Source At times, it seems that life is threatened on all sides. Please join with others across the nation in prayer. For the nine days between September 7 (the vigil of the feast of the Birth of Mary) and September 15 (the feast of Our Lady of Sorrows), we pray for the intercession of Mary, the M...

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Source By: Hannah Brockhaus/CNA/EWTN News Pope Francis encouraged Catholics to honor the Virgin Mary as their mother, noting that Jesus himself gave her that role. VATICAN CITY — It is good to think about the seven sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary, who freely accepted her calling to b...

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Source Originally published Oct. 14, 2021. My wife is a huge fan of the Harry Potter series. She’s read all of the books multiple times and attended the midnight premiere of each film. When we were dating, the films were still being released and I attended one of the midnight showings wi...

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Source By Sanctity of Life Action Committee of the Diocese of Tyler The annual Sanctity of Life Dinner will be held on October 10, 2022 at the Holiday Inn Conference Center in Tyler. You will not want to miss celebrating the amazing pro-life year 2022 has been. The keynote speaker this year wi...

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Source The Seven Sorrows of Mary are important for us to know and pray. They are all based on scripture and help us recall Mary’s role in salvation history. Though the practice of praying the Seven Sorrows of Mary dates back to the thirteenth century, there has been a resurgence of this ...

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Source By: Joseph Pronechen The feast of these winged crusaders, messengers, rescuers, and protectors ready to help us is the perfect reminder to call upon them. People seem to be taken by superheroes. Fantasy ones. But what about the real celestial superheroes who are waiting to help us and ...

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Source As Our Lady of Sorrows, our Blessed Mother granted several promises for those who would honor her under this title, and Jesus also added four more for this devotion, and Our Lady appeared in Fatima as Our Lady of Sorrows in October. We easily recognize the Blessed Virgin Mary under some...

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Source By Erin Mone Prayer is probably the easiest and, at the same time, the most complicated thing. Many saints have expressed that prayer is simply speaking to God. St Thérèse of Lisieux famously said, “For me, prayer is a surge of the heart; it is a simple look turned toward heaven, it...

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Source On the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, here are 15 ways to live the ‘Marian Option’ in your life. A few weeks ago in my article Before Taking the Benedict Option, Try the Marian Option I suggested that based upon her outstanding track record, Mary is the be...

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Source By: Joel McMichael Let’s talk about soteriology. Now “soteriology” is not a word you would hear at the dining room table, in the barber’s chair, and maybe not even from the ambo at Mass. However, we all have an idea about soteriology. Soteriology comes from the Gre...

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