Topic: Prophecy Meditation
Medjugorje Day By Day Nov 24 - CONSECRATION TO THE IMMACULATE HEART
Come to the foot of the altar. Here graces will be showered upon all, great and little, who ask for them. Graces will especially be showered upon those who ask for them." (Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal to St. Catherine Laboure).
"Medjugorje is the continuation and fulfillment of Fatima." Pope John Paul II
Quote from "Medjugorje and the Church" page 19 by Sr Emmanuel and Denis Nolan. The Holy Father said this to Bishop Hnilica
Two Frogs - Be Special To Others
A group of frogs were traveling through the woods when two of them fell into a deep pit. All the other frogs gathered around the pit. When they saw how deep the pit was, they told the two frogs that they were as good as dead. The two frogs ignored the comments and tried to jump up out of the pit with all their might.
The other frogs kept telling them to stop, that they were as good as dead. Finally, one of the frogs took heed to what the other frogs were saying and gave up. He fell down and died.
The other frog continued to jump as hard as he could. Once again, the crowd of frogs yelled at him to stop the pain and just die. He jumped even harder and finally made it out. When he got out, the other frogs said, "Did you not hear us?" The frog communicated to them that he was deaf. He thought they were encouraging him the entire time.
This story teaches two lessons:
1. There is power of life and death in the tongue. An encouraging word to someone who is down can lift them up and help them make it through the day.
2. A destructive word to someone who is down can be what it takes to kill them. Be careful of what you say. Speak life to those who cross your path.
The power of words ... it is sometimes hard to understand that an encouraging word can go such a long way. Anyone can speak words that tend to rob another of the spirit to continue in difficult times. Special is the individual who will take the time to encourage another.
Pope John Paul II -
August 1, 1989 address by the Pope to a group of Italian physicians dedicated to defending unborn life and to making scientific and medical studies on the apparition, as reported by Bishop Paul Hnilica, SJ, Auxiliary Bishop of Rome: "Today's world has lost its sense of the supernatural, but many are searching for it - and find it in Medjugorje, through prayer, penance and fasting." http://www.medjugorje.org/pope.htm
Mother Teresa -
Jesus knows the countless hungers of man, and He gives of Himself.
What a gift!
What proof of His love!
What assurance for us!
Padre Pio -
I hate sin! Our country would be fortunate if, as mother of our rights, it would perfect the laws and customs in the light of honesty and Christian principles.
Archbishop Fulton Sheen -
If you want freedom, exercise your free will as God wills
"People talk most about their health when they are sick, and most about liberty when they are in danger of losing it. Despite all the pleas for liberty, it must be remembered that every flight from responsibility is a flight from liberty and every denial of personal guilt is also a denial of freedom."
St. Faustina's diary http://www.marian.org/directory_flash.html -
Bring to me the meek and humble souls and the souls of little children, and immerse them in My mercy. These souls most closely resemble My Heart. They strengthened Me during My bitter agony. I saw them as earthly Angels, who would keep vigil at My altars. I pour out upon them whole torrents of grace. Only the humble soul is able to receive My grace. I favor humble souls with My confidence. (1220)
O humility, lovely flower, I see how few souls possess you. Is it because you are so beautiful and at the same time so difficult to attain? O yes, it is both the one and the other. Even God takes great pleasure in her. The floodgates of heaven are open to a humble soul, and a sea of graces flows down upon her. O how beautiful is a humble soul! From her heart, as from a censer, rises a varied and most pleasing fragrance which breaks through the skies and reaches God himself, filling His Most Sacred Heart with joy. God refuses nothing to such a soul; she is all-powerful and influences the destiny of the whole world. God raises such a soul up to His very throne, and the more she humbles herself, the more God stoops down to her, pursuing her with His graces and accompanying her at every moment with His omnipotence. Such a soul is most deeply united with God. O humility, strike deep roots in my whole being. O Virgin most pure, but also most humble, help me to attain deep humility. Now I understand why there are so few saints; it is because so few souls are deeply humble. (1306)
Dailys - http://www.catholic-forum.com/e-pistle.html -
Quote of the Day The Church in Vietnam is alive and vigorous, blessed with strong and faithful bishops, dedicated religious, and courageous and committed lay people... The Church in Vietnam is living out the gospel in a difficult and complex situation with remarkable persistence and strength. -Statement of three U.S. archbishops returning from Vietnam in January 1989
Today's Tidbit The word "Christ" comes from a Greek translation of the Hebrew term "Messiah." This title of Jesus means the "anointed of God."
MEDJUGORJE DAY BY DAY
These thoughts for a day are taken from a daily meditation book based on the Messages of Our Lady of Medjugorje by Father Richard J. Beyer, Ave Maria Press.
NOV 24 - CONSECRATION TO THE IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY
Given to the young locutionists, Jelena and Mirijana:
I give you my heart. Accept it! I do not wish to distress you, nor to stop talking to you, but know that I cannot stay always with you. You must realize this. In the meantime, I wish to be constantly with you, with the heart. It is necessary to pray a great deal, and not to say, "If we have not prayed today, it is nothing serious" (Locutionists Jelena & Mirijana October 29, 1983).
And from Luke's gospel:
But Mary treasured all these words and pondered them in her heart (Lk 2:19).
Reflection:
Our Lady had spoken of her heart and her love for us many times in Medjugorje. "Consecrate yourself to the Immaculate Heart," she said in August of 1983. And in December of the same year: "Tomorrow [Feast of the Immaculate Conception] will be a truly blessed day for you, if every moment is consecrated to my Immaculate Heart." "My heart is full of grace and love. My heart is the gift I give you," she said in June of 1987. There is great peace as well as great power in the consecration, for as we give our hearts and lives to the Blessed Mother, she gives her own life and all that this entails to us.
Application:
Putting Our Lady's words into action, let us now consecrate ourselves to the Immaculate Heart, using the prayer she dictated to Jelena for that purpose:
O Immaculate Heart of Mary, overflowing with goodness, show us your love. May the flame of your heart, O Mary, descend upon all people. We love you so very much. Impress true love in our hearts. May our hearts yearn for you. O Mary, sweet and humble of heart. Remember us even when we sin. You know that we are all sinners. Through your most sacred and motherly heart, heal us of every spiritual illness. Make us capable of realizing the beauty of your maternal heart, and in this way, may we be converted by the flame of your heart. Amen
LESSONS, Toll Free Message Phone Line, Feast of Christ the King, Blessed
Elizabeth of the Trinity, St. Catherine Laboure/Miraculous Medal, Pope's Prayer
Intentions...
LESSONS from Our Lord Revisited - Release 56
Links to the 56th release of the revisited LESSONS from Our Lord from the I AM
your Jesus of Mercy series are:
Volume IV, Lesson 40 - Fidelity
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Volume IV, Lesson 41 - Growth
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Volume IV, Lesson 42 – Spiritual Matrimony
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Toll Free Message Phone Line
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Toll-Free Phone Line
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Only you can provide to those who do not have internet access this valuable
phone line service. It is free throughout the entire USA. One can listen to the
current monthly Message from Our Lady of Emmitsburg (prompt #1), the
inspirational reflection by Fr. John Wang (prompt #2), and now the current
monthly Words of God the Father (prompt #3). At the present time it is necessary
to call 3 separate times to select each of the 3 prompts rather than being able
to proceed from one to another, but soon before years end - the ability to call
just once to listen to all three will be implemented. Please prayerfully
consider including this phone number as well as the Foundation website
information as an insert in your Christmas cards.
Toll-Free Center of the Immaculate Heart Phone Line
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The Feast of Christ the King - November 25, 2007
Litany of Christ the King... (
http://www.catholictradition.org/Litanies/litany2.htm )
Novena Prayer to Christ the King... (
http://www.catholictradition.org/Christ/cking-feast4.htm )
Pope Pius XI Encyclical, Quas Primas, on Christ the King... (
http://www.catholictradition.org/Encyclicals/primas.htm )
Blessed Elizabeth of the Trinity - November 25, 2007
Saint of the Divine Indwelling… (
http://www.helpfellowship.org/Blessed_Elizabeth_of_the_Trinity.htm )
Prayer to the Trinity
Blessed Elizabeth of the Trinity, 21 November 1904
O my God, Trinity Whom I adore, help me to forget myself entirely that I may be
established in You as still and as peaceful as if my soul were already in
eternity. May nothing trouble my peace or make me leave you, O my Unchanging
One; but may each minute carry me further into the depths of Your Mystery. Give
peace to my soul; make it Your Heaven, Your beloved dwelling and Your resting
place. May I never leave You there alone but be wholly present, my faith wholly
vigilant, wholly adoring, and wholly surrendered to Your creative action.
O my beloved Christ, crucified by Love, I wish to be a bride for Your Heart; I
wish to cover You with glory; I wish to love You even unto death! But I feel in
my weakness, and I ask You to clothe me with Yourself, to identify my soul with
all the movements of Your Soul, to overwhelm me, to possess me, to substitute
Yourself for me that my life may be but a radiance of Your Life. Come into me as
Adorer, as Restorer, as Savior.
O Eternal Word, Word of my God, I want to spend my life in listening to You, to
become wholly teachable that I may learn all from You. Then, through all nights,
all voids, all helplessness, I want to gaze on You always and remain in Your
great Light. O my beloved Star, so fascinate me that I may not withdraw from
Your radiance.
O consuming Fire, Spirit of Love, come upon me, and crate in my soul a kind of
Incarnation of the Word; that I may be another humanity for Him in which He can
renew His whole Mystery; and You, O Father, bend lovingly over Your poor little
creature; cover her with Your shadow, seeing in her only the Beloved in whom You
are well pleased.
O my Three, my All, my Beatitude, infinite Solitude, Immensity in which I lose
myself, I surrender myself to You as Your prey. Bury Yourself in me that I may
bury myself in You until I depart to contemplate in Your Light the abyss of Your
greatness.
St. Catherine Laboure' & the Miraculous Medal - Nov. 27 & 28
Rich in the tradition and heritage of the Double Family St. Vincent de Paul, St.
Louise de Marillac, St. Catherine Labour and St. Elizabeth Ann Seton is
Emmitsburg, Maryland. The local Vincentian priests and the Daughters of Charity
continue to carry on this legacy. Central to the Marian devotion that has
evolved from this tradition is the Miraculous Medal.
St. Catherine Labour and the Miraculous Medal… (
http://www.marys-touch.com/Saints/medal/medal.htm )
The Miraculous Medal Story and Its Meaning ( http://www.amm.org/medalp.htm )
Pope Benedict XVI Monthly Prayer Intentions - November 2007
Join in praying daily for the November 2007 monthly intentions of our Holy
Father:
Respect for Life: That medical researchers and legislators may have a deep
respect for human life from its beginning to its natural conclusion.
Peace in Korea: That the spirit of reconciliation and peace may grow in the
Korean Peninsula.
DAILY OFFERING PRAYER - O Jesus, through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of
Mary, I offer You my prayers, works, joys, and sufferings of this day in union
with the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass throughout the world. I offer them for all
the intentions of Your Sacred Heart: the salvation of souls, reparation for sin,
and the reunion of all Christions. I offer them for the intentions of our
bishops and of all Apostles of Prayer, and in particular for those recommended
by our Holy Father this month.
December
2
Sun
Our Lady of Emmitsburg Monthly Marian Prayer Service
Lynfield Event Complex, December 2, 2007
Come pray the Rosary and Chaplet of Divine Mercy at the Our Lady of Emmitsburg
Monthly Marian Prayer Service from 3PM-5PM. (Our Lady has been giving her
monthly message to the world at this service.) All are welcome.
More Info...
January
6
Sun
Our Lady of Emmitsburg Monthly Marian Prayer Service
Lynfield Event Complex, January 6, 2008
Come pray the Rosary and Chaplet of Divine Mercy at the Our Lady of Emmitsburg
Monthly Marian Prayer Service from 3PM-5PM. (Our Lady has been giving her
monthly message to the world at this service.) All are welcome.
WAYNE WIEBLE to give a short talk following the prayer service - details
forthcoming...
More Info...
( http://www.centeroftheimmaculateheart.org/messages/messages_current_events.asp
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Emmitsburg Maryland - Center of the Immacualte Heart
MESSAGE FROM THE QUEEN AND LADY OF ALL CREATION
OF COURSE WE KNOW ALL ARE CONSIDERED ALLEGED ONES..SO AGAIN PRAY AND DISCERN FOR
YOURSELF VERY CAREFULLY..
MESSAGE FROM THE QUEEN AND LADY OF ALL CREATION
THROUGH JUAN PABLO DELGADO
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2007 12:00 NOON
San Isidro de Grecia, Costa Rica
May God's peace be with each one of you. Dear children, I want to tell you that
My visit today will be extensive due to the need that the world has to know what
the Queen of Heaven wants to tell it today.
My children, this is the hour at which My visits to Fatima took place.
1 I have visited many places, but the name Fatima still has great resonance in
the world today. At that place I, the Imploring Omnipotence, performed one of
the greatest miracles so that all would believe, because it is My wish that all
believe in what I say and can be converted.
I want you to listen to this. It has also been said, even from the lips of
priests, If She speaks a lot, She is not the Blessed Virgin because She is the
Woman of silence. Let us begin then from this point. The silence of virtue is
one thing, and another, very different, is the silence of indifference and
cowardice, right? The silence of virtue is to meditate on the personal
experience of God in God Himself; when one receives the word, to examine it in
depth, to silence the soul and the senses to allow the Holy Spirit to act and
pronounce, through a knowledge of the Word of God and His - let us call it,
sermon - in the person's interior, in order to have a greater appreciation and a
greater knowledge of who God is and to be able to love Him more. The silence of
virtue is also never to gossip or speak an unnecessary word. The silence of
virtue is to imitate Christ in the humility, simplicity and gentleness of His
Heart.
Silence of indifference and cowardice is what the majority of the leaders and
ministers of the Church have at this time, by which, out of convenience,
lukewarmness, fear, or for their own benefit, they overlook the bad behavior of
politicians, ministers, other religious, or important people of the town; and
their lack of prayer creates in them an ignorance of God, a coldness toward God.
Consequently, of course, when one does not love God or His Gospel, he does not
love his brother or the people who he shepherds, and this becomes a silence of
indifference. The world would be good today if there would be a good, adequate,
and holy evangelization, just as Our Lord desires it.
What need would there be of My presence in this place, as in many others? The
Blessed Virgin does not descend from Heaven only because She wants to, or so
that her visionaries can describe Her as beautiful and make hundreds of statues
in Her honor. No. In first place, the best image that you can have of Me is
the imitation of My Virtues within yourselves so that you may convert into My
1 Twelve o'clock noon.
reflection, and in that reflection go and evangelize, in the silence of your
example, wherever you find yourselves.
The world is advancing more and more toward its own destruction. Bishops and
priests must evangelize.
They permit sacrileges and indecent fashions in the House of God that offend
and, over and over, crown with thorns, Jesus Christ, present in the Tabernacle.
Their desire for power and for recognition by the people has led them to the
limit and to the abomination of removing the Most Blessed Sacrament from the
center, in His own Church; and placing a seat in the place reserved for the
Lord, they sit there wishing to be adored. They ought to recall the sublime
Commandment: You shall adore only the Lord your God and render homage only to
Him. The Church should be poor, its ministers chaste and humble, practicing the
holy exercises, prayer and the Rosary. Today they make people believe that
everything is possible through the mind, through one's own efforts, with Our
Lord remaining on the side and at a distance. All the juvenile gangs, indecent
fashions, obscene words, as well as inappropriate behaviors in schools,
colleges, universities, education centers, are due to the terrible
evangelization.
Because they do not pray, ministers do not receive the Holy Spirit, and during
the Eucharistic services, their preaching is empty. It does not satisfy; it
does not enter into the depth of the Spirit. This is why the weekly
participation in the Holy Sacrifice for many, and especially for the youth,
turns into something tedious, boring, and sometimes, without meaning. They no
longer preach Christ Crucified. The Passion of the Lord converts so many souls!
They no longer preach about My Love and My Immaculate Heart, that desires so
deeply to triumph over the world in order to bring peace, harmony, union to
families, and prayer; to extinguish in the world, wars, apostasy, illnesses, and
sin. In one word, My Immaculate Heart wants to triumph over the world so that
all of you, My children, may be happy.
This country, like many others, has just signed its destiny. The enemy of God
and of His Church is already in the world. Many people do not read the Word of
God and much less Revelation, out of fear. If they pray and love My Son, there
is no reason why they should fear. On the contrary, they should read in order
to understand many things and to know what is happening and to be ready. I have
had to come and insist upon the world, due to the lack of prayer and reading of
the Word of God. Because of this, they do not understand many things and are
not informed. They do not believe in much for the same reason: because there is
no one to explain it to them, and the ministers of God who are in charge of the
faith of the people, are the ones who destroy this faith more quickly because
they believe that they are right in everything. They want to limit God and mold
Him in their own way, and cast aside simple and humble souls who, with open
hearts, were willing to believe - perhaps - in a manifestation of the love of
God, such as this one here in San Isidro.
The union of many countries with the dominant power of the world will bring
catastrophe upon them. In Costa Rica, I will protect those who have always
prayed My Rosary, and come with faith and trust to the refuge of My Immaculate
Heart. Just as I have shown you again and again that I will protect you against
the attacks of your enemies spiritual or physical - so will I protect you every
time if you seek My protection with prayer.
During the First World War, when I was begged for peace in the world, and I came
to speak about it at Cova da Iria 2, there, before the shepherds, I announced
the Second World War with these words: The war is going to end soon, and the
soldiers will return to their homes, but if man does not stop offending God, a
worse one will come during the Pontificate of Pius XI. When you see a sign in
the heavens of an unknown light, know that it is the sign that God is sending
you to inform you that He will chastise the world for its crimes, through war.
These words of the Cova da Iria, dear children, today this Saturday
- I repeat to you: Soon, very soon, war will come upon the world. All the
nations that have signed a pact with the United States will be compelled to
fight.
Yes, war will come to you; this time, for an ideal that perhaps seems
unimportant, but is not. It is the subsistence of those who have depleted their
resources for the same reason: for creating weapons to destroy each other. The
largest country in the East, allied with other powers who have always wanted the
power and the destruction of the United States, will begin soon to attack this
nation. When it begins to see itself at a disadvantage, it will compel the
remaining countries of this continent who have signed its pact, to ally
themselves in the destruction. In order to be able to help you and to prevent,
to a large extent, all the destruction this can cause on the world, I, the
Mother of Hope, want people to embrace a profound, complete, loving and
unequalled faith and devotion to My Immaculate Heart. In this way, My mantle,
as an impenetrable shield, will be placed over this country, and over all those
who have always loved Me and have clung to Me. If the devotion which I am
asking for begins here, if you do what I want, I will extend My protection over
many other small countries that are not to blame, and I will pray to God so that
the universal disaster which this Third World War may bring with it will be very
minimal. For this reason, I wish that you make My request known. You
yourselves are witnesses of My presence here, and a testimony of My presence
here is the fact that during eight years, nothing or no one, however much they
have attacked My work here by all possible means, has been able to destroy My
Work; as the dirty deals of politicians, ambassadors, ministers everything that
they do secretly and shady - can collapse, and of which this country and the
world are plagued. They are the ones who steal the goods from you and leave you
in poverty.
2 Apparition of the Blessed Virgin at Fatima, Portugal, in 1917.
Make My wish known. I am the Most Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of Jesus Christ,
and I want it so. My only wish is to be able to help you because I do love you
and I am indeed interested in you. How I wish that priests would be humble and
would understand that something is really happening here, something that is
keeping you alive when the world is dead; something that enlivens your faith
when theirs has died; something that has sustained this Work for years in spite
of attacks, even from themselves! It is I, who am here, who have made of this
place a hospitable room of Heaven itself, while awaiting the highest glory.
Oh, My children, every word that I have told you today is true! The world has
forgotten God because there is no one to evangelize it correctly.
War will come; it will certainly come, but if you pray, if you do not abandon
the Rosary, Holy Communion, meditation on the Passion of Christ, and true love,
My Immaculate Heart will certainly triumph.
I am with you and I will not abandon you.
Thank you for having responded to My call.
Peace be with you.
Remember something, My little children, something which is also said on the
outside. The Blessed Virgin does not come to scare you; as a Mother, I come to
warn you.
Praised be Jesus Christ.
Jesus Christ, King of the Universe and of Hearts
Gospel Commentary for This Sunday
By Father Raniero Cantalamessa, OFM Cap
ROME, NOV. 23, 2007 (Zenit.org).- The solemnity of Christ the King was
instituted only recently. It was instituted by Pope Pius XI in 1925 in response
to the atheist and totalitarian political regimes that denied the rights of God
and the Church. The climate in which the feast was born was, for example, that
of the Mexican revolution, when many Christians went to their deaths crying out
to their last breath, Long live Christ the King!
But if the feast is recent, its content and its central idea are not; they are
quite ancient and we can say that they were born with Christianity. The phrase
Christ reigns has its equivalent in the profession of
faith: Jesus is Lord, which occupies a central place in
the preaching of the apostles.
Sundays Gospel passage narrates the death of Christ, because it is
at that moment that Christ begins to rule over the world. The cross is
Christs throne. Above him there was an inscription that
read, This is the King of the Jews.' That which in the
intention of his enemies was the justification of his condemnation, was, in the
eyes of the heavenly Father, the proclamation of his universal sovereignty.
To see what this feast has to do with us, we need only recall to our minds a
very simple distinction. There are two universes, two worlds or cosmoses: the
macrocosm, which is the whole universe external to us,
and the microcosm, or the little universe, which is each
individual man. The liturgy itself, in the reform that followed Vatican II, felt
the need to accent the human and spiritual aspect of the feast over the, so to
speak, political aspect of the feast. The prayer of the feast no longer asks, as
it once did, that all the families of nations, now kept apart by the
wound of sin, may be brought under the sweet yoke of [Christ s]
rule but that every creature, freed from the slavery of
sin, serve and praise [Christ] forever.
Let us consider again the inscription placed above Christ: This is
the King of the Jews. The onlookers challenged him to manifest his
royalty openly and many, even among his friends, expected a spectacular
demonstration of his kingship. But he chose only to show his kingship in his
solicitousness for one man, who was, in fact, a criminal:
Jesus, remember me when you come into your
kingdom. He replied to him, Amen, I say to you, today
you will be with me in paradise.'"
From this point of view, the most important question to ask on the feast of
Christ the King is not whether he reigns in the world but whether he reigns in
me; it is not whether his kingship is recognized by states and governments, but
whether it is recognized and lived in me.
Is Christ the King and Lord of my life? Who rules in me, who determines the
goals and establishes priorities: Christ or someone else? According to St. Paul,
there are two ways to live: either for ourselves or for the Lord (Romans
14:7-9). Living for ourselves means living like someone
who takes himself to be the beginning and the end; it is a life closed in on
itself, drawn only by its own satisfaction and glory, without any perspective of
eternity. Living for the Lord, on the contrary, means
living for the Lord, that is, with a view to him, for his glory, for his
kingdom.
What we have here is truly a new existence, in the face of which, death itself
has lost its definitiveness. The greatest contradiction that man has always
experienced -- that between life and death -- has been overcome. The
contradiction is no longer between living and
dying but between living for
ourselves and living for the Lord.
[Translation by ZENIT]
Father Raniero Cantalamessa is the Pontifical Household preacher. The readings
for this Sunday are 2 Samuel 5:1-3; Colossians 1:12-20; Luke 23:35-43.