Ave Maria Meditations Grant unto me, my God, that I may direct my heart to You and that in my failures I may ever feel remorse for my sins and never lose the resolve…
Ave Maria Meditations The Lord is coming; I place myself in His presence and go to meet Him with all the energy of my will. This coming was expected for long ages; it was…
Ave Maria Meditations Every cross, great or small, every discomfort even, is an appeal from our Beloved, asking us to declare our love and go on doing so while the cross lasts. When…
Ave Maria Meditations He chose His Mother. When we reflect upon the joy which it is to ourselves to think of Mary, to brood upon her supernatural loveliness and to study of the…
Ave Maria Meditations O good St. Nicholas, you who are the joy of the children, put into my heart the spirit of childhood, of which the gospel speaks, and teach me to seed happiness around…
Ave Maria Meditations On the Dogma of the Immaculate Conception from Pope Pius IX: “We declare, pronounce and define that the doctrine which holds that the most blessed Virgin Mary, at the first instance of…
Ave Maria Meditations Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary of Guadalupe, that in thy celestial apparitions on the mount of Tepeyac, thou didst promise to show thy compassion and pity towards all who,…
Ave Maria Meditations Prayer To Prepare Our Hearts This Christmas: Heavenly Father, at this festive season I pray that the real meaning of Christmas will not be missed, and that the precious truth…
Ave Maria Meditations Following a beautiful and firmly rooted tradition, many families set up their crib immediately after the feast of the Immaculate Conception, as if to relive with Mary those days full of…
Ave Maria Meditations Luke 2:11: For Unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord As I was putting up my nativity set these…
Ave Maria Meditations God’s greatest work, the Incarnation of the Word, destined to enlighten and save the whole world, takes place in obscurity and silence, and under the most humble and most human conditions. Caesar’s…
Ave Maria Mediations Jesus, once "hidden" in a manger; now "hidden" in the Holy Eucharist. Let us adore Him! A Blessed Christmas to you! Hail and blessed be the…
Ave Maria Meditations Jesus, Mary and Joseph, in you we contemplate the splendor of true love; to you we turn with trust. Holy Family of Nazareth, grant that our families, too, may be…
Ave Maria Meditations If our Lord appeared to us in the splendor of His glory, our gaze would not be able to bear the splendor. In order to give Himself to us, He hides…
Ave Maria Meditations The Conversion of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Finally, after much interior anguish, Elizabeth decided, “I will go peaceably and firmly to the Catholic Church: for if faith is so important…