MORNING PRAYER

We thank You, Almighty Father for the gift of seeing another day. We ask You Lord to bless us this day and make, this day a blessing for us. Guide us and defend us in all our ways. Keep is from every sinful act and guide us to do Your will. Make a way for us, Lord even when there is no way and may the blessing of heaven be upon our labor now and forever.
With confidence in Your divine favor o Lord, we offer up to you all our works, joys and sufferings of this day in union with You passion on the cross for the forgiveness of sins and conversion of sinner through the Holy Sacrifice of the mass throughout the world today. Amen

PRAYER FOR THE BLESSING OF ROSES

Blessing of Roses

For the Feast of Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary (October 7).

From the Dominican Breviary.

O God, Creator and Preserver of the human race, who grant us the Holy Spirit with His seven-fold gifts, and who generously bestow eternal salvation:

Sanctify, we pray, and bless these roses. We present them before You today, and seek Your blessing upon them, to express our thanks to You, and our devotion towards the blessed Ever-Virgin Mary and her Rosary.

You created these roses as a source of pleasant fragrance and gave them to us to lift our spirits. Then through the power of the holy Cross pour out upon them Your heavenly + blessing.

Signed by the holy + Cross may they receive so powerful a blessing that in the houses and hospitals where they are taken, the sick may be healed. From the places where they are kept, may the powers of evil flee in fear and terror, nor may they presume again to disturb Your servants.

We ask this through Christ our Lord.
Amen.

THE IMPORTANCE OF THE HOLY MASS

You will never want to miss attending Mass after reading this.

THE WEIGHT OF THE HOLY MASS
(From the Catholic Society of Evangelists Newsletter, August, 1999)

The following TRUE STORY was related to Sr. M. Veronica Murphy by an elderly nun who heard it from the lips of the late Reverend Father Stanislaus. 

One day many years ago, in a little town in Luxembourg , a Captain of the Forest Guards was in deep conversation with the butcher when an elderly woman entered the shop. The butcher broke off the conversation to ask the old woman what she wanted . She had come to beg for a little meat but had no money.

The Captain was amused at the woman and the butcher. “Only a little meat, but how much are you going to give her?”, he wondered.

“I am sorry I have no money, but I’ll hear Mass for you”, the woman told the butcher. Both the butcher and the Captain were indifferent about religion, so they at once began to scoff at the old woman’s idea.

“All right then”, said the butcher. “You go and hear Mass for me and when you come back I’ll give you as much as the Mass is worth”.
The woman left the shop and returned later. She approached the counter and the butcher said. “All right then we’ll see.”

He took a slip of paper and wrote on it ‘I heard a Mass for you.’
He placed the paper on the scales and a tiny bone on the other side, but nothing happened.
Next he placed a piece of meat instead of the bone, but still the paper proved heavier.

Both men were beginning to feel ashamed of their mockery but continued their game. A large piece of meat was placed on the balance, but still the paper held its own. The butcher, exasperated , examined the scales but found they were alright.

“What do you want my good woman? Must I give you a whole leg of mutton?” At this he placed the leg of mutton on the balance, but the paper outweighed the meat. A larger piece of meat was put on, but again the weight remained on the side of the paper. This so impressed the butcher that he was converted and promised to give the woman her daily ration of meat.

As for the Captain, he left the shop a changed man and became an ardent lover of daily Mass. Two of his sons became priests, one a Jesuit and the other a Father of the Sacred Heart.

Father Stanislaus finished the story by saying, “I am from the Religious of the Sacred Heart and the Captain was my father.”

>From this incident the Captain became a daily Mass attendant and his children were trained to follow his example.

Later, when his sons became priests, he advised them to say Mass well every day and never miss the Sacrifice of the Mass through any fault of their own.
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MIRACULOUS NOVENA REQUEST TO OUR LADY

(This Novena Honors the nine months during which Our Lady carried Our Blessed Lord in her womb.)

“Hail, Holy Queen,
Mother of Mercy,
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 towards us;
and after this our exile,
show unto us the blessed fruit of thy womb Jesus.
O clement, O loving,
O sweet Virgin Mary.

Amen.”

V – Pray for us, most holy mother of God.
R – That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.

“Virgin of the Incarnation,
a thousand times we greet thee,
a thousand times we praise thee
for thy joy when God was incarnated in thee.
Because thou art so powerful
a Virgin and Mother of God,
grant what we ask of thee for the love of God.”

Here state your first intention.

Repeat all of above
and then state your second intention.

Repeat all of above
and then state your third intention.

CONCLUSION:

After the above prayers and intentions,
say the Memorare.

Remember, O most Gracious Virgin Mary,
that never was it known
that anyone who fled to thy protection,
implored thy help
or sought thy intercession was left unaided.
Inspired by this confidence,
I fly unto thee,
O Virgin of Virgins,
my mother.
To thee do I cry,
before thee I stand,
sinful and sorrowful.
Mother of the Word Incarnate,
despise not my petitions,
but in thy mercy hear and answer me.

Amen.

Hail Mary full of Grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed are 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.

Blessed and praised be
the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar,
in Heaven, on earth and everywhere.

Amen

PRAYER TO GUARDIAN ANGEL TO ATTEND MASS IN YOUR BEHALF

If for a good reason, you are unable to attend Mass, you can send your Guardian Angel to attend Mass on your behalf and enable you get the grace. The Church has always had a prayer for that:

Send Your Guardian Angel to Holy Mass:

O holy Angel at my side, Go to Church for me. Kneel in my place at Holy Mass where I desire to be. At offertory, in my stead. Take all I am and own. And place it as a sacrifice upon the altar throne. At holy consecration’s bell, adore with Seraph’s love My Jesus hidden in the Host come down from heaven above. Then pray for those I dearly love, and those who cause me grief. That Jesus’ Blood may cleanse all hearts and suffering souls relieve. And when the priest Communion takes, Oh, bring my Lord to me. That His sweet Heart may rest on mine. And I His Temple be. Pray that this Sacrifice Divine may mankind’s sins efface. Then bring me Jesus’ blessing home, the pledge of every grace. Amen. Angel of God, my Guardian dear, to whom Gods love commits us here, ever this day/night, be at my side, to light guard, to rule and guide. Amen.

WHY PRAY THE NOVENAS

Catholics are often criticized for reciting formalized prayers.  The thought is that in doing so, we are “babbling like the pagans,” which is precisely what Jesus warns against in Matthew 6.  Vain repetition gets you nowhere in prayer, because prayer is about coming into relationship with God.

Yet Scripture shows us that there is a place for formalized prayer in the life of the Christian.  Jesus taught his disciples a specific formal prayer in the Our Father.  Even Jesus Himself—a Jew—recited the Psalms from memory as prayers offered to God the Father.

I bring this up because recently my family and I began a novena.  And I’m noticing in my own prayer life a growing love for praying novenas.  Of course, things like rosaries and novenas are not supposed to take the place of personal prayers to God, but I’ve been finding that reciting these prayers with a proper disposition does not harm my relationship with God but actually enriches my prayer life and draws me closer to Jesus.

For those that are unfamiliar, a novena is a specific prayer or series of prayers recited for nine straight days (usually.  The term “novena” comes from the Latin novem, which means “nine.”   Nine days is significant because the Apostles and the Blessed Virgin Mary spent nine days in prayer between Easter and Pentecost.  But the term has also come to be used to describe any lengthy consecutive period of prayer).

A novena is most often recited for a specific intention as a prayer of petition.  For example, I prayed the Souls In Purgatory Novena in 1996 for the intention of getting pregnant, if that be God’s will (of course it’s somewhat unnecessary to add the ‘if it be God’s will’ part, but I always do as a reminder to myself that I want Him to be the one in charge! My prayer was answered after a month I got pregnant).  Novenas can also be offered as prayers of thanksgiving.

Of course, novenas are not supposed to be superstitious, and Catholics do have to be on guard against treating them so.  There’s no magic formula to transform God’s will into mine.  On the contrary—prayer is about uniting OUR will to HIS.  But I think novenas can help us do just that.  As King David writes in Psalm 51:

For you do not desire sacrifice, or I would give it;
a burnt offering you would not accept.
My sacrifice, O God, is a contrite spirit;
a contrite, humbled heart, O God, you will not scorn
Treat Zion kindly according to your good will;
build up the walls of Jerusalem.
Then you will desire the sacrifices of the just,
burnt offering and whole offerings;
then they will offer up young bulls on your altar.

What is the Psalmist talking about?  Any reader of the Old Testament knows that God did, in fact, require sacrifice quite often as atonement for sin.  So why is the Psalmist saying that God does not desire sacrifice?

Because He doesn’t—not for sacrifice’s sake, anyway.  God didn’t require animal sacrifice because he needed to see blood in order to forgive us.  He required it to show us the reality of sin—and it’s ugly.  You’re not supposed to want to do it.  Sin is supposed to break your spirit.  God wants real contrition, not mere formula.

So what does this have to do with a novena?  Like offering sacrifice, reciting a prayer does nothing if our hearts aren’t in it.  Reciting a formalized prayer doesn’t remind God of what we need—He already knows!  But it sure can help us.  Meditating on a specific prayer for nine (or however many) days sure can dispose our hearts to receive the graces that God wants to give us.

The current novena I am praying has me praying the following words three times each day: “Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place all my trust in you.”

As a result— for me anyway— those words have become truer today than they were on day one.

SAINT PADRE PIO PRAYER

ST. PADRE PIO’S “SECRET WEAPON” THAT RESULTED TO MULTIPLES OF MIRACLES

When someone asks you to pray for them, why not pray with “Padre Pio Power”? The prayer below (written by St. Margaret Mary Alacoque) was the one Padre Pio would use when people asked him to pray for them. Padre Pio has tens of thousands of miracles associated with him, including the healing of a very good friend of Pope John Paul II.

When you use this prayer, keep in mind this type of petition is for specific needs such as gainful employment, healing from an illness, etc. Due to our limited view and God’s eternal view, it is important to always trust that He knows far better what is really needed in these situations. Be open to seeing how sometimes He answers our specific prayers in a way that does not always match exactly with what we asked. When looking back on these petitions, see how His way is better.

Padre Pio’s Sacred Heart Novena Prayer

O my Jesus, You have said: “Truly I say to you, ask and you will receive, seek and you will find, knock and it will be opened to you.” Behold I knock, I seek and ask for the grace of (here name your request). Our Father … Hail Mary … Glory Be … Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place all my trust in You.

O my Jesus, You have said: “Truly I say to you, if you ask anything of the Father in My name, He will give it to you.” Behold, in Your name, I ask the Father for the grace of (here name your request). Our Father … Hail Mary … Glory Be … Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place all my trust in You.

O my Jesus, You have said: “Truly I say to you, heaven and earth will pass away but My words will not pass away.” Encouraged by Your infallible words I now ask for the grace of (here name your request). Our Father … Hail Mary … Glory Be … Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place all my trust in You.

O Sacred Heart of Jesus, for whom it is impossible not to have compassion on the afflicted, have pity on us miserable sinners and grant us the grace which we ask of You, through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, Your tender Mother and ours.

Say the Hail, Holy Queen(see prayer below) and add: “St. Joseph, foster father of Jesus, pray for us.”

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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.

Hail Mary

Hail Mary full of Grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed are 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.

Glory Be

Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

Hail Holy Queen

Hail, holy Queen, Mother of mercy, 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!
Amen.

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POWERFUL PRAYER FOR FINANCIAL BLESSING

Heavenly Father,
I Come before you today to ask for
a financial blessing to improve my life.

My faith keeps me strong,
and I know you will provide for me
and the people I love.

I do not seek a large sum of money.
I do not trouble you for unneeded comforts
or luxury. I only ask for enough money
to relieve my financial woes and ease this stress.

Give me the means to do your work,
and spread your Love. I have so much
to give if only I were allowed the chance.

In the Name of Jesus Christ your Son, I pray.

Amen