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Novena for Vocations to the Priesthood – May 23 – June 1

NOVENA PRAYERS TO ST. ANNIBALE MARIA di FRANCIA FOR VOCATIONS TO THE PRIESTHOOD Click image for Novena Prayers FEAST DAY: JUNE 1 click here for more information about St. Annibale

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Take Your Place of Honor in the Whole Order of Creation

FROM THE LETTERS OF THE SERVANT OF GOD, LUISA PICCARRETA Letter #89 – Oh, how happy It will be to live Its Divine Life with the creature who Knows It, because only Knowledge gives us the highest Good of possessing It.  It makes Its Goods our own, and – oh, how happy It is to …

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Priesthood and Victimhood

“If in Christ, Priesthood and victimhood are inseparable, should this not be so in ‘other-Christ’s’? Why have we considered ourselves only as offerers and not as offered, as preachers and not as sin-bearers, as social workers and not as redeemers? The priest is called to be a sin-bearer, as Christ was. This does not mean …

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St. Bernardine of Siena

Saint Bernardine of Siena, priest. Madonna and Child between Saint Francis and Saint Bernardine of Siena Benozzo Gozzoli Click image for information about Saint Bernardine of Siena Collect: O God, who gave the Priest Saint Bernardine of Siena a great love for the holy Name of Jesus, grant, through his merits and prayers, that we …

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Pray, Imitate Jesus

FROM THE LETTERS OF THE SERVANT OF GOD, LUISA PICCARRETA Letter #106 – So, dear Father, let us pray.  Let us do this Will so Holy and let us live in It.  May It be our breath and heartbeat.  If we do so, we will be carried in the Divine Arms; It will lower Itself …

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DIVINE MARTYRDOM – BECOMING A SAINT

DIVINE MARTYRDOM – BECOMING A SAINT  Here is one of the most wonderful and terrifying sentences I have ever read, from William Law’s Serious Call, “If you will look into your own heart in utter honesty, you must admit that there is one and only one reason why you are not even now a saint. …

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FORTITUDE, THE GIFT TO OVERCOME DIFFICULT MOMENTS

FORTITUDE, THE GIFT TO OVERCOME DIFFICULT MOMENTS FROM THE LETTERS OF THE SERVANT OF GOD LUISA PICCARRETA Letter # 80 “…what I recommend is that you never lose peace, and that do not think of your miseries and weaknesses.  The more you think about them, the more you will feel them, and you will really …

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Our Lady of Fatima

Our Lady of Fatima Our Lady of Fatima is the title given to the Blessed Virgin Mary after she appeared to three shepherd children at Fátima, Portugal on the 13th day of six consecutive months in 1917, starting on 13 May. The three children were Lucia dos Santos and siblings Blessed Francisco and Blessed Jacinta …

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WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE SACRED HOST

“WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE CRUCIFIX, YOU UNDERSTAND HOW MUCH JESUS LOVED YOU.  WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE SACRED HOST YOU UNDERSTAND HOW MUCH JESUS LOVES YOU NOW.” -MOTHER TERESA Every day, Jesus humbles Himself just as He did when He came from His Heavenly Throne into the Virgin’s Womb; everyday He comes to us …

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FOURTH SUNDAY OF EASTER – GOOD SHEPHERD SUNDAY

FOURTH SUNDAY OF EASTER – GOOD SHEPHERD SUNDAY Good Shepherd Sunday is the Fourth Sunday of Easter in the Catholic liturgical calendar; that is, the Sunday three weeks after Easter Sunday. The name derives from the gospel readings on this day which are taken from the 10th chapter of John. In this reading Christ is …

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