On September 16, 2023 (1 Tishri 5784) Rosh haShanah same time I received new Confirmation and new Eucharist into the Presence of Christ is The Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity at Most Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church.
Many Catholics worldwide celebrate the Feast of St Francis of Assisi on October 4 each year. The feast commemorates the life of St Francis, who was born in the 12th century and is the Catholic Church’s patron saint of animals and the environment.
The Feast of St. Francis of Assisi is celebrated on October 4th, and it is a day to commemorate the life of the patron saint of animals and the environment. On this day, people often bring their pets and other animals to church for blessings.
The prayer of Saint Francis for animals is a prayer to bless pets and ask for God’s healing power for animals:
Prayer for the Blessing of Pets”Blessed are you, Lord God, maker of all living creatures. You called forth fish in the sea, birds in the air and animals on the land. You inspired Saint Francis to call all of them his brothers and sisters. We ask you to bless this pet. By the power of your love, enable it to live according to your plan. May we always praise you for all your beauty in creation. Blessed are you, Lord our God, in all your creatures! Amen”.
The #AscensionOfTheLord tells us that Jesus is alive among us in a new way. He is now present in every place and time, and is close to each of us. We are never alone: we have an Advocate who guides us, waits for us, and defends us. 🙏
I read on Luke 24:50-53 NABRE 🤟❤️🙏🔥🕊️📿
The Ascension.[m]50 Then he [Jesus] led them [out] as far as Bethany, raised his hands, and blessed them. 51 As he blessed them he parted from them and was taken up to heaven. 52 They did him homage and then returned to Jerusalem with great joy, 53 and they were continually in the temple praising God.[n]
Footnotes:
[m] 24:50–53 Luke brings his story about the time of Jesus to a close with the report of the ascension. He will also begin the story of the time of the church with a recounting of the ascension. In the gospel, Luke recounts the ascension of Jesus on Easter Sunday night, thereby closely associating it with the resurrection. In Acts 1:3, 9–11; 13:31 he historicizes the ascension by speaking of a forty-day period between the resurrection and the ascension. The Western text omits some phrases in Lk 24:51, 52perhaps to avoid any chronological conflict with Acts 1 about the time of the ascension.
[n] 24:53 The Gospel of Luke ends as it began (Lk 1:9), in the Jerusalem temple.
*664 Being seated at the Father’s right hand signifies the inauguration of the Messiah’s kingdom, the fulfillment of the prophet Daniel’s vision concerning the Son of man: “To him was given dominion and glory and kingdom, that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve him; his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom one that shall not be destroyed.”547 After this event the apostles became witnesses of the “kingdom [that] will have no end”.548
547 Dan 7:14. 🙏❤️🕊️🔥📿 548 Nicene Creed.🙏❤️🕊️🔥📿
*Ascension Press elaborates: Luke 24:44-53, Acts 1:6-11 Jesus’ Ascension marks his definitive enthronement at the right hand of the Father, fulfilling the vision of Daniel, in which the Son of Man ascends to the “Ancient of Days” and receives everlasting dominion (see Dan 7:13-14; CCC 664). Christ’s kingdom began with his coming, is now present in the Church, and will reach its fulfillment when he returns in glory.
665 Christ’s Ascension marks the definitive entrance of Jesus’ humanity into God’s heavenly domain, whence he will come again (cf. Acts 1:11); this humanity in the meantime hides him from the eyes of men (cf. Col 3:3).
Ten more days to go on Sunday, May 19, 2024 Pentecost aka occurs on 50th Day (Jewish Feast Shavuot means “Feast of Weeks”) I personally believe Jesus (Yeshua in Aramaic) is New Messianic Fulfillment according Old Covenant parallel New (Renewed) Covenant. Please read ETWN: Pentecost on May 19, 2024. Will update soon. May God bless you. 🤟❤️🙏🕊️🔥📿🙏
“If Jesus Christ, the Head of men, is born in [Mary], then the predestinate, who are the members of that Head, ought also to be born in her by a necessary consequence. One and the same mother does not bring forth into the world the head without the members… So in like manner in the order of grace, the head and the members are born of one and the same mother.”
-St. Louis Grignion de Montfort, True Devotion, 32
Today’s Reflection
St. Louis de Montfort uses the term “predestinate” and Paragraph 62 from Lumen Gentium makes reference to “the elect.” Read Paragraphs #600, #2782, #2823 in the Catechism of the Catholic Church. How have you been predestined by God in Jesus Christ? In light of this, examine how it is that Mary is our spiritual mother according to St. Louis de Montfort. Ponder all of this. To what extent does this enlarge your understanding of yourself? Of Mary? Of God’s love for you?
Read Paragraph Catechism #
600 To God, all moments of time are present in their immediacy. When therefore he establishes his eternal plan of “predestination”, he includes in it each person’s free response to his grace: “In this city, in fact, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, gathered together against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed, to do whatever your hand and your plan had predestined to take place.”395 For the sake of accomplishing his plan of salvation, God permitted the acts that flowed from their blindness.396
2782 We can adore the Father because he has caused us to be reborn to his life by adopting us as his children in his only Son: by Baptism, he incorporates us into the Body of his Christ; through the anointing of his Spirit who flows from the head to the members, he makes us other “Christs.” God, indeed, who has predestined us to adoption as his sons, has conformed us to the glorious Body of Christ. So then you who have become sharers in Christ are appropriately called “Christs.”34
The new man, reborn and restored to his God by grace, says first of all, “Father!” because he has now begun to be a son.35
34 St. Cyril of Jerusalem, Catech. myst. 3,1:PG 33,1088A. 35 St. Cyprian, De Dom. orat. 9:PL 4,525A.
2823 “He has made known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure that he set forth in Christ . . . to gather up all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth. In Christ we have also obtained an inheritance, having been destined according to the purpose of him who accomplishes all things according to his counsel and will.”98 We ask insistently for this loving plan to be fully realized on earth as it is already in heaven.
Jesus Christ is New Paschal Lamb of God 
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