the Lamb the Bridegroom of the SoulOh Lamb of God, Who take away the sins of the world, come and act on my soul most intimately. I surrender myself, as I ask for the grace to let go, to just be as I exist in You and You act most intimately on my soul. You are the Initiator. I am the soul waiting Your favors as You act in me. I love You. I adore You. I worship You. Come and possess my soul with Your Divine Grace, as I experience You most intimately.
R. A mother shared the joys
and sorrows of her children.
I walk with Jesus and Mary
in the joys and sorrows of
Jesus and Mary in the
mysteries of the Rosary.
I know Jesus and Mary
more intimately.Song: The Rosary Song
R. I know Jesus and Mary
especially in the Gospels.
May 5, 2019R. After the sorrow of the
cross, we see the joy of the
Resurrection.
After the darkness we see
light.
Jesus, crucified to
death, comes forth,
victorious from the tomb
in the resurrection.
Jesus comes forth in His
glorified body.
We are consumed with joy,
rejoicing in the Resurrection
of our Savior.
Joy for our Savior who died
so we can go to heaven!!
Joy for eternal happiness of
the redeemed.John 1:14
The Word became flesh, he lived among us, and we saw his glory, the glory that he has from the Father as only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.
R. Jesus is: King of Kings and
Lord of Lords.
We celebrate this in joy.
We meditate on this gift
given for our salvation.
Jesus is Redeemer.
Amen.
Alleluia
We know Jesus more in His
joys and suffering. We grow
in love!!!Mark 16:6
But he said to them, 'There is no need to be so amazed. You are looking for Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified: he has risen, he is not here. See, here is the place where they laid him.
John 11:25
Jesus said: I am the resurrection. Anyone who believes in me, even though that person dies, will live,
John 6:55
For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink.
R. Wouldn’t you think Jesus
appeared to Mary, His
Mother first, Mary shared
His joys and sufferings,
Mary is the most perfect disciple of Jesus.
Mary was, perfect handmaid of
Jesus.Romans 6:4
So by our baptism into his death we were buried with him, so that as Christ was raised from the dead by the Father's glorious power, we too should begin living a new life.
R. If we want God to reveal
Himself to us, we must
desire to know Him and
surrender to Him, to grow in
an intimate relationship with
Him.Come to me, Lord, and possess my soul. Come into my heart and permeate my soul. Help me to sit in silence with You and let You work in my heart.
R. We want to grow in our
interior knowledge and love
with God.
God’s relationship with us is
a loving, intimate union we
seek.
We were created to prepare
for the union of our soul
with the Divine Bridegroom.
Providence - God is the
initiator, we are the soul
waiting His favors.
Jesus is the Bridegroom of
the soul.
God has given us so much
in the Church.
Oh God, Thank You for Your
gifts to me.
I love You, so much.
Amen.
September 29, 2023
Jesus speaks: I speak of
gratitude.
What do you have, that is
not a gift given from God?
Some never are thankful,
they only want more.
Gratitude to God is so
important.
I am love.
Some just take and take and
take and are never happy
for they turn their back to
God.
I am love. I died for your
sins, so you could repent
and hopefully go to heaven
someday.
I love you so much.
I love you, child.Song: Little Child
Jesus: You are given such gifts,
you will be sorry if they are
taken away.
You can never live this day
again. Why whimper and
complain?Song: I am Your Sacred Heart
Jesus: When you go to bed tonight,
this day is gone forever.
I came to help all My
precious souls to go to
heaven. I came for sinners.
I died for your sins.Matthew 12: 46-50
He was still speaking to the crowds when suddenly his mother and his brothers were standing outside and were anxious to have a word with him. But to the man who told him this Jesus replied, ‘Who is my mother? Who are my brothers?’ And stretching out his hand towards his disciples he said, ‘Here are my mother and my brothers. Anyone who does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.’
Jesus: Whoever does the will of
God is My mother, sister,
brother.
Take up your cross and
follow Me.The Our Father
Our Father, Who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name. Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen.
Jesus:
I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd lays down his life for his sheep. The hired man, since he is not the shepherd and the sheep do not belong to him, abandons the sheep and runs away as soon as he sees a wolf coming, and then the wolf attacks and scatters the sheep; this is because he is only a hired man and has no concern for the sheep. I am the good shepherd; I know my own and my own know me, just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for my sheep. John 10:11-15
Excerpt from the Priestly Newsletter
Suffering: A Source of Life
Yet ours were the sufferings he was bearing, ours the sorrows he was carrying, while we thought of him as someone being punished and struck with affliction by God; whereas he was being wounded for our rebellions, crushed because of our guilt; the punishment reconciling us fell on him, and we have been healed by his bruises. We had all gone astray like sheep, each taking his own way, and Yahweh brought the acts of rebellion of all of us to bear on him. Illtreated and afflicted, he never opened his mouth, like a lamb led to the slaughter-house, like a sheep dumb before its shearers he never opened his mouth. (Is 53:4-7)
◆ He hung upon a cross on a hill called Calvary. Death was near. How much Jesus had already suffered! He had been derisively crowned with thorns. In a terribly weakened condition, He carried the heavy cross to the hill of Golgotha. There He was stripped of His garments and mercilessly nailed to the cross. After all this brutal and agonizing suffering, Jesus finally died.
Truly the Good Shepherd had laid down His life for His sheep. That magnificent Heart, overflowing with love for His Father and all of us, had beat its last.
Luminous Mysteries
The Baptism of Jesus
1. Mark 1: 9-11It was at this time that Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee and was baptised in the Jordan by John. And at once, as he was coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens torn apart and the Spirit, like a dove, descending on him. And a voice came from heaven, ‘You are my Son, the Beloved; my favour rests on you.’
2. These are the mysteries
of Light.
3. This began Jesus’ public
life.
4. The sky was thrown open.
5. The voice of the Father was
heard.
6. “This is My beloved Son,
in whom I am well pleased”.
7. Son-ship.
8. We are sons and daughters
of our Heavenly Father.
9. Jesus showed us how to
be like the Father wants.
10. Song: A Song from Jesus
The Marriage at Cana
1. John 2: 1-10On the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee. The mother of Jesus was there, and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited. And they ran out of wine, since the wine provided for the feast had all been used, and the mother of Jesus said to him, ‘They have no wine.’ Jesus said, ‘Woman, what do you want from me? My hour has not come yet.’ His mother said to the servants, ‘Do whatever he tells you.’ There were six stone water jars standing there, meant for the ablutions that are customary among the Jews: each could hold twenty or thirty gallons. Jesus said to the servants, ‘Fill the jars with water,’ and they filled them to the brim. Then he said to them, ‘Draw some out now and take it to the president of the feast.’ They did this; the president tasted the water, and it had turned into wine. Having no idea where it came from—though the servants who had drawn the water knew—the president of the feast called the bridegroom and said, ‘Everyone serves good wine first and the worse wine when the guests are well wined; but you have kept the best wine till now.’
2. Mary told Jesus they had
no wine.
3. Jesus changed water into
wine.
4. This was the first miracle
of His public life.
5. Mary has powerful
intercession.
6. Believe, believe in God -
have faith.
7. In Jesus’ public life, He
worked many miracles and
Jesus taught us.
8. Jesus gave us many
parables.
9. Dear God, Help us to
believe.10. Sing: A Song from Jesus
Building the Kingdom of God
1. Matthew 5: 3-12How blessed are the poor in spirit:
the kingdom of Heaven is theirs.
Blessed are the gentle:
they shall have the earth as inheritance.
Blessed are those who mourn:
they shall be comforted.
Blessed are those
who hunger and thirst for uprightness:
they shall have their fill.
Blessed are the merciful:
they shall have mercy shown them.
Blessed are the pure in heart:
they shall see God.
Blessed are the peacemakers:
they shall be recognised
as children of God.
Blessed are those who are persecuted
in the cause of uprightness:
the kingdom of Heaven is theirs.Blessed are you when people abuse you and persecute you and
speak all kinds of calumny against you falsely on my account.
Rejoice and be glad, for your reward will be great in heaven; this
is how they persecuted the prophets before you.
