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WHEN YOU have asked the Holy Spirit to help you pray well, put yourself for a moment in the presence of God and offer up the decades in the way that I am going to show you later.
๐ฝ๐๐๐ค๐ง๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ฃ๐ฃ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐, ๐ฅ๐๐ช๐จ๐ ๐๐ค๐ง ๐ ๐ข๐ค๐ข๐๐ฃ๐ฉ ๐ค๐ง ๐ฉ๐ฌ๐ค--๐๐๐ฅ๐๐ฃ๐๐๐ฃ๐ ๐ช๐ฅ๐ค๐ฃ ๐๐ค๐ฌ ๐ข๐ช๐๐ ๐ฉ๐๐ข๐ ๐ฎ๐ค๐ช ๐๐๐ซ๐--๐๐ฃ๐ ๐๐ค๐ฃ๐ฉ๐๐ข๐ฅ๐ก๐๐ฉ๐ ๐ฉ๐๐ ๐ข๐ฎ๐จ๐ฉ๐๐ง๐ฎ ๐ฉ๐๐๐ฉ ๐ฎ๐ค๐ช ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐๐ค๐ช๐ฉ ๐ฉ๐ค ๐๐ค๐ฃ๐ค๐ง ๐๐ฃ ๐ฉ๐๐๐ฉ ๐๐๐๐๐๐.
Always be sure to ask of Almighty God, by this mystery and through the intercession of the Blessed Mother, one of the virtues that shines forth most in this mystery or one of which you stand in particular need.
Take great care to avoid the two pitfalls that most people fall into during the Rosary.
๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ง๐จ๐ฉ ๐๐จ ๐ฉ๐๐ ๐๐๐ฃ๐๐๐ง ๐ค๐ ๐ฃ๐ค๐ฉ ๐๐จ๐ ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐๐ค๐ง ๐๐ฃ๐ฎ ๐๐ง๐๐๐๐จ ๐๐ฉ ๐๐ก๐ก, so that if some people were asked their Rosary intention they would not know what to say. So, whenever you say your Rosary, be sure to ask for some special grace. Ask God's help in cultivating one of the great Christian virtues or in overcoming one of your sins.
๐๐๐ ๐จ๐๐๐ค๐ฃ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ช๐ก๐ฉ ๐ ๐ก๐ค๐ฉ ๐ค๐ ๐ฅ๐๐ค๐ฅ๐ก๐ ๐ข๐๐ ๐ ๐ฌ๐๐๐ฃ ๐จ๐๐ฎ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐ฉ๐๐ ๐๐ค๐ก๐ฎ ๐๐ค๐จ๐๐ง๐ฎ ๐๐จ ๐ฉ๐ค ๐๐๐ซ๐ ๐ฃ๐ค ๐๐ฃ๐ฉ๐๐ฃ๐ฉ๐๐ค๐ฃ ๐ค๐ฉ๐๐๐ง ๐ฉ๐๐๐ฃ ๐ฉ๐๐๐ฉ ๐ค๐ ๐๐๐ฉ๐ฉ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐๐ฉ ๐ค๐ซ๐๐ง ๐๐จ ๐ฆ๐ช๐๐๐ ๐ก๐ฎ ๐๐จ ๐ฅ๐ค๐จ๐จ๐๐๐ก๐!
This is because so many of us look upon the Rosary as a burden which is always heavier when we have not said it--especially if it is weighing on our conscience because we have promised to say it regularly or have been told to say it as a penance more or less against our will.
It is really pathetic to see how most people say the Holy Rosary--
they say it astonishingly fast and mumble so that the words are not properly pronounced at all. We could not possibly expect anyone, even the most unimportant person, to think that a slipshod address of this kind was a compliment and yet we expect Jesus and Mary to be pleased with it!
Small wonder then that the most sacred prayers of our holy religion seem to bear no fruit, and that, after saying thousands of Rosaries, we are still no better than we were before!
๐ฟ๐๐๐ง ๐พ๐ค๐ฃ๐๐ง๐๐ฉ๐๐ง๐ฃ๐๐ฉ๐ฎ ๐ข๐๐ข๐๐๐ง๐จ, ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ค๐ ๐ฎ๐ค๐ช ๐ฉ๐ค ๐ฉ๐๐ข๐ฅ๐๐ง ๐ฉ๐๐ ๐จ๐ฅ๐๐๐ ๐ฌ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ค๐ข๐๐จ ๐๐ก๐ก ๐ฉ๐ค๐ค ๐๐๐จ๐๐ก๐ฎ ๐ฉ๐ค ๐ฎ๐ค๐ช ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐ฅ๐๐ช๐จ๐ ๐๐ง๐๐๐๐ก๐ฎ ๐จ๐๐ซ๐๐ง๐๐ก ๐ฉ๐๐ข๐๐จ ๐๐จ ๐ฎ๐ค๐ช ๐จ๐๐ฎ ๐ฉ๐๐ ๐๐ช๐ง ๐๐๐ฉ๐๐๐ง ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐๐๐๐ก ๐๐๐ง๐ฎ.
I have placed a cross at each pause, as you will see:
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.
Hail Mary, full of grace, ✞ the Lord is with Thee, ✞ blessed art thou among women ✞ and blessed is the Fruit of Thy womb, Jesus. ✞
Holy Mary, Mother of God, ✞ pray for us sinners, now ✞ and at the hour of our death. Amen.
At first, you may find it difficult to make these pauses because of your bad habit of saying prayers in a hurry; but a decade that you say recollectedIy in this way will be worth more than thousands of Rosaries said all in a rush--without any pauses or reflection.
⚜ ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฆ๐ค๐ณ๐ฆ๐ต ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฐ๐ด๐ข๐ณ๐บ
๐๐ต. ๐๐ฐ๐ถ๐ช๐ด ๐๐ข๐ณ๐ช๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ฆ ๐๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ต๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ต
April 22 - 30
O Glorious St. Joseph, model of all those who are devoted to labor, obtain the grace for me to work conscientiously, putting the call of duty above my natural inclinations; to work with gratitude and joy, in a spirit of penance for the remission of my sins, considering it an honor to develop by means of labor the gifts received from God; to work with order, peace, moderation and patience, without ever shrinking from weariness and difficulties; to work above all with purity of intention and detachment from self, having always death before my eyes and the account I must render of time lost, of talents wasted, of good omitted, of vain complacency in success, so fatal to the work of God.
All for Jesus, through Mary, all after thine own example, O Patriarch St. Joseph. Such shall be my watchword in life and in death. Amen.
Pope St. Pius X
⚜ St. John of the Cross,
Spiritual Maxims 230
(Fr. Roger-Thomas Calmel, O.P.. [1914-1975], The Angelus, May-June 2014.)
Speaking to him in Nahuatl, his native language, she said to him, “Juanito, my son, where are you going?”—”Noble Lady, my Queen, I am going to the Mass in Mexico City to hear the divine things that the priest teaches us there.”—”I want you to know for certain, my dear son, that I am the perfect and always Virgin Mary, Mother of the True God from Whom all life comes, the Lord of all things, Creator of Heaven and Earth. I greatly desire that a church be built in my honor, in which I will show my love, compassion, and protection. I am your Mother full of mercy and love for you and all those who love Me, trust in Me, and have recourse to Me. I will hear their complaints and I will comfort their affliction and their sufferings. So that I might show all My love, go now to the bishop in Mexico City and tell him that I am sending you to make known to him the great desire I have to see a church dedicated to me built here.”
Fifty years later, when technology made it possible to magnify the image 2,500 times, they discovered that 13 other people were reflected in the Virgin's eyes. It is believed that the reflection transmitted by the eyes of Our Lady of Guadalupe is the scene on December 9, 1531, during which St. Juan Diego showed his tilma, with the image, to Bishop Juan de Zumรกrraga and others present in the room. Nuclear physicist Dr. Charles Wahlig also posited that the Blessed Mother must have been invisibly present when St. Juan Diego was presenting the roses to Bishop Zumarraga and that the tilma acted like a photographic plate that captured her image and the reflection of their images in her eyes.
Pope St. Pius X says that liberal Catholics are wolves in sheep's clothing. The priest must unveil to the people their wickedness and evil designs.
St. Claude de la Colombiere said "MORE honor is Paid to God BY A SINGLE MASS than by all other Actions of Angels & Men."
The value of offering a single Mass is incalculable! We give God infinite praise, love, thanksgiving, and reparation.
From Dietrich von Hildebrand's Trojan Horse in the City of God:
". . . even some Catholics who experience the exclusivity of truth as
liberating and who are not tempted to revolt against its alleged
infringement on their freedom believe that the fight against error is
uncharitable. The anathema of the Holy Church seems to them hard and inhuman. They have forgotten the admirable dictum of St. Augustine, 'Kill the error; love the one who errs.' They are unwilling to accept the idea that the killing of error is inseparable from love for the one who errs. Their false irenicism makes them blind to the glorious character of the anathema when spoken by the infallible Church. . . It should not be forgotten that the words of St. Augustine apply not only to the anathema which is reserved exclusively to the infallible magisterium of the Church; they also imply that everyone should be eager to help liberate his neighbor from error. . . When, out of a confused notion of charity, a soft-heartedness, or a superficial benevolence, we believe that we should leave the erring person in his error, we have ceased to take him seriously as a person and have no interest in his objective good."
(TAKEN FROM MIRACULOUS STORIES OF THE ROSARY BY SAINT LOUIS de MONTFORT)
Saint Dominic, seeing that the gravity of people's sins was hindering the conversion of the Albigensians, withdrew into a forest near Toulouse, where he prayed continuously for three days and three nights. During this time he did nothing but weep and do harsh penances in order to appease the anger of God. He used his discipline so much that his body was lacerated, and finally he fell into a coma. At this point our Lady appeared to him, accompanied by three angels, and she said, "Dear Dominic, do you know which weapon the Blessed Trinity wants to use to reform the world?" "Oh, my Lady," answered Saint Dominic, "you know far better than I do, because next to your Son Jesus Christ you have always been the chief instrument of our salvation." Then our Lady replied, "I want you to know that, in this kind of warfare, the principal weapon has always been the Angelic Psalter, which is the foundation-stone of the New Testament. Therefore, if you want to reach these hardened souls and win them over to God, preach my Psalter." So he arose, comforted, and burning with zeal for the conversion of the people in that district, he made straight for the cathedral. At once unseen angels rang the bells to gather the people together, and Saint Dominic began to preach. At the very beginning of his sermon, an appalling storm broke out, the earth shook, the sun was darkened, and there was so much thunder and lightning that all were very much afraid. Even greater was their fear when, looking at a picture of our Lady exposed in a prominent place, they saw her raise her arms to heaven three times to call down God's vengeance upon them if they failed to be converted, to amend their lives, and seek the protection of the holy Mother of God. God wished, by means of these supernatural phenomena, to spread the new devotion of the holy Rosary and to make it more widely known. At last, at the prayer of Saint Dominic, the storm came to an end, and he went on preaching. So fervently and compellingly did he explain the importance and value of the Rosary that almost all the people of Toulouse embraced it and renounced their false beliefs. In a very short time a great improvement was seen in the town; people began leading Christian lives and gave up their former bad habits.
WHEN YOU START PRAYING THE DAILY ROSARY, YOU CAN STOP FEARING DEATH...
The Fifteen Promises of Mary Granted to those who Recite the Rosary Daily
The Blessed Virgin Mary Promised to Saint Dominic and to all who follow that "Whatever you ask in the Rosary will be granted." She left for all Christians Fifteen Promises to those who recite the Holy Rosary.
Imparted to Saint Dominic and Blessed Alan de la Roche
1. Whoever shall faithfully serve me by the recitation of the Rosary, shall receive signal graces.
2. I promise my special protection and the greatest graces to all those who shall recite the Rosary.
3. The Rosary shall be a powerful armor against hell, it will destroy vice, decrease sin, and defeat heresies.
4.The Rosary will cause virtue and good works to flourish; it will obtain for souls the abundant mercy of God; it will withdraw the hearts of men from the love of the world and its vanities, and will lift them to the desire for eternal things. Oh, that souls would sanctify themselves by this means.
5. The soul which recommends itself to me by the recitation of the Rosary, shall not perish.
6. Whoever shall recite the Rosary devoutly, applying himself to the consideration of its sacred mysteries shall never be conquered by misfortune. God will not chastise him in His justice, he shall not perish by an unprovided death; if he be just he shall remain in the grace of God, and become worthy of eternal life.
7. Whoever shall have a true devotion for the Rosary shall not die without the sacraments of the Church.
8. Those who are faithful to recite the Rosary shall have during their life and at their death the light of God and the plenititude of His graces; at the moment of death they shall participate in the merits of the saints in paradise.
9. I shall deliver from Purgatory those who have been devoted to the Rosary.
10. The faithful children of the Rosary shall merit a high degree of glory in Heaven.
11. You shall obtain all you ask of me by the recitation of the Rosary.
12. All those who propagate the Holy Rosary shall be aided by me in their necessities.
13. I have obtained from my Divine Son that all the advocates of the Rosary shall have for intercessors the entire celestial court during their life and at the hour of death.
14. All who recite the Rosary are my sons and daughters, and brothers and sisters of my only Son Jesus Christ.
15. Devotion of my Rosary is a great sign of predestination.
Hail our life, our sweetness and our hope.
To thee do we cry,
Poor banished children of Eve;
To thee do we send up our sighs,
Mourning and weeping in this valley of tears.
Turn then, most gracious advocate,
Thine eyes of mercy toward us;
And after this our exile,
Show unto us the blessed fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
O clement, O loving,
O sweet Virgin Mary.
℣ Pray for us, O holy Mother of God,
℟ that we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.
Let us pray:
Almighty, everlasting God, who by the co-operation of the Holy Spirit didst prepare the body and soul of the glorious Virgin-Mother Mary to become a dwelling-place meet for thy Son: grant that as we rejoice in her commemoration; so by her fervent intercession we may be delivered from present evils and from everlasting death. Through the same Christ our Lord. Amen.
They hate you, criticize you and mock you because you are Catholic, because you make the sign of the cross publicly, because you pray your Rosary. Never be ashamed. Our Lord was also hated and treated with all kinds of cruelty, but He never gave up. Don't be like them and start arguing and insulting them, instead rejoice because you are participating in the true suffering of Christ.
In Africa and Asia, attachment to ecclesial Tradition leads to a repudiation of the Bergoglio-Fernรกndez project to confuse Catholics with their (sadly) celebrated declaration, Fiducia Supplicans.
AGE TO RECEIVE FIRST COMMUNION
From all this it is clear that the age of discretion for receiving Holy Communion is that at which the child knows the difference between the Eucharistic Bread and ordinary, material bread, and can therefore approach the altar with proper devotion. Perfect knowledge of the things of faith, therefore, is not required, for an elementary knowledge suffices-some knowledge; similarly full use of reason is not required, for a certain beginning of the use of reason, that is, some use of reason suffices. To postpone Communion, therefore, until later and to insist on a more mature age for its reception must be absolutely discouraged, and indeed such practice was condemned more than once by the Holy See. Thus Pope Pius IX, of happy memory, in a Letter of Cardinal Antonelli to the Bishops of France, March 12, 1866, severely condemned the growing custom existing in some dioceses of postponing the First Communion of children until more mature years, and at the same time sharply disapproved of the age limit which had been assigned. Again, the Sacred Congregation of the Council, on March 15, 1851, corrected a prescription of the Provincial Council of Rouen, which prohibited children under twelve years of age from receiving First Communion. Similarly, this Sacred Congregation of the Discipline of the Sacraments, on March 25, 1910, in a question proposed to it from Strasburg whether children of twelve or fourteen years could be admitted to Holy Communion, answered: “Boys and girls are to be admitted to the Holy Table when they arrive at the years of discretion or the use of reason.”
Mandatory rules
After careful deliberation on all these points, this Sacred Congregation of the Discipline of the Sacraments, in a general meeting held on July 15, 1910, in order to remove the above-mentioned abuses and to bring about that children even from their tender years may be united to Jesus Christ, may live His life, and obtain protection from all danger of corruption, has deemed it needful to prescribe the following rules which are to be observed everywhere for the First Communion of children:
1. The age of discretion, both for Confession and for Holy Communion, is the time when a child begins to reason, that is about the seventh year, more or less. From that time on begins the obligation of fulfilling the precept of both Confession and Communion.
2. A full and perfect knowledge of Christian doctrine is not necessary either for First Confession or for First Communion. Afterwards, however, the child will be obliged to learn gradually the entire Catechism according to his ability.
3. The knowledge of religion which is required in a child in order to be properly prepared to receive First Communion is such that he will understand according to his capacity those Mysteries of faith which are necessary as a means of salvation (necessitate medii) and that he can distinguish between the Bread of the Eucharist and ordinary, material bread, and thus he may receive Holy Communion with a devotion becoming his years.
4. The obligation of the precept of Confession and Communion which binds the child particularly affects those who have him in charge, namely, parents, confessor, teachers and the pastor. It belongs to the father, or the person taking his place, and to the confessor, according to the Roman Catechism, to admit a child to his First Communion.
5. The pastor should announce and hold a General Communion of the children once a year or more often, and he should on these occasions admit not only the First Communicants but also others who have already approached the Holy Table with the above-mentioned consent of their parents or confessor. Some days of instruction and preparation should be previously given to both classes of children.
6. Those who have charge of the children should zealously see to it that after their First Communion these children frequently approach the Holy Table, even daily if possible, as Jesus Christ and Mother Church desire, and let this be done with a devotion becoming their age. They must also bear in mind that very grave duty which obliged them to have the children attend the public Catechism classes; if this is not done, then they must supply religious instruction in some other way.
7. The custom of not admitting children to Confession or of not giving them absolution when they have already attained the use of reason must be entirely abandoned. The Ordinary shall see to it that this condition ceases absolutely, and he may, if necessary, use legal measures accordingly.
8. The practice of not administering the Viaticum and Extreme Unction to children who have attained the use of reason, and of burying them with the rite used for infants is a most intolerable abuse. The Ordinary should take very severe measures against those who do not give up the practice.
Given in Rome, on August 8, 1910.
“To avoid exacerbating the debate, I’ll go back many years, to the Spartans, the ones who killed newborns when they thought they wouldn’t be able to bear arms or father future soldiers. Sparta was the only Greek city that practiced this kind of eugenics, this systematic elimination. And nothing remains of her: Not a single poet, not a single musician, not even a ruin has left us! Sparta is the only Greek city that did not contribute anything to humanity. Is it a coincidence or is there a direct relationship?"
Jerome Lejeune
“Let the entire man be seized with fear; let the whole world tremble; let heaven exult when Christ, the Son of the Living God, is on the altar in the hands of the priest.”
Saint Francis of Assisi
"The treasure of a Christian is not on the earth, it is in Heaven. Well, our thoughts ought to be where our treasure is. Man has a beautiful office, that of praying and loving. You pray, you love - that is the happiness of man upon the earth. Prayer is nothing else than union with God. Prayer is a foretaste of Heaven, an overflow of paradise. It never leaves us without sweetness. It is like honey descending into the soul and sweetening everything. Troubles melt away before a fervent prayer like snow before the sun".
Holy Curรฉ of Ars
"The joy born of love of God enables us to see the world from an entirely different point of view. Before, when shackled to the ego, we were cooped up within the narrow walls of space and time. But once the chains are broken, one falls heir to immensities beyond all telling. Then we find our greatest joys not in the things we cling to, but in what we surrender; not in the asking for anything, but the giving of something; not in what others can do for us, but in what we can do for others. Joy comes from using well the talents the Lord gave us, from a sense of bliss at being redeemed by Our Lord, and being permitted to minister more entirely to His Glory."
Way to Happiness, Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen
Consequently they would have neither adored nor offered gifts.
But since they sought a heavenly King, though they found in Him so signs of royal pre-eminence, yet, content with the testimony of the star alone, they adored: for they saw a man, and they acknowledged a God.
-St. John Chrysostom
- Pope St. Pius X, Our Apostolic Mandate Notre Charge Apostolique, given by Pope Pius X to the French Bishops.
August 15, 1910
Treatise on True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary
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Preparation for Death
The Secret of the Rosary
https://archive.org/stream/p1catenaaureaco01thom#page/n3/mode/2up
https://archive.org/stream/p2catenaaureacomm01thom#page/n3/mode/2up
https://archive.org/stream/catenaaureacomme02thomuoft#page/n5/mode/2up
https://archive.org/stream/catenaaureacomme03thomuoft#page/n5/mode/2up
https://archive.org/stream/catenaaurept203thomuoft#page/n1/mode/2up
https://archive.org/stream/p1catenaaureacomme04thom#page/n3/mode/2up
https://archive.org/stream/p2catenaaureacom04thomuoft#page/n3/mode/2up
Imitation of Christ
https://archive.org/stream/TheImitationOfChristChalloner#page/n1/mode/2up
The Confessions of St. Augustine
https://archive.org/stream/confessionsofsta00augu#page/n5/mode/2up
The Interior Castle or The Mansions
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Catechism of St. Pius X
The Commonitorium of St. Vincent of Lรฉrins
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