Joan Carroll Cruz - Prayers and Heavenly Promises

PRAYERS

AND

HEAVENLY PROMISES

I am Eternal Truth, incapable of any lie. I am faithful to My promises.

Our Lord to St. Margaret Mary

Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us!

Nihil Obstat:	Rev. Terry Tekippe Censor Librorum
Imprimatur:		Most Rev. Francis B. Schulte Archbishop of New Orleans December 29, 1989

The Nihil Obstat and Imprimatur are the Church's declarations that a work is free from error in matters of faith and morals and in no way implies that the Church agrees with the contents of the book.

Nothing in this book should be read as implying that if a certain prayer is performed in a particular manner, a certain result will occur. The promises referred to in this work should be looked upon as manifestations of divine generosity and as encouragement to an even more devout life.

Copyright 1990 by Joan Carroll Cruz. The copyright covers this particular arrangement of pre-existing material plus all new material.

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 90-70225

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A Powerful Prayer To Be Said Before Praying

A LMIGHTY Father, I place the Precious Blood of Jesus before my lips before I pray, that my prayers may be purified before they ascend to Your divine altar.

St. Mary Magdalen de Pazzi

Contents

PRAYERS

AND

HEAVENLY PROMISES

Everything I say to one of My children is for all of them Each soul is My favorite If only you knew My love for each one.

Our Lord to Gabrielle Bossis

(1874-1950)

Morning Prayers

A Morning Prayer based on Three Revelations of Our Lord

D EAR Lord, I adore Your Sacred Heart, which I desire to enter with acts of love, praise, adoration and thanksgiving. I offer You my own heart as I sigh to You from its very depths, asking that You will work through me in all that I do this day; thus may I draw You closer to me than You were before. I offer You all the crosses and sufferings of the world, in union with Your life on earth, in expiation for sins. Please join my every action and heartbeat to the pulsations of Your heart. I unite all my works of this day to those labors You performed while You were on earth, bathing them in Your precious Blood, and I offer them to the Heavenly Father so that many souls may be saved. Amen.

This prayer is based on the following revelations:

When you awake, enter at once into My Heart, and when you are in it, offer My Father all your actions united to the pulsations of My Heart If [a person is] engaged in work of no value in itself, if she bathes it in My Blood or unites it to the work I Myself did during My mortal life, it will greatly profit souls more, perhaps, than if she had preached to the whole world. You will be able to save many souls that way.

Our Lord to Sr. Josefa Menendez (1890-1923)

When you awake in the morning, let your first act be to salute My Heart, and to offer Me your own Whoever shall breathe a sigh toward Me from the bottom of his heart when he awakes in the morning and shall ask Me to work all his works in him throughout the day, will draw Me to him For never does a man breathe a sigh of longing aspiration toward Me without drawing Me nearer to him than I was before.

Our Lord to St. Mechtilde (1241-1298)

It is not merely by praying that souls are saved, but through the actions of even the most ordinary lives lived for God Offer Me everything united to My life on earth Offer Me all the crosses of the world. There are so many, and few think of offering them to Me in expiation for sins.

Our Lord to Gabrielle Bossis (1874-1950)

Fatima Morning Offering

(Based on Our Lady of Fatimas requests)

O JESUS , through the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I offer You my prayers, works, joys and sufferings, all that this day may bring, be they good or bad: for the love of God, for the conversion of sinners, and in reparation for all the sins committed against the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

Morning Offering to the Sacred Heart

O JESUS, through the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I offer You my prayers, works, joys and sufferings of this day for all the intentions of Your Sacred Heart, in union with the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass throughout the world, in reparation for my sins, for the intentions of all our associates, and in particular for the intentions of our Holy Father for this month.

The Apostleship of Prayer

The Sacred Heart of Jesus

Night Prayers

Prayer for Daily Neglects

E TERNAL Father, I offer You 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, etc.

Second: To purify the good I have done poorly this day and during all my life. Glory be to the Father, etc.

Third: To supply for the good I ought to have done, and that I have neglected this day and all my life. Glory be to the Father, etc.

H ISTORY : Soon after the death of a certain Poor Clare nun, she appeared to her abbess, who was praying for her, and said: I went straight to Heaven because I paid all my debts by virtue of this prayer.

Night Prayer in Response to a Request from Our Lord

E TERNAL Father, I desire to rest in Your Heart this night. I make the intention of offering to You every beat of my heart, joining to them as many acts of love and desire. I pray that even while I am asleep, I will bring back to You souls that offend You. I ask forgiveness for the whole world, especially for those who know You and yet sin. I offer to You my every breath and heartbeat as a prayer of reparation. Amen.

During the night you will rest in My Heart! My Heart will listen to the beats of yours, which will be so many acts of love and desire. Thus even while you are sleeping, you will bring back to Me souls that so offend Me Ask forgiveness for the whole world, especially for those that know Me and yet sin; offer yourself in reparation!

Our Lord to Sr. Josefa Menendez

You were wondering how to use those moments when you wake up in the night. Speak to Me of love, ardently desiring your next Communion Call Me by the gentlest names, even when you are half asleep

Our Lord to Gabrielle Bossis

Watch, O Lord

W ATCH, O Lord, with those who wake, or watch, or weep tonight, and give Your angels and saints charge over those who sleep.

Tend Your sick ones, O Lord Christ.