Luis Gonzalez
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November 17, 2025 – Fidelity That Sees and Serves in Today’s Mass Readings
Stand firm. See clearly. Serve boldly. 🛡️👀✨ First Reading – 1 Maccabees 1:10-15, 41-43, 54-57, 62-63: Under crushing cultural pressure, a faithful remnant refuses to betray the covenant. “They preferred to die rather than to be defiled with food or… Continue reading
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November 16th – Saint of the Day: Saint Gertrude the Great, Mystic
Meet Saint Gertrude the Great, the Benedictine mystic who helped ignite devotion to the Sacred Heart centuries before it went mainstream. 🔥 She encountered Jesus at twenty four and it rewired her life from elite scholar to soul-stirring saint. 💓… Continue reading
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November 16th – Saint of the Day: Saint Margaret of Scotland
A queen who washed feet and fed the poor changed a nation from the inside out. 👑🍞 Saint Margaret of Scotland prayed before policy, rebuilt churches, and set Sunday apart for worship, rest, and mercy. She raised eight children and… Continue reading
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November 16, 2025 – Steadfast Hope and Holy Perseverance in Today’s Mass Readings
🔥 Justice is coming like sunrise, and it heals. Today’s readings call for steady hearts, loud praise, quiet work, and fearless witness. First Reading – Malachi 3:19–20: The Lord promises purification for pride and healing for the faithful. “For you… Continue reading
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November 15th – Saint of the Day: Saint Leopold III, Margrave of Austria
He turned down a crown to build a kingdom of prayer 👑⛪. Meet Saint Leopold III, the margrave of Austria who chose peace over power, fostered monasteries, and shaped a culture of mercy and justice. He founded Klosterneuburg after discovering… Continue reading
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November 15th – Saint of the Day: Saint Albert the Great (Albertus Magnus), Bishop & Doctor of the Church
Faith and science are not rivals. Meet Saint Albert the Great: Dominican friar, bishop, Doctor of the Church, and teacher of Thomas Aquinas. He mapped the natural world with works like De animalibus, De mineralibus, and De vegetabilibus, then lifted… Continue reading
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November 15, 2025 – Remembering God’s Deliverance in Today’s Mass Readings
When God moves, even the sea becomes a sidewalk. 🌊✨ First Reading – Wisdom 18:14–16; 19:6–9: The living Word “leapt into the doomed land” and turned chaos into a highway. Creation was made over anew so God’s children could walk… Continue reading
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November 14th – Saint of the Day: Saint Laurence (Lawrence) O’Toole, Bishop
From hostage to holy archbishop. Saint Laurence O’Toole went from a ten-year-old political captive to Abbot of Glendalough and Archbishop of Dublin, rebuilding worship, feeding the poor daily, and making peace while Ireland burned. ⛪️🕊️ The wild part you rarely… Continue reading
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November 14th – Saint of the Day: Saint Joseph Pignatelli
Meet the priest who held the Jesuits together when the world tried to tear them apart. 🔥 Saint Joseph Pignatelli refused privilege, chose exile with his brothers in 1767, and turned chaos into community by organizing housing, prayer, and study… Continue reading
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November 14, 2025 – God’s Creation & Heart’s Set for Eternity in Today’s Mass Readings
🌌 Creation is talking. Is anyone listening? First Reading Wisdom 13:1–9: “From the greatness and the beauty of created things their original author, by analogy, is seen.” Nature is stunning, but it is not God. It is a sign that… Continue reading
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