Though in desolation we must never change our former resolutions, it will be very advantageous to intensify our activity against the des...

Marguerite Bourgeoys was born the sixth child of twelve children in Troyes, France in 1620. At the age of twenty, touched by a specia...

Our Lord was baptized not that He might be cleansed by the waters, but to cleanse them:  that, being purified by the flesh of Christ, Who k...

We must not stop doing good even if it scandalizes the Pharisees. St. Padre Pio of Pietrelcina

Theodosius was born in Garissus, Cappadocia in 423. He took to the road as a pilgrim, and, in his travels visited the famous St. Sime...

When the devil wishes to make himself master of a soul, he seeks to make it give up devotion to Mary. St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

St. Peter Orseolo’s is an unusual life. He was born in 928 of a prominent Venetian family. At twenty he was appointed to the command ...

The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today. St. Francis of Assisi

An African by birth, d. 710. He became Abbot of Nerida, a Benedictine monastery near Naples, when he was very young. Pope Vitalian intended...

Some saints only come to light after their death. St. Thorfinn is one of these. A Norwegian bishop, he lived the last years of his li...

We ought to be pleased to hear that others are advancing in the service of God, especially if they are our relations or friends; and we oug...

Born at Villafranca de Benadis, near Barcelona, in 1175; died at Barcelona, 6 January, 1275. He became professor of canon law in 1195, and...

by Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira Ja...

If the Magi had come in search of an earthly King, they would have been disconcerted at finding that they had taken the trouble to come suc...

André Bessette was born in 1845 in the province of Quebec, Canada, the eighth of ten children. An orphan at twelve, he was taken in b...

Christian love bears evil, but it does not tolerate it. It does penance for the sins of others, but it is not broadminded about sin. Real ...

John Nepomucene Neumann was born on March 28, 1811 in Prachatitz, in the Kingdom of Bohemia, then part of the Austrian Empire, now in...

John Nepomucene Neumann was born on March ...

The accidents of life separate us from our dearest friends, but let us not despair. God is like a looking glass in which souls see each ot...

Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton is America’s first beatified and canonized saint. The second child of a socially prominent New York City f...

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The most deadly poison of our time is INDIFFERENCE. And this happens, although the praise of God should know no limits. Let us strive, th...

The Apostle St. Paul was probably the first promoter of the name of Jesus, when he called it “a name which is above all names (Philippi...

Patroness of Paris, b. at Nanterre, c. 419 or 422; d. at Paris, 512. Her feast is kept on 3 January. She was the daughter of Severus and G...

ADMIRE  the goodness of the Creator, Who causes the one to suffer in order to free the other. St. Lydwine of Schiedam

On January 2, the Church honors Sts. Basil the Great and Gregory Nazianzen, two friends who were pillars of orthodoxy during a period...

Our love for Jesus is truly great when we do not feel its sweetness. It then becomes a martyrdom … When, on the contrary, we begin to see...

The Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God is an ancient feast first celebrated in the East before it was in the West. By the 7th century t...

Truly, matters in the world are in a bad state; but if you and I begin in earnest to reform ourselves, a really good beginning will have ...

(314-335) Date of birth unknown; d. 31 December, 335. According to the "Liber pontificalis" (ed. Duchesne, I, 170) he was the son...

1. Be honest . Know yourself. What is your strongest virtue? What is your worst vice? Therefore, tailor your resolution so it stren...

You have everything when you have within you the One who made all things, the only One who can satisfy the longings of your spirit. St. A...

Third Bishop of Worcester; date of birth unknown; d. (according to Mabillon) December 20, 720, though his death may have occurred three ye...

Mary is a most pure star, a most radiant star, and a most useful star. She is a most pure star by living most purely; a most radiant star b...

In the fullness of time, God chose to send His Only- begotten Son to earth by means of a family – a family of Judea. The head of tha...

Martyr, Archbishop of Canterbury, born at London, 21 December, 1118 (?); died at Canterbury, 29 December, 1170. St. Thomas was born of par...