Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of the...

On the feast of the Presentation of the Virgin Mary, we celebrate the fact that Our Lady’s parents brought her to the Temple at the...

The devotion to the Eucharist is the most noble, because it has God as its object; it is the most profitable for salvation, because It ...

St. Edmund the Martyr King of East Anglia, born about 840; died at Hoxne, Suffolk, November 20, 870. The earliest and most reliable ac...

It is better to say one Pater Noster (Our Father) fervently and devoutly than a thousand with no devotion and full of distraction. St. Ed...

Nerses I Armenian patriarch, surnamed “the Great”. Died 373. Born of the royal stock, he spent his youth in Caesarea where he...

Better a few staunch and sincere Catholics, than many compliant with the enemies of the Church and conformed to the foes of our Faith. St...

Founder in America of the first houses of the society of the Sacred Heart, born at Grenoble, France, 29 August, 1769; died at St. Charles, ...

I want to adorn myself, not out of worldly pride, but for the love of God alone – in a fitting manner, however, so as to give my husband ...

Also called Saint ELIZABETH OF THURINGIA, b. in Hungary, probably at Pressburg, 1207; d. at Marburg, Hesse, November 17 (not November 19), ...

“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 about 1045, died 16 Nov., 1092, was a daughter of Edward "Outremere", or "the Exile", by Agatha, kinswoman of Gise...

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....

Known as Albert the Great; scientist, philosopher, and theologian, born c. 1206; died at Cologne, 15 November 1280. He is called "the ...

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 ...

St. Lawrence O’Toole (Lorcan ua Tuathail; also spelled Laurence O’Toole) Confessor, born about 1128, in the present County Kildare; die...

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...

Martyr, born in the little town of Volodymyr in Lithuania (Volyn) in 1580 or — according to some writers — 1584; died at Vitebsk, Russia, 1...

 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...

St. Martin of Tours Bishop; born at Sabaria (today Steinamanger in German, or Szombathely in Hungarian), Pannonia (Hungary), about 316; di...

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...

Place and date of birth unknown; died 10 November, 461. (Reigned 440-61). Leo’s pontificate, next to that of St. Gregory I, is the most ...

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 ...