Love

February 14

February 14

Love is the key to the mystery. Love by its very nature is not selfish, but generous. It seeks not its own, but the good of others. The measure of love is not the pleasure it gives – that is the way the world judges it – but the joy and peace it can purchase for others.

                                                            –Ven. Fulton J. Sheen Read the rest…

Abortion Wars Get Ugly This Weekend

18935336 - red and black poster with fist and placardCommentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS

Thousands of pro-life activists gathered at hundreds of Planned Parenthood clinics this weekend to demand an end to taxpayer funding of the abortion giant, only to be met with counter protests of abortion supporters behaving badly – such as the one who recently shoved a used maxi pad into the mouth of a pro-lifer!

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His Will

February 13

February 13

What do you think His will is? The Lord asks of us only two things: love of His Majesty and love of our neighbor. These are what we must work for. By keeping them with perfection, we do His will and so will be united with Him.

                                                                        –St. Teresa of Avila Read the rest…

Purity

February 12

February 12

If you would attain the purity you ask of me, there are three principal things you must do. You must be united with me in loving affection, bearing in your memory the blessings you have received from me. With the eye of your understanding you must see my affectionate charity, how unspeakably much I love you. And when the human will is concerned you must consider my will rather than people’s evil intentions, for I am their judge – not you, but I.

–Our Lord to St. Catherine of Siena Read the rest…

Feast of the Immaculate Conception

Our Lady of Lourdes

February 11
Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes

“I am the Immaculate Conception”
–The Blessed Virgin to St. Bernadetter Soubirous

For Reflection: Do I understand the meaning of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception — that Mary was conceived without the blemish of original sin? I will ask the Blessed Mother today to enhance my appreciation of this great truth.

(Quote from Graceful Living)

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