Mary Wants to Visit You!
Mary will come to comfort, companion, and assist us in our mission and trials. Celebrate the Visitation by opening the door of your heart and letting her in.
Mary will come to comfort, companion, and assist us in our mission and trials. Celebrate the Visitation by opening the door of your heart and letting her in.
Mary never refused the slightest of God’s requests and sought always to do his holy Will. Astonished as she was at Gabriel’s Annunciation message, it was a matter of course for her to respond with her simple, humble, yes.
Are you feeling as though you’ve fallen off your bike and are sliding down the slippery slope of botched resolutions and laxity? You’re got Lent Fatigue. Here’s how to get out of it.
At the Presentation, the Holy Family adhered to Jewish custom, not for their own sakes, but for ours so as to show us how to acknowledge the Authority that supercedes all human authority – God alone. Later in their lives, they would show us how to oppose wrongful authority even to the point of our Lord’s Passion and Crucifixion.
Baptism invites us to submit our hearts and wills to Christ, embarking on a journey of deepening love and faithfulness. What better time than now to renew our Baptismal vows? We need to recommit ourselves to living in imitation of Christ, walking in his Light and Wisdom, and rejecting Satan and his evil ways at all costs.
Today we need countless St. John the Baptists who will be the voice in the desert, speaking the truth regardless of the consequences. You can do it, God will help you and St. John the Baptist will intercede for you!
Through the centuries the Church has become ever more aware that Mary, ‘full of grace’ through God, was redeemed from the moment of her conception. That is what the dogma of the Immaculate Conception confesses. Here are five ways to celebrate Mary’s Immaculate Conception..