+ “Whenever you come to God in prayer, He stands listening. Even if it is lunchtime, even if dinnertime, even if the worst of times, even if in the marketplace, even if on a journey, even if at work, even if inside the courtroom before a judge, and...
+ And behold, a woman in the city who was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at the table in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster flask of fragrant oil, and stood at His feet behind Him weeping; and she began to wash His feet with...
+ But God forbid that I should boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. (Gal. 6:14). Truly this symbol [of the Cross] is thought despicable, but it is so in the...
+ Blessed Feast of the Cross Our Lord has lifted up for us His hands on the Cross, and stretched out were His hands for us. And why were His hands stretched out on the Cross? So that our hands might be stretched out to do good works...
+ For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. (James 1:23-24) Do not let your hands...
+ Blessed Feast of the Martyrs & St. Verena! “The earth has been filled with the blood of martyrs as with seeds, and from that seed have sprung the crops of the church. They asserted Christ’s cause more effectively when dead than when they were alive. They assert...
+ You have heard in the Gospel, “Take heed, for you know not what hour He comes. But woe to them who are with child, and that give suck in those days.” This is said figuratively. Who are those with child, and who give suck? Those who are...
+ Blessed Feast of the Assumption of the Body of St. Mary But He answered them, saying, “Who is My mother, or My brothers?” And He looked around in a circle at those who sat about Him, and said, “Here are My mother and My brothers! For whoever...
+ Blessed Feast of the Assumption of the Body of St. Mary Is it not true that the Virgin Mary did the Father’s will, she who believed in faith, conceived in faith, and was chosen so that through her salvation could be established for all? Was Mary not...
+ Blessed Feast of Transfiguration & Fast of St. Mary “When Christ was about to show His glory to the disciples, He led them up a lofty mountain in order to teach everyone desiring to see this glory not to rest in base pleasures, not to serve fleshly...
