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SHOCKED IN ADVENT
One of our favorite Advent books is Advent of the Heart: Seasonal Sermons and Prison Writings by Father Alfred Delp, SJ the heroic German Jesuit priest who was imprisoned and martyred by the Nazis...
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ADVENT SAINTS
Holy women and men do not have easier lives than other people. Indeed, they too have their own problems to address, and, what is more, they are often the objects of opposition. But their strength is...
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DON'T CALL ME A SAINT!
Dorothy Day was famous for saying: Don’t call me a saint. I don’t want to be dismissed that easily”. She did not feel she was any better than any other Christian seeking Christ, and that holiness...
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MOTHER OF THE AMERICAS
PRAYER TO OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE O Virgin of Guadalupe, Mother of the Americas, grant to our homes the grace of loving and respecting life in its beginnings, with the same love with which you...
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FAITHFULNESS AND COURAGE- TO BE A SAINT
The Catechism of the Catholic Church says of the intercession of the saints: “Exactly as Christian communion among our fellow pilgrims brings us closer to Christ, so our communion with the saints...
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NOT WHAT WE EXPECT
A tremendous spiritual event then took place; something which disclosed the very nature of God and His relation to His universe. But there was little to show for it on the surface of life. All men...
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ADVENT NIGHT
Charm with your stainlessness these winter nights, Skies, and be perfect! Fly vivider in the fiery dark, you quiet meteors, And disappear. You moon, be low to go down, This is your full!The four...
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ADVENT SURRENDER
As we draw near Christmas, this sense of our own need and of the whole world’s need of God’s coming – never greater perhaps than it is now – becomes more intense. In the great Advent Antiphons which...
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ON HIS MOTHER'S HEART
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 breast, His hair was like a...
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CHRISTMAS PRAYER
A Christmas Prayer by Robert Louis Stevenson O God, our loving Father, help us Rightly to remember the birth of Jesus, That we may share in the song of the Angels, the gladness of the shepherds And...
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A CAROL
Flocks feed by darkness with a noise of whispers, In the dry grass of pastures, And lull the solemn night with their weak bells.The little towns upon the rocky hills Look down as meek as children:...
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SHY HEARTS
Tonight when the hoar frost falls on the wood,And the rabbit cowers, and the squirrel is cold,And the horned owl huddles against a star, And the drifts are deep, and the year is old, All shy...
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NEW YEAR SAINTS
The Second Vatican Council teaches about the saints:Being more closely united to Christ, those who dwell in heaven fix the whole Church more firmly in holiness... They do not cease to intercede with...
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MOTHER OF GOD- 2024
Anna Makac- PolandOn January 1, the feast of the Mother of God, the Holy Father had these words:"The Church needs Mary in order to recover her own feminine...
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SPIRITUAL FATHER
Once again I have found saints who were connected. So we begin the new year with some holy people not well known in our country, but who were canonized in our lifetime.ST. RAPHAEL KALINOWSKI, OCD is...
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THE JOURNEY
JOURNEY OF THE MAGI (T.S. Eliot)A cold coming we had of it,Just the worst time of the yearFor a journey, and such a long journey:The ways deep and the weather sharp,The very dead of winter.”And the...
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ADORATION
We have lost the habit of adoration, we have lost the ability that gives us adoration. Let us rediscover our taste for the prayer of adoration. Let us acknowledge Jesus as our God and Lord, and...
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HOLY NOBLE
BL. AUGUST FRANCISZEK MARIA ANNA JOZEF KAJETAN CZARTORYSKIwas a Polish professed member of the Salesians of Don Bosco and a noble prince. He was born in Paris during his house's exile.His constant...
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CONNECTIONS
Once again we find a connection between saints.VENERABLE ANDREA BELTRAMIwas born in Omegna, in the province of Novara in 1870. In his family, he received a lasting education in Christian values....
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HAVE WE FORGOTTEN?
Mother of God - Solomia Kazanivska -Ukraine,2019Has the world already forgotten the plight of the Ukrainians, who not long ago were forefront in the headlines? Have...
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