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December 28, 2021

Love Incarnate

Ave Maria Meditations Because of the Incarnation, our natural life has been super-naturalized. Love has become incarnate: God has become human. Because of Christ’s birth, a new stream of goodness is flowing. Holiness has…

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December 30, 2021

The Poverty of Jesus

Ave Maria Meditations Notice the situation Jesus chooses for His Incarnation and Nativity. He chooses utter poverty, so His path in life is going to be poor: not just material poverty but above all, spiritual…

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December 19, 2022

Christmas Creche

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…

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Meditating Upon Setting up the Manger Scene

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December 21, 2022

Meditating Upon Setting up the Manger Scene

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…

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Ave Maria Meditations Catholic Culture Christmas Devotional Spiritual Life

December 24, 2022

Journey to Bethlehem

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…

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Ave Maria Meditations Catholic Culture Christmas Devotional

December 25, 2022

Jesus: Then and Now

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…

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December 23, 2023

Advent Prayer Fourth Sunday

Ave Maria Meditations Prayer for Joy: Lord Jesus, Your light shines through the darkness even in this penitential season. Although we try to imagine a time when You were not yet known to…

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December 25, 2023

Joy to the World!

Ave Maria MeditationsHail and blessed be the hour and moment in which the Son of God was born of the most pure Virgin Mary, at midnight, in Bethlehem, in the piercing cold. In…

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December 28, 2023

Remembering all Holy Innocents

Ave Maria Meditations Prayer for Holy Innocents: We remember today, O God, the slaughter of the Holy Innocents of Bethlehem by King Herod. Receive, we pray, into the arms of your mercy all…

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January 3, 2024

On the Most Holy Name of Jesus

Ave Maria Meditations encore The heart of every Christian should respond to this invitation and exalt the most Holy Name of Our Savior, that is, His very Person, for the Name of Jesus…

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January 6, 2024

From the Crib to the Cross

Ave Maria Meditations At His birth there came wisemen from the east to Jerusalem saying, “Where is he that is born king of the Jews? We have seen his star in the east and…

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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 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 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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