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Gird Your Loins

Stand therefore, and fasten the belt of truth around your waist, and put on the breastplate of righteousness. Ephesians 6:14 I hope everyone had a blessed and happy Easter and Happy Divine Mercy Sunday. I know it has been a … Continue reading

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Make June the Month of Humility

It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels. –Saint Augustine As the world continues to rage, I am reminded that June is the month of the Sacred and Immaculate Hearts. This is … Continue reading

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Freedom: A meditation on the Spiritual Journey

“Truly, the virtue of humility consists in this, that one keep himself within his own limits; he does not stretch himself to what is above him, but he subjects himself to his superior. Saint Thomas Aquinas A Journey to Humility … Continue reading

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The Two Witnesses

And I will grant my two witnesses authority to prophesy for one thousand two hundred sixty days, wearing sackcloth.” These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth. 5 And if anyone wants … Continue reading

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Rejoice in Suffering

My beloved child, delight of my Heart, your words are dearer and more pleasing to me than the angelic chorus. All the treasures of My Heart are open to you. Take from this Heart all that you need for yourself … Continue reading

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The Swirling Confusion

Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all.  So we fix our eyes not … Continue reading

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The Man-Hating Spirit

  that we would not be outwitted by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his designs. 2 Corinthians 2:11   The man-hating spirit is everywhere now (so is the woman hating, but that’s for another article).  It’s a palpable, … Continue reading

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The Marriage Covenant

Gerard David – The Wedding Feast at Cana Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,  and to present her to himself as a … Continue reading

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True Flourishing – the Queenship of Mary

Queenship – Botticelli Now the snake was the most cunning of all the wild animals that the LORD God had made. He asked the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You shall not eat from any of the trees in the … Continue reading

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You aren’t meant to Suffer alone

Rubens – Simon of Cyrene As they led him away, they seized a man, Simon of Cyrene, who was coming from the country, and they laid the cross on him, and made him carry it behind Jesus. Luke 23:26 By: Ashley … Continue reading

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