Knights of the Altar, Our Lady of the Holy Rosary of Manaoag

11/12/2022

Evening Prayer
Into thy hands, Mary, I commend my body and my soul, I ask thee to provide for them and to protect them. I ask thee to protect them from the evil one. I ask thee enlighten my mind, strengthen my will, and refrain my appetites by grace. Our Lady and St. Michael, call down from Heaven the legions of angels under your command to protect me; I ask of thee all the things I ask of my Guardian Angel. My Guardian angel, under thy intellectual and volitional protection I place my body. I ask thee to illumine my mind and refrain my appetites. I ask thee to strengthen my cogitative power, my memory and my imagination. Help me to remember the things I should and not remember the things I should not. Help me to associate the things I should and not to associate the things I should not. Give me good clear images in my imagination. I ask thee to drive away all the demons that might affect me while I sleep (or throughout the course of the day). (Help me to sleep and, if thou should deem it prudent, direct my dreams. Help me to arise refreshed). Amen.

02/12/2022

December 2 - Our Lady of Consolation and Providence (1749)
Consecrate Your Parish to the Holy and Immaculate Heart of Mary (II)

After giving thanks, I examined the way in which I had offered the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. Only then did I remember that I had been distracted, but my memory was very confused, and I was obliged to think very hard for a few moments in order to remember what had actually happened. I wondered how my distraction had ended, and then I suddenly remembered the words that I had heard and this thought froze me with terror. I tried in vain to deny the possibility of receiving this internal locution. (...)

As I stood up (I was alone in the sacristy), I heard these words distinctly again, "Consecrate your parish to the Holy and Immaculate Heart of Mary.”

I fell down on knees again, and my first reaction was of utter amazement. I had heard the same words, spoken by the same voice and in the same manner. Earlier, I had tried my best not to believe; at least I thought I should doubt what had happened. Now, I could not doubt what I had heard; I could only pretend to myself. A feeling of sadness seized me; old concerns arose in my mind and tormented my spirit again.

Father Desgenettes, priest at Notre Dame of Victories Church (Paris, d. 1860)

01/12/2022

Morning Prayer
In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ I will begin this day. I thank you, Lord, for having preserved me during the night. I will do my best to make all I do today pleasing to You and in accordance with Your will. My dear mother Mary, watch over me this day. My Guardian Angel, take care of me. St. Joseph and all you saints of God, pray for me. Amen.

30/11/2022

When the poor is happy .....

A little child stood selling handkerchiefs in front of a rich man browsing his phone.

The rich man gave the child a dollar without taking the handkerchiefs from him. The child thanked the rich man and went, with the dollar in hand, and stood in front of a shoe store, peering carefully at his worn-out shoes, and then he looked at a beautiful shoe in the window of the store with a paper written on it, (The shoe costs $ 50).

The rich man spotted him and entered the store, and after a few moments he went out smiling, got into his car, and left.

A moment later, the owner of the shop exchanged the price of the shoe with a piece of paper written on it ( The shoe costs $ 1).

The child rushed into the store and bought the shoes, thinking that the price had gone down, and he went out with the new shoes and the joy mixed with a smile filled his face.

How beautiful it is to do good secretly without boasting, and taking into account the feeling of the poor. All human beings have self-esteem.

Kahlil Harouny.

30/11/2022

Evening Prayer
O my God, at the end of this day I thank You most heartily for all the graces I have received from You. I am sorry that I have not made a better use of them. I am sorry for all the sins I have committed against You. Forgive me, O my God, and graciously
protect me this night. Blessed Virgin Mary, my dear heavenly mother, take me under your protection. Saint Joseph, my dear Guardian Angel, and all you saints of God, pray for me. Sweet Jesus, have pity on all poor sinners, and save them from hell. Have mercy on the suffering souls in purgatory... (followed by an Act of Contrition).
Act of Contrition
O my God, I am heartily sorry for having offended Thee, and I detest all my sins, because I dread the loss of heaven, and the pains of hell; but most of all because they offend Thee, my God,
Who are all good and deserving of all my love.
I firmly resolve, with the help of Thy grace,
to sin no more and avoid the near occasions of sin. Amen.

30/11/2022

30/11/2022

Daily Gospel Readings
'When Jesus entered Capernaum,
a centurion approached him and appealed to him, saying,
"Lord, my servant is lying at home paralyzed, suffering dreadfully."
He said to him, "I will come and cure him."
The centurion said in reply,
"Lord, I am not worthy to have you enter under my roof;
only say the word and my servant will be healed.
For I too am a man subject to authority,
with soldiers subject to me.
And I say to one, 'Go,' and he goes;
and to another, 'Come here,' and he comes;
and to my slave, 'Do this,' and he does it."
When Jesus heard this, he was amazed and said to those following him,
"Amen, I say to you, in no one in Israel have I found such faith.
I say to you, many will come from the east and the west,
and will recline with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob
at the banquet in the Kingdom of heaven."'
Matthew 8:5-11

29/11/2022

November 28 - Saint Catherine Labouré, virgin (1806-76) - Our Lady of Walsingham (England, 1061)
The Apparitions at the Rue du Bac in Paris (III)

The Blessed Virgin added, “This is the symbol of all the graces that I give to everyone who asks me for them.” I now realized how generous she was towards those who pray to her. At that moment, I was, I don’t know what I was... I was so happy!

Then an oval frame with gold lettering formed near the Blessed Virgin, and I read these words: “O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to you.” Again, an interior voice spoke, telling me to have a medal struck on this model. It would be a source of great graces and should be worn around the neck on a chain with confidence. Then I was shown the reverse side of the medal. I was anxious to know what I should have printed on the other side of the medal. One day, after many prayers, during meditation, it seemed to me that I heard a voice saying that I should print a large "M" surmounted by a bar and cross, with two hearts, representing the hearts of Jesus and Mary, all encircled by twelve stars; that would say enough.


Told by Saint Catherine Labouré,
About the Apparitions at Rue du Bac in Paris in 1830

27/11/2022

Lord God Almighty, who hast safely brought us to the beginning of this day, defend us in the same by Thy mighty power, that this day we may fall into no sin, but that all our words may so proceed, and all our thoughts and actions may be so directed as to do always that which is just in Thy sight. Through Christ our Lord.
Amen.