I am afraid that if we begin to put our trust in human help, some of our Divine help will fail us. St. Teresa of Avila

Dominic was born at Canas de Navarre, on the Spanish side of the Pyrenees. From a family of peasants, at first he looked after his f...

When the heart is pure, it cannot help loving, because it has found the source of love, which is God Himself. St. John Vianney

St. Jerome wrote of Pope Anastasius that he was a distinguished man of blameless life and apostolic solicitude, a man of great holin...

While Jesus was kind to sinners and to those who went astray, He did not respect their false ideas, however sincere they might have appear...

St. Flannan mac Toirrdelbaig, was the son of Turlough, the King of Thomond in Ireland. He became a monk at the monastery of Killaloe,...

There are many who begin, yet they never reach the end. I believe this is due mainly to a failure to embrace the cross – from the beginning...

To systematize the work of evangelizing Germany, St. Boniface organized a hierarchy on the usual ecclesiastical basis; in Bavaria the Dioc...

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Although one is not bound to pray at all hours, one is bound throughout the day to keep oneself fit for prayer. St. Thomas Aquina s

(Adelheid) Born 931; died 16 December, 999, one of the conspicuous characters in the struggle of Otho the great to obtain the imperial cro...

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

Mother Maria Crocifissa was born Paolina Francesca di Rosa, the sixth of nine children of Clement di Rosa and the Countess Camilla Alba...

Contemplation is nothing else than a secret, peaceful, and loving i nfusion of God, which if admitted, will set the soul on fire with the ...

Founder (with St. Teresa) of the Discalced Carmelites, doctor of mystic theology, b. at Hontoveros, Old Castile, 24 June, 1542; d. at Ubed...

The more somber circumstances become and the more excruciating sundry pains grow, the more we should ask Our Lady to put an end to so much ...

A virgin and martyr of Syracuse in Sicily, whose feast is celebrated by Latins and Greeks alike on 13 Dec. According to the traditional st...

Pope Pius XII gave Our Lady of Guadalupe the t...

“Am I not here who am your mother? Are you not under my shadow and protection? Am I not your fountain of life? Are you not in the folds of ...

In February of 1519, Hernán Cortéz, a Spanish General, landed in Aztec Mexico with a contingent of armed men. By August of 1521, wit...

One single act done with aridity of spirit is worth more than many done with feelings of devotion. St.  Francis de Sale s

Pope St. Damasus I Born about 304; died 11 December, 384. His father, Antonius, was probably a Spaniard; the name of his mother, Laur...

To surrender oneself is more than to devote oneself, more than to give oneself, it is even something more than to abandon oneself to God. I...

The title "Our Lady of Loreto" is associated with the Holy House of Loreto in Italy, the house of the Holy Family of Jesus...