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SAINTS FOR THE YEAR
Sometimes even Catholics ask, why pray to the saints? Unfortunately, in our Church today so few saints are known, especially the ones who have lived in our lifetime. RCIA programs, unlike in my day...
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HE TAUGHT CUBANS TO THINK
I recently came across a priest who found asylum in the United States. VENERABLE FELIX VARELA y MORALES, born in Havana in, 1788, was a priest, teacher, writer, philosopher, and politician who played a...
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SOLITUDE
This week we celebrated the feast of St. Francis de Sales. Here is one of my favorite quotes from him:"Always remember to retire at various times into the solitude of your own heart even while...
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CONGRATULATIONS FLICKA
.Known as the "non-diva", our friend FREDERICA von STADE, was just inducted into the Opera Hall of Fame. Her ex- agent is a nun in our Mother Abbey. (I have done a Blog in the past on her, but at...
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DAY OF ATONEMENT
“Journeying in Dignity: Listen, Dream, Act” is the theme of the International Day of Prayer and Awareness against Human Trafficking to be held on Feb. 8, a date established by Pope Francis on the...
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MAMA ANTULA- FIRST WOMAN OF ARGENTINA
On Sunday, February 11, Pope Francis will canonize another of his countrymen, its first woman.MARIA ANTONIA de PAZ y FIGUEROA (MAMMA ANTULA) born in 1730 in Argentina, was descended from an...
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ARTISTS TODAY IN UKRAINE- THE ON-GOING BATTLE
Protection of Mother of God- Zilinko Roman, UkraineAt least 95 Ukrainian artists have been killed since the start of the war, according to the United Nations and PEN (the acronym...
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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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LENTEN MARTYRS OF WWII
It has been said that the Catholic Church has had more martyrs in the past 120 years, than in the previous 1800 years combined- and the martyrdom is on-going. We all know of Sts. Maximillion Kolbe,...
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MUSIC OF THE HEART
Recently, I came across an interesting story in BBC Music Magazine (given to us by a neighbor when he finishes with his issue). It caught my attention as the woman in the article is a conductor born...
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NEW UKRAINIAN MUSIC BROUGHT TO LIGHT
While I have never done much about music on my Blog, concentrating more on visual artists, I have a passion for music. My mother sang opera, and since my father’s idea of great music was Tennessee...
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BLOOD SISTERS - 2ND SUNDAY OF LENT
Our next saints for Lent, BL. MARIA MARTA & MARIA EVA WOLOWSKA were blood sisters, and part of the 108 Martyrs of WWII.Kazimiera was born in Lublin, Poland, in 1879, and Bogumiła was born in...
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GRANDMOTHER MARTYR
Our next martyr for Lent, is a laywoman, mother and widow.MARIANNA BIERNACKA (nee Czokała) was born in1888 in Lipsk, Poland. She is also one of the beatified 108 Martyrs of World War II. Marianna...
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TWO MARTYRS OF BELARUS
Why am I emphasizing martyrs of WWII during this Lent? Because the heroic witnesses of these saints and blesseds can be an inspiration for us all, especially in the troubling times of our world today....
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FILLING IN THE GAP- ANOTHER HOLY MARTYR
BL. NATALIA TULASIEWICZ was another lay woman beatified as part of the 108 Martyrs of WWII. She was born in Rzeszów, Poland in 1906. She moved with her family to Poznań in 1921. She studied Polish...
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A FAMILY MAN- MARTYR
Another lay martyr of WWII wasBL. NIKOLAUS GROSS, who was born near Essen, Germany. He first worked in crafts requiring skilled labor before becoming a coal miner like his father while joining a range...
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WOMEN OF THE CHURCH
Today is INTERNATIONAL WOMAN’S DAY and yesterday the Holy Father met with a group in the international conference of “WOMEN IN THE CHURCH: BUILDERS OF HUMANITY”. Here are some of his words, with...
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DOMINICAN BLESSED-WWII
BLESSED MARIA JULIA (nee Stanislawa) RODZINSKA, OP was born on 16 March 1899 in Nawojowa, Poland. She was one of five children of Michał and Marianna (Sekuła). Michal was an organist for the parish...
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MORE CONNECTIONS- IN LENT
In doing research in our previous blog about Bl. Nikolaus Gross, I discovered SERVANT OF GOD EUGEN BOLZ. Interestingly enough he was the uncle of one of our dear friends in the Vatican, Cardinal...
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BROTHER MARTYRS
BLESSED STEFAN GRELEWSKIborn in 1899 in Dwikozy, Swietokrzyskie, Poland was the older brother of Blessed Kazimierz Grelewski. He studied at the Progimnazjum in Sandomierz and Lubartów in Poland....
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