Prayer of
St. Gertrude the Great
"Eternal Father, I offer Thee the most Precious Blood of Jesus, with all the Masses being said all over the world this day, for the Souls in Purgatory."
Our Lord showed St. Gertrude a vast number of souls leaving Purgatory and going to Heaven as a result of this prayer, which the Saint was accustomed to say frequently during the day.
Taken from the booklet Read Me or Rue It by Fr. Paul O’Sullivan which has the approval of the Cardinal Patriarch of Lisbon, Portugal – March 4, 1936.
St. Gertrude's life was the mystic life of the Cloister – a Benedictine nun. She meditated on the Passion of Christ, which many times brought a flood of tears to her eyes. She did many penances and Our Lord appeared to her many times. She had a tender love for the Blessed Virgin and was very devoted to the suffering souls in Purgatory. She died in 1334. Her feast day is November 16th.
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Monday, December 3, 2012
Prayer of St. Gertrude the Great
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
St Charles Lwanga and Companions - what would these brave men make of the Soho Masses?
A few months ago I wrote a post
highlighting the fact that Terence Weldon - member of the Soho Masses
Pastoral Council and author of the Queering the Church blog - had
declared that a gay-rights campaigner who had probably, according to
later reports, died at the hands of his rent boy was a "New Ugandan
Martyr." In his post, Weldon also went on to seemingly disparage St
Charles Lwanga, who is a true martyr for the Christian faith. One of the
reasons St Charles was put to death was for his refusal to allow Mwanga
II, the homosexual king of what was then called Buganda (modern-day
Uganda), to sodomise him and the other young Christians under his care.
Contrary
to other Catholic organisations that provide pastoral care and support
to those with same-sex attractions (i.e. Courage Apostolate), the Soho
Masses group seems to promote the gay culture and its political agenda -
which, of course, is profoundly opposed to the Gospel and to the truth
that Catholicism proclaims. One wonders then, on this his feast day,
what St Charles Lwanga would have to say about the Soho Masses? I find
it very difficult to believe that his holy and brave man, who refused to
submit to his King's homosexual lust, would approve of a group within
the Church that seems to promote homosexuality as well as same-sex civil
partnerships and the like.
To find out more about the story of St Charles Lwanga and his young Companions, please visit Catholic Online, which has an excellent article on these holy Martyrs. Also, here is a video, which movingly recounts the last moment of St Charles and the other men and boys who were barbarically killed alongside him.
To find out more about the story of St Charles Lwanga and his young Companions, please visit Catholic Online, which has an excellent article on these holy Martyrs. Also, here is a video, which movingly recounts the last moment of St Charles and the other men and boys who were barbarically killed alongside him.
There
were also some Anglicans who died for the Christian faith with St
Charles and his friends. These men, who were mentioned by Pope Paul VI
at the Canonisation of St Charles and his Companions, also refused the
King's homosexual advances, and witness both to the Church's ultimate
unity and to the fact that Christians should always stand together in
promoting sanctity, truth and God's Holy Commandments. It is wonderful
to know that St Charles Lwanga and the other young men and boys who gave
their lives for Christ with him are now beholding God before His Throne
in Heaven! May they not forget us who for now live as their earth-bound
brothers and sisters.
Lord God, we pray for the Church,
that she may be One in faith and united in witnessing to the splendour of the truth.
May she always have the courage to call men and women to holiness
and may she never bow to the false teachings of this passing world. Amen
St Charles Lwanga and Companions, pray for us
SOURCE: http://areluctantsinner.blogspot.com/2011/06/st-charles-lwanga-and-companions-what.html
[Image: St Charles Lwanga and Comps., as found on many websites on the internet. This image is in the public domain]
[Image: St Charles Lwanga and Comps., as found on many websites on the internet. This image is in the public domain]
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Saturday, April 21, 2012
Saturday, February 25, 2012
Plenary Indulgence Reminder: Fridays in Lent
8 §1. A plenary indulgence is granted to the Christian faithful who:
...
2° in any Friday in the season of Lent piously recite the prayer En ego, o bone et dulcissime Iesu, before an image of the Crucified Jesus Christ after communion; ...
(Reference: Enchiridion Indulgentiarum, 4th edition, al. concessiones.). . .
The En ego is quite well known - it is published in Breviaries and Missals, as well as in all missals for the use of the lay faithful, usually in the section dedicated to thanksgiving after Mass:
En ego, o bone et dulcissime Iesu, ante conspectum tuum genibus me provolvo, ac maximo animi ardore te oro atque obtestor, ut meum in cor vividos fidei, spei et caritatis sensus, atque veram peccatorum meorum paenitentiam, eaque emendandi firmissimam voluntatem velis imprimere; dum magno animi affectu et dolore tua quinque vulnera mecum ipse considero, ac mente contemplor, illud prae oculis habens, quod iam in ore ponebat tuo David Propheta de te, o bone Iesu: «Foderunt manus meas et pedes meos; dinumeraverunt omnia ossa mea».
(Behold, o good and most sweet Jesus, I fall upon my knees before Thee, and with most fervent desire beg and beseech Thee that Thou wouldst impress upon my heart a lively sense of faith, hope and charity, true repentance for my sins, and a firm resolve to make amends. And with deep affection and grief, I reflect upon Thy five wounds, having before my eyes that which Thy prophet David spoke about Thee, o good Jesus: "They have pierced my hands and feet, they have counted all my bones.")
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