June 10 - "Let your Light shine..."

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Today’s Mass Readings can increase our hope in these dark times. The First Reading is a long rone from the Old Testament but in reading it we rejoice in God’s Power to save His People. The Alleluia Verse and the Gospel taken from the New Testament speak to us of the fulfillment of the Old as Jesus continues His Sermon on the Mount after announcing the Beatitudes:

Alleluia Verse
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Let your light shine before others
That they may see your good deeds and glorify your heavenly Father. (Mt 5:16)
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
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Gospel
Jesus said to his disciples:
“You are the salt of the earth.
But if salt loses its taste, with what can it be seasoned?
It is no longer good for anything
but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot.
You are the light of the world.
A city set on a mountain cannot be hidden.
Nor do they light a lamp and then put it under a bushel basket;
it is set on a lampstand,
where it gives light to all in the house.
Just so, your light must shine before others,
that they may see your good deeds
and glorify your heavenly Father.” (Mt 5:13-16)
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Come Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of Your Faithful! Kindle in us the Fire of Your Love!. Sacred Heart of Jesus make our hearts like Yours! Mary, Mother of the Church and Mother given to us all on Calvary, that we may behold you and see in you All the Marvelous things God has done in you and can do in each of His children who believe without doubting – please pray with us and for us, that our souls may glorify the Lord as you did on this earth, that He may shine through us as He did and continues to do on earth, through you. Amen.

Mass Readings for today can be found at: http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/061020.cfm
 
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Dear Stephie,

Thanks again for your Faith-Full and loving “heart” – prompting you to give encouragement as well as joining me and others in listening to God’s Holy Word and pondering all He said and did in our hearts, with Mary.

These days continue to be dark with Covid -19 still a threat. There is terrible unrest over the sad death of one man by another, while families struggle seeing jobs and businesses and livelihoods disappearing. The riots and looting and fires seem to have subsided to some degree but the anger remains. By God’s Grace, let us continue to listen to God’s Word each day, and learn from Him as Mary learned and daily grew in the perfection of Charity.

This coming Sunday is the Feast of Corpus Christi and the following Friday and Saturday are the Feasts of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary. I received a short Novena Prayer in preparation for the Feast of the Scared Heart, and God willing I will post it tomorrow since the Novena begins on June 11 and ends on the Feast of the Sacred Heart on June 19. I hope some will join in praying this Novena to honor His Heart Pierced for love of us.

God willing let us continue to pray with attention and devotion, the daily Rosary our Mother asked for at Faitma: “O my Jesus, pardon us and save us from the fires of hell. Draw all souls to heaven, espeically those in most need of God’s Mercy.”
 

God wishes devotion to my Immaculate Heart​

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Preceding the second apparition on June 13, 1917, the seers, Lucia, Francisco and Jacinta, once again saw a great brilliance, which they called lightning. Some people in the group of fifty spectators noticed that the light of the sunlight dimmed during the first few minutes of the conversation. Others said that the top of the budding holm oak bent down, as if under the weight of something. During Our Lady’s conversation with the seers, some of the bystanders heard a whispering, like the humming of a bee.

Lucia: What does Your Grace wish of me?

Our Lady: I want you to come here on the thirteenth of next month, to pray the Rosary every day, and to learn to read. I shall later say what I want.

(Lucia asked for the healing of a sick person.)

Our Lady: If he converts, he will be healed within the year.

Lucia: I would like to ask you to take us to heaven.

Our Lady: Yes, I shall take Jacinta and Francisco soon, but you will remain here for some time yet. Jesus wishes to use you in order to make me known and loved. He wishes to establish devotion to my Immaculate Heart in the world. I promise salvation to those who embrace it; and these souls will be beloved of God like flowers arranged by me to adorn His throne.

Lucia: Will I stay here alone?

Our Lady: No, daughter. Does that make you suffer much? Do not be dismayed. I will never forsake you. My Immaculate Heart shall be your refuge and the road that shall lead you to God.

Lucia writes, “Upon saying these last words, she opened her hands, and for the second time she communicated to us the reflection of that intense light. We could see ourselves in it, as if immersed in God. Jacinta and Francisco seemed to be in the part of this light that went up toward heaven, and I in the part that was cast toward the ground. In front of Our Lady’s right hand there was a heart encircled by thorns that seemed to pierce it. We understood that it was the Immaculate Heart of Mary, insulted by the sins of humanity and which desires reparation.”

Sister Lucia of Fatima, Second Memoir

America Needs Fatima

Read more on mariedenazareth.com:​

Saint Jean Paul II, 25 mars 1984, Consécration du monde au Cœur Immaculé de Marie

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now, and at the hour of our death.
Amen.
 
Dear hazcompat,

Thanks so much for your reply and how beautifully it adds to the Scripture verse: “Let your Light shine” – Mary was the first and most perfect disciple of Jesus and she is truly as we also hear in Scripture:
“Who is she that comes forth as the morning rising, fair as the moon, bright as te sun, terrible as an army set in battle array”
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The little shepherds of Fatima experienced the Light of Christ shining through Mary and upon themselves. They obeyed Our Lady and did all they were told to do interiorly by God – so must we.

Today I will begin to post a short Novena to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and hope many will join in this Novena praying the words through Mary and ending on the Feast of the Sacred Heart ofJesus. When we pray to Jesus through Mary, we honor both in a special way. It is so beautiful that the Church places those two Feast-days together: The Feast of the Sacred Heart is followed by the Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary!
 
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