If you'd like to pray to two patron saints, interceding for mitigation of this pandemic and, more to the point, its deleterious effects, you might try Saint Francis-Regis Clet, CM, (1748-1820) and Saint Jean-Gabriel...
On this Divine Mercy Sunday, music to lift the soul would be three of Bach's Easter cantatas, composed during his time at Leipzig in the early 1700's, for the six Sundays of this festive...
Those who sincerely say ‘Jesus, I trust in You’ will find comfort in all their anxieties and fears. There is nothing more man needs than Divine Mercy – that love which is benevolent, which...
The New Testament writers speak as if Christ's achievement in rising from the dead was the first event of its kind in the whole history of the universe. He is the 'first fruits,' the...
Father Alphonse de Valk, C.S.B., went peacefully to the Lord earlier today, April 16th, 2020, after a long life full of good works, during the glory of these days of the Resurrection. More details...
But once Christ is risen, the gravitational pull of love is stronger than that of hatred; the force of gravity of life is stronger than that of death. Perhaps this is actually the situation...
We have been asked to pray for Father Alphonse de Valk, who is nearing his eternity. The message we have received runs as follows, from a long-time friend of Father's:
I have just come off...