In February of this year, I posted a quote by St. Maximilian Kolbe about the white stairway to heaven, which is the Blessed Virgin Mary, and the consecration of oneself to her. St. Maximilian Kolbe said: An unlimited love for the Immaculate, what does that mean? The Immaculate is so united to God through love that she rises not only above…
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St. Therese Martin, The Little Flower
“Chesterton never wanted to get used to (surprises). He said, ‘Things grow new as I grow old,’ and that brings to mind for me Therese’s own remarkable ambition — ‘I must stay little and become this more and more.’… There is something in this littleness, this vulnerability that caused both their hearts to burn. And that something is actually the…
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Mary, Star of the Sea
“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the…
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Grotto Update
“You shall receive me when the clouds are high With evening and the sheep attain the fold. This is the faith that I have held and hold, And this is that in which I mean to die.” Hilaire Belloc I have been relaying to you* the story of the Marian grotto which is being built in a New Jersey…
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Grotto Work Continues in New Jersey
On July the eleventh, I posted about a grotto that was being built in the backyard of a home in New Jersey (see post here). Today, there is an update on the project: the statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary, that will be the central point of the grotto, has been power washed and sanded. Next, it will be painted. Apparently…