Saint Patrick and His Emerald Isle
A very happy Saint Patrick’s Day, to all our readers, and we extend that to all who are of Irish lineage, or those who...
Three Easter Musical Gems: Bach, Palestrina and Byrd
A very blessed and glorious Easter! Christus surrexit vere, alleluia! As we begin this Easter Octave with the great Solemnity of Easter, music to...
Eugène de Mazenod’s Oblation
Fittingly, in this month of Mary, we celebrate on this May 21st Saint Eugène de Mazenod (+1861), the 19th century founder of the Missionaries...
Saint Denis of Paris and Saint John Leonardi of Lucca
Besides the great John Henry Newman, we also commemorate two other saints on this day:
Saint Denis, patron of Paris, was the first bishop of...
Saint Rita’s Mission Impossible
We have it on good authority that nothing is impossible with God - or, as the Gabriel puts it, all things are possible with the...
Saint Lydwina of Schiedam and Suffering Joyfully
Saint Lydwina of Schiedam (1380 - 1433) was one of the countless and glorious ‘victim souls’ in the history of the Church, those whose...
Popes and Martyrs, Marriage and Montanism
Today’s commemoration of saints are all connected with the persecution The first group suffered under the Stoic emperor Marcus Aurelius in the mid-2nd century,...
The Charism of Saint John Bosco
The term 'charismatic' has an ambiguous meaning in the Church, invoking images of liturgical guitars, drums, emotional crescendos, and disconcerting glossolalia. In the Church's...
Saints Fabian and Sebastian: Doing the Holy and Perfect Will of God
I appeal to you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God,...
Corpus Christi and the Poetry of Thomas Aquinas
(In Canada, the Solemnity is transferred to the next Sunday. In the universal Church, and various traditional rites and communities, it is celebrated on the...
