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3/1 Rosary Warriors… Storm Heaven with Prayer!

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His Eminence Raymond Cardinal Burke will be celebrating the Holy Mass and, afterwards, praying the Holy Rosary to Storm Heaven with Prayer tomorrow morning, 1st of March, at 11:00am in Rome, for your intentions and the intentions of Operation Storm Heaven.

I am writing to remind you, my fellow Rosary Warrior, that tomorrow we band together from the four corners of the earth to raise our united voice to Heaven. Tens of thousands of Rosary Warriors will be reciting the Holy Rosary and storming Heaven with Prayer in union with the Holy Mass being celebrated in Rome by Cardinal Burke.

You do not need to pray at exactly the same time, but please pray your Rosary at some time on the 1st of March (your local time). We are providing the Mass time for those who wish to pray at exactly the same time as Cardinal Burke celebrates Mass and prays the Rosary in Rome.
When you pray your rosary tomorrow, March 1st, please remember to pray for the intentions of all the Rosary Warriors, just as they are also praying for your intentions.
“The Rosary is THE weapon!”, stated St. Padre Pio. Let us continue to employ this powerful weapon to storm Heaven and ask God and the Blessed Virgin Mary for the following intentions:

  • For Holy Mother Church: that Our Lord guide the Pope, the bishops and all members of the clergy to be holy in all things, faithful shepherds, beacons of Truth, and defenders of Good;
  • May all confusion be dispelled from the hearts and minds of all people and may the Light of Truth shine in them;
  • For our families and the family institution that is being so attacked in our world;
  • For the conversion of all sinners to the True Faith;
  • For the salvation of my soul, the souls of my loved ones, and the souls of all;
  • For the sanctification of each and every Catholic, especially for my personal sanctification. May I live holy every moment of every day of my life. May I be a true follower of Jesus Christ in all things;
  • To make each and every one of us a faithful soldier of Christ in the struggle against the world, the flesh and the devil;
  • To obtain the graces necessary to stop abortion, stop the onslaught of the homosexual revolution, to overturn legalized same-sex marriage, to stop the spread of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia, and to stop the culture of death in all its forms and establish the Culture of Life in all souls, in all minds and in all hearts;
  • For our beloved Nation and for every nation on earth;
  • For all the personal intentions that have been submitted to ‘Operation Storm Heaven’

Let us continue to ask God to have mercy on all those who have fallen away from the True Faith. May He open the floodgates of Mercy, through the intercession of Mary Most Holy, the Mother of Mercy, and bring these lost sheep back to the Catholic Faith.

As we endeavor to spread this initiative and enlist more Rosary Warriors to join Operation Storm Heaven, please share this with your family and friends and anyone who you think would like to participate in this History-changing campaign to storm Heaven with prayer to obtain a tidal wave of mercy from God for our families, our society, our country and the world…in short, for all souls!
May Our Lady of the Rosary bless you and your loved ones!
Your fellow Rosary Warrior in Christ,
Thomas J. McKenna
Founder and President
http://www.catholicaction.org/

February 28, 1899: “LADY” OBEDIENCE WINS OVER LUISA! 

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From the official website, February 26, 2016: 

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The word “obedience” is often misunderstood, because we highlight a negative feature of the relationship among people, rather than its divine feature that is true, eternal and positive.

“Obey” comes from the Latin roots ob+ audire meaning to listen closely.

So “obedience” must not be regarded as a passive zeroing of man’s will, such as a annihilation of his freedom, but as its exaltation, because it triggers the deeper mechanisms of listening and dialogue.

“Behold, I come to do your will” (Heb 10:9)

“Christ became obedient unto death, even death on a cross” (Phil 2:8)

Biblical evidences shows that Jesus is certainly aware of the dramatic end to which he freely gives Himself, in fulfilling the mission received from the Father. Jesus several times expresses the belief that adherence to God’s will, in the establishment of the Kingdom among men, involves the price of loyalty until death. The free decision of Jesus is caused by his bond of loyalty and obedience in the love of the Father which is expressed in his unconditional love for men.

Moreover Jesus is the One who accomplished it and gave testimony about it: “Son though he was, he learned obedience from what he suffered; and when he was made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him” (Hebrews 5: 8-9). Any plan for our salvation depends on a free and responsible exercise of obedience; In fact what is sin, if not a disobedience to God’s command?

Jesus in one of his talk with Luisa said that Obedience was everything for Him, Obedience made Him be born, obedience made Him die. The wounds He had on his body were all wounds and marks that obedience made to Him. Through her Jesus conquered death, He defeated hell, He released man from his chains, He opened Heaven; and like a victorious King, He took possession of  His Kingdom, not only for Himself, but for all his children.

Obedience is the quintessence of love; obedience is the finest, the purest, the most perfect love, extracted from the most painful sacrifice, to destroy oneself in order to live again of God.

Being most noble and divine, obedience tolerates nothing human in the soul, and nothing which does not belong to it. Therefore, all its attention is on destroying within the soul everything which does not belong to its divine nobility – that is, love of self. And once it has done this, it cares very little about whether it alone struggles and toils on behalf of the soul, while allowing the soul to rest peacefully.

Oh, holy obedience! How strong and powerful you are!

I see you before me, in these days of martyrdom, like a most powerful warrior,

armed from head to foot with swords, darts and arrows;

filled with all those instruments which are apt to wound.

And when you see that my poor heart, tired and down, wants to be cheered,

searching for its refreshment, its life,

the center to which it feels drawn as by a magnet

looking at me with a thousand eyes, you wound me from all sides with mortal wounds.

O please, have pity on me, and don’t be so cruel with me!

But the name ‘obedience’ resounds sweetly to your hearing,

and this is why you have so much love for obedient souls”.

                                                                                          Luisa Piccarreta

FIAT

[Translation by Antonella]

St. Veronica Giuliani -Mystic, Stigmatic, Victim Soul, Incorruptable

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St. Veronica Giuliani

Her Diary

St. Veronica left us a spiritual treasure, her Diary, which she wrote under obedience to her confessor, Fr. Gerolamo Bastianelli. She began writing it in April, 1693 and finished writing it thirty four years later in 1727. She wrote a total of twenty-two thousand pages. This was a great penance for her. She did not neglect her other duties and would write late at night in her cell. The devil would often try to scare her to disrupt her writing. He would hide and break her pencils, and sometimes even attacked her physically: “After Matins, when I wanted to make an act of obedience and write for a quarter of an hour, I suddenly got a big punch in the eye and heard a voice saying, ‘damned writings!’”  During the last fifteen years of her life, Veronica was so ill that a painting of Our Lady of Sorrows in her cell would come to life, and the Blessed Virgin Mary herself dictated to her the last chapters of the Diary.

Jesus made two promises to Veronica about this diary: “The Lord himself made me understand I should write everything; because He wanted it thus; and that these writings would be of great benefit to many souls; and that he wanted it to be for the whole of Christianity.” And on another occasion Jesus told her: “I inform you that I want to give special graces to whomever will trouble himself with this work. And I want everything, everything revealed. These are My works, My gifts, they are My singular graces, and all shall be for My glory.”

It is interesting to note that both saints and mystics have been entrusted with the publication of this diary. It was not until one hundred and fifty years later that Francois Dausse started to work on its publication, but his work remained unfinished because of his death. After this, St. Annibale Maria di Francia started working on this diary and managed to publish the first volume under the title, A Hidden Treasure, The Diary of St. Veronica Giuliani (1891-92). However, St. Annibale had to stop working on this Diary because the local Bishop asked him to start reviewing the writings of mystic, Luisa Picarreta in order to give them the Nihil Obstat and Imprimatur. Later, a Jesuit priest, Pietro Pizzicaria, managed to publish the next 8 volumes under the same title before he died and the last two volumes were published by Professor Umberto Bucchioni in 1927.

The 24 Hours of the Passion

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The Value and Benefit of Meditating them

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Posted 2/20/16 on the Official Website

The desire to represent the sacred, to give form to the mystery of God revealed in Jesus, is not only legitimate, but also responds to the needs of the Catholic faith that recognizes in the incarnation of the Son of God, the full and definitive revelation of the Father. The incarnation of the Son for the redemption of all past, present and future generations.  A return to origins, to the creation, to the state of grace in which Adam had lived.

Well, in the representation of the movie “The Passion” by Mel Gibson, it begins with a passage from the prophet Isaiah: “As many were astonished at him, his appearance was so marred, beyond human semblance…” “Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows…” ” like a lamb that is led to the slaughter.” (Is 52:14; 53:4; 53:7) The film director shows all the realism of the event on the last hours of the life of Our Lord Jesus Christ in a very visual way compared to the various artistic expressions (painting, sculpture, writing).

What better introduction to the work of Luisa, the Hours of the Passion? ” The reading of this work is a hymn to the strength, tenacity, resignation, obedience, to our Lord’s exhortation addressed to all the creatures, which highlights that His sacrifice is an act of love, and all the acts done in his earthly life, were destined to the salvation of all mankind. Here then the need to learn every day to live in the Divine Will through our acts that are aimed at the One Act, that is the reunion between God and his creatures.

For years, at night, Luisa entered the contemplation of the sufferings of Our Lord Jesus Christ, with the addition of distinct information about many scenes of the Passion, of His last 24 hours of life on earth. It all starts with the Legal Supper and ends with Jesus’ death on the cross, thus giving future generations  this magnificent work with that is important for a good meditation.

The key message of this meditation, in the light of the Divine Will, is repairing  all the acts that fail to give glory, praise and thanksgiving to God and for the salvation of souls. And where there are those who meditate these hours new graces will come down from heaven for the benefit of all creatures.

The satisfaction that Jesus receives from the meditation of these Hours is great: it would happen as if Jesus heard His own voice and His prayers being reproduced in those reparations, just as the ones He raised to His Father during His sorrowful Passion with the purpose to placate the Divine Justice.

On Ash Wednesday, the Association Little Children of the Divine Will, in the footsteps of Luisa, begins the meditation of “The 24 Hours of the Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ “, which lasts until Good Friday, with the creation, as in other parts of the world, of ” living clocks “, so that Jesus in every suffering has souls at His side.

Therefore, we invite all those who want to start this sublime meditation to form living clocks to give more satisfaction to our Lord when he fells repeat in an orderly and continuous way, as Luisa did, all the moments of His Passion.

FIAT!

– Translated by Antonella –

Week of Obedience from February 28 to March 4, 2016

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Published 2/19/16 by the Official Website of Luisa Piccarreta

As every year, also this year from February 28 to March 4, the Association Luisa Piccarreta Little Children of The Divine Will  will live the “Week of Obedience” with “days of light”, filled with morning and afternoon appointments to recall some of the highlights of the life of the Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta and to deepen her intimate bond with Jesus. On February 28 in fact we will remember the 117th Anniversary of obedience, the day when Luisa, in obedience to her official confessor Don Gennaro De Gennaro, began writing her diary and uttered her FIAT.  It is an important recurrence for all of us who, thanks to Luisa’s FIAT are able to deeply know the love that Jesus has for each of us by giving us the gift of His Will.

The highlight of this week of prayer, will be reached on Friday, March 4, the day that we will remember the 69th anniversary of the Transit into Heaven of Luisa.

She, with her life and then with her death, transformed her suffering into a means of grace by encouraging to leave the darkness of the human will to seek the light of the Divine Will. And we, with these “days of light” want to show that the Divine Will is the “sun” which transforms into light all the acts that are done in It.

We invite everyone to participate. Below the schedule:

Sunday, February 28, 2016

Association Luisa Piccarreta Little Children of the Divine Will.

7:00 a.m.: We commemorate the day when Luisa pronounced her Fiat and began to write her diary. It was the morning of February 28, 1899.

We will pray in front of the cell of the Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta to renew our FIAT to the Divine Will.

Chiesa dei Capuccini (Capuchin Church)

5:00 p.m.: Holy Rosary.

Mass follows. It will be concelebrated by don Gianni Cafagna and don Sergio Pellegrini.

Monday, February 29, 2016

Church Santa Maria Greca

10:00 to 11:00 a.m.: Moment of prayer at the tomb.

Sanctuary Madonna delle Grazie (Oasis of Narareth)

5:00 p.m.: Pilgrimage to pass through the Holy Door. Mass follows.

Tuesday, March 1, 2016

Association Luisa Piccarreta Little Children of the Divine Will.

10:00 a.m: Hour of spirituality

Sisters of the Divine Zeal

5:00 p.m.: Conference, Mass follows.

Wednesday, March 2, 2016

Church Santa Maria Greca

10:30 a.m.: Time for prayer

Church Sacro Cuore 

5:00 p.m: Holy Rosary

6:30 p.m: Eucharistic Celebration

Thursday, March 3, 2016

Association Luisa Piccarreta Little Children of the Divine Will

10:00 a.m: Reflections and moment of prayer

Chiesa Matrice  (Mother Church)

5:00 p.m: Hour of spirituality. Mass follows.

Luisa Piccarreta Center

8:00 p.m.: Evening of Conviviality

Friday, March 4, 2016

69th Anniversary of the pious transit of the Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta.

Church Santa Maria Greca

10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.: Prayers and reflections at Luisa’s tomb

5:00 p.m: Holy Rosary.Mass follows.

Chiesa Matrice  (Mother Church)

9:.00 p.m.: 24 hours for the Lord –  Meditation on the Second Hour of The 24 Hours of the Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ.

Fiat

– Translated by Antonella –