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February 27, 2021

Acceptance with the Help of Our Lady

Ave Maria Meditations Mother of Christ, help me to be willing to except the suffering that is a condition of love. Help me accept the grief of seeing those whom I love suffer,…

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February 25, 2021

Sacrifice and Love

Ave Maria Meditations Sacrifice and contemplative prayer go hand-in-hand. If you do not practice sacrifice, do not complain that your prayer has grown cold. You have to make many sacrifices when you live in the…

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February 23, 2021

About that Penance Thing

Ave Maria Meditations I say to you, unless you do penance, you shut all likewise perish.” (Lk 13:5) As we are now deep into the first full week of the holy season of…

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February 20, 2021

A Prayer to Our Lady of Sorrows

Ave Maria Meditations Oh holy Mother, most affected by the bitter sorrow which you endured at the foot of the Cross during the three hours agony of Jesus: help to assist all of…

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February 18, 2021

Uniting our Lenten Prayers to Jesus’ Prayer

Ave Maria Meditations Our prayer has value only in so far as we united to that of Jesus and try to make it an echo an extension of His. The prayer of Jesus was…

Sr. JosephMary f.t.i.

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February 16, 2021

A Priest Meditates on Ash Wednesday

Ave Maria Meditations 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 he…

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February 12, 2021

Thoughts on Love

Ave Maria Meditations With Valentine's Day, we might think and hear a lot about "Love". But what is love? Is it a feeling or an emotion? In the Bible the word "charity" can…

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February 9, 2021

A Prayer for Our Priests

Ave Maria Meditations: Father Most Holy, I offer You the prayers, works, joys, and sufferings of this day by placing them in the holy hands of Jesus, the Eternal High Priest, and by saying,…

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February 5, 2021

About the Holy Eucharist

Ave Maria Meditations (Jesus commanded) “Do this in remembrance of Me." Two things should be noted here. The first is the command that we should use this Sacrament (of the Eucharist), which is…

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February 2, 2021

Light of the World

Ave Maria Meditations “Now thou dost dismiss Thy servant, O Lord, according to Thy word in peace because my eyes have seen Thy salvation which Thou hast prepared before the face of all…

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