AVE REGINA CAELORUM Hail, O Queen of heaven enthroned! Hail, by angels Mistress owned Root of Jesse, Gate of Morn, Whence the world’s true Light was born. Glorious Virgin, joy to thee, Loveliest whom in heaven they see: Fairest thou where all are fair, Plead with Christ our sins to spare. Recently I was watching the Lord of the Rings,… (more…)
The Church year begins with Advent, not in January. Holy Mother Church shows us by this action that God’s time is not ours! The Way of Life begins when it begins and ends when it ends. It is up to us, corresponding with the grace of God in our lives, to attune our souls to His rhythms; to the illumination… (more…)
This beautiful and efficacious prayer was composed by St. Bernard. It is my favorite Marian prayer. Say it often and the mystery of the meaning of Christ and His most holy Mother will be inculcated in your soul. REMEMBER, O Most Gracious Virgin Mary, that never was it known that anyone who fled to thy protection, implored thy help or… (more…)
O Glorious Saint Joseph, faithful Guardian of Jesus Christ, to thee do we raise our hearts and hands to implore thy powerful intercession in obtaining from the Heart of Jesus all the graces necessary for our spiritual and temporal welfare; particularly the grace of a happy death, and the special favors we now implore… (Make your requests known.) O Guardian… (more…)
Our Most Blessed Mother is the Theotokos- the God Bearer and as such, all aspects of her holiness, the gift of God poured out in abundance upon His Handmaiden, are important in the life of the church. This feast, at the beginning more prominent in the eastern churches, celebrates the giving of the child Mary by her mother and father,… (more…)
The things which we do wrong and the sins which we commit- although they may seem little at the time, and though from the hardness of our hearts we justify and pass them lightly by- come back to us with bitterness, when danger makes us think how little we have done to deserve help, and how much to deserve punishment.… (more…)
Hear our humble prayer, O God, for our friends the animals, especially for animals who are suffering; for animals that are overworked, underfed and cruelly treated; for all wistful creatures in captivity that beat their wings against bars; for any that are hunted or lost or deserted or frightened or hungry; for all that must be put to death. We… (more…)
This day Holy Mother Church celebrates and prays for all the souls of the faithful departed; those souls that are saved but in purgatory where they are being purified before entering heaven. It is an interesting fact that the Holy Bible contains seventy three books, not the sixty six that the protestants use. Martin Luther and the various deformers threw… (more…)
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…)
