The saints are God’s best friends. The saints are also our friends. The saints have left us an illuminating and sure path to emulate and imitate on our pilgrimage towards our eternal home—Heaven! However, it also must be said that the saints are great lovers of the Blessed Virgin Mary!
TITLES OF MARY AS QUEEN. In the Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary, we pray very many Biblical and poetical short prayers to Mary. At the tail end of the Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary, there is a series of titles honoring Mary all related to Mary as Queen. … Read more
THE GOLDEN HAIL MARY
One of the great women of the Catholic Church, Saint Gertrude the Great, was a Benedictine mystic, writer, intellectual, but most especially a great lover of both Jesus and Mary His Mother. (Born in Germany 1256; died 1301-1302?)
HERALD OF DIVINE LOVE. Saint Gertrude’s literary masterpiece is titled Herald of Divine Love, which is highly recommended to enrich your spiritual life and to put you on a sure path to holiness.
GERTRUDE THE MYSTIC. Saint Gertrude as a Christian-Catholic mystic was gifted by God with the grace of having very special visions. At times she would have a vision … Read more
Father Ed Broom’s EWTN Interview
HOLINESS THROUGH A ROBUST PRAYER LIFE
We are all called to become saints! Jesus said this very clearly in the Gospel, the Good News of the Kingdom, with these words: Be holy as your heavenly Father is holy. (Mt. 5:48) Also, in one of the Beatitudes the Lord exhorts us: Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for justice (or holiness), for they will be satisfied. (MT 5:6) Saint Paul to the Thessalonians reiterates the same challenge: This is the will of your heavenly father: your sanctification. (I Thessalonians. 4:3) Bible verses constantly remind us of our call to holiness.
If that were not sufficient, the … Read more
FROM HUMDRUM TO HOLY—SWEEP IT CLEAN!
My first book published, thanks to Sophia Press, had its grand debut with the catchy title: From Humdrum to Holy! The whole thrust of this short, humble literary work was, and is, and will be to motivate all of us to move from a humdrum life of mediocrity, tepidity, lukewarmness, spiritual anemia to a sincere and ardent desire to be who God calls us to be— saints, and great saints!
One of the most challenging, stark, almost terrifying passages in the Bible is taken from the last Book of the Bible, the Book of Revelation, or if you like the … Read more
