The Immaculate Heart and the Little Way

For this Immaculate Heart Saturday, I’d like to post a thought-piece that’s like a companion to yesterday’s post. This time on the relationship between the Immaculate Heart of Mary and the Little Way of St. Therese of Lisieux. The Immaculate Heart of Mary is the purity of Mary’s love for her children (and we are her …

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Sacred Heart and the Feast of Mother Most Admirable – October 20

For this Sacred Heart Friday post I did a search for “October 20 and the Sacred Heart,” and not expecting to find much, perhaps a feast day for a saint dedicated to it. I didn’t, but the first hit was this: Feast of Mater Admirabilis – Academy Of The Sacred Heart (LA): On October 20 …

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Queen of Heaven and Earth

Due to a variety of circumstances within my control, I haven’t come up with anything substantive for this week’s Immaculate Heart Saturday. So, here are two images, the first is a pretty one of Mom as the Immaculate Heart. The next is one of Mom being crowned Queeen of Heaven and Earth. In these days …

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October 13th: the Alliance of the Two Hearts of Jesus and Mary! Part 12

Today is October 13th, the day we recall the “Miracle of the Sun” event at Fatima in 1917. This was intended to be a warning. Our Lady said at Fatima, ‘War is punishment for sin.” World War I was raging at the time and among her warnings was that a worse war would take place …

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Miscellaneous Mary Musings

Today is the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary; originally known as Our Lady of Victory, it was created to honor the Blessed Virgin Mary whose protection and intervention were credited with the Holy League’s defeat of the Ottoman Navy in 1571. Failure of the League would have been disastrous for Christian Europe, already …

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St.Jerome and the Immaculate Heart of Mary

For this Immaculate Heart Saturday, I found some connections to the saint whose feast day today is. September 30th is the feast of St. Jerome, a Doctor of the Church and the translator of the Bible into 4th Century vernacular Latin. It was he who said, “Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ.” That’s not …

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St. Michael the Archangel and the Reign of the Sacred Heart

Today is the feast day of St. Michael the Archangel (technically, it’s for all three Archangels, Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael, but since I just completed a Novena to St. Michael, this post is focused on him. I promised Gabriel and Raphael that they’ll get their own post someday. Incidentally, this was originally just St. Michael’s …

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St. Padre Pio and the Immaculate Heart of Mary

Just like yesterday, I am going to ‘cheat’ a little for today’s Immaculate Heart Saturday post and direct your attention an article posted on the EWTN Library on St. Pio of Pietrelcina, popularly known as ‘St. Padre Pio.’ His feast day is today, September 23.  For today, please read “Padre Pio and the Immaculate Heart …

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The Angel of Peace at Fatima: the Alliance of the Two Hearts of Jesus and Mary! Part 11

Three days ago on the 13th of September was the 106th anniversary of the penultimate Apparition of Our Lady at Fatima. Our Lady promised a miracle at her next visit in October. This post has nothing to do with that, but I thought I’d bring it up anyway.  However, for this Immaculate Heart Saturday post, …

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Our Lady of Sorrows: the Alliance of the Two Hearts of Jesus and Mary! Part 10

For this Sacred Heart Friday, I bring up the Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows. It recalls Mary’s seven painful sorrows throughout her life; I believe she often ‘pondered them in her Heart.’   The Prophecy of Simeon  (Luke 2:34)
 The Flight into Egypt by the Holy Family (Matthew 2:13)
 The Loss of the Child Jesus …

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