Blessed Feast of the Mother of Good Counsel! How Our Lady has helped and protected us under this generous title over the years. A novena begun today ends May 4, Solemnity of St Joseph, Ordination Day of our four priests: a providential help for many souls. Pray with us?
The Mother of Good Counsel is called the Madonna of Popes,the last,Pius XII, took her for the Patroness of his pontificate. While highly clerical today, this devotion exemplifies the Lay Apostolate:Petruccia,a wealthy widow who worked on repairing the old shrine, all alone…
I think I’m not allowed to say anything, Jeremy, but you said it rather well. Sometimes it’s enough to ask questions when there could not be any answers. Talk about the Apostolate of the Laity!
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A hundred years ago we'd see this as an act of war against the US citizens.
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It snowed yesterday, Easter Monday, heavy white flakelets to announce something. It was only when I got to Lauds that I realized why: Angels, the Easter Angel who is with us every morning and evening of the Octave,his look like lightning and clothing…like snow! 3rd Antiphon
Unlike Christmas, Angels get overlooked at Easter, though they stay all season. You almost wonder why they figure so prominently in the story, these shining heavenly messengers, delivering orders and cutting no slack, leaving guards terrorized and disciples confused.
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Ah, pray for the Nigerian seminarians and their fledgling Seminary!
Well phrased. But it’s the former who are in the employ of the latter, a scourge perhaps for our sins. All of them work for God’s Justice Department, and none of them could but serve as a latter to Heaven to us laggers who must still make the first rung. God’s Will will be done.
A false speaker riseth up against My Face, contradicting Me.They have opened their mouths upon me,and reproaching Me,have struck me on the cheek;they are filled with my pains.These things have I suffered when I offered pure prayers-Offertory of the Mass of the Holy Face.
I imagine St Mark wanting to spare St Peter the humiliating details of the Betrayal but through his tears The Vicar of Christ insists it all be told, inspiring St Mark to tell one on himself, how he fled away naked from the Garden when the soldiers grabbed the sheet.
The just man is his own accuser. I accuse myself of reading and promoting Ven Mary of Agreda, of practicing the anticommunist Holy Face Devotion beloved of St Therese, of celebrating lo these almost 50 Years the Old Holy Week, unreformed.
The perfect morning was crisp and sunny, the fervor of the faithful palpable, the bells and music glorious and the mule, well, a very model of meekness. He munched on the lawn contentedly whilst we sang the Gloria Laus, waiting for Heaven’s gates to open.
Mary of Agreda | Speray's Catholicism in a Nutshell
This is excellent.Sums it up in a few words. Just glance at the name Gueranger, Leo XIII, Faber,the opposite of another Twitter campaign. Just glance at the names.Well, Bugnini. stevensperay.wordpress.com/c…
Sinfonia Al Santo Sepolcro / RV 169 in B minor (Autograph score) - YouTube composed for a devotional service, this Vivaldi piece will surely calm and inspire us this Holy Week. A beautiful prayer m.youtube.com/watch?v=WVUue2…
I think of the saying Ex Oriente Lux in connection with Fr Valerii, his writing and his already fruitful exile in Ireland, all surely inspired by the Holy Ghost. There is a world of spirituality to be found in these prayers, both devotional and liturgical.
