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A Month with Mary – Twenty-third Day
A Profound Reform of Heart in the School of Mary The Aspirations of the Heart MARY: A soldier who wants to keep himself really faithful to his duty should not be one who serves under constraint; he should have an ideal toward which he aspires. In moments of danger in which it seems as if…
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A Month with Mary – Twenty-second Day
A Profound Reform of Heart in the School of Mary The Misery of Human Judgment MARY: You are so afraid of human judgment and so many times you betray God in order not to contradict a poor creature, But what is man, what value has his scornful word or his threats? You fall with regard…
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A Month with Mary – Twenty-first Day
A Profound Reform of Heart in the School of Mary Human Respect MARY: Among the enemies you must fight against, my child, there is one which is small, wretched, foolish, but which can paralyze you. This enemy seems to be outside of you, but in reality is none other than yourself. Babies go near the…
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A Month with Mary – Twentieth Day
A Profound Reform of Heart in the School of Mary Spiritual Combat MARY: The life of man is warfare on the earth. He, like a soldier, does not have a fixed home, but a provisional one and must go where the will of God calls him. Your first combat must be that undertaken for the…
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A Month with Mary – Nineteenth Day
A Profound Reform of Heart in the School of Mary Soldier of Jesus Christ THE SOUL: I was signed with holy Chrism, O Jesus, I girded myself with a mystical sword and solemnly said: I will do combat for your glory! It was a solemn day for me: the Bishop, vested with the holy stole,…
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A Month with Mary – Eighteenth Day
A Profound Reform of Heart in the School of Mary My Miseries THE SOUL: At your feet, O Mary, I want to consider once again the miseries of my nothingness in order to appreciate better the solemn renunciation which I made in holy Baptism. My renunciation was not a concession, a gift which I made…
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A Month with Mary – Seventeenth Day
A Profound Reform of Heart in the School of Mary The Passions and the Flesh MARY: The demon penetrates into you by means of the passions and, if you do not deny yourself, your battle against the demon is vain and fruitless. A passion is a disordered movement of your physical being or of your…
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A Month with Mary – Sixteenth Day
A Profound Reform of Heart in the School of Mary Renouncing the Demon THE SOUL: I know that in holy Baptism I renounced the demon and I’m happy with that renunciation. The demon is so repulsive that I really would not want to make friends with him! … Yet so many times I’ve been overcome…
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A Month with Mary – Fifteenth Day
A Profound Reform of Heart in the School of Mary The Spirit of Jesus Christ MARY: Opposed to the spirit of the world, which is a mass of duplicity, resentment, struggles, presumption and degradation, is the spirit of Jesus Christ, who is the way, the truth and the life. Hear his word: “Learn from me…
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A Month with Mary – Fourteenth Day
A Profound Reform of Heart in the School of Mary The Spirit of the World MARY: You live in the world and you cannot withdraw yourself from it materially, but you must be there without living in its spirit. What a turbulent whirlwind is the world! It lives on egotism because it lives with a…
Knights Prayer
Our Lady, Queen of the Knights, bless all the activities of our Order. Keep us true to our pledge, to extend the kingship of thy Divine Son on earth. Through Thine intercession, win for us the grace, ever to exemplify in our public and private lives, the virtues that should characterize those especially dedicated to the service of the heavenly court. Make us always aware that as your Knights, we are constantly observed, our faith judged, and our Order appreciated. Accept, O Mary, this renewed pledge of fealty and devotion, of Thy Servants, the Knights of the Precious Blood.
