When you pray,

do you ever let Jesus get a word in?

Join me in saying ...

 

"Jesus, Mary and Joseph, I love you very much.

I beg you to spare the life of the unborn baby

that I have spiritually adopted who is in danger of abortion." -

Prayer of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen

Dear God,

 

Please bless everyone today.

 

(NO exceptions)

When Jesus was on the cross

I was on His mind ...

Does that make you jump for joy

(for your salvation)

or run and hide?

(because of your sins)

AT A TIME OF ENDLESS THREATS TO HEALTH, REMEMBER TO PRAY FOR 'PROPHETIC' HEALING

Too often we react in retrospect. The damage is done. Heart problems. Cancer.

Where is the prophetic healing?

We need to anticipate. The Holy Spirit does this for us. He sees and guides. He helps us stay ahead of the game.

What is "prophetic healing"?

That's praying to gird ourselves against that which may afflict us in the future (or may be in an incipient stage). It's to strengthen. Each cell can be girded by the Holy Spirit against insult from chemicals, from viruses, from accident. It is to shield.
 

It's to put the body in harmony with the spirit.

It is to envelope.

 

Otherwise, the terrain around us is capricious (and too often, deadly).

Think about it: there are thousands of ways that we can meet our demise and this makes it all the more important that we pray before anything takes root, that we buffer ourselves, that we ask the Holy Spirit each day to touch any part of us that needs to be touched and to guide us as far as what we should eat and how we should live and how we should protect ourselves against any eventuality (especially those we don't expect). In this fashion can you rest better assured!

For if it's God Will, you can be protected against anything. Call it preventative "prayer medicine." Call it a spiritual "vaccine."

Another way of saying it is that we should pray for the minor miracles.

Ask for general health and also for protection against prominent ailments (arthritis, diabetes). Be specific. Be encompassing. See not with the eyes of the world, which are the eyes of fear.

A minor miracle is when the Lord intervenes before something becomes a crisis -- before it necessitates a major miracle.

Move the hill before it is Everest.

 

We must pray not in retrospect but proactively. Move forward in faith. Nip it in the bud. Don't let fear take hold of you. Consider God your real doctor. St. Catherine of Siena did that. There are prayers that ask this saint's patronage -- as well as that of others --

 

against bodily ills, against miscarriages, against fire, and against general sickness.

 

Your angel is also at the ready (just waiting to be asked).

Pray aggressively -- with an ardent heart -- against anything that may come in a negative fashion and you'll be enveloped in power. There is endless power in prayer (when it replaces anxiety) and there are prayers that are cancer-killers. We saw a few years back how an English Cardinal named Newman has been cited for the miracle cure of a living Massachusetts man.

 

"Lying in a hospital bed after surgery on his spine, unable to walk and in agonizing pain, Jack Sullivan propped himself up on elbows and prayed," reported a newspaper. "Not to some vast, unknowable god, but to a specific figure in the Catholic Church, vastly respected, yet mortal: Cardinal John Henry Newman, an Englishman who died in 1890. The healing, as Sullivan tells it, was almost immediate. He felt a tingling all over, was flooded with warmth, and, as easy as that, he could walk."

 

That's a major miracle. Never discount such! But how many more "minor" ones are there (or could there be)?

 

The Spirit vivifies our cells. He controls the molecules. He can rearrange anything if it is the Will of God because it is empowered by Him. Little miracles of vivification eventually become a big one.

 

Healthy food? Exercise? That's all good. But we can get a bit carried away, trying to follow all the advice and contradiction.

 

Keep it simple and keep it powerful and take every cell and tissue and organ of your body to the Blessed Mother for shielding under her veil.

In turn she'll take you to her Son -- Who sees every cell in your body in less than a glance and brings you into the harmony and health and fearlessness of Heaven.

5 reasons to adore the Sacred Heart
By Father William Byrne



If you had a May wedding, the bridesmaids wore blue. If you had a June wedding, the bridesmaids wore red. Such was the custom not so long ago for Catholic nuptials. Blue was to honor the Blessed Mother and red to honor the Sacred Heart. While most brides today have never heard of such devotions, some brides and grooms will still bring flowers to our Mother at their weddings. Many parishes continue to crown the statue of Our Lady in May and have communal rosaries. I think the Sacred Heart of Jesus has faded a bit from Catholic consciousness. I know it's not a competition, but I think it's time for the Sacred Heat of Jesus to get the attention it deserves.

Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, a human heart that is inflamed with divine love, is a powerful meditation and an important theological bridge that helps us understand who Jesus is and how much he loves us. In this June, the month of the Sacred Heart, I think it is time for us to renew our devotion and so I offer you 5 reasons to adore the Sacred Heart.

1. A Sacred Sonogram - Imagine if sonograms had existed at the time of Jesus. Just a little more than a week after the Annunciation when Mary says yes to being the mother of God, we would have seen something amazing on that screen, a little beating heart. That tiny pulse, undetectable to the human ear but resounding in heaven, meant that our God has a heart.

2. What John didn't hear, but the angels did. - At the Last Supper, John the beloved laid his head on Jesus' chest. Jesus knew that Judas, one of his chosen Apostles, was going to betray him. What John did not hear but what echoed in heaven was the sound of a breaking heart. The Sacred Heart is as human as yours and mine, it is a sign of the true humanity of Jesus. Its beat quickened when Jesus laughed with a loved one, and it ached with sorrow when he experienced betrayal. Think how truly his heart feels your joys and sorrows.

3. Blessing not bitterness. - "But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs, but one soldier thrust his lance into his side, and immediately blood and water flowed out." (John 19: 33-34) The Sacred Heart of Jesus was wounded and from that wound came blood and water. From his suffering, blessings flowed - the water of Baptism and the blood of the Eucharist. From our pains and hurts, what flows? Grudges, blame and anger or mercy, compassion and forgiveness? Don't wait for suffering to come to turn to Christ on the cross, but begin to pray now that when we are put to the test, blessings and not bitterness will flow from our wounded side.

4. Certain wounds never heal. - When the soldier thrust the lance into Jesus' side, he was already dead. As Thomas learned, those wounds never healed. He was able to feel the marks of the crucifixion and put his hand into Jesus' side. The water and blood, Baptism and Eucharist, have never ceased to flow from the Heart of Christ. His mercy is without end. After you receive Communion at Mass, stay after a few minutes and recall his overwhelming, never-ending generosity. Pray that just as his love flows from the cross into you and me that they may flow from you and me into the world.

5. Like unto Thine. - The Sacred Heart of Jesus, a human heart, opened the gates of heaven for each of us. In Jesus, humanity entered into union with God that could only happen when God became a man. As he took a human heart, he invites us into his divinity. This June pray this invocation, old and yet so new:

Jesus, meek and humble of heart, make my heart like unto Thine. Heart of Jesus, burning with love for me, inflame my heart with love of Thee. Amen.