9 day Novena for the Pope, Cardinals, Bishops & Priests

Dear Children of the Queen of Peace;

What a journey we have been on!  Many souls are suffering, and I know you all have made the novenas we have done for years, a part of your daily life.  You have been trained.  However, we shall join again to gather a beautiful spiritual bouquet for Our Lady, as a special novena we are being called to do at this very turbulent time in world history.  Along with praying for our Pope, Cardinals, Bishops and Priests, continue to pray for peace, and for America, and all nations, and leaders who are constantly under attack, including our president and current leadership.  The enemy wants to take America down.  May our prayers hold us up to Our Lady, that she may be crowned Our Queen, and may we serve in her plan for peace!

9 day Novena for the Pope, Cardinals, Bishops & Priests.

        July 5th (feast of St. Anthony Zacharia) thru July 13th (Feast of Rosa Mystica)

• Go to Confession during the Novena, attend as many daily Masses as possible, 
• Offer Holy Communions for them, 
• Pray at least one Rosary daily for them, 
• Pray the Chaplet of Divine Mercy daily at 3pm, if possible, for them, 
• Fast on Wed. and Friday. 
• Offer daily sacrifices and sufferings for them, etc...

Daily Prayer for Priests by Cardinal Cushing & Daily Rosa Mystica Litany.
http://www.catholictradition. org/Mary/rosa-mystica3b.htm
http://www.catholicity.com/ prayer/prayer-for-priests-2. html

Please review these links to understand the significance and Rosa Mystica, and how it ties to Our Lady's messages thru Medjugorje.  She has implored us for over two years now, to pray for her priests and "Sheperds".  This novena is dedicated to the Pope, Cardinals, Bishops and Priests.  Her chosen, beloved sons.

The best explanation of the "Rosa Mystica" in relation to Her Priests was in the second apparition, (which I have pasted in purple) details in link below.

On June 13, 1947, Our Lady appeared again in the hospital early one Sunday. morning. This time she was dressed in white and instead of the three swords she had three roses: a white one, a red one, and a golden one. Pierina Gilli asked her, "Please tell me who you are." The Lady answered, smiling, "I am the Mother of Jesus and the Mother of all of you." 

Here she paused, then she went on, "Our Lord sends me to bring a new Marian devotion for all male and female institutes, religious orders, and secular priests. I promise those religious institutes, orders, and secular priests who venerate me in this special way my special protection, an increase of spiritual vocations, fewer betrayed vocations, and great sanctity among the servants of God. I wish the 13th of each month to be celebrated as the day of Mary. 

On the twelve preceding days, special prayers of preparation should be said." 

With an expression of great joy, she went on, "On this day I shall send to these religious institutes, members of orders, and secular priests who have honored me in this way, a superabundance of graces and great sanctity. I wish the 13th of July of each year to be celebrated in honor of the 'Rosa Mystica,' the Mystical Rose." 

Pierina asked whether she would perform a miracle. Our Lady answered, "The most evident miracle will be the godly souls, who for some time, especially during the last war, became lukewarm, so that they were unfaithful or even betrayed their vocation, will cease to offend Our Lord gravely. By their great offenses, they brought punishment and persecution upon the Church-----as we experience it in our days-----but then the original spirit of their holy founders will blossom again." With these words the conversation ended. Now Our Lady explained to Pierina the meaning of the three swords and the three roses. A moving explanation which is to taken quite seriously! 

The first sword means loss of the vocation as a priest or a monk. The second sword means priests, monks, and nuns who live in deadly sin. The third sword means priests and monks who commit the treason of Judas. While giving up their vocation, they often lose also their faith, their eternal beatitude, and become enemies of the Church. The white rose means the spirit of prayer. The red rose means the spirit of expiation and sacrifice. The yellow or golden rose means the spirit of penitence. 

Mystical Rose or Rosa Mystica-Feast Day, July 13 | Women of Grace

Mystical Rose or Rosa Mystica-Feast Day, July 13 | Women of Grace

ROSA MYSTICA

ROSA MYSTICA

“Dear friends, may no adversity paralyze you. Be afraid neither of the world, nor of the future, nor of your weakness. The Lord has allowed you to live in this moment of history so that, by your faith, his name will continue to resound throughout the world.” 
― Pope Benedict XVI

July 2, 2017 Message to Mirjana 

"Dear children, Thank you for continuing to respond to my invitations and for gathering here around me, your heavenly mother. I know that you are thinking of me with love and hope. I, too, feel love for all of you, just as my most beloved Son also feels it: He who, through his merciful love, is always sending me to you anew; He who was man; He who was and is God - one and triune; He who suffered in body and soul for your sake; He who made Himself bread to feed your souls and thus to save them. My children, I am teaching you how to be worthy of His love, to direct your thoughts to Him, to live my Son. Apostles of my love, I am covering you with my mantle, because as a mother I desire to protect you. I am imploring you to pray for the whole world. My heart is suffering. Sins are multiplying, they are too numerous. But with the help of those of you who are humble, modest, filled with love, hidden and holy, my heart will triumph. Love my Son above all and the whole world through Him. Never forget that each of your brothers, within himself, carries something precious – the soul. Therefore, my children, love all those who do not know my Son, so that through prayer and the love which comes through prayer, they may become better; that the goodness in them could win; that souls could be saved and have eternal life. My apostles, my children, my Son told you to love one another. May this be inscribed in your hearts and with prayer, try to live that love. Thank you."

Novena to Restore the Foundation and Pillar of the Family; Men and Fathers

Novena to St. Joseph; Husband of Mary, Earthly Father of Jesus

With all the assaults against the family which is the foundation of humanity; we are called to join in prayer, asking the intercession of the pillar and model of the human family. We look to St. Joseph and the Holy Family.  Please join in praying this novena to correct the many disorders tearing apart families in this hour of great distress.  Share and have others join.

"Dearest St. Joseph; Husband of Mary, Earthly Father of Jesus;

You are a model of devotion, fidelity, holiness, and fatherhood.  Our model of the family of Christ, we call upon you to intercede for all men.  Men who have lost their sense of duty to family, devotion to their spouse, their role as the spiritual godhead of the family.  Men who no longer defend or protect their family.  Please pray that men will cherish their wives and and place the value and sacredness of marriage and family in the way God designed it.  Intercede to help them restore their great duty to be prayerful, spiritual heads and guardians of their families.  Pray that they will return to a state of humility and purity, honoring their wives without taking them for granted.  

Pray that men will rediscover ways to create unity and peace in their homes.  St. Joseph, tender spouse of Mary, you kept your household a place of holiness and sanctuary.  Many homes now lack this.  Pray for our homes to be specially protected from demonic influence.  Show us how to make our homes holy and good, where we are always free to honor and love God.  

St. Joseph, you know that rejection and exclusion destroys intimacy in the marital bonds that God created.  Ask Jesus to help heal this disorder, which has created tragic consequences and led to the dissolving of many marriages. May men respect their wives again, show them great healing love, devotion and dignity. Help couples and families forgive one another, bringing forth new life and healing to old wounds.  Help us all to accept faults and failings in ourselves as well as others, in true charity and love.  

St. Joseph, for families who are fatherless, and the husband is gone - either from abandonment, divorce, sexual confusion, death or addiction, we ask that you personally guard and direct them always to the sanctuary of Our Father in Heaven.  

Dear Father in Heaven, the Father of every created human being, there is no greater Father than you.  We place every family and marriage in your Holy Hands and within Your heart. May every fatherless home have the favor of Your Almighty and powerful Fatherhood, the the tenderness of Your Love; to nurture, fortify, guide, and protect.

For the families destroyed and marred by the evil of pornography, please pour forth Your Holy Spirit and powerfully heal renew and repair all damage and disorder.  We pray Jesus will deliver humanity from this horrific blight of evil which feeds into so many other sexual sins.  We know that abortion, homosexuality and contraception have stemmed from and is connected to this, so we pray for these evils to be crushed out and delivered from the earth forever.

In a special way, we ask for the sexually confused, to be healed.  That the splendor of sexual identity and marriage, which is so under attack in this hour of history, be healed and restored, so that all may see that God Father makes no mistakes.  May it be revealed and understood that Our Father has a powerful destiny, manifested in the sacredness of the sexual identity of every human being.  May each come to see that their path to heaven is rooted in living out their vocation within the order of creation that He set forth upon each of us uniquely and perfectly.  May each of those suffering with sexual disorders, discover the mystery and splendor of their true sexual identity and be blessed with joy, for living as God intended. 

St. Joseph, we know that when the family, the domestic church, has been restored; society, and the universal church will be restored!  Families will again be strong and magnificent!  St. Joseph, model of family love, hear our prayer."

Queen of Peace Rosary Crusade to end Terrorism and War

This generation has been given a phenominal gift.  From eternity, the Queen of Peace has entered "time" to issue important messages to a lost humanity.  She has urged:  "Return to My Son!", "Pray, pray, pray", and "return to the ancient practice of fasting on bread and water" asking the world to fast on Wednesdays and Fridays.  This began June 24, 1981, and she used 6 people, who were children at the time, to spread to the world these messages, in a small village in Medjugorje, Bosnia-Hercegovina.  In the late 80s there was moderate interest in these messages.  The local bishop was at first supportive, then later unsupportive which is where it is today.  The Vatican has tried to step in and investigate the apparitions, and it remains under investigation; but for 33 years no church authority has been able to condemn this phenomenon.  In the last couple of decades, interest has waned.  Church officials are weary to allow any credence to these messages, none of which contradict any church teaching.  This "inaction" has lead to a lukewarmness or indifference to them as well as to what the apparitions mean.  You can research Medjugorje and this phenomenon all you want, but I am here to blare a horn to anyone who will listen, that world events are culminating to beg for a response to the the drastic and exponential rise of global evil in our lifetimes.  This response is clearly a Rosary Crusade, and a sincere response to these messages from the Queen of Peace.  The fact that Our Lady titles herself in these apparitions as "Queen of Peace", as we stand here and watch nation rise against nation, evil terrorism threaten nations and civilizations all over the globe - isn't it time we should perhaps take this supernatural gift of her visitation seriously?

I call to everyone who will listen:  Please accept the pledge to accept joining the Queen of Peace Rosary Crusade, and pray the Holy Rosary every day for peace, and the end of terrorism.  Tell your family, friends -  people at work, anyone - spread peace through prayer.  Through the Holy Rosary.  Saints throughout the ages all said the Holy Rosary is "The Weapon" against evil.  There are hundreds, possibly thousands of books claiming testimony to this reality.  We also know historical facts about how the Holy Rosary stopped wars and evil invasions throughout the centuries.  I will post a few examples below.  It is clear this must be our response.

It makes no difference what the denomination or faith tradition.  The Holy Rosary is ancient and powerful. Anyone can learn it.  I call it the 3D Jesus Life prayer.  It is a 3 dimensional prayer reflecting and contemplating upon the life of Christ.  We pray the prayers, and upon each decade, we meditate upon an event in the life of Jesus.  How cannot the power of Jesus in this manner, not CRUSH the enemy and all of his power?  The Rosary has stopped many wars, and we need it to stop the wars developing right now!  We have wars rising against Christians, against religious liberty, against Israel, against America - against life in the womb!!  We even have satanists trying to hold public black masses to unleash demonic power upon our land.  We absolutely must act, and do it now.

Please ask your loved ones to join in this crusade and to tell others.  Heaven is with us.  They will pray with us and for us.  God's love and power must prevail.  But His victory will come by seeking refuge in HIM, by his small ones, his children.  That is us.  Calling upon the powers and principalities not of this world, but of His Kingdom. Where all might and glory and power is infinite!!  Let us proclaim with joy.  "Glory to God in the Highest!  And Peace to His people on earth!!"

In your committment to pledge to the Queen of Peace Rosary Crusade, we will do as she, the Queen of Peace, has asked:

• Holy Rosary - every day; with family, friends, alone or in a crowd.
• Eucharist - recieve the Holy Eucharist and attend Mass as often as possible.
• Bible - read the Bible every day.  It is the living, breathing Word of God.  It moves and acts within us.
• Fast - every Weds and Friday, on bread and water if possible.  If not; according to your ability.  Also learn to fast from the most important thing of all: sin.  Fast from gossip, complaining, criticizing; fast from conveniences; from ice, coffee, pop, candy or any pleasure that would be a sacrifice.
• Go to monthly confession.  Free yourself of past sins.  Forgive yourself and others.
• Pray with the heart every day.  Talk to Our Lord as if he is a dear family member who can keep your deepest secrets, and greatest joys. Share with Him your inmost self.
• Do this with JOY and CONFIDENCE!  Know that every prayer is heard upon High.  Pray for your families and all who are ill or in need.  Pray for unbelievers.  Pray the crusade with confidence that your life, and the life of others will change!  In a heavenly way.  Know that you will see miracles produced from your prayer of the Holy Rosary.
• Recognise the fruits!  Pay attention to interior changes within yourself, your family/spouse, enemies.  Notice the return of hope and faith.  Embrace the peace that will come.  Share it with others.

Please share the Queen of Peace Rosary Crusade for Peace and the End of War and Terrorism!   Feel free to share this site with others to answer the call to bring peace through prayer!!

Here is how to pray the Holy Rosary:

http://www.theholyrosary.org/

Historical victories from praying the Holy Rosary:

http://www.how-to-pray-the-rosary-everyday.com/military-victories-through-the-rosary.html

What the saints have said about the Holy Rosary:

http://www.whitelilyoftrinity.com/saints_quotes_holyrosary.html

http://www.tfpstudentaction.org/get-involved/campus-rosary-crusade/quotes-of-our-lady-popes-and-saints.html

This photo is of Fr. Slavko; a very holy priest who served millions at the parish in Medjugorje before he died.  He spoke 4 languages fluently and held Holy Mass, speaking in all 4, so no one would feel left out.  He has written amazing books about spiritual growth.  Get ahold of his stuff and read it!  Grow with it!  We love you, Fr. Slavko!!  Pray this crusade with us, dear friend.

Hunger and the Body of Christ

                                     Fasting Reflection

Hunger:  What is it?  An primal instinct (managed by brain chemistry) to eat.  God created us this way.  If we didn't have it, humans as a species, would cease to exist.  Same for animals, fish, even insects.  All creatures have this instinct.  But do angels?  They are pure spirit, so probably not.  It is something that only earthlings possess.

It is also a primal instinct to care for our young.  Part of caring for them is to feed them.  If we love them and do all sorts of things for them, but do not feed them, we are completely negligent and considered inflicting a sinful deprivation of primal need.  By not feeding our young at all, we would cause their death.  By not feeding them with healthy food, we cause them illness.  Both of these are severe nurturing failures which are punishable by natural and civil law.

The instinct of hunger is the most powerful instinct we possess.  As creatures, if we are deprived of food, we become desperate to eat.  Advancing hunger changes behavior, to become animalistic; we either reduce ourselves to eating something disgusting just to satisfy this intense need, or it has been known to drive some to kill one another for food.  And the strange thing about eating to satisfy the hunger is, that the satisfaction only lasts a few hours.  So, in essence - we were created "hungry".  Almost all the time we are instinctively needing food to sustain the flesh.

As a mother who has to spend a great deal of my life, resources and time to plan meals, purchase food, store it, preserve it, then prepare it...then clean up after it, over and over 3 times a day - I have often asked God:  "Lord, what were you thinking?  Why do we have to eat so danged much?"  I still ask Him this question.  

One of the answers is that it forces us to sit down and converse, share, build relationship.  God created meals to be the center of family unity.  Jesus taught us this by often using a meal as the center of an important social event or connection between people, cultures, classes of people.  He spoke of wedding feasts often in his parables.

As prayer warriors we have been taught that fasting has incredible power, and that God wants us to fast and pray often, especially now in this age of sin and evil.  Our Lady of Medjugorje has been begging us to fulfill a strict bread and water fast 2 days a week since 1981.  That is far stricter than the church requires during lent!  As Children of the Tears we see her tears which are caused by the loss of souls, and are absolutely grieved by it - so we have profound motivation to fulfill her instruction to fast.  So fasting obviously has power.  She told the visionaries that fasting and prayer can even stop wars, and suspend the laws of nature.  Those are bold words!

Now, why, Lord, would you place this intense need to eat within us, then urge us not to do it?  It's got to be all about the will.  We are being challenged to place the will of sacrifice over primal instinct.  It's all about self control.  Control of the flesh.

We all know it's difficult to fast.  I used to be good at it back before I had a family to feed.  And to be honest, I grew weary of eating.  I whispered at times, 'Lord I am sick of eating - all the time and all the time and all the time'.  In fact, I fasted so much, I developed an illness which resulted in a health fragility that I suffer to this day, which requires delicate management of.  Now that I have to prepare and cook meals and spend so much time, money resources, to feed my family, I find it nearly impossible to fast.  I have had to learn to fast from other things, but the Lord still wants us to fast with our stomachs.  So this lent we shall intensify effort to master this difficult challenge.

The other thing worth reflecting, is how much importance Christ placed on the eating of His flesh in the Holy Eucharist.  He didn't just say to eat it on occasion when we wanted to feel good, or needed to be holy.  His command was so powerful, that He lost a huge swath of his followers over this teaching.  And - He didn't seem to care that he lost them.  They were instantly disgusted with Him and accused Him of cannibalism.  Yet, He was totally okay with that.  He didn't sit around and lament that they walked off, or try to go back and get them, or try to explain it in a different way.  He remained hard core about it.  He so firmly commanded us to eat his body and blood - that He proclaimed we would not have life in us, period.  Declaring we wouldn't make it to heaven without it!  There is nothing so bold as his teaching on the Holy Eucharist in John 6.  Sadly, protestants to this day have rejected this teaching.

The other thing I find fascinating, is that God uses our fasting as a doorway to the Holy Spirit.   By prayerfully offering our fasts, we become clay for the Holy Spirit to shape, form us, infuse knowledge, wisdom, enlightenment.

So - here we are.  It's 2013.  We live in the most sinful age known to mankind.  We also live in the most technologically advanced age.  Most civilized nations have every sort of convenience.  Advanced transportation allows us almost every sort of food, flavor.  And we are pretty darned addicted to our spices, flavors, cuisines.

Why did God equate penance and sacrifice with starvation?  John the Baptist, and Jesus - both set profound examples of fasting.  John the Baptist lived in the desert, wandered around like a savage, and ate locusts and honey.  This seems so repulsive to us; even if we were dying we would probably refuse chewing on locusts.  Jesus fasted for 40 days and 40 nights.   Sheesh, the longest I ever fasted was nine days on bread and water and I thought I was going to die.  I couldn't wait to sink my teeth back into regular food again.  And for weeks after that long fast, I didn't even want to LOOK at bread.

So, here I sit, still asking God.  "What gives?"  Such a profound dichotomy.  'Lord, why did you choose hunger, as the means to save souls?  To suspend the laws of nature, and stop wars?  Why is it so spiritually powerful?'  It makes me think our bodies contain such interesting secrets of the spirit, from which we have no idea.  We are flesh and spirit.  And God gave us hunger.  In this age of overwhelming sin - He calls us to offer this incense to Him.  It has eternal consequences - of life and death.  To His people; who were so important to Him that He died for them.

I guess we are not meant to understand.  Instead, just.... mind our Mother.

The Year of Faith

We, the Children of Mary, have an ingrained knowledge when Our Mother cries, we must act.  It is a sign this world is in serious trouble, and that God is very much offended.  She gave us a gift to share in that sorrow; to be deeply disturbed by witnessing her tears.  We sadly marvel that she can bear such pain.  Our little sliver of bearing it drives us to pray as oft as we are able.  We pray any chance we can;  at odd intervals throughout the day.  We try to be connected to praying as we are to breathing.  Most of us swim in daily duty, and long to have deep, contemplative prayer, but as goes with this cross, we are usually stripped of it, so have to make our daily duty, our incense to God.

This identity, this knowledge of "who we are" before heaven and earth, equally leaves us dumbfounded by our own ineptitude.  To look at what we have been shown through Our Lady's tears; what we know interiorly, that silent, invisible sword that peirces our hearts in a miniscule way - and how poorly we respond to God's call!  We sadly realize how feeble, how wretched we are, and how lacking our response to it has been.

We recognize the age in which we live; but it's time to place in the big picture, the perspective of our individual lives, and the importance of our prayer life.  This image speaks volumes to the Native peoples who were given a prescription to pray and remain pure for the coming of the White Buffalo Woman who was to prepare and guide humanity thru tribulations and change.  It is the sign of great promise and hope.  It was prophesied generationally that this sign would begin the unfolding of events and great change, as do the prophesies in the Holy Bible.  We live in an age of prophecy and in the age of great spiritual battle.

We now face the greatest battle since the beginning of time - right now.  Right this minute.  Right this Year of Faith, 2013.  We are not dealing with humans.  We are dealing with powers, principalities and cosmic powers that we cannot see; we can't possibly know how they have altered the realms on all the levels of creation, but they have and we see it manifest.  Because we wear flesh, there's a great deal to our existence which leaves us oblivious.  This battle is so far beyond our capability it's laughable.  So as we enter lent, this Year of Faith; we must recognize this is the most pivotal Lent known in the history of mankind.  What we do now, will impact millions of people.  Eternally, for generations to come.

Childen, we have been shown, told, repeatedly - that prayer and fasting will stop wars and suspend the laws of nature.  Do we act like it?  We must ask ourselves. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see the destruction and the exponential spreading of evil everywhere.  The degree of tension in the air is so thick we can cut it with a knife.  Time is speeding up.  There are so many things happening to attack any scrap of honor and grace at such lightning speed, we can hardly keep up with it.  Yet, we also must recognize that God and heaven does not operate "in time", and heaven is by our side, fighting far harder than we are.  God placed a veil between us and them, but there are times, especially at holy moments such as holy communion, that we can touch beyond that veil, and connect to powers and entities which equip us to do things far beyond ourselves and our capability.  Heaven makes itself known to us when the veil is thinned, and we all know when those times are.  The most blaring truth is that God shall be victorious, and He has a plan which we are part of.

Our Lady has been asking us to pray for our sheperds, Her beloved priests.  Now we see the fruits, as we are shown the prescription of our holy bishops, to implement the plan of God:

http://www.usccb.org/beliefs-and-teachings/how-we-teach/new-evangelization/year-of-faith/index.cfm

Specific prayer guidance is provided here:

http://www.usccb.org/beliefs-and-teachings/how-we-teach/new-evangelization/year-of-faith/life-marriage-liberty.cfm

We are called to fast all year long on Fridays, and we are called to monthly parish holy hours, to pray for marriage, the Gospel of Life and religious liberty.  This is a very serious call.  We are not to stay in a little comfort zone and do this within our own living rooms silently - no.  We are called to go visit our pastors, and implore them to implement these prayer guidelines in each of our parishes!  If they don't seem open to it, we are to continue to try, in whatever way we can, these guidelines, to repair our nation, our families, our world.

It doesn't matter if this is an area we are not talented in.  Go boldly.  The Holy Spirit will show the way.  Things will fall into place.  Trust.

Next.  Get people to confession.  Family members, friends, fellow prayer warriors, anyone and everyone.  If it takes doing spiritual reading to understand this sacrament better..do it. Go to confession at LEAST monthly yourself.  Every week or 2 weeks is even better!  We must remain in a state of purity.  This is the Master's command.

Do penance.  Offer sacrifices that are beyond what you have done before.  Do different things.  Fast from unusual things that strip your flesh of a comfort, consolation, a pleasure or entertainment habit that you could instead spend praying for the lost or the suffering.  Place your nose in the scriptures.  Download that "Laudate" app on your i-phone (it's yellow with a pax on it), so in a spare minute you could be reading the day's liturgies, or doing an examination of conscience.

Involve your family in this journey of Faith.  Pray every night with your family.  Pray for family members; have a mass said for generational healing. Begin a habit of faith that will pour grace into your home and into family relationships.

And most importantly, we are to be joyful.  All these signs of tribulation only mean the King is coming!:  "...for today is Holy to Our Lord.  Do not be saddened on this day, for rejoicing in the Lord must be your strength!" - Nehemiah 8:10.

You have your orders, soldiers.  Bravely onward.  In faith, in this Year of Faith.  You are bridled with the supernatural grace of God.

Emmanuel.  God is with us!

America: Pray for Truth!

The Prayer Warrior's Mission: Present Day Ninevah

Like Jonah, God chose us out of all eternity to be His mouthpiece.  Feeling unworthy, we fled to a place to hide, to escape.  But God showed us clearly that we were chosen, and we were thrown out of our hiding place, into a violent storm and were swallowed by the whale of knowledge.  Since then we have been suffering inside that whale.  We trembled, we converted, repented, prayed.  We prayed for God to spare us, and show us the way.  He has shown us that we are evangelists and prayer warriors.  Utterly flawed and unworthy, we've searched for answers as to what a small, imperfect child could do, to help God.  Our answer came from Our Mother.  She called us and was our loving mentor.  Her guidance:  Pray, fast, and don't worry. Then hid us under her mantle, a place of protection.  We are now there, but all of us are perplexed at what is happening and what our role is now.

We have been shown interiorly that the United States has a big role in God's plan of salvation.  We know the why:  Mankind has become more evil than any age in history.  The how, and what - we simply don't know.  We grieve deeply at watching America be ravaged by evil governing, evil entertainment and media who are the instruments of the proliferation of evil and lies on a massive scale.  The latest blow was to watch our beloved republic be seized by evil powers in the election.  The election may have been staged by whomever the global elitist is that put Obama in power in the first place.  Some believe that he didn't win in '08 and especially he didn't win this re-election of a second term.  It is a clear injustice that America should fall under the power of a person who was only popular in the electoral college counties. Despite this, we know God sees.  He sees that there are people who chose good over evil.  For perspective, view this map:

http://projects.wsj.com/elections2012/maps/#r=pres&k=m&v=counties&st=

As we grieve what appears to be the loss of the American republic, we know we are to continue to pray, perhaps now more than ever.  But the thrust of prayer has shifted.  We are now to pray for Truth and prepare for what lies ahead.  

Truth, on every level of existence, in every nation, in every facet of humanity; must be prayed for.  Politically, intellectually, culturally and interiorly, Truth must reign.  To reign, Truth must be sought actively, in prayer. It is simple, and is what God wants now.  In order for God's plan to unfold, the Glory of Truth must be revealed. It is the only hope for humanity to be set straight, and the world be saved.  Because America has much good left, there is great hope, if only in our last days - we bring back Truth!  This may be at our own humiliation before other nations.  This nation must recognize, confess and reject all lies and beg God's mercy.  Once restored in Truth, America can light the way to help other nations and peoples.

The True Kingdom

Our mission is to pray in a way that we may not be used to.  Pray with confidence.  Pray with peace.  Pray with force.  Pray knowing you are breaking a dam of falsehood, and opening floodgates of grace, like a giant Baptism upon humanity.  Pray as if we hold in our hands, the greatest power in the cosmos. A power that every creature would bow to, with awe.  Pray knowing we are part of a Kingdom that does not know defeat - for which defeat is not possible.  Pray with trust!  This kingdom is God's kingdom; it possesses such power and is so vast, that our universe cannot contain it.  It emits a power  which places peace and order to things.  It's ability to do so, surpasses human understanding.  

Pray for the glory, the eternal wisdom, the splendor of this great, powerful force - to manifest powerfully, on every level of our existence. This great power is the Splendor of Truth.  It is God the Holy Spirit, manifest.  And He is alive.  The great secret about Truth?:   It is received, only as much as it is sought.

Truth is a sword.  It can build, but it can also destroy.  Truth can reorder creation.  Truth can restore what is destroyed.   Truth can transform any heart, any relationship, any civilization; any heart...any soul.  The great battle that rages in this era is for the human soul.  On every nation, and in every heart.  What has snared humanity and nearly destroyed it is - every form of untruth.  

When we look at where the human soul is, we see the damage manifested from untruth all over the world.  It is because we are dealing with the antichrist.  And he is quite easy to crush, actually.  All we need is Truth.  In the face of it, he cannot stand.  He will be destroyed, and the Kingdom of Truth will be restored among the sons of Adam, and on every level of creation.

So now, we have our orders.  We are to pray for Truth, with Truth and by Truth.  Look at every level of ourselves.  Place truth in every place of our existence.  Make a deep and honest confession.  Tell others, to do the same.  Urge everyone you know to get right with God, then with their families, marriages, relationships, co-workers.  Examine every act we do or have done.  Was it done in complete honesty and truth?  If not - ask God to change everything that is untrue so we may live in complete Truth.  All of us must do this now.  We are to be the Jonahs, the light, and take this message to all the ends of the earth.  

Pray for the Sword of Truth to slay all the untruth in our nation, in our society, on every level of creation, in existence.  This may cause the earth to rumble, and the skies to open...but it is wonderful - to allow Truth to restore righteousness to it's people who are starving for Truth - to once again reign in glory!

When chastisements come, do not be afraid.  Instead, praise God for them, because it is a sign that He is restoring Truth and righteousness.  Welcome them!  And on every level, when faced with untruth - call upon Truth to create freedom anywhere untruth exists!  Pray with fervor, and hope!  Pray the chaplet of Mercy, because only from the mercy of God shall we spared and protected.

On this path, these things may be helpful:  

• Go to confession immediately.  Ask for a special grace in confession, to have a new awareness of every untruth in your life, the ability to repent and be healed of it, and may Truth from here on out, purify your life and transform your life to the core.
• Pray for your ears to be opened, that Truth begin to speak to you in powerful ways that will help you to help others find it.
• Pray the Chaplet of Divine Mercy every day at 3:00pm.
• Fast every Weds. and Friday as if your life depended on it.  Fast for Truth to be unleashed upon America as never before.  Especially upon the leadership, the media and all areas of great influence  upon every nation and people.  If they have hearings and scandals - pray for ALL Truth to be revealed, and that it may transform our nation to be as God designed.
• Pray the rosary daily for Truth to transform hearts.
• Abortion is the greatest lie upon earth - at every consecration at Holy Mass, implore Truth to slay the beast of abortion off the planet forever.  And that all wounds abortion caused, will be healed.
• Obtain and read the book "The Harbinger".  Tell everyone you know to read it.
• Watch the media, and be active in it to spread Truth whenever and wherever you can.  Just make sure it's Truth - check resources.  Don't be afraid to be a mouthpiece, and don't be afraid of persecution.  Put yourself back in the belly of the whale if you do...then realize your place is to warn Ninevah.
• Truth without love is evil.  So as Truth begins to transform you, if you cannot be a herald of Truth with love, then back off and pray until you can evangelize with both Truth with love - together!
• Prepare physically for uncertain times.  Expect change.  Do not be afraid of bloody martyrdom.

Emmanuel - God is with us!  Sackcloth, ashes and all!

54 Day Rosary Novena for the Elections and for Peace

Prayer Warriors; or any American who wants to change the course of history;

We can all see that our nation is in trouble - we suffer a moral crisis, which is leading this great and blessed nation into a downward spiral to destruction.  We urge everyone to join in a national effort to change the course of our future by picking up a rosary to join in prayer for a 54 day rosary novena.  Three, nine day novenas of petition (27 days), followed by 3 nine day novenas of thanksgiving (27 days).  We need to elect good leadership that will guide us back to righteousness and good; prosperity and grace; to fulfill God's will as a great nation, under God - indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.  The novena will continue a few days after the election to remain in vigil for the military ballots.

The power of the rosary has been known throughout history to turn defeats into victory!  See and read:

http://francismarotti.blogspot.com/2010/10/rosary-and-battle-of-lepanto.html
http://www.marian.org/marianhelper/issues/issue230/article230298.html

For those needing instructions on how to pray the rosary:
http://www.rosary-center.org/howto.htm

It is asked for those participating to go to sacramental confession as you begin, attend Holy Mass as often as possible, fast on Weds and Fridays, and try to give up something during the novena, as is done during lent.

Global peace is in great danger at this time.  In Our Lady's messages to Ivan, she has asked repeatedly, pleading for people to pray for peace:

http://www.marytv.tv/MaryTV/daily-reflections/292-09-20-12-ivan-shares-a-message-in-turin

America faces new healthcare laws that will expand abortion widely, and will strip this nation of it's religious freedom.  There is time to stop this legislation from implementation, only if the elections favor pro-life candidates, and conservatives who will overturn the healthcare mandates.

This election is paramount, and peace is threatened in the world as never before.  The elections are tough because we have mainstream media skewing the truth, misleading millions on whom to vote for.  In America we have learned of corruption at so many levels in our government and it's leaders it has many hearts deeply disturbed.  It is becoming evident that world powers are poised to take control and individual liberty and freedom is profoundly threatened.  We simply must implore God to help us.  He is our only hope.  We have a wealthy Father with great power and glory.  He knows what we face, and He knows we cannot do it alone.  Let us use the tools we have been given, and be the David facing Goliath - with great faith!

Emmanuel - God is with us!

A Prayer for our Nation's Election

O God, we acknowledge You today as Lord, Not only of individuals, but of nations and governments.

We thank You for the privilege Of being able to organize ourselves politically And of knowing that political loyalty Does not have to mean disloyalty to You.

We thank You for Your law, Which our Founding Fathers acknowledged And recognized as higher than any human law.

We thank You for the opportunity that this election year puts before us, To exercise our solemn duty not only to vote, But to influence countless others to vote, And to vote correctly.

Lord, we pray that Your people may be awakened. Let them realize that while politics is not their salvation, Their response to You requires that they be politically active.

Awaken Your people to know that they are not called to be a sect fleeing the world But rather a community of faith renewing the world.

Awaken them that the same hands lifted up to You in prayer Are the hands that pull the lever in the voting booth; That the same eyes that read Your Word Are the eyes that read the names on the ballot, And that they do not cease to be Christians When they enter the voting booth.

Awaken Your people to a commitment to justice, To the sanctity of marriage and the family, To the dignity of each individual human life, And to the truth that human rights begin when Human Lives Begin, And not one moment later.

Lord, we rejoice today That we are citizens of Your kingdom.

May that make us all the more committed To being faithful citizens on earth.

We ask this through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen.

The Spiritual Plagues of Humanity - The Martyrdom of this Age

The other night as I prayed before sleep, I had a bold realization.  The Holy Spirit opened my spiritual eyes.  I realized plagues have already been unleashed upon the earth.  God commanded His Angels to unleash them as punishment upon humanity as a consequence of it’s rebellion against God.  The plagues aren't what we expected.  This is why the true remnant church is suffering all levels of martyrdom. Plagues of the Old Testament had to do with physical suffering of the flesh.  Because we are children of the New Testament; heirs of Christ’s legacy and His creation of the church with the seven sacraments (fonts of every grace imagninable), the new plagues have a dimension far surpassing those of old.  While physical, they contain the spiritual core that eats at the soul as well as the flesh, and worsens with each descending generation.  Each involves personal sin; free will and a distinct choice to disobey God.  Thus, our judgement will be undeniably clear.  They are:

• Birth Control
• Divorce
• Abortion, and all forms of carnal violence and bloodthirst
• Terrorism on mulitiple levels - interior and exterior, national and individual
• Pornography
• Homosexuality
• Addiction/obsession

Any consent to succumb to the plagues causes severe spiritual blindness where human conscience is silenced.  Each plague has far reaching consequences that increase exponentially with compromise of our wills, and effect the most innocent of our society the most.  The only individual protection from the infecting plagues are Truth, purity, faith and passionate renouncement of sin.  The plagues are undeniably real, and have resulted in severe generational, social and spiritual destruction.

Each of the plagues cause moral decay, and destruction of:

1. marriage

2. the family

3. the individual

The plagues create a suffering beyond the scope of anything of prior human history, and has escalated to a cataclysmic scale affecting all these levels of human existence:

physical

spiritual

mental

psychological

socially and globally on every continent of the earth

They are all diabolical signatures of the antichrist.  Each of the plagues have caused intense suffering on each of these levels destroying the individual and humanity, from within. Natural disasters have resulted from the disorder of nature caused by these plagues, and are now an additional element of present day martyrdom.  

These plagues have affected all 3 parts of the Holy Church:  the Church Triumphant, the Church Suffering, and the Church Militant.  The whole church is battling like never before to protect and regain it's members upon earth who are being destroyed by the antichrist.  Because of the strife of this great battle, the veil between these 3 branches of the church is thinning, and the church is becoming more graced with an awareness of it's union to one another across the great chasm between heaven and earth.  This gives us ever greater appreciation for the communion of Saints we enjoy at reception of the Eucharist during Holy Mass.

Since the plagues have entered the cosmos, the angels are presenting the church's painful martyrdom to the Throne of God.   All labors of the harvest and the suffering of Christ's church Militant, is being joined to Christ’s passion and death; in atonement - that it may save the lost.  No living being has been spared of the pain caused by these plagues of our day, from the ‘awake’ or the ‘asleep’ people of modern times.  The spiritual and natural cataclysm applies to what has happened within the church and the priesthood as well, causing the church to bleed, but she will not be destroyed.  Even the animals and creatures of the earth, including the entire planet wail in agony; it's entire nature has been disrupted.

The awareness of these plagues is a great gift.  It shall provide insight and recognition to what the antichrist is doing, and how to fight the tide of evil trying to consume us.  This grace is granted only because God desires that we be healed on all these multiple levels, from the core of our soul to the hairs on our head.  God knows every bit of what we are going through.  Jesus is clearly the complete remedy.  We are going to be part of epic miraculous healings as never witnessed before.  The spiritual blindness suffered by mankind is healed by sacramental confession and prayer. 

Our Lady of Medjugorje heralds the new era; to prepare us for what comes.  She has been calling us now since 1981.  She urges us to walk toward the way to the cleansing and healing of humanity from the plagues - which of course is Jesus.  Not just accepting Jesus, but development of a passionate search and love for Him.  God's plan is huge, and it is all yet to unfold.  We have been struck down for so long we haven't been seeing it - because of the generational and profoundly oppresive nature of our times. 

The reality of Mary in Medjugorje and her role in this is undeniable.  Two articles I must share that emphasize this fact:

1. The Vatican may assign a guardian bishop to Medjugorje?  It’s about time!  http://crownofstars.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/guardian-for-medjugorje.html
2. This article nicely describes the power to destroy the enemy’s power over us via sacramental confession:  http://spiritdaily.com/confession.htm
3. Those who have been to Medjugorje can tell you, the pivotal moment of the pilgrimage is sacramental confession.  Medjugorje is a school of prayer, and a font of healing.  It teaches two huge things:  1. prayer  2. CONFESSION.  Confession is so emphasized, take a look at the physical buildings in Medjugorje and how it is central to serving the sheep who flock there for what I call ‘spiritual warpdrive’:

If the confessionals are all being used, the priests will grab folding chairs and set up confession in the grassy field or wherever there is an open space, and a long line quickly forms.  Confession is a visible sign of Medjugorje that proves it's authenticity in my eyes.  Perhaps it is one of the many reasons the Vatican is getting serious about the Shrine.

One of my biggest irks with the church is that there aren't enough confession timeslots available to the people.  How many times I have stood in long lines for a long time, after great difficulty to get there - to be turned away.  Always worth it, even if it takes 3 or 4 times.  And in the meantime, because I needed it so bad, was exposed to spiritual dangers that could have easily nailed me.  I always think of a weaker person who is turned away - will they make it back?  Do the priests realize how hard it is for us to recieve this sacrament? 

Once, while standing in line for English confessions in Medjugorje, I saw a group of Croatian field workers (dirty and sweaty), stop for confession (the crops there are tobacco, vineyards and wheat, with no modern machinery).  As one young man of the group exited confession, you could tell he was slain in the spirit from the power of the blessing and was trying hard to walk away but his legs were noodles.  The other worker helped him safely slump to the ground, pulled him aside to get him out of the way, and resumed his place in line like it was an everyday thing.  (chuckle)

Here is another area in Medjugorje where they built confessionals to accommodate the pilgrims.  It wasn't built while I was there:  

The Holy Spirit is trying to wake us up.  We are called to return to confession on a regular basis (preferably once per month, for some - more often) to reopen those spiritual eyes that we were all born with.  If you are facing big warfare for anything - start with confession!  It will make you bulletproof - protect you from about anything the enemy throws at you!  If I have a  huge spiritual realization of myself or the world, it's always after I have been cleaned up and my spiritual eyes have the mud washed off! 

Children of God - the enemy has much to fear.  For the small remnant army, we have no might of our own.  This is GODS BATTLE!  The enemy has beaten down humans, but he can't conquer God!  All we can do is a soldier's duty.  To pray, and use the weaponry God gave us!  Live as purely as possible, clinging to the sacraments as much as we can.

Emmanuel – God is With Us!!

Novena for Religious Liberty, Reparation and to End Abortion in the USA

                                           (all photo rights belong to artist, John McNaughton)

NOVENA FOR RELIGIOUS LIBERTY, REPARATION and to END ABORTION IN the USA


In Kansas, May 23rd (Anniv. of the death of Servant of God, Fr. Emil Kapaun) through May 31st (Feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary) join the statewide 9-Day Novena with Prayer and Fasting for Religious Liberty, to Make Reparation and End to Abortion in Kansas and the USA. Catholics throughout are asked to pray, fast, pray the Rosary, Chaplet of Divine Mercy, go to confession, attend Mass daily and receive Holy Communion, pray one hour in prayer before Jesus in the Eucharist, make daily sacrifices and daily pray the USA Novena Prayer. Masses will be offered across the state for this intention during the novena. Persons from each parish are asked to organize events such as a Holy Hour, daily Rosary, or daily Chaplet of Divine Mercy, etc., at one’s church; but each person is free to participate in their own way.

Contact:  HeartofJesusHeartofMary@gmail.com



USA NOVENA PRAYER

O Father, Author of Life, we forever entrust and consecrate our State and the USA to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. The government is threatening our religious riberty by mandating we violate our conscience, and more importantly has taken away the Right to Life of unborn children. By this novena, we pray for religious freedom, make reparation for our nation's sins against life, and ask You to end:

+Abortion;
+Human embryo research;
+In-Vitro Fertilization (IVF) which freezes & kills “extra” children; human cloning;
+Euthanasia; sterilization; and contraception.

Dear Lord, help married couples realize contraception harms their marriage, by preventing the total gift of self to each other and says no to You; who may deign to bring a child into the world.  Father, we have not been told the truth; that chemical contraceptives prevent a child from implanting in the mother’s womb within 6-10 days of fertilization; so the child You created dies, without the mother knowing she was pregnant. Father, once they sorrowfully realize this truth, forgive them for they knew not what they were doing. Grant young people may live in abstinence and purity, rather than promiscuity. O Merciful God, guide the leaders of our nation and all Americans to forever establish a Culture of Life, Love and Liberty. We ask this through the intercession of Mary, the Immaculate Conception, the Patroness of our country, and through the intercession of St. Joseph, Guardian of the Church, in the Holy Name of Jesus Christ, Our Lord. Amen!

Short Version:

USA NOVENA PRAYER

O Father, Author of Life, we forever entrust and consecrate our State and the USA to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. The government is threatening our Religious Liberty by mandating we violate our conscience, and more importantly has taken away the Right to Life of unborn children.  By this Novena, we pray for religious freedom, make reparation for our nation's sins against Life and ask You to end:

+Abortion;
+Human Embryo Research;
+In Vitro Fertilization (IVF); which freezes & kills “extra” children; human cloning;
+Euthanasia, sterilization, and contraception.

O Merciful God, guide the leaders of our nation and all Americans to forever establish a Culture of Life, Love and Liberty. We ask this through the intercession of Mary, the Immaculate Conception, the Patroness of our country, and through the intercession of St. Joseph, Guardian of the Church, in the Holy Name of Jesus Christ, Our Lord. Amen!