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Friday, October 22, 2021, 12:00 AM – 11:59 PM
- Passionist Nuns
- 8564 Crisp Road
- Whitesville, KY, 42378
- United States
Ven. Leonarda of Jesus Crucified, CP, entered the monastery of Passionist Nuns in Ovada, Italy in 1931. In 1947, she was elected superior of the monastery, a position she held until her death in 1953. Under her government, prodigious facts unfolded: during the wartime scarcities in Italy, a dried well continued to give water, and a barrel of flour did not run out! Her confidence in Divine Providence was unmeasured.
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Wednesday, October 20, 2021, 12:00 AM – 11:59 PM
- Passionist Nuns
- 8564 Crisp Road
- Whitesville, KY, 42378
- United States
“The world lives unmindful of the sufferings of Jesus which are the miracle of miracles of the love of God. We must arouse the world from its slumber.” And so Paul did through thousands of letters he wrote and sermons he preached. Traveling even to marshlands infested with malaria, Paul taught people how to pray and meditate upon the suffering and death of Jesus.
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Tuesday, October 19, 2021, 12:00 AM – 11:59 PM
- Passionist Nuns
- 8564 Crisp Road
- Whitesville, KY, 42378
- United States
Bishop Thomas Struzzieri, the first Passionist bishop, said to Paul just before he breathed his last, "Father Paul, when you are in paradise, remember the poor Congregation for which you have toiled so hard, and all of us, your poor sons." With great fervor Paul made a gesture signifying Yes. Then he quietly closed his eyes and went to sleep in the Lord.
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Monday, October 18, 2021, 12:00 AM – 11:59 PM
- Passionist Nuns
- 8564 Crisp Road
- Whitesville, KY, 42378
- United States
The positive attitude and characteristic cheerfulness of Paul's religious thought was the result of his strong faith in the resurrection, a faith which permeated his thinking throughout his entire life. From the very beginning Paul was convinced that pain, suffering and death were not ends in themselves but means leading to greater union with the loving God and, ultimately, means of peace, joy and happiness.
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Sunday, October 17, 2021, 12:00 AM – 11:59 PM
- Passionist Nuns
- 8564 Crisp Road
- Whitesville, KY, 42378
- United States
When, through inner struggles, a person succeeds in accepting concrete, unavoidable suffering as the will of God and sees in it the possibility of participating in the passion of Jesus, it does not mean that pain and sorrow are taken away. Although the pain must be borne, it is no longer senseless, and God's grace can work to transform the suffering so that the sufferer "rejoices in sorrow and exults in grieving love".
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Saturday, October 16, 2021, 12:00 AM – 11:59 PM
- Passionist Nuns
- 8564 Crisp Road
- Whitesville, KY, 42378
- United States
St. Margaret Mary Alacoque was a nun of the Visitation, and from her first Holy Communion at the age of seven, she had always manifested an intense love of the Most Blessed Sacrament. Our Lord appeared to her often, usually as the Crucified Christ. He revealed to her His Sacred Heart's burning desire to be loved by all men.
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Saturday, October 16, 2021, 12:00 AM – 11:59 PM
- Passionist Nuns
- 8564 Crisp Road
- Whitesville, KY, 42378
- United States
On a human level, deep and authentic love yields not only true peace and contentment but also a desire to share the pain of the beloved. Immersion in the sufferings of Jesus and deep, interior intimacy with God were springs from which Paul's words flowed and which, to this day, contain a power that moves the hearts of people. This power is love.
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Friday, October 15, 2021, 12:00 AM – 11:59 PM
- Passionist Nuns
- 8564 Crisp Road
- Whitesville, KY, 42378
- United States
The goodness and mercy of God became manifest in the Incarnate Word, our Saviour, and in every facet of his life. But nowhere was it more effectively revealed than in the passion and death of Christ who died for us and for our salvation. The sufferings of Christ are the most convincing witness of God's love for us. Paul of the Cross was completely imbued with this mystery of faith.
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Thursday, October 14, 2021, 12:00 AM – 11:59 PM
- Passionist Nuns
- 8564 Crisp Road
- Whitesville, KY, 42378
- United States
Since in Paul's time as in our own, there was a great danger for people to become lost in external activities, one of his great goals was to lead others to a life of interior prayer and union with God. Because the preconditions for this are quiet, silence and a return to the center of a person's being or soul, Paul exhorted his directees to turn inward.
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Wednesday, October 13, 2021, 12:00 AM – 11:59 PM
- Passionist Nuns
- 8564 Crisp Road
- Whitesville, KY, 42378
- United States
Today, as in the time of Paul, human beings find their own personal happiness when they search for their identity in the light of God, when, to use the words of the saint, they allow their "nothingness to sink into God". Only in the acceptance of this basic religious attitude can we truly find ourselves.
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Tuesday, October 12, 2021, 12:00 AM – 11:59 PM
- Passionist Nuns
- 8564 Crisp Road
- Whitesville, KY, 42378
- United States
The example of Paul’s faith and the strength of his union with Christ serves as an example to us to renew our friendship with the Crucified. Paul's passion mysticism also serves to give us deep insight into the mystery of the suffering of Jesus and this supports us in bearing our own pain and suffering. The whole edifice of his spiritual life was based on complete trust in the love and providence of God.
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Monday, October 11, 2021, 12:00 AM – 11:59 PM
- Passionist Nuns
- 8564 Crisp Road
- Whitesville, KY, 42378
- United States
We find in the letters of St. Paul of the Cross words of deep human warmth and friendship along with the steadfast faith and practical wisdom, a combination that is a sure sign of true Christian religion and mysticism. His advice did not spring from untested theories, but rather from his own deep relationship with God.
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Saturday, October 9, 2021, 12:00 AM – 11:59 PM
- Passionist Nuns
- 8564 Crisp Road
- Whitesville, KY, 42378
- United States
In 1934 the Christian Brothers at the school in Turon asked him to come and hear the confessions of the children of the school. At dawn on Friday October 5th 1934 militiamen forced their way into the Brothers' school. Alongside the Brothers, Father Inocencio was imprisoned, condemned to death, and executed by a firing squad, their bodies buried in a common grave.
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Thursday, October 7, 2021, 12:00 AM – 11:59 PM
- Passionist Nuns
- 8564 Crisp Road
- Whitesville, KY, 42378
- United States
The feast of Our Lady of the Rosary was instituted to honor Mary for the Christian victory over the Turks at Lepanto on October 7, 1571. Pope St. Pius V and all Christians had prayed the Rosary for victory. The Rosary, or the Psalter of the Blessed Virgin Mary, is one of the best prayers to Mary, the Mother of God.
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Wednesday, October 6, 2021, 12:00 AM – 11:59 PM
- Passionist Nuns
- 8564 Crisp Road
- Whitesville, KY, 42378
- United States
Blessed Isidore of Saint Joseph, also known as ‘the Brother of the Will of God’ born Isidore de Loor, a lay brother of the Passionist Congregation, born on April 13, 1881 in Vrasene, Belgium; died October 6, 1916 at Kortrijk, Belgium. Beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1984.
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Tuesday, October 5, 2021, 12:00 AM – 11:59 PM
- Passionist Nuns
- 8564 Crisp Road
- Whitesville, KY, 42378
- United States
On February 22, 1931, Jesus appeared to Faustina as the King of Divine Mercy. He asked her to have a picture painted of him as she saw him — clothed in white, with red and white rays of light streaming from his heart. The rays represent the blood and water that flowed from the side of Jesus on the cross. Under the image are the words, "Jesus, I trust in you."
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Monday, October 4, 2021, 12:00 AM – 11:59 PM
- Passionist Nuns
- 8564 Crisp Road
- Whitesville, KY, 42378
- United States
Francis Bernardone was born in 1181 at Assisi, Umbria, Italy. The son of a wealthy cloth merchant, he lived a lavish and irresponsible life. At the age of twenty he experienced a vision from Christ and changed his life completely. He embraced complete poverty, taking the Gospel as his rule of life, and in 1209 with the papal blessing he founded the Friars Minor (Franciscans).
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Friday, October 1, 2021, 12:00 AM – 11:59 PM
- Passionist Nuns
- 8564 Crisp Road
- Whitesville, KY, 42378
- United States
Today is the memorial of St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face, more popularly known as "the Little Flower." Although just an obscure cloistered Carmelite nun, she has had universal appeal since her death in 1897. St. Thérèse is the patroness of all foreign missions and patroness of France.
