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✯¸.•´*¨`*•✿ ✿•*`¨*`•.¸✯ PROPER OF THE SEASON First Part of the Liturgical Year I. Season of Advent The Season of Advent begins on the 4th Sunday before Christmas. This time is set aside by the Church to bring before our eyes the Incarnation of Our Lord, the coming of Jesus Christ through Grace, and the coming of our Lord on the Last Day to judge the living and the dead. The proper Christmas sentiments to be developed during this time are: penance and an ardent love, worthily preparing men for the Feast of the Savior’s birth, and the victory of the soul over worldly temptations. ~ St. Joseph Daily Missal, 1950 ✯¸.•´*¨`*•✿ ✿•*`¨*`•.¸✯

2 of 2 Month of the Immaculate Conception ~ December 6th 2. When I look at successful men, I find in all three characteristics: (1) A spirit of cheerfulness and confidence. They know how to look at everything from its best side. Hence I must pray for confidence. (2) A spirit of perseverance. They are not discouraged by failures. They recover themselves without delay. What a lesson for me not to lose heart, but to say, When I fall I will rise again, and that promptly! (3) A spirit of single-mindedness. They keep the end in view steadily before them. If I am to attain to the end of my life, to succeed in coming to God at last, I must keep Him always before me. 3. What can make my life so happy as this, to know that I am drawing nearer to God? Yet there will be dark times and days of despondency. Still down at the bottom, beneath the surface, there will be hope and peace, even amid the darkness. Pray for cheerfulness and an earnest purpose to live for God. ~ Rev. Richard F. Clarke, S.J., The Devout Year (1893)

Month of the Immaculate Conception ~ December 5th 5th Day — God the End of our Life Seek ye therefore first the kingdom of God. (St. Matt. vi. 33.) 1. Our life is a circle: whence it first came, thither it must return. As we proceeded from God, so we must go back to Him if our life is to be a success. We can never find repose or lasting satisfaction in anything except God. As long as we do not tend to Him, we shall be fluctuating, inconstant, uncertain. Until we make Him the end of our life, we shall feel that we are wandering about in the dark. (continued)

Month of the Immaculate Conception ~ December 6th 6th Day — How to attain our End One thing I do; forgetting the things that are behind and stretching forth myself to those that are before, I press towards the mark. (Philipp. iii.13, 14.) 1. Every one desires to succeed in life. A man who desired ultimate failure would justly be regarded as a lunatic. If I am to carry out my desire, I must look round me and see what sort of men succeed. (continued)

December 6, 2025 FIRST SATURDAY of DECEMBER 💙 “See my daughter, how my heart is encircled by thorns with which ungrateful men pierce me at every moment by their blasphemies and ingratitude. You, at least, try to console me, and announce that I promise to assist at the hour of death, with the graces necessary for salvation, all those who on the First Saturdays of five consecutive months, confess, receive Holy Communion, recite part of My Rosary, and keep me company for a quarter of an hour, meditating on its mysteries with the intention of offering me reparation.” ~ Words of Our Lady to Sr. Marie (Lucia dos Santos) on December 10, 1925 If possible, make First Saturday devotions today, in reparation for offenses against the Immaculate Heart of Mary, as requested by Our Lady herself in 1925, and confirmed by Our Lord in 1927.

2 of 2 Month of the Immaculate Conception ~ December 5th 2. What do we mean by making God the end of our life? We mean that to do His pleasure shall be the motive which shall be first and foremost, and that when there is a choice between God's pleasure and our own, when the two seem to be opposed, our general disposition shall be to do God's will and not our own. In spite of the pain involved in giving up his own will, the man who makes God the end of his life will give it up without hesitation, and so will draw nearer to God, his last end. 3. Every time we do this we break down a barrier between God and ourselves; we come nearer to the enjoyment of Him, we get a bit closer to heaven. The self-willed man is never satisfied; the man whose will is perfectly subject to God is always happy. The angels are always happy because they have no will but God's. If I want to find happiness in this world or the next, the first thing is to learn to submit my will to God. Pray God to break down your self-will at any cost. ~ Rev. Richard F. Clarke, S.J., The Devout Year (1893)

Month of the Immaculate Conception ~ December 5th 5th Day — God the End of our Life Seek ye therefore first the kingdom of God. (St. Matt. vi. 33.) 1. Our life is a circle: whence it first came, thither it must return. As we proceeded from God, so we must go back to Him if our life is to be a success. We can never find repose or lasting satisfaction in anything except God. As long as we do not tend to Him, we shall be fluctuating, inconstant, uncertain. Until we make Him the end of our life, we shall feel that we are wandering about in the dark. (continued)

December 5, 2025 FIRST FRIDAY of DECEMBER ❤️ ✧❁❁✧✿✿✧❁❁✧ ACT of CONSECRATION of B. Margaret Mary ❤️ I, N.N., give and consecrate to the Sacred Heart of our Lord Jesus Christ my person and my life, my actions, penances, and sufferings, not wishing to make use of any part of my being for the future except in honouring, loving, and glorifying that Sacred Heart. It is my irrevocable will to be entirely His, and to do everything for His love, renouncing with my whole heart whatever might displease Him. I take Thee then, O most Sacred Heart, as the sole object, of my love, as the protector of my life, as the pledge of my salvation, as the remedy of my frailty and inconstancy, as the repairer of all the defects of my life, and as my secure refuge in the hour of death. Be then, O Heart of goodness, my justification before God the Father, and remove far from me the thunderbolts of His just wrath. O Heart ot love, I place my whole confidence in Thee. While I fear all things from my malice and frailty, I hope all things from thy goodness. Consume then in me whatever can displease or be opposed to Thee, and may Thy pure love be so deeply impressed upon my heart that it may be impossible that I should ever be separated from Thee, or forget Thee. I implore Thee, by all Thy goodness, that my name may be written in Thee, for in Thee I wish to place all my happiness and all my glory, living and dying in very bondage to Thee. Amen. i. 300 Days, once a day. ii. Plenary, once a month. Leo XIII, January 13, 1898 Pius X, May 30, 1908. ~ The Raccolta (1910) ✧❁❁✧✿✿✧❁❁✧

May the Sacred Heart of Jesus be loved everywhere. December 5, 2025 FIRST FRIDAY of DECEMBER ❤️ O Sacred Heart of Jesus, animated with a desire to repair the outrages unceasingly offered to Thee, we prostrate before Thy throne of mercy, and in the name of all mankind, pledge our love and fidelity to Thee! If possible, receive Holy Communion today and make reparation to Our Lord and Saviour for past and present offenses against His Most Sacred Heart.

Month of the Immaculate Conception ~ December 5th 5th Day — God the End of our Life Seek ye therefore first the kingdom of God. (St. Matt. vi. 33.) 1. Our life is a circle: whence it first came, thither it must return. As we proceeded from God, so we must go back to Him if our life is to be a success. We can never find repose or lasting satisfaction in anything except God. As long as we do not tend to Him, we shall be fluctuating, inconstant, uncertain. Until we make Him the end of our life, we shall feel that we are wandering about in the dark. (continued)

2 of 2 Month of the Immaculate Conception ~ December 4th 2. When we have a faithful friend who is possessed of unlimited influence and power, we consult him in all our difficulties. God is of all friends the most faithful and the most powerful; He desires to be consulted by us in things small as well as great, never tiring of our requests, more ready to hear than we to pray. Yet how little have I had recourse to Him hitherto! How little I have trusted Him! 3. The best proof of a friend's love is a desire for our company. In this what friend like God? He asks us, begs us, commands us to be always in His presence : "Walk with God and be thou perfect." His one object in all His advice to us is to secure our company forever in heaven. Why am I so indifferent about His presence,so soon weary of God? Pray that you may appreciate and relish the divine friendship of God. ~ Rev. Richard F. Clarke, S.J., The Devout Year (1893)

AMOUR POUR AMOUR C’est la toute la loi de Jesus. LOVE FOR LOVE This is the whole law of Jesus. Month of the Immaculate Conception ~ December 4th 4th Day — God our Best Friend All are Thine, O Lord, who lovest souls. (Wisdom xi. 27.) 1. Friendship is one of the consolations of man upon earth. One faithful friend is worth a hundred acquaintances. A friend who values our friendship for its own sake is a treasure without price. Such a friend we have in God. He has nothing to gain from my friendship, His infinite happiness is not increased by it. Yet His infinite goodness includes an intense desire to make me happy. (continued)

AMOUR POUR AMOUR C’est la toute la loi de Jesus. LOVE FOR LOVE This is the whole law of Jesus. 4th Day — God our Best Friend All are Thine, O Lord, who lovest souls. (Wisdom xi. 27.) 1. Friendship is one of the consolations of man upon earth. One faithful friend is worth a hundred acquaintances. A friend who values our friendship for its own sake is a treasure without price. Such a friend we have in God. He has nothing to gain from my friendship, His infinite happiness is not increased by it. Yet His infinite goodness includes an intense desire to make me happy. (continued)

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2 of 2 Month of the Immaculate Conception ~ December 3rd 2. But we not only live in Him, but we also move in Him. He co-operates with our every action. We cannot lift a hand or move a finger unless He not only sanctions the act but actually helps us to perform it. Every breath we breathe, every pulsation of our heart, depends on God's co-operation. How completely dependent we are on Him! How careful should we be that our every action is one suitable to the divine co-operation ! 3. God does more than this. He not only preserves us, but tends us with watchful care, delivers us from dangers, warns us when we are going wrong, shows a never-failing interest in us, and an unceasing desire for our happiness. For all this we are dependent on Him! What folly, then, to neglect one to whom we owe everything! Pray for a sense of continual dependence on God. ~ Rev. Richard F. Clarke, S.J., The Devout Year (1893)

Preserve me, O Lord, for I have put my trust in Thee. Ps. 15,1. Month of the Immaculate Conception ~ December 3rd 3d Day — God our Preserver In Him we live and move and are. (Acts xvii. 28.) 1. If God had merely created us and then left us to ourselves, there would have been some excuse for our forgetting how completely we belong to Him. But we are not like a picture that the artist finishes off and then leaves to itself. God continues throughout our whole life the act of creation in the shape of preservation. Without this we should at once lapse into our previous nothingness. We depend upon Him for our being as the rivulet depends on the spring, or the smoke on the fire. (continued)

2 of 2 Month of the Immaculate Conception ~ December 2nd 2. God created every one with certain gifts of his own that He did not give to another, and He gave him those gifts to do a special work that God had for him to do. He created me with a certain object; from all eternity He had been planning my soul and body, and providing me with all that I needed, that both one and the other might serve Him. Have I on the whole carried out God's plan? Shall I be able to say, when I come to die: "I have finished the work Thou gavest me to do?” 3. What a serious thought this is, that God had a plan for my life! He meant me to occupy a certain position in society and to have certain employments; to influence certain persons for good, to overcome certain temptations, to practise certain virtues beyond the rest, to attain a certain place in heaven. Has my life been ordered by God's holy inspirations? has not my own self-will too often had part in it? Pray that you may not fail of fulfilling God's intentions concerning you. ~ Rev. Richard F. Clarke, S.J., The Devout Year (1893)

1 of 2 Month of the Immaculate Conception ~ December 2nd 2d Day ~ God our Creator Thou art worthy, O Lord our God, to receive glory and honor and power, because Thou hast created all things. (Apoc. iv. 11.). 1. Why is it that God has such an absolute and all-embracing claim to ourselves and to all that is ours? It is because we are made by Him, and not only made, but created. We are His not only as the statue is the sculptor's and the picture the painter's, but He made out of nothing the very materials of which we consist. There is therefore nothing in us which is not God's. Every sort of excellence, strength, virtue, talent, beauty, skill, energy, affection— all are God's, not our own. (continued)

2 of 2 Month of the Immaculate Conception ~ December 1st 2. God is, moreover, a God infinite in knowledge and in power. His all-seeing eye over looks nothing, forgets nothing, passes nothing by. No one shall escape who takes anything from Him and does not give Him His due. Have I not therefore cause to tremble when I think how often I have behaved as if I were my own master, independent of God ? 3. Yet in the end I must recognize God’s ownership ; if I do not do so willingly and with joyful loyalty, I shall have to do so unwillingly and in misery and pain. Everything I have taken from God and appropriated to myself will have to be given back toHim. I shall have to pay the penalty for each misuse of what was entrusted to me. How much wiser and happier to recognize Him now in all things as my Lord and Master ! Offer yourself to God with loyal submission as your God and Lord. ~ Rev. Richard F. Clarke, S.J., The Devout Year (1893)

My Lord and my God, John 20, 28 1 of 2 Month of the Immaculate Conception ~ December 1st The Great Truths Short Meditations for Advent 1st Day ~ God our Lord The Lord hath made all things for Himself. (Prov. xvi. 4.) 1. We are all of us jealous of what belongs to ourselves. We resent it if anyone interferes with it, or deprives us of any portion of it. Yet no one owns anything by a title so absolute as that by which God is the Lord and Owner of all creatures in the universe. My body and my soul are His; everything I possess is His; every action, every thought belongs to Him. He has given all these in charge to me to use for Him. Do I do so? (continued)