Our Lady of the Holy Rosary Novena Prayer (Sept 29-Oct 7) Mary, my Mother, I come before you as your spiritual child. I pray this Holy Rosary in thanksgiving for your maternal love for...
"When you're feeling so important,/ And your ego is in bloom,/ When you simply take for granted/ You're the wisest in the room,/ When you feel your very absence/ Would leave a great...
SEQ CHAPTER \h \r 1 My God is foolish. To create human beings with free will, with the ability to say No, with the freedom not...
John said to Jesus, "Teacher, we saw someone driving out demons in your name, and we tried to prevent him because he does not follow us." What is your first reflection on this...
“Bear in mind that the more the enemy assaults you, the closer God is to your soul. Think about, and penetrate this great and comforting truth.” (Padre Pio of Pietrelcina) This great saint...
Apologetic Tracts: Basic Difference: Catholicism vs Protestantism
By spiritaflame 12:15 PM Apologetic TracksBasic Difference: Catholicism vs. Protestantism Those who profess both Catholicism and Protestantism are Christians (in many cases); though both believe in Jesus as Lord and Savior, there are a number of evident...
"God's presence in our lives never leaves us tranquil: it always pushes us do something. When God comes, he always calls us out our house. We are visited so that we can visit others;...
"Jesus, on the other hand, stopped; he did not quickly take his distance. He looked at Matthew calmly, peacefully. He looked at him with eyes of mercy; he looked at him as no...
On this Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows we have an opportunity to reflect on the hidden sorrows Our Lady endured as the Mother of the Christ. From the time of Simeon's prophecy...
"Had there been no cross, Christ could not have been crucified. Had there been no cross, life itself could not have been nailed to the tree. And if life had not been nailed...
“Mary means Star of the sea, for as mariners are guided to port by the ocean star, so Christians attain to glory through Mary’s maternal intercession.” –St. Thomas Aquinas Today, we celebrate the...
"The Church is incapable of forgiving any sin without Christ, and Christ is unwilling to forgive any sin without the Church. The Church cannot forgive the sin of one who has not repented,...
"Trust the past to God's mercy, the present to his love, and the future to his providence." (St. Augustine) We have all sinned and God has shown us mercy after repentance. We don't...
Now Jesus and his disciples set out for the villages of Caesarea Philippi. Along the way he asked his disciples, “Who do people say I am?” They said in reply, “John the Baptist,...
"Man's salvation and perfection consists of doing the will of God which he must have in view in all things, and at every moment of his life." (St Peter Claver) To follow this...
Faith & Works Sometimes we tend to emphasize one thing over the other, and rather than see them the way God desires them to be seen, to see them as both. This...
"We never give more honor to Jesus than when we honor his Mother, and we honor her simply and solely to honor him all the more perfectly. We go to her only as...
“It is God himself who teaches us the importance of dedicating time to contemplating and enjoying the fruits of our labors, not only in our employment or profession, but through every action by...
