Submit Your Intentions for Five Holy Masses – Immaculate
Conception and Our Lady of Guadalupe Dec. 8-12
Dear Friend,
Coming up shortly, the Church
calendar has three Marian feast days; one is a Holy Day of Obligation.
What do they have in common? The holiness and purity of the Blessed
Virgin Mary.
The December 8 Solemnity of the
Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary has been transferred
to Monday, December 9. In the United States, it is a Holy Day of
Obligation because under that title given to Mary, as the Immaculate
Conception, she was proclaimed the Patroness of the United States. Let
us invoke the Blessed Mother to sweep our country clean from
pornography, illicit, unnatural and impure acts of lust, and to fill
every citizen’s heart with a desire for modesty and to live morally -
not only in the clothing worn but also in the foul language spoken so
frequently in daily conversations. May Our Lady come to the aid of all
those who suffer from gender dysphoria, i.e. transgenderism, that they
may experience God’s love and be open to know the truth – not to give
in to reconstruct or change their natural gender – to keep their
bodies pure.
December 10th is the Memorial Feast
of Our Lady of Loreto, which Pope Francis reinstated in the Church
calendar in 2019. In the Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary, also known
as the Litany of Loreto, we recite the following invocations: Mother
most pure, pray for us, Mother most chaste, pray for us, Mother
inviolate, pray for us and Mother undefiled, pray for us. It is indeed
a beautiful way to praise Mary’s purity and holiness.
December 12th is the Feast of Our
Lady of Guadalupe, also called the Virgin of Guadalupe. Under this
title of the Blessed Mother, she is also called the Patroness of the
Unborn and the Pro-life Movement. I have read about young people
asking the Virgin of Guadalupe to come to their aid in remaining pure
and chaste until their Sacramental Marriage. On March 12, Cardinal
Burke launched a nine-month worldwide novena to Our Lady of Guadalupe,
ending on the December 12 Feast Day. His Eminence will lead an Act of
Consecration during the holy Mass, which will be live streamed on the
internet and broadcast on EWTN, from the Shrine of Our Lady of
Guadalupe, in La Crosse, Wisconsin. The intentions that you
submit will be included in this Holy Mass, as well as four other Holy
Masses, beginning on Sunday, December 8.
Let us entrust all of our petitions
to the Holy and Pure Virgin Mary, who will never abandon us, for she
is our Mother!
May the Blessed Virgin Mary, who
leads us to the tender mercy of God, continue to assist us in all our
necessities and especially for many graces to be bestowed upon
Cardinal Burke. Our heavenly Mother watches over His Eminence with
great love, let us also thank her!
Yours in the Sacred Heart of Jesus
and the Immaculate Heart of Mary,
Thomas McKenna
Founder and President
Catholic Action For Faith And Family https://www.catholicaction.org/
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