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Ave Maria Meditations Benedict XVI Catholic Culture Devotional Lent Spiritual Life

March 17, 2026

As we Continue Through Lent

Ave Maria Meditations Lent is a propitious time in which the Church invites Christians to be more intensely aware of Christ’s redeeming work and to live our Baptism more profoundly. The Lenten season is…

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

March 13, 2026

Jesus Meets His Mother on the Way to the Cross

Ave Maria Meditations To sensitive souls the pain they cause others is far worse than any sufferings that they may endure themselves. They may have much to endure, but to see others in…

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Ave Maria Meditations Benedict XVI Catholic Culture Devotional Faith Lent Spiritual Life

March 10, 2026

The Sign of the Cross

Ave Maria Meditations The most basic Christian gesture in prayer is and always will be the Sign of the Cross. It is a way of confessing Christ crucified with one’s very body. To…

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

March 6, 2026

The Burden of the Cross

Ave Maria Meditations A double burden is laid on Jesus. First the heavy weight of His Cross, the instrument of His punishment with which His executioners brutally load His shoulders, and secondly, the…

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

March 3, 2026

O May I Keep the Ten Commandments

Ave Maria Meditations God says: Those who keep these Ten Commandments will go to paradise. I beseech you, my Lord Jesus Christ, that You give me the grace today, on this day, in…

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Ave Maria Meditations Catholic Culture Devotional Holy Sacrifice of the Mass Lent Spiritual Life

February 27, 2026

Cherish the Cross

Ave Maria Meditations To our limited human reason, Jesus on the Cross may appear vanquished. On the contrary He is the all-powerful conqueror over sin and satan. He is the Lamb of God…

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Ave Maria Meditations Catholic Culture Devotional Spiritual Life Suffering

February 24, 2026

Striving to be a Servant of God

Ave Maria Meditations Increasingly, I see that God seems to expect from me a ministry of prayer and suffering. What a blessed vocation, and how much I will try to respond better than…

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Ave Maria Meditations Catholic Culture Devotional Lent Penance Spiritual Life

February 20, 2026

Our First Lenten Friday

Ave Maria Meditations That purification of the soul through interior mortification is not something merely negative. It is not just a matter of avoiding what borders on sin; quite the opposite: it consists…

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Ave Maria Meditations Catholic Culture Devotional Spiritual Life

February 17, 2026

Thoughts on an Ash Wednesday

Ave Maria Meditations encore I had just placed ashes on his head. I was looking at him – with his dirty forehead lying there on the white sheets of the hospital bed – when…

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Ave Maria Meditations Catholic Culture Devotional Marian Things Saints Spiritual Life

February 12, 2026

And Holy is His Name

Ave Maria Meditations “My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior." With these words Mary first acknowledges the special gifts she has been given. Above all…

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