Sobriety in a Time of Pandemic
By now you have all learned from various sources that there is currently a global health crisis. The US Centers for Disease Control and the World Health Organization have provided much information on...
View ArticleFaith in a time of Pandemic
Recently, in Sobriety in a Time of Pandemic I blogged a bit on coping in a time of a pandemic. Saints to intercede for us and so on. Now that it’s been a few days, I’m expanding upon that. This is the...
View ArticleSpiritual Communions
OK, as promised in Worshipping and Adoring in a time of Pandemic here are several spiritual communions you can use daily (and multiple times a day) in these times; and whether or not you can get to...
View ArticlePsalms for sanity
I am blogging this in an Adoration Chapel; I’ve added a Holy Hour in addition to my usual one later in the week. I’m not boasting, I simply like Adoration and the Chapel isn’t too far from home. While...
View ArticleRogation Days May 2020
This post is taken from an earlier one and has been edited. There is a ancient pious Catholic practice known as the “Rogation Days.” They take place annually on the Feast of St. Mark the Evangelist on...
View ArticleOn Bob Waldrop and introducing the Novena of Novenas
Today begins a special period of prayer, the “Novena of Novenas.” This was started several years ago by Bob Waldrop, the late founder of the St. Oscar Romero Catholic Worker House in Oklahoma City. Bob...
View ArticleA Novena of Novenas for Justice, Peace, and Creation I: to the Immaculate...
And so begins the First of the Nine Novenas for Justice, Peace, & Creation, and this one is dedicated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Servant of God Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin. It runs from June...
View ArticleNovena of Novenas for Justice, Peace and Creation II: Our Lady of Guadalupe,...
And today begins the Second of the Nine Novenas for Justice, Peace, & Creation, and this one is dedicated to Our Lady of Guadalupe, Blessed Stanley Rother, and All the Martyrs of Latin America. It...
View ArticleThe Holy Face Devotion: what we need for our times
During the late 1840’s. Our Lord Jesus Christ appeared to a Carmelite nun in Tours, France, and revealed a message to her that was to be shared with the world. That message was the Devotion to His Most...
View ArticleThe Holy Face, Disfigured by Sin
The essence of the Holy Face Devotion, and why it the Holy Face is the object, is reparation for sin; and since our sins were taken upon Our Lord in His propitiatory sacrifice on Calvary, there is a...
View ArticleBooks on the Holy Face Devotion. And a chaplet.
I introduced to you the Holy Face Devotion in these two posts: The Holy Face Devotion: what we need for our times and The Holy Face, Disfigured by Sin In short, the Devotion to the Holy Face is a work...
View ArticleOn Consecrating and Trusting
Of the pillars of my Catholic Faith, two are very important (apart from my marriage): my consecration to the Blessed Virgin Mary through the method of St. Maximilian Maria Kolbe and my devotion to the...
View ArticleOn the meaning and impact of prayers
Recently I have begun to really look hard at the words of the various prayers I recite every day. I wonder if many of us do that, really look at them and try and grasp what you’re praying. Be careful...
View ArticleNovena of Novenas for Justice, Peace and Creation III: Our Lady of the...
Today begins the Third of our Nine Novenas for Justice, Peace, & Creation, and this one is dedicated to Our Lady of the Precious Blood and St. Franz Jagerstatter and St. Teresa Benedicta of the...
View ArticleGarden sobriety
I occasionally blog about “going outside to get outside (of yourself.)” Pope St. John Paul II frequently exhorted people to see God in Creation; not to worship the Created, but to cherish the work of...
View ArticleNovena of Novenas for Justice, Peace, and Creation V: Our Lady Mother of...
Today begins the Fifth of the Nine Novenas for Justice, Peace, and Creation, and this one is dedicated to the Our Lady Mother of Mercy & Saints Vincent de Paul & Louise Marillac. It runs from...
View ArticleNovena of Novenas for Justice, Peace, and Creation VI: Our Lady of the...
Today begins the Sixth of the Nine Novenas for Justice, Peace, and Creation, and this one is dedicated to Our Lady of the Assumption and Saints Isidore & Maria. It runs from August 4 through August...
View ArticleNovena to St. Maximilian Kolbe begins today!
Reblogged from last year: Today begins a novena to St. Maximilian Maria Kolbe, one of my favorite saints for a myriad of reasons. One of them, and not the primary one, even, is his patronage of...
View ArticleNovena of Novenas for Justice, Peace, and Creation VIII: Our Lady Mother of...
Today begins the Eighth of the Nine Novenas for Justice, Peace, and Creation, and this one is dedicated to Our Lady Mother of Charity and Mother Mary Elizabeth Lange. It runs from August 22 through...
View ArticleNovena of Novenas IX: Our Lady of Sorrows & Saint Archbishop Oscar Romero
Today begins the Ninth of the Nine Novenas for Justice, Peace, and Creation, and this one is dedicated to Our Lady of Sorrows & Saint Archbishop Oscar Romero. It runs from August 31 through...
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