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Starting July 11th: The Catholic Pilgrim Journey Across America with the CURO Health Care Community
Track your steps for eight weeks while you prayerfully and virtually travel and learn about different Catholic sites across the USA. More details coming soon! What are your travel plans this Summer? The members of the CURO community are invited to virtually travel...
Glorifying God in This Life
by Michael Vacca Saint Irenaeus endured persecution and had many reasons to be vexed with the human person, to become pessimistic or even cynical. But instead, he is famous for saying: “Gloria Dei vivens homo.” Translated into English, this means, “The...
A Hero for Purity and Innocent Life
In the late 1800s a Ugandan page (servant to the king) by the name Charles Lwanga was subject to persecution following his resistance to illicit advances from the King. Charles was known for protecting the younger pages from King Mwanga who engaged in ritualistic...
Mary As Our Healing Mother As Depicted by Caravaggio
by Rebecca Wilson In this month of May, we focus on the great gift that Mary is to the Church and to our lives. While on the cross, Christ gave us his mother, Mary. This was not a small gesture, but an invitation for all of us to turn to her, seek her intercession,...
Mary’s Role in the Completion of Salvation History Revealed in Our Lady of Fatima
In 1917, Our Blessed Mother appeared to three shepherd children with a grave warning for our time and a plea to rely on her intercession for the salvation of the world. It is in the apparitions of Fatima that Mary’s identity as our mother in salvation is more fully...
St. Joseph and the Beauty of Work
St. Joseph is truly a model for us in how we can allow our work to sanctify us. While May is traditionally known as the month in which we honor Our Blessed Mother, May 1st is the Feast of St. Joseph the Worker. The work of St. Joseph was to protect the...
Responding to Jesus’ call to “Speak to the whole world about my mercy.”
“From all My wounds, like from streams, mercy flows for souls, but the wound in My Heart is the fountain of unfathomable mercy. From this fountain spring all graces for souls. The flames of compassion burn Me. I desire greatly to pour them out upon souls. Speak to the...
Be Transformed by the Resurrection
It can be difficult for us to fully grasp what this truth means. St. Paul goes so far as to say, “if Christ has not been raised, then empty [too] is our preaching; empty, too, your faith.” (1 Corinthians 15:14) The entirety of our faith, over 2000 years of Church...
CMF CURO Monday Meditation for April 11th, 2022
The Gospel deals in the Logic of Love Read: Jn. 12:1-11 Six days before Passover Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead. They gave a dinner for him there, and Martha served, while Lazarus was one of those reclining at table with...
Preparing the Heart for the Sacred Mysteries of Holy Week
If we truly understood the grandeur of Holy Week, and particularly the Sacred Triduum (Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday/Easter Sunday), we would yearn for this holiest week of the year with every fiber of our being. This is the week when our salvation was...
CMF CURO Monday Meditation
The Lord in us is stronger than the evil in the world Read: St. Luke 11:14-23 He was driving out a demon that was mute, and when the demon had gone out, the mute person spoke and the crowds were amazed. Some of them said, “By the power of Beelzebul, the prince of...
Spiritual Health Program Announcement
“Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Rise, pick up your mat and walk?” Mark 2:9 Much of modern health care focuses on physical symptom relief rather than getting to the root or origin of an ailment. Modern research is now...
