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Christus Vincit! Christus Regnat! Christus Imperat!

10/29/2017

 
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The triumph of Christ as King is celebrated on the last Sunday of October in the Extraordinary Form of the Latin Rite. Abbot Guerranger writes about this great celebration in The Liturgical Year:​ 
"Christians have ever hailed our Divine Lord as King of Kings and Lord of Lords. It was as a King that the representatives of the Eastern world came to adore Him in the manger; it was as a King, albeit not knowing what he did, that the official representative of the western world lifted Him up on the Cross. The patriarchs and prophets of the old dispensation foretold His royalty; He spoke constantly of His Kingdom: when asked plainly whether He were in truth a King by the representative of Caesar, He acknowledged that such indeed He was, though of a Kingdom not of this world.

"His Kingship is founded upon the ineffable hypostatic union. It is spiritual, and concerned with spiritual things. It is opposed to none other than that of Satan, and to the powers of darkness. Christ is King over Angels and men; King over men's hearts and wills; His Kingship demands of its subjects a spirit of detachment from riches and earthly things, and a spirit of gentleness. They must hunger and thirst after justice and, more than this, they must deny themselves and carry the cross."
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Prayer to Christ the King

O Lord our God, You alone are the Most Holy King and Ruler of all nations. We pray to You, Lord, in the great expectation of receiving from You, O Divine King, mercy, peace, justice and all good things. Protect, O Lord our King, our families and the land of our birth. Guard us we pray Most Faithful One. Protect us from our enemies and from Your Just Judgment. Forgive us, O Sovereign King, our sins against you. Jesus, You are a King of Mercy. We have deserved Your Just Judgment. Have mercy on us, Lord, and forgive us. We trust in Your Great Mercy. O most awe-inspiring King, we bow before You and pray; May Your Reign, Your Kingdom, be recognized on earth. Amen.
May all in heaven and earth acclaim your glory and never cease to praise you, O Christ our King!

Words from Mother Church

10/25/2017

 
Those who have dedicated their lives to Christ cannot fail to
​live in the hope of meeting him, in order to be with him for ever.

~ Vita Consecrata, 26
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It [consecrated life] is a covenant of mutual love and fidelity, of communion and mission, established for God's glory, the joy of the person consecrated, and the salvation of the whole world.
~ Essential Elements, 5
Our life is a sharing in the charity of Christ, in his love for the Father and for his brothers and sisters, a love forgetful of self.
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~ Fraternal Life in Community, 21
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O Mary, Cause of Our Joy, pray for us!
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St. Anthony Mary Claret, pray for us!

10/23/2017

 
 "I live, but my life is that of Christ’s.
And in possessing me, my poor Lord possesses nothing. And I, in possessing Him, possess everything."​ ~ St. Anthony Mary Claret
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​​“...A Son of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, is a man on fire with love, who spreads its flames wherever he goes. He desires mightily and strives by all means possible to set the whole world on fire with God’s love. Nothing daunts him; he delights in privations, welcomes work, embraces sacrifices, smiles at slander, and rejoices in suffering. His only concern is how he can best follow Jesus Christ and imitate Him in working, suffering, and striving constantly and single-mindedly for the greater glory of God and the salvation of souls.”
May we, too, as Daughters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, live by these words!
St. Anthony Mary Claret, Archbishop of Santiago, founder of the Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, and Apostle of the Holy Rosary
Feastdays: October 23 and October 24
Come now, loving Mother, let us lose no time. Here I am: dispose of me as you will, for you know that I am wholly yours. I trust that you will do this out of your great kindness, pity, and mercy, and I ask you this through the love you bear for the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. ~ St. Anthony Mary Claret

Mary, Comfortress of the Afflicted...

10/13/2017

 
O Mary, Comfortress of the afflicted, pray for us who cry out to thee!
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Rose-tinted by the smoke, Our Lady watches over the convent
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​Safe under Our Lady's protection, in Our Lord's sacramental Presence, the Sisters continue to pray for the protection of the people of our diocese and the preservation of our city and to live our lives of consecration.
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As the fire started, the Sisters began a day of adoration, beseeching our dear Lord in the Sacrament of His Love to spare our people and our city. The hours of adoration were punctuated by a procession praying the Litany of the Saints.
Father Epperson generously opened the Becker Center at the Cathedral to evacuees from the first wave of evacuations. Along with other dedicated parishioners, the Sisters did everything that they could to make the displaced persons staying in the gym as comfortable as possible. We thank God for all the generous parishioners and donors who made it possible to feed, clothe, and shelter the evacuees. After two days, prudence dictated that our direct service to these dear people come to an end when the Becker Center was closed and the "residents" transferred to a location further from the flames.
The Sisters lay out donated clothing
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Sister thanking service men for delivering cots and supplies for the evacuees
In spite of the natural disaster happening in our own city and diocese, the heart of our life continues uninterrupted. The Sisters continue to gather for our regular periods of prayer throughout the day, and individually and communally have increased the fervor and amount of prayer and supplication offered to our good God on behalf of the people of our Diocese.
Our life flows on as well - the Sisters go about their normal duties protected from the smoke by protective masks. The Chancery, though spared from the flames, is inaccessible and without power, so the Sisters who ordinarily serve in the Diocesan offices have been assigned to serve God and His people wherever they can be of most assistance.
We may look frightening in our masks, but all are well
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Please keep the people of the Diocese of Santa Rosa in your prayers! Pray for protection and for the courage and wisdom necessary to proceed with rebuilding and re-establishing our diocese, schools, and cities.
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Our Lady still stands in front of burnt classrooms at Cardinal Newman High School (NCR Photo)

Mary, Mother of God

10/11/2017

 
"Let us keep asking Mary continually until death for the grace of the present moment. This is the grace that we beg of her when we pray, 'Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us now.' We plead for this most particular grace, which changes with each moment, makes us equal to the duties of the whole day, and opens our minds to the greatness of all those small things that bear a relationship to eternity. Let us ask for the grace to live to the full the richness of the passing moment, especially the time of prayer.
"Let us abandon to God's infinite mercy everything in our past and in our future and live practically and sublimely in the present moment, seeing in this fleeting now, whether it be dull or joyful or full of pain, a distant image of the unique instant of changeless eternity and, because of the actual grace which it contains, a living proof of God's fatherly goodness."
~ Fr. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange
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Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us now!

The Most Holy Rosary

10/7/2017

 
“The Rosary is the most powerful weapon to touch the Heart of Jesus,
​Our Redeemer, who loves His Mother.” ~ St. Louis de Montfort
As Sisters devoted to serving Jesus by imitating His beloved Mother Mary, we pray the rosary each day asking her to conform us to her Son through our meditation on the mysteries of His life.
Our daily rosary is offered in a special way for the triumph of Mary's Immaculate Heart, for our Holy Father, for our Bishop, for all of our apostolates and all the souls entrusted to our care. The daily rosary is a way in which the Sisters who are in the initial stages of formation take an active part in all of the apostolates. Their prayers provide the support necessary for the active works to be spiritually successful.
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In praying our rosary, we follow the method of St. Louis de Montfort who assigned to each decade a fruit to be meditated on and asked for. These seemingly simple reflections add an additional layer to the beauty of this prayer. Thus, before praying the first Joyful mystery, for example, the Sister who is leading the rosary would pray:
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"We offer Thee, O Lord Jesus, this decade in honor of Thy Incarnation in Mary’s womb, and we ask of Thee, through this Mystery and through her intercession, a profound humility. Amen."
At the end of the decade, the Sister prays: "May the grace of the mystery of the Annunciation come down into our souls. Amen."
"With modesty, attention, and devotion, " St. Louis de Montfort's prayer before the rosary admirably sums up the sentiments we desire to have as we pray our rosary.
St. John Paul II in his beautiful encyclical on the rosary wrote: ​ "Against the background of the words Ave Maria the principal events of the life of Jesus Christ pass before the eyes of the soul." We strive to keep these mysteries ever before us.and with Our Lady to ponder them always in our hearts.
"​I unite with all the saints in Heaven, with all the just on earth, and with all the faithful here present. I unite with Thee, O my Jesus, in order to praise worthily Thy Holy Mother and to praise Thee in her and through her. I renounce all the distractions that I may have during this Rosary, which I wish to say with modesty, attention, and devotion, just as if it were to be the last of my life. We offer Thee, O Most Holy Trinity, this Creed in honor of all the mysteries of our Faith; this Our Father and these three Hail Marys in honor of the unity of Thy Essence and the Trinity of Thy Persons. We ask of Thee a lively faith, a firm hope and an ardent charity. Amen." ~ St. Louis de Montfort

Monthly Devotion: The Holy Angels

10/2/2017

 
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Francesco Botticini's Assumption of the Virgin shows the three hierarchies and nine choirs of angels
More commonly known as the month devoted to Our Lady and the Most Holy Rosary, October is also devoted to the Holy Angels. We are blessed to be surrounded by angel guardians at all times, spirits who pray and intercede for us, who protect us and guide us throughout our lives.

​The Sanctus that we pray at each and every Mass is the prayer of the angels, a prayer that we join with in profound adoration of Almighty God. Of this great prayer, the Benedictine Abbot Prosper Guerrenger writes, 

​"In the Old Testament even, this Angelic Cry was already made known: the Prophet Isaias heard it; in the New Testament, John, the Beloved Disciple, names it in his Apocalypse.  So then, God is indeed Holy, He delights in revealing this to us.  But, to Holiness is added yet more still: Sanctus Dominus Deus Sabaoth, Holy is the Lord, the God of Armies; this is like saying: Deus Sanctus et fortis, God, the Holy and the Strong.  So here we have Two Things in God, Sanctity and Strength.  This expression Deus Sabaoth or Deus exercituum, the God of Armies, is used, because nothing gives such an idea of Strength, as an army surmounting all obstacles, laughing at difficulties, and over-riding all that comes in its way: thus is the Strength of God vividly expressed.  So then, God is Holy and Strong. 
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The Glory of the New Born Christ
"​After confessing the holiness and Strength of God, the Church adds: Pleni sunt coeli et terra gloria tua.  There is no way, more magnificent than this, of expressing the Glory of God; verily there is no nook or corner of Creation where shines not forth the Glory of God; everything is produced by His Power, and everything gives Him Glory.  Holy Church transported on beholding this, cries out aloud: Hosanna in excelsis.  We read in the Sacred Scriptures that this cry was uttered by the Jews, when Jesus was entering into Jerusalem, on Palm Sunday, and the people shouted Hosanna filio David; yes, Hosanna,which means Salvation, a salutation of deep respect.  Holy Church blends both of these together, making one of the Sanctus and of this solemn salutation: Hosanna in excelsis, Hosanna in the highest....  Just as at the commencement of Mass, she would have us unite with the Angels in chanting the Kyrie a very cry of distress, so now she bids us mingle our voices once again with their Angelic Choirs, but in a manner totally different to the former occasion; lo! now she has entered into the mysteries, - she is on the point of coming into complete possession thereof; - therefore is she seized with enthusiasm, and her one thought now is to sing to her God: Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus, Hosanna in excelsis.  Verily, the Jews did well to shout their Hosanna, as they went, wending in glad procession down the Mount of Olives, towards Jerusalem, entering by the Golden Gate; all was in harmony, and breathed triumph; but how far more fitting is it for us to sing it, at this portentous moment, when the Son of God is about to come down in the midst of us who truly know Him!"
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