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by bcadmin | Apr 28, 2022 | Featured, Little Sisters of the Poor, Lives of Saints, News, Saints, St. Jeanne Jugan | 0 |
Imagine for a moment that all of your life’s work was stolen by someone else. You spent years living in poverty, begging for alms, and serving the poorest among the elderly. There were immense sacrifices, charitable works, and fervent prayers offered in order to build up a new religious community. You were once in the […]
by bcadmin | Apr 19, 2022 | Easter, Featured, Lives of Saints, News, Pier Giorgio Frassati, Saints, Sophia Excerpts | 0 |
“When you possess peace every day you will be truly rich.” Just before spending his last Easter on earth, Pier Giorgio wrote a long letter to his best friend, Marco, and ended it with this beautiful wish: “I send you my best wishes, rather just one, but I believe it to be the only wish […]
by bcadmin | Apr 15, 2022 | Best of Week, death, Featured, Lives of Saints, News, Saints | 0 |
“Let your loins be girt, and lamps burning in your hands, and yourselves like men who wait for their lord, when he shall return from the wedding; that when be cometh and knocketh, they may open to him immediately. Blessed are those servants whom the Lord, when He cometh, shall find watching.” Luke 12:35-37 This […]
by bcadmin | Apr 6, 2022 | Featured, Lives of Saints, News | 0 |
Today, we celebrate the birth of another rich young man whose name is known all around the world. Giving up everything was not as difficult for Pier Giorgio Frassati. He recognized that charity went beyond material giving. He brought hope by sharing his time, his friendship and his love for the Sacraments. He prayed with people. He […]
“Slave of the slaves, forever.” This is how St. Peter Claver, apostle to the slaves of Cartagena, signed his name upon his ordination. His life was an embodiment of Matthew 25:30, in which he proved that ministering to “the least of these” is not only a moral imperative, but a hidden treasure of graces for […]
by bcadmin | Mar 28, 2022 | Featured, Lives of Saints, News | 0 |
One of the Missionaries of Charity who lived with Mother Teresa had what Mother called a “terrible tongue.” After it flared up one day and caused a disturbance, Mother sent for the sister. The sister showed Mother a book where she had kept a tally of her efforts to control her tongue. She had succeeded […]
by bcadmin | Mar 22, 2022 | Featured, Film, Lives of Saints, Modern Saints, News, Orthodox Christians | 0 |
The present situation in the world between Russia and Ukraine has brought to our attention many different saints that the western Church, that is, Roman Catholics, would have little familiarity. They could be saints associated with the Eastern Churches in communion with Rome like the Ukrainian Catholic Church or it could be saints associated with […]
by bcadmin | Mar 18, 2022 | Art & Culture, Featured, Lives of Saints, News | 0 |
St Joseph’s feast day is keenly felt in Italy, where his is the second most popular name, whether Giuseppe, Beppe, Pippo and more. On March 19 the Vatican closes, and pastry shop windows are piled high with mountains of bigne di San Giuseppe, deep fried cream puffs dusted with powdered sugar. But nowhere do Italians […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 15, 2022 | Fatherhood, Featured, holiness, Lives of Saints, News, Saints, St. Joseph | 0 |
If we want to look to the saints as models then we should raise our eyes, mind and heart to the greatest of all saints and that is, of course St. Joseph! The Church celebrates liturgically Glorious Saint Joseph twice a year: March 19th and May 1st. In March he is celebrated under the title Saint […]
by bcadmin | Mar 15, 2022 | Featured, Lives of Saints, News | 0 |
A lot of biblical scholars today say that St. Paul expected Jesus to come again in his own lifetime. In fact, most of them also contend that Jesus himself said he would return within about a generation or so, and they argue that all the early Christians believed it too. Now, that obviously didn’t happen, […]
by bcadmin | Mar 11, 2022 | Best of Week, Featured, Lives of Saints, Mother Teresa, News, Saints, Social media | 0 |
St. Mother Teresa was, and still is, an oddball to modernity. She had no filter, work-life balance, nor interest for self-care. She served the poorest of the poor in India and sacrificed her life to help those most in need, so much so that when donations of shoes came to her sisters, she always chose […]
by bcadmin | Mar 8, 2022 | Church Fathers, fasting, Featured, Lives of Saints, News, Prayer & Spirituality, Robert Bellarmine, Saints, Sophia Excerpts | 0 |
The necessity of fasting is twofold, derived from divine law and human law. Of the divine, the prophet Joel speaks: “Be converted to me with your whole heart, in fasting, and in weeping, and in mourning.” The same language is used by the prophet Jonah, who testifies that the Ninevites, in order to appease the […]
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