Saint Margaret of Cortona, penitent
Margaret was alarmed when Arsenio of Montepulciano did not come home from his visit to one of his estates. Her anxiety worsened when his dog arrived the next day, alone, and tugged her to follow.
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Margaret was alarmed when Arsenio of Montepulciano did not come home from his visit to one of his estates. Her anxiety worsened when his dog arrived the next day, alone, and tugged her to follow.
When the Lady opened her hands, light from it penetrated the earth. Lucia de Jesus dos Santos and her cousins, Jacinta and Francisco Marto, saw a sea of fire.
‘I beg you not to leave me tonight so that we might talk until morning the joys of heavenly life.”
A queue stands at the center aisle of the altar in churches every February 3. The faithful await for the Sacramental Rite to be administered by the priest. The priest rests two long candles in the form of a Saint Andrew’s cross on the neck, prays for the intercession of Saint Basil to heal sore and other throats ailments believers.
He wore a colorful poncho with a sombrero, the attire worn by cattle herders. He rode his mule Malacara to oversee his poor parishioners around Sierra Grandes.
Montanesimo, the portrayal of Jesus as a child in regal vestments, is a pious practice in the Santero (sculpture) Culture among the nobility in 1300.
There is no need to be born, to suffer indignations and be crucified on a cross.
The star, the bright light that heralded Jesus’ coming, is the light that has risen “on the people who sit in darkness…in a land overshadowed by death” (Matthew 4:16).
Jesus, the Truth, the Life and the Way is Mary’s Son. She willed to be the Mother of the Redeemer, knew what it meant from the beginning and kept it all in her heart.
Jesus was born on the first Christmas Day. His coming to the world in man’s likeness was not without unreparable consequences. Lucifer, the greatest of all angels, could not accept the “undignified plan to bow to a God of flesh and bones.”
On December 8, 1854, the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary was declared a dogma, although the Holy Mother was acknowledged as the most holy of person on earth by the early Church.
John pleaded that his severed right hand that was hanged in the market place be returned. The caliph granted the request.
When both mind and body assert that you are dying, rejoice if you are in the state of grace. The time to live forever joyfully is at hand.
“Eternal Father, I offer Thee, the Most Precious Blood of Thy Divine Son, Jesus in union with the masses said throughout the world today for all the Holy Souls in purgatory, for sinners everywhere, for sinners in the universal church, those in my home and within my family. Amen.”
Anxious, bewildered, crushed, disillusioned or grief-stricken? When hopelessly lost, a prayer to Saint Jude, one of the 12 apostles of Jesus, may solve your predicament.
“You sinners, when you want my help, call me Mother of Mercy, yet at the same time, do not cease by your sins to make me a Mother of sorrows and anguish” (Saint Alphonsius de Liguori in the Glories of Mary).
Archbishop Romero concluded his sermon on the Parable of the Grain of Wheat: “Those who surrender to the service of the poor through love of Christ will live like the grain of wheat that dies. If it were not to die, it would remain a solitary grain. The harvest comes because of the grain that dies…. We know that every effort to improve society, above all when society is so full of injustice and sin, is an effort that God blesses; that God wants; that God demands of us.”
Saint Pope Pius V declared October 7 as the Feast of Our Lady of Victory. He later changed it to Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary after the Holy League defeated the Turks in the Battle of Lepanto, off the coast of Greece, in a place now called Naupactos.
“Angel of God, my guardian dear. To whom His love commits me here.
“I need to love You more and more, but I don’t have any more love in my heart. I have given all my love to You. If You want more, fill my heart with Your love, and then oblige me to love You more and more and I will not refuse you.”
Hildegard of Bingen, “one of the few prominent woman in medieval church,” was declared saint by Pope Benedict XVI on May 10, 2012, in equipolente, or equivalent canonization. The pope signed a decree to make it official.
Popes of the Catholic Church condemned chattel slavery, or personal slavery. Pope Pius II in 1462 called it a great crime. “Pope Paul III in 1537 called the exploiters of the practice the instruments of Satan.”
France was populated with Catholics prior to social and political upheavals in 1787. The agitations reached initial climax in 1789, thus, the expression Revolution of 1789 to denote the end of ancient regime in France.
The celebration of the queenship of Mary is significantly related to the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Having pledged themselves and all concerns to God, many people think that religious and spiritual people do not experience spiritual dryness and inclinations to sinful ways.
SAINT Mary Major is a fifth- century basilica in Liberiana 27 in the upper town of Bergamo, Northern Italy. It is dedicated to the Blessed Mother of God.
Busy is a word that describes everyone. What is man busy of? Money, power, honors, with only a few who serve God.
Brigitta Birgersdotter was 10 years old when she heard a homily on the passion of Christ that left a deep impression in her mind.
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