Category: Devil

• The desert and the devil

  Oh my Jesus. I had the most powerful wave of disbelief wash over me as I was preparing for bed. Disbelief in the importance of Your Real Presence in the Eucharist. A questioning of the church’s teaching. A skepticism. A momentary distrust, maybe, in our priests and their emphasis on teachings of Your Real Presence…

  Mary Adrienne

  May 15, 2023

  Devil, Father of Lies, The Mass, The Real Presence, Unbeliev

  Bishop Robert Barron, Fr. Dan Reehil, Monsignor Stephen Rossetti, The Real Presence

• Meditation for the Blessed Sacrament – Satan and All His Works

  Confide to Me your failures; I will show you the cause. Whom do you wish to see interested in your work? I am the Master of all hearts, My child, and I lead them gently where I please. I will place about you those who are necessary to you; never fear! I have come to…

  Mary Adrienne

  May 23, 2020

  Blessed Sacrament, Devil, Meditations, Rosary of Liberation, Satan

• My belated response to Melinda Henneberger

  Melinda Henneberger wrote and published a column in the National Catholic Reporter back in December 5, 2018 on her reasons for leaving the Catholic Church. She (and many of us) felt a crisis of conscious over the McGarrick revelations and the unfolding knowledge of our church’s continuing sex abuse scandal and coverup. I shared her…

  Mary Adrienne

  August 2, 2019

  Catholic Church, Devil, Division, Evil, Faith, Melinda Henneberger, National Catholic Reporter, Priest Sex Abuse, Sin

• Meditation 13 – Seeing God in others, seeing good in others

  Are you resolved to avoid that occasion of sin, to give up the object which leads you astray – not to read that book, which excites your imagination; to withdraw your friendship from that person who is irreligious, and whose presence disturbs the peace of your soul? Will you go at once and be kind…

  Mary Adrienne

  January 27, 2014

  Devil, Grace, Gratitude, Miracle, Prayer

  discernment, grace, gratitude, miracle, prayer