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September 19, 2023

A Prayer to be More Like Jesus

Ave Maria Meditations Oh my Lord, how little I have thirsted for perfection! Strongly at first, but now so seldom and so spasmodically! I seem content not to be doing spiritual reading or thorough examinations.…

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September 22, 2023

A Healing Prayer from Saint Padre Pio

Ave Maria Meditations Heavenly Father, I thank you for loving me. I thank You for sending Your Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ, to the world to save and to set me free. I…

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September 26, 2023

Thoughts on the Holy Mass

Ave Maria Meditations In the holy Mass, Christ fulfills what is the most true and consoling promise which is recorded by the evangelist Saint Matthew: “Behold, I am with you all days, even to the…

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October 6, 2023

The Ways of God for Our Sanctification

Ave Maria Meditations The fact is that we would like, in greater or lesser degree, to please ourselves; or rather, to please ourselves in a merely natural order rather than in a supernatural order. So…

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October 10, 2023

How Will I Know God’s Will?

Ave Maria Meditations Now with sudden and almost blinding clarity and simplicity, I realized that I had been trying to do something with my own will and intellect that was at once too much…

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October 13, 2023

Some Fatima Prayers

Ave Maria Meditations O Most Holy Virgin Mary, Queen of the most holy Rosary, you were pleased to appear to the children of Fatima and reveal a glorious message. We implore you, inspire…

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October 17, 2023

From Lukewarm to Fervent: St. Teresa

Ave Maria Meditations The life of Saint Teresa (of Avila) teaches us that we should never despair of becoming saints. As a child she was filled with a strange mysterious longing for martyrdom.…

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October 19, 2023

Prayer to the North American Martyrs

Ave Maria Meditations Prayer to the North American Martyrs: Lord, have mercy on us. Christ, have mercy on us. Lord, have mercy on us! Christ, hear us. Christ, graciously hear us. Our Lady,…

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October 24, 2023

No Matter What Happens

Ave Maria Meditations Let us always keep before our eyes the fact that here on earth we are on a battlefield and that in paradise we shall receive the crown of victory; that…

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October 27, 2023

Prayer to St. Joseph to Guard the Church

Ave Maria Meditations Most watchful Guardian of the Holy Family, protect the chosen people of Jesus Christ; keep far from us, most loving father, all blight of error and corruption. Mercifully assist us from heaven,…

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October 31, 2023

A Hymn for All Saints Day: November 1st

Ave Maria Meditations For all the saints, who from their labors rest, Who Thee by faith before the world confessed, Thy name, O Jesus, be forever blest— R: Alleluia, Alleluia Thou wast their…

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November 2, 2023

Praying for the Holy Souls in Purgatory

Ave Maria Meditations “Turning to supplication, they prayed that the sinful deed might be fully blotted out. . . Thus he made atonement for the dead that they might be absolved from their…

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November 6, 2023

Reverence for Holy Things

Ave Maria Meditations My King, reverence for holy things is a beautiful virtue. It is part of the virtue of humility and justice because it is seeing things as they are and giving all…

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November 8, 2023

Prayer for the Canonization of Bl. John Duns Scotus

An Ave Maria Meditations Encore A Prayer for the Canonization of Bl. John Duns Scotus (feast day is November 8th): O most High, Almighty and gracious Lord, who exalt the humble and confounded the…

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November 11, 2023

Feast Day of St. Martin of Tours

Ave Maria Meditations Dear Lord, we thank You for giving us St. Martin of Tours as an example of holiness. Help us to imitate the devotion to You he showed in preaching the…

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