The virtue that we will focus on for the next 52 days will be fortitude. This is such a manly virtue, and one that is needed so much in our modern times. The women in our lives are counting on us to be strong in this virtue. How many men today find themselves wandering aimlessly in life, unable to keep their word, unable to persevere in a path God has set them on? It is effeminate to quit something once it is started, that is clearly in God's will. How the devil loves to attack us men here. He wants to disturb the waters of our soul, to cause us to doubt the help of Our Lord, and then to bail. To give up and listen to the devil only increases our insecurity and fear, while hurting Our relationship with God.
Our Queen Mary, is calling us men to grow in fortitude which is built upon the strength of Jesus Christ. Our Lord has a strong, fatherly heart and he is willing to help us become the men he is calling us to be. We are called to be strong men, willing to carry our cross. True peace will come when we stop worrying, complaining, and looking for an excuse to drop the cross and walk away. True peace will come at that moment when, despite feeling the full weight of the cross, we pull our faces out of the mud to see Our Immaculate Queen, and continue on by resigning ourselves with love to God's will.
Our Queen Mary, is calling us men to grow in fortitude which is built upon the strength of Jesus Christ. Our Lord has a strong, fatherly heart and he is willing to help us become the men he is calling us to be. We are called to be strong men, willing to carry our cross. True peace will come when we stop worrying, complaining, and looking for an excuse to drop the cross and walk away. True peace will come at that moment when, despite feeling the full weight of the cross, we pull our faces out of the mud to see Our Immaculate Queen, and continue on by resigning ourselves with love to God's will.
Luke 9:23
And he said to all: If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.
And he said to all: If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.
The glorious St. Michael will be our patron for the virtue of fortitude. Since this virtue is one used in battle he will be the perfect patron since he fights demons, and will defend us when we call upon him and ask him to help us grow in this virtue.
While focusing on the virtue of fortitude we should pray the prayer of St. Michael in Latin or English each day, asking St. Michael to help us to grow in this virtue.
While focusing on the virtue of fortitude we should pray the prayer of St. Michael in Latin or English each day, asking St. Michael to help us to grow in this virtue.
Sancte Michael Archangele, defende nos in proelio; contra nequitiam et insidias diaboli esto praesidium. Imperat illi Deus; supplices deprecamur: tuque, Princeps militiae coelestis, Satanam aliosque spiritus malignos, qui ad perditionem animarum pervagantur in mundo, divina virtute in infernum detrude. Amen
Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us in the battle, be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil; may God rebuke him, we humbly pray; and do thou, O Prince of the heavenly host, by the power of God, thrust into hell Satan and all the other evil spirits who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls. Amen.
Daniel 12:1
But at that time shall Michael rise up, the great prince, who standeth for the children of thy people: and a time shall come such as never was from the time that nations began even until that time. And at that time shall thy people be saved, every one that shall be found written in the book.
Daniel 12:1
But at that time shall Michael rise up, the great prince, who standeth for the children of thy people: and a time shall come such as never was from the time that nations began even until that time. And at that time shall thy people be saved, every one that shall be found written in the book.
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