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Confraternity of St. Michael The Archangel, Delhi (2026)

29/06/2022

Blessed Solemnity of Sts. Peter and Paul.

ROMAN MARTYROLOGY

June 29th

This Day, the Twenty-Ninth Day of June

At Rome, the birthday of the holy Apostles Peter and Paul, who suffered martyrdom on the same day, under the emperor Nero. Within the city the former was crucified with his dead downwards, and buried in the Vatican, near the Triumphal way, where he is venerated by the whole world. The latter was put to the sword and buried on the Ostian way, where he receives similar honors.

10/04/2022

Catholic Husband

LOVE, LEAD, SERVE

Get Your Wife to Heaven

If you want to be a really good husband, direct all of your actions towards getting your wife into Heaven. Essentially, that's our mission in the married life. Certainly our love is meant to be shared completely and we're to accept and raise any children that come into existence as a result. Yet, at the end of the day, everything points back to getting your wife into Heaven. What are you doing to accomplish that mission?

Marriage and our human minds are often at odds. While we're certainly capable of living a faithful marriage, our mind struggles with the idea that it should be first seeking to aid and support someone else, even before self-preservation. This desire to look out before turning in on oneself is something that must be controlled through discipline. Your objective is to help your wife live a holy life and doing that will often look like something completely different.

Helping your wife live a holy life might look an awful lot like putting your kids to bed or cleaning the kitchen. Helping your wife live a holy life might look a lot like writing her a love letter or drawing a bath for her. You can help your wife live a holy life by removing friction in your relationship. Oftentimes, we cause our wife to sin or be tempted to sin. The near occasion of sin isn't because of our ripped abs or perfectly chiseled face, but because we fail in our basic relational and domestic duties, which can cause her to become angry and impatient. The gold standard husband would be disciplined enough to be more concerned about her than he is about himself. He'd help her in any way, pray for her constantly, and not lead his wife into sin.

You don't want your wife to suffer. You seek the good for her and try to make her as comfortable as possible. You want what's best for her. All of these things are good things and they're the exact reasons that in addition to helping her with her material needs, you need to help her with her spiritual needs. Lead family prayer, go to Mass together, and take care of the kids so she can make it to Confession every once in a while. You can go a step further by praying for her daily and frequently throughout the day. Pray her for in the morning, at night, at meals, and by offering up small things throughout the day.

Your mission is to get your wife to Heaven. That's your priority. You can help by reducing the instances that would give her cause to be upset or impatient, you can help by praying for her, and you can help by meeting her spiritual needs. At the end of the day, your vocation is to help your wife live a holy life. Start helping her do that right now.

CHET COLLINS

27/02/2022

"Lord, that I May See"

With Quinquagesima Sunday and the last Sunday of the Shrovetide, God in today's readings speak of True Sight. A Sight of conscience, a Sight of looking within than without. Sometimes to look within we must realize, "When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a
child, I thought as a child. But when I became a man, I put away the things of a
child. "(1 Corinthians 13).

It is in humility we must realize our inner blindness, like the butterflies or the bees which gather round flowers, we must gather round God. We must be like the poor Bartemeus. Sorrowing at our painful ignorance and horrifying sinfulness, we too must cry out; "Jesus,son of David, have mercy on me." The world, the flesh and The Devil will try to hush us out just like the worldlings did to Bartemeus. But nonetheless we must crying out, "Son of David, have
mercy on me."

But when it comes for us to desire what we ought to ask, may we like Bartemeus ask, "Lord, that I may see."

Faith is that tiny light that illuminates our dark road to the Home of The Eternal Light. Let us receive true Sight that we may see ourselves in the Light of Christ.

23/02/2022

THE DIVINE OFFICE AND THE DOMESTIC CHURCH

I've always felt great solace praying The Divine Office, The Little Office of The Blessed Virgin Mary, The Office of The Dead,The Psalter and The Most Holy Rosary. One of the major reasons for this is if the Psalms and The Mysteries are read and pronounced with understanding, one often tends to reiterate that The Domestic Church is headed by the Unseen Hand of the Blessed Trinity.

Matins, Lauds, Prime, Sext, Tierce, None, Vespers and Compline; in all these hours we are guided by the Unseen Head of the family, namely God and His Blessed Mother and His Foster Father, along with St. Michael the Archangel and all the Angels.

I would like to encourage all Catholics to faithfully recite these Prayers which Our Holy Mother Church has suggested. If we want to live with God for Eternity, we Must start now. Remember, fresh temptations are nigh always and as St. Peter writes in His Epistle, "Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:" (1Peter5:8)

Apart from regular Confessions and The Holy Sacrifice of The Mass, reading Books by Saints are very wonderful exercises. For our poorer Brethren, we who can Must help them with these.

Fellow Catholics, for half a century now, we have slumbered, instead of sowing the Good Seeds for Christ, we have only fought about who's who. As a Traditional Catholic I find quarrels futile. Until we show the world that we make a difference, we change lives; we're as bad as the Modernists.

CHRISTUS VINCIT CHRISTUS REGNUM, CHRISTUS IMPERAT☦

LONG LIVE CHRIST THE KING, LONG LIVE OUR QUEEN MOTHER, MARY, LONG LIVE ST. JOSEPH, LONG LIVE ROMA AETERNA, LONG LIVE OUR HOLY MOTHER CHURCH, LONG LIVE THE SEE OF ST. PETER.

05/02/2022

Novena to Our Lady of Lourdes 1
Feb 2 - 10
O ever Immaculate Virgin, Mother of Mercy, health of the sick, refuge of sinners, comfort of the afflicted, thou knowest my needs, troubles and sufferings. Deign to cast upon me a look of mercy. By appearing in the grotto of Lourdes thou wast pleased to make it a privileged sanctuary from which thou dispensest thy favors. Already many sufferers have obtained the cure of their infirmities, both corporal and spiritual.
I come therefore, with unbounded confidence, to implore thy maternal intercession. Obtain, O Loving Mother, the granting of my requests.....
your request
I will endeavor to imitate thy virtues so that I may one day share thy glory and bless thee in eternity. Amen.
O Mary conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.
Blessed be the Holy and Immaculate Conception of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God.
Holy Virgin Mary Immaculate, Mother of God and our Mother, speak thou for us to the Heart of Jesus, Who is thy Son.
Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for us.
Our Father, Hail Mary and Glory Be.

02/02/2022

Novena to Our Lady of Lourdes 2.
February 2 to February 10
O ever Immaculate Virgin, Mother of Mercy, health of the sick, refuge of sinners, comfort of the afflicted, thou knowest my needs, troubles and sufferings. Deign to cast upon me a look of mercy. By appearing in the grotto of Lourdes thou wast pleased to make it a privileged sanctuary from which thou dispensest thy favors. Already many sufferers have obtained the cure of their infirmities, both corporal and spiritual.
I come therefore, with unbounded confidence, to implore thy maternal intercession. Obtain, O Loving Mother, the granting of my requests.....
(mention your request)
I will endeavor to imitate thy virtues so that I may one day share thy glory and bless thee in eternity. Amen.
O Mary conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.
Blessed be the Holy and Immaculate Conception of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God.
Holy Virgin Mary Immaculate, Mother of God and our Mother, speak thou for us to the Heart of Jesus, Who is thy Son.
Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for us.
(Our Father, Hail Mary and Glory Be)

02/02/2022

Blessed Feast of The Presentation of Our Lord Jesus Christ and The Purification of Our Lady.

As we conclude The Season of Christmas, May our Infant Saviour and King, grant us Graces to grow in Holiness and Innocence.

15/01/2022

Perseverance in the Crucible:

"'Patience and perseverance in the situation in which God has placed us.' The word 'situation' comprises everything that forms the framework of our life: persons, things, events big and small. 'In which God has placed us.' What exists and is real is willed by God and included within the design of his providence. The persons God puts at my side, the place, the time, health and sickness, the play of events, all of that moulds and forms me, oppresses me or lifts me up, makes me rebellious or sanctifies me.

The essential thing is to recognize the will of God here, to accept it with the suppleness of the reed blown in the wind, not shutting myself up within the frail confines of my own wisdom, but letting myself be moulded by the all-powerful hands of the Creator.

Patience and perseverance are . . . the fruit of great force and great faith. It is not resignation but the deliberate embracing of a dearly loved will: an act of love all the purer in that it has only one thing to say: fiat. Yes, may your will be done on earth as it is in heaven, Father, your will, not mine.

Christ saw his executioners as agents of his Father's will. We in our turn must learn to see this same will, this same love, in all the circumstances, pleasant or unpleasant, that surround our life.

We come here as to an ideal place in which all is planned and ordered in function of the search for God, and for the full blossoming out of love towards God and our brothers. Such is our expectation; but we carry within us a very idealized picture of its realization. And so many things turn out differently. There are those who come in search of tranquillity, shelter, a quiet life; on the contrary, they find themselves struggling with forces within themselves whose existence they never suspected. Our faults are a barrier; our brothers are imperfect and different from us; sin affects our relationships; the institution is ponderous and opaque; and God seems to take a malicious pleasure in thwarting our ideas.

In fact he is doing us the great service of stripping us of much of our egoism and childishness, of our attachments and disordered desires. In so doing he separates the sheep from the goats. Only when the secondary benefits we expected from our vocation are seen to be more or less illusory, can the essential aim, union with God, be embraced in all its purity - otherwise one leaves.

Perseverance in such a situation is conducive to contemplation, for we find ourselves poor and naked before the Lord, ready at last to receive the incomprehensible gift which he wishes to give us, and not a construct of our own imagination.

We have to know how to stand firm in pure faith when we seem to be only weakness, seem to be only sin. We have to consent in advance to all that, to the desert of the desert. We have to desire the purity which suffering alone can teach.

It seems to me perseverance is a great school of humility; a gradual coming to know this self which persist in time, whose features become defined, whose character traits recur, whose limits take shape. Through trial one discovers one's own heart, and becomes an authentic person situated in the real."

(A Carthusian)

15/01/2022

REPARATION TO JESUS FOR THE KISS OF JUDAS

At age 7 on May 3, 1898 Blessed Maria Pierina de Micheli received Jesus in her First Communion. Recalling that day with holy joy many years later in 1943 she wrote- "I saw the baby Jesus in the host. Heaven on earth! Today, only by faith, I know he loves me."

Then began a lifetime of heavenly graces and visions, along with many sufferings in union with Jesus. One day while she was praying in St. Peter in Sala's church (her local parish), Jesus on the Crucifix came alive and spoke to her. On another occasion at the age of twelve, when she was again in her Parish Church during the 3pm Good Friday service, she heard a Voice saying quite distinctly:

"No one gives me a kiss of love on My Face to make amends for the Kiss of Judas." In her childlike simplicity, she believed that the voice was heard by everyone and was pained to see that only the wounds were kissed but not the face. In her heart exclaiming, "Have patience, dear Jesus, I will give you a kiss of love", and when her turn came she lovingly and devoutly imprinted a kiss on His Face. And later as a novice, she was permitted to do night adoration and on the night between Holy Thursday and Good Friday, and while she was praying before Jesus upon the Crucifix, she heard Him say:"Kiss Me."
Sister Maria Pierina immediately obeyed and her lips felt not the contact with the plaster figure but contact with the living flesh of the Face of Jesus.

Source unknown

06/01/2022

Blessed Solemnity of Epiphany everyone

Reflection

The feast of Epiphany on January 6 begins a season— extending in some church traditions for several weeks to the beginning of Lent—in which we celebrate God’s manifestation in Christ Jesus. When Epiphany began in the third century, it highlighted Christ’s baptism; by the next century, it also marked his manifestation to Gentiles in the persons of the Magi; later it included his self-revelation by creating new wine for the wedding at Cana.

But when Augustine described the festival as a “noteworthy celebration…throughout the world,” in his Epiphany sermon in 412,
he highlighted the story of the Magi. For this reason, he noted, “the whole Church of the Gentiles has adopted this day as a feast worthy of most devout celebration.” In that sermon Augustine reminds us of three crucial truths, Mike Clingenpeel notes.

God draws us with “hints and signs” like the star that drew the Magi to Bethlehem. God is not easy to discern, Clingenpeel admits, but “the more we probe the life and work of Jesus, ponder his words and practice his deeds, the more likely we are to experience the depth and breadth of God’s character.”

The good news of Christ is for everyone, uniting Israelites (represented by the shepherds) and Gentiles (the Magi). Extending this theme to include rich and poor, and global as well as local persons, Clingenpeel writes, “Epiphany rebukes the provincialism and spiritual myopia of too many Christians.”

Meeting Christ “leaves us altered, different persons.” As the Magi “left for their own country by another road” to avoid Herod (Matthew 2:12), so our lives are deeply changed by Christ. The Magi continue to fascinate us. Christian tradition and art
have embroidered their story by adding their number (three), names (Caspar, Melchior, and Balthasar), motives (kings coming to honor the King), and colorful mode of transportation (camels). Amber and

John Inscore Essick commend three traditions to help us live into the Magi’s story and experience the mystery of Christ with them. “Like the Magi who anticipated, recognized, and welcomed the infant king, congregations and families can recognize and proclaim the appearance of God’s chosen one.”

Sharing a Kings’ Cake (Rosca de Reyes)—a pastry with a toy baby hidden inside—with our family and friends draws attention to the themes of searching and hospitality in the story.

Marking the front door frame with the Magi’s blessing helps us “acknowledge [with them] that Christ’s entrance into the world makes our homes places of peace and hospitality.”

The use of lighted candles in homes and churches reminds us that the Magi followed a star’s light to Christ. Celebrants might process with candles, or walk on paths marked by luminaria, to a place for worship. “The Magi observed the heavens with great acumen, but their efforts to find the newborn king ultimately required insights gained from a close reading of the Scriptures…. The lighting of candles in worship serves as a visual representation of
the Church’s need for divine assistance to read faithfully about God’s presence in our midst.”

24/12/2021

Merry Christmas everyone. Christ is Born, let us Glorify Him.🙂

06/12/2021

Blessed Feast of St. Nicholas of Myra (the original Santa Claus). 🙂

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