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…
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…
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…
Ave Maria MeditationsLove is not resentful (1 Cor 13:5) 1. "Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem" (Mk 10:33). With these words, the Lord invites the disciples to journey with him on the…
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…
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…
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…
Ave Maria Meditations We are now standing in the face of the greatest historical confrontation humanity has ever experienced. I do not think the wide circle of the American Society, or the wide…
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…
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…
Ave Maria Meditations “You seek Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He has risen, he is not here” (Mk 16:6). With these words, God’s messenger, robed in light, spoke to the women who…
Ave Maria Meditations And behold I Am with you all days until the consummation of the world. (Mt. 28:20) If we have at length interpreted the connection between Supper and Cross, we have…
Ave Maria Meditations “BE MERCIFUL EVEN AS YOUR FATHER IS MERCIFUL” (Lk 6:36) The Feast of the Divine Mercy is the Sunday after Easter “Jesus Christ taught that man not only receives and…
Ave Maria MeditationsGlorious Saint Joseph, pattern of all who are devoted to toil, obtain for me the grace to toil in the spirit of penance in order thereby to atone for my many…
Ave Maria Meditations Meditation: 1. Month of May, Month of Mary! The heart of every Christian turns spontaneously toward his heavenly Mother, with a desire to live in closer intimacy with her and…