Posts Tagged ‘mary’

This is another message from Linda’s Schubert’s prayer group. I can see this happening as I interact with different prayer groups online and in programs that are developing like Society for Return to Honor. Thank you God for hearing us and answering our prayers… I know you are doing bigger and greater things then I can even imagine. Glory to the Father, Son and Holy Spirit…

Frank: The new Pentecost will be different because it will be man’s heart crying out for the Lord, in repentance, from a repentant group crying out for God, thirsting for him.  It will start with man’s heart converting.  Place the watchmen in their place right now, so my church will hear one voice, the Lamb of God. They will be repentant.  Believe only in what is not seen, to walk in faith.  Do not trust in everything we see, or in grandstanding.  Believe only in Jesus.  Know him; know his word.  Watchmen go to your posts, listen, be attentive, listen to your church, attend to your ! role, you know what it is.  Be good servants.  Your role will be splendor; others will rise up and be your prayer warrior, your guard.  The Lord is raising up a royal army.  He says, “I am plugging every hole in the wall.  My blood will cover the whole church, align your heart with Mary”

When asked… how do we dedicate to Mary?

St John Berchmans replied in the following remarkable words:

‘Any devotion, however small, provided it is constants.’

These words came from this holy young man as he was dying and his friends had asked him to tell them what devotion they could perform which would be most agreeable to our Blessed Lady.

And in these words, St.  Alphonsus di Liguori explains that the Hail Mary is the most pleasing to Our Lady…

“This angelical salutation is most pleasing to the ever-blessed Virgin; for, whenever she hears it, it would seem as if the joy which she experienced when St. Gabriel announced to her that she was the chosen Mother of God, was renewed in her; and with this object in view, we should often salute her with the Hail Mary.”

St. Louis de Montfort said,

“We must choose among all the devotions to the Blessed Virgin the one which will lead us more surely to dying to self.”

I give this resolution to the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Thanks be to God for graces received.

PRAYER TO HEAL OUR LAND

Lord, who are we as a people, having been given blessings
in portions as no other nation before us? What has become of us, Father? We have spoiled your spacious skies with buildings and cities breathing with sin. The amber waves of grain are no longer viewed as our blessing but as our due. The awe and reverence due You when we gaze upon the purple mountains and their majesty is no longer held; rather, how much pleasure they can give us.
Father, we have spurned You. We’ve blamed our problems on those who promote darkness, but You gave us time with Your Mother. Now our eyes have been opened by Her. Our lack of holiness, our not being light has allowed darkness to prevail. Indeed, our sins which we wrongly view as small have allowed those in darkness to commit great sins without shame. We now realize it’s because of our failings as Christians. Father, Samuel told your people, “It is true you have committed all this evil, still you must not turn from the Lord, but worship Him with your whole heart. For the sake of His own great name, the Lord will not abandon his own people.” Father, we come before You with our whole hearts and ask You to grant Our Lady Her intentions. Mary, we do not deserve to even be heard, yet we know Your Son’s passion merits that we are. Mary, we call You as You have called us. Please, intercede before God to forgive us, to heal us, to heal our families, and to heal our nation. Father, grant Mary’s intentions and hear Her pleas for us. We
know you are justly irritated with us but we beg and plead for forgiveness through our repentance from our hearts. We realize our nation is headed toward disaster by so many signs You have given us. Holy, Holy, Holy God, grant Mary Her requests that we may again be your people, not a nation above God but one nation humbled and under God. Amen

You will find  hope  when you read this message and pray the rosary for our country…

You can find this prayer as well as the Patriotic Rosary at…

http://www.medjugorje.com/medjugorje-america/patriotic-rosary.html#

Today is the Feast of the Immaculate Conception and here is a commentary from Saint John Damascene (c.675-749), monk, theologian, Doctor of the Church… Homily for the Nativity of the Virgin.

Today the Creator of all things, the Word who is God, has composed a new work sprung from the Father’s heart, to be written as by a pen by the Spirit who is God’s tongue… Most holy daughter of Joachim and Anne! you who have evaded the attention of the Principalities and Powers and the «flaming arrows of the Evil One» (Col 1,16; Ep 6,16), you dwelt within the bridal chamber of the Spirit and were preserved undefiled so that you might become the bride of God and God’s Mother by nature… God’s beloved daughter, the credit of your parents, generation after generation calls you blessed as you yourself so truthfully affirmed (Lk 1,48). Worthy daughter of God, our human nature’s beauty, restoration of Eve our first mother! For with your birth she who fell was raised… For if, through the first Eve, «death entered the world» (Wis 2,24; Rom 5,12) because she put herself at the service of the serpent, yet Mary, who made herself servant of the divine will, deceived the deceiving serpent and brought immortality into the world.

You are more to be valued than the entire creation for from you alone the Creator received a share in the firstfruits of our humanity. His flesh was made of your flesh, his blood of your blood; God was nourished by your milk and your lips kissed the lips of God… In his foreknowledge of your dignity the God of all the world has loved you and, in accordance with his love for you, he predestined you and called you into being «in the final time» (1Pt 1,20; Heb 1,2)…

So let wise Solomon shut his mouth and say no more: «Nothing is new under the sun» (Eccl 1,9).

We are now into the 10th day of Advent… time is speeding by so fast. Our Lord is calling us now… we don’t have to wait until Christmas to answer him… we can say YES now.

May we recognize God’s call in the busy whirlwind of these days,

Elizabeth

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