by Michelle C. Martin | Dec 8, 2024 | Church, Liturgy, Prayer, Society, Spirituality, Teachings
“I am the Immaculate Conception” ~ Our Lady to Bernadette Soubirous. In 1858, in a small town in France, Our Lady appeared to a young girl named Bernadette Soubirous. After months of seeing “the lady” at the grotto, Bernadette dared ask her name. Thus, the Heavenly...
by Michelle C. Martin | Nov 3, 2024 | Church, Liturgy, Prayer, Society, Spirituality, Teachings
“Everything, even sweeping, scraping vegetables, weeding a garden and waiting on the sick could be a prayer. If it were offered to God” ~ St. Martin de Porres. After celebrating the Church Triumphant and praying for the Church Suffering, it’s fitting November 3rd be...
by Michelle C. Martin | Nov 1, 2024 | Agapè Catholic Ministries, Church, Liturgy, Prayer, Questions, Society, Spirituality, Teachings
This paragraph of the Catechism of the Catholic Church describes the Three States of the Church. Those three states are; the Church Militant, the Church Suffering, and the Church Triumphant. On November 1st, we celebrate, All Saints Day. We honor the Church...
by Michelle C. Martin | Sep 26, 2024 | Church, Marriage, Marriage Prep, Parenting, Society, Spirituality, Teachings
“Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth” Genesis 1:28. After God banishes Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden, He...
by Michelle C. Martin | Sep 10, 2024 | Marriage, Marriage Prep, Society, Spirituality
In Heaven and Hell, meals are banquets where the only way to eat is with three-foot forks. Imagine a three-foot fork? There’s a story about Heaven and Hell my mom told me a long time ago. In each place, meals are served as banquets. But the only way to eat is with...
