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Wednesday 14 September 2016

Prayer to Defeat the Work of Satan

Christ defeated Satan - BEGONE SATAN!

Prayer to Destroy 
the power of Satan in our World

O Divine Eternal Father, in union with Your Divine Son and the Holy Spirit, and through the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I beg You to destroy the power of Your greatest enemy -- the evil spirits.

Cast them into the deepest recesses of hell and chain them there forever!  Take possession of Your Kingdom which You have created and which is rightly Yours.

Heavenly Father, give us the reign of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

I repeat this prayer out of pure love for You, with every beat of my heart and with every breath I take.

Amen.

Imprimatur:  March 1973, Richard H. Ackerman, Bishop of Covington

Christ defeated Satan by His Cross





“God governs the world but prayer governs God.”

Ancient Prayer to St. Joseph

St. Joseph and the Child Jesus


Prayer to St. Joseph

O St. Joseph, whose protection is so great, so strong, so prompt before the throne of God, I place in you all my interests and desires.  

O St. Joseph, do assist me by your powerful intercession and obtain for me from your Divine Son all spiritual blessings through Jesus Christ, Our Lord; so that having engaged here below your heavenly power.  

I may offer my thanksgiving and homage to the most loving of Fathers.  O St. Joseph, I never weary contemplating you and Jesus asleep I your arms.  

I dare not approach while He reposes near your heart.  Press Him in my name and kiss His find head for me, and ask Him to return the kiss when I draw my dying breath.  

St. Joseph, patron of dying souls, pray for me. Amen.


Imprimatur: Most Rev. George W. Ahr, Bishopof Trenton

Say for nine days as a novena.

St. Joseph pray for us!


This prayer was said to be founded in the fiftieth year of Our Lord Jesus Christ.  

In the 1500s it was sent by a Pope to Emperor Charles when he was going into battle.

According to oral tradition, whoever reads this prayer or hears it or carries it, will never die a sudden death, nor be drowned, nor will poison take effect on them. They will not fall into the hands of the enemy nor be burned in any fire, nor will they be defeated in battle.

Efficacious Novena to the Sacred Heart


Most Sacred Heart of Jesus


Novena to the Sacred Heart

O my Jesus, Thou has said: “Truly I say to you, ask and it will be given you, see and you will find, knock and it will be opened to you.”  Behold I knock, I seek and ask for the grace of . . .

Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be;
Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place all my trust in Thee.

O my Jesus, Thou has said: “Truly I say to you, if you ask anything of the Father in My Name, He will give it to you.”  Behold, in Thy Name, I ask the Father for the grace of . . .

Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be;
Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place all my trust in Thee.

O my Jesus, Thou has said: “Truly I say to you, Heaven and earth will pass away but My words will not pass away.”  Encouraged by Thy infallible words I now ask for the grace of . . .

Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be;
Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place all my trust in Thee.

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 Thee, through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, Your tender Mother and ours.

Immaculate Heart of  Mary
Hail, Holy Queen, Mother of Mercy, Hail our life, our sweetness and our hope.  To Thee do we cry, poor banished children of Eve.  To Thee do we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this valley of tears.  Turn then, most gracious Advocate, Thine eyes of mercy towards us, and after this our exile, show unto us the blessed fruit of Thy womb, Jesus. O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary.

Pray for us, O holy Mother of God. That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.

Efficacious Novena to the Sacred Heart


Most Sacred Heart of Jesus


Novena to the Sacred Heart

O my Jesus, Thou has said: “Truly I say to you, ask and it will be given you, see and you will find, knock and it will be opened to you.”  Behold I knock, I seek and ask for the grace of . . .

Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be;
Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place all my trust in Thee.

O my Jesus, Thou has said: “Truly I say to you, if you ask anything of the Father in My Name, He will give it to you.”  Behold, in Thy Name, I ask the Father for the grace of . . .

Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be;
Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place all my trust in Thee.

O my Jesus, Thou has said: “Truly I say to you, Heaven and earth will pass away but My words will not pass away.”  Encouraged by Thy infallible words I now ask for the grace of . . .

Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be;
Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place all my trust in Thee.

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 Thee, through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, Your tender Mother and ours.

Immaculate Heart of  Mary
Hail, Holy Queen, Mother of Mercy, Hail our life, our sweetness and our hope.  To Thee do we cry, poor banished children of Eve.  To Thee do we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this valley of tears.  Turn then, most gracious Advocate, Thine eyes of mercy towards us, and after this our exile, show unto us the blessed fruit of Thy womb, Jesus. O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary.

Pray for us, O holy Mother of God. That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.

Triumph of the Cross

Triumph of the Cross
Feast Day September 14th

Exaltation of the Cross

From a discourse by Saint Andrew of Crete, bishop

The Cross is Christ’s 
Glory and Triumph

We are celebrating the feast of the cross which drove away the darkness and brought in the light.  As we keep this feast, we are lifted up with the crucified Christ, leaving behind us earth and sin so that we may gain the things above.  So great and outstanding a possession is the cross that he who wins it has won a treasure.  Rightly could I call this treasure the fairest of all fair things and the costliest, in fact as well as in name, for on it and through it and for its sake the riches of salvation that had been lost were restored to us.


Had there been no cross, 

Christ could not 
have been crucified.  
Had there been no cross, 
life itself could not have been nailed to the tree.  
And if life and had not been nailed to it, 
there would be no streams 
of immortality pouring from Christ’s side, 
blood and water for 
the world’s cleansing.  



The legal bond of our sin would not be canceled, we should not have obtained our freedom, we should not have enjoyed the fruit of the tree of life and the gates of paradise would not stand open.  Had there been no cross, death would not have been trodden underfoot, nor hell despoiled.

Therefore, the cross is something wonderfully great and honorable.  It is great because through the cross the many noble acts of Christ found their consummation—very many indeed, for both his miracles and his sufferings were fully rewarded with victory.  

Christ on the Cross Salvation of Mankind
The cross is honorable 

because it is both 
the sign of Gods suffering 
and the trophy of his victory.  
It stands for his suffering 
because on it 
he freely suffered unto death.  
But is also his trophy 
because it was the means 
by which the devil was 
wounded and death conquered, 
the barred gates of hell 
were smashed, 
and the cross became 
the one common salvation
 of the whole world.


The cross is called Christ’s glory; it is saluted as his triumph.  We recognized it as the cup he longed to drink and the climax of the sufferings he endured for our sake.  

As to the cross being Christ’s glory, listen to his words: 

Christ Crucified
Now is the 

Son of Man glorified, 
and in him 
God is glorified, 
and God will glorify 
him at once.  
And once more: 
Father, 
glorify your name.  

Then a voice came from heaven: 
I have glorified it and will glorify it again. 


Here he speaks of the glory that would accrue to him through the cross is Christ’s triumph, hear what he himself also said: When I am lifted up then I will draw all men to myself.  Now you can see that the cross is Christ’s glory and triumph.

St.Andrew of Crete