Posted: August 21, 2024
“Catechetical instruction is that milk which the Apostle Peter wished the faithful to desire in all simplicity like newborn babes…. Catechetical instruction, plain and simple though it be, is the word of which God himself speaks through the lips of the prophet Isaiah: And as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and return
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Posted: August 19, 2024
“May the Word which could not and had no need to be made in himself deign to be in me, deign to be to be done unto me according to your word. Let it be done for the whole world, but let it be done unto me uniquely, according to your word.” –Saint Bernard of
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Posted: August 19, 2024
“When we need a special grace to meet certain circumstances, let us ask our Lord through his most benign heart to grant it to us from his Sacred Heart, our treasure-house.” –Saint John Eudes (+ 1680) Intention: Lord, please bless the world with peace on earth. I expect the earth to be at peace
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Posted: August 17, 2024
“Our most lovable Redeemer has given us his most loving heart to be our treasure. It is an immense and inexhaustible treasure that enriches heaven and earth with infinite blessings.” –Saint John Eudes (+ 1680) Intention: Lord, please make of America a nation that becomes like a shining city on a hill for the
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Posted: August 16, 2024
“[God] assures us repeatedly in the Scriptures what he will do with our sins if we repent. He will throw them into the bottom of the sea, the inspired prophet tells us (Mic 7:19).” –Mother Mary Francis of Our Lady, P.C.C. (+ 2006) Intention: Lord, please give us fair and honest elections. Saturday:
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Posted: August 16, 2024
“In Hebrew thought, ‘body’ is not merely the flesh but the whole person as a physical being. Jesus is revealing that his death will be a gift of himself to them. By asking them to ‘take,’ that is, to eat the bread that is his body, he is inviting them to receive this gift of himself
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Posted: August 15, 2024
“In her great poem [the Magnificat], Our Lady talks about what God remembers. At the beginning she speaks of his remembering mercy; at the end she speaks of his remembering mercy. She says at the beginning a progenie in progenies, always remembering his mercy from generation to generation, never forgetting to be merciful. Sometimes we forget—he never does.”
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Posted: August 14, 2024
“‘Until death do us part,’ the words that tell us what we expect of human love, are an expression of permanence. And while that seems to be the ultimate in human love, Mary’s love for her Son demonstrates that even ‘unto death’ is not long enough. Love must last beyond the bounds of space and
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Posted: August 13, 2024
“All you have to do is, from time to time, to utter a few words, above all the following, which may be your only prayer: ‘My God, into your hands I commend my spirit,’ or perhaps: ‘My God, my soul is in your holy grasp…. To you I leave all care of it and wish
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Posted: August 12, 2024
“Try to practice the lesson of our blessed father [Francis de Sales] who told us: “Keep your eyes upon God and let him do his will.” Be of good heart, find your consolation in the will of God, and rest assured that your faith, your hope, and your love of him are greater and more
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