MS asks: "I'm seeing more and more advertisements for pet psychics at my vet's office. Are these people for real?"
January 4
"Then the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves aprons."
- Gen. 3:7
In a short but moving testament to the Lord which was written just a year after he assumed the Chair of Peter, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI thanked God for guiding him “through all kinds of confusion” and issued a plea to all those who were entrusted to his service in the church to “Stand firm in the faith! Do not be confused!”
Believe it or not, a new game modeled on a Ouija board that claims to facilitate communication with Jesus is actually being sold on Amazon! But that’s not the worst of the story.
January 3
"So God created man in His own image."
-Genesis 1:26
January 2
"God is love."
-John 4:16
January 1
Solemnity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of God
"For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life."
- John 3:16
December 31
Eve of the Feast of Mary, Mother of God
Mother benign of our redeeming Lord,
Star of the sea and portal of the skies,
Unto thy fallen people help afford –
Fallen, but striving still anew to rise.
Thou who dids’t once, while wond’ring
worlds adored,
Bear thy Creator, Virgin then as now,
O by thy holy joy at Gabriel’s word,
Pity the sinners who before thee bow.
-Roman Breviary, Antiphon of the Blessed Virgin
December 30
"God could make a bigger world or a wider sky, but He could not raise a pure creature higher than Mary, for the dignity of Mother of God is the highest dignity that can be conferred on a creature.”
-St. Bonaventure
Photo by Christina @ wocintechchat.com on UnsplashCommentary by Susan Brinkmann OCDS
The overturning of Roe v. Wade this summer has barely put a dent in the abortion doula business with some organizations claiming the number of women wanting to serve as doulas has actually increased since the decision was handed down.
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