The Chaplet of The Divine Mercy Novena
Today is the Sixth Day of the novena
Today 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 will keep vigil at My altars. I pour out upon them whole torrents of grace. Only the humble soul is capable of receiving My grace. I favor humble souls with My confidence.
Most Merciful Jesus, You yourself have said, "Learn from Me for I am meek and humble of heart." Receive into the abode of Your Most Compassionate Heart all meek and humble souls and the souls of little children. These souls send all heaven into ecstasy and they are the heavenly Father's favorites. They are a sweet-smelling bouquet before the throne of God; God Himself takes delight in their fragrance. These souls have a permanent abode in Your Most Compassionate Heart, O Jesus, and they unceasingly sing out a hymn of love and mercy.
Eternal Father, turn Your merciful gaze upon meek souls, upon humble souls, and upon little children who are enfolded in the abode which is the Most Compassionate Heart of Jesus. These souls bear the closest resemblance to Your Son. Their fragrance rises from the earth and reaches Your very throne. Father of mercy and of all goodness, I beg You by the love You bear these souls and by the delight You take in them: Bless the whole world, that all souls together may sing out the praises of Your mercy for endless ages. Amen.
Jesus said "Let the children come to me." We entrust all the names we have received through this ministry to Our Lady and ask her to bring them to Jesus.
April 27, 2011
April 26, 2011
Woman, why are you weeping?
But Mary stayed outside the tomb weeping. And as she wept, she bent over into the tomb and saw two angels in white sitting there, one at the head and one at the feet where the body of Jesus had been. And they said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping?" She said to them, "They have taken my Lord, and I don't know where they laid him." When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus there, but did not know it was Jesus. Jesus said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you looking for?" She thought it was the gardener and said to him, "Sir, if you carried him away, tell me where you laid him, and I will take him." Jesus said to her, "Mary!" She turned and said to him in Hebrew, "Rabbouni," which means Teacher. Jesus said to her, "Stop holding on to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and tell them, 'I am going to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'" Mary of Magdala went and announced to the disciples, "I have seen the Lord," and what he told her. John 20:11-18
Jesus is calling us to go and tell others about Him. We cannot hold onto Him for ourselves. Jesus is commissioning us to go. We are sent out to proclaim the Gospel. When we bring others to Mary, she will bring them to her Beloved Son.
Jesus is calling us to go and tell others about Him. We cannot hold onto Him for ourselves. Jesus is commissioning us to go. We are sent out to proclaim the Gospel. When we bring others to Mary, she will bring them to her Beloved Son.
April 23, 2011
The Pieta
O Blood and Water, which gushed forth from the Heart of Jesus, we trust in You. Chaplet of Divine Mercy
Mary receives the dead body of Jesus.
At the Anunciation, the angel announced that Mary would receive God in her own body and give flesh to Him. Now, in the unutterable silence of Good Friday, the Mother of God once again receives the Word of God, as her Divine Son is taken down from the Cross and placed in her arms. From this day, all generations shall call you Blessed Mother, the Madonna of the Pieta. There is no greater pain for a mother than to see her Son die before her eyes. Mary, who brought Our Savior into the world and watched Him grow, stood helplessly at the foot of the Cross. She knew this had to be and she accepted it, stood there and mourned silently.
Jesus is placed in the tomb.
Then they rolled the stone across the mouth of the tomb. Jesus was within and Mary was without. Mary waited in confidence and trust in her eucharistic vigil before the tomb, expecting nothing less than a miracle. There is no greater love than to lay down our life for a friend. Jesus, You gave Your life for us, and You gave us Your Mother. Gazing at Mary, we know that Jesus is with us. Standing at the tomb by Mary's side, we wait, watch and pray...
Mary, Mother of God, by the passion and death of your only Son, give us His life. Make us new, give us the trust of children, give us the childhood of Christ. Grant us, Virgin Mother, a new heaven and a new earth, because we see with His eyes, hear with His ears, work with His hands, walk on His feet, trust with His trust in His Heavenly Father, and love with His heart. Excerpts from poem, Holy Saturday by Caryll Houselander +1954 British mystic, poet and spiritual teacher.
Mary receives the dead body of Jesus.
At the Anunciation, the angel announced that Mary would receive God in her own body and give flesh to Him. Now, in the unutterable silence of Good Friday, the Mother of God once again receives the Word of God, as her Divine Son is taken down from the Cross and placed in her arms. From this day, all generations shall call you Blessed Mother, the Madonna of the Pieta. There is no greater pain for a mother than to see her Son die before her eyes. Mary, who brought Our Savior into the world and watched Him grow, stood helplessly at the foot of the Cross. She knew this had to be and she accepted it, stood there and mourned silently.
Jesus is placed in the tomb.
Then they rolled the stone across the mouth of the tomb. Jesus was within and Mary was without. Mary waited in confidence and trust in her eucharistic vigil before the tomb, expecting nothing less than a miracle. There is no greater love than to lay down our life for a friend. Jesus, You gave Your life for us, and You gave us Your Mother. Gazing at Mary, we know that Jesus is with us. Standing at the tomb by Mary's side, we wait, watch and pray...
Mary, Mother of God, by the passion and death of your only Son, give us His life. Make us new, give us the trust of children, give us the childhood of Christ. Grant us, Virgin Mother, a new heaven and a new earth, because we see with His eyes, hear with His ears, work with His hands, walk on His feet, trust with His trust in His Heavenly Father, and love with His heart. Excerpts from poem, Holy Saturday by Caryll Houselander +1954 British mystic, poet and spiritual teacher.
April 22, 2011
Into your hands I commend my spirit
Jesus, remember me, when You come into Your Kingdom.
Luke 23:42
Even as many were amazed at him so marred was his look beyond that of man, and his appearance beyond that of mortals. So shall he startle many nations, because of him kings shall stand speechless; For those who have not been told shall see, those who have not heard shall ponder it. Who would believe what we have heard? To whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed? He grew up like a sapling before him, like a shoot from the parched earth; There was in him no stately bearing to make us look at him, nor appearance that would attract us to him. He was spurned and avoided by men, a man of suffering, accustomed to infirmity, One of those from whom men hide their faces, spurned, and we held him in no esteem. Yet it was our infirmities that he bore, our sufferings that he endured, While we thought of him as stricken, as one smitten by God and afflicted. But he was pierced for our offenses, crushed for our sins, Upon him was the chastisement that makes us whole, by his stripes we were healed.
Isaiah 52:14-15, 53:1-5
The Seven Last Words of Christ
I thirst.John 19:28
Father, forgive them, they know not what they do. Luke 23:34
Amen I say to you, today you will be with me in paradise.
Luke 23:43
Father, into Your hands, I commend my Spirit.Luke 23:46
My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Mark 15:34
It is finished. John 19:30
Women, behold your son...Behold your mother. John 19:26. 27
To Jesus through Mary Let Mary open your hearts to hear whatever Jesus would tell you to do. As Mary instructs, "Do whatever He tells you." John 2:5
Luke 23:42
Even as many were amazed at him so marred was his look beyond that of man, and his appearance beyond that of mortals. So shall he startle many nations, because of him kings shall stand speechless; For those who have not been told shall see, those who have not heard shall ponder it. Who would believe what we have heard? To whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed? He grew up like a sapling before him, like a shoot from the parched earth; There was in him no stately bearing to make us look at him, nor appearance that would attract us to him. He was spurned and avoided by men, a man of suffering, accustomed to infirmity, One of those from whom men hide their faces, spurned, and we held him in no esteem. Yet it was our infirmities that he bore, our sufferings that he endured, While we thought of him as stricken, as one smitten by God and afflicted. But he was pierced for our offenses, crushed for our sins, Upon him was the chastisement that makes us whole, by his stripes we were healed.
Isaiah 52:14-15, 53:1-5
The Seven Last Words of Christ
I thirst.John 19:28
Father, forgive them, they know not what they do. Luke 23:34
Amen I say to you, today you will be with me in paradise.
Luke 23:43
Father, into Your hands, I commend my Spirit.Luke 23:46
My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Mark 15:34
It is finished. John 19:30
Women, behold your son...Behold your mother. John 19:26. 27
To Jesus through Mary Let Mary open your hearts to hear whatever Jesus would tell you to do. As Mary instructs, "Do whatever He tells you." John 2:5
April 19, 2011
Mary's Prayer
Simeon said to Mary, "And you yourself a sword will pierce so that the thoughts of many hearts will be revealed." Luke 2:34-35
On the joyous day of the Presentation when Mary brought the baby Jesus to the temple, she knew sorrow was to come through the words of Simeon.
From the crib to the Cross...
We have begun Holy Week. As we enter into the Sacred Triduum, we entrust all the names we have received through this baby prayer ministry to Our Lady and ask her to bring them to her Beloved Son Our Lord and Savior.
On the joyous day of the Presentation when Mary brought the baby Jesus to the temple, she knew sorrow was to come through the words of Simeon.
From the crib to the Cross...
We have begun Holy Week. As we enter into the Sacred Triduum, we entrust all the names we have received through this baby prayer ministry to Our Lady and ask her to bring them to her Beloved Son Our Lord and Savior.
April 18, 2011
The Anointed One and the Cross
John 12:1-11
Six days before Passover Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead. They gave a dinner for him there, and Martha served, while Lazarus was one of those reclining at table with him. Mary took a liter of costly perfumed oil made from genuine aromatic nard and anointed the feet of Jesus and dried them with her hair; the house was filled with the fragrance of the oil. Then Judas the Iscariot, one of his disciples, and the one who would betray him said "Why was this oil not sold for three hundred days' wages and given to the poor?" He said this not because he cared about the poor but because he was a thief and held the money bag and used to steal the contributions. So Jesus said, "Leave her alone. Let her keep this for the day of my burial. You always have the poor with you, but you do not always have me." The large crowd of the Jews found out that he was there and came, not only because of Jesus, but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead. And the chief priests plotted to kill Lazarus too, because many of the Jews were turning away and believing in Jesus because of him.
Mary understood the love Jesus carried to the Cross. She anointed Him for death.
Psalm 116:12-13 How can I repay the Lord for His goodness to me? The cup of salvation I will raise; I will call on the Lord's name.
Reflection by Mother Elvira Petrozzi, Foundress of Cenacola Community, welcoming the lost and desperate in sixty-two houses in fifteen countries.
At the end of Lent, I was thinking about how important it is to know how to live the painful moments, the suffering, being cast aside, loneliness, moments of failure, disappointment, and unfaithfulness, moments that are part of the human existence because they are part of the human reality. Sometimes the Lord wants us to participate in human suffering. In Community, we have a three-word expression to help us get through moments of suffering and provocation: "silence, swallow and suffer." It is the mysterious school of the Cross, of our God who did not avoid the Cross, but welcomed it, experiencing the Cross in the body of His crucified Son. Jesus invites us to look at Him, to ask Him for faith and love, so that our heart will not lose hope, and after the darkness of Good Friday, we will know how to capture in our own lives the radiant light of Easter morning! The Risen Jesus is our true hope, because in Him pain and death are defeated.
Six days before Passover Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead. They gave a dinner for him there, and Martha served, while Lazarus was one of those reclining at table with him. Mary took a liter of costly perfumed oil made from genuine aromatic nard and anointed the feet of Jesus and dried them with her hair; the house was filled with the fragrance of the oil. Then Judas the Iscariot, one of his disciples, and the one who would betray him said "Why was this oil not sold for three hundred days' wages and given to the poor?" He said this not because he cared about the poor but because he was a thief and held the money bag and used to steal the contributions. So Jesus said, "Leave her alone. Let her keep this for the day of my burial. You always have the poor with you, but you do not always have me." The large crowd of the Jews found out that he was there and came, not only because of Jesus, but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead. And the chief priests plotted to kill Lazarus too, because many of the Jews were turning away and believing in Jesus because of him.
Mary understood the love Jesus carried to the Cross. She anointed Him for death.
Psalm 116:12-13 How can I repay the Lord for His goodness to me? The cup of salvation I will raise; I will call on the Lord's name.
Reflection by Mother Elvira Petrozzi, Foundress of Cenacola Community, welcoming the lost and desperate in sixty-two houses in fifteen countries.
At the end of Lent, I was thinking about how important it is to know how to live the painful moments, the suffering, being cast aside, loneliness, moments of failure, disappointment, and unfaithfulness, moments that are part of the human existence because they are part of the human reality. Sometimes the Lord wants us to participate in human suffering. In Community, we have a three-word expression to help us get through moments of suffering and provocation: "silence, swallow and suffer." It is the mysterious school of the Cross, of our God who did not avoid the Cross, but welcomed it, experiencing the Cross in the body of His crucified Son. Jesus invites us to look at Him, to ask Him for faith and love, so that our heart will not lose hope, and after the darkness of Good Friday, we will know how to capture in our own lives the radiant light of Easter morning! The Risen Jesus is our true hope, because in Him pain and death are defeated.
April 12, 2011
Totus Tuus
Totally Yours
Immaculate Conception, Mary, my Mother. Live in me. Act in me. Speak in and through me. Think your thoughts in my mind. Love, through my heart. Give me your dispositions and feelings. Teach, lead and guide me to Jesus. Correct, enlighten and expand my thoughts and behavior. Possess my soul. Take over my entire personality and life. Replace it with yourself. Incline me to constant adoration and thanksgiving. Pray in me and through me. Let me live in you and keep me in this union always. Pope John Paul II
At times when Christianity itself seemed under threat, its deliverance was attributed to the power of the Rosary, and Our Lady of the Rosary was acclaimed as the one whose intercession brought salvation. Pope John Paul II, Rosarium Virginis Mariae, 40
Immaculate Conception, Mary, my Mother. Live in me. Act in me. Speak in and through me. Think your thoughts in my mind. Love, through my heart. Give me your dispositions and feelings. Teach, lead and guide me to Jesus. Correct, enlighten and expand my thoughts and behavior. Possess my soul. Take over my entire personality and life. Replace it with yourself. Incline me to constant adoration and thanksgiving. Pray in me and through me. Let me live in you and keep me in this union always. Pope John Paul II
At times when Christianity itself seemed under threat, its deliverance was attributed to the power of the Rosary, and Our Lady of the Rosary was acclaimed as the one whose intercession brought salvation. Pope John Paul II, Rosarium Virginis Mariae, 40
April 06, 2011
Let the children come to me.
Jesus said, "Let the children come to me, and do not prevent them; for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these." Matthew 19:14
You revealed these things to children.
On Saturday morning, May 13, 2000, over 600,000 faithful gathered in the square and surrounding areas of the Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary in Fatima, Portugal, for the solemn Mass celebrated by Pope John Paul II for the beatification of the Servants of God Francisco and Jacinto Marto, two shepherd children who witnessed extraordinary appearances of the Blessed Mother in 1917.
"Father, ... to you I offer praise; for what you have hidden from the learned and the clever you have revealed to the merest children." Matthew 11:25
With these words, dear brothers and sisters, Jesus praises the heavenly Father for his designs; he knows that no one can come to him unless he is drawn by the Father John 6:44; therefore he praises him for his plan and embraces it as a son: "Yes, Father, for such was your gracious will." Matthew 11:26 You were pleased to reveal the kingdom to the merest children.
According to the divine plan, "a woman clothed with the sun" Revelation 12:1 came down from heaven to this earth to visit the privileged children of the Father. She speaks to them with a mother's voice and heart: she asks them to offer themselves as victims of reparation, saying that she was ready to lead them safely to God. And behold, they see a light shining from her maternal hands which penetrates them inwardly, so that they feel immersed in God just—as they explain—a person sees himself in a mirror.
Pope John Paul II Beatification Homily
You revealed these things to children.
On Saturday morning, May 13, 2000, over 600,000 faithful gathered in the square and surrounding areas of the Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary in Fatima, Portugal, for the solemn Mass celebrated by Pope John Paul II for the beatification of the Servants of God Francisco and Jacinto Marto, two shepherd children who witnessed extraordinary appearances of the Blessed Mother in 1917.
"Father, ... to you I offer praise; for what you have hidden from the learned and the clever you have revealed to the merest children." Matthew 11:25
With these words, dear brothers and sisters, Jesus praises the heavenly Father for his designs; he knows that no one can come to him unless he is drawn by the Father John 6:44; therefore he praises him for his plan and embraces it as a son: "Yes, Father, for such was your gracious will." Matthew 11:26 You were pleased to reveal the kingdom to the merest children.
According to the divine plan, "a woman clothed with the sun" Revelation 12:1 came down from heaven to this earth to visit the privileged children of the Father. She speaks to them with a mother's voice and heart: she asks them to offer themselves as victims of reparation, saying that she was ready to lead them safely to God. And behold, they see a light shining from her maternal hands which penetrates them inwardly, so that they feel immersed in God just—as they explain—a person sees himself in a mirror.
Pope John Paul II Beatification Homily
April 05, 2011
Come to the water
To the thirsty, I will give a gift from the spring of life-giving water. Revelation 21:6
Ezekiel 47:1-2,6-9,12
Then he brought me back to the entrance of the temple, and I saw water flowing out from beneath the threshold of the temple toward the east, for the facade of the temple was toward the east; the water flowed down from the southern side of the temple, south of the altar. He led me outside by the north gate, and around to the outer gate facing the east, where I saw water trickling from the southern side.
He asked me, "Have you seen this, son of man?" Then he brought me to the bank of the river, where he had me sit. Along the bank of the river I saw very many trees on both sides. He said to me, "This water flows into the eastern district down upon the Arabah, and empties into the sea, the salt waters, which it makes fresh. Wherever the river flows, every sort of living creature that can multiply shall live, and there shall be abundant fish, for wherever this water comes the sea shall be made fresh.
Along both banks of the river, fruit trees of every kind shall grow; their leaves shall not fade, nor their fruit fail. Every month they shall bear fresh fruit, for they shall be watered by the flow from the sanctuary. Their fruit shall serve for food, and their leaves for medicine."
Jesus, you are the source of all life. We ask you to protect, heal and strengthen all these babies and little ones. Blessed Mother Mary, we entrust them to you.
Ezekiel 47:1-2,6-9,12
Then he brought me back to the entrance of the temple, and I saw water flowing out from beneath the threshold of the temple toward the east, for the facade of the temple was toward the east; the water flowed down from the southern side of the temple, south of the altar. He led me outside by the north gate, and around to the outer gate facing the east, where I saw water trickling from the southern side.
He asked me, "Have you seen this, son of man?" Then he brought me to the bank of the river, where he had me sit. Along the bank of the river I saw very many trees on both sides. He said to me, "This water flows into the eastern district down upon the Arabah, and empties into the sea, the salt waters, which it makes fresh. Wherever the river flows, every sort of living creature that can multiply shall live, and there shall be abundant fish, for wherever this water comes the sea shall be made fresh.
Along both banks of the river, fruit trees of every kind shall grow; their leaves shall not fade, nor their fruit fail. Every month they shall bear fresh fruit, for they shall be watered by the flow from the sanctuary. Their fruit shall serve for food, and their leaves for medicine."
Jesus, you are the source of all life. We ask you to protect, heal and strengthen all these babies and little ones. Blessed Mother Mary, we entrust them to you.
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