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BLESSED ARE THE SAINTS
“For the Saints are sent to us by God as so many sermons. We do not use them, it is they who move us and lead us, to where we had not expected to go.” Charles Cardinal Journet (1891-1975) ALL SAINTS...
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WIDOW-NUN
They say we are known by the company we keep. The next two Blogs show us once again, how saints influenced one another in the same time frame. Unlike so many of our modern-day “heroes” whom we admire...
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FRIEND TO SAINTS, POPES AND THE POOR
In the previous Blog, we mentioned ST. LUIGI ORIONE, who was instrumental in Bl. Teresa Grillo Michel’s work in South America.St Luigi was born in Piedmont, Northern Italy, at Pontecurone, a village...
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TWO TO INSPIRE US
The main theme of this Blog is sanctity- that of others, as well as our own. How you may ask can we ever hope to be like someone who reached perfection in this life? We tend to forget that they were...
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ANGEL OF MERCY
BL. MALGORZATA LUCJA (Margaret Lucy) SZEWCZYK was born in 1828 in Szeptówka in Volyn, Ukraine (now Poland) to a noble family. Orphaned at an early age, she was cared for by her half-sister. In...
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BELOVED YOUTH- NEW SAINTS
Pope Francis announced today that Blessed Carlo Acutis and Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati, two of our favorite young Catholics beloved for their vibrant faith and witness to holiness, will be canonized...
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1,000 DAYS OF WAR
Tuesday, the Holy Father Pope Francis wrote a letter to Archbishop Visvaldas Kulbokas, the apostolic nuncio to Ukraine, marking the 1,000th day since the Russian invasion. “I am well aware that no...
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FALLING IN LOVE WITH GOD
Fall in LoveNothing is more practical than finding God, than falling in Love in a quite absolute, final way.What you are in love with, what seizes your imagination, will affect everything.It will...
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ADVENT SAINTS
Last Advent, we focused on SAINTS- the main topic of the Blog. Our future is even less uncertain than it was last year. Wars have not ceased, our climate is even more unstable with hurricanes, fires,...
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BLACK MADONNAS
For Advent, I thought it would be interesting to see some of the BLACK MADONNAS from around the world. We will also consider the GREAT Os (Antophons sung at Vespers during the last days of Advent).I...
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THE GREAT Os- ADVENT
The O ANTIPHONS (also known as the Great Advent Antiphons or Great Os) are Magnificat antiphons used at Vespers on the last seven days (17 to 23 December) of Advent in Western Christian traditions....
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O ADONAI
O ADONAI * (December 18)Latin: O Adonai, et Dux domus Israel, qui Moysi in igne flammae rubi apparuisti, et ei in Sina legem dedisti: veni ad redimendum nos in brachio extento. English: O...
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THE TREE OF JESSE
O RADIX JESSE (December 19)Latin:O radix Jesse,qui stas in signum populorum,]super quem continebunt reges os suum,quem Gentes deprecabunturveni ad liberandum nos, jam noli tardare.EnglishO Root of...
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LA MORENITA
In our first Blog on Black Madonnas, we mentioned that the dark skin color is often due to smoke from candles lit by pilgrims, as well as oil lamps. It can also be due to the effects of oxidation on...
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ANOTHER MORENITA
OUR LADY OF MONTSERRAT is one of the Black Madonnas of Europe, and given the familiar Catalan name, La Moreneta ("the little dark-skinned one" or "the little dark one"). Believed by some to have been...
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MADONNAS OF PRAGUE
.My favorite city in Europe is Prague, but unfortunately so many religious sites are now museums, since Communism took over this great city. One is the Convent of St. Agnes of Bohemia (formerly a...
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SORROWFUL BACK MADONNA
My one regret when I visited Poland in the late 1980s, was that I did not get to see the shrine at Czestochowa. We stayed in Krakow, where I attended Mass in the great Cathedral and we visited...
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KEY OF DAVID
TweetO CLAVIS DAVIDLatin: O Clavis David, et sceptrum domus Israel; qui aperis, et nemo claudit; claudis, et nemo aperit: veni, et educ vinctum de domo carceris, sedentem in tenebris et umbra...
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O MORNING STAR
O ORIENSLatin:O Oriens,splendor lucis aeternae, et sol justitiae:veni, et illumina sedentes in tenebris, et umbra mortis.English:O Morning Star, splendor of light eternal and sun of righteousness:...
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