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Ave Maria Meditations Benedict XVI Devotional Marian Things Spiritual Life

December 18, 2017

Preparing the Way…Preparing the Heart…Preparing the Soul

An Ave Maria Encore Meditation “Mary wrapped the child in swaddling cloths. Without yielding to sentimentality, we may imagine with what great love Mary approached her hour and prepared for the birth of…

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Ave Maria Meditations Benedict XVI Prayer Pro-Life

January 22, 2018

Prayer for Nascent Human Life

Ave Maria Meditations Lord Jesus, You who faithfully visit and fulfill with your Presence the Church and the history of men; You who in the miraculous Sacrament of your Body and Blood render…

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Ave Maria Meditations Benedict XVI Catholic Culture Devotional Faith Spiritual Life

April 8, 2018

Living the Mystery of Divine Mercy

Ave Maria Meditations Every year in celebrating Easter we relive the experience of the first disciples of Jesus, the experience of the encounter of Him risen: the Gospel of John tells that they…

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Ave Maria Meditations Benedict XVI Devotional Faith Spiritual Life

October 30, 2018

Be Not Afraid…

Ave Maria Meditations “Are we not perhaps all afraid in some way? If we let Christ enter fully into our lives, if we open ourselves totally to Him, are we not afraid that…

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Advent Ave Maria Meditations Benedict XVI Catholic Culture Devotional Faith JosephMary Spiritual Life

December 2, 2018

Advent: the Coming of a Presence

Ave Maria MeditationsDear Brothers and Sisters, Today on the First Sunday of Advent, we enter that four-week Season with which a new liturgical year begins and that immediately prepares us for the Feast…

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December 5, 2018

Preparing to Meditate on the Immaculata

Ave Maria Meditations Preservation from original sin...signifies no exceptional proficiency, no exceptional achievement; on the contrary, it signifies that Mary reserves no area of being, life, or will for herself as a private…

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Advent Ave Maria Meditations Benedict XVI Catholic Culture Devotional JosephMary Spiritual Life

December 10, 2018

Recalling the Continuing Presence of Christ, Having Come in Time

Ave Maria Meditations “Advent” does not mean “expectation,” as some may think. It is a translation of the Greek word parousia which means “presence” or, more accurately, “arrival,”, i.e., the beginning of a…

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Ave Maria Meditations Benedict XVI Prayer Pro-Life

January 22, 2019

Prayer for Nascent Human Life

Ave Maria Meditations On this sad anniversary of the legalization of abortion in the United States: Lord Jesus, You who faithfully visit and fulfill with your Presence the Church and the history of…

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Ave Maria Meditations Benedict XVI Devotional Lent Spiritual Life

March 12, 2019

Christ Made Himself Poor for You

Ave Maria Meditations"Christ made Himself poor for you" (2 Cor 8,9) Dear Brothers and Sisters! 1. Each year, Lent offers us a providential opportunity to deepen the meaning and value of our Christian…

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Ave Maria Meditations Benedict XVI Catholic Culture Devotional Easster Spiritual Life

April 21, 2019

He is Not Here: He is Risen!

Ave Maria Meditations “You seek Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He has risen, he is not here” (Mk 16:6). With these words, God’s messenger, robed in light, spoke to the women who…

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Ave Maria Meditations Benedict XVI Catholic Culture Devotional Easster Spiritual Life

April 24, 2019

Supper, Cross, and Resurrection

Ave Maria Meditations And behold I Am with you all days until the consummation of the world. (Mt. 28:20) If we have at length interpreted the connection between Supper and Cross, we have…

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Advent Ave Maria Meditations Benedict XVI Catholic Culture Devotional JosephMary Spiritual Life

December 1, 2019

Advent: a Time of Waiting

Ave Maria Meditations One aspect of Advent is a waiting that is full of hope. In this, Advent enables us to understand the content and meaning of Christian time in of history as…

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Ave Maria Meditations Benedict XVI Catholic Culture Devotional Spiritual Life

December 28, 2019

A Little Child

At the heart of the mystery is the paradox that the glorious God decided to manifest Himself in the helplessness of a Child who is overlooked by adult society and comes into the…

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Ave Maria Meditations Benedict XVI Catholic Culture Devotion to Mary Devotional Marian Things Mariology Spiritual Life

January 1, 2020

Mariology

Ave Maria MeditationsOn authentic Mariology: We must avoid regulating Mary's maternity to the sphere of mere biology; if, therefore, Christ and ecclesia are the hermeneutical center of the scriptural narration of the history…

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Ave Maria Meditations Benedict XVI Devotional Spiritual Life Theology

April 25, 2020

On Eternal Life

Ave Maria MeditationsI came that they might have life and have it more abundantly. (Jn 10:10) This is eternal life that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ of you…

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