We count it ALL joy! We offer prayers on this New Year’s Eve in the secular calendar — prayers of thanksgiving, prayers to seek His Holy will, and prayers for spiritual protection.

Always rejoice.  Pray without ceasing. In all things give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you all.

11.3.20

Almighty and Eternal God, King of Kings and Lord of Lords: graciously turn your gaze to us who invoke You with confidence.

Bless us, citizens of the United States of America; grant peace and prosperity to our Nation; illuminate those who govern us so that they may commit themselves to the common good, in respect for Your holy Law.

Protect those who, defending the inviolable principles of the Natural Law and Your Commandments, must face the repeated assaults of the Enemy of the human race.

Keep in the hearts of Your children courage for the truth, love for virtue and perseverance in the midst of trials.

Make our families grow in the example that Our Lord has given us, together with His Most Holy Mother and Saint Joseph in the home of Nazareth; give to our fathers and mothers the gift of Strength, to educate wisely the children with which you have blessed them.

Give courage to those who, in spiritual combat, fight the good fight as soldiers of Christ against the furious forces of the children of darkness.Keep each one of us, O Lord, in your Most Sacred Heart, and above all him whom Your Providence has placed at the head of our Nation.

Bless the President of the United States of America, so that aware of his responsibility and his duties, he may be a knight of justice, a defender of the oppressed, a firm bulwark against Your enemies, and a proud supporter of the children of light.

Place the United States of America and the whole world under the mantle of the Queen of Victories, our Unconquered Leader in battle, the Immaculate Conception. It is thanks to her, and through your Mercy, that the hymn of praise rises to you, O Lord, from the children whom you have redeemed in the Most Precious Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ.

July 2020 #archbishopvigano

5.1.2020 The #1 message! #americaneedsfatima .

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“Our Lady is the Queen of Heaven and Earth and, at the same time, our mother. We enter the month of May with this conviction, and it becomes more deeply rooted in us when we leave it, strengthening our faith and increasing our fortitude. May teaches us to love Mary Most Holy for the glory she rightly possesses and for all that she represents in the plans of Divine Providence. It also teaches us to be more constant in our filial union with Mary.

Children are never more sure of the loving vigilance of their mothers than when they suffer. All of mankind suffers today; all peoples suffer. They suffer in every conceivable way… .

Let us desire many great things for the glory of God. Let us always ask Our Lady for everything. And let us, above all, ask her for that which the Sacred Liturgy beseeches of God: “Emitte Spiritum tuum et creabuntur, et renovabis faciem terrae” (Send forth Thy Spirit, and they shall be created; and Thou shalt renew the face of the earth). We should ask, through the mediation of Our Lady, that God once again send us the Holy Ghost with the plenitude of His gifts so that His kingdom may be created anew and be purified by a renewal of the face of the earth…

Let us then confide to Our Lady this heartfelt yearning and desire. The hands of Mary will be for our prayer a pair of pure wings that will carry it with certainty to the throne of God.” #tfp .

5.13.2020

We were blessed with a Holy Mass and confession on this glorious feast of Our Lady of Fatima. It is also the last day of our 54 day Rosary Novena. .
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Each time the Blessed Virgin appeared to the three children at Fatima, She repeated Her requests that we pray the Rosary each day. In the final vision, on October 13, 1917, Our Lady silently held out the Brown Scapular of Mount Carmel as a sign of Her desire that we undertake this great devotion. In fact, Sister Lucy has stated that “the Scapular and the Rosary are inseparable.” Emerging from faith, prayer becomes the unshakable foundation for peace in Heaven’s plan for our salvation.

O Queen of the Most Holy Rosary, we beg Thy intercession for the Consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary by the Pope and all the Catholic bishops of the world, in the manner requested by Our Lady of Fatima, which will end the chastisement of this coronavirus, prevent greater chastisements, and result in the conversion of Russia to the Catholic Faith and a period of world peace. We unite this Rosary with all the Rosaries offered for the same intention.

7.19.2020

Two have become one!

We give praise and thanksgiving to the Good Lord for the gift of marriage and this new season of life that He has brought us into.

Please prayer for our daughter and newest son.

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May God most pure grant His servants Andrew and Elissa a peaceful and long life, matrimonial chastity, mutual love in the bond of peace, a long-lived posterity, happiness in their children, and the unfading crown of glory.

May God keep their married life above reproach, and grant them to see their children’s’ children; give them dew from heaven and the fruitfulness of the earth; provide them with an abundance of temporal good things, that they in turn may share their abundance with those in need; and grant them all that is necessary for salvation. Amen.

7.5.2020

He always insists on making a visit to his “Mother Mary” in the courtyard before Holy Mass.

9.18.2020

This is us in our glory after our eldest daughter’s nuptials. Deo gratias!

Often we see pictures or catch glimpses of another and think that they have it all together.

If anyone has ever thought of us in such light, I ensure you that anything we have done or do that is of value is only due to God’s grace.

My beloved and I share openly with those who seek our advice or need encouragement. We share to help others along and to give glory to God for the work that He has done in our lives.

There is always hope!

We were a very young couple who conceived a beautiful healthy girl out of wedlock, had our marriage shaken to the core requiring weekly spiritual direction for a year, loss all material possessions and was without a job for long enough to have us below poverty lines on multiple occasions, faced near death pregnancies and births, had a spouse miraculously healed in the ICU from life changing health emergencies on two separate occasions, and faced all the other challenges that fourteen pregnancies and the raising of eight children bring.

If we “made it” to this place to want nothing else than to walk the narrow path after all of our failings, corrective suffering, and trials, you can make it with His grace!

Seek only His will! Fight to conform your will to His. Do the difficult things. Keep your marriage and family intact at all costs. Frequent the sacraments. Remain in the state of grace. Let prayer be infused into every minute of your day. Consecrate yourself to Jesus through Mary as St. Louis de Montfort prescribes. Pray for spiritual protection. Cling to the traditions of the Church. Live the Gospel radically, no matter the cost.

St. Joseph of Cupertino, whose feast is today (9.18), instructs us on what God desires from us.

“Clearly, what God wants above all is our will which we received as a free gift from God in creation and possess as though our own. When a man trains himself to acts of virtue, it is with the help of grace from God from whom all good things come that he does this. The will is what man has as his unique possession.

St. Joseph of Cupertino, ora pro nobis.

5.17.2020

Let the birthday party begin! My two birthday buddies received their birthday blessing after our Dry Mass #missasicca. Deo gratias!
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Today is my Gio’s 10th birthday and tomorrow will be Ella’s 17th birthday. So much celebrating and thanksgiving!

7.19.2020

We took a car selfie on the way to the church and I’m not sorry. It’s the only pic I have of us pre-wedding.

Even a 4 am rise didn’t guarantee that we would be ready on time. We were fashionably late. 😉

11.7.2020

A Sermon to Catholic Families

“In this time in which we live, when the spirit of the world rules over everyone and tries to rule over all our families, penetrating into the midst…of our Catholic schools and the whole Catholic world, destroying Catholicism little by little…and all that the Church had done: all this is subject to…the devil—in this our time we must rediscover the principles of Catholicism.

We must revive these principles—they are simple and not difficult:
➕prayer,
➕penance,
➕and the accomplishment of the will of God.

The devil has invented ambiguous principles. And he, too, knows that he does not need to complicate the principles of deceit. He does not need to complicate the business of deceiving the world, of deceiving souls.

So he uses simple formulas:
Liberty – Equality – Fraternity.

Simple formulas that deceive the world. These principles replace the Ten Commandments with the Rights of Man.

Simple these formulas are, but deceitful, false, made to thwart the Ten Commandments and destroy them by destroying the authority of God, by destroying families.

Over and above this, the devil has invented, in these recent times, and added to the Rights of Man that which goes by the name of human dignity.

In the name of human dignity, one leaves responsibility to the conscience alone.

Each does what he wants under the pretext of human dignity; under the pretext that people are adults. Nowadays, it’s said, the whole world is adult, and formerly it was still in a state of infancy.

Now we must always remind ourselves of these principles: there is no such thing as the Rights of Man, there is the Decalogue–the Commandments of God.

There is no human dignity, this does not exist.

➕There is only Christian dignity.

➕Only in the measure that we have a part in Our Lord Jesus Christ, we are worthy, we have dignity.

➕In the measure that we do not have part in Our Lord Jesus Christ, we have no dignity.”

-excerpts from a sermon by #archbishoplefebvre given on Pentecost 5.30.82