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Ordained a Priest on a Marian Feast Day? – Pray the Rosary!
Your immortal soul depends on it. You will have more honest Confessions, and you will Increase in Virtue, not Vice. Loving Our Lady is the beginning of your love of God and others. She’s a good catechist. And, she didn’t have a college degree. She was taught by her Divine Son, Jesus. It’s a no brainer. She was the first Christian.
Not a Catholic? Begin praying the Rosary with devotion, with your family. If you feel a tug to become a Catholic, that’s an inspiration coming from God, through the Intercession of His Mother and the Angels and Saints.
Are Catholics sinful folks? Yes. We all are sinners and fall short of the Glory of God. We all need Him on a Daily Basis! Our Lady will lead you to a “closer union” with her Son, Jesus Christ. She is Our Blessed Mother. Jesus bequeathed her to us, as He was dying on the Cross. It was His Last Will and Testatment, to entrust His Mother, to Saint John the Apostle, and all of us. She is Our Blessed Mother and we are Her Children on Earth by Adoption, through Her Son’s Most Precious Body and Most Precious Blood, shed for Our Salvation.
Pope Leo XIII’s Vision on October 13th 1884 – St Michael Prayer [San Miguel Arcángel]
The Prayer to St. Michael
“Saint Michael, the Archangel, defend us in battle; be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray, and do thou, O prince of the heavenly host, by the power of God, thrust into Hell, Satan and all the other evil spirits, who prowl throughout the world, seeking the ruin of souls. Amen.”
San Miguel Arcángel
“San Miguel Arcángel, defiéndenos en la batalla. Sé nuestro amparo contra la perversidad y asechanzas del demonio. Reprímale Dios, pedimos suplicantes, y tú Príncipe de la Milicia Celestial, arroja al infierno con el divino poder a Satanás y a los otros espíritus malignos que andan dispersos por el mundo para la perdición de las almas. Amén.”
The Vision of Pope Leo XIII
Exactly 33 years to the day prior to the great Miracle of the Sun in Fatima, that is, on October 13, 1884, Pope Leo XIII had a remarkable vision. When the aged Pontiff had finished celebrating Mass in his private Vatican Chapel, attended by a few Cardinals and members of the Vatican staff, he suddenly stopped at the foot of the altar. He stood there for about 10 minutes, as if in a trance, his face ashen white. Then, going immediately from the Chapel to his office, he composed the above prayer to St. Michael, with instructions it be said after all Low Masses everywhere.
When asked what had happened, he explained that, as he was about to leave the foot of the altar, he suddenly heard voices – two voices, one kind and gentle, the other guttural and harsh. They seemed to come from near the tabernacle. As he listened, he heard the following conversation:
The guttural voice, the voice of Satan in his pride, boasted to Our Lord: ”I can destroy your Church.”
The gentle voice of Our Lord: “You can? Then go ahead and do so.”
Satan: “To do so, I need more time and more power.”
Our Lord: “How much time? How much power?
Satan: “75 to 100 years, and a greater power over those who will give themselves over to my service.”
Our Lord: “You have the time, you will have the power. Do with them what you will.”
In 1886, Pope Leo XIII decreed that this prayer to St. Michael be said at the end of “low” Mass (not “high”, or sung Masses) throughout the universal Church, along with the Salve Regina (Hail, Holy Queen); and the practice of the congregation praying these prayers at the end of Mass continued until about 1970, with the introduction of the new rite of the Mass.
John Paul II and St. Michael
However, at the end of his Angelus Address given in St. Peter’s Square, Sunday, April 24, 1994, Pope John Paul II urged Catholics to recite this Prayer to Saint Michael once again:
“The prayer can fortify us for that spiritual battle about which the Letter to the Ephesians speaks [of]: “Finally, draw your strength from the Lord and from his mighty power.”(Ephesians 6:10). And to this same battle that the Book of the Apocalypse refers [to], recalling in front of our eyes the image of St. Michael the Archangel (cf. Revelations 12:7). Surely, this scene was very present to Pope Leon XIII, when, at the end of the previous century, he introduced to the entire Church a special prayer to St. Michael: ‘St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle; be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil… ’
“Even if today this prayer is no longer recited at the end of the Eucharistic celebration, I invite all to not forget it, but to recite it in order to obtain help in the battle against the forces of darkness and the spirit of this world.”
The 13th Day – The True Story of Fatima Movie Trailer
Our Lady of Fatima – October 13th Miracle of the Sun
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Lady_of_Fátima
Our Lady of Fátima
Location Fátima, Portugal
Date 13 May—13 October 1917
Witness Lúcia Santos
Jacinta and Francisco Marto
Type Marian apparition
Holy See approval 1930, during the pontificate of Pope Pius XI
Shrine Sanctuary of Our Lady of Fátima, Fátima, Portugal
Our Lady of Fátima
(Portuguese: Nossa Senhora de Fátima) (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈfatimɐ]) is a title given to the Blessed Virgin Mary as She appeared in apparitions reported by three shepherd children at Fátima in Portugal. These occurred on the 13th day of six consecutive months in 1917, starting on May 13. The three children were Lúcia Santos and her cousins Jacinta and Francisco Marto.
The title of Our Lady of the Rosary is also sometimes used to refer to the same apparition (although it was first used in 1208 for the reported apparition in the church of Prouille), because the children related that the apparition called herself “Lady of the Rosary”. It is also common to see a combination of these titles, i.e. Our Lady of the Rosary of Fátima (Portuguese: Nossa Senhora do Rosário de Fátima).
The events at Fátima gained particular fame due to their elements of prophecy and eschatology, particularly with regard to possible world war and the conversion of Soviet Russia.[1] The reported apparitions at Fátima were officially declared “worthy of belief” by the Catholic Church.
Photograph of the Miracle of the Sun – On October 13, 1917 Witnessed by 100,000 People and Photographed.
Page from Ilustração Portuguesa, 29 October 1917, showing the people looking at the miracle of the sun during the Fátima apparitions attributed to the Virgin Mary.
Basilica of Our Lady of Fatima
Blessed Pope John Paul II – Consecrated the World to the Immaculate Heart of Mary on March 25, 1984
The Actual Tree where Our Lady of Fatima appeared on is gone, now. This Statue and Little Chapel were built on the Actual Site of Our Lady of the Rosary of Fatima’s Six Apparitions – From May 13 to Oct 13, 1917.
“I am Our Lady of the Rosary. Will you Pray the Rosary for Peace?”
Source: Wikipedia
