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NO COINCIDENCES IN HEAVEN- A FRIEND OF THE NEW BLESSED McGIVNEY
As I like to say, there are no coincidents in heaven. We have just celebrated the beatification of Father Michael McGivney and someone who had a great devotion to him, has passed to the Father- all...
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STRESS IN THE WORK PLACE- A PATRON
I don’t care who you are or what your work is, there is always some stress. Psychologists tell us that a certain amount of stress in our lives is good, as it basically keeps us going by challenging...
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BLACK CATHOLIC HISTORY MONTH
Mother Hildegard has been away for a month, but will be back very soon to offer you new blogs. This is one she wrote in early November and well worth the wait!When one of the nuns- from Connecticut-...
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PRIEST ON THE TITANIC
Three priests, including one now known as a martyr, offered spiritual comfort to fellow passengers on the doomed Titanic. They, along with 1500 others, perished in the icy Atlantic in 1912. All three...
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BENEDICTINE ON THE TITANIC
FATHER JOSEF PERUSCHITZ, OSB, age 41, was also one of the three Catholic priests on the Titanic and was described by eyewitnesses as declining a place on the lifeboats. The Bavarian priest-monk, born...
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YEAR OF ST. JOSEPH
What better time than Advent for the Holy Father to proclaima Year ofST. JOSEPHin honor of the 150th anniversary of the proclamation as his being the patron of the UniversalChurch by Pope Pius IX on...
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GRACES IN THE YEAR OF ST. JOSEPH
In our last Blog we presented the Year of St. Joseph proclaimed by Pope Francis. What does this mean for Catholics? According to the decree issued by the Apostolic Penitentiary on Dec. 8, there are...
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EXPECTATION
This week of the fourth and last week of Advent, we are so concentrating on Mary and the Birth of her Son, that we tend to overlook St. Joseph, who plays a key part in this whole epic. He is...
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CHRIST IS BORN TO OUR WORLD IN NEED OF MERCY
Lauren Ford- Friend & Benefactor to Regina Laudis AbbeyCHRISTMAS BLESSINGS TO...
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SIMPLICITY AT THE BIRTH OF JESUS
I have done a Blog in the past on our dear friend & benefactor,Lauren Ford, who gifted our Abbey of Regina Laudis, in Bethlehem, Connecticut, her property, Sheepfold, where she lived for many...
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REJOICE VIRGIN MARY
ChristmasYour voice speaks:Little child out of Eternity, now will I sing to thy mother! Thesong shall be fair as dawn-tinted snow.Rejoice Mary Virgin, daughter of my earth, sister of my soul,rejoice, O...
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CHILD IN A WEARY, WEARY WORLD
A Christmas CarolThe Christ-child lay on Mary's lap,His hair was like a light.(O weary, weary were the world,But here is all aright.)The Christ-child lay on Mary's breastHis hair was like a star.(O...
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NEW YEAR'S BLESSINGS
A New Year's Poem Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,The flying cloud, the frosty light;The year is dying in the night;Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.Ring out the old, ring in the new,Ring,...
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HOLY ARTIST
Sometimes in reading Magnificat, I get ideas for this Blog. I like doing research on saints and holy people I do not yet know. I have made some great “friends” this way.Last month’s issue of this...
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HOLY ARTIST
Another religious artist, not known in our country, was ST. ALBERT ADAM CHMIELOWSKI who was born in 1845, near Kraków as the eldest of four children in a wealthy family. Then, Poland formally didn’t...
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HOLY MAN FROM ARIZONA
SERVANT of GOD PAUL MURPHY, an architect from Arizona, was a lay member of Miles Jesu * (Soldier of Jesus). Those who knew him, say he practiced Christian virtues in a heroic way.Friends say he is...
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THE EUCHARIST IN TIME OF NEED
As we await transition in government of our country, many are in fear of what may play out. For sure, many have forgotten the word balance, which is so primary in the Rule of St. Benedict. And while...
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IN NEED OF HEALING
Recently, Cardinal Wilton Gregory of Washington D.C. noted how in that day’s Gospel reading, “the Lord casts out evil spirits, and we often, as we look at the world around us, in particular during...
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UNITY
The theme of the 2021 Week of Prayer for CHRISTIAN UNITY is “Abide in my love and you shall bear much fruit“ (John 15:5-9), and the biblical text is John 15:1-17. “Today is an important day: the Week...
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DEATH OF A CHEESEMAKER
One of the saddest stories I have read in the on-going pandemic, which has caused our world enough grief, is the senseless death of an Ethiopian migrant who became a symbol of integration in Italy by...
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