Prayer Penance Eucharist

What Mary and Jesus Ask!

PPE for the Soul

During the Pandemic and for a long time in Health Care, the concept of using masks, gloves and gowns or Personal Protective Equipment, to protect our bodies from exposure to bacteria, viruses and other pathogens transmitted by fluids or air has been well known.

Prayer, Penance and the Eucharist could be thought of as Personal Pprotective Eequipment for our Souls! Protecting our souls from the influences of Satan and potential eternal separation from the glorious life with Jesus, Mary, all Angels and Saints in Heaven.

Prayer is communicating with Jesus and Mary and this is the lifeblood of the Soul!

Penance is the reparations we do to heal our Souls, damaged by sins.

Eucharist is the most intimate encounter of our Souls with Jesus offering sustenance for our souls. Jesus is here right now, around me, with me, but when I encounter His Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity in the Eucharist, He transforms my human-ness to participate in His Human to Divine nature through His Love!

As Catholics, we encounter Christ directly in the Eucharist, mostly through partaking in the Celebration of the Mass. My focus on the Eucharist assumes an increase in attendance at the Holy Mass, but emphasizes receiving the Eucharist as a highest priority. Further, even if we do not increase our attendance at Mass, once partaking, ‘How could we not receive the Eucharist, Jesus is there, waiting for us!

The Images on this page and their associated descriptions related to Prayer, Penance and the Celebration of the Eucharist, will be reflected upon in future blog posts. The descriptions for Prayer and the Eucharist are self-explanatory. However for instlling a practice of Penance, in our daily life; there is no more powerful focus than contemplating on the Seven Sorrows of Mary. In Mary’s own words: ” “Do not forget me. Consider how much I have suffered.”
Our Lady to St. Bridget”

Mary and Jesus ask that we practice Penance for the sins that we have committed, but also in reparation for the sins that others commit. Through Penance, we ask Mary and Jesus to use the Graces of our actions, to reconcile people that have blinded themselves to Jesus’s Grace and unlimited Love and Mercy.

Prayer

Referring to the image of Margaret Mary Alacoque, Margaret Mary is holding Jesus’s most Sacred Heart as He displayed It to her (Jesus appeared to her in numerous visions, displaying to her His Sacred Heart, sometimes burning as a furnace, and sometimes torn and bleeding on account of the coldness and sins of men.) Jesus instructed Mary Margaret to let the world know about the Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

On 27 December 1673, the feast of St. John, Margaret Mary said that Jesus had permitted her to rest her head upon His heart, and then disclosed to her the wonders of His love, telling her that He desired to make them known to all mankind and to diffuse the treasures of His goodness, and that He had chosen her for this work. Source

Jesus to St, Margaret Mary re: His Sacred Heart>>>

Penance

Referring to the image of Our Lady of Seven Sorrows: “I gaze upon the children of men to see whether anyone feels compassion for me, and alas, I see but few! …Do not forget me. Consider how much I have suffered.”
Our Lady to St. Bridget

The Seven Sorrows of Mary

• 1)The Prophecy of Simeon (Luke 2:34-35)
• 2) The Flight into Egypt (Matthew 2:13-21)
• 3) The Loss of Jesus for Three Days (Luke 2:41-50)
• 4) The Carrying of the Cross (John 19:17)
• 5) The Crucifixion of Jesus (John 19:18-30)
• 6) Jesus Taken Down from the Cross (John 19:39-40)
• 7) Jesus Laid in the Tomb (John 19:39-42)
• Mary promised one of the Kibeho visionaries, “If you say the Rosary of the Seven Sorrows and meditate on it well, you will find the strength you need to repent of your sins and convert your heart. Pray my Seven Sorrows to find repentance.” Source

Eucharist is the most intimate encounter of our Souls with Jesus offering sustenance for our souls. Jesus is here right now, around me, with me, but when I encounter His Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity in the Eucharist, He transforms my human-ness to participate in His Human to Divine nature through His Love!

As Catholics, we encounter Christ directly in the Eucharist, mostly through partaking in the Celebration of the Mass. My focus on the Eucharist assumes an increase in attendance at the Holy Mass, but emphasizes receiving the Eucharist as a highest priority. Further, even if we do not increase our attendance at Mass, once partaking, ‘How could we not receive the Eucharist, Jesus is there, waiting for us!