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Tuesday, August 26, 2025, 12:00 AM – 11:59 PM
- Passionist Nuns
- 8564 Crisp Road
- Whitesville, KY, 42378
- United States
When he was twenty-one, Dominic received the first direct inkling of what the Lord's plans for his future might be. He writes: "One of these days (I think it was one of the last of the year 1813) as I was saying my prayers, the idea came to me that God wanted me to be a priest, and that I was to go and bring the light of the Gospel to a foreign nation."
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Saturday, August 23, 2025, 12:00 AM – 11:59 PM
- Passionist Nuns
- 8564 Crisp Road
- Whitesville, KY, 42378
- United States
The first canonized saint of the Western Hemisphere, Rose of Lima (1586-1617) might also be considered a type of the special vocation of contemplative-in-the-world. Inspired by the example of St. Catherine of Siena, Rose became a Dominican lay tertiary and devoted herself to works of active charity while living a life of extreme austerity.
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Friday, August 15, 2025, 12:00 AM – 11:59 PM
- Passionist Nuns
- 8564 Crisp Road
- Whitesville, KY, 42378
- United States
The great Mother of God, so mysteriously united to Jesus Christ from all eternity by the same decree of predestination, received the final crowning privilege of being preserved from the corruption of the grave and, following her Son in his victory over death, was brought, body and soul, to the highest glory of heaven, to shine as Queen at His right hand.
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Thursday, August 14, 2025, 12:00 AM – 11:59 PM
- Passionist Nuns
- 8564 Crisp Road
- Whitesville, KY, 42378
- United States
The Church teaches that in you, O Mary, we see ourselves answering the invitation of our heavenly Bridegroom. You are like the Morning Star shining in the dark place of our journey of faith, until the first streaks of light appear and we see the Lord coming to take us to heaven that we might be with Him where He is, in the bosom of the Father.
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Wednesday, August 13, 2025, 12:00 AM – 11:59 PM
- Passionist Nuns
- 8564 Crisp Road
- Whitesville, KY, 42378
- United States
O Mary, Mother of God, confidence fills our souls, for you were raised to this glory not for your own advantage only, but for that of your frail and lowly children also, in order that we might feel the effects of your maternal care and protection, and seek the help of your intercession.
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Tuesday, August 12, 2025, 12:00 AM – 11:59 PM
- Passionist Nuns
- 8564 Crisp Road
- Whitesville, KY, 42378
- United States
The Father crowned you by making you a sharer in His power; the Son crowned you by making you a partaker of His wisdom; the Holy Spirit crowned you by making you a partake of His boundless love. The three Divine Persons declared you Queen of Heaven and Earth, and assigned you a place at the right hand of Jesus.
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Monday, August 11, 2025, 12:00 AM – 11:59 PM
- Passionist Nuns
- 8564 Crisp Road
- Whitesville, KY, 42378
- United States
O Mary, Mother of God, you reign in splendor for all eternity with your Divine Son, Jesus. You reign on a throne of tenderness, mercy and pardon. All your trials and sufferings are now transformed into glory. You who are the Queen of Martyrs, the Mother of Sorrows, are now crowned with everlasting joy because you suffered with Christ on earth.
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Sunday, August 10, 2025, 12:00 AM – 11:59 PM
- Passionist Nuns
- 8564 Crisp Road
- Whitesville, KY, 42378
- United States
O Mary, Mother of God, the day of your Assumption was the great day of your triumph. After the triumph of your Divine Son on the day of His Ascension, there never was nor ever will be, a triumph like that which you enjoyed on this day.
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Saturday, August 9, 2025, 12:00 AM – 11:59 PM
- Passionist Nuns
- 8564 Crisp Road
- Whitesville, KY, 42378
- United States
At the Annunciation, you O Mary, received Jesus on earth. It was proper that He should receive you into heaven. Having deigned to come down to you, He wished to raise you up to Himself that you might enter into His glory.
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Friday, August 8, 2025, 12:00 AM – 11:59 PM
- Passionist Nuns
- 8564 Crisp Road
- Whitesville, KY, 42378
- United States
Mary, our Mother, as the body of your Divine Son was preserved from the corruption of the grave, so you from whom He took flesh, were also free from the power of earthly decay. Your body, which was the living tabernacle of the Eternal God and the temple of the Adorable Trinity, was not meant to crumble into dust in the grave.
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Thursday, August 7, 2025, 12:00 AM – 11:59 PM
- Passionist Nuns
- 8564 Crisp Road
- Whitesville, KY, 42378
- United States
O Mary, Mother of God, your Son, though He was Life itself, did not exempt Himself from death. So, as a daughter of Adam, you submitted to the sentence passed on the human race in the garden of Eden. You died, but you died of no infirmity. Little by little, the links between your body and soul were dissolved by the resistless force of love. Intense love for the Infinite God is what withdrew your soul from this earthly life and caused your death.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2025, 12:00 AM – 11:59 PM
- Passionist Nuns
- 8564 Crisp Road
- Whitesville, KY, 42378
- United States
Jesus' face and clothes become dazzling with light, and Moses and Elijah appear, speaking "of his departure, which he was to accomplish at Jerusalem". A cloud covers him and a voice from heaven says: "This is my Son, my Chosen; listen to him!" For a moment Jesus discloses his divine glory, and reveals that he must go by the way of the cross in order to "enter into his glory".
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Wednesday, August 6, 2025, 12:00 AM – 11:59 PM
- Passionist Nuns
- 8564 Crisp Road
- Whitesville, KY, 42378
- United States
O Mary, Mother of God, your death was entirely free from whatever might make death bitter. Rather, your death was accompanied by three graces that made it precious and full of joy. You died as you had lived: entirely detached from the things of this world, you died in the most perfect peace, and in the certainty of eternal glory.
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Monday, August 4, 2025, 12:00 AM – 11:59 PM
- Passionist Nuns
- 8564 Crisp Road
- Whitesville, KY, 42378
- United States
St. John Vianney would often say: "Private prayer is like straw scattered here and there: If you set it on fire, it makes a lot of little flames. But gather these straws into a bundle and light them, and you get a mighty fire, rising like a column into the sky; public prayer is like that."
