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Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Our Mother and Our Queen

By Father Marco TestaPosted on July 18, 2025Posted in Articles, ChurchTagged prayer, Rosary, Virgin Mary, Mount Carmel

On the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, we who wear her Scapular and have consecrated ourselves to her, mystically climb the heights of Mount Carmel. On this day, we who have been enrolled in the Confraternity of Our Lady of Mount Carmel are one with the members of the Order of Carmelites. Though[…]

Praying for strangers a world away

By Mary WoodardPosted on April 7, 2014Posted in FeaturedTagged children, Mary Woodard, prayer, Adoration, Virgin Mary, God's grace, Crying, Texas, Abuse, Pieta

My fiancé can sit for hours reading the news. First he cycles through his favourite Spanish papers, and then he ventures into the English ones. His interest in “the news” verges almost on obsession, and he doesn’t understand my aversion to most news sources. If I do read a paper, I will turn immediately to[…]

Can a woman be confident AND vulnerable?

By Sarah GouldPosted on November 7, 2013Posted in FeaturedTagged Strong, Confident, Woman, Feminine, Jersey Shore, femininity, Post Modern Feminist, masculinity, Needy, Sarah Gould, Mother Theresa, Virgin Mary, Joan of Arc, Insecurity, Vulnerability, Independent

The other day, one of our students sent me an article. While I nearly poked my eyes out over the vulgarity of the writing, the article itself contained some valuable insights. The article is entitled “The Case Against Female Self Esteem” (due to the excessive crudeness of the article and comments I am not going[…]