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July 9, 2013

July 9th: Our Lady of the Atonement

Ave Maria Meditations Prayer to Our Lady of the Atonement: We salute you, Holy Mary, Daughter of God the Father, and entreat you to obtain for us a devotion like your own to…

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July 11, 2013

The St. Benedict Medal

Ave Maria Meditation The front of the medal shows St. Benedict holding a cross in one hand and the book of his Rule in the other. Flanking him on each side are the…

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July 13th: Blesseds Louis and Zelie Martin

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July 13, 2013

July 13th: Blesseds Louis and Zelie Martin

Ave Maria Meditations The married couple, the parents of St. Therese of Lisieux, whose Feast Day is their wedding anniversary of July…

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July 14, 2013

Prayers from St. Bonaventure

Ave Maria Meditations Prayers from St. Bonaventure (Franciscan Doctor of the Church, Feast Day is July 15th): Pierce, O most sweet Lord Jesus, my inmost soul with the most joyous and healthful wound…

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July 16, 2013

Our Lady of Mt. Carmel

One Minute Meditation Prayer to Our Lady of Mount Carmel O most beautiful Flower of Mount Carmel, fruitful vine, splendor of Heaven, Blessed Mother of the Son of God, Immaculate Virgin, assist me…

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July 17th: Feast of the Carmelite Martyrs of Compiegne

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July 17, 2013

July 17th: Feast of the Carmelite Martyrs of Compiegne

Ave Maria Meditations Blessed Teresa of Sf. Augustine and Companions (1794) Blessed Teresa and fifteen other Carmelite nuns were guillotined during the "Reign of Terror" of the French Revolution. Two years earlier they…

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Pope Francis speaks about Our Lady, Joy, and Praise

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July 20, 2013

Pope Francis speaks about Our Lady, Joy, and Praise

Ave Maria Meditations Pope Francis speaks about being a joyful (joy filled) Catholic. He speaks here about the need to praise God in the holy sacrifice of the Mass. We can also extrapolate…

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July 22, 2013

Contrition, Mercy and Forgiveness

Ave Maria Meditations "I never reject a contrite heart." (Diary of St. Faustina #1485) (Isaiah 1:18): "Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red…

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July 25, 2013

A Prayer before the Blessed Sacrament

One Minute Meditation Prayer of Adoration I have come My Lord to be with You, to recall the great mystery of faith: Your true presence in the consecrated bread of life. I come…

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July 30, 2013

A Franciscan Saint of the Confessional

An Ave Maria Meditations Encore July 30th: St. Leopoldo Mandic A Saint of the Confessional and a Saint for the Cause of Unity He wrote: "The august Mother of God is in truth…

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Praying for Priests at the Blessed Sacrament

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August 2, 2013

Praying for Priests at the Blessed Sacrament

Ave Maria Meditations In honor of St. Peter Julian Eymard, the founder of the Blessed Sacrament Fathers whose Feast Day is August 2nd, we present this prayer composed by a priest but one…

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August 6, 2013

Heaven is the Goal

Ave Maria Meditations The only thing that really matters in life is getting to Heaven! Among all the achievements of our life only one is really critical. It is attaining the goal--Heaven--set for…

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St. Clare: a Light through the Centuries

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August 10, 2013

St. Clare: a Light through the Centuries

Ave Maria Meditations Clare was born in Assisi, Italy in about 1194 into a family of knights and nobles. At the age of eighteen, Clare became the first female follower of Saint Francis…

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August 14th: St. Maximilian Kolbe, Franciscan Saint and Martyr

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August 13, 2013

August 14th: St. Maximilian Kolbe, Franciscan Saint and Martyr

Ave Maria Meditations More than once, no doubt, we have come across the expression, "God's will," or perhaps this other one, "the Immaculate's will"; or again, "the accomplishment of the Immaculate's will is…

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August 15, 2013

Come My Lovely One, Come!

One Minute Meditation THE ASSUMPTION OF MARY, BODY AND SOUL INTO HEAVEN "My Love lifts up His voice, He says to me, 'Come then, my beloved, my lovely one, come'." (Songs 2:10)

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