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Rosarium Virginis Mariae

“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 Spirit of 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

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 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!

 

 

Life in the EUCHARIST

"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

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 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.

My Dear Young People

O Eucharist of Love

Song Composed and Sung by Meryl Bravo


O Eucharist of Love,
O LOVE beyond ALL LOVE!
Inebriate my SOUL
With YOUR ABOUNDING GRACE!

In OUR UNION with LOVE, our HEARTS BURN FOR YOU!
In the GLORY of CHRIST, our SOULS are ONE with YOU!

Renew within our HEARTS,
a LOVE for LOVE DIVINE!
Create within my SOUL,
An IMAGE of YOUR SON

In OUR UNION with LOVE, our HEARTS BURN FOR YOU!
In the GLORY of CHRIST, our SOULS are ONE with YOU!

O Love, O Fire of Love
Enflame our Hearts with Yours
Unite within my SOUL,
The ONENESS of Your LOVE

O Eucharist of Love,
O LOVE beyond ALL LOVE!

Veritatis Splendor

“If Veritatis Splendor is not for Catholics only, neither is it a papal scolding of wayward, willful sinners.  John Paul II is too experienced a pastor to think that the polymorphous perversities of the late twentieth century are very original.  They aren’t, as a brisk reading of Genesis, concentrated on the story of Sodom and Gomorrah, will readily attest.  There is something new in the late twentieth century, though---the inability of educated people to make moral sense to one another.”  Witness to Hope by George Weigel

JMJ

The realities of the present age reveal to all mankind of the consequences and effects of original sin innate in man the moment he is created.  The polymorphous perversities of this century is nothing new as the stories of the Old and New Testament reveal to all who read the history of Christianity.  We face a new challenge in our day in age that reflects the inability of man, even those who are educated in nature, to find morality among the circumstances of a society and culture that has based truth against its very self through the lies that compromise the very dignity of what he is created for.  The inability to reach the transcendence of a humanity beyond the commercialization and materialism of a mentality that seeks refuge in the idolism of a lost identity in the very dignity of Man made in the image and likeness of God.  A mentality that has disfigured the identity of Man as beings that lack the conscientious reality of what is good and what is evil; what is not of God and what is of His Divine and Most Glorious Hand of Redeeming Love.  There is the effort of Man to bring to reality the saving power of a Living God when he encounters in himself a morality that identifies him as an heir of the Kingdom of Eternal Redemption.  A morality that is based on the essential Truth of Man made in the image and likeness of an Omnipotent and Eternal Father lived in the fullness of a life created for what is Eternal through the daily and ordinary tasks of the day.  The divinization of what is common to the sight of man and yet extraordinary; as every detail of his existence is sanctified and redeemed through the merits of the Only Begotten Son, Christ, Redeemer and Savior of All Mankind.  The reality that all of humanity is made in the image and likeness of God is being challenged in a most profound way through the blindness of a western world that is misguided through a law system that compromises the dignity of man and eliminates the very essence of identity founded on the reality that there is good and there is evil.  The reality that distinguishes between what is right and what is wrong.  It has been compromised to the degree that the tranquility of Man found in God has been seized by a culture that inhibits the very nature of Man to reach the heights of the truest essence of Truth so that he may live the fullness of life made in the image and likeness of a God who loves him and created him into being.  The challenge facing our culture today reaches even those who are intellectually educated and fully capacitated to reason and yet unable to distinguish between what is right and what is wrong.  The inability to see Truth as it is compromised through a culture that has been blinded from the true reality of himself made in the image and likeness of God.  

Eternal Word of the Father, Only Begotten Son of God, Christ, my Savior and Redeemer, the love You bestow on Man continues to be a source of refuge and strength in a culture and world that has forgotten and compromised the very essence and dignity of Man.  We face a new challenge in this age that is misguided and in need of Your Wisdom to form the very inner conscience of the soul towards a deeper knowledge of the essential truths created to distinguish the morality of what is good and what is evil.  A morality that is clearly defined through a well formed conscience founded in the Magisterium of the Church and the essential truths proclaimed in the Doctrine of the Faith.  Grant us the grace to proclaim these truths in our daily actions and our fidelity to Our Holy Mother Church so that the very Splendor of Truth may reign in every human heart created in the image of Your very likeness, O Triune God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, Three Divine Persons, One God.  O Mother of the Word Incarnate, despise not our petitions but in your mercy hear and answer me.  Amen. 

The ETERNAL WORD

The Fathers of the Second Vatican Council, in the Constitution Sacrosanctum Concilium, sought to make “THE TABLE OF THE WORD” offer the TREASURES of SCRIPTURE more fully to the FAITHFUL.(9) Consequently they allowed the biblical readings of the liturgy to be PROCLAIMED in a LANGUAGE understood by ALL. It is CHRIST HIMSELF who SPEAKS when the HOLY SCRIPTURES are READ in the CHURCH.(10) The Council Fathers also urged the celebrant to treat the HOMILY as part of the liturgy, aimed at explaining the WORD OF GOD and DRAWING OUT its MEANING for the CHRISTIAN LIFE.(11) Forty years after the Council, the Year of the Eucharist can serve as an important opportunity for Christian communities to evaluate their progress in this area. It is not enough that the biblical passages are read in the vernacular, if they are not also PROCLAIMED with the care, preparation, devout attention and meditative silence that ENABLE the WORD OF GOD to TOUCH PEOPLE’S MINDS and HEARTS. Supreme Pontiff John Paul II (October 2004- October 2005) Apostolic Letter Mane Nobiscum Domine.  Libreria Editrice Vaticana.

JMJ

PROCLAIMED with the MANIFESTATION of a GOD who is SO AWESOME IN HIS SPLENDOUR, the PRIEST speaks and SPRINGS FORTH A DRAWING of LIVING WATER from the LIFE of the LIVING GOD through the GOSPEL of CHRIST!  ENABLING the Word of God to penetrate deeply into the HEARTS of MAN in which a NEW HORIZON can ever more be fully brought to its FULFILLMENT a drawing forth of the meaning of SALVATION!  How are the FAITHFUL to ever know CHRIST unless it is SPOKEN from a HEART in LOVE WITH CHRIST!   DETERMINED with a MANIFESTATION OF CHRIST DIVINE LOVE, HE who speaks for CHRIST HIMSELF, SPEAKS for the ETERNAL GLORY of the TRIUNE GOD!   Hungering for the DIVINE, Man seeks His Salvation through the WORD OF GOD in proclamation through a SOUL who has been INEBRIATED by the BLOOD OF CHRIST; the TREASURES of the DIVINE WORD comes to FULL FLOW from a MOUTH PROCLAIMING TRUTH in ALL IT’S ESSENCE!   Here we find a GLORIFICATION that brings forth a NEW SALVATION for those in need of a HOPE that brings to LIFE what has been dead.  Created to KNOW HIM who is LOVE ITSELF, we the FAITHFUL SEEK REFUGE in the ETERNAL WORD made FLESH!  Seeking more to know HIM who is TRUTH, enables the HEART to be FULLY ALIVE by the SPOKEN WORD OF DIVINE LOVE!   Where can we FIND the LOVER OF ALL SOULS, but HERE IN THE WORD, the ETERNAL WORD, brought into flesh through the HEART OF THE LIVING GOD!  Beating with LOVE for CHRIST, she seeks HIM whom her HEART LOVES and HEARS her NAME from the very PERSON OF CHRIST, knowing that it is CHRIST ALONE, SPOKEN from the very mouths of the SACRED PRIESTHOOD that He will bring to FULL COMPLETION the DESIRES OF HER HEART! 

Divine Word made FLESH, the manifestation of your ETERNAL GOODNESS has no bound from a HEART TOTALLY AND COMPLETELY YOURS!  Has the MOTHER OF MY LORD not only come to me in Her GLORIOUS SPLENDOUR, but also gives to me HER DIVINE SON through the LIVING WORD OF GOD!  Spoken with the FIRE OF DIVINE LOVE, my HEART is INEBRIATED with the TRUTHS OF CHRIST HIMSELF and the TREASURES OF INFINITE GOODNESS IS OVERFLOWING WITH HIS DIVINE GRACE!  How GENEROUS HE IS TO COME TO ME, NOT only in WORD but in FLESH!  And to REMAIN here on EARTH through the Most HOLY and DIVINE EUCHARIST!  The MAGNANIMOSITY of the GRANDEUR of CHRIST has been ETERNALLY embedded into my HEART and I am brought to my KNEES in ADORATION of the MOST HOLY AND TRIUNE GOD! 

EVALUATE WELL, O PRIEST OF CHRIST, on the PROCLAMATION OF THE WORD through your own existence as a STEWARD of His DIVINE WORD!  For the judgment you have been commended to PROCLAIM with FULLNESS will be brought to LIGHT on the DAY OF SALVATION!  For the SOULS you have FED with your HOLINESS, is the HOLINESS of GOODNESS that is manifested through every WORD that HAS BEEN HEARD FROM the VERY MOUTHS OF THE SACRED PRIESTHOOD!  THE MEASURE OF YOUR HOLINESS, is the MEASURE OF GREATNESS THAT WILL SPRING FORTH IN THE MANY AND ABUNDANT HARVEST OF THE ETERNAL KINGDOM!  I bow in adoration to the SACRED PRIESTHOOD and WITH FULL GRATITUDE to YOUR CALL, I OFFER A LIFE FULLY CONSECRATED TO CHRIST.  May God’s Divine Grace fully MANIFEST HIS DIVINE SPLENDOUR through the GOODNESS He has bestowed on me through the SACRED PRIESTHOOD, DIVINE WORD PROCLAIMED IN ALL ITS FULLNESS!  Mother of the DIVINE EUCHARIST, enfold me in Your ARMS and PROTECT THE HEART OF YOUR CHILD!  For it is in you that I have found my SALVATION and the SPOUSE OF MY HEART!

Mary Conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.  Amen.