Urgent Message from Fr. Meares
The Power of Prayer
“How much greater then is the power of Christian prayer. No longer does prayer bring an angel of comfort to the heart of a fiery furnace, (Daniel 3 ), or close up the mouths of lions, (Daniel 6 )……In the past prayer was able to bring down punishment, rout armies, withhold the blessing of rain. Now, however, the prayer of the just turns aside the whole anger of God, keeps vigil for its enemies, pleads for persecutors….. Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God. But Christ has willed that it should work no evil, and has given it all power over good”
On Prayer, Tertullian, From Volume II of the Liturgy of the Hours, Thursday Office of Readings from the Third Week of Lent
The Power of the Rosary
The Most Holy Virgin in these last times in which we live has given a new efficacy to the recitation of the Rosary to such an extent that there is no problem, no matter how difficult it is, whether temporal or above all spiritual, in the personal life of each one of us, of our families… that cannot be solved by the Rosary. There is no problem,I tell you, no matter how difficult it is, that we cannot resolve by the prayer of the Holy Rosary
Sr. Lúcia
Times that we live in call out to Our Mother of Mercy, Our Lady of the Rosary, the Mother of God and our Mother, Our Mother of Perpetual Help:
After the two parts which I have already explained, at the left of Our Lady and a little above, we saw an Angel with a flaming sword in his left hand; flashing, it gave out flames that looked as though they would set the world on fire; but they died out in contact with the Splendor that Our Lady radiated towards him from her right hand: pointing to the earth with his right hand, the Angel cried out in a loud voice: ‘Penance, Penance, Penance!’.
The Third Secret of Fatima given by Our Lady to the Three Shepherd Children
Our Mother’s Admonition
I want you to come back here on the thirteenth of next month. Continue to say the Rosary every day in honor of Our Lady of the Rosary, to obtain the peace of the world and the end of the war, because only she can obtain it
Our Lady at Fatima, June 13, 1917
Pray very much the prayers of the Rosary. I alone am able still to save you from the calamities which approach. Those who place their confidence in me will be saved
Our Lady to Sr. Agnes in Akita, Japan, Oct 13, 1973
We must pray with faith, dogged persistence, and perseverance, Trust in God’s Mercy, and with confidence in the all-powerful intercession of Our Lady.
Ask, and it will be given you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For every one who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. Or what man of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!
Matthew 7:7-11
And he told them a parable, to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart.
Luke 18:1-8
He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor regarded man; and there was a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Vindicate me against my adversary.’
For a while he refused; but afterward he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor regard man, yet because this widow bothers me, I will vindicate her, or she will wear me out by her continual coming.'”
And the Lord said, “Hear what the unrighteous judge says. And will not God vindicate his elect, who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long over them? I tell you, he will vindicate them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of man comes, will he find faith on earth?
