Litania

Litany to Pope John Paul II - For private use only, not Church approved. Copyright: CatholicChurchSaints.com.

Lord, have mercy on us.

Christ, have mercy on us.

Lord, have mercy on us.

Christ, hear us.

Christ, graciously hear us.

God, the Father of Heaven, have mercy on us.

God the Son, Redeemer of the world, have mercy on us.

God the Holy Spirit, have mercy on us.

Holy Trinity, One God, have mercy on us.

Holy Mary, pray for us.

John Paul, lover of God and man, pray for us.

John Paul, Supreme Pontiff, pray for us.

John Paul, Servant of the Servants of God, pray for us.

John Paul, Vicar of Christ, pray for us.

John Paul, Bishop of Rome, pray for us.

John Paul, son of Mary, pray for us.

John Paul, follower of Christ, pray for us.

John Paul, world wide apostle of the Good News, pray for us.

John Paul, devoted adorer of the Blessed Sacrament, pray for us.

John Paul, lover of the Rosary, pray for us.

John Paul, lover of the sick and poor, pray for us.

John Paul, head of Christ's Church, pray for us.

John Paul, moral beacon, pray for us.

John Paul, bishop of bishops, pray for us.

John Paul, fighter of tyranny, pray for us.

John Paul, Pope of the New Advent, pray for us.

O Lord, in your mercy and love, you granted to the Church a truly remarkable shepherd in Pope John Paul. We now call him "Great" because of his true devotion to you through the Blessed Virgin Mary. May he be our leader on the march to your Eternal Kingdom from his heavenly throne. Amen.

Himmelen öppen

"…tell the whole world about My inconceivable mercy. I desire that the Feast of Mercy be a refuge and shelter for all souls, and especially poor sinners. On that day the very depths of My tender mercy are open. I pour out a whole ocean of graces upon the souls who approach the Fount of My Mercy. On that day all the divine floodgates through which graces flow are opened. Let no soul fear to draw near to Me, even though its sins be as scarlet.... Mankind will not have peace until it turns to the Fount of My Mercy"

Jesus till S Faustina

Home

Valborg

Ack!

Ack högaste himmel och fallande jord
det kostar på en yngling att leva här på jord
att leva här på jorden, det plågsamt vara må
att älska lilla vännen, den aldrig man kan få

Du talar visst väl, men du tänker inte så
för när jag vänder ryggen till, så ler du däråt
var gång jag till dig kommer, visst roar det dig
att du får tala falskhet och göra narr av mig

Om dagen i mitt arbete är du i mitt sinn
om natten när jag sover är du i min dröm
om morgon när jag vaknar, vem saknar jag då
jag saknar lilla vännen, den aldrig jag kan få

Dina rosenröda kinder, din sockersöta mun
har lagt på mitt hjärta en börda så tung
den bördan får jag bära och släpa för dig
så länge som bloden är varmer uti mig

DU SÖKER EFTER RIKEDOMAR, PENNINGAR OCH GULL
MEN DU FÅR INTE MERA ÄN TRENNE SKOVLAR MULL
OCH FYRA TUNNA BRÄDOR OCH SÅ EN SVEPEDUK
BLOTT FYRA TUNNA BRÄDOR ATT FÅ VILA I TILL SLUT

Med sorger och bekymmer får en skilja sig åt
gud nåde den mänskan som skiljer en åt
den mänskan gör värre än någon kan tro
den mänskan gör värre än den som håller krog

DU SÖKER EFTER RIKEDOMAR, PENNINGAR OCH GULL
MEN DU FÅR INTE MERA ÄN TRENNE SKOVLAR MULL
OCH FYRA TUNNA BRÄDOR OCH SÅ EN SVEPEDUK
BLOTT FYRA TUNNA BRÄDOR ATT FÅ VILA I TILL SLUT

Χριστός ἀνέστη!

Christ is risen from the dead, trampling down death by death, and to those in the tombs, granting life.

Ack!

Ack!

Dives in misericordia

"The Church proclaims the truth of God's mercy revealed in the crucified and risen Christ, and she professes it in various ways. Furthermore, she seeks to practice mercy towards people through people, and she sees in this an indispensable condition for solicitude for a better and "more human" world, today and tomorrow. However, at no time and in no historical period-especially at a moment as critical as our own-can the Church forget the prayer that is a cry for the mercy of God amid the many forms of evil which weigh upon humanity and threaten it. Precisely this is the fundamental right and duty of the Church in Christ Jesus, her right and duty towards God and towards humanity. The more the human conscience succumbs to secularization, loses its sense of the very meaning of the word "mercy," moves away from God and distances itself from the mystery of mercy, the more the Church has the right and the duty to appeal to the God of mercy "with loud cries."135 These "loud cries" should be the mark of the Church of our times, cries uttered to God to implore His mercy, the certain manifestation of which she professes and proclaims as having already come in Jesus crucified and risen, that is, in the Paschal Mystery. It is this mystery which bears within itself the most complete revelation of mercy, that is, of that love which is more powerful than death, more powerful than sin and every evil, the love which lifts man up when he falls into the abyss and frees him from the greatest threats."

Ven. Johannes Paulus II

Psalm

O Gud som trogen hulpit mig
i all min nöd och brist,
Jag tacka vill var dag förvisst
Dig Herre
Du giver mig ett dagligt bröd
och är mitt starka stöd
Jag lever och jag dör uti
Din kärlek.

Judas

"Judas, if true love never ceases
how could you, my friend, have come to this:
To sell me for thirty silver pieces
and betray me with a kiss?
Judas, remember what I taught you,
do not despair while hanging on the rope.
It's because you sinned that I have sought you;
I came to give you hope.
Judas, let us pray and hang together,
you on your halter, I upon my hill.
Dear friend, even if you loved me never,
you know I love you still."

Anonym

Pueri Hebraeorum

Palmsöndag

Passionssöndag

"Suffering streched out it's arms"

Icke av människohand gjord

Icke av människohand gjord

To agalma

Yesterday at midnight and a bit I went down
In the small square where I met you
Some statue which saw me it remembered me
And it didn’t deny to hear my pain

And I spoke to it for you and for me
And its eyes filled with tears and all the time they were crying
I told to it for your behaviour and for your other
For your unforgivable big mistakes

And then, my God, I burst into tears
That the dawn found me like a rag
With the statue in the road we walked together
It wiped my eyes and we changed road

Repentance

From my youth, O Christ, I have rejected Thy commandments. I have passed my whole life without caring or thinking as a slave of my passions. Therefore, O Saviour, I cry to Thee: At least in the end save me.

In old age even, O Saviour, do not cast me out empty to hell as I lie prostrate before Thy gates. But before my end in Thy love for men grant me release from my falls.

I have squandered in profligacy my substance, O Saviour, and I am barren of virtues and piety; but famished I cry: O Father of mercies, forestall and have compassion on me. (Luke 15:13, 17)

I am the one by my thoughts who fell among robbers, and now I am all wounded by them, full of sores. But stand by me, O Christ my Saviour, and heal me. (Luke 10:30)

The priest saw me first and passed by on the other side. Then the Levite took a look at my sufferings and disdained my nakedness. But stand by me, O Jesus Who didst dawn out of Mary, and have compassion on me. (Luke 10:31-33)


St Andrew of Crete

Why?

Nära Gud

O Blessed Joseph, happy man, to whom it was given not only to see and to hear that God Whom many kings longed to see, and saw not, to hear, and heard not; but also to carry Him in your arms, to embrace Him, to clothe Him, and guard and defend Him. Pray for us.

Άξιον εστίν

It is truly right to bless thee, O Theotokos,
ever blessed, and most pure, and the Mother of our God.
More honorable than the cherubim,
and beyond compare more glorious than the seraphim.
Without corruption thou gavest birth to God the Word.
True Theotokos, we magnify thee.

O brother ....

Fasting is the Soul of Prayer

Om fastan

Bön

Lord, God, Who have graciously chosen St. Dymphna to be the patroness of those afflicted with mental and nervous disorders, and have caused her to be an inspiration and a symbol of charity to the thousands who invoke her intercession, grant, through the prayers of this pure , youthful martyr, relief and consolation to all who suffer from theses disturbances, and especially to those for whom we pray.

(Here mention those for whom you wish to pray.)

We beg You to accept and to grant the prayers of St. Dymphna on our behalf. Grant to those we have particularly recommended patience, in their sufferings and resignation to Your Divine Will. Fill them with hope and, if it be in accord with You Divine Plan, bestow upon them the cure they so earnestly desire. Through Christ, our Lord, Amen.

Memorare

Remember, O most chaste spouse of the Virgin Mary, that never was it known that any who implored your help and sought your intercession were left unassisted. Full of confidence in your power, I fly unto you, and beg your protection. despise not, O foster-father of the Redeemer, my humble supplication but in your bounty hear and answer me. Amen.

Deus Vult!

Ty vi strider inte mot kött och blod utan mot furstar och väldigheter och världshärskare här i mörkret, mot ondskans andemakter i himlarna. Ef. 6:11,12



Accingere gladium tuum circa femur, potentissime

Ps 45:4

Suffering and Joy

"When someone desires to suffer, it is not merely a pious reminder of the suffering of the Lord. Voluntary expiatory suffering is what truly and really unites one to the Lord intimately. When it arises, it comes from an already existing relationship with Christ. For, by nature, a person flees from suffering. And the mania for suffering caused by a perverse lust for pain differs completely from the desire to suffer in expiation. Such lust is not a spiritual striving, but a sensory longing, no better than other sensory desires, in fact worse, because it is contrary to nature. Only someone whose spiritual eyes have been opened to the supernatural correlations of worldly events can desire suffering in expiation, and this is only possible for people in whom the spirit of Christ dwells, who as members are given life by the Head, receive his power, his meaning, and his direction. Conversely, works of expiation bind one closer to Christ, as every community that works together on one task becomes more and more closely knit and as the limbs of a body, working together organically, continually become more strongly one.

But because being one with Christ is our sanctity, and progressively becoming one with him our happiness on earth, the love of the cross in no way contradicts being a joyful child of God. Helping Christ carry his cross fills one with a strong and pure joy, and those who may and can do so, the builders of God’s kingdom, are the most authentic children of God. And so those who have a predilection for the way of the cross by no means deny that Good Friday is past and that the work of salvation has been accomplished. Only those who are saved, only children of grace, can in fact be bearers of Christ’s cross. Only in union with the divine Head does human suffering take on expiatory power.

To suffer and to be happy although suffering, to have one’s feet on the earth, to walk on the dirty and rough paths of this earth and yet to be enthroned with Christ at the Father’s right hand, to laugh and cry with the children of this world and ceaselessly to sing the praises of God with the choirs of angels this is the life of the Christian until the morning of eternity breaks forth."

Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross

Memorare

"Sur mon bras Dieu cherche ton âme, viens mon enfant!"

På min arm söker Gud din själ, kom mitt barn!


Memorare, o piissima Virgo Maria, non esse auditum a saeculo, quemquam ad tua currentem praesidia, tua implorantem auxilia, aut tua petentem suffragia a te esse derelictum. Ego tali animatus fiducia, ad te Virgo virginum Maria Mater Iesu Christi, confugio, ad te venio, ad te curro, coram te gemens peccator et tremens assisto: noli, Domina mundi, noli aeterni Verbi Mater verba mea despicere, sed audi propitia et exaudi me miserum ad te in hac lacrimarum valle clamantem. Adsis mihi, obsecro, in omnibus necessitatibus meis, nunc et semper, et maxime in hora mortis meae. O clemens, o pia, o dulcis Virgo Maria! Amen.

In Exilio

Ty här har vi inte någon stad som består, men vi söker den stad som skall komma.


Hebr. 13:14



Psalm 42

Om Guds helgon

Saliga är de som är fattiga i anden, dem tillhör himmelriket.
Saliga är de som sörjer, de skall bli tröstade.
Saliga är de ödmjuka, de skall ärva jorden.
Saliga är de som hungrar och törstar efter rättfärdighet, de skall bli mättade.
Saliga är de barmhärtiga, de skall få barmhärtighet.
Saliga är de renhjärtade, de skall se Gud.
Saliga är de som skapar frid, de skall kallas Guds barn.
Saliga är de som blir förföljda för rättfärdighetens skull, dem tillhör himmelriket.
Saliga är ni, när människor hånar och förföljer er, ljuger och säger allt ont om er för min skull.
Gläd er och jubla, ty er lön är stor i himlen. På samma sätt förföljde man profeterna före er.

Totus tuus

JP 2 är ett helgon! Han blir saligförklarad den första maj i år. Deo gratias!
Totus tuus!

Guds sorg

Omnipotent Love

"We must rid our minds and hearts of the idea of rivalry, the idea that to give space to God is a limit on ourselves; we must open ourselves to the certainty that God is omnipotent love who takes nothing away, doesn’t threaten, on the contrary, is the One capable of giving us the possibility of living in fullness, to experience true joy."

Benedikt XVI

And a little child shall lead them

Jes 11:6