As a direct descendant of King David, Joseph was of royal lineage. Although of noble birth and ancestry, this heir of the throne of D...

He alone loves the Creator perfectly who manifests a pure love for his neighbor. St. Bede the Venerable

Orphaned early in life, Cuthbert was brought up by a widow who loved him like a son. According to St. Bede, he was a Briton. One night,...

The early history of the American Southwest is marked by sublime and truly heroic adventures of ardent souls seeking to expand the K...

When sinners come to Him, Jesus hurries to meet them. Like the father of the prodigal son, He is waiting for the return of the ungrateful...

The first end I propose in our daily work is to do the will of God; secondly, to do it in the manner He wills it; and thirdly to do it b...

Though Cyril’s birthplace is unknown, he was certainly brought up in Jerusalem. His parents, very probably Christians, gave him an ex...

Our Lady of Mercy! It is thus that the faithful people call upon Our Lady when they contemplate her seated with the divine corpse of her ...

Patrick of Irish fame was born in Kilpatrick, Scotland in 387 to Christian parents of means and position. At the age of sixteen Patric...

    She Could Find No Peace, And Was Forced, As It Were, To Go To Confession. No sinner need ever fear that h...

On the Way of the Cross, you see, my children, only the first step is painful. Our greatest cross is the fear of crosses … We have not t...

Abraham was born near Edessa in Mesopotamia, in present-day Iraq, into an extremely wealthy family. Though he preferred the celibate li...

Our Lord showed even greater evidence of His love in the conversion of sinners than in the continuation of His graces to the just. This ...

A True Story… Three months after her husband had been buried, a priest knocked on her door and asked, "Are y...

Louise was the daughter of Louis de Marillac, the Lord of Ferrières, a French nobleman. She never knew her mother who died shortly afte...

Very worried, Saint John lost no time in visiting the Blessed Virgin to tell her of Lillian and her gr...

  Actions speak louder than words. Let your words teach and your actions speak. St. Anthony of Padua

Lubin’s parents were peasants from the region of Poitiers in France. As a young boy, Lubin had an aptitude for learning and applied to ...

Neither in heaven nor on earth can I find one who  has more compassion for the miserable, or who can aid me more ...

Someone who in the first stages of life experienced the joy of having a good mother understands that life on earth can be very difficult,...

Euphrasia’s father, Antigonus, was a kinsman of the Emperor Theodosius I, and her mother, also named Euphrasia, was of an equally exalt...

It is certain that the love of God does not consist in this sweetness and tenderness which we for the most part desire; but rather in...

Theophanes was the son of Isaac, the imperial governor of the islands of the Black Sea, and of Theodora, of whose family nothing i...

Mary is the most sweet bait; chosen, prepared and ordained by God, to catch the hearts of men. St. Catherine of Siena

St. Aengus, called “God’s Vassal” was of the royal house of Ulster, and was born around the middle of the seventh century. As a young m...

Married couples ought to say the Rosary together each night, for their common prayer is more than the separate prayers of each. Archbis...

Son of a Scottish laird, John Ogilvie was brought up in a Calvinist family. Sent to France to be educated, he ultimately converted to C...

March 11th - 19th Novena Prayer to be said at the...