Pray the Rosary for the World

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Prayer for Grace for 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.  

September 26, 2021

Sorrowful Mysteries

The Agony in the Garden

1. Jesus came, He paid for the
    deepest, darkest sins.

2. Jesus did nothing – He came
    and gave His all for us.

3. His suffering was so great
    He sweat Blood.

4. Dear Jesus, we are sorry for
    our sins.

5. Sin turns us away from God.

6. God makes us happy.

7. Jesus loves us in a personal way.

8. Jesus spent 40 days in the desert
    being tempted and in fasting
    and prayer.

9. March 5, 2006 - First Sunday of Lent

Fr. Joe says:

HOMILY - ... As we can see, whenever anyone, no matter who they are, is trying to love and serve God faithfully, Satan is there to see how he can keep it from happening.

10. March 5, 2006 - First Sunday of Lent

HOMILY - ...Fasting has a lot to recommend it, but it might be easier than doing other things we may need to do to grow in our love for God and our love for others. For example, it might be easier to give up dessert than to be kind to some obnoxious neighbor. Or it might be easier to give up candy and soft drinks than it would be to sit down and say a rosary every day. You might say to me: “But I really need to skip dessert or to give up candy and soft drinks.” That may be true, but there’s nothing that says we can’t do more than one thing. The Church is asking us to take a serious look at ourselves and ask ourselves how we can be free from our addictions, our lack of charity, our negative attitudes or whatever.

Lent is a holy time, but it will only be holy for us if we make it holy. As Jesus tells us in today’s gospel, “This is the time of fulfillment. The kingdom of God is at hand."

 

The Scourging at the Pillar

1. Can you imagine what Christ
    suffered at the pillar?

2. They didn't stop – they kept
    beating Him and tearing His
    flesh.

3. Abraham was tested at Mt. Moriah.

4. We are asked to suffer many times –
    Suffering, is suffering. Waiting
    is hard.

5. Christ knew the next whip would
    come – beating His flesh.

6. God gives us the 10 Commandments
    to obey.

7. Third Sunday of Lent - March 19, 2006

HOMILY - ...Let us shift gears and talk about the commandments in today’s first reading. Notice these weren’t suggestions, they weren’t options, they weren’t modest proposals. The rules God made were very basic, but the way they are spoken is just as important as their content (what they should not do). Their format tells us they come from someone who is in charge. The first three commandments that stress worshipping God alone, respecting his name and keeping holy his name correspond with the gospel where Jesus was so angry about the irreverence shown to God in the Temple. What we see in both places is that we must keep God where he belongs in our lives, and where he belongs is on top.

8. Third Sunday of Lent - March 19, 2006

HOMILY - He said as much when he said: “Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up.” This work of making access to God available to all people would take place especially through the death and resurrection of Jesus, an event we share in each time we come to Mass.

9. Third Sunday of Lent - March 19, 2006

HOMILY - The commandments and the cleansing of the Temple come to us today on this third Sunday of Lent to ask us to reflect on our own relationship with God. We call him Lord. Do our lives show that we believe what we say?

10. Jesus was a bloody mess
    after they beat Him –
    He stood in a puddle
    of His own blood.

 

The Crowning with Thorns

1. There was some human sacrifice
    during the Old Testament.
    In the time of the book of Ruth –
    children were sacrificed
    to the gods with a fancy
    crown.

2. Jesus is the King of heaven and earth.
    He was given a crown of
    thorns pounded into His
    head.

3. He was mocked and spit on.

4. Jesus is the Light of the
    world, but many
    prefer the darkness.

5. Jesus loved us to His death
    on the cross.

    Sing: A Song from Jesus

6. Jesus wants our love.
    Jesus wants a love relationship
    with us.
    Think of how Jesus is rejected.

7. Four Sunday of Lent - March 26, 2006

HOMILY - ... God is our creator who knows us better than we know ourselves. He knows what is for our good, he knows what will lead us to peace and life, eternal life, but he also gave us a free will. He gave us a free will so we would be capable of returning his love. Only a free person can love. But with our free will we can also choose not to love. And making that choice not to love our God points us in a direction that leads away from eternal life and eternal happiness.

8. Four Sunday of Lent - March 26, 2006

HOMILY - ... I want to say something about baptism because that’s when we begin to live a new life, when we receive the light of Christ, when we enter into a covenant relationship with God.

9. Four Sunday of Lent - March 26, 2006

HOMILY - ... When we come to Mass each week, we come so we don’t forget our covenant, that we are sharers in God’s life; so we don’t forget what Christ has done for us and what he asks of us in this relationship of love. We all know and God knows too how easily we forget things, so he gave us a way to remember: “Do this in memory of me.” Thank you for being here today to hear once more of God’s love and to express your own love in prayer and praise. Amen.

10. Sing: Crown Him with Many Crowns

 

The Carrying of the Cross

1. Matthew 27: 27-31

Then the governor’s soldiers took Jesus with them into the Praetorium and collected the whole cohort round him. And they stripped him and put a scarlet cloak round him, and having twisted some thorns into a crown they put this on his head and placed a reed in his right hand. To make fun of him they knelt to him saying, ‘Hail, king of the Jews!’ And they spat on him and took the reed and struck him on the head with it. And when they had finished making fun of him, they took off the cloak and dressed him in his own clothes and led him away to crucifixion.

2. From the Rosary Aves - The Carrying of the Cross

    They stood around Jesus and they hollered at Him, "Crucify Him! Crucify Him!"

    They gave to Jesus a heavy cross laden with all the sins from all time and they put it on His shoulder and made Him carry the cross.

3. It was so heavy that Jesus could not carry it any longer. He collapsed and fell to the ground.

4. He got up and tried to move. He saw the tear covered face of His beloved mother.

5. She looked into His tender gentle eyes covered with blood.

6. This was the little baby that she carried and now she saw Him covered with blood and wounds.

7. Mary loves Jesus with the most tender love.

8. It is in going to the heart of Mary that we will learn to love our beloved Jesus.

9. The Holy Spirit is the spouse of Mary.

10. The Holy Spirit works within the heart of Mary to make us more holy, more like our beloved Jesus.

 

The Crucifixion

1. August 23, 1993 - On His Passion

Jesus: My dear child,

I was condemned to death, death on a cross. They gave Me a big cross and made Me carry it. They stood around and glared at Me. It weighed on My shoulder and I pulled at it until it finally moved. Every step was almost impossible as I dragged it, weighing so heavily on My shoulders.

2. August 23, 1993 - On His Passion continues

Jesus: My shoulder felt as if the bones inside would crack and the cross would fall through to the ground. I couldn’t drag it any more. I tried, I fell. I fell and its weight fell on Me. A guard hit Me with something sharp. It really hurt because he wanted Me to move, and fast! People were watching — on with the show! How dare I fall in the middle of the show! He hit Me again and the blow really stung Me. I got up because it hurt so badly. I tried to walk on.

3. August 23, 1993 - On His Passion continues

Jesus: My Mother was in the crowd. She looked at Me and her face looked red and hurt. Tears rolled down her cheeks like rain and as her eyes met Mine, I was hurt so by her sorrow! She was always by My side, silent and loving. She was My Mother of love! She is always there next to you when you suffer.

4. August 23, 1993 - On His Passion continues

Jesus: I fell again and he (the guard) really hit Me. It (the cross) was so heavy that he and I together could barely move it. It seemed as I walked, heavier with the sins of the world heaped on it. My hands were bleeding. Blood ran from the wounds of My thorns and My head throbbed, seeming to make the wounds in My head bleed even more. Some of the Blood was dried, some of it running all over My Body. I had so many cuts and bruises — and people watched and laughed!

5. August 23, 1993 - On His Passion continues

Jesus: I am Jesus, Son of the Living God, and they laughed and mimicked Me! Oh, such hardened hearts! How vile can men’s hearts become? The devil’s grip is paralyzing and crippling.

The walk was so long up a hill and over rocks — the cross had to be lifted over the rocks. My Body was bleeding so badly! My Heart was pounding. I knew that the salvation of all men depended on My love. Therefore, I went through such agony.

6. August 23, 1993 - On His Passion continues

Jesus: I thought of My intense love for you — that many would go to heaven because of My suffering — and I continued to the top of the hill. At the top they laid Me on the cross and with a big hammer nailed My hands to it. It was the worst (suffering) yet. My hands were nailed with big nails and the big hammer. Then, as if that weren’t enough, with a big nail they nailed through both feet.

7. August 23, 1993 - On His Passion continues

Jesus: Then they lifted the cross and banged it into (a hole in) the ground. My shoulders ached from how I hung. My head bobbed and My neck ached and they laughed and said, "Now save Yourself." I hurt so much! I suffered this way for hours — which seemed like forever — and they glared at Me and laughed! My Mother watched in such agony.

8. August 23, 1993 - On His Passion continues

Jesus: For love of you, to My death I gave you My Body. My child, I shed My Blood and gave you My life that you might be with Me forever in heaven — not for a day, a month or a year, but forever with Me in heaven.

9. August 23, 1993 - On His Passion continues

Jesus: I am the true Bread come down from heaven. He who eats My Flesh will have life forever. For the drink I give you is My Blood and food you eat is My Body. Who would lay down his life for a friend? I did, for you. I love you this much, child. Forget about those who reject you. You have My life that I gave you and I give you life eternal.

10. August 23, 1993 - On His Passion continues

Jesus: I am the One true God. I am the Light of life. He who abides in Me will have life eternal, for the drink I give is My Blood and the food I give is My Body. Drink and eat and have everlasting life.

My child, that is all you need to know. Love one another and be good that you may enter into My Kingdom.