NOVENA TO SAINT JOSEPH

This prayer is traditionally said for the nine days preceding the Feast of Saint Joseph (March 19th), however it can be prayed at any time during the year.

Novena to Saint Joseph

Glorious Saint Joseph, foster-father and protector of Jesus Christ!  To you I raise my heart and my hands to implore your powerful intercession.  Please obtain for me from the kind Heart of Jesus the help and the graces necessary for my spiritual and temporal welfare.  I ask particularly for the grace of a happy death and the special favour I now implore.

[Mention your request here.]

Guardian of the Word Incarnate, I feel animated with confidence that your prayers on my behalf will be graciously heard before the throne of God.

 (The following is to be said seven times in honor of the seven joys and seven sorrows of Saint Joseph.)

V.  O glorious St. Joseph, through the love you bear to Jesus Christ, and for the glory of His Name.

R.  Hear my prayers and obtain my petitions.

Amen.

Gods411 : What is Lent?

Gods411 : What is Lent?

STATIONS OF THE CROSS - (LINK) Narrated by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf ("Fr. Z")

Stations of the Cross by Saint Alphonsus Liguori

 

 

MILLIONS OF OUR TAX $ BEING USED TO INDOCTRINATE OUR CHILDREN TO ACCEPT EVIL

Photo from http://coinsblog.ws/

Before talking about the money being spent by the Ontario government to promote their evil sex-ed program let's have a quick overview of what is happening.

Times are truly frightening.  Satin seems to be having his way.
Consider what happened in the most recent federal and provincial (Ontario) elections:

1)  Even though the Ontario Liberal government was embroiled in controversy and scandal the electorate somehow gave them a majority.

2)  Federally the Liberals made two "mistakes" that should have cost them the election: 1) their new, (rather) young leader refused to accept anyone with pro-life beliefs as a candidate and 2) he promised to give us a few years of deficit budgets.
They, too, won a majority in the federal House of Parliament.

These problems should have given them a minority government at the best.  But we are in a spiritual warfare.  Logic no longer matters.  Evil keeps winning even when people ought to know better.

In Ontario THIS is happening.
Part of the controversial program includes "Gender theory" is going to be compulsory to be taught in all schools, including Catholic schools.  They want to claim that one's gender is 'fluid' throughout one's life and that their can be as many as 63 genders.

From the LifeSite News article:

"Ontario Liberals paid $4 million for TV ads pushing graphic sex-ed curriculum

 ... Education Minister Liz Sandals also reveals she opposed MPPs holding constituency community meetings on contentious the sex-ed curriculum, which was rolled out in Ontario’s publicly funded schools September 2015, and that she was especially concerned the LGBTQ community was satisfied with the sex-ed television ads.

The sex-ed curriculum introduces homosexuality in Grade 3, masturbation in Grade 6, oral and anal sex in Grade 7, and teaches that there are six genders rather than two biological sexes, according to a detailed analysis by Campaign Life Coalition."

...

"The Ontario Liberal government spent $4 million in taxpayers dollars on an online and television advertising campaign in September 2015 to sell its controversial sex-ed curriculum."

https://thecatholicrealist.com/

Holy Michael archangel,

Defend us in the day of battle;

Be our safeguard against the wickedness and snares of the devil.

May God rebuke him we humbly pray,

And do thou, prince of the heavenly host,

By the power of God,

Thrust down to hell Satan and all wicked spirits who wander through the world

For the ruin of souls.

Amen.

ENJOY THE CLASSIC LENTEN HYMN "ATTENDE DOMINE"

Here are some wonderful versions of this penitential Lenten hymn  --  for your enjoyment and meditation:

Have a blessed Lent!

http://www.catholictradition.org/

A CHRISTMAS NATIVITY SCENE THAT GROWS!

I'm late in posting this for Advent 2015 but I feel compelled to share one of my favourite traditions.

Rather than 'setting up' or 'getting out' the whole creche there's a much more interesting way, one which begins on the first Sunday of Advent and doesn't end until January 6th, the Epiphany of Our Lord.

Week One:
The earth --
Prepare the table for the creche and (after placing some appropriate cloth for a surface) place some rocks around the area.  The rocks symbolize all the earth that Our Lord is coming to.
[Note:  In addition to this the Three Wise Men can begin their journey to see Jesus.  I start them in the east, usually atop the refrigerator.] 

 http://www.christmasinprescott.com/214512.html

Week Two:
Vegetation --
Place real or artificial greenery around the boarders (or inside if you have something small enough).  The greenery is to represent all the plant life growing on our planet.  The earth, all rock and growing things anxiously await the coming of the Word of God.

http://www.holemanlandscape.com/2013/12/20/holiday-greenery/

Week Three:
Animals --
Now we place the animal figurines that are appropriate for a stable in the creche.
Animal life is very important in the life of Jesus on earth.  He is, after all, the very Lamb of God!

 http://www.ebay.com/bhp/nativity-animals

Week Four:
People --
On the forth Sunday of Advent finally the human figures arrive on the scene.  Here we find Mary and Joseph and the shepherds.
The Three Wise Men are slowly making their way around the house as they follow the star.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/112587920/vintage-nativity-figurines-joseph-mary

Christmas Eve:
Our Lord and Saviour JESUS CHRIST!
Before or after Midnight Mass Jesus is placed in the manger.
Our Lord had arrived!

Image from https://outdoornativitystore.com

The Christmas season now begins.

 

Epiphany (January 6th):
The Three Wise Men --
The last to arrive on the scene are the Magi after their long journey (from the kitchen to the living room).
Christ is revealed to the world.

 

The creche is the last Christmas "decoration" I take down each year.

WHY IS CATHOLIC MUSIC SO BAD SINCE THE '70s? (I JUST FOUND OUT.)

Please see

The Hidden Hand behind Bad Catholic Music

 

This collection of products, however, does not include a hymnal — or anything else — designed to appeal to traditional sensibilities (its Heritage Hymnal is deceptively misnamed). The OCP’s experts never tire of promoting the new, rewriting the old, and inviting you to join them in their quest to “sing a new church into being” (as one of their hit songs urges). The one kind of “new” that the OCP systematically avoids is the new vogue of traditional music that has proved so appealing to young Catholics.

The bread and butter of the OCP are the 10,000 music copyrights it owns. It employs a staff of 150, runs year-round liturgy workshops all over the United States, sponsors affiliates in England and Australia, and keeps song-writers all over the English-speaking world on its payroll. In fact, it’s the preferred institutional home of those now-aging “St. Louis Jesuits” who swept out the old in 1969 and, by the mid-1970s, had parishes across the country clapping and strumming and tapping to the beat.