Two Thousand Six

Happy New Year 2006!!!!!

Health, Wealth and Prosperity to you all!!!

God bless us all!

Penny

Merry Christmas 2005

Merry Christmas to one and all!
May your day be happy and full of hope.

For Catholics, now begins the Christmas Season, which ends on the Epiphany or Twelfth night. So fellow Catholics, eat, drink and be merry, live life to the full as our God has given it.

Praise be to God for sending us his only begotten Son,
and for giving us the opportunity to enter into His grace.

God bless,
Penny

Fourth and Final Week of Advent

This is the last week of Advent and we are halfway through it. The celebration of Christmas is almost upon us. Our spiritual preparation should give us pause to think of and pray for those whom we can't be close to for Christmas.
May the rest of your Advent bring you ever closer to our good Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

Pax Domine,
Penny

Spread Devotion to the Infant Jesus of Prague

Fourth Sunday of Advent
J.M.J.



DEVOTION TO THE INFANT JESUS OF PRAGUE
"The More You Honor Me, The More I Will Bless You."

DEVOTION to the Infant Jesus of Prague is devotion to the Child Jesus.
It is veneration of the Son of God, who, in the form of an infant, chose a
stable for a palace, a manger for a cradle, and shepherds for worshipers.
Our Savior grants special graces to all who venerate His sacred Infancy.

The image of the Child Jesus known as the "Infant Jesus of Prague" was
in reality of Spanish origin. In the 17th century, this beautiful statue was
brought by a Spanish princess to Bohemia and presented to a Carmelite
monastery. For many years this statue has been enshrined on a side altar in
the Church of Our Lady of Victory in the city of Prague. It is of wax, and
is about nineteen inches high. It is clothed in a royal mantle, and has a
beautiful jeweled crown on its head. Its right hand is raised in blessing;
its left holds a globe signifying sovereignty.

So many graces have been received by those who invoke the Divine Child
before the original statue that it has been called "The Miraculous Infant
Jesus of Prague." We read the following in an old book printed in Kempt:
"All who approach the miraculous statue and pray there with confidence
receive assistance in danger, consolation in sorrows, aid in poverty,
comfort in anxiety, light in spiritual darkness, streams of grace in dryness
of soul, health in sickness, and hope in despair.

"No colic is so painful, no fever so violent, no malady so dangerous, no
peril so great, no tumor so malignant, no insanity so raving, no complaint
so irritating, no assault of Satan so furious, no pestilence so infectious,
no swelling so serious, as not to be dispelled or cured by this blessed
Child. The Holy Infant puts an end to enmities, frees prisoners, saves those
who are condemned to death, brings obstinate sinners to repentance and
blesses childless parents with offspring. In short, He is become all to
all."

In thanksgiving for the numerous graces and cures received, the
miraculous statue at Prague was solemnly crowned on the Sunday after Easter,
in 1655.

What is said of the original statue may be applied also to the images of
the "Little King" which are venerated everywhere, in churches and chapels,
homes and schools, monasteries and convents the world over. From small
beginnings, this devotion has grown to great proportions, so that it is
almost as universal as the Church itself. The Divine Child attracts an
ever-increasing number of clients, who appeal to Him in every need.



Prayer To Be Said by a Sick Person

O merciful Infant Jesus! I know of Thy miraculous deeds for the sick.
How many diseases Thou didst cure
during Thy blessed life on earth, and how many venerators of Thy miraculous
image ascribe to Thee their recovery and deliverance from most painful and
hopeless maladies. I know, indeed, that a sinner like me has merited his
sufferings and has no right to ask for favors. But in view of the
innumerable graces and the miraculous cures granted even to the greatest
sinners through the veneration of Thy holy infancy, particularly in the
miraculous statue of Prague or in representations of it, I exclaim with the
greatest assurance: O most loving, most pitiful Infant Jesus, Thou canst
cure me if Thou wilt! Do not hesitate, O Heavenly Physician, if it be Thy
will that I recover from this present illness; extend Thy most holy hands,
and by Thy power take away all pain and infirmity, so that my recovery may
be due, not to natural remedies, but to Thee alone. If, however, Thou in Thy
inscrutable wisdom hast determined otherwise, then at least restore my soul
to perfect health, fill me with heavenly consolation and blessing, that I
may be like to Thee, O Jesus, in my sufferings, and may glorify Thy
providence until Thou, by the death of the body, bestowest on me eternal
life. Amen.

Novena for the Nine Days Preceding the 25th of Each Month [Start on the
16th]

1. Eternal Father, I offer to Thy honor and glory, for my eternal
salvation and for the salvation of the whole world, the mystery of the birth
of our Divine Redeemer. Glory be, etc.
2. Eternal Father, I offer to Thy honor and glory, and for my eternal
salvation and that of the whole world, the sufferings of the most holy
Virgin and St. Joseph on that long and weary journey from Nazareth to
Bethlehem, and the anguish of their hearts at not finding a place of shelter
when the Savior of the world was about to born. Glory be, etc.
3. Eternal Father, I offer to Thy honor and glory, and for my eternal
salvation and that of the whole world, the sufferings of Jesus in the manger
where He was born, the cold He suffered, the tears He shed and His tender
infant cries. Glory be, etc.
4. Eternal Father, I offer to Thy honor and glory, and for my eternal
salvation and that of the whole world, the pain which the Divine Child Jesus
felt in His tender Body when He submitted to the rite of circumcision: I
offer Thee that Precious Blood which He then first shed for the salvation of
all mankind. Glory be, etc.
5. Eternal Father, I offer to Thy honor and glory, and for my eternal
salvation and that of the whole world, the humility, mortification,
patience, charity and all the virtues of the Child Jesus; I thank Thee
infinitely for this ineffable mystery of the Incarnation of the Word of God.
Glory be, etc.
V. The Word was made Flesh,
R. And dwelt among us.

Let Us Pray

O God, whose only-begotten Son hath appeared in the substance of our flesh;
grant, we beseech Thee, that through Him, whom we acknowledge to have been
outwardly like unto us, we may deserve to be renewed in our inward selves.
Who liveth and reigneth with Thee for ever and ever. Amen.

7 years indulgence. Each day, if the above prayers are recited on the 9
days preceding the 25th of any month. Plenary indulgence. under the usual
conditions when novena is completed. ("Raccolta," 125.)


Powerful Novena in Urgent Need

(In cases of great urgency, a novena of hours may be made instead of days.
The prayers should, if possible, be repeated at the same time every hour for
nine consecutive hours.)

O Jesus, who hast said, "Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall
find, knock and it shall be opened to you," through the intercession of
Mary, Thy most holy Mother, I knock, I seek, I ask that my prayer be
granted.
(Mention your request.)

O Jesus, who hast said, "All that you ask of the Father in My Name He
will grant you," through the intercession of Mary, thy most holy Mother, I
humble and urgently ask Thy Father in Thy Name that my prayer be granted.
(Mention your request.)

O Jesus, who hast said, "Heaven and earth shall pass away, but My word
shall not pass," through the intercession of Mary, Thy most holy Mother, I
feel confident that my prayer will be granted.
(Mention your request.)


Prayer of Thanksgiving for Graces Received from the Infant Jesus

I prostrate myself before Thy holy image, O most gracious Infant Jesus,
to offer Thee my most fervent thanks for the blessings Thou hast bestowed on
me. I shall incessantly praise Thy ineffable mercy and confess that Thou
alone art my God, my helper, and my protector. Henceforth my entire
confidence shall be placed in Thee! Everywhere I will proclaim aloud Thy
mercy and generosity, so that Thy great love and the great deeds which Thou
performest through this miraculous image may be acknowledged by all. May
devotion to Thy holy infancy increase more and more in the hearts of all
Christians, and may all who experience Thy assistance persevere with me in
showing unceasing gratitude to Thy most holy infancy, to which be praise and
glory forever. Amen.
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From a publication of the Benedictine Convent of Perpetual Adoration -
Clyde, Missouri. 31st edition, February, 1960. Imprimatur and Nihil Obstat
January 20, 1960.




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Third Week of Advent

Here we are in the middle of the third week of Advent. The pink candle should have been lit this past Sunday as a reminder that we are ever closer to the coming of Christmas, the celebration of the birth of our good Lord Jesus Christ. We should be even more mindful of a form of penance or sacrifice on behalf of ourselves and our families. When Christmas arrives, in all of its glory, we will be able to share in its magnificence with brighter hearts and souls.

Have a blessed and peaceful Advent,
Penny

Great Gift

Need a really great gift for the readers on your list??? Check out this thriller written by my son, Bradley.

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Penny

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As we start the second week of Advent we should be ever mindful of our own faults and shortcomings. All of us are capable of change and growth, and should never shy away from self-mortification and improving ones temperment. We can use the example of The Little Flower, St. Theresa, and offer up every small or irksome tendency to gain the grace that will bring us peace.


God bless,
Penny

Happy 21st Wedding Anniversary

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Love,
Penny