+Third Sunday after Easter+

The following was sent to me by my daughter, Aimee, mother of five and a fervent pro-life activist. Like me she loved being pregnant and always felt there was a special, mysterious symbiosis between mother and child that she could never quite explain. Finally, she found research that provided the perfect explanation for it, as expressed below.

“When pregnant, the cells of the baby migrate into the mothers bloodstream and then circle back into the baby, it’s called ‘fetal-maternal microchimerism.’⁠

“For 41 weeks, the cells circulate and merge backwards and forwards, and after the baby is born, many of these cells stay in the mother’s body, leaving a permanent imprint in the mothers tissues, bones, brain, and skin, and often stay there for decades.

“Every single child a mother has afterwards will leave a similar imprint on her body, too. Even if a pregnancy doesn’t go to full term or if you have an abortion, these cells still migrate into your bloodstream.

“Research has shown that if a mother’s heart is injured, fetal cells will rush to the site of the injury and change into different types of cells that specialize in mending the heart. The baby helps repair the mother, while the mother builds the baby.

“How cool is that? This is often why certain illnesses vanish while pregnant.

“It’s incredible how mothers bodies protect the baby at all costs, and the baby protects and rebuilds the mother back – so that the baby can develop safely and survive.

“Think about crazy cravings for a moment. What was the mother deficient in that the baby made them crave?

“Studies have also shown cells from a fetus in a mother’s brain 18 years after she gave birth. How amazing is that?”

If you’re a mom you know how you can intuitively feel your child even when they are not there… Well, now there is scientific proof that moms carry them for years and years even after they have given birth to them.”

I find this to be so very beautiful.

Prayer Intention and checklist

My apologies for not posting this sooner! Website revision has kept me very busy. Here is the intention for this month, in Honor of Our Lady’s Queenship May 31:

“Queen and Mother of Christendom hear our prayers, and by thy peace make happy a world shaken by hate.” (Pope Pius XII, Ad caeli reginam, 1954)

Month of May

8 Sunday 3rd Sunday after Easter

Apparition of St. Michael the Archangel

? Morning Offering in reparation for sins

? Consecration by Pope Pius XII

? Devotion to the SIH

? Holy Rosary

9 Monday

St. Gregory Nazianzen

? Morning Offering in reparation for sins

? Consecration by Pope Pius XII

? Devotion to the SIH

? Holy Rosary

10 Tuesday

St. Antoninus; Sts. Gordian & Epimachus

? Morning Offering in reparation for sins

? Consecration by Pope Pius XII

? Devotion to the SIH

? Holy Rosary

11 Wednesday

Octave Day of St. Joseph

? Morning Offering in reparation for sins

? Consecration by Pope Pius XII

? Devotion to the SIH

? Holy Rosary

12 Thursday

St. Nereus & Comp.

? Morning Offering in reparation for sins

? Consecration by Pope Pius XII

? Devotion to the SIH

? Holy Rosary

 

13 Friday

St. Robert Bellarmine

? Abstinence

? Morning Offering in reparation for sins

? Consecration by Pope Pius XII

? Devotion to the SIH

? Holy Rosary

? Spiritual Mass and Mortification for the intentions of the Society

? Renew consecrations to SH and SIH to promote their interests and intentions

14 Saturday dedicated to Our Lady

St. Boniface

? Morning Offering in reparation for sins

? Consecration by Pope Pius XII

? Berthe Petit’s Consecration

? Devotion to the SIH with the intention to renew oneself in the spirit of the Society

? Holy Rosary

15 Sunday 4th Sunday after Easter

St. John Baptist de la Salle

? Morning Offering in reparation for sins

? Consecration by Pope Pius XII

? Devotion to the SIH

? Holy Rosary

16 Monday

St. Ubaldus

? Morning Offering in reparation for sins

? Consecration by Pope Pius XII

? Devotion to the SIH

? Holy Rosary

17 Tuesday

St. Paschal Baylon

? Morning Offering in reparation for sins

? Consecration by Pope Pius XII

? Devotion to the SIH

? Holy Rosary

18 Wednesday

St. Venantius

? Morning Offering in reparation for sins

? Consecration by Pope Pius XII

? Devotion to the SIH

? Holy Rosary

19 Thursday

St. Peter Celestine, St. Pudentiana

? Morning Offering in reparation for sins

? Consecration by Pope Pius XII

? Devotion to the SIH

? Holy Rosary

20 Friday

St. Bernardine of Siena

? Abstinence

? Morning Offering in reparation for sins

? Consecration by Pope Pius XII

? Devotion to the SIH

? Holy Rosary

? Spiritual Mass and Mortification for the intentions of the Society

? Renew consecrations to SH and SIH to promote their interests and intentions

 

21 Saturday dedicated to Our Lady

? Morning Offering in reparation for sins

? Consecration by Pope Pius XII

? Berthe Petit’s Consecration

? Devotion to the SIH with the intention to renew oneself in the spirit of the Society

? Holy Rosary

22 Sunday 5th Sunday after Easter

? Morning Offering in reparation for sins

? Consecration by Pope Pius XII

? Devotion to the SIH

? Holy Rosary

23 Monday Ferial Day

Rogation Day

Lesser Litanies

? Morning Offering in reparation for sins

? Consecration by Pope Pius XII

? Devotion to the SIH

? Holy Rosary

24 Tuesday Ferial Day

Rogation Day

Lesser Litanies

? Morning Offering in reparation for sins

? Consecration by Pope Pius XII

? Devotion to the SIH

? Holy Rosary

25 Wednesday

St. Gregory VII, St. Urban I

? Morning Offering in reparation for sins

? Consecration by Pope Pius XII

? Devotion to the SIH

? Holy Rosary

26 Thursday ASCENSION THURSDAY

HOLY DAY

? Morning Offering in reparation for sins

? Consecration by Pope Pius XII

? Devotion to the SIH

? Holy Rosary

27 Friday

St. Bede, the Venerable, St. John I

? Abstinence

? Morning Offering in reparation for sins

? Consecration by Pope Pius XII

? Devotion to the SIH

? Holy Rosary

? Spiritual Mass and Mortification for the intentions of the Society

? Renew consecrations to SH and SIH to promote their interests and intentions

28 Saturday dedicated to Our Lady

St. Augustine of Canterbury

? Morning Offering in reparation for sins

? Consecration by Pope Pius XII

? Berthe Petit’s Consecration

? Devotion to the SIH with the intention to renew oneself in the spirit of the Society

? Holy Rosary

29 Sunday within Octave of Ascension

St. Mary Magdalen de Pazzi

? Morning Offering in reparation for sins

? Consecration by Pope Pius XII

? Devotion to the SIH

? Holy Rosary

30 Monday

Within the Octave

St. Felix I

? Morning Offering in reparation for sins

? Consecration by Pope Pius XII

? Devotion to the SIH

? Holy Rosary

31 Tuesday

QUEENSHIP OF THE BVM

Within the Octave

St. Petronilla

? Morning Offering in reparation for sins

? Consecration by Pope Pius XII

? Devotion to the SIH

? Holy Rosary

Prayers to be Practiced in Common

▪︎Spiritual Mass in union with all of the Sacrifices of the Mass ever offered throughout the world, preceded by the Perfect Act of Contrition and followed by Spiritual Communion.

▪︎Devotion to the Agonizing Heart of Jesus, in favor of the many thousands of persons who die every day.

▪︎Devotion to the souls in Purgatory.