Mary set outand traveled to the hill country in hasteto a town of Judah,where she entered the house of Zechariahand greeted Elizabeth.When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting,the infant leaped in her womb,and Elizabeth, filled with the Holy Spirit,cried out in a loud voice and said,“Most blessed are you among women,and blessed is the fruit of your …
“One of those ways (for the soul to climb the summit of its perfection, according to English Carmelite Henry de Hanna) is that the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit work in the soul with the glorious consequence that God is born in the soul and (that) He reveals Himself in it in …
The eleven disciples went to Galilee,to the mountain to which Jesus had ordered them.When they all saw him, they worshiped, but they doubted.Then Jesus approached and said to them,“All power in heaven and on earth has been given to me.Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations,baptizing them in the name of the Father,and of …
“It is a happy thought, at the Centenary of the proclamation of Mary’s Motherhood of God in Ephesus in 431 that we are celebrating, that we may see in that divine Motherhood also an image of the mystical act of grace, for which every child of Mary, and indeed especially the Sisters and Brothers of …
Today, May 29, is the memorial of Pope Saint Paul VI. The future pope was born Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini in 1897. He was the son of a prominent newspaper editor. He was ordained in Brescia, Italy in 1920, continued his studies in Rome, and became part of the Vatican secretariat of state …
Jesus and his disciples returned once more to Jerusalem.As he was walking in the temple area,the chief priests, the scribes, and the eldersapproached him and said to him,“By what authority are you doing these things?Or who gave you this authority to do them?”Jesus said to them, “I shall ask you one question.Answer me, and I …
“While the Divine Sun-fire radiates his glow whither He desires, it is the sun-yearning of the soul that draws the rays of the divine love-blaze into the heart of the flower, which continuously turns itself towards the Sun. However, just as the flower turns itself towards the sun, influenced by the sunrays themselves, the receptivity …
Today, May 28, is the memorial of Saint Bernard of Menthon. The large dogs called St. Bernard, trained to search for lost victims in the mountains, are named after him. Patron saint of mountain climbers. Also known as Bernard of Montjoux, he was born to the French nobility in Chateau de Menthon in 1020. His …
Jesus entered Jerusalem and went into the temple area.He looked around at everything and, since it was already late,went out to Bethany with the Twelve. The next day as they were leaving Bethany he was hungry.Seeing from a distance a fig tree in leaf,he went over to see if he could find anything on it.When …
“In the first place (John of the Cross) glorifies in Mary, that she, whom the Angel called full of grace, was wholly filled of the Holy Spirit, always let herself be led by the Holy Spirit, an ideal that we must strive at in our ascent to God. St. John admits that it is not …