Ave Maria Meditations I say to you, unless you do penance, you shut all likewise perish.” (Lk 13:5) As we are now deep into the first full week of the holy season of…
Ave Maria Meditations Sacrifice and contemplative prayer go hand-in-hand. If you do not practice sacrifice, do not complain that your prayer has grown cold. You have to make many sacrifices when you live in the…
Ave Maria Meditations Mother of Christ, help me to be willing to except the suffering that is a condition of love. Help me accept the grief of seeing those whom I love suffer,…
Ave Maria Meditations In His cruel scourging, Jesus shed His Blood when His flesh was so torn that streams of Blood flowed from every part of His Body, all of which He offered…
Ave Maria Meditations O Eternal Father, I offer You the Blood shed by Your Son with such deep love and charity for the salvation of men. O Jesus, I offer You the innumerable…
Ave Maria Meditations Why is there suffering? Suffering is the price of love. The hardest thing but the inevitable thing in the suffering of every individual is that he must inflict his own suffering…
Ave Maria Meditations O beloved Jesus, who for the love of me did agonize on the Cross, and forgetting Your sufferings, did leave us as a pledge Your love: Your most holy Mother,…
Ave Maria Meditations When God lays a cross upon us, some misfortune, or some unexpected burden, instead of thanking Him for this precious gift too often we rebel against His will. We forget that our…
Ave Maria Meditations My Lord and my Savior, it is time to make my confession before You and Your minister. Give me the courage and the discernment to see and reveal all the…
Ave Maria Meditations Upon His last resting place, Jesus laid Himself down. No soft bed, no easy couch to ease the agony of His aching limbs, but a hard, rough beam must be…
Ave Maria Meditations Nine Day Novena of the Holy Face of Jesus "I firmly wish that my face reflecting the intimate pains of my soul, the suffering and love of my heart, be…
Ave Maria Meditations This Lent there will be meditations on the passion of Our Lord. In particular, we will draw meditations on the Holy Face. As Fr. Jambon notes, "There is nothing more sanctifying to…
Ave Maria Meditations Arise, O Lord, and let Thy enemies be scattered, and let them that hate Thee flee from before Thy Face. (Ps 68:1) Preliminary prayer as we begin these meditations: O…
Ave Maria Meditations Arise, O Lord, and let Thy enemies be scattered, and let them that hate Thee flee from before Thy Face. (Ps 68:1) Second station: Jesus carries His Cross. And He…
Ave Maria Meditations Arise, O Lord, and let Thy enemies be scattered, and let them that hate Thee flee from before Thy Face. (Ps 68:1) Third station: Jesus falls beneath the weight of…