Category: Grace

• Hidden in Your Mystery

  Finding the Real Presence Hidden in the Host Tell my children about My hiddenness in all things, as I surround them with My love. How I hide My mystery in people and places, whom I’ve shown you along your way. You and I have so many stories. Recall them. Have the details at hand. Make…

  Mary Adrienne

  May 31, 2023

  Answered Prayer, Bishop Robert Barron, Eucharist, God’s love, God’s presence, Grace, Gratitude, Holy Spirit, Imaginative Prayer, Meditations, Nashville Catholic Writers, Real Presence, Saying Yes to God, The Mass, The Real Presence

  Bishop Barron, Father Michael Schmitz, Nashville Catholic Writers, Word Among Us, Word on Fire

• Lost in Your Love

  St. John tells us today of Jesus’s incomparable love. Jesus laid down His life for us. He told us that there is “no greater love than this, than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.” He called us His friends, whom He chose and now appoints to go and to “bear fruit that will…

  Mary Adrienne

  May 12, 2023

  God’s love, God’s presence, Grace, Love

• I want your heart

  It’s not your wealth I want so much as your heart. Prayers for the poor and needy are powerful… For them certainly, because I hear them and I answer. I am faithful. But even more, your prayers for the poor are powerful for you, for your goodness, for the sweetness and beauty of your generous…

  Mary Adrienne

  October 29, 2022

  God’s presence, Grace

• Give me a broken spirit

  Psalm 51:17 The sacrifice acceptable to God is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise. Let me not despise my broken spirit, or my broken heart, oh lord. Rather, show me how to offer it to you as a sacrifice. Take my ego and my arrogance, my loss…

  Mary Adrienne

  September 3, 2022

  Ego, Grace, Grief, Meditations, Offering, Sorrow

• Waves of Grace

  Against a brilliant background, there she stood. The mounds of reds and yellows, greens and oranges and purples tantalized my senses with promises of Romas and romaine, parsley and peppers, eggplant and onions. Like an angel in my mind’s eye today, her soft, strawberry blonde hair shimmered, framing her face, as light surrounded her. Her…

  Mary Adrienne

  August 29, 2022

  Answered Prayer, Grace, Real Presence

• Prepare my lips, oh Lord

  Father, You gave me your beautiful words during my prayers with You, today at Mass. Help me now, 24 hours hence, to recall them, I pray, and to lift them up to Your glory. Amen. God our Father in Heaven, lean close and beckon to me, that I might lift my heart to You. Let…

  Mary Adrienne

  March 7, 2022

  Grace, Lenten Prayer

• Loving heart to heart

  The killing of George Floyd, the righteous anger, the protests against allowing whatever caused this awful murder to stand, the dark forces of opportunistic riots and looting, the hatred and loathing — it all makes me so sad, Father. Where are You in all this? How did we get here? What now? What can we…

  Mary Adrienne

  June 6, 2020

  Anger, Evil, God’s love, God’s presence, Grace

• Driving with God

  “I’m glad you’re with me today, Father.” I’m always with you, my dear. I’m glad you’re aware of me today. “This imagining thing that Fr. Martin suggests…well, I guess it was St. Ignatius who earlier suggested it for understanding more about Christ…isn’t something I know much about, Father. It feels so presumptuous to imagine You…

  Mary Adrienne

  November 11, 2013

  Blessings, God’s presence, Grace, Gratitude, Joy, Prayer

  Control, Ego, fear, God’s love, grace, joy, prayer, St. Ignatius, worthiness