I
have a new feature to present here on my blog.
This is a newsletter written by one of my fellow Lay Dominicans of my
fraternity, Alice. Alice writes a
monthly newsletter for two groups, a male group dubbed the St. Michael Warriors
and women’s group she calls the Handmaids of Mary. The intent of the groups are to pray for the
guidance and protection of the Holy Father, Pope Leo XIV. The only requirements for her groups are, in
addition to whatever prayers you normally pray daily, to pray three Hail Mary’s
and one St. Michael the Archangel prayer for the Pope. If you are interested in joining her group
and receiving her newsletter, leave a comment and we’ll figure out how to get
your email on her list.
So I helped Alice edit her May newsletter, and I enjoyed it so much that I thought it might be a nice feature on my blog. I offered to post her newsletters and she agreed. I want to be clear, this is all Alice’s writing below. I just tweaked the language a little bit. This dovetails nicely with today’s Solemnity of the Ascension.
Before
the newsletter, let us pray: For Pope Leo XIV
Hail
Mary, full of grace…
Hail
Mary, full of grace…
Hail
Mary, full of grace…
St.
Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle; be our protection against the
wickedness and snares of the devil; may God rebuke him, we humbly pray, and do
thou, O Prince of the Heavenly Host, by the power of God, thrust into hell Satan
and all the evil spirits who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls.
Alice’s
newsletter:
St. Michael Warriors
Deus omnes amat et malum non praevalebit
“God loves everyone and evil will not prevail”
He has Risen
He has Risen Indeed!!!
As promised in
March I write Mary’s answer to a Joseph when he asked Mary “how may I serve
you” when they were betrothed. Mary was 14 years of age, Joseph 33 a
native of Nazareth and one of the descendants of the royal race of David. In
her shyness Mary called on the angels to attend her when she spoke to Joseph.
In the glorious company of angels Mary spoke to Joseph, “my lord and spouse, I
acknowledge myself as more beholden than any other creature to God, so at a
tender age I consecrated myself to God by a perpetual vow of chastity in body
and soul; I beseech thee my master, to help me in fulfilling this vow
while in other things I will be thy servant, willing to work for the comfort of
thy life as long as mine shall last.”
The
most chase Joseph, full of interior joy at the words of his spouse, replied,
“My mistress, in making known to me thy chaste and welcome sentiments, I
had not opened my thoughts to you before knowing your own; I desire thee to
know at the age of twelve years I made a perpetual vow of chastity to the Most
High. On this account I will gladly ratify this vow in order not to
impede thy own. I promise to aid thee in serving and loving Him according
to thy full desires.”
By
Divine operation the two most holy and chaste spouses felt an incomparable joy
and consolation. They immediately set out from the temple in Jerusalem
and settled in Nazareth.
As
in past letters I called to mind the apparitions of Mary who comes to earth to
show us the way for our times. Our Blessed Mother reminds us how peace
will come to the earth if we follow her messages. Mary wants us to know, as in
Our Lady of Guadalupe, that she loves us. As in Our Lady of Fatima, she
wants to show her wounded heart asking us for consolation. As in Our
Lady of La Sallette, she wants us to see her weeping over the abuse of
Sundays. Mary also brings gifts to help us to defeat Satan: the rosary,
the scapular, the Miraculous Medal, the springs of holy water for healing the
sick. These are the treasures found only in the Catholic Church.
There
are many Catholic treasures that help us in times of need. Such a as when
Pope Pious IX, who during the French Revolution, Rome was being
ransacked, displayed in the Vatican the Veil of Veronica and the relic of the
true cross. The Veil of Veronica began to have a strange glow for
everyone in the city to see, the people prayed to these relics and
the French were driven out of Rome.
Another mighty
prayer to drive Satan away also happened at the same time of the French
Revolution, the prayer the Golden Arrow given to a Carmelite nun by Jesus who
said, “this Golden Arrow prayer will wound my heart delightfully and heal the
wounds inflicted by the blasphemy of using Gods name in vain.”
GOLDEN ARROW
PRAYER
Let us
pray: May the most holy, most sacred, most adorable, most mysterious, and
unutterable
Name of God be
always praised, blessed, loved, adored, and glorified in heaven and on
earth and under the earth by all the creatures of God and by the Sacred
Heart of our Lord Jesus Christ in the most Holy Sacrament of the altar.
If we would
say that prayer whenever we heard the name of God taken in vain it would
console the Sacred Heart delightfully!
So
now the Thursday of Holy Ascension is upon us …He goes before us to prepare a
place for us, so that where I am you may be also…. In my father’s house there
are many mansions.
Alice
Handmaid of the St.
Michel Warriors
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