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Approaching May potential new Encyclical by Pope Paul VI – Mense Maio (1965) – This encyclical established May as a time for special prayer and peace. The following is an excerpt from an article entitled, “The Mary Month of May.” This is a brief summary of the encyclical – Included is the direct link to read the article. https://www.catholicapostolatecenter.org/blog/the-mary-month-of-may

MENSE MAIO – Encyclical link -

On April 29, 1965, Pope Blessed Paul VI promulgated his encyclical Mense Maio (“The Month of May”), which promoted May devotions to the Blessed Mother, knowing that, “the person who encounters Mary cannot help but encounter Christ likewise” (n. 2). Despite being a lesser-known encyclical, its timing and topic are revealing. Released on the eve of the last session of the Second Vatican Council and amid escalating violence and unrest of the Vietnam War and the 1960’s, the help of Mary was “a matter of top priority” considering “the present needs of the Church and the status of world peace” (n. 3). The words of Paul VI are just as relevant today. In our contentious social and political climate, focusing on Mary is not a pious distraction from real issues, but a vital source for grace, truth, and mercy.

The Baltimore Catechism Series

This series is our attempt to present with clarity to parents and their children the authentic teaching of the Roman Catholic Church when so much confusion has been sown by individuals, some of whom are within the Church itself. It is our sincere hope that these truths of the Catholic Church will help everyone to accomplish the first of our very important duties – to know God.

Lessons:

Lesson 1 on the End of Man, Who Made the World?

Lesson 2 on God and His Perfections

Lesson 3 on the Unity and Trinity of God

Lesson 4 on Creation

Lesson 5 on Our First Parents

Lesson 6 on Sin and its Kinds

Lesson 7 on the Incarnation and Redemption

Lesson 8 on Our Lord’s Passion, Death, Resurrection, and Ascension

Lesson 9 on the Holy Ghost and His Descent Upon the Apostles

Lesson 10 on the Effects of Redemption

Lesson 11 on the Church

Lesson 12 on the Attributes and Marks of the Church

Lesson 13 on the Sacraments in General

Lesson 14 on Baptism

Lesson 15 on Confirmation

Lesson 16 on the Gifts and Fruits of the Holy Ghost

Lesson 17 on the Sacrament of Penance

Lesson 18 on Contrition

Lesson 19 on Confession

Lesson 20 on the Manner of Making a Good Confession

Lesson 21 on Indulgences

Lesson 22 on the Holy Eucharist

Lesson 23 on the Ends for which the Holy Eucharist was Instituted

Lesson 24 on the Sacrifice of the Mass

Lesson 25 on Extreme Unction and Holy Orders

Lesson 26 on Matrimony

Lesson 27 on the Sacramentals

Lesson 28 on Prayer

Lesson 29 on the Commandments of God

Lesson 30 on the First Commandment

Lesson 31 The First Commandment. On the Honor and Invocation of the Saints

Lesson 32 from the Second to the Fourth Commandment

Lesson 33 from the Fourth to the Seventh Commandment

Lesson 34 from the Seventh to the End of the Tenth Commandment

Lesson 35 on the First and Second Commandments of the Church

Lesson 36 on the Third, Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Commandments of the Church

Lesson 37 on the Last Judgment and the Resurrection, Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven

Explanation of the Baltimore Catechism Volume 4 by Rev. Thomas L. Kinkead
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Examination of Conscience

PLEASE NOTE: This Examination of Conscience by Fr. Robert Altier has a copyright. If you would like a copy of the booklet (cost is $1.25 & includes additional prayers) please contact: Leaflet Missal Co. - Publishers and Sellers of Religious Goods Since 1929. Leaflet Missal Company ...

Examination of Conscience for Children

by Fr. Edward Filardi, Gaithersburg, Maryland I. I am the Lord your God. You shall not have strange gods before me. Do I give time every day to God in prayer? Do I put my trust in superstitions, good luck charms, rather than God alone? Have ...

Examination of Conscience for Elementary School Children

This Examination of Conscience is from catholickids101.com, a tool to help bring children to Jesus in the Holy Eucharist for the 21st century! THE FIRST COMMANDMENT “I am the Lord your God; you shall not have strange gods before Me.” To obey this first commandment you ...

Examination of Conscience — for teenagers

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Examination of Conscience – Servant of God Fr. John Hardon, S.J.

It is valuable to reflect on this tactic of the evil spirit before we offer some practical norms for making our daily examination of conscience ...

Featured Book for May

This little book, A Month with Mary, was originally written by a holy Italian priest, Don Dolindo Ruotolo (1882-1970), as spiritual thoughts to his spiritual daughter; it is comprised of thirty-one meditations for the month of May. Don Dolindo wrote A Month with Mary on pocket-sized pages joined into small fascicles of eight to twelve pages. He sent them to Laura de Rosis every two to three days and later transcribed them in his autobiography: The Story of My Life in the Plan of the Great Mercy of God.

This work is from 1912, one of those years which passed in the life of Don Dolindo with the cadence of a “Way of the Cross.” But he, serene as ever, loved Christ and Our Lady the more, and reflected this love in these few pages to which he wished to give the significant title: A Profound Reform of Heart in the School of Mary. These meditations are written in the style of the Imitation of Christ.
*Taken from Amazon Book Review