Submit Your Intentions for Six Holy Masses – Immaculate Conception
and Our Lady of Guadalupe Dec. 7-12
Dear Friend,
Coming up shortly, the Church
calendar has three Marian feast days; one is a Solemnity. What do they
have in common? The holiness and purity of the Blessed Virgin
Mary.
December 8th is the Solemnity of
the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary. 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.
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 the needs of Cardinal Burke.
Our heavenly Mother has been
taking such good care of His Eminence, 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 http://www.catholicaction.org/
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