We offer prayer support and comfort to the brokenhearted who suffer the pains of infertility at any stage of life, difficult pregnancy, miscarriage, stillbirth, the loss of a child and the adoption process.
Our Lady of the Rosary also known as Our Lady of Victory because she untangles the knots in our lives. She is a great treasure…. Saint Pio, the Spiritual Father of the Blue Army, said: “The Rosary is the weapon,” and how right he was!
Google search has many resources available, here’s one.
Devotion to the Virgin Mary Undoer of Knots. Infallible Novena, a 40 pages prayers booklet rich in prayers and pictures, which helps to fortify your faith in Blessed Mary and Jesus Christ.
1641 “By reason of their state in life and of their order, [Christian spouses] have their own special gifts in the People of God.”147 This grace proper to the sacrament of Matrimony is intended to perfect the couple’s love and to strengthen their indissoluble unity. By this grace they “help one another to attain holiness in their married life and in welcoming and educating their children.”148
1642Christ is the source of this grace. “Just as of old God encountered his people with a covenant of love and fidelity, so our Savior, the spouse of the Church, now encounters Christian spouses through the sacrament of Matrimony.”149 Christ dwells with them, gives them the strength to take up their crosses and so follow him, to rise again after they have fallen, to forgive one another, to bear one another’s burdens, to “be subject to one another out of reverence for Christ,”150 and to love one another with supernatural, tender, and fruitful love. In the joys of their love and family life he gives them here on earth a foretaste of the wedding feast of the Lamb:
How can I ever express the happiness of a marriage joined by the Church, strengthened by an offering, sealed by a blessing, announced by angels, and ratified by the Father? . . . How wonderful the bond between two believers, now one in hope, one in desire, one in discipline, one in the same service! They are both children of one Father and servants of the same Master, undivided in spirit and flesh, truly two in one flesh. Where the flesh is one, one also is the spirit.151
St. Clare, humble servant of the servants of Christ…R
St. Clare, brilliant light of holiness…R
St. Clare, wonderful helper in need…R
St. Clare, full of joy…R
St. Clare, poor with the poor…R
St. Clare rich in merit and grace…R
St. Clare, loving spouse of the Crucified…R
St. Clare, seraphic adorer of the Blessed Sacrament…R
St. Clare, mighty protector of Assisi…R
St. Clare, mirror of patience in suffering…R
St. Clare, comforter of the ill and infirm…R
Lamb of God, Who takes away the sins of the world….have mercy on us
Lamb of God, Who takes away the sins of the world….graciously hear us, O Lord.
Lamb of God, Who takes away the sins of the world…..have mercy on us
Pray for us , St. Clare….that we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.
LET US PRAY
O God, who inspired St. Clare of Assisi to shine her light on the Gospel and live a life of uncompromising fidelity, grant that through her merits and intercession, we may walk in the path of righteousness in this life so as to enjoy the life that will never end.
This week, Johnnette has dedicated her entire blog to a short study on the angels.
This study began on September 28th with “Who Are the Angels”. From there Johnnette moved through the week with reflections on “The Characteristics of the Angels”, “The Angelic Function and Mission”, “St. Therese of Lisieux and Her Guardian Angel“.
The study concludes today (Friday Oct 2) with an amazing poem written by J. Corson Miller, an American poet who was born in 1883.
Angel of God, my guardian dear, to whom God´s love commits me here; ever this day (or noght) be at my side, to light, to guard, to rule and to guide. Amen.
O most Holy Angel of God, appointed by Him to be my guardian, I give you thanks for all the benefits which you have bestowed on me in body and in soul. I praise and glorify you that you did condescend to assist me with such patient fidelity, and to defend me against all the assaults of my enemies. Blessed be the hour in which you were assigned to me as my guardian, my defender, and my patron. In acknowledgement and return of all your loving ministries to me since my youth, I offer you the infinitely precious and noble Heart of Jesus, and firmly resolve to obey you henceforth, and most faithfully to serve my God. Amen.
The Apostolate of Hannah's Tears 