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We are Empowered by God: The Theological Virtues: by Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J. They are the good habits of mind and will, supernaturally infused into the soul. Their immediate object is God. They are faith, hope, and charity. At baptism, we receive the uncreated grace of the indwelling Holy Trinity. This indwelling produces the created gift of our supernatural life, which is sanctifying grace, also called the soul of the soul. No less than the soul gives natural life to the body, so sanctifying grace is the principle of the supernatural life of the soul. Our soul has faculties through which it is enabled to act, namely the intellect and will. So sanctifying grace has faculties through which it performs supernatural actions. These faculties are faith, which empowers us to believe with our minds whatever God has revealed; hope, which enables us to trust in God’s promises; and charity, to love Him with our wills. The modern world of secularism desperately needs to believe in a God, with...

This day you should meditate on the torments of Hell, so that with such thoughts your soul may be established in the fear of God and in the hatred of sin. These torments, says St. Bonaventura, may be considered under some of the figures and images that the Saints have presented to us. For instance, he tells us to figure Hell as a dark lake beneath the earth, or as a deep pit full of fire, or as a city terrible and gloomy, ever s ending forth flames, in which no sound is heard but the wailing of the tormented and the gnashing of teeth.   In this awful place, two torments are endured: the punishment of the senses and the penalty of loss. As to the first, consider that no outward or inward sense will be without its own torment. For as the wicked have offended God with all their members and senses and have made use of all for their sins, so is it ordained that each one of the senses must suffer its own torment and pay the penalty incurred.   And yet even this is...

Rome, Italy 1828 - It was St. Francis of Paula who during the fifteenth century founded a monastery known as Trinita dei Monti. In 1828 the monastery was going to be abandoned. Pope Leo XII expressed the desire that it should be offered to the religious of the Sacred Heart. In 1828, Trinita dei Monti was offered to the Religious of the Sacred Heart. Since then the monastery, which is located in Rome near the Spanish steps, has become a center for the Religious of the Sacred Heart and all others visiting the shrine of Mater Admirabilis. The story of the fresco of Mater Admirabilis is in 1844, a young French girl, Pauline Perdrau who later became a Religious of the Sacred Heart expressed to Reverend Mother Coriolis, Superior of the house, a desire to paint Our Lady in a niche located along a corridor that opened on the cloister. The Mother Superior was hesitant. While she knew the talent of the youthful artist, she also knew her ignorance of fresco techniques. Pauline Perdrau prayed...

In 1828, Pope Leo XII invited the Society of the Sacred Heart to found a community and school at the Trinità dei Monti, a monastery at the top of the Spanish Steps in Rome. For 300  years, the monastery had housed a community of Minims, an order founded by St. Francis of Paola in the 15th century. The Order of Minims had abandoned the property during the French Revolution, and by 1828 the buildings were in need of repair. A contingent of RSCJ w ent to Rome to put the property in order under an agreement with the French government, which owned the property and specified that only French nuns would occupy the site. Sixteen years after Religious of the Sacred Heart came to live at the Trinità, a young French girl, Pauline Perdrau, was admitted as a postulant to the Society. A talented artist, she asked permission of the superior of the house, Mother Josephine de Coriolis, to paint a portrait of Our Lady on a wall of a corridor that led to the sisters’ cloister. However, Mothe...

Novena to Saint Peter of Verona, Martyred by Manichean Heretics The victory was thine, O Peter! and thy zeal for the defence of holy Faith was rewarded. Thou ardently desiredst to shed thy blood for the holiest of causes, and, by such a sacrifice, to confirm the Faithful of Christ in their religion. Our Lord satisfied thy desire; he would even have thy martyrdom be in the festive Season of the Resurrection of our Divine Lamb, that His glory might add lustre to the beauty of thy holocaust. When the death-blow fell upon thy venerable head, and thy generous blood was flowing from the wounds, thou didst write on the ground the first words of the Creed, for whose holy truth thou wast giving thy life.  . Protector of the Christian people! what other motive hadst thou, in all thy labours, but charity? What else but a desire to defend the weak from danger, induced thee not only to preach against error, but to drive its teachers from the flock? How many simple souls, who were rec...

Novena to ST. JOSEPH, THE WORKER . . . … ( same prayer be said for the next 9 days ) … Glorious St. Joseph, faithful follower of Jesus Christ, to you do we come to ask your powerful intercession in obtaining from the merciful Heart of Jesus all the helps and graces that we need for our spiritual and temporal welfare, and in particular the grace of a happy death and the special favor we now implore (MENTION YOUR INTENTION). Guardian of the Word Incarnate, we know with confidence that your prayers on our behalf will be graciously heard before the throne of God and that God will grant us whatever is for His greater glory and for our greatest good. Glorious St. Joseph through your love of Jesus Christ and for the glory of His name, Hear our prayers and ask God to grant our petitions. PRAYER TO ST. JOSEPH FOR WORKERS . . . Lord God, You have created all things, and imposed on man the necessity of work. Grant that, following Joseph’s example, and under his protection, we may ac...

Dear TOUCHY-FEELY fellow priest, 1. I would appreciate it if you could tone down on all references to yourself via touchy-feely statements like: a) “My brothers and sisters, the gospel of the Lord!” (It is the Church that proclaims the Gospel, not you. You are just a mortal medium). b) “My brothers and sisters, let us give ourselves the sign of peace.” We know that we are all brothers and sisters in Christ, but then again, it is not you who open the faucets and floodgates of peace, but Christ, who was the original one who said “Peace be with you.” Whilst the Mass is celebration of the sacrament of love par excellence, our love for God and for each other is not centered on you. 2. I would also appreciate it if you could refrain from making the Eucharistic Prayer (the most solemn portion of the Eucharistic celebration) appear like you are delivering an ORATION or a DECLAMATION. Your empty, inane, and dramatic gesticulations of hands going up and down, sideways and forward, distr...

Is their any Catholics in communion with the Holy See who are not under the Roman or Latin Rite that we have? Is their any Catholics in communion with the Holy See who are not under the Roman or Latin Rite that we have ? The answer is YES……. and  some of the are came from Orthodox origin and they are across the globe   So here is the List of Catholic churches (with corresponding no. of members) of Orthodox origin who are now in full communion with the Holy See 1. Coptic Catholic Church (174,000 members) 2. Eritrean Catholic Church (165,000 members) 3. Ethiopian Catholic Church (610,000 members) 4. Maronite Church (3.4 Million members) 5. Syrian Catholic Church (205,000) 6. Syro-Malankara Catholic Church (436,000) 7. Armenian Catholic Church (736,000) 8. Albanian Greek Catholic Church (3,800) 9. Belarusian Greek Catholic Church (7,000) 10. Bulgarian Greek Catholic Church (10,000...

A GLIMPSE OF PURGATORY (From the manuscript of Sister M. de L.C., written from 1874-1890) To get an idea of how Purgatory is arranged, we can get a good glimpse of it from a nun from France who had died on February 22, 1871 at the age of 36, and 2-1/2 years later (in November 1873) she began appearing from Purgatory to a fellow nun in her convent, named Sister M. de L.C (name kept anonymous in the manuscript to protect the nuns identity, as the manuscript was published while the nun was still living) as related in the booklet “An Unpublished Manuscript on Purgatory” published by The Reparation Society of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Inc., 2002: “I can tell you about the different degrees of Purgatory because I have passed through them. In the great Purgatory there are several stages. In the lowest and most painful, it is like a temporary hell, and here there are the sinners who have committed terrible crimes during life and whose death surprised them in that state. It was alm...

St. Bernard of Clairveaux on the Holy Name of Mary O man, whoever you are, if you realize that in the whirlwind of this world, far from walking on firm ground, you are driven hither and thither by storms and tempests, turn not your eyes from this bright Star, if you do not want to be swallowed up by the hurricane. If the winds of temptation are stirred up, if you encounter dangers and tribulations, look at the Star, and invoke Mary: “respice Stellam, voca Mariam”! If you are shaken by waves of pride, ambition, criticism or jealousy, look at the Star and invoke Mary! If anger, avarice, or the seductions of the flesh stir up a storm in your soul, cast a glance towards Mary, “respice ad Mariam”. If troubled by the enormity of your crimes, confused by the weight of the sins on your conscience, you feel yourself slipping into the whirlpool of sadness and the abyss of despair, then think of Mary, “cogita Mariam”. In perils, in anguish, in perplexity, think of Mary, invoke Mary. Let He...

O Immaculata, Queen of Heaven and Earth, Refuge of sinners and our most loving Mother, whom God has made the treasurer of His mercy, I, an unworthy sinner, throw myself at thy most holy feet and humbly beseech thee to accept me, whole and entire as thy property and possession. To thee, O Mother, I offer all the faculties of my soul and body, and I place my life, my death and my eternity in thy hands, that thou may use my entire being according to thy will. Use me, O Immaculate Virgin as thou will, to fulfill that which was written of thee – “She shall crush thy head”, and “Thou hast destroyed all heresies in all the world”. Deign that I may become in thy most pure and merciful hands a useful instrument to make thee known and loved by so many erring and indifferent souls, and also to increase as much as possible the number of those who truly admire and love thee in order that the Kingdom of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus may be spread throughout the world. This I can do, O Most ...

CONSECRATION  TO  ST. JOSEPH  AND  TO  THE  HOLY  FAMILY O Jesus, sweetest and most adorable Savior! True God and true man, I adore Thee profoundly in the most Holy Trinity during eternity; and I adore Thee also in the virginal bosom of Mary, Thy most immaculate Mother, and in the arms of St Joseph, Thy virginal Father.  I give Thee thanks that Thou hast delivered me from the cruel slavery of the devil. On earth, Thou didst submit Thyself to Mary and Joseph in all things; grant that I may be Thy faithful slave through humble submission to them. My sweet Jesus, I have failed Thee many times, but now I beg Thee the grace to submit myself in all things to Thy foster father St. Joseph and to Thy most pure and merciful Mother. Oh most tender and sweet Mother; I love thee with my whole soul and my whole strength. I leave in thy pure hands all that I possess and shall possess – my heart, my soul, my merits, my acts, though...

The Ceremony of the Enthronement All gather around the images of the Sacred and Immaculate Hearts. Priest blesses the image. If priest is not available, the images should be blessed beforehand. The Blessing of the Pictures or Statues V. Our help is in the name of the Lord. R. Who hath made heaven and earth. V. The Lord be with thee. R. And with thy spirit. Let us pray. Almighty, everlasting God, Thou dost not forbid us to represent Thy saints in stone or paint, so that, as often as we look upon their likenesses with the eyes of the body, we may with the eyes of the mind meditate upon their holiness and be led to imitate their deeds. In Thy kindness, we beg Thee to bless and sanctify these pictures (statues), meant to honor and call to mind the Most Sacred Heart of Thy only-begotten Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ and the Immaculate Heart of Mary, His Most Holy Mother. May all who in their presence humbly strive to serve and honor Thy only-begotten Son, Our Lord Jesus Chr...

Pope St. Pius X’s Prayer to the Immaculate Virgin Mary O Most Holy Virgin Mary, who didst find favor in God’s sight and hast become His mother; O Virgin, Immaculate in body and soul, in thy faith and in thy love, look down with pity on the wretched who in our need seek thy powerful protection. The evil serpent on whom was cast the primal curse continues, alas, to attack and ensnare the poor children of Eve. But thou, our Blessed Mother, our Queen and our Advocate, thou who from the first instant of thy conception didst crush the head of this cruel enemy, receive our prayers. United to thee with one heart, we beseech thee to present them before the throne of God. May we never be caught in the snares around us, but rather may we all reach the harbor of salvation. Despite the awesome perils which threaten, may God’s Church and all Christian society sing out once again the hymn of deliverance, of victory and of peace. Amen.  (Pope St. Pius X) God bless everyone. Please visit u...