The devil can be driven out in a thousand ways: the only infallible way is through obedience. St. Joseph Marello

Anthony Maria Gianelli was born in 1789 into a middle-class family living near Genoa in the north of Italy. As a child, people were often ...

  God gave Himself to you: give yourself to God. St. Robert Southwell

Norbert was born in the year 1080 in Xanten, Germany, to a noble and wealthy family. Norbert lived a life of pleasure until one day he los...

  In her voyage across the ocean of this world, the Church is like a great ship being pounded by the waves of life’s different stresses. O...

Boniface was born Winfrid around the year 680 to a respected and noble English family, and it was to his father’s great displeasure that, ...

  Children in a family without love become rebellious, recalcitrant, stubborn, selfish and cruel. Adults who live in a loveless or Godles...

  OPENING PRAYER: O wonderful St. Anthony, gloriously named “Miracle Worker” on account of your many miracles and through the sweetness o...

  The Five First Saturdays devotion i...

On October 15, 1563 Francis Caracciolo was born into a noble Italian family. When he was twenty-two, he developed a skin disease similar t...

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

  The particular object of this devotion  [to the Sacred Heart of Jesus] is the immense love of the Son of God which induced Him to deliv...

Charles Lwanga was one of twenty-two Ugandan martyrs who were converted from paganism by the Society of Missionaries of Africa. Chief of t...

    Nothing created has ever been able to fill the heart of man. God alone can fill it infinitely. St. Thomas Aquinas

Although not much is known about these two early martyrs, we do know that Marcellinus was a priest in Rome and Peter was an exorcist who w...

      Hope of a Hopeless World If there is an age whose sole hope lies in the Sacred Heart of Jesus, it is our own. The evils committe...

  Charity lays down no conditions, makes no reservations; it thinks no longer of self, lives no longer for self; it is a stranger to itself...

Íñigo was born in the eleventh century and was reportedly a native of Bilbao in northern Spain. Early in life he was drawn to a life of so...

  You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.   Aristotle

The feast of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary to her cousin St. Elizabeth was established throughout the Church in the thirteenth or four...

  The Father takes pleasure in looking upon the heart of the most Holy Virgin Mary, as the masterpiece of His hands; for we always like o...

The doctrine of the Holy Trinity, which states that God is One in three Persons – Father, Son and Holy Ghost – is ...

    I would rather die than do a thing which I know to be a sin. St. Joan of Arc

Joan of Arc’s story is nothing but extraordinary. Born in Domremy, Champagne, in 1412, she was a peasant girl who received from on high th...

  Those who open their mouth to confess their faith breathe the spirit of divine grace, which is the life of the soul. St. Anthony of P...

  William Arnaud, a Dominican, and companions were sent to Toulouse in the South of France by Pope Gregory IX to combat the Albigensian h...

  In dangers, in doubts, in difficulties, think of Mary, call upon Mary. Let not her name depart from your lips; never suffer it to leave ...

Germanus, one of the glories of the Church in France, was born near Autun, about 496. From his early youth he was exceedingly pious, never...

  The saints in heaven, seeing God face to face, love Him above all things, because they see with the most perfect evidence that God is b...

  One day, the story goes, Gregory was walking through the Roman slave market when he noticed three fair, golden-haired boys. He asked the...

  Even though a man may be unable to attain such a height of sanctity, he ought to desire it, so as to do at least in desire what he can...

Philip Neri, known as “The Apostle of Rome,” was Florentine by birth, one of four children born to a notary. At eighteen, sent to work with...

  “I will take away not the grace but the feeling of grace. Though I will seem to leave you I will be closer to you.” Our Lord to St. Ma...

Pope Gregory VII was born Hildebrand in Tuscany, Italy. Little else is known of his early life. Hailed, historically, as one of the greate...

By Jeremias Wells   When Saint Pius V ascended the throne of Saint Peter early in 1566, Christendom faced extrem...