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November 16th: St. Gertrude  (1256-1302)

Prayer to Saint Gertrude:

Model of total fidelity to the Heavenly Bridegroom and to your Cistercian Rule, the Lord was pleased to make available wonderful private revelations through you. Help religious to realize that where there is total generosity, trials are usually not lacking, but there is also God’s infinite love. Make all religious generous like you. Amen.

Prayer of Saint Gertrude to the Sacred Heart of Jesus:

O Sacred Heart of Jesus, fountain of eternal life, Your Heart is a glowing furnace of Love. You are my refuge and my sanctuary. O my adorable and loving Savior, consume my heart with the burning fire with which Yours is aflamed. Pour down on my soul those graces which flow from Your love. Let my heart be united with Yours. Let my will be conformed to Yours in all things. May Your Will be the rule of all my desires and actions. Amen.

Prayer of Saint Gertrude the Great to the Blessed Virgin Mary:

HAIL, MARY, queen of mercy, olive-branch of forgiveness, through whom we receive the medicine that heals our mortal sickness, the balsam of pardon; Virgin Mother of the divine offspring, through whom the grace of heavenly light has been shed upon us, the sweet-scented scion of Israel! Through thy Son, thy only Child who stooped to become the Brother of mankind, thou art become the true Mother of us all. For the sake of his love take me, all unworthy as I am, into thy motherly care.  Sustain, preserve, and enlighten my conversion; be thou for all eternity my incomparable cherished mother, tenderly caring for me throughout my earthly life, and enfolding me in thy arms at the hour of my death. Amen.

Prayer of Saint Gertrude the Great for the Souls in Purgatory:

Eternal Father, I offer Thee the Most Precious Blood of Thy Divine Son, Jesus, in union with the Masses said throughout the world today, for all the holy Souls in Purgatory, for sinners everywhere, for sinners in the Universal Church, those in my own home and within my family. Amen

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A soul united with Jesus can do anything…
Mother Cabrini

We must pray without tiring, for the salvation of mankind does not depend on material success; nor on sciences that cloud the intellect. Neither does it depend on arms and human industries, but on Jesus alone. St. Frances Xavier Cabrini (feast day is November 13th)

Inspired by the grace of God, we join the saints in honoring the holy virgin Frances Xavier Cabrini. She was a humble woman who became outstanding not because she was famous or rich or powerful, but because she lived a virtuous life. From the tender years of her youth, she kept her innocence as white as a lily and preserved it carefully with the thorns of penitence; as the years progressed, she was moved by a certain instinct and supernatural zeal to dedicate her whole life to the service and greater glory of God.  It must also be mentioned that Mother Cabrini was a Third Order Franciscan. (more…)

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Saint John Eudes, Priest
Optional Memorial  August 19th

(1601-1680) Born in France, he was a gifted preacher and encouraged devotions to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. Specially concerned to council and defend endangered women, he founded an association of priest and the religious Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Charity

St. Pope Pius X called St. Eudes the Immaculate Heart’s Father, Doctor and Apostle. It was through him that this devotion was made public and received ecclesiastical approbation. At his canonization, Holy Mother Church emphasized his role in establishing the liturgical devotion to the Heart of Mary. St. John Eudes, as a theologian, was the first to explain this devotion. The feast was established first in his Congregation and later through out the French dioceses. He composed a mass and office. In 1680, shortly before his death, his book, The Admirable Heart of Mary, was completed and published. It consisted of 12 books, took him 20 years to write it, and was the first of its kind.

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Homily #090619 ( 08min) Play – Jesus allowed His Sacred Heart to be pierced so that we can be saved. But so often this greatest of gifts is met with Sacrilege, Indifference and Ingratitude. Listen as Father explains how great a tragedy this is and why we should love Our Lord ever more.
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Jesus, our Savior, true God and true man, must be the ultimate end of all our other devotions; otherwise they would be false and misleading. He is the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and end of every­thing. ‘We labor,” says Saint Paul, “only to make all men perfect in Jesus Christ.”

For in him alone dwells the entire fullness of the divinity and the complete fullness of grace, virtue, and perfection. In him alone we have been blessed with every spiritual blessing; he is the only teacher from whom we must learn; the only Lord on whom we should depend; the only Head to whom we should be united and the only model that we should imitate. He is the only Physician that can heal us; the only Shepherd that can feed us; the only Way that can lead us; the only Truth that we can believe; the only Life that can animate us. He alone is everything to us and he alone can satisfy all our desires.

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Homily #090606s ( 14min) Play -  It is Our Lady who at Fatima, Portugal asks for the 1st Saturday Devotion to the Immaculate Heart to do reparation for the sins of the world, to save many souls from falling into Hell.
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Homily #090605s ( 06min) Play – At this Mass for the 1st Friday Sacred Heart Devotion for the local homeschoolers Fr. Ignatius emphasizes the Gospel message of forgiveness in the sacrament of confession and how Our Lady helps us to persevere in grace.
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Roving Reporter #43 – Enthronement of the Sacred Heart ( 03min) >>> Play

Ave Maria! Fr Ignatius recently led the Sacred Heart Enthronement at the home of Tim & Lisa Hull. Fr Ignatius spoke with the Hulls about this enthronement and why they chose to have it at their home.

The Enthronement of the Sacred Heart is a crusade to establish the social reign of the Sacred Heart in society through the family.

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Homily #080606s ( 08min) Play – On this First Friday of June, Fr. Ignatius preaches on the biblical foundations of the Sacred Heart of Jesus to which this homeschooler’s Mass is dedicated. He points out that the heart has always been considered the center of our being and heart is mentioned over 800 times in the Old Testament and this is applied to God many times especially in Jeremiah and Job. Once Jesus becomes incarnate then these passages can be applied literally to His Heart.
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Ave Maria!– May’s Theme: Mary Mediatrix

“Just as the Immaculate is the most perfect instrument in the hand of God, in the hand of Divine Mercy, of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, so we are an instrument in Her hand. And through Her we are an instrument of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, that is to say, of the Mercy of God. Therefore, may our motto be: ‘through the Immaculate to the Heart of Jesus.’” (cf. SK #339)

Homily #080502s ( 10min) Play – Devotion to the Sacred Heart is a summary of all which one should do to respond to the love of God. Listen as Fr. outlines the practical steps to this devotion, stressing that it is an act of the will that should spill over into other interior actions (thinking about His sufferings and having heart to heart conversations with Him) and exterior actions (home enthronements, partaking in First Friday devotions)
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Homily #080404 ( 05min) Play – On First Friday we have the devotion of the Sacred Heart when every month the local homeschoolers gather at the friary. In this homily, Fr Ignatius connects the devotion to the Sacred Heart with homeschooling as a means to establish the Kingdom of Christ in the world.

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