My Recommendation for Reparation

[Therese]

I highly recommend that you friends make Holy Hours of Reparation for the sins committed against the Sacred Heart of Jesus and against the Immaculate Heart of Mary, and for the gross ingratitude people show towards our Lord and our Lady after all they have suffered and done to redeem us and to make heaven possible for us.  These days so few souls are making reparation when reparation is more desperately needed than ever.  So many souls have abandoned the Church's devotion of making reparation to the Sacred Heart, which is a sad shame.  They want God's mercy and pray chaplets for mercy, but they will do NOTHING to repair for their sins and for the sins of others committed against their Lord.  Every willfully sinful thought, word and deed we commit merits punishment and offends God, necessitating reparation.  God is all-merciful, but He is also all-just, thus we must make reparation for our offenses as responsible Catholics and also pray for mercy.  He is so much offended by the numerous sins piled upon other numerous sins committed by nations and individuals; if it weren't for Blessed Mary we would all be suffering worse right now.  We can't expect to keep sinning without making any reparation and have things be well.  We are being chastised in a very great way at present and more and more souls are being lost every day.  God is punishing the world and His children for their sins and infidelities by giving them bad leaders and sending the Operation of Error spoken of in the Bible.  So many people, most people these days are being deceived by the devil, who is going to town destroying their souls in this Operation of Error; they have lost the true faith and are believing lies with no clue about the very grave peril their souls are in.  Will our Lord find faith on earth when He returns?  Let us make reparation for our sins and for the sins of others, so that we can please our Lord and draw down grace for the salvation of souls; for too many souls will be lost if we just sit passively and expect God, who is very much offended by men, to do all and everything with no real help from us.  The salvation of souls requires that we cooperate with God and be responsible Catholics, making reparation and praying, and doing penance.  We can't just pray for God's mercy without making reparation and doing penance, for God's justice requires that we make reparation for sin and that we do penance.  If we don't repair for sins here, we will have to repair for them in the next life, either in Hell or in Purgatory.  Unless we do penance we shall certainly perish.

[Therese]

You can make Holy Hours at home, not just in a church or chapel.  When making a Holy Hour at home you can send your prayers through your Angel Guardian to the foot of the altar where you know Jesus is in the Blessed Sacrament.  You can even put yourself spiritually at the foot of an altar and maybe even at the foot of all the altars where our Lord rests in the tabernacle.

Living a holy life of charity and according to the Gospel in reparation to the Sacred Heart for sins pleases our Lord very much.  So does receiving and offering up one's Holy Communion to make reparation to the Sacred Heart for sins.

[Shin]

The need for reparation due to Justice was on my mind just the other day before you posted this Therese!

It's time for us to stop tempting God, to give up our sins, and do true reparation.

May the Lord and Heaven help us to do so.

[Therese]

The need for reparation due to Justice was on my mind just the other day before you posted this Therese!

It's time for us to stop tempting God, to give up our sins, and do true reparation.

May the Lord and Heaven help us to do so.

Yes, may the Lord and heaven help us to do so.  You are a very good soul, Shin, to see the earnest need for making reparation, unlike the rest of the world, who thinks that they can heap sin upon sin and then just pray for mercy and all will be alright.  Nobody considers God's justice and the punishment due to sin these days lost as they are as they focus exclusively on His mercy without a thought about the punishment due to sins and the recompense that needs to be made for them -- not to downplay God's mercy, but to fairly assess things, knowing that God is all-just (and not just all-merciful) and that every one of our sins is an offense against God and has a punishment attached to it and needs to be repaired.    In this life God is most merciful and so we think mostly of His mercy, but may none of us on these forums lose sight of the justice He possesses and that will be exacting and terrible on the day of judgment, and that will manifest itself more in this life the more we become forgetful of Him and ungrateful to Him.  God bless you and Mary keep you!

[Therese]

Sorry for getting sidetracked in my posts folks.  All I am asking you all is that you practice devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus by consoling Him for an hour, making reparation for all the coldness, ingratitude, forgetfulness and sacrilege that He has to suffer.  Let us do our part to console the Sacred Heart of Jesus instead of expecting Him to be the only one to console.  He is so much offended--we need to console Him for all that He has to suffer on account of us!  God bless you!  

[whiterockdove]

This topic is very timely and much appreciated, Therese!  Thank you so much.  Remember when you couldn't get the time you needed in front of the Blessed Sacrament? well, i am in a similar circumstance and feeling pretty sorry for myself. I will do this! It will help others and get me off my pity pot.
 May God Bless you, Sister!

[Therese]

This topic is very timely and much appreciated, Therese!  Thank you so much.  Remember when you couldn't get the time you needed in front of the Blessed Sacrament? well, i am in a similar circumstance and feeling pretty sorry for myself. I will do this! It will help others and get me off my pity pot.
 May God Bless you, Sister!

You are a very good soul to see the need to console our Lord and make reparation to Him.  About your not being able to be in front of the Blessed Sacrament, please always remember that our Lord dwells within you if you keep yourself in a state of grace; so you can love and adore the Lord within you at any time and in any place without having to be in a church or chapel.  You can even send your Angel Guardian to the nearest tabernacle containing the Blessed Sacrament, where he can offer to God your prayers.  Our Lord knows your desire to be with Him in the Blessed Sacrament; the Church teaches that our desire counts as much as our performing an act, so you will get wonderful graces from God just for your desire to be with Him in the Blessed Sacrament.  My not being able to be with our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament has given me many graces, graces I probably would never have received, including the grace of my appreciating deeply the indwelling of my Lord in my soul and of making  my home a more special place of prayer for me.  God bless you!

[Therese]

Sorry for getting sidetracked in my posts folks.  All I am asking you all is that you practice devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus by consoling Him for an hour, making reparation for all the coldness, ingratitude, forgetfulness and sacrilege that He has to suffer.  Let us do our part to console the Sacred Heart of Jesus instead of expecting Him to be the only one to console.  He is so much offended--we need to console Him for all that He has to suffer on account of us!  God bless you!  

What I meant to say is that we should console our Lord, making reparation, for an hour, regularly or frequently.  God bless you!

[Therese]

God is so much offended!  Man's negligence, sloth, ingratitude, infidelities, coldness, indifference, insults and other injuries toward God offend His Sacred Heart.  Let us console His Sacred Heart by offering up Holy Hours of Reparation.  What a terrible shame that the devotion to the Sacred Heart has been nearly totally eclipsed by the Divine Mercy devotion, the Divine Mercy devotion which had been condemned by the Holy See and then later approved by JPII.  The Church had condemned the Divine Mercy devotion with very good reasons for condemning it.  Traditional Catholics still keep their special devotion of making reparation to the Sacred Heart, aware of His divine mercy but faithfully remembering His deeply offended Heart.  He is so greatly offended!

Jesus meek and humble of heart, make my heart like unto Thine.  Amen.

[Shin]

One of my favorite prayers is:

A Prayer For Daily Neglects

Eternal Father, I offer Thee the Sacred Heart of Jesus, with all its love, all its sufferings and all its merits.

First -- To expiate all the sins I have committed this day and during all my life.

(Glory be to the Father and to the Son and the Holy Ghost as it was in the beginning, is now, and forever shall be. Amen.)

Second -- To purify the good I have done badly this day and during all my life.

(Glory Be to the Father...)

Third -- To minister for the good I ought to have done, and that I have neglected this day and during all my life.

(Glory Be to the Father...)

A poor Clare nun who had just died, appeared to her Abbess, who was praying for her, and said to her, "I went straight to Heaven, for, by means of this prayer, recited every evening, I paid all my debts."

[Therese]

Oh, Shin, I started praying that prayer as part of my night prayer a few years back.  It is a very good prayer!  I understand how it could be one of your favorites! 

[Therese]

The devotion to the Sacred Heart is first and foremost about Love, then it is about reparation.  I just wanted to make this clarification so that my other emails do not mislead anybody.  God bless you! 

[Shin]

Let us all pray it, I pray!

[Therese]

Yes, everybody should pray it, but I would never bank on it to deliver me and us all from Purgatory.  The Poor Clare nun who was delivered from Purgatory by means of this prayer most likely already had been living a very penitential and angelic life while on earth like a good and holy Franciscan nun and she must have prayed this prayer very fervently.  Not that our merit makes our prayers efficacious.  No, God's mercy makes them efficacious.  And God is merciful to whomever He wills as the Scriptures says.  I pray to be counted as one of His predestined.  I pray for us all to be counted among His predestined.  May we do His Will, cooperating with the graces given us and not abusing them, so that we will not be counted among the reprobate but among the predestined.  Only our own iniquity can damn us and have us counted among the reprobate, so let us all cooperate with every grace God sends us.