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What Marian Consecration Meant for St. Pope John Paul II

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October 22, 2018

What Marian Consecration Meant for St. Pope John Paul II

Ave Maria Meditations “At one point I began to question my devotion to Mary, believing that, if it became too great, it might end up compromising the supremacy of the worship owed to…

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October 25, 2018

“Dry Bones” in Prayer?

Ave Maria Meditations So, at times, God takes away all props, all help, from His children; leaves them apparently bereft; and reduces them apparently to failure and desolation, so that sometimes they seem…

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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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Catholic Culture Devotional Prayer Purgatory Spiritual Life

November 2, 2018

Eternal Rest Grant unto Them, O Lord…

Ave Maria Meditations The Holy Souls in Purgatory are those which, at the time of death, were in a state of grace, but who need to be purified before they enter the beatific…

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November 5, 2018

Discouraged by Your Faults?

Ave Maria Meditations Just now you are the victim of one of the most dangerous temptations that can assail a well-intentioned soul: the temptation of discouragement. I adjure you to offer every resistance…

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Ave Maria Meditations Devotional Franciscan Things Immaculate Conception John Duns Scotus Marian Things Prayer Saints Spiritual Life

November 8, 2018

Petition Prayer to Bl. John Duns Scotus

Ave Maria MeditationsPrayer to Bl. John Duns Scotus (feast day is November 8th): Blessed John Duns Scotus, you strove to understand, explain, and defend the truths of the holy Christian Faith in the…

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A November Meditation: A Saint Writes about Purgatory

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November 16, 2018

A November Meditation: A Saint Writes about Purgatory

Ave Maria Meditations ... I saw my Guardian Angel, who ordered me to follow him. In a moment I was in a misty place full of fire in which there was a great…

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Th Cross of Christ: It Separates and It Divides

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November 19, 2018

Th Cross of Christ: It Separates and It Divides

Ave Maria Meditations If we are going to stay close to the cross of Jesus with Mary, we must constantly increase our knowledge of the mystery of the cross to relive it....The cross…

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On This Feast of Martyrs: One Martyr’s Letter to His Loved One

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November 23, 2018

On This Feast of Martyrs: One Martyr’s Letter to His Loved One

Ave Maria MeditationsProvincial prison of Jaen, Oct. 1, 1936 My dearest Maruja: Your memory will remain with me to the grave and as long as the slightest throb stirs my heart, it will…

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Ave Maria Meditations Catholic Culture Devotional Faith Popes Spiritual Life

November 25, 2018

Christ the King!

Ave Maria Meditations ENCYCLICAL OF POPE PIUS XI ON THE FEAST OF CHRIST THE KING TO OUR VENERABLE BRETHREN THE PATRIARCHS, PRIMATES, ARCHBISHOPS, BISHOPS, AND OTHER ORDINARIES IN PEACE AND COMMUNION WITH THE…

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Ave Maria Meditations Catholic Culture Devotion to Mary Devotional Faith Immaculate Conception Marian Things Medal of Miracles Prayer Spiritual Life

November 28, 2018

Miraculous Medal Prayer

Ave Maria MeditationsMiraculous Medal Prayer O Virgin Mother of God, Mary Immaculate, We dedicate and consecrate ourselves to you under the title of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal. May this Medal be…

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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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Ave Maria Meditations Benedict XVI Catholic Culture Devotion to Mary Devotional Immaculate Conception JosephMary Marian Things Spiritual Life

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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The Other Holy Family of Sts. Joachim, Anne, and Mary

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December 8, 2018

The Other Holy Family of Sts. Joachim, Anne, and Mary

Ave Maria Meditations Among other considerations, we must remark that we are indebted to the holy childhood of Mary for three great favors. The Son of God then about to be born into…

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Recalling the Continuing Presence of Christ, Having Come in Time

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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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