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April 5, 2019

Uniting with the Suffering of Christ

Ave Maria Meditations encore Let us do penance and suffer with Christ : Although the cross especially before Christ’s passion was in itself a horrible thing, it is nevertheless something to be sought…

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April 8, 2019

Proof of Love

Ave Maria Meditations After the incarnation, the cross of Jesus is the greatest proof of His love for man. Similarly, mortification, which is suffering eagerly excepted for the love of God, is one…

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April 10, 2019

Reasons for Penance

Ave Maria Meditations Reasons for Penance...to remove obstacles, to renounce one's own will and for the purpose of co-redemption Jesus summoned the crowds and His disciples…

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July 22, 2019

A Traditional Prayer to St. Mary Magdalene: Feast Day is July 22nd

Ave Maria Meditations Oh most merciful Jesus, I give these thanks for that work of piety which the Blessed Mary Magdalene wrought on Thee, when she washed Thy feet with her tears, and…

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March 3, 2020

Bearing our Crosses Willingly

Ave Maria Meditations In addition to knowing desolation, we are to love it! If we knew the value of the cross, we would receive it with open arms, since it is Jesus Christ we…

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July 17, 2020

They Gave their Lives for the Faith and for Freedom

Ave Maria Meditations: What are we willing to sacrifice for the sake of Christ and His holy Church; for peace and for freedom? They offered their lives as a sacrifice to…

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February 16, 2021

A Priest Meditates on Ash Wednesday

Ave Maria Meditations I had just placed ashes on his head. I was looking at him – with his dirty forehead lying there on the white sheets of the hospital bed – when he…

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February 23, 2021

About that Penance Thing

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…

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March 31, 2021

For Our Holy Week Confession

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…

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November 28, 2021

Advent!

Ave Maria Meditations Adventus! A Latin word that means something along the lines of "the coming". What coming would that be? The coming of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ at Christmas! Now in this…

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January 11, 2022

A Man Powerfully Converted: Jacques Fesch

Ave Maria Meditations You see Jesus has not even waited for me to persevere, to give me the fullness of His love. He came at once at my first sincere appeal, to relieve me…

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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…

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