Your heart: a living tabernacle...

"Live in the joy and peace of the divine Majesty.

Live lost in divine love." - St Paul of the Cross

"How wonderful are the treasures which are enclosed in the 

divine Eucharist! I exhort you, even though you live in the world, 

to receive Communion often, but with piety. Holy Communion 

is the most efficacious means of uniting one's self to God.

Always prepare yourself well for this sacred banquet. 
Have a very pure heart, and watch over your tongue, 
for it is on the tongue that the Sacred Host is laid. 

Carry Our Lord home with you after your thanksgiving and 

let your heart be a living tabernacle for Jesus. Visit Him often 

in this interior tabernacle, offering Him your homage, and the 

sentiments of gratitude with which divine love will inspire you. 

Preserve carefully the sentiments of love with which 

you are filled after Communion."

St Paul of the Cross
Italy ~ 1694-1775
Priest, Mystic, powerful teacher/preacher
Founder - Passionist Order
To vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience they added a fourth: 
to spread devotion to Christ’s passion among the faithful.
Feast Day - October 20

Photo credit:  chuanpis/Shutterstock

When you are alone in your room, take up 

your crucifix, kiss its five wounds reverently, 

tell it to preach to you a little sermon, and then listen 

to the words of eternal life that it speaks to your heart; 

listen to the pleading of the thorns, the nails, the precious Blood.

Oh, what an eloquent sermon!" - St Paul of the Cross

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"I want to set myself on fire with love... I want to be entirely on fire with love...

and I want to know how to sing in the fire of love."- St Paul of the Cross

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"Let everything in creation draw you to God.  Refresh your mind with some 

innocent recreation and needful rest, if it were only to saunter through

 the garden or the fields, listening to the sermon preached by the flowers, the trees, 

the meadows, the sun, the sky, and the whole universe.  You will find that they exhort 

you to love and praise God; that they excite you to extol the greatness of 

the Sovereign Architect Who has given them their being." - St Paul of the Cross

St Paul of the Cross (excellent resource)

Click here: St. Paul of the Cross - YouTube (10 mins)

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St Paul of the Cross, pray for us,
that we may embrace
our crosses with courage!

They have drunk His cup...

 "Who are the martyrs? They are Christians won by Christ,

disciples who learned well the meaning of “loving to the end” 

that took Jesus to the Cross. There is no such thing as love in parts, in 

portions. Love is total: and when one loves, one loves to the end." 

Pope Francis

“Let us honor the martyrs of the Lord
chosen out of every class, as soldiers of Christ
who have drunk His cup and were then baptized

with the baptism of His life-bringing death,

to be partakers of His passion and glory…”

St John Damascus

Exposition of the Orthodox Faith, 4, 15

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Remembering today... 

Sts. John de Brebeuf, Isaac Jogues
and Companions

North American Martyrs ~ +1642-1649*
Six Jesuit priests and two laypersons

Feast Day - Oct. 19

 

Fr Isaac Jogues gave the original European name to New York's Lake George, 
calling it Lac du St. Sacrement, Lake of the Blessed Sacrament.

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*The North American Martyrs and their entrance into eternal life:

St Rene Goupil - Sept 29, 1642

St Isaac Jogues - Oct 18, 1646

St John de Lalande - October 19, 1646

St Anthony Daniel - July 4, 1648

St John de Brebeuf - March 16, 1649

St Gabriel Lalemant - March 17, 1649

St Charles Garnier - December 7, 1649

St Noel Chabanel - December 8, 1649

Prayer to the Eight North American Martyrs

Let us Pray

Protect our land, O heavenly patrons, which you have bedewed with the rich treasure of your blood. Watch over our Catholic Faith which you helped to establish in this new land. Bring all our fellow citizens to a knowledge and love of the truth. Make us zealous in spreading abroad a knowledge of Catholic teachings, so that we may continue and perfect the work which you have begun with so much labor and suffering. Pray for our homes, our schools, our missions; for vocations, for the conversion of sinners, the return of those who have wandered from the fold, and the perseverance of all the faithful. Amen.

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More on the North American Martyrs... (a must read!)

CLICK HERE:  http://catholicism.org/eight-na-martyrs.html

Click here: North American Martyrs - YouTube (6 mins) - Christopher Stefanick

Click here: North American Martyrs - YouTube (2 mins) Apostleship of Prayer

Click here: A Forgotten Founding Father: St. Isaac Jogues | Crisis Magazine

 

Sts. John de Brebeuf, Isaac Jogues
and Companions, pray for us!

Unanimous!...

    "If evils increase, the devotion of the people of God

should also increase."- Pope St Paul VI

“All the supreme teachers, the popes, have been 

unanimous in proclaiming that the devotion to the 

Most Blessed Sacrament and the Holy Rosary 

are the hope and salvation of the world 

in our evil and dangerous era.

 

They have endeavored, by word and example, to 

bring the faithful more closely to Jesus Christ in the 

Most Blessed Sacrament and to Our Lady’s Rosary.”

Louis Kaczmarek

The Eucharist and The Rosary: The Power to Change the World

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 Today...also remembering... 

 

St Luke

Evangelist, Martyr

Wrote Gospel and Acts of the Apostles

In Dives in Misericordia, 

St JPII calls Luke: "Gospel of Mercy"

Greek, Physician, Painter

Convert, then fellow-Worker of St Paul

Symbol: winged ox

Patron:  Artists, Physicians and Surgeons

Feast Day – October 18

 

 

Dearest St Luke, thank you for 

enlivening our love of Jesus as Friend 

through the holy Gospel!

 

"This is a Friend who will not terrify you, 

who will not abandon you.

Hope in Him, and Heaven is yours! "

St Joseph Cafasso

 

Click here: St. Luke - YouTube (2 mins)

 

Saint Luke, pray for us!

Wheat of the Lord...

"The death of the martyrs blossoms in the 

FAITH of the living." - St Gregory the Great

Born in Syria, Ignatius converted to Christianity and eventually became bishop of Antioch. In the year 107, Emperor Trajan visited Antioch and forced the Christians there to choose between death and apostasy. Ignatius would not deny Christ and thus was condemned to be put to death in Rome.  Ignatius is well known for the seven letters he wrote on the long journey from Antioch to Rome. Five of these letters are to Churches in Asia Minor; they urge the Christians there to remain faithful to God and to obey their superiors. He warns them against heretical doctrines, providing them with the solid truths of the Christian faith. The sixth letter was to Polycarp, bishop of Smyrna, who was later martyred for the faith. The final letter begs the Christians in Rome not to try to stop his martyrdom. Ignatius bravely met the lions in the Circus Maximus.

"I am writing to all the Churches and I enjoin all, that I am dying willingly for God's sake, if only you do not prevent it. I beg you, do not do me an untimely kindness.   The only thing I ask of you  is to allow me to offer the libation of my blood to God.  I am the wheat of the Lord; may I be ground by the teeth of the beasts to become the immaculate bread of Christ."-  St Ignatius of Antioch, Letter to the Romans

St Ignatius of Antioch

First Century - d. 107

Bishop, Martyr, Church Father

Disciple of St John the Evangelist
First to use term "Catholic" Church

Feast Day - October 17

 

"My desire is to belong to God." 

 St Ignatius of Antioch

Click here: Matthew Leonard On St. Ignatius of Antioch - YouTube (3:30 mins)

Click here: St. Ignatius of Antioch - YouTube (2 mins)

St Ignatius of Antioch, pray for us!

No progress in prayer?...

  "Cling to God and leave all the rest to Him: 

He will not let you perish.  Your soul is very dear to Him, 
He wishes to save it." - St Margaret Mary Alacoque 

"Are you making no progress in prayer?

Then you need only offer God the prayers
which the Savior has poured out for us in the 
sacrament of the altar.  Offer God His fervent
love in reparation for your sluggishness."

St Margaret Mary Alacoque

France ~ 1647-1690
Visitation Sister
Saint of the Sacred Heart

Feast Day - October 16

 "I need nothing but God, and 

to lose myself in the heart of Jesus."

 St Margaret Mary Alacoque

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Click here: St. Margaret Mary - YouTube (1:20 mins)

Click here: TOP 25 QUOTES BY MARGARET MARY ALACOQUE 

 St Margaret Mary Alacoque, pray for us!

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The Twelve Promises of Jesus to St Margaret Mary

for those devoted to His Sacred Heart:

1. I will give them all the graces necessary for their state of life.
2. I will establish peace in their families.
3. I will console them in all their troubles.
4. They shall find in My Heart an assured refuge during life and especially at the hour of their death.
5. I will pour abundant blessings on all their undertakings.
6. Sinners shall find in My Heart the source of an infinite ocean of mercy.
7. Tepid souls shall become fervent.
8. Fervent souls shall speedily rise to great perfection.
9. I will bless the homes where an image of My Heart shall be exposed and honored.
10. I will give to priests the power of touching the most hardened hearts.
11. Those who propagate this devotion shall have their names written in My Heart, never to be effaced.
12. The all-powerful love of My Heart will grant to all those who shall receive Communion on the First Friday of nine consecutive months the grace of final repentance; they shall not die under my displeasure, nor without receiving their Sacraments; My heart shall be their assured refuge at that last hour

Enthronement and Consecration of the Sacred Heart as King of the Family

WHEN WE ENTHRONE JESUS IN OUR HOMES,  WE PLACE A PICTURE OF HIS SACRED HEART  IN A PROMINENT PLACE TO FOREVER REMIND US OF HIS GREAT LOVE FOR US  AND HOW WE SHOULD GRATEFULLY LOVE HIM  FOR HIS GOODNESS EVERY DAY OF OUR LIVES. This act in faith and love will change your home! Click here: Enthronement of the Sacred Heart www.wf-f.org/SacredHeart_BurkeII.html How to enthrone the Sacred Heart in your home (and heart) (4 methods)