Marian devotions

One of the ten principal virtues of the Blessed Virgin Mary is “continual mental prayer.” During her life, the Blessed Mother was constantly in tune with God’s will. Every morning she woke up thinking about God, she thought about Him continually throughout the day, and she went to bed thinking about Him. She was the new Eve, who possessed the same preternatural gifts that Adam and Eve possessed before they sinned. As a reminder, in addition to an immortal soul, God gave our first parents, Adam and

The night of June 14, a son, Oscar tan skin, black hair, 6 ft. tall, had been promised a deer heart for lunch that day by his father, Ricardo. But on that same exact day, no heart, no deer was brought to the table. Oscar looks down on his father, and Ricardo looks up at him, Oscar with his piercing eyes, full of hate, had gone on a rampage, running toward the forest, banging his hand against his head, he was “en candela”. Oscar had been craving deer heart all that week, this was the 5th time Ricardo

HISTORICAL BACKGROUD Though much of Josquin des Prez’s early life remains a mystery, it is believed that he was either born in Hainaut (Belgium) or in France. For quite a while des Prez’s was believed to have been born in 1440 but recent studies have found that he was actually born some years later, closer to the year 1450. After his father died around 1466, des Prez aunt and uncle, Gille Lebloitte dit des Prez and Jacque Banestonne, renamed him their heir and in their will his name is written

Christy Potter-Kass Hermeneutical Journey Report Sermon #3 – Advent Nov. 22, 2016 Mary’s Magnificat When I decided to preach my third sermon on Mary’s Magnificat, out of the first chapter of Luke, I wasn’t sure it was a very good idea. Not because it didn’t fit the required theme – the Magnificat is about as Advent-focused as you can get – but because since I began preaching on a weekly basis six months ago, I have become comfortable with my chatty exegetical preaching style, in which I explore

Hail Mary by Tupac Shakur A literary Analysis The song “Hail Mary” by Tupac Shakur has sparked continued interest and attracted much criticism. Tupac’s application of the eternal theme of the struggle between good and evil to the cycle of prey vs. predator that is showcased in “Hail Mary” is unique and incorporates heart, mind, body and soul. Tupac explores the catch 22 of falling prey to evil if choosing to become a predator in order to survive, and shares the conflicting emotions of many young

I used to be the person that went along with what everyone else was doing. I used to be the person that focused on basic values such as love, honesty, and confidence. Even though those are values that everyone is expected to have, I never fully understood what they were supposed to look like in everyday life. It was last year around September when my Church released the sign up sheet for a mission trip to Costa Rica. When I was 14-years-old, I attended a trip to Costa Rica with my church. I had the

Medjugorje: A Mother’s Call to Her Children In June of 1981, six children clamed to see Mary the Mother of God standing on a hillside of Medjugorje, a small town in south-east Yugoslavia. These children, four girls and two boys, claim to continue to have Marian apparitions every day, to this day. Thousands of pilgrims each year travel to Medjugorje each year to witness the visionary’s appropriations. These apparitions are not approved by the Catholic Church yet. These apparitions are real and there is

Alexander Weygers lived a life of creative adventure on an income so low it never interested the Internal Revenue Service. He continually complained that man’s essential failure was to know when enough was enough, and he used the line at which he would need to write a check to the IRS as his definition of “enough.” There was one occasion, though, when he flirted with that line. “I got trapped by my own success,” he said. Weygers’ dalliance with the tax man came in the late 1950s when he traded

In the movie The Imitation Game there were many factors of the movie that were true and false in Alan Turing’s life. Although, most of his work is shrouded in mystery, we still have quite a bit of history on the man. Firstly, in the movie, we are showed that Alan has feelings for his dear friend Christopher and that Turing attends an all-boys-academy. This, in fact, is true. Christopher did genuinely exist and the school at which they attended was called Sherborne School in Dorset. In the film we

In mid-14th century Nottingham, under the rule of King Edward II, an outlaw named Robin Hood emerged from Sherwood Forest with his entourage of outlaws he claimed his Merry Men. Robin Hood and his Merry Men have gone down in history as the band of outlaws whom were said to have stolen from the rich and given to the poor, not to mention ridding Nottingham of the malicious Sheriff. Many historians have been questioning the amount of truth behind the story of Robin Hood and his Merry Men that has been