Monthly Message from the Queen of Peace of Medjugorje: November 2024

  "Dear children!  In this time of the grace of expectation, I desire to call you to prayer for Advent to be prayer of the family.  In a special way, little children whom I tenderly embrace, I encourage you to prayer for peace in the world; for peace to prevail over peacelessness and hatred.  Thank you for having responded to my call."

In the Holy Face Devotion is Power!

Restore us, Lord God Almighty;

make your face shine on us, that

we may be saved.

‐ Psalm 80:19

Lately, I've been extra-focused on the Holy Face Devotion.  After the November 2024 election ended, I committed myself to praying more diligently for my country: for blessings on the incoming presidential administration and for the defeat of radical politicians, especially those with Communistic/Socialistic-leanings, who push their erroneous and atheistic ideologies in the US.  I've come to understand more clearly that their growing influence is a root problem in our present society and is actually the fulfillment of one of the Virgin Mary's predictions given at Fatima in which she stated that Russia will spread her errors [Communism] throughout the world if her requests weren't heeded; apparently, not enough people responded to Our Lady of Fatima and, as a result, history has abundant examples of how Communism has left a wake of misery in its path; America, too, despite professing to be a staunch democratic government, has not been immune from the infection of Marxist teachings.

But even way before Fatima, in the mid-1800s, our Lord had already warned us of the advent of Communism and its evils through the French Carmelite mystic, Sr. Marie of St. Peter (d. 1848).  In October 1846 she recorded this:

  "What filled my soul with sadness was an interior light which Our Lord granted me, by which I saw that God’s justice was preparing to send us still other chastisements.  Our Lord communicated to me that this time he would use as the instruments of punishment, not the elements, but the malice of revolutionary men."

On March 27, 1847, the nun documented yet another encounter with Jesus:

  "Our Lord commanded me to make war on Communists because he said they were the enemies of the Church and of her Christ.  He told me also that most of these wolfish men who are now Communists had been born in the Church whose bitter enemies they now openly declare themselves to be."

As a way of combating this godless philosophy and its adherents, Jesus revealed the Holy Face Devotion to Sr. Marie, along with the "Golden Arrow" prayer, as a means of spiritual combat.  So following Sr. Marie's lead, I am now saying the prayer daily - specifically during the Elevation at Mass - for the express intention of having the USA experience a renewed spirit of morality and for all our government leaders, especially the Marxist, to be given the grace of conversion and to peacefully work for the common good of all Americans.

Heavenly affirmations have since followed, which correspond with Scriptural prophecy:

"And I will show wonders in heaven

above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood,

and fire, and vapour of smoke ..."

- Acts 2:19

For example, just yesterday - Saturday, 11/23/2024 - I received a remarkable sign directly related to the Holy Face Devotion.  It was in the form of a photo I snapped after again spending time in prayer at the outdoor Marian Shrine on the grounds of St. John Vianney Church in Kailua.

God looks down from heaven on the

children of man to see if there are any

who understand, who seek after God.

- Psalm 53:2

For me, the Holy Face is clearly discerned in the clouds.  I didn't initially see the image at the time I aimed my cellphone towards the sky, but only noticed the face after.  How personally relevant and also encouraging for all of us to know that Jesus pays attention to our prayers!

This ministry invites all readers to also invoke the power of the Holy Face Devotion against the forces of darkness operating in our/your country; to frequently utilize the Golden Arrow Prayer to combat their destructive works.  As the US transitions from one administration to another in January 2025, there will undoubtedly be challenges but I firmly believe that if more people practice this devotion, our country will ultimately be better off.

For more information about the Holy Face Devotion, click/tap here.

Look to the Lord and his strength;

seek his face always.

- Psalm 105:4

Saint of the Month - November 2024: Saint Giuseppe Moscati

St. Giuseppe Moscati

The "Holy Doctor" - Feast: November 16th

St. Giuseppe Moscati was born on July 25, 1880, in Benevento, Italy.  His parents were descended from noble lineages, and his father was a successful and well-respected judge in the region; Giuseppe was the seventh child (of 9) born to the large Moscati family.

Inheriting his father's intelligence, the young Giuseppe developed an interest in medicine after an older brother named Alberto fell from a horse in 1892, during a military exercise, and developed epilepsy.  He helped to care for this sibling and it apparently inspired him to further assist those who suffered from illness.

"The sick are the faces of Jesus Christ."

- St. Giuseppe Moscati

After graduating from secondary education in 1897, the Saint pursued his goal of becoming a doctor, which was further fueled by the sudden death of his father from a cerebral hemorrhage that same year.  Giuseppe successfully completed med-school with honors in August 1903.

Deeply pious - a trait he also got from his father - the young doctor viewed his job not as a lucrative profession, but moreover as a vocation to sanctify himself and as a way of leading souls to the Lord.  Through the grace of God, he managed to seamlessly blend his training in science and medicine with his profound faith; exercised an active spiritual life of daily Mass attendance and Rosary Prayer despite having a demanding schedule ... and he consciously perceived the person of Christ Crucified in the sick he treated.  In fact, he often waived his fees for the poor and freely dispensed medication to them; sometimes asking his patients to go to confession as an alternative form of payment ... not to mention that he frequently and discretely slipped envelopes of money into the hands of the less fortunate or at their hospital bed-sides.

Dr. Giuseppe Moscati in his earlier years.

By the time he hit his mid-30s, Giuseppe was an in-demand and much-loved doctor and professor who enjoyed tremendous success in the city of Naples (and beyond) for his medical research and private practice.  He impressed many with his uncanny ability to quickly and precisely diagnose illnesses, no matter how difficult.  Witnesses at his Canonization tribunal testified as to how he sometimes closed his eyes as if in an otherworldly state before suddenly "knowing" exactly what was wrong with a patient and what the best course of treatment would be.  Impossible cures sometimes resulted, which it's speculated was due to Giuseppe being mystically gifted because of his virtuous living.

Other examples of the doctor's heroic virtue include his exceptional charity and courage during an eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in April 1906.  He volunteered to oversee the evacuation of incapacitated patients from a hospital and, despite the danger to himself, he personally helped to carry many of the sick out of the facility; the building collapsed not long after the last patient was transported out!

"Let us never forget to offer every day,

nay, every moment, our actions to God,

doing all things for love."

- St. Giuseppe Moscati

When a cholera epidemic hit Naples in 1911, Dr. Giuseppe was front and center in treating the afflicted; working fearlessly and with an aura of peace that calmed those around him.  His research into the spread of cholera and its treatment are credited with directly stemming the spread of the contagion.

... and lastly, being highly devoted to the Blessed Virgin, he was prompted to imitate her purity by making a private vow of celibacy and chastity.  This also allowed him a total and unhindered dedication to his personal ministry.  He particularly loved the miraculous image of Our Lady of Pompeii of the Holy Rosary and was a friend of Bl. Bartolo Longo (d. 1926), the founder of the Pompeiian Sanctuary and a modern Apostle of the Rosary.  Another friend and advisor was St. Caterina Volpicelli (d. 1894), a stigmatized mystic and foundress of the Servants of the Sacred Heart.  Without a doubt, birds of a feather flock together!

ABOVE:  The Saint's tomb in the church of

Nuovo Gesu, Naples.

BELOW:  A relic of fabric and thread from

the Saint's clothing in this author's custody.

Dr. Giuseppe Moscati - the "Holy Doctor", as he came to be nicknamed - died unexpectedly on April 12, 1927.  After assisting at Mass that morning then tending to patients, he was suddenly overcome with fatigue at around 3pm so sat in an armchair to rest.  He passed away not long after from a heart attack (other accounts say it was a stroke) at just 46-years-old.

Not surprisingly, the good doctor's funeral was well-attended and there was a spontaneous devotion to him that arose amongst his former peers and patients.  Pope St. John Paul II was the Pontiff who declared Dr. Giuseppe Moscati a Saint during a Canonization Ceremony in October 1987.  His relics are today conserved and venerated in a side-chapel in the Neopolitan church of Gesu Nuovo.

St. Giuseppe Moscati, pray for us!