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 the ...

  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 o...

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

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 (Philippians 2...

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

By Tonia Long   Epiphany is a holy day that celebrates the revelation of Jesus to three Wise Men (or Kings) when they arrived at His pla...

Born about the year 422 in Nanterre, a small village outside of Paris, Geneviève was the daughter of respectable townsfolk. At the age of ...

  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 of ...

  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 se...

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 this f...

    The Five First Saturdays devotion is one of the principal points of the Fatima message. It centers on the urgent need for mankind to...

  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...

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

Little is historically known about Pope Sylvester, though legend adds a few anecdotes. It is known that his father was a Roman by name of Ru...

  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. ...

Egwin of Worcester was of a noble family, possibly a descendant of the Mercian kings. Devoted to God since his youth, he succeeded to the s...

  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 ...

Also known as St. Thomas of Canterbury, he was born in London on December 21 about the year 1118. His parents had come from Normandy and s...

  … day after day He humbles Himself, as when He came down from His royal throne into the Virgin’s womb. Day by day He comes to us persona...

When the Magi arrived in Judea seeking the newborn “king of the Jews” (Matt. 2:1-2), King Herod was worried. After ascertaining in Scriptu...

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

  I would wield the sword, I would be a Priest, an Apostle, a Martyr, a Doctor of the Church, I would fain accomplish the most heroic deed...

John was one of the twelve apostles of Jesus, the son of Zebedee and Salome, and the brother of James the Greater. In the Gospels, the bro...

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 that fami...

  To withdraw from creatures and repose with Jesus in the Tabernacle is my delight; there I can hide myself and seek rest. There I find a ...

Stephen was a Jew, possibly of the Hellenist Dispersion who, therefore, spoke Greek. His election and that of six other men as deacons is r...

Our Lord could have ordered the angels to embellish the Holy Grotto with the most delicate silks, the most aromatic perfumes, and the most c...

On December 25 the Church celebrates the birth of Our Lord Jesus Christ, the second Person of the Most Holy Trinity made man, Who taking ...

  The Son of God was not satisfied with promising to redeem us or with becoming Man. But He willed to come into this world in a manner not ...

Princesses Irmina and Adela were daughters of St. Dagobert II, King of the Francs. Their father had acceded to the throne at the age of se...

  The Blessed Sacrament is the magnet of souls. There is a mutual attraction between Jesus and the souls of men. Mary drew Him down from h...

Born on June 23, 1390, John Cantius takes his name from the town of his birth, Kanti, Poland. Country people of some means, his parents saw...