Maybe it’s our misdirected free will, our shameful pride or our fallen human nature, but we live our lives, all of us, with the conviction that we stand at the very center of the drama. We are the star of everyone’s movie. Moments rarely come that take us out of ourselves, that remove us from our fragile egos and force… (more…)
Beautiful and glorious are the angels of the Lord! They are many and magnificent and are given to man to help on our way by protecting, prompting, testing, healing, fighting and comforting. They protect us from all manner of harm, insofar as Almighty God allows them and according to our need and merit; By prompting us to good works, even… (more…)
“HEAR AND LET IT PENETRATE YOUR HEART, MY DEAR, LITTLE SON- LET NOTHING DISCOURAGE YOU; LET NOTHING ALTER YOUR HEART OR YOUR COUNTENANCE. DO NOT FEAR ILLNESS, ANXIETY OR PAIN! AM I NOT HERE, YOUR MOTHER? ARE YOU NOT UNDER MY SHADOW AND PROTECTION? AM I NOT YOUR FOUNT OF LIFE? ARE YOU NOT UNDER THE FOLD OF MY MANTLE?… (more…)
The Gospel of Luke is my favourite gospel because it is the “Marian Gospel.” It has always been held by Holy Tradition that not only was St. Luke a friend of St. Paul but that he was a friend and confidant of the Blessed Mother. This is the reason that he, though being a gentile who had never met Christ… (more…)
It was to dear St. Margaret Mary Alacoque that Our Lord Jesus Christ confided the devotion to His Sacred Heart; and it was to her that He revealed the Twelve Promises to souls who are devoted to that Divine Heart of Love. Read them with devotion and wonder… 1. I will give them all the graces necessary for their state… (more…)
What would you say if I told you of a nun who left her order to found a new one; introduced dancing to her new sisters; when asked if it was proper to pray while one was tending to the call of nature said, “Pray always, even there; for what goes up goes to God and what goes down goes… (more…)
Ninety five years ago the Immaculate Mother of God appeared the last time, (the sixth and final apparition) in Fatima, Portugal, to the three famous and holy seers Jacinta, Francisco and Lucia. On this day God brought forth the celestial phenomenon known as the “Miracle of the Sun.” This miracle was witnessed by no less than seventy thousand people; among… (more…)
This important and lovely feast day celebrates the fact that Mary, Most Holy was (and is forever) the Mother of the God-Man, Jesus, the only Christ. The human and divine exist in Jesus Christ, fully and completely and His dear Mother is therefore declared THEOTOKOS, the true Mother of God. Because she said yes to God, “Behold the Handmaid of… (more…)
Today we celebrate the feast of a great man, St. Francis Borgia. He came from a most evil and destructive family; his great grandfather being the disgusting Pope Alexander VI. The difference between Francis and the vast majority of his relatives was that he said yes to God instead of no. His mother and aunt had begun the influx of… (more…)
Not till the loom is silent and the shuttles cease to fly, shall God unroll the canvas and explain the reasons why The dark threads are as needful in the Weaver’s skillful hand, as the threads of gold and silver in the pattern He has planned! Though circumstances may temporarily take away our happiness, they can never take away our… (more…)
