Articles in 'Mary & The Saints'
The 3 O'clock Hour: The Chaplet Of The Divine Mercy
The 3 O'clock Hour: The Chaplet Of The Divine Mercy
By Frank J. Maduri
I was in a religious store during Lent and I overheard two ladies talking to the lady who owns the store. They were explaining to the store owner that they were looking for gift ideas for a relative that had recently relocated out of the area to take a job. Then about 6 months later, she was told that the company was downsizing and her job was going to be eliminated.
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Easter: Why it's more than a Day
Easter: Why it's more than a Day
By Emily Anne Brandenburg
I don't know about you, but I am glad Lent is over. While I've always appreciated the sacrifice and meaning of it during Lent, sacrifice is so hard! I remember one Lent I gave up chocolate, and I started to dream of chocolate some nights.
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Church Ignites Hearts
Church Ignites Hearts
By Billy Critchley-Menor
Often times, I will listen to a song and place it in a different context than it was originally written for. Sister Cristina, the nun who won the Voice Italy last year did this with most of the songs she performed. In her first blind audition, which was widely shared on social media, she sang No One by Alicia Keys.
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Accident
Accident
By Mallory Hoffman
She waited for the priest to arrive. Her children were crying. They were telling her how much she was loved. They told her how much they would miss her. Her husband wept silently as he held her hand. "I love you! I love you! I'm sorry!" He had been drinking heavily that day.
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On Praying to the Saints
On Praying to the Saints
By Crysaly Aviles
I pray to the saints for divine intercession. I’ve had miraculous results praying to the saints. I’ve heard criticism from being idolatrous to being unChristian for doing so. Scripture indeed declares that we are to honor God as our single source of adoration; however, praying to the saints doesn’t negate this commandment.
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Screwtape Visits Connecticut
Screwtape Visits Connecticut
By Bill Dunn
A number of years ago a rancorous debate took place in the pages of a local public forum newspaper in my area between Catholics and Evangelical Protestants. There was a lot of bitter “We’re right and you’re wrong!” claims, and a fair number of sarcastic insults.
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Maccabees Mama
Maccabees Mama
By Mary Ann Gambill
Sick kids make people squirm. It's just a basic truth. We don't want to think about children in pain or dying or being alone or scared. It goes against nature. Those commercials that show starving children are very effective for a reason. Please, sponsor this child for 2 cents a day and we don't ever have to feel guilty or think about this atrocity again as we sip your $4 coffee.
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Women At Prayer
Women At Prayer
By Ebeth Weidner
One day several years ago, after listening to my husband complain yet again about his job, I began an innocent and unobtrusive prayer campaign for his fulfillment as the breadwinner of the family. The Irish Catholic that I am, I wrote on a note card, "Dear Jesus, please help Doug find fulfillment in his career." and stuck it in my Bible.
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A Quick Reflection on St. Joseph and Family Life
A Quick Reflection on St. Joseph and Family Life
By Tommy Raines
The Holy Family has always been a source of inspiration to me. St. Joseph is my guide and role model. I am in constant awe of my blessings, especially my family. Like most families, we seem to get caught up in the routines of life work schedules, school activities, homework, baths, prayers and bedtime, day in and day out.
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From Darkness Into Light
From Darkness Into Light
By Michael Adsit
Lent is now over and many of us are back to drinking coffee, eating chocolate, having a fine glass of wine, playing on our smartphones and life feels normal again. I love Lent, because it’s an excellent way to prepare ourselves for the Easter Season and draw us closer to Jesus.
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The Conversion of Saul and the Infinite Merit of Suffering
The Conversion of Saul and the Infinite Merit of Suffering
By David Vermont
Saul’s conversion on the road to Damascus is one of the most famous stories of the New Testament. Let’s look closely at some of the details. To do so first, we must go to Acts 5, where we read: But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men. The God of our fathers raised Jesus whom you killed by hanging him on a tree.
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Do You Recognize the Risen Jesus?
Do You Recognize the Risen Jesus?
By Nina Rizzo
The disciples' plans, dreams, and hopes for a savior king were obliterated on Good Friday when Jesus is beaten, scourged, and nailed to a tree next to common criminals. Unlike the disciples, overcome with despair, we know how the story ends. Victory is ours! Easter morning is in essence a flashback for us.
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Holy Darkness
Holy Darkness
By Nancy Marie Murray
If there were ever a time in history when the world needed a patron saint of atheists, it surely must be now. And we may just have a candidate, one who is on her way to canonized sainthood: Blessed Teresa of Calcutta. Mother Teresa experienced years of darkness in her life of faith, as revealed in her letters published in the book "Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light".
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Mystical Union Is Not a Fairytale
Mystical Union Is Not a Fairytale
By Melanie Jean Juneau
Twenty-five years ago, my husband discovered a book at a Trappist monastery that changed our lives entitled “Guidelines For Mystical Prayer” by a British Carmelite nun, Ruth Burrows. It is a book that questioned my basic premise about the nature of reality, rekindled joy in my drooping spirit then challenged me to change and to live in mystical union with Christ and to let God live in me.
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Light of the World
Light of the World
By JoAnne Hudek-Dole
Do you think a streetlamp knows how much light it gives the street and houses it illuminates? Or maybe it feels lost in the darkness - especially if it is on a lonely country road without another streetlamp nearby. What about the sun? Does it feel closed in, surrounded by darkness? So far from the nearest light-emitting star, is it lonely for the light? I wonder.
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Radiant Awakening
Radiant Awakening
By Rose Rea
Radiant Magazine is a national, Catholic magazine for young women that began a few years ago by God connecting my love of magazines with my love for Him. After teaching confirmation for a few years and not seeing the joy and excitement that young girls should have about the precious gift that is our Catholic faith, I wanted to bring that back.
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Father Ignatius Makes a Discovery
Father Ignatius Makes a Discovery
By Victor S E Moubarak
There are times when a light turns on in your head and you see something clearly for the first time and understand something new you’d never realized before. Father Ignatius was a studious type of person spending many hours reading the Bible as well as many books on theology, ancient history and similar subjects which would soon send any lesser head spinning widely.
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