PRAYERS FOR OUR DEPARTED LOVED ONES

ADORATION

 

A friend will visit his friend in the morning to wish him a good day; in the evening, a good night; taking also an opportunity to converse with him during the day. In like manner make visits to Jesus Christ in the Blessed Sacrament, if your duties permit it. It is especially at the foot of the altar that one prays well. In all your visits to Our Saviour, frequently offer His precious blood to the Eternal Father. You will find these visits very conducive to your growth in the knowledge and love of Our Lord.

- St. Mary Magdalene de Pazzi

DEATH

 

If there is a certainity, a 100 per cent certainity, a certainity without any shade of doubt it is Death.

Death comes stealthily without expecting its arrival.

Death comes for everyone

Death comes only once and there is no point of return.

 

THEN LET US ALL BE PREPARED for our judgement before God .

STAY POSITIVE

30TH SUNDAY GOSPEL (c ) PRAYER

In prayer we offer thanks to God.
We must persevere without getting weary of prayer.
Prayer is a healthy exercise to have a good relationship with God.

Mass is the highest form of prayer, so we must  keep at it weekly or even daily.

PRAY FOR VOCATIONS

Please pray the Lord to call persons to the priesthood and consecrated  life in all its forms (male and female, contemplative and apostolic), to missionary life  and secular institutes in all their diversity of services.

May all who hear  His Voice heed his call.

TIMELY ADVICE

HELPING OTHERS

PRAYER

 

The family that prays together stays together.

After the Eucharist, prayer is the way leading to a closer and more intimate union with God who heeds every call for help from his sons and daughters.

PARTICIPATION IN THE CELEBRATION OF THE HOLY EUCHARIST

 

10 STEPS TO A JOYFUL MASS:

1. Make your genuflection or bow a real act of adoration.

2. Sing the songs even if you’re not a good singer. God will love your effort.

3. Try to find one thing in the readings from scripture that will apply to you - here and now.

4. Try to get at least one good thought from the homily by listening well.

5. Make your donation to your parish as a conscious act of yourself and your work to God.

6. Look for the beauty in the Eucharistic prayer - it’s there.

7. Say the Lord’s Prayer firmly and loud.

8. Make Holy Communion a real meeting with Our Lord and real joining with others in His love.

9. Stay and join in singing the recessional song - remember who left the Last Supper early.

10. Smile and say hello to someone when you leave the church.

 

TALENT

MISSION SUNDAY

WE CANNOT EVADE DEATH

Surely we cannot evade death.
Somehow and someway we have to leave this world.
Which way would you like to die.?
It all depends on the way you live.

IN GOD'S EYES

 

What matters is not how other people sees us, but how God sees us.

SOME FOOD FOR THOUGHT

 

 

The family that prays together stays together.

 

"The Catechism was not written to please you. It will not make life easy for you, because it demands of you a new life."

— Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI

 

Holiness consists simply in doing God's will and being just what God wants us to be

- St. Theresa

 

 

FULFILLMENT OF MY CHRISTIAN DUTIES IS WHAT COUNTS

Another brother of our Order, Father Didaco of Saint Matthias (who had been for quite a long time confessor at the Monastery of the Visitation in Ávila), a zealous servant of God was very ill in bed. At that time while I was assisting at the Holy Mass I fell again in profound meditation, during which I saw this priest that died and without touching Purgatory he rose directly towards Heaven. Later I learned that he died indeed at the hour when I had the vision. I was taken by surprise that he had not had to minimally touch Purgatory. However, it was explained to me later, that he had been a religious very faithful to his vows, for that he benefited from the Sabbatine privilege, thus he had no need of Purgatory. I don’t know why I was told this but I think that in this way I was meant to understand that it is not the wearing of the habit that fulfills the religious man and that just being a religious is not enough to obtain the benefit which is promised to him by his religious condition which is a state of higher perfection.

—Saint Teresa of Jesus

THE CROSS SAYS IT ALL

What? The cross make us lose our inward peace? Surely it is the cross that bestows it on our hearts. All our miseries come from our not loving it."
St. John Vianney

RECITE THE ROSARY DAILY

FEASTOF OUR LDAY OF FATIMA

 

Our Lady of Fatima pray for us and the whole world.

Deliver us from the snares of the devil.

YOU HAVE TO WORK FOR HEAVEN

'The path to Heaven is narrow, rough and full of wearisome and trying ascents, nor can it be trodden without great toil; and therefore wrong is their way, gross their error, and assured their ruin who, after the testimony of so many thousands of saints, will not learn where to settle their footing.'

St. Robert Southwell

PRAYER

The world is on fire! Do you understand? There is so much

temptation. The devil has started such a blaze that all the

fire-fighters in the world will not be able to put it out: it is a

spiritual fire! There’s nothing left. And there’s no other help

for us: only prayer can save us now. We must…   PRAY

DO NOT JUDGE OTHERS

CO-OPERATION

Do not ask God to move your steps if you are not willing to move your feet.

DICTUM OF JOHN PAUL II

 

EFFICACY OF THE ROSARY

"Give me an army of souls saying the Rosary and I will conquer the world."

— Pope Pius IX

MEMORIAL OF OUR LADY OF THE ROSARY

"They say it is a childish prayer, superstitious, not good enough for adult Christians. Or, it is an automatic prayer, a mere monotonous and boring repetition of the Hail Mary. Or again : it is not for our day, today we can do better: read the Bible for example which compared to the rosary is like good flour compared to bran !

When we speak of “adult Christians” in prayer, at times we exaggerate. Personally when I speak tête-à-tête with God or with the Blessed Virgin Mary, more than an adult I prefer to think of myself as a child.
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The mitre, skullcap and ring disappear; I give a holiday to the adult and the bishop and also to heavy burdens, sober and pondered, and let myself go with the spontaneous tenderness of a child in front of his papá or mamma. To be – at least for half an hour – before God as I truly am with my wretchedness and also with the best of myself: to feel rising from the depths of my being the child of other days who wants to talk and chat with the Lord and love him and who sometimes feels the need to cry that he may be granted mercy, all this helps me to pray.” - Pope John Paul I

NO COMMENT

SACRAMENT OF PENANCE

 

"Have you fallen? In a large or a small matter? What matters is not what you have done, but what you will do. If you are humble you will beg forgiveness and try again. If you are proud and arrogant you will dig an eternal grave for yourself with more of the same mistakes."

 

Matthew Kelly

MEMORIAL OF ST FRANCIS

 

 



“The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today”

St Francis of Assisi

St Francis’ Prayer before the Crucifix at San Damiano

Most High, glorious God,
enlighten the darkness of my heart.
Give me right faith, 
sure hope,
and perfect charity.
Fill me with understanding and knowledge, Lord,
that I may carry out
Your holy and true command.

AVE MARIA - HAIL MARY

”Every mother, when she picks up the young life that has been born to her, looks up to the heavens to thank God for the gift which made the world young again. But here was a mother, a madonna, who did not look up. She looked down to Heaven, for this was Heaven in her arms.” -Archbishop Fulton Sheen

La Virgencita de Guadalupe carrying Jesus in Her Womb.

Ave Maria!

THE WORLD IS NOT OUR PLACE

 

How dark without Mary life’s journey would be! Thank you for your Fiat that forever changed the world and made heaven possible for all mankind. As we meditate upon the mysteries of the most Holy Rosary this month, please help us realize the nothingness of this world, the greatness of heaven, the shortness of time, and the length of eternity. Holy Mary, cause of our joy, pray for us!

OCTOBER THE MARIAN MONTH OF ROSARY

Love to recite the Rosary, meditating on its mysteries. Little Therese said that each Hail Mary goes up toward Heaven like incense whose smoking spirals are all alike, although it is always new incense which burns. LOVE ALWAYS SAYS THE SAME THINGS, YET NEVER REPEATS ITSELF."