by Fr Richard Heilman | March 7, 2023 12:05 AM
My Morning Prayer Sampler
For me, it starts by clearing the cobwebs. I jump out of bed and I am into the shower, get dressed and pour myself a nice cup of coffee. I want to get up at a time when I don’t feel rushed to meet my daily duties. Mornings (after a shower and my first few sips of coffee) are quality time for me. It’s uninterrupted time with just me and my loving God. After a few minutes of quiet time, I begin my prayer.
5:20am – Morning Offering[1] (30 seconds)
5:21am – Spiritual Reading: “Freedom from Abuse of Sexuality Outside the Marital State” (below) by Fr. James Altman (4 minutes)
5:25am – Mental Prayer. Using my Peace Through Strength Journal[2], as I sip my coffee, I pray the Preparatory Prayer found in the journal as I spend the first few minutes speaking to God. This can include what or who you are praying for today. I write this in my journal. Then I just sit quietly, allowing today’s spiritual reading to resonate in my heart, while I listen for anything God wants to speak to my heart, which I can write in my journal. Then I pray the Closing Prayer found in my journal. (15 minutes)
5:40am – Pray the Rosary. During these 90 Days I am so looking forward to the peaceful offering of the rosary by Doug Barry in the video below. (19 minutes)
6:00am – Pray the Angelus (1 minute)
Then I spend some time reflecting on today’s readings for Mass, and I am off for a brisk walk with my dog, Gracie (still reflecting on today’s readings). Then, it’s time to head to Mass.
There you have it, like Jesus spending 40 days in prayer in the desert, defeating the devil, we dedicate ourselves to just 40 minutes of prayer each morning, cultivating our love for our Lord and our Lady, filling the house of our soul with their love and God’s grace, which brings peace. Now I am well-prepared to live my day for God, not for me.
Our Daily Prayer for Liberty and for a Holy Spirit Revival
“Free us from every force of oppression, both internally and externally. Grant to our leaders the wisdom to protect and promote our liberties; by your grace may we have the courage to defend them, for ourselves and for all those who live in this blessed land. Heavenly Father, grant a Holy Spirit Revival in our land!” (Based on a prayer by the USCCB)
“Freedom from Abuse of Sexuality Outside the Marital State” by Fr. James Altman
Dear family, it is time to speak truth, and speak it boldly, on the issue of the abuse of sexuality outside of the marital state, which can best be understood by the phrase “interim period.” There is a dichotomy in this world: God and Lucifer. God has His plan, and it is Good. Lucifer has his plan, which is the opposite of God’s, and it is evil. Once we confess and admit what God’s intention actually is, we then can identify, recognize, and avoid Lucifer’s evil plan while striving to follow God’s good one. Lucifer’s scheme is evil in all its insidious and diabolical facets, most particularly in artificial contraception, cohabitation, abortion, and same-sex unions.
God’s good plan is simple, straightforward, and easy to understand: “God created mankind in His image; in the image of God He created them; male and female He created them. God blessed them and God said to them: ‘Be fertile and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it’” (Genesis 1:27-28). “The LORD God said: ‘It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suited to him’ … The LORD God then built the rib that He had taken from the man into a woman. … That is why a man leaves his father and mother and clings to his wife, and the two of them become one body” (Genesis 2:18, 22, 24).
That is God’s plan, that is the truth, and anything contrary to the truth is false. That is known as the PNC, the Principle of Non-Contradiction. Therefore, anything contrary to one man, one woman, open to children, for life is false. Period. End of debate. So how did we ever get to the point where any Christian dares to suggest, much less insist, that artificial contraception, co-habitation outside the sacramental bond of matrimony, termination of a baby’s life in the womb, and same-sex unions are A-OK with God? With what twisted and diabolical poison have we been fed? Here is how all this happened: greed and selfishness.
In God’s creation, and throughout millennia, boys and girls reached puberty roughly at 12-14 years of age. Having a very developed brain by the age of roughly 12, they were mature enough to be able to cope with the onset of hormonal challenges while they were in the safety and security of their family homes. Then, when fully mature, the young man would leave the family home for the purpose of getting married and thereafter cling to his wife. There was no interim period between leaving the family home and marriage. Not in God’s plan, which is the only plan that matters.
Then diabolical greed came into the picture. The food supply was tainted by steroids and growth hormones, all for the purpose of profiteering. This tainted food affected the physiological development of children even before birth, when the mother’s own food was tainted. This taint has affected physiological development such that our children’s bodies are maturing before their brains. In fact, this introduction into the children’s bodies even affects the development of the brain, not unlike the introduction of alcohol at a certain point of pre-birth development causes the irreversible damage of fetal-alcohol syndrome. In short, earlier onset of puberty comes before God intended and at a time the child’s brain and the child are not mature enough to handle it.
Then, instead of leaving the family home for the purpose of marriage, the young adult leaves the home to go to college, and “God forbid” someone gets married before graduating from college. There is an issue of economic greed at play. In fact, even after college, the young adult is discouraged from entering sacramental matrimony because, well, “I have to get my career started.” Again, it is an issue of economic greed. And then, “God forbid we have kids right out of the starting block. We need time to get settled.” Again, there is an issue of economic greed at play.
In society today, it is the norm to delay marriage for materialistic and relativistic reasons. Over time, the aforementioned factors have widened the gap between the average onset of physical maturity and the typical age of entrance into a sacramental marriage, making it harder for people to remain chaste.
Despite the change in society’s norms, God’s good plan still expects us to remain pure and chaste before sacred matrimony. Is it any wonder that so many fail so badly when faced with the challenge of living up to God’s plan, and why we justify divergence from God’s plan with relativistic Luciferian terms?
The results, of course, are obvious to anyone with courage enough to admit it. The results are exactly as Pope St. Paul VI said they would be when he wrote Humanae Vitae. The results are exactly as our Blessed Mother warned us about at Fatima — that the final battle would be an attack on God’s plan for family. That is the ultimate “Russian error” of which she spoke. Hence, we have rampant contraception, cohabitation, baby-murdering, and homosexuality. (Ironically, all of these were inherent in the Albigensian heresy.)
There is not space in this reflection to discuss the totality of reasons why there is such horrific abuse of sexuality outside of the marital state. There is not space to describe the foundations and causes of the fall into contraception, the utter horror of baby murdering in the womb, the flagrant disregard of our bodies as the temples of the Holy Spirit through cohabitation, as well as the psychological reasons for the development of same-sex attraction. Fortunately, we do not have to go into great depth to find the truth about any of it. It all is founded in the simple and definitive principle that we have chosen to diverge from God’s plan, and among the greatest underlying causes is greed. (From “Let Freedom Ring[3]“)
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