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Turn Confidently to Mary

While commenting on the text: “Feed my goats”, an ancient interpreter of the Song of Songs has no difficulty in applying it to Mary with regard to sinners. They, indeed, are the he-goats, he says; and very correctly they are called the goats of Mary. No, certainly not because She …
Fr. Joseph Tissot - 30, November 2021

Channel of My Mellifluous Heart

on one occasion, the Lord Jesus appeared to Gertrude and asked for her heart: “My beloved, give Me your heart.” She offered it joyfully and it seemed to her as if the Lord placed it against His own divine Heart, drawing it out like a channel reaching down to the …
St. Gertrude of Helfta - 31, October 2021

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

Goodness Personified

If God is offended by sin, then the Saviour is glorified by the forgiveness that destroys it. He would seem to want to flood the prodigal sinner with His gifts. [...] Go then, my soul! [...] As soon as you feel ill, please do not hesitate to go immediately to …
Editorial team - 01, May 2026

May the Lord Grant You True Humility

If you are gladdened by the fact that you feel small before God, very well; but it seems to me – forgive me, for I am nothing – that it would be more perfect not to rejoice in this. It would be better to pay no attention to yourself. The …
Editorial team - 01, April 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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