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

August 15, 2017

Our Lady is Assumed-Body and Soul-into Heaven!

Ave Maria Meditations May it never happen Most Holy Mother of God, that Heaven and earth, honored by your presence, and you, with your departure, leave men and women without your protection? No.…

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Ave Maria Meditations Catholic Culture Devotional Faith Franciscan Things Saints Spiritual Life

August 11, 2017

St. Clare and the Miracle of the Eucharist

Ave Maria Meditations This story comes to us from the Apostolate of Bob and Penny Lord: She was firm in the face of adversity. The famous incident, which we call the Miracle of…

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August 4, 2017

Another Saint of the Holy Eucharist

Ave Maria Meditations (St. Peter Julian Eymard, August 2nd) Why is Jesus in the Eucharist? Many answers could be given to that question. The one that sums them all runs as follows: because…

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Ave Maria Meditations Devotional Eucharistic Adoration Faith Prayer Sacraments Saints Spiritual Life

August 1, 2017

A Saint of the Holy Eucharist

Ave Maria Meditations St. Alphonsus Liguori (August 1st) My Lord Jesus Christ who, because of Your love for me, remain night and day in the Blessed Sacrament full of pity and of love,…

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Ave Maria Meditations Devotional Faith Spiritual Life

July 28, 2017

Pax Tecum

Ave Maria Meditations The peace our Lord came to bring was dependent entirely upon an interior state of soul, and was wholly independent of external circumstances. These might be favorable or not, but…

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Ave Maria Meditations Devotional Prayer Priesthood Saints Spiritual Life

July 24, 2017

Prayer to St. Charbel

Ave Maria Meditations PRAYER TO SAINT CHARBEL MAKHLOUF (feast day is July 24th) Lord, infinitely Holy and Glorified in Your Saints, You have inspired Charbel, the saint monk, to lead the perfect life…

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Ave Maria Meditations Devotional Faith Forgiveness Saints Spiritual Life

July 22, 2017

Sinner to Saint

Ave Maria Meditations How great the tale, that there should be, In God's Son's Heart, a place for me! That on a sinner's lips like mine The cross of Jesus Christ should shine!…

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Ave Maria Meditations Devotional Faith Spiritual Life Suffering

July 19, 2017

Patience in the Spiritual Life

Ave Maria Meditations In the spiritual life we meet not only difficulties which can be surmounted and overcome once and for all by a strong act of courage, but we encounter difficult, painful…

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Ave Maria Meditations Devotional Faith Saints Spiritual Life

July 17, 2017

Hold Fast!

Ave Maria Meditations In these times of doctrinal confusion we must take particular precautions not to give away in the content of our faith, not even in the slightest degree! For if one…

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

July 13, 2017

Our Lady of Fatima: Apparition of July 13, 1917

Ave Maria Meditations As the July date approached Lucia continued to be troubled by the words of her pastor that the devil might be behind the apparitions. Finally, she confided to Jacinta that…