My past infidelities should not discourage me, for I must always remember and impress upon my mind as a first principle that discouragement never comes from Christ, our Lord. Rather, my past failures should underline my conviction that of myself I have not much to offer in the past or in the future. Instead, I […]
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Today is the Feast of Our Lady of Loreto. Let me renew my efforts to spend these remaining days of Advent as Mary did in her Home in Nazareth — with ever more careful service of the Lord. Perhaps it may seem that time goes by so quickly and I find myself doing everything else […]
Picture to yourself the Blessed Virgin doing her household work at Nazareth, spending her Advent in preparation for the coming of the Redeemer. Petition: I beg that the Lord rouse His power and come to me, that He support me with His great strength.
Hail, pure Virgin, sun-robed Virgin, Hear our land’s Magnificat! Hear our country loudly chanting, “Hail Thee! Queen Immaculate! O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to Thee.
No matter what the past — “now is the hour for us to rise from sleep.” This Advent should be a time when I really reform my life in preparation for His coming, making my Advent preparation in constant invitation of Christ, thus showing my love in deed and not merely in word.
The word “Advent” means a “coming.” Though I might wish that I had lived at the time of Christ’s first coming, I am inevitably bound to the present. Still, though I could not be actually present at the first coming of Christ, the Church encourages me through a period of some 4 weeks to think […]
Christ’s Incarnation is the very basis of my faith. He came into the world to lead it back to His Father. During these weeks I beg Our Lord to come into my heart to lead me back to Him again.
How many seasons of Advent have I celebrated? How much real profit have I drawn from them? How much greater has been my love of God as a result of them? No matter what the past — “now is the hour for us to rise from sleep.”
What is prayer? Prayer is the movement of myself, the whole of me, towards the welcoming arms of God. Mother Patricia O’Connor, C.D.S. Founding Superior, Friend, & Guide
Stay with us, Lord; behold evening is here and our hearts are still too slow to believe that You had to die in order to rise again. Stay with us Lord.