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Ave Maria Meditations Devotional Spiritual Life

January 10, 2017

The Importance of Purity

Ave Maria Meditations Blessed are the pure of heart for they shall see God. (Mt 5:8) Purity is essential if we are to see God and truly serve our fellow man. Perhaps this…

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January 16, 2017

With Our Lady at Holy Communion

Ave Maria Meditations I am sometimes saddened by the fact that after Holy Communion, Jesus must often experience weariness and feel strange and lonely in my cold heart; but I shall not be…

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January 19, 2017

Entrustment to Mary

Ave Maria Meditations God desires that we permit Him to manifest His love for us and, in response to His love to permit Him to act in us. Our sinfulness does not stop…

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Jan 21 – Homily – Fr Jacinto: Crazy, Excessive Love

Anti-Catholicism Fr. Jacinto Griswold, CT Homily Persecution Saints

January 21, 2017

Jan 21 – Homily – Fr Jacinto: Crazy, Excessive Love

Jesus' relatives did not understand His crazy, excessive love, and thought he was "out of his mind". He is still not understood and neither are his followers, like the martyr St. Agnes…

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Jan 22 – Homily – Fr Jacinto: Do Penance and Live Your Faith

Catholic Action Evangelism Fr. Jacinto Griswold, CT Homily Lent Penance Pro-Life Suffering

January 22, 2017

Jan 22 – Homily – Fr Jacinto: Do Penance and Live Your Faith

In today's Gospel reading, Jesus continues the message of John: repent, the Kingdom of God is at hand. Father Jacinto says that repent means a change in our lives, but also means to…

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Ave Maria Meditations Prayer Pro-Life

January 22, 2017

Ave Maria Meditations encore January 22nd marks the sad anniversary of the Roe vs. Wade decision that legalized abortion across the United States. More than 60 million unborn children have perished since. This…

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Ave Maria Meditations Devotional Prayer Spiritual Life

January 24, 2017

Refuge in Prayer

Ave Maria Meditations My Christian experience and conviction were born through contact with the Holy Ghost Fathers of my village. When they encountered difficulties, the missionaries took refuge in prayer. The process of…

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Ave Maria Meditations Devotional Pope Francis Spiritual Life

January 27, 2017

Christianity and the Cross

Ave Maria Meditations In April 2014, Pope Francis recalled in a homily that he gave at Saint Martha's that "Christianity is not a philosophical doctrine, it is not a program of life that…

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January 30, 2017

Help of Christians

Ave Maria Meditations Most Holy Virgin Mary, Help of Christians, how sweet it is to come to your feet imploring your perpetual help. If earthly mothers cease not to remember their children, how can…

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February 2, 2017

Never Was It Known…

Ave Maria Meditations Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary, that never was it known that anyone who fled to thy protection, implored thy help, or sought thine intercession was left unaided. Inspired by…

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Ave Maria Meditations Devotional Saints Spiritual Life

February 7, 2017

From Slave to Saint

Ave Maria Meditations St. Josephine Bakhita was born in the Sudan in 1869. This African flower, who knew the anguish of kidnapping and slavery, bloomed marvelously in Italy, in response to God's grace,…

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February 11, 2017

St. Bernadette and Our Lady of Lourdes

Ave Maria Meditations On February 11, 1858, going with two other girls to fetch firewood, Bernadette and her companions came to the river Gave but she could not cross as the other girls…

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Ave Maria Meditations Devotional Saints Spiritual Life

February 13, 2017

St. Bernard wrote about Love

Ave Maria Meditations Love is sufficient of itself, it gives pleasure by itself and because of itself. It is its own merit, its own reward. Love looks for no cause outside itself, no…

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February 17, 2017

The Marian Pathway

Ave Maria Meditations Mary is not only the Mother of Christ, but she is also really and actively Mother to each of us who believes in Him. She was instrumental in uniting the…

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Feb 18 – Homily – Fr Jacinto: Listen to Him

Faith Fr. Jacinto Griswold, CT Homily Prayer

February 18, 2017

Feb 18 – Homily – Fr Jacinto: Listen to Him

At the Transfiguration and the Baptism of Jesus, the voice of God the Father is heard saying "This is my Beloved Son, listen to Him." In Jesus, God has said everything, nothing…

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