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Ave Maria Meditations Catholic Culture Devotional Lent Spiritual Life

February 23, 2024

Surrendering to Christ

Ave Maria Meditations (Jesus speaks to the heart) I perform miracles in proportion to your full surrender to Me and to your not thinking of yourselves. I sow treasure troves of graces when…

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Ave Maria Meditations Catholic Culture Devotional Lent Spiritual Life Suffering

March 1, 2024

Offering Oneself to Christ

Ave Maria Meditations Jesus speaks: As I offered Myself willingly to God the Father for your sins with hands outstretched and body naked on the cross, so that nothing remained in Me that…

Sr. JosephMary f.t.i.

Ave Maria Meditations Catholic Culture Devotional Lent Penance Spiritual Life

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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Ave Maria Meditations Benedict XVI Catholic Culture Devotional Lent Spiritual Life

March 8, 2024

Learning to Love

Ave Maria Meditations We are not spared dark nights. They are clearly necessary so that we can learn through suffering, so that we can acquire freedom and maturity and above all else a…

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Ave Maria Meditations Catholic Culture Devotion to Mary Devotional Lent Spiritual Life Stations of the Cross Suffering

March 15, 2024

Jesus Meets His Blessed Mother

Ave Maria Meditations Jesus has fallen…Jesus is on His feet again, the Cross is put back on His shoulder, once more He starts on His way. As He lifts His bowed head and…

Sr. JosephMary f.t.i.

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

March 22, 2024

Ave Maria Meditations The Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary that has made the strongest appeal to devotion are: the prophecy of Simeon, the flight into Egypt, the three days loss of Jesus, the…

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Prayer of St Therese to the Holy Face of Jesus

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

March 26, 2024

Prayer of St Therese to the Holy Face of Jesus

Ave Maria Meditations O Jesus, who, in Thy cruel Passion didst become the ‘reproach of men and the Man of Sorrows,’ I worship Thy divine Face. Once it shone with the beauty and…

Sr. JosephMary f.t.i.

Ave Maria Meditations Catholic Culture Devotional Lent Persecution Spiritual Life Suffering

March 29, 2024

Behold the Man! Ecco Homo!

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…

Sr. JosephMary f.t.i.

Ave Maria Meditations Benedict XVI Catholic Culture Devotional Easster Spiritual Life

March 31, 2024

God loves Me!

Ave Maria Meditations God loved you first! Once you take the sentence as literally as can be, and I try to do that. For it is truly the great power in our lives and…

Sr. JosephMary f.t.i.

Advent Ave Maria Meditations Catholic Culture Devotional Spiritual Life

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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Advent Ave Maria Meditations Catholic Culture Christmas Devotional Spiritual Life

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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Advent Ave Maria Meditations Catholic Culture Devotion to Mary Devotional Immaculate Conception Marian Things Saints Spiritual Life

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

Advent Ave Maria Meditations Catholic Culture Devotion to Mary Devotional Marian Things Our Lady of Guadalupe Saints Spiritual Life St. John Paul II

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…

Sr. JosephMary f.t.i.

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…

Sr. JosephMary f.t.i.

Ave Maria Meditations Catholic Culture Christmas Devotional Marian Things Saints Spiritual Life

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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