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"Wake up, O human being! For it was for you that God was made man. Rise up and realize it was all for you. Eternal death would have awaited you had He not been born in time. Everlasting would be your misery had He not performed this act of mercy." - St. Augustine

Fourth Sunday of Advent

"Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low: and the crooked shall be made straight"

That is, pride and ambition should be humbled. Hypocrisy and malice pushed aside. Anger, revenge, impatience must leave the heart.

Historical Account of the Apparitions of Our Lady of Guadalupe

"This is the precise, brief and faithful form in which the most intelligent Indians and the historians of that time write and tell it."

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The Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary

In the first moment of her Conception, the Blessed Virgin was preserved from all stain of original sin. This age-old belief of the Church was defined by Pope Pius IX in 1854 as an article of revealed Truth.

St. Nicholas, Bishop (324)

He took part in the Council of Nicea, which condemned Arianism.
He performed countless miracles, among which he restored three children back to life. Works of mercy were his priority. Once, he threw alms in a window to save the honor of three girls.

St. Andrew, Apostle (60)

Brother of St. Peter, at first a disciple of St. John the Baptist, was among the early followers of Christ. According to tradition, St. Andrew preached throughout Greece and Asia Minor. He was martyred on an X-shaped cross in Achaia, in southern Greece.

"O faithful wood, O precious nails! You have borne an exceedingly sweet burden, for you have been judged worthy to bear the Lord and King of Heaven" - St. Didacus

Pope St. Martin I, Martyr (655)

He convoked and presided over a council that condemned monothelitism. He was seized and taken to Constantinople where he was publicly humiliated and tortured. Banished to the Crimea, he was weakened by his imprisonment and died shortly thereafter.

St. Teresa of Avila - Vision of Hell

"I was so terrified by that vision... I remember no time in which I do not think that all we have to suffer in this world is as nothing. It seems to me that we complain without reason."

The Sorrowful Mysteries

Agony in the Garden - For true contrition

Scourging at the Pillar - For the virtue of purity

Crowning with Thorns - For moral courage

Carrying the Cross - For the virtue of patience

Agony and Death on the Cross - For final perseverance