Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Our Lady of Lourdes: "be glad because of her"

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... all you who love her." -- Isaiah 66:10-14c This twofold movement of prayer to Mary has found a privileged expression in the Av...
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Monday, January 5, 2015

Saint John Neumann: "We receive from him whatever we ask"

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because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him. And his commandment is this: we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Chris...
Saturday, December 27, 2014

The Holy Family: "the Church is nothing other the 'the family of God'"

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Christ chose to be born and grow up in the bosom of the holy family of Joseph and Mary. The Church is nothing other than "the family...
Monday, December 22, 2014

"O King of the Gentiles": waiting for Christ to "gather into one the children of God who are scattered abroad

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" O King of the Gentiles, yea, and Desire thereof, O Cornerstone that makest of twain one; come to save man, whom thou hast made of the...
Saturday, December 20, 2014

O Key of David: Jesus, "who is called Christ", should be born of Joseph's spouse into the messianic lineage of David"

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O Key of David, * and Sceptre of the house of Israel that openest, and no man shutteth; and shuttest and no man openeth; come to bring out t...
Friday, December 19, 2014

"O Root of Jesse": the characteristics of the Messiah in the "Book of Emmanuel"

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"O Root of Jesse, * which standest for an ensign of the people, at whom the kings shall shut their mouths, to whom the Gentiles shall...
Thursday, December 18, 2014

O Adonai: in reading of Sacred Scripture, the revealed name (YHWH) is replaced by the divine title "LORD", in Hebrew "Adonai"

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Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will raise up a righteous shoot to David; As king he shall reign and govern wisely,...