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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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Shrove Tuesday: Feast of the Holy Face of Jesus

Ave Maria Meditations Catholic Culture Devotional Holy Face of Jesus Lent Spiritual Life

February 21, 2023

Shrove Tuesday: Feast of the Holy Face of Jesus

Ave Maria Meditations: On April 17th, 1958, His Holiness Pope Pius XII approved the observance of a Feast of the Holy Face of Jesus on Shrove Tuesday (Tuesday before Ash Wednesday). “See how I…

Sr. JosephMary f.t.i.

Ave Maria Meditations Catholic Culture Devotional Lent Saints Spiritual Life

February 28, 2023

Christ without the Cross

Ave Maria Meditations I believe that the whole political and religious situation of the world can be summed up in terms of the divorce of Christ and His Cross. Put the crossless Christ on…

Sr. JosephMary f.t.i.

Ave Maria Meditations Catholic Culture Devotional Lent Saints Spiritual Life

March 3, 2023

Good Friday comes Before Easter Sunday

Ave Maria Meditations Unless there is a Good Friday in our lives there will never be an Easter Sunday. The Cross is the condition of the empty tomb, and the Crown of Thorns…

Sr. JosephMary f.t.i.

Ave Maria Meditations Catholic Culture Devotional Lent Saints Spiritual Life Stations of the Cross

March 10, 2023

Under the Weight of the Cross

Ave Maria Meditations By His weakness, Jesus expiated our sins and merited for us the grace to humble ourselves for our sins, to acknowledge our falls and sincerely confess them. He merited for…

Sr. JosephMary f.t.i.

Ave Maria Meditations Catholic Culture Devotional Holy Face of Jesus Lent Spiritual Life

March 17, 2023

Offering of the Holy Face to the Father

Ave Maria MeditationsPrayer to offer the Holy Face of Jesus to God the Father: Almighty and eternal Father, since it has pleased our Divine Savior to reveal to mankind in modern times the power…

Sr. JosephMary f.t.i.

Ave Maria Meditations Catholic Culture Devotional Franciscan Things Lent Spiritual Life Suffering

March 23, 2023

Ave Maria Meditations Consider how useful it is to think of the sufferings of Christ. There is no better consolation amid the sufferings of life. Are you being ridiculed and persecuted, have you been laid…

Sr. JosephMary f.t.i.

Ave Maria Meditations Benedict XVI Catholic Culture Devotion to Mary Devotional Liturgy Marian Things Spiritual Life

March 25, 2023

Silence and Grace

Ave Maria Meditations That which is truly great grows unnoticed, and silence at the right moment is more fruitful than the constant activity that only too easily degenerates into spiritual idleness. The mystery…

Sr. JosephMary f.t.i.

Ave Maria Meditations Catholic Culture Devotional Lent Spiritual Life

March 28, 2023

From the Crib to the Cross

Ave Maria Meditations The prophets had already foretold that our Redeemer was to be treated as the vilest of men on earth and that He was to be overwhelmed with insults. How much contempt…

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Ave Maria Meditations Catholic Culture Devotional Holy Face of Jesus Lent Spiritual Life

March 31, 2023

The Man of Sorrows

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 into…

Sr. JosephMary f.t.i.

Ave Maria Meditations Catholic Culture Devotion to Mary Devotional Lent Marian Things Prayer Spiritual Life

April 3, 2023

Our Lady of Sorrows

Ave Maria Meditations Prayer: Mother of Christ, help me to be willing to accept the suffering that is the condition of love. Help me accept the grief of seeing those whom I love…

Sr. JosephMary f.t.i.

Ave Maria Meditations Catholic Culture Devotional Lent Saints Spiritual Life

April 6, 2023

The Friday that is Called Good

Ave Maria Meditations Sweet Jesus, in order to clothe us again with the life of grace, You stripped Yourself of the life of Your body. The body which You stretched out on the wood…

Sr. JosephMary f.t.i.

Ave Maria Meditations Catholic Culture Coredemption Devotion to Mary Devotional Lent Marian Things Saints Spiritual Life Stations of the Cross

April 8, 2023

The Piercing of the Sword

Ave Maria Meditations “Your own soul a sword shall pierce.” (Lk 2:35) The day has come for Simeon’s prophecy to be fulfilled in Mary. She sets out toward Calvary where she knows that…

Sr. JosephMary f.t.i.

Ave Maria Meditations Catholic Culture Devotional Easster

April 9, 2023

Resurrexit!

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Ave Maria Meditations Catholic Culture Devotional Easster Prayer Spiritual Life

April 13, 2023

Prayer to the Resurrected Jesus

Ave Maria Meditations Lord Jesus, good and gentle Jesus, who deigned to die for our sins and to rise for our justification, I beg You, by Your glorious resurrection, to bring me out…

Sr. JosephMary f.t.i.