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[Stephen 🕊️🌈✝️🇻🇦 @a_stephen21]

Sacred Heart of Jesus | First Friday Devotion | 9 Months | ♥️ |
https://t.co/vGC3RjDfq0
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Promises:
1 I will give them all the graces necessary for their state of life.

2 I will give peace in their families.

3 I will console them in all their troubles.

4 They shall find in My Heart an assured refuge during life and especially at the hour of death.

5 I will pour abundant blessings on all their undertakings.

6 Sinners shall find in My Heart the source and infinite ocean of mercy.

7 Tepid souls shall become fervent.

8 Fervent souls shall speedily rise to great perfection.

9 I will bless the homes in which the image of My Sacred Heart shall be exposed and honored.

10 I will give to priests the power to touch the most hardened hearts.

11 Those who propagate this devotion shall have their name written in My Heart, and it shall never be effaced.

12 The all-powerful love of My Heart will grant to all those who shall receive Communion on the first Friday of nine consecutive months the grace of final repentance; they shall not die under My displeasure, nor without receiving the Sacraments; My Heart shall be their assured refuge at the last hour.
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[Dana Rachel 🇻🇦 @thyflameoflove]

If you think the Miraculous Medal is just Catholic superstition, Fr. John Hardon’s story is hard to ignore.

Servant of God Fr. John A. Hardon was a Jesuit priest, teacher, and theologian. He was not someone who easily believed stories about miracles.

When a Vincentian priest spoke about the Miraculous Medal and the graces connected to it, Fr. Hardon later admitted:
→ “I was not impressed.”

He did not wear medals. He did not own a Miraculous Medal. He took the enrollment prayers, put them away, and forgot about them.

A few months later, while serving at St. Alexis Hospital in Cleveland, Fr. Hardon visited a young boy who had suffered a serious head injury after crashing into a tree while sledding. The child had been unconscious for about ten days.

Fr. Hardon later said that the question was not whether the boy would recover, but whether he would live.

As he was leaving the room, he suddenly remembered the Miraculous Medal.

He searched the hospital until a nurse found one. Another nurse found a blue ribbon so the boy could wear it. Fr. Hardon blessed the Medal and prayed the enrollment prayers.

Then something happened that he never forgot.

According to Fr. Hardon’s own testimony, the boy opened his eyes for the first time since the accident. He looked at his mother and said:
→ “I want some ice cream.”

The doctors were called.

In the days that followed, Fr. Hardon said that tests showed no remaining signs of the expected brain damage, and the boy returned home.

This experience changed him.

The priest who once doubted the Miraculous Medal spent the rest of his life promoting devotion to Our Lady and encouraging people to wear the Medal.

God alone works miracles. Catholics do not believe the Medal is magic. But God often gives His graces through the prayers of Mary and through sacramentals that lead us to Christ.

A skeptical Jesuit witnessed something he never forgot.

If this happened today, would most Catholics believe it, or would they explain it away?

Because miracles like these still happen everyday...

[Stephen 🕊️🌈✝️🇻🇦 @a_stephen21]

@Furrysponge1973 @BoyGeorge @Eman5695 Israel is in the America???????

[Stephen 🕊️🌈✝️🇻🇦 @a_stephen21]

@SteAtwood @judeokeyvlogs “Man-made one” it’s the gospel lol.

[Ascension @AscensionPress]

St. Aloysius, pray for us!

[ChurchPOP @Church_POP]

America’s 250-year history is momentous and profound, yet chaotic and imperfect, marked by the women and men who labored to create a land of liberty.

The Shrine of Our Lady of Champion, the only Church-approved Marian apparition in the United States, has created an opportunity for America’s Catholics to see the faces of the holy women and men who have been a light in America’s darkest hours.

Here are four of America’s holiest women and men all U.S. Catholics should know about:
https://t.co/sDmVP35YE8

[Dana Rachel 🇻🇦 @thyflameoflove]

During Pope Leo XIV's Corpus Christi Mass in Madrid, attended by more than one million Catholics, reports and images shared online appeared to show a solar halo in the sky. A solar halo is a natural atmospheric phenomenon. While the Church does not treat such events as miraculous by default, many Catholics found the timing meaningful and were reminded of the beauty and mystery of the Holy Eucharist.

[Marysia @marysia_cc]

The Annunciation by Gustave Doré, 1880

[Catholic Manhood ❤️‍🔥 @bethecreed]

"Never will anyone who says his Rosary every day be led astray. This is a statement that I would gladly sign with my blood."

St. Louis de Montfort

[𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐬 𝐝𝐞𝐥 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐨 ✞ن 🇻🇦 @Primicias_Cor]

"Dios no nos ama porque somos buenos. Él nos ama porque es nuestro Padre."

~San Juan Crisóstomo

[Catholic Life @prayandfast2]

"The Mass is the moment when heaven and earth are united."

- St. Francis of Assisi

[🌸🌿♕️Janelle♕️🌿🌸💗𓆏 @JanieGirlTX]

🌿🌹🌿The Angelus🌿🌹🌿

V. Angelus Domini nuntiavit Mariae.
R. Et concepit de Spiritu Sancto.

🌿🌹Ave María, grátia pléna, Dóminus técum. Benedícta tu in muliéribus, et benedíctus frúctus véntris tui, Iésus. Sáncta María, Máter Dei, ora pro nobis peccatóribus nunc et in hora mortis nostræ. Amen🌹🌿

V. Ecce ancilla Domini,
R. Fiat mihi secundum verbum tuum.

🌿🌹Ave María, grátia pléna, Dóminus técum. Benedícta tu in muliéribus, et benedíctus frúctus véntris tui, Iésus. Sáncta María, Máter Dei, ora pro nobis peccatóribus nunc et in hora mortis nostræ. Amen🌹🌿

V. Et Verbum caro factum est,
R. Et habitavit in nobis.

🌿🌹Ave María, grátia pléna, Dóminus técum. Benedícta tu in muliéribus, et benedíctus frúctus véntris tui, Iésus. Sáncta María, Máter Dei, ora pro nobis peccatóribus nunc et in hora mortis nostræ. Amen🌹🌿

V. Ora pro nobis, sancta Dei Genetrix,
R. Ut digni efficiamur promissionibus Christi.

🌿🌹Oremus. Gratiam tuam, quaesumus, Domine, mentibus nostris infunde; ut qui, Angelo nuntiante, Christi Filii tui incarnationem cognovimus, per passionem eius et crucem ad resurrectionis gloriam perducamur. Per eumdem Christum Dominum nostrum. Amen🌹🌿

[Satasha Katergator @mathryn_m]

St. Joan of Arc, pray for us.

[Memento Mori @TempusFugit4016]

Third Sunday after Pentecost

"I have erred like a sheep that has lost its way; I thank Thee, my good Shepherd, that Thou hast so carefully sought me by Thy inspirations, admonitions, and warnings, and dost now bring me back to true penance, that I may be a joy to the angels. Amen" - Fr. Leonard Goffine

[U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops @USCCB]

Saint Anthony of Padua, Priest and Doctor of the Church, pray for us!

[qaartzz 𖣁 @qaartzz]

“O God, whose only begotten Son, by His life, death, and resurrection, has purchased for us the rewards of eternal life.”

[Memento Mori @TempusFugit4016]

"Words are truly the image of the soul." - St. Basil the Great

[Dana Rachel 🇻🇦 @thyflameoflove]

“Tell everybody that God gives us graces through the Immaculate Heart of Mary.”
— St. Jacinta Marto, Fatima (1917)

📅 June 13: Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

At Fatima, the Immaculate Heart of Mary was revealed as part of God's plan to lead souls to Jesus and bring about their salvation.

On June 13, 1917, Our Lady showed the children her Heart surrounded by thorns, symbolizing the sins and ingratitude that wound her because they offend God and endanger souls.

She told Lucia, "Jesus wishes to establish in the world devotion to my Immaculate Heart... My Immaculate Heart will be your refuge and the way that will lead you to God."

The message of Fatima emphasized prayer, especially the Rosary, sacrifice for the conversion of sinners, the First Saturday devotion, and trust in Mary's maternal intercession.

As Our Lady promised, "In the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph," meaning that God's grace and mercy will ultimately prevail through the mission He entrusted to the Mother of His Son.

Jacinta was only a child, yet after encountering Our Lady, she became deeply devoted to prayer, sacrifice, and helping save souls.

The Church teaches that God alone is the source of all grace. Mary is neither worshipped nor placed above Jesus. Rather, God lovingly chooses to distribute many graces through her intercession because she is perfectly united to His will.

The Immaculate Heart reflects Mary's pure love for God and her constant desire to lead every soul closer to Christ.

At Fatima, Heaven's message was simple but urgent:
pray, repent, return to God, and do not waste the time still being given for conversion.

Saint Jacinta Marto, pray for us.
Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us.

[Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone @ArchCordileone]

St. Anthony of Padua, pray for us.

[Stephen 🕊️🌈✝️🇻🇦 @a_stephen21]

@kellymarierago @AscensionPress My head looks like a pineapple 🍍

[Ascension @AscensionPress]

Happy Memorial of the Immaculate Heart of Mary!