The Month of April is dedicated to the Holy Eucharist.

We learnt recently, that, apparently, Regina Caeli replaces the Angelus (prayed at 0600, 1200, and 1800) during Easter season. Is this common knowledge?

Regina coeli, laetare, alleluia.
Quia quem meruisti portare, alleluia.
Resurrexit sicut dixit, alleluia.
Ora pro nobis Deum, alleluia.

V. Gaude et laetare, Virgo Maria, Alleluia,
R. Quia surrexit Dominus vere, alleluia.


Oremus:
Deus qui per resurrectionem Filii tui, Domini nostri Iesu Christi, mundum laetificare dignatus es: praesta, quaesumus, ut per eius Genetricem Virginem Mariam, perpetuae capiamus gaudia vitae. Per eundem Christum Dominum nostrum.
Amen.

Lent is here.

TheFast during Lent - is not only about stop eating, but to offer or sacrifice something.

To pray. To repent. To make a sacriface.

"And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost, returned from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the desert, For the space of forty days; and was tempted by the devil. And he ate nothing in those days; and when they were ended, he was hungry. And the devil said to him: If thou be the Son of God, say to this stone that it be made bread.

And Jesus answered him: It is written, that Man lives not by bread alone, but by every word of God." (Luk 4:1-3).

Fasting and prayer existed already some 2000 years ago :

"This kind can come out only by prayer"

(Mark 9:28).

It is common to pray the Stations of the Cross during Lent, and in particularly during the final weeks of Easter.

Our Step-by-Step Rosary partner has produced a webpage, created shortly before Easter 2020 - as we all realized that the hiearchy were going to shut down and lock us out of our Church. 

The idea, at the time, was to offer people the opportunity to copy and post our images, and place them, in the yard, house, or apartment - using the texts to manage to do the Stations of the Cross.

It was created, developed and amended during an annual pilgrimage to Lourdes (8 years), praying the stations of the Cross at the end of Prairie, next to the river Gave.

It took some three years pilgrimage before we had a decent material to use. This is what is used in our own parish church.

www.stationsofthecross.org

Pope Francis seems to feel better which is wonderful. We continue to pray for the state of his soul, and we pray for his conversion. 

"Then he shall say to them also that shall be on his left hand:

Depart from me, you cursed, into everlasting fire which was prepared for the devil and his angels."

(Matt 25:41).

"As Our Lady spoke these last words, she opened her hands once more, ... The rays of light seemed to penetrate the earth, and we saw as it were a sea of fire. Plunged in this fire were demons and souls in human form, like transparent burning embers, all blackened or burnished bronze, floating about in the conflagration, now raised into the air by the flames that issued from within themselves together with great clouds of smoke now falling back on every side like sparks in huge fires"

(The third apparition of Our Lady in Fatima 1917).

Here is a link to our way of Fasting /Pre-fasting.

This is our approach to our Fast, and it is built on 3-4 years attempts to learn of "how to Fast". Fasting is individual, but we have learnt that the virtue "Moderation" is a very strong virtue fighting several of the deadly sins. It about building your strength, your mental strength and the same time, we have to stay strong. IF Pope Francis tells the world that "all religions lead to God", it is incorrect. The only way to our Father is through HIS son, our Lord Jesus Christ.

"I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."

John 14:6

March is dedicated to Holy St. Joseph, the guardian of the Holy Family and Terror of demons.

Sancte Ioseph, terror daemonum, Ora pro nobis!

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'Step-by-Step Rosary soldiers of Christ in the service of our Lady'

You become a Soldier of Christ at your Confirmation, and we raised the question of how can we defend our Faith, if we are not informed of what it actually means to be a Soldier of Christ. Do we have the material to actually function as a solder of Christ? 

The Rosary is our only spiritual weapon.

It is not only for defence, but also for attack - to send your prayers deep down into enemy end-zone.

To keep them busy on their side, instead of hanging around on our turf.

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What a glorious day to die!

Are we ready to take such stand? Have we prepared ourself?

How about, are we ready to dig our boots into the ground, stand firm,

kneeling before God, with our Rosary in our hand, in the trenches and say:

So be it!

Let it be!

That is OUR own FIAT.

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Keep on praying the Rosary!

"But there is no way of casting out such spirits as this except by prayer and fasting"

Matt 17:20

“For never will anyone who says his Rosary every day become a formal heretic or be led astray by the devil.

This is a statement that I would gladly sign with my blood.”

Twenty-fifth Rose,St. Louis de Montfort

THE MIRACULOUS MEDAL PRAYER

English:

O MARY, conceived without sin,

pray for us who have recourse to thee.

Latin:

O Maria, sine labe concépta,

ora pro nobis qui ad Te confúgimus.

or

O Maria sine labe concépta,

ora pro nobis, qui confúgimus ad Te.

The family that prays together, stays together.

If a household do not have a "head of family", which is one man's obligation, who is actually the "head of family"?

Our signature "Step-by-Step Rosary" encompasses the traditional 15 mysteries, accompanied by historical Christian artworks depicting each scriptural scene. Religious art, language, and music are powerful tools in the battle against evil as they forge a connection between ourselves and God and serve as a constant reminder of the goodness in the world.

Our current Step-by-Step Rosary community offers the Rosary in eleven languages; English, Czech, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish and Ukrainian.

Not all versions are online, as they may be under a final local touch to complete each Rosary.

Make sure you have proper blessed gear; such as:

• Medals of your choice (St. Benedict and Miraculous medal is a good start ...). It may be a neclace, attached to your Rosary.
• Rosaries,
• Holy salt (pref. vigil of Epiphany) but salt can be exorcised and blessed all through the year. It is apparently stronger if it exorcised and blessed on the vigil of Epiphany due to January 5 being linked to the Baptism of Jesus.
• Holy water (pref. vigil of Epiphany). - see above.
• Blessed incence (myrrh or francincense, pref. Epiphany). - just like above, it can be blessed all year around but the three Magis came with gold, myrrh, and frankincense.
• Blessed candles. The candles should be blessed on Candlemas but can be blessed all year around. It should be beeswax but any candle works, as long as it is not electric or paraffin.

Our aim is to do four fasts per year, which are the following:

• 40-days St. Martin Fast.
• 40-days Lent.
• 20-days St. John the Baptist Fast.
• 14-days Assumption Fast. or 40-days St. Michael the Archangel Fast.