Showing posts with label Mary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mary. Show all posts
Saturday, December 12, 2015

Guadalupe: Mary Loves Us, and She Can Change History

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Happy Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe! This is the great secret of the universe: we have a beautiful Mother who bears us in God's g...
Wednesday, December 2, 2015

Advent: Waiting For God With Mary (a Prayer)

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Ever-Virgin, All-Holy Immaculate One, Mother of God and our Mother: You are a special sign and reminder to us of the personal love th...
Saturday, August 22, 2015

Mary Queen and Mother

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Mary, the Mother of God, shapes the Christian identity of the believer and the vocation of every human person. For every human person wi...
Saturday, August 15, 2015

The "Dormition": Mary is Born into Eternal Life

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Today's beautiful Feast Day is known in the Eastern churches as the "Dormition" of the Theotokos (the "falling asleep...
Thursday, July 16, 2015

Our Lady of Mount Carmel

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"Mother of Christ, let there be revealed, once more, in the history of the world the infinite saving power of the Redemption: the...
Wednesday, July 8, 2015

The Holy Family: What About the Relatives?

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Bartolome Esteban Murillo, Holy Family (1670) Last Sunday, the Gospel reading spoke of Jesus's first visit to Nazareth after he ha...
Sunday, April 26, 2015

Mother Mary, Why Am I Afraid?

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Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Dear Mary, Mother Mary

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O Mother Mary, perfect vessel of Jesus, help us. When everything still seems too impossible, you are there, Mary. I entrust everyt...
Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Mary, Friend of My Soul

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Our Lady of Lourdes, Immaculate Conception, all holy, all merciful Mother, bring us healing of mind, heart, and body. _________...
Friday, January 2, 2015

A Heart For Everyone

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"And Mary kept all these things, reflecting on them in her heart" (Luke 2:19). This is what the Gospel tells us about Mary...
Friday, December 12, 2014

The Virgin of Guadalupe in Her Own Words

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It has become the custom of this blog to post, on this great Feast Day, two excerpts from the original account of the events of Decembe...
Tuesday, December 9, 2014

Forever Humble: Saint Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin

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Today was the feast day of Saint Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin. You may have missed it, because it ranks as "only" an optional mem...
Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Sowing the Seeds of Mary's Victory

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The Pilgrim Virgin of Fatima, as guest in our house in January of 2012. Today is the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary, and it is a wonde...
Tuesday, September 2, 2014

Mary Wants to Take You By the Hand

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My daughters don't often read this blog, unless it's a funny family story or something about the cat. But I hope they will read t...
Monday, August 25, 2014

Something REALLY Happens

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We are called by God to a new birth. The struggle of this life is the mysterious and dramatic transformation by which mortal, broken huma...
Tuesday, May 13, 2014

An Extraordinary Motherly Protection and Care

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St John Paul II, moments after being shot on May 13, 1981 May 13 commemorates two great interventions of the Mother of God in the twenti...
Monday, December 9, 2013

Born of a Woman

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"Mary, I surrender myself to you. I am all yours and all that I have is yours!" This entrustment is a work that is always grow...
Friday, February 8, 2013

The Delicate Breath of Grace

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It is so easy to forget that God's initiative, God's gift, is the foundation of every beginning. The Lord encounters us anew every...
Thursday, December 20, 2012

Is It Real Trust?

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"Jesus, I trust in You." But the voices of Worry get stirred up, and they say:  Really? Are you sure you trust in Him? Would y...
Thursday, December 13, 2012

She is Here

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Yesterday was a beautiful day. I gave presentations on Our Lady of Guadalupe to the primary and elementary classes, and I handed out ca...