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The False Prophet – A Snapshot

The following article is by a fellow Crusader in our local area:

February 11, 2013
• Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes
• Pope Benedict XVI Resigns – first Papal resignation in over 600 years
• Reign ends on Feb 28 at 8pm
• Lightning Strikes Saint Peter’s Dome – 5:55pm

March 13, 2013 13/3/13
• Jorge Mario Bergoglio becomes Pope Francis I
• 187 years to the day since Leo12 papal encyclical condemning masonry
• White smoke at 7:06 pm (or 6:66pm)
• Appears on balcony 13/3/13/ 20:13 (ie chair of peter vacant for 13 days and 13 minutes)
• Newly elected Pope Francis jokes with Cardinals saying ‘May God forgive you for what you’ve done.’

March 14, 2013
Grand Master Gustavo Raffi of the Grand Orient Masonic Lodge of Italy praises election of Pope Francis

March 28, 2013
Pope Francis washes the feet of female Muslim prisoner

May 22, 2013
Pope Francis Says Atheists Who Do Good Are Redeemed. ‘We all have the duty to do good. For Atheists: Just do good and we’ll find a meeting point’

June 02, 2013
On Jesus multiplying the Bread and Fish – ‘Here’s the miracle, that it is more a sharing than a multiplying’

June 15, 2013
‘We look for Jesus Christ and say: ‘This is your sin, and I will sin again’. And Jesus likes that, because it was his mission: to become the sinner for us’

July 08, 2013
‘I also think with affection of those Muslim immigrants who this evening begin the fast of Ramadan, which I trust will bear abundant spiritual fruit.’

July 26, 2013
Pope Francis tells youth: ‘Be rebellious’ and ‘mess’ with dioceses

July 29, 2013
‘Who am I to judge?’

August 30, 2013
Pope Francis breaks protocol by bowing to the Queen of Jordan

August 31, 2013
Pope Francis begins the Papal Selfie trend

September 04, 2013
‘The issue for those who do not believe in God is in obeying their own conscience’

September 11, 2013
Pope implies The Virgin Mary has ‘defects’, saying “The Church and the Virgin Mary are mothers…All mothers have defects, we all have defects, but when we speak of our mother’s defects we gloss over them”

September 13, 2013
Pope says church is obsessed with gays, abortion, and birth control – ‘It is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time….We have to find a new balance’

September 27, 2013
On Adoration – ‘Fall asleep then, sleep! He is still looking at you.’

October 01, 2013
‘Proselytism is solemn nonsense, it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us’
‘The most serious of the evils that afflict the world these days are youth unemployment and the loneliness of the old’
‘Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good’
‘I believe in God, not in a Catholic God. There is no Catholic God’
‘You know what I think about this? Heads of the Church have often been narcissists, flattered and thrilled by their courtiers. The court is the leprosy of the papacy’

November 24, 2013
On Muslims – ‘We must never forget that they ‘profess to hold the faith of Abraham, and together with us they adore the one, merciful God, who will judge humanity on the last day.’

November 26, 2013
‘I prefer a church which is bruised, hurting and dirty’

December 11, 2013
‘Never fear the final judgment, because Christ will always be at our side’

December 17, 2013
Pope Francis makes the cover of The Advocate – the leading LGBT magazine

December 20, 2013
On The Virgin Mary: ‘Our Lady was human! And perhaps she even had the desire to say: ‘Lies! I was deceived!’

December 23, 2013
Time Magazine names Pope Francis ‘Person of the Year’

December 27, 2013
Esquire Magazine names Pope Francis ‘Best Dressed Man of the Year’

January, 2014
Pope sends iPhone message to televangelist Kenneth Copeland via Tony Palmer

January 20, 2014
‘Those that are Muslim, with the Quran. The faith that your parents instilled in you will always help you move on.’

January 26, 2014
Pope’s Peace Doves attacked by Crow and Seagull

January 28, 2014
Pope Francis on the cover of Rolling Stone

February 12, 2014
‘If you don’t feel the need for God’s mercy, don’t even bother going to Mass!’

February 28, 2014
‘When love fails, and it fails many times, we have to feel the pain of that failure, accompany the people who have felt the failure of their love’
Tony Palmer, under Pope Francis’ name, releases video stating that ‘Real communion is not the bread but the brother’

March 03, 2014
Pope Francis accidentally says ‘the F word’

March 05, 2014
Pope Francis goes to Confession in public and breaks protocol
Pope Francis gets his own fan magazine, Il Mio Papa (or ‘My Pope’)

March 10, 2014
Pope Francis says The Catholic Church should not dismiss gay marriage, but should study it

April 03, 2014
‘Scold the Lord a little. ‘Hey you promised me this and you haven’t done it!…Prayer must be a negotiation with God’

April 17, 2014
Pope Francis washes feet of disabled and elderly

April 23, 2014
Pope Francis phones woman in invalid marriage, telling her it’s okay to take Holy Communion – ‘A little Bread and Wine does no harm’

April 24, 2014
‘There are some priests who are more papist than the Pope’

April 28, 2014
Pope Francis tweets ‘Inequality is the root of social evil’

May 12, 2014
Pope Francis quotes Hillary Clinton ‘It takes a village to raise a child’

May 13, 2014
Pope Francis says he would baptize aliens

May 25, 2014
Pope Francis arrives in Jordan. Before his arrival, those waiting at the airport in Amman felt a magnitude 4.1 earthquake that struck in Israel near its border with Jordan

May 24, 2014
Pope Francis visits Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity. Days later, a fire breaks out at the scene.

May 27, 2014
‘Since it is not dogma, the door is always open to rethink priestly celibacy’

June 05, 2014
Pope meets with Televangelist Joel Osteen at the Vatican

June 08, 2014
Pope Francis hosts inter-religious prayers for peace at Vatican, including Muslim prayers

June 24, 2014
Pope meets with Televangelist Kenneth Copeland and other Evangelicals at the Vatican

June 29, 2014
Pope says ‘communists are closeted Christians’.

July 27, 2014
Pope Francis gives his Top 10 List on how to be happy – doesn’t mention Jesus once

July 28, 2014
Pope Francis apologizes to Pentecostals

September 01, 2014
Pope Francis hosts all-star soccer match for peace

September 04, 2014
Retired Israeli President Shimon Peres proposes a new global “United Nations of Religions” to Pope Francis

September 13, 2014
Pope Francis announces that World War III may have already begun

September 14, 2014
Pope Francis marries 20 couples – some of whom were ‘living in sin’

September 17, 2014
Pope Francis plans on exiling Cardinal Burke

October 9, 2014
‘But God does not exist: Do not be shocked! So God does not exist! There is the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, they are persons, they are not some vague idea in the clouds … This God spray does not exist! The three persons exist!’

October 13, 2014
Pope Francis Family Synod concludes with document suggesting dramatic shift in attitude toward gays – Document must be revised after public outcry

October 19, 2014
‘The Church should not fear change…by carefully surveying the signs of the times, we are making every effort to adapt ways and methods’

October 27, 2014
‘God is not a divine being or a magician, but the Creator who brought everything to life…Evolution in nature is not inconsistent with the notion of creation, because evolution requires the creation of beings that evolve.’

October 27, 2014
‘But there is a third group of Christians…They are lukewarm. They are neither light not dark. And God does not love these’

October 29, 2014
‘It’s strange, but if I talk about these subjects then the Pope is a communist, according to some. The fact that the love for the poor is in the center of the gospel is misunderstood.’

November 9, 2014
Pope Francis prays in Mosque with Muslim leaders

December 2, 2014
Pope Francis unites Hindus, Muslims, and Buddhists in joint declaration against ‘slavery’
Pope Francis compares Islamic Terrorists to Christian fundamentalists, saying ‘We have our share of them (fundamentalists). All religions have these little groups’

December 14, 2014
“I confess something to you, when I have seen a Christian…with such rigidness on the outside, I ask the Lord: ‘But Lord, throw a banana peel in front of them, so that they will take a good fall, and feel shame that they are sinners…”

January 15, 2015
Pope Francis says there are limits on free speech and if someone speaks badly about his mother, they could ‘expect a punch’

January 19, 2015
Pope Francis tells Catholics they ‘do not need to breed like rabbits’

January 25, 2015
Balloons Replace Doves as the Vatican Symbol of Peace

January 27, 2015
Pope Francis meets with transgender man dubbed ‘devil’s daughter’

Little prayer group miracles

Testimonies given at Jesus to Mankind Regional Meeting Oct 2013.

Part of the agenda for the day included testimonies given by people from various prayer groups all over the state.

One lady wrote her miracle down, others got up and spoke their testimonies. It was clear that there were many more, but that there was no time to hear them all. For example, our prayer group did not speak of our miracle. This was also because our miracle was very similar to another lady’s, who gave great detail (see *1). One Phillipino woman said that since starting a Divine Mercy Prayer Group, she has had miracles very frequently, almost daily, and she chose only her favourite story to tell. That seemed to be the general feeling: people nodded their heads as if in agreement; that they had similar experiences. I personally agree. Some signs might seem quite little to others but we know their significance. God is sending them frequently, as if to underline the importance of this work.

Prayers with a heavenly scent.

The first story was a written account given to the person conducting the meeting to read aloud.

A woman had a small prayer group and was trying to re-format the Crusade Prayers into larger print for her group to access the next day. She wanted to give them to her friend. She said she had a lot of difficulty because they wouldn’t format on the page properly and she had spent hours of work on it, but it wouldn’t print properly. It was by now late at night (after 10.30pm) and she felt too tired to continue.

She stopped to pray and be-moaned the fact that she had wanted to do this work for Our Lord but wasn’t able to do so and was saying ‘sorry, Jesus’. Then she thought she’d have one more look at the Crusade prayer site before she went to bed. Lo and behold, she found that you could download the prayers in large print format already! So she set the printer to 10 copies and waited up a bit longer to assemble them.

Suddenly, she noticed this beautiful perfume. She went out to ask her husband in the next room whether he had sprayed any air freshener, but he said he hadn’t moved from the lounge. She continued to investigate and after a while, she brought him in to ask him if he could smell anything. “Roses” he said. Bringing her older children in, they also confirmed this, and the source. The heavenly scent was coming from the printer (or the printed pages). Smelling the remainder of the ream of A4 paper, showed that the plain paper had no scent at all. It was coming from the Words of the Crusade Prayers themselves!

The next day the scent remained upon 2 of the prayer books printed and the other prayer group ladies could therefore witness to this miracle themselves.

A leap of faith

The Filipino lady, with an American accent, spoke next.

The miracles began after she started reading the Messages and as a result, started a Divine Mercy prayer group in her home. She had a joyous smile as she recounted just one of her favourite miracles.

She was stuck in a job where she was constantly attacked. She decided to take a leap of faith and leave, despite having no new job offers. One person tried to convince her not to do so (a boss?) recounting that another lady who left found it so difficult that she could not get another job in the industry and was still looking after 6 years. Undeterred and suddenly filled with the Spirit, she reproached the man saying, “But don’t you know who my Father is?!” ‘No’, he said, puzzled, “who is your father?” “My father is God the Almighty in Heaven!” she replied.

For about a month after that she applied for jobs but concentrated more on her faith and prayer life while she had time. It was getting to the point of monetary hardship and she prayed daily, “Jesus I trust in You!” After saying the Chaplet one night, she received a mysterious text message asking her if she was still interested in the job to call this number. Well, she didn’t know what job and she didn’t recognize the name or company.

Then the phone rang and she answered it saying that she had just finished saying the Chaplet of Mercy (it was very late to receive any call at that hour) and the lady on the other end said that she had just finished saying the same prayer! It was an employer. Even more mysterious, the Filipino lady could not remember applying for this job and the office had no record of her application, nor any cover letter; only her resume, which kept appearing on the top of the pile. That was the reason they rang; to find out when she had applied for this job. But she couldn’t tell them because she honestly didn’t know.

Needless to say, she was employed by that company most urgently and has not regretted leaving her former job ever.

The loaves and the fishes.

Another lady decided to spread the Seal of the Living God by printing copies to give out at a friend’s party that night. This was a brave move, as you can imagine, to give to a largely secular party at a private function.

Initially she set the printer to 60 copies and prepared to go to work but then decided there should be more, one per person (120) and hastily set it to print more copies. On her way to work, she suddenly realized that her printer would have run out of paper and she felt sad- because she had wanted to do this work for Jesus and now wouldn’t have enough.

Taking her little pile of Seal prayers to the party, she started to give them out. At the end, the host asked her, ‘How many did you run off?” Apparently there were 140 people at the party and every single one of them went home with a Seal of Protection Prayer!

When she got home, the lady went to pray and read her Bible and opened straight upon the passage of the sign of The Loaves and the Fishes!

A conversion story

Lastly a man who was a lawyer described his complete conversion, after reading the messages. He wore a large St. Benedict cross around his neck. He described his profession as very corrupt, as was his behaviour and the people he mixes with.

Since then he has become a new person and walks only in honest ways, in serving the Lord. He has been attacked for it, as you’d imagine. Once he was physically attacked by the devil at a suburban train station- violently and inextricably, he felt like he was being kicked in the stomach. Later he read the message about how the devil attacks people and how it coiuld feel like being kicked in the gut, which of course made sense to him.

The typhoon and the Seal of Protection

Lastly, on my way out I stopped to speak to a quiet Filipino man and his two teenage daughters. We didn’t speak long but he asked me if I’d heard the miracle that happened over there during the typhoon? In one particular place, the entire village was decimated-except for one house left standing untouched, in the middle of all the destruction. The man who owned it said he had the Seal of the Living God inside its walls.

More signs
This is all in addition to the fact that our own prayer group has experienced a miraculous sign (the heavenly rose-like scent) as well as my 13 year old daughter and myself seeing the miracle of the Sun at the start of Holy week; myself feeling a hand physically upon mine as I prayed the Rosary and my 7 year old daughter experiencing the presence and smell of the Lord (ie. incense) while praying with us in the car.

Many other signs I have had from The Holy Bible itself.
For example, at the time, when a particularly damning article on Maria Divine Mercy came out, I asked God in prayer, if I was being deceived, to show me. Much later that night (5 hours later when I’d completely forgotten all about my prayer), I unwrapped a new Bible given to me as a gift by my friend because I had promised I would look at it.

Opening randomly to read a passage, my eye fell to the bottom right hand corner of the right page, where was written (in tiny writing) a notation (explanation) of part of the Sacred Text. Referring to Daniel 10:21 was written:
“The Book of Truth; a heavenly book in which future events are already recorded”.

Trinity Sunday: The Doctrine of the Trinity

The Doctrine of the Trinity

This is the most fundamental of all Christian beliefs.

There are 3 persons in one God – Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

God has one Divine nature , but 3 persons.

Each person – Father, Son and Holy Spirit, are all equally God; they cannot be divided.

Without the the doctrine of the Trinity, we could not have the doctrine of the divinity of Christ .

Defender of this doctrine:

The fourth century bishop of Alexandria – Saint Athanasius (296-373) was the strongest defender of the doctrines of the Trinity and the divinity of Christ.

Saint Athanasius spent his life combating the Arian heresy, which denied the divinity of Christ by denying that there are three Persons in one God.

He composed the Athanasian Creed which defines very concisely the doctrines of the Trinity and the nature of Christ. It is the longest of the standard Christian creeds.

Trinitarian Prayers: Sign of the Cross, Glory Be, Apostles’ C reed, Athanasian Creed.

The Athanasian Creed

Whoever wishes to be saved, needs above all to hold the Catholic faith; unless each one preserves this whole and inviolate, he will without a doubt perish in eternity.

But the Catholic faith is this, that we venerate one God in the Trinity, and the Trinity in oneness; neither confounding the persons, nor dividing the substance; for there is one person of the Father, another of the Son, and another of the Holy Spirit; but the divine nature of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit is one, their glory is equal, their majesty is coeternal.

Of such a nature as the Father is, so is the Son, so also is the Holy Spirit; the Father is uncreated, the Son is uncreated, and the Holy Spirit is uncreated; the Father is infinite, the Son is infinite, and the Holy Spirit is infinite; the Father is eternal, the Son is eternal, and the Holy Spirit is eternal; and nevertheless there are not three eternals but one eternal; just as there are not three uncreated beings, nor three infinite beings, but one uncreated, and one infinite; similarly the Father is almighty, the Son is almighty, and the Holy Spirit is almighty; and yet there are not three almightys but one almighty; thus the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Spirit is God; and nevertheless there are not three gods, but there is one God; so the Father is Lord, the Son is Lord, and the Holy Spirit is Lord; and yet there are not three lords, but there is one Lord; because just as we are compelled by Christian truth to confess singly each one person as God, and also Lord, so we are forbidden by the Catholic religion to say there are three gods or three Lords.

The Father was not made, nor created, nor begotten by anyone. The Son is from the Father alone, not made nor created, but begotten. The Holy Spirit is from the Father and the Son, not made, nor created, nor begotten, but proceeding.
There is, therefore, one Father, not three Fathers; one Son, not three Sons; one Holy Spirit, not three Holy Spirits; and in this Trinity there is nothing first or later, nothing greater or less, but all three Persons are coeternal and coequal with one another, so that in every respect, as has already been said above, both unity in Trinity, and Trinity in unity must be venerated. Therefore, let him who wishes to be saved, think thus concerning the Trinity.

But it is necessary for eternal salvation that he faithfully believes also the incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Accordingly, it is the right faith, that we believe and confess, that our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God is God and man. He is God begotten of the substance of the Father before time, and He is man born of the substance of His mother in time: perfect God, perfect man, consisting of a rational soul and a human body, equal to the Father according to His Godhead, less than the Father according to humanity.

Although he is God and man, yet He is not two, but He is one Christ; one however, not by the conversion of the Divinity into a human body, but by the assumption of humanity in the Godhead; one absolutely not by confusion of substance, but by unity of person. For just as the rational soul and body are one man, so God and man are one Christ.

He suffered for our salvation, descended into hell, on the third day arose again from the dead, ascended into heaven, sits at the right hand of God the Father Almighty; thence He shall come to judge the living and the dead; at His coming all men have to arise again with their bodies and will render an account of their own deeds: and those who have done good, will go into life everlasting, but those who have done evil, into eternal fire.

This is the Catholic faith; unless everyone believes this faithfully and firmly, he cannot be saved. Amen.

The Hail Mary of a Protestant (A true story)

A little six-year-old Protestant boy had often heard his Catholic companions reciting the prayer “Hail Mary.” He liked it so much that he copied it, memorized it and would recite it every day. “Look, Mommy, what a beautiful prayer,” he said to his mother one day.

“Never again say it,” answered the mother. “It is a superstitious prayer of Catholics who adore idols and think Mary a goddess. After all, she is a woman like any other. Come on, take this Bible and read it. It contains everything that we are bound to do and have to do.” From that day on the little boy discontinued his daily “Hail Mary” and gave himself more time to reading the Bible instead.

One day, while reading the Gospel, he came across the passage about the Annunciation of the Angel to Our Lady. Full of joy, the little boy ran to his mother and said: “Mommy, I have found the ‘Hail Mary’ in the Bible which says: ‘Hail full of grace, the Lord is with thee, blessed art thou amongst women.’ Why do you call it a superstitious prayer?”

On another occasion he found that beautiful Salutation of St. Elizabeth to the Virgin Mary and the wonderful canticle MAGNIFICAT in which Mary foretold that “the generations would call her blessed.”

He said no more about it to his mother but started to recite the “Hail Mary” every day as before. He felt pleasure in addressing those charming words to the Mother of Jesus, our Savior.

When he was fourteen, he one day heard a discussion on Our Lady among the members of his family. Every one said that Mary was a common woman like any other woman. The boy, after listening to their erroneous reasoning could not bear it any longer, and full of indignation, he interrupted them, saying:
“Mary is not like any other children of Adam, stained with sin. No! The Angel called her FULL OF GRACE AND BLESSED AMONGST WOMEN. Mary is the Mother of Jesus Christ and consequently Mother of God. There is no higher dignity to which a creature can be raised. The Gospel says that the generations will proclaim her blessed and you are trying to despise her and look down on her. Your spirit is not the spirit of the Gospel or of the Bible which you proclaim to be the foundation of the Christian religion.”

So deep was the impression which the boy’s talk had made that his mother many times cried out sorrowfully: “Oh my God! I fear that this son of mine will one day join the Catholic religion, the religion of Popes!” And indeed, not very long afterwards, having made a serious study of both Protestantism and Catholicism, the boy found the latter to be the only true religion and embraced it and became one of its most ardent apostles.

Some time after his conversion, he met his married sister who rebuked him and said indignantly: “You little know how much I love my children. Should any one of them desire to become a Catholic, I would sooner pierce his heart with a dagger than allow him to embrace the religion of the Popes!”

Her anger and temper were as furious as those of St. Paul before his conversion. However, she would change her ways, just as St. Paul did on his way to Damascus. It so happened that one of her sons fell dangerously ill and the doctors gave up hope of recovery. Her brother then approached her and spoke to her affectionately, saying:
“My dear sister, you naturally wish to have your child cured. Very well, then, do what I ask you to do. Follow me, let us pray one ‘Hail Mary’ and promise God that, if your son recovers his health, you would seriously study the Catholic doctrine, and should you come to the conclusion that Catholicism is the only true religion, you would embrace it no matter what the sacrifices may be.”

His sister was somewhat reluctant at the beginning, but as she wished for her son’s recovery, she accepted her brother’s proposal and recited the “Hail Mary” together with him. The next day her son was completely cured. The mother fulfilled her promise and she studied the Catholic doctrine. After long preparation she received Baptism together with her whole family, thanking her brother for being an apostle to her.

The story was related during a sermon given by the Rev. Fr. Tuckwell. “Brethren,” he went on and said, “the boy who became a Catholic and converted his sister to Catholicism dedicated his whole life to the service of God. He is the priest who is speaking to you now! What I am I owe to Our Lady. You, too, my dear brethren, be entirely dedicated also to Our Lady and never let a day pass without saying the beautiful prayer, ‘Hail Mary’, and your Rosary. Ask her to enlighten the minds of Protestants who are separated from the true Church of Christ founded on the Rock (Peter) and ‘against whom the gates of hell shall never prevail.'”

This story was related by our priest as a sermon on Our Lady. It really touched my heart. I found it later at : http://www.olrl.org/stories/

Catholic Church Teaching: Sacramentals

“Sacramentals are holy things or actions

of which the Church makes use to obtain for us from God,

through its intercession, spiritual and temporal favors.”

Sacramentals increase our devotion in the worship of God.

They include Prayers and Ceremonies of the Church, Objects of Devotion and Blessings.

Sacramentals resemble Sacraments – visible signs are used (Holy Water, Sign of the Cross, Rosary), together with a special form of words.
• These visible signs invoke God’s blessing on persons, places or things, through the prayers of Holy Mother Church. We use these blessed objects to obtain favours from God.

Sacramentals are not necessary for salvation, but Sacraments are.
• They have no power of themselves, but they have power through the virtue of prayers of the Church and our devout disposition.

Sacramentals are used to teach the truths of our faith, by sight and by inspiring good thoughts and increasing devotion.

Sacramentals are of benefit in times of trouble, pain, danger or temptation.

Effects of Sacramentals depend on our pious disposition. Those in mortal sin will not profit from them.

Chief Benefits of Sacramentals:

1. Actual Graces

2. Forgiveness of venial sins (Sacramentals are an aide to true contrition

and contrition obtains forgiveness of sins).

3. Remission of temporal punishment.

4. Health of body and material blessings.
e.g. The Apostles anointed and healed many people
e.g. Miraculous Medal has had many miracles attributed to it.

5. Protection from evil spirits.

Sacramentals in Scripture:

In the New Testament:
Jesus blessed the loaves and fishes.
Jesus blessed the little children
Jesus blessed the Apostles before the Ascension.

In the Old Testament:
God blessed Adam and Eve
Noah blessed his sons
Isaac blessed Jacob
Moses blessed the tribes of Israel

Objects:

Holy oils, Holy water, Blessed salt, candles, ashes, palms,

Crosses and Crucifixes, Scapulars, Medals,

Rosaries, Holy pictures,

Bells, Sacred Vessels, vestments, altar linens

Persons:

Pregnant mothers. Sick people, Before an operation, At the end of Mass,

Last blessing before death, Remains of the dead, Nuptial blessing

Consecration of kings, monks and nuns

Parents blessing their children

Places:

Churches, chapels, altars, cemeteries, houses, workplaces, farms – crops, fields

Other:

Blessings for cars, planes, libraries.

Sign of the Cross.

“We should ask the priest to bless everything we use and have.

(…) By Sacramental blessings, we consecrate to God all we are and have” (My Catholic Faith p.367)

“Whether you eat or drink, or do anything else, do all for the glory of God.”(1 Cor. 10:31)

Source: My Catholic Faith by Most Rev Louis LaRavoire Morrow, S.T.D. (1954)

Mary, Help of Christians, Patroness of Australia

FEAST DAY: May 24th

Prayer for Australia:

Lord, you place deep in our hearts the love of Mary, Help of Christians.

Through her prayers grant wisdom to our leaders and integrity to our citizens.

Under her protection, may Australia be granted harmony, justice and peace.

We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen.

Prayer for the Safety of Australia as a Christian Nation (Imprimatur 1975 Archbishop of Melbourne T.F. Little)

Almighty God,

We Thy people cry out in our affliction.

Do not scorn us but for the glory of Thy name come to our rescue.

Look mercifully upon us in our tribulation, and,

though we have justly deserved punishment, turn away Thy wrath.

Through Jesus Christ, Our Lord. Amen.

Mary, Help of Christians,

bring succour and peace to Australia.

Prayers to the Patron Saints of our site

Our patron saints are:

St Joseph – Protector of Holy Church;

St Michael – Defender of the Faith

and St Padre Pio – Saint of our times, who suffered the wounds of Christ, who worked endlessly for the salvation of souls and who was endowed with many charisms and gifts of the Holy Spirit.

Prayer to St Joseph (Prayer of Pope Leo XIII)

To thee, O blessed Joseph, do we have recourse in our tribulation,

and having implored the help of thy thrice holy Spouse,

we confidently invoke thy patronage also.

By that charity wherewith thou wast united to the Immaculate Virgin Mother of God,

and by that fatherly affection with which thou didst embrace the Child Jesus,

we beseech thee and we humbly pray, that thou wouldst look graciously

upon the inheritance which Jesus Christ hath purchased by His Blood,

and assist us in our needs by thy power and strength.

Most watchful guardian of the Holy family, protect the chosen people of Jesus Christ;

keep far from us, most loving father, all blight of error and corruption:

mercifully assist us from heaven, most mighty defender,

in this our conflict with the powers of darkness;

and, even as of old thou didst rescue the Child Jesus from the supreme peril of his life,

so now defend God’s Holy church from the snares of the enemy and from all adversity;

keep as one and all under thy continual protection,

that we may be supported by thine example and thine assistance,

may be enabled to lead a holy life, die a happy death

and come at last to the possession of everlasting blessedness in heaven.

Amen.

Prayer To Saint Michael: (Prayer of Pope Leo XIII )

St. Michael the Archangel,

defend us in the hour of battle;

Be our safeguard against the wickedness

and snares of the Devil.

May God restrain Him, we humbly pray,

and do Thou, O Prince of the Heavenly Host,

by the power of God,

cast into Hell, Satan and all the other evil spirits,

who roam through the world,

seeking the ruin of souls.

Amen.

Prayer to St. Pio of Pietrelcina

Dear God, You generously blessed Your servant,

St. Pio of Pietrelcina,

with the gifts of the Spirit.

You marked his body with the five wounds

of Christ Crucified, as a powerful witness

to the saving Passion and Death of Your Son.

Endowed with the gift of discernment,

St. Pio laboured endlessly in the confessional

for the salvation of souls.

With reverence and intense devotion

in the celebration of Mass,

he invited countless men and women

to a greater union with Jesus Christ

in the Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist.

Through the intercession of St. Pio of Pietrelcina,

I confidently beseech You to grant me

the grace of perseverance, discernment and courage.

I ask this through Christ our Lord.

Amen.

Traditional Prayers: Part 2

Act of Faith
O my God, I firmly believe all the truths
that the holy Catholic Church believes and teaches.
I believe these truths O Lord,
because You have revealed them to her.
In this faith I am resolved to live and die. Amen.

Act of Hope
O my God, relying on Thy promises,
I hope that, through the merits of Jesus Christ,
you will grant me pardon of my sins,
and the graces necessary to serve you in this life
and to obtain eternal happiness in the next. Amen.

Act of Charity
O my God, I love you with my whole heart
and above all things,
Because You are infinitely good and perfect,
And I love my neighbor as myself for love of You.
Grant that I may love You more and more in this life,
and in the next for all eternity. Amen.

Short Act of Contrition
O my God, I am sorry that I have sinned against You,
because You are so good,
and with the help of your grace, I will not sin again. Amen

Long Act of Contrition
O my God, I am sorry and beg pardon for all my sins,
And detest them above all things,
Because they deserve Thy dreadful punishments,
Because they have crucified my loving Saviour
Jesus Christ, and, most of all,
Because they offend Thine infinite goodness;
And I firmly resolve, with the help of Thy grace,
never to offend Thee again,
and carefully to avoid the occasions of sin. Amen

Simple Acts of Faith, Hope and Charity.
Jesus, I believe in you.
Jesus, I trust in you.
Jesus, I love you.

The Angelus, (to be said morning, noon and eve.)

The Angel of the Lord declared unto Mary.
R. And she conceived by the Holy Ghost.
Hail, Mary…
V. Behold the handmaid of the Lord.
R. Be it done unto me according to Thy word.
Hail, Mary…
V. And The Word Was Made Flesh.
R. And dwelt amongst us.
Hail, Mary…
V. Pray for us, O holy Mother of God.
R. That we be made worthy of the promises of Christ.

Let us pray:
Pour forth we beseech thee O Lord
Thy grace into our hearts,
through we to whom the incarnation of Christ Thy Son
was made known by the message of an angel,
may, by HIs passion and Cross,
be brought to the glory of His Resurrection.
Through the same Christ our Lord. Amen

The Salve Regina (Hail Holy Queen)

Hail, holy Queen, Mother of mercy.
Hail our life, our sweetness and our hope!
To thee do we cry, poor banished children of Eve,
to thee do we send up our sighs,
mourning and weeping in this valley of tears.
Turn then, most gracious advocate,
Thine eyes of mercy towards us,
and after this, our exile,
show unto us the blessed fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary!
V. Pray for us, O Holy Mother of God
R. That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.

The Memorare

Remember, O most loving Virgin Mary,
that never was it known in any age
that anyone who fled to thy protection,
implored thy help or sought thy intercession,
was abandoned.
Inspired with confidence, therefore,
I fly to thee, O Virgin of virgins, my Mother;
to thee do I come, before thee I stand,
sinful and sorrowful.
Do not, O Mother of the Word Incarnate,
despise my prayers,
but graciously hear and grant them. Amen.

The Confiteor

I confess to Almighty God,
to the blessed Mary, ever Virgin,
to blessed Michael the Archangel,
to blessed John the Baptist,
to the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul,
and to all the Saints,
that I have sinned exceedingly in thought, word and deed,
through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault.
Therefore I beseech blessed Mary, ever Virgin,
blessed Michael the Archangel,
blessed John the Baptist,
the holy Apostles Peter and Paul,
and all the Saints, to pray to the Lord our God for me.
May the Almighty God have mercy on me,
and forgive me my sins, and bring me to everlasting life. Amen.

The Magnificat
My soul magnifies the Lord
My spirit rejoices in God, my Saviour.
He looks on His servant in her lowliness,
Henceforth, all ages will call me blessed.
The Almighty has done great things for me.
Holy is His Name.
His mercy is from age to age on those who fear Him.
He puts forth His arm in strength and scatters the proud-hearted.
He casts the mighty from their thrones, and raises the lowly.
The hungry He has filled with good things, the rich sent empty away.
He protects Israel, His servant,
remembering his mercy,
The mercy promised to our fathers,
To Abraham and his sons forever.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. Amen.

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