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In Dark Days, Welcome Gifts from the Church

Divine Mercy; Mary Immaculate; intercession for the Holy Souls; serving the Church where the need is greatest. In light of the Marian charisms, we’re coming up on one of the spiritually richest weeks of saints and feasts in the Church’s entire calendar.

Holiness from the Heart of Jesus: Blessed Dina Bélanger

Part 15: In the next entry of his new weekly series on the Sacred Heart, Dr. Robert Stackpole explores the spiritual legacy of Blessed Dina Bélanger (1897-1929), a Canadian religious with an extraordinary desire to console our Lord.

Why Padre Pio?

We celebrate his feast day on Sept. 23Padre Pio (1887-1968) - the Italian friar, priest, stigmatist, and mystic - is one of the most famous of our 20th-century saints. We can chalk that up to his stigmata - the wounds of Christ visible on his hands, feet, and side. But why Padre Pio? And what does his stigmata mean for us?

Holiness from the Heart of Jesus: St. Charles De Foucauld

Part 14: In the next entry of his new weekly series on the Sacred Heart, Dr. Robert Stackpole explores the incredible love that the recently canonized St. Charles de Foucauld (1858-1916) had for the Sacred Heart of Jesus, especially present in the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar.

Learn from the Marian Fathers’ Founder as Never Before

Ten years in the making, involving the work of Marian Fathers old, new, and in formation, the book Saint Stanislaus Papczyński: Selected Writings is finally available, offering a modern English translation of the majority of the known works of the Founder of the Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception and one of the outstanding figures in Polish Catholic history and culture.

Our Lady of Sorrows: Rebuke of Pride, Hope of the Humble

Thank God for the gift of Our Lady of Sorrows, whose feast we celebrate on Sept. 15, since in some fashion, it’s her sorrows that make her most familiar to us. Without the sorrows of our Lord and Our Lady, the Church would be left tongue-tied in the face of the problems of evil and suffering. 

A Most Holy Name

Let us never fail to call upon Mary in times of temptation and darkness. Let us faithfully pray the Rosary for peace in the world and the triumph of the Immaculate Heart, calling upon the name of Mary with every Hail Mary again and again until we come home to heaven or heaven comes to earth at the end of the world.

Let go, let God and His Mercy

"I was having trouble healing from some past relationships," a playwright admits. "God was telling me it was time to leave the past behind. How did it serve me to keep rehashing it?"

On the Queen of Heaven’s birthday, a secular queen dies

Whatever you thought of the late Queen Elizabeth II, her country, or her church, we devotees of the Divine Mercy have a special obligation to pray for another who is dying or has died. It’s what Our Lady would want for her birthday.

Calling all souls for the Holy Souls!

The 12th annual Mercy for Souls Conference will be held on Saturday, Sept. 10. More than a decade of conferences is a big commitment, but, says Fr. Dan Cambra, MIC, it’s all been worth it. 

Joyfully encountering Mary on her birthday

The Nativity of Our Lady, Sept. 8, falling nine months after the Dec. 8 observance of the Immaculate Conception, is a joyous feast day when Maria Gallagher remembers, in a special way, the model of grace that Mary represents. 

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