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Saturday - Dedicated to Our Lady
This is the first Saturday of the month.
Dedicate it to Our Lady.
Pray your rosary, do as your mother asks….
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Take away self-will and there will be no hell
Side Altar of St. Bernard in the main Chapel at Mt. St. Mary’s Seminary in Emmitsburg MD.
Fr. Z Said a Mass at this Altar a few months after this photo was taken
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Prayer, Fasting, Abstaining…. Mortification
Everyday when I drive home I listen to the Catholic Radio ( 950 / 930 AM ). In Kansas City we did not have Relevant Radio, but we did have EWTN Radio (1090 AM). I really enjoy listening to Catholic radio and even had Sirius for unintrrupted EWTN and also The Catholic Channel. I was a regular caller in on “The Catholic Guy” program - I even won a Popener.. but I digress
Usually on my drive home I get to listen to the replay of “Go Ask your Father”, a call in program where anyone can ask a priest just about anything (I enjoy all the priests but Fr. Rich Simon has really grown on me). Tonight a caller called an and stated that if we wanted to really see the end of Abortion in this country we need to add fasting to our prayer. Shes was very upset that she didn’t hear fasting preached and wanted to get the word out that by fasting is the way scripture says we should add to our prayer.
This started the wheels in my brain turning, when we first started attending the Extraordinary Form with the FSSP and ICRSS in Kansas City they would constantly preach about mortification. Depriving ourselves of our desires for us to grow in holiness. Some of the recommended mortification methods that were suggested were: when you kneel to pray, kneel on your hands. cut back on simple little pleasures, waking up extra early to say prayers, and of course fasting and abstaining. At the time I stopped putting cream and sugar in my coffee, drinking it straight black (another suggestion from them) and it was very difficult for me at first but then it became quite enjoyable. Now I can not drink coffee with cream and sugar, as it tastes quite odd and out of place to me.
So what is the point of this post you may ask? Well dear reader it is this: Today is Friday, will you join me in abstaining from Meat today - and every Friday - as a little mortification for your prayer intentions. I am fully aware that this is no longer required per Canon Law when you replace it with another small act of penance through the day (an extra rosary, time with the Blessed Sacrament, etc.)
With these slow, deliberate acts for our Lord, may we humble ourselves for the conversion of sinners.
St. Jose Maria Escriva + Ora Pro Nobis
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Pray for Religious Vocations… Pray for our Priests…
Pray for Religious Vocations - Pray for the Seminarians and Postulants ….. Pray for our Priests and Bishops…
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This photo was taken in Conception MO. at the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception - The Public Profession of Triennial Vows according to the Holy Rule of St. Benedict and Investiture in the Benedictine Habit for a Postulant May 19, 2007
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Officium Divinum
I have been trying to pray the Liturgy of the Hours when I can. Most days I end up just praying Night Prayer and reading the office of Readings. I mostly use the Ordinary Form “Liturgy Of the Hours” as I was gifted the complete 4 Volume set - In leather no less! I really enjoy the Sermons from Saints and prayers and poems.
I also was gifted the Angelus Press Officium Divinum - Divine Office for Laity, It is abridged but has a good amount of Psalms and prayers in the Traditional Office format. So I have been throwing that into the prayer rotation as well. Some days I get to say both, others just one and even some days I forget about them entirely.
Since I have an Ordinary Form Hand Missal Missal (Roman Missal 3rd Edition) and an Extraordinary Form Missal - on the Sundays that we go to one but not the other I use the Missal to read the readings I did not hear (Usually I am reading the Ordinary Form readings at home but my faithful readers should have probably guessed that by now) - It really helps to tie the Mass to the LOTH together.
My wife at one time was very devout in praying the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary before I took us away from the faith, slowly shes coming back around to it.
Ever since about the 2nd week in Advent I have tried to pray the Rosary (5 decades ) as a family - I would say we’re at about a 70% success rate. So hopefully as we continue to improve those stats my reading of the Office will continue to improve as well.
What I would really like to do is get a Google+ Hangout of other Catholics and pray the hours / rosary / general discussion etc. - but how do I go about organizing / joining such a thing - please leave your suggestions in the combox
“Protect us, Lord, as we stay awake; watch over us as we sleep, that awake, we may keep watch with Christ, and asleep, rest in his peace.” - Liturgy of the Hours
