Maria Middleton participated in the Young Women of Grace program with her classmates at Regina Academy in Ottsville, Pennsylvania in 2017. Little did she know at the time, but she was soon to be diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor that would claim her life three years later. The following article about the remarkable final journey of this courageous young woman appeared in the Spring edition of Signs & Wonders for Our Times magazine and is reprinted here with their kind permission.
A reader of our blog gave us permission to print a moving glimpse into her conversion from the New Age, along with an excerpt from Pope Francis' "The Joy of the Gospel", and asks us all to remember to pray for those who are caught up in these false beliefs.
July 8
“One must have lit in oneself so bright a flame of sympathy and tenderness that all who are beginning as we are ending can come to find their light and fire."
-Elisabeth Leseur
Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) was caught off guard by a shrewd question from the press asking her to explain why she thinks Kermit Gosnell's killing of babies born alive after late term abortions is wrong, and yet condemns the preliminary passage of a bill banning all late-term abortions in the U.S.
In honor of the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States of America, Pope Leo XIV addressed a letter to the American people congratulating them on achieving this historic milestone and praying that the spirit of 1776 will continue to inspire hope and unity in this great nation.
July 6
Feast of Saint Maria Goretti
“Not all of us are expected to die a martyr’s death, but we are called to the pursuit of Christian virtue. This demands strength of character… a constant, persistent and relentless effort is being asked of us right up to the moment of our death.”
-Pope Pius XII at the canonization of St. Maria Goretti
July 5
“This is the essential mission of the apostle; to be a living witness to the greatness and beauty of Christianity; especially at the present day, when so many people have concerning religion only false ideas, prejudices, or total lack of understanding.”
-Raoul Plus, S.J.
July 4
“One of the greatest disasters that happened to modern civilization was for democracy to inscribe ‘liberty’ on its banners instead of ‘justice.’ Because ‘liberty’ was considered the ideal it was not long until some men interpreted it as meaning ‘freedom from justice.'"
-Venerable Fulton J. Sheen
July 3
Feast of Saint Thomas the Apostle
“Unless I see in his hands the print of the nails, and place my finger in the mark of the nails, and place my hand in his side, I will not believe.”
-John 20:25
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