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Monday, April 15, 2024
EVENING PRAYER
Tuesday, March 12, 2024
NOVENA FOR IMPOSSIBLE REQUESTS
PRAYER TO SAINT JOSEPHFOR A SPECIAL INTENTION
Monday, January 29, 2024
PRAYER TO THE IMMACULATE VIRGIN MARY - OUR LADY OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION
Wednesday, January 24, 2024
PRAYER TO MARY, MOTHER OF PERPETUAL HELP
Thursday, October 26, 2023
Saint Michael Prayer
Michael, as you point out, was never a human being. Like the other angels, he was created by God as a pure spirit — with intellect and will, but no physical body. The word “saint,” though, is derived from the Latin meaning “one who is holy,” and the holiness of Michael has long been recognized by the church.
Michael the Archangel, whom the faithful have long looked to for protection in times of peril. The patron of the military and police forces, St. Michael is a fierce warrior and defender of the children of God.
Times when we struggle to find the words asking for God's help. Turn to St. Michael whenever going through a “battle” of your own. Ask him to intercede on your behalf and protect you.
The sword and shield are used today to represent a cutting of cords or energies that no longer serve and protecting us from harm. Michael can help in healing and repairing our energies where trauma, grief, past lives or karmic debts are holding us back from our true potential in this life.
St. Michael promised that whoever would practice this devotion in his honor would have, when approaching Holy Communion, an escort of nine angels chosen from each of the nine Choirs.
Tuesday, September 5, 2023
Apostles Creed
ABOUT THE APOSTLES CREED
The Apostles' Creed is one of the most ancient and widely recognized statements of Christian faith in the Catholic tradition. It serves as a concise summary of the core beliefs held by Catholics and many other Christian denominations. This prayer is named after the apostles, as it is believed to reflect the essential teachings they handed down to the early Christian community."I believe in God, the Father Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth. I believe in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried; He descended to the dead. On the third day He rose again; He ascended into heaven, He is seated at the right hand of the Father, and He will come to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen."
This prayer is a declaration of faith, emphasizing key aspects of Catholic belief:
Belief in the Triune God: It begins with a declaration of faith in the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—the three persons of the Holy Trinity.
The Incarnation: It affirms the belief that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, took on human form through the Virgin Mary and suffered for the salvation of humanity.
The Crucifixion and Resurrection: It acknowledges Christ's crucifixion, death, and burial, followed by His resurrection on the third day, which is central to Christian salvation.
The Ascension and Second Coming: It highlights Christ's ascension to heaven and His future role as the judge of the living and the dead.
Belief in the Holy Spirit: It affirms faith in the Holy Spirit, who guides and empowers believers in their Christian journey.
The Church and Communion of Saints: It acknowledges the importance of the universal Christian Church and the unity of all believers, both living and deceased.
Forgiveness of Sins: It underscores the belief in the forgiveness of sins through faith in Christ.
Resurrection and Eternal Life: It expresses the hope in the resurrection of the body and eternal life with God.
The Apostles' Creed is often recited in Catholic liturgical settings, such as during Mass, and is a fundamental expression of Catholic doctrine and belief, serving as a unifying statement of faith for Catholic Christians worldwide.
Monday, August 7, 2023
PRAYER TO THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY
Saturday, July 15, 2023
BLESSING OF THE MEDAL OF SAINT BENEDICT
Wednesday, July 5, 2023
PRAYER TO THE HOLY FAMILY FOR BLESSINGS
DEAR LORD, bless our family. Be so kind as to give us the Unity, Peace, and mutual Love that You found in Your own Family in the little town of Nazareth. SAINT JOSEPH, bless the head of our family. Obtain for him the strength, the wisdom, and the prudence he needs to support and direct those under his care. BLESSED VIRGIN MARY, bless the mother of our family. Help her to be pure and kind, gentle and self-sacrificing. For the more she resembles you, the better will our family be. LORD JESUS CHRIST, bless the children of our family. Help them to be obedient and devoted to their parents. Make them more and more like You. Let them grow, as You did, in wisdom and age and grace before God and man. HOLY FAMILY OF NAZARETH, make our family and home more and more like Yours, until we are all one family, happy and at peace in our true home with You. AMEN.
Thursday, June 29, 2023
Hail Mary
Blessed are thou amongst 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.
Hail Mary, also known as the Ave Maria, is a well-known and cherished prayer in the Christian tradition. It is a reverent invocation to the Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus, and holds a special place in the hearts of millions of believers worldwide.
The Hail Mary begins with the words "Hail Mary, full of grace," acknowledging Mary's divine favor and her unique role in God's plan for salvation. It continues with the phrase "the Lord is with thee," recognizing her close relationship with God and her chosen status as the mother of Jesus, who is often referred to as the Lord.
The prayer then reaches out to Mary, stating, "Blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus." This acknowledges Mary's exceptional blessedness and the significance of Jesus, her divine son, who is revered as the Savior of humanity.
Finally, the Hail Mary concludes with a humble plea for Mary's intercession: "Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death." In this part, the faithful implore Mary to pray for them, seeking her guidance, protection, and assistance in their spiritual journey and in their ultimate encounter with death.
The Hail Mary is a profound expression of devotion to Mary and a reminder of her important role in the Christian faith. It serves as a source of comfort, inspiration, and a means of seeking her intercession in times of need.
Wednesday, June 7, 2023
PRAYER FOR A SAFE TRAVEL
Here's a Catholic prayer to the Sacred Heart of Jesus for a safe travel:
Prayer to the Sacred Heart of Jesus for a Safe Travel
O Sacred Heart of Jesus, loving and compassionate Savior, We come before You with grateful hearts, seeking Your divine protection and guidance as we embark on a journey. You are the source of all goodness and mercy, and we place our trust in Your loving care.
Bless our travel, dear Lord, and watch over us every step of the way. Guide our paths and keep us safe from all harm and danger. Be our shield against accidents, obstacles, and unforeseen difficulties. Grant us clear roads, favorable weather, and smooth transportation.
Sacred Heart of Jesus, You who calmed the storm and walked on water, Extend Your loving hand to us, and let Your peace fill our hearts. Guard us against anxiety and fear, and grant us a peaceful and joyful journey. May Your presence be with us, comforting and strengthening us in times of weariness.
We entrust ourselves to Your divine protection, dear Jesus, and we offer this prayer with confidence in Your infinite mercy. Wrap us in Your loving embrace, and bring us safely to our destination. And when we reach our journey's end, may we give thanks for Your guidance and rejoice in Your loving care.
We make this prayer through the intercession of our Blessed Mother Mary, the angels, and all the saints, who watch over us from heaven.
Sacred Heart of Jesus, we trust in You. Amen.
Saturday, May 27, 2023
Entrust Yourself To Mary By Saying This Prayer Daily
I, ________, a repentant sinner, renew and ratify today in your hands, O Immaculate Mother, the vows of my Baptism. I renounce Satan and resolve to follow Jesus Christ even more closely than before. Mary, I give you my heart. Please set it on fire with love for Jesus. Make it always attentive to his burning thirst for love and for souls. Keep my heart in your most pure Heart that I may love Jesus and the members of his Body with your own perfect love. Mary, I entrust myself totally to you: my body and soul, my goods, both interior and exterior, and even the value of all my good actions. Please make of me, of all that I am and have, whatever most pleases you. Let me be a fit instrument in your immaculate and merciful hands for bringing the greatest possible glory to God. If I fall, please lead me back to Jesus. Wash me in the blood and water that flow from his pierced side, and help me never to lose my trust in this fountain of love and mercy. With you, O Immaculate Mother — you who always do the will of God — I unite myself to the perfect consecration of Jesus as he offers himself in the Spirit to the Father for the life of the world. Amen.
Wednesday, May 24, 2023
PRAYER FOR UNION WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT
Heavenly Father,
I come before You with a humble heart, longing for a deeper and more intimate union with the Holy Spirit. I recognize that it is only through the power and presence of the Holy Spirit that I can truly experience Your love, guidance, and transformation in my life. I desire to be filled with Your Spirit and to walk in step with Him each day.
Holy Spirit, I invite You into my life. I open my heart and surrender myself to Your leading. I acknowledge that You are the third person of the Holy Trinity, co-equal with the Father and the Son, and that You are the one who empowers, convicts, and comforts. I ask You to reveal Yourself to me in a new and profound way.
Please cleanse me of any sin, any hindrance, or any barrier that separates me from experiencing Your fullness. Fill me with Your wisdom, understanding, and knowledge. Help me to discern Your voice amidst the noise of the world. Guide me in all truth, illuminating the Scriptures and showing me the way to walk in righteousness.
I long for Your gifts and fruits to manifest in my life. Grant me the gift of faith, that I may trust You completely and step out boldly in obedience. Fill me with Your love, that I may extend grace and compassion to others. Give me the gift of discernment, that I may recognize the leading of Your Spirit and distinguish between truth and falsehood. Let Your peace, joy, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control overflow in my heart and be evident in my actions.
Holy Spirit, I invite You to have full control over my life. Take every area of my being and conform me to the image of Christ. Help me to die to self and to live for You. Empower me to be a vessel of Your love and an instrument of Your glory.
I thank You, Holy Spirit, for Your presence in my life. May I never take it for granted. I yield myself to Your work, and I trust that You will continue to transform me into the person You have called me to be. I pray for a deeper communion with You, a deeper understanding of Your ways, and a deeper intimacy in our relationship.
In Jesus' name, I pray. Amen.
Friday, April 21, 2023
Marian Prayer of Saint Alphonsus Ligouri
SHELTER ME UNDER YOUR MANTLE
Saturday, April 8, 2023
HOW TO PRAY THE DIVINE MERCY CHAPLET
The Divine Mercy Chaplet is a popular Catholic prayer that is especially meaningful around Easter.
The Divine Mercy Chaplet has its roots in 20th century Poland, when Jesus appeared to St. Maria Faustina Kowalska, a Polish nun.
The Divine Mercy Chaplet can be prayed with traditional Rosary beads, though to do so isn’t necessary. The Chaplet only takes a few minutes, and thousands of Catholics around the world pray it every day to ask for God’s mercy.
The period of time from Good Friday to Divine Mercy Sunday (the first Sunday following Easter) is when many Catholics will pray the Divine Mercy Chaplet.
"Where, if not in the Divine Mercy, can the world find refuge and the light of hope?" -Pope Saint John Paul II
The Divine Mercy Chaplet, also known as the Chaplet of The Divine Mercy, is a powerful prayer in which we ask for God’s mercy.
The Origin of the Chaplet
In the 1930s, Jesus appeared to St. Faustina Kowalska, a humble and kind Polish nun, and revealed to her the depths of His mercy. St. Faustina entered the Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy in 1925, but she passed away just thirteen years later from tuberculosis in 1938. Throughout her life of holiness, she continually received revelations from Jesus and diligently wrote down what He told her in her diary. St. Faustina was canonized by St. (Pope) John Paul II on April 30, 2000.
In 1935, an angel appeared to St. Faustina, and she heard the call to pray for mercy. The next day, Christ appeared and urged her to pray the Chaplet herself and with others at the hour of death. She wrote down this revelation in her diary:
"Encourage souls to say the Chaplet which I have given you. Whoever will recite it will receive great mercy at the hour of death. When they say this Chaplet in the presence of the dying, I will stand between My Father and the dying person, not as the just Judge but as the Merciful Savior. Priests will recommend it to sinners as their last hope of salvation. Even if there were a sinner most hardened, if he were to recite this Chaplet only once, he would receive grace from My infinite mercy. I desire to grant unimaginable graces to those souls who trust in My mercy. Through the Chaplet you will obtain everything, if what you ask for is compatible with My will."
-St. Faustina’s Diary
We pray the Divine Mercy Chaplet for mercy — in our own lives and in our neighbors, too. And we also pray to remind ourselves that we must rely on God; we must recognize our weakness and replace our anxieties and worries with abounding trust in God. We pray so that we might honestly live out the words “Jesus, I trust in You.”
Those who sincerely say ‘Jesus, I trust in You’ will find comfort in all their anxieties and fears … There is nothing more man needs than Divine Mercy – that love which is benevolent, which is compassionate, which raises man above his weakness to the infinite heights to the holiness of God.Saint (Pope) John Paul II (Krakow, Poland – June 7, 1997)
You can pray the Chaplet at any time, but here are three times that are especially impactful when praying for God’s mercy:
After Mass
The Divine Mercy is an intercessory prayer that extends the offering of the Eucharist, so it is especially appropriate to use it after receiving Holy Communion at Mass.
The Chaplet may be prayed at any time, but our Lord specifically told St. Faustina to recite it as a novena during the nine days before the Feast of Mercy (the first Sunday after Easter). He then added: “By this Novena, [of Chaplets] I will grant every possible grace to souls.” (St. Faustina’s Diary, 796)
3:00 p.m. is known as the “hour of great mercy” in remembrance of Christ’s death on the cross at 3:00 p.m. on Good Friday. Similarly, people often pray the Stations of the Cross at this time.
Time needed: 20 minutes.
Using regular Rosary beads (or your ten fingers), follow this structure:Begin with the sign of the cross.
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Prepare your heart and mind.
You expired, Jesus, but the source of life gushed forth for souls, and the ocean of mercy opened up for the whole world. O Fount of Life, unfathomable Divine Mercy, envelop the whole world and empty Yourself out upon us.
Pray the prayer of St. Faustina.
On each of the three small beads, pray:
O Blood and Water, which gushed forth from the Heart of Jesus as a fount of mercy for us, I trust in You! (x3)
Pray an Our Father.
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.
Pray a Hail Mary.
Hail Mary, full of grace. The Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou amongst 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.
Pray the Apostle’s Creed.
I believe in God, the Father almighty, Creator of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died and was buried; He descended into hell; on the third day He rose again from the dead; He ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right hand of God the Father almighty; from there He will come to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and life everlasting. Amen.
First decade
On the first large bead: in the traditional Rosary prayer, we say the Our Father for each large bead. In the Divine Mercy Chaplet, we pray the following:
Eternal Father, I offer you the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of Your Dearly Beloved Son, Our Lord, Jesus Christ, in atonement for our sins and those of the whole world.
On the ten small beads: In a traditional Rosary prayer, we pray the Hail Mary on each small bead. In the Divine Mercy Chaplet, we pray the following:
For the sake of His sorrowful Passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world. (x10)
Repeat this pattern four times.
For each decade: begin with the “Eternal Father” prayer, and then pray, “For the sake” ten times.
After five decades, pray for mercy.
Repeat the following prayer three times:
Holy God, Holy Mighty One, Holy Immortal One, have mercy on us and on the whole world. (x3)
Close your time in prayer.
Let us pray: Eternal God, in whom mercy is endless and the treasury of compassion — inexhaustible, look kindly upon us and increase Your mercy in us, that in difficult moments we might not despair nor become despondent, but with great confidence submit ourselves to Your holy will, which is Love and Mercy itself.
Conclude with the sign of the cross.
In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, Amen.
Reflection
Devotion to God’s Divine Mercy bears some resemblance to devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. In both cases, sinners are encouraged not to despair, not to doubt God’s willingness to forgive them if they repent. As Psalm 136 says in each of its 26 verses, “God’s love [mercy] endures forever.”
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