The suffering of Mary during Christ’s Passion demonstrates her role in God’s redemption of mankind
God, in the designs of His infinite wisdom, has willed that Mary should have a share in the work of the world’s Redemption.
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Articles tagged Penance
St. Mary Magdalene shows us that the love of God can transform the greatest sinner into a saint
Let us also be converts, and turn to that Jesus whose hands are stretched out on the Cross, ever ready to receive the humble penitent.
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True love for our brethren means being ready to ‘lay down our lives’ for them, as Jesus did for us
The Divine Shepherd gives His sheep eternal life; no man shall pluck them out of His hand.
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Studying and imitating the lives of the martyrs will help us withstand the tyranny of sin
'Fear not them that kill the body, and are not able to kill the soul; but rather fear him that can destroy both soul and body into hell.'
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Sincerely repent from your sins this Lent, for Christ invites you to drink from His living water
Let us also learn to dread that false spirituality, which tells us that exterior mortification is of little value: such doctrine is the result of rationalism and cowardice.
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Passion Sunday: Jesus is the Lamb whose sacrifice is the never-failing source of New Life
'Today, if ye shall hear the voice of the Lord, harden not your hearts.'
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God allows us to fall into the death of sin that we might grow in humility
Jesus tells Martha that He is the Resurrection and the Life, and that they who believe in Him shall not die, that is, shall not die the death of sin.
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If you’ve faltered this Lent, reconcile with Jesus and He will bring you to new life
Before entering on the two weeks, which are to be devoted to the commemoration of our Savior’s Passion, the Church shows her children the tender mercies of Him whose Blood is to purchase our reconciliation with Divine Justice.
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Only faith in Jesus Christ can open our eyes from the blindness of sin
We are all born blind; Jesus, by the mystery of his Incarnation, figured by this clay which represents our flesh, has merited for us the gift of sight; but in order that we may receive it, we must go to the pool of him that is divinely sent, and we must be washed in the water of baptism.
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Mankind is doomed to idolatry without the light of Christ
Let us resist our passions, which, if the light of faith were taken from us, would lead us to idolatry.
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