"It was fitting that she, who had kept her virginity intact in childbirth, should keep her own body free from all corruption even ...

" It was fitting that she, who had kept her virginity intact in childbirth, should keep her own body free from all corruption even af...

Mary is the most perfect and most holy work of God, for as St. Bonaventure said, “ God can create a greater and more perfect world, but ...

The second son of pious parents, St. Maximilian Kolbe was born on January 8, 1894 at Zdunska Wola in Poland, which at that time was und...

He who is faithful to God is faithful to his country and to his family, and the more the fear of God animates the citizens of a country, ...

Pontian was elected pope in 230 and reigned until the year 235. The schism of Hippolytus continued during his episcopate. Towards the e...

The reformation of the soul starts in self-knowledge and confidence in God. Our self-knowledge will let us know we have many things to co...

Born at Dijon in France in 1572, Jane was very pious and religious from a very young age. In 1592 she married the Baron de Chantal, who...

There is more value in a little study of humility and in a single act of it than in all the knowledge in the world. St. Teresa of Avila ...

St. Lawrence, one of the deacons of the Roman Church, was one of the victims of the persecution of Valerian in 258, like Pope Sixtus II...

Prayer purifies us, reading instructs us … If a man wants to be always in God’s company, he must pray regularly and read regularly. Whe...

João Mendes da Silva, better known as the Blessed Amadeus of Portugal, was born in 1420 in Campo Maior on the eastern side of the count...

What a weakness it is to love Jesus Christ only when He caresses us, and to be cold immediately once He afflicts us. This is not true lo...

Dominic was born in 1170 in Castile, Spain to Felix Guzman and Joan of Aza (who later became a blessed). He was sent to school in Palen...

One may fall, one may not be always faithful; but Love, knowing how to draw profit from all, very quickly consumes whatever may displeas...

Cajetan was born in 1480 in Vicenza, Italy to Caspar, the Count of Thiene and Mary di Porto, both members of the nobility of Vicenza. H...

He led them up the mountain and showed them His kingship before His passion, and His power before His death, His glory before His disgrac...

" And after six days Jesus took Peter and James, and John his brother, and brought them up into a high mountain apart.  And He was t...

To the servant of God … every place is the right place, and every time is the right time. St. Catherine of Siena

Santa Maria Maggiore or St. Mary Major is the largest church in the world honoring the Virgin Mary and was erected in the immediate afte...

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Before beginning your work, my dear brethren, never fail to make the Sign of the Cross … Offer quite simply all your difficulties to God ...

John Vianney was born in France in 1786, just three years before the beginning of the French Revolution. He grew up assisting a local pr...

Abbé Francis Trochu, in his book, The Cure D’Ars, relates a story of a young lady who, having decided to consecrate her life to religi...

Jesus who cannot suffer long to keep you in affliction will come to relieve and comfort you by infusing fresh courage into your soul. St...

Waltheof was born of English nobility. The son of Simon, the Earl of Huntingdon, and Maud, the grand-niece of William the Conqueror, he...

The state of grace is nothing other than purity, and it gives heaven to those who clothe themselves in it. Holiness, therefore, is simply...

Eusebius was born on the island of Sardinia where his father died a martyr. His mother took him and his sister to live in Rome where Eu...

As soon as she [Mary] had the use of reason, that is, from the first moment of her immaculate conception in the womb of St. Anne, from tha...

Alphonsus was born in 1696 near Naples, Italy, to a naval officer and his Spanish wife. Educated at the University of Naples, Alphonsus...

Do not let any occasion of gaining merit pass without taking care to draw some spiritual profit from it; as, for example, from a sharp wo...

Inigo de Loyola was born in 1491 in the Basque province of Guipuzcoa in northern Spain. Of the noble family of Loyola, as a boy he was ...

It is useless for a man to flaunt his knowledge of the law if he undermines its teaching by his actions. St. Anthony of Padua

Peter Chrysologus was born in Imola, Italy in 406 and died there in 450. He was baptized, educated and ordained a deacon by Cornelius, B...

It was the thief’s last prayer, perhaps even his first. He knocked once, sought once, asked once, dared everything, and found everything...

Martha, named in the Gospels of St. Luke and St. John, was the sister of Lazarus, the friend of Jesus whom the Lord resurrected. She wa...

My confidence is placed in God who does not need our help for accomplishing His designs. Our single endeavor should be to give ourselve...

St. Samson is counted among the seven founding saints of Brittany. He was born in Wales, his father being the son of Amon of Demetia and...

If our age – in its pride – laughs at and rejects Our Lady’s Rosary, a countless legion of the most saintly men of every age and of every ...

Theobald was the son of Bouchard of Montmorency, one of the most illustrious families of Europe. They were constables of France, marsha...

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible. St. Thomas Aquinas

According to tradition, Our Lady’s parents were Joachim and Anne to whom, after years of childlessness, and much prayer, an angel appea...

When you can do nothing at prayer, make acts of humility, comparing your nothingness with God’s greatness, your ingratitude with His ben...

James the Greater was the son of Zebedee and Salome, one of the women at the tomb on Easter morning, (Matt.27:56, Mark 15:40, 16:1) and...

When you are sick, offer to Christ our Lord all your pains, suffering, and your languor, and beseech Him to unite them to those He bore f...

Youssef Antoun Makhlouf was born in the village of Bekka Kafra in Lebanon on May 8, 1828 and was one of five children born to Antoun Za...

Behold Jesus Christ crucified, Who is the only foundation of our hope; He is our Mediator and Advocate;  the victim and sacrifice for ...

Bridget was nobly born, her father was Birger, the governor of Upland in Sweden, and her mother, Ingeborg, was the daughter of the gove...

Mary Magdalene . . . did not do what you and I would do. She did not pour out the precious perfume drop by drop as if to indicate by the ...

Mary Magdalene, called “the penitent”, was a woman of great beauty who was known as a sinner, but was touched in her soul by the mercif...

Our dear God loves to be bothered. St. John Vianney

Born in Brindisi in Italy and christened Julius Caesar, the future saint’s father was Guglielmo Rossi, and his mother Elisabetta Massella,...

Jesus purified Magdalen and pardoned the triple denial of Peter. He opened heaven to the good thief. In truth, I assure you, if Judas ha...

Apollinaris was possibly born in Antioch, in the Roman province of Syria. Consecrated bishop of Ravenna by St. Peter himself, he won ma...

In his book, The Secret of the Rosary , St. Louis de Montfort relates that a Dominican, Father Jean Amat, was once giving a Lenten Missi...

I shall spare myself neither care nor labor nor vigils for the salvation of souls. My hope is in Christ, who strengthens the weakest by H...

Macrina was born in Caesaerea, Capadoccia, her parents being Basil the Elder and Emmelia. Her grandmother was St. Macrina the Elder and...