One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived. Paul Bourget

The first King of Hungary was born a pagan in 975, the son of the Hungarian chieftain Géza. Together with his father, he was baptized in...

" It was fitting that she, who had kept her virginity intact in childbirth, should keep her own body free from all corruption even af...

By Professor Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira   In ancient times, people referred to the feast of the Assumption of Our Lady as the fe...

"It was fitting that she, who had kept her virginity intact in childbirth, should keep her own body free from all corruption eve...

Mary is the most perfect and most holy work of God, for as St. Bonaventure said, “ God can create a greater and more perfect world, but ...

The second son of pious parents, St. Maximilian Kolbe was born on January 8, 1894 at Zdunska Wola in Poland, which at that time was u...

He who is faithful to God is faithful to his country and to his family, and the more the fear of God animates the citizens of a country, ...

Pontian was elected pope in 230 and reigned until the year 235. The schism of Hippolytus continued during his episcopate. Towards the...

The reformation of the soul starts in self-knowledge and confidence in God. Our self-knowledge will let us know we have many things to co...

Born at Dijon in France in 1572, Jane was very pious and religious from a very young age. In 1592 she married the Baron de Chantal, w...

“Let the little children come unto me, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.” (Matt 19:14) Daughter of Light Wha...

Gladly endure whatever goes against you and do not let good fortune lift you up: for the latter destroys faith, while the former demands ...

Once, during an enemy attack against Assisi, the fierce Saracens invaded San Damiano, entered the confines of the monastery and even ...

There is more value in a little study of humility and in a single act of it than in all the knowledge in the world. St. Teresa o...

St. Lawrence, one of the deacons of the Roman Church, was one of the victims of the persecution of Valerian in 258, like Pope Sixt...

Prayer purifies us, reading instructs us … If a man wants to be always in God’s company, he must pray regularly and read regularly. Whe...

João Mendes da Silva, better known as the Blessed Amadeus of Portugal, was born in 1420 in Campo Maior on the eastern side of the cou...

What a weakness it is to love Jesus Christ only when He caresses us, and to be cold immediately once He afflicts us. This is not true lo...

Dominic was born in 1170 in Castile, Spain to Felix Guzman and Joan of Aza (who later became a blessed). He was sent to school in Pal...

I was in my first sleep when the sound of the doorbell awakened me, whereupon I sprang from my bed, and, after a few hurried preparation...

One may fall, one may not be always faithful; but Love, knowing how to draw profit from all, very quickly consumes whatever may displeas...

Cajetan was born in 1480 in Vicenza, Italy to Caspar, the Count of Thiene and Mary di Porto, both members of the nobility of Vicenza....

Click here: Sign up now to become a Rosary Rally Captain in October 2019!   Prayer: Lord Jesus Christ, You have destroyed the ...

He led them up the mountain and showed them His kingship before His passion, and His power before His death, His glory before His disgrac...

" And after six days Jesus took Peter and James, and John his brother, and brought them up into a high mountain apart.  And He was...

To the servant of God … every place is the right place, and every time is the right time. St. Catherine of Siena

Santa Maria Maggiore or St. Mary Major is the largest church in the world honoring the Virgin Mary and was erected in the immediate a...

Before beginning your work, my dear brethren, never fail to make the Sign of the Cross … Offer quite simply all your difficulties to God ...

John Vianney was born in France in 1786, just three years before the beginning of the French Revolution. He grew up assisting a local...

Jesus, who cannot suffer long to keep you in affliction, will come to relieve and comfort you by infusing fresh courage into your soul. ...

Waltheof was born of English nobility. The son of Simon, the Earl of Huntingdon, and Maud, the grand-niece of William the Conqueror, ...

The Five First Saturdays devotion...

The state of grace is nothing other than purity, and it gives heaven to those who clothe themselves in it. Holiness, therefore, is simply...

Eusebius was born on the island of Sardinia where his father died a martyr. His mother took him and his sister to live in Rome where ...