Lord Jesus Christ, who camest down from heaven to earth from the bosom of the Father, and didst share Thy Precious Blood for the remission of our sins: we humbly beseech Thee, that in the day of judgement we may deserve to hear, standing at Thy right hand: "Come, ye...
The New Years Resolutions of a Saint (Gemma Galgani)
On New Years eve, 1895-1896 Gemma writes:
"...During this new year I resolve to begin a new life. I do not know what will happen to me during this year. But I abandon myself entirely to you, my God. And...
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Eternal Father, I offer Thee the merits of the Precious Blood of Jesus, Thy well-beloved Son, my Saviour and my God, for the conversion of unbelievers, the rooting-up of all heresies, and the conversion of sinners.
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Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us.
An indulgence of 500 days.
A plenary indulgence on the usual conditions, if this invocation is devoutly repeated every day for a month (S.P. Ap., Nov. 22, 1934).
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May the Sacred Heart of Jesus be loved in every place.
An indulgence of 300 days.
(Pius IX, Rescript in his own hand, Sept. 20, 1860; S.P. Ap., March 10, 1933).
✝️ Month of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Think of the Sacred Heart as of the heart of the one who knows the ever longing of the human heart, who has felt himself every pang of the human soul,
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May 4. ST. MONICA
Born in Africa, St. Monica married a pagan, whom she converted by her virtues. Having become a widow she devoted herself to her son, Augustine, whose mind was corrupted by heresy and whose soul was steeped in sin; 1/2
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The Fatima Prayers:
"O my God, I believe, I adore, I hope and I love Thee. I ask pardon for those who do not believe, do not adore, do not hope and do not love Thee."
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July is the month of the Precious Blood of Jesus
Precious Blood,
Ocean of Divine Mercy:
Flow upon us.
Precious Blood,
Most pure Offering:
Procure us every Grace!
Precious Blood,
Hope and Refuge of sinners:
Atone for us!
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Sacred Heart of Jesus, protect our families.
An indulgence of 300 days.
A plenary indulgence once a month on the usual conditions, if this devout invocation is repeated daily (S.P. Ap., June 7, 1918 and March 2, 1932).
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Remember! Our Lady of Fatima said:
"Tell everybody that God gives graces through the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Tell them to ask graces from her, and that the Heart of Jesus wishes to be venerated together with the Immaculate Heart of Mary,
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ST. PETER OF VERONA, Martyr
Born of heretical parents, Peter became a Dominican and spent hls life working against the heretics. It is said that he never committed a grievous sin. 1/5
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Holy Virgin, Mary Immaculate, Mother of God and our Mother, speak thou for us to the Heart of Jesus, who is thy Son and our Brother!
O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee. 1/2
June is the month of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
🙏🏻 Jesus, meek and humble of heart, make my heart like unto Thy Heart.
(Roman Breviary).
An indulgence of 500 days.
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July is the Month of the Precious Blood of Jesus
"Eternal Father! I offer thee the precious blood of Jesus, in satisfaction for my sins and for the wants of holy Church.
100 days indulgence."
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Offering to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
My loving Jesus, out of the grateful love I bear Thee, and to make reparation for my unfaithfulness to grace, I give Thee my heart, and I consecrate myself wholly to Thee; and with Thy help I purpose to sin no more.
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"Mary of the Sacred Heart. That by your hands, O divine mother, we may be flooded with the favors of Jesus."
For when the grace of God cometh to a man then he is strong and powerful for all things; and when it departs then he is poor and weak, left as it were only to stripes. 1/
Aug. 15. ASSUMPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY
After years of patient waiting our Lady was reunited with her Divine Son on this day. Who can describe that first embrace of Mother and Son in heaven!
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THE ANNUNCIATION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY
How shall we ever be able to thank our Lady for pronouncing the single word "Fiat" (Be it done), the answer she sent back to heaven that she would be the Mother of the Savior? 1/3
July 2. THE VISITATION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY
The Angel Gabriel had announced to Mary that God would soon give a son to Elizabeth. The Blessed Virgin at once went to Hebron, where her cousin resided.
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August 22. THE IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY
Reflection: The Heart of Mary is the perfect image of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Therefore she is our model and patron. Only through her can we hope to have our cold hearts changed into the likenes of the Heart of Jesus.
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July 16. OUR LADY OF MOUNT CARMEL
By wearing the scapular, which is a diminutive form of the Carmelite scapular worn by the religious of Mount Carmel, we participate in all the merits of the Carmelites
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July 25. ST. JAMES, Apostle
St. James was one of the three familiar companions of our Lord. He was one of the three who witnessed the Transfiguration, the raising of Jarius, and the Agony in the Garden. He was one of the eleven Apostles who died a martyrs' death.
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July 1. MOST PRECIOUS BLOOD OF OUR LORD
In June, all our devotions were centered on the Sacred Heart. It is the Sacred Heart that makes this adorable blood circulate through the Body of our Lord.
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OUR LADY OF MT. CARMEL
O God, You who have honored the Order of Carmel with the special title of the most Blessed Mary, ever Virgin, and Your mother,
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In your kindness and charity would you please pray for Bear, as he may have had a stroke! He is headed to the hospital for further evaluation. Please, pray for him! 🙏🏻✝️🌹❤
Thank you, and may God bless you! 🙏🏻❤
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ST. BERNARD, Abbot and Doctor of the Church
O God, who gave Blessed Bernard to Your people as a minister of eternal salvation, grant, we beseech You, that we who have had him for our teacher on earth may be worthy to have him for our advocate in heaven. Amen.
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Divine Heart of Jesus, convert sinners, save the dying, set free the Holy Souls in Purgatory.
300 Days Indulgence. St. Pius X (Pius X, Rescript in his own hand, July 29, 1907, exhib. July 18, 1908).
The Raccolta
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Holy Virgin, Mary Immaculate, Mother of God and our Mother, speak thou for us to the Heart of Jesus, who is thy Son and our Brother!
O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee. 🌹 1/2
August 16. ST. JOACHIM, Confessor
How near to our Lord and His Blessed Mother St. Joachim must be in heaven, and what a sense of possession he must feel toward our Lord.
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Aug. 15. ASSUMPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY
On this festival the Church commemorates the happy departure from this life of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and her translation into the Kingdom of her Son,
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Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
Blessed Trinity Sunday ✝️
The Month of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Devotion to the Blessed Sacrament is closely coupled with devotion to the Sacred Heart, for devotion to the Sacred Heart is devotion to the love of Christ.
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It was to St. Dominic that the Blessed Virgin Mary taught the use of the Rosary. Armed with this weapon against the powers of evil St. Dominic conquered sin and heresy and converted many.
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June is the month of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
🙏🏻 Cease! The Heart of Jesus is with me: Thy kingdom come
🙏🏻 Divine Heart of Jesus inflame my heart with the divine love with which Thou burnest
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May 22. ST RITA OF CASCIA, Widow
Reflection: Let us learn from the life of St. Rita to pray frequently for the conversion of sinners. There is no prayer more pleasing to God than that which has for its object the conversion of those who lead lives of sin,
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Sweet Heart of Jesus, make me love Thee ever more and more!
300 day's indulgence each time.
May the Sacred Heart of Jesus be loved everywhere!
An indulgence of 100 days, once a day. Pope Pius IX
Month of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Let your conduct during this month be such that persons about you may be inspired to devotion to the Sacred Heart. You know His promise: "Those who spread this devotion shall have their name written in My heart, never to be effaced.
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ST. HYACINTH, Confessor
O God, You who gladden us by the annual feast of Blessed Hyacinth, Your Confessor, mercifully grant that we may imitate his example whose heavenly birthday we celebrate. Amen.
Lives of the Saints
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They shall gain great freedom of mind who, for Thy name, enter upon the narrow way and neglect all worldly care.
-- The Imitation of Christ: Book III.
🙏🏻THE TRANSFIGURATION
O God, who in the glorious Transfiguration, of Your Only-begotten Son confirmed the sacraments of the faith by the testimony of the fathers, and in the voice which came down from the shining cloud, wondrously foreshadowed the prefect adoption of sons;
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Sacred Heart of Jesus, I believe in Thy love for me.
An indulgence of 300 days (Pius X, Rescript in his own hand, July 29, 1907, exhib. July 18, 1908).
🙏🏻 The Queenship of Mary 🌹
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.
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The Month of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
This begins the month of the Sacred Heart. The devotion to the Sacred Heart is the great devotion of the age, and particularly it is a devotion for young hearts that are so open to love and to whom a disappointment means so much.
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April 11. ST. GEMMA GALGANI, Virgin
Reflection: Often say with St. Augustine: "Write, O most loving Saviour, Thy wounds upon my heart, that I may always read in them Thy pains and Thy love." The afflictions that God sends us are really mercies and...
Aug. 25. ST. LOUIS, King and Confessor
St. Louis introduced in his chapel the devout practice of genuflecting at the words in the Credo: Homo factus est. This custom was shortly after adopted by the whole Church.
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We said goodbye to our sweet and beloved son, Augustus Elliott Joubert tonight, July 20th, 2024 at 6:50 PM.
What a sweet gift. He changed our lives forever.
The Lord is good. He gave us so much time together.
July 22. ST. MARY MAGDALEN, Penitent
Mary Magdalen was a sinner. From the depths of her degradation she raised her eyes to Jesus with sorrow, hope, and love. From Jesus' own lips she heard the words of forgiveness.
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OUR LADY HELP OF CHRISTIANS
Do not allow your devotion to our Lady to assume the air of a mere fascination for school children. Let it be something that becomes a part of your life,
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ST. AUGUSTINE OF CANTERBURY
This is the apostle of England. He was sent there with 40 monks to convert the island. St. Gregory sent them, though he would have loved to go himself.
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Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us. 🙏🏻
Throw yourselves into the arms of Jesus Christ, enter into His heart, the shelter of holy souls, and the Treasury of Heaven.
(Cardinal Pierce Damian)
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July 14. ST. BONAVENTURE
Reflection: "The fear of God," says St. Bonaventure, "forbids a man to give his heart to transitory things, which are the true seeds of sin."
Lives of the Saints
Aug. 29. THE BEHEADING OF ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST
Telling the truth cost St. John his life. Flattery would have saved him. But he chose rather to tell the truth than to live ignominiously.
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ST. PIUS X, Pope and Confessor
O God, Who, in order to preserve the Catholic Faith and to restore all things in Christ, have filled Saint Pius, Your Supreme Pontiff, with heavenly wisdom and apostolic zeal;
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May 26. ST. PHILIP NERI
This interesting saint should be well known. You would enjoy reading his life; it is full of interesting anecdotes and of a wonderful interest in neglected little boys, who had no one to take any interest in them or plan fun for them.
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O God, who didst deign to communicate so great grace to Saint Rita that she imitated Thine example in the love of enemies and bore in her heart and on her countenance the sacred marks of Thy love and passion:
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August 30. ST. ROSE OF LIMA
Reflection: Rose, pure as driven snow, was filled with deepest contrition and humility, and did constant and terrible penance.
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I became the most humble and most abject of all, that thou mightest learn to overcome thy pride by My humility.
—The Imitation of Christ : Book III.
Aug. 1. ST. SOPHIA AND HER DAUGHTERS, FIDES, SPES, AND CHARITAS
St. Sophia, with her three daughters, was offered a handsome reward if she would renounce the Catholic Faith and induce her three daughters to do the same. But they all preferred death to apostasy.
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May 3. THE FINDING OF THE HOLY CROSS
At the beginning of the second century, Hadrian had discovered Calvary and the Holy Sepulchre under a terrace on which had been erected a statue of Jupiter and a temple of Venus. 1/2
July 14. ST. BONAVENTURE, Bishop, Confessor, Doctor
When St. Bonaventure heard that the Pope was about to make him a cardinal, he quietly made his escape from Italy. On his way he stopped to rest at a Franciscan convent near Florence.
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Our Lady of Humility, ora pro nobis. 🌹
And he who esteems himself the vilest of all men, and judges himself the most unworthy, is fittest to receive the greatest blessings.
— The Following of Christ, Book III.
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Why art thou afraid to take up thy cross, which leads to a kingdom?
In the cross is salvation; in the cross is life, in the cross is protection from thine enemies. 1/4
March 25. ST. DISMAS
St. Dismas is considered the patron saint of those condemned to death, of those engaged in dishonest business who would like to make restitution before they die but do not know how, of great sinners and prodigal sons, of those near despair...