Trust Her
We bear this treasure in vessels of clay. Such is the expression that St. Paul uses to describe the human person in the state of grace. The expression could equally be applied to the gift of our Marian consecration. We bear the great treasure of being loving slaves of Mary in vessels of clay, that is to say, in the midst of our human weakness.
What is your glory?
In the coming months, Catholics in the modern world can expect the glorification of “modern” saints. First, there is the projected canonization of the Church’s “first millennial saint” in Blessed Carlo Acutis. Then, there is also a holy buzz going around about the possible canonization of Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati, the Italian engineering student who joyfully lived a serious spirituality rooted in the Eucharist, Marian devotion, and charity.
Hearts Made Pure (part II)
Mary’s heart was the first human heart to always be the dwelling place of God. Her heart was an interior home always pure, always open to God’s action and grace.
Hearts Made Pure (part I)
Having celebrated this past week the hearts of Jesus and Mary, we celebrated not just their hearts, but ultimately what their hearts symbolize: redemptive love.
Blessed is She
The expected effect of consecration to Mary is the marianization of one’s life.
Parenting Like Mary
Today, we’re talking about how to marianize your approach to parenting. I want to offer you one way that you can follow Mary’s example in being a parent.
Lost and Found for Love
Before telling the parable of the prodigal son, Jesus warmed the hearts of his listeners with two shorter parables of mercy…..
If You Don’t Take Risks for God…
Whether you realized it or not, this past week was a special one for the disciples of Marian devotion. It involved two events linked to two great sons of Mary.
The Word’s Reliance on Mary
Why do I bring up “reliance”? Because, in the mind of our great Marian teacher, St. Louis de Montfort, today’s Solemnity of the Annunciation is all about Jesus’ reliance, aka dependence, on Mary.
Oh, Happy Fault!
It is recorded in the lives of the Desert Fathers that one day Abbot Isaac was sitting with Abbot Poemen and saw him in ecstasy. Since there was a great deal of confidence between the two religious, Abbot Isaac prostrated himself before Abbot Poemen and begged him saying, “Tell me where you were.”
