Jen Kramer

Writer. Editor. Shoe hoarder. Opinions my own.

[Beauty of the Catholic Faith @advoluntas]

♰ Pentecost: Gain a Plenary Indulgence by praying the Veni Creator Spiritus ♰

🇻🇦🕊 Veni Creator Spiritus,
Mentes tuorum visita,
Imple superna gratia,
Quae tu creasti pectora.

Qui Paraclitus diceris,
Donum Dei altissimi
Fons vivus, ignis, caritas,
Et spiritalis unctio.

Tu septiformis munere,
Dexterae Dei tu digitus,
Tu rite promissum Patris,
Sermone ditans guttura.

Accende lumen sensibus:
Infunde amorem cordibus:
Infirma nostri corporis
Virtute firmans perpeti.

Hostem repellas longius,
Pacemque dones protinus:
Ductore sic te praevio,
Vitemus omne noxium.

Per te sciamus da Patrem,
Noscamus atque Filium;
Te utriusque Spiritum
Credamus omni tempore.

Gloria Patri Domino,
Natoque qui a mortuis
Surrexit, ac Paraclito,
In saeculorum saecula. Amen🙏

🇺🇸🕊 Come, Holy Ghost, Creator blest,
Vouchsafe within our souls to rest;
Come with Thy grace and heav'nly aid
And fill the hearts which Thou hast made.

To Thee, the Comforter, we cry,
To Thee, the Gift of God Most High,
The Fount of life, the Fire of love,
The soul's Anointing from above.

The sev'n-fold gifts of grace are Thine,
O Finger of the Hand Divine;
True Promise of the Father Thou,
Who dost the tongue with speech endow.

Thy light to every thought impart
And shed Thy love in every heart;
The weakness of our mortal state
With deathless might invigorate.

Drive far away our wily Foe,
And Thine abiding peace bestow;
If Thou be our protecting Guide,
No evil can our steps betide.

Make Thou to us the Father known;
Teach us the eternal Son to own
And Thee, whose name we ever bless,
Of both the Spirit, to confess.

Praise we the Father and the Son
And Holy Spirit, with them One;
And may the Son on us bestow
The gifts that from the Spirit flow! Amen 🙏

🎥 To gain the Plenary Indulgence on the feast of Pentecost you must pray or sing the Veni Creator Spiritus in public and follow the usual conditions: sacramental confession within 20 days, reception of the Holy Eucharist, and prayer for the intentions of the Supreme Pontiff. Private recitation can gain a partial Indulgence.
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[Jen Kramer @JdrJen]

@acloudofsaints @trad_west_ Thank you Father. 🙏🏻

[Sr. Mary Joseph Calore, SSCJ @sscjusa]

Repost of excellent insight by Debra Gagnon Kelly via Facebook

Pope Leo XIV may have just fulfilled a 100-year-old prophecy.

And almost nobody is connecting the dots.

To understand why this matters, you have to go back to October 13, 1884.

After celebrating Mass that morning, Pope Leo XIII suddenly collapsed at the foot of the altar. His face turned ashen white. For about ten minutes, he stood frozen in what witnesses described as a trance.

When he finally came to, he revealed what he had seen.

A vision of Satan, boasting before the throne of God:

“I can destroy your Church.”

And the Lord replied:

“You have the time. You have the power. Do with them what you will.”

Most accounts say Satan was granted somewhere between 75 and 100 years.

Leo XIII walked straight from the chapel to his office and composed the Prayer to St. Michael — and ordered it prayed at the end of every Low Mass throughout the world.

He knew what was coming.

Now look at the last hundred years.
Two world wars. Mass apostasy.

The collapse of the family. Catholic divorce rates matching the secular world. Liturgical abuse. Scandal at every level of the hierarchy. Atheistic communism sweeping nations.

Exactly what Satan had threatened.

But here’s where it gets interesting.

Exactly 33 years to the day after Leo XIII’s vision — October 13, 1917 — roughly 70,000 people gathered in a field in Fatima, Portugal, and witnessed the Miracle of the Sun.

Our Lady had appeared to three shepherd children months earlier. She warned that Russia would spread her errors throughout the world.

She told them the final battle between Christ and Satan would be over marriage and the family.

Russia became the first nation to legalize ab*rtion. The first to legalize no-fault divorce. The birthplace of modern atheism and communism.
She was right about everything.

But she also made a promise:

“In the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph.”

Now watch the dates closer:

→ October 13, 1884 — Leo XIII’s vision

→ May 13, 1917 — Our Lady appears at Fatima

→ October 13, 1917 — the Miracle of the Sun

→ May 13, 1981 — an assassin shoots John Paul II in St. Peter’s Square. He survives, the bullets narrowly missing his vital organs, and credits Our Lady of Fatima with saving his life.

→ March 25, 1984 — John Paul II consecrates the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

And now, in our own time:

On May 8, 2025, a new Pope steps onto the loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica.

He chooses the name Leo XIV — explicitly stating he chose it in part to honor Leo XIII.

The same Pope who started this whole story.
Five days later, on May 13, 2025 — the Feast of Our Lady of Fatima — the world reflects on his election as the bookend to a century-long battle.

The bookend has arrived. And the data is staggering.

In 2025, nearly 160,000 adults entered the Catholic Church in the United States — the highest level in twenty years. By 2026, the average U.S. diocese reported a 38% increase in converts over the previous year.

Los Angeles received 8,598 people into the Church.

The Archdiocese of Paris welcomed its largest group of converts ever.

France’s adult baptisms have tripled in a decade.
England. Norway.

Australia. Belgium. Ireland.
Everywhere, the same story.

The 100 years are closing. The triumph is beginning. And you are alive to see it.

Our Lady didn’t perform the greatest public miracle since the parting of the Red Sea for nothing. She came with two requests:

1. Pray the Rosary daily.
2. Pray St Michael's Prayer often.

That’s it. That’s how you join the winning side of the greatest spiritual victory in centuries.

50 to 100 years from now, I believe most of the first world will be Catholic again.

The question isn’t whether the triumph is coming.

The question is whether you’ll be one of the souls who helped bring it about — or one who watched from the sidelines.

[Jen Kramer @JdrJen]

Someone said they are “Orthodogs Jews” 😂😂😂

[Jerusalem of Iron 🇮🇱 עם ישראל חי @jerusalemofiron]

It's worse than you think. The IDF has trained dogs to pilot aircraft. Fully 25% of the sorties against Iran and Hezbollah have been carried out by Belgian Malinois.

[Jen Kramer @JdrJen]

Popes. They suffer with bank customer service just like us. 🙏🏻😭

[Rich Raho @RichRaho]

About two months after Robert Francis Prevost became Pope Leo XIV, he put in a call to his bank back home, a close friend, the Rev. Tom McCarthy, told a gathering of Catholics last week. The new pope identified himself as Robert Prevost, saying that he wished to change the phone number and address that the bank had on file. The pope answered the security questions correctly. Then, the woman on the line for the bank told him that it wasn’t enough — he would have to come to the branch in person. “He said, ‘Well, I’m not going to be able to do that,’” Father McCarthy said in a video clip shared on social media. The pope tried a different tack. “Would it matter to you if I told you I’m Pope Leo?” he asked, according to Father McCarthy. She hung up.

[Jen Kramer @JdrJen]

And no mother is ever too lost to be found by a child’s prayer…

🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[Fr. Jeff Fasching @JefferyFasching]

No child is ever too lost to be found by a mother’s prayer…

St Monica-Patroness of Mothers who refuse to give up hope, pray for us!!

[Jen Kramer @JdrJen]

@JefferyFasching Amen.

[Jen Kramer @JdrJen]

@sscjusa Incredible witness of strength and faith. Thank you for sharing Sister. 🙏🏻

[Jen Kramer @JdrJen]

@GrainneMcD92925 Praying for you. Thank you for your beautiful posts. May God truly bless and protect you and the Blessed Mother hold you close in her mantle. 🙏🏻🕊️🌹

[Saint Adaugoijele ✝️ @JustAdaugoijele]

When time is short but your need is great,
Pray Mother Teresa’s Flying Novena.
Nine Memorare......
straight to Our Lady’s heart. Miracles still happen!

Have you ever,prayed this Novena?🥺
Do shared with us?🔥

[𝔊𝔯á𝔦𝔫𝔫𝔢 🕊️☘️ @GrainneMcD92925]

Lord I am not worthy to receive you, but only say the word and my soul shall be healed 🕊️

[Rev .Vitus @Vitus_osst]

Here's the Regina Caeli

[Beauty of the Catholic Faith @advoluntas]

♰ My Lord and my God ♰

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

This Rome travel guide is from 1658

[Jen Kramer @JdrJen]

@Jsmum46 Amen. I believe that it is responsible for MANY priestly vocations. May God bless Mr Weible and may he rest in perfect peace.

[Memento Mori @TempusFugit4016]

"Fly for a moment from your affairs, escape for a little while from the tumult of your thoughts. Put aside now your weighty cares and leave your wearisome toils. Abandon yourself for a little to God and rest for a little in Him." - St. Anselm

[Paracleto4 @paracleto4]

"Il maggior dispetto che possiamo fare al demonio è pregare per i sacerdoti e la loro santità. Il maligno sa, infatti, che se riesce a corrompere un'anima consacrata, può arrivare a rovinare tante anime di semplici battezzati..."

Suor Lucia di Fatima

[Jan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @RosaryMum]

"What is Mary but 'star of the sea,' lighting the way to harbour for those tossing on the bitter waters”

Saint Anthony of Padua

[SIS ADA🧕🏾 @chiamaka___o]

Prayer to Saint Clare for Light and Clarity

O gentle Saint Clare,
faithful follower of Christ
and radiant light in darkness,

you who trusted God completely
and saw beyond what the world could see,

intercede for us now.

Obtain for us clarity in confusion,
light in uncertainty,
and peace in moments of doubt.

Help us to discern what is true,
to walk in faith,
and to remain steadfast in God’s will.

Saint Clare,
illuminate our path,
and draw us closer to the light of Christ,
that we may see with the eyes of faith.

Through Christ our Lord, Amen.

[Jen Kramer @JdrJen]

@BeSaintly Amen. 🙏🏻