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Maundy Thursday: What is Christ's love we are called to imitate?
St. John admonishes that we must “not love in word, nor in tongue, but in deed, and in truth.”
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Michael Haynes
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St. Joseph: Patron of the house at Nazareth and the Church today
St. Matthew’s Gospel records how St. Joseph “did as the angel of the Lord had commanded him” – a phrase not just applicable to his decision to take the…
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Michael Haynes
St. Joseph: Patron of the Church, guardian of God's ‘choicest treasures’
God chose Joseph as lord and chief of His household and possessions, the guardian of His choicest treasures, wrote Pope Pius IX.
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Michael Haynes
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Pius XII: Our Lady of Lourdes calls world to heed the truths of Faith
'The Virgin invites us to the blessed grotto in her Divine Son's name for the conversion of our hearts and in the hope of forgiveness. Will we heed…
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Michael Haynes
Leo XIII: Holy Family is model for every Christian family
Every Christian ‘might easily, if he would but give heed to it, have before him a motive and a pattern for the good life,’ wrote Pope Leo XIII.
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Michael Haynes
The espousal of Mary and Joseph - a most perfect union
“All the treasures of God and of the Saints were in Mary,” says the Seraphic Doctor St. Bonaventure of the holy union between Mary and Joseph.
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Michael Haynes
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Cardinal Burke: Unite your hearts with the Sacred Heart at Christmas
How great, how beyond words, is the mystery of God’s love for us that He would become one of us so that we could be one with Him!
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Michael Haynes
Mary’s primacy and her Immaculate Conception
Living Jesus in Mary is the best plan to attain a love which has its origin in a timeless realm where the day will never fade away.
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Michael Haynes
Homily: Mary teaches the virtue of hope for a good Advent
“This Advent let us draw close to Mary, taking up her rosary, perhaps consecrating ourselves to her. She will teach us to advance in the hope that does…
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Fr Thomas Crean
Bishop Schneider: The timeless Catholic liturgy nurtures the Church
“Even from the moment we enter a church to participate in the Holy Mass, we have to try to lift up your mind and heart to Golgotha and to the Heavenly…
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Michael Haynes
Bishop Schneider: If God allows trials He always give spiritual fruits
If Divine Providence will allow that we will as well undergo trials in our time, it will bring undoubtedly abundant spiritual fruits
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Michael Haynes
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Saint Thérèse's Little Way and her burning fire for God
‘I thank You, O my God! for all the graces You have granted me, especially the grace of making me pass through the crucible of suffering,’ St. Thérèse…
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Michael Haynes
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