Reflecting on Our Lady of Fatima’s Messages to the Children and to Lucia as a Religious Sister
A Lecture delivered at the Fatima Conference, October 12, 2017 by Rev. Fr. Benedict Hughes, CMRI Although most faithful Catholics are well aware of the story of the six apparitions of Our Lady at Fatima in 1917, not a great deal of attention is paid to the further apparitions to Lucia after she entered the […]
Quotes from 10 Mystics That Help Us Meditate on Mary’s Sorrows
by Alexis M. Lepicier, OSMtranslated by Marge Radford (Winter, 2017) What good can come from our meditating on the sorrows of the mother of God and her Most Holy Son? St. Alexis Faconeri (+1310), one of the seven Holy Founders of the Servite Order. A 14th century historian cites him as having said these memorable […]
To Win Our Grateful Love: Reflections on the Sacred Heart Devotion
A Sermon Preached by Very Rev. Fr. Casimir Puskorius, CMRI (Spring, 2016) My Dearly Beloved: Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus is one of the most beautiful, most rich, and most profound devotions that we have in the Catholic Church and it is absolutely theological and powerful in its meaning. Today as we celebrate […]
Tecla-The Crucifix
The Crucifix Terra Cotta Sculpture 18 inches My son was leaving for school. I had packed his bag and books. My heart was breaking. I wanted to give him a special gift, so I sculpted this Crucifix for him to take. The clay was barely dry when he left.
Tecla-Father, Forgive Them
FATHER FORGIVE THEM 24 X 36 Oil on Canvas As a child and into my adult life, I have never been a fan of blood–to the degree that I have flat-out fainted at the sight! Yet, as a Catholic, I was taught to honor images of the Crucifixion and was often asked to paint them. […]
