Monthly Archives: May 2014

Feast of the Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary

O Mary, Immaculate Queen, look down upon this distressed and suffering world.  Thou knowest our misery and weakness.  O, Thou who art Our Mother, save us in the hour of peril and have compassion on us in these days of great trial. Jesus has confided to thee the treasure of His Grace and through thee He wills to grant us… (more…)

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Ninth and Final Day of Novena to Great Saint Joseph- Feast of Saint John Baptiste de la Salle

On this final day of our novena to dear Saint Joseph, we humbly bring all our intentions, our needs, our hopes, our fears, our joys and our requests for not only ourselves, but for those whom we love- we bring all of these to our patron in heaven and ask him to bless us with his beatitude and bring our… (more…)

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Octave Day of Saint Joseph, Eighth Day of Novena- Feast of Saint Boniface

Today is the octave day of the Solemnity of Saint Joseph, Solace of the Afflicted, Hope of the sick, Patron of the Dying, Terror of demons and Guardian of the Universal Church.  He is especially invoked as the Patron of the dying, as he had the great and immeasurable honor of having Jesus and Mary with him as he died.… (more…)

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The Feast of Our Lady of Fatima

We celebrate the feast of Our Lady of Fatima, for on this day in 1917, The Blessed Mother made her first appearance to three shepherd children in the mountains of Portugal.  They were Jacinta, (age 7,) Francisco, (age 9,) and Lucia, (age 10.)  She appeared to them once a month from May to October.  The lives of the three children… (more…)

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Seventh Day of Novena to Saint Joseph- Feast of Saint Robert Bellarmine

Saint Joseph, Mirror of patience, Lover of poverty, Model of workmen, Glory of domestic life, Guardian of virgins  and Pillar of families, pray for us. The Jesuit, Saint Robert Bellarmine was the spiritual father of Saint Aloysius Gonzaga and helped Saint Francis de Sales obtain formal approval of the Visitation Order, which gave us Saint Margaret Mary, who received her… (more…)

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Sixth Day of Novena to Saint Joseph- Feast of Sts. Nereus and Companions

Saint Joseph, most just, most chaste, most prudent, most valiant, most obedient and most faithful- pray for us. Saints Nereus and Achilleus were in the military of Rome when they were converted to Christ and threw down their weapons and literally ran to a new life as Catholics.  They, who once were part of the persecution of Christians, now were… (more…)

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Fifth Day of Novena to Saint Joseph- Third Sunday After Easter

Saint Joseph, as Head of the Holy Family, had all the pressure of their protection and well being on his shoulders.  Fleeing from Israel and into the land of the pharaohs, he had to chose where they would live.  I always found this to be extremely interesting.  In salvation history, God has often used Egypt in many ways to fulfill… (more…)

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Fourth Day of Novena to Saint Joseph- Feast of Saint Antoninus

Great Saint Joseph was the Illustrious Son of David, Light of the Patriarchs, Spouse of the Mother of God, Chaste Guardian of the Virgin Mary and the Foster-father of the Son of God.  He listened to the voice of God in his dreams.  So close was he to God that he knew that it was the Lord talking him in… (more…)

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Third Day of Novena to Saint Joseph- Feast of St. Gregory Nazianzen

It is appropriate, in the Month of Our Lady, that we should honor her dear spouse, Great Saint Joseph, Foster Father of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.  For he was chosen, like her, above all others to protect the Virgin Mother of God and the Son of God.  Holy Writ calls him JUST; what a simple and profound statement.… (more…)

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The Feast of the Apparition of Saint Michael the Archangel- Day Two of the Novena to Saint Joseph

The history of the feast of the Apparition of Saint Michael the Archangel is quite remarkable.  In the year 495, a wealthy man had a large herd of cattle grazing on Monte Gargano in Italy, not far from the city of Siponto. One day a steer went astray from the herd and did not return with the rest of the… (more…)

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