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by bcadmin | Oct 18, 2022 | Blessed Mother, Infancy Narratives, Mary teaches us, News, rosary, Your Heart His Home | 0 |
This month, my parents celebrated their 64th wedding anniversary. I’ve always found their October anniversary significant — as though in a special way, in this month we celebrate the Blessed Mother and her rosary, Mary has kept an especially watchful eye over my parents and our family.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 28, 2022 | Blessed Mother, Catholic Watchmen, Hail Mary, News, rosary | 0 |
The month of the most holy rosary comes upon us in October to remind and refresh us — body and soul— that the prayer time we devote in honor of the Blessed Mother is a timeless treasure. To help keep us in the love of Christ, protect us from the evil of the world and lead us to the safe haven of the heart of God — this most powerful prayer we pray with the most powerful woman in the world is for all Christians.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 21, 2022 | Blessed Mother, Catholic studies, Nade?ge Kokoe Kreitzman, News, Sacred Heart of Jesus, St. Agnes School, Togo, University of St. Thomas, West Africa, Why do I remain Catholic, Why I am Catholic, Wisconsin | 0 |
Like most Catholics, I was baptized into the Church as a little child. I therefore consider myself to be one of the very fortunate people on this earth to have been given this precious gift early on in life. The question that seems more fitting for me, then, is: “Why do I remain Catholic”?
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 8, 2022 | Blessed Mother, Blessed Virgin Mary, devotion, Featured, generosity, intercession, Love, Mary, Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, News, Prayer, Prayer Life & Liturgy, rosary, service, surrender, Surrender & Strength | 0 |
“Mary with Child, Angels and Saints” (detail) by Duccio di Buoninsegna Growing up as a Baptist, leaving that church as a teenager, and living in the spiritual wilderness for two decades until I experienced a significant conversion to Christ…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 8, 2022 | Blessed Mother, Blessed Virgin Mary, Featured, News, Sophia Excerpts | 0 |
An English author tells the story of a mother who tried the incredible in order to save the remains of her child: “The boy had been hung for robbery and buried outside the Christian cemetery. The mother went to look for his remains. Upon being rebuked for her action, she exclaimed, ‘The flesh of my […]
by bcadmin | Aug 12, 2022 | Assumption, Assumption of Mary, Blessed Mother, News, Practicing Catholic | 0 |
Why do Catholics believe that the Blessed Virgin Mary was assumed into heaven, body and soul?
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 6, 2022 | Blessed Mother, Blessed Virgin Mary, Featured, News | 0 |
When I was on a retreat at a Franciscan monastery last fall, I was captivated by a mural in the dining area. There was a brilliant painting of our Blessed Mother, depicting her with a larger than life mantle, in which she gathered saints from every walk of life. The joy on their faces radiated […]
by bcadmin | May 23, 2022 | Blessed Mother, Featured, News, Sophia Excerpts, Spiritual Warfare, Virgin Mary | 0 |
“I Will Put Enmity between You and the Woman.” The one who has defeated the empire of evil is Jesus Christ. His victory, which began at the moment of the Incarnation, was realized during the great test of the Passion and was manifested n all the splendor of His glory on the day of Easter. […]
by bcadmin | May 12, 2022 | Blessed Mother, Blessed Sacrament, Consecration of Russia and Ukraine, Eucharist, Fatima, News, Our Lady, Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament, Portugal, Practicing Catholic, World Apostolate of Fatima | 0 |
Many Catholics devoted to Mary and the rosary know the importance of May 13. It’s the anniversary of the Blessed Mother’s appearance to three children in Fatima, Portugal, in 2017.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 11, 2022 | Already/Not Yet, Asceticism, Blessed Mother, Budding Trees, Holy Cross Church, News, Summertime asceticism | 0 |
From the third-floor attic of the house in which I live, on the campus of Holy Cross church in Northeast Minneapolis, I have a perfect view of the statue of the Blessed Mother in the courtyard down below and — if I crane my neck — of the stone cross atop the church’s facade.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 10, 2022 | Blessed Mother, Blessed Virgin Mary, Featured, News | 0 |
My husband is a seminary professor, and we had his classes over for a cookout recently. My daughters have grown up chasing seminarians around the halls and refectory of “Daddy’s work.” (Because of how spoiled they are when they visit, I often joke that when my youngest sees a man in a Roman collar she […]
by bcadmin | May 2, 2022 | Blessed Mother, Catholic Watchmen, Greatest of women, May, News, On Mother’s Day | 0 |
Rumbling and grumbling to lift myself up out of bed one morning, I was trying to achieve that early-riser heroic moment — eventually I made it — when my wife commented, “You stay up too late.”
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