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February 2022

February 25, 2022

Dark Devotional: The Firelight of Life

Alleluia for February 27, 2022 Shine like lights in the world as you hold...

January 2022

January 20, 2022

Dark Devotional: The Rise and Fall of Catholic Apologetics

I too have decided, after investigating everything accurately anew, to write it down in...

January 13, 2022

Dark Devotional: From Good Wine to Bitter Faith

Weddings are stressful, even when everyone is behaving themselves. When people start misbehaving, weddings can...

December 2021

December 30, 2021

Dark Devotional: New Light in the Night Sky

We saw his star at its rising and have come to do him homage (Matt....

December 23, 2021

Dark Devotional: The Virgin Mary’s Guide to Biblical Motherhood

When his parents saw him, they were astonished, and his mother said to him, “Son,...

December 09, 2021

Dark Devotional: Holding the Door for Jesus

Fear not, O Zion, be not discouraged! The Lord, your God, is in your...

November 2021

November 12, 2021

Dark Devotional: The Death of the World

It shall be a time unsurpassed in distress since nations began until that time (Dan....

November 03, 2021

Tales from the Confessional

Jesus, because he remains forever, has a priesthood that does not pass away. Therefore, he...

October 2021

October 15, 2021

Dark Devotional: The Divine Bellhop

James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came to Jesus and said to him, “Teacher,...

October 08, 2021

Dark Devotional: Everything Is Naked

No creature is concealed from him, but everything is naked and exposed to the eyes...

September 2021

September 24, 2021

Dark Devotional: Mind Your Own Distractions

If your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out; it is better for you...

September 10, 2021

Dark Devotional: Get Thee Behind Me, Lord

I will walk before the Lord, in the land of the living (Ps. 116:9). ...

August 2021

August 27, 2021

Dark Devotional: Why Fundamentalists Fear Empathy

This people honors me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me; in...

August 13, 2021

Dark Devotional: When the Virgin Cast Off Her Veil

Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary The queen stands at your right...

July 2021

July 23, 2021

Dark Devotional: What Do You Do for the Poor?

Jesus took the loaves, gave thanks, and distributed them to those who were reclining, and...

July 16, 2021

Dark Devotional: A Wolf in Shepherd’s Clothing

Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, against the shepherds who shepherd my people:...

June 2021

June 25, 2021

Dark Devotional: Here Be Blood

A woman [was] afflicted with hemorrhages for twelve years. She had suffered greatly at the...

June 18, 2021

Dark Devotional: Chapel Purgatorio

A violent squall came up and waves were breaking over the boat, so that it...

May 2021

May 28, 2021

Dark Devotional: After the Fire

Did a people ever hear the voice of God speaking from the midst of fire,...

April 2021

April 09, 2021

Dark Devotional: Seeing Is Believing

Jesus said to [Thomas], “Have you come to believe because you have seen me? Blessed...

April 03, 2021

Dark Devotional: Rejoice and Be Glad

This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad (Ps....

March 2021

March 26, 2021

Dark Devotional: Obedient to Death

[Christ Jesus] humbled himself, becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on...

March 12, 2021

Dark Devotional: Darkness and Light

Whoever lives the truth comes to the light, so that his works may be...