Sunday, May 5, 2024

6th Sunday Easter - Love



Our Lord gives us a commandment to love, and love is an act. #Catholic #homily #Scripture #GospelOfTheDay Sign up to have podcasts and blog posts emailed to you: https://ift.tt/qQBh8Nx Give feedback at https://ift.tt/H5rcY1O Readings are found at https://ift.tt/p3giXht
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Sunday, April 28, 2024

5th Sunday Easter 2024 - Pruned



Our Lord prunes off the dead and non-bearing branches of our lives so that we can produce good fruit. It is painful, but necessary. #Catholic #homily #Scripture #GospelOfTheDay Sign up to have podcasts and blog posts emailed to you: https://ift.tt/PGzrFpA Give feedback at https://ift.tt/afNQudL Readings are found at https://ift.tt/LkzPBQZ
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Sunday, April 21, 2024

4th Sunday Easter 2024 - Children



We are God's Children, and the Lord protects us from every kind of evil. #Catholic #homily #Scripture #GospelOfTheDay Sign up to have podcasts and blog posts emailed to you: https://ift.tt/fRy8nBQ Give feedback at https://ift.tt/1KuFOJv Readings are found at https://ift.tt/tfA05zC
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Sunday, April 14, 2024

3rd Sunday Easter 2025 - Proof



The Resurrected Jesus appears to the apostles who doubt and are fearful. He asks for something to eat to prove He is real. He wants to give us proof, too. #Catholic #homily #Scripture #GospelOfTheDay Sign up to have podcasts and blog posts emailed to you: https://ift.tt/Wyws205 Give feedback at https://ift.tt/nScB6Hs Readings are found at https://ift.tt/fkCb3qp
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Sunday, April 7, 2024

Divine Mercy Sunday 2024 - Believe



Do we really believe in the Resurrection and Eucharist? #Catholic #homily #Scripture #GospelOfTheDay Sign up to have podcasts and blog posts emailed to you: https://ift.tt/e1T3XSI Give feedback at https://ift.tt/A6GFsEd Readings are found at https://ift.tt/rOtIRY5
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St. Faustina's Prayer to Be Merciful

O Most Holy Trinity! As many times as I breathe, as many times as my heart beats, as many times as my blood pulsates through my body, so many thousand times do I want to glorify your mercy. I want to be completely transformed into your mercy and to be Your living reflection O Lord. May the greatest of all divine attributes, that of your unfathomable mercy pass through my heart and soul to my neighbor. Help me O Lord that my eyes may be merciful, so that I may never suspect or judge from appearances, but look for what is beautiful in my neighbors souls and come to their rescue. Help me O Lord that my ears may be merciful, so that I may give heed to my neighbors needs and not be indifferent to their pains and moanings. Help me O Lord that my tongue may be merciful so that I should never speak negatively of my neighbor, but have a word of comfort and forgiveness for all. Help me O Lord that my hands may be merciful and filled with good deeds, so that I may do only good to my neighbors and take upon my self the more difficult and toilsome tasks. Help me O Lord that my feet may be merciful, so that I may hurry to assist my neighbor, overcoming my own fatigue and weariness. My true rest is in the service of my neighbor. Help me O Lord that my heart may be merciful so that I myself may feel all the sufferings of my neighbor. I will refuse my heart to no one. I will be sincere even with those who will abuse my kindness. And I will lock myself up in the most merciful Heart of Jesus. I will bear my own suffering in silence. May your mercy O Lord rest upon me. You yourself command me to exercise the three degrees of mercy. The first; the act of mercy of whatever kind. The second; the word of mercy – if I cannot carry out a work of mercy, I will assist by my words. The third; prayer – if I cannot show mercy by deeds or words, I can always do so by prayer. My prayer reaches out even there where I cannot reach out physically. O my Jesus, transform me into yourself, for you can do all things.

Saturday, April 6, 2024

Ninth Day of Divine Mercy Novena

 

Ninth Day:

Today bring to Me SOULS WHO HAVE BECOME LUKEWARM,* and immerse them in the abyss of My mercy. These souls wound My Heart most painfully. My soul suffered the most dreadful loathing in the Garden of Olives because of lukewarm souls. They were the reason I cried out: 'Father, take this cup away from Me, if it be Your will.' For them, the last hope of salvation is to run to My mercy.

Most compassionate Jesus, You are Compassion Itself. I bring lukewarm souls into the abode of Your Most Compassionate Heart. In this fire of Your pure love, let these tepid souls, who, like corpses, filled You with such deep loathing, be once again set aflame. O Most Compassionate Jesus, exercise the omnipotence of Your mercy and draw them into the very ardor of Your love, and bestow upon them the gift of holy love, for nothing is beyond Your power.

Eternal Father, turn Your merciful gaze upon lukewarm souls who are nonetheless enfolded in the Most Compassionate Heart of Jesus. Father of Mercy, I beg You by the bitter Passion of Your Son and by His three-hour agony on the Cross: Let them, too, glorify the abyss of Your mercy. Amen.