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Hello everyone,

Today, Sunday February 27th, we have 4222 people from all over the world, and from many Christian and some non-Christian denominations, joining together in prayer.

I'd like to continue on the theme of God's Mercy and earlier tonight I received an email with the latest message from an Irish Mystic (or modern-day prophet, as I prefer to call them). She's a middle-aged Mom with minimal education but a lady who is being used in a most powerful way by the Lord. Her messages are tough and continually contain warnings to turn our hearts back to God, not unlike the Prophets of Old and Saint John the Baptist.

Now, I know that Private Revelation is rarely validated by the Church and, in Her Wisdom, the Church is ever cautious in dealing with such. But always in the back of my mind are the words of His Holiness, Pope Urban VIII (1623-44) who stated: 

"In cases which concern private revelations, it is better to believe than not to believe, for, if you believe, and it is proven true, you will be happy that you have believed, because our Holy Mother asked it. If you believe, and it should be proven false, you will receive all blessings as if it had been true, because you believed it to be true." 

And another famous maxim: "By their fruits you shall know them"

Anyway, I found myself reading through this lady's stuff on a website carrying her messages and comments and comments from her spiritual director. I came across something I thought you might enjoy this week. For one of such little education her theological insights are amazing. Her name is Christina Gallagher from the House of Prayer in Achill in County Mayo and she has been the victim of much derision from the media, from many within the Church itself and from many here in Ireland and other parts of the world. I think she's real 'kosher' so I'd ask you to read this week's reflection with an open mind and see if there is anything that strikes a chord with you.

 "Jesus' love for each soul is so enormous, He will never stop loving any soul while there is breath in the person. The Sacred Heart of Jesus is boundless mercy. Jesus can never cease yearning for every soul for He is, and knows only love. It is the person who turns away from God. It is we who in our sinfulness, weakness and humanness walk away from Him because He is always there for us. He never gives up trying to reach any person until that individual draws his last breath and finally decides whether he wants God or not. If we could only realize the loving, beating Heart of Jesus is in every Host of the Holy Eucharist and that the Risen Jesus who feeds us with His flesh and blood awaits us in every tabernacle! Millions would rush to any place in the world to meet and touch Jesus if they heard word that He had come to earth. Why is there not the desire to rush to the nearest church to talk to Him and keep Him company? I do not mean just to ask Him to grant favours but to offer themselves to keep Him company. Jesus would love it if people simply offered themselves in words like,

'Receive me, Jesus. I am here in my nothingness to be with You; to keep You company.'"

Jesus said to Christina: "Pray the Rosary to My Heart for souls who are in great darkness. Offer all your pain to My Merciful Heart. You have experienced the greatest pain of the crown of thorns. Do not fear when you suffer pain, I am close to you. . ."

With the significant erosion of faith in the world especially through the constant promotion of secular and materialistic values through the media, a greater struggle than ever is needed from priests to uphold spiritual values. To undertake this struggle the priests' own faith must be firmer than ever - faith in the very powers given to them at ordination. The power of the priest is Christ's power, derived from Christ's own authority and transmitted by the commission of Christ. Sadly, today many priests have lost faith in the basis of their authority. They, as Jesus laments, in one message to Christina,

'...lack the courage to speak up for My true teachings.'

Jesus regretted to Christina that His priests no longer refer to the Seven Deadly Sins.

THE SEVEN STEPS OF PERFECTION
     
"In January, 1994, I was given an awareness of the means whereby a soul advances in holiness. It concerned ascending the SEVEN STEPS OF PERFECTION, which I had been shown sometime back, but did not really understand then. I was given that God desires the Seven Degrees of His Spirit to permeate the person who is being perfected in the seven areas of our being of heart, mind, body, soul, will, intellect and memory."

These first six areas, depending on their response, can lead the soul into light or darkness. Everything is first of all desired in the heart and the heart then requires the will, the mind, the intellect, the memory and the body to respond in an open channel to permit the seven degrees of the Spirit to purify and strengthen the six areas of our being, whose response will leave the soul in either light or darkness.
     
"THE HEART, because it is the main channel leading to the other faculties, and is itself the source of desire which leaves the other channels open or closed in willing, choosing or action, needs to be purified of its weakness, because the heart can be open or closed to God.
     
"THE WILL can become so unyielding to God's will that it stubbornly resists the prompting of God and becomes shaped in a pattern of self-interest and self-concern and can become too weak to decide for God.
     
"THE MIND can be moulded more and more by the thinking of the world, the expectations of people and the standards of earthly judgment.
     
"THE INTELLECT can lose its realisation of God's Wisdom being supreme, a greater treasure than all human expertise and greatness. It can even rationalise what suits itself and begin even to justify as right what is objectively wrong. A loss of humility before God leads us to trust in ourselves and less in Him: more in our personal potential and less in Him Who is indeed the source and giver of every talent we possess. God may need then to prevent pride from building up and taking us over for then we would lose the greatest gift, God Himself. But as He removes our securities we are made to feel vulnerable and helpless of ourselves.
     
"THE MEMORY can be clouded from consciousness of the merciful deeds of God in our past and need a purifying and a strengthening from the clutter of personal concerns that accumulate and block our loving dependence on the God Who loves us with an everlasting love. To make us realize this, He will have to bring us down to a realization that we are nothing and that we draw all from Him Who is the giver of life itself.
     
"OUR BODY through its weaknesses as a result of original sin and because of constant temptations from the other deadly spirits - apart from pride - who can gain many influences over the bodily appetites and temperament of a person through their attacks of greed, lust, anger, gluttony, envy and sloth, will need strengthening for the mastery over self which is imparted by the Spirit's gift of self-control. This spiritual reinforcement of our higher faculties over our lower appetites will shatter our composure the more dependent on the flesh we have permitted ourselves to become.
     
"THE SOUL through failure of the other faculties to respond to God can experience only light or darkness. Although this work of purifying is not the release of the Holy Spirit as in the Sacrament of Confirmation, it will inevitably result in a freedom of movement for the Spirit already received through the Sacrament for He is hindered and hampered by our imperfections and impurities and the residue of past sins already forgiven.

PURIFICATION CAN BE PAINFUL
     
"The seven degrees of the Spirit of God can be at work at any given moment, or there can be three or four, or any number of degrees of the Spirit at work at any time.
     
"For instance, if the heart is open and the mind is weak and Jesus wants to purify the mind, sometimes the darkness experienced feels like abandonment. The mind is not able to understand, and thinks God has abandoned it until God can, in His degree, penetrate sufficiently to purify that particular area of the mind, and then one can receive the Light and gain the understanding of the Spirit of God. 
     
"If somebody is living with bad thoughts, and God is purifying and strengthening the mind, it has the ability then to overcome the bad thoughts, but when God withdraws that degree of the Spirit from the mind, the mind is in shock, as it were. It feels like a depression, a feeling of distress, while the purifying is taking place. 
     
"As the Spirit of God progresses and works through each area, it is a painful procedure, and the key to everything is surrender; surrender everything for the love of God. 
     
"Until God purifies a particular area, it is like being in a darkness, depending on how open or how blocked the particular area is, and depending which degree of the Spirit of God is at work. The higher degree of the Spirit, the more powerful it will be and the greater will be the shock caused. 
     
"God might bring a person to a particular level and that level can be purified and doing well, but that person can, of their own free will, fall to the temptation of Satan in sin and darkness. The memory, for instance, can forget the mercy of God, and the truth. Then God may have to repeat, in His mercy and goodness, His purification of that person's memory again and re-awaken it's faculty. 
     
"If the will is weak, God will have to work on the will. It is the temptation of the flesh in our free will to decide against the desire God has given in the heart. And if God is working on the will in any degree of His Spirit, the will can get shaky, feel fragile, and even seem about to collapse."

SURRENDER IS THE KEY
     
"The key is surrender. Everything has to be surrendered. As we get to know ourselves we get to realise our own nothingness, that without God we are nothing and the will, more than any other faculty, is instructed and taught by this. We realise that we depend on God for absolutely everything, for His gifts of Light, Wisdom and Mercy and the degrees of the Holy Spirit in every area of our lives. 
     
"The Holy Spirit wants to strengthen all the areas of our being, and since all these areas work together, if there is something blocking any one area, the other areas suffer. The quicker we surrender everything to God, for love of Him, the better; and understand ourselves and our nothingness in the sight of God; and come with hearts totally open and bent on receiving everything from God in humility."

WHEN THINGS GO WRONG
     
"It is easy to surrender when everything is going right, but when things go wrong for us, when a person may say 'Where is God in all this?', we find excuses and have negative thoughts and feel as if we've had enough, then we can fall back to where we were previously. But if we can surrender out of love of God, and not even be interested in questioning, then it is as if the heart is allowed to open up to a greater extent, and the Spirit can flow freely, through this channel, into the soul."

PRIESTS
     
Christina understood that "Whereas consolations of soul follow the process of purification for those God is drawing to perfection through the seven steps, with priests it is generally different. The meaning of the priesthood is to be a victim in union with Jesus: priests share in a special way in the victimhood of Christ, the Great High Priest Who is sacrificed for the sins of the world. The priests who are enduring the purification process will therefore experience emptiness during and following it because the benefits will be applied by God to the souls whom they pasture in their shepherding of God's flock. Jesus pastures His sheep by means of the priest's ministry. So priests will be benefiting the flock in their charge in a deeply spiritual way as they themselves are led closer to perfection by means of the seven steps. 
     
"It would be nothing strange for a priest to go through his entire priestly life feeling no spiritual consolation, a prey to many temptations, emotional loneliness, inner emptiness and as if abandoned by God. In addition, they suffer the lack of knowledge to understand the spiritual fruitfulness God draws from their victimhood - a wealth of spiritual riches to lavish on His little lambs. 
     
"But God also expects the people (His little lambs) to respond to the greatness of spiritual wealth in the sacraments which He provides for them through the victimhood of His priests, by their response in prayer and sacrifice to keep holy the anointed ones of God. 
     
"As in the Scriptures, Jesus questioned Peter three times 'Do you love Me?' and each time Peter replied, 'I do,' Jesus desired that he feed the sheep, he was to fulfil this in the suffering and death Jesus immediately prophesied for him. So Jesus' intention in saying 'Feed My sheep' is 'suffer for My sheep.' The cross is the pasture!"

THE GRACE OF GOD AND HOW WE RECEIVE IT
     
"The highest degree of grace is received through receiving the Holy Eucharist at the Sacrifice of the Mass - for the person who is in the state of grace. This requirement of being in the state of grace shows the importance of the Sacrament of Penance. 
     
"Through the Sacrament of Penance comes the second highest degree of grace we can receive. 
     
"The third highest degree of grace comes through prayer and our good deeds for fellow-members of the Mystical Body. This grace comes as an outpouring from the enormous beacon of Light, the Spirit of God, in unity with every soul, through its higher degrees."

HOLINESS
     
"Holiness is not, therefore, to be equated merely with health of mind or well-being of body, or even with 'wholeness' so called. To be holy means to be wholly in union with the Spirit of God. In this union we draw upon the living source of the everlasting Spring of the Spirit of God."

WHAT HAPPENS AT DEATH
     
"When released from the body each soul is destined for immortal life and its future in eternity is determined by its state when death takes place, and the soul is released from the body. When the body dies and the soul is released, it suddenly finds itself in the full light of awareness, able to see itself as it stands in the sight of God. It then realises the darkness to which the body's actions condemned it. The sensitivity of the soul to the enormity of the Light of God is like the naked eye before the brilliance of a thousand suns and the soul in darkness quivers in pain. It plunges itself into the sea of Hell to avoid the pain of the enormity of the Light."

PURGATORY
     
"The soul destined for Purgatory seeks shade at the level in Purgatory appropriate to its own imperfection. It will automatically plunge itself into Purgatory to be cleansed and purified, aware of all the sins for which it failed to atone sufficiently; it will gladly go to whatever level of Purgatory is necessary, and it will be eternally grateful to God for Purgatory, in the knowledge that it will one day gain His Presence in Heaven."

THE REALITY OF HELL
     
Asked about a soul which dies in mortal sin, Christina said that: "During life, if a soul gets deeper and deeper into sin, darkness and blindness, God will call and call that soul, time after time, urging it to respond to the Light.
     
"But if a person does not want to hear and does not want to see and refused to respond, the body will make of that soul a living hell, in all the faculties of that person, and it responds only to the temptation of the Devil. 
     
"If the person dies in that state, his soul, on being released from its mortality, realizes that it cannot come before the greatness and Light of God in that state, because it just could not bear it. The pain would be too great, because if that soul had been prepared for Hell by the life lived by the body on earth, and it came before the greatness of God - everything of total love and goodness - in the enormity of that Light and Goodness, the soul would suffer enormous agony. 
     
"So it is not so much God condemning it or casting it into Hell, as the soul itself, unable to bear the pain of the enormity of the Light of God casting itself into Hell." she said. (The reality of Hell shows us the importance of Confession, and of true repentance for our sins.)

HEAVEN
     
"The soul when it dies and is purified for Heaven according to the degree of its response to the Spirit and Grace of God, will be drawn to an outer level of that Light of God in Heaven. It will be totally fulfilled according to the completion of its own capacity for God. To the extent of the decrease of self on earth, thereby permitting the increase of the Spirit of God, this capacity is increased in the souls who receive a high degree of God's calling in life. They will be drawn into the deeper areas of the Godhead. Such a soul could be described as a shining crystal allowing the Light of God to radiate or reflect through it, bringing greater glory to God."

SAINTS
     
"Hence, to pray through Our Lady does not distract from the glory of God but actually enhances God's glory for she is what she is in the Blessed Trinity, being the only person at freedom in the Spirit of God to go to the Heart of the Holy Trinity. 
     
"To pray through the saints glorifies God for they are all united in the Spirit of God at whatever level to which they have been drawn. Because they have been drawn into Heaven through the action of their response to His Spirit during their earthly life, God would joyfully permit His Spirit to respond to the earthly soul seeking help through them."

THE CALL TO LIFE IN THE HOLY TRINITY
     
"In the Holy Trinity, we have the Father and Jesus, and uniting Jesus and the Father, the Holy Spirit, tremendous Light and Wisdom, with all His Gifts, and together with the awe and greatness, love and union between the Father and the Son, God's infinite Mercy and Justice. The Father created the World, the Son redeemed it, and the Holy Spirit purifies and draws it to Himself. God desires to draw to Himself those who have been redeemed, and are loved, but through sin they experience darkness and are unable to respond to the Light and the Truth.
     
"God created us to love and adore Him, but being in the world and responding to the darkness of sin, we start to love and serve self. That is the temptation of the world and the flesh that will lead us into a darkness that will blind us from perceiving the Light of God. Although the world is the creation of God, it is the Devil's kingdom which tempts the flesh. Because it is redeemed, the soul can choose through free will the desires of the flesh and the world or the eternal home God has prepared by following Jesus. Jesus is the Way, the Truth and the Life."

GOD DESIRES TO SAVE ALL
     
Christina says that "God wants all souls to be saved, and Jesus died for all of mankind, but God has given each created person free will, and Our Lady has emphasized over and over again, that all a person has to do is stop sinning and to turn back. She is pleading all over the world with her children to come back to Her Son, before it is too late, while they still have time. And this is why Our Blessed Mother even weeps tears of blood, because so many souls are being lost."

FREE WILL
     
Explaining how she understands free will, and how it is left to each one of us to accept or reject God's grace, Christina says "The image that was given to her about how God has given us free will and is always offering us His grace, was in the form of two trees, a Black Tree of Darkness and a White Tree of Light.
     
"I saw from the Tree of Light many white roots going in every direction, and there were larger black roots on the Tree of Darkness and all these roots were intertwined with the narrower roots of the Tree of Light. 
     
"Then it was as if there were little ants running along on the roots, representing people, and each of those on the white roots of the Tree of Light had a little white dot of light on them. And they would be going grand until they met a place where the roots intertwined, and then they would halt at the cross-roads and not know which way to go. And they might then drift off to the other black root of the Tree of Darkness, and then their light would go out. Then they might come again to another meeting place of the two sets of roots, and some would go back to the white roots of the Tree of Light and their light would be seen again. 
     
"As they came nearer to the trunks of the two trees, those who reached the Tree of Light just disappeared into the Light while those on the black roots coming nearer to the tree of Darkness seemed to go at great speed, as if rushing into Hell. That is how is was given to me, and I was shown no in-between.
     
"As I understood it, this was a representation of how free will and the grace of God work, how we receive it, and then reject it, and how God is always forgiving us, through Confession throughout our lifetime, but He has given us free will and He does not force us to accept it."

THE ROLE OF A VICTIM SOUL IN THE MYSTICAL BODY OF CHRIST TO CIRCULATE GOD'S GRACE OF CONVERSION
     
"The more a person surrenders to God, the more the Lord will invite that person to surrender, and the more the person will be enabled by God to receive and respond to His Spirit, Love, and Grace, surrendering in total abandonment and trust. 
     
"What this means is that Gods wills the sins of others to be purified through the victim or suffering soul who surrenders and offers his or her sacrifice to God to be purified in its uniting with the sacrifice of Jesus, thus permitting God to draw many other souls to himself." 

As Christina says, "Look at the crucifix, and see the outstretched arms of Jesus. He went to the cross to redeem us. He was born in a stable to show us He wanted nothing of the world. He had no roof over His Head, showing us the unimportance of everything in the world. Yet He was the Son of God, teaching us as He said, what He had been taught by His Father through the Spirit. So everything that Jesus knew was through the Spirit and He was teaching us the way, the way home - how to gain Eternal Life. He was teaching us that to be nothing in the eyes of the world, is the way home through Him. 
     
"That is why, if we see self as important, or see our progress in the world's eyes, see anything of the flesh, as important, then we have gained nothing. It is only if we gain it through God's Love and Spirit that we gain anything and that we permit God to develop in us, to grow in us. Our souls, then, will be more and more transformed into the likeness and Image of Christ. The more we permit our souls to be transformed, the more will the radiance of God's Spirit and Light reach out and touch others, by the decrease of self and the increase of the Spirit of God. 
     
"This is" as Christina understands it, "how the accepted sufferings and sacrifices of one person who trusts and surrenders, are used by God to help others in the Mystical Body, who are in darkness and sorely in need of His grace. This is how, through the purifying action of God's Spirit in a victim soul, others too can be drawn back to God. This work of purification, then, in individuals is not intended to benefit themselves only. God in His love is drawing good out of it for the conversion of lost souls."

THE PARALYZED HAND AND THE WORKING HAND

Christina was given the example of the two hands, the paralysed hand and the working hand. "If a person has a paralysed hand and cannot use it, then that person must compensate by using the other hand much more. 
     
"The paralysed hand represents the person who cannot be bothered with God, and is without God's enlightenment and the other hand is the other person in the Mystical Body who is prepared to suffer and to co-operate with the Spirit of God in order to convert the other. What Jesus wants to do is to flow His grace of conversion from the working hand to the paralysed hand and so renew His life in that soul." 
     
Christina explains further what she has been given: "When we hear about a 'conversion,' the grace for the renewal of life in that soul comes from the suffering of someone else. With the Mystical Body, God will use the victim soul, to help those who are in the darkness of sin. He will take the victim soul to Himself, and give it His gifts and graces in a greater way. He will nourish it, and give the victim soul the strength and ability to surrender in all things to Him, to be crushed like a grape.
     
"The victim soul is the working hand, and the soul in darkness which does not want to know about the Light, is the paralysed hand. . . It hasn't got the ability, because of darkness and sin, to draw on the Light and ask for the forgiveness of God. When someone is far away from God, in deep sin, that person does not recognize the truth, or the reality of the true presence of God, so Jesus will use the victim soul, and crush it, and the grace and the Light of His Spirit can flow freely to the person in darkness, giving the soul His life anew - renewing God's life in that person." 

Fr. Richard Foley, S.J., is a Jesuit of the British Province. He obtained his Doctorate in Theology in Louvain and taught there for a number of years. A prolific writer and broadcaster, he recently published a new book titled "Mary and the Eucharistic." He visited the House of Prayer and carried out an extensive interview with Christina, the results of which can be found on the website.

http://www.christinagallagher.org/en/

Don't forget that special prayer which can be said at three o'clock especially for those who are dying. Beg Jesus at this hour to have mercy on all the poor souls who are about to die and are on their way to eternal damnation. You can pray and offer no greater act of mercy:

"You expired, O Jesus, but the source of life gushed forth for souls and an ocean of mercy opened up for the whole world. O Fount of Life, unfathomable Divine Mercy, envelop the whole world and empty Yourself out upon us. O Blood and Water, which gushed forth from the Heart of Jesus as a fount of mercy for us, I trust in You. Amen"

Or another little one is:

"O my God, I believe, I adore, I hope and I love You; and I beg pardon for all those who do not believe, do not adore, do not hope and do not love You. Amen"

God Bless till next time,

Mary in Galway

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Two little reminders again for this week - Eucharistic Adoration for Vocations, let's try and make it 1,000,000 hours of Adoration in 2004! You can log in your hours online at their own website below or do as we did here in our Perpetual Adoration Chapel, print off the poster and the forms and leave them in your own Chapel of Adoration, sending in the numbers every week via the website below.

http://www.circleofprayer.com/vocations-poster.html
http://www.circleofprayer.com/vocations-form.html

Here's the Vocations website:

And don't forget those prayers for the Holy Souls, there are some below. Please keep your deceased relatives, friends, neighbours and especially those who have no one to pray for them, in your prayers and at Masses you attend.

Here's the Holy Souls Crusade website.

And below is a great little morning prayer to start the day off and help us to keep focused on the Lord.

May God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit bless you and yours and may Mary keep you in Her heavenly mother's care.

Mary Mullins in Galway, Ireland

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Morning Offerings

Our Father Who art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy name. Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil. Amen

Lord Jesus, I give You my hands to do Your work
I give You my feet to go Your way.
I give You my eyes to see as You do.
I give You my tongue to speak Your words.
I give You my mind that You may think in me.
I give You my spirit that You may pray in me.
Above all, I give You my heart that You may love in me, Your Father, and all mankind.
I give You my whole self that You may grow in me, so that it is You, Lord Jesus, who live and work and pray in me. Amen.

"Breathe in me O Holy Spirit that my thoughts may all be holy;
Act in me O Holy Spirit that my work, too, may be holy;
Strengthen me O Holy Spirit to defend all that is holy;
Guard me then O Holy Spirit that I may always be holy."

"O Holy Spirit, beloved of my soul, I adore You. Enlighten me, guide me, strengthen me, console me, tell me what I should do. Give me Your orders. I promise to submit myself to all that You desire of me and to accept all that You permit to happen to me. Let me only know Your will. Amen"

Chaplet of the Holy Souls

This Chaplet can be prayed on a set of Rosary Beads.

Begin with: The Creed, then 1 Our Father, 3 Hail Marys, 1 Glory Be for the Pope's intentions.

On Large Beads Pray: 

O holy souls draw the fire of God's Love into my soul to reveal Jesus crucified in me, here on earth, rather than hereafter in Purgatory.

On Small Beads Pray:

Crucified Lord Jesus have mercy on the souls in Purgatory

End with: Glory Be three times

Cardinal Newman's Prayer for the Holy Souls

O most gentle heart of Jesus, ever present in the Blessed Sacrament, ever consumed with burning love for the poor captive souls in Purgatory, have mercy on the souls of Your servants. Bring them from the shadows of exile to Your bright home in Heaven, where we trust You and Your Blessed Mother have woven for them a crown of unfolding bliss. Amen.

Prayer of St. Gertrude for the Holy Souls

Eternal Father, I offer you the Most Precious Blood of your Divine Son, Jesus, in union with all the masses said throughout the world today for all the Holy Souls in Purgatory, for sinners everywhere, for sinners in the Universal Church, those in my own home and within my family. Amen."

Prayer for Your Family

"O Dear Jesus, I humbly implore You to grant Your special graces to our family this day. In Your Divine Mercy make our home a shrine of peace, love and faith. I beg You, Dear Jesus, to protect and bless all of us and our families absent and present, living and dead. O Mary loving Mother of Jesus and our Mother, pray to Jesus the Divine Mercy for our family, and for all the families of the world. Ask Him to guard the tiny infant in the womb, the cradle of the newborn, the young in the schools and those about to start their vocations in life. Amen"

Prayer for Your Adult Children

"Heavenly Mother, keep us always in mind of Your Son's great mercy and understanding as we pray for our children. They are grown up now and have left us and are living their own lives according to their own ideals. We feel anxious and worried because they do not seem to feel the need for Christ, to understand the wisdom of His ways, or to be fully at ease with us or themselves. Intervene, dearest Mother, in their lives at the moment You know to be right and help them to understand the things that lead to their peace. Help them to see the need of Christ and to experience the greatness of His love, so that we may all proclaim as You did, that His mercy truly is from generation to generation. Amen"

Prayer to Saint Joseph, Patron Saint of Families

"Good Saint Joseph, Your life and love protected and nourished the Mother of God and Jesus Christ, her son. Your fatherly care led to maturity He through whom all creation began. Through your intercession, may God guide and protect all human life from conception to natural death, and lead our nation in the ways of truth and love. Pray for us, good Saint Joseph, that joined with Christ Jesus, we might give praise to God forever.  Amen"

ACT OF CONSECRATION TO THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS & THE IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY

Most Sacred Heart of Jesus and Immaculate Heart of Mary, I consecrate myself and my whole family to You. We consecrate to You our very being and all our life, all that we are, all that we have and all that we love. To you we give our bodies, our hearts and our souls. To You we dedicate our home and our country.

Mindful of this consecration we now promise you to live the Christian way by the practice of Christian virtues without regard for human respect. O most Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary accept our humble confidence and this act of consecration by which we entrust ourselves and our family to you. In you we put all our hope, we shall never be confounded. Most Sacred Heart of Jesus have mercy on us. Immaculate Heart of Mary pray for us.

Prayer for the World

"JESUS of NAZARETH has triumphed over Death. His Reign is Eternal. He is coming to conquer the world and the time.

"Mercy, my God on those who blaspheme You,
Forgive them, they know not what they do.

"Mercy, my God, for the scandal in the world,
Deliver them from the spirit of Satan.

"Mercy, my God, on those who run away from You
Give them an appreciation for the Holy Eucharist.

"Mercy, my God, on those who come to repent at the foot of the Glorious Cross. May they find Peace and Joy in God our Saviour.

"Mercy, my God, so that Your Kingdom may come, but save souls, there is still time; for the time is near, behold, I am coming. 
Amen

Come, Lord Jesus."

Recite one decade of the Rosary

"Lord, pour out on the whole world the treasures of Your Infinite Mercy."

"Through the Mystery of Your Holy Incarnation,
deliver us from all evil, Lord.

Through Your Nativity,
deliver us from all evil, Lord.

Through Your Baptism and Holy Fasting,
deliver us from all evil, Lord.

Through Your Cross and Passion,
deliver us from all evil, Lord.

Through Your Death and Burial,
deliver us from all evil, Lord.

Through Your Holy Resurrection,
deliver us from all evil, Lord.

Through Your Admirable Ascension,
deliver us from all evil, Lord.

Through the coming of the Holy Spirit, the Paraclete,
deliver us from all evil, Lord.

Through Him whose Name reigns eternal,
deliver us from all evil, Lord."

Prayer of Protection

Blessed Michael the Archangel, protect us in the hour of conflict. Be our safeguard against the wickedness and snares of the devil. May God restrain him, we humbly pray, and do thou, Oh Prince of the Heavenly Hosts, by the Power of God, thrust satan down to hell and with him all the wicked spirits who wander through the world for the ruin of souls. Amen

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The Current Reflection and all of the Reflections to date are available to read in the Archives on the website for anyone who's interested.

The Prayer Intentions are available in the prayer book on the website but please say the two wee prayers below. The Loving Father knows the heart of each person requesting prayer.

"Father, bless all those who have requested prayers in whatever it is that You know they may be needing this day! Father, we ask You to heal the broken bodies, broken minds, broken spirits, broken hearts and broken marriages and may all their lives be full of Your peace, prosperity, and power as they seek to have a close relationship with You. Amen."

"Thank You Jesus for answering our prayers because we know You hear every prayer and never refuse to answer. You are providing answers and healings from the prayers of all these wonderful people. Praise God!"

May God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit bless and guide you and yours and may Mary keep you in Her heavenly mother's care.

Mary in Galway

'The fruit of silence is prayer; the fruit of prayer is faith; the fruit of faith is love; the fruit of love is service; the fruit of service is peace.' (Blessed Mother Theresa of Calcutta)