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Ave Maria Meditations Benedict XVI Devotional JosephMary Popes Spiritual Life

April 22, 2011

Pope Benedict Meditation on the Crucifixion

Ave Maria Meditations MEDITATION: Jesus is dead. From his heart, pierced by the lance of the Roman soldier, flow blood and water: a mysterious image of the stream of the sacraments of Baptism…

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Ave Maria Meditations Benedict XVI Catholic Culture Devotional JosephMary Popes Spiritual Life

April 20, 2011

Wash One Another’s Feet

Ave Maria Meditations We see then in the scene of the washing of the feet that the Evangelist interprets here not only Christology but also Christian anthropology. I should like to discuss three points…

Sr. JosephMary f.t.i.

Ave Maria Meditations Benedict XVI Devotional JosephMary Popes Spiritual Life

April 18, 2011

Jesus meets His Holy Mother

Ave Maria Meditations MEDITATION: On Jesus' Way of the Cross, we also find Mary, his Mother. During his public life she had to step aside to make place for the birth of Jesus'…

Sr. JosephMary f.t.i.

Ave Maria Meditations Devotional JosephMary Saints Spiritual Life

April 16, 2011

St. Bernadette: On Sacrifice

Ave Maria Meditations I want my whole life to be inspired by love. He who loves, does all things easily, or, if he suffers, he loves that suffering. Why is suffering necessary?…

Sr. JosephMary f.t.i.

Ave Maria Meditations Benedict XVI Devotional JosephMary Popes Spiritual Life

April 14, 2011

Jesus Falls

Ave Maria Meditations MEDITATION: The tradition that Jesus fell three times beneath the weight of the cross evokes the fall of Adam-the state of fallen humanity-and the mystery of Jesus' own sharing in…

Sr. JosephMary f.t.i.

Ave Maria Meditations Catholic Culture Devotional JosephMary Spiritual Life

April 11, 2011

The Mystery of Suffering

Ave Maria Meditations O God, I see that nothing in nature happens by chance. All creatures have a reason for their existence. There is also a reason for the existence of pain in…

Sr. JosephMary f.t.i.

Ave Maria Meditations Devotional Franciscan Things JosephMary Saints Spiritual Life

April 8, 2011

Meditate on the Passion

Ave Maria Meditations Meditation on the passion of Christ will stir up genuine compunction of heart: First of all, no attention is paid to the last things; God's blessings and all that the…

Sr. JosephMary f.t.i.

Ave Maria Meditations Devotional JosephMary Spiritual Life

April 5, 2011

Offering of Self

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 Devotional JosephMary Prayer Pro-Life Spiritual Life

April 1, 2011

Pro-Life Stations of the Cross

Ave Maria Meditations The First Station: Jesus is Condemned to Death Though innocent, Jesus is condemned by the power of the State. In like manner, our innocent brothers and sisters in the…

Sr. JosephMary f.t.i.

Ave Maria Meditations Coredemption Devotional JosephMary Spiritual Life

March 30, 2011

In the Midst of it All

Ave Maria Meditations (In the midst of) Suffering and renunciation through the burdensomeness, discomforts, and exhaustion of the body, through the darkness or at least the dimness of mind, and through the interior…

Sr. JosephMary f.t.i.