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.   

                January 16, 2019

                R. To endure the cross for Christ is
                to follow Christ. The cross of Christ is
                made with love and unity and sacrifice.

                    God calls us to love –

                Jesus: What good does it do a man to gain
                the world and lose their soul?

                R. Parents were taught by their parents
                and caretakers and on and on and they
                had to endure what others did to them
                and then live with a partner if married.
                If a person cannot get along with others
                themselves, they may realize their parents
                may have struggled with their dysfunctions
                living with each other.

                    It's always easy to see from our own
                perspective why everyone around us
                should put up with our darkness and
                give no 'slack' to others who are imperfect.

                    We are here to sacrifice and try to
                see through the eyes of Jesus, our
                brothers, we have been commanded by
                God to love.

                    If a person tells themselves they can
                live a life of division and not even
                carry the cross of Christ, of love and
                misunderstandings, then they have not
                worked to bring unity in their life.

                    First to thine own self be true –
                The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of truth, Jesus
                is the way, the truth and the life –

                    It is sacrifice in an imperfect world
                to carry the cross of Christ – our lives
                are lived as parents, friends, people in
                community, but we are to grow in love,
                to learn to pray for our ancestors who
                have died and forgive them because
                God says so. We are to pray for the
                souls in purgatory that have no one
                to pray for them – the Church suffering –

                    When we meditate on the Sorrowful
                Mysteries we see the beatings, the crowning
                with thorns, the nails in Jesus' hands and
                feet. The thorns in His precious head
                are they not for the sins that were sins
                of division and hate and selfishness
                and holding back when called by God
                to love and give and work in co-operation
                with His plan – to follow Him in our
                journey in life carrying our burdens
                for love and peace and unity as we
                saw Christ carry the heavy cross,
                laden with sins of self-centeredness,
                denying the damage we have done
                in malice of intent to control and
                be on top –

                    Study Christ – the Son of God – how
                He showed us the suffering servant,
                love to suffer and die for our sins.
                Is my heart, a heart of peace, of
                putting God first and His Plan as the
                first commandment demands in His
                law – or do I put self-centered pride,
                anger, control, punishment of others
                before God, tearing down my own life
                and making my life unloving.

                Jesus: I carried My cross for you My
                beloved so you would see My love
                and love as I command you to do.
                I knew your pranks and sins and
                self-centeredness – the lies you tell
                yourself how you have the right to
                punish innocent others for your
                own hatred and darkness –

                    In justice I tell you, with Divine -
                justice you will be judged for your
                unloving, hateful ways toward your
                brothers, sowing seeds of division
                even in the service of God in My
                Churches for pride and anger and
                envy. Take your sinning out of My
                Church, before others, acting as
                if you – in your pride – even can
                raise up and sin before the throne
                of God.

                    I call you to truth and unity and
                love. Obedience to the just authority
                I place over you.

                    A blind man, is blind – he doesn't
                see – What is your excuse – I give you
                My commandments and you harbor
                and nurse division - life-long, in
                your hearts – Division for those I
                place over you – While the echo I
                hear loud and clear –
                    "I will not serve You, Lord, in
                humility and truth and love"

                    I am a God of justice – the seeds
                you plant are to show others your
                lives putting God first.

                    Power is given to a man in
                authority by God to serve Him in
                the Church – Power is not given
                so the man can selfishly do evil
                and punish those who come to
                Church.

                    I bled and was whipped for
                your sins of division and your
                unloving ways –

                    Woe to the man who uses their
                religious vocation to commit sins
                and punish.

                    I call My religious to marriage
                to Me – to be followers of Mine –
                to walk behind Me giving the
                example of love and unity and
                peace – so others will see Me
                living in their humble and docile
                hearts.

                You are called to witness before
                God of your hearts of love –
                Putting God's will and His law
                as the rule over your hearts,
                that you will not let others
                see how disobedient you are,
                but give an example before
                those under you of love and
                peace and joy rooted in the Lord.

                    I gave you the Holy Spirit Novena
                to pray – twice a day with fervor
                that you pray every word so the
                Holy Spirit fills your heart and you
                are instruments of love –
                    filled with the gifts of the
                Holy Spirit in your heart and soul –
                God alive in your hearts –
                God the Holy Spirit filling you with love –
                A personal relationship with God
                begins with loving oneself as
                seen through My Father's eyes
                and loving your neighbor as
                yourself –

                Jesus: Love is not rude –

                Love does not seek its own way –

                Love gives –

                Love does not delight in
                    division and hatred of
                    those over them and
                    of their brother –

                Love helps and understands the
                    position you hold in authority
                    and community is to bring
                    Christ to others –

                Not to punish those over you,
                    before those under you
                    to make My Churches
                    places of division on
                    all sides for the evil
                    work of satan –

                 I have spoken and I am calling
                    you to live in the virtues
                    of greater faith,
                        greater hope,
                        greater love,
                        humility,
                        temperance,
                        fortitude,
                        justice,
                        obedience,
                        humility –

                You know the commandments –
                    because you choose to
                    love evil and live by
                    deadly sins - you have
                    hurt the souls I have
                    tried to reach –

                The sinner listens to satan,
                    nurtures anger, refuses
                    love, holds back –
                    sows seeds of division
                    even at Mass.

                And in pride tells themselves
                    they are in charge and
                    can do so –

                My Heart is a Heart of burning
                    love and goodness, of
                    unity and kindness,
                    of peace, of humility
                    and docility –

                Piety means you love God so
                    much – you don't want
                    to offend God in the slightest
                    sin –

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                Jesus: that men will give their hearts
                    to Our Two Hearts –

                So their hearts are full of love –
                    full of the Holy Spirit –
                    giving love to others –

                Spread the Holy Spirit Novena –
                    Beg for grace –
                    Beg for the Holy Spirit to possess
                        your soul –

                Let go of your deadly sins and
                    beg for forgiveness of God –
                    Make recompense by a
                    firm purpose of amendment –
                    putting God first –

                Obedience –

                Love, Practice Love –

                Not division, punishment,
                    pride, envy, anger –

                Get to your knees and beg
                    to be forgiven for your
                    disobedience –

                Evil leaders are held accountable
                    for their evil before
                    innocent men –

Suffering: A Source of Life

    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 as soon as he sees a wolf coming, and runs away, and then the wolf attacks and scatters the sheep; he runs away 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. (Jn 10:11-15)¹

    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. Ill-treated 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.

    On the third day, Jesus rose: ‘Destroy this Temple, and in three days I will raise it up.’ The Jews replied, ‘It has taken forty-six years to build this Temple: are you going to raise it up again in three days?’ But he was speaking of the Temple that was his body, and when Jesus rose from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the scripture and what he had said. (Jn 2:19-22)

    Yes, the Good Shepherd died and rose for our salvation. Behold, the paschal mystery of Jesus!

    When we are baptized we are incorporated into Christ's paschal mystery of death and resurrection. St. Paul speaks of this marvelous union with Jesus: You cannot have forgotten that all of us, when we were baptised into Christ Jesus, were baptised into his death. 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. (Rm 6:3-4)

    Christ has structured the Christian life by the way He lived, died, and rose from the dead. It is obvious, then, as Paul tells us above that the pattern of death-resurrection must be at the heart of the Church’s life. Individually and collectively, we continually die in Christ so that we may continually rise in Him. Thus we pass over in a process of ongoing religious transition to a greater participation in Christ’s resurrection. It is true that our participation in Christ’s resurrection will reach its completion only in eternal life. Nevertheless, we begin the life of resurrection here upon earth, in the here and now of human life, in the midst of joy and pain, in the experience of success and failure, in the sweat of our brow, in the enjoyment of God’s gifts. As Christians, we should have a sense of dynamic growth concerning our here and now life of resurrection.

    We cannot maintain the life of resurrection or grow in it without a willingness to suffer. This does not mean that we need to feel overwhelmed and heavily burdened in our lives. The greater portion of suffering for most Christians seems to be an accumulation of ordinary hardships, difficulties, and pains. At times, however, deep suffering, even suffering of agonizing proportions can enter into one’s life. Whether the sufferings one encounters are of the more ordinary variety or of the more rare and extreme type, Christians must convince themselves that to relate properly to the cross is to grow in resurrection, and growth in resurrection means we will also have an increased capacity to help give resurrection to others.

• Pope John Paul II speaks of the role suffering plays in the Christian life: "Every man has his own share in the redemption. Each one is also called to share in that suffering through which the redemption was accomplished. He is called to share in that suffering through which all human suffering has also been redeemed. In bringing about the redemption through suffering, Christ has also raised human suffering to the level of the redemption. Thus each man in his suffering can also become a sharer in the redemptive suffering of Christ…

    "Those who share in Christ’s sufferings have before their eyes the paschal mystery of the cross and resurrection, in which Christ descends, in a first phace, to the ultimate limits of human weakness and impotence: Indeed, he dies nailed to the cross. But if at the same time in this weakness there is accomplished his lifting up, confirmed by the power of the resurrection, then this means that the weaknesses of all human sufferings are capable of being infused with the same power of God manifested in Christ’s cross. In such a concept, to suffer means to become particularly susceptible, particularly open, to the working of the salvific powers of God offered to humanity in Christ. In him God has confirmed his desire to act especially through suffering, which is man’s weakness and emptiness of self." ²

• Dom Hubert Van Zeller observes: "Men and women who might be turning their afflictions over to God, who have only to unite themselves in spirit with Christ’s passion, are found so often to stop short, and even to make of their trial further matter for selfishness. Even if we do not rebel positively against God’s providential will, we can become so preoccupied with our troubles as to leave God out of account.

    "Instead of making us compassionate for others we can squander compassion on ourselves. Suffering is meant to enlarge our hearts, not shrink them. With suffering goes the grace of patience, peace, fortitude, penitence and love. All this can be missed if we make the mistake of turning in upon ourselves as the result of our trials.

    "To the Jews the cross was a stumbling block, and to the gentiles foolishness. What is it to us? Often it can be an emblem merely, the significance of the symbol forgotten. The cross is something in which we are, by reason of our Christian inheritance, inextricably involved. Do we yield to it or harden ourselves against it? The cross is not just two planks fitted together on a certain day in the history of the world, and of all the relics which we venerate the most sacred, but a fact of our human experience which may or may not be sacred according to what we do about it." ³

• Contrary to what many think, Fr. Edward Leen reminds us that suffering is compatible with happiness: "If men are prone to err in conceiving the nature of happiness, they will necessarily err in judging of its opposite. They commonly think that a man cannot possibly be happy if he is a prey to constant sickness; if he is condemned to experience habitual poverty and to be buried in obscurity; if he fails to take an important part on the world stage; if he is unsuccessful in his enterprises; if he is deprived of the opportunities of intellectual or aesthetic development; and finally, if he fails to gain the applause and the esteem of his fellows. Now though all these things mean grievous sufferings for men, neither singly nor in combination have they the power to rob him of essential happiness.

    "Apart from the consideration of the life of the Redeemer, certain undeniable facts of history justify this contention. The saints, in all ages, have been persons whose lot it was, generally speaking, to undergo greater trials and sufferings than others are called upon to endure. Yet they were habitually happy, buoyant and joyous human beings…

    "The saints were not violently wresting words from their literal meaning when they proclaimed themselves happy. For the happiness they enjoyed was that which is proper to, and satisfying for man…

    "God planned an unbroken life of happiness for man. The Fall modified, but did not prevent the realization of this plan. Suffering, but not unhappiness, becomes the condition of the earthly portion of men’s existence. God does not make unhappiness here to be the price to pay for happiness hereafter. To be happy, in the minds of all men, is to fare well, that is, to live excellently... The Saviour Himself suffered intensely, but He lived the highest life possible for men. He was, therefore, happy. He assured men that He could share His own blissful experience with them. It may appear paradoxical to associate happiness with the mental image of One Who is called the Man of Sorrows. But an analysis of the nature of happiness will show that it was fully realized in the earthly life of the Saviour…" ⁴

• Caryll Houselander writes with great sensitivity regarding the second station of the Way of the Cross: "They put His own garments on Him again, and Jesus comes out from the judgment hall of Pilate to receive His cross.

    "He comes to it gladly! This is a strange thing, for the cross is a symbol of shame, and it is to be His deathbed. Already He sees the very shape of His death in the wide-spread arms. From this moment He will be inseparable from it, until He dies on it. He will labour and struggle under the weight of it… Yet Christ welcomes the cross. He embraces it. He takes it into His arms. He lays His beautiful hands on it tenderly, those strong hands of a carpenter that are so familiar with the touch of wood." ⁵

• Henri Nouwen tells this story: "I would like to tell you the story of a middle-aged man whose career was suddenly interrupted by the discovery of leukemia, a fatal blood cancer. All his life plans crumbled and all his ways had to change. But slowly he was able to ask himself no longer: ‘Why did this happen to me?’ but instead: ‘What is the promise hidden in this event?’ When his rebellion became a new quest, he felt that he could give strength and hope to other cancer patients and, that by facing his condition directly, he could make his pain a source of healing for others. To this day, this man not only does more for patients than many ministers are able to, but he also refound his life on a level that he had never known before." ⁶

• St. Paul tells us: But we hold this treasure in pots of earthenware, so that the immensity of the power is God’s and not our own. We are subjected to every kind of hardship, but never distressed; we see no way out but we never despair; we are pursued but never cut off; knocked down, but still have some life in us; always we carry with us in our body the death of Jesus so that the life of Jesus, too, may be visible in our body. Indeed, while we are still alive, we are continually being handed over to death, for the sake of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus, too, may be visible in our mortal flesh. (2 Co 4:7-11)

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NOTES:

1. Scripture quotations are taken from The New Jerusalem Bible, Doubleday.
2. Pope John Paul II, On The Christian Meaning of Human Suffering, United States Catholic Conference, Nos. 19 and 23.
3. Dom Hubert Van Zeller, More Ideas for Prayer, Templegate, p. 112.
4. Edward Leen, C. S. Sp., Why the Cross?, Sheed & Ward, pp. 246-247, 255, 285.
5. Caryll Houselander, The Way of the Cross, Sheed & Ward, p. 21.
6. Henri Nouwen, Out of Solitude, Ave Maria Press, p. 57.

                Jesus: Mary is perfect Handmaid
                    of God!!
 

                January 16, 2019

                Annunciation

                (1) Mary said yes.

                (2) Mary loved the will of God.

                (3) Mary was conceived without sin.

                (4) Mary conceived the Child Jesus through
                    the power of the Holy Spirit.

                (5) Luke 1: 34-38

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.

                (6) So beautiful a scene –
                        Mary so young, beautiful and pure.

                (7) Mary became the Mother of God.

                (8) Hail Mary

                (9) Sing: Ave, Ave Maria

                (10) Sing: Immaculate Mary

                Visitation

                (1) Luke 1: 46-55

And Mary said:

My soul proclaims
    the greatness of the Lord
and my spirit rejoices
    in God my Saviour;
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,
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.
He has pulled down princes
    from their thrones
        and raised high the lowly.
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 love
—according to the promise
    he made to our ancestors—
of his mercy to Abraham
    and to his descendants for ever.
 

                (2) Mary went to Elizabeth's and remained
                    about 3 months.

                (3) Sing: Be Not Afraid

                (4) God calls us to our vocation –

                (5) Do we respond "yes"?

                (6) How is our attitude of gratitude?

                (7) Mary was filled with the Holy Spirit.

                (8) Mary is full of grace.

                (9) Mary's Heart is so pure.
                    Mary's Heart is so willing.

                (10) John was Elizabeth's child.

                Birth of Jesus

                (1) Mary is so beautiful –
                    It is her heart of love that makes
                        her so beautiful.
 

                (2) Sing: Silent Night

                (3) Sing: Oh Little Town of Bethlehem

                (4) Sing: A Song from Jesus

                (5) Sing: See the Eyes That Look at Mary

                (6) Sing: Oh Holy Night

                (7) Sing: What Star is This

                (8) Sing: We Three Kings

                (9) Blest Be God, Blest Be His Holy Name.

                (10) Blest be Jesus Christ, true God and true man.

                Sing: Glory Be

                Presentation in the Temple

                (1) Sing: Little Baby Hands and Feet

                (2) Luke 2: 22-24

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.
 

                (3) Simeon told Mary - a sword would
                        pierce her heart.

                (4) The Seven Sorrows of Mary

                (5) Jesus was the most beautiful baby –

                (6) And a sword too will pierce
                    your heart Mary.

                (7) Luke 2: 29-32

                (8) Say Hail Mary

                (9) Sing: Ave, Ave Maria

                (10) And a sword too will pierce
                    your heart Mary.

                Mary speaks:

                    I am the perfect
                Handmaid of Jesus –