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  June 9th St. Ephrem SMOKE IN THIS LIFE, NOT THE NEXT June 16 — Relief of the Souls in Purgatory Choose a cheap, honest night‑smoke — the kind that burns quick and sharp, like the valley Drithelm saw where the late‑repentant are purified. They died confessing, not defiant — saved, but unfinished. Better to burn now in mercy than later in justice. Prayer O my God, we beg of Thee in union with the Immaculate Heart of Mary, through the merits of the Precious Blood offered in every Mass throughout the world, to grant conversion to sinners and to all who will die this day the grace of repentance and a happy death. If it be Your Will, accept this offering to console the Heart of Jesus in agony for souls who delayed repentance until the end. Have mercy on the holy souls in Purgatory, especially the forgotten. Do not delay their deliverance, but let the purifying flame consume their defects so they may stand in Your divine presence. Amen. The late‑repentant suffer now so the...

  🔸 Monday Night at the Movies- June 2026 – Prophets & Pilgrims Prophecy in June is a pilgrimage through the Church’s feasts. These films follow the soul from guilt to purification, from conscience to renunciation, and finally to a vocation lived in motion. Each week’s feast sharpens the film’s meaning and reveals a different face of the prophet’s call. Jun 1 – The Informer (1935) St. Justin Martyr A prophet begins in the ruins of his own failure. Gypo’s betrayal and collapse mirror Justin’s insistence on truth: falsehood destroys, repentance clarifies. Jun 8 – Stromboli (1950) Sacred Heart / Immaculate Heart Karin’s volcanic exile becomes purification. As the Hearts of Jesus and Mary burn with love, Stromboli burns away pride and forces a reckoning with God. Jun 15 – A Man for All Seasons (1966) St. Barnabas Barnabas stands firm in the Spirit; Thomas More does the same. Here the pilgrimage becomes confrontation — conscience refusing to bow before power. Jun 22 – The Abdi...

  Sun, June 14 — Healing & Trust Virtue: Healing & Trust Cigar: Balanced, resilient (Corojo) Bourbon: Elijah Craig Small Batch — warm, steady Reflection: Where does mercy restore me. “This mysterious valley was filled with innumerable souls, which, tossed as by a furious tempest, threw themselves from one side to the other. When they could no longer endure the violence of the fire, they sought relief amidst the ice and snow; but finding only a new torture, they cast themselves again into the midst of the flames.” Meditation: Healing begins where panic ends. Trust is the soul’s refusal to flee from the very fire that purifies it. The souls in the valley rush from flame to frost because they cannot yet believe that mercy is found in the wound, not away from it. Ask tonight: Where do I still run from the heat that would heal me. Where do I seek cold comforts instead of Christ’s steadying hand. Where does mercy want to restore me — if I would only stay st...

Smoke in This Life, Not the Next — June 13 The Valley Some nights a man settles for the bottom‑shelf bourbon and the cheap cigar — not for pleasure, but to steady his hands long enough to face what he’s been shown. And tonight he’s shown a valley. Fire on one side — the heat of every appetite that ever owned him. Ice on the other — the cold of every duty he ever ignored. A shining guide leads him toward the north‑east, not to frighten him, but to wake him. “Fear not… it is God who restores to me my life.” A man raised from the dead doesn’t get to live like he used to. So he sits with the ember and the burn, knowing the cheap smoke is the reminder: You’ve seen the fire and the ice. Now live like a man who won’t die in either. Day 13 Sacred Heart Retreat JUNE 13 Saturday-Immaculate Heart of Mary (again) Fatima June 13 Vision - Saint Anthony of Padua- Yukon Territory created, 1898   1 Chronicles, Chapter 22, Verse 11-13 “Now, my son, the LORD be with you, and may you...

  The chant “Deus Vult” draws its power from the collision of two worlds: the serene discipline of Gregorian prayer and the raw urgency of medieval battle. The phrase — “God wills it” — was not originally a cry of conquest but a declaration that evil would not have the final word. In the hymn’s modern presentations, the low drones, monastic intervals, and martial cadence evoke a people who believed that spiritual warfare was as real as steel and blood. It is the sound of men who prayed before they fought, and who understood that victory was never theirs, only God’s. The Church today teaches the same truth without the swords. The Catechism is blunt: evil is real, personal, and active (CCC 409, 1707). Every Christian lives “in a dramatic struggle between good and evil,” and the battlefield is now the human heart, the culture, and the defense of the vulnerable. The medieval cry becomes interior: not a call to take territory, but a call to take responsibility. “Deus vult” becomes ...