Month of the Rosary

We can not build the right world with the wrong values.



October is the Month of the Rosary and October 7, the Feast Day of our Lady of the Rosary.

The history that runs parallel to the spirituality of the Rosary is one of hope, battle, and victory. It is a history that is - in itself - also in constant need of the transformative power of prayer!

For all of human history is in need of Redemption. Let us think about this when we look at the problems that beset our family of Nations in our present time. We need to make the past bury the past - a lot.

Our present time needs prayer, for where the present seem dark, it needs to be won through prayer - and an attitude of spirit and thought - one of holy communion and therefore, illumination. 

For the eye of the heart sees by shining outward not in. And so we perceive the present - spiritually - not as what it is but always by the light of what it should - hence, the blind can not lead the blind. 

Man must have recourse to prayer - as a common human need. And so let us know in our hearts today - all human hearts, for as long as they are human, must pray. And let us together universally develop an abiding respect of those who pray - for all prayer is battle.

Indeed, O Christian soul, we must together fight for these necessary things and the interior rewards they promise in the battle of prayer - joined with the common prayer of all Mankind.

That in our seeking for the LORD, our God, we may be found by Him in a posture that is truly becoming of our inward relationship with the Father of all our hearts, in a posture of freely giving (Christ-love) and therefore, of freely receiving (Christ-joy).

We win these things (and more) not in shallow waters - but by setting our souls forth into deep water - deeply immersing ourselves in our thoughts - nearer and nearer to our Lord, Jesus Christ, as Word of the Father, accompanied by our Lady of the Rosary - with hearts alive to the Love of the Holy Spirit -

Seeking to set the world on fire.

The month of the Rosary is a month dedicated to the battle of prayer - and the little victories that can be won through the Mother to the Son - unto the Final Victory no less of Peace over War -

And the realization of the hope of all human Nations - in the glory of God forever!

So let us together pray the Rosary this month for peace in our times... and peace around our world...
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I myself am not a perfect vessel to deliver to you these words, my brothers and sisters in Christ Jesus. My prayer life is quite lacking for I am a sinner in need of God's constant care and mercy.

But I never give up. I have always been stubborn like this... but God broke me and made me His. I fall and I fall and I fall but I simply can not be not Christ's.

And so, despite everything, we should also never give up on making ourselves better instruments of God - souls made straight and hearts made new - alight with the right values, loving spirits ready to raise up for the LORD, a braver, better world for our humanity - true to our common salutation, Peace.

Walker on the Path

If you think the straight path is straight because of the path, you haven't really looked beyond yourself to see what lies ahead...



Peace be with you!

If you feel that our world -
which needs so much of our love and care -
is presently difficult and confusing,
then let us fall back to our own nation
and work to improve the peace of our Republic
from within our national communities.

If you feel like our nation -
which needs so much of our love and care -
is presently difficult and confusing,
then let us fall back to our own selves
and work to improve the peace of our Republic
from within our own families
and circle of friends.

All of this we can achieve
by continually choosing to being better
than our own worst selves...
and in spite of it.

(Is not the first meditation of our rosary of hope
the strongest foundation of all the other hopes?)

- selah -

We do what we can, the best we can -
the rest we leave to the care of Almighty God
and to other citizens not unlike ourselves.

The straight path is straight not because of the path
but because of the walker on the path.
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Refer to: Salutation #83 (Straight Path)
              Salutation #150 (Rosary of Hope)

Salutation #150

A Christian without prayer is like a soldier without a rifle.



(Rosary of Hope)

My people -

Do not be afraid
neither be confused.

Dark have our times become
so we have to let the darkness be...

Let us busy ourselves
not with the darkness.

Let us busy ourselves
with the things of the light.

And learn
of the coming of the morning
even in the midst of the night.

In these times,
we have a need to shine
ever as the stars promised of old
to our Father Abraham -
together this time.

Therefore,
I will share each with you
(though I feel most unworthy to do so),
my brothers and sisters in Jesus Christ,
the horizontal aspect of the vertical rosary -

The rosary of hope.

   I need your help in praying this rosary.

   Let us intercede for each other
   with the Blessed Mother.

   Let us pray as a nation.

For
we now
have reason
under this season
to pray harder,
hope brighter,
love kinder,
and believe truer
than we ever
have before.
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Rosary of Hope (condensed)

I have gleaned from this rosary
many of the things I have come to know
about our undertaking of Country
in relation to our own nation
and in relation to our kindred nations
though I am not perfect in my prayer habits.

This is so
because God is merciful
and our Lady loves this nation
and through our nation wills to extend this love
to all the nations of the children of Mankind
through the liberation of the human heart in prayer
   (the ultimate expression of which
   is the Eucharistic Reign of Jesus Christ
   in and across all Christian hearts)
and the gradual strengthening of the human spirit
in and across all our kindred nations,
making us all one human family - in hope.

Begin with the intention to begin:

Lord Jesus, let me offer to You, this rosary of hope.

+Sign of the Cross

The Apostle's Creed -
meditate on Christian unity
and harmony among the churches.

The First our Father -
meditate on the unity of the LORD, our God.

The first three Hail Mary's -
meditate on the distinct Personages
of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

The first Glory be -
meditate on the glory of God;
the culmination of all our faith,
the realization of all our hopes,
the perfection of all our love -

Identify (intimately) with the Kingdom in thee,
seek to bring it forth into the darkness of the world.

The Five Meditations

1st Meditation - True Self
2nd Meditation - Family
3rd Meditation - Friends
4th Meditation - Nation/s
5th Meditation - Mother Church

The our Father -
obedience and submission
to the will of God for you.

The 10 Hail Mary's - lineages of hope -
here you will take your petitions with our Lady
into the Presence of God, our Father.

The Glory be
meditate on the glory of God;
the culmination of all our faith,
the realization of all our hopes,
the perfection of all our loves -
here you will now lovingly surrender
the fruit of thy thoughts
with our Lady
into the hand of Jesus Christ,
our one Savior.

After each Meditation pray:

"O my Jesus
zealous for souls
thirsting for the love of Mankind
Come, Lord Jesus,
be Thou the God of my heart
and accomplish in me Thy will of Peace."

Here you will take
positive personal responsibility
to freely act on the fruits of thy prayer.

You may finish with a Salve Regina
or any Marian Salutation.

Remember,
the rosary is a house.
It is the house of the Immaculate.
Respectfully thank our Lady for allowing us 
entrance into intimacy of her home.

+Sign of the Cross

Gradually come out of your mediation...

Some Personal Notes:

When people ask you for your prayers
or when your heart is inclined by the Spirit of God
to intercede in behalf of other people,
needful as thou art needful,
you can now include these
in a particular mediation in this rosary.

Prayer requests feed into this rosary.

If you pray them
in the atmosphere of each meditation
with an open and loving heart,
you will gain certain insights
on the hopes that other people bear
for self and for others like the self
and these insights will serve to strengthen
your own sense of charity.

This likewise holds true with your own hopes.

You must never again
say yes to a prayer request
without meaning yes!

Never offer to pray
for the hope of another
without will or understanding.

Remember,
prayer is in your spirit
it is an attitude of thy heart -
as far as your soul is concerned
it is the first thing and the last thing 
for it begins not and it ends not
you feel it motion when you are still
and when you are disturbed, it is calm
stirring up only the darkness in thee
that you may soon remember
that you may soon know
that you may soon be.

So always give thanks 
to the Holy Spirit Who loves us 
to no end.

A Sample Schedule:

Mon - Joyful
Tue - Sorrowful
Wed - Glorious
Thu - Luminous
Fri - Hope
Sat - Hope
Sun - Hope/Holy Mass

Click on the Label "Rosary of Hope" below for further reference.

Mabuhay ang Pilipinas! God bless us all.

20111007

Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary

"A Christian without prayer is like a soldier without a rifle."

My brothers and sisters of the Promise, I have always stressed both the importance of prayer as well as the universality of prayer.

Prayer is as necessary to the soul of Man as breathing is to his body.

There is no Man on earth - past, present, or future - who, having seen creation in a constant state of prayer, has never thought to look inward and gaze into the depths of that irresistible Silence within himself without asking the questions he knows in his heart of hearts he may only address to God.

No human heart is fool enough to resist the power of prayer. Indeed, all of creation around us - seen and unseen - exists in a constant state of prayer.

Therefore, no Man who has ever existed, exists or shall ever exist may ever truly claim to have never prayed.

For prayer is a common human need. It is an attitude of the human heart.

In a faithful Republic, prayer is protected and this protection extends especially to all places of holy worship - temples, churches, synagogues, and mosques.

Prayer is the first thing. It is also the last thing.

- selah -

Brothers and sisters in Christ the Lord, the Roman Catholic feast we celebrate today is perhaps, the only feast that celebrates the power of prayer. It is significant in our times in that, it has the power to bring our nation into a state of more perfect unity.

As nations, we have been formed in battle - the history of the feast of the Holy Rosary is witness to this fact - War is the reason for which we now exist as nations.

As nations, we have fought each other for so long it has become difficult to accept that Peace, not War, is the Cause for which we have always existed as nations.

War gave us our fiery births. But God is our beginning as well as our last end.

I bid us to reflect on this and to also reflect on our Rosary of Hope. October is after all, the month of the Most Holy Rosary.

In this new age of peace, the Rosary will take on a new significance. It shall serve to combat the greatest nemesis of the Queen of Peace - the beast of War.

So let us honor our Lady by learning to be strong in Christ, our Savior, and let us begin this by a persistent, almost suicidal bent on Christian prayer.

After the omnipotent and invulnerable prayer of Holy Mass, let us cling to the humble, trusting and thoughtful recitation of the Rosary of our Lady as a choice weapon in the spiritual combat.

Let us become proficient in its use!

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Please also read: A Remembrance of Fatima

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Mabuhay ang Pilipinas! God bless us all.

Mama Mary, Queen of Peace, pray for us who have recourse to thee!

Mama Mary, Help of Christians, pray for us who have recourse to thee!

Mama Mary, Refuge of Sinners, pray for us who have recourse to thee!

Saint Maximilian Kolbe, Patron Saint of the Suffering Addict and Refuge of the Recovering Addict, pray for us who have recourse to thee!

Blessed Jacinta Marto, Courageous for Sinners, pray for us who have recourse to thee!

Prosper the Peace. Prosper the People.

20110719

Salutation #40

(New Heavens and the New Earth)

To my Holy Mother Church,

especially to the Church in the Philippines -

AT THE DAWNING

of the new heavens and the new earth,

my beloved friend and constant companion -

after our General Judgment at the Last Day

here at the beginning of all things new -

I would that you shall prayerfully

ponder upon these things

that I shall share with each of you:

If the holy angels in heaven are arrayed in their choirs;

our humanity at our restoration shall be arrayed as our one family of nations -

ascended nations, perfected in peace and human community

and infinitely wholesome with all kinds of good things.

For God shall be our Country,

God's perfect Peace shall be our State

and we shall each possess as our eternal belonging,

the wonderful strength of all of our national communities -

all who are good and who have left this world in friendship with God,

reborn and perfected in everlasting friendships with each other in God,

dwelling forever in pious society with all the Holy Angels of God.

True Light shall imbue and permeate our quicksilver reality

with a golden radiance, as the infinite majesty

of the one Presence of the LORD - our one triune Perfection,

shall for all Eternity completely rest

upon the one whole one of our human habitation;

upon all of our worlds, within and without,

shining out unto all of our cities in the visible universe

stretching out from before our feet.

Our own true skies above our souls

shall be conscious and awake to our human longings

and open to the radiant light of our heavens above,

receptive to all our heart's yearnings

as well as responsive to our mind's eagerness to learn -

for not only shall we be ageless as the Angels of the LORD,

we shall also be timeless as they are timeless

and travel the way the timeless and the ageless travel - by speed of spirit -

moving from thought to thought, love to love,

faster than light, sliding from moment to moment,

and we shall nevermore feel pain nor hunger,

neither shall the fear of separation or death anymore haunt our steps

as we labor to discover and understand - together - without effort

the inexhaustible mysteries of time and creation, salvation and redemption -

ever as the vision of our LORD opens up to our souls - face to face -

to bring our lives forevermore into a state of constant felicity.

And,

greatest and most exquisite of all wonders -

our Savior, Jesus Christ - our one True Light,

shall walk among us once again - bodily -

even as the most gentle mind and the most loving heart

of our Lord Christ dwells with us from within

as our own true rest,

ever as timeless as the Peace of the Holy Spirit of God

- within our souls -

bringing us into a permanent unity with the Father in Eternity

and into communion with all the blessed Saints of God -

those prophets, kings, queens, bishops

and the all the true heroes of all Mankind -

each and every one of them servants and friends to Him alike

- from all times and from all places -

whose living fruits are made edible for All and fruitful forever

who are, each of them, elect of the LORD from Eternity

and upon whose happy company we shall be included forever

as the one ascended family of the perfected nations of Mankind.

And we shall know all of this

and many more things when we get there, Beloved of God -

but verily, we will not get there - at the one gathering -

as perfected nations lest our own nations survive here

in this midnight place of War and sin;

here in our hearts, here in our poor world.

Furthermore,

my brothers and sisters in Jesus Christ,

at the approach of the closing of 2012, do not be disturbed,

for there shall be many who will say that the hour of the LORD is here.

But until God Himself decides to work out the way

to bring about His promised hour, as it is foretold by our Savior Himself,

let us bear in mind - here and now -

No man, no angel, not even our Lord JESUS CHRIST Himself,

knows the exact hour of the Last Day;

only God the Father knows precisely when the gossamer veil of time

shall be ripped in two

and our fragile, shadowy existence

directly exposed to the unmitigated, immovable, supernatural reality

of the blinding purity of the Divine existence.

So in the unfolding of our reality today,

my beloved friend and constant companion,

here in this present time,

even as War is still among our nations,

let us be sure that sufficient to the evil therewith

is the light of our Day, shining from within,

ever as the numberless stars of our Father Abraham.

Let us be constantly mindful of all of these things

that we may learn to respect and understand

the reason why things are they way they must be:

Why we must make this choice for Peace

at a time, times and half-a-time,

here in our hearts, here in our lives,

here in our nations, here in our Midnight world,

under this greater season of Sky

or forever lose something good in our becoming

- as nations dreaming together this time -

that we will never know the completeness of.

Lastly,

I commend to you the request of our Lady

that we pray for each other and all people of good will

- everyday - as much as we can (when not doing so at Holy Mass)

and work in our hearts to preserve our horizontal relationships

as true individuals reborn in the Spirit of Christ,

as family to our families, as friends to our friends,

as citizens of our nation and of all nations,

and as faithful and obedient children of our Holy Mother Church -

even through her Rosary of Hope.

For the salvation of so many rests on so very few.

These are perilous times indeed.

But we should never fall into a state of despair,

my friends - God has overcome the world - for us.

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General Judgement - An Outline

• The Song of Moses and the vigilant hymn of the Triumphant Church.
• Some will not taste death: The final triumph of the Militant Church.
• The emptying of the tomb: the Resurrection of the Body.
• The gathering of the one family of the nations of Mankind.
• The public revelation of the mysteries of salvation.
• The passing of judgment prepared from the foundation of the world.
• The breaking of the midnight world: the passing away of the exile darkness.
• The end of the necessitate Suffering Church.
• Sin exorcised forever: the eradication of death and suffering.
• God wipes away all tears: the exorcism of the pain of memory.
• The reunification of heaven and the inhabited earth: the final liberation of the habitations of life.
• The Beatific Vision: The nature of the finite and the infinite reward for virtue.
• The citizens of the Holy City: Why one must never judge without hope.
• The noble society of Men and Angels: the friendships that remain are the friendships that shall remain forever.
• The end of the beginning at the beginning of all things new.
• Happiness becomes a dedicated place as well as a state of being.
• Hellfire becomes a dedicated place as well as a state of being.
• The everlasting death of Satan and the reprobate, of forsaken memory.
• Epilogue - Our Peace is Prologue: The Sacred Wounds of our Lord Christ: The Love that remembers is the Love that remains: one Love, one LORD, and We, one People - forever.

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The First Law of Human Possession

Why did God create the universe first before creating Man?

Because Man belongs to the universe and not the universe to Man.

Nature is not a mere possession that extends out from the hand of Man but rather, Man is its necessary keeper so that from the hand of Man through the goodness of God, Nature is made complete - for Man.

This is the first law of human possession - what Man desires to possess Man must first make complete. For the resources of the earth (and the universe entire) may only be truly possessed by Man by its completion in Him.

Man possesses Nature inasmuch as Nature is made complete by Man through God - for Man - and not destroyed by token of Man's irresponsible use of his or her own human powers.

When I think of this in practical terms, I am presently inclined to think about our current policies regarding land use.

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Mabuhay po tayong lahat! God bless all His nations of the one family of the nations of Mankind.

Common Ground

20110306

In the great CSPGS PREX tradition, Catholic ears please!

A Meditation on Hope

FAITH is the life of Christian community.
LOVE is the heart of Christian community.

HOPE is the atmosphere of Christian community.
It is both our breath and our breathing together.

Hope is the eternal spaces between our souls
that distinguish us from love to Love.

It is our faith reversed from the view of the Divine
and our faith received into the welcome hearts of others.

It is a thing that awaits our embrace
existing not in the past nor the future
but always in the present moment.

Hope floats from the deep of God's mystery -
Those timeless little white flowers that grow
upon those wide, open plains and rolling hills,
those evergreen valleys and high mountaintops
of the Eternal Kingdom of our Lord Christ
born from seasons of life's comings and goings
anchored firmly upon the Rock of Ages.

Hope is a promise of something good
and a reality that awaits unredeemed
to be perceived by the eyes of our faith
and received by arms of our souls
into the embrace of the love of Jesus Christ
living by the grace of God in our heart of hearts.

It is the unseen substance of the faith
of individuals and families, tribes and nations,
the vital heritage of entire civilizations -
the numberless promises of lives left behind,
suspended in time between heaven and earth,
living in the ether of a sacred silence
as something for our hearts to embrace...
hopes awaiting the community of other hopes
like the past awaiting the quickening of the present
within the eternal remembrance of God.

My precious friend,
from always to always.
Our faith is ever always our own.
It is something we allow.
It is something we nourish.
Like a sacred union professed,
one love alone with the One Love alone,
ever longing profoundly for Itself.
It is something personal and private
and bears its fruits for the Beloved.

But our hope for it to become
is always the promise of something received,
of a good that we can share with another.
It is something that awaits us
like a herald of the benevolent Prince
that bid us to come into His Eternal Kingdom.
Hope is something to be fulfilled
not by the bearer to whom it is promised
but by the beneficent reality of its Provider
and bears its fruits for the one possessed.
For how can one hope in one's own self
without killing the faith that enable us to see?

Indeed, our hope is in Jesus Christ!
It is our LORD's peace that we share.
It is God's promise for you and me
that matters very, very much!

It is His promise that we must hold on to
through our love and faith in Him
for it is to our God that we must trust.

Hope is what keeps us together.
It is our quite common longing as human beings.
It is always something to be shared
and lends warmth to our being human.
It feeds our hearts with goodwill
and keeps our souls good company.

It is the rarefied space where mercy acts
in the timeless moment of the now
to redeem from despair the truth
that live in other peoples lives.

It fills the sails that advance our common humanity.
It is the unselfish pride and excitement we feel
when we honor something true and worthy of praise
in the excellence within the person of another.

It feeds the fire that keeps us Christian
keeping us ever ready and agile
to serve all souls without distinction.

Glory to the God of heaven and earth,

Adoration to Jesus Christ, our Lord!

Peace and Godspeed to our Holy Father,

Pope Benedict XVI,

and all Bishops in communion
with the successor of Saint Peter.

Peace and Godspeed to our Holy Mother Church!
With much prayers for our Church Suffering -
all our beloved Holy Souls
of family and friends
forever transformed

by their final encounter with God.
All who lived so bravely
and loved us so tenderly,
all whose final hopes on earth
they have now lovingly entrusted to us.

Much prayers and loving support
to all our clergy, our religious and
to each other as Christian laity -
all who live to serve the one God of life
in spirit and in truth.

Peace and Godspeed to all of blessed Christendom
and to all the just who walk this world with us -

may we all work together towards a better world

for all men, women and children of all nations

of the one family of the nations of Mankind.

God be with all of us - now and forever.

So lets pick those little white flowers for Jesus,
and give each day our Savior a lovely bouquet -
joyously extend the Love of God to those in need
these make our Savior's Heart very glad, indeed!

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Rosary of Hope

They say, brothers and sisters in Christ, that the Rosary has a body and soul. The body of the Rosary are its physical gestures - the posture that we take, the Signing of the Cross, the passing of the beads - and also the vocal prayers themselves. And these are like handrails that guide us forward in the prayer. They allow our hearts to venture out into the more vital aspect of the Rosary, its soul.

I would like to put emphasis on the soul of the prayer because it is here where the real work actually takes place which is - in the case of this particular Rosary - the five meditations meant to make us more and more accustomed to our own hope in relation to God's plan for each of us (true self) and also the hope of others (family, friends, nation/s) in relation to God's plan for all of us together (Church).

Because of the darkness, my beloved, we can be certain that there are false hopes out there. Indeed, there is much despairing. For hopes that are false lead no where. The Devil is empty of promise - one can build from his illusions who believes in his deceptions a confidence in a hope that is false, even a confidence approaching faith. One must be wary of such things, my friends.

One may hope in war and reap only despair. One may hope in money and reap only bitterness. One may hope in drugs and reap only loneliness. One may hope in sin and reap only death. All these things take the soul to the perilous brink of eternal damnation.

And all these acts are contrary to the virtue, hope.

I had once hoped in things that are false and reaped much evil. Only by the grace of God, my friends, only by the grace of God am I saved through faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.

It is in the course of those events of my past life that I have received this Rosary. It is something I had to gradually learn. It is something I have received from Mother Mary for something I had asked of her which is a freedom from false hopes; a liberation form false addictions.

This prayer is proof against such things. Because through it one may stand to gain a certain sense of confidence (built upon an understanding strength of heart) to help devote the self to those authentic lineages of hope that ultimately lead to the fulfillment of the glory of God in heaven reflected upon our world; peace among our nations and good will among all men and women of peace.

You must first make the intention that you will be praying this Rosary of Hope - you may say: "Dear Lord Jesus, please allow me to offer you this prayer of hope."

Overview:

Hope is a lineage (portrayed by each of the Five Meditations) that begins with God and ends with God. It begins with loving obedience (Our Father). It proceeds as a promise kept in the heart and a labor wrought in time through perseverance, patience, humility and a proven faith in the faithfulness of the LORD (Hail Marys). And a promise fulfilled in the glory of God (Glory Be) in heaven reflected upon the earth; the glory of God being the proper terminus of all hope.

Parts:

The Sign of the Cross - It might be that this has become but a rote gesture. It is important to guard against making this an empty and mechanical gesture.

The Sign is a summary of all that we are to take into our hearts during the entire prayer. We must invite ourselves to open our hearts to the inspiration of the Holy Spirit by the Sign of the Cross. The vertical is our relationship of faith. The horizontal is our relationship of hope. This prayer concentrates on the horizontal relationship.

Creed - meditate on the glorious unity of the Church - Triumphant, Militant, Suffering - the seen and the unseen - all of creation as one realm under the LORD, our God.

First Our Father - meditate on the LORD - The one, triune Perfection - The Holy Trinity - God as a perfect unity of relationships.

Hail Mary - meditate on the Person of God the Father in heaven

Hail Mary - meditate on the Person of God the Son, Redeemer of the world

Hail Mary - meditate on the Person of God the Holy Spirit, the Paraclete

Glory Be - mediate on the fulfillment of all human hopes.

The Five Meditations:

First Meditation - True Self - Be thankful and bless the Name of the LORD, thy God Who has come to save you. Pray that you may appear to yourself clearly by the light of thy faith in the one, true God - love yourself as you are in God - even as your own true name written in heaven - and know that everything begins and returns again with the true self. Pray for all your needs in relation to your mission and vocation in life.

Second Meditation - Family/Extended Family - Be thankful and bless the Name of the LORD, thy God Who placed you from a place of Love into a place of love. Pray that God might preserve your family and the order of your generations. Pray for an understanding of the hopes of your family - past, present and future. Pray for the hopes of all your beloved kin. Pray for their needs. Pray for their individual needs. Ask for the strength to succor to these needs as much as you could as far as you could. Ask for the strength to be faithful to and forgiving of those people for whom it had pleased God to bring you forth into this world and with whom God has seen fit to entrust your nurture and your care.

Third Meditation - Friends/Local Community - Be thankful and bless the Name of the LORD, thy God Who provide for you, Who has given you all good things in heaven and on earth. Pray that God might provide you with good and faithful friends. Pray for an understanding of the hopes of your friends. Pray for the needs of your friends. Pray for their individual needs. Ask for both discernment and humility in your dealings with and within your local community. Pray for a deeper understanding of the hopes of your local community. Pray for the needs of your local community. Pray for the strength to serve in your local community. Pray for the poor in your locality. Do all that you can to succor to their needs. Pray for the needs of your local authorities. Treat them with honor and respect. Pray that God may bless them with wisdom and courage to govern with virtue. Pray for the grace to cherish forever those good and faithful friends God has seen fit to send you to complete for your own good sake what the LORD, thy God, has begun for you in your family.

Fourth Meditation - Nation/s - Be thankful and bless the Name of the LORD, thy God, Whose will it is to fulfill in you the promise of a national destiny and the salvation of thy own community. Be grateful for the gift of nationhood. Pray for a deeper understanding of the particular hopes of your nation and the hopes of other nations. Pray for the intentions of all your national leaders in the Responsible State. Treat them with honor and respect. Serve. Pray for the poor in your national community. Succor to their needs. Love them as yourself. Pray for the needs of your own nation. Pray for the needs of all nations. Pray for the peace of your nation and of all nations.

Fifth Meditation - Holy Mother Church - Be thankful and bless the Name of the LORD, thy God, Who gathers us all together into one communion in Him and with Him through Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord of our LORD - the Second Person of the Holy Trinity. Pray for the intentions of our Holy Father and all bishops in communion with him. Pray for the final hopes of the Church Suffering. Pray for all clergy. Pray for all our religious. Pray for all Christians. Pray for the peace of the world and an end to all suffering and war. Pray for the grace to discern your vocation in the Church and the strength to serve your mission. Pray for our Lord's poor. Succor to all of these needs as much as you can and as far as you can according to the freedom of your gifts.

You may add to these or linger on a particular one according to the particular current or need of your own meditation at that particular time.

After every Glory Be:

God of my Heart:

O my Jesus, zealous for souls,
thirsting for the love of Mankind!

Come, be Thou the God of my heart
and accomplish in me Thy will of peace.

This particular prayer above shall be said with Blessed Jacinta Marto, the Flower of Fatima.

Brothers and sisters, try to see the Lord in others through this prayer. He thirsts for our love through others and by our coming to Him we invite Him into our hearts that He may by His Love give us the grace to accomplish in us what we must do for Him today.

Finally, we have always, as Catholics, relied on our Mother Mary for her swift and efficacious intercession. Now in this prayer we are to come with her - hopes in hand - in the actual moment that she intercedes for us so that we may eventually learn to be like her and intercede with her for the needs of others and receive the grace to do all of those works of peace set by God before our hands and our feet - willingly and with joy.

Having said all of that, this Rosary of Hope in all its entirety we shall be saying with Mother Mary as she intercedes for our needs to God. Therefore, you must cling close to the protection of her mantle. This is very important.

QUEEN MOTHER MARY,

I love you.

Recall me to yourself today
under your most glorious service
as Queen of heaven and earth
and Queen of my heart with Jesus.

Grant me the strength of will
to serve you under your banner
with a heart that loves God alone
that I may persevere in the way of virtue
and add to the good of the world.

Please help me deny myself today
enduring temptations bravely
and bearing trials for Jesus
denying evil an entrance
in my heart and in our world.

O that I may please Almighty God
and prosper God's own peace
in my heart and in our world
for love of all thy children
O Queen of my heart with Jesus,

Queen of Peace!

Lamb of God Who takes away the sins of the world, have mercy on us.
Lamb of God Who takes away the sins of the world, have mercy on us.
Lamb of God Who takes away the sins of the world, grant us peace.

AMEN.

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Latria

As beautiful as the Rosary is, my brothers and sisters, it really only is the second most beautiful of Christian prayers. The most beautiful prayer of all, Beloved of God, is the Holy Mass.

For it is in Holy Mass that we are through Jesus Christ, as faithful and obedient children of the Father, constantly renewed by the Holy Spirit and constantly sent out by token of that same Spirit to renew the world around our selves.

One would think that the Saints, above all the Holy Mother of God, who along with all the Holy Angels of the LORD who are intimately entrusted also with each our own personal and spiritual welfare would encourage us - as far as it is freely possible for them - according to the will of God - to come to this Holy Banquet and not just on Sundays.

One would think that all our Saints would, as God wills it, seek to add each their own voice to the glorious chorale of the Angels that in the quiet of our hearts constantly invite each of us to come to this most excellent and most efficacious of prayers and join the one whole community of the Church in assaulting the Throne of the LORD with much love and song.

They do. For to God alone belong our worship.

However, in the darkness, this is not always so - or at least it is made to appear that way, but not by any of those whose hearts are called to God: To God alone belong our worship.

There are those who love the Saints but not with the love of God but with the love of the self and this is rather sad. That they would rather believe in their own empty creations, be it made in the appearance of popular piety. That they would rather their mind and hearts dwell on other things than come with nothing but a calm and expectant sense of joy to that great and happy Feast of their one and only Creator. That they would rather sit with creatures than sit with our Lord Christ in this supreme celebration pregnant with wonder and hope; a commemoration of the greatest love of all.

Let us not be this way, my friends: Latria!

Granted each of us are come to season in each our own time, but for each of us whose hearts are awakened to an abiding love of the truth that Jesus Christ is Lord, let us know - here and now - with conviction of faith in our hearts that Christ is really and actually present with us and for us in the Holy Eucharist.

From behind mere accidents of bread and wine that our Savior, Lord and God peers at us and He sees our world so needful of His Love, His True Light.

Like a great and eternal Star, Jesus Christ who is Emmanuel shines out to us in the Eucharist - freedom seeking freedom.

Bathed in this illuminating, searching Light, we stand naked before God,

the Light of His Love illuminating for us the great extent of our needs, the most profound depths of it.

"Lord, I am not worthy to receive Thee but only say the word and I shall be healed."

Because, O little flock, it is precisely this sense of a great and profound need within our souls that will serve to fill us with the Bread of Angels. It is our hunger and thirst for God alone that shall satisfy our longing for Him;

God alone Who can grant for our hearts that peace that this world could never even dream of giving us.

And in the Eucharist He offers us Himself. Therefore, we must humbly accept our nakedness and powerlessness before God.

We must never hide from the call of Holy Communion.

So banish the darkness, let us come to Mass! Let us work, work, work to understand it, know it, love it, and live it. Let us

learn the words to this prayer and absorb their meaning so that we may come away filled, fulfilled and ready for service.

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Mabuhay ang Pilipinas! God bless us all.

A community deprived of the feminine expression is barren and desolate. For it knows of no hearth, no home, no place of rest...

no company to renew

no heart to come home into

no cheer to grace with solace

no warmth to bless with courage

no gaze to remind of beauty

no love to bear with injury

no touch to soften the harshness

no fire to tame the wilderness

no peace to prosper life

no strength to ward off strife.

I once thought that Filipina hair was just plain black hair and that was all. Obviously, I was not at all in love with my Philippines then. I never really noticed that our women sported not just plain black hair.

Framed by the warm light of our tropical sun, our women's hair is actually cast in many subtle hues in darkest shades of golden brown. Subtle, not obvious - and pretty but only when love is in the eye of the beholder. Exactly in keeping with our conservative nature.

As far as I am concerned, all our Filipinas are princesses. Beauty being what it is, inherited. We should work to make sure this Country of ours is more a suitable place for all our women.

March 2011 is National Women's Month.

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