As I’ve been praying throughout Holy Thursday evening and night and into today, Good Friday morning – I haven’t been able to get this image from the movie Passion of the Christ, out of my mind – it is when Mary senses where Jesus is imprisoned in a dungeon beneath her and prostrates herself over […]
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Day 1 of The 39th Anniversary Novena to Our Lady The Queen of Peace On June 15, 2020, begins the Novena in thanksgiving for 39 years of the apparitions of the Queen of Peace. In Medjugorje, the local people will pray the rosary at Apparition Hill every day at 4pm, and we unite with all
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Letter to U.S. Bishops from Archbishop Vigano: Dear Brother Bishops in the US, I am writing to remind you of the sacred mandate you were given on the day of your episcopal ordination: to lead the flock to Christ. Meditate on Proverbs 9:10: The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom! Do not
I love this quote! My hope is in Christ, who strengthens the weakest by His Divine help.I can do all in Him who strengthens me. His Power is infinite, and if I lean on him, it will be mine.His Wisdom is infinite, and if I look to Him for counsel, I shall not be
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“They begged Jesus to leave their district.” (Mt. 8:34; cf also Mk 5: 17) Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld – Die Bibel in Bildern I’ve always been saddened at the Gospel account when Jesus was asked to leave the territory of the Gadarenes. In the light of our Supreme Court’s redefinition of marriage, reading this passage at Mass again this
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On this Good Friday… 1. Please take a moment to watch this amazing video by Father Robert Barron. 2. Pray the short prayer my grandmother taught me (33x before 3pm — or sometime before the day is over) O my Jesus, my thy sorrowful passion and most bitter death, and that of thy sorrowful Mother,
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Do you want to be a saint? Do you think its something that is beyond your grasp? Something that only the perfect — those who do amazing fasts and penances — or only those who died heroically for Christ can achieve? If this is your idea of sainthood — very few of us
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