For this Immaculate Heart Saturday, I’ll connect Mary’s title of “Queen of Heaven” to tomorrow’s Solemnity of Jesus Christ, King of the Universe. According to Wikipedia: The Catholic teaching on this subject is expressed in the papal encyclical Ad Caeli Reginam, issued by Pope Pius XII in 1954. It states that Mary is called Queen …
For today’s Immaculate Heart Saturday post I will offer a reminder for the Miraculous Medal Novena, which begins today (for it to end on the day before, or it can begin onn Suday the 19th if you forgot; then it will end on the Feast of the Miraculous Medal, November 27th.) Here is one: EWTN …
I was looking around for what to write about for today’s Immaculate Heart Saturday post (because I still haven’t been taking heed of the numerous reminders I set during the week to plan ahead and maybe get these and the Sacred Heart Friday posts out a few hours earlier) when I found this Prayer for the …
For today’s Immaculate Heart Saturday post, I will continue along the theme from yesterday’s post on the Sacred Heart and Holy Souls. “I am the Mother of all the souls in purgatory, and I am Mother of Mercy to these my children who are in the greatest need of my assistance, since in their torments …
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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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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 …
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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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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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, …
For today’s Immaculate Heart Saturday post, I will bring up something from the Apparitions of the Angel of Peace to the young shepherd children of Fatima in the Spring of 1916. In the first apparition of the Angel, he taught them what was to be the first of the “Fatima Prayers:” “My God, I believe, …