Amazing how such a small slip of a young woman, glowing with the happiness of being a joyful new mother could contain in her arms God a baby nestled in...
Light, like a city on a hill, shining in the darkness, like a lantern chasing away the shadows, light that shows the way to peace, light that shows the truth ...
Remember you are dust, and to dust you will return. Think about that. Humans have no guarantees of length or permanence in our daily lives. We had a recent ...
Out of the depths, the darkness of sin, the darkness of being separated, the darkness of doubt, of chosing self over God, the depths of hubris, I have cried to...
Jesus Prays in the Garden Two Gardens In one garden, the lie was chosen over the will of God, and nature groaned under the curse and the grief and the...
Lord, This day, teach us the patience that you have for us, the willing waiting that gives the prodigal chance to return, that sees the pain in the faithful...
O Lord, we are such little things in the broad reaches of the universe, thinking we are great because we make things, or control things, or build things, but...
Lord, You are our healer and our hope, you ask us to bear our cross, then help us struggle beneath its weight. You ask us to be merciful, and, if we are open...
O Lord, There comes a time when standing and waiting and praying our hearts grow weak, our knees faint as we wait for news for our loved ones, our dear ones, ...
Lord, you know your own, those who love you, those who walk in your footsteps, those who call your name with love and hope. Be with those this day in their...
Passion of my Lord, strengthen me, so weak and ready to sin, may memory of each drop of blood spilled pour into my heart like a beacon of love to pull me back ...
Back from Africa, where I was a secular missionary in the Kayon Ghozi's leprosary (Burundi) because of health reasons, I wrote these lucky Flashes of mine,...
In the darkness, Lord, where we wail in the midnight and flounder, and struggle, in that place where hope is rare and death is certain, you come to us we the...
+JMJ+ Dear all, Apologies, apologies for my absence. But I am back now. The Divine Mercy Novena began Good Friday, March 25, 2005. It will continue until...
+JMJ+ FIRST DAY Today bring to Me ALL MANKIND, ESPECIALLY ALL SINNERS Most Merciful Jesus, whose very nature it is to have compassion on us and to forgive us,...
+JMJ+ SECOND DAY Today bring to Me THE SOULS OF PRIESTS AND RELIGIOUS Most Merciful Jesus, from whom comes all that is good, increase Your grace in men and...
+JMJ+ THIRD DAY Today bring to Me ALL DEVOUT AND FAITHFUL SOULS Most Merciful Jesus, from the treasury of Your mercy You impart Your graces in great abundance...
+JMJ+ FOURTH DAY Today bring to Me THOSE WHO DO NOT BELIEVE IN GOD AND THOSE WHO DO NOT YET KNOW ME Most compassionate Jesus, You are the Light of the whole...
+JMJ+ FIFTH DAY Today bring to Me THE SOULS OF THOSE WHO HAVE SEPARATED THEMSELVES FROM MY CHURCH Most Merciful Jesus, Goodness Itself, You do not refuse light...
+JMJ+ SIXTH DAY Today bring to Me THE MEEK AND HUMBLE SOULS AND THE SOULS OF LITTLE CHILDREN Most Merciful Jesus, You yourself have said, 'Learn from Me for I ...
+JMJ+ SEVENTH DAY Today bring to Me THE SOULS WHO ESPECIALLY VENERATE AND GLORIFY MY MERCY Most Merciful Jesus, whose Heart is Love Itself, receive into the ...
Mother, O Lady in White, who lighted on the little bush in a cloud of light, Our Lady of the Rosary, knowing such things were to come, this man, not yet born ...
+JMJ+ EIGHTH DAY Today bring to Me THE SOULS WHO ARE DETAINED IN PURGATORY Most Merciful Jesus, You Yourself have said that You desire mercy; so I bring into...
+JMJ+ NINTH DAY Today bring to Me SOULS WHO HAVE BECOME LUKEWARM Most compassionate Jesus, You are Compassion Itself. I bring lukewarm souls into the abode of...
+JMJ+ Dear all, Today is the great day of grace that we have all been preparing for and desire to enter into. Now is the day to glorify His Mercy as we...
Not new, but I thought I would share them anyway for the Feast of Mercy Abounding love, Ocean of mercy, Heart of light, who waits for us to hear his soft,...
In the darkness I grope, stumbling across the rocks and shards that cannot give me meaning, broken long ago by a single act, an irrevocable choice. And yet you...
Saying goodbye is hard - knowing that your smile will never again grace this earth, or the air vibrate with the lovely cadence of your voice, or know the tread...
+JMJ+ BLESS US, HOLY FATHER, FROM THE WINDOW OF THE FATHER'S HOUSE VATICAN CITY, APR 8, 2005 (VIS) - Below is the English translation of the homily, delivered...