Many centuries ago, three young nuns lived together in a convent. Day after day, they took their meals together, they went to chapel to...

Admire the goodness of the Creator, Who causes the one to suffer in order to free the other. St. Lydwine of Schiedam

Some saints only come to light after their death. St. Thorfinn is one of these. A Norwegian bishop, he lived the last years of his life a...

Christian love bears evil, but it does not tolerate it. It does penance for the sins of others, but it is not broadminded about sin. Real ...

Raymond of Peñafort was born in 1175 in Spain and was a relative of the king of Aragon. By the age of twenty he was already a teacher of...

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

We ought to be pleased to hear that others are advancing in the service of God, especially if they are our relations or friends; and we oug...

André Bessette was born in 1845 in the province of Quebec, Canada, the eighth of ten children. An orphan at twelve, he was taken in by ...

We must not stop doing good even if it scandalizes the Pharisees. St. Padre Pio of Pietrelcina

Allow me to praise Thee, O most holy Virgin Mary, with my personal commitment and sacrifice. Allow me to live, work, suffer, be consum...

The things that we love tell us what we are. St. Thomas Aquinas

John Nepomucene Neumann was born on March 28, 1811 in Prachatitz, in the Kingdom of Bohemia, then part of the Austrian Empire, now in t...

The accidents of life separate us from our dearest friends, but let us not despair. God is like a looking glass in which souls see each ot...

Did you know that the first church dedicated to the Blessed Mother was built while she still lived? Indeed! Here’s the marvelous stor...

Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton is America’s first beatified and canonized saint. The second child of a socially prominent New York City fam...

The Apostle St. Paul was probably the first promoter of the name of Jesus, when he called it “a name which is above all names (Philippian...

Born about the year 422 in Nanterre, a small village outside of Paris, Geneviève was the daughter of respectable townsfolk. At the ag...

The most deadly poison of our time is INDIFFERENCE. And this happens, although the praise of God should know no limits. Let us strive, th...

These three things God requires of all the Baptized: right faith in the heart, truth on the tongue, temperance in the body. St. Gregory ...

On January 2, the Church honors Sts. Basil the Great and Gregory Nazianzen, two friends who were pillars of orthodoxy during a period o...

The Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God is an ancient feast first celebrated in the East before it was in the West. By the 7th centur...

Our love for Jesus is truly great when we do not feel its sweetness. It then becomes a martyrdom … When, on the contrary, we begin to see...

Truly, matters in the world are in a bad state; but if you and I begin in earnest to reform ourselves, a really good beginning will have ...

Little is historically known about Pope Sylvester, though legend adds a few anecdotes. It is known that his father was a Roman by n...

You have everything when you have within you the One who made all things, the only One who can satisfy the longings of your spirit. St. A...

Egwin of Worcester was of a noble family, possibly a descendant of the Mercian kings. Devoted to God since his youth, he succeeded...

1. Be honest . Know yourself. What is your strongest virtue? What is your worst vice? Therefore, tailor your resolution so it strengt...

Mary is a most pure star, a most radiant star, and a most useful star. She is a most pure star by living most purely; a most radiant star b...

Also known as St. Thomas of Canterbury, he was born in London on December 21 about the year 1118. His parents had come from Normandy and...

When the Magi arrived in Judea seeking the newborn “king of the Jews” (Matt. 2:1-2), King Herod was worried. After ascertaining in Scr...

… day after day He humbles Himself, as when He came down from His royal throne into the Virgin’s womb. Day by day He comes to us personal...

I would wield the sword, I would be a Priest, an Apostle, a Martyr, a Doctor of the Church, I would fain accomplish the most heroic deeds...

John was one of the twelve apostles of Jesus, the son of Zebedee and Salome, and the brother of James the Greater. In the Gospels, the...

People were talking... A mysterious star had appeared, shepherds spoke of an angel in the night, and of a royal babe in a manger, kings ...

To withdraw from creatures and repose with Jesus in the Tabernacle is my delight; there I can hide myself and seek rest. There I find a l...

Stephen was a Jew, possibly of the Hellenist Dispersion who, therefore, spoke Greek. His election and that of six other men as deacons i...

On December 25 the Church celebrates the birth of Our Lord Jesus Christ, the second Person of the Most Holy Trinity made man, Who ta...

Our Lord could have ordered the angels to embellish the             Holy Grotto with the most delicate silks, the most aromatic            ...

One Christmas night, Our Lord, denying Himself the comfort of visiting those households where He knows He is loved, came down into the...