Rosary Madonna and the Child Jesus

My prayer is for more and more people to pray the rosary. In our Lady's message to fatima she share with us the importance to pray the rosary for peace and to save souls. Mother as we celebrate the gift of life this month help us to see all the ways we can respect life each day.

Holy Mother we offer up those praying for those with cancer and for a cure for this horrible deisease.

Thank you Sweet Mother Mary for your loving grace. Please teach us how to pray the way we ought. Guide us each day to be obedient to your Son, Jesus...Amen

St. Margaret Mary

Most Sacred Heart of Jesus I Trust in you!

Prayer to Saint Margaret Mary
O Holy Visitandine, to hear your name is to recall the Sacred Heart Devotion, especially as practiced on First Fridays and in making reparation for sins. From early youth you dedicated yourself to Jesus and you exhibited fervent love for him in the Eucharist. You became his chosen vessel to spread the devotion to the Sacred heart which has done wonders in modern times. Make all of us realize ever more Christ's words: "Behold this Heart that has so greatly loved people." Amen.

12 Promises of Jesus

For those devoted to His Sacred Heart:

1. I will give them all the graces necessary for their state of life.

2. I will establish peace in their families.

3. I will console them in all their troubles.

4. They shall find in My Heart an assured refuge during life and especially at the hour of their death.

5. I will pour abundant blessings on all their undertakings.

6. Sinners shall find in My Heart the source of an infinite ocean of mercy.

7. Tepid souls shall become fervent.

8. Fervent souls shall speedily rise to great perfection.

9. I will bless the homes where an image of My Heart shall be exposed and honored.

10.I will give to priests the power of touching the most hardened hearts.

11.Those who propagate this devotion shall have their names written in My Heart, never to be effaced.

12.The all-powerful love of My Heart will grant to all those who shall receive Holy Communion on the First Friday of nine consecutive months the grace of final repentance; they shall not die under my displeasure, nor without receiving their Sacraments; My heart shall be their assured refuge at that last hour.

Feast of the Archangels St. Micahel, St. Gabriel, & St. Raphael

“The existence of the spiritual, non-corporeal beings that Sacred Scripture usually calls ‘angels’ is a truth of faith. The witness of Scripture is as clear as the unanimity of Tradition.
St. Augustine says: ‘Angel’ is the name of their office, not of their nature. If you seek the name of their nature, it is ’spirit’; if you seek the name of their office, it is ‘angel’: from what they are , ’spirit’ from what they do ‘angel.’ With their whole beings the angels are servants and messengers of God. Because they ‘always behold the face of my Father who is in heaven’ they are the ‘might ones who do his word, hearkening to the voice of his word.”
As purely spiritual creatures angels have intelligence and will: they are personal and immortal creatures, surpassing in perfection all visible creatures, as the splendor of their glory bears witness.” - Catechism of the Catholic Church 328, 329, 330

A Prayer to Saint Michael Saint Michael, Archangel, defend us in battle.Be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the Devil.May God rebuke him, we humbly pray;And do thou, O Prince of the Heavenly Host, by the power of God, thrust into hell Satan and all the other evil spirits who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls. Amen.
-- Pope Leo XIII

St Gabriel the Archangel PrayersO God, who from among all the Angels did choose the Archangel Gabriel to announce the Mystery of Thy Incarnation: mercifully grant that we who keep his feast on earth may feel the effect of his patronage in heaven. Who lives and reigns, with God the Father, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, world without end. Amen

St. Raphael the Archangel Prayer O glorious Archangel, St Raphael, great Prince of the heavenly court, illustrious for your gifts of wisdom and grace, guide of those who journey by land or sea, consoler of the afflicted, and refuge of sinners: I beg you to assist me in all my needs and in all the sufferings of this life, as once you did help the young Tobias on his travels. And because you are the 'Medicine of God,' I humbly ask you to heal the many infirmities of my soul, and the ills which afflict my body, if it be for my greater good. I especially ask of you an angelic purity, which may fit me to be the temple of the Holy Spirit. Be pleased, O Lord God, to send to our aid St Raphael the Archangel: and may he, who, we believe, stands forever before the throne of Your Majesty, offer unto You our humble petitions to be blessed by You. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.

Happy Grandparents Day!!!

Many families in the United States observe National Grandparents Day on the first Sunday of September after Labor Day.

Forget-me-not flowers not only beautiful but they also symbolize National Grandparents Day in the United States. Click here for more info

Novena for Faithful Citizenship

Calling all Catholics!

Let us join together in praying for the upcoming election! A friend of mind sent told me of this site "Faithful Citizenship". Start this novena on September 2nd. 9 weeks before the election.

Below is a Adobe Acrobat (PDF) file that you can print out to distribute for yourself, family or church members. http://www.faithfulcitizenship.org/docs/FC_Novena.pdf

Feast of the Assumption August 15th

We love you Mother!

Prayers in Honor of Our Lady's Assumption O almighty and eternal God, You assumed into heaven, body and soul, the Immaculate Virgin Mary, Mother of Your Son. Grant, through her intercession, that we may ever long for You and one day be brought to the glory of the resurrection. We ask this through Christ Our Lord. Amen. Our Father - Hail Mary - Glory be to the Father. Queen, assumed into heaven, pray for us.

"The field is the world" Comment by Pope Benedict XVI

Pope Benedict XVISacramentum caritatis, 79 (© copyright Libreria Editrice Vaticana)

"The field is the world" (Mt 13,38)

In Christ, Head of his Body, the Church, all Christians are "a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people he claims for his own, to declare his wonderful deeds" (1 Pet 2:9).
The Eucharist, as a mystery to be "lived", meets each of us as we are, and makes our concrete existence the place where we experience daily the radical newness of the Christian life. The eucharistic sacrifice nourishes and increases within us all that we have already received at Baptism, with its call to holiness, and this must be clearly evident from the way individual Christians live their lives. Day by day we become "a worship pleasing to God" by living our lives as a vocation. Beginning with the liturgical assembly, the sacrament of the Eucharist itself commits us, in our daily lives, to doing everything for God's glory.And because the world is "the field" (Mt 13:38) in which God plants his children as good seed, the Christian laity, by virtue of their Baptism and Confirmation, and strengthened by the Eucharist, are called to live out the radical newness brought by Christ wherever they find themselves. They should cultivate a desire that the Eucharist have an ever deeper effect on their daily lives, making them convincing witnesses in the workplace and in society at large.

I encourage families in particular to draw inspiration and strength from this sacrament. The love between man and woman, openness to life, and the raising of children are privileged spheres in which the Eucharist can reveal its power to transform life and give it its full meaning. The Church's pastors should unfailingly support, guide and encourage the lay faithful to live fully their vocation to holiness within this world which God so loved that he gave his Son to become its salvation (cf. Jn 3:16).