God created us for happiness; he offers us true life, the happiness for which we were created (Gaudete et exultate 1). Matthew 6:1-6, 16-18 – ‘Then your Father who sees what is done in secret will reward you.’ Lent is the season in which we are invited to explore and discover what it means to […]
Are You Compromising Your Christian Life? And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination. Jeremiah 2:7 (KJV) The children of Israel entered the promise land and truly confirmed that the land was […]
O Jesus, through the most pure heart of Mary, I offer you the prayer, the work, the suffering and the joy of this day in union with your Divine Heart in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.
In 1858, in the grotto of Massabielle, near Lourdes in southern France, Our Lady appeared 18 times to Bernadette Soubirous, a young peasant girl. She revealed herself as the Immaculate Conception, asked that a chapel be built and for people to come in procession and told the girl to drink from a fountain in the […]