Can you really work out your Sanctification?

This is your life. A life destined to spend eternity with its Creator; you life was given to you for no other reason but sanctity  – your own and others.

Are your obsessions healthy? Are they obsession of the world, the flesh or perhaps even of the devil? Or are they of God and who He created you to be? Have you settled?

Man’s original task what to be a gardner, but we lost the joy of tilling and keeping the garden – to protect and cultivate all that is in it. Having lost it our new role is WORK – what God has given us for the sake or our salvation. To provide for ourselves BY serving our neighbour. In both cases as before being a gardener or working by the sweat of our brow we were participating in Creation through sub-creation. And Sub-creation is WORK.

Work is God’s gift to us on how to attain Sanctification – sub-creation produces in us sanctification – both out side and inside – thought virtues and graces with are the by product of offering the sweat of our brow for the greater glory of GOD. To allow us to work he gives us time.

Time is the gift of God for Sub-creation – we must fight to fill it, maximize it , grow it and invest it. NEVER waste it. An idle mind is the devil’s workshop. Write books, blogs, Make music, build something with your hands or build a business, start a podcast, work out, cook food, inspire others. Take control of your family life (your kingdom and domestic church) strengthen your relationships.

Give time your healthy obsessions and change the world by changing yourself. You may not be the best today, but you have time to go to Work and become better by pursuing your goals and dreams letting your soul breath through sub-creation! Become who God has created you to be.

God love you!
Be Great!

D²

 

Episode 13 – My Personal Night Prayer (Non Latin)

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Salvete,

Thank you so much for all your prayers and patience. My wife and I are now parents to 3 boys. Benedict is now 2 months old, Baptized, healthy and strong and so is my wife. His brothers are thrilled! We are truly blessed. This has been the main reason for my hiatus. I am back and have been looking forward to pick up from where we left off in publishing. To follow suit with my last post, here is my personal Night Prayer & Examen; Like the my morning offering it is not in Latin but I do hope to translate it one day and learn it. I composed it by taking bits and peices of other prayers that I love and compliing them to suit those things that weigh upon my heart.

The Chaplet of Divine Mercy is recorded and will be next to be uploaded to be followed by Chaplet of St. Michael.

I hope this Night Prayer inspires you to write your own and if not, feel free to pray along with me and know that if you are listening to this podcast, that I’m praying for you daily. Please pray for me and my family also.

 

Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me a sinner.  

Eternal Father, I offer Thee the Sacred Heart of my Lord Jesus Christ, with all Its Love, all its sufferings, and all its merits:

TO EXPIATE all the sins I have committed this day, and during all my life. GB.

TO PURIFY the good I have done poorly this day, and during all my life. GB. 

TO SUPPLY for the good I ought to have done, and that I have neglected this day and during all my life GB.

Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me a sinner. 

Through the Immaculate Heart of Mary, and with every beat of our hearts we consecrate ourselves, to your most Sacred Heart O Jesus, that with every breath of our bodies may we breathe in Christ and breathe out sin and all its effects on and in our lives; O Woman of Genesis, crush the head of satan this night, in our hearts, in our flesh and in our home; grant we implore thee Queen of Angels, to bless our home with the powerful presence of thy Holy Angels that they may protect us, guard this space and assist us in receiving the infinite graces of the most Sacred Heart of Jesus through your immaculate hands.

May the infinite graces we receive into our souls transmit Christ’s life into to our bodies that even while we sleep, we may overcome our defects in this life and grow in holiness to become saints. Knowing that I have received rights over my family, by the promulgation of the Divine and Natural Law by the Divine Author, O Blessed Mother through you I now ask Jesus my Lord and my God to Bless and renew my wife and children; strengthen them O Lord that they may grow in holiness and may all that I have asked for this night through the intercession of our Patron Saints, be applied to them. May it also be applied to my extended family, relatives, friends and enemies, particularly those who have requested my prayers. O Sacred Heart of Jesus have mercy on us. Immaculate Heart of Mary pray for us. O Terror of demons St. Joseph, pray for us. Most Holy Guardian Angels, to whose care & protection our family is entrusted, pray for us. Sts. Michael, Gabriel and Rafael, all you Hosts of Heaven & Saints, intercessors on who we desperately rely to make up for whatever is lacking in our prayer this night, pray for us.

Amen

 

Thank you to all of you who are listening and praying along with this podcast! it has been downloaded over 2900 times which is far more than I anticipated – It is a blessing to have so many of us in different parts of the world praying the Holy Rosary and other prayers together. Please share it with your friends and families. Let us ask our Blessed Mother interceed for us poor souls on this pilgrimage in the Valley of Tears. Let us pray for our families, our friends and those in most need of conversion.

Currently we have no reviews on Itunes – If you do like this podcast, please consider leaving a review as it will help other’s beyond your circle to find it on iTunes and PodBean.

Please be patient with the uploading of new prayers – they are on their way. Till then,

May everything you do be Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam.

God Love You!
Valete (Goodbye)

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Source: Episode 13 – My Personal Night Prayer (Non Latin)

Episode 11 – Sáncte Míchael Archángele

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Salvete,

A BIG thank you for your patience. Continuing with the Holy Rosary prayers, I decided to include the prayer to St. Michael the Archangel. Click the Play button above to pray/learn this prayer. The words are below in both Latin and in English.

Sáncte Míchael Archángele, defénde nos in proélio, cóntra nequítiam et insídias diáboli ésto præsídium. Ímperet ílli Déus, súpplices deprecámur: tuque, prínceps milítiæ cæléstis, Sátanam aliósque spíritus malígnos, qui ad perditiónem animárum pervagántur in múndo, divína virtúte, in inférnum detrúde. Ámen.

Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle.  Be our protection against the malice and snares of the devil. May God rebuke him we humbly pray; and do thou, O Prince of the Heavenly host, by the power of God, thrust into hell Satan and all evil spirits who wander through the world for the ruin of souls. Amen.

Thank you to all of you who are listening and praying along with this podcast! it has been downloaded over 1700 times which is far more than I anticipated – It is a blessing to have so many of us in different parts of the world praying the Holy Rosary together. Please share it with your friends and families. Let us ask our Blessed Mother interceed for us poor souls on this pilgrimage in the Valley of Tears. Let us pray for our families, our friends and those in most need of conversion.

Currently we have no reviews on Itunes – If you do like this podcast, please consider leaving a review as it will help other’s beyond your circle to find it on iTunes and PodBean. Know that if you are listening to this podcast, that I’m praying for you. Please pray for me and my family also, most especially I ask you all to keep my wife and unborn child in your prayers as we get ready for their arrival within the next 2 weeks.

Please be patient with the uploading of new prayers – they are on their way. Till then,

May everything you do be Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam.

God Love You!
Valete (Goodbye)

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Episode 10 – Update on the Podcast

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Salvete,

Gaudete in Pascha and Happy Easter to you all. Let me first begin by saying how grateful I am to all of you listeners who are praying the Rosary in Latin. This podcast has been downloaded more than 1400 times and we now have listeners all over the world in 15 different countries. It warms my heart that there is such a love for praying the Holy Rosary in Latin.

I feel obligated to explain the lack of new prayers being uploaded to the podcast. I shall give you 5 reasons and hopefully you’ll understand my tardiness.

Please share it with your friends and families. Let us ask our Blessed Mother interceed for us poor souls on this pilgrimage in the Valley of Tears. Let us pray for our families, our friends and those in most need of conversion.

If you do like this podcast, please consider leaving a review as it will help other’s beyond your circle to find it on iTunes and PodBean. Know that if you are listening to this podcast, that I’m praying for you. Please pray for me and my family also, most especially I ask you all to keep my wife and unborn child in your prayers as we get ready for their arrival within the month.

Please be patient with the uploading of new prayers – they are on their way. Till then,

May everything you do be Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam.

God Love You!
Valete (Goodbye)

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Litaniae Lauretanae Beatae Maria Virginis (Podcast)

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Salvete,

This podcast episode on the Litany of Loreto has been very very long overdue. Thank you for your patience. Next up will be the Memorare and the remaining Holy Rosary prayers. Click the Play button above to pray/learn this prayer. The words are below.

LITANIAE LAURETANAE

Kyrie, eleison.
Christe, eleison.
Kyrie, eleison.
Christe, audi nos.
Christe, exaudi nos.

Pater de caelis, Deus, …………………. miserere nobis.
Fili, Redemptor mundi, Deus,
Spiritus Sancte, Deus,
Sancta Trinitas, unus Deus,
Sancta Maria, ………………………….. ora pro nobis.
Sancta Dei Genetrix,
Sancta Virgo virginum,
Mater Christi,
Mater divinae gratiae,
Mater purissima,
Mater castissima,
Mater inviolata,
Mater intemerata,
Mater amabilis,
Mater admirabilis,
Mater boni consilii,
Mater Creatoris,
Mater Salvatoris,
Virgo prudentissima,
Virgo veneranda,
Virgo praedicanda,
Virgo potens,
Virgo clemens,
Virgo fidelis,
Speculum iustitiae,
Sedes sapientiae,
Causa nostrae laetitiae,
Vas spirituale,
Vas honorabile,
Vas insigne devotionis,
Rosa mystica,
Turris Davidica,
Turris eburnea,
Domus aurea,
Foederis arca,
Ianua caeli,
Stella matutina,
Salus infirmorum,
Refugium peccatorum,
Consolatrix afflictorum,
Auxilium Christianorum,
Regina Angelorum,
Regina Patriarcharum,
Regina Prophetarum,
Regina Apostolorum,
Regina Martyrum,
Regina Confessorum,
Regina Virginum,
Regina Sanctorum omnium,
Regina sine labe originali concepta,
Regina in caelum assumpta,
Regina sacratissimi Rosarii,
Regina pacis,

Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi,
parce nobis, Domine.
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi,
exaudi nos, Domine.
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi,
miserere nobis.

V. Ora pro nobis, sancta Dei Genetrix.
R. Ut digni efficiamur promissionibus Christi.

Oremus. Concede nos famulos tuos, quaesumus, Domine Deus, perpetua
mentis et corporis salute gaudere, et gloriosae beatae Mariae semper
Virginis intercessione, a praesenti liberari tristitia, et aeterna perfrui
laetitia. Per Christum Dominum nostrum.
R. Amen.

Thank you to all of you who are listening and praying along with this podcast! it has been downloaded over 400 times which is far more than I anticipated – It is a blessing to have so many of us in different parts of the world praying the Holy Rosary together. Please share it with your friends and families. Let us ask our Blessed Mother interceed for us poor souls on this pilgrimage in the Valley of Tears. Let us pray for our families, our friends and those in most need of conversion.

If you do like this podcast, please consider leaving a review as it will help other’s beyond your circle to find it on iTunes and PodBean. Know that if you are listening to this podcast, that I’m praying for you. I ask that you please pray for me and my family also.

God Love You!
Valete (Goodbye)

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Grace After Meals (Podcast)

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This is the traditional “We give Thee thanks” prayer for after meals in Latin.

Click the Play button above to pray/learn this prayer. The words are below.

Ágimus Tíbi grátias omnípotens Déus, pro univérsis benefíciis Tuis: qui vívis et régnas in saécula saeculórum. 
Ámen.

If you do like this podcast, consider leaving a review as it will help other’s find it on iTunes and PodBean. Know that if you are listening to this podcast, that I’m praying for you. Please pray for me and my family also.

God Love You!
Valete (Goodbye)

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Grace Before Meals (Podcast)

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This is the traditional “Bless us O Lord” prayer in Latin from my Latin Prayer Podcast.
Click the Play button above to pray/learn this prayer. The words are below.

Benedíc nos Dómine et haec Túa dóna quae de Túa largitáte súmus sumptúri. Per Chrístum Dóminum nóstrum.
Ámen.

If you do like this podcast, consider leaving a review as it will help other’s find it on iTunes and PodBean. Know that if you are listening to this podcast, that I’m praying for you. Please pray for me and my family also.

God Love You!
Valete (Goodbye)

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The Latin Prayer Podcast – Introduction

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After discovering that there we’re actually other’s listening to this podcast, I decided to expand the podcast from just the 4 sets of mysteries to as many other latin prayers that I could and I couldn’t be more excited for the undertaking.

I hope that this podcast will lead you also to study the rich traditions of the Faith and will inspire in you a desire to come to know and love our Blessed Lord and His Mother, Mary, and increase and aid your devotions to them and the saints.

If you do like this podcast, consider leaving a review as it will help other’s find it on iTunes and PodBean. Know that if you are listening to this podcast, that I’m praying for you. Please pray for me and my family also.

God Love You!
Valete (Goodbye)

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Can you Smile, Wink & Say “I Got’ dis!”?

Breathe – things are never as bad as they seem. Smile, things are never as good as they seem. Wink – Life is lived somewhere in the middle.

When stuff is really not going my way, I notice that fear and doubt tend to set in. And that emotional response kills any intelligence that I have.

I have to control my body and my mind. It’s easier to use the body to control the mind if you understand posture, and interrupting patterns of behaviour. For example, if you see a depressed person, their shoulders are slouched and often they are looking down. If you are depressed I encourage you try this exercise.

Throw your shoulders back, put a big cheesy smile on your face, look straight up at the ceiling and now… try to feel depressed.

… It’s hard isn’t it…?

This should show you that you have the capacity to change your state and increase your energy regardless of the surrounding situation. You cannot change what’s happened; only how you react to it in your mind and the action that you take from this moment on.

Attitude+Activity=Success

My solution, when things go bad for me, someone cancels a meeting, quits on me, cancels a program… I take a deep breath, smile, wink and say to the enemies around me that want me to despair and hate God for my circumstance… I got’ dis!

AMDG
Be great!

God Love you!

 

One Hail Mary

When plans go sideways as they most certainly do… what do we do?

I know from personal experience how much planning and preparation goes into the things that I’m passionate about and when they seem to not be working out or rather becoming worse rather than better – I have to decided how to respond.

In the past I would get angry, want to quit, flip out or run and tell anyone who would listen what my sorrws were. That was until I began to study spiritual warfare. Any thought that takes you away from God most certainly had something to do with a demon who planted the thought there. Perhaps I may have been idle with my time (please see Killing Time) which is the devils playground or I may have put myself in harms way, but often times the thought to quit, get angry or despair came from some outside source trying to convince me that it is me who’s having these thoughts.

It’s in these moments, either in sin or in just being overwhelmed, that I understand why our Lord gave us His Mother.

One Hail Mary will do more for us in the spiritual and temporal realms than all the planning, stresss, anxiety and worry, etc.

Do not misunderstand what I’m saying – we must follow up and follow through; doing all that is required of us to over come our defects but as in all things, put first things first and second things second. Otherwise we ruin both the first and second thing. Pray first to our blessed Mother, and then carry on.

Be great!

God love you!