…"If My people who bear My name, humble themselves and pray and seek My presence and turn from their wicked ways, I Myself will hear from Heaven and forgive their sins…" (2 Chron. 7:14) – "You will see that in prayer you will find more knowledge, more light, more strength, more grace and virtue than you could ever achieve by reading many books, or by great studies. Never consider as wasted the time you spend in prayer. You will discover that in prayer God communicates to you the light, strength and grace you need…" (Sr Lucia dos Santos)
Holy Spirit, on the first Pentecost, through Your inspiration many were transformed, becoming adopted children of God and faithful disciples of Jesus Christ. They were animated by the love of God that is poured into us by You, Holy Spirit, who are given to us. Enlighten the minds of unbelievers, incline their wills to accept the Good News, and prompt them to be obedient to the Teachers of the Church about whom Christ said: ‘He who hears you hears Me; he who rejects you rejects Me’ (Lk 10:16). Teach them how to pray and prepare their minds and hearts for Your coming into their souls.
I renew my Baptismal Vows. I renounce satan with all his works and pomps. I take Jesus Christ to be my model and my guide and I promise to be faithful to Him until the end of my life. Amen.
I beg of You, my Lord God, to keep satan and all other evil spirits who wander throughout the world chained in hell and spare us from all their temptations.
My Lord God, even now I accept at thy hands cheerfully and willingly with all its anxieties, pains and sufferings whatever kind of life and death it may please thee to be mine. Amen.
We are cast down, but we perish not: Always bearing in our body the mortification of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be made manifest in our body. (2 Corinthians 4:9b,10)
“THE VALUE OF ADVERSITY
“It is good for us to have trials and troubles at times, for they often remind us that we are on probation and ought not to hope in any worldly thing. It is good for us sometimes to suffer contradiction, to be misjudged by men even though we do well and mean well. These things help us to be humble and shield us from vainglory. When to all outward appearances men give us no credit, when they do not think well of us, then we are more inclined to seek God Who sees our hearts. Therefore, a man ought to root himself so firmly in God that he will not need the consolations of men.”
Almighty God, as we believe that your Son, our Redeemer, ascended this day into heaven, grant that we too may live in spirit in that heavenly dwelling. Through the same Jesus Christ, your Son, Our Lord, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen.
O eternal Godhead, how well mercy suits you! How well it suits you that your servants should arouse your mercy against the judgement the world deserves because of its sins!
Your mercy created us, and the same mercy redeemed us from eternal death. Your mercy rules over us and holds back your justice, keeping the earth from opening up to swallow us, keeping the animals from devouring us. In fact, all things serve us and the earth gives us its fruits. All this your mercy does.
Your mercy preserves us and prolongs our life, giving us time to return and be reconciled with you. O compassionate merciful Father, who keeps the angels from taking revenge on this humanity which is your enemy? Your mercy. In mercy you grant us consolation to coax us to love, for the human heart is attracted by love. The same mercy gives and permits sufferings and hardships so that we may learn to know ourselves and acquire the little virtue of true humility – and even to give yourself a reason to reward those who fight bravely, suffering with true patience.
In mercy you preserved the scars in your Son’s body so that he might with these scars beg for mercy for us before your majesty.
In mercy you have seen fit today to show me, poor as I am, how we can in no way pass judgement on other people’s intentions. Indeed, by sending people along an endless variety of paths, you give me an example for myself, and for this I thank you.
We praise You, invisible Father, giver of immortality, and source of life and light. You love all human beings, especially the poor. You seek reconciliation with all of them and You draw them to Yourself by sending Your beloved Son to visit them.
Make us really alive by giving us the light to know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ Whom You have sent. Grant us the Holy Spirit and enable us to speak volumes about Your ineffable mysteries. Amen.
O Divine Heart of Jesus, noblest and best of all human hearts, remember, we beseech thee, how dearly thou didst love thine own native land, and how earnestly thou didst strive for the conversion of thine own people. By the example of thine own fervent desires and earnest toil, grant us to pray and labour much for the conversion to thy Holy Faith of our own dearly beloved country. Not for our own glory, O Lord, nor for any personal interest of ours do we pray, but that thy Heavenly Father may be honoured and that thy Holy Faith may be loved by all our countrymen. Amen.
Not ours to know the reason why, unanswered is our prayer, but ours to wait for God’s own time to life the cross we bear; not ours to know the reason why from loved ones we must part, but ours to live in faith and hope, though bleeding to the heart; no ours to know the reason why this anguish, strife and pain, but ours to know a crown of thorns sweet graces for us gain, a cross, a bleeding heart and crown – what greater gifts are given? Be still, my heart, and murmur not; these are the Keys of Heaven.
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