Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
While most of the world hails the blockbuster movie, Wonder Woman, as a new box-office record for a film directed by a woman, the devoted mother who starred in the movie and who was five months pregnant while filming parts of it is a stark reminder to all of us that embracing authentic femininity can put the heroine in all of us.
June 7
“By reading and reflecting I found God; but by praying I believed that God found me and that He is a living reality and that we can love Him in the same way that we can love a person.”
-Servant of God Madeleine Delbrel
The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) has issued new “enhanced” policies which are aimed at promoting homosexuality and transgenderism among youth and say that they “will not tolerate” anyone who is not supportive of children’s “right to self-determination of sexual/gender identity.”
The Church in Italy suffered yet another blow in the past week when a thief posing as a pilgrim stole part of the brain of St. John Bosco that was housed in a reliquary in a church near Turin.
June 6
Feast of St. Norbert (1080 - 1134)
"Faith was the outstanding virtue of Norbert’s life. Affable and charming, amiable to one and all, he was at ease in the company of the humble and the great alike."
-From the life of St. Norbert
We recently received this testimony from a reader of our blog who warns that even people who consider themselves to be devout in their faith can be seriously harmed by dabbling in New Age and/or occult-based practices. As this reader warns: “The devil seduces Christians into the New Age by making it seem harmless.” It’s not!
The faithful from around the world are once again offering prayers of support and comfort to the British people who suffered yet another terrorist attack on Saturday night that took the lives of seven innocent people.
June 5
"How could this be?" Mary asked the angel. Gabriel answered, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be called holy, the Son of God."
(Facebook)When a priest in Italy discovered blasphemous graffiti on the wall of his church, he responded to the vandals with an open letter on Facebook which has gone viral.
Fatima Shrine at Malvern Retreat CenterWomen of Grace is returning to Malvern, Pennsylvania for its annual retreat and this one is bound to be even more powerful than usual because we will be celebrating a quintessential moment in the history of the Church – the 100th anniversary of the Marian apparitions at Fatima.
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