Month: September 2024

“Our Lady knows exactly why we’re bleeding…”

Our Lady knows exactly why we’re bleeding, And, better than anyone else, what we are needing.

By Bishop Richard Williamson

Both at Fatima in Portugal in 1917 and at Akita in Japan in 1973 Our Lady said that only She can help us henceforth. In Akita She added, “from the imminent calamities,” the calamities hanging over our heads. If anybody has been watching events in the Ukraine over the last two years, he must be blind, either naturally or wilfully, not to see a nuclear Third World War coming, and bringing with it calamities without number. Our Lady of Akita also told Sister Agnes Sasagawa that all those who put their confidence in Her will be saved, by which She almost certainly meant, saved for eternity and not just for this brief life on earth, which is so much less important.

In any case it is Our Lord Himself – in complete control of coming world events and allowing the calamities only for our own greater good – who has told us that to reward His Mother for the special part She has played in the saving of souls, especially in modern times, He wants it to be the Immaculate Heart of Mary which will take the credit among men for the eventual rescue of mankind from its present dire straits. For indeed mankind will be rescued in the Triumph of Our Lady’s Immaculate Heart, a brief Golden Age for the Church, following on the Chastisement, and constituting the greatest world-wide victory of Our Lord’s Church in all its history. Then sin will return, with the run-down to the Antichrist and to the fiercest persecution of Christians, generating some of the greatest Saints in all Church history.

Into this cosmic drama preceding the end of the world fits Our Lady as its queen and our guide, as appointed by Her Divine Son Himself. At Akita half a century ago, She did warn us, like a good mother, of “fire falling from Heaven which will eliminate a large part of mankind, both the good and the bad, sparing neither priests nor laity, and leaving survivors so desolate that they will envy the dead. At that moment you will have two weapons left: the Rosary, and the sign left by My Son (It is not yet certain in what that sign consists). Pray the Rosary for the Pope, for bishops and priests.” Indeed the primary problem today of our storm-tossed Church and world is the defection of the Catholic churchmen, deceived by the diabolical Second Vatican Council of the 1960’s…

https://stmarcelinitiative.org/rosary-blast-2024/?lang

Happy Birthday, Mother Mary!

Today is September 8th, the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin. Sadly, this great feast is trumped by the Sunday in most of the world, even in the 1962 missal, but it wasn’t always so.

Times are tough. Do not lose your faith. God planned for you to be alive in this world at this very moment… you were born for this, and His expectations for you are not a null set. When you think there is nothing you can do, turn to prayer. Turn to your Mother.

You really need to get to know your Mother, the glorious and immaculate Virgin. The more love you have for her in your heart, the more room in your heart for Christ, and the more willing He is to dwell there. In the first hour of her birth, Mary bore more glory than all the Old Testament saints, and in that same hour, had already attained more sanctity than all the New Testament saints while they yet lived.

Your greatest confidence is to be entrusted to your Mother, who gave us the wedding at Cana as the first glimpse of her under the title Virgin Most Powerful. Gospel of John, chapter two. Wine runs out, Mary asks Jesus to help, Jesus says no, Mary doesn’t take no for an answer. GOD INCARNATE OVERRULED BY MOM. Not only does Jesus give in to Mary’s request, not only does He make more wine, the best wine EVER MADE, He makes 150 GALLONS of it. Oh how the prots must hate John 2.

Now of course, Mary knew perfectly well that her request was aligned with Christ’s divine will, and that He would carry it out accordingly. God, being perfect, cannot act against His own will, and a creature cannot order God around. But here we have Christ as a model of the Fourth Commandment, even as He is yet God. This same dynamic plays out today, inside the Beatific Vision. Let’s just say the Holy Mother of God is… influential. He listens to her, and she wants to obtain and deliver great graces for you.

If you pray to God and He doesn’t seem to be listening, try dialing up His Mother.

Folks, pray the Rosary every day.

Profundity in simplicity is beautiful to behold

How to Start Praying For Absolute Beginners

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This is a good prayer for anyone, but in particular for someone who has never prayed, been religious, or even believed in God, but wants to start.  Don’t worry for now if you don’t really even understand what God is.  He knows who He is, and if you say, “God”, as in the One Personal Deity who created and sustains the universe, He’ll know that you are talking to Him.  He knows who He is.  And He certainly knows exactly who you are.

It is eight words. Catholics who have actually been taught the faith will recognize it as an imperfect act of contrition.  Like I said, it’s a start, and God can work with anything.  It is also a prayer which He desperately, desperately wants to answer.  He’s just waiting for you to simply say this to Him:

God, I don’t want to go to hell.

These eight words convey much.  First, that one believes in God.  Two, that one believes in hell.  Three, that one believes that it is possible to end up in hell.  Four, that one recognizes one might actually deserve to go to hell, or that one has sinned.  Five, that one wants to not go to hell, which by deduction means that one does want to go to heaven.  Six, that God is the Judge who will make the determination as to the fate of one’s eternal soul, which is why you are telling Him that you don’t want to go there and not the girl working the drive-thru window at Taco Bell.

If you get to where you’re fully comfortable with, “God, I don’t want to go to hell,” the next step is to add, “Jesus, I know that you love me.” That’s a BIG step. Some people go through life and never grasp it or believe it.

Baby steps.

I hope this helps.

https://www.barnhardt.biz/2024/09/04/how-to-start-praying-for-absolute-beginners/

“The sorrow and shame that our faults cause us are their own remedy”

The Fourth Sorrowful Mystery is the Carrying of the Cross. Fruit of the Mystery is PATIENCE. Usually when we think about having patience it is having patience with others. That’s not what this is about. This about patience with yourself, as you struggle with your faults through this vale of tears. It’s about endurance. Like the old saying goes, If you’re going through hell, keep going. -nvp

Patience with Oneself

h/t Laura Wood

“A SOUL TO whom God makes known its defects is much more burdensome to itself than its neighbor ever could be to it, because the latter, however near to us, is not always with us; at any rate is not within us, whereas we carry ourselves about with us, and cannot leave ourselves for a single moment, nor completely cease to behold ourselves, to feel ourselves, and to carry about with us everywhere our imperfections, and our faults. But see wherein the infinite goodness of our God shines forth; for the sorrow and shame that our faults cause us are their own remedy, provided that this shame never turns into defiance, and that the sorrow is inspired by the love of God, and not by self−love. Sorrow born of self−love is full of vexation and bitterness; far from healing the wounds of our soul, it only serves to poison them. On the other hand, sorrow produced by the love of God is calm and full of resignation; while detecting the fault it delights in the humiliation which follows, and from this it results that much merit is gained, and thus even from losses we make, profit. Cease then from tormenting yourself on account of your defects and of the imperfection of your works. Offer to God the sorrow they occasion you, and allow His divine Providence to make good these slight infidelities by many little crosses and sufferings of all kinds. Arm yourself only with patience, raise yourself again as soon as possible and deplore your falls with a sweet, tranquil humility. God wishes you to act thus, and by this indefatigable patience you will render Him more glory and will make more progress than the most violent efforts would have enabled you to do.”

— The Rev. Jean Pierre de Caussade, S.J., Abandonment to Divine Providence