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Nov 18
Gospel Reading for Nov. 18, 2016 with Divine Will Truths – Thieves of the Human Will
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Nov 18
A Triduum Prayer for the Feast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Novena for the Feast of the Presentation of Mary
taken from: http://jsha2415.blogspot.com/2015/11/novena-for-feast-of-presentation-of-mary.html
The following novena should begin on November 12 to finish on the eve of the feast of the Presentation of Mary, November 21.
Instead of a novena, you can pray a Triduum before the feast day on Monday. Friday, Saturday and Sunday
Novena for the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
+ Gracious and lovable art thou in thy splendor, O holy Mother of God! Show me thy countenance. Let thy words sound in my ears, for thy voice is sweet and thy countenance is beautiful. Turn to us in thy beauty and loveliness! Come forth in majesty and reign! Hail Mary…
+ O blessed Mother of God, Mary ever Virgin, Temple of the Lord, sanctuary of the Holy Ghost, thou alone, without an equal, hast pleased our Lord Jesus Christ! Hail Mary…
+ Blessed indeed art thou, O holy Virgin Mary, and most worthy of all praise, for from thee arose the Sun of Justice, Christ our Lord. Draw us, O Immaculate Virgin; we shall come after thee, breathing the sweet fragrance of thy virtues! Hail Mary…
[Here state your petition.]
+ 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 to do I come; before thee I stand, sinful and sorrowful. O Mother of the Word Incarnate, despise not my petitions, but in thy mercy, hear and answer me. Amen.
++St. Bernard so beautifully spoke of our Lady, saying, “De Maria numquam satis.”(“Concerning Mary, never enough.”) With these words in mind, may we continually strive to honor and love Our Lady, singing her praises, praying her Rosary, wearing her scapular, and thanking her for all she has done and continually does for us.
Holy Mother Church celebrates the Feast of the Presentation of Mary on November 21. The three feasts, the Birthday of our Lady (September 8), the Holy Name of Mary (September 12), and the Presentation of Mary (November 21), correspond in the Marian feast day cycle with the similar feasts of Our Lord: Christmas, the Holy Name of Jesus, and the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple (February 2).
+++Tradition holds that Sts. Joachim and Anne, Mary’s parents, vowed to consecrate Mary to the service of God at the Temple in thanksgiving for being blessed with a child. Thus when Mary was three years old, they presented her at the Temple to the High Priest. The High Priest receiving the child, kissed and blessed her, recognizing that God had great plans for Mary. Then he placed her on the step once again. Mary did not turn back to her parents or weep for them. Rather she came with joy to the Temple; Sts. Joachim and Anne returned home, praising God for their blessed child, and Mary remained in the Temple until she became betrothed to St. Joseph. During these years she continued to grow in holiness, spending her time reading Scriptures, praying and loving our Lord, and joyfully serving the priests of the Temples.
This feast of Our Lady exemplifies Mary’s constant willingness to dedicate her life to God in all things, as she once again illustrated during the Annunciation. The feast of the Presentation of Mary also illuminates Mary as the New Temple and the Ark of the Covenant, in whom our Savior would dwell. In a homily concerning the Presentation of Mary, St. Germanus exalted the Blessed Mother, saying,
“Hail, holy throne of God, divine sanctuary, house of glory, jewel most fair, chosen treasure house, and mercy seat for the whole world, heaven showing forth the glory of God. Purest Virgin, worthy of all praise, sanctuary dedicated to God and raised above all human condition, virgin soil, unplowed field, flourishing vine, fountain pouring out waters, virgin bearing a child, mother without knowing man, hidden treasure of innocence, ornament of sanctity, by your most acceptable prayers, strong with the authority of motherhood, to our Lord and God, Creator of all, your Son who was born of you without a father, steer the ship of the Church and bring it to a quiet harbor.”
On this feast of our Blessed Mother, let us ponder our willingness to serve God in whatever He asks of us, to always respond with a joyful “yes,” as did our Lady. To accomplish this great task, may we look to our Heavenly Queen and Mother, imploring her to pray for us, intercede for us, and lead us along the path God has chosen in order to better love and serve Him.
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FIAT!
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Nov 18
Dedication of the Human Race to Jesus Christ the King – Plenary Indulgence
A partial indulgence is granted to the faithful, who piously recite the Act of Dedication of the Human Race to Jesus Christ King. A plenary indulgence is granted, if it is recited publicly on the feast of our Lord Jesus Christ King. (Nov. 20, 2016) THIS SUNDAY! DON’T FORGET!
Prayer:
Most sweet Jesus, Redeemer of the human race, look down upon us humbly prostrate before you. We are yours, and yours we wish to be; but to be more surely united with you, behold each one of us freely consecrates himself today to your Most Sacred Heart. Many indeed have never known you; many, too, despising your precepts, have rejected you. Have mercy on them all, most merciful Jesus, and draw them to your Sacred Heart. Be King, O Lord, not only of the faithful who have never forsaken you, but also of the prodigal children who have abandoned you; grant that they may quickly return to their Father’s house, lest they die of wretchedness and hunger. Be King of those who are deceived by erroneous opinions, or whom discord keeps aloof, and call them back to the harbor of truth and the unity of faith, so that soon there may be but one flock and one Shepherd. Grant, O Lord, to your Church assurance of freedom and immunity from harm; give tranquility of order to all nations; make the earth resound from pole to pole with one cry: Praise to the divine Heart that wrought our salvation; to it be glory and honor for ever. Amen.
Prayer Source: Enchiridion of Indulgences , June 29, 1968
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Nov 17
Gospel Reading for Nov. 17, 2016 with Divine Will Truths – Jesus Visits Man
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Nov 16
Gospel Reading for Nov. 16, 2016 with Divine Will Truths – He Who has Much, More Will be Given
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Nov 15
When all is Darkness
O Christ Jesus, when all is darkness
And we feel our weakness and helplessness, give us the sense of Your Presence, Your Love, and Your Strength.
Help us to have perfect trust in Your Protecting Love and Strengthening Power, so that nothing may frighten or worry us, for, living close to You, we shall see Your Hand, Your Purpose, Your Will through all things.
~ Saint Ignatius of Loyola ~
October 16, 1923
“…The only thing left to me is His Lovable Will, in which I abandon myself and I find my rest in the thick darkness that surrounds me…”
~ Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta ~
FIAT!
AMEN
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Nov 15
Gospel Reading for Nov. 15, 2016 with Divine Will Truths – Saved Man and the Kingdom of Divine Will
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Nov 14
Gospel Reading for Nov. 14, 2016 with Divine Will Truths – Your Faith has Saved You
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Nov 13
XXXIII Sunday in Ordinary Time
XXXIII Sunday in Ordinary Time
My good is to be close to God, to put my hope in Him
11/11/2016
Dear brothers and sisters, Fiat!
The readings of the liturgy put us in front of a reality from which we often divert our attention away, by refusing to focus on it, a reality that is clear and certain but from which we escape at the same time. This is the undoubted fact of the finiteness of our lives and of human achievements
Today, the Gospel of Luke begins by presenting us the disciples intent to admire the solidity and beauty of the walls of the Temple of Jerusalem, the mighty and magnificent monument. Before this admiration Jesus notes that those stones are not eternal and despite they could seem unshakable at that time, they would have encountered their downfall. And in fact, history teaches us that, after less than fifty years, that really happened.
However, men have always tried to deny their transience, entrusting to a certain realization the aim of making their existence durable. A way to escape is to entrust ourselves to some certainties that can give us a sense of security, as those stones of the temple. They are the certainties of a normality that seems to protect us from unexpected events; securities that derive from felling approved, estimated, well regarded and well judged; the certainties of health and wellness, of the youth, elongated with a superstitious feeling as if we could, thus, ensure eternity. These are so many ways trough which we drive away the idea that our life will experience a decline.
Today Jesus comes to deny these certainties, but not because He wants to throw us into despair, but simply because, first of all, He puts us in front of a reality that is certain, but from which we, instead, escape, pretending to be able to avoid it. Moreover He wants to instill a different meaning and value of life that does not depend on the solidity of the stones that we are able to build or on the frenetic activism that characterizes our lives, but on the depth and authenticity of our love for other and on trust in God’s faithfulness.
These are the two elements that Jesus emphasizes in His response. In fact, He highlights that human life is fragile, subject to the storms of life that can put it in danger and even break off.
And today we cannot but thinking, with emotional involvement, of what happened to the thousands of our brothers and sisters in Central Italy were hit hard by the earthquake in recent days. The force of nature, the accidents of life can change the course of events, from one day to the next, and bring into question all those certainties of which we spoke above.
But all this can do nothing regarding our ability to live and witness to a love that is the true value of life: “And so you will bear testimony to me. ” Jesus says, to emphasize that even in the most difficult situations, our life never loses its meaning and strength, only if it continues to witness to what forms its basis, love we have received first of all from God and then made livable by the example of Jesus for each of us.
In this regard he says: “But make up your mind not to worry beforehand how you will defend yourselves. For I will give you words and wisdom that none of your adversaries will be able to resist or contradict.” That is, let us not pretend that we can control everything and protect ourselves from the vicissitudes of life with our strength, with our doing, but let’s entrust ourselves to a wisdom that comes from God Himself, from His Word and Spirit, that, as trusted advisors, suggest that we should aim to something lasting and reliable.
experiencing this human wisdom and being able to love satisfy our hunger and the life that we live. Instead, the one who relies on the frenzy of always doing anything and making a further objective to feel alive, consumes every experience as he experiences the next. In this way he is never satisfied and is always dissatisfied. For this reason we can manage to live without fleeing the fear of the end, if we feel that our life is already full as of now, if it is well spent, rich in spiritual gifts, received and offered, and if it is satiated with of goods done and received.
But if we renounce our certainties and we can no longer rely on our own resources, on what can we be based as a rock solid?
Jesus, in the last part of His answer, highlights that nothing is reliable, even the ties of blood, that in general we say we can always trust, but there is a fidelity that never fails, it’s God’s faithfulness. He has first loved us and continues to do so. On this faithfulness we can rely with confidence.
To live relying on the love of God, as Luisa teaches us, we must start living in the Divine Will. On March 22, 1938, Jesus said to Luisa that as the creature decides to live in the Divine Volition, all things are changed for her and she becomes put in the same divine conditions.
The divine dominion invests the creature and it makes her dominator of everything, dominator of God’s fortitude, of His goodness, of His sanctity; dominator of the light. Heavens and earth by right are hers. God puts her in an atmosphere of security, of imperturbable peace.
Nothing should be missing to this creature, of good, of sanctity, of beauty, of divine joys; all her little acts are full of such contentments that enraptures the smile of all heaven and the Supreme Being.
In heaven they are all at attention in order to see when she loves, works, in order to enjoy ourselves in her and to smile together. So much is God’s love, that He puts the creature in the same conditions. God, if He isn’t loved, He loves; if not taken care of, and perhaps even offended, He continues to give life; and if one returns to Him by asking pardon of Him he didn’t make any rapprochement of them, He embraces them and presses them to His divine breast.
So that one can say that man can trust only God, because in creatures he cannot solely trust, but will
find mutability, deceptions, and when he believes he can rest they will come to less.
Now, they can trust only one who lives in God’s Will; she (the creature) will do as God does: not loved, she will love; not taken care of and offended, she will race near in order to put one into safety
God senses Himself in one who lives in the Divine Volition, and therefore God loves her so much that he doesn’t do other than to pour torrents of love upon her, in order to be re-loved always more with double and growing love.
Dear brothers and sisters, we are now reaching the end of a year with the Lord. In two weeks, with the season of Advent, a new liturgical year will begin. Let us seize, in these words of Jesus a valuable indication, so that we do not continue to base our lives on what does not last, and deceives, but are instead able to turn towards the promise of a new life that soon will rise, and as the Gospel testifies it has been kept and continues to be so, bringing salvation and full happiness to all mankind. We will be satisfied with the life that the Lord gives us, full of meaning because it is lived generously and oriented towards others, without anxiety of domination and possession.
don Marco
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Book of Praying the Round
Book of Praying the Round
Our Lady of America
TITLES OF THE SERVANT OF GOD LUISA PICCARRETA
Introduction to the Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta
Role of the Priests
17 Years Book
The Most Precious Blood of Jesus
Prodigies of Blessed Virgin Mary
You Must Know
Be Attentive
Don’t you Know/Do you Know?
Luisa and Breath of Divine Will
Luisa’s Communion Prayers
Jesus Christ King of the Universe
The Three Appeals
The Cross is Sacrament
