Facebook Pinterest Gmail LinkedIn Print Friendly St. Frances of Rome (1384-1440) is a remarkable and radiant figure among the pantheon of Catholic saints, who has inspired particular love and veneration since her own times until the present age. A mystic, visionary, and industrious helper of the poor and afflicted, she combined the vocations of a […]

Facebook Pinterest Gmail LinkedIn Print Friendly When on account of illness, infirmity, or some other reason, you cannot make your (holy) hour, let your heart be saddened for a moment. Then in spirit imagine yourself at adoration in union with those who are actually adoring. On a bed of sickness, or on a journey, or […]

Facebook Pinterest Gmail LinkedIn Print Friendly We live in a world where secularization and technology have rendered most people detached from organized religion of any sort. Science has, to some extent, been hostile or at least ambivalent to faith, often creating doubt in people’s minds. What better way is there for Jesus to draw people […]

Facebook Pinterest Gmail LinkedIn Print Friendly As Catholics, we believe that Jesus is truly present in the Eucharist. The bread and wine truly change into His body and blood, it is not merely a symbol. May we all desire the Eucharist as much as St. Ignatius of Antioch! For more about what Catholics believe regarding […]

Facebook Pinterest Gmail LinkedIn Print Friendly “The Eucharist is the Sacrament of Love; It signifies Love, It produces love. The Eucharist is the consummation of the whole spiritual life.” — St. Thomas Aquinas Image: Photo by Matea Gregg on Unsplash

Facebook Pinterest Gmail LinkedIn Print Friendly The Eucharist is the bread that gives strength… It is at once the most eloquent proof of His love and the most powerful means of fostering His love in us. He gives Himself every day so that our hearts as burning coals may set afire the hearts of the […]

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Facebook Pinterest Gmail LinkedIn Print Friendly I’ve always wondered why in the world God wants us to worship Him. It never quite made sense to me that a loving God would possess an ego so big that He’d ask His kids to fall down at his feet. But then, one day, I heard an analogy […]

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Facebook Pinterest Gmail LinkedIn Print Friendly “Alright kids, why do we go to Mass?”  We ask a variation of that question every time we arrive at our parish parking lot, usually sweaty and disheveled from wrangling four (soon to be five) children into the van. A mini call-to-action and reminder of why Mass is important, […]

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Facebook Pinterest Gmail LinkedIn Print Friendly But our Lord could say to us: “You have loved Me on Calvary because there I washed away your sins. You have loved Me in the Crib because there I was meek and lovable. Why then do you not love Me in the Blessed Sacrament where I am always […]

Facebook Pinterest Gmail LinkedIn Print Friendly St. John Chrysostom wonderfully tells us that when the devil sees us returning from the sacred Banquet of the Eucharist, he flees from us as if he has seen a lion “breathing forth flames from his mouth!” Why? Because in the precious sacrament of the Eucharist, we consume the Lord’s sacred […]

Facebook Pinterest Gmail LinkedIn Print Friendly Corpus Christi! God’s Feast Day! What a beautiful name! God’s Feast Day and ours also! Let us see in what way. This feast day of God, which the Church calls Festum sacratissimi Corporis Christi, “Feast of the most sacred Body of Christ,” is the only day dedicated exclusively to […]

Facebook Pinterest Gmail LinkedIn Print Friendly On June 19, 2022, the Feast of Corpus Christi, the United States Council of Catholic Bishops began three-year focus on the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist that is intended to be a National Eucharistic Revival! There will be many resources made available to help Catholics learn more […]