From the cross, Jesus gave the person He loved most on earth, His Blessed Mother Mary, to Saint John and to us, as our Mother most holy! May we strive to know Mary, to love Mary, and to imitate Mary a little more every day. In his Marian Spiritual Masterpiece, True Devotion to Mary, Saint Louis de Montfort highlights ten of the most important virtues of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Let us put forth this list of Mary’s principal virtues.

We read in the text of True Devotion to Mary (#108): Third, true devotion to our Lady is … Read more

BIBLICAL PASSAGES POINTING TO THE EUCHARIST…

One of the many channels that can be utilized to augment our faith, devotion, and love for the greatest of all Sacraments, the most Holy Eucharist, is by reading and meditating upon key Biblical passages, both in the Old Testament as well as in the New Testament. The Old Testament presents symbols or what Bible scholars term Types, Biblical Typology of references or allusions to the Eucharist that become a reality in the New Testament. In other words, what is present in hidden, mysterious, and symbolic form in the Old Testament breaks out in … Read more

Saint Ignatius of Loyola in his consideration/meditation Principle and Foundation, after exhorting us to praise God as our first duty and obligation, calls us then to REVERENCE GOD. There is a close relationship to praising God and reverencing God. Actually, we will perceive through our reflections how one leads to and supports the other. Beg for the grace to both praise and reverence God in your life.

DEFINITION.  Off the bat, let us offer a classical definition for Reverence. This definition is taken from the spiritual giant who died in the year 2000, the holy and talented Jesuit priest, Father … Read more

Of all of the expressions of prayer, the most sublime and exalted is that of PRAISE. Saint Ignatius in the Spiritual Exercises, Principle and Foundation (#23) starts out attesting to the fact that Man is created to praise God. Very interesting, before anything else, man is first and foremost created by God so that he might praise God. No doubt, we must reverence God, serve God, submit to God, obey God, listen to God, and multiple other actions we must carry out in our relationship to God, but above all our actions and tributes to God, PRAISE is the summit … Read more

“Man of God”,  “Man for others”,  “Alter-Christus”,  “Jesus Christ on earth”, “The Victim who offers the VICTIM” (Ven. Archbishop Fulton Sheen), “Ambassador of Christ” (Saint Paul), these are just some of the definitions for the person of the priest. In these tempestuous, revolutionary, tumultuous and critical times, it is indispensable that we do all we can to bolster the Church by supporting priests to the very maximum of our capacity. True, priests have failed and scandalized others; still, there are many hard-working, humble, prayerful, zealous, fervent, and holy priests. We should do all we can to support priests … Read more