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Our Lady of Champion Solemnity

“Though everything for 1,875 square miles around the chapel’s 5-acre property burned (by way of comparison, the Great Chicago Fire burned 3 ½ square miles), the flames never touched the land where Mary had appeared.” – FB Smit

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Keep Your Head in the Clouds

“We can and should allow the Feast of the Assumption to inspire in us a desire to imitate the saints’ focus on that which  is ‘not of this world.'” – Thomas Griffin

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Our Lady of Mount Carmel

“Legend tells of the seamless robe which the Blessed Virgin wove for Jesus; but, for us–and in reality–she has done much more. She has cooperated in obtaining the garment of our eternal salvation, the wedding garment in which we shall enter the banquet hall of heaven.” – Father Gabriel of Saint Mary Magdalen

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Renunciation and Praise

“(St. Elisabeth of the Trinity) understood the connection between renunciation and praise — Praise is the radiance of the splendor of God in a soul, the showing forth of His attributes in the world. In her thought, renunciation creates a precondition that allows such a collaboration with God to be realized.” – Anthony Lilles

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Our Lady of Pontmain

‘Our Lady of Pontmain quietly entered into my life this morning quite by happenstance – if there be such a thing, really.” – Denise Trull

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Angelic Sweetness

“Angelic sweetness also eradicates bitterness. We have many earthly reasons to grow cold and bitter, but the message of God is that the warmth of His goodness melts hearts of stone.” – Olivia Spears

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