Apart from the cross there is no other ladder by which we may get to heaven. St. Rose of Lima

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...

The longer the trial to which God subjects you, the greater the goodness in comforting you during the time of trial and in the exaltatio...

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

Mary, “Mothers” A Mother It was painful, and she would yell out, "No Mommy, No Mommy!" Dear John...

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...

With A Simple Morning & Night Prayer Mary Breaks Impurity A well-known incident is related by Father Paul S...

By Pope Pius XII, 23 January 1953   Holy Virgin, moved by the painful uncertainty we experience in seeking and acquiring the true an...

Sanctify yourself and you will sanctify society. St. Francis of Assisi

Galdinus was born about the year 1096 into the Della Salla family, of minor Milanese nobility. He lived in a tumultuous time for the Chu...

The same granite of which the pillar is made  h as never been found on earth and for almost 2,000 years the statue...

As a child, I was fascinated by the foil wrapped, chocolate eggs hidden in the bush. The intense search was rewarded by a glimmer of l...

The heart of man is, so to speak, the paradise of God. Since His delights are to be with you, let yours be found in Him. St. Alphonsus ...

Stephen Harding was an Englishman of an honorable family, and heir to a large estate. Born in Dorset, he was educated at the monastery ...

Jesus said to her [Mary Magdalen]:   "Do not touch me, for I am not yet ascended to my Father" (John 20:17). He meant:  Depend no...

Bernadette Soubirous, baptized Marie Bernarde, was the oldest of a family of six, the daughter of a miller, François Soubirous and his ...

For this reason she is called "the moon"   that as the moon is between the sun and the earth, and reflects upon the latter what s...

Little is known about St. Hunna other than that she was an aristocratic lady from the royal family of Alsace and married to a nobleman,...

A dying man asked a dying man for eternal life. A man without possessions asked a poor man for a Kingdom.  A thief at the door of death ask...

by Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira   Opening Prayer: O Sorrowful Mother, in these times wherein the immense majority of men flee from the...