Happy New Year

 

A Prayer for the New Year from the Carmelite Fathers

Blessed Mother, as the new year arrives, I ask for your blessing. With you, I can look ahead with courage and faith.

Grant me the strength to handle any challenges I may face and patience as you guide me through.

I ask that you bring me peace, happiness, and hope. And I ask that you embrace me with your love and grace.

Please protect me and my family, dear Mother, so that we can share our blessings with others in need.

Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Pray for us.

Amen

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Dawn Pisturino

December 30, 2023

Merry Christmas

 

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Dawn Pisturino

Thanksgiving Prayer

 

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Thanksgiving Prayer

Holy Mother,

Please help us today to remember

All the blessings bestowed on us by the Father Almighty.

Please help us draw closer to your son, Jesus Christ,

And remember all his sufferings on the cross.

Please intercede for us 

In granting our prayers

And fulfilling our needs.

Please shower your love upon the people of Israel

And safeguard them from harm.

Please protect our fortress, the Catholic Church,

From obscene changes

And strengthen the resolve of all devout Catholics

To protect her from the devil's influence.

Please give us the strength and will

To stand up to all evil in the world.

In the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

Amen.

Dawn Pisturino

November 23, 2023

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I STAND WITH ISRAEL!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Virgin Mary Tattoos

 

Arm Tattoo by Tattoo Me Now

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Some Catholics express their faith by getting tattoos of the Virgin Mary on their bodies. As the Mother of Jesus, she plays a special role in Jesus' life and the Catholic faith. People look to her for faith, hope, love, and comfort. She is the symbol of virginal purity, unconditional motherly acceptance, and miraculous events in places like Fatima and Lourdes. She embraces the whole world and all people with her positive energy and affection. She is OUR MOTHER who cares for our needs and gives us strength to keep going in a difficult world.

Hail, Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee!

Blessed art thou amongst women,

And blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.

Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners,

Now and at the hour of our death.

Amen.

PRAY THE ROSARY!

Dawn Pisturino

October 28, 2023

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Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

 

Painting by Francesco Botticini

St. John Damascene fully supported the idea of the Assumption of Mary, body and soul, into Heaven because he believed that her "pure and sinless body" should not be consigned to the earth. Although the idea is not supported by the Bible, it is a reasonable assumption that Mary would be taken into Heaven in a way similar to that of her Son, Jesus Christ, who was transfigured and taken into Heaven. On August 15th, we honor and celebrate Mary's death and journey home to God the Father.

Prayer for the Assumption of Mary

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Father in heaven,
all creation rightly gives you praise,
for all life and all holiness come from you.
In the plan of your wisdom
she who bore the Christ in her womb
was raised body and soul in glory to be with him in heaven.
May we follow her example in reflecting your holiness
and join in her hymn of endless love and praise.

We ask this through Christ our Lord.

Amen.

~

Dawn Pisturino

August 15, 2023

Mary's Spring

 

Photo from Bible Walks

According to Christian tradition, John the Baptist was born in the small village of Ein Kerem, located south of Jerusalem. When the Virgin Mary was pregnant with Jesus, she traveled to the home of Zechariah and Elizabeth. At that time, Elizabeth was already six months pregnant. As Mary greeted her cousin, John "leaped" in Elizabeth's womb (Luke 1:39-41).

South of Ein Kerem, a spring known as Mary's Spring flows out of the ground. Here, tradition says, Mary stopped to drink before going up the hill to Elizabeth's home.

This holy site is located on  Ein Kerem Street, Ein Kerem 9087200, Israel.

Dawn Pisturino

May 12, 2023

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Pray for Mary's Intercession and Healing

 

Are you or a loved one suffering from physical or mental illness? Are you debilitated by pain? Are your symptoms interfering with your life?

Pray to the Blessed Holy Mother to intercede for you and your loved ones in healing your afflictions! Remember Fatima. Remember Lourdes. Remember that the Holy Mother wants to help you. She is here for you. Send her your love and faith and pray for her intercession and blessings.

A Prayer to Our Lady for Healing

Mary Immaculate, you have given yourself to us as Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal. You have asked us to pray with confidence, and we will receive great graces. We know your compassion because you saw your Son suffer and die for us. In your union with his suffering, you became the mother of us all.

Mary, my Mother, teach me to understand my suffering as you do and to endure it in union with the suffering of Jesus. In your motherly love, calm my fears and increase my trust in God's loving care.

According to God's plan, obtain for me the healing I need. Intercede with your Son that I may have the strength I need to work for God's glory and the salvation of the world. Amen.

Mary, Health of the Sick, pray for me.

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Prayer from the National Shrine of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal

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Dawn Pisturino

February 17, 2023