Today is my last day of the Novena for the Protection of the Unborn. Is anyone else finishing the novena today?
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Thursday, January 5, 2006
Wednesday, January 4, 2006
Please offer up a few prayers (Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be) for these intentions for Our Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI:Intention for the Apostleship of Prayer for the month of January, 2006 is: "That the effort to bring about the full communion of Christians may foster reconciliation and peace among all the peoples of the earth".
His missionary intention is: "That Christians may know how to welcome migrants with respect and charity, recognizing in each person the image of God".
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A reader asked me to post this again, so here is a prayer to venerate any saint. With so many of my readers getting special Saints for the Year, I wanted to post a prayer that anyone of you can say.
ETERNAL Father, I wish to honor St. (Name), and I give You thanks for all the graces You have bestowed upon him (her). I ask You to please increase grace in my soul through the merits of this saint, and I commit the end of my life to him (her) by this special prayer, so that by virtue of Your goodness and promise, St. (Name) might be my advocate and provide whatever is needed at that hour. Amen.
PROMISE: "When you wish to honor any particular saint and give Me thanks for all the graces I have bestowed on that saint, I increase grace in your soul through the merits of that saint. When you commit the end of your life to any of the saints by special prayers, I appoint those saints to be your advocates and to provide whatever you need at that hour."-Our Lord to St. Gertrude
From the book: Prayers and Heavenly Promises, Compiled from Approved Sources, by Joan Carroll Cruz.
NOTE: Catholics Don't "worship" saints; we simply honor them for their great lives for Our One Lord, Jesus Christ. Just as Jesus allowed the Disciples to assist at the Miracle of the Loaves, so Our Lord allows the saints to help us.
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ETERNAL Father, I wish to honor St. (Name), and I give You thanks for all the graces You have bestowed upon him (her). I ask You to please increase grace in my soul through the merits of this saint, and I commit the end of my life to him (her) by this special prayer, so that by virtue of Your goodness and promise, St. (Name) might be my advocate and provide whatever is needed at that hour. Amen.
PROMISE: "When you wish to honor any particular saint and give Me thanks for all the graces I have bestowed on that saint, I increase grace in your soul through the merits of that saint. When you commit the end of your life to any of the saints by special prayers, I appoint those saints to be your advocates and to provide whatever you need at that hour."-Our Lord to St. Gertrude
From the book: Prayers and Heavenly Promises, Compiled from Approved Sources, by Joan Carroll Cruz.
NOTE: Catholics Don't "worship" saints; we simply honor them for their great lives for Our One Lord, Jesus Christ. Just as Jesus allowed the Disciples to assist at the Miracle of the Loaves, so Our Lord allows the saints to help us.
Just a friendly reminder from your neighborhood blog to keep praying!
Today is my 8th day of the Novena for the Protection of the Unborn.
Please pray along with me if you have not as this novena can be started any time of the year. And, thank you to everything that is still praying in unity with me.
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Today is my 8th day of the Novena for the Protection of the Unborn.
Please pray along with me if you have not as this novena can be started any time of the year. And, thank you to everything that is still praying in unity with me.
Tuesday, January 3, 2006
Welcome, Anchoress readers!
One of the most popular Catholic blogs, the Anchoress, linked to my site about the Saint for the year project, so I wanted to let everyone know that it is still ongoing if you would like a saint please just ask. I am now close to reaching 200 requests! Thank you!
So, if you are looking for a saint, just comment below to request one or see these posts:
1. Original Message
2. Requests List
This has been a tremendous success! Thank you all. Would anyone be interested in doing this same thing again next year?
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One of the most popular Catholic blogs, the Anchoress, linked to my site about the Saint for the year project, so I wanted to let everyone know that it is still ongoing if you would like a saint please just ask. I am now close to reaching 200 requests! Thank you!
So, if you are looking for a saint, just comment below to request one or see these posts:
1. Original Message
2. Requests List
This has been a tremendous success! Thank you all. Would anyone be interested in doing this same thing again next year?
Today is my 7th day of the Novena for the Protection of the Unborn. Please pray along with me if you have not as this novena can be started any time of the year.And, thank you to everything that is still praying in unity with me including Darren. May God bless you.
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Double of II Class (1954 Calendar): January 2*
* According to the Traditional Catholic Calendar from 1911 and into the early 1960s, the Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus occurs on the Sunday of January 2nd, 3rd, 4th, or 5th. When no Sunday occurs on these days, then the feast is celebrated on January 2nd. Before 1911, this Feastday was kept on the Second Sunday after Epiphany.
For the name of "Jesus" means "God saves." "At the name of Jesus every knee should bend, of those in heaven and on earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father" (Phil 2:10-11)
Jesus Christ, The Great King of the World, knew rejection. He was rejected from the Inn in Bethlehem while still living in the womb. He knew cold as he lay in rags in Bethlehem. He knew hunger as the devil tempted Him in the desert for 40 days. He was rejected for His words on the Eucharist too. And He knew rejection - at the hour He needed them the most, all of his friends left Him to the Cross - only St. John would return.
Today let us recall Jesus Christ, who became like us, completely like us in all things but sin to be the sacrifice for our sins - our redemption. Let us honor His name, given to Him before His conception through the words of the angels. Read on the history of the Feast of the Holy Name
."If you think the name "Jesus" continually, and hold it firmly, it purges your sin, and kindles your heart; it clarifies your soul, it removes anger and does away with slowness. It wounds in love and fulfills charity. It chases the devil, and puts out dread. It opens heaven, and makes a contemplative man. Have Jesus in mind, for that puts all vices and phantoms out from the lover." - Richard Rolle (†1349) A hermit, a mystic, and a writer of devotional works and biblical translations. Taken from The Form of Perfect Living and Other Prose Treatises, Thomas Baker, 1910 London
For the list of proper prayers as said in the Traditional Mass for this day, please click here. And pray the Litany to the Holy Name of Jesus today especially.
Dom Gueranger writes:
"The feast of the Holy Name is of comparatively recent origin, its first promoter was St Bernardine of Siena, who lived in the fifteenth century. This holy man established the practice of representing the Holy Name of Jesus surrounded with rays, and formed into a monogram of its three first letters, ihs.[3] The custom spread rapidly through Italy, and was zealously propagated by the great St John of Capestrano, who, like St Bernardine of Siena, was of the Order of Friars Minor. The Holy See gave its formal approbation to this manner of honouring the Name of our Saviour, and, in the early part of the sixteenth century, Pope Clement VI, after long entreaties, granted to the whole Franciscan Order the privilege of keeping a special Feast in honour of the Most Holy Name of Jesus."Rome extended the same favour to various Churches; and, at length, the Feast was inserted in the universal Calendar. It was in the year 1721, at the request of Charles VI, Emperor of Germany, that Pope Innocent XII decreed that the Feast of the Most Holy Name of Jesus should be kept throughout the whole Church; he also chose the Second Sunday after the Epiphany as the day, but as we have already explained, the feast is now fixed for the Sunday following the Circumcision."
Prayer:
O God, Who didst constitute Thine only-begotten Son the Savior of mankind, and didst bid Him be called Jesus: mercifully grant, that we who venerate His holy Name on earth, may fully enjoy also the vision of Him in heaven. Through the same our Lord.
Prayer Source: 1962 Roman Catholic Daily Missal
Monday, January 2, 2006
Today is the 6th Day of the Novena for the Protection of the Unborn. Think about the great joy you are bringing to at least one life. God does not forget our prayers, but He hears them. Let us pray in unity for the unborn, that they might be protected.
It's not to late to join either. A novena is a nine-day prayer. You can start any day of the year.
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It's not to late to join either. A novena is a nine-day prayer. You can start any day of the year.
Sunday, January 1, 2006
Catholic Doors Ministry has a schedule up for reading the entire Bible in one year. What a great resolution this year - to read God's Holy Word from start to finish.*Note: I do not endorse any other pages on the website of Catholic Doors Ministry aside from their list for reading the Bible in one year.
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Today is my 5th day of the Novena for the Unborn, but it still isn't too late to join in praying. Please do so if you are not yet praying along for the unborn.
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