Posted: December 16, 2024
“Whoever flees prayer flees all that is good. Conquering the tongue is better than fasting on bread and water. Suffering for God is better than working miracles.” –Saint John of the Cross (“The Mystical Doctor”) (+ 1591) Intention: Lord, please bless all the Jews and Christians in the world, and keep them safe.
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Posted: December 15, 2024
“The purpose of our existence is to make our insignificant but nevertheless indispensable contribution toward the beauty of the whole mosaic, designed by divine Wisdom to reflect his beauty. As we do not see the whole design, nor even his plan for us as individuals, our part is bound to appear meaningless sometimes, or at
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Posted: December 14, 2024
“All things are to be restored in Christ, and the glory of the Trinity manifested. The whole world from its first to its last day serves this purpose, and each generation contributes only a fraction. Yet each individual has his part to play, as if each were a little stone in a mosaic.” –Father Bonaventure
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Posted: December 13, 2024
“Let us not think that Our Lady’s love has withered over the centuries. Let us not believe that it has waned little by little because of our ingratitude and our miseries and sins. No. I am pleased to repeat that Mary’s love is like the love of God, like a divine gift. It is never
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Posted: December 12, 2024
“May you be conceived by our faith, that a mind untouched by corruption may bring you forth, that the soul, ever confirmed by the power of the Most High, may offer you a dwelling place…. Be truly for us the Emmanuel, God with us. Deign to remain with us, to fight for us. Only so
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Posted: December 11, 2024
“Awaken in our hearts desires deserving of fulfillment; suggest to us words that are worthy to be heard; grant that our actions may be worthy of blessing.” –A hymn from the Mozarabic Liturgy (ancient) Intention: Lord, thank You that I am able to do what You have called me to do. Wednesday: Sea
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Posted: December 10, 2024
“Since the day when God comforted his disobedient children in the garden of Eden with the promise of a woman who would crush the head (Gn 3:15) of the evil serpent, there has not been an hour’s truce between them…. [Mary] has fearlessly fought him and won from his grasp soul after soul. She knows that we
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Posted: December 9, 2024
“In defining the dogma of the Immaculate Conception, it was made clear that Mary, being a child of Adam, was in need of the merits of Christ, and that it was because of these merits that she was preserved from the first moment of her existence from the slightest stain of sin.” –Sister Mary Jean
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Posted: December 8, 2024
“All these elements come together in our joy that God became a Child who encourages us to trust as children trust, to give ourselves, and to let ourselves receive. It is perhaps quite difficult for us to accept this joy when we are troubled by questions and when physical illness and spiritual problems attack us
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Posted: December 7, 2024
“Even our Christmas fare has its roots in the Church’s Advent liturgy, which echoes the wonderful words of the Old Testament: On that day the mountains will drip sweetness and the rivers will bring down milk and honey. It was in words such as these that men in the past expressed their hopes in a redeemed
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