My Mother's Other Links

Kylie's Candle - Lourdes, July 23rd, 2016

Open the Links Below by Clicking on Mary's  ♕

1. My Mother Mary - Facebook  ♕
2. My Mother's Rosary  ♕
3. My Daily Prayers  ♕
4. Mary's Little Office  ♕
5. Her Eyes - A Study  ♕
6. My Mother's Radio  ♕
7. Mary's Map  ♕
8. Divine Mercy Chaplet  ♕
9. My Mother's Movies  ♕
10. My Mother's Angelus  ♕
11. Little Visits to Jesus & Mary  ♕
12. My Daily Meditations  ♕
13. My Mother's Way Home  ♕
14. The Lightning Storm  ♕
15. The Thirty Day's Prayer  ♕
16. My Mother's Litany  ♕
17. My Mother's Feast Days  ♕
18. My Mother's First Fridays  ♕
19. My Mother's Photo Album  ♕
20. Where Roses Fall  ♕
21. Our Journey to Lourdes  ♕
22. Sacred Heart Novena  ♕
23. Our Lady of Wengen  ♕
24. My Mother's Bookshelf  ♕
25. The Pilgrim on His Way to Eternity  ♕
26. Being Catholic  ♕
27. Write This Down  ♕
28. Our Lady of Lourdes - H. Lasserre  ♕
29. Dust Boy  ♕

Add any of the Above Links to your iPhone in 3 easy steps.

1. Browse for the URL address.

2. Click on the Up Arrow at the bottom of your iPhone screen.

3. Click on Add to Home screen & Voilà.

O My Lady, you have done so much for me.  Little indeed will it be if I can wear myself out and use up my life for you and your dear Son Jesus.

Your ever loving Dust Boy

Prayers for Holy Communion

Manual for The Children of Mary

Geneva, Switzerland, 2014.

1. Say these Prayers slowly, a few words at a time.
2. It is well to stop after every few words that they may sink into the heart.
3. Each prayer may be said several times.

BEFORE HOLY COMMUNION

Prayer for Help

O my God help me to make a good Communion. Mary, my dearest Mother, pray to Jesus for me. My dear Angel Guardian, lead me to the Altar of God.

Act of Faith

O God, because Thou hast said it, I believe that I shall receive the Sacred Body of Jesus to eat, and His precious Blood to drink. My God, I believe that with all my heart.

Act of Humility

My God, I confess that I am a poor sinner; I am not worthy to receive the Body and Blood of Jesus on account of my sins. Lord, I am not worthy that Thou shouldest enter under my roof; say but the word, and my soul shall be healed.

Act of Sorrow

My God, I detest all the sins of my life. I am sorry for them, because they have offended Thee, my God who art so good. I resolve never to commit sin any more. My good God, pity me, have mercy on me, forgive me. Amen.

Act of Adoration

O Jesus great God, present on the Altar, I bow down before Thee, I adore Thee.

Act of Love and Desire

Sweet Jesus, I love Thee. I desire with all my heart to receive Thee. Most sweet Jesus, come into my poor soul, and give me Thy Flesh to eat and Thy Blood to drink. Give me Thy whole self, Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity, that I may live forever with Thee.

O most sweet Virgin Mary, Mother of God and my Mother, lend me, I beseech thee, thy Immaculate Heart to receive my Jesus: that so I may receive Him by thee, by  whom the world received Him.

O Jesus, I offer Thee Thy sinless Mother's Heart, with its perfect dispositions at the moment of Thy Incarnation and all her communions. Come to me now by her, as I came to Thee by her. With her heart let me receive Thee.

AFTER HOLY COMMUNION

O my Queen, thou hast given me Jesus in thy heart, therefore, now, with the same true heart, entertain Him for me. Adore Him, thank Him, and implore Him for the graces thou knows me to need-in particular . . . . .

ACT OF FAITH

O Jesus, I believe that I have received Thy Flesh to eat and Thy Blood to drink, because Thou hast said it, and Thy word is true.

ACT OF ADORATION

O Jesus, my God, my Creator, I adore Thee, because from Thy Hands I came and with Thee I am to be happy forever.

ACT OF HUMILITY

O Jesus, I am but dust and ashes, and yet Thou hast come to me, and my poor heart may speak to Thee.

ACT OF LOVE

Sweet Jesus, I love Thee; I love Thee with all my heart. Thou knows that I love Thee, and wish to love Thee daily more and more.

ACT OF THANKSGIVING

My good Jesus, I thank Thee with all my heart. How good, how kind Thou art to me, sweet Jesus. Blessed be Jesus in the most Holy Sacrament of the Altar.

ACT OF OFFERING

O Jesus, receive my poor offering. Jesus Thou hast given Thyself to me, and let me give myself to Thee:

I give Thee my body, that it may be chaste and pure.

I give Thee my soul, that it may be free from sin.

I give Thee my heart, that it may always love Thee.

I give Thee every breath that I shall breathe. and especially my last; I give Thee myself in life and in death, that I may be Thine for ever and ever.

O Jesus, wash away my sins with Thy precious Blood.

O Jesus, the struggle against temptation is not yet finished. My Jesus, when temptation comes near me, make me strong against it. In the moment of temptation may I always say, "Jesus, mercy! Mary, help!"

O Jesus, may I lead a good life; may I die a happy death. May I receive Thee before I die. May I say when I am dying, "Jesus, Mary, Joseph, I give you my heart and my soul."

Listen now for a moment to Jesus Christ; perhaps He has something to say to you. There may be some promise you have made and broken, which He wishes you to make again and keep. Answer Jesus in your heart, and tell Him all your troubles. Then pray for others.

O Jesus, have mercy on Thy Holy Church; take care of it.

O Jesus, have pity on poor sinners, and save them from hell.

O Jesus, bless my father, my mother, my brothers and sisters, and all I ought to pray for, as Thy Heart knows how to bless them.

O Jesus, have pity on the poor souls in Purgatory, and give them eternal rest.

Sweet Jesus, I am going away for a time, but trust not without Thee. Thou are with me by Thy grace. I will never leave Thee by mortal sin. I do not fear to do so, though I am so weak, because I have such hope in Thee. Give me grace to persevere. Amen.

The Second Person as Son

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You must make your sonship perfect by cultivating the likeness to God. You will learn this in Jesus Christ. Reproduce in yourself His sentiments, His actions, His endurance of suffering; so that He may not be ashamed to acknowledge you as His second self.

Jesus Mercy, Mary Help! 

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Christmas Day

This day ye shall know that the Lord will come, and in the morning ye shall see his glory.

Sanctify yourselves this day, and be ye ready: for on the morrow ye shall see the Majesty of God amongst you. 
 

The Liturgical Year, 1850 
Dom Prosper Guéranger O.S.B.

Our Lady of Zeitoun

A bus mechanic named Farouk Mohammed Atwa was working at a Public Transport garage across the street from the Virgin Mary Orthodox Coptic Church in Zeitoun, Egypt (a suburb of Cairo) after sunset on the evening of April 2, 1968 when the figure of a woman standing on top of one of the church’s domes caught his attention. Alarmed because he saw the woman moving and thought she was preparing to commit suicide by jumping off the church’s roof, Farouk alerted two of his coworkers, and they all shouted at the woman to be careful so she wouldn’t fall. Their shouting attracted the attention of many people passing by on Tumanbay Street, who also saw the glowing white female figure when they looked up. 

One of the photos my wife Kathy and I saw at the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona during our visit.
The Virgin Mary above the Church of Virgin Mary in Zeitoun, Cairo - Egypt, April 2nd, 1968. According to Coptic tradition this is one of the sites where the Holy family stayed during their flight to Egypt.

Christmas Eve

This day ye shall know that the Lord will come, and in the morning ye shall see his glory.

Sanctify yourselves this day, and be ye ready: for on the morrow ye shall see the Majesty of God amongst you. 
 

The Liturgical Year, 1850 
Dom Prosper Guéranger O.S.B.

Fourth Sunday of Advent

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Lo! all things are accomplished that were said by the angel, of the Virgin Mary. 

And now, the hour is near; all is ready for Thy birth; come then, and save us; come, that Thou mayst not only be called our Emmanuel, but our Jesus, that is, He that saves us. 
 

The Liturgical Year, 1850 
Dom Prosper Guéranger O.S.B.

Mary's Little Vespers

V. O Lady, make speed to befriend me. 

R. From the hands of the enemy mightily defend me. 

V. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. 

R. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end.—Amen. 

Alleluia. 

  

Hymn 

Hail, dial of Achaz, 

On thee the true Sun 

Told backward the course 

Which from old he had run. 

And that man might be rais'd. 

Submitting to shame, 

A little more low 

Than the Angels became. 

Thou, wrapt in the blaze
Of His infinite light, 

Dost shine as the morn 

On the confines of night. 

As the moon on the lost 

Through obscurity dawns; 

The serpent's destroyer; 

A lily 'mid thorns.—Amen. 

V. I made an unfailing light to arise in heaven. 

R. And, as a mist, I overspread the whole earth. 

V. O Lady, hear my prayer. 

R. And let my cry come unto thee. 

Let Us Pray. 

Holy Mary, Queen of heaven, Mother of our Lord Jesus Christ, and Mistress of the world, who forsakest no one, and despisest no one; look upon me, O Lady, with an eye of pity, and entreat for me, of thy beloved Son, the forgiveness of all my sins; that as I now celebrate with devout affection thy holy and Immaculate Conception, so, hereafter, I may receive the prize of eternal blessedness, by the grace of Him whom thou, in virginity, didst bring forth, Jesus Christ our Lord; Who, with the Father and the Holy Ghost liveth and reigneth, in perfect Trinity, God, world without end.—Amen. 

V. O Lady, hear my prayer. 

R. And let my cry come unto thee. 

V. Let us bless the Lord. 

R. Thanks be to God. 

V. May the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. 

R. Amen.

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Third Saturday of Advent

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Holy Mother of God, ever Virgin; blessed, glorious, generous; inviolate and without stain; chaste Mary immaculate, chosen and loved of God, with singular holiness endowed, and worthy of all praise; who didst intervene in the whole world's danger―Hear, O hear us, holy Mary; pray for us and intercede; do not disdain to help us.
          For we are confident and know for certain that thou canst obtain by prayer all thou wilt from thy Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, Almighty God and King of Ages, who liveth with Father and Holy Ghost for ever and ever.  Amen.
 

Bishop Aedelwald (Ninth Century. England).

Third Friday of Advent

The beauty of Jesus is inexhaustible. Like the Vision of God in heaven, it is ever diversified, yet always the same, always cherished as an old and familiar joy, yet ever surprising and and refreshing the spirit as being, in truth, perpetually new. He is beautiful always, beautiful everywhere, in the disfigurement of the Passion as well as in the splendor of the Resurrection, amid the horrors of the Scourging as well as amid the indescribable attractions of Bethlehem. But above all things our Blessed Lord is beautiful in His Mother. If we love Him we must love her. 

The Foot of The Cross

Frederick William Faber, D.D.,

Priest of The Oratory of St. Philip Neri

Burns & Oates, 1857

Voice of An Angel

Detail of Angels from Botticelli's Magnificat

In 2012 ten year old Jackie Evancho mustered up courage to walk onto the stage of America's Got Talent. If one could have put a voice to a Botticelli Angel - here it was.

Third Thursday of Advent

The Cluny Missal of 1523

   The covenant made, instantly there was present the Word made flesh; and yet the pure Maid a Virgin still for ever.
   He is our Jesus, the good Jesus, lovely burden of a lovely Mother! He who has a throne in heaven, has a stable for his birth-place!
   May he, that for our sake was thus born, wipe away all our guilt; for our sojourn here is full of dangers.

Amen.

The Liturgical Year - Advent

by Dom Prosper  Granger O.S.B.

London, 1867

Fleeting Hours

Myself at Mission Beach, California.

How can we picture to ourselves adequately her acts and sentiments in those first moments of ecstasy, when she saw before her, and took in her arms the expected Messias, the King of Israel, the Son of God! And He was her own Child, He was her beloved one, and she was His. He was to be the possession of the whole world, but in that hour she possessed Him to herself. She was the first to welcome Him.

Merry Christmas!

 

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My Christmas Pie Recipe!

Rich Squash Pie

As a little boy growing up on an Iowa farm I never knew what pumpkin pie was.  My mom who was an avid gardener raised butternut squash and always made squash pie for Christmas and almost every other Sunday! Here's the recipe!

Basic Pastry dough for 9-inch pie shell

1 cup pureed cooked butternut squash

1 cup heavy cream (I always like to use Organic Valley or Horizon brand.  My mom always used cream from the separator room which was a room in our milking barn where a little machine separated the cream from whole milk. 

1 cup sugar

3 eggs, slightly beaten

1 teaspoon cinnamon

1 teaspoon nutmeg

1/2 teaspoon powdered ginger 

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/4 teaspoon mace

Preheat the oven to 425ºF (220ºC). Line a 9-inch pie pan with the pastry dough. Combine the remaining ingredients in a large bowl and beat until smooth and well blended. Pour into the lined pie pan. Bake for 10 minutes, then reduce the heat to 300ºF (150ºC) and bake for 45-60 minutes more or until the fill is firm.  

To avoid cracking I always take the pie out of the oven just a bit early while there is still a little jiggle in the middle.  😇

I always top this rich pie with a bit of whipped cream. Again I use Organic Valley's heavy whipping cream (eight ounces will do) and whip it with an electric  mixer until fluffy.  I like to keep the cream a bit on the left side of sweet by using just a tablespoon or a bit more of sugar.  

Merry Christmas

This could have been me and my mom.  She was always working and my eyes were always fixed on her.  She taught me how to give and how to live! And I'm missing her today. . .