Day 7 - Novena to Pray for Strength, Humility and Resolve for Our Bishops Reflections "If Catholics would rise up and be truly Catholic, the world would change overnight." - Mother Angelica. "Watch this closely. This crisis needs the strongest lay voice possible." -Bishop Strickland "The laity are the only ones who can keep the hierarchy accountable and get us out of the mess we bishops got ourselves into. My singular focus throughout the Baltimore meeting was to advocate and push for greater public involvement of the laity at all levels of the Church. Why can't we have well qualified, nationally known and trusted lay experts named to the special task force announced by the president of the USCCB? We are too insular and closed in as a hierarchy, and so are some of our processes at the USCCB. The Second Vatican Council gave us not only the freedom but the obligation to utilize and engage the gifts and talents of the laity in the life and mission of the Church." -Bishop McKnight Prayers On each of the nine days of this novena (Nov. 12 - Nov. 20), please offer the following: Offer your Daily Rosary by concluding with the Sacred Heart Novena Prayer. Sacred Heart Novena Prayer (Below) ... In each of the places that ask for your intention, pray this intention for this Novena: "Grant our bishops the grace to be strong, to be willing to suffer, to be humble and to keep the course in their essential functions in the keeping of order in the Church through governing, teaching, and sanctifying." Pray Chaplet of St. Michael (Optional) Offer Sacrifice: Be resolved to combat your own personal demon(s) [repetitive sin(s) great or small], starting on Day 1 of this Novena. Offer up a specific sacrifice that matches your resolve to combat your own personal demon(s). Then ask God ... Make me strong Give me the willingness to suffer Keep me humble Help me to keep the course Padre Pio's Sacred Heart Novena Prayer O my Jesus, You have said: "Truly I say to you, ask and you will receive, seek and you will find, knock and it will be opened to you." Behold I knock, I seek and ask for the grace of (Intention for Novena: "Grant our bishops the grace to be strong, to be willing to suffer, to be humble and to keep the course in their essential functions in the keeping of order in the Church through governing, teaching, and sanctifying"). Our Father ... Hail Mary ... Glory Be ... Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place all my trust in You. O my Jesus, You have said: "Truly I say to you, if you ask anything of the Father in My name, He will give it to you." Behold, in Your name, I ask the Father for the grace of (Intention for Novena: "Grant our bishops the grace to be strong, to be willing to suffer, to be humble and to keep the course in their essential functions in the keeping of order in the Church through governing, teaching, and sanctifying"). Our Father ... Hail Mary ... Glory Be ... Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place all my trust in You. O my Jesus, You have said: "Truly I say to you, heaven and earth will pass away but My words will not pass away." Encouraged by Your infallible words I now ask for the grace of (Intention for Novena: "Grant our bishops the grace to be strong, to be willing to suffer, to be humble and to keep the course in their essential functions in the keeping of order in the Church through governing, teaching, and sanctifying"). Our Father ... Hail Mary ... Glory Be ... Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place all my trust in You. O Sacred Heart of Jesus, for whom it is impossible not to have compassion on the afflicted, have pity on us miserable sinners and grant us the grace which we ask of You, through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, Your tender Mother and ours. Say the Hail, Holy Queen and add: "St. Joseph, foster father of Jesus, pray for us." Mother Angelica 'The Hidden Agenda' - Against Liberalism in the Catholic Church
Day 8 - Novena to Pray for Strength, Humility and Resolve for Our Bishops Reflections "There is truly a diabolical nature to this crisis. It is not clericalism, It is a crisis, an immoral crisis. Prayers and fasting are needed as a foundation on which real reform can be built." -Bishop Daly "Listen, you do-nothing superiors of clerics and priests. Listen, and even though you feel sure of yourselves, tremble at the thought that you are partners in the guilt of others; those, I mean, who wink at the sins of their subjects that need correction and who by ill-considered silence allow them license to sin. Listen, I say, and be shrewd enough to understand that all of you alike are deserving of death, that is, not only those who do such things, but also they who approve those who practice them." -St. Peter Damian Prayers On each of the nine days of this novena (Nov. 12 - Nov. 20), please offer the following: Offer your Daily Rosary by concluding with the Sacred Heart Novena Prayer. Sacred Heart Novena Prayer (Below) ... In each of the places that ask for your intention, pray this intention for this Novena: "Grant our bishops the grace to be strong, to be willing to suffer, to be humble and to keep the course in their essential functions in the keeping of order in the Church through governing, teaching, and sanctifying." Pray Chaplet of St. Michael (Optional) Offer Sacrifice: Be resolved to combat your own personal demon(s) [repetitive sin(s) great or small], starting on Day 1 of this Novena. Offer up a specific sacrifice that matches your resolve to combat your own personal demon(s). Then ask God ... Make me strong Give me the willingness to suffer Keep me humble Help me to keep the course Padre Pio's Sacred Heart Novena Prayer O my Jesus, You have said: "Truly I say to you, ask and you will receive, seek and you will find, knock and it will be opened to you." Behold I knock, I seek and ask for the grace of (Intention for Novena: "Grant our bishops the grace to be strong, to be willing to suffer, to be humble and to keep the course in their essential functions in the keeping of order in the Church through governing, teaching, and sanctifying"). Our Father ... Hail Mary ... Glory Be ... Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place all my trust in You. O my Jesus, You have said: "Truly I say to you, if you ask anything of the Father in My name, He will give it to you." Behold, in Your name, I ask the Father for the grace of (Intention for Novena: "Grant our bishops the grace to be strong, to be willing to suffer, to be humble and to keep the course in their essential functions in the keeping of order in the Church through governing, teaching, and sanctifying"). Our Father ... Hail Mary ... Glory Be ... Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place all my trust in You. O my Jesus, You have said: "Truly I say to you, heaven and earth will pass away but My words will not pass away." Encouraged by Your infallible words I now ask for the grace of (Intention for Novena: "Grant our bishops the grace to be strong, to be willing to suffer, to be humble and to keep the course in their essential functions in the keeping of order in the Church through governing, teaching, and sanctifying"). Our Father ... Hail Mary ... Glory Be ... Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place all my trust in You. O Sacred Heart of Jesus, for whom it is impossible not to have compassion on the afflicted, have pity on us miserable sinners and grant us the grace which we ask of You, through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, Your tender Mother and ours. Say the Hail, Holy Queen and add: "St. Joseph, foster father of Jesus, pray for us."
Day 8 - Novena to Pray for Strength, Humility and Resolve for OurBishops Reflections "There is truly a diabolical nature to this crisis. It is not clericalism, It is a crisis, an immoral crisis. Prayers and fasting are needed as a foundation on which real reform can be built." -Bishop Daly "Listen, you do-nothing superiors of clerics and priests. Listen, and even though you feel sure of yourselves, tremble at the thought that you are partners in the guilt of others; those, I mean, who wink at the sins of their subjects that need correction and who by ill-considered silence allow them license to sin. Listen, I say, and be shrewd enough to understand that all of you alike are deserving of death, that is, not only those who do such things, but also they who approve those who practice them." -St. Peter Damian Prayers On each of the nine days of this novena (Nov. 12 - Nov. 20), please offer the following: Offer your Daily Rosary by concluding with the Sacred Heart Novena Prayer. Sacred Heart Novena Prayer (Below) ... In each of the places that ask for your intention, pray this intention for this Novena: "Grant our bishops the grace to be strong, to be willing to suffer, to be humble and to keep the course in their essential functions in the keeping of order in the Church through governing, teaching, and sanctifying." Pray Chaplet of St. Michael (Optional) Offer Sacrifice: Be resolved to combat your own personal demon(s) [repetitive sin(s) great or small], starting on Day 1 of this Novena. Offer up a specific sacrifice that matches your resolve to combat your own personal demon(s). Then ask God ... Make me strong Give me the willingness to suffer Keep me humble Help me to keep the course Padre Pio's Sacred Heart Novena Prayer O my Jesus, You have said: "Truly I say to you, ask and you will receive, seek and you will find, knock and it will be opened to you." Behold I knock, I seek and ask for the grace of (Intention for Novena: "Grant our bishops the grace to be strong, to be willing to suffer, to be humble and to keep the course in their essential functions in the keeping of order in the Church through governing, teaching, and sanctifying"). Our Father ... Hail Mary ... Glory Be ... Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place all my trust in You. O my Jesus, You have said: "Truly I say to you, if you ask anything of the Father in My name, He will give it to you." Behold, in Your name, I ask the Father for the grace of (Intention for Novena: "Grant our bishops the grace to be strong, to be willing to suffer, to be humble and to keep the course in their essential functions in the keeping of order in the Church through governing, teaching, and sanctifying"). Our Father ... Hail Mary ... Glory Be ... Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place all my trust in You. O my Jesus, You have said: "Truly I say to you, heaven and earth will pass away but My words will not pass away." Encouraged by Your infallible words I now ask for the grace of (Intention for Novena: "Grant our bishops the grace to be strong, to be willing to suffer, to be humble and to keep the course in their essential functions in the keeping of order in the Church through governing, teaching, and sanctifying"). Our Father ... Hail Mary ... Glory Be ... Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place all my trust in You. O Sacred Heart of Jesus, for whom it is impossible not to have compassion on the afflicted, have pity on us miserable sinners and grant us the grace which we ask of You, through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, Your tender Mother and ours. Say the Hail, Holy Queen and add: "St. Joseph, foster father of Jesus, pray for us
Day 9 - Novena to Pray for Strength, Humility and Resolve for Our Bishops Reflections "If you weren't already a Catholic would you become one today? Ask yourself that question. I'm devastated to answer, I don't know. Would I see something holy and timeless?" -Matt Walsh "Think about how many millions of people will never become Catholic because you bishops have given them a reason not to be." -Matt Walsh "It's hard enough to be a Christian it this culture. ... How much harder it becomes ... when many priests and bishops, including the bishop of Rome are filled with contempt for faithful Catholics. We are not devils, Holy Father, and we deserve answers." -Matt Walsh Prayers On each of the nine days of this novena (Nov. 12 - Nov. 20), please offer the following: Offer your Daily Rosary by concluding with the Sacred Heart Novena Prayer. Sacred Heart Novena Prayer (Below) ... In each of the places that ask for your intention, pray this intention for this Novena: "Grant our bishops the grace to be strong, to be willing to suffer, to be humble and to keep the course in their essential functions in the keeping of order in the Church through governing, teaching, and sanctifying." Pray Chaplet of St. Michael (Optional) Offer Sacrifice: Be resolved to combat your own personal demon(s) [repetitive sin(s) great or small], starting on Day 1 of this Novena. Offer up a specific sacrifice that matches your resolve to combat your own personal demon(s). Then ask God ... Make me strong Give me the willingness to suffer Keep me humble Help me to keep the course Padre Pio's Sacred Heart Novena Prayer O my Jesus, You have said: "Truly I say to you, ask and you will receive, seek and you will find, knock and it will be opened to you." Behold I knock, I seek and ask for the grace of (Intention for Novena: "Grant our bishops the grace to be strong, to be willing to suffer, to be humble and to keep the course in their essential functions in the keeping of order in the Church through governing, teaching, and sanctifying"). Our Father ... Hail Mary ... Glory Be ... Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place all my trust in You. O my Jesus, You have said: "Truly I say to you, if you ask anything of the Father in My name, He will give it to you." Behold, in Your name, I ask the Father for the grace of (Intention for Novena: "Grant our bishops the grace to be strong, to be willing to suffer, to be humble and to keep the course in their essential functions in the keeping of order in the Church through governing, teaching, and sanctifying"). Our Father ... Hail Mary ... Glory Be ... Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place all my trust in You. O my Jesus, You have said: "Truly I say to you, heaven and earth will pass away but My words will not pass away." Encouraged by Your infallible words I now ask for the grace of (Intention for Novena: "Grant our bishops the grace to be strong, to be willing to suffer, to be humble and to keep the course in their essential functions in the keeping of order in the Church through governing, teaching, and sanctifying"). Our Father ... Hail Mary ... Glory Be ... Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place all my trust in You. O Sacred Heart of Jesus, for whom it is impossible not to have compassion on the afflicted, have pity on us miserable sinners and grant us the grace which we ask of You, through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, Your tender Mother and ours. Say the Hail, Holy Queen and add: "St. Joseph, foster father of Jesus, pray for us." Matt Walsh - Silence Stops Now Rally
Day 10 November 21 (Feast of Presentation of Mary) – St. Maximilian Kolbe’s Marian Consecration Consecration Prayer O Immaculata, Queen of Heaven and earth, refuge of sinners and our most loving Mother, God has willed to entrust the entire order of mercy to you. I, (name), a repentant sinner, cast myself at your feet, humbly imploring you to take me with all that I am and have, wholly to yourself as your possession and property. Please make of me, of all my powers of soul and body, of my whole life, death and eternity, whatever most pleases you. If it pleases you, use all that I am and have without reserve, wholly to accomplish what was said of you: “She will crush your head,” and “You alone have destroyed all heresies in the whole world. ” Let me be a fit instrument in your immaculate and merciful hands for introducing and increasing your glory to the maximum in all the many strayed and indifferent souls, and thus help extend as far as possible the blessed kingdom of the most Sacred Heart of Jesus. For wherever you enter you obtain the grace of conversion and growth in holiness, since it is through your hands that all graces come to us from the most Sacred Heart of Jesus. Allow me to praise you, O sacred Virgin Give me strength against your enemies Enrollment to the Militia of the Immaculata: HERE
