"This devotion is one of the most ancient of pious Church practices. It is said that the Blessed Virgin venerated the Most Precious Blood of her infant Son on the day of His circumcision as she collected the first relics of His Precious Blood on a piece of cloth. On that momentous occasion she united her tears with that of the Word Incarnate on account of not so much of the sensible pain but of His supernatural sorrow for the hard-heartedness of mortals. It was the first of seven blood-sheddings of Our Divine Savior, the rest being:
🍒2. The Agony in the Garden
🍒3. The Scourging at the Pillar
🍒4. The Crowning with Thorns
🍒5. The Way of the Cross
🍒6. The Crucifixion
🍒7. The Piercing of His Heart"
Info from this site:
http://www.tfp.org/july-month-of-the-most-precious-blood-of-our-lord/
"Before all things and above all things care must be taken of the sick, so that they may be served in very deed as Christ himself; for he said: I was sick and ye visited me; and, what ye did to one of these least ones ye did unto me. But let the sick on their part consider that they are being served for the honour of God, and not provoke their brethren who are serving them by their unreasonable demands. Yet they should be patiently borne with, because from such as these is gained a more abundant reward. Therefore let the abbot take the greatest care that they suffer no neglect. For these sick brethren let there be assigned a special room and an attendant who is God-fearing, diligent and careful. Let the use of baths be afforded to the sick as often as may be expedient; but to the healthy, and especially to the young, let them be granted seldom. Moreover, let the use of flesh meat be granted to the sick who are very weak, for the restoration of their strength; but, as soon as they are better, let all abstain from flesh meat as usual. Let the abbot take the greatest care that the sick not be neglected by the cellarers and attendants; for he must answer for all the misdeeds of his disciples"
MC= To truly see Christ in the "other", would transform our behavior. Naturally one might not bring their "A" game to the table, and surely less than stella treatment if the sick person might be cantankerous. How different things would be if the Lord revealed Himself. This all reminds me of this scripture from the book of James:
James 2:2-4 "Suppose a man comes into your meeting wearing a gold ring and fine clothes, and a poor man in shabby clothes also comes in. If you lavish attention on the man in fine clothesand say, “- Here is a seat of honor,” but say to the poor man “You must stand,” or, “Sit at myfeet,” have you not discriminated among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?…" |
It also can help one who struggles with connecting with their self to learn how to not identify with all they suffer but learn and grow in trusting it to God as they experience His transforming power over their lives, souls and the lives of others. God still wants us to grow in self-knowledge and relating with Him through our pains and joys. He wants us to ask the Holy Spirit for personal understanding and wisdom and He will give it to us that we would grow in authentic self-knowledge and transforming assists this process because as we really let things go and entrust them to Him, what is authentic and of God can remain and what is not can then go (even if we continue to feel it, surrender will not allow it to actually be attached to our wills.)". By Brother Maria Martin
🍊 "We are all called to holiness. Life is but a brief opportunity to grow in holiness before we step into eternity. What we do here dictates the state of our eternal reward or punishment. That is why we have to be on guard against growing accustomed to our faults. God doesn't want us to be mediocre. He wants us to struggle against our weaknesses. Am I actively trying to get rid of a vice? The best way to drive out a bad habit is to form a good habit. Am I eating too much? Then form the habit of smaller desserts. Am I short-tempered with my spouse? Then do a special act of charity for him or her each day.Life is short, Lord, and I need to grasp the importance of each day as an opportunity to grow in holiness. Let me put more effort into criticizing myself rather than others. Help me to see truthfully where my worst faults lie.Resolution: I will say something nice to the last person I criticized or spoke badly about". By Fr. Edward Mcllmail
🍏 "“Our ascetic discipline has the effect of liberating us from philautia (“self-love, egocentrism”) and transforming us from individuals into people capable of communion, love, and the free gift of ourselves. Again, the words of a Desert Father reveal that the early Christian tradition recognized its own errors: “Many have prostrated themselves without the slightest discernment, and have left without gaining anything at all. Our mouths smell bad because of our fasting, we know the Scriptures by heart, we recite all of the Psalms, but we do not have what God seeks—love and humility.” We need to be intelligent and discerning in our asceticism if we want to please God, and if we want to become more, and not less, human an intelligent asceticism can help us in our task of making our life a masterpiece, a work of art. Perhaps it is not by chance that the verb askein, in ancient Greek literature, is also used to designate the work of the artist. This, then, is the goal of asceticism: to situate the life of the Christian in the domain of beauty, which in Christianity is another name for holiness". By Enzo Bianchi
The Greenes song: "When God has another plan"
Forsaken by his brothers didn’t fit the scene..
Being made a slave, was not what Joseph dreamed…
The coat of many colors was stained with blood and lies
But from this divine appointment, a ruler would arise
When God has another plan – walk on and just say yes
When God has another plan – be assured that He knows best
If all your dreams are shattered, rest in His sufficient grace
We don’t have to understand – when God has another plan.
Alone and broken hearted, questions fill your mind
Changes can be hard, but come by God’s design,
But if you could see tomorrow, with a view from Heaven’s throne,
Every unexpected struggle, has led you closer home.
When God has another plan – walk on and just say yes…………
If all your dreams are shattered, rest in His sufficient grace,
We don’t have to understand – when God has another plan.
🍏The Greenes= When God Has Another Plan
❇️tmm= Time for feet on the ground planted on the rock of all ages who is the real God made man
🍏The Greenes= Forsaken by his brothers didn’t fit the scene..
tmm= An act by them ever so unkind and mean
🍏The Greenes= Being made a slave, was not what Joseph dreamed…
❇️tmm= But alas, in the hands of God, His plans allows for one is eventually redeemed
The Greenes= The coat of many colors was stained with blood and lies
❇️tmm= Really a situation filled with many hidden blessings in disguise
🍏The Greenes= But from this divine appointment, a ruler would arise
❇️tmm= The wisdom of the Lord always surpasses and trumps the wisest of the wise
🍏The Greenes= When God has another plan – walk on and just say yes
❇️tmm= Unfailing trust is what is needed nothing more nothing less
🍏The Greenes= When God has another plan – be assured that He knows best
❇️tmm= Those who persevere & keep the faith finds themselves in the end most highly blest
🍏The Greenes= If all your dreams are shattered, rest in His sufficient grace
❇️tmm= His strength & peace will be yours so that each day you'll be able in spirit and truth confidently face
🍏The Greenes= We don’t have to understand – when God has another plan.
❇️tmm= It's a fact that nothing can thwart the Master plan, on it far sure no one can place a ban
🍏The Greenes= Alone and broken hearted, questions fill your mind
❇️tmm= Cling and abide in Christ, then there'll never be a time of being in a tizzy or feeling crazed in a tight bind
🍏The Greenes= Changes can be hard, but come by God’s design,
❇️tmm= Take refuge in the Sacred Heart is Jesus, there the soul will no longer find a need to pine
🍏The Greenes= But if you could see tomorrow, with a view from Heaven’s throne,
❇️tmm= One would know there it's so unnecessary to moan or even to mildly groan
🍏The Greenes= Every unexpected struggle, has led you closer home.
❇️tmm= Without fail every step of the way God applied to your soul in some fashion or form His special healing balm
🍏The Greenes= When God has another plan – walk on and just say yes…………
❇️tmm= Head up, spirits high, have the mindset that without a doubt, whatever is the mess God will most assuredly bless
🍏The Greenes= If all your dreams are shattered, rest in His sufficient grace,
❇️tmm= Extra help in doing that & getting over the hump, comes by way of Our Blessed Lady's intercession, & moving forward she will help you to ace
🍏The Greenes= We don’t have to understand – when God has another plan.
❇️tmm= It's just a matter of time before deliverance comes with many untold blessings being dispersed as by the Almighty with His spiritual winnowing fan.
Info from this site:
"http://www.christorchaos.com/Poof.html
Excerpts:
"Pope Saint Pius X, condemning the errors of The Sillon movement in France that was a presaging of conciliarism's own "reconciliation" with the "principles of 1789, explained in a nutshell simple truths:Further, whilst Jesus was kind to sinners and to those who went astray, He did not respect their false ideas, however sincere they might have appeared. He loved them all, but He instructed them in order to convert them and save them. Whilst He called to Himself in order to comfort them, those who toiled and suffered, it was not to preach to them the jealousy of a chimerical equality. Whilst He lifted up the lowly, it was not to instill in them the sentiment of a dignity independent from, and rebellious against, the duty of obedience. Whilst His heart overflowed with gentleness for the souls of good-will, He could also arm Himself with holy indignation against the profaners of the House of God, against the wretched men who scandalized the little ones, against the authorities who crush the people with the weight of heavy burdens without putting out a hand to lift them. He was as strong as he was gentle.
He reproved, threatened, chastised, knowing, and teaching us that fear is the beginning of wisdom, and that it is sometimes proper for a man to cut off an offending limb to save his body. Finally, He did not announce for future society the reign of an ideal happiness from which suffering would be banished; but, by His lessons and by His example, He traced the path of the happiness which is possible on earth and of the perfect happiness in heaven: the royal way of the Cross. These are teachings that it would be wrong to apply only to one's personal life in order to win eternal salvation; these are eminently social teachings, and they show in Our Lord Jesus Christ something quite different from an inconsistent and impotent humanitarianism. (Pope Saint Pius X, Notre Charge Apostolique, August 15, 1910.)
The Faith has gone "poof!" in Canada and France and so many other places precisely because Its immutability has been replaced with mutability and uncertainty and ambiguity, each of which is from Hell, not from the true God of Revelation. It is not accident that the Faith in Canada has disappeared among the faithful as it has disappeared in the hearts and minds of many of the conciliar "hierarchy" and "clergy," a great many of whom are either steeped in or very supportive of perverse sins against the Sixth and Ninth Commandments and/or almost totally indifferent to the daily slaughter of the preborn, whether by chemical or surgical means.
We should know only too well in our own lives that the Faith can go "poof!" with us. It is easy to get out of the habit of mental prayer. It is easy to make excuses not to go a daily offering of the Immemorial Mass of Tradition offered by true bishops or true priests who make no concessions to conciliarism when such Masses are accessible to us and the duties of our states-in-life afford us the time to go. It is easy to make excuses not to pray at least one set of mysteries of Our Lady's Most Holy Rosary. It is easy simply to give up the quest for sanctity and to become lukewarm or to descend most carelessly into a life of one deliberate Mortal Sin after another. It is easy for women accustomed to dressing as women to lose all sense of their femininity and to dress as men. It is easy for men to forget that the Virtue of Modesty applies to them as well and to refrain from wearing shorts or to unnecessarily expose their arms or their chests.
Yes, our very salvation can go "poof!" if we relax the vigilance of our interior lives by refusing to pray and by slipping into "little" sins that make it easier for us to commit and then to live in habitual states of Mortal Sin. M"Poof!" can go our immortal souls into the flames of Hell for all eternity if we do not cooperate with the graces won for us by the shedding of every single drop of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ's Most Precious Blood on the wood of the Holy Cross and that flow into our hearts and souls through the loving hands of Our Lady, she who is the Mediatrix of All Graces.
Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, a true son of Catholic France and a true spiritual son of the Mother of God herself, had a vision of angels watching the monks in his Cistercian abbey pray. What these angels saw should give us great pause for reflection and for redoubling the fervor of our own interior lives as we seek to make reparation to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary for our sins and those of the whole world: When St. Bernard was assisting one night at Matins, he saw some angels who were carefully noting down the merit of each of the monks. The merit of those who were praying with much fervor, they set down in golden characters; of those who with less fervor, in silver characters; of those with goodwill, but without affection, in ink; of those with sloth and drowsiness, in water; but as to those who were in mortal sin or voluntarily distracted, they wrote nothing, but, standing motionless, they lamented their blindness. (A Member of the Order of Mercy, A Year With the Saints, published originally in 1891 by the Sisters of Mercy in Hartford, Connecticut, and republished by TAN Books and Publishers in 1988, p. 230.)
Pretty sobering, wouldn't you say? We need to pray to Saint Bernard of Clairvaux so that the merit of our prayers will be written in golden characters now as a prelude to having a golden crown affixed upon our heads at the moment of our Particular Judgments, begging Saint Bernard as well to help us love Our Lady, she who made possible our salvation by her perfect Fiat to the Holy Will of God the Father at the Annunciation, as he did. Saint Bernard gave us this advice in times of difficulties, and we do live in times of difficulty, both ecclesiastical and civil, do we not? It would be a pretty good thing, I reckon, to take the following advice from this son of Catholic France and of the Mother of God: In dangers, in doubts, in difficulties, think of Mary, call upon Mary. Let not her name depart from your lips, never suffer it to leave your heart. And that you may more surely obtain the assistance of her prayer, neglect not to walk in her footsteps. With her for guide, you shall never go astray; while invoking her, you shall never lose heart; so long as she is in your mind, you are safe from deception; while she holds your hand, you cannot fall; under her protection you have nothing to fear; if she walks before you, you shall not grow weary; if she shows you favor, you shall reach the goal. If we don't want to "poof!" for all eternity, isn't time to pray a Rosary now? Immaculate Heart of Mary, triumph soon. MViva Cristo Rey! Vivat Christus Rex!"
📿This chaplet consists of seven mysteries in which we meditate on the seven principal sheddings of the Most Precious Blood of Jesus. The Our Father without the Hail Mary is said five times after each mystery except the last, when it is said three times - in all, thirty-three times in honor of the thirty-three years of Our Lord's life on earth.
Construction: Heart medal - 3 beads - 1st mystery medal as center - 5 beads between each of the remaining mystery medals
Prayers
Begin on the Heart medal
V. 0 God, come to my assistance!
R. Lord, make haste to help me!
V. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.
R. As it was in the beginning is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
One Hail Mary on each of the 3 beads petitioning for an increase in Faith Hope and Charity through the cleansing of our souls with the Precious Blood.
📿FIRST MYSTERY
Jesus shed his Blood in the Circumcision Let us ask for chastity of soul and body.
Our Father five times, Glory be to the Father once.
V. We pray You, Lord, help your servants!
R. Whom You have redeemed with Your Precious Blood!
(This invocation to the Precious Blood is said after the Our Father and Glory be of each mystery.)
📿SECOND MYSTERY
Our Father five times, Glory be to the Father once.
Jesus shed His Blood in the Agony while praying in the Garden of Olives.
Let us ask for the spirit of prayer.
📿THIRD MYSTERY
Our Father five times, Glory be to the Father once.
Jesus shed His Blood in the Scourging at the Pillar.
Let us ask for patience and self control.
📿FOURTH MYSTERY
Our Father five times, Glory be to the Father once.
Jesus shed His Blood in the Crowning with Thorns.
Let us ask for humility to atone for pride.
📿FIFTH MYSTERY
Our Father five times, Glory be to the Father once.
Jesus shed his Blood while carrying His Cross to Calvary.
Let us ask for acceptance of our daily crosses.
📿SIXTH MYSTERY
Our Father five times, Glory be to the Father once.
Jesus shed His Blood in the terrible Crucifixion.
Let us ask for contrition.
📿SEVENTH MYSTERY
Our Father three times, Glory be to the Father once.
Jesus shed Blood and Water from His side pierced by the lance.
Let us ask for perseverance.
Video link:
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