Mary TV: September 30, 2020 Reflection - May the measure of your way of living be love!

 

May the measure of your way of living be love!

Let Love! (c)Mary TV September 30, 2020 St. Jerome, Priest and Doctor of the Church Dear Family of Mary! “May the measure of your [way of] living be love…” (September 25, 2020) LITANY OF LET LOVE Father, good and ever-faithful. Jesus, Savior ever-merciful. Holy Spirit, well-spring of true life and love. I give You permission. Reign in my heart, mind, soul, and life. Let Your Love come into my past, present and future. Let Your Love unfold in me. That I Let Love reveal who I am, God, in Whose Image I’ve been made, Father me. That I Let Love define me, God, in Whose Likeness I’ve been formed, shape me. That I Let Love with courage and hope, God, to Whose glory I’ve been called, be my strength. That I Let Love forgive me, Save me Lord Jesus. That I Let Love love me to the depths of my being, Save me Lord Jesus. That I Let Love heal and glorify my wounds, Save me Lord Jesus. That I Let Love free me from sin, Save me Lord Jesus. That I Let Love liberate me from all my fears, Save me Lord Jesus. That I Let Love reconcile me to wholeness and peace, Save me Lord Jesus. That I Let Love awaken me, Come Holy Spirit. That I Let Love lead me in every moment, Come Holy Spirit. That I Let Love challenge me to live in and for love, Come Holy Spirit. That I Let Love grow my mind, heart, and soul, Come Holy Spirit. That I Let Love draw me to live in the truth, Come Holy Spirit. That I Let Love transform me into the life of Christ, Come Holy Spirit. That I Let Love fill me to overflowing, Come Holy Spirit. That I Let Love captivate my heart, Come Holy Spirit. That I Let Love live in me, Come Holy Spirit. That I Let Love inspire me, Come Holy Spirit. That I Let Love cherish me, Father, hold me in Your Heart. That I Let Love receive me, Jesus, keep me in your wounds. That I Let Love be my rock and security, Spirit, keep me in your peace. That I Let Love ask from me, Let Your will be done Father. That I Let Love in, Let Your Will be done Father. That I Let Love live in me, Let Your Will be done Father. That I Let Love go, Let Your Will be done Father. That I Let Love give, Let Your Will be done Father. That I Let Love speak, Let Your will be done Father. That I Let Love call my name, Let Your will be done Father. That I Let Love bring me somewhere new, Blessed Trinity, reign over my life. That I Let Love be the adventure, Blessed Trinity, reign over my life. That I Let Love write the score, Blessed Trinity, reign over my life. That I Let Love win the victory, Blessed Trinity, reign over my life. That I Let Love be the answer, Blessed Trinity, reign over my life. Amen. (Written by Sr. Mariae Agnus Dei, SV - the Sisters of Life – https://sistersoflife.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Mobile-Litany-of-Let-Love.pdf ) In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan ©Mary TV 2020 Mary TV. Inc. | www.marytv.tv ‌ "Medjugorje is the spiritual center of the world." St. John Paul II Be Connected! www.marytv.tv Mary TV | P.O. Box 899, Notre Dame, IN 46556

Mary TV: September 29, 2020 Reflection - St. Michael, St. Gabriel, St. Raphael!

 

St. Michael, St. Gabriel, St. Raphael!

St. Michael, St. Gabriel, St. Raphael! Protect us! (c)Mary TV September 29, 2020 St. Michael, St. Gabriel, and St. Raphael, Archangels Dear Family of Mary! "Dear children! I am with you for so long because God is great in His love and in my presence. I am calling you, little children: return to God and to prayer. May the measure of your [way of] living be love and do not forget, little children, that prayer and fasting work miracles in you and around you. May everything you do be for the glory of God, and then Heaven will fill your heart with joy and you will feel that God loves you and is sending me to save you and the earth on which you live. Thank you for having responded to my call." (September 25, 2020) In this most recent message, Our Lady calls us to return to God and to prayer. We all can feel the need for more determined prayer in these days when the devil is manifesting himself so boldly in our countries. On this Feast Day of the Holy Archangels, let’s add this powerful Chaplet of St. Michael to our daily prayers. St. Michael wishes to do battle for us, as do all the angels.  Let’s ask them to do just that, to come and fight with us and for us against the darkness that wants to blot out the Light. Our Lady is confident that if we return to prayer and fasting, if we love and pray, miracles will happen! St. Michael, come and bring the Heavenly Host with you to defeat the enemy of our souls. The Chaplet of St. Michael O God, come to my assistance. O Lord, make haste to help me. Glory be to the Father, etc. [Say one Our Father and three Hail Marys after each of the following nine salutations in honor of the nine Choirs of Angels] 1. By the intercession of St. Michael and the celestial Choir of Seraphim may the Lord make us worthy to burn with the fire of perfect charity. Amen. 2. By the intercession of St. Michael and the celestial Choir of Cherubim may the Lord grant us the grace to leave the ways of sin and run in the paths of Christian perfection. Amen. 3. By the intercession of St. Michael and the celestial Choir of Thrones may the Lord infuse into our hearts a true and sincere spirit of humility. Amen. 4. By the intercession of St. Michael and the celestial Choir of Dominations may the Lord give us grace to govern our senses and overcome any unruly passions. Amen. 5. By the intercession of St. Michael and the celestial Choir of Virtues may the Lord preserve us from evil and falling into temptation. Amen. 6. By the intercession of St. Michael and the celestial Choir of Powers may the Lord protect our souls against the snares and temptations of the devil. Amen. 7. By the intercession of St. Michael and the celestial Choir of Principalities may God fill our souls with a true spirit of obedience. Amen. 8. By the intercession of St. Michael and the celestial Choir of Archangels may the Lord give us perseverance in faith and in all good works in order that we may attain the glory of Heaven. Amen. 9. By the intercession of St. Michael and the celestial Choir of Angels may the Lord grant us to be protected by them in this mortal life and conducted in the life to come to Heaven. Amen. Say one Our Father in honor of each of the following leading Angels: St. Michael, St. Gabriel, St. Raphael, and our Guardian Angel. Concluding prayers: O glorious prince St. Michael, chief and commander of the heavenly hosts, guardian of souls, vanquisher of rebel spirits, servant in the house of the Divine King and our admirable conductor, you who shine with excellence and superhuman virtue deliver us from all evil, who turn to you with confidence and enable us by your gracious protection to serve God more and more faithfully every day. Pray for us, O glorious St. Michael, Prince of the Church of Jesus Christ, that we may be made worthy of His promises. Almighty and Everlasting God, Who, by a prodigy of goodness and a merciful desire for the salvation of all men, has appointed the most glorious Archangel St. Michael Prince of Your Church, make us worthy, we ask You, to be delivered from all our enemies, that none of them may harass us at the hour of death, but that we may be conducted by him into Your Presence. This we ask through the merits of Jesus Christ Our Lord. Amen. In Jesus, Mary, and Joseph! Cathy Nolan ©Mary TV 2020   Mary TV. Inc. | www.marytv.tv ‌ "Medjugorje is the spiritual center of the world." St. John Paul II Be Connected! www.marytv.tv Mary TV | P.O. Box 899, Notre Dame, IN 46556

Mary TV: September 28, 2020 Reflection - Two Sons!

 

Two Sons!

Fr. Leon!! (c)Mary TV September 28, 2020 St. Wenceslaus, St. Lawrence Ruiz Dear Family of Mary! Father Leon will not be celebrating Mass in Medjugorje this week because he is ill. But he did write this beautiful homily for the Mass of Sunday, September 27, 2020. He gave us permission to share it with you all. As usual, Fr. Leon does not pull any punches, but speaks the truth plainly. He is always so helpful! Let’s pray for Fr. Leon to recover quickly, as we miss his pastoral guidance! Twenty-sixth Sunday of the Year. Fr Leon Pereira OP preaches on the parable of the man with two sons. Running through the Scriptures is the recurring theme of two sons, rivals before their father. Ishmael and Isaac are pitted against each other for their father Abraham’s legacy. Esau and Jacob squabble for the same from Isaac. Ephraim and Manasseh are not favored in the order desired by Joseph. The twin sons of Judah, Perez and Zerah, struggle in the womb with each other. Adonijah and Solomon compete for their father David’s throne. The prodigal son and his brother are rivals for their father’s property and love. This theme is the struggle to be acceptable to the Father. In the beginning, Abel’s offering was accepted by God, but Cain’s was not. It ended with murder, the first murder. The slain brother’s blood cries out to God for vengeance. All this because both struggled to be the Father’s accepted son. How often in our own families is one child accepted, while the other spends a lifetime trying to win favor? How often is the one who never visits the golden child, and the long-suffering child who does everything for her parents is taken for granted, and endures the endless praises of their selfish sibling?  The need to be the accepted child runs deep within us. Our modern obsession with celebrity, the pressure to be young, fresh, strong, beautiful—what else is it than the unquenchable yearning to be accepted by the Father they do not know yet yearn for? Why else are Christians so frightened of admitting their sins? The fear of being the unacceptable child remains. When the parent in question is the perfect Heavenly Father, how can anyone hope to be the accepted and loved child? One solution is to shift the goalposts. Modern Evangelicals dispute a teaching they call ‘hyper-grace’—an exaggeration which denies the necessity of repentance and confession of sins and considers the moral law as pharisaical legalism. By shifting the parameters of what it means to be the acceptable child of the Father, whose only-begotten Son tells us to ‘Be perfect even as your heavenly Father is perfect’ (Matt 5:48), we make ourselves perfect and acceptable.  The Catholic equivalent (‘mercy-plus’) is the travesty of divine mercy without repentance. The heresy of Jansenism believed man was totally depraved, and unable to be made anew even by God’s grace. It sinned against hope by giving in to despair. The new Jansenism of mercy-plus sins against hope by giving in to presumption. At first glance it looks positive. Heaven is for everyone, only because there is no Hell. One does not need to be in a state of grace to receive Communion, because it is not even possible. No Christian is called, by God’s grace, to heroism—because the moral life is impossible. This is not raising the prodigals from their grime and muck but rebranding their pigsties ‘palaces’. The new pharisees misuse words like ‘accompaniment’ while stranding people exactly where they’ve been, with their vices christened ‘virtues’. Their presumption is a childish rebellion, and deep down it blames God—it’s His fault for asking us to be perfect, creatures He made imperfect! The fear of honestly and contritely confessing our sins, common to Evangelical hyper-grace and Catholic mercy-plus, is the fear lurking within us all of being the unacceptable child. But since this is somehow God’s fault, we can shift the goal-posts and call evil good, or at least tolerable. To be acceptable, we can’t afford to confess anything substantial or true; certainly nothing which corresponds to actual sins. In the Gospel the son who is truly accepted is the one who is bad. The son who has a superficial perfection is the one who actually resists the Father’s will. But the one who kicked, screamed, and fought—he is the acceptable child, the one who in the end proves his love for the Father.  The perfect child does not exist. We cannot be the perfect, acceptable son or daughter we would like to be. Becoming the acceptable child is a matter of repentance: of letting go of the past in the face of the future we are offered, of accepting that we cannot—by our own efforts—do the Father’s will. Only in the only-begotten perfect Son, by His wounds and His grace, are we made anew. You see, the Gospel tells us the favored ones are not the pharisees who have rebranded perfection, while themselves remaining white-washed sepulchers, but the whores and crooks who desire Jesus not on their own terms, but His.  This Homily was first published by Fr. Leon here: https://www.torch.op.org/torch/a-man-had-two-sons Our Lady once said to us: "Dear children! Today I call all of you to decide for holiness. May for you, little children, always in your thoughts and in each situation, holiness be in the first place, in work and in speech. In this way, you will also put it into practice; little by little, step by step, prayer and a decision for holiness will enter into your family. Be real with yourselves and do not bind yourselves to material things but to God. And do not forget, little children, that your life is as passing as a flower. Thank you for having responded to my call." August 25, 2001 We can be the son who says no at first but eventually does the will of his father…Our Lady will help us get there. In Jesus, Mary, and Joseph Cathy Nolan ©Mary TV 2020 Mary TV. Inc. | www.marytv.tv ‌ "Medjugorje is the spiritual center of the world." St. John Paul II Be Connected! www.marytv.tv Mary TV | P.O. Box 899, Notre Dame, IN 46556

Message From Our Lady in Medjugorje to Marija September 25, 2020

 

"May everything you do be for the glory of God..."

Our Lady's Message to Marija  on September 25, 2020 "Dear children! I am with you for so long because  God  is great in His love and in my presence.  I am calling  you,  little children: return to God and to prayer. May the measure of  your [way of] living be love and  do not  forget, little  children,  that prayer and fasting  work miracles in you and around you.  May everything  you do be for the  glory  of God, and then Heaven  will  fill your heart with  joy and  you  will  feel that God loves you  and is sending me to save you and the earth  on which you  live.  Thank you for having responded to my call." See more messages and articles about Medjugorje on our website:  www.sremmanuel.org Children of Medjugorje, Inc., PO Box 18430, Denver, CO 80218