St. Thérèse, privileged Little Flower of Jesus and Mary, I approach you with childlike confidence and deep humility. I lay before you my desires, and beg that through your intercession they may be realized. Did you not promise to spend your heaven doing good upon earth? Grant me according to this promise the favors I am asking from you.
Intercede for us all the days of our life, but specially during this Novena and obtain for us from God the graces and favors we ask through your intercession. Amen.
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I’ve prayed this I was a small child.
Angel of God,
my guardian dear,
To whom God’s love
commits me here,
Ever this day,
be at my side,
To light and guard,
Rule and guide.Amen.
”Eucharistic Adoration is the closest thing we can do to imitate the highest level of angels.” -Dr. Miravalle, professor of Mariology at Franciscan University of Steubenville
Happy feast of the Archangels!! St. Michael, St. Gabriel, and St. Raphael, pray for us.
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St. Michael is one of the principal angels; his name was the war-cry of the good angels in the battle fought in heaven against the enemy and his followers. Four times his name is recorded in Scripture.
Following these Scriptural passages, Christian tradition gives to St. Michael four offices:
- To fight against Satan.
- To rescue the souls of the faithful from the power of the enemy, especially at the hour of death.
- To be the champion of God’s people, the Jews in the Old Law, the Christians in the New Testament; therefore he was the patron of the Church, and of the orders of knights during theMiddle Ages.
- To call away from earth and bring men’s souls to judgment (“signifer S. Michael repraesentet eas in lucam sanctam”, Offert. Miss Defunct. “Constituit eum principem super animas suscipiendas”, Antiph. off. Cf. The Shepherd of Hermas, Book III, Similitude 8, Chapter 3).
From: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10275b.htm
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Angels
“From infancy to death human life is surrounded by their (the angels) watchful care and intercession. Beside each believer stands an angel as protector and shepherd leading him to life. Already here on earth the Christian life shares by faith in the blessed company of angels and men united to God.”
- from the Catechism of the Catholic Church; 336.
In the Hands of God~St. Teresa of Jesus
I am Yours and born of You,What do You want of me?
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“If you think you’re going into an empty church, there’s no such thing. If Jesus is there, there are thousands of angels there in Adoration.” Dr. Mark Miravalle, professor of Mariology at Franciscan University of Steubenville.
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