The CatholiCity Message

Volume VII, Number 10 – July 7, 2003

Dear CatholiCity Citizen,

Hope you enjoyed your 4th of July weekend. (Happy Canada Day as well to our Canadian friends who celebrated your country's birth last week.)

PERFECTION
Please pardon our absence. We find ourselves at the climax of many projects that have been in the works for months, even years and decades.

Today we will ask you to pray with us–and to give yourself completely when you do it. But first, please note today's date: July 7th, 2003 (without regard to to the day you are actually reading this).

It is quite a perfect number, is it not?

07/07/03

And the sun shall not rise again upon mortal man on such a perfect date–at least not until July 7th, 3003, and then only if the Lord lingers.

We believe it's an appropriate day for which to ask our Perfect God for miracles. (We have three in mind ourselves: for our families, for you, and for the world).

Is there some struggle or situation in your life which seems impossible to resolve? Certainly do bring it to mind, and as we lift up our hearts and souls to heaven, ask for a miracle, even if the solution is a surprise you cannot fathom. Please ask for miracles for your fellow 70,000 CatholiCity families as we pray for and with each other.

WITH A COMPLEMENTARY TWIST
We shall also lead you in a method of prayer that is different. A twist, if you will. Below are two prayers. The first is for the ladies. The second is for the men. We shall take refuge in the power of the marriage of Joseph and Mary.

So let us begin with the women reading this... in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit...

"O Sweet Lady Saint Mary, you taught us how to be a perfect woman and gave a broken world the miracle of Jesus not by grasping for worldly success, but instead, by offering your unconditional "Yes" to Saint Gabriel and trusting in God's plan, even though you did not foresee the suffering this would bring you at the Crucifixion, or understand how it could be. You did not even know that Joseph was being prepared to be your husband. Your fiat changed the world, right up to this very moment, as I sit at my computer screen, or read this prayer on a printed page. Woman to woman, I ask for your Divine Spouse, the Holy Spirit, to plant the seed of trust in my heart, despite all my fears of being hurt and exposing myself to the cruelties or ignorance of imperfect men. You completely trusted an imperfect man, a husband born to Original Sin, Saint Joseph, and today I ask you to go to Joseph, and ask him to bring my intention, my miracle, before your Son, and to begin granting it on this perfect day. With you, with trembling heart, I echo throughout time and eternity your perfect fiat: Let it be done unto me according to thy word. Amen."

Men, please join us in this prayer:

"Dear Joseph, chaste spouse of Mary and heir to the royal line of David, Patron of the Universal Church, I address you today under your title of Terror of Demons. One look from your calm gaze strikes fear into any evil with designs upon my life and my family. In order to imitate you in your protection and provision for Mary and Jesus, I ask you to adopt me, too, as you adopted Jesus. Yes, bring me under your roof and share with me your kingly confidence. See that my heart is good, despite my sins, as your heart is good. In all things, and in every thing, and in everything beyond every thing, and as a man before another man, I ask for your friendship and guidance for my intention. Ask the Holy Trinity to grant my miracle, using whatever supernatural and human means are required. Make my virtue and holiness so like yours that when women see me, they see you. Let women feel you, hear you, and pray with you when they feel, hear, and pray with me. Teach me, as you taught Jesus, to learn that I must die to every impurity, every selfish desire, and every act of self-indulgence that harms the women in my life. Let me die, and let Joseph live! Let your powerful Heart of David triumph in my life as husband and father beyond my wildest dreams. Not only do I say Yes with you, I so so with the full confidence of a man who has been baptized into your holy family. Do not delay. Now is the time for action. You, Joseph, surely taught your son to pray the Our Father, so with you, I pray to the Almighty Father: THY will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Amen."

Pause. Hmmnn. Thank you for praying with us. We have a sense that many of you might want to print out and bring these complementary prayers to others, even beyond emailing this message to your friends. Be our guest.

Until next time, we remain yours...

With Christ,

Your Friends at CatholiCity