I find consolation in the one and only friend who will never leave me, that is, our Divine Savior in the Holy Eucharist … Jesus in the Bl...

Meletius was born a Melitene, and belonged to one of the most distinguished families of Lesser Armenia. He was a kind and gentle man, a...

"You will not allow your holy one to see corruption" - Psalm 16:10 The Catholic Church is full of mystery and miracle...

They think I'm a saint... When I'm dead, they'll come and touch holy pictures and rosaries to me, and all the while I'll ...

On February 11, 1858 in the Pyrenean village of Lourdes, France, a beautiful young lady appeared to a poor, fourteen-year-old girl named ...

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working, and just so, you learn to love by loving. All ...

There is nothing that pleases God more than when we admit that without Him we are nothing. St. Paul of the Cross

Scholastica, the twin sister of St. Benedict, consecrated her life to God when she was very young. After her brother established his...

Love is not just an affirmation, but a negation. It implies sacrifice – a surrender of our will, of our selfish interests, for the good of ...

Michael was born in Cuenca, Ecuador in 1854 to a wealthy family. From birth he had a deformity that disabled him and prevented him from...

The proof of love is in the works. Where love exists, it works great things. But when it ceases to act, it ceases to exist. St. Gregory ...

Jerome was born in Venice in 1481. As a military commander who prided himself on the strength of his army, he was not a man of God. Yet...

Have you ever felt the urge to pray for someone and thought, “I’ll pray for him or her later”? This story will show you how real th...

To love God as He ought to be loved, we must be detached from all temporal love. We must love nothing but Him, or if we love anything el...

Born on the Greek island of Aegina, Luke belonged to a family of farmers. Saracen raiders forced his family to leave their homeland for...

The most powerful weapon to conquer the devil is humility. For, as he does not know at all how to employ it, neither does he know how to...

By 1549, St. Francis Xavier had begun the evangelization of Japan. After he left to spread the faith elsewhere, a Catholic community fl...

Belonging to the Church is a very great and very demanding thing. We must think as the Church thinks, have the mind of the Church, procee...

Very little is known about St. Agatha, other than that she was martyred in Sicily during the persecution of Emperor Decius in 251. Acco...

If we wish to make any progress in the service of God we must begin every day of our life with new eagerness. We must keep ourselves in t...

At Anna’s mother’s funeral a man came up to her and after offering his deepest sympathy, took the grieving daughter aside,  “I must tell ...

John de Britto, was born in Lisbon on March 1, 1647 to a noble Portuguese family. His father died while serving as Viceroy of Brazil. G...

Lust indulged became habit, and habit unresisted became necessity. St. Augustine of Hippo

Very few facts are known about St. Blaise. It is believed that he lived in the early fourth century, and was of a noble and wealthy Chri...

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

Think of what the Saints have done for their neighbor because they loved God. But what Saint’s love for God can match Mary’s? She loved H...

In Israel the Law of Moses considered the first-born male child to belong to God. The same law considered the mother “unclean” after gi...

Click here for Catholic Valentine's Day Cards  Preliminary Prayer to be said each day:    Be blessed, O most pure Virgin, for ...

“I promise you, in the excessive mercy of my Heart that my all powerful love will grant to all those who receive Holy Communion on the f...

When we pray, the voice of the heart must be heard more than that proceeding from the mouth. St. Bonaventure

Henry Morse was born to protestant parents in Suffolk, England, in 1595, and left his home to study law in London where he learned of t...

  Do you want Our Lord to give you many graces? Visit Him often. Do you want Him to give you few graces? Visit him seldom. Visits to th...

6 Ways to Live a Good Life and Reach Eternal Happiness  Born in 1815, Saint John Bosco was a man of extraordinary intelligence, cha...

The youngest of a poor farming family of Piedmont in northern Italy, John Melchior Bosco was born on August 16, 1815. He lost his fathe...

We become what we love and who we love shapes what we become. If we love things, we become a thing. If we love nothing, we become nothing....

Born of a noble, wealthy family at Vignanello in Italy, Hyacintha’s baptismal name was Clarice. In her early youth she was remarkable f...

Let us not imagine that we obscure the glory of the Son by the great praise we lavish on the Mother; for the more she is honored, the grea...

St. Gildas is considered to be the first British historian quoted by the Venerable Bede and Alcuin. Gildas was born in Scotland of a nob...

In the realm of evil thoughts  none induces to sin  as much as do thoughts  that concern the pleasure of the flesh.  St. Thomas Aquinas

Thomas Aquinas was born about 1225 in the castle of Rocca Secca, into the noble lineage of the family of Aquino. His father, Landulf, w...

Pray with great confidence, with confidence based upon the goodness and infinite generosity of God and upon the promises of Jesus Chris...

Angela de Merici was born in Desenzano, on the southwestern shore of beautiful Lake Garda, in northern Italy. Left an orphan at the age...