Virgo Potens

Prayer to St. Anne July 17 - 25 (may be said as a Novena) Glorious St. Anne, who is filled with compassion for those who invoke thee, and with love for those who suffer, heavily laden with the weight of my troubles, I cast myself at thy feet and humbly beg of thee to take the present affair which I recommend to thee, under thy special protection. [Name your request.] Vouchsafe to commend it to thy daughter, the Blessed Virgin Mary, and lay it before the throne of Jesus, so that He may bring it to a happy issue. Cease not to intercede for me until my request is granted. Above all, obtain for me the grace of one day beholding my God face to face and with thee and Mary and all the Saints, praising and blessing Him for all eternity. Amen. Good St. Anne, mother of her who is our Life, our Sweetness and our Hope, pray to her for us, and obtain our request. (3 times) The New Key of Heaven, 1955

PRAYER O most loving Jesus, give me an earnest will to forsake all evil, and to return to Thee, my chief good, to repent of my sins out of true love, to guard against them for the future, to shun the occasion by which I have hitherto been enticed into sin, and by the practice of good works to redeem the time lost. Grant me this, O Jesus, by Thy bitter passion and death, and through the intercession of the holy penitent Magdalen. Amen. ~ Goffine’s Devout Instructions, Feast of the Holy Penitent Mary Magdalen (July 22)

Month of the Precious Blood ~ July 22nd The Mystery of the Precious Blood This is the shape, then, which our Father's love takes to us His creatures. It is an invitation of all of us to the worship and the freedom of the Precious Blood. It is through this Blood that He communicates to us His perfections. It is in this Blood that He has laid up His blessings for us, as in a storehouse. This is true, not only of spiritual blessings, but of all blessings whatsoever. That the elements still wait upon us sinners, that things around us are so bright and beautiful, that pain has so many balms, that sorrow has so many alleviations, that the common course of daily providence is so kindly and so patient, that the weight, the frequency, and the bitterness of evils are so much lightened,—Is all owing to the Precious Blood. ~ Frederick William Faber, D.D., The Precious Blood: or, The Price of Our Salvation (1860)

Month of the Precious Blood of Jesus~ July 22nd If, then, we are struck by the prominence assigned by the Holy Ghost to the Blood of Jesus before It was really shed, by making it the subject of the types of the ancient law and by letting it appear in the visions of the Prophets, what honor and glory should it receive by us in the New Law, now that it has been shed by our Saviour in His bitter Passion and continues to flow mystically in His Church with so prodigal a love? ~ Rev. M. F. Walz, C. PP. S., Why Is Thy Apparel Red? or Glories of the Precious Blood (1914).

Prayer to St. Anne July 17 - 25 (may be said as a Novena) Glorious St. Anne, who is filled with compassion for those who invoke thee, and with love for those who suffer, heavily laden with the weight of my troubles, I cast myself at thy feet and humbly beg of thee to take the present affair which I recommend to thee, under thy special protection. [Name your request.] Vouchsafe to commend it to thy daughter, the Blessed Virgin Mary, and lay it before the throne of Jesus, so that He may bring it to a happy issue. Cease not to intercede for me until my request is granted. Above all, obtain for me the grace of one day beholding my God face to face and with thee and Mary and all the Saints, praising and blessing Him for all eternity. Amen. Good St. Anne, mother of her who is our Life, our Sweetness and our Hope, pray to her for us, and obtain our request. (3 times) The New Key of Heaven, 1955

2 of 2 ✧❁❁✧✿✿✧❁❁✧ At that time, when Jesus drew near to Jerusalem and saw the city, He wept over it, saying, “If thou hadst known, in this thy day, even thou, the things that are for thy peace! But now they are hidden from thy eyes. For days will come upon thee when thy enemies will throw up a rampart about thee, and surround thee and shut thee in on every side, and will dash thee to the ground and thy children within thee, and will not leave in thee one stone upon another, because thou hast not known the time of thy visitation. And He entered the temple, and began to cast out those who were selling and buying in it, saying to them, “It is written, ‘My house is a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a den of thieves.” And He was teaching daily in the temple. ” Luke 19, 41-47 Gospel, Ninth Sunday after Pentecost ~ St. Joseph Daily Missal, (1950) ✧❁❁✧✿✿✧❁❁✧

1 of 2 NINTH SUNDAY after PENTECOST The history of the Old and New Testaments proves that God rewards and punishes even here on earth. Jerusalem rejected the savior and it was destroyed. No temptation is so strong that we cannot conquer it with the grace of God, Who “will not permit you to be tempted beyond your strength.” (continued)

Month of the Precious Blood ~ July 21st The Mystery of the Precious Blood God does not see us as we see ourselves, but in a brighter, softer light. We are fairer in His sight than we are in our own, notwithstanding His exceeding sanctity, because He sees us in the Blood of His dear Son. This is a consolation, the balm of which is not easily exhausted. We learn a lesson from it also. Our view of creation should be like God’s view. We should see it, with all its countless souls, through the illuminated mist of the Precious Blood. Its spiritual scenery should be before us, everything everywhere, goldenly red. ~ Frederick William Faber, D.D., The Precious Blood: or, The Price of Our Salvation (1860)

2 of 2 Month of the Precious Blood of Jesus ~ July 21st Moses sealed the Old Covenant with sacrificial. blood. “He took the blood and sprinkled it upon the people, and he said: This is the blood of the covenant which the Lord hath made with you concerning all these words” (Ex. XXIV, 8). “And all our fathers drank the same spiritual drink; (and they drank of the spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ)” writes St. Paul (I Cor. X, 4). Regarding this text St. Thomas observes, in that water they saw the Blood of Christ typified which He shed in His Passion, and by virtue of their faith they had a spiritual foretaste of it. ~ Rev. M. F. Walz, C. PP. S., Why Is Thy Apparel Red? or Glories of the Precious Blood (1914).

Month of the Precious Blood of Jesus~ July 21st Again it was the blood of the paschal lamb, which was a type of the true Lamb of God, that was chosen by God expressly as a pledge of His special protection to the Israelites in Egypt. “And the blood shall be unto you for a sign in the houses where you shall be; and I shall see the blood, and shall pass over you: and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you” (Ex. XII, 13). (continued below)

Month of the Precious Blood of Jesus~ July 21st Again it was the blood of the paschal lamb, which was a type of the true Lamb of God, that was chosen by God expressly as a pledge of His special protection to the Israelites in Egypt. “And the blood shall be unto you for a sign in the houses where you shall be; and I shall see the blood, and shall pass over you: and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you.” (Ex. XII, 13). (continued below)

Prayer to St. Anne July 17 - 25 (may be said as a Novena) Glorious St. Anne, who is filled with compassion for those who invoke thee, and with love for those who suffer, heavily laden with the weight of my troubles, I cast myself at thy feet and humbly beg of thee to take the present affair which I recommend to thee, under thy special protection. [Name your request.] Vouchsafe to commend it to thy daughter, the Blessed Virgin Mary, and lay it before the throne of Jesus, so that He may bring it to a happy issue. Cease not to intercede for me until my request is granted. Above all, obtain for me the grace of one day beholding my God face to face and with thee and Mary and all the Saints, praising and blessing Him for all eternity. Amen. Good St. Anne, mother of her who is our Life, our Sweetness and our Hope, pray to her for us, and obtain our request. (3 times) The New Key of Heaven, 1955

Month of the Precious Blood ~ July 20th The Mystery of the Precious Blood No sooner had man sinned, than the influence of the Precious Blood began to be felt. There was no adorable abruptness on the part of God, as with the angels. His very unbraiding of Adam was full of paternal gentleness. With His punishment He mingled promises. He spoke of Mary, Eve's descendant, and illumined the penance of our first parents by the prophecy of Jesus. As the poor offending earth lay then before the sight of God, so does it lie now; only that the haze is more resplendent, since the Sacrifice on Calvary was offered. The Precious Blood covers it all over, like a sea or like an atmosphere. It lies in a beautiful crimson light forever, a light softening the very shades, beautifying the very gloom. ~ Frederick William Faber, D.D., The Precious Blood: or, The Price of Our Salvation (1860)

Offérimus tibi, Dómine, cálicem salutáris We offer Thee, O Lord, the chalice of salvation Month of the Precious Blood of Jesus~ July 20th What else did God want to signify to the Patriarch Jacob by the words, “He shall wash his robes in wine, and his garment in the blood of the grape” (Gen. XLIX, 11), than that Jesus in His love would shed His Blood in order to cleanse His Church which He has chosen as the bride of His heart. With what enthusiasm the Prophets seem to point to the wells of salvation opened by our Saviours five wounds: “You shall draw waters with joy out of the Saviour’s fountains” (Is. XII, 3). Zachary saw this sacred spring well up in the true house of David, in the Church, where it flows from the altar in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, when he wrote : “In that day there shall be a fountain open to the house of David, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem” (Zach. XIII, 1). ~ Rev. M. F. Walz, C. PP. S., Why Is Thy Apparel Red? or Glories of the Precious Blood (1914).

Prayer to St. Anne July 17 - 25 (may be said as a Novena) Glorious St. Anne, who is filled with compassion for those who invoke thee, and with love for those who suffer, heavily laden with the weight of my troubles, I cast myself at thy feet and humbly beg of thee to take the present affair which I recommend to thee, under thy special protection. [Name your request.] Vouchsafe to commend it to thy daughter, the Blessed Virgin Mary, and lay it before the throne of Jesus, so that He may bring it to a happy issue. Cease not to intercede for me until my request is granted. Above all, obtain for me the grace of one day beholding my God face to face and with thee and Mary and all the Saints, praising and blessing Him for all eternity. Amen. Good St. Anne, mother of her who is our Life, our Sweetness and our Hope, pray to her for us, and obtain our request. (3 times) The New Key of Heaven, 1955

Month of the Precious Blood ~ July 19th The Mystery of the Precious Blood Had it not been for Jesus, the case of earth would have been hopeless, now that sin had come. God would have let it go, as he had let the angels go. It would have been all hateful and dark in His sight, as the home of the fallen spirits is. But it was not so. Earth was dimmed, but it was not darkened, disfigured but not blackened. God saw it through the Precious Blood, as through a haze; and there it lay with a dusky glory over it, like a red sunset, up to the day of Christ. ~ Frederick William Faber, D.D., The Precious Blood: or, The Price of Our Salvation (1860)

Month of the Precious Blood of Jesus~ July 19th God accepted with complacency the sacrifice of Noe after the Deluge, but forbade him the use of blood. “Flesh with blood you shall not eat” (Gen lX, 4). Moses received the same command and God gave him the reason for this prohibition of blood. I have given it to you that you may make atonement with it upon the altar for your souls, and the blood may be for an expiation of the soul (Lev. XVII, 11). But why was blood held so sacred? How could the blood of animals offered on the altar become so pleasing to God ? St. John Chrysostom answers : “God caused it to be held sacred and considered Himself honored by it, not simply because it was blood, but because it represented in type the Blood of Jesus Christ.” ~ Rev. M. F. Walz, C. PP. S., Why Is Thy Apparel Red? or Glories of the Precious Blood (1914).

Prayer to St. Anne July 17 - 25 (may be said as a Novena) Glorious St. Anne, who is filled with compassion for those who invoke thee, and with love for those who suffer, heavily laden with the weight of my troubles, I cast myself at thy feet and humbly beg of thee to take the present affair which I recommend to thee, under thy special protection. [Name your request.] Vouchsafe to commend it to thy daughter, the Blessed Virgin Mary, and lay it before the throne of Jesus, so that He may bring it to a happy issue. Cease not to intercede for me until my request is granted. Above all, obtain for me the grace of one day beholding my God face to face and with thee and Mary and all the Saints, praising and blessing Him for all eternity. Amen. Good St. Anne, mother of her who is our Life, our Sweetness and our Hope, pray to her for us, and obtain our request. (3 times) The New Key of Heaven, 1955

Month of the Precious Blood ~ July 18th The Mystery of the Precious Blood Sin came. With sin came many fearful consequences. This beautiful earth was completely wrecked. It went on through space in the sunshine as before: but in God's sight, and in the destiny of its inhabitants, it was all changed. Jesus could no longer come in a glorious and unsuffering Incarnation. Mary would have to die; and, though she was sinless, she would need to be redeemed with a single and peculiar redemption, a redemption of prevention, not of rescue. She also, the immaculate Mother and Queen of creation, must be bought by the Precious Blood. ~ Frederick William Faber, D.D., The Precious Blood: or, The Price of Our Salvation (1860)

Month of the Precious Blood of Jesus~ July 18th When St. Paul writes : “God chose us in him before the foundation of the world” (Eph. I, 4), “according to the eternal purpose which he made, in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Eph. Ill, 11), he, too, reminds us of this eternal decree of the Precious Blood as the price of our redemption, for he says distinctly: “Without shedding of blood there is no remission” (Heb. IX, 22). Hence, mankind participated from its creation, in some measure, in this pre-ordained world-redemption of the Cross. ~ Rev. M. F. Walz, C. PP. S., Why Is Thy Apparel Red? or Glories of the Precious Blood (1914).