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Prayer for Forgiveness

 A BEAUTIFUL ACT OF CONTRITION

Forgive me my sins, O Lord, forgive me my sins; the sins of my youth, the sins of my age, the sins of my soul, the sins of my body; my idle sins, my serious voluntary sins; the sins I know, the sins I do not know; the sins I have concealed for so long, and which are now hidden from my memory.

I am truly sorry for every sin, mortal and venial, for all the sins of my childhood up to the present hour.

I know my sins have wounded Thy Tender Heart, O My Savior, let me be freed from the bonds of evil through the most bitter Passion of My Redeemer. 

Amen.

O My Jesus, forget and forgive what I have been. 

Amen.

Let Jesus rule your life and protect you ,say the following prayer to consecrate yourself to Him...

 O MOST LOVING JESUS, I earnestly offer this prayer and consecrate myself to Your eternal Glory. Life is worthless and the world empty without You. Let Your Holy Presence rule my life and protect me from sin and temptation. Endow in me a strong desire to detach myself from worldliness. Let me realize that earthly life is short and that riches and power are nothing but vain glory, and that these shall pass away. Make me more fervent in seeking first Your Kingdom and the things that endure in eternity. Amen.

Say this Daily Prayer for graces and mercy To The Sacred Heart of Jesus

 +Daily Prayer to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus+

We adore you, dear Jesus, we love you and we trust you. Pour on us from your Most Sacred Heart the mercy and the graces we most need. Help us to love you and to serve you better each day. We entrust to your most Sacred heart ourselves, our families, our relatives and friends, our fellowmen and our nation. Make us docile and obedient to your will. Transform us to be more apostolic and caring for the others. Shield and protect us from all evil and all illnesses, especially the Coronavirus (COVID-19) disease. And keep us away from mishaps and any harm. Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us. Amen. ❤

Do you have any wishes or needs that requires a miracle? Try this prayer now...

 

ST. ANTHONY - SAINT OF MIRACLES PRAYER 🙏🏻😇💖

O Holy St. Anthony, reach down from heaven and take hold of my hand. Assure me that I am not alone. You are known to possess miraculous powers and to be ever ready to speak for those in trouble.

Loving and Gentle St. Anthony, reach down from heaven, I implore you and assist me in my hour of need. Obtain for me (mention your request here).

Dearest St. Anthony, reach down from heaven and guide me with thy strength. Plead for me in my needs. And teach me to be humbly thankful as you were for all the bountiful lessons I am to receive. Amen.

Unfailing Prayer to Saint Anthony:

O holy St. Anthony, gentlest of Saints, your love for God and Charity for his creatures, made you worthy, when on earth, to possess miraculous powers.

Miracles waited on your word, which you were ever ready to speak for those in trouble or anxiety.

Encouraged by this thought, I implore of you to obtain for me (request).

The answer to my prayer may require a miracle; even so, you are the Saint of Miracles.

O gentle and loving St. Anthony, whose heart was ever full of human sympathy, whisper my petition into the ears of the Sweet Infant Jesus, who loved to be folded in your arms; 

and the gratitude of my heart will ever be yours. Amen

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A Simple Gratitude Offering to Saint Joseph

 

A Simple Gratitude Offering to the Foster Father of our Lord and Saviour on

 this Year of St. Joseph (December 8, 2020- December 8,2021) as proclaimed recently by 

Pope Francis.

PERSONALLY COMPOSED LITANY PRAYER TO ST. JOSEPH, FOSTER FATHER OF JESUS

by Fray Bobby S. Castellano, Jr.OP

This Litany Prayer is fondly dedicated to all fellow devotees of St. Joseph, The Universal Patron of the Church and The Forster Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. May all who will recite this prayer experience God’s love, forgiveness and mercy thru the unfailing intercession and powerful patronage of St. Joseph!

S-ervant of the Holy Family, pray for us.

A-dvocate   of the oppressed and distressed, pray for us.

I-ntelligent protector of the   Holy Family, pray for us.

N- otable guide of all families, pray for us.

T- eacher of the child Jesus, pray for us.

J-ust man of labor, pray for us.

O-utstanding Master of Interior Life, pray for us.

S-elf-oblation to the Divine Will, pray for us.

E-xemplar model of husbands, pray for us.

P- atron of workers, pray for us.

H-umble powerful intercessor of devotees, pray for us.

F-aithful husband of the Blessed Virgin Mary, pray for us.

O-ne with Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us.

S-ilent protector of the oppressed and distressed, pray for us.

T-rue Disciple of the Triune God, pray for us.

E-xcellent Model of Purity, pray for us.

R-esplendent epitome of Christian virtues, pray for us.

F-ortitude in Silent Suffering, pray for us.

A-dvocate of the faithless and hopeless, pray for us.

T-error of fallen angels, pray for us.

H-eart imbued with sublime Chastity, pray for us.

E-fficacious mediator to the Triune God, pray for us.

R-ecovery of the sick and dying, pray for us.

O-mnipotent in merits before the Throne of the Almighty, pray for us.

F-aith-filled, silent man of wisdom, pray for us.

J-ewel among his faithful devotees, pray for us.

E-mpathic to the repentant sinners, pray for us.

S-teadfast in holy fatherhood to Jesus until death, pray for us.

U-niversal Patron of the Mystical Body of Christ, pray for us.

S-anctity in the dignity of work, pray for us.

Leader: Pray for us Oh! Blessed Joseph, Foster Father of Jesus.

Response: That we be made worthy of the promises of Christ!

Let us pray, Oh Blessed Joseph, God grant you the gift of holy fatherhood to the child Jesus. By the help of your efficacious prayers, may we be able to become true children of the Triune God. Through the merits bestowed on you by the Almighty Father, may we obtain sound health of body and soul so that we can be of service in building every home as a dwelling place of God. We earnestly beseech you Blessed Foster Father of Jesus, that you adopt us, as your own child, like your Son, Jesus so that with your unfailing powerful patronage and protection, we may become a true emulator of your Son. Accompany us dearest Joseph in our pilgrimage to holiness and keep us against the allurements of the evil spirits until one day we can gratefully greet you in Paradise. We asked this through Jesus, Christ, our Lord and Savior, who lives and reigns with the Father and Holy Spirit, One God, forever and ever. Amen.

St. Joseph, Foster Father of Jesus, pray for us. (3X)

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Our Lady of Guadalupe , December 12

 

𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 12, 𝐟𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐎𝐮𝐫 𝐋𝐚𝐝𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐆𝐮𝐚𝐝𝐚𝐥𝐮𝐩𝐞, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐧 𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚🇺🇲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐌𝐞𝐱𝐢𝐜𝐨🇲🇽

The Story of Our Lady of Guadalupe

The feast in honor of Our Lady of Guadalupe goes back to the 16th century. Chronicles of that period tell us the story.

A poor Indian named Cuauhtlatohuac was baptized and given the name Juan Diego. He was a 57-year-old widower, and lived in a small village near Mexico City. On Saturday morning December 9, 1531, he was on his way to a nearby barrio to attend Mass in honor of Our Lady.

Juan was walking by a hill called Tepeyac when he heard beautiful music like the warbling of birds. A radiant cloud appeared, and within it stood an Indian maiden dressed like an Aztec princess. The lady spoke to him in his own language and sent him to the bishop of Mexico, a Franciscan named Juan de Zumarraga. The bishop was to build a chapel in the place where the lady appeared.

Eventually the bishop told Juan to have the lady give him a sign. About this same time Juan’s uncle became seriously ill. This led poor Juan to try to avoid the lady. Nevertheless the lady found Juan, assured him that his uncle would recover, and provided roses for Juan to carry to the bishop in his cape or tilma.

On December 12, when Juan Diego opened his tilma in the bishop’s presence, the roses fell to the ground, and the bishop sank to his knees. On the tilma where the roses had been appeared an image of Mary exactly as she had appeared at the hill of Tepeyac.

Source: Franciscan Media

Prayer to Our Lady of Guadalupe

Holy Virgin of Guadalupe, Queen of the Angels and Mother of the Americas,

We fly to you today as your beloved children.

We ask you to intercede for us with your Son, as you did at the wedding in Cana.

Pray for us, loving Mother,

and gain for our nation and world,

and for all our families and loved ones,

the protection of your holy angels,

that we may be spared the worst of this illness.

For those already afflicted,

we ask you to obtain the grace of healing and deliverance.

Hear the cries of those who are vulnerable and fearful,

wipe away their tears and help them to trust.

In this time of trial and testing,

teach all of us in the Church to love one another and to be patient and kind.

Help us to bring the peace of Jesus to our land and to our hearts.

We come to you with confidence,

knowing that you truly are our compassionate Mother,

health of the sick and cause of our joy.

Shelter us under the mantle of your protection,

keep us in the embrace of your arms,

help us always to know the love of your Son, Jesus. Amen

Source: Vatican News

To Seek Jesus Is To Find Happiness

 “It is Jesus that you seek when you dream of happiness; He is waiting for you when nothing else you find satisfies you; He is the beauty to which you are so attracted; it is He who provoked you with that thirst for fullness that will not let you settle for compromise; it is He who urges you to shed the masks of a false life; it is He who reads in your heart your most genuine choices, the choices that others try to stifle.

It is Jesus who stirs in you the desire to do something great with your lives, the will to follow an ideal, the refusal to allow yourselves to be ground down by mediocrity, the courage to commit yourselves humbly and patiently to improving yourselves and society, making the world more human and more fraternal.”

St. John Paul II

Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary

 Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception

December 8

"Ave Maria Purisima, sin pecado concebida!"

(Hail Purest Mary, conceived without sin!)

In the Constitution Ineffabilis Deus of 8 December, 1854, Pius IX pronounced and defined that the Blessed Virgin Mary "in the first instance of her conception, by a singular privilege and grace granted by God, in view of the merits of Jesus Christ, the Saviour of the human race, was preserved exempt from all stain of original sin."

"The Blessed Virgin Mary..."

The subject of this immunity from original sin is the person of Mary at the moment of the creation of her soul and its infusion into her body.

"...in the first instance of her conception..."

The term conception does not mean the active or generative conception by her parents. Her body was formed in the womb of the mother, and the father had the usual share in its formation. The question does not concern the immaculateness of the generative activity of her parents. Neither does it concern the passive conception absolutely and simply (conceptio seminis carnis, inchoata), which, according to the order of nature, precedes the infusion of the rational soul. The person is truly conceived when the soul is created and infused into the body. Mary was preserved exempt from all stain of original sin at the first moment of her animation, and sanctifying grace was given to her before sin could have taken effect in her soul.

"...was preserved exempt from all stain of original sin..."

The formal active essence of original sin was not removed from her soul, as it is removed from others by baptism; it was excluded, it never was in her soul. Simultaneously with the exclusion of sin. The state of original sanctity, innocence, and justice, as opposed to original sin, was conferred upon her, by which gift every stain and fault, all depraved emotions, passions, and debilities, essentially pertaining to original sin, were excluded. But she was not made exempt from the temporal penalties of Adam — from sorrow, bodily infirmities, and death.

"...by a singular privilege and grace granted by God, in view of the merits of Jesus Christ, the Saviour of the human race."

The immunity from original sin was given to Mary by a singular exemption from a universal law through the same merits of Christ, by which other men are cleansed from sin by baptism. Mary needed the redeeming Saviour to obtain this exemption, and to be delivered from the universal necessity and debt (debitum) of being subject to original sin. The person of Mary, in consequence of her origin from Adam, should have been subject to sin, but, being the new Eve who was to be the mother of the new Adam, she was, by the eternal counsel of God and by the merits of Christ, withdrawn from the general law of original sin. Her redemption was the very masterpiece of Christ's redeeming wisdom. He is a greater redeemer who pays the debt that it may not be incurred than he who pays after it has fallen on the debtor.

(Immaculate Conception, Catholic Encyclopedia, newadvent.org)

Such is the meaning of the term "Immaculate Conception."

REFLECTION:

We are not like Mary who was conceived without original sin. But we are all like Mary who is loved by God so much. This love of God made us all sharers in the Kingdom of God. This celebration is all about LOVE. Mary’s Immaculate Conception was not only about the LOVE of God for her but also about the LOVE of God for US! Because, it is in the Immaculate Conception of Mary where the Hope of Salvation of humankind was realized. Behold the woman who was prepared to be pure from the beginning to bear Christ, to bear God. 

This celebration calls all of us to remember the moment where our original was cleansed, our baptism. When we were baptized, we received Christ. Now, like Mary, we are called to bring Christ to anyone who needs Him. We are not only baptized and cleansed just for ourselves but, for us to become a living witnesses of God’s love to our neighbors.

PRAYER:

Father, you prepared the Virgin Mary to be the worthy mother of your Son. You let her share beforehand in the salvation Christ would bring by His death, and kept her sinless from the first moment of her conception. Help us by her prayers to live in your presence without sin. Amen.

HAIL MARY 

FULL OF GRACE 

THE LORD IS WITH YOU 

BLESSED ARE YOU AMONG WOMEN AND BLESSED IS THE FRUIT OF YOUR WOMB JESUS. 

HOLY MARY, MOTHER OF GOD, PRAY FOR US SINNERS NOW AND AT THE HOUR OF OUR DEATH.

AMEN

Prayer To The Immaculate Conception

 

O God, who by the Immaculate Conception

of the Blessed Virgin Mary, 

did prepare a worthy dwelling place for Your Son, 

we beseech You that, as by the foreseen death of this, Your Son, You did preserve Her from all stain, 

so too You would permit us, purified through Her intercession, to come unto You. 

Through the same Lord Jesus Christ, Your Son, who lives and reigns with You in the unity of the Holy Spirit, 

God, world without end. Amen 🙏 

Say this Powerful Prayer of Humility to jesus now to receive the miraculous graces in your life

LITANY OF HUMILITY

O Jesus! meek and humble of heart,
Hear me.

From the desire of being esteemed,
Deliver me, Jesus.

From the desire of being loved,
Deliver me, Jesus.

From the desire of being extolled,
Deliver me, Jesus.

From the desire of being honored,
Deliver me, Jesus.

From the desire of being praised,
Deliver me, Jesus.

From the desire of being preferred to others,
Deliver me, Jesus.

From the desire of being consulted,
Deliver me, Jesus.

From the desire of being approved,
Deliver me, Jesus.

From the fear of being humiliated,
Deliver me, Jesus.

From the fear of being despised,
Deliver me, Jesus.

From the fear of suffering rebukes,
Deliver me, Jesus.

From the fear of being calumniated,
Deliver me, Jesus.

From the fear of being forgotten,
Deliver me, Jesus.

From the fear of being ridiculed,
Deliver me, Jesus.

From the fear of being wronged,
Deliver me, Jesus.

From the fear of being suspected,
Deliver me, Jesus.

That others may be loved more than I,
Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it.

That others may be esteemed more than I,
Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it.

That, in the opinion of the world, others may increase and I may decrease,
Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it.

That others may be chosen and I set aside,
Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it.

That others may be praised and I unnoticed,
Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it.

That others may be preferred to me in everything,
Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it.

That others may become holier than I, provided that I may become as holy as I should,
Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it.

Amen.