“The confidence that I truly have the power, the wisdom and the goodness to aid a soul faithfully in all her miseries, is the arrow which...

Born around the year 1046, Margaret was a pious and virtuous English princess of the House of Essex. She and her family fled north to...

It is by the path of love, which is charity, that God draws near to man and man to God. But where charity is not found, God cannot dwell....

Albert Bollstadt was born at the German castle of Lauinger on the River Danube in 1206. Nothing is known of his youth, but he studied...

Not to oppose error is to approve it; and not to defend truth is to suppress it; and indeed to neglect to confound evil men, when we can ...

Born in 1128 in County Kildare, Ireland, Laurence was the son of Murtagh, chieftain of the Murrays. When he was ten years old, Laurence...

Men do not fear a powerful hostile army as much as the powers of hell fear the name and protection of Mary. St. Bonaventure

Born on July 15, 1850 into a family of Italian farmers near Lombardi, Frances was the youngest of thirteen children. Her parents, Augus...

Without the burden of afflictions it is impossible to reach the height of grace. The gift of grace increases as the struggles increase. St...

John Kunsevich was born in Lithuania around the year 1580. His father, a burgess for a wealthy family, raised his son as a Catholic a...

 What we need most in order to make progress is to be silent before this great God with our appetite and with our tongue, for the language...

Martin was born in German Sabaria about the year 316. His father, a military tribune, was transferred to Pavia when Martin was still ...

Veronica first learned of the Rosary as a small girl watching her father fingering the beads. At first she thought he was “playing” ...

No one, however weak, is denied a share in the victory of the cross. No one is beyond the help of the prayer of Christ. Pope St. Leo the G...

Although he descended of a noble Tuscan family, Leo was born in the Eternal City. He was already known outside of Rome even as a deac...

In her City of God , Venerable Maria of Agreda, a XVII Century Conceptionist nun and mystic, to whom the Blessed Mother dictated her ...

Jesus needs neither books nor Doctors of Divinity in order to instruct souls; He, the Doctor of Doctors, He teaches without noise of words...

Although most Catholics believe the Basilica of St. Peter’s to be the main church of the Pope, it is not: St. John Lateran, also cal...

Confession heals, confession justifies, confession grants pardon of sin. All hope consists in confession. In confession there is a chance ...

Godfrey was born about the year 1065 in Soissons, France. When he was only five years old, he was placed in the care of his godfather, t...

The powerful intercession of the souls in purgatory Besides being a spiritual work of mercy and a powerful reminder of the afterlif...

Few souls understand what God would accomplish in them if they were to abandon themselves unreservedly to Him and if they were to allow Hi...

Willibrord was born in 658 in Northumbria. When he was seven he was sent to a monastery governed by St. Wilfrid, where he remained f...

I am worried about America! I am not so much worried about its politics and economics, important though they be: I am worried about its sou...

Brittany, on the west coast of France, was so named for the Britons – primarily from Wales, Cornwall and Devon – that settled there ...

To tolerate an evil is to consent to its existence. Just as good produces good, evil yields evil. When we are obliged to tolerate somethin...

The future abbess was born of devout parents in Soissons, France in the first half of the seventh century. From an early age, she fe...

  By Luis and Gustavo Solimeo "Oh! If people only knew what Purgatory is!" In 1870, Belgium fought as an ally with F...

If teaching and preaching is your job, then study diligently and apply yourself to whatever is necessary for doing the job well. Be sure th...

Charles was born into a family both noble and devout and divided his early years between the family’s Castle of Arona on Lake Maggio...

Devotion to you, O Blessed Virgin, is a means of salvation which God gives to those whom he wishes to save. St. John Damascene

Born in Lima, Peru on December 9, 1579, Martin was the illegitimate son of Juan de Porras, a noble Spanish knight, and Ana Velázquez...

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...

Padre Pio was asked why he prayed for the happy death of his great-grandfather who had already passed away. He said, “For the Lord, the pa...

The “Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed” is founded upon the Catholic Church’s doctrine that those faithful who have not bee...

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