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May Indulgence Calendar
Posted: May 1, 2023 by datechguy in catholic, catholic devotionsTags: catholic, catholic devotions, indulgence calendar
Little Christmas, Epiphany and the Annual Chalking of your home
Posted: January 6, 2023 by datechguy in catholic, catholic devotionsTags: catholic, catholic devotions, days of christmas, Epiphany, little christmas
While the church will officially celebrate Epiphany this Sunday January 6th is the traditional day of the visit of the wise men.
This is also the traditional day to Chalk and bless your home for the year, a devotion that isn’t as popular as it once was but if you go to any building on the EWTN campus you will find every doorway chalked that way.
In order to do the blessing you will need Holy Water and a piece of chalk blessed by a priest.
Rather than reinvent the wheel let me steal three prayers from the good folks at One Peter Five who put up a post on the subject two years ago:
They offer a short form prayer or a long form.
The short form goes like this:
May all who come to our home this year rejoice to find Christ living among us; and may we seek and serve, in everyone we meet, that same Jesus who is your incarnate Word, now and forever. Amen.
God of heaven and earth, you revealed your only-begotten One to every nation by the guidance of a star. Bless this house and all who inhabit it. Fill us with the light of Christ, that our concern for others may reflect your love. We ask this through Christ our Saviour. Amen.
Loving God, bless this household. May we be blessed with health, goodness of heart, gentleness, and abiding in your will. We ask this through Christ our Saviour. Amen.
There is a longer form that can be done with a priest or by the head of the household, it goes like this:
Prayer: On entering the home,
Leader(Priest, if present, or father of the family) : Peace be to this house.
All: And to all who dwell herein.All: From the east came the Magi to Bethlehem to adore the Lord; and opening their treasures they offered precious gifts: gold for the great King, incense for the true God, and myrrh in symbol of His burial.
All Pray: The Magnificat. During the Magnificat, the room is sprinkled with holy water and incensed. After this is completed,
All: From the east came the Magi to Bethlehem to adore the Lord; and opening their treasures they offered precious gifts: gold for the great King, incense for the true God, and myrrh in symbol of His burial.
Leader: Our Father. . .
And lead us not into temptationAll: But deliver us from evil.
Leader: All they from Saba shall come
All: Bringing gold and frankincense.
Leader: O Lord, hear my prayer.
All: And let my cry come to You.Leader: Let us pray. O God, who by the guidance of a star didst on this day manifest Thine only-begotten Son to the Gentiles, mercifully grant that we who know Thee by faith may also attain the vision of Thy glorious majesty. Through Christ our Lord.
All: Amen.
Leader: Be enlightened, be enlightened, O Jerusalem, for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee—Jesus Christ born of the Virgin Mary.
All: And the Gentiles shall walk in thy light and kings in the splendor of thy rising, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon thee.
Leader: Let us pray. Bless, + O Lord God almighty, this home, that in it there may be health, purity, the strength of victory, humility, goodness and mercy, the fulfillment of Thy law, the thanksgiving to God the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit. And may this blessing remain upon this home and upon all who dwell herein. Through Christ our Lord.
All: Amen.
Once you have completed either the long or short form anoint each room with holy water and use the chalk to mark the following on the lintal
20 + C+ M + B + 23
The the letters stand for the names of the wise men and the rest being the current year.
It’s a nice little devotion and give you a constant reminder of the the presence of the Lord.
The December Indulgence Calendar is out
Posted: December 1, 2022 by datechguy in catholic, catholic devotionsTags: catholic, catholic devotions, indulgence calendar, prayer
You can download it here
This is an excellent devotion for any Catholic looking to do something for the souls in purgatory.
Novena to St. Matthew for the FBI Agents involved in the Mark Houck Arrest: Day 9 Don Surber on Substack for the Finale
Posted: October 4, 2022 by datechguy in Blame Biden Administration, blogs, catholic, catholic devotions, internet/free speech, official oppressionTags: blogger, catholic, catholic devotions, censorship, dishonorable left, don surber, FBI, Mark Houck, novena to st matthew, tyrannical left
In a post earlier today I talked about how corruption has a lot to do with the failures of Russia in their War vs Ukraine and also how the media protecting them helped preserve this corruption.
Don Surber is a retired newspaperman who writes a very good blog at donsurber.blogspot.com and has for a lot of years. A few days back he wrote a good, but not all that provocative post about the corruption at the FBI. A couple of days ago in his daily update of the news closed with this:
FINALLY, I received this email from Blogger.com:
“Your post titled ‘How to end the FBI’ has been deleted.” No reason. No rhyme. No appeal. Just deleted. The email cited community standards but the community has no say in what those standards are, so they are by definition not community standards.
Readers can still read it here, and decide for themselves if it meets our community standards.
Meanwhile, I started a substack — donsurber.substack.com Guess what the first post is….
This tells me that none of this is happening in a vacuum and that it will either end it a collapse of this corruption or a collapse of our freedoms.
If anything confirms the need for this novena, confirms the choice of St. Matthew as the best patron for it.
So let’s go out on a high note of prayer.
St. Matthew Novena - Day 9 In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Dear Lord, we thank You for giving us St. Matthew as an example of holiness. Help us to imitate the devotion to You he showed in his years of service to Your Church. St. Matthew, you were called by Jesus to leave behind your old life as a tax collector and follow Him. After this, you devoted the rest of your life to following and serving Him. Please bring my petitions before Christ Whom you served so faithfully! You wrote of Jesus’ life and ministry in your Gospel so that others could come to know Him. You devoted the rest of your life to preaching the Good News and helping to establish the Church. Pray for me, that I may be as faithful a servant of God and His Church as you were. Pray that I may always be eager to put my gifts to use serving God. Please also pray for the FBI agents involved in the arrest of Mark Houck. St. Matthew, pray for us! In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Read more at: https://www.praymorenovenas.com/st-matthew-novena
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