Virgo Potens

1 of 2 NOVENA to the MAGI in Anticipation of the Epiphany December 28th ~ January 5th Feast of the Epiphany ~ January 6th Day 1 ~ December 28th Introductory Prayer I salute Thee, O divine Heart, with the three Magi who offered their homage to Thee. Regard me, I beseech Thee, with the same love and kindness with which Thou didst receive them, that I may offer with my heart, gold, frankincense and myrrh; that is to say, my intellect, my memory and my will; in complete subjection to Thee; in faith, hope, charity; in thought, word and deed. Accept my offering. Accept my heart, and grant that I may live and die thanking Thee for the invaluable favor of being called to the true faith. Hence, I beg of Thee, by the joy which filled Thy heart, when Thou didst see the first of the Gentiles at Thy feet, to hear my prayer and grant the request I make to Thee in this novena (here mention your request). Amen. (continued)

2 of 2 Month of the Immaculate Conception ~ December 28th 2. This music will combine the beauty of every earthly instrument and of the sweetest of earthly singers. No notes were ever heard on earth like the notes of the virgins, boys and girls, men and women, who will sing a heavenly melody that will never cease; and each note will be such that if we heard it on earth, we should despise all pain and suffering, nay, death itself, for the joy of listening to it. 3. There will be a still sweeter music for the blessed in heaven, a music which makes the music of the saints and angels seem almost discord. The voice of Jesus Christ will be heaven's sweetest melody; if on earth men hung on His lips, if never man spake like that Man, what will be the divine attraction of every word, every sound that will proceed from his lips in heaven! How each word will ravish the souls of all the saints in heaven! O myvGod, grant that Ibmay hear that voice in heaven. Pray that you may listen and obey Christ's voice speaking to your heart on earth. ~ Rev. Richard F. Clarke, S.J., The Devout Year (1893)

Month of the Immaculate Conception ~ December 28th 28th Day — The Music of Heaven They sung as it were a new canticle. (Apoc. xiv. 3.) 1. Everyone has read the story of the monk who once sat down in a wood near a monastery and wondered whether heaven would not after a time lose its charm. A little bird began to sing a song so sweet that he sat entranced. After a few minutes, as it seemed to him, the song ceased and he returned to his monastery to find that he had sat there and listened for twenty years. If this could be the case when it was but one little bird singing, what must be the absorbing delight of the music of the angels and saints in heaven! (continued)

2 of 2 Month of the Immaculate Conception ~ December 27th 2. A strong love makes the long hours pass away in a stream of unceasing delight ; no weariness, no monotony, no desire for anything else. One thing only checks the perfection of the happiness of love, and that is the thought that it cannot last forever. In heaven there will be a stream of delight immeasurably richer, and the joyful consciousness that there is no fear of its ever coming to an end. 3. As God is infinite in His perfections, they will necessarily be inexhaustible. The various phases (if we may use the term) of His divine loveliness will never come to an end. After a million years there will still be the same inexhaustible treasure of multiform delights to be enjoyed, and after a million years it will not be diminished. No fear, then, of sameness in heaven, no fear of monotony, it will ever be the same and yet ever new. Pray for a greater love of God here on earth. ~ Rev. Richard F. Clarke, S.J., The Devout Year (1893)

Month of the Immaculate Conception ~ December 27th 27th Day — The Employments of Heaven His servants shall serve Him. (Apoc. xxii. 3.) 1. While faith and hope will be at an end in heaven, the virtue of charity will remain. There is nothing on earth so sweet as love; nothing that fills the heart with such continual joy; nothing that so occupies the soul and causes men to forget all else. This is the case when the object of our love is a perishable imperfect creature like ourselves. How much more when the object of our love is the God of infinite beauty, containing in Himself every possible earthly perfection, not only multiplied to an in finite degree, but altogether higher in kind, and therefore a source of greater joy than all possible created beauty ! (continued)

2 of 2 Month of the Immaculate Conception ~ December 26th 2. Why is this? Because in God are united every perfection and every beauty and every joy and every delight that exist or can exist, and all in an infinite degree. Every other joy is but a shadow as compared with the substance, a grain of dust compared with the loftiest mountains, a drop of water compared with the ocean. O my God, help me to despise the passing joys of earth when I think of the joy of seeingThee! 3. The beatific vision will not convey the same degree of happiness to all who gaze upon it. It will depend upon our union with God on earth, on our faithfulness to grace, on our personal sanctity. One star differs from another star in glory. What folly, then, if we let slip any of the eternal reward for the sake of some perishable trifle or miss any opportunity of adding to our treasure of heavenly delight! Pray that you may appreciate your heavenly treasure, and strive continually to add to it. ~ Rev. Richard F. Clarke, S.J., The Devout Year (1893)

Month of the Immaculate Conception ~ December 26th 26th Day — The Essential Happiness of Heaven We shall see Him as He is. (1 St. John iii. 2.) 1. The one central source of heaven's happiness will be the vision of God. We shall see Him face to face in all His divine beauty; every thing will be swallowed up in the absorbing delight of gazing on the majesty of the Most High. If the lost in hell could see God for a single instant, hell would at once become heaven to them. (continued)

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2 of 2 ❀•°❀°•❀•°❀°•❀ THE ROSARY FOR THE POOR SOULS On the Cross: De Profundis or Pater and Ave. On the Large Beads: V. Eternal rest give to them, O Lord. R. And let perpetual light shine upon them. Act of Faith: My God, I believe in Thee, because Thou art Truth itself. Act of Hope: My God, I hope in Thee, because Thou art infinitely good. Act of Charity: My God, I love Thee with all my heart, and above all things, because Thou are infinitely perfect. (Indulgence 7 years, 7 quarantines, each time. Benedict XIV., Jan. 28, 1756. Plenary once a month, if said every day. Benedict XIII., Jan. 16, 1728.) (Plenary, in articulo mortis—at the point of death—if frequently used during life. Benedict XIV, Jan 28, 1758.) On the Small Beads: Sweet Heart of Jesus, be my love. (300 days once a day. Leo XIII., May 21, 1892.) Sweet Heart of Mary, be my salvation. (300 days each time. Pius IX., Sept. 30, 1852. Plenary, once a month.) At the end: Jesus, meek and humble of heart, make my heart like unto Thine. (300 days each time. Pius IX., Pr. Ma. Jan. 25, 1868; Pius X., Sept. 15, 1905.) Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, pray for us. (100 days each time. Pius X., Br. July 9, 1904.) St. Joseph, model and patron of those who love the Sacred Heart of Jesus, pray for us. (100 days once a day. Leo XIII., Dec. 19, 1891.) ~ Rev. J.F. Durin, Novena for the Relief of the Poor Souls In Purgatory (1931) ❀•°❀°•❀•°❀°•❀

THE ROSARY FOR THE POOR SOULS Remember the Poor Holy Souls today. Our Lord releases many on this most joyful day of the year. (continued)

2 of 2 Month of the Immaculate Conception ~ December 25th 2. Whatever God does He does on a scale worthy of Himself. The happiness of heaven will be immeasurable from the fact of its being in union with the God of infinite love and beauty. It will be a joy like the joy of Our Lord Himself, since He will say to each of the redeemed: "Enter thou into the joy of thy Lord.". Am I doing what I can to insure those words being addressed to me? 3. In heaven all will be perfectly happy. Even those who have the lowest places will have all that their hearts desire. There will be no unsatisfied wish in heaven, no craving after what we do not possess. Every one will have an overflowing cup of pleasure. Oh, what fools we are not to do more to insure the joy of heaven ! Pray that you may often think of heaven and its joys. ~ Rev. Richard F. Clarke, S.J., The Devout Year (1893)

Month of the Immaculate Conception ~ December 25th 25th Day — Heaven Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither hath it entered into the heart of man what things God hath prepared for them that love Him. (1 Cor. i. 9.) 1. These words convey the best idea that the Apostle who had been carried up into the third heaven could give of the happiness of the redeemed. All the loveliest things we have ever seen are as nothing in comparison to the sight of heaven; all the sweetest sounds are discord compared with the music of heaven; all the joys that have made the longest hours only too short do not deserve the name of joy compared with the joys of heaven. One moment of heaven is worth them all! (continued)

2 of 2 HYMN TO THE INFANT JESUS In joy reposing on thy Father's breast, How can a couch of straw afford thee rest? Sweet Love, thus pained, inflame my frozen heart, Jesus! to me thy purest love impart. If thus to suffer was thy gracious will, Yet, loving Saviour! let me ask thee still, What could thy blissful soul to suffering move? Thou weepest—not for grief— Ah no! for love. Thou grievest, after all thy love, to see Thyself so little loved, O God, by me; Yet if the past so little love has shown, I love thee now, O Jesus, thee alone. Thou sleepest, holy Infant! but thou art For us still wakeful in thy tender heart: Tell me, O beauteous Lamb! say what may be Thy thoughts?—I hear thee lisp: "To die for thee." Thou dwellest on thy death for me, with joy; Who then, save thee, shall all my thoughts employ? Mary, my hope! if less I love your Son, O love him you for me, and all is done. ~ St. Alphonsus Liguori, 1744 Blessed Alphonsus Liguori, The Way of Salvation.(1836)

HYMN TO THE INFANT JESUS Tu scendi dalle stelle Great King! from heaven's high throne descending low, In Bethlehem's stable born in cold and woe, Thou shiverest in a manger, Babe divine, Much hast thou borne for sins: how much for mine! The world's Creator thou, our God adored, Thou sufferest cold and want, O humbled Lord! Dear chosen Child! when love transforms thee so, For thee my heart the more with love shall glow. (continued)

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NOVENA IN HONOR OF THE HOLY NAME OF JESUS December 24th ~ January 1st Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus ~ January 2nd Begins today, December 24th, at Christus Regnat ~ https://t.me/RexUniversi

2 of 2 Month of the Immaculate Conception ~ December 24th 2. They will also be amazed and astonished at the reward given to them. What have I done, O Lord, to deserve all this? When did I minister to Thee as Thou sayest? When did I do anything to earn Thy words of gratitude? Who am I that Thou shouldst thus exalt me? All the little that I did came from Thee, and now Thou rewardest me as if it was my own. We bless Thee, we praise Thee, for Thy great goodness, Thine unspeakable generosity. 3. They will also look back with wonder on their earthly life. While it lasted it seemed so long, so tedious, perhaps so miserable, and now it is like a moment in the past, like a shadow that flitted by. How infinitesimal all its sorrows and pains will then seem, all compensated by that first moment of ineffable delight! Seek to bear that day in mind when earthly sorrows press heavily. ~ Rev. Richard F. Clarke, S.J., The Devout Year (1893)

Month of the Immaculate Conception ~ December 24th 24th Day — The End Attained Then shall the King say to them that shall be on His right hand, Come ye blessed of My Father, possess you the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. (St. Matt. xxv. 34.) 1. What will be the sentiments of those who at the General Judgment will find themselves on the right hand of the Judge, and listen to His words of love? First of all they will overflow with a delicious sense of happiness and peace; they will scarcely be able to contain themselves with delight; unmixed and unalloyed will be their cup of joy, unlike any of the joys of earth, intoxicating them with its ineffable sweetness. (continued)

“The Savior of the world shall reign over us.” ✯¸.•´*¨`*•✿ ✿•*`¨*`•.¸✯ PROPER OF THE SEASON II. Christmas Season The Christmas Season begins on the 24th of December and ends on the 13th of January. During this time the Church celebrates the following Feasts: The Nativity of our Lord, The Most Holy Name of Jesus, The Epiphany and the Baptism of Our Lord. The contemplation of the Mystery of the Incarnation invites us to be born again through a more vital union with Jesus Christ Who became Man for us. With the Magi we should thank God for manifesting Himself to us. We should walk like them with a lively faith, ever seeking the true God and longing for His heavenly gifts. ~ St. Joseph Daily Missal, 1950 ✯¸.•´*¨`*•✿ ✿•*`¨*`•.¸✯