April 22nd, 2020 by Servant Maria

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Lessons From a Crisis Retreat IX The First Commandment April 21, 2020

Today as we continue our retreat we begin to learn the Catechism questions that teach us about the First Commandment.  It is important for us to know those things God expects of us to grow in our faith and those things that we should avoid that can lead us away from God. Listen to the […]

April 21st, 2020 by Servant Maria

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Easter Story 4 The Walk to Emmaus April 21, 2020

Today I tell you one of my favorite stories of the Resurrection.  I don’t have time to write much now, but listen to the story and learn about the Walk to Emmaus, when Jesus met two of his friends and taught them many things as they walked seven miles together.  I think even grown ups […]

April 20th, 2020 by Servant Maria

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Easter Story 3 The Women at the Tomb (Luke’s Gospel)

Today I am sharing with you just a short story from Luke’s Gospel that happened on Easter morning.  Each Gospel tells the story of the Resurrection with a few different details, teaching us different lessons.  I hope to be putting more of Luke’s Resurrection stories on the website for you soon, but I only had […]

April 18th, 2020 by Servant Maria

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Lessons From A Crisis Retreat VIII April 17, 2020

In today’s lesson from the Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius of Loyola we learn about ‘the spirit of the world’, that aspect of ‘the world’ that is under the dominion of the devil and leads us away from God.  There are three attitudes which lead us toward sin and as you hear about them, you’ll […]

April 18th, 2020 by Servant Maria

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Easter Story 2 Jesus and the Apostles

Today’s story continues John’s telling of the Easter Story.  After Jesus saw Mary at the tomb, he went to visit his apostles that evening.  You’ll hear about his visit that night and one week later.  One of the apostles wasn’t there the first time Jesus came, so he didn’t believe that the others had seen […]

April 16th, 2020 by Servant Maria

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Lessons From A Crisis Retreat VI April 16, 2020

Continuing our Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, today we begin to learn about the three graces of conversion:1) the grace to know our sins and detest them, 2) the grace to feel the disorder of our sins so that we turn away from them and 3) the grace to may know ‘the world’, that which […]

April 16th, 2020 by Servant Maria

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Lessons For Little Ones The Story of St. Peter April 12, 2020

Hello again, Dear Children, I recorded this story of the life of St. Peter on Easter Day, but I couldn’t put it here for you to listen to until today.  Saint Peter is a good model for all of us because although he sometimes did not do what was right, he was sorry for his […]

April 13th, 2020 by Servant Maria

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Lessons For Little Ones: Easter Story 1 April 13, 2020

Finally I have recorded another Lesson For Little Ones.  Today’s lesson shares with you one of the wonderful stories of Jesus and his friends after He rose from the dead.  Read the questions below, then listen to the story.   After you have finished, see if you can answer the questions.  If you can’t answer […]

April 13th, 2020 by Servant Maria

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Lessons From A Crisis Retreat VI (a) April 11, 2020

I recorded this’ Lesson From A Crisis’ talk on Holy Saturday.  The first part of the talk continues St. Ignatius’ Spiritual Exercise as we get into the topic of pondering our sins and their effect on our lives and on God’s working through us.  Toward the end of the lesson, I look at the beautiful […]

April 11th, 2020 by Servant Maria

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Lessons For Little Ones Easter Message

Hello again, Dear Children, I hope you are ready to celebrate the joy of Easter already this evening.  Easter joy begins tonight already because if we were able to go to church tonight, we would hear readings from the Old Testament that prepared for Jesus’ coming and then we would hear the joyful story of […]