Meryl Viola Bravo, Born August 16, 1978, Baptized October 15, 1978, Confirmed May 29, 1993 Diocese of San Bernardino, California, United States of America
“The Curran affair also
illustrated a serious problem in post-conciliar moral theology that John Paul
II would, at some point, have to address in detail.Father Curran believed that lowering the bar
of Catholic sexual morality was the pastorally appropriate response to the
tangled lives of human beings, who had been struggling with chastity since
Moses had been given the Ten Commandments.For John Paul, whose pastoral experience was at least as extensive as
that of most moral theologians, defining sin down was not, in the final
analysis, pastorally sensitive, because it took the dramatic tension out of
life and denied human beings the opportunity for moral heroism.Repentance and forgiveness, not preemptive
absolution, was the truer humanism.” Witness to Hope by George Weigel
JMJ
Compromising our human existence
lowers the dignity of man as it lowers the opportunity for moral heroism.The true reality and existence of man must be
lived in its fullness with no hesitation to what is good and upright as beings
made in the image and likeness of God.The sexual morality that is lowered in its true definition creates in
man a lowering of his very own existence in living.He becomes ruled by his own passions and the
true freedom that he is destined to have is led astray by those who preach against
the true dignity of man.The true man
lives according to the real and authentic life where morality is not defined
down but raised to a degree that draws man to his ultimate truth; a truth that
clothes him with the character of moral heroism; a heroism that reflects the
very life of Christ in repentance, forgiveness and the life of the Gospel.A true humanism brings forth in man the
occasion to rise against the culture of compromise and live according to the
reality of truth where indeed tension will be accustomed in a world that
questions the essence of good and evil in its existence.Until man realizes and faces this reality,
the dimension of true moral heroism in himself will not be fully realized and
his life is but a grain that will not come to its fullness.Unless a grain of wheat fall to the ground
and die, it remains but a single grain, but if it die it will bring forth much
fruit.The fruition of man comes forth
from truth itself and must be preached from the pulpits to every man and woman
of the capacity and dignity he and she holds as children of the Most High
God.A man of no guile must be reflected
in the priest, truly another Christ proclaiming to man the truth of what we are
ultimately called to and destined to fulfill.As Christians we must challenge ourselves towards a greater goal of high
moral character that draws us to a heroic degree of charity towards the human
body and towards the soul that lives within him.In this challenge, compromise deadens the
soul and lowers mans capacity towards the greatness he has been called to live
as a follower of Christ.
O Christ, Redeemer and Savior You
reveal to Man Your own Eternal goodness by coming to us in the form of man to
redeem us from our own wretched nature and raise us to a degree of sanctity
that reflects the unity and charity of the Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son and
Holy Spirit.O Eternal Word made Flesh,
You have sanctified the human body by coming to us in humility and share Your
divinity with us by giving us your Mother.Create in man the will to live according to Your Divine Plan, as Your
Mother did in her humility and fiat.May
our lives be another fiat that heroicly responds to the consequences and
circumstances that is placed before us so that the moral character of heroic
virtue may come to its true reality.May
we challenge each other to live according to Your Divine Plan.Sanctify your priests and protect them from
compromise and a life that could lead to indifference and fear of the reality
of truth.Grant them the support they
need from Your Holy Angels and the Mother of God so that they may be guarded
from heresy and live according to the true dignity of the Gospel.May our Holy Father, Your Vicar here on
Earth, be protected and fortified with the strength of the Saints so that as he
shepherds the flock, those who hear and those who see may truly live the life
of the Gospel in all its truth and fullness and dignity.O Mother of the Word Incarnate, despise not
our petitions but in your mercy hear answer me.Amen.
"The Spiritual Motherhood Sodality (SMS) educates women regarding the importance of Spiritual Maternity and its connection with the Holy Eucharist and the Priesthood. The Blessed Virgin Mary is esteemed as the ultimate model to help inform women about answering their call to holiness, their dignity and vocation and also, their love for Christ’s Ministerial Priesthood." Spiritual Motherhood Sodality
“And often…I hear the answer it was these times, times of GREAT
STRUGGLE between good and evil, times of the great struggle between Mary and Satan
that draw many…into the priesthood, so that they might participate in this
great battle fully, decisively, in a defined manner…
I will say even more:this battle runs through the HEART of each of us.A priestly ordination, a PRIESTLY VOCATION,
does not free us from the BATTLE.”Saint
Pope John Paul II
Weigel, G. (2010) The End and the Beginning.New
York:Doubleday Religion
JMJ
The mystery of every VOCATION is spurred by the INTENSITY of
LOVE created and immersed by the SIGNIFICANT REALITY of a STRUGGLE against all
the PRINCIPALITIES and POWERS that divide Man from who He is made in the Image
and Likeness of God; created in His image there is a BATTLE that reflects and
consumes the Heart of Man towards what is GREATER!GREATER than what the world can offer in its
allurements of a FALSE LOVE that divides and brings to destruction His own GREATNESS!In this GREAT STRUGGLE, the inner conscience
of Man is brought to light and He is asked the question, “Whom do you
seek?”The very HEART responds,
“CHRIST!”Christ then responds, “Come,
Follow me.”Where?To the CROSS!A DEFINED MANNER of following He who shared in our HUMANITY leads
towards His GREAT PASSION!Passion that
allows Man to participate in this GREAT BATTLE FULLY!There in the HEART of every VOCATION is the
full capacity of Man to respond as Christ, “There is no greater LOVE than to
lay down ones’ life for ones’ FRIENDS!”I would lay down my life for you!Peter, Peter truly, truly I say to you before the cock crows you will
deny that you know me three times.THREE
TIMES!THREE TIMES!THREE TIMES!The WAR BEGINS!The STRUGGLE!THE BATTLE!
MARY!
My MOTHER!
TOTUS TUUS!
We are brought to the FULL CAPACITY to RUN to CHRIST in the
midst of the struggle between Good and Evil, between Mary and Satan!Where will you go?Who will you TRUST!?I have denied Him three times, Him whom I
promised I would lay down my life and die for……the BITTERNESS of GRIEF
overwhelms my HEART!
He is CRUCIFIED and DIED on a CROSS for me and for you!The STRUGGLE, the BATTLE!I am overwhelmed and my Heart calls out to Him!TRUST!TRUST!TRUST!
Mary, my Mother!LOVE
has BEEN CRUCIFIED!LOVE NOW
REDEEMS!THREE DAYS!THREE DAYS!THREE DAYS!THE TOMB is NOW
EMPTY!Where is HE!?!
On the SHORE!“My
CHILDREN, have you caught anything?”Nothing, my Lord!Bring down the
NETS for a CATCH!153 FISH!
DOMINUS EST!IT IS
THE LORD!
Run to Him!Embrace
HIM!FOLLOW HIM!
Look at Him, Gaze at Him…..He is HERE!He is LOOKING at ME!
Yes, my CHILD, you have denied me three times, but now I
come to you and offer you my MERCY!
“Do you love me more than these?”
“Yes, Lord You know that I love you.”
“Feed my sheep.”
"Peter, do you love me more than these?”
“Yes, Lord You know that I love you.”
“Feed my sheep.”
“Peter, the ROCK, do you love me more than these?”
“YES, LORD, YOU KNOW EVERYTHING YOU KNOW THAT I LOVE YOU!”
“FEED MY LAMBS!”
Thrice I have denied Him, and THRICE I have RENEWED my LOVE
for HIM whom my Heart loves!Christ, my
REDEEMER has ARISEN!CHRIST, my REDEEMER
has ARISEN!CHRIST, MY REDEEMER HAS
ARISEN!ALLELUIA!ALLELUIA!HE IS NO LONGER DEAD, HE IS ALIVE!ALIVE, I SAY!ALIVE!
My Friend, my LOVE, my CHILD, now that you know what it
means to follow me, STRENGTHEN YOUR BRETHREN!
Christ, my REDEEMER LIVES!Christ, my REDEEMER LIVES!Christ, my REDEEMER LIVES!Christ
TRIUMPHS and we share in the BATTLE
that is ALREADY VICTORIOUS!ALLELUIA!ALLELUIA!CHRIST IS ARISEN!
“The ROSARY of the VIRGIN
MARY, which gradually took form in the second millennium under the guidance
of the Spirit of God, is a PRAYER
loved by countless Saints and ENCOURAGED
by the Magisterium. Simple yet profound, it still remains, at the dawn of this
third millennium, a PRAYER OF GREAT
SIGNIFICANCE destined to bring forth a harvest of HOLINESS. It blends easily into the spiritual journey of the
Christian life, which, after two thousand years, has lost none of the freshness of its beginnings and feels drawn
by the Spiritof God to “SET OUT INTO THE DEEP” (DUC IN ALTUM) in order once more to proclaim, and even cry out, before the world that Jesus
Christ is Lord and Saviour, “the WAY,
and the TRUTH and the LIFE” (Jn 14:6), “the GOAL of human history and the POINT on which the DESIRES of history and civilization turn”.Supreme Pontiff John Paul II (2002)Apostolic Letter Rosarium Virginis
Mariae.Libreria Editrice Vaticana
JMJ
Christ, Divine Savior, has brought FORTH an ABUNDANCE of
DIVINE GRACE to those who in their CONSECRATION to MARY finds their refuge as
the source of all GRACE!Mediatrix of
ALL GRACES, the ROSARY allows Man to see in an INFINITE RESOLUTION that it is
CHRIST who in HIS REDEMPTION has brought forth the MYSTERY of SALVATION!How is it that we are to KNOW HIM except
through the EYES of MARY!Mary, His
MOTHER, our MOTHER has brought to us a GIFT that is PROCLAIMED and CRIED OUT
through the ANGEL GABRIEL, “Hail FULL of GRACE, the Lord is with you.”Every cry of this Prayer RINGS OUT to the
HEAVENS of the GLORY and SPLENDOUR that awaits for those who are in love with
Her SON!Hear in this MYSTERY of
SALVATION we find that through the recitation of the ROSARY we continue to CRY
OUT to the LIVING GOD of the DEPTHS and GREATNESS that all mankind is DRAWN
towards a POINT, a GOAL, and an INFINITE PATH towards GOODNESS, INFINITE
GRANDNESS, and GLORY that brings to LIFE the ordinary and the extraordinary
freshness of HOLINESS!Drawn by the
SPIRIT of GOD, the very DEPTHS of the HUMAN SPIRIT is brought forth an
ABUNDANCE of DIVINE GRACE and a SPIRITUAL HARVEST is transplanted into the
Heart of Man in a MYSTICAL UNION of DIVINE LOVE.An INTIMATE Conversation is reflected in the
human soul between the Mother of God, the THEOTOKOS and her Divine Child with
the soul embraced and invigorated with the VIRTUE of FAITH!Every concern, every worry, anxiety, and
resoluteness towards the path of RIGHTEOUSNESS is placed within the BOSOM of
the MOTHER OF GOD and she reaches towards the child who TRUSTS in her with an
ABUNDANCE of DIVINE GRACE to reveal to her the MYSTERIES of the KINGDOM!
O Mother of INFINITE
GOODNESS, you have given to us in the Order of Preachers a special GRACE to
share with the whole of HUMANITY a TOOL OF DIVINE GRACE!St. Dominic who has been loved with INFINITE
LOVE the Father of ALL PREACHERS has been GRACED with an ABUNDANCE of DIVINE
LOVE THROUGH THIS WONDERFUL GIFT TO THE CHURCH!O ROSARIUM, ROSARIUM VIRGINIS MARIAE, the Hand of Divine Love has been
placed at the palm of each soul to be embraced and shared for a DEPTH of
CONTEMPLATION of the DIVINE MYSTERIES of the INCARNATE WORD MADE FLESH!
The life and GOODNESS of the ETERNAL WORD has been spoken to
us through a STORY; a STORY CONTEMPLATED without BOUND through the Mysteries of
the DIVINE ROSARY!Here in this UNION of
DIVINE CHARITY, the Mother of all SOULS unites herself to her child and speaks
to her sharing with her the SECRETS of Her DIVINE SON spoken without word a
LOVE and a MYSTERY that cuts through the fetters of ordinary goodness towards
EXTRAORDINARY AND SUPREME CHARITY OF FIRE!Every bead of LOVE, PROCLAIMS TO THE DEPTHS OF THE ETERNAL FATHER a
PROFOUND and INFINITE ENCOUNTER WITH THE CHARITY OF UNION between the SPOUSE of
the HOLY SPIRIT and the TRIUNE GOD!Interwoven in this DIALOGUE a conversation of the soul who participates
in this communion realizes with FULL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE VALUE of every HAIL
MARY, for in this UNION the soul is ELEVATED TOWARDS GRACE and the DIGNITY of
the ordinariness of LIFE BECOMES EXTRAORDINARY!For we realize that in the mysteries of the LIFE of CHRIST, the journey
towards INFINITE LOVE is therefore attainable and given as PURE GIFT from the
Hand of the ETERNAL FATHER through the INCARNATE WORD in the Hands of Mary,
Rosarium, Rosarium VIRGINIS MARIAE!
"The Church draws her life from the Eucharist. This truth does
not simply express a daily experience of faith, but recapitulates the heart
of the mystery of the Church. In a variety of ways she joyfully experiences
the constant fulfilment of the promise: “Lo,
I am with you always, to the close of the age” (Mt 28:20), but in
the Holy Eucharist, through the changing of bread and wine into the body and
blood of the Lord, she rejoices in this presence with unique intensity."Supreme Pontiff John Paul II (2003) Encyclical Letter
Ecclesia de Eucharistia.Libreria
Editrice Vaticana
JMJ
In the PRESENCE of CHRIST, there is an ineffable DESIRE in
the Human Heart to Know Him most intimately through the UNION found in the
EUCHARIST!Adore the Lord in the Most
Blessed Sacrament with a FAITH beyond bound so that He may know of your LOVE
for Him and the Confident TRUST you have in His MERCY!He allows souls to draw LIFE from HIS very
BODY, Blood, Soul and Divinity for further nourishment and STRENGTH in a world
that continues to bombard the soul against His very MERCY!He REVEALS His GOODNESS during the most utter
devastation of a soul and in His POWER stoops down to the most degraded part of
our own being and CREATES a MANIFESTATION of HIS GOODNESS to her that only FULFILLS
with CONSTANCY His FAITHFUL PROMISE, “Lo,
I am with you ALWAYS, to the close of
the age.”YES!FIAT!He reveals to her of the INFINITE and OMNIPOTENT Power of a HUMBLE GOD
who comes to us in our MISERY so that we may KNOW with a FULL REALITY of HIS
PRESENCE in a moment when we are ever tempted to doubt His LOVE!We become overpowered with a FAITH that is
GRACED during the Most Darkest of MOMENTS to realize with GREATNESS of the
MAGNITUDE of UNION He desires for her to share in with the UNION of the DIVINE
and HOLY TRIUNE GOD!The GLORY of the
SAINTS find its very LIFE and ESSENCE in the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of
CHRIST!It is there that we find HIM who
has complete FULLNESS in the UNION He desires to share in the soul INEBRIATED
by His LOVE; inebriated with the MAGNITUDE of HIS GOODNESS in coming to us in
the form of BREAD so that we may consume HIM as food so that we may know of the
INTIMATE UNION He DESIRES for every soul who RECEIVES HIM!
Prepare well, O CHILD, for this UNION He wishes for you and
you will know without BOUND of the INFINITE GOODNESS of a GOD who adores with
HUMILITY those who too, stoop down from their own self-sufficiency to ONLY
FIND their SUFFICIENCY IN GOD ALONE!Yes, a MOST HIGH GOD wishes to be ONE with His Child!The CREATOR of the UNIVERSE has been
Incarnated into the Flesh of Man through a UNION found in the Mystery of the
Most Blessed Sacrament of the Altar!The
HOLY SACRIFICE of the MASS brings to us the PRESENCE of CHRIST HIMSELF so that
we may know of the CONTINUED PROMISE of the FATHER, “Lo, I am WITH YOU ALWAYS, to the close of the age.”Yes!He is with us!For those who
BELIEVE without BOUND in a GOD who is invisible but ever PRESENT in the FAITH
of MAN!The very CONSOLATION of Man will
be ever more brought to REALITY in the desolation of MERCY!We become a fuller realization and IMAGE of
His OWN HUMILITY as we enter deeper into UNION with CHRIST, the SON of the
LIVING GOD!United with Mary, the Mother
of the EUCHARIST, we become a tabernacle of CHRIST and ever more know the
DIVINE FIAT, “Behold, I am the Handmaiden of the Lord, be it done to me
according to Your WORD!”THE WORD BECAME
FLESH!The ECUMENICAL DESIRE OF THE
OMNIPOTENT GOD IS THAT ALL MAY BE ONE as HE IS ONE and therefore know of the
DIVINE UNION that brings forth PEACE!
O Mother of the WORD INCARNATE, I come to you as your child
knowing with FULL CONFIDENCE that you are the MOTHER of my GOD and embrace the
concerns of my heart and the trials that have enveloped me in this time! I come to you with a CONFIDENT TRUST in my
DIVINE SAVIOR hidden in the HUMILITY of the EUCHARIST knowing that as GOD is
PRESENT, His Mother too, is there beside Him!I KNEEL BEFORE HIS DIVINE MAJESTY HIDDEN yet EVER PRESENT in a Most
INTIMATE ENCOUNTER with the TRIUNE GOD!I have been INEBRIATED with DIVINE LOVE and am embraced with the GRACE
that comes forth from a FIRM FAITH in the LIVING GOD ever present in the Holy
Eucharist!How BLESSED we are to be
given a TASTE in the HEAVENLY GLORY of the MASS! THE MASS so consumed for LOVE of ME has been
the MYSTERY of UNION that is promised to those WHO BELIEVE with CONFIDENCE in
the ETERNITY of CHRIST in the EUCHARIST!The RISEN and LIVING BREAD of CHRIST is the BREATH and ever MORE LIVING REALITY
OF GOODNESS for those who consume Him with CONFIDENT TRUST IN HIS MERCY!He hears all that is in a HEART who trusts in
the Maternal Care of His Mother!O
MOTHER of the INCARNATE WORD hidden in the EUCHARIST, pray for me, embrace me
and show me YOU ARE MY MOTHER to those who have recourse in thee.Amen.
