"Today bring to Me the Souls of those who have separated themselves from My Church*,
and immerse them in the ocean of My mercy. During My bitter Passion they tore at My Body and Heart, that is, My Church. As they return to unity with the Church My wounds heal and in this way they alleviate My Passion."
Most Merciful Jesus, Goodness Itself, You do not refuse light to those who seek it of You. Receive into the abode of Your Most Compassionate Heart the souls of those who have separated themselves from Your Church. Draw them by Your light into the unity of the Church, and do not let them escape from the abode of Your Most Compassionate Heart; but bring it about that they, too, come to glorify the generosity of Your mercy.
Eternal Father, turn Your merciful gaze upon the souls of those who have separated themselves from Your Son's Church, who have squandered Your blessings and misused Your graces by obstinately persisting in their errors. Do not look upon their errors, but upon the love of Your own Son and upon His bitter Passion, which He underwent for their sake, since they, too, are enclosed in His Most Compassionate Heart. Bring it about that they also may glorify Your great mercy for endless ages. Amen.
*Our Lord's original words here were "heretics and schismatics,"
Read more: http://www.ewtn.com/devotionals/mercy/novena.htm#ixzz1fo8IHo2S
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Monday, December 5, 2011
Michael Voris "two front War"
Two Front War
Hello everyone and welcome to the Vortex where lies and falsehoods are trapped and
exposed. I’m Michael Voris.
The struggle between Protestantism and Catholicism .. which is just one battle the Church is in .. is clearly being won by Protestants.
See the Church is in a two-front war right now. One front is being waged in the cultural arena where we are doing battle with secular humanism and the supporters of moral relativism. It’s bloody and not going so well.
The other front is being waged with the 500 year old heresy of Protestantism and here ..the situation is actually worse and that’s because there is almost a total lack of fight against it.
As in almost any military campaign where a two front war is being engaged .. resources are diverted to which ever front seems to be in greater need. Right now .. that looks like the cultural war front because that’s the one that gets all the headlines. Things like Abortion and Homosexual Marriage and so forth dominate.
But the even greater enemy may be the theological indifferentism and near paralysis that has befallen the Church when it comes confronting the heresy of Protestantism. As we discussed yesterday .. there are big mouth lying preachers who occupy the spotlight in the mega-Church Protestant world .. true enough.
As wrongly inspiring as they are for their millions of minions that hang on their every word as they fork over 10% of every dime they earn these preachers .. the preachers and their influence are only part of the problem.
Inside the Catholic Church .. there are hundreds .. thousands of Catholic priests who are simply unprepared to cope with the Protestant onslaught against their flock .. either intellectually or personally or both.
Intellectual unpreparedness goes back to the issue of their lack of training in seminary. Many of them simply have not been given the skill set to fight back against the heresy.
Back in the day .. practically every Catholic priest was trained to some degree in
apologetics .. and was able to make ample defense of the faith and intellectually disarm Protestantism. Today .. not so much.
It’s one reason why so many Catholics leave the Church and go to a Protestant building.
The errors of Protestantism have not been adequately explained NOR the truths of
Catholicism. The priest is quite often lacking in sufficient knowledge of Catholicism
himself and therefore unable to argue against or even recognize the errors of Protestant position.But there is a further aspect to this. Not only are many priests ill-equipped to fight the
Protestant heresy .. but many also lack the stomach. They simply do not have
personalities that relish fighting for souls.
They are more weak-kneed and have the constitution of someone more gifted at planning
a luncheon to talk about disagreements than to get in the trenches and slug it out. On some level .. they even quietly admire the vast crowds that come to Protestant megabuilding on Sundays.They do not have the stuff of warriors and this gets communicated one way or another to the Catholics sitting in their pews.
Those Catholics end up either leaving the Church and religion altogether .. as is the case with about 50 percent of former Church going Catholics OR they run across to Protestant Pastor Pete who of course welcomes them with open arms .. as is the case with the other 50 percent of former Catholics according to poll after poll.
The Catholics who remain do so for a variety of reasons .. most of them wrong. They stay because of ethnic heritage .. or they like the priest personally or they’re just
“comfortable” there because that’s “what we’ve always done”.
Some .. some .. stay for the truth .. the Eucharist .. but most are astonishingly unaware of Him who resides in their Church under the appearance of bread and wine.
Like many efforts in carrying out the reforms of the Second Vatican Council .. it must be admitted that the call to ecumenism and evangelization has also been a spectacular failure.
Seminary training regressed to the point that Protestantism .. as blatant a heresy as there ever could be .. could not have a large scale adequate defense mustered against it.
This is why the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass in so many parishes resembles a Protestant
service more than a Catholic Mass.
And its why today .. so many Catholics in the pews don’t really see that much of a
difference between Catholicism and Protestantism. But the Catholics who got up out of
the pews by the tens of millions sure saw a difference.
And what they saw at Protestant Pastor Pete’s church building they liked more. No matter how nicely its dressed up and how polite the people are .. even genuine .. what’s being preached and celebrated over there is heresy.
For Catholic priests to admire the style and marketing and then try to imitate it betokens a sufficient lack of understanding of their own priestly identity. Catholic priests are first and last Alter Christus – other Christs .. not mega-congregation showmen. When this Vortex ends … think of one specific priest you know and say a Hail Mary for him.
GOD Love You.
Michael Voris
Hello everyone and welcome to the Vortex where lies and falsehoods are trapped and
exposed. I’m Michael Voris.
The struggle between Protestantism and Catholicism .. which is just one battle the Church is in .. is clearly being won by Protestants.
See the Church is in a two-front war right now. One front is being waged in the cultural arena where we are doing battle with secular humanism and the supporters of moral relativism. It’s bloody and not going so well.
The other front is being waged with the 500 year old heresy of Protestantism and here ..the situation is actually worse and that’s because there is almost a total lack of fight against it.
As in almost any military campaign where a two front war is being engaged .. resources are diverted to which ever front seems to be in greater need. Right now .. that looks like the cultural war front because that’s the one that gets all the headlines. Things like Abortion and Homosexual Marriage and so forth dominate.
But the even greater enemy may be the theological indifferentism and near paralysis that has befallen the Church when it comes confronting the heresy of Protestantism. As we discussed yesterday .. there are big mouth lying preachers who occupy the spotlight in the mega-Church Protestant world .. true enough.
As wrongly inspiring as they are for their millions of minions that hang on their every word as they fork over 10% of every dime they earn these preachers .. the preachers and their influence are only part of the problem.
Inside the Catholic Church .. there are hundreds .. thousands of Catholic priests who are simply unprepared to cope with the Protestant onslaught against their flock .. either intellectually or personally or both.
Intellectual unpreparedness goes back to the issue of their lack of training in seminary. Many of them simply have not been given the skill set to fight back against the heresy.
Back in the day .. practically every Catholic priest was trained to some degree in
apologetics .. and was able to make ample defense of the faith and intellectually disarm Protestantism. Today .. not so much.
It’s one reason why so many Catholics leave the Church and go to a Protestant building.
The errors of Protestantism have not been adequately explained NOR the truths of
Catholicism. The priest is quite often lacking in sufficient knowledge of Catholicism
himself and therefore unable to argue against or even recognize the errors of Protestant position.But there is a further aspect to this. Not only are many priests ill-equipped to fight the
Protestant heresy .. but many also lack the stomach. They simply do not have
personalities that relish fighting for souls.
They are more weak-kneed and have the constitution of someone more gifted at planning
a luncheon to talk about disagreements than to get in the trenches and slug it out. On some level .. they even quietly admire the vast crowds that come to Protestant megabuilding on Sundays.They do not have the stuff of warriors and this gets communicated one way or another to the Catholics sitting in their pews.
Those Catholics end up either leaving the Church and religion altogether .. as is the case with about 50 percent of former Church going Catholics OR they run across to Protestant Pastor Pete who of course welcomes them with open arms .. as is the case with the other 50 percent of former Catholics according to poll after poll.
The Catholics who remain do so for a variety of reasons .. most of them wrong. They stay because of ethnic heritage .. or they like the priest personally or they’re just
“comfortable” there because that’s “what we’ve always done”.
Some .. some .. stay for the truth .. the Eucharist .. but most are astonishingly unaware of Him who resides in their Church under the appearance of bread and wine.
Like many efforts in carrying out the reforms of the Second Vatican Council .. it must be admitted that the call to ecumenism and evangelization has also been a spectacular failure.
Seminary training regressed to the point that Protestantism .. as blatant a heresy as there ever could be .. could not have a large scale adequate defense mustered against it.
This is why the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass in so many parishes resembles a Protestant
service more than a Catholic Mass.
And its why today .. so many Catholics in the pews don’t really see that much of a
difference between Catholicism and Protestantism. But the Catholics who got up out of
the pews by the tens of millions sure saw a difference.
And what they saw at Protestant Pastor Pete’s church building they liked more. No matter how nicely its dressed up and how polite the people are .. even genuine .. what’s being preached and celebrated over there is heresy.
For Catholic priests to admire the style and marketing and then try to imitate it betokens a sufficient lack of understanding of their own priestly identity. Catholic priests are first and last Alter Christus – other Christs .. not mega-congregation showmen. When this Vortex ends … think of one specific priest you know and say a Hail Mary for him.
GOD Love You.
Michael Voris
Divine Mercy Prayers
"Today bring to Me those who do not believe in God and those who do not know Me,
I was thinking also of them during My bitter Passion, and their future zeal comforted My Heart. Immerse them in the ocean of My mercy."
Most compassionate Jesus, You are the Light of the whole world. Receive into the abode of Your Most Compassionate Heart the souls of those who do not believe in God and of those who as yet do not know You. Let the rays of Your grace enlighten them that they, too, together with us, may extol Your wonderful mercy; and do not let them escape from the abode which is Your Most Compassionate Heart.
Eternal Father, turn Your merciful gaze upon the souls of those who do not believe in You, and of those who as yet do not know You, but who are enclosed in the Most Compassionate Heart of Jesus. Draw them to the light of the Gospel. These souls do not know what great happiness it is to love You. Grant that they, too, may extol the generosity of Your mercy for endless ages. Amen.
*Our Lord's original words here were "the pagans."
Read more: http://www.ewtn.com/devotionals/mercy/novena.htm#ixzz1fhQvcquu
I was thinking also of them during My bitter Passion, and their future zeal comforted My Heart. Immerse them in the ocean of My mercy."
Most compassionate Jesus, You are the Light of the whole world. Receive into the abode of Your Most Compassionate Heart the souls of those who do not believe in God and of those who as yet do not know You. Let the rays of Your grace enlighten them that they, too, together with us, may extol Your wonderful mercy; and do not let them escape from the abode which is Your Most Compassionate Heart.
Eternal Father, turn Your merciful gaze upon the souls of those who do not believe in You, and of those who as yet do not know You, but who are enclosed in the Most Compassionate Heart of Jesus. Draw them to the light of the Gospel. These souls do not know what great happiness it is to love You. Grant that they, too, may extol the generosity of Your mercy for endless ages. Amen.
*Our Lord's original words here were "the pagans."
Read more: http://www.ewtn.com/devotionals/mercy/novena.htm#ixzz1fhQvcquu
Saturday, December 3, 2011
Michael Voris "All zeal, No Truth"
The much esteemed and highly loved archbishop Fulton J. Sheen used to say of the
conflict between Catholicism and Communism .. we have all truth and no zeal and the
communists have all zeal and no truth.
And isn’t that just the way of things. It seems in every age and every challenge .. that too
few Catholics have any zeal .. or what little zeal they have is quickly dispatched at the
slightest hint of challenge or confrontation.
But when you look at the Protestant world .. now there is a group with zeal. In fact .. one
looks at them and is more impressed with their zeal certainly than with their truth. They
certainly don’t fit the notion of having NO truth as Sheen would say of Communists .. but
they are lacking in the truth department .. sometime substantially.
Now granted .. there are many instances .. one suspects most instances in fact .. where
this is due to glaring ignorance of the TOTAL revealed truth .. and where they are lacking
is in large part owing to a lack of zeal among Catholics.
Take a look at this email ad that was went to me a couple of weeks back.
Its for a conference in mid-January in Orlando called .. Winning the Second Billion. The
upshot is clear enough. Evangelical Protestants claim to have converted a billion people
worldwide to Christianity and are now on schedule to start on the second billion. That
billion with a “B” by the way.
So they are having this massive conference with thousands of attendees .. many of them
preachers .. to put their heads together and map out how to get 5 million new “churches”
and rake in another Billion souls.
Now whether their math is spot on about having snared a billion souls for Christ is not
the point of this Vortex. I suspect their accounting methods are slightly exaggerated, but
that they are a worldwide force is beyond dispute.
Nor is the point of this Vortex to hammer out what the theological differences are
between Catholicism and this brand of Protestantism. There are many. MANY. Which
is why .. in the end .. this is very very troublesome.
Suffice it to say that to convince a naïve soul of a distorted and heretical view of Christ is
saddening in the extreme.
The point of this Vortex is to say .. where is the Catholic effort to do this?
Yes .. we hear all about The New Evangelization. This committee there has been formed
and that commission here has been established. A local council over in that diocese has begun a study and an ad-hoc panel over there has been assembled to review findings. Soon reports will be published and meetings scheduled to review the findings .. and summaries of the meetings of the minutes will undergo analysis and then be forwarded on to the department chairmen for their oversight and suggestions.
Then a statement will be issued whereby the local effort to begin to plan the next phase of the establishing of a blue-ribbon panel of distinguished scholars and experts will be set.
And one day .. boy one day .. when all that marshalling of forces has finally passed
through every bureaucratic hoop ever invented and dreamed of in the mind of man has
been done .. watch out brother .. when that happens .. man oh man .. just wait until you see the Catholic New Evangelization!
Are there really people in the Church establishment who wake up every day with a
burning zeal to convert one BILLION souls to the Faith? Really?
When you look around .. you see a LOT of zeal to chase down all kinds of earthly causes like limiting greenhouse gases and jumping into government policy decisions about immigration .. and pushing every [social so-called justice] program .. but skipping the usual official statement on a web page .. you see little else about preaching the truth ..insisting on the truth of Catholicism.
We hear much about not wanting to offend and being too insensitive to other faiths and needing to accommodate the feelings and emotions of every single person possible. And this is called being CHARITABLE. It couldn’t be further from being Charitable. It’s actually called cowardice. Being afraid to announce what is true because of the inevitable blowback is the stuff for wimps, official bureaucratic blue-ribbon panel approved wimps .. but wimps nonetheless.
When someone refuses to announce the truth to when another person’s soul is in the
balance, there are only two causes. The person is a coward.or they don’t really believe what they are supposed to announce is in fact .. actually the truth.
Either will condemn any effort of evangelization before it even gets started. There are hundreds of able Catholics all over America right now .. at this very minute .. on fire for the faith. I know .. I’ve personally shaken their hands and looked them in them in the eye.
I have breakfast lunch and dinner with them. We’ve talked on the way to the airport in the late night hours. We’ve talked about the condition of the Church until dawn at a local Denny’s or International House of Pancakes.
I’ve stayed back for hours after talks all over the country and heard these people in their zeal for the faith and they would alter their lives in a heartbeat to do the work of preaching the faith .. the authentic faith .. and save souls.
So .. here’s a suggestion .. why not take the millions of dollars spent on other less
important tasks .. and they are too numerous to count .. and divert it to teams of
enthusiastic missionaries who will go out into the world and preach Catholic truth
boldly .. clearly.... and without apology.
The Church exists for the sole reason of saving souls. Nothing more. It is not a giant social help agency or political lobbyist machine. Souls. Salvation. Heaven.
If we had kept our eyes on these final goals in the first place .. there wouldn’t even be talk of a NEW evangelization.
Preach the truth is all its glaring blinding beauty .. that is the only thing the Church is commissioned to do.
GOD Love you .. I’m Michael Voris.
http://www.Billion.tv/
conflict between Catholicism and Communism .. we have all truth and no zeal and the
communists have all zeal and no truth.
And isn’t that just the way of things. It seems in every age and every challenge .. that too
few Catholics have any zeal .. or what little zeal they have is quickly dispatched at the
slightest hint of challenge or confrontation.
But when you look at the Protestant world .. now there is a group with zeal. In fact .. one
looks at them and is more impressed with their zeal certainly than with their truth. They
certainly don’t fit the notion of having NO truth as Sheen would say of Communists .. but
they are lacking in the truth department .. sometime substantially.
Now granted .. there are many instances .. one suspects most instances in fact .. where
this is due to glaring ignorance of the TOTAL revealed truth .. and where they are lacking
is in large part owing to a lack of zeal among Catholics.
Take a look at this email ad that was went to me a couple of weeks back.
Its for a conference in mid-January in Orlando called .. Winning the Second Billion. The
upshot is clear enough. Evangelical Protestants claim to have converted a billion people
worldwide to Christianity and are now on schedule to start on the second billion. That
billion with a “B” by the way.
So they are having this massive conference with thousands of attendees .. many of them
preachers .. to put their heads together and map out how to get 5 million new “churches”
and rake in another Billion souls.
Now whether their math is spot on about having snared a billion souls for Christ is not
the point of this Vortex. I suspect their accounting methods are slightly exaggerated, but
that they are a worldwide force is beyond dispute.
Nor is the point of this Vortex to hammer out what the theological differences are
between Catholicism and this brand of Protestantism. There are many. MANY. Which
is why .. in the end .. this is very very troublesome.
Suffice it to say that to convince a naïve soul of a distorted and heretical view of Christ is
saddening in the extreme.
The point of this Vortex is to say .. where is the Catholic effort to do this?
Yes .. we hear all about The New Evangelization. This committee there has been formed
and that commission here has been established. A local council over in that diocese has begun a study and an ad-hoc panel over there has been assembled to review findings. Soon reports will be published and meetings scheduled to review the findings .. and summaries of the meetings of the minutes will undergo analysis and then be forwarded on to the department chairmen for their oversight and suggestions.
Then a statement will be issued whereby the local effort to begin to plan the next phase of the establishing of a blue-ribbon panel of distinguished scholars and experts will be set.
And one day .. boy one day .. when all that marshalling of forces has finally passed
through every bureaucratic hoop ever invented and dreamed of in the mind of man has
been done .. watch out brother .. when that happens .. man oh man .. just wait until you see the Catholic New Evangelization!
Are there really people in the Church establishment who wake up every day with a
burning zeal to convert one BILLION souls to the Faith? Really?
When you look around .. you see a LOT of zeal to chase down all kinds of earthly causes like limiting greenhouse gases and jumping into government policy decisions about immigration .. and pushing every [social so-called justice] program .. but skipping the usual official statement on a web page .. you see little else about preaching the truth ..insisting on the truth of Catholicism.
We hear much about not wanting to offend and being too insensitive to other faiths and needing to accommodate the feelings and emotions of every single person possible. And this is called being CHARITABLE. It couldn’t be further from being Charitable. It’s actually called cowardice. Being afraid to announce what is true because of the inevitable blowback is the stuff for wimps, official bureaucratic blue-ribbon panel approved wimps .. but wimps nonetheless.
When someone refuses to announce the truth to when another person’s soul is in the
balance, there are only two causes. The person is a coward.or they don’t really believe what they are supposed to announce is in fact .. actually the truth.
Either will condemn any effort of evangelization before it even gets started. There are hundreds of able Catholics all over America right now .. at this very minute .. on fire for the faith. I know .. I’ve personally shaken their hands and looked them in them in the eye.
I have breakfast lunch and dinner with them. We’ve talked on the way to the airport in the late night hours. We’ve talked about the condition of the Church until dawn at a local Denny’s or International House of Pancakes.
I’ve stayed back for hours after talks all over the country and heard these people in their zeal for the faith and they would alter their lives in a heartbeat to do the work of preaching the faith .. the authentic faith .. and save souls.
So .. here’s a suggestion .. why not take the millions of dollars spent on other less
important tasks .. and they are too numerous to count .. and divert it to teams of
enthusiastic missionaries who will go out into the world and preach Catholic truth
boldly .. clearly.... and without apology.
The Church exists for the sole reason of saving souls. Nothing more. It is not a giant social help agency or political lobbyist machine. Souls. Salvation. Heaven.
If we had kept our eyes on these final goals in the first place .. there wouldn’t even be talk of a NEW evangelization.
Preach the truth is all its glaring blinding beauty .. that is the only thing the Church is commissioned to do.
GOD Love you .. I’m Michael Voris.
http://www.Billion.tv/
Divine Mercy Prayers
"Today bring to Me the Souls of Priests and Religious,
and immerse them in My unfathomable mercy. It was they who gave me strength to endure My bitter Passion. Through them as through channels My mercy flows out upon mankind."
Most Merciful Jesus, from whom comes all that is good, increase Your grace in men and women consecrated to Your service,* that they may perform worthy works of mercy; and that all who see them may glorify the Father of Mercy who is in heaven.
Eternal Father, turn Your merciful gaze upon the company of chosen ones in Your vineyard -- upon the souls of priests and religious; and endow them with the strength of Your blessing. For the love of the Heart of Your Son in which they are enfolded, impart to them Your power and light, that they may be able to guide others in the way of salvation and with one voice sing praise to Your boundless mercy for ages without end. Amen.
"Today bring to Me the Souls who have become Lukewarm,
and immerse them in the abyss of My mercy. These souls wound My Heart most painfully. My soul suffered the most dreadful loathing in the Garden of Olives because of lukewarm souls. They were the reason I cried out:'Father, take this cup away from Me, if it be Your will.' For them, the last hope of salvation is to run to My mercy."
Most compassionate Jesus, You are Compassion Itself. I bring lukewarm souls into the abode of Your Most Compassionate Heart. In this fire of Your pure love, let these tepid souls who, like corpses, filled You with such deep loathing, be once again set aflame. O Most Compassionate Jesus, exercise the omnipotence of Your mercy and draw them into the very ardor of Your love, and bestow upon them the gift of holy love, for nothing is beyond Your power.
Eternal Father, turn Your merciful gaze upon lukewarm souls who are nonetheless enfolded in the Most Compassionate Heart of Jesus. Father of Mercy, I beg You by the bitter Passion of Your Son and by His three-hour agony on the Cross: Let them, too, glorify the abyss of Your mercy. Amen.
Read more: http://www.ewtn.com/devotionals/mercy/novena....
and immerse them in My unfathomable mercy. It was they who gave me strength to endure My bitter Passion. Through them as through channels My mercy flows out upon mankind."
Most Merciful Jesus, from whom comes all that is good, increase Your grace in men and women consecrated to Your service,* that they may perform worthy works of mercy; and that all who see them may glorify the Father of Mercy who is in heaven.
Eternal Father, turn Your merciful gaze upon the company of chosen ones in Your vineyard -- upon the souls of priests and religious; and endow them with the strength of Your blessing. For the love of the Heart of Your Son in which they are enfolded, impart to them Your power and light, that they may be able to guide others in the way of salvation and with one voice sing praise to Your boundless mercy for ages without end. Amen.
"Today bring to Me the Souls who have become Lukewarm,
and immerse them in the abyss of My mercy. These souls wound My Heart most painfully. My soul suffered the most dreadful loathing in the Garden of Olives because of lukewarm souls. They were the reason I cried out:'Father, take this cup away from Me, if it be Your will.' For them, the last hope of salvation is to run to My mercy."
Most compassionate Jesus, You are Compassion Itself. I bring lukewarm souls into the abode of Your Most Compassionate Heart. In this fire of Your pure love, let these tepid souls who, like corpses, filled You with such deep loathing, be once again set aflame. O Most Compassionate Jesus, exercise the omnipotence of Your mercy and draw them into the very ardor of Your love, and bestow upon them the gift of holy love, for nothing is beyond Your power.
Eternal Father, turn Your merciful gaze upon lukewarm souls who are nonetheless enfolded in the Most Compassionate Heart of Jesus. Father of Mercy, I beg You by the bitter Passion of Your Son and by His three-hour agony on the Cross: Let them, too, glorify the abyss of Your mercy. Amen.
Read more: http://www.ewtn.com/devotionals/mercy/novena....
Friday, December 2, 2011
Divine Mercy Prayers
"Today bring to Me the Souls who are in the prison of Purgatory,
and immerse them in the abyss of My mercy. Let the torrents of My Blood cool down their scorching flames. All these souls are greatly loved by Me. They are making retribution to My justice. It is in your power to bring them relief. Draw all the indulgences from the treasury of My Church and offer them on their behalf. Oh, if you only knew the torments they suffer, you would continually offer for them the alms of the spirit and pay off their debt to My justice."
Most Merciful Jesus, You Yourself have said that You desire mercy; so I bring into the abode of Your Most Compassionate Heart the souls in Purgatory, souls who are very dear to You, and yet, who must make retribution to Your justice. May the streams of Blood and Water which gushed forth from Your Heart put out the flames of Purgatory, that there, too, the power of Your mercy may be celebrated.
Eternal Father, turn Your merciful gaze upon the souls suffering in Purgatory, who are enfolded in the Most Compassionate Heart of Jesus. I beg You, by the sorrowful Passion of Jesus Your Son, and by all the bitterness with which His most sacred Soul was flooded: Manifest Your mercy to the souls who are under Your just scrutiny. Look upon them in no other way but only through the Wounds of Jesus, Your dearly beloved Son; for we firmly believe that there is no limit to Your goodness and compassion. Amen.
It is up to us to pray, and draw on the indulgences
of the Church, for them, as they can not help themselves, and rely on all good Catholics to help them by saying the Divine Mercy Prayers.
and immerse them in the abyss of My mercy. Let the torrents of My Blood cool down their scorching flames. All these souls are greatly loved by Me. They are making retribution to My justice. It is in your power to bring them relief. Draw all the indulgences from the treasury of My Church and offer them on their behalf. Oh, if you only knew the torments they suffer, you would continually offer for them the alms of the spirit and pay off their debt to My justice."
Most Merciful Jesus, You Yourself have said that You desire mercy; so I bring into the abode of Your Most Compassionate Heart the souls in Purgatory, souls who are very dear to You, and yet, who must make retribution to Your justice. May the streams of Blood and Water which gushed forth from Your Heart put out the flames of Purgatory, that there, too, the power of Your mercy may be celebrated.
Eternal Father, turn Your merciful gaze upon the souls suffering in Purgatory, who are enfolded in the Most Compassionate Heart of Jesus. I beg You, by the sorrowful Passion of Jesus Your Son, and by all the bitterness with which His most sacred Soul was flooded: Manifest Your mercy to the souls who are under Your just scrutiny. Look upon them in no other way but only through the Wounds of Jesus, Your dearly beloved Son; for we firmly believe that there is no limit to Your goodness and compassion. Amen.
It is up to us to pray, and draw on the indulgences
of the Church, for them, as they can not help themselves, and rely on all good Catholics to help them by saying the Divine Mercy Prayers.
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Divine Mercy Prayers
Today bring to Me the Souls who especially venerate and glorify My Mercy*,
and immerse them in My mercy. These souls sorrowed most over my Passion and entered most deeply into My spirit. They are living images of My Compassionate Heart. These souls will shine with a special brightness in the next life. Not one of them will go into the fire of hell. I shall particularly defend each one of them at the hour of death.
Most Merciful Jesus, whose Heart is Love Itself, receive into the abode of Your Most Compassionate Heart the souls of those who particularly extol and venerate the greatness of Your mercy. These souls are mighty with the very power of God Himself. In the midst of all afflictions and adversities they go forward, confident of Your mercy; and united to You, O Jesus, they carry all mankind on their shoulders. These souls will not be judged severely, but Your mercy will embrace them as they depart from this life.
Eternal Father, turn Your merciful gaze upon the souls who glorify and venerate Your greatest attribute, that of Your fathomless mercy, and who are enclosed in the Most Compassionate Heart of Jesus. These souls are a living Gospel; their hands are full of deeds of mercy, and their hearts, overflowing with joy, sing a canticle of mercy to You, O Most High! I beg You O God:
Show them Your mercy according to the hope and trust they have placed in You. Let there be accomplished in them the promise of Jesus, who said to them that during their life, but especially at the hour of death, the souls who will venerate this fathomless mercy of His, He, Himself, will defend as His glory. Amen.
*The text leads one to conclude that in the first prayer directed to Jesus, Who is the Redeemer, it is "victim" souls and contemplatives that are being prayed for; those persons, that is, that voluntarily offered themselves to God for the salvation of their neighbor (see Col 1:24; 2 Cor 4:12). This explains their close union with the Savior and the extraordinary efficacy that their invisible activity has for others. In the second prayer, directed to the Father from whom comes "every worthwhile gift and every genuine benefit,"we recommend the "active" souls, who promote devotion to The Divine Mercy and exercise with it all the other works that lend themselves to the spiritual and material uplifting of their brethren.
Read more: http://www.ewtn.com/devotionals/mercy/novena.htm#ixzz1fIDqeCqd
and immerse them in My mercy. These souls sorrowed most over my Passion and entered most deeply into My spirit. They are living images of My Compassionate Heart. These souls will shine with a special brightness in the next life. Not one of them will go into the fire of hell. I shall particularly defend each one of them at the hour of death.
Most Merciful Jesus, whose Heart is Love Itself, receive into the abode of Your Most Compassionate Heart the souls of those who particularly extol and venerate the greatness of Your mercy. These souls are mighty with the very power of God Himself. In the midst of all afflictions and adversities they go forward, confident of Your mercy; and united to You, O Jesus, they carry all mankind on their shoulders. These souls will not be judged severely, but Your mercy will embrace them as they depart from this life.
Eternal Father, turn Your merciful gaze upon the souls who glorify and venerate Your greatest attribute, that of Your fathomless mercy, and who are enclosed in the Most Compassionate Heart of Jesus. These souls are a living Gospel; their hands are full of deeds of mercy, and their hearts, overflowing with joy, sing a canticle of mercy to You, O Most High! I beg You O God:
Show them Your mercy according to the hope and trust they have placed in You. Let there be accomplished in them the promise of Jesus, who said to them that during their life, but especially at the hour of death, the souls who will venerate this fathomless mercy of His, He, Himself, will defend as His glory. Amen.
*The text leads one to conclude that in the first prayer directed to Jesus, Who is the Redeemer, it is "victim" souls and contemplatives that are being prayed for; those persons, that is, that voluntarily offered themselves to God for the salvation of their neighbor (see Col 1:24; 2 Cor 4:12). This explains their close union with the Savior and the extraordinary efficacy that their invisible activity has for others. In the second prayer, directed to the Father from whom comes "every worthwhile gift and every genuine benefit,"we recommend the "active" souls, who promote devotion to The Divine Mercy and exercise with it all the other works that lend themselves to the spiritual and material uplifting of their brethren.
Read more: http://www.ewtn.com/devotionals/mercy/novena.htm#ixzz1fIDqeCqd
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