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Prayers to Fight Back

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Jesus and Mary, I ask that if it be Your Holy Will, that any curses or evil sent against the President or the election process be sent back from whence they came.

Fr. Ripperger offered the following suggestions (on a recent USA Grace Force Podcast – 11.11) for the laity to do in efforts to “fight back” until the election is called: 🇺🇸 🙏🏼➕

  1. Be Strong in God’s Grace!
  2. Frequent Confession
  3. Frequent Communions
  4. Daily Rosary
  5. Much Mortification & Fasting
  6. Much Trust in God’s Providence and the Power of Our Lady’s Intercession
  7. Daily Pray the Following Two Prayers (complete prayers are provided in my stories)

🙏🏼Consecration of One’s Exterior Goods to the Blessed Virgin Mary

(This prayer is particularly useful for breaking various forms of oppression. By relinquishing what belongs to us into the hands of the Blessed Virgin, Satan cannot touch them. This is a strong prayer of protection on you and yours.)

🙏🏼Sending Evil Back

(Fr. Chad Ripperger states that this prayer is meant to expose evil, to teach that evil does not win, and emphasizes that choosing evil will eventually lead to bad repercussions.)

🙏🏼Prayer Against Retaliation

(This is a prayer that should be offered by those praying the two previous prayers and any other deliverance prayers approved for the laity — that God may protect you against any diabolical retaliation.)

Simplify & Dettach

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I give thanks for shepherds who speak truths and turn up the heat on the faithful to live radically for Christ — all for salvation of souls.

Below is just a brief excerpt from a recent 27 minute sermon that we received post election.

“This, I think, is a time for us to simplify our lives, to detach from companies that are pouring postmodernism into our minds and censoring ever more boldly any and all opposition. 

Just stop giving them our money and stop giving them our data — cause that’s gold to them. 
 
 
You know you say, well, I don’t pay for Facebook. Yes, you do!

Nothing is free in this life. 

You give them your data and they monetize that.  They sell it to the highest bidder. And we do it day in and day out. And they make 30 billion dollars, 50 billion dollars, …89 million dollars. 
 
 
We need to simplify our lives. 

We need to reconnect with actual human interaction, again — with family, with our faith. 

We need to really take stock of these things and say:

•What value are these really adding to my life?
•Can I honestly say that I’m happier because of these things being in my life? 
•Or do I just keep going back to them like an addict?”

What changes, if any, are you discerning regarding big tech, big media, big education, and the like?

You can listen to the complete sermon, here.

St. Martin of Tours

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St. Martin of Tours — “The Glory of Gaul” — was born around A.D. 316 in Szombathely, Hungary (known then as Sabaria, Pannonia) and grew up the son of a Roman military officer in Pavia, Italy. He joined the Roman army and was sent to Amiens, where, on horseback, he met a starving man begging alms at the city gates. Moved by deep compassion, he tore his red, woolen his cloak in two with his sword and gave half to the beggar. The next night, he had a dream in which he saw Jesus wearing the half of the cloak he’d given away, surrounded by angels. In the dream, Our Lord asked him to look at it and to see if he recognized it. He did, of course, and realized that he must convert and devote his life to Christ. (St. Martin’s remaining piece of cloak became a very revered relic. In fact, the building where his cloak — “cappa” in Latin — was preserved was known as the “cappella,” the root of our words “chapel” and “chaplain.”)

Let us ask St. Martin to give us his zeal for the House of God, the Holy Catholic Church, and his efficiency in destroying idols. May he help us apply his spirit in fighting the idol of sentimental religiosity in our souls, so that we might truly understand the lives of the saints, follow their example, and become saints ourselves.

“O holy Martin, have compassion on our depth of misery! A winter more severe than that which caused thee to divide thy cloak now rages over the world; many perish in the icy night brought on by the extinction of faith and the cooling of charity.

Come to the aid of those unfortunates, whose torpor prevents them from asking assistance. Wait not for them to pray; but forestall them for the love of Christ in whose name the poor man of Amiens implored thee, whereas they scarcely know how to utter it. And yet their nakedness is worse than the beggar’s, stripped as they are of the garment of grace, which their fathers received from thee and handed down to posterity.

Has that history of the brightest days of the Church, of the reign of Christ as King, come to an end, O Martin? Let the enemy imagine he has already sealed our tomb. But the story of thy miracles tells us that thou canst raise up even the dead.

Was not the catechumen of Ligugé snatched from the land of the living, when thou didst call him back to life and Baptism? Supposing that, like him, we were already among those whom the Lord remembereth no more, the man or the country that has Martin for protector and father need never yield to despair.

If thou deign to bear us in mind, the Angels will come and say again to the supreme Judge: “This is the man, this is the nation for whom Martin prays;” and they will be commanded to draw us out of the dark regions where dwell the people without glory, and to restore us to Martin, and to our noble destinies.” – Dom Prosper Gueranger

Veteran’s Day

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We give thanks & pray for our beloved family members and all others who have served the USA.

Papa
Grandpa Gilbert
Son-in-Love

Another Veteran that we pray for & give thanks for us Fr. Emil Kapaun.

After his ordination in 1940, Fr. Kapaun’s first assignment was as the assistant parish priest at St. John Nepomucene in his own town of Pilsen. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Fr. Kapaun felt called enter the Chaplain Corps. Finally, his bishop gave permission and Fr. Kapaun joined the Army in August 1944.

Assigned to the 8th Cavalry Regiment of the famous 1st Cavalry Division, Fr. Kapaun shipped out in 1950 to Japan and then on to Korea where war against the Communists was raging. On the field, he was fearless in serving his men: he commonly braved machine gun fire to rescue the wounded and to move from foxhole to foxhole, providing comfort to hungry and cold soldiers. He continuously provided the sacraments in all conditions, becoming famous for constantly risking his life to save others.

The demands and privations of military life appealed to this son of a Kansas farmer; he loved caring for the spiritual and, at times, physical needs of “his boys,” as he called the men. He served in India and the Burma Theater and was promoted to the rank of Captain before being discharged in 1946. After earning his Masters in Education from the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., Father was permitted to rejoin the Army in 1948.

After repeatedly rejecting appeals to flee, he was captured along with the survivors of his unit by Chinese Communists on All Souls Day, 1950 near Unsan, North Korea. His ministry continued in a prisoner of war camp farther north.

In addition to doing all he could to help the men physically, his most important impact was supernatural: resisting the atheistic communist indoctrination, providing what sacraments he could, and openly defying his captors by holding a sunrise service on Easter Sunday, 1951. 

Finally crushed by blood clots, dysentery, and pneumonia, Fr. Kapaun died on May 23, 1951 and was buried in a mass grave.


He was awarded the Bronze Star with Valor Device in September 1950 and the Distinguished Service Cross posthumously in August 1951. After 60 years of petitions from those who served with him, on April 11, 2013, Fr. Kapaun was awarded the nation’s highest decoration: the Medal of Honor. – Andrew Clarendon

St. Apollonia, ora pro nobis

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Last night we had an unexpected urgent need with his older brother. 🏥 Everything worked out and the ER doc was able to care for him with an uneventful visit. Praise God!

Now our focus returns to this Lil’ Man. His much needed dental work was scheduled for three different appointments. 🦷

His first treatment was rough and he loss consciousness for what seemed like eternity.

Yesterday, was his second appointment for treatment but he was uncooperative. He was sent home with a partially numbed mouth and required consolation the remainder of the day.

We’re hoping that he will have an easier time today and allow the necessary work to be done.

In your charity, please offer a prayer for him and his dentist. 🙏🏼

Sts. Apollonia, Michael, and Andrew Avellino — orate pro nobis. ➕

**UPDATE — we will have to consider other options for him since he was unable to have treatment, again.

Homeschool Daily Checklist

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freedom from vice and freedom for virtue

We are list people. I love them and my children love them. We have used various systems over the 20+ years of homeschooling and lists are always at the center.

I use lists with the goal of having my children become independent managers of their time and school work by the time they’re 13 years old.

These last two years of homeschooling have been different for us as we have made some shifts in homeschooling that we never anticipated. We continue to do more as the Good Lord prompts us.

There have been good fruits but the changes have also stretched us all in many ways. Recently, I was sharing my woes with a dear friend, Jessica who is also a veteran homeschooling mom of many. She offered encouragement and reshared the checklist that she uses for her children.

I decided to bring back the checklist for one of my children as it was clear the increased workload was too much for this child to organize on their own with a standard planner. I was also having challenges keeping up with what was due as the assignments are shared weekly vs. what we’ve been used to.

The new checklist that we’re incorporating provides a streamlined way for us to record what is due, breakdown workload, and help keep on task. It can be used for a traditional homeschooler or child in a classroom to everything in between.

You may use the checklist for your own use.

This checklist is based on what Shower of Roses shared.
I use abbreviations for all books. My children know how to read the checklist and fill it in on their own. We review throughout the day and update it as assignments are given & completed.

Homeschool Daily Checklist

To use this checklist:

  • click link/open file
  • save a copy of the file to your Google Drive
  • personalize for your child (copy and paste checkboxes if needed)
  • print as needed
  • make additional copies for each child and repeat the above steps

I’d love to hear how you help your children manage their lessons and become independent planners.

St. Ignatius of Loyola, ora pro nobis

Libertas Links

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In response to the many questions that we have received and as a follow-up to much of what we have shared here, here, here, here, or here — we’re sharing the following links.

These are links to issues/reflections pertinent to the times that we have used for our own discernment.

We will continue to add to this list as new resources are made available. Last update 1.13.21

But where the power to command is wanting, or where a law is enacted contrary to reason, or to the eternal law, or to some ordinance of God, obedience is unlawful, lest, while obeying man, we become disobedient to God. ~Leo XIII, Libertas §10, 13

Shepherds who are Leading:

Libertas Links

Religious Liberty – Catholic Victory:

Medical & Vaccinations:

Video/Audio:

Letter/Sites:

Covid Vaccines: ‘The Ends Cannot Justify the Means’
BISHOP ATHANASIUS SCHNEIDER & other Holy Shepherds

Books/Guides/Charts:

https://brandnewtube.com/embed/RkWUM4HbhFNsZPE

Patriots & Freedom Fighters:

Rosary Rally at the California State Capitol – America Needs Fatima

May we not be embarrassed or concerned about being laughed at, persecuted, or ridiculed. May we stand up and interrogate the Revolution and present our arguments in face of its smiles and ridicule. May by taking this courageous position, we also open the doors to find those who are willing to be counter-revolutionary and engage in this fight for Our Lady to the end of the path.

“Today we live oppressed in a world that is bent under the crushing weight of its own sins. In 1917, Our Lady foretold the calamity that was awaiting the modern world. At a certain moment, this collapse will come unless there is a general conversion. . .

The magnitude and the public aspect of these sins along with the refusal of the world to meet the requests of Our Lady form the basis for a great tragedy.

We must prepare for the tragedy that is hovering over the modern world. We have to face this perspective and then confide in Our Lady because, in a very real sense, this tragedy is, above all, her tragedy – it touches her in a deeper way than any of us. .

What is called for at this moment in History is for the souls to respond to the call of Our Lady, souls who will launch themselves, heart and soul, into the fight, the Counter-Revolution and the work over public opinion.“ – Prof. Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira

Missal Review

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Below is a summary of the three Missals that my family uses. All are around the same price point, $65-70.

***Shortly after this post, my husband and I discerned to stick with pre-55 Missals for each family member not using a children’s missal due to the changes that were made to the Mass and the fact that we follow the pre-55 Mass, most especially for Holy Week. We have decided to keep up this review with the inclusion of the 1962 Missal for transparency and reference.

➕The New Roman Missal by Fr. Lasance is my all-time favorite.

This is a wonderful accompaniment for you throughout the Liturgical Year, stressing the important Feasts and Highlights of our Redemption. The entire Mass propers are printed both in Latin and English. The Missal type has two colors, black for most texts and red for Holy Mass explanations, making it much more practical and convenient for daily use.

The images are especially helpful for newbies & busy parents of littles who experience distractions during Holy Mass and want to easily find the correct place in Holy Mass after tending to children.

It is also has a wonderful supplement including an Explanation of “The Ecclesiastical Year and the Sacred Liturgy;” and much more.

This is a reproduction of the original 1945 text Latin Tridentine Mass, according to the Council of Trent. Imprimaturs 1936/1945. 1900 pages.

➕The St. Andrew Daily Missal By Dom Gaspar Lefebvre O.S.B. is favorite of my husband and eldest son. It is my second fave and I often reference it.

It provides a wealth of supplemental info and includes the pre-1955 Holy Week which we follow.

Complete with Vespers and the Kyriale in modern notation, the Saint Andrew Missal is a reprint of the 1945 edition. The Ordinary of the Mass in Latin and English is printed with red rubrics. The missal includes beautiful narratives of each feast day for the liturgical year as well as spiritual and doctrinal notes, and features various illustrations throughout. Imprimatur 1945. Reprint of the 1945 edition. 2188 pp.

**We have done away with our 1962 Missals and now all use one of the above missals, pre-55 Holy Mass.

➕The most popular missal used is 1962 ROMAN CATHOLIC DAILY MISSAL by Angelus Press.

It is easy to follow with a new type setting. Out of all the missal options that I’ve come across, this is the best quality and most durable.

Most of the other Missals are just reproduced with original typesetting and have lower quality pages and binding.

The 1962 Daily Missal contains the English translations and the Latin originals of the rites and texts for Holy Mass and many other liturgical ceremonies. 1980 pages.

Children’s Missals

These children’s missals range from $5-$20.

Related:

Missal Covers

Prayer Request

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UPDATE
Thank you for your prayers! The surgeon was able to fix some of Gary’s damage. I think he’ll have more good years ahead assuming that he relinquishes his title of Camp Sacred Heart Dodgeball King. 😂

May the Good Lord bless you for your charity! ❤️

Sts. Rosalia and Rose of Viterbo, orate pro nobis. 🙏🏼

In your charity, please offer a prayer for my beloved husband who is going in for shoulder surgery this morning.

O Jesus Christ, Messiah and Lord, grant Gary joyful acceptance of the surgery which awaits him, and let this be the relief and cure which he seeks. Make skilled the work of the surgeon and that of his team. I pray You, O Lord, that this procedure will be without complication, and that his recovery will be speedy and complete so he can return to full play with his family (especially the boys). Amen

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