You Are Beautiful, Says The Master Craftsman

Revelation chapter 12 says the war among angels broke out in Heaven after the sign of the pregnant woman with 12 stars appeared in the sky. God showed the bodiless spirits His plan to make Jesus incarnate through Mary, and this precipitated Satan's rebellion. He hated humanity. He hated flesh.

It makes me ponder deeply Jesus' suffering in the scourging at the pillar. Finally, evil had the chance to show how much it hated the incarnation of Jesus. Psalm 22 says the sufferer was "a worm and no man," and I think of how Jesus' flesh was ripped apart by so many lashes of the whips. How much evil hates the material beings that God loved enough to die for!

Today, I pray for our material selves. God formed our inmost beings in the secret places of our mother's wombs (Psalm 139). I pray for you to know you are beautiful, worthy and made well by the Master Craftsman. He imagined you and put you forth. May the Lord affirm you in your goodness and bring you to good health. May every physical infirmity be healed in Jesus' name!

Today, we consecrate ourselves, our families, our nation and our Church.

St. Michael’s Lent

Traditional 40 Day Consecration Prayer to St. Michael the Archangel from the Basilica Sanctuary of St. Michael in Gargano, Italy. Prayed daily from Aug.15 thru Sept.29

Oh, most noble Prince of the Angelic Hierarchies, valorous warrior of Almighty God, and zealous lover of His glory, terror of the rebellious angels, and love and delight of all the just, my beloved Archangel Saint Michael, desiring to be numbered among your devoted servants, I, today offer and consecrate myself to you, and place myself, my family, and all I possess under your most powerful protection.

I entreat you not to look at how little I, as your servant have to offer, being only a wretched sinner, but to gaze, rather, with favorable eye at the heartfelt affection with which this offering is made, and remember that if from this day onward I am under your patronage, you must during all my life assist me, and procure for me the pardon of my many grievous offenses and sins, the grace to love with all my heart my God, my dear Savior Jesus, and my Sweet Mother Mary, and to obtain for me all the help necessary to arrive to my crown of glory.

Defend me always from my spiritual enemies, particularly in the last moments of my life.

Come then, oh Glorious Prince and succor me in my last struggle, and with your powerful weapon cast far from me into the infernal abysses that prevaricator and proud angel that one day you prostrated in the celestial battle.

Accompany me then to the throne of God to sing with you, Archangel Saint Michael and all the angels, praise, honour and glory to the One who reigns for all eternity. Amen.