Lo, how a Rose e’er blooming from tender stem hath sprung! Of Jesse’s lineage coming, as men of old have sung. It came, a floweret bright, amid the cold of winter, When half spent was the night. Isaiah ’twas foretold it, the Rose I have in mind With Mary we behold it, the Virgin Mother kind. To show God’s LOVE… (more…)
“Men do not fear a powerful, hostile army as the powers of Hell fear the Name and protection of Mary.”- Saint Bonaventure “I ask you to consider that Our Lord Jesus Christ is your true Head and that you are a member of His Body. He belongs to you as the head belongs to the body. All that is His… (more…)
The importance of the Holy Rosary cannot be overstated. It is a wonderful, most powerful sacramental that brings about many miracles of the natural and supernatural. It is nothing short of the Ladder to Heaven! The Triune God through Our Blessed Mother Mary gave the Holy Rosary to Saint Dominic and Blessed Alan de la Roche in a singular privilege… (more…)
It is with sadness and outrage that we report on the continuing horrendous persecution of the Catholic Faithful and other Christians in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria and other countries of the world, including Indonesia. Actually, in varying degrees Catholics are persecuted in almost ALL Muslim countries. We have reported on actual CRUCIFIXIONS of the Faithful, particularly the young! The starving of… (more…)
Please be so kind as to pray to the Most Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary for our friend Jeff who is undergoing a double transplant of heart and kidney as I write this on Sunday, 18th. Sunday after Pentecost and the Feast of Saints Cosmas and Damian. Thank you.
O Sacred Heart of Jesus, source of all goodness and healing, You have loved me from all eternity. Now I ask You for the grace to love You in return. Please increase within me Your gifts of faith, hope and charity. I offer You my heart, wounded by sin, crippled by weakness, but not beyond Your power to make me… (more…)
“Jesus said: WIDE IS THE GATE AND BROAD IS THE ROAD THAT LEADS TO DESTRUCTION AND MANY ENTER THROUGH IT; BUT SMALL IS THE GATE AND NARROW THE ROAD THAT LEADS TO LIFE AND FEW THERE ARE THAT FIND IT!”
“Jesus, help me to simplify my life by learning what you want me to be- and becoming that person.” “I will spend my Heaven by doing good upon the earth; I will let fall from Heaven a shower of roses!”
“Truly, truly I say to you, what you did to the least of your brothers you did to ME.”
“Be peace loving. Peace is a precious treasure to be sought with great zeal. You are well aware that our sins arouse God’s anger. You must change your life, therefore, so that God in His mercy will pardon you. What we conceal from men is known to God. Be converted, then, with a sincere heart. Live your life that you… (more…)
