Renewal in Christ
- From: "Traudel" <richarra@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 09:57:41 -0500
Renewal in Christ
Old age has its many complaints: coughing, shaking, failing eyesight,
anxiety, and weariness. The world is old, and it too is full of pressing
tribulations.
Do not refuse to regain your youth in Christ who says: The world is passing
away. Do not fear.
Your youth shall be renewed.
-Augustine--Sermon 81, 8
I Look to You for Strength O loving savior, I look to you for strength, to
you who were
able not only to endure the most humiliating and painful of deaths, but also
to forgive those
who committed this injustice against you. Make me strong, Lord, when I am
tempted to flee
in the face of pain and rejection.
from Saint Paul: Called to Conversion
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September 21st - Sts. Chastan & Imbert
A native of Aix-en-Provence, France, Laurence Imbert joined the Paris
Foreign
Missionary Society and was sent to China in 1825. He worked there as a
missionary for twelve years and was named titular bishop of Capsa. In 1837,
he
was sent to Korea and entered the country secretly, as Christianity was
forbidden there. He was successful in his missionary activities, but in 1839
a
wave of violent persecutions of the Christians swept the country. In the
hope of
ending the persecution of native Christians, he, Fr. Philibert Maubant, and
Fr.
James Honore' Chastan, who had preceded him into Korea, surrendered to the
authorities. They were bastinadoed and then beheaded at Seoul on September
21.
During the same persecution, John Ri was bastinadoed and suffered martyrdom,
and
Agatha Kim was hanged from a cross by her arms and hair, driven over rough
country in a cart, and then stripped and beheaded. In 1925, Laurence and his
companions and many others, eighty-one in all, who had been executed for
their
faith, were beatified as the Martyrs of Korea. They were canonized by Pope
John
Paul II in 1984. Their feast day is September 21.
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Today is the Feast of St. Matthew the apostle. He was at first a publican
of
the toll station of Capharnaum. Known for their disreputable and extorting
behavior, these men were seen as the greatest sinners by the Jews. Matthew
acknowledged the kind condescension of our Lord to himself and others as
sinners, and joined our Lord at first command. Matthew wrote the first in
canonical order of the Synoptic Gospels, and preached in Palestine and
Ethiopia
before being killed while offering Mass in AD 60.
Saint Quote:
The Christian life is a continuation and completion of the life of Christ in
us. We should be so many Christs here on earth, continuing His life and His
works, laboring and suffering in a holy and divine manner in the spirit of
Jesus.
-Saint John Eudes
Bible Quote:
God has chosen the weak things of the world to confound the strong. I Cor.
1:27
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Prayers Honoring the 7 Times Jesus Spilled His Precious Blood for
Us, as Revealed by Our Lady to St. Bridget, and Approved by Pope
Clement XII
Our Lord made these promises to anyone who recited/prayed these
Prayers for 12 entire years**:
1. The soul who prays them will suffer no Purgatory.
2. The soul who prays them will be accepted among the Martyrs as
though he had spilled his blood for his faith.
3. The soul who prays them can choose three others whom Jesus will
then keep in a state of grace sufficient to become holy.
4. No one in the four successive generations of the soul who prays
them will be lost.
5. The soul who prays them will be made conscious of his death one
month in advance.
** If the soul praying these prayers dies before the entire 12 years
of prayers have been completed, the Lord will accept them as having
been prayed in their entirety, because the intention of the soul was
to complete them as directed.
If a day or a few days are missed due to a valid reason, they can be
made up for later, at the soul's earliest opportunity.
The 12 Year Prayers:
O Jesus, now I wish to pray the Lord's Prayer seven times in unity
with the love with which You sanctified this prayer in Your Heart.
Take it from my lips into Your Divine Heart. Improve and complete it
so much that it brings as much honor and joy to the Trinity as You
granted it on earth with this prayer. May these pour upon Your Holy
Humanity in Glorification to Your Painful Wounds and the Precious
Blood that You spilled from them.
Pray 1 Our Father, 1 Hail Mary before each prayer
First Prayer: The Circumcision
Eternal Father, through Mary's unblemished hands and the Divine
Heart of Jesus, I offer You the first wounds, the first pains, and
the first Bloodshed as atonement for my and all of humanity's sins
of youth, as protection against the first mortal sin, especially
among my relatives.
Second Prayer: The Suffering on the Mount of Olives
Eternal Father, through Mary's unblemished hands and the Divine
Heart of Jesus, I offer You the terrifying suffering of Jesus' Heart
on the Mount of Olives and every drop of His Bloody Sweat as
atonement for my and all of humanity's sins of the heart, as
protection against such sins and for the spreading of Divine and
brotherly Love.
Third Prayer: The Flogging
Eternal Father, through Mary's unblemished hands and the Divine
Heart of Jesus, I offer You the many thousands of Wounds, the
gruesome Pains, and the Precious Blood of the Flogging as atonement
for my and all of humanity's sins of the Flesh, as protection
against such sins and the preservation of innocence, especially
among my relatives.
Fourth Prayer: The Crowning of Thorns
Eternal Father, through Mary's unblemished hands and the Divine
Heart of Jesus, I offer You the Wounds, the Pains, and the Precious
Blood of Jesus' Holy Head from the Crowning with Thorns as atonement
for my and all of humanity's sins of the Spirit, as protection
against such sins and the spreading of Christ's kingdom here on
earth.
Fifth Prayer: The Carrying of the Cross
Eternal Father, through Mary's unblemished hands and the Divine
Heart of Jesus, I offer You the Sufferings on the way of the Cross,
especially His Holy Wound on His Shoulder and its Precious Blood as
atonement for my and all of humanity's rebellion against the Cross,
every grumbling against Your Holy Arrangements and all other sins of
the tongue, as protection against such sins and for true love of the
Cross.
Sixth Prayer: The Crucifixion
Eternal Father, through Mary's unblemished hands and the Divine
Heart of Jesus, I offer You Your Son on the Cross, His Nailing and
Raising, His Wounds on the Hands and Feet and the three streams of
His Precious Blood that poured forth from these for us, His extreme
tortures of the Body and Soul, His precious Death and its non-
bleeding Renewal in all Holy Masses on earth as atonement for all
wounds against vows and regulations within the Orders, as reparation
for my and all of the world's sins, for the sick and the dying, for
all holy priests and laymen, for the Holy Father's intentions toward
the restoration of Christian families, for the strengthening of
Faith, for our country and unity among all nations in Christ and His
Church, as well as for the Diaspora.
Seventh Prayer: The Piercing of Jesus' Side
Eternal Father, accept as worthy, for the needs of the Holy Church
and as atonement for the sins of all Mankind, the Precious Blood and
Water which poured forth from the Wound of Jesus' Divine Heart.
Be gracious and merciful toward us. Blood of Christ, the last precious
content of His Holy Heart, wash me of all my and others' guilt of
sin! Water from the Side of Christ, wash me clean of all punishments
for sin and extinguish the flames of Purgatory for me and for all
the Poor Souls. Amen.
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