"The world looks to the priest, because it looks to Jesus! No one can see Christ; but everyone sees the priest, and through him they wish to catch a glimpse of the Lord! Immense is the grandeur of the Lord! Immense is the grandeur and dignity of the priest!"
- Pope John Paul II
- Pope John Paul II
Mary as the Mother of Priests
Pope Benedict XVI
The Second Vatican Council
invites priests to look to Mary as to the perfect model of existence, invoking her as "Mother of the supreme and eternal Priest, as Queen of the Apostles and as protectress of their ministry." The council continues, "priests should always venerate and love her with filial love and devotion "
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Let us pray that Mary will make all priests, in all the problems of the world today, conform to the image of her Son Jesus, as stewards of the precious treasure of his love as the Good shepherd.
Mary, Mother of Priests, pray for us 🙏
https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/library/mary-as-the-mother-of-priests-6760 .
Pope Benedict XVI
The Second Vatican Council
invites priests to look to Mary as to the perfect model of existence, invoking her as "Mother of the supreme and eternal Priest, as Queen of the Apostles and as protectress of their ministry." The council continues, "priests should always venerate and love her with filial love and devotion "
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Let us pray that Mary will make all priests, in all the problems of the world today, conform to the image of her Son Jesus, as stewards of the precious treasure of his love as the Good shepherd.
Mary, Mother of Priests, pray for us 🙏
https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/library/mary-as-the-mother-of-priests-6760 .
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"This world and the world to come are two enemies. We cannot therefore be friends to both; but we must decide which we will forsake and which we will enjoy."
- Pope Clement I
- Pope Clement I
On the Transformation of the Village of Ars
In his assignment as parish priest of Ars, St. John achieved something which many priests would like to have done, but which is scarcely granted to any.
Not over night, but little by little, the tiny hamlet underwent a change. The people of Ars were unable to remain aloof for long from the grace which radiated from the remarkable personality of their priest. When a man attacks inveterate disorders and popular vices, he challenges opposition.
St. John was not unprepared – he knew the enemy would raise his head. “If a priest is determined not to lose his soul,” he exclaimed, “so soon as any disorder arises in the parish, he must trample underfoot all human considerations as well as the fear of the contempt and hatred of his people.
It took St. John Vianney ten whole years to renew Ars, but the community changed so noticeably and to such an extent that it was observed even by outsiders. There was no more working on Sundays, the church was filled more and more every year, and drunkenness fell off.
In the end the taverns had to close their doors since they had no more customers; and even domestic squabbles abated. Honesty became the principal characteristic.
“Ars is no longer Ars,” as St. John Vianney himself wrote; for it had undergone a fundamental change. Under his guidance the little village became a community of pious people, to whom all his labors were directed.
He delighted in teaching the children their catechism and he did this daily. After a while the grown-ups came too and he found that those who were children during the Revolution were in complete ignorance of their religious duties. He taught the people love for the rosary and wanted everyone to carry one around at all times.
It is truly astounding to reflect upon what St. John Vianney, with a staff of trained assistants, was able to achieve in the village in the space of a few years. What an immense amount of endeavor underlay his work will best be appreciated by anyone who has had to convert only a few drunkards to sanity.
The explanation of this mysterious transformation of the village of Ars can only be grasped in the remarkable manner that this simple priest realized that a man must always begin with himself, and that even the rebirth of a community can only be achieved by its renewing itself. We must expect nothing of men which is not already embodied within them.
On the basis of this perception St. John Vianney set to work, in the first place, upon himself, so that he could attain the ideal which he demanded of his parishioners in his own person.
He took his own religious obligations with the greatest seriousness, and did not care whether the people noticed this or not. And finally the inhabitants of Ars said to each other: “Our priest always does what he says himself; he practices what he preaches. Never have we seen him allow himself any form of relaxation.”
The conversion of the whole parish was too unusual an occurrence for it to remain unknown. From the year 1827, there began the famous stream of pilgrims to Ars. People went to Ars from all parts of France, from Belgium, from England and even from America.
From The Curé d’Ars by
François Trochu
In his assignment as parish priest of Ars, St. John achieved something which many priests would like to have done, but which is scarcely granted to any.
Not over night, but little by little, the tiny hamlet underwent a change. The people of Ars were unable to remain aloof for long from the grace which radiated from the remarkable personality of their priest. When a man attacks inveterate disorders and popular vices, he challenges opposition.
St. John was not unprepared – he knew the enemy would raise his head. “If a priest is determined not to lose his soul,” he exclaimed, “so soon as any disorder arises in the parish, he must trample underfoot all human considerations as well as the fear of the contempt and hatred of his people.
It took St. John Vianney ten whole years to renew Ars, but the community changed so noticeably and to such an extent that it was observed even by outsiders. There was no more working on Sundays, the church was filled more and more every year, and drunkenness fell off.
In the end the taverns had to close their doors since they had no more customers; and even domestic squabbles abated. Honesty became the principal characteristic.
“Ars is no longer Ars,” as St. John Vianney himself wrote; for it had undergone a fundamental change. Under his guidance the little village became a community of pious people, to whom all his labors were directed.
He delighted in teaching the children their catechism and he did this daily. After a while the grown-ups came too and he found that those who were children during the Revolution were in complete ignorance of their religious duties. He taught the people love for the rosary and wanted everyone to carry one around at all times.
It is truly astounding to reflect upon what St. John Vianney, with a staff of trained assistants, was able to achieve in the village in the space of a few years. What an immense amount of endeavor underlay his work will best be appreciated by anyone who has had to convert only a few drunkards to sanity.
The explanation of this mysterious transformation of the village of Ars can only be grasped in the remarkable manner that this simple priest realized that a man must always begin with himself, and that even the rebirth of a community can only be achieved by its renewing itself. We must expect nothing of men which is not already embodied within them.
On the basis of this perception St. John Vianney set to work, in the first place, upon himself, so that he could attain the ideal which he demanded of his parishioners in his own person.
He took his own religious obligations with the greatest seriousness, and did not care whether the people noticed this or not. And finally the inhabitants of Ars said to each other: “Our priest always does what he says himself; he practices what he preaches. Never have we seen him allow himself any form of relaxation.”
The conversion of the whole parish was too unusual an occurrence for it to remain unknown. From the year 1827, there began the famous stream of pilgrims to Ars. People went to Ars from all parts of France, from Belgium, from England and even from America.
From The Curé d’Ars by
François Trochu
St John Vianney
(The Curé d’Ars)
Patron Saint of Priests
A model for priests
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Let us pray for all priest around the world especially the Priests of our own Parish.
PRAYER FOR PARISH PRIESTS BY ST JOHN VIANNEY
Pray that God may give to His Church today many more Priests after His own Heart.
Pray for all Priests under your patronage, that they may be worthy representatives of Christ the Good Shepherd.
May they wholeheartedly devote themselves to prayer and penance.
Be examples of humility and poverty; shining models of holiness; tireless and powerful preachers of the Word of God; zealous dispensers of God’s Grace in the Sacraments.
May their loving devotion to Jesus in the Eucharist and to Mary His Mother be the Twin Fountains of fruitfulness for their ministry.
Amen
🙏 St John Vianney, pray for priests
(The Curé d’Ars)
Patron Saint of Priests
A model for priests
🙏
Let us pray for all priest around the world especially the Priests of our own Parish.
PRAYER FOR PARISH PRIESTS BY ST JOHN VIANNEY
Pray that God may give to His Church today many more Priests after His own Heart.
Pray for all Priests under your patronage, that they may be worthy representatives of Christ the Good Shepherd.
May they wholeheartedly devote themselves to prayer and penance.
Be examples of humility and poverty; shining models of holiness; tireless and powerful preachers of the Word of God; zealous dispensers of God’s Grace in the Sacraments.
May their loving devotion to Jesus in the Eucharist and to Mary His Mother be the Twin Fountains of fruitfulness for their ministry.
Amen
🙏 St John Vianney, pray for priests
Conversion of St Paul
25 January
Paul was known as Saul, and was raised in the Jewish faith as a Pharisee trained in strict observance of God’s Law. He believed that the early Christians had broken away from their Jewish traditions, and hence persecuted countless Christians and the church of God. He was famously converted on the road to Damascus where Jesus came to him and said "Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?"... "I am Jesus whom you are persecuting." (Acts 9:4-5).
As a result of this encounter Saul became a follower of Christ and an unstoppable force for the kingdom of God as he travelled thousands of kilometres around the Mediterranean spreading the good news that Jesus would soon return from heaven. Paul was the first writer of the Christian Church, and has been the most influential teacher in the history of Christianity, writing thirteen letters in the New Testament.
Saint Paul, pray for us 🙏
"If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone."
-Paul the Apostle
25 January
Paul was known as Saul, and was raised in the Jewish faith as a Pharisee trained in strict observance of God’s Law. He believed that the early Christians had broken away from their Jewish traditions, and hence persecuted countless Christians and the church of God. He was famously converted on the road to Damascus where Jesus came to him and said "Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?"... "I am Jesus whom you are persecuting." (Acts 9:4-5).
As a result of this encounter Saul became a follower of Christ and an unstoppable force for the kingdom of God as he travelled thousands of kilometres around the Mediterranean spreading the good news that Jesus would soon return from heaven. Paul was the first writer of the Christian Church, and has been the most influential teacher in the history of Christianity, writing thirteen letters in the New Testament.
Saint Paul, pray for us 🙏
"If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone."
-Paul the Apostle
Prayer for the Unborn
Heavenly Father, in Your love for us, protect against the wickedness of the devil, those helpless little ones to whom You have given the gift of life.
Touch with pity the hearts of those women pregnant in our world today who are not thinking of motherhood.
Help them to see that the child they carry is made in Your image - as well as theirs - made for eternal life.
Dispel their fear and selfishness and give them true womanly hearts to love their babies and give them birth and all the needed care that a mother can give.
We ask this through Jesus Christ, Your Son, Our Lord, Who lives and reigns with You and Holy Spirit, One God, forever and ever.
Amen.
Heavenly Father, in Your love for us, protect against the wickedness of the devil, those helpless little ones to whom You have given the gift of life.
Touch with pity the hearts of those women pregnant in our world today who are not thinking of motherhood.
Help them to see that the child they carry is made in Your image - as well as theirs - made for eternal life.
Dispel their fear and selfishness and give them true womanly hearts to love their babies and give them birth and all the needed care that a mother can give.
We ask this through Jesus Christ, Your Son, Our Lord, Who lives and reigns with You and Holy Spirit, One God, forever and ever.
Amen.
Angel's Prayer of Reparation
O Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, I adore Thee profoundly.
I offer Thee the most precious Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity
of Jesus Christ present in all the tabernacles of the world, in reparation for the outrages, sacrileges and indifferences by which He is offended. By the infinite merits of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary. I beg conversion of poor sinners.
https://www.churchpop.com/2023/01/24/singer-madonna-mocks-our-lady-the-eucharist-babies-in-satanic-vanity-fair-spread/
O Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, I adore Thee profoundly.
I offer Thee the most precious Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity
of Jesus Christ present in all the tabernacles of the world, in reparation for the outrages, sacrileges and indifferences by which He is offended. By the infinite merits of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary. I beg conversion of poor sinners.
https://www.churchpop.com/2023/01/24/singer-madonna-mocks-our-lady-the-eucharist-babies-in-satanic-vanity-fair-spread/
ChurchPOP
Singer Madonna Mocks Our Lady, the Eucharist, & Babies in Satanic Vanity Fair Spread
Lord have mercy! Pray for Madonna!
Singer, songwriter, and actress Madonna blasphemed the Catholic faith in a recent Vanity Fair photo spread and video.
The 64-year-old pop singer explicitly used Catholic imagery to promote her latest album and tour.…
Singer, songwriter, and actress Madonna blasphemed the Catholic faith in a recent Vanity Fair photo spread and video.
The 64-year-old pop singer explicitly used Catholic imagery to promote her latest album and tour.…
Perimeter PrayerLord Jesus Christ, in thy love and mercy establish a perimeter of protection around *N. and myself and all our loved ones, those who pray for us and their loved ones.
May the Holy Angels guard him/her/us and all our possessions, establishing a perimeter of protection around N., rendering him/her/us immune from any kind of demonic influence.
I ask that no demonic bondage, door, demonic entity, portal, astral projection or disembodied spirit may enter the space of 100 yards in all directions of him/her/us. I ask that any demons within this vicinity or any that should try to enter here be rendered deaf, dumb, and blind; that Thou would strip them of all weapons, armor, power, illusions, and authority; that Thou would bind, rebuke and disable them from communicating or interacting with each other in any way. Remove them, sending them directly to the foot of Thy Cross. Jesus, Son of the Most High, I ask this in Thy Glorious and Most Holy Name. Amen.
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* Names of Family members
Deliverence Prayers: For Use by the Laity
Fr Chad Ripperger
“You can hear ‘God loves you’ a thousand times, but you can only know it in prayer”
- St Paul of the Cross
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- St Paul of the Cross
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"Fr Chad Ripperger - The Spiritual Chastisement Always Precedes The Physical Chastisement"
https://youtu.be/1lYBZOzRDx0
https://youtu.be/1lYBZOzRDx0
Saint Timothy and Saint Titus,
Bishops
Feast Day - 26 January
St. Paul, in writing to Timothy, a faithful and well-tried servant of God, and a bishop now getting on in years, addresses him as a child, and seems most anxious about his perseverance in faith and piety. The letters abound in minute personal instructions for this end. It is therefore remarkable what great stress the Apostle lays on the avoiding of idle talk, and on the application to holy reading. These are his chief topics. Over and over again he exhorts his son Timothy to “avoid tattlers and busybodies; to give no heed to novelties; to shun profane and vain babblings, but to hold the form of sound words; to be an example in word and conversation; to attend to reading, to exhortation, and to doctrine.” Saints win their empire over the hearts of men by their wide and affectionate sympathy. This was the characteristic gift of St. Titus, as it was of St. Paul, St-Francis Xavier, and many others.
Saint Titus was a convert from heathenism, a disciple of St. Paul, one of the chosen companions of the Apostles in his journey to the Council of Jerusalem, and his fellow-laborers in many apostolic missions. From the Second Epistle which St. Paul sent by the hand of Titus to the Corinthians we gain an insight into his character and understand the, strong affection which his master bore him.
Titus had been commissioned to carry out a twofold office needing much firmness, discretion, and charity. He was to be the bearer of a severe rebuke to the Corinthians, who were giving scandal and were wavering in their faith; and at the same time he was to put their charity to a further test by calling upon them for abundant alms for the church at Jerusalem. St. Paul meanwhile was anxiously awaiting the result.
At Troas he writes, “I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus, my brother.” He set sail to Macedonia. Here at last Titus brought the good news. His success had been complete.
From www.catholicreadings.org
Bishops
Feast Day - 26 January
St. Paul, in writing to Timothy, a faithful and well-tried servant of God, and a bishop now getting on in years, addresses him as a child, and seems most anxious about his perseverance in faith and piety. The letters abound in minute personal instructions for this end. It is therefore remarkable what great stress the Apostle lays on the avoiding of idle talk, and on the application to holy reading. These are his chief topics. Over and over again he exhorts his son Timothy to “avoid tattlers and busybodies; to give no heed to novelties; to shun profane and vain babblings, but to hold the form of sound words; to be an example in word and conversation; to attend to reading, to exhortation, and to doctrine.” Saints win their empire over the hearts of men by their wide and affectionate sympathy. This was the characteristic gift of St. Titus, as it was of St. Paul, St-Francis Xavier, and many others.
Saint Titus was a convert from heathenism, a disciple of St. Paul, one of the chosen companions of the Apostles in his journey to the Council of Jerusalem, and his fellow-laborers in many apostolic missions. From the Second Epistle which St. Paul sent by the hand of Titus to the Corinthians we gain an insight into his character and understand the, strong affection which his master bore him.
Titus had been commissioned to carry out a twofold office needing much firmness, discretion, and charity. He was to be the bearer of a severe rebuke to the Corinthians, who were giving scandal and were wavering in their faith; and at the same time he was to put their charity to a further test by calling upon them for abundant alms for the church at Jerusalem. St. Paul meanwhile was anxiously awaiting the result.
At Troas he writes, “I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus, my brother.” He set sail to Macedonia. Here at last Titus brought the good news. His success had been complete.
From www.catholicreadings.org