Louise was the daughter of Louis de Marillac, the Lord of Ferrières, a French nobleman. She never knew her mother who died shortly after h...

  Actions speak louder than words. Let your words teach and your actions speak. St. Anthony of Padua

Lubin’s parents were peasants from the region of Poitiers in France. As a young boy, Lubin had an aptitude for learning and applied to a m...

  Someone who in the first stages of life experienced the joy of having a good mother understands that life on earth can be very difficult...

Euphrasia’s father, Antigonus, was a kinsman of the Emperor Theodosius I, and her mother, also named Euphrasia, was of an equally exalted ...

  It is certain that the love of God does not consist in this sweetness and tenderness which we for the most part desire; but rather in s...

Theophanes was the son of Isaac, the imperial governor of the islands of the Black Sea, and of Theodora, of whose family nothing is known....

    Visiting Fatima years back, preparing to work on my children’s book Jacinta’s Story , the tiny town of Aljustrel gave me a glimpse in...

  St. Aengus, called “God’s Vassal” ...

  Mary is the most sweet bait; chosen, prepared and ordained by God, to catch the hearts of men. St. Catherine of Siena

    Click here to receive the novena prayers each day in your inbox You can choose to start today or on March 11...

  Married couples ought to say the Rosary together each night, for their common prayer is more than the separate prayers of each. Archbi...

Son of a Scottish laird, John Ogilvie was brought up in a Calvinist family. Sent to France to be educated, he ulti...

  Take no notice, my son; let them publish what they like. I fear God’s judgment and not that of men. Only sin is to be feared because i...

Frances was born in Rome in 1383, the daughter of noble, wealthy and pious parents. At eleven she asked to become a religious but only met...

  You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. Sir Winston Churchill

John of God was born of pious parents in 1495 in Montemoro Novo in northern Portugal. Obscure circumstances led to him being absconded fro...

Lent, that time of the liturgical year when Holy Mother Church calls on Catholics to fast and abstain from meat in the spirit of penance a...

  To desire grace without recourse to the Virgin Mother is to desire to fly without wings. Pope Pius XII

In the ancient city of Carthage, North Africa in the year 203, Perpetua, a young married lady and the mother of an infant son, and Felicit...

  In temptations against chastity, the spiritual masters advise us not   so much to contend with the bad thought,   as to turn the mind to s...

Colette Broyet lived during the great Church schism when there were two men claiming to be Pope: one in Rome and one in Avignon. Her father...

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