Saturday, December 20, 2008

Beautiful Reasons for praying the rosary

Here's a nice email I got from a friend a few months ago.

Father Gabriel Amorth, Chief Exorcist of the Vatican
writes:

One day a colleague of mine heard the devil say during an exorcism, "Every Hail Mary is like a blow on my head. If Christians knew how powerful the Rosary was, it would be my end."

The secret that makes this prayer so effective is that the Rosary is both prayer and meditation. It is addressed to the Father, to the Blessed Virgin, and to the Holy Trinity, and is a meditation centered on Christ. I write in addition to the above: Please enunciate each word of the Rosary clearly and distinctly. Do not trample on the heels of the words of anyone with your words.

Do not speak over the leader if you are following or the respondent if you are leading the Rosary.
Remember that they also are having a conversation with Mary Our Mother and it is not polite to speak when someone else is speaking.

In the case of the public Rosary there are only two people speaking: the Leader and the respondents. Each is speaking to the Blessed Mother and listening carefully to her response within their hearts as they meditate on the scene before them in their consideration of the mystery being spoken of and interpreted and translated into their lives.

Spread this powerful prayer of exorcism, the Rosary, which contains the Our Father, the Perfect Prayer, prayed five times in the recitation of each set of the Rosary's Mysteries, backed up by the powerful prayers of Our Mother who prays with us as we pray 53 Hail Mary's.

The Eternal Father described to a group of us, through a Visionary Friend of mine, what happens
when we pray the Rosary, saying, "When you pray Holy Mary Mother of God, pray for us sinners now..., the Blessed Mother comes instantly to your side to pray with you. And she does not come alone. She brings angels with her. And not just one or two for she is the Queen of Angels, so choirs of angels come with her. And she and Jesus are joined at the heart and cannot be separated so she brings Jesus with her. And Jesus cannot be separated from the Trinity so He brings the Father and the Holy Spirit with Him. And where the Holy Trinity is, all of creation is, and you are surrounded by such beauty and light as you cannot imagine in this life.

Your Mother comes as Our Lady of Grace with her hands outstretched. Rays of light emit from her hands piercing your body, healing you and filling you with graces.. This is your inheritance which was poured out from the heart of Jesus on the Cross, when the centurion pierced His Heart with the spear, into the only pure vessel ready to receive such graces at that time, Your Mother. Now as you pray the Rosary, or even just recite one Hail Mary, you receive your portion of these graces. He also said at this time, "Anyone who goes to Mary and prays the Rosary cannot be touched by Satan." Is it any wonder that anyone who prays the Rosary from the heart is so blessed and protected and powerful in their prayers for others?

Dominus Franciscus "Per ferreus opus adveho remuneror of maiestas"

"May the LORD KEEP and BLESS YOU!!!"

Keep on praying the rosary and see what God has in store for you.

Thursday, December 18, 2008

The Legend of the Banana Que

Minsan nagtalo-talo ang mga saging kung sino sa kanila ang pinakamasarap. Ang sabi ni Latundan, small but sweet siya. Hirit naman ni Lakatan, big but sweeter siya.

Sa gitna ng kanilang pagtatalo, nalungkot si Saba kasi hindi siya sweet at kailangan pa niyang mailuto, atpb. kaya nag-walk out siya.

Nakasalubong niya si Brown Sugar at kinuwento niya ang nangyari. Tumawa si Brown Sugar at sinabi, "It doesn't matter how sweet you are. What matters is how you make others special because of you. And you made me special."

Friends, never feel that you are not important. Each one of us has its place under the sun and each of us has its own mission in this world. Each of us is created in a unique way in order to bless the world and place its mark on it.

God placed you where you are because of a reason. God created you that way because of a reason. The question is: Have you discovered that reason?

When my parents bought me a new cellphone, I thought that it was Nokia. It was then that I found out that it was Asus. I asked myself, "How do I use this?" It was then that I referred and studied the Instruction Manual for a week.

So it is with our life, especially in knowing our purpose in life.

How do we know what our purpose is in this world?

Look up, read and study the Holy Bible. Or you may have a good, intimate and intense relationship with God because He is the one who created you.

I pray that you discover your unique purpose here on earth. In that way, we may together praise God uniquely in our way.

Talk to your beloved regularly

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It was really early morning and I woke up from a very good sleep.

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I searched in my bed where my cell phone was, and when I found it, I answered it like someone who came out from a very good experience.

“Hello?” I said.

“Good morning baby ko! Mwuah!!!”

“Hi there bossing! Mwuah!!!”

This is happens every morning, and it really energizes my soul and my body to hear my beloved over the phone. I would tell her how my sleep was, talk to her about my plans for the day about my job, talk to her about some of my experiences that I haven’t shared to her last night. And she does the same way too.

We would talk for around 10 to 20 minutes every morning, sometimes while I am on my way to work. This does not stop just in the morning because we also talk in the evening when we arrive home and there we would talk for about an hour or more. Thank God that I bought a Sun Cellular phone so that we can talk for this long.

I always look forward to this time where we can discuss anything that we want: our plans, our obligations, about us, about our funny moments. I always look forward to this because every day I learn a lot more about her. And we do this with a commitment that we must not miss any single moment without talking about these things.

This goes the same with our prayer time. We need to talk to our beloved God regularly. It may be in the morning, evening, or at noontime.

I remember one speaker during our Christian Life Program where he shared about one story in The Little Prince.

A little boy saw a fox and he became attracted to him that he wanted to befriend him. The fox was happy with the boy’s intention and said, “Ok! I will be your friend only with one condition. You must come to this place every day at this time. I will be ahead of you always and I will always look forward to seeing and talking with you every day.”

Just like the fox, God is inviting you to talk to him every day at a certain time in a day. It may be just for 5 minutes or more. But what is important is that you are able to share to Him your life and He in you. Through that you are able to grow in Him much more than you ever imagined.

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