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Friday in the Octave of All Saints

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Today is the Fifth Day within the Octave of All Saints.

We prayed for souls at the grave of my beloved grandmother who had 13 children, my father being number 12.

LORD God almighty, I pray Thee, by the Precious Blood which Thy divine Son shed on this day upon the wood of the Cross, especially from His most sacred hands and feet, deliver the souls in purgatory, and in particular that soul for which I am most bound to pray: that no neglect of mine may hinder it from praising Thee in Thy glory and blessing Thee forever. Amen.

Our Father
Hail Mary
De Profundis

De profundis Psalm 129

A prayer of a sinner, trusting in the mercies of God. The sixth penitential psalm.

Out of the depths I have cried unto Thee, O Lord; Lord, hear my voice.
Let Thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplication.
If Thou, O Lord, shalt mark our iniquities: O Lord, who can abide it?
For with Thee there is mercy: and by reason of Thy law I have waited on Thee, O Lord.
My soul hath waited on His word: my soul hath hoped in the Lord.
From the morning watch even unto night: let Israel hope in the Lord.
For with the Lord there is mercy: and with Him is plenteous redemption.
And He shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities.

(Eternal rest or “Requiem aeternam”)
Eternal rest give to them, O Lord.
And let perpetual light shine upon them.
May they rest in peace.
Amen.

V/. Lord, hear my prayer.
R/. And let my cry come unto Thee.

Let us pray.
O God, the Creator and Redeemer of all the faithful; grant to the souls of Thy servants departed the remission of all their sins, that by our devout supplications they may obtain that pardon which they have always desired. Who livest and reignest world without end. Amen.

V/. Eternal rest give unto them, O Lord.
R/. And let perpetual light shine upon them.
V/. May they rest in peace.
R/. Amen.

Every Catholic Knows…

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“Every Catholic knows that the killing of a defenseless creature in the mother’s womb is a horrendous crime; and that the most serious scandal is given to the faithful not only by Joe Biden as a convinced supporter of abortion, but also by Bergoglio himself, who is recognized as holding the authority of Supreme Pastor of the Church.

His work of demolition knows no respite before the astonished silence of the Cardinals and Bishops. The very rare exceptions of Pastors who truly have at heart the souls entrusted to them — the example of His Eminence Cardinal Burke stands out among others — are seen with hostility by the majority of their brother Bishops and by the Vatican, in a disturbing subversion of the mission of the Church of Christ, which today has been reduced to climate change, inclusive capitalism, and mass vaccination.

Bergoglio was recently recognized as “moral guide” by the Council for Inclusive Capitalism led by Lynn Forester de Rothschild, and he appointed Jeffrey David Sachs as a member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences. Sachs is the president of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network of the United Nations, a supporter of reducing the global population and of the fight against climate change — this has nothing to do with the mission of the Papacy and ought to lead the Prelates of the Church to seriously ask themselves about Bergoglio’s mental and moral suitability for the role he holds.

I exhort the faithful, on the Feast instituted by Pius XI in honor of the social Kingship of Our Lord Jesus Christ, to beseech the Divine Majesty, asking that among the many societies afflicted by the present crisis, the Church of Christ may be the first in which Jesus Christ, Who today has been replaced by the idols of globalist ideology, returns to reign.” #archbishopvigano

Full letter from Archbishop Vigano

📸My family at a ProLife Flash Mob rally at the CA Capitol in 2011

Instruction on the Feast of All Souls

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Today, and throughout the octave of the feast of All Souls (11.2), we will visit the cemetery and pray for souls in purgatory. Then we will go to Holy Mass.

The following is instruction on this feast from #frleonardgoffine

The Introit of this day’s Mass as of all Masses for the Dead reads:

“Eternal rest give to them, O Lord: and let perpetual light shine upon them. A hymn, O God, becometh Thee in Sion; and a vow shall be paid to Thee in Jerusalem: hear my prayer; all flesh shall come to Thee. Eternal rest give to them, O Lord: and let perpetual light shine upon them.”

The Epistle and Gospel of this day speak of the resurrection of all men and of the judgment, when every one according as he has lived, sinful and impenitent, or pure and innocent, will receive an eternally miserable or an eternally happy life. Purgatory will then end and there will be only Heaven and Hell. It remains with us to choose which of these two we shall possess.

At the Offertory of the Mass the priest prays:
O Lord Jesus Christ, King of Glory, deliver the souls of all the faithful departed from the pains of hell and from the deep pit: deliver them from the mouth of the lion, that hell may not swallow them up, and they may not fall into darkness: but may the holy standard-bearer, Michael, introduce them to the holy light: which Thou didst promise of old to Abraham and to his seed.

We offer to Thee, O Lord, sacrifices and prayers: do Thou receive them in behalf of those souls whom we commemorate this day.

Grant them, O Lord, to pass from death to that life which Thou didst promise of old to Abraham and to his seed.

We may profitably and devoutly repeat the following as often as we pass a graveyard.

V. From the gates of Hell,
R. Deliver their souls, O Lord.
V. Eternal rest give to them, O Lord,
R. And let perpetual light shine upon them.
V. May they rest in peace,
R. Amen.
V. May the souls of all the faithful departed through the mercy of God rest in peace,
R. Amen.

Who Am I?

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My children choose their saints, aside from me having to say no repeats (of St. Michael & St. George).

Each child is also responsible for coming up with a short speech about their saint. We help them memorize their speech for the Vigil festivities. Sometimes they nail it and other times it’s an abbreviated variation at best.

They even design their costumes, for the most part. Big siblings and I are charged with the task of putting it together to their liking.

This year, my littlest one chose his beloved friend from the Bible.

Dad even attempted to give him lessons on using his weapon of choice.

Great discussions (at his level) we’re had about praying for courage, following God’s will in all seasons of our lives, not listening to what the world would have us believe, and trusting that God can do all things.

This boy of mine has loved this heroic priest since an early age. 💜➕

I was torn between the priestly duties at home and the need to serve the brave men in the military fighting in World War II. My bishop recommended me for the U.S Army Chaplain Corps. I joined the post-world war peacekeeping force and experienced firsthand the horrors of the Korean War. 

I was compelled to fight in the front lines with my troops. Due to the circumstances I offered Holy Mass on the hoods of our jeeps and prayed with my men in foxholes. I never carried a gun or fired a weapon.  One day we were ambushed by the communists, rather than retreating with the others I and a doctor stood behind to care for the dying and wounded. We became Prisoners of War.

I risked my life every day by sneaking out to find food for the other prisoners.  When the Chinese guards discovered that I had a blood clot in my leg, they moved me to the death house. There, I died, alone on May 23, 1951.

I forgave my captors and told the prisoners of the camp “Don’t worry about me, I am going to where I always wanted to go and I will pray for you!”

WHO AM I?

I was an Earl who became a knight in the Second Crusade to recover the Holy Land from the Moors.   Upon my return, I received the County of Flanders.

I forbade any of my subjects to blaspheme or take the name of God in vain. The punishment was to lose a hand or foot. 

I gave all I could to those in need.  One day, I GAVE away 7,800 loaves.

I walked every morning barefoot to the church.  I was warned that some were plotting against me.  I  answered:  “We are always surrounded by dangers, but we belong to God?” 

While I was praying before the altar, a mob rushed in and split open my head, in 1124.  

WHO AM I?

I became a priest in France in 1624.  I went to the new lands to work and share the Faith.  

I was kidnapped and held captive for over 1 year.   The natives tortured me be by fire, removed fingernails, gnawed away my fingers, and much more.  I even had to throw my finger in the woods so I wouldn’t be forced to eat it. 

I was rescued from martyrdom a number of times. And eventually, I returned home.  No one recognized me because my condition was so poor.  

The Pope gave me special permission to offer Holy Mass since my critical fingers were missing. 

I eagerly wanted to go back to the new lands in 1644. I told my friend, “I will go, but I will not return.”

Just two years later, on Oct. 18 1646, I was captured and tomahawked to death.  My head was placed on a stake as a trophy of sorts and thrown into the river.

WHO AM I?

ORATE PRO NOBIS

Twenty-Second Sunday After Pentecost

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“Render therefore to Caesar,” says our Lord, “the things that are Caesar’s”, and then He adds: “And to God the things that are God’s”

pic of one son studying his daily Catechism during the first quarter of school

This often-quoted statement means that since the soul of a man belongs to God who made it in His image, all the faculties ought to return to Him, in the sense of paying the tribute of their worship and service.

“We,” says St. Augustine, “are the coins of God stamped with His image, and God demands the return of His coins as Caesar did the return of his.”

And St. Jerome adds: “Let us give to Caesar the money which bears his inscription since we cannot do otherwise, but let us give ourselves freely and of our own accord to God, for what our soul bears is the glorious imprint of the face of a God and not the more or less majestic head of an emperor.”

Bossuet says: “This image will one day pass again through the hands and before the eyes of Jesus Christ, and some day He will look at us and say: Whose image and inscription is this? And the very depth of our being will answer: God’s. It is for Him that we were made and we must bear His stamp upon us. But what has become of the divine features which we ought to bear? Christian soul, may God’s image be in you!”

It is in this sense that we must interpret this Sunday’s Gospel (Matt. XXII. 15-21), one of the last of the ecclesiastical year and in which the Church reminds us of the end of the world.

Thus the Epistle twice speaks of the coming of Christ as nigh at hand. St. Paul prays that “He who hath begun a good work in you, will perfect it unto the day of Christ Jesus” (Epistle – Philipp. I. 6-II).

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