“Always stay close to this Heavenly Mother because she is the sea to be crossed to reach the shores of Eternal Splendor.”
St. Pio of Pietrelcina
For Reflection:
Name three practical ways you can stay close to Mary. Begin to employ them right away. How is Mary “the sea to be crossed to reach the shores of Eternal Splendor?” Prayerfully consider this and journal your insights.
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David Ellefson, bass player for the heavy metal rock band, Megadeth, has decided he'd rather shout about Christ than belt out tunes celebrating death and has enrolled in Concordia Seminary to prepare to become a Christian pastor.
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While addressing a group of U.S. bishops this week, Pope Benedict XVI noted that Obama administration policies have contributed to a national environment that has become "increasingly hostile to Christianity."
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No one can explain yoga better than a Hindu, and in a recent article by the co-founder and managing director of the Hindu American Foundation, Suhag A. Shukla, Esq. confirms what most American Christians just don't want to accept - that practicing yoga will make you a better Hindu.
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“Never be afraid of loving the Blessed Virgin too much. You can never love her more than Jesus did.”
St. Maximilian Kolbe For Reflection:
What position would Mary hold on Jesus’ own ranking of persons He loves? What indication do you have of this in Sacred Scripture. To what extent do you love Mary? How are you cultivating relationship with her? What one strategy can you employ today to make progress in this direction?
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Christians fed up with the Church in Europe aren't just leaving their congregations, they're taking steps to become officially "de-baptized," and they're doing so in numbers that are beginning to worry Church leaders.
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Negative publicity isn't good for cookie sales, and the recent resignation of a Girl Scout associate who was asked to remove a pro-life t-shirt, coupled with a scathing rebuke of the Scouts' liberal ideology by an internationally known scholar is only adding momentum to calls for the public to take a pass on the do-si-dos this year.
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Outrage is growing over the case of three year-old Amelia Rivera who was denied a liver transplant that would save her life because she suffers from mental retardation.
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“After the love which we owe Jesus Christ, we must give the chief place in our heart to the love of His Mother Mary.”
St. Alphonsus Liguori
For Reflection:
Why is this so? The Church teaches there are three forms of praise – latria, hyperdulia, and dulia. Latria refers to adoration and worship and is reserved for God alone. Dulia is the praise given to all of those who have achieved sanctity and accomplished much for the Kingdom of God. Hyperdulia is dulia to the superlative degree. This is reserved for Mary. What distinguishes Mary from every other saint, so much so that she is titled Queen of All Saints? How do all of the quotes we have discussed this month point to the hyperdulia owed to her?
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A Catholic chaplain scrambled to save the Blessed Sacrament before fleeing the sinking Costa Concordia cruise ship in the Mediterranean Sea on January 13.
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