I love You,Lord Jesus.
I praise You, Jesus.
I thank You, Jesus.
I will follow You every day of my life.
I believe you will never let me go away, empty-handed.
I trust in your words and promises,which never fails.
You are my life,my savior, my redeemer,my love, my provider,my consoler,my protector, my sustainer,and my friend.
Complete the work in my life.
Amen
May all Catholics, indeed all of God’s people, heed this wisdom and return to Christ.
Second reading From a treatise on the Lord’s Prayer by Saint Cyprian, bishop and martyr
May your name be hallowed
How merciful the Lord is to us, how kind and richly compassionate! He wished us to repeat this prayer in God’s sight, to call the Lord our Father and, as Christ is God’s Son, be called in turn sons of God! None of us would ever have dared to utter this name unless he himself had allowed us to pray in this way. And therefore, dear friends, we should bear in mind and realize that when we call God our Father we ought also to act like sons. If we are pleased to call him Father, let him in turn be pleased to call us sons.
We should live like the temples of God we are, so that it can be seen that God lives in us. No act of ours should be unworthy of the spirit. Now that we have begun to live in heaven and in spirit, all our thoughts and actions should be heavenly and spiritual; for, as the Lord God himself has said: Those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be despised. And the blessed Apostle wrote in his letter: You are not your own; you were bought with a great price. So glorify and bear God in your body.
We go on to say, May your name be hallowed. It is not that we think to make God holy by our prayers; rather we are asking God that his name may be made holy in us. Indeed, how could God be made holy, he who is the source of holiness? Still, because he himself said: Be holy, for I am holy, we pray and beseech him that we who have been hallowed in baptism may persevere in what we have begun. And we pray for this every day, for we have need of daily sanctification; sinning every day, we cleanse our faults again and again by constant sanctification.
The apostle Paul instructs us in these words concerning the sanctification which God’s loving kindness confers on us: Neither the immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor robbers will inherit the kingdom of God. And such indeed you were. But you have been washed, you have been sanctified, you have been justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God. We were sanctified, he says, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God. Hence we make our prayer that this sanctification may remain in us. But further, our Lord who is also our judge warns those who have been cured and brought back to life by him to sin no more lest something worse happen to them. Thus we offer constant prayers and beg night and day that this sanctification and new life which is ours by God’s favor may be preserved by his protection.
O Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, I believe in Thy love for me. I implore, that I may love Thee more and more. Have mercy on us sinners as we put our trust in Thee!
Should you feel yourself overwhelmed by fear,cast yourself into the unshaken confidence of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, "
Most Sacred Heart of Jesus.
Have mercy on us.
On this 1st Friday of June let us honor the Sacred Heart of Jesus by seeking the humility that He models for us. The Litany of humility prays…”From the desire of being esteemed, deliver me Jesus”, let us strive to cease worrying about worldly esteem & seek Jesus’ Humble Heart.
I invite everyone to deepen their celebration of Sacred Heart Month by visiting https://t.co/0YUKEo7L2K to read a reflection on the Sacred Heart. May we all be enriched during this month of June as we draw closer to the Sacred Heart of Jesus through the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
This group openly mocks Jesus Christ, the cornerstone of my faith, and I want to make it clear that I do not agree with nor support the decision of the Dodger’s to “honor” the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence - Blake Treinen
Please retweet and show your support for this brave pitcher.
Sadness & anger need not be there when receiving Christ in the Eucharist! Respect, veneration, & joy must fill our hearts!!! I love this pic.
Disclaimer: I don't know who the person in the photo is and where.
One of my best examples of surrendering ourselves into the hands of God before we do our work. Zambia Neuro Surgeon Dr Kachinga Sichizya down on his knees praying for his patients in the wards before attending to them. Remains a relevant example.
Please keep these nine brothers in your prayers as we approach their ordination to the Priesthood of Jesus Christ, next Saturday, May 20th at @MarysShrine at 9:30AM. The ordinandi (from top left to right) are. . .
First Apparition of Our Lady
MAY 13, 1917
The three children were playing at Cova da Iria on May 13, 1917 when they saw two flashes like lightning, after which they saw the Mother of God above a holm oak. She was, according to the description of Lucia, "a Lady dressed in white, more brilliant than the sun…" Her face, indescribably beautiful, was "neither sad nor happy, but serious," with an air of mild reproach. Her hands, joined together as if she were praying, were resting at her breast and pointing upward. A rosary hung from her right hand. The seers were so close to Our Lady – about a yard and a half away – that they stood within the light that radiated from her.
The conversation developed in the following manner:
Our Lady: Do not be afraid; I will not harm you. Lucia: Where is Your Grace from?
Our Lady: I am from heaven–pointing to the sky.
Lucia: And what does Your Grace wish of me?
Our Lady: I have come to ask you to come here for six months in succession on the thirteenth day of each month at this same hour. Later I will tell you who I am and what I want. Afterward, I will return here a seventh time.
Lucia: And will I go to heaven, too?
Our Lady: Yes, you will.
Lucia: And Jacinta?
Our Lady: Also.
Lucia: And Francisco?
Our Lady: Also, but he must say many rosaries.
Lucia: Is Maria das Neves already in heaven?
Our Lady: Yes, she is.
Lucia: And Amélia?
Our Lady: She will be in purgatory until the end of the world. Do you wish to offer yourselves to God to endure all the sufferings that He may be pleased to send you, as both an act of reparation for the sins with which He is offended and an act of supplication for the conversion of sinners?
Lucia: Yes, we do.
Our Lady: Well then, you will have much to suffer. But the grace of God will be your comfort.
"It was upon saying these last words, 'the grace of God...' that for the first time she opened her hands, which emitted a most intense light that penetrated our breasts, reaching the innermost part of our souls and making us see ourselves in God, Who was that light, more clearly than we can see ourselves in the best of mirrors.
Then, driven by a deep inspiration, we knelt down and repeated inwardly: 'O Most Holy Trinity, I adore Thee! My God, my God, I love Thee in the Most Blessed Sacrament.'”
"A moment later, Our Lady added, 'Pray the rosary every day to obtain peace for the world and the end of the war.'
She immediately began to rise serenely toward the east until she disappeared far into the distance.
The light that surrounded her was, so to speak, opening her way through the starry firmament."