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Fragrance Rising to My Throne

St. Faustina Kowalska photographed in1929 One day in the novitiate, when the Novice Mistress sent me to work in the children’s kitchen, I was very worried, as I couldn’t manage with the cooking pots, because they were huge. The most difficult thing was draining the potatoes; sometimes I dropped half …
St. Faustina Kowalska - 30, September 2021

May Your Good Guardian Angel Protect You

May your good Guardian Angel protect you. He is your guide, who leads you along the difficult paths of life. May he always keep you in the grace of Jesus, sustain you so that you do not stumble on any stone; may he keep you safe under his wings from …
St. Pio of Pietrelcina, OFMCap - 31, August 2021

Prelude to the Vengeance upon the Serpent

As true Israelites, Joachim and Anne had been, in due course, cleansed of original sin and lived in the state of grace. But the grandeur of the conception of the Mother of the Messiah required that they be raised to a degree of holiness and purification never before attained. Therefore, …
Msgr. João Scognamiglio Clá Dias, EP - 30, June 2021

A Marian Soul from His Mother’s Womb

St. John the Baptist is a soul so ardently Marian that, even in his mother’s womb, he rendered Our Lady a pronounced act of devotion. He is the apostle, the faithful disciple, the perfect devotee of the Blessed Virgin, who hears her voice, discerns in Her the first echoes of …
Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira - 31, May 2021

Will She Have Looked at Me in Vain?

I n the In the present-day world, Mary Most Holy presents herself to us as a Queen seated on her throne, placed in a large hall filled with enemies who wish to dethrone Her. They have already pulled down her canopy; from her venerable brow they have snatched the crown …
Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira - 30, April 2021

Do Not Permit the Demons this Outrage!

As I entered the straight street from which the Vatican dome can be seen, I saw another Angel seated calmly upon it. On his left arm he carried a spool with a very long chain. A link from one end of the chain was slipped onto a finger of his …
Blessed Francisco Palau y Quer - 28, February 2021

I Want to Be with You at the Foot of the Cross

How happy was my soul, my good Mother, when I had the happiness of beholding You! I love to remember those sweet moments, spent under your gaze overflowing with kindness and mercy towards us. O Mary, keep Jesus in my heart! I no longer want to do my will, but …
St. Bernadette Soubirous - 31, January 2021

St. Joseph’s Great Perplexity

When he noticed the Blessed Virgin in maternity, oblivious that within her was the Divine Infant, St. Joseph undoubtedly experienced great perplexity. […] In the throes of his turmoil, as he penetrated Mary’s gaze, he continued to see it as God’s gaze upon him, more crystalline than pristine waters, brighter …
Msgr. João Scognamiglio Clá Dias, EP - 01, March 2026

What Is More Desirable on Earth than this Union?

How shall I now speak of the closeness between Therese and Celine?… How?… “A garden enclosed”; and I would add: “a sealed fountain” (cf. Sg 4:12), but the fountain was not sealed, it flowed freely: From our hearts rushed “rivers of living water” (Jn 7:38) which spread forth, leading our …
Celine Martin, OCD - 01, February 2026

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