Category Archives: Feast Days

A Christmas Card for Our Readers

I want to wish everyone a Blessed Christmas Season to all, but especially to our eight enlisted readers!  May God bless you with choicest graces in the coming New Year. The image of  our Divine Priest is from Fr. Evagrio’s … Continue reading

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Building a Spiritual Home Novena

Starting today, here is a suggested novena to make in preparation for the celebration of the birth of our Lord Jesus.  This suggestion comes from the discalced Carmelite Sisters and is based on a traditional custom of theirs. December 16, … Continue reading

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A Most Beautiful Sermon on O.L. of Guadalupe

My friend Padre Evagrio Alvarez, OSB has the following sermon for the feast day of Our Lady of Guadalupe posted on his blog, http://volaturae.blogspot.com. I took the trouble to translate the piece because it is beautiful and edifying.  In reading … Continue reading

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TLM in Honor of O.L. of Guadalupe; Blessed Roses

We tend to associate our Lady of Lourdes with bodily healing, forgetting that Our Lady, when invoked under her title of Guadalupe, has also been known to cure bodily infirmities.  One of the most striking examples was way back in … Continue reading

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Day of the Dead

It is piously believed that the souls in Purgatory are allowed to visit their beloved family and friends still on earth, on this the Day of the Dead, or All Souls Day. “And the enemy death shall be destroyed last: … Continue reading

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Relief for the Holy Souls

St. Margaret Mary recommended the daily pilgrimage to purgatory to bring solace and relief to souls detained therein.  If it cannot be done daily, at least give it a try for the duration of the octave of the Feast of … Continue reading

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St. Peter of Alcántara

On this Feast of St. Peter of Alcántara, we take a short break from blogging for some days of prayer and good works.  We will resume posting the first week of November.  

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Mother of Sorrows

She  was found worthy to partake in the redemption of the human race, prepared as she was by the will of God as predestined from all eternity.  Our Lady in her greatest of sorrows: “We must not then be astonished … Continue reading

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Blessed Be the Great Mother of God!

Have a blessed and grace-filled day on this the Feast of Our Lady’s Assumption!

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Feast of St. Philomena

From the Living Rosary Association: “On August 10, 1835, Pauline received a miraculous cure of a severe heart ailment at Saint Philomena’s shrine in Mugnano del Cardinale, Italy, during the Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. Immediately following, she appealed to … Continue reading

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