Prayer to #Saint #Joseph (after Rosary, by Pope Leo XIII)

To thee, O blessed Joseph, we have recourse in our affliction, and having implored the help of thy thrice holy Spouse, we now, with hearts filled with confidence, earnestly beg thee also to take us under thy protection. By that charity wherewith thou wert united to the Immaculate Virgin Mother of God, and by that fatherly love with which thou didst cherish the Child Jesus, we beseech thee and we humbly pray that thou wilt look down with gracious eye upon that inheritance which Jesus Christ purchased by His blood, and wilt succor us in our need by thy power and strength.

Defend, O most watchful guardian of the Holy Family, the chosen off-spring of Jesus Christ. Keep from us, O most loving Father, all blight of error and corruption. Aid us from on high, most valiant defender, in this conflict with the powers of darkness. And even as of old thou didst rescue the Child Jesus from the peril of His life, so now defend God's Holy Church from the snares of the enemy and from all adversity. Shield us ever under thy patronage, that, following thine example and strengthened by thy help, we may live a holy life, die a happy death, and attain to everlasting bliss in Heaven. Amen.

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“God freely created us so that we might know, love, and serve him in this life and be happy with him forever. God's purpose in creating us is to draw forth from us a response of love and service here on earth, so that we may attain our goal of everlasting happiness with him in heaven.
All the things in this world are gifts of God, created for us, to be the means by which we can come to know him better, love him more surely, and serve him more faithfully.
As a result, we ought to appreciate and use these gifts of God insofar as they help us toward our goal of loving service and union with God. But insofar as any created things hinder our progress toward our goal, we ought to let them go.”

- St Ignatius of Loyola

"The world of pure spirits stretches between the divine nature and the world of human beings; because divine wisdom has ordained that the higher should look after the lower, angels execute the divine plan for human salvation: they are our guardians, who free us when hindered and help to bring us home." - St Thomas Aquinas

Happy feast of the Guardian Angels

“Christ is rightly called ‘every perfect gift’, because when the Father gave him to us he brought everything to perfection in him.”

- St Anthony of Padua

For anyone considering a #Carmelite #vocation

On October 4th , 1897, Sister Thérèse was buried in the first grave of the newly enclosed plot in the municipal cemetery of Lisieux.
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After the death of Thérèse , Mother Agnès hesitates between two sentences, to put something on the cross overlooking the grave.
I want to spend my heaven doing good on earth! that Therese had so often spoken of in her last months tempted her but even more so an excerpt from poem “Remember”:
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That I want, O my God,

To carry your Fire far and wide,

Remember.
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She opts for the poetry, but a worker who left his sleeve drag on the still fresh paint, made the text unreadable. Mother Agnès seeing a sign in it, wrote the first idea in its place.

Pray for #priests! Two #Prayers for the Increase and Preservation of the #Clergy.

An antidote for all the bad news out there—the Battlelines #Newsletter.

Here are just a few of the headlines in this month’s edition:

- Catholics Thwart Satanists at Idaho Capitol
- Reparation to the Sacred Heart in Asheville, N.C.
- Catholics Counter “Open Bathroom” Policy

Some traditional catholics attempted to take refuge in eastern liturgies. However you have to be careful, especially with the "maronite"
https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2021/09/the-maronite-liturgys-corruption-under.html?m=1#.YV7AJa94W_Z

https://famvin.org/wiki/Vincentian_Encyclopedia

What is the Vincentian Encyclopedia?

It is a collaborative effort to create a Vincentian encyclopedia of articles and other information useful for those who follow Vincent, Louise and their spiritual companions: a resource for those who are part of the Vincentian family and for others seeking reliable information on people, topics, and organizations related to the Vincentian family.

After the Christians expelled the Turks from the gates of Vienna, numerous treasures were discovered left by the enemy, including hundreds of bags filled with coffee beans. At first, the brew was disliked because of its overpowering bitter taste. But Blessed d’Aviano perfected the rough beverage by adding milk as a sweetener. This new drink spread like wildfire throughout Europe. In the monk’s honor, the drink was named “kapuziner,” or “Capuchin,” because it was the name of the religious order to which Blessed Marco belonged, along with the fact that the drink matches the color of the traditional habit worn by the order. https://tfpstudentaction.org/blog/cappuccino-coffee-was-invented-by-a-saintly-warrior-monk

“Behold how the stream flows to the sea, and the flowing waters will return no more; thus, my brother, do your days pass away, and you approach to death; pleasures pass, amusements pass, pomp, praises, acclamations pass; and what remains?” - St Alphonsus Ligouri

"If you see a bad priest at the head of a parish, you should be afflicted and fear that perhaps our sins deserved such a horrible chastisement, for Sacred Scripture teaches us that the greatest and most terrible scourge that God sends to a people is to give it bad priests.

Until the wrath of the Lord reaches its apex, He permits that nations arm themselves one against the other; that the fields become sterile; that hunger, desolation and death exert their dominium over the earth.

However, when His just indignation reaches its climax, He sends the last and most atrocious of His punishments by allowing unfaithful ministers, stained priests, scandalous shepherds to appear among men. Then it happens that the abominations of the people are the cause of the bad priests, and the bad priests are the greatest punishment with which God chastises the people.” - St. Anthony Maria Claret

If you're looking for some good literature to read please check this list (no 100% good moral guaranteed but still good stuffs there)
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/List_of_Catholic_authors

Ad te beáte Joseph, in tribulatióne nostra confúgimus, atque, imploráto Sponsæ tuæ sanctíssimæ auxílio, patrocínium quoque tuum fidenter expóscimus. Per eam, quæsumus, quæ te cum immaculáta Vírgine Dei Genitríce coniúnxit, caritátem, perque patérnum, quo Púerum Iesum ampléxus es, amórem, súpplices deprecámur, ut ad hereditátem, quam Iesus Christus acquisívit Sánguine suo, benígnus respícias, ac necessitátibus nostris tua virtúte et ope succúrras. Tuére, o Custos providentíssime divínæ Famíliæ, Iesu Christi sóbolem eléctam; próhibe a nobis, amantíssime Pater, omnem errórum ac corruptelárum luem; propítius nobis, sospítator noster fortíssime, in hoc cum potestáte tenebrárum certámine e cælo adésto; et sicut olim Púerum Iesum e summo eripuísti vitre discrímine, ita nunc Ecclesiam sanctam Dei ab hostílibus insídiis atque ab omni adversitáte défende: nosque síngulos perpétuo tege patrocínio, ut ad tui exémplar et ope tua suffúlti, sancte vívere, pie émori, sempiternámque in cælis beatitúdinem ássequi possímus. Amen.