Devotions
Holy Name Prayer from ‘the Rural Life Prayerbook’
LORD JESUS, we humbly pray You to give us all a great reverence and respect for Your most holy name. Forgive us for ever having used the name of Jesus in vain, or without due respect. Help us remember how reverently and lovingly Your Mother Mary used the name of Jesus, and how humbly Saint…
Lovely Lady Dressed in Blue
Lovely Lady dressed in blue-Teach me how to pray!God was just your little boy,Tell me what to say! Did you lift Him up, sometimes,Gently on your knee?Did you sing to Him the wayMother does to me? Did you hold His hand at night?Did you ever tryTelling stories of the world?O! And did He cry? Do…
Before Confession…
Be truly sorry for your sins. The essential act of Penance, on the part of the penitent, is contrition, a clear and decisive rejection of the sin committed, together with a resolution not to commit it again, out of the love one has for God (which is reborn with repentance). Understood in this way, contrition…
Marian Apparitions of the 20th Century
Narrated by Ricardo Montalban, Marian Apparitions of the 20th Century is a documentary about 11 Marian apparitions, some continuing today – Fatima, Beaurang, Banneux, Garabandal, Zeitun, Akita, Betania, Medjugorje, Kibeho, Naju and Ukraine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IafhGTVOhvI&t=92s
From Lands that See the Sun Arise | hymn from the Roman Breviary (5th century)
FROM lands that see the sun arise, to earth’s remotest boundaries, the Virgin-born today we sing, the Son of Mary, Christ the King. Blest Author of this earthly frame, to take a servant’s form he came, that liberating flesh by flesh, whom he had made might live afresh. In that chaste parent’s holy womb, celestial…