We would like to please ask for prayers for one of our dear brothers, Br. Maximilian of the Pierced Side of the Redeemer, who is in the hospital. In your charity please keep Br. Maximilian in your prayers. He is having complications from not being able to maintain adequate sodium levels in his body. Unfortunately, it’s a condition that has developed following his treatment of brain cancer. We are praying for a solution to help manage or solve this condition. This is the second time that Br. Maximilian has been admitted to the hospital within the last two months for the same reason. By Gods grace he’s been able to receive help in time. Please join us in prayer according to God’s holy will, especially prayers to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, for our good brother Br. Maximilian’s health.

(During Fridays, we commemorate the death and passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ. We offer this prayer every Friday to honor of His Most Sacred Passion and offer it for relief and liberation of the Poor Souls in Purgatory.) + Sign of the Cross O most sweet Jesus, through the bloody sweat which Thou didst suffer in the Garden of Gethsemane, have mercy on these Blessed Souls. Have mercy on them. R. Have mercy on them, O Lord. O most sweet Jesus, through the pains which Thou didst suffer during Thy most cruel scourging, have mercy on them. R. Have mercy on them, O Lord. O most sweet Jesus, through the pains which Thou didst suffer in Thy most painful crowning with thorns, have mercy on them. R. Have mercy on them, O Lord. O most sweet Jesus, through the pains which Thou didst suffer in carrying Thy cross to Calvary, have mercy on them. R. Have mercy on them, O Lord. O most sweet Jesus, through the pains which Thou didst suffer during Thy most cruel Crucifixion, have mercy on them. R. Have mercy on them, O Lord. O most sweet Jesus, through the pains which Thou didst suffer in Thy most bitter agony on the Cross, have mercy on them. R. Have mercy on them, O Lord. O most sweet Jesus, through the immense pain which Thou didst suffer in breathing forth Thy Blessed Soul, have mercy on them. R. Have mercy on them, O Lord. (Recommend yourself to the Souls in Purgatory and mention your intentions) Blessed Souls, we have prayed for thee; we entreat thee, who are so dear to God, and who are secure of never losing Him, to pray for us miserable sinners, who are in danger of being damned, and of losing God forever. Let us pray: O God, the author of mercy, the lover of the salvation of mankind; we address thy clemency, in behalf of our brethren, relations, and benefactors, who are departed this life, that by the intercession of Blessed Mary, ever Virgin, and of all the saints, thou wouldst receive them into the enjoyment of eternal happiness; through Christ our Lord. Amen. + Sign of the Cross

A beautiful short 80 pg writing by St. Bonaventure…Mirror of the Blessed Virgin Mary. As we near the end of Advent, in Chapter 1 he explains Gabriel’s greeting to Mary. https://www.saintsbooks.net/books/St.%20Bonaventure%20-%20Mirror%20of%20the%20Blessed%20Virgin%20Mary.pdf?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

https://t.me/c/1948967757/1321

Please remember Br. Joseph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary and the Holy Face as he prepares his studies for an important medical school exam on July 22, 2024. May the Blessed Trinity and the Immaculate Heart of Mary grant him the necessary knowledge and grace to succeed! 🙏🏻

Please remember Br. Joseph as he prepares studies for a third year medical school exam on August 2, 2024 the Franciscan Feast of Our Lady of the Angels and the Feast of the Portiuncula. 🙏🏻

* A Meditation on the Holy Eucharist 1. For your salvation, God the Father sends His beloved Son down from Heaven. 2. For your salvation, the Holy Spirit changes bread and wine into the true Body and Blood of Christ. 3. For your sake, the Son of God comes down from Heaven and conceals Himself under the form of the sacred Host. 4. He even abases Himself to such an extent as to be present in the minutest particle of the sacred Host. 5. For your salvation, He renews the saving mystery of the Incarnation. 6. For your salvation, He is born anew into the world in a mystic manner whenever Holy Mass is celebrated. 7. For your salvation, He performs upon the altar the same acts of worship that He performed when on earth. 8. For your salvation, He renews His bitter Passion in order that you may participate in it. 9. For your salvation, He mystically renews His death and sacrifices for you His precious life. 10. For your salvation, He sheds His Blood in a mystic manner and offers it up for you to the Divine Majesty. 11. With this Precious Blood He sprinkles your soul and purifies it from every stain. 12. For you, Christ offers Himself as a true burnt offering and renders to the Godhead the supreme honor which is its due. 13. By offering this act of worship to God, you make reparation for the glory which you have failed to give Him. 14. For you Christ offers Himself to God as a sacrifice of praise, thus atoning for your omissions in praising His Holy Name. 15. By offering to God this oblation which Christ offers, you give Him greater praise than do the holy Angels. 16. For you Christ offers Himself as a perfect sacrifice of thanksgiving, making compensation for all failures on your part to render thanks. 17. By offering to God Christ’s act of thanksgiving, you make ample acknowledgment of all the benefits He has bestowed upon you. 18. For you Christ offers Himself as the All-powerful Victim, reconciling you to the God whom you have offended. 19. He pardons you all your venial sins, provided you are firmly resolved to forsake them. 20. He also makes reparation for many of your sins of omission; when you left undone the good you might have done. 21. He removes many of the imperfections attaching to your good deeds. 22. He forgives you the sins, unknown or forgotten, which you have never mentioned in Confession. 23. He offers Himself as a victim to make satisfaction for a part, at least, of your debts and transgressions. 24. Each time you hear Mass, you can do more to pay the penalty due to your sins than by the severest work of penance. 25. Christ places to your credit a portion of His merits, which you may offer to God the Father in expiation of your offenses. 26. For you Christ offers Himself as the most efficacious peace-offering, interceding for you as earnestly as He interceded for His enemies on the Cross. 27. His Precious Blood pleads for you in words as countless as the drops which issued from His sacred veins. 28. Each of the adorable wounds His Sacred Body bore is a voice calling aloud for mercy for you. 29. For the sake of this propitiatory Victim, the petitions proffered during Mass will be granted far sooner than those that are proffered at other times. 30. Never can you pray so well as while present at Mass. 31. This is so because Christ unites His prayers to yours and offers them to His heavenly Father. 32. He acquaints Him with your needs and the dangers to which you are exposed, and makes your eternal salvation His particular concern. 33. The Angels also who are present plead for and present your poor prayers before the throne of God. 34. On your behalf the priest says Mass, by virtue of which the evil enemy will not be suffered to approach you. 35. For you and for your everlasting salvation he says Mass, and offers that Holy Sacrifice to God Almighty. 36. When you hear Mass, you are yourself in spirit a priest, empowered by Christ to offer the Mass both for yourself and others. 37. By offering this Holy Sacrifice you present to the Blessed Trinity the most acceptable of all oblations. 38. You offer an oblation precious indeed, of greater value than all things in Heaven and earth. 39. You offer an oblation precious indeed, for it is none other than God Himself. 40. By this Sacrifice you honor God as He alone is worthy to be honored. 41. By this Sacrifice you give infinite satisfaction to the Most Holy Trinity. 42. You may present this glorious oblation as your own gift, for Christ Himself gave it to you. 43. It is the best means whereby to venerate the Passion of Christ and obtain a share in its fruits. 44. It is also the best means of venerating the Blessed Mother of God and increasing her joy. 45. By hearing Mass you can give greater honor to the Angels and Saints than by reciting many prayers. 46. By hearing Mass devoutly, you can also enrich your soul more than by anything else in the world. 47. For in this act you perform a good work of the highest value. 48. It is a signal exercise of pure faith, which will receive a great reward. 49. When you bow down before the Sacred Host and the sacred chalice, you perform a supreme act of adoration. 50. For each time that you gaze reverently upon the Sacred Host, you will receive a recompense in Heaven. 51. Each time you strike your breast with compunction, some of your sins are remitted to you. 52. If you hear Mass in the state of mortal sin, God offers you the grace of conversion. 53. If you hear Mass in the state of grace, God gives you an augmentation of grace. 54. In Holy Mass you spiritually eat the Flesh of Christ and drink His Blood. 55. You are privileged to behold with your eyes Christ hidden under the sacramental veil, and to be beheld by Him. 56. You receive the priest’s benediction, which is confirmed by Christ in Heaven. 57. Through your diligence in hearing Mass, you will also obtain corporal and temporal blessings. 58. Furthermore, you will be preserved from many misfortunes that would otherwise befall you. 59. You will also be strengthened against temptations which would otherwise have vanquished you. 60. Holy Mass will also be to you a means of obtaining the grace of a holy death. 61. The love you have shown for Holy Mass will secure for you the special succor of Angels and Saints in your last moments. 62. The remembrance of the Masses heard in your lifetime will be a sweet solace to you in the hour of death and inspire you with confidence in the divine mercy. 63. They will not be forgotten when you stand before the strict Judge and will incline Him to show you favor. 64. You need not fear a long and terrible Purgatory if you already, to a great extent, atoned for your sins by frequently assisting at Holy Mass. 65. One Mass devoutly heard will do more to mitigate the pains of Purgatory than any act of penance, however difficult of performance. 66. One Mass in your lifetime will be of greater service to you than many said for you after death. 67. You will attain a high place in Heaven, which will be yours for all eternity. 68. Your felicity in Heaven will, moreover, be increased by every Mass you hear on earth. 69. No prayers offered for your friends will be as efficacious as a single Mass heard and offered on their behalf. 70. You can amply recompense all your benefactors by hearing Mass for their intention. 71. The best help, the greatest consolation, you can afford the afflicted, the sick, the dying, is to hear Mass for them. 72. By this same means you can even obtain for sinners the grace of conversion. 73. You can also earn for all faithful Christians saving and salutary graces. 74. For the Suffering Souls in Purgatory you can procure abundant refreshment. 75. And if it is not within your power to have Mass said for your departed friends, you can by devout assistance at the Holy Sacrifice release them from the tormenting flames. What do you now think of Holy Mass, O Christian? Can it be supposed that in the whole world there is any other good work whereby so many graces and fruits are placed within our reach? It is no longer possible to question the truth of the words of Father Sanchez quoted below: “If Christians only knew how to profit by Holy Mass, they might acquire greater riches than are to be found in all the things God has created.” We have indeed a precious storehouse in the Mass: happy he who can earn treasures so great at the cost of so little labor! Who would willingly miss Mass? Who would not delight in hearing it? Let us resolve never to lose an opportunity of hearing Mass, provided the duties of our state of life do not prevent us from doing so. To omit hearing Mass daily, merely from carelessness or indolence, would be a proof that we were either ignorant of or indifferent to the divine treasures it contains. God grant that those who read this book may in future appreciate more fully this pearl of great price, value it more highly, seek it more diligently!

Taken from today’s Podcast of Fr. Ripperger’s Reclamation Theology 🙏🏻 ************************** Jesus sanctified the hours in the day thru His passion Midnight - Matins : Left the Upper Room to go to the Garden of Gethsemane 3am - Laudes : Hour of Jesus’s arrest. 6am - Prime : Peter denies Jesus. 9am - Terse : Jesus is on trial before Pilot. Noon - Seat (As named by St. Clare in her Rule) : Jesus is nailed to the cross. 3pm - None : Hour Jesus expires. 6pm - Vespers : Jesus is taken down from the cross. 9pm - Compline : Jesus is prepared for burial and laid in the tomb.

Today is an Ember Day in Lent. This is a supercast by Kyle Clement, assistant to Fr. Chad Ripperger, PhD, on todays Ember Day First Friday in Lent devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. http://kyleclement.supercast.com/feeds/8CcwDvQkUaDQ5Z1RuMweNbgr (If link does not directly open here…copy link and paste in your device Podcast App.) Link to First Friday Devotional Prayer's to the SHJ

Would like to please ask for prayers, according to God’s holy will, for a special intention. Thank You.🌹

by Cardinal Merry del Val He was accustomed to recite this prayer daily after offering the Holy Mass. O Jesus meek and humble of heart, Hear me. From the desire of being esteemed, Deliver, me, Jesus. From the desire of being loved, Deliver me, Jesus. From the desire of being extolled, Deliver me, Jesus. From the desire of being honored, Deliver me, Jesus. From the desire of being praised, Deliver me, Jesus. From the desire of being preferred to others, Deliver me Jesus. From the desire of being consulted, Deliver me, Jesus. From the desire of being approved, Deliver me, Jesus. From the fear of being humiliated, Deliver me, Jesus. From the fear of being despised, Deliver me, Jesus. From the fear of suffering rebukes, Deliver me, Jesus. From the fear of being calumniated, Deliver, me, Jesus. From the fear of being forgotten, Deliver me, Jesus. From the fear of being ridiculed, Deliver me, Jesus. From the fear of being wronged, Deliver me, Jesus. From the fear of being suspected, Deliver me, Jesus. That others may be loved more than I, Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it. That others may be esteemed more than I, Jesus grant me the grace to desire it. That in the opinion of the world, others may increase, and I may decrease, Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it. That others may be chosen and I set aside, Jesus grant me the grace to desire it. That others may be praised and I unnoticed, Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it. That others may be preferred to me in everything, Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it. That others may become holier than I, provided that I become as holy as I should, Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it. Amen 🌹