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Ave Maria Meditations Catholic Culture Devotional Saints Spiritual Life Suffering

April 19, 2019

The cross of Christ gives Life to the Human Race

Ave Maria Meditations Death trampled our Lord underfoot, but He in his turn treated death as a highroad for His own feet. He submitted to it, enduring it willingly, because by this means…

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

April 16, 2019

Our Lady of Sorrows

Ave Maria MeditationsTo Our Lady of Sorrows: O most holy Virgin, Mother of our Lord Jesus Christ: by the overwhelming grief you experienced when you witnessed the martyrdom, the crucifixion, and death…

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Ave Maria Meditations Catholic Culture Devotional Penance Spiritual Life

April 10, 2019

Reasons for Penance

Ave Maria Meditations Reasons for Penance...to remove obstacles, to renounce one's own will and for the purpose of co-redemption Jesus summoned the crowds and His disciples…

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Ave Maria Meditations Catholic Culture Devotional Faith Penance Spiritual Life Suffering

April 8, 2019

Proof of Love

Ave Maria Meditations After the incarnation, the cross of Jesus is the greatest proof of His love for man. Similarly, mortification, which is suffering eagerly excepted for the love of God, is one…

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

April 5, 2019

Uniting with the Suffering of Christ

Ave Maria Meditations encore Let us do penance and suffer with Christ : Although the cross especially before Christ’s passion was in itself a horrible thing, it is nevertheless something to be sought…

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

March 29, 2019

A Prayer in Reparation to Our Lady

Ave Maria Meditation Oh most holy Virgin Mother, we listened with grief to the complaints of your Immaculate Heart surrounded with thorns placed there in at every moment by the blasphemies and ingratitude…

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Ave Maria Meditations Devotion to Mary Devotional Faith Marian Things Saints Spiritual Life

March 25, 2019

Who is She?

Ave Maria Meditations Who is she? She is nothing in herself, like all other creatures, but thanks to God's work she is the most perfect among creatures. The most perfect semblance of the…

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Ave Maria Meditations Death Devotional Last Things Spiritual Life

March 22, 2019

Preparing for our Last Day

Ave Maria Meditations The day will come, O God, when it will be Your will that I come to You, when the darkness and the sorrows shall vanish, and the burden of the…

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Ave Maria Meditations Catholic Culture Devotional Family Saints Spiritual Life St. John Paul II

March 19, 2019

Guardian of the Redeemer and the Blessed Mother

Ave Maria Meditations "Joseph did as the angel of the Lord commanded him and took his wife" (cf. Mt 1 :24). Inspired by the Gospel, the Fathers of the Church from the earliest…

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Ave Maria Meditations Coredemption Devotion to Mary Devotional Lent Marian Things Spiritual Life

March 16, 2019

Thinking of Our Lady on a Lenten Saturday

Ave Maria Meditations While there are many models of suffering in union with Christ as there are saints in heaven, there is one who is the Mother and Queen. Yes, with the Man…