Offering Oneself to Christ
March 1, 2024
Offering Oneself to Christ
Ave Maria Meditations Jesus speaks: As I offered Myself willingly to God the Father for your sins with hands outstretched and body naked on the cross, so that nothing remained in Me that…
When will God’s Kingdom Come?
March 5, 2024
When will God’s Kingdom Come?
Ave Maria Meditations Morning and night we pray, “Thy kingdom come,” and yet what is more self-evident than the fact that this wish is still unrealized? Who would dare assert that God’s kingdom has…
Learning to Love
March 8, 2024
Learning to Love
Ave Maria Meditations We are not spared dark nights. They are clearly necessary so that we can learn through suffering, so that we can acquire freedom and maturity and above all else a…
On a Balanced Life
March 12, 2024
On a Balanced Life
Ave Maria Meditations God has a definite plan for me, a plan which is mainly concerned with my eternal salvation. At times He gives me an interior joy, peace, and eagerness to do…
Jesus Meets His Blessed Mother
March 15, 2024
Jesus Meets His Blessed Mother
Ave Maria Meditations Jesus has fallen…Jesus is on His feet again, the Cross is put back on His shoulder, once more He starts on His way. As He lifts His bowed head and…
Spouse of Mary!
March 19, 2024
Spouse of Mary!
Ave Maria Meditations Let the evangelists be silent concerning all they could tell us of Joseph, placing in array before us those virtues and singular prerogatives which serve as a noble accompaniment to…
Our Lady of Sorrows
March 22, 2024
Our Lady of Sorrows
Ave Maria Meditations The Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary that has made the strongest appeal to devotion are: the prophecy of Simeon, the flight into Egypt, the three days loss of Jesus, the…
Prayer of St Therese to the Holy Face of Jesus
March 26, 2024
Prayer of St Therese to the Holy Face of Jesus
Ave Maria Meditations O Jesus, who, in Thy cruel Passion didst become the ‘reproach of men and the Man of Sorrows,’ I worship Thy divine Face. Once it shone with the beauty and…
Behold the Man! Ecco Homo!
March 29, 2024
Behold the Man! Ecco Homo!
Ave Maria Meditations He is a man of sorrows. He is covered in bruises and stripes. He has made a laughingstock. He is crowned with a crown of thorns. A reed is put…
God loves Me!
March 31, 2024
God loves Me!
Ave Maria Meditations God loved you first! Once you take the sentence as literally as can be, and I try to do that. For it is truly the great power in our lives and…
On Divine Mercy
April 2, 2024
On Divine Mercy
Ave Maria Meditations Sister Faustina heard these words as she prayed for Poland; “I bear a special love for Poland, and if she will be obedient to My will, I will exalt her in…
Preparing for Divine Mercy Sunday
April 4, 2024
Preparing for Divine Mercy Sunday
Ave Maria Meditations From the Homily of St. John Paul II at the Mass for the Canonization of Sr. Maria Faustina Kowalska on Sunday, April 30, 2000: Blessings through the Heart of Christ…
Divine Mercy Sunday
April 7, 2024
Divine Mercy Sunday
Ave Maria Meditations From the Homily of St. John Paul II at the Canonization of St. Faustina: It is important then that we accept the whole message that comes to us from the…
Lord, Keep me Close
April 9, 2024
Lord, Keep me Close
Ave Maria Meditations A prayer of a soul: O Lord God, who wisely and justly orders all things in heaven and on earth, angels, men, and all creatures, I ask You, in place of…