Magdalena was born on March 1, 1774, into an ancient and prominent family of Verona, Italy. She was a descendant of the Countess Matild...

In all the miracles of healing performed by Our Divine Savior, we must admire the remarkable goodness which caused Him to heal first the...

John was born in Harpham, a village in Yorkshire. As a young man he joined the famous school of St. Theodore in Kent, where he distingu...

The Five First Saturdays devotion is one of the principal points of the Fatima message. It centers on the urgent need for mankin...

I am not capable of doing big things, but I want to do everything, even the smallest things, for the greater glory of God. St. Dominic...

Petronax is considered to be the second founder of the Monastery Abbey of Monte Cassino, initially established by St. Benedict of Nursia...

Thou hast formed us for Thyself O Lord and our hearts are restless till they find rest in Thee! St. Augustine of Hippo

by Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira "HE ASCENDED INTO HEAVEN AND IS SEATED AT THE RIGHT HAND OF THE FATHER"  Upon entering Jerusal...

 God, to procure His glory, sometimes permits that we should be dishonored and persecuted without reason. He wishes thereby to render us...

Gothard was born in the Bavarian village of Reichersdorf. Ratmund, his father, worked for the Canons of the neighboring Benedictine Abbe...

The Sign of the Cross is formidable to the devil, because by the Cross we escape from him. We should make the Sign of the Cross with gre...

Phillip, seemingly a disciple of John the Baptist, was the third apostle, after Andrew and Peter, whom Christ Our Lord called to follow...

You will not see anyone who is really striving after his own advancement who is not given to spiritual reading. And as to him who neglec...

Athanasius, known as “the Champion of Orthodoxy,” was born in Alexandria in approximately 297. Nothing is known of his family except th...

In the time when Saint Catherine of Siena walked the streets of her quaint medieval town, she sometimes stayed at the house of a widow-...

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. Sir Winston Chur...

St. Joseph, the husband of the Blessed Virgin Mary and foster-father of Jesus has two feasts: his official feastday on March 19, celebr...

Such is the will of God that we should have everything through Mary. St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

Antonio Ghislieri was born in 1504 in Bosco, in the Tortona diocese. He received the Dominican habit at age fourteen, and after his ord...

Second Rose, from the Secret of the Rosary, by Saint Louis de Montfort Since the Holy Rosary is composed, principally and in subst...

And of what should we be afraid? Our captain on this battlefield is Christ Jesus. We have discovered what we have to do. Christ has boun...

Catherine Benincasa was born in Siena, Tuscany, in 1347. The twenty-third child of Giacomo, a well-to-do dyer, and his wife Lapa, the l...

He that loveth correction, loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is foolish. He that is good, shall draw grace from the Lord: but...

St. Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort Statue of St. Louis de Montfort at St. Peter’s Basilica, Rome. Missionary in Brittany and Vende...

Habits acquired by our human actions alone do not perish by one single contrary act: for a man is not said to be intemperate for one single...

Peter Armengol was born in 1238 in a small village in the archdiocese of Tarragon, Spain to a family of noble lineage. Although his pare...

The Imitation Of The Sacred Heart Of Jesus That No...

Two things are required in order to obtain eternal life: the grace of God and man’s will. And although God made man without man’s help, He ...

In the quaint medieval town of Genazzano, about 30 miles from Rome, on a side altar of the Church of Our Lady of Good Counsel, there is...

All the penalties imposed by divine judgment upon man for the sin of the first transgression – death, toil, hunger, thirst and the like ...

We learn from the Epistle to the Colossians that Mark was a kinsman of Barnabas, who was a Levite, which presupposes that Mark was also ...

There was once in the city of Toledo, Spain a soldier, Diego Martinez, and a young woman, Ines de Vargas, who were in love. Diego was ca...

In the spiritual life, one does not sustain honorable losses. War honors come only with victory. And winning consists in not abandoning ...

Fidelis was born Mark Rey in Sigmaringen in Prussia, and was the son of the town's burgomaster. Pursuing studies at the University ...

The beginning of evil is the lack of vigilance. St. Poemen

Though the story of St. George is intertwined with legend, especially the account of him slaying a dragon, the historicity of his life ...

The prayer of the sick person is his patience and his acceptance of his sickness for the love of Jesus Christ. Make sickness itself a...

Born in the Roman Galatian town of Sykeon in Asia Minor, Theodore was the son of a woman of ill repute, who kept an inn along the imper...

Mary was raised to the dignity of Mother of God rather for sinners than for the just, since Jesus Christ declares that He came to call n...

Anselm was born in Aosta in Italy about the year 1033. There was little sympathy between the lad and his father, a harsh man who practi...

The Imitation Of  The Sacred Heart Of Jesus   “Learn of Me, for I am meek and humble of heart, and ye shall find rest for your so...

Pray for the reestablishment of the kingdom of God, for the spread of the Faith, for the praise and triumph of our Holy Mother Church … ...

Around the year 1268 in the Tuscan village of Gracchiano-Vecchio, a child was born to a well-to-do couple, a little girl who was to bec...

Contradictions bring us to the foot of the Cross,   and the Cross, to the gate of Heaven. St. John Vianney

As a youth, Alphege became a monk in the monastery of Deerhurst in Gloucestershire, England, afterwards an anchorite and later an abbot...