Chaplet of Divine Mercy

Meditation on Our Lady

Remain with Mary as she leads you to her son Jesus Christ.

Feast of the Archangels

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.

Article ~ Priests for Life website

The title of the article is:

"Abortion, Contraception, Natural Family Planning, and Church Teaching"

You can read the article at:

http://www.priestsforlife.org/contraception/index.htm

Note: This address is also listed as a resource on the Hannah's Tears Infertility blog site.

Thank you Priests for Life!!!

Saint Wenceslaus, pray for us...

“Into your hands, O Lord, I commend my spirit."

Lord,

You taught your martyr Wenceslaus

to prefer the kingdom of heaven

to all that the earth has to offer.

May his prayers free us from our self-seeking

and help us to serve You with all our hearts.

We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, Your Son,

who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit,

one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Saint of the Day ~ St. Lorenzo Ruiz

Saint Lorenzo Ruiz and Companions

Governors:"If we grant you life, will you renounce your faith?"

Lawrence: "That I will never do, because I am a Christian, and I shall die for God, and for him I will give many thousands of lives if I had them. And so, do with me as you please."

Prayer

O courageous St. Lorenzo Ruiz, you were an exemplar father, a witness of Christ until the last hours of your earthly life. You did not hesitate to say that even if you have a thousand lives, you will give them all to Jesus. Intercede for us before the throne of the Most High and inspire us, especially the fathers among us, to lead our families in prayer and worship.

Amen.

Sunday Liturgy Reflection ~ Sunday September 27, 2009

Sunday, September 27, 2009: Liturgy Reflection from JP Catholic University on Vimeo.

Pope's Visit to the Czech Republic

EWTN’s coverage of the Pope’s Visit to the Czech Republic – and a Feature Film on St. Therese

The Infant of Prague and Our Holy Father

Do you hear the call?

There are 500,000 children in the US today

in need of a temporary or permanent home.

Want to help?

Go to:

http://extraordinarymomsnetwork.wordpress.com

For adoptive, foster, and special-needs families.

Today I will...

place every circumstance that troubles me in the Heart of Our Lord!

I will keep in my mind and heart that Jesus

bears the solutions to all of my problems.

Today I choose to place all of my

pain and worry in the Heart of my

Lord and Savior.

Today I choose to trust Him who has always carried me.

If I fall I will turn my eyes and my heart back to the Lord of Glory

who has my past, present and future in His hands.

Jesus, I trust in thee.

Liturgy Reflection

Sunday, September 20, 2009: Liturgy Reflection from JP Catholic University on Vimeo.

The voice of the Lord

Let us listen for the Lord’s voice, so that we can reach his place of rest.

treatise "On the Ascent of the Mind to God"

St. Robert Bellarmine

Known as the Gentle Doctor of the Controversies

Saint Robert Bellarmine Cardinal; confessor of the faith. Born in 1542 in Montepulciano, Italy; died in 1621 at Rome, Italy. Some of his best known ascetical works are Ascent of the Mind to God (1615), and On the Seven Words of Christ (1618). Relics at the church of Saint Ignatius, Rome. Beatified on 13 May 1923; canonized on 29 June 1930. Feast, 17 September.

Incline my heart to your decrees

Sweet Lord, you are meek and merciful. Who would not give himself wholeheartedly to your service, if he began to taste even a little of your fatherly rule? What command, Lord, do you give your servants? Take my yoke upon you, you say. And what is this yoke of yours like? My yoke, you say, is easy and my burden light. Who would not be glad to bear a yoke that does not press hard but caresses? Who would not be glad for a burden that does not weigh heavy but refreshes? And so you were right to add: And you will find rest for you souls. And what is this yoke of yours that does not weary, but gives rest? It is, of course, that first and greatest commandment: You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart. What is easier, sweeter, more pleasant, that to love goodness, beauty and love, the fullness of which you are, O Lord, my God?

Is it not true that you promise those who keep your commandments a reward more desirable than great wealth and sweeter than honey? You promise a most abundant reward, for as your apostle James says: The Lord has prepared a crown of life for those who love him. What is this crown of life? It is surely a greater good than we can conceive of or desire, as Saint Paul says, quoting Isaiah: Eye has not seen, ear has not heard, nor has it so much as dawned on man what God has prepared for those who love him.

Truly then the recompense is great for those who keep your commandments. That first and greatest commandment helps the man who obeys, not the God who commands. In addition, the other commandments of God perfect the man who obeys them. They provide him with what he needs. They instruct and enlighten him and make him good and blessed. If you are wise, then, know that you have been created for the glory of God and your own eternal salvation. This is your goal; this is the center of your life; this is the treasure of your heart. If you reach this goal, you will find happiness. If you fail to reach it, you will find misery.

May you consider truly good whatever leads to your goal and truly evil whatever makes you fall away from it. Prosperity and adversity, wealth and poverty, health and sickness, honors and humiliations, life and death, in the mind of the wise man, are not to be sought for their own sake, nor avoided for their own sake. But if they contribute to the glory of God and your eternal happiness, then they are good and should be sought. If they detract from this, they are evil and must be avoided.

Source: The Liturgy of the Hours - Office of Readings

Saint Robert Bellarmine (1542-1621) was born in 1542 in the town of Monte Pulciano in Tuscany. He entered the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) and studied at Florence and Mondovi and then at Padua and Louvain. After ordination to the priesthood in 1570 he distinguished himself by brilliant disputations in defense of the Catholic faith. He also taught theology in the Roman College in Louvain, lecturing on St. Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologica and gained a reputation for his learning and brilliant preaching. He studied Scripture and the Church Fathers and learned Hebrew. In 1576 he was called to Rome and taught at the newly founded Roman College for eleven years, during which time he prepared his monumental Disputationes de controversiis Christianae Fidei adversus hujus temporis Haereticos, a study of the Catholic faith to refute the Protestant Centuries of Magdeburg. In 1592 he was named rector of the Roman College and in 1594 became provincial of the Naples province of the Jesuits. He became Pope Clement VIII's theologian in 1597 and in 1599 was elected to the College of Cardinals and named bishop of Capua. He became embroiled in the controversy over his friend Galileo, who accepted his admonition in 1610 that it would be wise to advance his findings as hypotheses rather than as fully proved theories. In the last decade of his life his writings were on spiritual matters, among them Art of Dying Well. He solved many pressing questions in the various Roman Congregations, was a champion of the papacy and brilliant defender of the faith in the wake of the Protestant reformation. He died at Rome in 1621 at age 79, was canonized in 1930 and declared a Doctor of the Church in 1931.

Sunday Liturgy Reflection ~ September 13, 2009

Sunday, September 13, 2009: Liturgy Reflection from JP Catholic University on Vimeo.

New Hope For Infertility Parts I and II

Catholic Medical Conference

The 78th Annual Educational Conference of the Catholic Medical Association will explore the challenge of suffering and how we – as physicians and patients; as individuals and as a society – can respond to suffering more effectively as Catholic Christians. A range of highly qualified speakers will explore dimensions of suffering across the life and clinical spectrum, as well as responses shaped by faith, hope and love.

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The Theology of Suffering - the 78th Annual Educational Conference of the Catholic Medical Association: Springfield, Illinois October 22 - 24, 2009
Bringing faith, hope and love to the art of healing...

Please let your Catholic doctors and nurses know about this wonderful opportunity!!!!

Dr. Hildgers Interview Explaining NaPro...

Series Name: The World Over
Host: Raymond Arroyo w/ Dr. Thomas Hilgers.
Date Produced: 2/2/2007
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"Blessed Be Your Name"

I thank you and I praise you Lord!!!!

When you are feeling down and in the dark give praise to the Lord!!

God bless and keep you...

Hannah's Tears Ministry

facebook Hannah's Tears Ministry Dear Hannah's Tears Suppporters, We not only have a new web site, but we're on Face Book too. Hope to see you there.

New Web Site!!!

www.hannahstears.org

Many thanks Brandon!!!!

Saint Peter Claver

To love God as He ought to be loved, we must be detached from all temporal love. We must love nothing but Him, or if we love anything else, we must love it only for His sake.

-Saint Peter Claver

Maria Bambina, Happy Birthday!!!

permission received to use the picture and novena

http://www.mariabambina.org/

Novena to Maria Bambina

Holy Child Mary of the royal house of David, Queen of the angels,

Mother of grace and love, I greet you with all my heart.

Obtain for me the grace to love the Lord faithfully during

all the days of my life. Obtain for me, too, a great devotion

to you, who are the first creature of God's love.

Hail Mary, full of grace................

O heavenly Child Mary, who like a pure dove was born

immaculate and beautiful, true prodigy of the wisdom of

God, my soul rejoices in you. Oh! Do help me to preserve

the angelic virtue of purity at the cost of any sacrifice.

Hail Mary, full of grace................

Hail, lovely and holy Child, spiritual garden of delight, where,

on the day of the Incarnation, the tree of life was planted,

assist me to avoid the poisonous fruit of vanity and pleasures of the world.

Help me to engraft into my soul the thoughts, feelings,

and virtues of your divine Son.

Hail Mary, full of grace................

Hail, admirable Child Mary, Mystical Rose, closed garden,

open only to the heavenly Spouse. O Lily of paradise,

make me love the humble and hidden life;

let the heavenly Spouse find the gate of my heart always open

to the loving calls of His graces and inspiration.

Hail Mary, full of grace................

Holy Child Mary, mystical dawn, gate of heaven,

you are my trust and hope.

O powerful advocate, from your cradle stretch out your hand,

support me on the path of life.

Make me serve God with ardor and

constancy until death and so reach an eternity with you.

Hail Mary, full of grace................

Prayer

Blessed Child Mary, destined to be the Mother of God and our loving Mother, by the heavenly graces you lavish upon us, mercifully listen to my supplications. In the needs which press upon me from every side and especially in my present tribulation, I place all my trust in you.

O holy Child, by the privileges granted to you alone and by the merits which you have acquired, show that the source of spiritual favors and the continuous benefits which you dispense are inexhaustible, because your power with the Heart of God is unlimited.

Deign through the immense profusion of graces with which the Most High has enriched you from the first moment of your Immaculate Conception, grant me, O Celestial Child, my petition, and I shall eternally praise the goodness of your Immaculate Heart.

I M P R I M A T U R

In Curia Archiep. Mediolani

31 August 1931

Can. CAVEZZALI, Pro Vic. Gen

Happy birthday little hearts

Dear Little hearts

A Blessed and grace filled birthday of Mary, as being not only the birthday of Our mother, but also the birthday of Gods daughter....

We do not often reflect upon Mary as a baby, and indeed we see comparatively few depictions of her as a baby.... they are however more prevalent in Latin America, and also in parts of Italy...known as Maria Bambina!!! There is also a centre in Massachusetts USA!!!

St Francis would have rejoiced at this devotion as he himself was the first builder and depicter of the Nativity scene and birth of Jesus. In Italy the devotion Maria Bambina was begun by an Italian Poor Clare, now Blessed Isabelle of Forni.........................Perhaps we could spend sometime today meditating upon Marys birthday... and even sing her a lullaby !!!

Some people also use this time to reflect upon the feasts of Mary as they say their rosaries....

The five feasts being:

-- the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the womb of her mother,

Saint Anne (feast December 8th)

-- the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (feast September 8th)

-- the Most Holy Name of Mary (feast September 12th)

-- the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Temple (feast November 21st)

-- the Betrothal of the Blessed Virgin Mary to Saint Joseph (feast January 23rd)

A happy birthday to you all.

With love,

Poor Clare Colettine TMD

An added note from Hannah's Tears:

Let us bring back these beautiful traditions of love to Our Blessed Mother. Always, keep in your hearts the gift that God the Father gave to us when Adam and Eve fell to sin we read in the book of Genesis - God the Father told Satan that He would bring division between his seed and the Woman's... "She shall crush your head and you shall lie in wait for Her heal (that heel is Jesus), this woman He speaks of is Mary. Mary was promised to us as well as Jesus. Let us always remember that God our Father always keeps His promise to us, may we also learn to keep our promise to Him.

Today's Readings:

Col 1:24--2:3

Ps 62:6-9

Luke 6:6-11

http://www.usccb.org/nab/090709.shtml

USCCB Podcast of the Readings:

http://ccc.usccb.org/cccradio/NABPodcasts/09_09_07.mp3

Let us place all of our sufferings before the Lord, for He cares for us more than you will ever imagine.

Also check out: Living the Beatitudes

Our Lady of Sorrows Novena

Nine Day Prayer for Life

Novena to Our Lady of Sorrows

At times, it seems that life is threatened on all sides. Please join with others across the nation in prayer. For the nine days between September 7 - 15. We pray to the intercession of Mary, the Mother of our life, our faith our hope! Please also include in your prayers Caroline Schermerhorn who will soon be going home to Our Lord.

Fw: New Time for Fr. Joe Interview on Catholic Radio

I received this message from the Marians of the Immaculate Conception, if you all are interested in listening to this interview, please mark this on your calendars...

We're sorry if you tried to find Fr. Joe Roesch, MIC, on Catholic Radio on Sept. 4.
His interview could not be broadcast live.

The new air time will be:
Friday, October 23
8 a.m. PACIFIC and 11 a.m. EASTERN

Listen to Catholic Radio at 88.3 FM KBVM
(in parts of Washington and Oregon)
or online at http://www.kbvm.fm

Thank you for your interest and support.


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Liturgy Reflection ~ September 6

Sunday, September 6, 2009: Liturgy Reflection from JP Catholic University on Vimeo.

Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta ~ Feast Day September 5th

Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta, pray for us...

Prayer to Blessed Teresa of Calcutta

Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, longing to love Jesus as He had never been loved before, you gave yourself entirely to Him, refusing Him nothing. In union with the Immaculate Heart of Mary, you accepted His call to satiate His infinite thirst for love and souls and become a carrier of His love to the poorest of the poor. With loving trust and total surrender you fulfilled His will, witnessing to the joy of belonging totally to Him. You became so intimately united to Jesus your crucified Spouse that He deigned to share with you the agony of His Heart as He hung upon the Cross.

Blessed Teresa, you promised to continuously bring the light of love to those on earth; pray for us that we also may long to satiate the burning thirst of Jesus by loving Him ardently, sharing in His sufferings joyfully, and serving Him wholeheartedly in our brothers and sisters, especially those most unloved and unwanted. Amen