Faith Blog: My God and My All, Let Thy Name Be Glorified!

Holy rapture is in progress In the journey of a holy Soul For all the world to see Living in the world not of the world Leaving the world behind while living Trusting God's providence Living a life of self denial Prayer has made its statement In Holy Father's legacy ministry Holy Rapture is in progress In the journey of a holy Soul For all the world to see Living in the world not of the world Leaving behind the human will while living Trusting God's power Living a life of self emptying in prayers Penance has made its statement In Holy Father's legacy ministry Holy Rapture is in progress In the journey of a holy Soul For all the world to see Living in the world not of the world Leaving behind the achievements while living Trusting God's wisdom Living a life of self death Apostolic tradition has made its statement In Holy Father's legacy ministry Holy Rapture in progress In the journey of a holy Soul For all the world to see Liv...

Heavenly Father elected Holy Father From the days of his womb To this very day He Entrusted a great responsibility He carved him all along his way With a heart of stewardship Tendered him all along his life with a listening ear and yeilding child like heart To be a sign of our times Humble steward said Amen! Knowledge self emptied Mother Church see her son leave In the path of self denial In consolable mother stands in tears, awe, and honor In the awe of the sacrifice her son has made In the love of her Great mother Mother Church Stand with divine glow Honor her son a jewel of self denial He anointed him ornated him With knowledge, courage, and wisdom He walked with him through his marvelous life With divine office call He gave him the highest office of all on earth He preserved him for this very day To be a sign of our times Humble steward said Amen! Human  faculties of strategies self emptied! An architect...

 I am overwhelmed by Holy Father's immense teaching actions of faith and role model, which I am unworthy to write. He has made a profound historical statement of faith through His action and decision and has become a role model of love, peace, prayer, simplicity, wisdom, discernment, courage, gentleness, and faith. I am struck with awe of Holy Spirit's action, which is so real in this world of our times, and our Holy Father is so courageous to yield and trust God and God alone and entrusting us to the will of the Holy Spirit. His role model is so essential, so vital, even it may be a divine intervention, to the controlling world of today, where from individuals to the world, human flesh is in dominance of control on one side,  Where man has no respect or place for God and faith. Another side, humanity is becoming slave to the technology to the extreme that basic human attributes, intellect, will, discernment, and human faculties are diminishing or...

Looking up to Jesus's sufferings in our life situations means to participate in His prayer and seeking God's will into the suffering. In any situation in human life, choices are many. One can choose to pray or not to pray. One can choose faith not following faith. One can seek divine guidance or decide to apply the human reason alone. One can choose relationships and fellowship in love or stay aloof in the hands of un- forgiveness. One could choose to undergo suffering with Lord or choose to go on the worldly choices of compensation and compromises. All the above and all the millions of options placed in front of us where is our choice? What do we choose? How do we react to the situations is our choice, while God's presence is waiting and watching always with His mercy and grace. Looking up to Jesus in suffering means looking up to Jesus choice and decision in His suffering. Jesus chose God's will placing His choices in God's hands. He was sincere in Hi...

Human sufferings have millions of origins. Majority of them are caused by bad choices and decisions of human, society, and world inflicting suffering to oneself, family, community, and to the world respectively. While nothing escapes God's will, few of them have roots in the heavenly intervention will as well. Individual sufferings have rippling effect on the family, community, society, and to the world. Irrespective of origins of sufferings, in the time of sufferings, God's presence and Holy Angels services surrounds the human, sheltering humanity with mercy and grace. In this world of Garden of Gethsemane, God's presence and human fellowship are present in the form of Mother Church. Mother Church has two charisma as Her bridegroom Jesus. As Jesus was God and man, Mother Church contains divinity and humanity. The prayers and sacrifices of  Mother Church with her children, goes beyond the salvation of Catholic Church. She is the Apostle for the...

Matthew 26:36-46 New International Version (NIV) Gethsemane "36  Then Jesus went with his disciples to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to them,  “Sit here while I go over there and pray.”   37  He took Peter and the two sons of Zebedee  along with him, and he began to be sorrowful and troubled.   38  Then he said to them,  “My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow  to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with me.” 39  Going a little farther, he fell with his face to the ground and prayed,  “My Father, if it is possible, may this cup  be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will.” 40  Then he returned to his disciples and found them sleeping.  “ Couldn't you men keep watch with me  for one hour?”  he asked Peter.   41  “Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation.  The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.” 42  He went away a ...

Loving Heavenly Father, we thank you for this day, time, and moment in our life. We thank you for for the gifts and fruits of thy presence in our Holy Mother Church. We thank you for her children and their faith throughout the world. We thank you for her first born children who abide in her in faith and profess apostolic tradition and celebrates sacred written word ( Holy Scripture), incarnated redemptive word ( Eucharist), resurrected word ( Apostolic Church), spoken word ( all creations), lived word ( saints), through sacraments, magisterium, and tradition. We thank you for the salvation mission and ministry of Holy Spirit through her children. Faithful Father, we thank you for all those who believe through the lives and evangelization efforts of the Church and her children. We thank you for all her children including believers and non believers alike, as she embraces everyone and adopts all human as her children through her ecumenical apostoli...

Loving heavenly Father, we thank you for this day, time, and moment of our life. We thank you for the gift Holy Catholic Church to us and to the world. We thank you for Church's sacred magisterium and tradition. Thank you for the divine collaboration of Holy Spirit's teachings flow through the apostolic succession. Father we thank you for your gifts and fruits that are infallible virtues of the Church in this world. We thank you for the gifts of leaders who yield themselves to the discernment of Holy Spirit in leading the Church from ages till today and times to come. Loving Father, we thank you for all the mysterious and mystical ways you have shaped the path of our mother Church in this world in accordance to thy will and to the ministry of the world's need. We thank you for the divine office of divine apostolic teaching, spiritual lives, scholarly teaching, grace and mercy, and mystical gifts you have showered upon our church through our Holy...

Novena to the Holy Spirit for the Seven Gifts ACT OF CONSECRATION TO THE HOLY SPIRIT On my knees before the great multitude of heavenly witnesses, I offer myself, soul and body to You, Eternal Spirit of God. I adore the brightness of Your purity, the unerring keenness of Your justice, and the might of Your love. You are the Strength and Light of my soul. In You I live and move and am. I desire never to grieve You by unfaithfulness to grace and I pray with all my heart to be kept from the smallest sin against You. Mercifully guard my every thought and grant that I may always watch for Your light, and listen to Your voice, and follow Your gracious inspirations. I cling to You and give myself to You and ask You, by Your compassion to watch over me in my weakness. Holding the pierced Feet of Jesus and looking at His Five Wounds, and trusting in His Precious Blood and adoring His opened Side and stricken Heart, I implore You, Adorable Spirit, Helper of my infirmity, to keep me in Your gra...

Dear Heavenly Father, We thank you for this time, moment, and day in our life. We thank you for the gift of our Holy Mother Church and our shepherds, leaders, and ministers. We thank you for your presence through the sacraments and sacramentals of the Church. We thank you for the gift of Church's ministry of sacraments in redemption, restoration, and healing of the souls in this life. We thank you for sacrificing your Son our Lord Jesus Christ to bring salvation to human, world, and universe. We also thank you for the baptismal call for each one of us to reflect Jesus in us to the human, world, and universe. Thank you Lord for the gift of reconciliation through which you bring forgiveness, mercy, grace, healing, peace, and relationship for sinners and create a loving bond with you and human. Loving Father, we thank you for the gift of Eucharist, through which you minister not just to your children, but also to the world a...

Our beloved Heavenly Father, We thank you for this day, moment, and time of our life on earth. We thank you for your omnipresence, omnipotent, and omniscience presence among us. We thank you specially today for the gift of our Mother Church to us on earth and thy presence in her. We see your presence in her very presence in the world as salt and light to the humanity, world, and universe. Loving Father, we pray that our Mother Church may be protected in thy holy Name. Though the world and the enemy are relentless in attacking her throughout the ages, it is thy mercy brought her through the trials and tribulations from the beginning of the world. It is thy faithfulness guarded her presence in the inception of first family in the garden of Eden, with the mandate to protect, preserve, and propagate the world and universe for thy glory. It is thy presence rested with them when the first family fall short of glory to protect t...

Heavenly Father, I thank you for this day, moment, and time in our life. I thank you for all the gifts, talents, blessings, and faith, you have entrusted to us. I  thank you for the gift of our Mother Church here on earth, which holds your presence and serves as your sanctuary and our consolation on earth. Thank you for our beloved Pope, Cardinals, Bishops, Priests, Decons, religious, laities, and faithfilled families, who collectively make the Church. I reflect upon your promise saying that you will be with us to the end of the world. Although we are unworthy and underseing sinners, you are so faithful in your promise Father, that you call men and women to sacrifice their entire life, just to guide sinners like us. While holy men and women follow your call sacrificing their life, You renew this universe, world, nations, communities, families, and individuals continiously and relentlessly through Holy Spirit's actions channeled by your servants. I tha...

http://www.osv.com/OSV4MeNav/ChurchSeasons/ACatholicLent/PopeBenedictXVILentenMessage2012/tabid/8546/Default.aspx "Message of His Holiness Benedict XVI for Lent 2013 "Believing in charity calls forth charity" “We have come to know and to believe in the love God has for us” (1 Jn 4:16) Dear Brothers and Sisters, The celebration of Lent, in the context of the Year of Faith, offers us a valuable opportunity to meditate on the relationship between faith and charity: between believing in God – the God of Jesus Christ – and love, which is the fruit of the Holy Spirit and which guides us on the path of devotion to God and others. 1. Faith as a response to the love of God In my first Encyclical, I offered some thoughts on the close relationship between the theological virtues of faith and charity. Setting out from Saint John’s fundamental assertion: “We have come to know and to believe in the love God has for us” (1 Jn 4:16), I observed that “being Christi...

Prayer In The Year Of Faith Pope Benedict XVI has stated that the Year of Faith is to be a worldwide moment of prayer. One way to fulfill this request is the promotion of the  World Mission Rosary . . .  that was conceived in 1951 by the Servant of God, Archbishop Fulton Sheen. The World Mission Rosary unites people of the world in a spiritual communion and as Bishop Sheen said, the one who prays it will “embrace all continents, all people in prayer.” Pope Benedict Asks the Faithful to "Cherish the Cherish the Rosary during the Year of Faith Before praying the Angelus on Octctober 7, 2012, Pope Benedict XVI recalled that the traditional annual "supplication", in which thousands of faithful around the world participate, is taking place today at the Italian shrine of Pompei, dedicated to Our Lady of the Rosary. "As we too spiritually unite ourselves to that choral invocation, I would like to invite everyone to cherish the Rosary during the forth...

NOVENA TO THE IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY (pray for 9 days or 9 hours straight) O Most Blessed Mother, heart of love, heart of mercy, ever listening, caring, consoling, hear our prayer. As your children, we implore your intercession with Jesus your Son. Receive with understanding and compassion the petitions we place before you today, especially . . .  (state your specific request or intention here!) We are comforted in knowing your heart is ever open to those who ask for your prayer. We trust to your gentle care and intercession, those whom we love and who are sick or lonely or hurting. Help all of us, Holy Mother, to bear our burdens in this life until we may share eternal life and peace with God forever. Amen.

Novena to the Holy Spirit Begin be reciting the following prayer... O Holy Spirit, Divine Consoler! I adore you as my True God. I bless You by uniting myself to the praises You receive from the angel and saints. I offer You my whole heart, and I render You heartfelt thanks for all the benefits You have bestowed and do unceasingly bestow upon the world. You are the author of all supernatural gifts and who did enrich with immense favors the soul of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of God, I beseech you to visit me by Your grace and Your love, and grant me the favor I so earnestly seek in this novena... State your request here... O Holy Spirit, spirit of truth, come into our hearts: shed the brightness of your light on all nations, that they may be of one faith and pleasing to You. Amen. Come, O Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful, and kindle in them the fire of Your love. Recite the prayer of the appropriate day... DAY ONE O Holy Spirit, bestow upon us ...

Efficacious Novena to the Sacred Heart of Jesus I. O my Jesus, you have said: "Truly I say to you, ask and you will receive, seek and you will find, knock and it will be opened to you." Behold I knock, I seek and ask for the grace of...... (here name your request) Our Father....Hail Mary....Glory Be to the Father.... Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place all my trust in you . II. O my Jesus, you have said: "Truly I say to you, if you ask anything of the Father in my name, he will give it to you." Behold, in your name, I ask the Father for the grace of....... (here name your request) Our Father...Hail Mary....Glory Be To the Father.... Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place all my trust in you . III . O my Jesus, you have said: "Truly I say to you, heaven and earth will pass away but my words will not pass away." Encouraged by your infallible words I now ask for the grace of..... (here name your request) Our Father....Hail Mary....Glory Be to the Father... Sacred Heart...