St. Philomena: Powerful with God
When I was growing up, my mother used to tell me to pray to St. Philomena whenever I was deeply troubled about problems that seemed to have no solution. She had given me a framed picture of St....
View ArticleWhat a Saint!!!
In my previous post I shared the story of St. Philomena and how my friend and I were making a pilgrimage to pray to St. Philomena on behalf of her daughter who has been very ill, in great pain and very...
View ArticleRuby Slippers
The following is a re-post of a little poem I wrote in December of 2010. I think it's fitting to share it again today in honor of our dear Papa Benny-may his days of earthly sojourn be filled with...
View ArticleFr. Jim Kubicki's Heroic Catholicism: Can You Live the Faith Today?
It was a bit of short notice, but I learned about a talk that was to be given by one of my favorite friends, Fr. Jim Kubicki, SJ, the National Director of the Apostleship of Prayer, from a facebook...
View ArticleGleaming Dust or Gleaming Divinity?
The world of the internet can be so amazing, can't it? What I love best about the internet is all of the wonderful people I've met online through common interests such as praying for priests. One...
View ArticleLead Us Not Into Temptation
One of my Lenten goals is to read Pope Benedict's books, Jesus of Nazareth and Jesus of Nazareth: Holy Week. I am greatly encouraged by what he writes regarding the sixth petition of the Lord's prayer,...
View ArticleI Want My Daddy!
"But I also receive many letters from ordinary people who write to me simply from their heart and make me feel their affection, born from being together with Christ Jesus, in the Church. These people...
View ArticleWisdom from Archbishop Fulton Sheen
“And yet at that moment when a tree of his own creation turned against Him and became a cross, when the iron of His earth reacted against Him and became nails, when roses rebelled against Him and...
View ArticleLaziness-The Original Sin
I'm always easily suggestible, especially when it comes to books, so when Fr. Jim Kubicki, SJ, the National Director of the Apostleship of Prayer, began his talk on Heroic Catholicism by mentioning the...
View ArticleDance to the Music That is the Love of God
You know I'm always on the search for inspiration and I love it when it falls right into my lap. On the drive home from Mass yesterday, I opened the bulletin to read the news (my husband was...
View ArticleThe Holy Face in the Way of the Cross I-Jesus Before Pilate
The Stations of the Cross have always been my favorite devotion. Today I had the great joy of attending a Living Stations of the Cross that was held at the school where my two youngest children...
View ArticleThe Holy Face in the Way of the Cross II-Jesus is Laden with the Cross
In this second Station we see the Face of Christ uplifted in anticipation of oblation. Before Pilate, Jesus is the Lamb of God; before the Cross, He is the Lion of the House of Juda, on whose...
View ArticleThe Holy Face in the Way of the Cross III-Jesus Falls Under the Weight of the...
Moral failure, moral weakness, was not possible to Jesus, the All-Holy Son of God; but He knew how often in us moral and physical infirmities are allied; how often, as a result of original sin, man's...
View ArticleThe Holy Face in the Way of the Cross IV-Jesus Meets His Blessed Mother
(The fourth in a series of posts praying the Stations of the Cross...begin here and then follow along each day.)It would be hard to conceive a moment at once of deeper anguish and of higher exaltation...
View ArticleThe Holy Face in the Way of the Cross V-Simon of Cyrene helps Jesus to carry...
(The fifth in a series of posts praying the Stations of the Cross...begin here and then follow along each day.)Simon of Cyrene is more than an historic figure; he is as well a symbol of untold millions...
View ArticleThe Holy Face in the Way of the Cross VI-A holy woman wipes the Face of Jesus
(The sixth in a series of posts praying the Stations of the Cross...begin here and then follow along each day.) No less a symbol than Simon of Cyrene, as well as more admirable, is the holy woman whom...
View ArticleThe Holy Face in the Way of the Cross VII-Jesus falls the second time
(The seventh in a series of posts praying the Stations of the Cross...begin here and then follow along each day.) Jesus was mindful of the abiding character of human frailty and in this His second fall...
View ArticleThe Holy Face in the Way of the Cross VIII-Jesus consoles the women of Jerusalem
(The eighth in a series of posts praying the Stations of the Cross...begin here and then follow along each day.)There is dignity that no indignity can destroy manifest in the Face of Jesus as He turns...
View ArticleThe Holy Face in the Way of the Cross IX-Jesus falls the third time
(The ninth in a series of posts praying the Stations of the Cross...begin here and then follow along each day.)There is an utter weariness in the Holy Face drooping like a tired flower back to the...
View ArticleThe Holy Face in the Way of the Cross X-Jesus is stripped of His garments
(The tenth in a series of posts praying the Stations of the Cross...begin here and then follow along each day.) The mental suffering of Jesus is indicated in His Face in this, the tenth station. Men...
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