This day is the First Sunday of Advent. Now that the first of the Advent wreath candles is lit up, we Catholics prepare for the first coming of Jesus Christ when He was born on Christmas Day. Advent comes from the Latin word ‘adventus’ which means ‘coming’. But this ‘coming’ …
Our Blessed Mother, 185 years ago, instructed Sister Catherine Laboure (who celebrates her feast day tomorrow) to “Have a medal struck upon this model. Those who wear it will receive great graces, especially if they wear it around their neck.” The Medal of the Immaculate Conception is more known to …
Let us be reminded of our true calling.
Surely, at least once in our life, we have been asked “Have you been saved?” (or “Are you saved?” as the variant) by Protestants (like Born Again ‘Christians’, Mormons, Iglesia ni Cristo (ni Manalo), or Dating Daan (ni Soriano) members here in the Philippines). I have, even as early as …
The saint for this day’s Memorial in the Liturgy of the Hours is St. Margaret of Scotland. A Catholic Queen who used her might for the Church. Saint Margaret of Scotland Optional Memorial Optional memorial, 1969 Calendar, celebration November 16. St. Margaret of Scotland was probably born about 1045 …
When you see Psalm 55 in the Office of Readings of Liturgy of the Hours, you’d recognize immediately it’s speaking of the lament of Jesus Christ for his traitor Judas Iscariot. This goes on to our present time – we also know some people who are supposed to ‘Friends’ to …
This day, the Liturgy of the Hours remembers the Martyrs because of the Memorial for St. Josaphat, Bishop and Martyr. Psalm 44 painfully describes the misfortunes of God’s people. I We heard with our own ears, O God, our fathers have told us the story of the things you …
Because our world has become hedonistic and pleasure-loving, suffering, whether financially, physically, or any sort, is never seen as any good, but just the most horrible and the worst that could a person experience. “Perhaps he is punished by God.” – according to Born Again ‘Christians’, who measure blessings with …
My real conversion started with the Liturgy of the Hours, a.k.a. The Divine Office / Breviary / Canonical Hours. (I like the sound of the Divine Office better, and Breviary sounds more traditional… but I first encountered and remembered this public form of prayer with “Liturgy of the Hours” so …
That’s what you only think so on these tough times. When we are almost crushed by our sufferings, or people have done horrible things to us, experiencing injustice, and we couldn’t lean on anyone else, we call on God to cry out for help and pray. But the problem is …
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