Mater Dei
Monday, October 31, 2011
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
After the Bible, this IS the greatest book ever written. De Monfort admitted the Holy Ghost moved his hand while penning it.
I consider the Bible and the Catechism one and the same. God revealed Himself in the Scriptures and then gave His ordained Church the authority to interpret it as Heaven intended, so the Bible and the Catechism are really one book. The Church defining the Bible's meanings is absolutely essential in every way, so both books complete each other. Now, since there is no question as to the greatest book ever, we see a book here that introduces us to the New Ark of the Covenant. Mary is FIFTY PERCENT of Satan's eternal enemy in Genesis 3:15 - yes. The Woman and the Seed. Jesus AND Mary, were to be eternally at war with Lucifer, as God would have it. This book teaches us on so many different levels that the mother of the living God is with us today and how we need to have a devotion to Her to find Her Son, Jesus Christ, in the end. God created Mary for His own use, and to reject Her, to reject really getting to know and understand Her in every way, would be a delight to the demons in Hell who so fear Her. Satan's wish to diminish Her, tear Her down and cover Her up, is a diabolical plan, and it worked with the Protestant Reformation. This book was hidden away for 150 years!!! Yes, the Devil tried to silence the author and his book, but to no avail. I cannot imagine any other book that could teach us to love and honor Mary the way Jesus did any better than True Devotion To Mary. To bind ourselves closer to the New Ark is ABSOLUTELY CRUCIAL. God loves NOTHING else He has ever created MORE than the Virgin. NOTHING. Mary IS HIS GREATEST MASTERPIECE. This book really teaches us how to love Her in the deepest and best possible way. What else can I say?? Others may feel different books have the 2nd place spot, but for me, this book IS IT!
Give Her your time. Whatever you give Her, She gives back much, much more...
Whatever you put into anything, is what you get out of it. Effort is rarely ever unrewarded, however sometimes it is. Not when it comes to Jesus and Mary. He so desires us to think of Him every moment of the day, He is ready to give and give to those who really GIVE their time to Him. St. Bernadette tells us that He will never be out-done in generosity. And she's right. So, the Virgin, as our Immaculate pathway to His Sacred Heart - our desired final destination - we must give Her time. 5 decades of the Rosary is 15 minutes. 15 decades is about 45-50 minutes - done with love and devotion. At Fatima, She asked for a Rosary a day. 5 decades. 15 minutes of 24 hours is ONE PERCENT of the day!!!!!!! That's IT!!! So yes, 45 minutes of prayer is almost an hour. 15 decades is a CROWN of ROSES for Her. 45 minutes a day. For the Mother of our Redeemer, is that too much, considering what She does for us?? The average American spends 3 hours a day in front of the TV. Yes. So the Virgin is worth LESS than that? Think about it. True devotion to Her takes TIME. Yes. But Her gifts to you will be magnified beyond belief.......Give Her just a little more than She asks, and you will see what graces fall onto you......Believe that............
A poor sinners prayer to the Mother of the Lord.........
"Sancta Maria! turn thine eyes
Upon the sinner's sacrifice
Of fervent prayer and humble love,
From thy holy throne above.
At morn, at noon, at twilight dim
Maria! thou hast heard my hymn.
In joy and wo, in good and ill
Mother of God! be with us still.
When my hours flew gently by,
And no storms were in the sky,
My soul, lest it should truant be —
Thy love did guide to thine and thee.
Now, when clouds of Fate o'ercast
All my Present, and my Past,
Let my Future radiant shine
With sweet hopes of thee and thine." Edgar Allan Poe...
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Do YOU limit Mary by lack of belief and trust? Here's how Father Patrick Peyton learned to trust Her totally.
When Father Patrick Peyton was a seminarian at Notre Dame, he had a talk with an old priest. The old priest, Father Cornelius Hagerty, C.S.C, taught young Patrick some very real truths regarding the Blessed Virgin and what She can do. Father Hagerty said, "Our Lady will be as good as you think She will be. If you think She will be a fifty-per-center, that's what She'll be. If you think She is a hundred per-center, She will be for you a hundred per-center. Our Lord and Our Lady do not do as much as they could do, not because they can't, but because we limit them with our lack of faith. Mary is omnipotent in the power of Her prayer. Mary can do anything God can do. The difference is not in what God can do and what Mary can do. The difference is the WAY they do it. God wills something and it happens. Mary prays to Him for something and He does it. He will never say no to Her."
Mary has TOTAL power over space. Believe that.
On this day in 1917, Mary performed the miracle that She told the children of Fatima that She would. She spun the sun around the sky like it was Her own personal ping-pong ball. THAT, is power. God has given Her powers we can never even comprehend. She has the power to throw stars and moons around the universe. Remember, earth is just a planet in God's garden. Mary commands every planet and every star. The sun-tossing was just a trick to show the people of earth - 70,000 witnesses - what She COULD do......Any UFO in the sky is at Her mercy. Remember that.
If Jesus is just an abstract object in your life, then you've got BIG problems....
"The problem is that Catholics and Protestants have the bad habit of turning the object of their worship into an abstract object, and an abstraction has no need of a mother." Father Karl Rahner, SJ.....This was the question posed to him in 1972, when asked why Marian devotion was on the decline. And he's 100% correct. If Jesus Christ is an abstraction, He's just a concept in your mind. Not really "real". He is just a vague idea of God, not a real entity. When Jesus becomes that, Mary disappears as well. And sin is no big deal if your God is just an idea or abstraction. Why have Her around, if Jesus is "just some guy from a long time ago"?? When Mary goes, authentic belief in Her Divine Son is soon to follow. Eliminate Mary and the idea of the virgin birth will soon be just a myth - there goes Jesus and His Divinity. So you see, Mary's importance to the Divine can never be minimized at all - lest we LOSE our faith in He Who Is...............Satan wins when Mary is buried and hidden. Remember that.
To get closer to Her, we must remove all that offends Her from our lives.....
Saint Louis De Montfort speaks of this idea. We MUST eliminate the filth and trash from our lives to show a more wholesome and purer devotion to Mary. Since we travel by way of Her Immaculate Heart TO Jesus Christ, we must not pervert that pathway by vile sin. If there are things in our lives that we enjoy, but She would not approve of them, then it's simple. ELIMINATE THOSE THINGS FROM YOUR LIFE. We seek to imitate Her purity, modesty, humility of heart and obedience. Let us do it right. What good is it to have a house full of Marian statues, pictures, Rosaries, etc, if we aren't willing to do what we can to really imitate Her virtues???
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
The Ark of the New Covenant...The Virgin....See all of the Old Testament/New Testament realities of Mary...The NEW Ark....
THE VIRGIN MARY AS THE ARK OF THE NEW COVENANT
"Mary, in whom the Lord himself has just made his dwelling, is the daughter of Zion in person, the Ark of the Covenant, the place where the glory of God dwells. She is 'the dwelling of God [...] with men.'" CCC#2676
God the Holy Spirit overshadowed and then indwelled the Ark. The Ark became the dwelling place of the presence of God [Exodus 40:34-35]
God the Holy Spirit overshadowed and the indwelled Mary. At that time Mary's womb became the dwelling place of the presence of God [Luke 1:35].
The Ark contained the 10 Commandments [the words of God in stone], a pot of manna, and Aaron's rod that came back to life [Deuteronomy 10:3-5; Hebrews 9:4].
The womb of the Virgin contained Jesus: the living Word of God enfleshed, the living bread from heaven, "the Branch" (Messianic title) who would die but come back to life [Luke 1:35].
The Ark traveled to the hill country of Judah to rest in the house of Obed-edom [2 Samuel 6:1-11]
Mary traveled to the hill country of Judah (Judea) to the home of Elizabeth [Luke 1:39]
Dressed in a priestly ephod, King David approached the Ark and danced and leapt for joy [2 Samuel 6:14]
John the Baptist, son of a priest who would himself become a priest, leapt for joy in Elizabeth's womb at the approach of Mary [Luke 1:43]
David shouted for joy in the presence of God and the holy Ark [2 Samuel 6:15]
Elizabeth exclaimed with a loud cry of joy in the presence God within Mary [Luke 1:42]
David asked, "How is it that the Ark of the Lord comes to me?" [2 Samuel 6:9]
Elizabeth asks, "Why is this granted unto me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?" [Luke 1:43]
The Ark remained in the house of Obed-edom for 3 months [2 Samuel 6:11]
Mary remained in the house of her cousin Elizabeth for 3 months [Luke 1:56].
The house of Obed-edom was blessed by the presence of the Ark [2 Samuel 6:11]
The word "blessed" is used 3 times in Luke 1:39-45 concerning Mary at Elizabeth's house.
The Ark returned to its sanctuary and eventually ends up in Jerusalem where the presence and glory of God is revealed in the newly built Temple [2 Samuel 6:12; 1 Kings 8:9-11]
Mary returned home from visiting Elizabeth and eventually comes to Jerusalem, where she presents God the Son in the Temple [Luke 1:56; 2:21-22]
God made Aaron's rod (which would be kept in the Ark) return to life and budded to prove he was the legitimate High Priest [Numbers 17:8].
God would resurrect His Son, who had become enfleshed in Mary's womb and born to bring salvation to all mankind, to prove He is the eternal High Priest [Hebrews 4:14].
When the Ark was outside the Holy of Holies [when it was being transported] it was to be covered with a blue veil [Numbers 4:4-6]
In Mary's appearances outside of heaven visionaries testify that she wears a blue veil.
In Revelation 11:19 John sees the Ark of the Covenant in Heaven [this is the last verse of chapter 11]
In Revelation 12:1 John sees Mary in Heaven. It is the same vision Juan Diego saw of Mary in 1531'the Woman clothed with the sun and standing on the moon.
Death was the punishment in the Old Testament for showing the Old Ark disrespect. What do you imagine the penalty could be for blasphemy against the LIVING New Ark? The MOTHER of Jesus Christ???????? God will administer His own judgment there............
Keep your devotion to Her. Even on days when you just can't pray for whatever reason.....
Say 3 Hail Mary's. One for the Father, and for the Son and for the Holy Spirit. I know there can be days of severe spiritual dryness. But for Her, give 3 Hail Mary's if you can find it in your poor human heart to give nothing else............She understands our pathetic human hearts, and She will help you in any way, but keep up your devotion to Her - at all costs. For there are 7 billions humans who do NOT pay the Mother of God any mind at any time....your 3 Hail Mary's let Her know you still are still thinking of Her - no matter what. Believe me. This pleases the Lord greatly. :-)
Spread the understanding of Genesis 3:15 in it's PROPER form......it's the key to EVERYTHING.
The Vulgate, Saint Jerome's faithful Latin translation of Sacred Scripture from Hebrew to Latin, is the correct translation. And that translation - Genesis 3:15, anyway - has been perverted in a grave manner!!! In almost ALL Catholic bibles today, this revised verse speaks of "striking at heads", "bruising of heels" and "bruising of heads". WRONG TRANSLATION. There is no total victory in bruising heels and heads!!! Mary CRUSHES the serpent's head in the AUTHENTIC Latin translation. There is a big gap in Marian understanding these days precisely because of this diabolical trashing of Genesis 3:15. Think about it. The next Marian Dogma - Co-Redemptrix and Mediatrix of all Graces is a title supported by Mother Teresa, Padre Pio, Luigi Cardinal Ciappi, Cardinal Telesphore Toppo, Archbishop of Ranchi, India; Cardinal Luis Aponte Martínez, retired Archbishop of San Juan, Puerto Rico; Cardinal Varkey Vithayathil, major Archbishop of Ernakulam-Angamaly, India; Cardinal Riccardo Vidal, archbishop of Cebu, Philippines; and Cardinal Ernesto Corripio y Ahumada, retired archbishop of Mexico City. Real value in authentic Mariology and this all-important impending dogma can never be fully understood by the human race UNTIL the truth about Genesis 3:15 is brought to light.........Mary CRUSHES Satan's head. That, is the true reality of Genesis 3:15.











