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Jesus told us: Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the road is easy that leads to destruction, and there are many who take it. For the gate is narrow and the road is hard that leads to life, and there are few who find it. (Matt. 7:13-14) How do we […]
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The Catholic Church traditionally celebrates May as the Month of Mary. It is a time when we honor and recognize the Blessed Virgin Mary for her unique role as the Mother of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. The Angelus, which is based on scripture, is an ancient Marian prayer that focuses on the Incarnation.
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The month of May is Mary’s month and we appropriately honor all mothers for who they are and what they have done for us during Mary’s month. As the mother of God, she deserves the greatest honor and thanks for her “yes” to God and his plan of salvation. Her “yes” allowed the Incarnation to
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Written by a mother and grandmother, Our Lady’s Message to Three Shepherd Children and the World is the perfect book to teach children about Our Lady of Fatima – especially since the Church just celebrated the 100th year anniversary of the Marian apparition. Donna-Marie Cooper O’Boyle is well known for her book, Our Lady of Fatima: 100 Years of Stories,
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In 1917, Our Lady appeared to three shepherd children in Fatima. She told them about the rosary, Christ’s love for them, and the Immaculate Heart. The children said Mary appeared to them six times between May and October of 1917. Father Thomas McGlynn, a Dominican priest and sculpture, published a book about his knowledge of Fatima
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You know the Marian apparitions of Guadalupe and Lourdes, Fatima and the Miraculous Medal, but the Blessed Virgin Mary has appeared many other times and in many other places. Here are some approved apparitions you may not have heard of. Our Lady of Laus In May 1664, seventeen year old Benoite Rencurel saw a
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If you’re like me, you’re always on the lookout for a concise approach to apologetics and explanations of Church teachings. The volumes of scholarly work available are fantastic, but it’s often labor intensive to dig through it all. The less words and more direct approach, the better—for me. One of those topics that I’m frequently
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The Annunciation of the Archangel Gabriel to the Blessed Virgin Mary–that she would be the Mother of God–is celebrated each year on March 25. Because of this, March 25 is precisely nine months before Christmas! Here’s five more fascinating facts about the Annunciation! “The Annunciation” by Fra Angelico (ca. 1437-1446) 1. The Annunciation only appears
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The Canary islands ushered in Lent with a display of blasphemy one bishop described as “the saddest day of my stay in Canarias.” They also did an impression of Jesus… The display took place during a drag queen celebration marking Carnival, or the celebration of the eve of Lent. A drag depiction
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This is one of those awesome ideas that always makes me think two things to myself: Why didn’t I think of that? and Why are we not funding this?! Well, people did fund it. I found out about the Wallet Rosary on the Joe Sales blog and I was astonished at how amazing this simple little idea
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Video at bottom! On August 6, 1945 during World War II, an atomic bomb was dropped on the town of Hiroshima, Japan. 140,000 people were killed or injured. There was a home eight blocks (about 1 kilometer) from where the A-Bomb exploded. This home had a church attached to it which was completely destroyed, but
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Emo culture sometimes eats up the words “sad” and “sorrowful” along with words like “angst” and “punk”. While a lot of emo music and culture is sad, not all sadness is emo. Mary, the Mother of God, had seven super intense sorrows…but she’s not emo! She’s just sad. The Prophecy of Simeon (Luke 2:34-35)
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NAGASAKI — August 9th marked the 71st anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, and to mark the horrific event, about 1,000 torch-bearers did a unique and unexpected thing: they honored Mary by carrying her from the Urakami Cathedral to Nagasaki Peace Park. But this is no ordinary statue of Mary, she was all that was
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There is one pilgrimage I would never plan to visit: the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City, Mexico. I just don’t see what the big deal is with Our Lady of Guadalupe anyways. 1. First off, it’s in a rural area Which means there is nothing to do, at all. 2.
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1. A devotion to the Hail Mary prayer can be traced to the 1100s. Abbot Baldwin, the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1184 wrote about a devotion to the ‘Hail Mary’ prayer and said, “To this salutation of the Angel, by which we daily greet the most Blessed Virgin, with such devotion as we may, we
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Those 2nd century Christians did some things that would never fly in an Evangelical community today. Check out these nine things that the people schooled by the apostles saw fit to do in their day, things they knew they had the authority to do. 1. There was no worship music BOOM! (like the bass drum
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As of this writing I am halfway through preparation of Marian consecration and boy are my will, intellect, and passions tired! Eh? Get it? It’s funny because Aquinas—never mind. But no seriously, the past two weeks have been the interior version of basic training. Except instead of your body doing one-arm pushups while a sweaty,
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For those who are sarcasm deaf, please turn up your hearing aides.
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