Submit Your Intentions!

Dear Friend,

This coming Sunday, November 27, is the first Sunday of Advent which marks the beginning of a new liturgical season; a New Year.  

Then, the month of December is dedicated to the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Please submit your prayer intentions for the December 1 Operation Storm Heaven Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.

Have you noticed how many consumer goods companies are producing secular Advent Calendars? Cosmetic beauty brands, wines, beers, chocolates, snack items, even LEGO offers an Advent Calendar. The brands urge consumers to get ready to party, have fun, celebrate, it’s the holiday season! Really? We, as Catholics know that the Penitential Advent Season is a time of preparation for the coming of the Christ Child.  

Here’s what our shepherd, Cardinal Burke has said: “The Season of Advent is strong in grace for our Christian life. In a particular way, Advent is an invitation for us to draw nearer to the mystery of the Redemptive Incarnation, the incomparable mystery by which God the Son took our human nature to save us from sin and death by His Passion, Death, Resurrection and Ascension, and to remain with us always in the Church. The Season of Advent not only invites us to a greater intimacy with Christ – God the Son Incarnate – in our daily lives. It gives us the grace to attain that greater intimacy for the sake of our happiness in this life and the fullness of our happiness in the life which is to come. Christ Incarnate, seated in glory at the right hand of God the Father, acts in our midst through the Sacraments of Penance and the Holy Eucharist to draw our hearts ever more fully into His Most Sacred Heart.” 

So, let us prepare our minds and hearts for the coming of Jesus:

~ Join me in praying the St. Andrew Novena, sometimes called the Christmas Anticipation Prayer. Others refer to it as the “Christmas Miracle Novena.” It is piously believed that whoever recites the short prayer fifteen times a day, from the feast of St. Andrew on November 30th until Christmas, will obtain what is asked! This prayer will help you to focus on the hour and moment when the Son of God was born. Sign up and submit your intentions.

~ Clean your soul, not just your house. Making a good confession before Christmas Eve is a beautiful way to prepare for the reception of the holy Eucharist at the Christmas Mass. To receive Our Lord with a pure heart is one of the best gifts you can present to the Infant King. Please read Catholic Action’s guide on confession.

~ Recite the Holy Rosary daily, Ask the Blessed Mother to grant you the grace of feeling a “closeness” to the Christ-Child, in the same way Our Lady did when she carried Him in her womb. Pray the Joyful Mysteries more often during Advent - on Sundays and Wednesdays, instead of the Glorious Mysteries. 

As a Rosary Warrior, I would like to invite you to present your new or updated intentions and prayer requests for the Operation Storm Heaven Holy Mass and Rosary before the 1st of December. His Eminence will be offering a private holy mass for all of the intentions that will be submitted. 

Later in December, Cardinal Burke will be offering two Holy Masses that will be live-streamed from the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in La Crosse, Wisconsin.

~ December 10 - a Pontifical High Mass at 11:00 AM Central Time.

~ December 12 - Solemnity of Our Lady of Guadalupe Bilingual Holy Mass at 12:15 PM Central Time.

Save this link to view both of these Holy Masses: 

https://www.guadalupeshrine.org/live-stream

I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for being part of Cardinal Burke's Rosary Crusade Operation Storm Heaven.

Finally, if you know others who have intentions and would like to submit them, and to help others join Operation Storm Heaven, please forward this email to your family and friends and ask them to click here.

Yours in the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary,

Thomas McKenna

Founder and President

Catholic Action For Faith And Family
http://www.catholicaction.org/