Today starts the glorious novena to Our Lady of Mt. Carmel. Let’s join with Carmelites all over the world to honor our Mother and Queen.
As you know the papal document “Motu Proprio” was released last year on the Feast/Solemnity of O.L. of Mt. Carmel. I would like to propose to all of you that we pray this novena with our Lord, Jesus Christ, and beg our Mother to squash the head of the serpent so that our beautiful Tridentine Mass will not be tampered with and lost.
Satan hates this Holy Mass and would rejoice if it were suppressed. This only leads me more and more to believe that the appearance of O.L. of Mt. Carmel at Fatima is a significant call for Carmelites to help Our Lady who has been given the charge by God of striking satan with her heal. She will be the victorious one in the end. Let us join her in this battle through our prayers during this novena.
The Novena to Our Lady of Mount Carmel
O most beautiful flower of Mount Carmel, splendor of heaven, Blessed Mother of the Son of God and Mother of mine, support me by your never failing love and help and protect me. Show me that you are my Mother.
May I, unworthy as I am, come one day to exchange your scapular that I had the privilege to wear for the wedding garment of heaven, and dwell with you and all the saints of Carmel in the kingdom of your Son.
(Here make your petition: Let us also pray for those preparing to make their vows.)
Sweet Mother, I place this cause in your loving hands.
O Mary, my Mother, I consecrate myself to you forever. I offer you my body with all its miseries, my soul with all its imperfections, and my heart with all its affections and desires. I offer you all my prayers, works, joys and sufferings, my struggles and especially my death with all that it will entail. I unite all of these, Mother, with your own joys and sufferings. Amen.
Today is Shrove Tuesday. Many of you have made the Novena to the Holy Face that ended yesterday. Since the world is headed dangerously close to a new World War by Russian Aggression. I though it appropriate to send you once again these prayers to say today.
Let us cry out with Pope St. John Paul II at Fatima:
“From famine and War, deliver us. From nuclear war, from incalculable self-destruction, from every kind of war deliver us. From sins against the Holy Spirit deliver us, deliver us. Accept, O Mother of Christ, this cry laden with the sufferings of all individual human beings, laden with the sufferings of whole societies. Help us with the power of the Holy Spirit to conquer all sin: individual sin and the sin of the world, sin in all of its manifestations. Let there be revealed, once more, in the history of the world the infinite saving power of the Redemption: the power of merciful Love! May it put a stop to evil! May it transform consciences! May your Immaculate Heart reveal for all the light of Hope!”
An Act of Honorable Ammends to the Holy Face of our Lord Jesus Christ in reparation for the sin of blasphemy, the profanation of Sundays and Holy Days and for other impious crimes against God and His Church. Bottom of pg. 155-158 in the 1856 Archconfraternity Manuel
Most holy and most adorable Face of the Saviour, humbly prostrate in Thy presence, we present ourselves before Thee, in order, by a solemn act of faith and of piety, to render Thee the homage of veneration, praise and love which is Thy due. We also desire to offer to Thee honorable amends and a public reparation for the sins, blasphemies and sacrileges of which the present generation has rendered itself culpable towards the Divine Majesty, and which, in regard to Thee, oh well beloved Face, renew the ignominies and the sufferings of Thy Passion. It is with terror and profound affliction that we are witnesses of these monstrous crimes, which cannot fail to draw down upon society and upon our families, the malediction and the chastisements of Divine Justice. We see, in fact, all around us the law of the Lord and the authority of His Church despised and trodden under foot; His thrice Holy Name denied or blasphemed, the Sunday which he has reserved for his worship, publicly profaned; his altars and his offices forsaken for criminal or frivolous pleasures. Impious sectarians attack all that is sacred and religious. But it is, above all, the Divinity of Christ, the Son of the living God; it is the Incarnate Word; it is the august Face and the Crucifix which they attack with the greatest fury; the spit and the blows of the Jews are renewed by the insults and the outrages which their hatred dares, in every possible manner, to inflict upon Thee, oh Face full of sweetness and of love. Pardon, a thousand times pardon, for all these crimes! May we make amends for them by our humble supplications and the fervor of our homage but I guilty and sinners as we are, what can we offer the Eternal Father in order to appease His just anger, if it be not Thyself, oh sorrowful Face, who has deigned to make Thyself our advocate and our victim? Supply what may be wanting in us by Thy satisfactions and Thy merits.
Heavenly Father, we entreat Thee, «look on the Face of Thy Christ. » Behold the wounds which disfigure it, the tears which escape from its sunken eyes ; the sweat with which it is bathed; the blood which flows in streams down its profaned and wounded cheeks. Behold also its invincible patience, its unalterable gentleness, its infinite tenderness and its merciful goodness towards sinners. This Holy Face is turned towards Thee, and, before exhaling its last sigh, lovingly inclined upon the Cross, it implores Thee in favor of those who curse and outrage it. Oh Father, listen to that suppliant cry, permit Thyself to be touched; have pity on us and pardon us. Grant, moreover, that in presence of this Divine Face, equally formidable and powerful, the enemies of Thy Name may take flight and disappear; that they may be converted and live!
(Ejaculations and invocations which the people repeat alternatively after the celebrant).
Let the thrice Holy Name of God overthrow their designs. Amen
Let the Sacred Name of the Living God sow dissension among them. Amen
Let the terrible Name of the God of Eternity annihilate all their impiety. Amen
May the most adorable Name of God, be adored for ever and ever!
May the Holy Day of the Lord, be sanctified by all men!
May the Holy Face of Jesus, be loved by every heart!
May holy Church, our Mother, be exalted, throughout the whole earth!
May our holy Father the Pope Francis Vicar of Jesus Christ, be venerated by all people!
Saint Peter, Prince of the apostles, and Patron of the Archconfraternity, pray for us.
Lord, show us Thy Face, and we shall be saved. Amen Amen !
Prayer to Obtain the Settlement of All Our Needs
Oh, Eternal Father, since it has pleased our Divine Savior to reveal to mankind in our present century the power residing in His Holy Face, we now avail ourselves of this Treasure in our great needs. Since our Savior Himself promised that by offering to You, Oh, Eternal Father, the Holy Face disfigured in the Passion, we can procure the settlement of all the affairs of our household, and that nothing whatsoever will be refused us, we now come before Your Throne.
Offering to You, Oh, God, this adorable Countenance, disfigured with painful bruises and covered with shame and confusion, we beg through the merits of this Holy Face to obtain these, our most pressing needs. (__________)
Grant us pardon, Eternal Father, for the worst crimes of our age, which are atheism, blasphemy, and the desecration of Your holy days.
Avert from us destruction by war and its consequences which loom through the malice of revolutionary men who have risen up to stamp out religion from the face of the earth through false indoctrination, and who now stand ready to impose their wicked designs with militaristic force. May this offering of the Holy Face of our Savior before Your throne of majesty obtain for us deliverance from these evils.
Send us, Oh, God, zealous and enlightened laborers, by conferring many vocations to the priesthood and to religion, so that by their prayers, their works, and their sacrifices they may spread the blessings of Your Church and confound Your enemies. Amen.
from The Golden Arrow pg. 229.
Eternal Father, we offer You the adorable Face of Your well-beloved Son, for the honor and glory of Your Name, and for the salvation of our country. from The Golden Arrow p168.
Eternal Father, we offer You the Holy Face of Jesus, covered with blood, sweat, dust, and spittle, in reparation for the crimes of communists, blasphemers, and for the profaners of your Holy Name and of Holy Days. Amen. from The Golden Arrow p228.
Golden Arrow Prayer
May the most holy, most sacred, most adorable, most incomprehensible and unutterable Name of God be always praised, blessed, loved, adored, and glorified, in heaven, on earth, and under the earth, by all creatures of God, and by the Sacred Heart of Our Lord Jesus Christ in the Most Holy Sacrament of the altar. Amen. from The Golden Arrow p226.
Sit Nomen Domini benedictum!
Let the thrice Holy Name of God overthrow their designs.
Let the Sacred Name of the Living God sow dissension among them.
Let the terrible Name of the God of Eternity annihilate all their impiety.
Holy Face Chaplet
Signum Crucis: In nómine Patris et Fílii et Spíritus Sancti. Amen
Deus, in adjutórium meum inténde: Dómine, ad adjuvándum me festina.
Incline unto mine aid, O God! O Lord, make haste to help me. Ps. 69
Glória Patri, et Fílio, et Spirítui Sancto.
Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper, et in sæcula sæculorum. Amen.
Exsúrgat, Deus, et dissipéntur inimíci ejus; et fúgiant, qui odérunt eum, a fácie ejus. Ps.67
Let God arise, and let His enemies be scattered, and let those who hate Him flee from before His holy face.
33x in honor of the years of Our Lords life on earth as a man
Glória Patri. 3x in honor of the Holy Trinity
Protéctor noster, áspice, Deus, et réspice in fáciem Christi tui. Ps.83:9 On the Holy Face medal.
O God, our Protector, look on us, and cast Your eyes upon the Face of Your Christ.
Lord, show us Your Face, and we shall be saved. Prayer of the Holy Face Confraternity.
Deus, converte nos, et ostende faciem tuam, et salvi érimus.
Deus virtútum, converte nos, et ostende faciem tuam, et salvi érimus.
O God of hosts, convert us; and show Thy Face, and we shall be saved. Ps. 79:8
Today is Shrove Tuesday, the day our Lord requested for a Feast to honor His Holy Face.

Our Lord made these appeals to a Carmelite nun from 1843-1848 to Sr. Mary Peter of Tours.
OUR LORD’S REVELATIONS WERE FOLLOWED BY 30 years of miracles attesting to the power of this devotion. In 1885, Pope Leo XIII, by papal brief, established this devotion as an archconfraternity; contrary to custom, immediately established it FOR THE ENTIRE WORLD It was universally practiced until a few years before World War I.
It is our opinion that THE NEGLECT OF THIS DEVOTION AND OF OUR LADY’S REQUESTS AT FATIMA IN 1917, ESPECIALLY THE FIVE FIRST SATURDAYS AND THE DAILY ROSARY, was the reason for two world wars, the murder or enslavement of billions of people by Communism, abortion on demand and an unprecedented increase in sin and loss of faith.
It is our hope that the many attempts by the lay faithful throughout the world will result in reviving this extremely important devotion, which Christ wants to last until the end of time. An act of Consecration to the Holy Face of Jesus by St. Therese of Lisieux
Written for the Novices

O Adorable Face of Jesus, since Thou hast deigned to make special choice of our souls, in order to give Thyself to them, we come to consecrate these souls to Thee. We seem, O Jesus, to hear Thee say: “Open to Me, My Sisters, My Spouses, for My Face is wet with the dew, and My Locks with the drops of the night.” [278]
Our souls understand Thy language of love; we desire to wipe Thy sweet Face, and to console Thee for the contempt of the wicked. In their eyes Thou art still “as it were hidden . . . they esteem Thee an object of reproach.” [279]
O Blessed Face, more lovely than the lilies and the roses of the spring, Thou art not hidden from us. The tears which dim Thine Eyes are as precious pearls which we delight to gather, and, through their infinite value, to purchase the souls of our brethren.
From Thy Adorable Lips, we have heard Thy loving plaint: “I thirst.” Since we know that this thirst which consumes Thee is a thirst for love, to quench it we would wish to possess an infinite love.
Dear Spouse of our souls, if we could love with the love of all hearts, that love would be Thine. . . . Give us, O Lord, this love! Then come to thy Spouses and satisfy Thy Thirst.
And give to us souls, dear Lord . . . We thirst for souls! — Above all for the souls of Apostles and Martyrs . . . that through them, we may inflame all poor sinners with love of Thee.
O Adorable Face, we shall succeed in winning this grace from Thee! Unmindful of our exile, “by the rivers of Babylon,” we will sing in Thine Ears the sweetest of melodies. Since Thou art the true and only Home of our souls, our songs shall not be sung in a strange land. [280]
O Beloved Face of Jesus, while we await the Eternal Day when we shall gaze upon Thine Infinite Glory, our only desire is to delight Thy Divine Eyes by keeping our faces hidden too, so that no one on earth may recognize us . . . Dear Jesus, Heaven for us is Thy Hidden Face!
Footnotes: [278] Cf. Cant. 5:2. [279] Cf. Isa. 53:3. [280] Cf. Ps. 136[137]:4.
Also, see: Devotions to the Holy Face and its Special Significance for Lent The Holy Face and Connection with La Sallette https://www.holyface.org.uk/content/srpierina.htm History of devotion to TheHoly Face an early revelation concerning communism. http://www.holyfacedevotion.com/timeline.htm
Many are wondering if the church is drifting towards schism and the Amazon Synod may be the catalyst that will push us over the edge. Please read the following post; “On the Matter of Schism” from Tom Moinhan, publisher of Inside the Vatican. Mr. Moinhan appears to have a firm grasp on the current crisis in the church at the level of the Vatican. Read letter…
You will not get any of this in the secular press and even someCatholic media outlets make the good guys, (those who adhere to the deposit of faith) bad. We need to have an accurate grasp of what the controversies are along with a firm knowledge of the teaching of the church before we listen to secular TV and radio chatter or, participate in the online Catholic blogosphere.
This pontificate is being used by the enemies of the church and at times it is hard to see if the Pope favors the heretical teachings or not. He is aware of the heresies being proposed at the Amazon Synod but has not intervened to correct the direction of the synod. If there are no corrections, no out cries, no prayers to expel the evil trying to be introduced or re-intoduced into the church, this synod could well be the catalyst towards that schism.
If a schism, the worst case scenario, occurs we need to be with the true church! Knowledge of the controversies today is indespensable and will keep us from being taken off guard. We can no longer remain on the side lines living our comfortable lives and pretending all is well because I am well. We can no longer remain with our heads in the sand.
This brings to mind a famous quote by British statesman and philosopher, Edmund Burke (1729-1797) when he said (in a letter addressed to Thomas Mercer).“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.“
“When men are linked together, they easily and speedily communicate the alarm of any evil design. They are enabled to fathom it with common counsel, and to oppose it with united strength. Whereas, when people lie dispersed, without concert, order, or discipline, communication is uncertain, counsel difficult, and resistance impracticable.”
Edmond Burke 1729-1797
He continues : “Where men are not acquainted with each other’s principles, nor experienced in each other’s talents, nor at all practised in their mutual dispositions by joint efforts in business; with no personal confidence, no friendship, no common interest, subsisting among them; it is evidently impossible that they can act a public part with uniformity, perseverance, or efficacy. In a similar manner, the most inconsiderable man, by adding to the weight of the whole, has his value, and his use; out of it, the greatest talents are wholly unserviceable to the public.
No man, who is not inflamed by vain-glory into enthusiasm, can so flatter himself to think that his single, unsupported, desultory, unsystematic endeavours, are of power to defeat the subtle designs and united power of ambitious citizens when bad men combine.
The good must combine and associate; or else they will fall, one by one, in an unpitied sacrifice of a contemptible struggle.”
Edmund Burke, Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents 82-83 (1770) in: Select Works of Edmund Burke, vol. 1, p. 146 (Liberty Fund ed. 1999).
Amazon Synod A Call to Arms 40 Days of Prayers and Penance
I was relieved to see on Sept 12, a post by Edward Penton, of the National Catholic Register he stated that Cardinal Burke is calling for 40 days of prayer and penance to prevent the errors that may lead to schism: “Citing “serious theological errors and heresies” in the Amazon Synod’s working document, Cardinal Burke and Bishop Schneider call on the faithful to pray and fast for 40 days to prevent such errors being approved. They propose that clergy and laity “pray daily at least one decade of the Holy Rosary and to fast once a week” for such intentions over a 40 day period, from September 17th through October 26th 2019. Read more:
Pope Francis during his interview with a journalist from the New York Times on a plane returning from Africa Sept 11th, indicated that the people may also need to make their voices heard over the bishops. He gave The Council of Ephesus as an example when he recounted this anecdote to reporters on the plane: “It was the people of God who saved [the Church] from the schisms. The schismatics always have one thing in common: they separate themselves from the people, from the faith of the people of God. When there was a discussion in the council of Ephesus regarding Mary’s divine maternity, the people — this is history — were at the entrance of the cathedral while the bishops entered to take part in the Council. They were there with clubs. They made the bishops see them as they shouted, ‘Mother of God! Mother of God!’ as if to say: if you do not do this, this is what you can expect”
Perhaps the pope needs our help to defend the deposit of Faith! Yes, the laity need to take up their clubs of prayers and fasting once again as at Ephesus, but also with a very visible witness at the Vatican. This is a call to arms for the sensus fidelium;“the supernatural appreciation of faith on the part of the whole people of God according to the Catechism of the Catholic Church. When, from the bishops to the last of the faithful, they manifest a universal consent in matters of faith and morals.
Cardinals, Bishops, Priests, Religious, and Laity Unite!
Calling all Cardinals, Bishops, priests and laity to defend the deposit of faith contained in the Catechism of the Catholic Church a precious gift given to us by Pope St. John Paul II for these sad days of confusion.
I think it’s time but I do caution that the enemies of God’s TRUTH are more numerous today. They are also very vocal obsinate and much bolder. We can expect counter witnessing down the line. Such as the Woman’s March in Washington D.C. supporting Roe v Wade. Today the deposit of the faith and the future of the Church is on the line. 🇻🇦MOTHER OF GOD PROTECT THE CHURCH! Anyone who can, should journey to Rome during these 40 days to give public witness. However, for most of us that is not a feasible possibility, perhaps you could get a prayer event to defend the faith organized in your own diocese. Make a visible prayer witness with banners while praying the Holy Rosary! Wherever possible the bishops need to be invited to participate. Let your Bishop’s know your defending the deposit of faith and want their support. Then wait TRUSTING Our Lady’s powerful intercession.
We havè to do a continuous battle against heritics in the church. This batch never left the church since they first dissented against Humane Vitea in 1960’s. The silence of the church allowed them to promote serious errors and commit many sacriliges very grievous sins. This neglect of the church to make public fraternal correction, or, to excommunicate obstinate public sinners has enabled their numbers to increase. Today we are suffering from the unforseen side effects of this lack of discipline by a reverse persecution. Today here is another satanic mirror as the heretics are saying we are the ones in error.
Many faithful Catholics throughout the world are already suffering from this persecution, and, as the heretics grow in number, they assume power. They are working in the communion of evil by imitating what the abortion rights and homosexual activist have done. Its all the same evil spirit of Lucifer. Imitating th Holy Spirit of God.
These unfortunate souls influence public opinion with lies and half truths and lie in wait for decades for their numbers to grow. Once public opinion is changed they work and change the laws to reflect the evils to be introduced. How well we know this in America! This is exactly what is happening in the church! If this is left untreated it spells disaster for souls caught up in the evil web.
“Foundations once destroyed what are the just to do? Psalm 11:3
My thought is that a schism may be necessary if it means expelling obstinate heretics out the church. This should have been done years ago. We have allowed the heretics to remain and grow in numbers influencing others to join their ranks. What happened? Why didn’t the church stomp out the heresies and excommunicate the dissenters? Today we are living the fruit of the church’s lack of discipline against errors.
Why did it Happen?
In light of the world wide clergy scandals we now know why. There could be no discipline for obstinate dissidents if the Vatican contained an active homosexual network that included Cardinals, Bishops and Priests. How can Satan expel satan? If your in obstinate mortal sin today the devil has power over you. You are working with the devil not God. You are blinded to truth and you may even be possessed and not know it.
“If Satan expels satan he is divided against himself. How can his kingdom stand?” Matthew 12:26
Yes the guilty ones could see their whole house of cards disintegrating with the domino effect of a misplaced rebuke. The common policy was silence. Sigh!😞 What a mess!
Logical Consequence of Sin.
One logical progression of the evil spirit’s workings in the church is to have the heretical schismatics, that never left the church and still wielding control since the dissent of Humane Vitea. They are not going to discipline someone who is like them. No they are condemning those who maintain allegiance to the Catechism of the Catholic Church. A gift to us for these days from Pope St. John Paul II who saw this coming. This book my friends, contains the deposit of faith!
1965 Photo of Fr. Joseph Ratzinger Courtesy, Catholic Outpost
In some ways this whole mess could fulfill Benedict XVI’s prophecy that he made in a 1969 during a radio interview when he was known as Father Joseph Ratzinger. Benedict XVI said while discussing the current crisis at that time on the dissent of bishops, priests and laity to Humane Vitea: “Let us go a step farther. From the crisis of today the Church of tomorrow will emerge — a Church that has lost much. She will become small and will have to start afresh more or less from the beginning. She will no longer be able to inhabit many of the edifices she built in prosperity. As the number of her adherents diminishes, so it will lose many of her social privileges.” -Father Joseph Ratzinger 1969. Read entire text here:
We need to continue to expose the evil so we know who the heretics are. Many have been uncovered as the scandals of clerical abuse unraveled ove. The last several decades. Now, we pray and wait for Our Lord to raise up a strong college of Cardinals willing to fight along with the pope those promoting dissent, Let the pruning begin!
⚠ WARNING ⚠
Fraternal corrections need to be made more than once by the Church. Why? Man’s memory is slow and the devil never tires. He never gives up, he will never stop fighting to destroy Christ’s Church. He is always looking for the crack in the fortress for his smoke to enter in! Satan will never give in! Ever! The church will have to always remain vigilant to clear out the stench of sulphur and keep it out in order to maintain order with the incense of virtue and truth
In the past Pope Francis was quoted as saying that he may be the one to go down in history as the one who split the church. Just recently after his trip to Africa he was asked by Jason Drew Horowitz of (The New York Times): Are you afraid of a schism in the American Church? And if so, is there something that you could do — a dialogue — to keep it from happening?
The pope replied. “I am not afraid of Schism, I pray that schisms does not happen but I am not afraid of them. I pray that there will be none, because what is at stake is people’s spiritual health. Let there be dialogue, let there be correction if there is an error, but the schismatic path is not Christian. On Aug. 28, Cardinal Raymond Burke wrote to fellow cardinals, telling them that he “shares completely the deep concerns of Cardinal Brandmüller on the upcoming Synod on the Amazon, based upon its Instrumentum laboris. Cardinal Burke stated that the synod’sInstrumentum laboris“is a long document marked by language which is not clear in its meaning, especially in what concerns the Depositum fidei,” He also added that it “contradicts the constant teaching of the Church on the relationship between the created world and God, the uncreated Creator, and man, created in the image and likeness of God to cooperate with him as guardian of the created world.” Read more:
This is a call to arms! Yes, with prayers and fasts but also with a very visible witness of the faithful at the Vatican. Calling All Cardinals, Bishops, Priests and Laity to defend the deposit of faith contained in the Catechism of the Catholic Church given to us by Pope St. John Paul II.MOTHER OF GOD PROTECT HIS CHURCH 🇻🇦
A Visible Witness
The best place to be for a visible effective witness is to have a huge turn out in Rome. However for many of us that is not a possibility. Perhaps you may collaborate with others to organize a prayer event in your own diocese or on a national level at the Shrine in Washinton D.C. Let us make a visible prayer witness to Defend the deposit of the faith with banners and praying the Holy Rosary! Then wait TRUSTING in Our Lady’s powerful intercession.
Dear Lady of Fatima, Virgin Most Powerful and Queen of the Holy Rosary pray for us! The devil’s fear the Holy name of Mary because they are more humiliated to be defeated by a human creature than by God.
The beginning of the month is right around the corner. This means our staff is eager to receive your special or continuing intentions to present ahead of time to His Eminence Raymond Cardinal Burke to include in his offering of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass on Saturday, June 1st. So, please send your intentions today for you and your loved ones.
If you are not registered as a member of Operation Storm Heaven. Please click here to Join Operation Storm Heaven. We are looking for a million Rosaries to help our families, Church and Country.
You cannot imagine how happy I am – for sure you are too — when the first of the month rolls around. It signals the arrival of the great spiritual uplifting you and I wait for each month. We get to join Cardinal Burke as he offers Mass for your specific intentions as a Rosary Warrior and leads us in the Holy Rosary in communion with thousands of Rosary Warriors throughout the world.
It is not without pious inspiration that His Eminence Cardinal Burke emphasizes praying together and wishes to grow Operation Storm Heaven to a million strong…to begin.
St. Louis De Montfort relates, “Finally, when people say the Rosary together it is far more formidable to the devil than one said privately, because in this public prayer it is an army that is attacking him. He can often overcome the prayer of an individual, but if this prayer is joined to that of other Christians, the devil has much more trouble in getting the best of it.”
At Fatima, Our Lady also requested, “Pray the Rosary every day in honor of Our Lady of the Rosary to obtain peace in the world . . . for she alone can save it.”
If you do not do so already, I would also like to encourage you to recite the Holy Rosary every day as Our Lady requested.
As the month of June is dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, let us include in our daily Rosary intention the increase in our devotion to His Heart and enkindle in ourselves a fundamental attitude of reparation and conversion
“Sinners shall find in My Heart the source of an infinite ocean of mercy”
– Promise of Our Lord to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque
Please know how grateful I am that Operation Storm Heaven is swelling its ranks continuously through your prayerful support. Every month an ever-growing complement of prayerful voices joins enthusiastically to take Heaven by storm.
Thank you very much for supporting this endeavor under Cardinal Burke’s leadership. I know he appreciates your being part of this great spiritual crusade as well which is very near and dear to his heart.
Presented by Thomas McKenna founder of Catholic Action For Faith and Family
Dear Spera Rose,
The moment has arrived for our Conversation with Cardinal Raymond Burke for the month of May!
Clarity of doctrine is one of the unique attributes of our Catholic Faith. From Our Lord speaking in simple parables, to St. Thomas Aquinas expounding on lofty theological thoughts, the benefit to you and me as Faithful Catholics centuries removed is that our Faith is clear to us
Unfortunately, today, many who should be speaking clearly on points of doctrine are either quiet or, worse, at times speak with a forked tongue. As a result, we’ve all experienced the strains of confusion in our lives and the immense value when clarity is restored.
His Eminence Raymond Cardinal Burke understands this impediment to our faith and how it affects our lives. It is a key point of his pastoral apostolate to help clarify pressing questions regarding our Faith that today may appear clouded.
Unique to you and me today at Catholic Action, he in his generosity of spirit has agreed kindly to sit down for a conversation with me in Rome to answer questions that are important to you and me. This is truly a great gift from His Eminence. You won’t want to miss out! And don’t forget to stay for his pastoral blessing at the end of each conversation and to return each month as we take this journey together!
Without any doubt, many of us have strife in our family life, a loved one who has fallen away from the Church, or quandary with a moral dilemma. Trusted wisdom and guidance from Cardinal Burke along with the army of Faith Defenders are here for you. Click below to join this month’s Conversation with Cardinal Raymond Burke.
I want to take advantage of this opportunity to thank the Faith Defenders for guaranteeing the success of Cardinal Burke’s apostolic initiatives by their unwavering support.
May Our Divine Savior and Our Lady bless you and your loved ones now and always!
Are you experiencing the same scenario that I am where the question above is asked multiple times within your sphere of influence? If so, let’s embrace this opportunity together.
To answer this question, I find leaning on a reflection from Cardinal Burke helpful where he depicts the relationship between Our Lord and Our Lady when Jesus performed His first miracle at the Wedding at Cana. Let’s recall Our Lady’s words, “Do whatever he tells you.” These insightful syllables communicate not only her maternal care for her children in need, but they also intimate her sublime intercessory power. She is unmistakably the mediator between God and man, the channel of graces which gush forth from Our Lord’s Just, yet Mercif Heart.
To see the the continuity of instruction and intercessory prayer from our Heavenly Mother, fast forward to 1917 where she came to earth with an urgent message for us. With the supplication to “Pray, pray very much, and make sacrifices for sinners…”, Our Lady asked us to make reparation for outrages, sacrileges, and indifference which greatly offend the Sacred Heart of Our Lord, and to pray for peace in the world.
Our Lady gently but gravely reminds us of the truth that as the world cracks beneath the weight of secularism and impurity, so many souls fall like snowflakes into the eternal depths of hell because no one is praying and no one is making sacrifices for them.
And so here we are in the year 2019. I ask you to join me in a Novena of prayer (which will also involve sacrifice!) to Our Lady of Fatima to begin on May 5th and end on the Feast of Our Lady of Fatima, May 13th.
Over these nine days, you and I ‘with confidence’ will plead for the conversion of sinners and peace in the world while grasping at the essence of Our Lady’s requests during her apparitions. As we come together in our pleading, we will unveil the mystery of the Three Secrets of Fatima so that we and our loved ones can successfully overcome and defeat Satan along with our vices in this spiritually decrepit culture.
The Message of Fatima was not intended only for the people of 1917. It is still pressingly relevant for you and me today. Along with storming Heaven during our daily Rosary, let’s rise up and fly to the patronage of Our Lady of Fatima
CONVERSION OF SINNERS Let us petition Our Lady of Fatima on this first day to hear our prayers for the conversion of sinners and for peace in the world and in our families.
May 6th 2nd Day Novena OL Fatima THE DAILY ROSARY On the second day of our Novena to Our Lady of Fatima, let’s take a moment to firmly recommit ourselves to the practice of the daily Rosary, a heavenly solution to our modern day crisis. Our Lady fervently asks us to use this most powerful weapon to contend with spiritual threats to holiness.May 7th 3rd Day Novena to OL Fatima PENANCE FOR THE FAITHFUL
At Fatima, Our Lady asked for penance. In particular, she asked the Faithful (you and me) to do penance for the conversion of sinners. Let’s pray the third day of our Novena to Our Lady of Fatima with this in mind. Penance remains another stalwart defense against the hedonism which we, the Church Militant, encounter in our daily lives.
May 8th Day 4 Novena to Our Lady of Fatima
“Before the grave situation of the world today, we are, Pope Saint John Paul II reminded us, like the first disciples who, after hearing Saint Peter’s Pentecost discourse, and asked him: ‘What must we do?’ Even as the first disciples faced a pagan world which had not even heard of our Lord Jesus Christ, so, too, we face a culture which is forgetful of God and hostile to His Law written upon every human heart.” -Cardinal Raymond. BurkeLet us petition Our Lady of Fatima to hear our prayers for the conversion of sinners and for peace in the world and in our families.
May 9th Day 5 of Novena to OL Fatima
On Day 5 of our Novena, let’s look at the importance of establishing devotion to Our Lady’s Immaculate Heart in the recesses of our hearts and homes as we pray for peace and the triumph of the Immaculate Heart! We struggle daily to keep from being enmeshed in our confused culture. In our preparation for Heaven, we cannot remain neutral in this spiritual warfare. Thankfully, within Our Lady’s heart is a treasure trove of graces. We need only ask for them.
As you and I pray the sixth day of our Novena, we recognize our duty as Catholics to heed Our Lady of Fatima’s request for a Communion of Reparation. Confession, Holy Communion, and praying of the Holy Rosary on five consecutive first Saturdays will aid in healing the wounds inflicted by men which encircle her heart. Through these practices, we also fortify ourselves as soldiers of Christ against the turbulent winds of indifference present in our culture. In return, Our Lady promised to assist us at the hour of death with all the graces necessary for our salvation. In return, Our Lady promised to assist us at the hour of death with all the graces necessary for our salvation.
May 11th Day 7 of Our Lady of Fatima Novena
As you and I have witnessed, the persecution of Christians is real and ensuing around our very eyes. Around the world, most recently in Sri Lanka, those faithful to Our Lord endure suffering and even martyrdom on account of their Faith. And it is no wonder. We have been clued in by the Third Secret of Fatima that the forces of evil would contend with the forces for good. In this continuous struggle and amidst the bloodshed, Our Lady’s mantle is a sturdy shelter. We must hearken to her urgent requests for prayer and penance!
May 12th 8th Day of Fatima Novena
Under the guidance of Our Lady of Fatima, you and I continue day 8 of our Novena with special regard for the dignity of the priesthood. Priests heal our spiritual wounds in the Sacrament of Confession and nourish our hungry souls with the Holy Eucharist. But they desperately need our prayers if they are to remain faithful. Satan cunningly desires to destroy the Church from within and his plan of attack rests on the clergy. This is evident to us in the wake of the sexual abuse crisis. It is clear that the clergy need our prayers and sacrifices now more than ever!
May 13 Ninth day Novena to Our Lady of Fatima.
Happy Feast of Our Lady of Fatima!
On the final day of our Novena, you and I can reflect on Our Lady’s message as one of hopefulness, for she promises that in the end her Immaculate Heart will triumph!
Like an earthly mother who counsels her child before he makes a harmful mistake, Our Heavenly Mother guides us, her children, back into the ranks of virtue and holiness. So that through penance and the recitation of the Holy Rosary, we may escape the embers of eternal punishment.
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On this Wednesday, the 1st of May, please remember that we band together from the four corners of the earth to raise our united voice to Heaven. The130,000 Rosary Warriors will be reciting the Holy Rosary and storming Heaven with prayer in union with the Holy Mass being celebrated by Cardinal Burke.
When you pray your Rosary, please remember to pray for the intentions of all the Rosary Warriors, just as they are also praying for your intentions.
His Eminence will be celebrating Mass at 10:00 AM (local time) in Lourdes, France. There will be no Livestream of Operation Storm Heaven in May, but we are providing the Mass time for those who wish to pray at exactly the same time as Cardinal Burke celebrates Mass and prays the Rosary. You do not need to pray at exactly the same time, but please pray your Rosary at some time on the 1st of May (your local time).
You may be able to join Cardinal Burkes Mass at Lourdes in France May 1st 10 am Lourdes time if he has Mass at the Grotto. It will be 5 or 6 am EST. From this live web cam
A letter from the founder of Catholic Action
Regarding Operation Storm HeavenJOIN THE MONTLY ROSARY CRUSADE
SPREAD THE WORD!
Dear Spera;
The beginning of the month is right around the corner. Operation Storm Heaven is eager to receive your special or continuing intentions to present ahead of time to His Eminence Raymond Cardinal Burke to include in his offering of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass on Wednesday, May 1st. So, please send your intentions today for you and your loved ones at the link provided. Please click here to send your new intentions before the 1st of May.
When the first of the month rolls around. It signals the arrival of the great spiritual uplifting for each month. We get to join Cardinal Burke as he offers Mass for your specific intentions as a Rosary Warrior and leads us in the Holy Rosary in communion with thousands of Rosary Warriors throughout the world.
It is not without pious inspiration that His Eminence Cardinal Burke emphasizes praying together and wishes to grow Operation Storm Heaven to a million strong…to begin.St. Louis De Montfort relates, “Finally, when people say the Rosary together it is far more formidable to the devil than one said privately, because in this public prayer it is an army that is attacking him. He can often overcome the prayer of an individual, but if this prayer is joined to that of other Christians, the devil has much more trouble in getting the best of it.”
At Fatima, Our Lady also requested, “Pray the Rosary every day in honor of Our Lady of the Rosary to obtain peace in the world . . . for she alone can save it.”
If you do not do so already, I would also like to encourage you to recite the Holy Rosary every day as Our Lady requested
As themonth of May is dedicated to Our Lady,let us include in our daily Rosary intention the increase in our devotion to Our Heavenly Mother and endeavor to emulate her chastity, purity, and fidelity to emulate her chastity, purity, and fidelity to God’s will
Operation Storm Heaven is swelling its ranks continuously through your prayerful support. Every month an ever-growing complement of prayerful voices joins enthusiastically to take Heaven by storm.
Thank you very much for supporting this endeavor under Cardinal Burke’s leadership. I know he appreciates your being part of this great spiritual crusade as well which is very near and dear to his heart.
Still Hoping for the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary!
I am a Secular Carmelite and Catechist joining with those who love Our Lady of Fatima to help Her win the final Victory for Christo et Ecclessiae (Christ and His Church)!
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