Prince of Liars

Pride. How we are afflicted with self-importance. Our culture loves to promote self, and we are willing folowers. This Lenten Season would be a good time to practice humility. I, for one, am one in need of much humility.

Pray

Time to reflect.

"Good Shepherd, be with me
in the darkest valleys of my life. Amen"
Ps 23:1-4

The Lenten Season

"From dust you came. To dust you shall return." One would never know that Lent was approaching. After all, this is all about Mardi Gras and partying. The Lenten message is a sobering one for us, but we are also given hope by Jesus.

Wednesday, look around, the ashes on the forehead are visible on a surprising amount of people. While much of our culture turns its head away from death, we can still see the remnant of those who know that there is something much better awaiting us.

Guide Us, Angel of God!

Pray to your Guardian Angel. God has provided them for us, and our Angel will be with us for eternity. Is your Angel starved for communication? Most angels do all the talking, while most of us have turned a deaf ear to them.

Angel of God, my guardian dear...

St. Bernadette, Pray For Us!

Today we honor the simple little peasant girl from Soubirous, France who received visits from the Mother of God. France was very anti-clerical at the time, and she, her parents, her parish priest came under great pressure by the French authorities to recant what she was claiming. Bernadette would not relent. The Blessed Mother would appear to her 15 more times.

The site in France where this occurred is now a place where millions of pilgrims come each year to bathe in the healing waters at Lourdes.

Sorrowful Mother, Pray For Us!

Have you ever seen the artisic rendition of Jesus, head back, laughing uproariously? That image disturbs many who see this interpretation because Our Lord looks like he is without a care. Somehow this does not register with the Son of Man who knew his mission was to die for a sinful creation.

When one of your kids is troubled, can you have this kind of good time? The Sorrowful Mother seems to be a much more realistic picture of the grief we give to her and her Son.

Mary was at the foot of the Cross as Jesus suffered. She knows suffering, especially ours. Go to her for comfort and intercession. She waits for us. Please, don't keep her waiting.

I Am The Immaculate Conception

During the mid 19th century, the Mother of God appeared to a poor peasant girl in France. Everyone, including her parish priest, was sceptical of this teenager's story. When her priest asked the girl to ask the lady to identify herself, she told the girl she was the Immaculate Conception. The priest was stunned that this poor illiterate girl would say this. The girl is St. Bernadette, and the series of apparitions has been known as Our Lady of Lourdes. Lourdes has been the site of thousands of miraculous healings and conversions. Go to her for intercession.

Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for us!