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Tips on Prayer Your prayers are strongest at the Consecration in Holy
Mass (raising of Host and Chalice).
Each time we look at The Most Blessed Sacrament our
place in Heaven is raised forever, (revealed by Our Lord
to St. Gertrude the Great).
Prayer to Obtain the Grace of all World's Masses Eternal Father we humbly offer Thee our poor presence
and that of the whole of humanity from the beginning
to the end of the world at all the Masses that ever have
or ever will be prayed. We offer Thee all the pains, suffering, prayers,
sacrifices, joys and relaxations of our lives, in union with those of
our dear Lord Jesus here on earth. May the Most Precious Blood of
Christ, all His blood and wounds and agony save us, through the sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary. Amen! (This prayer
should be prayed daily, and Made known.)
Dear St. Philomena pray for us for that purity of mind
and heart which lead to the Perfect Love of God!
God Must be pursued and the more you chase Him the
more you catch Him (Maimonedes)
Graces Derived from Assisting at Mass
1. The Mass is Calvary continued.
2.
Every Mass is worth as much as the sacrifice of
our Lord's life, sufferings and death.
3. Holy Mass is the most powerful atonement for
your sins.
4.
At the hour of death the Masses you have heard
will be your greatest consolation.
5.
Every Mass will go with you to judgment and plead
for pardon.
6.
At Mass you can diminish more or less temporal
punishment due to your sins, according to your
fervor.
7.
Assisting devoutly at Holy Mass you render to the
sacred humanity of Our Lord the greatest homage.
8.
He supplies for many of your negligences and omissions.
9.
He forgives the venial sins which you have not confessed. The power of Satan over you is diminished.
10. You afford the souls in Purgatory the greatest possible relief.
11.
One Mass heard during life will be of more benefit
to you than many heard for you after your death.
12.
You are preserved from dangers and misfortunes
which otherwise might have befallen you. You
shorten your Purgatory.
13.
Every Mass wins for you a higher degree of glory
in Heaven.
14.
You receive the priest's blessing which Our Lord
ratifies in Heaven.
15.
You kneel amidst a multitude of holy angels, who
are present at the adorable Sacrifice with reverential awe.
16.
You are blessed in your temporal goods and affairs.
In eternity, we shall fully realize that it was certainly
worthwhile to have assisted at Holy Mass daily. PRAY
FOR PRIESTS THAT THEY MAY OFFER THE
MASS WITH HOLY LOVE AND REVERENCE.
St. Bonaventure said: "that whoever neglected Our Lady
would perish in his sins and would be damned."
HOLY COMMUNION Each time we receive Holy Communion our venial sins
are forgiven.
Christ revealed to St. Gertrude the Great that each time
1 person receives Holy Communion something good
happens to every being in heaven on earth and in purgatory. The Curate of Ars said that a Communion well received
is worth more than 20,000 NFF given to the poor. Each time we receive Communion our place in heaven is
raised forever, our stay in purgatory shortened. WE SHOULD NEVER LET A DAY PASS WITHOUT
GOING TO HOLY COMMUNION!
Spiritual Communion The value of a spiritual Communion well made is enormous. We can and should make one frequently. Simply
think on Jesus and how much He loves us and how much
we love Him, then ask Our Blessed Mother to ask Her
Divine Son to come into our hearts. We can offer these
Communions for the interest of the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, noting our special intention!
After receiving Holy Communion Our Lord said we should
pray: "Most Sacred Heart of Jesus may the whole world
burn with love for You!" (revelation to Gabrielle Bossis
in France)
A True Letter Of Our Saviour Jesus Christ
Consecrating the Drops of Blood which Our Lord Jesus
lost on His way to Calvary.
 Copy of a letter of the Oration found in the Holy Sepulcher of Our Lord Jesus Christ in Jerusalem, preserved in
a silver box by His Holiness and by the Emperors and
Empresses of the Christian Faith.
St. Elizabeth, Queen of Hungary, with St. Matilda and
St. Bridget, wishing to know something of the Passion of
Jesus Christ, offered fervent and special prayers, upon
which there appeared to them Our Lord Jesus Christ who
spoke to them in the following manner:
I descended from Heaven to the Earth in order to convert you.
In olden times people were religious and their harvests
were abundant; at present, on the contrary, they are
scanty.
If you want to reap an abundant harvest you must not
work on Sunday, for on Sunday you must go to Church
and pray to God to forgive your sins. He gave you six
days in which to work and one for rest and devotion and
to tender your help to the poor and assist the Church.
Those people, who brawl against my religion and cast slurs on this
Sacred Letter, shall be forsaken by me. On the contrary, those people
who shall carry a copy of this letter with them shall be free from death
by drowning and from sudden death. They shall be free from all
contagious diseases and lightning; they shall not die without confession, and shall be free from their enemies and
from the hand of wrongful authority, and from all their
slanderers and false witnesses.
Women in peril at child-birth will, by keeping this Oration about them, immediately overcome the difficulty.
In the houses where this Oration is kept no evil thing wilt
ever happen: and forty days before the death of a person
who has this Oration about him or her, the Blessed Virgin
will appear to him or her. So said St. Gregorius.
To all those faithful who shall recite for 3 years, each day
2 Paters, Gloria's and Aves, in honor of the drops of blood
I lost, I will concede the following 5 graces:
1st. The plenary indulgence and remittance of your sins.
2nd. You will be free from the pains of Purgatory.
3rd. If you should die before completing the said 3 years,
for you it will be the same as if you had completed them.
4th. It will be upon your death the same as if you had
shed all your blood for the Holy Faith.
5th. I will descend from Heaven to take your soul and
that of your relatives, until the fourth generation. Be it known that the number of armed soldiers were 150;
those who trailed me while I was bound were 23. The
executioners of justice were 83; the blows received on
my head were 150; those on my stomach, 108; kicks on
my shoulders, 80. I was led, bound with cords by the
hair, 24 times; spits in the face were 180; I was beaten on
the body 6666 times; beaten on the head, 1 10 times. I
was roughly pushed, and at 12 o'clock was lifted up by
the hair; pricked with thorns and pulled by the beard 23
times; received 20 wounds on the head; thorns of marine
junks, 72; pricks of thorns in the head, 110; mortal
thorns in the forehead, 3. I was afterwards flogged and
dressed as a mocked king; wounds in the body, 1000.
The soldiers who led me to the Calvary were 608; those
who watched me were 3, and those who mocked me
were 1008; the drops of blood which I lost were 28,430.
Benedetta DA S.S., Pope Leo XIII, In Roma 5 Aprile 1890
PRAYER TO THE INFANT OF PRAGUE
O merciful Infant Jesus! I know of Thy miraculous deeds for the sick . .
. in view of the innumerable graces and the cures granted . . . through
the veneration of Thy Holy Infancy, particularly in the statue of Prague
. . . I exclaim with the greatest assurance: O most loving . . . infant
Jesus, Thou canst cure me if Thou wilt! Extend Thy holy hand and by Thy
power take away all pain and infirmity.
INFANT OF PRAGUE The more you honour Me, the more I will bless
you!
"Occupy yourself with My interests and I'll occupy Myself with yours,"
Our Lord to St. Teresa of Avila.
HISTORY of THE DEVOTION TO THE INFANT OF
PRAGUE Devotion to the Infant Jesus is as old as Christianity
itself. It ever tends to keep the great mystery of our Lord's birth
vividly before us.
A special devotion to the Divine Child originated with the Carmelites
in the city of Prague, Bohemia, in the beginning of the seventeenth
century. Princess Polyxenia of Lobkowitz had received as a wedding gift
from her mother a statue of the Divine Child, previously brought from
Spain. After the death of her husband, the princess devoted herself to
works of charity and was particularly helpful to the Carmelites in
Prague. When in 1628 the Carmelite Monastery had been reduced to
poverty, owing to the ravages of war, the princess gave her precious
statue to the Carmelites, saying:
"I GIVE YOU WHAT I PRIZE MOST HIGHLY IN THE WORLD; HONOR AND RESPECT
THE CHILD JESUS AND YOU SHALL NEVER BE IN WANT."
Her gift was placed in the Carmelite oratory. The words of the
princess proved prophetic for as long as the Carmelites kept up their
devotion to the Divine Infant of Prague everything prospered with them.
The Carmelites were later forced to flee from the city and in the
confusion of the war they were unable to take with them their miraculous
statue. The invaders seized it and threw it into a pile of rubbish. In
1635, peace came to Prague and the Carmelites returned. One of them,
Father Cyril, who had previously received great spiritual help through
his devotion to the Infant of Prague, sought the statue and found it
amidst the rubbish. Overjoyed, he placed the statue again in the
oratory. As Father Cyril was one day praying devotedly before the
statue, he heard a voice saying: "HAVE MERCY ON ME AND I WILL HAVE MERCY
ON YOU. RETURN MY HANDS TO ME AND I SHALL GIVE YOU PEACE. THE MORE YOU
HONOR ME, THE MORE I SHALL BLESS YOU." Startled by these words,
Father Cyril examined the statue and upon drawing aside the mantle
covering it, he found that both hands of the statue were broken off. The
hands were restored to the statue through the generosity of a client of
the Divine Child. Once more peace and prosperity returned to the
Carmelites.
Devotion to the Divine Child had always been practiced by the
Carmelites for through their Mother, Mary, this Divine Child had come to
the world. St. Theresa of Jesus practiced particular devotion to the
Divine Child. St. Therese, the Little Flower, was also a most fervent
venerator.
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