Penitent Woman. Very Catholic. Custom Heirloom Rosary Designer & Crafter. Married. Convert to Christ. In love with Jesus, Mary, and Saint Clare. Luke 1:46
In 431, at the Council of Ephesus, the Church declared that Mary is truly the Theotokos. 
In the 1100s, the Order of the Holy Trinity was founded by St. John of Matha. 
For decades, the Ottoman Empire had been advancing, city after city, kingdom after kingdom. 
The Christian armies were stuck outside Damietta. Thousands were dying.
It was the middle of the night on the Western Front. Shells were screaming overhead, the earth shaking with constant bombardment. A young French soldier crouched low in his trench, clutching his rosary and trying not to give in to terror. 🧵 👇 
“In the evening of this life, I shall appear before You with empty hands, for I do not ask You, Lord, to count my works. All our justice is stained in Your eyes. I wish, then, to be clothed in Your own Justice and to receive from Your Lovethe eternal possession of Yourself. I want no other Throne, no other Crownbut You, my Beloved!
The Vigil of The Feast of the Exultation of the Holy Cross:
From her first instant in the womb, Mary was different. Conceived without sin, her soul was “entirely absorbed in spirit and entranced by her first vision of the Divinity.”
Prayer in honor of the First Sorrow of Mary: Simeon’s Prophesy in the Temple.
In 1952, Brother Daniele was diagnosed with spleen cancer and underwent surgery.
She wrote of several visions she had about her deceased brother. In the first vision she saw him “exiting from a dark place where there were many desolate and thirsty people. They were all very pale, with dirty clothes, and wounds on their faces like her brother had when he died.”
The great saint says a simple few gesture on the first day of the month could transform the next 30 days.
First off, let’s read the parable together:
The icon was created by Saint Luke himself. He painted the portrait of Madonna and child on a tabletop built by Jesus himself, which served as the Holy Family’s household table.
The Girl Snatched from the Jaws of the Dragon
O my daughter! Would that the believers in the holy Catholic faith opened their hardened and stony hearts in order to attain to a true understanding of the sacred and mysterious blessing of the holy Eucharist! If they would only detach themselves, root out and reject their earthly inclinations, and, restraining their passions, apply themselves with living faith to study by the divine light their great happiness in thus possessing their eternal God in the holy Sacrament and in being able, by its reception and constant intercourse, to participate in the full effects of this heavenly manna! If they would only worthily esteem this precious gift, begin to taste its sweetness, and share in the hidden power of their omnipotent God! Then nothing would ever be wanting to them in their exile. In this, the happy age of the law of grace, mortals have no reason to complain of their weakness and their passions; since in this bread of heaven they have at hand strength and health. It matters not that they are tempted and persecuted by the demon; for by receiving this Sacrament frequently they are enabled to overcome him gloriously. The faithful are themselves to blame for all their poverty and labors, since they pay no attention to this divine mystery, nor avail themselves of the divine powers, thus placed at their disposal by my most holy Son. I tell thee truly, my dearest, that Lucifer and his demons have such a fear of the most holy Eucharist, that to approach it, causes them more torments than to remain in hell itself. Although they do enter churches in order to tempt souls, they enter them with aversion, forcing themselves to endure cruel pains in the hope of destroying a soul and drawing it into sin, especially in the holy places and in the presence of the holy Eucharist. Their wrath against the Lord and against the souls alone could induce them to expose themselves to the torment of his real sacramental presence.
