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November 18, 2024

Putting on the Armor of God

Ave Maria Meditations Armor of God: Ephesians 6:10-20 Helmet of Salvation: Lord, I chose to put on the helmet of salvation today, in order to protect my thinking. I want to think proper…

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November 21, 2024

Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Ave Maria Meditations The Son of God chose not for His Mother a woman of wealth or property, but that blessed Maiden whose soul was adorned with all the virtues. It was because…

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November 25, 2024

Ave Maria Meditations God never ceases to respond to our cries for help even if He seems deaf. God's love is like His nature: firm, unchangeable, and enduring as rock. Similarly, God salvific will is…

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November 28, 2024

A Prayer of Thanksgiving

Ave Maria Meditations Father in Heaven, Creator of all and source of all goodness and love, please look kindly upon us and receive our heartfelt gratitude in this time of giving thanks. Thank…

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December 2, 2024

Prepare Ye!

Ave Maria Mediations Watch! Summon the nations, say to the peoples: see, our God and Savior is coming! Tell it, proclaim it; cry aloud! (from the Liturgy of the Hours ) The church…

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December 5, 2024

The Joy of Advent

Ave Maria Meditations “Rejoice in the Lord always; again I say, rejoice!” (Phil 4:4) This is also the joy of advent, and that of every day: Jesus is very near us. He is…

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December 9, 2024

The Fitness of the Glories of Mary

Ave Maria Meditations Blessed Mary was no chance place in the divine dispensation. The word of God did not merely come to her and go from her. He did not pass through her,…

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That Holy Conversation that Began it All

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December 12, 2024

That Holy Conversation that Began it All

Ave Maria Meditations Everything begins with a conversation between the Virgin and the Archangel Gabriel: “How shall this be, since I have no husband?” (Lk 1:34). Answer: “The Holy Spirit will come upon…

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December 17, 2024

St. Joseph in the Divine Plan

Ave Maria Meditations Saint Joseph in the divine plan: Together with Mary, Joseph is the first guardian of the divine mystery. Together with Mary, and in relation to Mary, he shares in this…

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Ave Maria Meditations Catholic Culture Christmas Devotional Spiritual Life

December 20, 2024

Purity of Heart

Ave Maria Meditations “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God." (Mt. 5:8) Christmas is a light in the darkness, a light that will never go out. Everyone who looks…

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December 24, 2024

O Admirable Exchange!

Ave Maria Meditations The coming of the Son of God on earth is so great an event that God willed to prepare the way for it during centuries. He made rites and sacrifices, figures…

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December 27, 2024

A Prayer to St. John the Evangelist

Ave Maria Meditations O glorious Apostle, who, on account of thy virginal purity, wast so beloved by Jesus as to deserve to lay thy head upon His divine breast, and to be left,…

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December 31, 2024

Son of Mary

Ave Maria Meditations “God sent His Son, born of a woman.” (Gal. 4:4) This woman is Mary, and she is a virgin. It is from her, and from her alone, that Christ takes…

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January 3, 2025

Holy Name

Ave Maria Meditations Christ Jesus is the Incarnate Word appearing in the midst of us, at once God and man, true God and true man, perfect God and perfect man. In Him two natures…

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January 7, 2025

That They may Have Life

Ave Maria Meditations “I am come that they may have life.” (Jn 10:10) But the only true life is that which is eternal. All our knowledge and all our love of the Father…

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