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Join me as we pray night 8 of the traditional Novena to Our Lady of Sorrows.

This 9-night devotional exercise will conclude tomorrow night on the eve of the Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows, so that we can fully enter into it.

This is powerful and life changing.

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The Vigil of The Feast of the Exultation of the Holy Cross:

Sweet Mother of Sorrows, Providence wished that Saint Helena, like you the mother of a king, find the cross of your Son and lavish honors on this relic of relics.

Grant me, Sorrowful Queen and Mother, that, like Saint Helena, I always honor the symbol of our salvation, the Cross. And like the Church, may I hold it high, display and wear it with gratitude and pride.

Above all, may I unite my sufferings to that of Jesus on the cross, and carry my crosses not in shame but in faith, love and patience as He did. 👇Image
Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art’ thou amongst women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.

Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinner, now and at the hour of our death. Amen. 👇 Image
Prayer to our Sorrowful Mother for a particular grace:

O mother most holy and sorrowful, Queen of Martyrs, you who stood by your Son as He agonized on the cross. By the sufferings of your life, by that sword of pain that pierced your heart, by your perfect joy in heaven, look down on me kindly as I kneel before you, sympathizing with your sorrows and offering you my petition with childlike trust.

Dear Mother, because your Son refuses you nothing, ask of His Sacred Heart to mercifully hear my prayer and to grant this prayer in accord with His most perfect will. Therefore, through the merits of His Sacred Passion, along with those of your sufferings at the foot of the cross, I pray…

(Mention your intention here…)

Mother most merciful, to whom shall I go in my misery if not to you who pities us poor sinful exiles in this valley of tears? I beseech you to offer Jesus but one drop of His most Precious Blood and but one pang of His Loving Heart. Remind Him that you are our sweetness, our life and our hope, and your prayer will be heard. Amen. 👇Image
Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary, that never was it known that anyone who fled to your protection, implored your help or sought your intercession, was left unaided.

Inspired by this confidence, I fly unto you, O Virgin of Virgins, my Mother. To you do I come, before you I stand, sinful and sorrowful. O Mother of the Word Incarnate, despise not my petitions, but in your clemency, hear and answer me. Amen. 👇Image
Thank you for joining me for night 8 of this beautiful & pious devotion to Our Lady of Sorrows.

The more we meditate on her sorrowful heart, the more she will aid us and bring us to Sacred Heart of Jesus.

See you tomorrow for night 9. 🙏 Image

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Sep 7
The birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary was no ordinary event. It was the dawn of salvation and the beginning of the New Testament.

Drawing from Mystical City of God, here is the dramatic story of her birth with heaven, earth, and even hell caught up in the glorious mystery…🧵👇Image
From her first instant in the womb, Mary was different. Conceived without sin, her soul was “entirely absorbed in spirit and entranced by her first vision of the Divinity.”
Before she ever saw the light of day, she loved God perfectly. It was a love that would never end, even in eternity.👇Image
Her mother, St. Anne, carried this Treasure in her womb with deep peace and prayer. Yet God allowed trials…
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Sep 7
Join me tonight & for the next 8 nights to pray the traditional Novena to Our Lady of Sorrows.

This 9-night devotional exercise will conclude on the eve of the Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows, so that we can fully enter into it on Sept. 15.

This is life changing.

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Prayer in honor of the First Sorrow of Mary: Simeon’s Prophesy in the Temple.

Most Sorrowful Mother, grief filled was your heart when, on offering your divine Son at the temple, Holy Simeon foretold that a sword would pierce your soul. There and then you knew you would suffer with Jesus.
Queen of Martyrs, let me unite my heart to yours in this pain, and ask you the grace to keep the thought of my death in mind, so I may always avoid sin.👇👇Image
Hail Mary, full of Grace. The Lord is with thee. Blessed art’ thou amongst women and blessed if the fruit of your womb, Jesus.

Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. 👇 👇 Image
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Sep 4
🧵 Do you know the story of Brother Daniele Natale?

The Capuchin monk was a spiritual son of St. Padre Pio, who experienced Purgatory and came back to life to tell about it!

This is his amazing story and more proof of the purifying fire of Purgatory that we all must know. 🧵 👇 Image
In 1952, Brother Daniele was diagnosed with spleen cancer and underwent surgery.

After falling into a coma for three days, Brother Daniele died. Relatives gathered to pray.

After three hours, the friar removed the sheet covering his body, stood up, and began to speak!! 👇👇 Image
He told everyone that he had stood before God and been sentenced to Purgatory.

The pain was terrible and intense, “especially in the senses of the body, which most offended God, he said. The most painful thing to him was the feeling of separation from the Creator. 👇👇 Image
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Sep 2
Believe in Purgatory is not new or even an invention of the Middle Ages. It goes way, way back.

Saint Perpetua suffered martyrdom in Carthage in 203 AD.

Before being put to death, she herself wrote about Purgatory & the value of prayer for the dead.

The story is 🤯

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She wrote of several visions she had about her deceased brother. In the first vision she saw him “exiting from a dark place where there were many desolate and thirsty people. They were all very pale, with dirty clothes, and wounds on their faces like her brother had when he died.”

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She went on to say there was a chasm between him and her that neither could get through. “Far from the place where he was, there was a basin filled with water but its edge was much higher and out of reach. He stretched for it to drink, but could not get to it,” she wrote.

She knew her brother was suffering, but also knew she could assist him through prayer. She prayed night and day “with sighs and tears” for his soul.Image
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Sep 1
Tomorrow is September 1.
Saint Teresa of Avila believed that how you begin a new month shapes everything that follows.
She discovered using holy water could consecrate your days, protect your soul, and transform your home into a place of peace.
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The great saint says a simple few gesture on the first day of the month could transform the next 30 days.
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Saint Teresa lived through dark seasons that would have crushed lesser souls.
Doubt. Opposition. The terrifying sense of God’s absence, what mystics call the “Dark Night of the Soul.”
And yet she found, in the simplest sacramentals, a weapon more powerful than any earthly defense: holy water.
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Aug 31
Jesus himself speaks of Purgatory in about 20 different scripture verses, but still many disbelieve.

They say, “where is it specifically shown in the Bible?”

The answer may lie in the “Parable of Lazarus and the Rich Man.”

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First off, let’s read the parable together:

“There was a rich man, who was clothed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day. And at his gate lay a poor man named Lazarus, full of sores, who desired to be fed with what fell from the rich man’s table; moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. The poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died and was buried; and in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes, and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus in his bosom. And he called out, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy upon me, and send Lazarus to dip the end of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am in anguish in this flame.’ But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that you in your lifetime received your good things, and Lazarus in like manner evil things; but now he is comforted here, and you are in anguish. And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed, in order that those who would pass from here to you may not be able, and none may cross from there to us.’ And he said, ‘Then I beg you, father, to send him to my father’s house, for I have five brothers, so that he may warn them, lest they also come into this place of torment.’ But Abraham said, ‘They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.’ And he said, ‘No, father Abraham; but if some one goes to them from the dead, they will repent.’ He said to him, ‘If they do not hear Moses and the prophets, neither will they be convinced if some one should rise from the dead.’” - Luke 16:19-31Image
Many will say the rich man is in Hell, but when you examine it closely, problems with that interpretation appear.

The rich man is in a place of suffering for sure. But when you read his words, it is clear he has goodwill and wants to warn his brothers so that they don’t come to this place of torment.

Souls in hell do not will the good. They have chosen against God, that is to say, they have chosen evil. Once in hell, our will is cemented in those choices.

But those in purgatory want the good, they want our good, they want God, and they want their eventual reward in heaven.

Therefore, the rich man must be in purgatory.

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