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by bcadmin | Aug 12, 2022 | Between the Sundays, Evangelization, family, Feasts, Featured, News, Patron Saints, Pope St. Sixtus II, Prayer Life & Liturgy, Saints, st jerome, St. lawrence, St. Maximilian Kolbe, St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, witness | 0 |
I love saint stories. I know I’m not alone – even the saints loved saint stories. St. Ignatius of Loyola’s conversion was spurred by reading the life of Christ and the lives of the saints. St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein) stayed up all…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 7, 2022 | Catholic Sprouts, Delano, Disney songs, Nancy Bandzuch, News, Practicing Catholic, St. Maximilian Kolbe | 0 |
With children home from school for summer vacation, many parents seek ideas to keep them busy, often believing they need to entertain them with a movie or listening to Disney songs, said Nancy Bandzuch, whose Catholic Sprouts ministry seeks to teach kids about Catholicism.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 13, 2022 | Auschwitz, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Catholic News Service, Church in Europe, Holocaust, News, Prayer, St. Maximilian Kolbe | 0 |
People today honor the sacrifice St. Maximilian Kolbe made in giving his life for others, but prisoners at the Auschwitz concentration camp had some trouble understanding his actions, said a Polish historian.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 6, 2021 | 2021, atheist chaplain at Harvard, Columns, Four Chaplains, Fr. John Washington, Greg Epstein, John M. Grondelski, News, Rabbi Alexander Goode, Rev. Clark Poling, Rev. George Fox, Roman Brandstaetter, St. Maximilian Kolbe, Steven T. Collis’s The Immortals, The Catholic Thing, What Is a Chaplain? | 0 |
Steven T. Collis’s just-published The Immortals tells the stories of Fr. John Washington, Rabbi Alexander Goode, and ministers Clark Poling…
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 26, 2021 | Angels, Daily Quote, Indifference, News, Saints, St. Maximilian Kolbe | 0 |
A Daily Quote to Inspire Your Catholic Faith “The most deadly poison of our times is indifference. And this happens, although the praise of God should know no limits. Let us strive, therefore, to praise Him to the greatest extent of our powers.” (St. M…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 12, 2021 | Angels, Daily Quote, Eucharist, Holy Communion, News, Saints, St. Maximilian Kolbe | 0 |
A Daily Quote to Inspire Your Catholic Faith “If Angels could be jealous of men, they would be so for one reason: Holy Communion.” (St. Maximilian Kolbe) Image: Juan de Juanes, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Print this entry
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by bcadmin | Oct 6, 2021 | Archbishop Hebda, Bedtime story, Blessed Chiara Badano, Catholic Young Adults, Claire Ellendson, Dead Friend, Evening news, Instagram Stories, Net Ministries, Netflix, News, podcast, St. Gemma Galgani, St. Jane de Chantal, St. Lidwina of Schiedam, St. Maximilian Kolbe, Twenty Something, Venerable Emilie Engel | 0 |
We never really outgrow the desire for a bedtime story. It just takes different forms when we’re older: Netflix, the evening news, Instagram Stories.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 13, 2021 | Auschwitz, Blessed Mother, Immaculata, Mamuzia, News, Spiritual father, St. Maximilian Kolbe, Your Heart His Home | 0 |
This year, I’ve been spending some time each day with St. Maximilian Kolbe, whose feast day we celebrate this month on the 14th. Before his martyrdom at Auschwitz (he volunteered to take the place of another in the starvation bunker) he was spiritual father to many and spent his life making his mother, “Mamuzia,” as he would refer to the Blessed Mother — that’s Polish for “Mom”— better known and loved. “To the Sacred Heart through the Immaculata,” he would say. I pray his consecration to the Immaculata every day, which begs that we be made fit instruments to draw others to the Sacred Heart.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 10, 2021 | 2021, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Brad Miner, C. S. Lewis, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, Confucius, Discovering the Wisdom of Tradition in an Age of Chaos, News, Out of the Silent Planet, Socrates, Sohrab Ahmari’s The Unbroken Thread, St. Augustine, St. John Henry Cardinal Newman, St. Maximilian Kolbe, Tertullian, The Catholic Thing, the Stoics | 0 |
Sohrab Ahmari was born in Tehran and, at 13, immigrated with his family to the United States. After law school,…
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Read Moreby bcadmin | May 10, 2021 | 2021, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Brad Miner, C. S. Lewis, Columns, Confucius, journalist-historian-biographer, News, Out of the Silent Planet, Saint John Henry Newman, Socrates, Sohrab Ahmari’s The Unbroken Thread, St. Augustine, St. Maximilian Kolbe, Tertullian, The Catholic Thing, the Stoics | 0 |
Sohrab Ahmari was born in Tehran and, at 13, immigrated with his family to the United States. After law school,…
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 30, 2021 | Catholic Sprouts, Delano, Domestic Church Project, Featured, Local News, Nancy Bandzuch, News, St. Maximilian Kolbe | 0 |
The closet, it turns out, is the ideal recording studio for this busy mom. “Hanging clothes all around you is really good for acoustics,” Bandzuch says with a laugh.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 7, 2021 | 2 Corinthians 12:9, 2021, Christ was Cancelled First, Columns, courtyard of the High Priest, Cross of Christ, Dr. Elizabeth A. Mitchell, John Donne's Holy Sonnet X, Luke 22:31-34, News, St. Maximilian Kolbe, St. Peter's denial, St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, St. Thérèse of Lisieux, The Catholic Thing | 0 |
Elizabeth A. Mitchell: The Cross overwhelms us, as it did Peter in the courtyard. Because there is no turning back from acknowledging Christ.
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