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Fr. Louis Perroy His Mother’s Heart is Pierced Behold His Mother! We cherish memories of our friends and memories of our mothers but a mother’s memory in all that relates to her child is more tenacious. It reaches back to the child’s first days and only to the mother is it given to find in […]

Saint Francis de Sales The Assumption When Our Lord came into this world, He sought the lowest place there was (Eph. 4:9) and He found none lowlier in humility than the Virgin. Now He raises her up to the highest Heaven in glory. She gave Him a place according to His desire. Now He gives

Charles J. white, S.T.L What think you Of Christ This question Jesus asked His Apostles some few months after He began His public mission. Peter, for himself and the other Apostles said: “Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.” Shortly before His death, Jesus, one morning in the Temple, asked the Jews

Sister  Mary Clair, MICM Saint Benedict Conclusion   Benedict did not leave Rome with the intention of being a reformer. He left the corrupt city when he saw that it was not worth it to stay there when everything around endangered his salvation of his soul.  Looking around at our world today, we can see

Sister  Mary Clair, MICM  Saint   Benedict  Family Joys   Saint Benedict’s twin sister, Scholastica, had also consecrated her life to God from a young age. She looked to Benedict as her master in the mystical life. At rare times when they were together, she loved to speak with him about the spiritual life, the goodness

Sister  Mary Clair, MICM  Saint   Benedict   The   Sword   of  Sorrow   Life was peaceful at Monte Cassino. Benedict was rejoined by Maurus, who became Saint Benedict’s assistant in everything. Now the Order was established, the Rule composed, and new foundations were being built. In 534, three years before his death, he appointed the young monk

Sister  Mary Clair, MICM  Saint   Benedict  The Benedictine Life   Soon, another landowner offered Benedict a piece of property in Terracina, just a few miles from Monte Cassino. Benedict appointed twelve men to establish a new foundation there. So, the light of this new movement began to spread; wild land was cleared and cultivated, and

Sister  Mary Clair, MICM  Saint   Benedict  Monte Cassino   Benedict arrived at Monte Cassino in 529, at the age of 49. He fell in love with the impressive ruins of a Roman fortress owned by Placid’s father. Tertullus gave it to Benedict in the hopes that the monks would establish Christianity among the locals, who

Sister  Mary Clair, MICM  Saint   Benedict   Prayer  and Work   Originally, monastic life began in the East. The great Desert Fathers, Saints Antony, Paul, Pachomius, and Macarius, are some of the venerable names that come to mind of those heroic solitaries. Terrifying in their austerity but beloved in their simplicity, these towering figures paved a