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  • Children of Mary

    The words in the image (above) are of the Franciscan saint-martyr, St. Maximilian Kolbe, which I found on a chalkboard in a home in the Shenandoah Valley, circa fall 2017.  Here are the words: “My dear, dear brothers, our dear little, little mother, Immaculate Mary, can do anything for us. We are her children. Turn to her. She will overcome anything.”…

  • Mary, Star of the Sea

    “She, I say, is that shining and brilliant star, so much needed, set in place above life’s great and spacious sea, glittering with merits, all aglow with examples for our imitation. Oh, whosoever thou art that perceiveth thyself during this mortal existence to be rather drifting in treacherous waters, at the mercy of the winds and the waves, than walking…