Today we celebrate the great feast of the Circumcision of Our Lord. This is important not only to show that Our Lord followed the law of Moses perfectly, but because for an even more important reason: It was the first time that His Precious Blood was shed. It was a foreshadowing of His perfect sacrifice upon the Cross of Calvary.… (more…)
Read the words of the Lord Jesus to Sister Lucia of Fatima on December 10th., 1925- “HAVE COMPASSION ON THE HEART OF YOUR MOST HOLY MOTHER, COVERED WITH THORNS WHICH UNGRATEFUL MEN PLACE THEREIN AT EVERY MOMENT, WHILE THERE IS NO ONE WHO DOES AN ACT OF REPARATION TO WITHDRAW THEM FROM HER.” Our Lady then addressed Lucia as follows:… (more…)
FOR HE WAS PIERCED FOR OUR TRANSGRESSIONS, HE WAS CRUSHED FOR OUR SINS; THE PUNISHMENT THAT BROUGHT US PEACE WAS UPON HIM, AND BY HIS STRIPES WE ARE HEALED… O Lord, broken, weighed down, indeed crushed for our sins, have mercy upon my soul. Dispose my heart to receive all the graces you have for me this day, this week,… (more…)
O Great Absolver, grant my soul may wear the lowliest garb of penitence and prayer, That in the Father’s courts my glorious dress May be the garment of Thy righteousness! Yea, Thou wilt answer for me, righteous Lord; Thine all the merits, mine the great reward- Thine the sharp thorns, and mine the golden crown; Mine the life won, and… (more…)
The Feast of the Epiphany is always special in my family as it is the anniversary of the death of my dear Aunt Patty, a very holy, kind and loving lady. She died a holy death because she lived a holy life. One of her many examples to us is that one dies as one lives. Her last words were… (more…)
