2017-Sep-24 | Publications
Each month features an illustration of one of the great Saints who have enriched the Church with their lives, which were heroic yet very imitable. Also includes illustrations of Jesus the Redeemer, the sacrifice of Abraham, and the Archangels, all painted in our Monastery.
Exclusive feature: a picture of the Saint of each day.
Receipts from this calendar benefit the works of the Order of the Magnificat of the Mother of God. Available in English, French, Spanish and Italian.
2018-May-9 | Holy Spirit, Liturgy, Mary, Pentecost
To attract the Holy Spirit, let us imitate the Apostles and disciples of Jesus and withdraw into the Cenacle with Mary. The Cenacle signifies a life of recollection, prayers, holy desires. It informs us that we ought to live united to the Mother of our Saviour in a constant heart-to-heart, to think, love and act like Her, to mingle our supplications with Hers and touch the Heart of God.
2018-May-9 | Holy Spirit, Holy Spirit, Liturgy, Pentecost, Pentecost, Prayers, Prayers
A novena with a prayer for each day requesting one of the Gifts of the Holy Ghost, concluding on the ninth day with a prayer to receive them through the intercession of Mary, His cherished Spouse. Devotional, instructive, inspirational!
2018-Apr-30 | Apostles, Saints
Saint James the Less – Protector of the month of May.
Short biography and prayer to the holy Apostle.
Also a few excerpts of his Epistle.
2018-Mar-31 | Apostles, Prayers, Saints
Short account of the life of Saint Philip the Apostle, Protector of the Month of April, followed by a prayer to this Holy Apostle of Our Lord.
2018-Mar-31 | Jesus, Liturgy, Resurrection
Summary of the Gospel narrative of the Saviour’s apparitions. Let us admire the wisdom and goodness of Jesus, who wanted to multiply the proofs of His resurrection. The Apostles were decisively converted and transformed. Previously fearful and hesitant, they now braved torture and death to declare the resurrection of the Master. Crowds were converted thousands at a time. Martyrs began to shed their blood. Witnesses of the resurrection did not retreat in the face of scourgings, the teeth of ferocious beasts, fire and sword. Christ had indeed risen: they would proclaim it even at the cost of their life; they would give unto the last drop of their blood to attest to this truth.
2018-Mar-1 | Apostles, History, Saints
Saint Jude Apostle – protector of the month of March.
Short biography and prayer to the Patron of desperate cases.
2018-Feb-1 | Apostles, Prayers, Saints
Saint Matthias is perhaps the Apostle whose life and labors are the least known to us. The little we do know is found in chapter one of the Acts of the Apostles and in Tradition. God wished to hide the labors and even the death of a good number of His Apostles. Furthermore, it suffices to say for the glory of Saint Matthias that he was one of the first disciples of Jesus, that God Himself designated him to complete the company of the Apostles, that he united his labors, his life and his death to the labors, life and death of these preachers of the Faith.
2018-Jan-10 | Bible, History, Jesus
To obey God’s command, Abraham accepted to immolate his son Isaac, when an Angel came to prevent him. Called the father of believers, Abraham is a figure of the Eternal Father, who so loved the world that He gave His only-begotten Son to redeem us through His death upon the Cross.
2018-Jan-6 | Conference, Eucharist, Exhortation, Jesus
Watchword and Wish for 2018:
May This Year Be a Eucharistic Year,
Through the Mass, Communion and Adoration of Jesus Host
Live in Intimacy with God
2018-Jan-1 | Apostles, Prayers, Saints
Saint Thomas Apostle, Protector of the month of January, short biography followed by a prayer.
“Thomas, being once weaker in faith than the other Apostles,” says St. John Chrysostom, “toiled through the grace of God more bravely, more zealously and tirelessly than them all, so that he went preaching over nearly all the earth, not fearing to proclaim the Word of God to savage nations.”
