 Come
Lord, work on us, set us on fire, and
clasp us close, be fragrant to us, draw
us to your love, let
us run to you. Amen.
Pray as though everything depended on God.
Work as though everything depended on you.
~~ St. Augustine |
Will
you please pray the Rosary?
Pray the Rosary for the conversion
of America and the whole world.
On May 13th, 1917, Our Lady told the three Fatima children to:
"Pray the Rosary every day to obtain peace for the world!"
Imagine how touched She will be to see us all praying the Rosary, all over
the world, begging Her to save the world from so much sin, war, anxiety and
hatred.
It can happen, if we pray and trust in the power of Our Lady's Rosary.
So, please pray the Rosary for the conversion of America and the
world.
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St.
Augustine's reflection on Psalm 109 for our Advent prayer and reflection:
God's
promises are given to us through the Son
God
decreed a time for making promises
and a time for the promises to be fulfilled. The time for making promises
was the time of the prophets, ending with John the Baptist, the last
prophet. From then until the end is the time for the fulfillment of
promises.
God
is faithful. He has made himself our debtor, not by receiving anything from
us but by promising us so much. The promise alone was not enough for him: he
wanted it in writing, so that he could be held to it, practically entering
into a contract with us that listed the promises he was making. In that way,
when he began to fulfill his promises, we could see the order of their
fulfillment by looking in Scripture. Therefore the time of the prophets was
(as I have said so often) the time of making promises.
He
promised us eternal salvation and an unending life of blessedness with the
angels, and an imperishable inheritance, the joy of seeing his face, a
dwelling-place with him in heaven, and the fear of death removed from us
through the resurrection. This is, if you like, his ultimate promise. We
look forward to it, and when we reach it, we will want nothing more. But as
to how this final end is to be reached, he has also told us in promises and
prophecies.
He
has promised to men that they will be like God; to mortals he has promised
immortality; to sinners, righteousness; to the lowly, glory.
Indeed,
brethren, because what God promised seemed incredible to men – that from
mortality, decay, weakness, lowliness, dust and ashes they should become
equals of the angels of God – he did not only sign a contract with them to
convince them. He sent, not just any prince, not just any angel or
archangel, but his only Son. The road by which he was to lead us to the end
he had promised us – through his Son he would show us that road.
Even
so, it was not enough for God to send his Son to point out the way – he
made his Son the way itself, so that we can go on our journey guided by him
as he walks along his own way.
So
the only Son of God was to come to men, to take on humanity, and thus to
die, to ascend to heaven and sit at the right hand of the father, and so to
fulfill what he had promised among the nations. After that promise to the
nations had been fulfilled, he would fulfill his other promise, to come, to
demand the return of what he had given, to separate the vessels of anger
from the vessels of mercy, to give the wicked what he had threatened and the
righteous what he had promised.
All
this had to be prophesied and foretold. It had to have its coming announced.
It could not come suddenly and unexpectedly, causing terror and alarm:
people had to be awaiting it with faith.
Pray in solidarity:
It has been said that
if Christians and Jews really understood the full extent of the power
available through prayer, we might be speechless. Did you know that during
WWII there was an adviser to Churchill who organized a group of people who
dropped what they were doing every day at a prescribed hour for one minute
to collectively pray for the safety of England, for its people and for
peace? There is now a group of people organizing the same thing here in
America . If you would like to participate: Every evening at 9:00 PM Eastern
Time (8:00 PM Central) (7:00 PM Mountain) (6:00 PM Pacific), stop whatever
you are doing and spend one minute praying for the safety of the United
States, our troops, our citizens, and for a return to a Godly nation. If you
know others who would like to participate, please pass this along. Our
prayers are the most powerful asset we have. Please forward this to your
praying friends.
Chaplet
of Divine Mercy - information about this devotion
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Divine Mercy
How to pray the Chaplet of Divine Mercy
Belief
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In
short, the Rosary is an ancient, beautiful, and powerful prayer of
devotion to God through devotion to Mary by means of a series of
prayers and meditations on the life of Jesus and Mary. In it we find
all that life offers: pains and joys, but also always the hope that
only a loving, protecting, saving Father can truly give. The
Rosary is a prayer of hope.
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