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February 4, 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.
February 4, 2025
R. Though the mountains may fall
God is with us always.
If we could see His Plan from the top
of the mountain
we would be in awe.
Keep living the Father's Plan.
Don’t focus on yourself
Selfishness.
God is love.
So many went before us following in
the foot steps of Jesus.
They were witnesses of following Jesus.
Why carry a bag of sin on our back?
We are on a journey to our goal - eternal
life.
That is the goal.
The Father created us so one day we
could go home to heaven.
Why carry unforgiveness, anger, pride,
prepare yourself for heaven.
There is no anger, no pride, no fighting,
no envy, no jealousy in heaven.
Our Father
“… thy will be done on earth as it is in
heaven.”
R. God is an awesome God.
God is light - no matter how dark it is.If you are in Jesus' heart and I am in
Jesus' heart, then we are united.
Prayer Leads Me to Seek Life
Prayer is the lifting up of the mind and
heart to God. He is the source of life. Life
flows through Him. If I pray I am lifing
my heart to the source of life. Jesus said
"I am the way, the truth and the life." If
we pray weare seeking life - for He is life,
He has said so.Jesus: "Unto you I have given My life that
you will have life to the full."There is not life if it is not rooted in Him.
Prayer puts me in contact with the source
of life. He imparts His life to us when we
offer Him our heartfelt prayer. To those
who ask, He promises to give. Jesus says
"If you ask the Father anything in My
Name He will give it to you. I am the WAY,
the TRUTH and the LIFE. To seek Me is to
find Me. I write for you to come to Me.
I receive you with open arms."
John 15: 1-2
I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser.
Every branch in me that bears no fruit he cuts away,
and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes
to make it bear even more.
R. All that we do should be for the greater
glory of God.
If we want to have hearts like God
created us to be, we must have hearts
that are growing in greater purity and
love.
God is love, we were created in the
image and likeness of God.
We have duties toward God.
We can’t act like we don’t have
duties to God.
The man likened to Christ loves all men
as he is commanded by God to do.
There are consequences when we do
not do our duties to job, men, Church,
family, commitments…
How can we think we do not have to
answer for not doing our duties to God?
We have duties to God and are to have
fraternity with our brothers in Christ.
If we have the heart of a child, we trust
our Father.
A child of God to mature spiritually,
must give themselves in trust to their
Father in Heaven, to live to serve and
love God, as they should and mature
spiritually in God.
Surrendering to the Father’s will is
essential to grow in the spiritual life.
God must be first.
God is love, we must have love in our
hearts, there is not sin in heaven.
The 7 deadly sins are: pride, greed, envy,
wrath, lust, gluttony, and sloth.
The heart must grow in holy generosity
toward others.
Jesus came to this world with a kind
and generous heart.
The Holy Spirit moves the docile heart
in the ways of love.
God is love. Heaven is for lovers.
Jesus is the Light of the world.
Heaven is gained with hearts more and
more like Jesus.
God is above. We are always seeking
more as we journey this earth, trying
to know Him.
See the sun, see from the mountain
top, reach for what is above.
We can never comprehend here below
the extent of God’s mystery and His love.
The man of God is selfless, focused
on God’s Plan,
The man out for himself, puts himself
first and is self-serving and can be greedy.
Angels see the child Jesus born in a stable,
in poverty and they sing His glory.
Heaven is to know
this divine embrace
from the Almighty God –
To be satisfied, full of
Life; to be filled with
Love, to love all and to
be in unity and such
Oneness with all – the
Beatific vision -
Wrapped in the divine
embrace, knowing God
Sing: Eye Has Not Seen
Jesus: Pray for those who have hurt you.
How full is the garbage can?
Once a week the garbage was
removed from a certain place.
What if you never take out the
unforgiveness in your hearts?
Your hearts become full and hard
with darkness.
Some with unforgiveness, make an
occupation of becoming a victim,
while their life is spent, not in
honoring and praising God, doing
all for God’s honor and glory, but
managing a life of unforgiveness
they hold onto to be a victim.
Who is first in your life, I ask?
A lifetime spent managing
unforgiveness at the expense of
innocent others is abusing others,
like you believe was done to you.
You are to pray for those who hurt
you.
You are accountable for your actions
bringing abuse on others.
I am the Light of life, in Me is no
darkness.
There is no anger, pride, envy, sin
in heaven.
You were created to love God with
all your heart and love your neighbor
as yourself.
Life is short, change your unforgiveness
against your brother as the day is still
yours to do so.
Forgive in order to be forgiven.
Unforgiveness is hatred toward others.
You need healing of emotions.
You need healing of memories.
Amen.Sing: Take Lord Receive
Jesus: Unforgiveness is a poison in
the heart and it has consequences to
the body.
I am light and in Me is no darkness.Matthew 10: 27
What I say to you in the dark, tell in the daylight; what you hear in whispers, proclaim from the housetops.
R. The heart is made for God, a soul
cannot rest, until it rests in Him. "Only
in God will my soul be at rest, in him
finds my hope, my salvation.'
Father Carter said no one comes to a
proper understanding of himself unless
he reveals himself honestly to another.
Father Carter said in prayer, the will and
heart take over.
Love is an act of the will .
Sin is hatred of myself, Father Carter says.
Love is the gift of self to promote the
good of those loved.
Sin goes against God’s will, it’s a form
of self-hatred.
Father Carter says the virtue of love is a
participation in God‘s loving activity.1 John 4:10
Love consists in this: it is not we who loved God, but God loved us and sent his Son to expiate our sins.
R. We love, because He loved us first.
Humility is truth.
God is the Creator. We are the creatures.
God created all in the image and likeness
of Jesus.
We have no right to think we are better
than others.
God created us.
Jesus has loved me.
Jesus died for me.
Jesus knew me by name when He died
for me.
The Son of man gave His life for me, in
the agonizing Crucifixion.
In the Blue Books, Jesus tells us of His
personal love for us.
1 John 4:20-21Anyone who says 'I love God' and hates his brother, is a liar, since whoever does not love the brother whom he can see cannot love God whom he has not seen. Indeed this is the commandment we have received from him, that whoever loves God, must also love his brother.
John 15: 13-15
No one can have greater love than to lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends, if you do what I command you.
I shall no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know the master's business; I call you friends, because I have made known to you everything I have learnt from my Father.
R.
Do I do what I do for love?
Always do what pleases God!
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 30, 2025
R. Mary told us to pray the Rosary.
When we pray the rosary we know
about the lives of Jesus and Mary.
It starts with the Annunciation and
ends with the Queenship of Mary -
20 Mysteries of the Rosary.
Sing: The Rosary Song
Joyful Mysteries
The Annunciation
1. Luke 1: 26-38In 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. Mary loved God so much.
3. Mary was conceived without sin.
4. Mary loved the Father’s will.
5. In the little house where Mary lived,
the Angel Gabriel appeared. Envision
this.
6. Mary conceived Jesus through the
power of the Holy Spirit.
7. The Word became flesh.
8. Mary is the Mother of Jesus.9. Sing: See the Eyes that look at Mary
10. Thank you, Mary!
Thank You God.
The Visitation
1. Luke 1: 39-45Mary 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. Elizabeth was thought barren.
3. Nothing is impossible with God.
4. Mary filled with the Holy Spirit
cried out the Magnificat.
5. Luke 1: 46-47And Mary said:
My soul proclaims
the greatness of the Lord
and my spirit rejoices
in God my Saviour;6. Luke 1: 48-49
because he has looked upon
the humiliation of his servant.
Yes, from now onwards
all generations will call me blessed,
for the Almighty
has done great things for me.
Holy is his name,7. Luke 1: 50-51
and his faithful love extends age after age
to those who fear him.
He has used the power of his arm,
he has routed the arrogant of heart.8. Luke 1: 52
He has pulled down princes
from their thrones
and raised high the lowly.9. Luke 1: 53-54
He has filled the starving with good things,
sent the rich away empty.
He has come to the help
of Israel his servant,
mindful of his faithful love10. Luke 1: 55
—according to the promise
he made to our ancestors—
of his mercy to Abraham
and to his descendants for ever.
The Birth of Jesus
1. Luke 2: 15-20Now it happened that when the angels had gone from them into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, ‘Let us go to Bethlehem and see this event which the Lord has made known to us.’ So they hurried away and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby lying in the manger. When they saw the child they repeated what they had been told about him, and everyone who heard it was astonished at what the shepherds said to them. As for Mary, she treasured all these things and pondered them in her heart. And the shepherds went back glorifying and praising God for all they had heard and seen, just as they had been told.
2. See through Mary’s eyes.
3. Mary: I looked into the face of
Baby Jesus.
4. Mary: Jesus’ little face was so
perfect, little tiny Baby.
5. Mary: My children, Jesus is the
Son of God, He took flesh and
came a tiny baby for love of you.
6. Mary: God deserves your love,
respect, reverence, and thanksgiving.
7. Mary: God has called you in
Shepherds of Christ to be witnesses
of love, service and obedience, God
is the King and Ruler over you.
Why do some try to be ruler over God?
God is love, Jesus obeyed His Father
to His death on the cross so you could
be forgiven for your sins.
Some see themselves high and mighty.
Do you not see? Jesus came in a
stable, why do you act in sinful ways
and treat the sacred home of Jesus
with irreverence, and tell yourself
it’s okay.
And Jesus came, Savior of the world
in a stable. And Jesus died on the
cross for your sins.
I am Our Lady of Clearwater. Souls
will go to hell tonight for their
mortal sins they denied,
when they could have been forgiven.
Jesus, my Son, died on the cross
for your sins, because He loves you.
Jesus died for you.Luke 12: 2-3
Everything now covered up will be uncovered, and everything now hidden will be made clear. For this reason, whatever you have said in the dark will be heard in the daylight, and what you have whispered in hidden places will be proclaimed from the housetops.
8. Sing: Our Lady of Clearwater
9. Mary: Jesus came a baby in a
stable, why do you listen to Satan
telling you to be prideful.
You miss the message Jesus
delivered in that He came a baby
in the stable.
10. Sing: God’s Love
The Presentation in the Temple
1. Luke 2: 21-24When the eighth day came and the child was to be circumcised, they gave him the name Jesus, the name the angel had given him before his conception. And when the day came for them to be purified in keeping with the Law of Moses, they took him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord—observing what is written in the Law of the Lord: Every first–born male must be consecrated to the Lord—and also to offer in sacrifice, in accordance with what is prescribed in the Law of the Lord, a pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons.
2. Simeon told Mary and Jesus of
sufferings to come.
3. What sufferings Mary endured in
the bitter Passion and His death.
4. Look at the saints and how they
witnessed to God.
5. Nothing can fill the void in your
soul, but God.
6. We were created by God and what
makes us happy is God.
7. Do you witness to Jesus through
your love, your example?
8. We were created to know, love
and serve God and thereby attain
our eternal salvation.
9. Mary: God cannot give gifts to a
man closed in his heart,
like a closed jar with the lid
glued down through anger and
pride, envy and jealousy.
You have a free will. The devil
tempts a person by habitually
making themselves a victim.
Very SAD.
10. Sing: Immaculate Mary
The Finding in the Temple
1. Luke 2: 41-52Every year his parents used to go to Jerusalem for the feast of the Passover. When he was twelve years old, they went up for the feast as usual. When the days of the feast were over and they set off home, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem without his parents knowing it. They assumed he was somewhere in the party, and it was only after a day’s journey that they went to look for him among their relations and acquaintances. When they failed to find him they went back to Jerusalem looking for him everywhere.
It happened that, three days later, they found him in the Temple, sitting among the teachers, listening to them, and asking them questions; and all those who heard him were astounded at his intelligence and his replies. They were overcome when they saw him, and his mother said to him, ‘My child, why have you done this to us? See how worried your father and I have been, looking for you.’ He replied, ‘Why were you looking for me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father’s house?’ But they did not understand what he meant. He went down with them then and came to Nazareth and lived under their authority. His mother stored up all these things in her heart. And Jesus increased in wisdom, in stature, and in favour with God and with people.
2. Mary: So many souls today will
be eternally lost because of their
hard, dark sins.
3. Mary: As Our Lady of Clearwater,
I ask you to witness with your
lives and circulate my message.
4. Mary: In Confirmation you
were made soldiers for Jesus.
5. Mary: You were given the
virtue of supernatural hope
in Baptism.
God is there.
Pray for the lost souls that
could be lost, today.
Don’t listen to Satan.
Satan tries to make right look
wrong and make wrong look
right.
Satan can give you temptations
in pride to prove you are right,
when you are offending God
in sins.
6. Mary: Jesus is good all the time.
I saw Jesus born and die
because He loves you.
7. Mary: Those who sin, put their
sin before God. Jesus called you
to love, to be an example, of
Jesus’ love.
8. Mary: The evil one tempts
people who sin then some lie
about their sin to prove the
wrong they did was right.
9. Mary: My children Jesus died
so you can ask for forgiveness
and be forgiven.
10. Sing: A Song from Jesus
