The Thorns in Her Heart
"Have compassion on the Heart of your Most Holy Mother, covered with thorns with which ungrateful men pierce it at every moment; and there is no-one to make an act of reparation to remove them" - Our Lord to Sister Lucia of Fatima One of the most painful things a...
Recent Articles on the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Saints and the Spiritual Life
The Pierced Heart
"God our Father, when Jesus, Your Son, was raised up on the Cross, it was Your will that Mary, His Mother, should stand there and suffer with Him in Her Heart.." - Concluding Prayer of the Office of Our Lady of Sorrows Sorrow and suffering are strange things. Amongst...
The Gifts of the Saints
“Miss no single opportunity of making some small sacrifice, here by a smiling look, there by a kindly word; always doing the smallest right and doing it all for love.” - Saint Thérèse of Lisieux One of the great treasures of the Catholic Church are our Saints. These...
A Morning Offering
"Blessed be the Lord, Who has heard the sound of my pleading. The Lord is my strength and my shield, in Whom my heart trusts. I am helped, so my heart rejoices; with my song, I praise Him." - Psalm 28:6-7As Christians, we have a duty to pray, for prayer is the bridge...
Apostle of the Two Hearts
“You must never separate what God has so perfectly united. So closely are Jesus and Mary bound up with each other that whoever beholds Jesus sees Mary; whoever loves Jesus, loves Mary; whoever has devotion to Jesus, has devotion to Mary.” – St John Eudes (Statue...
The Light From Her Hands
"Tell everybody that God grants graces through the Immaculate Heart of Mary; that people are to ask Her for them." - Saint Jacinta MartoThe story of Fatima is a broad catechesis of the Catholic Faith. The Angelic appearances in 1916 taught the children the reality of...
Assumed Into Heaven
"And a great sign appeared in the Heavens, a Woman clothed with the sun" - Rev.12Each year on 15th August, the Catholic Church celebrates the feast of the Assumption of Our Blessed Lady into Heaven. In fact, the Church declared the Assumption to be a Dogma of the...
Recent Articles on The Rosary
The Secret Of The Rosary
"Say the Rosary often with faith, humility, confidence and perseverance." - St Louis Marie de Montfort “A prayer so easy and yet so rich..” – Pope St John Paul IIAlthough it may be the most popular of all Catholic devotions and even the one most associated with being...
Men And The Rosary
"Get a Rosary, have it blessed by a Catholic Priest, carry it with you always and - above all - pray the Rosary, every single day."In January of this year, I wrote about The Rosary Revival and in that post, I said this – “In ‘Marialis Cultus’, Pope Paul gives a hint...
The Rosary Revival
"A prayer so easy and yet so rich.." - Pope St John Paul II At the present time, it seems there is something of a resurgence in the praying of the holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary. There are new books on the subject, renewed calls to it's prayerful recitation,...