1 Corinthians 9:11
11 If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?

Tuesday 23-September, 2025

If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.

1 Corinthians 13:2

Miracle of the Holy Fire - Church of the Holy Sepulchre Jerusalem Year 2019
https://youtube.com/watch?v=V_juMN60M5k&si=Lyv0OzPiH_qAsXnn

In Spain in the year 1218 A.D., the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared in separate visions to St. Peter Nolasco, St. Raymond of Penafort, and King James I of Aragon.

She asked them to establish a religious order to liberate Christians who had been kidnapped by the Moors, transported to African prisons, and cruelly tortured to deny their faith in Christ. Members of the new Order of Mercedarians were to do this by means of prayer, raising money to pay for ransom, and taking a vow to offer themselves, if needed, in exchange for the enslaved Christians. Under Mary’s special protection, the order grew rapidly and those ransomed are numbered in the tens of thousands.

Paintings of Our Lady of Ransom always show her as protecting people with her mantle, or robe. Sometimes she is pictured with the people of her order, sometimes with the men she appeared to, and other times with those she has helped to free.

The feast of Our Lady of Ransom is celebrated on September 24th.

Romans 10:1
1 Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved.

Thursday 25-September, 2025

John 15:11
11 These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.

Friday 26-September, 2025

Would Jesus like La La Land?

Psalms 40:9-10
9 I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O Lord, thou knowest. 10 I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation.

Saturday 27-September, 2025

The highest joy in marriage comes not from agreement alone, but from unity in something greater than ourselves.

@providentfathers

If you hear “Hail” and your first thought is Hitler, not Mary you are quite something, but not Catholic.

Proverbs 27:22
22 Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.

Monday 29-September, 2025

A heavenly sight sunlight streams through St. Michael's Abbey and illuminates the altar

May, O Lord, the light of Thy Countenance shine upon us!

Pax et bonum

Psalms 119:11
11 Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.

Tuesday 30-September, 2025