Posted: December 11, 2024
“Awaken in our hearts desires deserving of fulfillment; suggest to us words that are worthy to be heard; grant that our actions may be worthy of blessing.” –A hymn from the Mozarabic Liturgy (ancient) Intention: Lord, thank You that I am able to do what You have called me to do. Wednesday: Sea
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Posted: December 10, 2024
“Since the day when God comforted his disobedient children in the garden of Eden with the promise of a woman who would crush the head (Gn 3:15) of the evil serpent, there has not been an hour’s truce between them…. [Mary] has fearlessly fought him and won from his grasp soul after soul. She knows that we
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Posted: December 9, 2024
“In defining the dogma of the Immaculate Conception, it was made clear that Mary, being a child of Adam, was in need of the merits of Christ, and that it was because of these merits that she was preserved from the first moment of her existence from the slightest stain of sin.” –Sister Mary Jean
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Posted: December 8, 2024
“All these elements come together in our joy that God became a Child who encourages us to trust as children trust, to give ourselves, and to let ourselves receive. It is perhaps quite difficult for us to accept this joy when we are troubled by questions and when physical illness and spiritual problems attack us
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Posted: December 7, 2024
“Even our Christmas fare has its roots in the Church’s Advent liturgy, which echoes the wonderful words of the Old Testament: On that day the mountains will drip sweetness and the rivers will bring down milk and honey. It was in words such as these that men in the past expressed their hopes in a redeemed
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Posted: December 6, 2024
” In our Advent liturgy, these words have been joined to words from other psalms and the whole has been extended until we have: Mountains and hills will sing praises before God and all the trees of the wood will clap their hands, for the Lord is coming, the ruler, to an eternal kingdom. Our decorated Christmas
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Posted: December 5, 2024
“May this be one of the fruits of your prayer [Holy Saint Nicholas], that the divine Word may be no longer unknown and forgotten in this world, which he has redeemed with his blood.” –Servant of God Prosper Guéranger (+ 1875) Intention: Lord, please bless all the Jews and Christians in the world, and
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Posted: December 4, 2024
“The Church celebrates with joy the feast of the great wonder-worker Nicholas…. He was permitted to be one of the bishops who proclaimed at Nicaea that the Word is consubstantial with the Father. The humiliations of the Son of God did not scandalize him. Neither the lowliness of the flesh, which the sovereign Lord of
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Posted: December 3, 2024
“He gave us a second birth, so that, as we had been born of Adam and had been likened to him and had become heir to his curse and corruption, we might by being born anew of him be likened to him and become heir to his incorruption and blessing and glory….” –Saint John Damascene
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Posted: December 2, 2024
“Since man was made both rational and free, he received the power to be unceasingly united to God by his own choice, provided, of course, that he persevere in the good, that is to say, in obedience to his Creator. Then, when man became disobedient to the commandment of him who had made him and
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