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ST CATHERINE DID A PRINCE'S PURGATORY
There's something about the Catherines, the league of saints whose name means "pure". Just when you've learned about one wonder-working Catherine, you discover another! I knew nothing about St...
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PRIESTS SUFFER MORE PAIN FOR LONGER IN PURGATORY
Of all the French Saints, my heart goes out to St Margaret Mary, to whom Our Lord gave the revelations concerning His Sacred Heart. It may seem an irony, but Margaret Mary knew much heartache. She...
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HELPER OF SOULS IN DOUBT AND DARKNESS
Litany of St Padre PioLord, have mercy.Christ, have mercy.Lord, have mercy.Christ, hear us.Christ, graciously hear us.God the Father of Heaven,have mercy on us.God the Son, Redeemer of the World,have...
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OF YOUR GREAT LOVE, PLEASE PRAY FOR THE LATE COMEDY WRITER....
...Douglas Kenney. He was a friend of some of my friends and he was most famous for his work on the films, Animal House and Caddyshack. He died when he was only 33, but December 10th was his birthday...
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MERRY CHRISTMAS!
I wish all my readers a very merry Christmas. May you and yours get every blessing and grace of the Christmas feast. I’m clad in a black velvet dress for Midnight Mass. For my crib, I have a flower...
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OF MARRIAGE AND MALACHI MARTIN, MY MOST POPULAR POSTS OF 2021 IN REVIEW
During 2021 my blog garnered 485K hits. A year ago I had the goal of 500K, but that was ambitious considering that I had to take six weeks off in the height of summer to work on Padre Pio and You. I'd...
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PLEASE JOIN ME IN STARTING THE NEW YEAR WITH A NOVENA TO ST PHILOMENA
I am starting the new year of 2022 with a novena to St Philomena. I am excited that the novena will begin on January 1st and end on January 9th which is the eve of Philomena's birthday which as she...
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THE COUNT WHO ESCAPED TORTURE BECAUSE HE RELIED ON THE HOLY NAME
King Genseric of the Vandals may have been lame and on the short and stocky side, but what he lacked physically, he made up for in being a genius military strategist and it was his bloodthirsty battle...
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SAINT ANDRE BESSETTE'S FAVORITE MIRACLE
Little Andre Bessette, the French-Canadian miracle-worker was beset by many, many people on a daily basis who asked for his prayers and for him to use his charisms to heal them. But even though...
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ST JOSEPH'S SUPERNATURAL STAIRCASE
Wednesday is the day of St Joseph, and for this year of 2022, occasionally I'd like to remember spectacular miracles of the Foster-Father of Jesus on this day. Today, I'm giving my attention to the...
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SAINT FRANCIS, CONQUEROR OF CARNAL PASSIONS, PRAY FOR US!
My Dear Readers, January 24th is the feast day of St Francis de Sales, the Patron Saint of journalists. I invite you to join me in offering this litany to him. Litany of St. Francis de Sales Lord...
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JOSEPH IS THE HIGHEST SAINT, MICHAEL IS THE HIGHEST ANGEL
I feel called to post about St Joseph on the eve of Wednesday, the day dedicated to him, thus I'm trying to give fresh perspectives on him, well fresh for me at least, I am grappling slowly with the...
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MY LOVE FREDERICK...
...is a Great Pyrenees livestock guarding dog. I met him recently when I was having a retreat on a farm run by young nuns. Frederick minds a flock of sheep, and the two young nuns who care for him...
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ST JOHN BOSCO'S DREAM OF THE HORNED CAT
It is the feast day of Saint John Bosco, the extraordinary priest of the 1800s who revolutionized education for boys, first in his native Italy and then throughout the world. He died on January 31st,...
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AGATHA - PATRON SAINT OF BEAUTIFUL WOMEN PERSECUTED BY THEIR PURSUERS
Of all the early Christian martyrs, St Agatha's martyrdom makes me cower. So much so that I've often resisted learning her story. She spurned a powerful man's advances and for this he ordered that her...
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THAT VALENTINE'S I WAS CALLED THE BEAST...
Many years ago, quite a troubled young man was seeking my affections. I wouldn't have minded had he just had issues, but he had little of the milk of human kindness and he hated Traditional Catholics,...
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PHILOMENA, A POWERFUL PRINCESS IN HEAVEN
I was astounded by the reaction to my last column on St Philomena. I’d known St Philomena to be an awesome advocate, but after I shared my devotion to her with certain young friends of mine, they...
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ST MARGARET OF CORTONA, A SAINT FOR PEOPLE WHOSE SEXUAL PARTNER WON'T MARRY THEM
I confess that before learning about her life, I thought St Margaret of Cortona had nothing to say to modern men and women about, ahem, sex and marriage. I knew she'd been so saintly that the souls in...
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JESUS: "THE CROWN OF THORNS WILL MERIT YOU THE CROWN OF GLORY"
In the year 1850, when she was only 9 years old, the little girl who would grow up to be Sister Mary Martha, had her first vision of Jesus Crucified on the Cross and saw our Savior's Wounds rain blood....
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