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December 27, 2024
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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.
December 27, 2024 - Feast St. John
Happy Anniversary - 55 years
Thank You for Your blessings Lord.
John 3:16
Yes, God so loved the world
That he gave his only Son,
That whoever believes in him may not
die
but may have eternal life.John 1:14-16
The Word became flesh
And made his dwelling among us.
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Of his fullness
We have all had a share-
Love following upon love.1 John 4:20
If anyone says, “My love is fixed on God,”
Yet hates his brother,
He is a liar,
One who has no love for the brother
he has seen
Cannot love the God he has not seen.Isaiah 53:7-9
"Though he was harshly treated, he submitted
And opened not his mouth;
Like a lamb led to the slaughter
Or a sheep before the shearers,
he was silent and opened not his mouth.Philippians 2:5-8
Your attitude must be that of Christ.
Though he was in the form of God,
he did not deem equality with God
Something to be grasped at.
Rather, he emptied himself
And took the form of a slave,
Being born in the likeness of men.
He was known to be of human estate,
And it was thus that he humbled himself,
Obediently accepting even death,
Death on a cross!
R. Jesus wants us to follow Him.
L
ET US LOVE THE TWO HEARTS OF JESUS AND MARYIN THE RECEPTION OF THE HOLY EUCHARIST.
HE GAVE HIMSELF TO US ON THE CROSS. HE GIVES HIMSELF TO US IN THE EUCHARIST.
How great was the act of love, God gave to this world, when He gave Himself and died on the cross. He gives Himself to us this day in the Holy Eucharist.
The greatest commandment is that we must love God with our whole heart, our whole soul, and our whole being. This is a commandment. If we are to enter heaven, we must follow the commandments. They are commands given by God for us to follow.
The greatest act we can do on this earth is an act of loving God. The reason for our existence is to love God. In the sacrament of His greatest love, He gives Himself to us. This is an act of love on His part. We are called to respond by giving ourselves in love to Him.
This is the purpose of the Holy Eucharist: to unite in such oneness with our Holy, Loving God. Our all consuming passion should be that of loving God. How many go to the Eucharist with the sole purpose of giving great love to God? He wants us to love Him. He wants souls to tell Him how much they truly love Him. This is the most intimate act of love when Jesus gives Himself-Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity to man. If it is such an act of love, how are we receiving Him in Communion? We should beg God, in this most intimate union with Him, to help us to love Him with greatest love.
Jesus is a Person. He wants our love. The Holy Spirit wants such intimacy with us. Our Father wants us to love Him. In the Eucharist, we unite with God. In this intimate act of uniting with our beloved God, with Divinity, we must pour out our love to God. We must pour out our heart to the most adorable Heart of Jesus. Jesus is so unjustly treated by many of His beloved souls He loves so much. Let us help make reparation to the Almighty God by loving God with our whole heart, our whole soul, and our whole being in the sacrament of His greatest love. This is the Gift of Himself.
Think of how it is to love someone and give your all for that person, to pour out your heart to him or her and then be treated with coldness and neglect. It hurts our heart so much more when we deeply love someone to be rejected by that person. Jesus loves us with the deepest love. We cannot fully comprehend this love. Let us love Him with the deepest love. Let us love Mary and her Immaculate Heart. Let us love her as the Mother of God. Let us love her as the virgin who bore the Son of God. May we, in the reception of the Eucharist pour out our love to Him, to this adorable Heart. May we pour out our love to His Holy Mother.
Mary said at Fatima that Jesus wants His Heart venerated next to the heart of His Mother. Let us love these two Hearts as we receive the Sacrament of the Eucharist. Then we are so deeply united with God. We see Their two Hearts surrounded with thorns for the injustices against Their Hearts. Let us help make reparation daily as we receive Him in the Eucharist. This is a special time to help make reparation to Their wounded Hearts.
Let us remember how He poured His love out to us on the cross and how He pours out His love to us now when He gives us Himself in the Eucharist, the Eucharist which contains His Heart of burning love. His Heart was pierced with a lance. Her heart was invisibly pierced with a sword. As the wounds in Their Hearts are deep, so too is Their love so deep.
He does not want "surface love". He wants hearts filled with deep burning love.
A Prayer before the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass
Let me be a holy sacrifice and unite with God in the sacrament of His greatest love.
I want to be one in Him in this act of love, where He gives Himself to me and I give myself as a sacrifice to Him. Let me be a holy sacrifice as I become one with Him in this my act of greatest love to Him.
Let me unite with Him more, that I may more deeply love Him. May I help make reparation to His adorable Heart and the heart of His Mother, Mary. With greatest love, I offer myself to You and pray that You will accept my sacrifice of greatest love. I give myself to You and unite in Your gift of Yourself to me. Come and possess my soul.
Cleanse me, strengthen me, heal me. Dear Holy Spirit act in the heart of Mary to make me more and more like Jesus.
Father, I offer this my sacrifice, myself united to Jesus in the Holy Spirit to You. Help me to love God more deeply in this act of my greatest love.
Give me the grace to grow in my knowledge, love and service of You and for this to be my greatest participation in the Mass. Give me the greatest graces to love You so deeply in this Mass, You who are so worthy of my love.
-Mass Book, December 27, 1995
HOMILY - (John 19: 31-37) Today's Gospel tells us about the
piercing of Jesus' side with a lance, and that from that pierced
side Blood and water flowed out. So from the pierced side and Heart
of Jesus, the sacramental life of the Church is born upon Calvary:
water symbolizing that fundamental sacrament of the Church – Baptism
– and of course blood symbolizing the heart of the Church's
sacramental system, the Eucharist. Jesus, in the great love of His
Heart,
found a miraculous way to remain with us in such an intimate way
through the Eucharist.
I remember reading about a non-Catholic who knew of course of our belief in the real presence of Jesus in the Eucharist. He, of course, did not have the faith. And he said, "If I believed what you Catholics say you believe about the Eucharist, how differently I would act compared to so many of you."
"...how differently I would act compared to so many of you,"
referring to those Catholics who do not have a proper appreciation
of the Eucharist. What a great gift it is: that each day for us
living here in the United States, practically every Catholic, great,
great majority at least have readily available the daily Eucharist
as Sacrifice in the Mass, as Sacrament in receiving Jesus at
Communion time. In the tabernacle we have the Eucharist, the
Eucharistic Jesus
ready to be adored by us. How blessed we are! And what is our
appreciation of this great gift of the Heart of Christ? We can
always grow, can we not, in thanking Him for this great Eucharistic
gift?
Pope John Paul II in one of his letters, I think it was from one of
his Holy Thursday letters which he writes to all priests of the
world, has this very moving story to tell us. I think some of you
have heard it before, but we could repeat it day after day and still
not exhaust its beauty in its meaning relative to both the
priesthood and the Eucharist. He says, "Dear brothers:..."
addressing himself to priests, "Dear brothers: ...you who have put
your hand to the plough and do
not turn back, and perhaps even more those of you who are doubtful
of the meaning of your vocation or of the value of your service:
think of the places where people anxiously await a priest, and where
for many years, feeling the lack of such a priest, they do not cease
to hope for his presence. And sometimes it happens that they meet in
an abandoned shrine, and place on the altar a stole which they still
keep, and recite all the prayers of the Eucharistic Liturgy; and
then, at the moment that corresponds to the transubstantiation a
deep silence comes down upon them, a silence sometimes broken by a
sob... so ardently do they desire to hear the words that only the
lips of a priest can efficaciously utter...
So deeply do they feel the absence of a priest among them! [and
correspondingly of course the lack of the Eucharist amongst them]...
Such places are not lacking in the world. So if one of you doubts
the meaning of his Priesthood, if he thinks it is ‘socially’
fruitless or useless, reflect on this!"
6. Pope John Paul II, Holy Thursday Letters to My Brother Priests, edited by James P. Socias, Scepter Publications and Midwestern Theological Forum, pp. 38-40. Brackets as noted by Father Carter.
Sing: We Have Been Told
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
December 29, 2022
Mysteries of Light
The Baptism of Jesus
1. Epiphany means a
manifestation of
something glorious and
wonderful.
2. At Jesus’ baptism,
God reveals Jesus as
His beloved Son.
3. Jesus was always
revealing Himself in the
Gospels as the Son of
God.
4. In miracles: Jesus
changed water into
wine.
Jesus cast out demons.
Jesus forgave sins,
Jesus walked on water,
Jesus calmed the storm,
Jesus multiplied the
loaves and fishes.
5. In miracles: Jesus
taught us about
Himself, Jesus taught
us about God's law,
Jesus healed the sick,
Jesus raised from the
dead.
6. John the Baptist said:
“One mighty than I is
coming after me.”
7. John the Baptist said:
he was not worthy to
untie Jesus’ sandals.
8. The heavens were
thrown open, and the
voice of the Father was
heard: “This is My
beloved Son in whom I
am well pleased.”
9. This baptism showed
Jesus support for John
the Baptist.
10. John said: He must
increase, I must
decrease.
This showed the
humility of John the
Baptist.
The Marriage at Cana
1. Jesus and Mary went
to a wedding at Cana.
2. While there the wine
ran out.
3. Mary told Jesus this.
4. Mary has powerful
intercession.
5. Jesus changed water
into wine.
6. This is considered
the first miracle of
Jesus’ public life.
7. We live the life, death
and resurrection of
Jesus in our lives.
8. Jesus is the
Bridegroom of our soul.
9. The Holy Spirit is the
soul of the Church.
10. A Prayer for Intimacy of the Lamb, the Bridegroom of the Soul
Oh 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.
The Kingdom of God
1. Jesus is King of Kings
and Lord of Lords.
2. Who is on our
throne?
3. Jesus says in the
commandments: “I am
the Lord, thy God, you
shall not have any
God’s before Me.”
4. Who is really the King
of our hearts?
5. Does He really rule
our lives?
6. Do we make up our
own rules?
7. Are we accountable
and responsible for our
actions?
8. Do we obey just
authority over us?
9. Do we live by God’s
order in our lives or are
we living in disorder,
putting ourselves first
before God, living in
pride?
10. Do we make right-
wrong and wrong-
right, fighting for
dominance with those
over us?
What we do to others,
we do to Jesus.
The Transfiguration
1. Jesus took Peter,
James and John up Mt.
Tabor.
2. There Jesus was
transfigured before
them
3. The voice of the
Father was heard “This
is My beloved Son in
whom I am well
pleased, listen to Him.”
4. Jesus is the second
Person of the blessed
Trinity, the Son of Man.
5. On the Second
Sunday of Lent we hear
about the Transfiguration.
6. God has a place
prepared for His
beloved souls.
7. Disciples of Jesus are
listeners to Him.
8. The apostles were
with Jesus three years
and there was only one
experience like the
transfiguration.
9. Jesus gives us
Himself in the
Eucharist.
10. Jesus loves us so
much to come to us.
The Institution of the Eucharist
1. Song: I Love You Jesus
2. Jesus says: "I am the
bread of life." John 6:353. Sing song: I Am the Bread of Life
4. “Whoever eats this
bread will live forever.”
John 6:58
5. A Prayer Before the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass
Let me be a holy sacrifice and unite with God in the sacrament of His greatest love.
I want to be one in Him in this act of love, where He gives Himself to me and I give myself as a sacrifice to Him. Let me be a holy sacrifice as I become one with Him in this my act of greatest love to Him.
Let me unite with Him more, that I may more deeply love Him. May I help make reparation to His adorable Heart and the heart of His Mother, Mary. With greatest love, I offer myself to You and pray that You will accept my sacrifice of greatest love. I give myself to You and unite in Your gift of Yourself to me. Come and possess my soul.
Cleanse me, strengthen me, heal me. Dear Holy Spirit act in the heart of Mary to make me more and more like Jesus.
Father, I offer this my sacrifice, myself united to Jesus in the Holy Spirit to You. Help me to love God more deeply in this act of my greatest love.
Give me the grace to grow in my knowledge, love and service of You and for this to be my greatest participation in the Mass. Give me the greatest graces to love You so deeply in this Mass, You who are so worthy of my love.
-Mass Book, December 27, 1995
6. There are many who
do not believe truly,
that the Eucharist is
the body and blood of
Jesus.
7. John 6:53Jesus replied to them:
In all truth I tell you,
if you do not eat
the flesh of the Son of man
and drink his blood,
you have no life in you.
8. Mary is Mother of the
Eucharist.
9. Jesus is truly present
in the Eucharist: Body,
Blood, Soul and
Divinity.10. Sing: A Song from Jesus
