Saints and Feasts and Rogation Days, Oh My!

On May 8, 2024May 8, 2024 By Lee (@disciple96)In AscensionLeave a comment

+JMJ+ Whew! So much is happening this week. We’re in May, the month devoted to the Blessed Virgin Mary, tomorrow is Ascension Thurday (except most of the US will observe it on Sunday). There are two saints’ memorials today, and it’s the feast of the apparition of St. Michael in 590 AD, and the dedication of the sanctuary built on the site. AND today is the final day of the Minor Rogation Days. (I have to admit, I’ve heard of Rogation Days and I’ve read about them, but I’m only just now getting it through my head what they actually are. What can I say? I discovered the Church long after the changes of Vatican II, and though I read a lot of old books, what I don’t know is vast.

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Mysteries of the Rosary in Art

On April 24, 2023April 25, 2023 By Lee (@disciple96)In Rosary Project, Sacred ArtLeave a comment

This series is part of the Rosary Project.

+JMJ+ Continuing in our Rosary art series, I thought we’d look at another painting of the Resurrection, this time one by Matthias Grünewald. It’s part of a large winged altarpiece, a polyptych. And instead of me stumbling through the post, this time we have Kelly Bagdanov to guide us. These video aren’t explicitly about the Rosary, but the Resurrection is the First Glorious Mystery and the art in the video is a painting of the Resurrection (and other related scenes). That works. I’ll need a cuppa, then let’s go.

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3 Things to Share Tonight, Time-Sensitive!

On December 5, 2022 By Lee (@disciple96)In Advent, Rosary, Seasonal, UncategorizedLeave a comment

+JMJ+ Greetings, y’all. I’ve got three things to share with you, all time-sensitive: a reminder about our current flash giveaway for Advent, the Worldwide Women’s Rosary, and a Christmas Novena. All of these are soon to take place or happening now, so this post will be brief and to the point. Let’s go!

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Happy New Year’s Eve!

On December 31, 2021December 31, 2021 By Lee (@disciple96)In New Year, SeasonalLeave a comment

The Catholic Book of the Month posts for 2022 begin on Thursday, January 6, featuring Brant Pitre’s Introduction to the Spiritual Life. See this post for more. Enter the Giveaway. Drawing is on New Year’s Day so enter soon!

Join me tonight to pray the Rosary for the New Year to build a civilization of Love, Light and Life, Truth, Goodness, and Beauty. Check my profile page at a quarter before 7pm CT/8pm ET when I begin posting some things to help us prepare to pray. Then the Rosary proper begins at the top of the hour.

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Book of the Month, December 2021 – Part 13

On December 23, 2021December 23, 2021 By Lee (@disciple96)In Books, Catholic Book of the Month, Series, Spiritual LifeLeave a comment

+JMJ+ Welcome to part 13 of our current Catholic Book of the Month, and the end of this particular book, Sanctity Through the Rosary, by Fr. Édouard Hugon, OP. You can get a printed copy or a PDF using the links at the end of this post and view other parts of the series on the Table of Contents page. Note: I’m not changing the spelling of words where the text follows the British English custom. But I have removed the extra spaces before colons and semicolons.

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Book of the Month, December 2021 – Part 11

On December 9, 2021December 16, 2021 By Lee (@disciple96)In Books, Catholic Book of the Month, Spiritual LifeLeave a comment

+JMJ+ Welcome to part 11 of our Catholic Book of the Month, Sanctity Through the Rosary, by Fr. Édouard Hugon, OP. You can get a printed copy or a PDF using the links at the end of this post and view other parts of the series on the Table of Contents page.

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Book of the Month, December 2021 – Part 10

On December 2, 2021December 2, 2021 By Lee (@disciple96)In Catholic Book of the Month, Series, Spiritual LifeLeave a comment

+JMJ+ Welcome to part 10 of our Catholic Book of the Month, Sanctity Through the Rosary, by Fr. Édouard Hugon, OP. You can get a printed copy or a PDF using the links at the end of this post and view other parts of the series on the Table of Contents page. We’re now in Part Three of the book: The Rosary and the Practice of Holiness; Section One: The Rosary, A Source of Holiness. (I should have left out the month part in the title of this series, huh.)

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Book of the Month, November 2021 – Part 9

On November 18, 2021December 2, 2021 By Lee (@disciple96)In Catholic Book of the Month, Series, Spiritual LifeLeave a comment

Reminder: In November the Catholic Book of the Month series continues on Thursdays and on Mondays we’ll be focusing on the Holy Souls.

+JMJ+ Welcome to part 9 of our Catholic Book of the Month, Sanctity Through the Rosary, by Fr. Édouard Hugon, OP. You can get a printed copy or a PDF using the links at the end of this post and view other parts of the series on the Table of Contents page.

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Book of the Month, November 2021 – Part 8

On November 11, 2021November 11, 2021 By Lee (@disciple96)In Catholic Book of the Month, Rosary, SeriesLeave a comment

+JMJ+ Welcome to part 8 of our Catholic Book of the Month for October (and continuing this November), Sanctity Through the Rosary, by Fr. Édouard Hugon, OP. You can get a printed copy or a PDF using the links at the end of this post and view other parts of the series on the Table of Contents page. (Beginning with this post I’m going to try to remember not to use quotation marks within a block quote since it’s pretty much a given that a block quote is, after all, a quote. Note also that during November the Catholic Book of the Month series continues on Thursdays and on Mondays we’ll focus on the Holy Souls.

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Announcing the winner of the Fall Giveaway 2021

On November 6, 2021November 6, 2021 By Lee (@disciple96)In GiveawaysLeave a comment

+JMJ+ Tonight’s the night! I got the entries together and assigned numbers to them in the order in which they were received. Then I used the Google Random Number Generator to select the winner. (I don’t like to use Google but their random number generator was rated highly in reviews.) So without further ado, the winner is (drum roll, please):

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Book of the Month, November 2021 – Part 7

On November 4, 2021November 8, 2021 By Lee (@disciple96)In Catholic Book of the Month, Rosary, SeriesLeave a comment

+JMJ+ Welcome to part 7 of our Catholic Book of the Month (corrected link) for October, Sanctity Through the Rosary, by Fr. Édouard Hugon, OP. You can get a printed copy or a PDF using the links at the end of this post and view other parts of the series on the Table of Contents (corrected link) page. As I said in my last post, I decided to continue with Sanctity Through the Rosary during November because I think it is timely and it’s important for all of us to get serious about our faith and our spiritual life, so I’ll feature something specifically about the Holy Souls, a video or podcast or something, on Mondays, and continue with Sanctity Through the Rosary on Thursdays.

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Book of the Month, October 2021 – Part 6

On October 28, 2021November 8, 2021 By Lee (@disciple96)In Catholic Book of the Month, Rosary, SeriesLeave a comment

+JMJ+ Welcome to part 6 of our Catholic Book of the Month (corrected link) for October, Sanctity Through the Rosary, by Fr. Édouard Hugon, OP. You can get a printed copy or a PDF using the links at the end of this post and view other parts of the series on the Table of Contents (corrected link) page.

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